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Okay. All right. So let's get started. So tonight we are going to be talking about and just about how to create and operate your business and then tomorrow I plan to talk about more interacting with with with clients and and customers, because that's a very

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extensive topic.

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But tonight we are going to just focus on actually creating one, how to operate once you actually have it started, things like that, how to make decisions.

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Anyway, and at the very end, we're going to have a Q&A. So let me sit so y'all keep track of any questions that you have, it's possible that I will answer them as I continue to go on tonight, but any that you have left that I haven't answered, you can

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feel free to answer those or ask those during the Q&A. And I decided to do two Q&As, one at the end of each night instead of just doing one at the end, in order to kind of help people hopefully solidify some ideas in their mind when they're in the middle

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of the, excuse me, when they're in the actual middle of the of the thought process. So hopefully that's gonna be helpful. So first of all, talking about how to actually create a business or ministry or anything that somebody wants to do.

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Now, when you are, y'all know that that the prerequisite for this was to have actually watched some of my previous teachings on rest. So we're going to be constantly referring back to that because that's the whole thing that will actually make this quote unquote work

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is actually being able to surrender everything to the Lord and shift into rest. So that's the first thing that I want to mention, when you have an idea.

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About about a business or ministry, whether you think that that that it's originating in your heart, or it is originating actually from the Lord, maybe you had a dream about it, or someone prophesied something over you, whatever. It doesn't matter where for that for

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what we're talking on right now.

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We're talking about right now.

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Excuse me.

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We're going to specifically talk about the aspect of approaching it from

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Well, I should say it could come from either so and what we're going to talk about. And that is that when you approach an idea that you have for business.

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It's important or ministry, even if God gave it to you. We have a tendency to take this promise that the Lord's given us that this idea this dream.

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And we start to focus on it, thinking that that is the whole point for which God gave us the thing that it is the point. And really, it's not

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What that thing is, is that, well, it's twofold. For one, it is actually the it's actually the degree a picture for us.

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How good that we can now understand that God is because God talks to us in a language in which we're trying to understand it talks to us how we're trying to under trying to see him. So in other words, if we're more of a more of a

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If, according to our level of spiritual maturity, we're going to be looking at the world in circumstances from a particular perspective.

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And God knows that. And so he's going to use pictures in that world that trigger a particular thing in us. So if we think that some if we put a very high value on something

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Then God is going to show us a picture or a promise and going to make and make a picture promise or dream and give us a dream about something

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That the whole point of which is the value that we have attributed to it so that we'll know that he is that good

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He is good to that degree. He has loved to that degree. He's righteous to that degree, whatever the whole point isn't the promise. It's not the business. It's not the ministry.

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It's not that it's not going to give you an identity. It's not going to be God's means of providing for you.

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Because God, that's really big statement and hopefully I'll remember to clarify that later that that God can provide for us without needing something to be a means

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God that that is not ever a way in which God is providing for us ever God is providing for us and this in this business thing for

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Just for all intents and purposes of the picture that we're trying to paint right here is actually kind of like a shell.

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It's not a means by which God is providing for us. God did not give us a business and saying, okay, this thing is going to provide for you.

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I gave it to you and remember that, but this thing is going to provide for you. It doesn't.

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He's providing for us. The business is a way in which we are, and this is the second part to it,

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you know, I mentioned two reasons. I mentioned that there are two reasons why God will give us

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a promise or a business or a ministry or something that He'll want us to, says that, hey, you can

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desire to do this. This is where we're heading. The other thing is that that is supposed to,

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is meant to be the actual expression of how our relationship with God has developed thus far.

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And if we're not there yet where the business is going to look or where the business looks

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like or the ministry looks like, whatever it is that God has said, then it means that it is a

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promise of the level of relationship that we will have developed to by the time that it does arrive.

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So it's an expression of how the Lord and we have developed to that point. It's the actual

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visible expression of what is happening between us and the Lord in the invisible realm.

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And that also means that because we haven't arrived yet, we don't have much of a grid for it

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because we don't have, we, we, it, there's an element yet still of unfamiliarity,

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meaning that we don't actually know exactly what it is going to look like. Even if God,

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even if we, even if God gave us a, a picture and gave us a dream and we thought it actually

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doesn't look like what we have assumed that picture meant, what we assume that that picture

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actually looks like. We don't realize how, how many things that we end up adding to a picture.

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So those are the two, those are the two things that God is actually saying, Hey, look,

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I am good and love and righteous to this degree. And it's in, it's in language that we can

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understand. We see that picture. We see that business. We feel our heart and our, and our

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spirit life just kind of like rise up within us and lean towards it. That is one of the reasons

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why God will give us things like that. He's trying to say, okay, that thing that means so much to you

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understand, I would give that to you. I am that loving. I am that good. Then the other thing,

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like I said, is that it is actually the visible expression of the invisible of the point to which

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our relationship, the Lord has developed in the invisible realm. The reason why this is important

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to belabor is not only do we need to then realize that it's not the business itself that provides

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for us because God's providing for us regardless of that business. And that business is not a means

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by which he's providing for us. Um, because provision has nothing whatsoever to do with money.

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Um, uh, but also in speaking of that, let me write something down really quick because I don't,

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I want to forget to mention this

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because I want to go back to the fact that a provision is not actually money.

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Uh, anyway, so that's why God gives us, um, the picture, uh, of the business in, and it's not

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actually going to be the means of providing for us. It's going to be visible expression of the

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relationship that we have developed with the Lord thus far. Therefore, when God gives us that,

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we're not supposed to take our eyes off of him and onto that. And then now, whenever this,

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it doesn't happen as fast as we want, that we have accusation against God because it hasn't

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happened yet, or because we don't understand why God won't give us the step that we're supposed to

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take to at least towards it, where we understand at least I'm moving towards it, Lord. I mean,

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I understand it. Maybe I can't have it yet, but aren't I at least moving towards it? What am I

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supposed to do? You gave this to me. What am I supposed to do? And then we start accusing the

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Lord, not realizing that his accusation, but we can start accusing the Lord and use this beautiful

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promise, this beautiful word that he expressed, you know, which is himself because God is word.

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So when this word that he's expressing, now we use it as accusation against him. So the important

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thing is that whenever God gives us a promise, whenever God tells us, Hey, I put this business

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on your heart. I put this ministry on your heart. I know that maybe you don't understand it yet,

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or maybe it's, maybe you do already understand it. And you're so excited that of all things

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in the world, that's what I would give you regardless of what the situation is. It's very

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important that we end, that we don't, sorry, let me go. There we go. It's very important

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that we release ownership. So this is the most important foundational thing

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in starting a business or being in the business. And you're wanting to,

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and you're wanting to know, how do I continue in it? How do I bring, breathe life into it?

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Maybe you're struggling with your business.

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You're in the middle of it and you're struggling with it,

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whatever the case may be,

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whether you're starting it or you're in the middle,

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it doesn't matter.

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The thing is, how do you shift gears?

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How do you begin to breathe life into the thing?

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What is very important that we do is we,

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sorry, I'm having issues with my,

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having issues with my technical issues

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and I don't really know why,

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but it's very important that when God hands us something,

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think of it kind of like a seed.

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God gives us a seed and then remember what God says.

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God says that a seed must go into the,

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cannot grow unless it first goes into the ground and dies.

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So when God gives us something

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or when we present something to the Lord,

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we have to let it die first.

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Now death, as y'all remember, is not,

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oh, I forgot to bring my notebook in here.

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You remember that all that death is, excuse me,

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is simply the release of something.

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So remember that we're like a balloon,

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like a balloon and we've grabbed a hold of a weight

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and so now we're falling down

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because of the weight into the believing

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that our identity is more in our soul

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or identity is more in our spirit

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and the whole aspect of death is not a state of being.

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It's not a place we go.

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We're never in death.

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All that death is, is it the transition.

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So in order to pass through death, you simply let go.

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You let go of whatever accusation

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that we've had against the Lord

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or whatever it is that we're taking ownership of.

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So when we take ownership of something

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that the Lord has spoken and has given us,

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you know, this idea of like a dream or business

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or I really wanna do this or I really wanna do that

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or I really wanna be able to quit my day job

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or I really wish that I had been

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or I have submitted my resume over here

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and I really want to be given a chance over here.

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Regardless of what it is,

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it's important that we allow that to go into the ground

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and die and what that means

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is it doesn't mean that we give up hope.

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It doesn't mean that we are saying

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that it's not going to happen.

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What we are saying, when I say hope,

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I mean, kind of like desire.

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Our issue with hope, unfortunately,

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which is why I usually don't typically like

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to use that word.

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Our issue, how we usually use hope

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is we use it in accusation against God.

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If we're, we don't, we have a difficult time

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knowing how to hope without holding God accountable

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when something doesn't happen in a particular way

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or in a particular time.

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It's very interesting.

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So that's something that the Lord wants to redeem for us

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is hope, not only work so that we can understand

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that we can work without,

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that we can work without strife,

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that we can work in rest,

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but also that we can hope

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without having accusation against God

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or disappointment if something doesn't come through.

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And the way to do that is to release ownership.

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That is all that it requires in order for the seed to die.

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That's what it's talking about.

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It's not saying that the seed is actually dead

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because, I mean, a seed is still living,

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even when it goes into the ground.

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So of course, God was talking,

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Jesus was talking in parables.

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It doesn't mean that actually the seed actually dies

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and it resurrects and comes back to life.

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He was talking about the fact

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that it looks like all hope is lost,

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like everything is gone.

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And your dreams, your ideas of your dreams,

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your idea for your ministry, your idea for your business,

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whether or not God gave it to you

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or it is something that you presented to him and told him,

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Lord, this is something that I want to do.

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Regardless of which direction that it comes from,

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it's very, very, very important

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that we release ownership of it.

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To the point that when there might be a time delay

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in something actually manifesting,

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we're not disappointed and we don't accuse the Lord about,

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don't use it as accusation against the Lord.

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Where we have that much release.

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And this is a good thing.

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This is not condemning to us that,

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well, we just need to, we need to stop hanging onto things.

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And we're just wrong and we're just bad

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and we need to just stop.

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Well, it is true that we need to stop,

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but the stop is in allowing us to experience freedom.

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That's what that is.

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So the stopping is actually shifting into freedom.

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God wants us as spirit beings to constantly be in motion, to constantly be flowing.

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So if we grabbed a hold of something, it creates restriction and limitation.

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And God insists that we always be free in every aspect of our life, in every aspect of our spirit life.

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So if we grabbed a hold of something, trying to own it, thinking even again,

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even if God says that he's given it to us and he's made this promise and all of that,

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if we've grabbed a hold of it, we can stifle it.

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And we're actually bringing the death that we're actually grabbing a hold of it in order to try to avoid.

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So we have to actually let it go. So I'll tell you that you can implement.

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I know we are jumping right into that thicket things tonight because I didn't I didn't.

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I could have waited for this really, really heavy one later because it's a very, very heavy weight.

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But it's so important because it truly is the foundation of everything that you can use some of the things that we'll be talking about.

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And you can get some results because there's an aspect of a measure for us that you can that you can be exposed to and shift into.

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But ultimately, ultimately, everything you will be required to die to it.

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So I highly recommend my own personal experience.

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Die to it early instead of later. Oh, well, you know what? I'll die to it after I get it going.

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Because then I then it'll be going and I'll be safe and I will.

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It'll be it'll be working for me. And while it's working for me, then it'll be self-sustaining enough that it can be kind of I won't have to be.

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I won't have to have my my hands in it as much for it to still work and it still be profitable and it still be successful.

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And then while it's new, while it's doing its thing and I get to benefit from it.

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OK, now I can afford to die to it. That doesn't work.

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I'm afraid it doesn't work. So I just highly recommend personal experience many, many times in my life to let it go now.

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And the thing it it all sounds good. We all know that we should.

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But to actually let something die, in other words, to let go of our ownership doesn't mean it's not going to happen.

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It just means letting go of our ownership so that we can't hold God accountable to it happening in a particular way.

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But, you know, emotionally holding God accountable to it, offered working in a particular way.

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We're completely giving that up. We're completely giving up our idea of what it will look like, not should look like, not our idea of it.

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So this is how I usually try to word it is we I recommend that you actually in order to truly shift interest, this this will help.

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Now, as we're more mature. No, we don't have to do this. But because hope is triggering for us.

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I highly recommend, again, from personal experience, you even release hope.

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So I know that that might sound very, very extreme, but we just like the idea of work that we don't understand how to separate activity from strife until we shift into rest.

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And then God begins to teach us, OK, this whole thing of rest. Now, let's do rest during activity.

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Before that, though, we had to sometimes stop all activity. Sometimes this is how the Lord takes some people through it. Stop all activity in order to get the idea of rest.

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Then God's like, OK, now that we understand this idea of rest that you were unfamiliar with before. Now let's take that into activity.

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So let's start adding activity. Let's start doing activities from this place.

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So that's what I recommend to you all with hope, if you're struggling, if you're struggling or if you're wondering whether or not you are and you're truly giving it up.

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And if it was easy to get a give up. I'm going to tell you that ninety nine point nine nine nine percent of the time.

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It means you actually didn't give it up. If it was easy.

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It was if you feel peace if you feel that well, I know God's in control and I know that he has it all that's not rest and that's not giving up ownership.

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With there's actually a complete inside and spiritual

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Release that that you are no longer connected to it. You're no longer attached to it because remember when we are down in the soul or we're down in the body were make if we make those types of connections down there. It means to something, then it means that

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And it means that we can be affected by them.

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And it means that we're not completely free and God wants his sons to know that they are always free and that they are governing

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And that they are governing over those laws they are governing over their business governing over their ministry, whatever.

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That they are not subject to and submitted to what just happens to them. What happens to them. What comes at them, how the business ends up working out, you know, God wants us to understand that we are that we're free from those things.

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Anyway, so going back to going back to the hope thing. I do recommend that you even let go of hoping for it.

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Doesn't mean that you're saying to yourself, it will never happen. That's an accusation against God. Oh, well, it won't happen. No, no, but you are giving up hope because right now, most likely

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And I don't want to declare this over anybody. I'm just saying that if you are struggling to actually give it up. I recommend giving up hope.

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Because that will finally that will help you finally let it go and help you and create a separation, but the idea of giving up hope is not the same thing as saying, well, it won't happen.

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It's not the same thing. But this hope is this yearning this leaning this longing for it. And we don't know how to long and yearn sometimes in a godly way without grabbing a hold of it.

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Hope is a wonderful thing. Remember faith, hope, and love these three, but the greatest of these is love. Remember all of those things. It's a beautiful, wonderful thing.

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But we need to allow the Lord to redeem these words for us because we are used to operating according to the old man that that attributed work to everything, including hope or attributed attributed an aspect of

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Ownership or holding God accountable for it or or whatever. So I do rec I so if any of y'all are end up taking all of this before the Lord and giving up your, your business, your, your ministry and all of that and you're struggling to do it.

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Because it will feel like a death, by the way, when you do it, but because you're giving it to a book, you're giving it to a being that you love, and that you're choosing that whatever he says is true that whatever he says about himself is true.

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Then you are choosing to to be safe with him, you are choosing that you are safe with him. You may not feel safe. You may not feel it, but you're choosing that you are safe with him. And therefore, that then I'm sorry.

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I'm sorry.

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And so therefore, I am. That's why I recommend that if you're struggling to go ahead and and to release to release the hope, because it will help sever the connection that is that you're that our understanding of hope is can is attached to.

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It's severing that connection. So we didn't know how to sever the thing from hope, while keeping the hope and severing thing. So because it's so attached to hope. So if you let go of hope, it'll let go of the other thing, then you'll finally have given it up.

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You'll finally be shifted into rest, you'll finally have given up ownership, and now God can show you how to hope in a pure way without it being affected by and connected to that other thing that's actually resisting rest.

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That's actually creating a claim to the business, the dream, the ministry, the whatever. So that for whatever it is, for whatever is unhelpful.

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But like I said, it's not the same thing as saying that God won't as well, you know, if I don't hope anymore, it means that I believe that God won't do it. No, no.

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And it's not true at all. Because again, that would be accusation against God, God said he was going to do something like no, well, apparently he's just not going to do it. No, we don't want to accuse the Lord, but we do give up hope, that aspect of just hope.

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to releasing that ownership of that emotional tie

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that we have to it.

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That is the foundation of what we need to do

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in order to begin to step into a place

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where now we're free from the business.

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Remember, everything that God is doing

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whenever we're struggling is always an invitation

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into greater love and greater freedom.

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The business and the ministry is not something

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that God's given you and saying,

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oh my goodness, you know, your identity in the earth

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is to help people in this way.

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This is how people are gonna remember you.

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This is gonna bring my kingdom into earth.

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And the only way that you can is through writing this book

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or through starting this program

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or doing whatever, hogwash.

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I was at hogwash.

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that you can, through which you can bring heaven into earth.

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Anyway, so just like still have a little bit of a call,

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but it's going away.

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Let me see if I have before I go on to the next thing.

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I think we might be good on that.

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what to do after you have actually let something die.

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you're no longer operating from

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and making decisions from a place of fear

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because you're now disconnected from it.

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because you've released ownership.

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You can now see through the eyes of God.

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You can now feel and experience things

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through the heart of the father

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and pour that into your business.

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What do we want to do together?

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What do we want it to look like?

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then I will ask the,

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then I will position my spirit towards the Lord.

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what is it that you want to do?

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You know, I'm in rest.

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I remember my identity.

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I know who, I know I'm abiding in you.

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I know who it is that you are

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and therefore who it is that I am.

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I am completely content, completely in that.

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special on your mind

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that you would like us to do with the business

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or with the ministry or whatever?

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Lord, what do you think about this?

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you know, sit down conversations with the Lord.

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You're just kind of mulling things over.

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where am I sensing something moving out in the spirit?

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Do I sense anything that has weight to it,

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has substance to it?

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this presenting things before the Lord

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is a posture that we have before the Lord

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more than necessarily having to force ourselves

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to articulate something,

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articulate particular questions.

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Lord, what am I supposed to do?

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Do you want me to do this?

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I just wanted you to know that you remind us

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that we are bigger and broader than that.

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We're the whole rest of our soul. We're the whole rest of our spirit.

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however many D. I don't know how many dimensions that we actually go in. But the thing is,

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allow the whole aspect of you is going to be going into this business, is going to be going

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into this ministry. So allow the whole aspect of you to present yourself in a posture before the

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Lord of what do we want to do and be very open to, to feeling certain things inside yourself

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that you might not even have to force through your head yet that you just kind of feel are in there.

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I just told the Lord, there is something in me and it needs to come out. Then I just went on

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a journey of discovery to figure out what that thing was to figure out what started coming up

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out of me. So I tried different things. I would bring this up out of me. I would bring this up

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out of me. I would bring up something else. And I realized, oh, wow, that didn't come up out of me.

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That came out of my head. It came out of what I thought I should do, or what I thought I should

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be, or who I thought that I was, who I believed that I was. So I just started experimenting.

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And, um, I went on this, uh, this, uh, journey of discovery and exploration, and I highly

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recommend that. But, um, what I was going back to what I was saying that since things in yourself

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as well, uh, maybe things of who it is that you are in this spirit, that's never actually had

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expression. It's never had expression in the things that you've done, or maybe it hasn't

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since childhood. So it has at some point, but it was childhood and somehow it got stifled.

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We got stifled because maybe you thought that it was a bad thing, or maybe you thought, yeah,

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but you just can't make any money from that. Or maybe people laughed at you or, or whatever,

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or, you know, it could be something that you've literally never put form or words to. Also,

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there's another thing, I'm just throwing out all kinds of things tonight. Um, also there,

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there could be things in you, but you only understand them being able to be expressed

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through, excuse me, being able to be expressed in a particular way. Like, what can I think of?

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Say, okay, like, say, for instance, you're an artist. That one's going to be an easier one for

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me to make us make an example of, uh, say that you're an artist and you've only ever, I don't

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know, done watercolor. So your thought is, okay, God, I know that this is within me. This is a deep

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desire of my heart. I just love this, but understand that you, what it is that might be in

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you. I would recommend that you open yourself up in the safety of the Lord. You're abiding in the

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Lord. And trust me, the Lord is such a safe place in which to dream being out of him, trying to do

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it on your own. Yes. No wonder we felt that all of our dreams were crushed being in him and abiding

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in him and dreaming from that place is a very safe place. God loves it. When we dream, when

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we're in him, because for a multitude of reasons, uh, uh, one of which just like a child playing,

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you know, he loves the fact that we're, we want to experiment. We want to play with things. We

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want to see, well, does it work like this? Does it work like this? I don't know what would happen

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if I do this. And we're doing all kinds of things that are quote unquote wrong, but we're just

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playing with it. And God's like, I love it because you are showing interest in an appreciation for

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my creation. And you were, you are fascinated to learn what it is, who it is that I am because

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creation is an expression of me. God says, so he loves it. He loves when we dream in him. But

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anyway, God is a very safe place in which to be in, in which to, to dream. So when you are

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dreaming and when you're exploring, just like what I was mentioning, um, just while ago about

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like a kid playing, know that, be open to the fact that what it is that you thought

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was in you that you thought, well, that, that expression of that in the earth

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means that I have to be able to do watercolor. It may not be. It may be that watercolor,

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painting in watercolor is the only way in which you have expressed something in you

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that's deeper than the fact that you're a painter, watercolor painter.

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It's actually deeper than that, and it's been expressed.

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The only experience that you've had of that thing in you being expressed was through painting

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and watercolor.

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But it doesn't mean that what is in you is a painter of watercolor.

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It's something else that came out in that expression.

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So I recommend broaden your horizons to allow the Lord to show you and you go on an exploration

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and discovery journey to figure out, okay, what is the deeper thing that this thing,

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this mode that I used to always operate in, what is the deeper place in me that is fueling

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What is the deeper thing in me that's actually coming alive when I'm doing that?

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And understand that the Lord and you might choose to express that in a totally different

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model, a totally different medium, where, I don't know, maybe you'd start, maybe you'd

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start being a metal sculptor, or maybe you'd start designing business systems.

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I'm an extremely creative person, and I did not know that.

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I thought that I was not a creative person, and I discovered that I actually am.

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And part of the way that I discovered it was actually watching me interact in business,

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because I would build processes and systems, and I loved being able to come up with creative

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solutions to figure out what do I have to work with and how can I get it to all work

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together to get a particular result that I have in mind?

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That is being creative.

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So being creative isn't just in one particular art form, like painting.

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It could be in anything.

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So I wanted us to know that we don't already know, even if you know what things make you

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00:37:18.700 --> 00:37:25.060
feel alive, we don't already know why they make us feel alive, like in other words, what

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that root is, and we are not, and very, very important, we are not limited to that expression

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that we've been exposed to thus far.

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We're bigger than that.

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We are in God, because God is limitless.

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In God, we're limitless.

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We could express that thing, that spirit within us that causes you to come to life, that can

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be expressed in all kinds of different ways.

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And you will discover things that you never even knew were possible for a job.

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I mean, I can't tell you, I mean, how many other people do you know that for a living,

435
00:38:09.380 --> 00:38:13.900
they travel and they talk to other people about how to enter God's rest?

436
00:38:13.900 --> 00:38:16.140
I had never heard of that in my life.

437
00:38:16.140 --> 00:38:19.300
And here I am just doing it.

438
00:38:19.300 --> 00:38:23.700
I didn't know, because I was doing all the traditional things, right?

439
00:38:23.700 --> 00:38:28.980
I was doing the business thing, and then I'm doing life coaching, and I'm looking for

440
00:38:28.980 --> 00:38:36.260
something, and okay, very important, looking for something outside of me to tell me who

441
00:38:36.260 --> 00:38:37.260
I am.

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00:38:37.260 --> 00:38:41.780
What do I resonate, what's been done before, what are other people doing, because apparently

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I fall into that category.

444
00:38:43.100 --> 00:38:47.380
Remember, that's what we've been taught with a personality test and with things like, I

445
00:38:47.380 --> 00:38:53.300
don't know, the desk and Myers-Briggs or whatever, and the Enneagram, Enneagram, I don't, I never

446
00:38:53.300 --> 00:38:54.300
remember how to pronounce it.

447
00:38:54.300 --> 00:38:57.740
You know, all the numbers, you know, what, one through nine or one through 10 or whatever

448
00:38:57.740 --> 00:39:00.620
it is, or is it more than that?

449
00:39:00.620 --> 00:39:07.740
I don't know, I haven't read it, but all of those things that we're used to thinking,

450
00:39:07.740 --> 00:39:15.420
I fit into a category, someone else can tell me something about myself, or a test can tell

451
00:39:15.420 --> 00:39:16.420
me something about myself.

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00:39:16.420 --> 00:39:22.380
No, no, no, your God is who tells you about yourself, and he's limitless, so you have

453
00:39:22.460 --> 00:39:26.500
no idea what's in you and what might come out.

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And when, if you pick something that you, and you and the Lord do something that you

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think that you might think of as more quote unquote traditional or expected, know that

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you will have a very unique stamp on it because you are bringing heaven to earth.

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Meaning that when it's something's coming from heaven into earth, it's never been seen

458
00:39:44.300 --> 00:39:48.420
on the earth before, and you're going to bring that.

459
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So anyway, I'm trying to free you because we believe in believing that there are limitations.

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to how God can operate, or how he does operate, or how he will operate, or what we're going

461
00:40:08.620 --> 00:40:14.340
to be happy with, or whatever, is very restrictive, and it's death.

462
00:40:14.340 --> 00:40:18.640
That's what limitation is, is it's death.

463
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So spirit is life, spirit is movement, and spirit is limitlessness.

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So when I'm talking about all of these things, I know that I'm talking about things from

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like a 35,000 foot view, but these things are foundational, they're so very important,

466
00:40:39.420 --> 00:40:45.860
because if I can teach you how to fish, instead of just giving you the fish, then you will

467
00:40:45.860 --> 00:40:52.260
be able to go farther, faster, instead of just giving you some formula, or do this and

468
00:40:52.260 --> 00:40:53.260
do that.

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No, if I can, if we can start, if we can break out of this box that we're in, then, and that

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we have restricted ourselves, and the Lord, and our relationship with him, and how our

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business and ministry, together with God, works, because that's how everybody else's

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works.

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Well, of course, that's how everybody else's works, because they were limited.

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They chose to approach God with a limited perspective, and that was the only way in

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which they would allow God to interact with them, was according to limitedness.

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So if we want to operate in more freedom, and if we want to operate from a place of

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00:41:25.720 --> 00:41:32.480
rest, because rest is in God, and God is limitless, all of these connections, then it's important

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00:41:32.480 --> 00:41:45.720
for us to start from the foundation of not having a box, and when we do that, being in

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00:41:45.720 --> 00:41:51.680
the heart of the Father, and operating from spirit, then you're going to have a clearer

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spiritual perspective on what it is that the Lord has given you, and who it is that you

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are, and you will find it, you will nurture it, because God will have given you a word,

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and you will have received that word, and then that seed, and your seed of intention

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00:42:11.360 --> 00:42:21.280
of joining together with the Lord, will interact, excuse me, will conceive something, and be

484
00:42:21.280 --> 00:42:28.000
planted in you, remember, because the seed is planted in the female, and just like we

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00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:29.840
are the bride of Christ.

486
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So the church, and you, that seed, so to speak, dies within you, and in the fact that you

487
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can't see it, and it goes through this nurturing period, it goes through this time where God's

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going to, God and you together, are going to water it, and you might not be aware of

489
00:42:50.880 --> 00:42:54.760
everything that you're doing in your life, that seems completely unrelated to the business,

490
00:42:54.760 --> 00:42:58.000
or the ministry that God's going to call you to, or that's calling, you know, is saying

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00:42:58.000 --> 00:43:04.040
that, recommending that y'all move towards, or whatever, and but God's like, no, no, no,

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that's actually fertilizing it, that's watering it, that's giving it sun, or whatever.

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So that's why sometimes things that God will give us, we'll feel that they'll sit there

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for a while, and we, and it feels like it's died, it just, it, we can't see a difference,

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00:43:24.880 --> 00:43:28.120
we can't see a change, and God's like, no, no, all of these other things that you and

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00:43:28.120 --> 00:43:33.520
I are doing together, our relationship together, and how our relationship is developing, it

497
00:43:33.520 --> 00:43:40.040
is doing multiple things, it is nurturing it, and it is preparing your body to deliver

498
00:43:40.040 --> 00:43:46.240
it, and it's, and what does a woman also do while, while she's waiting for the baby, especially

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00:43:46.240 --> 00:43:53.040
the closer that she gets to, to delivering the baby, she goes through nesting, right?

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Every woman understands that, and you know, even, you know, in other countries, it's just,

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00:43:58.120 --> 00:44:03.360
it's just the feminine, you know, we, we nest, we prepare, so our bodies are being,

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00:44:03.360 --> 00:44:08.640
are being prepared, so we're nurturing the seed, our body is being prepared to deliver

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the thing, and then we're preparing the outside environment to be able to receive the thing.

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That's what the bride does, that's what the bride of Christ does, that's what the church

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00:44:18.920 --> 00:44:24.280
does, that's what you do when God is giving you this seed for a business or for a ministry,

506
00:44:24.280 --> 00:44:30.920
because you are co-creating with him, excuse me, you're co-creating with him, you came

507
00:44:30.920 --> 00:44:34.520
up with ideas as well, that these aren't, aren't just his ideas, so I want you to do

508
00:44:34.520 --> 00:44:38.520
this, blah, blah, blah, it's, God's like, hey, why don't you and I do this together?

509
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You're like, okay, all right, let's do that, and then God's like, okay, how do you think

510
00:44:43.960 --> 00:44:44.960
we should do it?

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How do you want to do it?

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What do you think it should look like?

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What color do you think it should be?

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I don't know, just, just whatever, because God supplies, the, the, the male provides

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00:44:53.400 --> 00:44:59.800
one strand of the DNA, and the, and then the mother provides the other strand of DNA.

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00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:10.160
Remember that? That DNA is, um, uh, if I remember correctly, it is, um, that, uh, is it that the,

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oh, well, I'm not going to get into all of the details of all of that because I probably don't

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00:45:14.960 --> 00:45:18.640
remember all the specifics. I used to teach all of that stuff. So I'm going to have to go back

519
00:45:18.640 --> 00:45:25.840
and remember, but anyway, that the male and the female both supply DNA, both of them equal,

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equal, fascinatingly, the man determines the gender. So God has an aspect in which

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he's determining things in which he has, um, he has the, um, higher say, so to speak,

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but there's still an equality in it as well. The more that we're matured in faith,

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00:45:51.840 --> 00:45:57.120
the more of an equality that we have, uh, as far as like, um, coming up with ideas and, and,

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00:45:57.120 --> 00:46:01.280
and, um, whether or not God's just like, okay, well, yeah, sure. We'll do it your way. I really

525
00:46:01.280 --> 00:46:05.520
like my idea, but if you're very, if you're very set on your idea, sure. We'll do that,

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you know, because I want you to contribute to this and this is what you really want to do.

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00:46:09.120 --> 00:46:14.880
And so like, sure, why not? You know? Um, but, uh, anyway, so I just wanted to mention that

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00:46:14.880 --> 00:46:20.160
there's all kinds of things that are going on while you're waiting, you know, while you're

529
00:46:20.160 --> 00:46:23.440
waiting for the business to come or the ministry to come or do something to look,

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00:46:24.080 --> 00:46:30.160
you're nurturing something that you can't see. You're nurturing it. All of these things that

531
00:46:30.160 --> 00:46:34.720
you think are that the Lord, uh, that you and the Lord are doing together in your life right now

532
00:46:34.720 --> 00:46:41.920
look like they don't have anything whatsoever to do with the, with this vision or this dream

533
00:46:41.920 --> 00:46:47.600
that you have, or that the Lord has given you and say, no, it's preparing.

534
00:46:47.600 --> 00:46:53.680
It's nurturing the thing. So the thing is growing and then you're in, and you yourself are being,

535
00:46:54.320 --> 00:47:02.240
are being prepared to actually birth this thing out into the world. And at the same time,

536
00:47:02.240 --> 00:47:10.560
you're preparing the environment to receive the thing. So you're preparing the thing,

537
00:47:10.560 --> 00:47:16.000
you're preparing to deliver the thing, and you're preparing the environment to receive the thing.

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00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:21.760
There's a lot of stuff going on. Um, and it's all very, very important because it aids in the

539
00:47:21.760 --> 00:47:27.600
success of the thing, because imagine if the environment was not prepared for, um, for,

540
00:47:27.600 --> 00:47:34.160
you know, the baby to be delivered, you know, what if it was delivered into a fire? Well,

541
00:47:34.880 --> 00:47:42.320
then the baby has no hope, right? You know, what if the, what if the body was not being prepared to

542
00:47:42.320 --> 00:47:47.120
deliver and to deliver the child? So, you know, if we're talking about like a normal way of

543
00:47:47.120 --> 00:47:51.040
birthing a child, um, uh, through the canal, as opposed to like Syrian section,

544
00:47:52.080 --> 00:47:56.800
if the body wasn't prepared, what happens? The child dies and the mother, because it can't ever

545
00:47:56.800 --> 00:48:01.760
get out. Right. So it's important that all of these things are very, very important. They're

546
00:48:01.760 --> 00:48:07.440
very important in the spiritual realm as well, related to, um, uh, preparing business or the

547
00:48:07.440 --> 00:48:14.080
ministries. And during all, uh, during what we think of as like time delays, we have all this

548
00:48:14.080 --> 00:48:18.320
accusation against the Lord. Why hasn't happened yet? Why hasn't happened yet? And God's like,

549
00:48:18.320 --> 00:48:25.280
you do know that all of these things need to be in place for this to actually succeed when it

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00:48:25.280 --> 00:48:31.280
comes out. For one thing, it's not fully grown. So it will die if it's delivered too soon. For

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00:48:31.280 --> 00:48:37.120
another, you have to have a way to deliver it, to release this thing. You know, this business

552
00:48:37.280 --> 00:48:44.640
ministry to release it into the world. And, um, uh, and just like a woman going through childbirth

553
00:48:45.360 --> 00:48:50.880
might be a lot of pain involved. Uh, there might be a lot, not a lot of due to the fact,

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00:48:50.880 --> 00:48:54.640
obviously, because pain, childbirth came, you know, through, uh, because of the fall.

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00:48:54.640 --> 00:49:02.240
So, uh, it's not that God always intended pain to be required in order for something to birth into

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00:49:02.240 --> 00:49:06.320
creation in order for something to actually be created and to manifest like a business or

557
00:49:06.320 --> 00:49:12.240
whatever to, to manifest into your, but what, why is there pain? If there's pain in their struggle,

558
00:49:12.240 --> 00:49:17.760
it's because there's, there's accusation that we have against the Lord. So when sometimes when

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00:49:17.760 --> 00:49:22.320
we're trying to birth a business or ministry and the steps that you're trying to go through,

560
00:49:22.320 --> 00:49:27.280
um, you're trying to form this with this, your, you know, your, your state, and you're trying to

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00:49:27.280 --> 00:49:31.360
set up a bank account and you're trying to, I don't know, set up a website and everything's

562
00:49:32.080 --> 00:49:41.120
right. Um, well, well, if, if we're struggling with it, then, then that's an element in which

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00:49:41.120 --> 00:49:46.160
we have accusation against God. I'm not being provided for, I'm not safe. This isn't working

564
00:49:46.160 --> 00:49:51.520
or whatever. That's what that pain is. That's what that struggle is. Um, there can also be an

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00:49:51.520 --> 00:49:57.680
aspect of the fact that creation, um, uh, well, no, I'm not going to mention that because that's

566
00:49:57.680 --> 00:50:00.080
just going to get very confusing. I'm trying to make this very.

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00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:07.440
simple, but know also that there's a stretching that's going to be required in part of the

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00:50:07.440 --> 00:50:11.600
preparation of the body because the body, the woman's body prepares in all kinds of ways,

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00:50:11.600 --> 00:50:17.040
you know, for months before actually unbirthing the baby, but getting close to the birth of the

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00:50:17.040 --> 00:50:23.360
baby, the woman's body changes a lot and it stretches, it pushes boundaries, especially

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00:50:24.080 --> 00:50:29.600
for her first baby. It's never stretched before. It's moving into new territory,

572
00:50:29.600 --> 00:50:40.400
but the body, remember, knows what to do. So you might feel stretched. You might feel like,

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00:50:40.400 --> 00:50:46.560
okay, I'm moving into new territory here and I am not used to this and I don't know,

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00:50:47.200 --> 00:50:52.080
I'm, Lord, this is very unfamiliar. I don't know what's going on. I don't,

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00:50:52.080 --> 00:50:55.920
this somehow Lord just doesn't feel right. Something about this doesn't seem right.

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00:50:56.960 --> 00:51:04.800
It's, it's just remember what happens in, in, um, in birth that the Lord, that, um,

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00:51:04.800 --> 00:51:14.720
the way to stop the pain is to relax, to let the body, because it's when we tense up,

578
00:51:14.720 --> 00:51:21.120
that it's restricting the muscles from relaxing and being able to be stretched, right? Because

579
00:51:21.120 --> 00:51:26.560
it's keeping them from doing that, right? So that's why women are taught Lamont's breathing,

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00:51:28.080 --> 00:51:35.040
to teach them how to relax their body because it will allow it to be less painful and will allow,

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00:51:35.040 --> 00:51:40.720
it will allow the body to do what it has always been intended to do. It's the same thing for us

582
00:51:40.720 --> 00:51:44.720
when we're, when we're watching all of these changes and we're trying to like do things and

583
00:51:44.720 --> 00:51:49.760
it's just not working for us. And why is everything against us? And, uh, or why is

584
00:51:49.760 --> 00:51:58.480
it taking so much time or whatever our accusation is, right? If we relax, it will not be as painful

585
00:51:58.480 --> 00:52:05.760
and it will go faster. So we, but we have to let it go. You just have to let it go and then

586
00:52:05.760 --> 00:52:17.200
enjoy the process. Enjoy actually doing this thing with the Lord, moving with him. Um, there is,

587
00:52:17.200 --> 00:52:21.920
I don't know, there's, there's just always movement and activity with God in spirit.

588
00:52:21.920 --> 00:52:25.600
Enjoy what it is that you're seeing, what it is that you're going through, what it is you're

589
00:52:25.600 --> 00:52:33.840
experiencing. And I have discovered this my own, um, in my own life. And I don't know how to express

590
00:52:34.640 --> 00:52:45.360
how wonderful that it is that to be in unfamiliar territory and enjoy it. I mean, like really,

591
00:52:45.360 --> 00:52:52.480
really enjoy it. Um, and you're like, I don't know what's going on. I've never been here before.

592
00:52:52.480 --> 00:52:56.080
Lord, am I doing it right? Is this how it's supposed to happen? Is something wrong? Should

593
00:52:56.080 --> 00:53:03.600
I change something? And, and, and, and, you know, you start to question things. And so if I just let

594
00:53:03.600 --> 00:53:10.800
go and just like I can, I think that I should do this and I'm feeling you over here. So I'm going

595
00:53:10.800 --> 00:53:15.840
to try this. I think I'm feeling you over here. So I'm going to try this and I'm just going to

596
00:53:15.840 --> 00:53:21.680
allow everything to be, I'm not going to worry about what's going to happen. Um, excuse me.

597
00:53:22.640 --> 00:53:33.200
Um, and if we, if, if you just relax, instead of fighting what feels unfamiliar or fighting,

598
00:53:33.200 --> 00:53:40.000
what keeps trying to change, then it, it will not only will you enjoy the process because

599
00:53:40.000 --> 00:53:45.120
your focus will be on God and you're like, God, this is fun because you and I are moving together.

600
00:53:45.680 --> 00:53:51.200
Sure. I don't know what we're doing, but at least you do, but you and I are moving together and I'm

601
00:53:51.200 --> 00:53:57.360
enjoying moving with you. It's a dance. You're moving with God when you're on a dance floor.

602
00:53:57.360 --> 00:54:02.640
Are you actually doing anything? Are you going somewhere? No, you're dancing in a circle. You're

603
00:54:02.640 --> 00:54:07.040
just, you're moving and you're just enjoying the movement and you're enjoying moving with someone

604
00:54:07.040 --> 00:54:12.320
else, especially if it's like a, like a, you know, a couples dance, you're moving with someone else.

605
00:54:12.880 --> 00:54:18.160
I mean, when you think about dancing, it's really in some ways can seem like the oddest thing

606
00:54:18.720 --> 00:54:25.600
because it's a human that is moving their body and you're not going anywhere. So if you're,

607
00:54:25.600 --> 00:54:31.520
if you think about it, it could seem very, very odd. And yet we all know inherently,

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00:54:31.520 --> 00:54:36.480
especially when we move, like, Oh no, this just feels right. This feels good.

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00:54:36.480 --> 00:54:40.240
And you enjoy moving with someone else. And so you'll notice that when you're in unfamiliar

610
00:54:40.240 --> 00:54:45.280
territory and you're like, and you're like, okay, things are changing. Lord, things are stretching.

611
00:54:45.280 --> 00:54:50.560
I don't know why things don't seem to be working or they are working, but I don't really know what

612
00:54:50.560 --> 00:54:56.640
it's doing. And Lord, is this right? I'm not sure if this is right. You know, am I being thwarted

613
00:54:56.640 --> 00:54:59.760
or is this supposed to happen? You know, am I supposed to go with the flow?

614
00:55:00.560 --> 00:55:06.000
If you relax and enjoy it with the Lord, as opposed to being so uptight that something's

615
00:55:06.000 --> 00:55:11.200
going wrong and you aren't prepared for it and you're going to be attacked and you are going

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to be victimized, if you approach it like that, it's going to create death and you're more likely

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to be attacked and victimized because you determined it in your mind that that's what's

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going to happen. Because however we frame things in our mind is how we frame the world in which we

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live. So if we just let go and we enjoy it with the Lord, the Lord will show us and tell us what

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to do, when to do it. And because we're just moving and flowing with him, everything will

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not only go easier and faster, but you'll enjoy it. I promise you, I promise you. But in order

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for this to work, in order to actually experience this, in order to live this, we have to surrender

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it. We have to let, we have to let go of the ownership completely. It's really, really fun.

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I promise you that. Um, so, um, okay, before we move on, um, we are going to, what time is it?

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So it's eight. Um, I wanted to, um, give us just a, um, I would say like a five minute break. We'll come

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back at like, say, um, I don't know, five minutes. Um, I don't know, like around eight, 12. Um, and then

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we will, um, we'll do our last session and then we'll do a Q and A. So people can use the restroom,

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people can get a glass of water, whatever it is that you need to do. And then we will jump back on.

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So I'm going to turn my camera off, but we will, like I said, jump back on. What did I say?

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Well, let's just make it easy. And let's just say eight 15. It's eight 15 for me, nine 15 for those

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of you on the, on the East coast. And so we'll just give ourselves a little bit of a break.

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We'll jump back on. And cause I know that this is a two and a half hour session. So I wanted to make

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sure that we had a break in here somewhere for, for everyone. And then we'll jump back on and

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keep going. So I'll be right back.

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Okay.

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uh, to create, to everything is created. So let me back up and rephrase that. Everything

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is created from rest. Everything that is created that actually gives life is created from us.

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There are other things that can be created from unrest, but everything that is creates

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life in your business and that can bring transformation in someone's business is created from place

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of rest. So just wanted to point that out. Um, now rest is not just so that we can understand

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this. Um, Oh, by the way, let me, let me mention this as well. I keep thinking of all kinds

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of things that I think might be helpful. I understand that a lot of these things that

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we may have heard before, and some of you, if not all of you are thinking, it might be

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thinking that some of what I've talked about, you've heard before, know that if you are

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struggling with your, with your business, or you're struggling with some idea of what

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it, uh, the idea of what it is that you think that God has told you to do. Um, you're just

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like, you know, I, I'm at rest and I just, I'm just here and I'm just, I want to make

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sure that I'm listening. I want to make sure that I'm hearing, I want to make sure that

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I know what he's telling me to do. Um, or, um, or you're in the middle of it and you're

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just wondering, I just want to make sure I'm on the right track or I want to know how to

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change it or whatever your question is. Everything always goes back to the same basic principles.

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So revisiting things that you already know is extremely helpful because that's where

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the solution is. There's not a new solution to all of these new ideas or these, this new,

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these new situations that you're in. The situations are new, but the principles used to be used

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within those situations are always the same. Remember God actually is very simple in, in,

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in the fact that the laws that he's created and the way that everything works is extremely

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simple. It's not juvenile. So we, we've often, you know, we've often married of simplicity

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with two, uh, within a childishness. It's not, it's not juvenile. It's not childishness,

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but it is, it's simple. It's in, it's, this is the way that it is. And it's always this

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way. And therefore it's just very simple because everything comes from the character of the

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Lord. So just know that if you are hearing anything that I'm saying, you're thinking,

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Oh, I already know this. I already heard this, whatever. Try to ask the Lord to expand you

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in the spirit to know how you have gotten it to a particular level, but now you want

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to take it into a deeper level so that you can experience the freedom that you've been

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experiencing, that you can now experience it in another area. Um, and, uh, and then

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just go deeper and deeper with the Lord like that. You'll always be coming back to the

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exact same principles, the same things that, you know, it's not new. There's nothing new

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under the sun. It's the same thing. And, and, uh, for instance, you know, if you, if you,

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if you're struggling with something, one of the things is go back to, uh, that go back to the,

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to open yourself up more in vulnerability and intimacy with the Lord that you might

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receive more of his love. And that will shift you into new levels in every area of your life.

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So, I mean, everything goes back to the same things. And that, so the struggle can kind of

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be like, we, we think that we're in so much, we can be in so much of a habit that, uh, well in

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school, whenever I would run into something new, it meant that there was something that I hadn't

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learned that far, you know? So, and I just didn't know well. And so know that for, for rest and,

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and, and all of that, everything that I'm talking about, in fact, the longest, I really struggled

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with some of this because I thought, why, what do I have to, to keep teaching people? I've already

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taught it. I've already taught it multiple times. I've discovered that we're, that we struggle

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sometimes to make the connection when we come into new, uh, come into new, uh, circumstances and

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situations to know that the things that we already know are to be applied in these new situations,

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because these new situations are taking us into a deeper level and a deeper level by releasing

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more and more of the accusation that we've had against the Lord. We can now move into

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new levels of freedom that we have never experienced. So, but we use the same principles

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in order to do that. So just, just think about that whenever.

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You might think, okay, well, I've exhausted what Ashley talked about in that business conference,

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and so now I need something new. I need a new and fresh revelation.

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Ask the Lord to give you a fresh revelation of what he's already said.

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Take it into a deeper understanding of what it is that you already do know. Expand it for you,

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and you will discover that it takes on colors and nuances and a shape that you did not know

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when you first heard it. So, for instance, for me, I have particular preachers or teachers

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that I listen to, and I go back and watch the same videos over and over and over again,

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but I'll allow, you know, time lapse in between, like, you know, several months or whatever,

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or maybe just a few weeks, but I'll go back and listen, and every time I do,

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I learn something new, and I'm thinking, how many times have I watched this guy's teaching,

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you know, and I'll learn something new, because whatever it is that I learned before, I walked

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out, and I owned it, and so in my mind, I could think, well, I've exhausted everything that I

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talked about. You know, I already know all of this stuff, but there's always a greater level

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of manifestation that I can experience in my life by taking those same principles and going to a

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deeper level, so if I go back and re-watch their teaching, now my energy is not being expended

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learning this, and so now that I got this, then now from here down, this is now exposed, and I

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never saw that before, so now I have a grid from which to hear things that he was saying that I

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never heard, I didn't remember hearing before, and yet how many times that I watched that teaching,

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but now I have a grid for it, because I took the information that I got from him,

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you know, from, you know, from so-and-so, and then I go, and then I own it, and now that I own it, I've

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got a grid to be able to understand the rest of what they talked about, I mean, so I just wanted

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to mention that as an encouragement, because I cannot tell you the number of times that people

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come to me with questions, and I have clients tell me that they finally realize, okay, Ashley, I'm now

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getting it that you now always give us the same answers to all of our questions, it's always the

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same answer, something, you know, it's always the same answers, that I try to word it in such a way that they

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could see the connection between what it is I was talking about in this thing, this new situation

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that they ran into, that they didn't understand that it was actually, that what it is that they

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already knew applied to it, they thought, oh, I now need new information, I now need new understanding,

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so just wanted to encourage us, we, everything is very simple, they're just, new circumstances

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are simply deeper levels, deeper levels of, to be able to shift into REST. Okay, so

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remember, you know, we're not learning new things, we are learning how to apply the same things

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in new areas, that's all it is. Okay, yeah, all right, so talking just really quickly about

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about REST, remember, because this has come up recently, so I wanted to just go over this really

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quickly, so REST is not just having peace, that COD could do something, say, if it gives you

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business, ministry idea, or you're in the business or ministry idea, and you're struggling with

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it, with the fact that something isn't, that you're not getting a particular result out of it,

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maybe your clients aren't coming, or I don't know, you, something isn't working, something isn't

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working, so REST is not just having peace, knowing that God could do something,

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it's actually knowing that God will always be loving, and always be good, no matter what's

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happening, that's what REST is. REST has nothing whatsoever to do with your circumstance, nothing,

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so your circumstance can go to hell in a handbasket, and you'll still be in REST.

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Remember that Jesus, and I use this example so many times, that Jesus was asleep in the boat,

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and it said that the water was, you know, lapping up, you know, splashing over the sides onto him,

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and he's probably getting knocked about a bit, you know, in the boat with all the rocking and

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hitting, I don't know, maybe even his head was hitting the wood, you know, back and forth,

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I don't know, whatever it was, he didn't even find it important enough to wake up,

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let alone do something about it, so the thing is that,

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that it doesn't, we can be at REST, and the circumstances can do whatever, they don't

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dictate whether or not we're at REST, we don't need our circumstances to be a particular way

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in order for us to be at REST, so being at REST is not believing that God can do something about

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your circumstances, or could if you wanted to, it's believing it has nothing whatsoever to do

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with the circumstance, there's no word as circumstance actually in the sentence,

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the sentence actually is,

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is that, is, is that rest is knowing that God always will be loving and good and always is

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loving and good no matter what my circumstances are. That is finally being at rest, not knowing

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this isn't good enough, you know, believing, owning, choosing, not just knowing that we should

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believe it, not just thinking that, Oh, I know it's true. And so I'm trying to convince myself

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actually willfully and intentionally choosing something, um, that is actually going to, um,

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uh, uh, choosing that God choosing God's character is where you're going to find rest,

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not in what God's, how God's character might manifest. So very important.

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Rest is, is choosing that God is who he says that he is not that God can do what he said he would

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do. So, um, so, uh, okay. Barty mentioned that. Okay. Now talking about the rest of it,

852
01:21:05.440 --> 01:21:10.960
that was important to know and important to remember when, because now what we're going

853
01:21:10.960 --> 01:21:16.000
to talk about is how to, is the actions that we can start taking. So all of that was a good,

854
01:21:16.080 --> 01:21:22.480
was a foundation. Um, but, um, when, so starting to make,

855
01:21:23.680 --> 01:21:30.640
uh, make decisions from a place of rest, we've talked about this before, but I would like to

856
01:21:30.640 --> 01:21:37.280
mention, um, talk about it specifically in context of making business decisions, because making

857
01:21:37.280 --> 01:21:41.520
decisions from a place of rest, if you're talking about when it, for instance, the example that I

858
01:21:41.520 --> 01:21:47.040
told you about, um, uh, where I was in Walmart, I mentioned this in the, in the conference where I

859
01:21:47.040 --> 01:21:51.280
was in Walmart and I was making a decision between two fans. Well, that was a very serious decision

860
01:21:51.280 --> 01:21:56.400
for me because I did not have much money. And I was, and so therefore, because of that, I,

861
01:21:57.280 --> 01:22:05.680
it put me in a position where I was more ready, uh, to take up the opportunity to choose what,

862
01:22:05.680 --> 01:22:12.800
who I believed that God was and to act on it. But, um, so, um, so that,

863
01:22:14.160 --> 01:22:21.600
so if you possibly can't relate to that situation, know that, um, it's actually the same thing

864
01:22:22.400 --> 01:22:27.520
as, as the decisions and the weight of the decisions that we're making in business, because

865
01:22:27.520 --> 01:22:31.120
there can be a couple of, uh, we'll just talk about a couple of different things.

866
01:22:32.000 --> 01:22:39.440
Well, let me actually broaden this. If we have things, and I'm just going to talk about a mother

867
01:22:39.440 --> 01:22:43.120
and father wound, because we've talked about that before. So it's an easy thing to relate to

868
01:22:43.120 --> 01:22:49.840
because they are very, very foundational wounds that we can experience that create particular

869
01:22:49.840 --> 01:22:55.760
traumas in people's lives. Right. Um, so just as a refresher that a father wound comes from, um,

870
01:22:56.000 --> 01:23:01.680
if the masculine in someone's life has not made them feel that they could expect to be

871
01:23:03.040 --> 01:23:10.560
protected, provided for, or, um, that, uh, it, and they never felt that they received

872
01:23:10.560 --> 01:23:16.800
an understanding of their sense of identity from this, uh, from whoever was that provided the

873
01:23:16.800 --> 01:23:22.000
masculine in their lives. And then a mother wound can generate from someone, uh, when someone does

874
01:23:22.000 --> 01:23:29.040
not feel that they can expect to be loved, liked, or comforted. So we project those things onto the

875
01:23:29.040 --> 01:23:35.920
Lord. What are our business or ministry that we believe that God has told us to do, or that we

876
01:23:35.920 --> 01:23:43.440
just desire to do whatever we're very often, if not possibly always trying to cope with one of

877
01:23:43.520 --> 01:23:52.000
those six, um, uh, wounds, either from a, you know, father wound or mother wound where we are

878
01:23:52.000 --> 01:23:57.840
seeking the business or the ministry to either identify us. In other words, give us a sense of

879
01:23:57.840 --> 01:24:04.080
purpose. Give us a sense of who am I, what's my significance. Am I significant? You know,

880
01:24:04.080 --> 01:24:08.640
am I helping people? Does God love me? Is he pleased with me? Am I fulfilling my destiny?

881
01:24:09.200 --> 01:24:17.600
All of those things are actually us trying to seek an identity or seeking that God, uh, seeking to

882
01:24:17.600 --> 01:24:24.000
make God love us, like us. Um, we are actually, if we don't expect that God will comfort us,

883
01:24:24.000 --> 01:24:29.840
we are seeking the business or the ministry to provide some form of comfort, or we expect it to

884
01:24:29.840 --> 01:24:40.400
provide for, or to protect us, um, you know, money, uh, fame, security, whatever. So we will

885
01:24:40.400 --> 01:24:49.680
often approach business and ministry trying to cope with those traumas. You can learn an awful

886
01:24:49.680 --> 01:24:57.840
lot about people from what they choose as a business or ministry, because usually people

887
01:25:00.000 --> 01:25:08.160
provide service to someone of something that's that they greatly desire for themselves.

888
01:25:09.040 --> 01:25:14.960
So whatever it is that generally someone wants for themselves, they will seek to provide for others.

889
01:25:16.720 --> 01:25:24.240
That's why I teach by rest because I really want it. I want it and I seek it. You know,

890
01:25:24.240 --> 01:25:30.960
I, it's very important to me in my relationship with the Lord. You will notice that a lot of

891
01:25:30.960 --> 01:25:41.040
nurses are extremely, extremely compassionate people, extremely compassionate, but a lot of it

892
01:25:41.040 --> 01:25:51.600
came from traumas and came from traumas in their own life and how they chose to then make, to then

893
01:25:51.600 --> 01:25:59.680
provide something indirectly for themselves by providing it for someone else. It's really

894
01:25:59.680 --> 01:26:05.440
fascinating. Same thing with coaches, case in point, consultants, I'm pointing a finger at

895
01:26:05.440 --> 01:26:11.760
myself, you know, all of the, we, what it is that we desire to provide for someone else means that

896
01:26:11.760 --> 01:26:17.360
it's very important to us. Now, it doesn't mean that everybody who's out there that is doing

897
01:26:17.360 --> 01:26:25.200
something has a trauma that they're currently dealing with. And because it, but it, but it's

898
01:26:25.200 --> 01:26:31.440
very often indicative of the fact that they have all that they have had it and have dealt with it.

899
01:26:31.440 --> 01:26:37.520
And it was through the Lord and what it is that they experienced with the Lord and what it is

900
01:26:37.520 --> 01:26:44.080
that he showed them in having walked through that, that the Lord said, okay, now walk others through

901
01:26:44.080 --> 01:26:51.440
it because you've already overcome. So the path is now easier for others to follow through with,

902
01:26:52.560 --> 01:27:00.160
to follow through on that path, because you already blazed the trail. A lot of people are

903
01:27:00.160 --> 01:27:06.320
trying to do that before they're healed. And they're trying to pursue a business or a ministry

904
01:27:07.680 --> 01:27:12.960
in efforts, because they, because the, whether consciously or subconsciously, they're trying to

905
01:27:12.960 --> 01:27:21.680
pursue that healing for themselves as well. So just, just know that, by the way, and, and present.

906
01:27:21.680 --> 01:27:27.280
So if, if you ever find yourself in a position where you desire something and you ask the Lord,

907
01:27:27.280 --> 01:27:35.120
wait a minute, Lord, is that an area of my life in which that, in which I desire it, I desire

908
01:27:35.120 --> 01:27:42.320
to do it because I'm actually trying to get the thing myself? Or is this from a place of

909
01:27:42.320 --> 01:27:48.880
you have actually, this is actually coming up from within my spirit, giving me life,

910
01:27:48.880 --> 01:27:55.040
and I'm now pouring it out into others. Am I trying to get something for myself or think that,

911
01:27:55.040 --> 01:28:01.680
um, uh, or feels it's a lack in my area, there's some lack in some area in my life,

912
01:28:02.480 --> 01:28:09.360
and I'm now trying to provide it for other people in hopes that I'll be able to get it.

913
01:28:09.360 --> 01:28:16.800
So the reason I say that is if we're trying, um, cause that's a very heavy thing to say.

914
01:28:16.800 --> 01:28:22.800
Um, so I, I understand, but here I want what my heart is not simply to tell other people

915
01:28:22.800 --> 01:28:28.000
really nice things to make them spoke up at the time that they get off. I desire, if I was doing

916
01:28:28.000 --> 01:28:32.800
that, I would just go around talking, but I get all kinds of talking engagements that I turned down.

917
01:28:33.520 --> 01:28:38.160
But I, I don't go to because I just asked the Lord, okay, Lord, you and I together, which ones

918
01:28:38.160 --> 01:28:41.920
do we want to do? Which ones do we know? Which ones are we going to speak at it or not speak

919
01:28:41.920 --> 01:28:45.760
at, or is this the right time or whatever? Because it's not what God has put on my heart,

920
01:28:45.760 --> 01:28:52.720
what God has put on my heart again, because of my past and, and what it is that he's, uh, and

921
01:28:52.720 --> 01:28:57.280
me having walked through what I did. It's like, he opened my eyes to the fact that actually so

922
01:28:57.280 --> 01:29:03.040
many people are being taught, but they don't know how to, how to do it, help them do it.

923
01:29:03.040 --> 01:29:10.320
You felt alone. You felt like you did not have a mentor and you wanted one and you,

924
01:29:11.360 --> 01:29:21.360
so you, you now understand and can see a deficit. So would you like to step in and help,

925
01:29:22.400 --> 01:29:28.080
help, uh, uh, help someone else if they find themselves in that same deficit

926
01:29:28.640 --> 01:29:34.240
so you can provide for other people, what you wish that you'd had. Now I got it from the Lord,

927
01:29:34.240 --> 01:29:42.400
understand, but, um, um, anyway, so I sought to then be, but I had to ask the Lord, I couldn't

928
01:29:42.400 --> 01:29:48.080
just like, oh, I just wanted to do this for other people. Um, I had to know because that won't be,

929
01:29:48.640 --> 01:29:52.880
that won't help, wouldn't help me sustain this, sustain,

930
01:29:52.880 --> 01:29:59.760
excuse me, sustain my, uh, my ministry. In other words,

931
01:30:00.000 --> 01:30:23.000
Give me enough, enough energy, give me, there would be no spirit that it was flowing to be able to provide it life. If I was coming at it from the, from that perspective, I have to actually live it own it with the Lord, and that that is part of my relationship

932
01:30:23.000 --> 01:30:37.000
with him. And it natural. And so what it is that I get to others in my in my ministry. That is just me living out loud where there's just this overflow of who it is that the Lord and I are together after what he and I have walked through.

933
01:30:37.000 --> 01:30:51.000
And, and what the Lord has opened my eyes to and giving me a heart of hey actually you see that there's an empty place. Would you like to step into that because you've overcome in that area.

934
01:30:51.000 --> 01:31:03.000
Would you like to step into that to provide that for other people so that it's easier for them to walk a path. It was very hard for you to walk. They still have to walk it you can't walk it for them they don't just get to arrive there just because you did.

935
01:31:04.000 --> 01:31:09.000
It's, it's, it's easier would you like to do that and I said yes Lord. Yes, I would.

936
01:31:09.000 --> 01:31:17.000
So, my point is that the reason why I bring all of this up is we can.

937
01:31:18.000 --> 01:31:21.000
are.

938
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If we are finding ourselves desiring to control the outcome, or we realize that our love for and desire for a ministry or a business or to help people or to serve people is so strong that we're struggling to get it up, or that we, we can't bear the thought that God might

939
01:31:44.000 --> 01:31:49.000
take it away if we gave it to him, and he might have us do something else.

940
01:31:49.000 --> 01:31:53.000
If we're really struggling with it, what it can.

941
01:31:53.000 --> 01:32:02.000
What it can mean is that we have owned it because we are trying to provide something for ourselves.

942
01:32:03.000 --> 01:32:06.000
think that we can't get healing.

943
01:32:06.000 --> 01:32:25.000
If we are denied the opportunity to help show other people how they can be healed in a particular area, or, and I mentioned that one because I talked to lots of people, lots of people who who desire to help other people with healing from various hurts and whatever.

944
01:32:25.000 --> 01:32:30.000
Or it could be I don't know, it could be something else but I'm just going to use that one as an example.

945
01:32:30.000 --> 01:32:38.000
And so I don't say that in any way to condemn any of us. I put, you know, under, understand, that was my story.

946
01:32:38.000 --> 01:32:53.000
The, the important thing is if you're wanting to live and operate and rest, and that's my desire, I'm not saying all of these things I try to say these things in the most, in the most gentle loving and freeing way I can, but I have to tell you the truth.

947
01:32:54.000 --> 01:32:58.000
If you are actually going to have the opportunity.

948
01:32:58.000 --> 01:33:01.000
In other words that have the.

949
01:33:01.000 --> 01:33:11.000
If you can actually hear me say, and here are my words what it is that I'm saying, and how you can actually live this for yourself you can actually live and rest.

950
01:33:11.000 --> 01:33:23.000
Then I want you to know that where you can find how you are actually owning something that you didn't know you were trying to own.

951
01:33:23.000 --> 01:33:34.000
And how, because you're like, I have this, I keep trying to give it to the Lord, you know, and I and I have actually I've given it to him. So, if I've given it to him, why won't he let me do it.

952
01:33:34.000 --> 01:33:40.000
If we still have that accusation and why won't he let me do it. We haven't committed.

953
01:33:40.000 --> 01:33:50.000
Because we're still because giving it up means that we don't it meaning like giving up ownership, not giving up like, Oh, well, there's just, it's just never gonna happen I don't mean that but giving up that ownership.

954
01:33:50.000 --> 01:33:59.000
And if we don't have that, if we, we haven't given up that ownership. If we are.

955
01:33:59.000 --> 01:34:08.000
We still have an aspect of that, that an accusation against the Lord that, Lord, you know, you're not letting me.

956
01:34:08.000 --> 01:34:27.000
You're not letting me move into my dream you're not letting my dream happen. It can be because we, we think that what it is that that God is doing is he is actually denying us the thing that we are trying to provide for ourselves by doing this for someone else.

957
01:34:27.000 --> 01:34:33.000
And so what we're going to talk about is how to interact with other people.

958
01:34:33.000 --> 01:34:50.000
When you're trying to give them something you want them to have something, and how to interact with your clients and how to have a healthier approach, and so that you can help them, and actually you can actually breathe life into the situation, so that they're

959
01:34:50.000 --> 01:34:56.000
more likely to transform, then they're likely to, if you're trying to help them.

960
01:34:56.000 --> 01:34:59.000
You're more likely to help them if you.

961
01:35:00.000 --> 01:35:05.600
motivation is to not help them, than if your motivation is to help them. But I just wanted

962
01:35:05.600 --> 01:35:15.280
to point that out, that that can be something that we can be trying to, that can be indicative

963
01:35:15.280 --> 01:35:25.360
of the fact that we've tried to own something with the Lord. And okay, so talking about

964
01:35:25.360 --> 01:35:29.200
making decisions. So if you say, for instance, you were wondering if God is telling you to do

965
01:35:29.200 --> 01:35:37.920
something. So if you are wondering, okay, well, what's the next step now? Then what was the next

966
01:35:37.920 --> 01:35:44.240
step of, I, you know, I think that God has given me a dream or a vision, and I'm wondering if now

967
01:35:44.240 --> 01:35:49.040
is the right time. And I can't tell, is he telling me to do something or telling me to not do

968
01:35:49.040 --> 01:35:53.600
something? So you just kind of, you keep your spirit open, you shift into rest for one thing,

969
01:35:53.600 --> 01:35:58.000
release all of the ownership so that you're not operating out of fear, including fear of missing

970
01:35:58.000 --> 01:36:02.800
what God is saying. If you have that fear that you're missing, what God is saying, you're not in

971
01:36:02.800 --> 01:36:08.880
rest. Let that go, release that. No. Okay. It's all going to be okay. If you shift into rest,

972
01:36:08.880 --> 01:36:11.600
then you're going to hear the father's heart. Then you're going to know, and you're not going

973
01:36:11.600 --> 01:36:16.800
to miss anything. So you don't have to worry about it. All of these worries are worries of

974
01:36:16.800 --> 01:36:21.120
the old man. Those are things that the old man worries about. The new man doesn't have to worry

975
01:36:21.120 --> 01:36:25.040
about any of those because he's always going to do what the father wants him to do. He's always

976
01:36:25.040 --> 01:36:28.400
going to hear the father because the father's always talking. He's not going to miss anything.

977
01:36:28.400 --> 01:36:34.560
So we have to shift into, into new man and then operate from that place. But in order to operate

978
01:36:34.560 --> 01:36:39.360
according to the new man, we have to give, we'll have to let go of the other first. So that's how

979
01:36:39.360 --> 01:36:44.080
we have to do it first. You have to let go of whatever it is you want before God will be like,

980
01:36:44.080 --> 01:36:49.520
okay, now you can have it, but you have to be prepared. Your ground has to be prepared. Just

981
01:36:49.520 --> 01:36:54.640
like, you know, I said, you know, we have a seed and then we prepare, we prepare, we prepare the

982
01:36:54.640 --> 01:36:59.520
seed, we prepare, um, uh, it to be delivered and we'll prepare the environment in which it's to

983
01:36:59.520 --> 01:37:05.360
be received. God does the same thing with us. He's preparing us to be able to receive something that

984
01:37:05.360 --> 01:37:10.480
he's given, uh, or that, and, uh, that he wants to, um, that he wants to birth out of us.

985
01:37:10.480 --> 01:37:25.760
So, um, anyway, uh, so we're wondering, okay, you know, am I supposed to move now or am I not?

986
01:37:25.760 --> 01:37:32.320
Is now, is now God's timing? Is it God's timing now? Or am I waiting for God's timing? All of

987
01:37:32.320 --> 01:37:37.600
these, these very traditional, um, uh, cliches that we all use, but we, but nobody knows how

988
01:37:37.600 --> 01:37:42.720
to navigate the deck and things. I mean, seriously, um, uh, I mean, what does waiting on the Lord

989
01:37:42.720 --> 01:37:47.040
mean? Does that mean do something, not do something, wait for 20 years, not talk to him about

990
01:37:47.040 --> 01:37:52.560
it, not ask him about it, not want it. I mean, what on earth is waiting on the Lord mean? Uh,

991
01:37:52.560 --> 01:37:58.320
so here's what I would, um, uh, suggest always keep your spirit and heart open again, shifting

992
01:37:58.320 --> 01:38:06.000
into the father. You now you can choose to operate from a place because you hear the father's heart.

993
01:38:06.000 --> 01:38:11.600
You're no longer in fear. So you're not making a decision of how to step out and win based on

994
01:38:11.600 --> 01:38:18.640
fear. You're actually doing it out of intentional will of the son of God. This is what I will

995
01:38:19.360 --> 01:38:24.320
to do me and God. This is how I will it. And then you approach it from that perspective.

996
01:38:25.520 --> 01:38:31.280
Um, so when you are, so the first thing, when you want to know how to make a decision, shift into

997
01:38:31.840 --> 01:38:36.400
release and let go. So that if God doesn't even give you an answer, you're okay, because you don't

998
01:38:36.400 --> 01:38:42.720
need it because you let go enough to the point where you're okay. If God never answers you,

999
01:38:44.400 --> 01:38:49.520
if it's releasing that much ownership, you let go of the fact that God doesn't even have to

1000
01:38:49.520 --> 01:38:56.320
answer you. Then you shift into rest. And once you're there, you're like, oh, wow. Now I have

1001
01:38:56.320 --> 01:39:03.040
the thing that I thought that I needed the answer in order to provide me. I don't even have the

1002
01:39:03.040 --> 01:39:08.080
answer. And because I shifted it into rest, I found what it was. I thought that the answer

1003
01:39:08.080 --> 01:39:13.760
could give me, I found that in God. Now I don't even need to know the answer. So now that you're

1004
01:39:13.760 --> 01:39:19.280
free again, shifting up into the spirit, shifting into rest, your freedom. That's what rest is

1005
01:39:19.280 --> 01:39:23.280
operating from freedom, operating from rest, operating from freedom. Now that you're completely

1006
01:39:23.280 --> 01:39:28.880
free, now you can make a decision in the heart of God. And according to your heart's desires,

1007
01:39:28.880 --> 01:39:33.120
which are very good things, not your heart's desires, where they are filtered through this

1008
01:39:33.120 --> 01:39:38.720
idea of fear. I'm trying to provide for and protect myself because, and I'm calling it the

1009
01:39:38.720 --> 01:39:44.160
desire of my heart hogwash. You know, you're in, sorry, that I'm a Texan. So I use hogwash

1010
01:39:46.640 --> 01:39:49.680
shifting into the spirit, shifting to rest and operating from that place.

1011
01:39:50.400 --> 01:39:55.920
Then you can now, now you are free to choose. Okay. I can do anything.

1012
01:39:55.920 --> 01:39:59.840
Lord, what do you and I want to do together? Do we want to wait?

1013
01:40:00.000 --> 01:40:03.600
Do you want to wait? If you want to wait, I'm fine with that because it can't give me something I

1014
01:40:03.600 --> 01:40:07.120
don't already have. I already have the thing because I'm now in rest. We already have the

1015
01:40:07.120 --> 01:40:11.360
thing that the business or the ministry, when I was in fear, was supposed to provide for me.

1016
01:40:11.360 --> 01:40:16.320
I can't wait till this happens. I can't wait till people know about me. I can't wait till money comes

1017
01:40:16.320 --> 01:40:20.640
in. I can't wait till I get clients. I can't wait and learn when and why isn't it happening yet and

1018
01:40:20.640 --> 01:40:28.240
where you told me to do that fear. We're shifted into rest. We have the thing. We have the rest

1019
01:40:28.960 --> 01:40:35.040
and we understand that being at rest means that we are choosing that we're completely

1020
01:40:35.040 --> 01:40:40.720
sustained by God's character in every area of our lives, including the provision, the protection,

1021
01:40:40.720 --> 01:40:46.000
identity, love, like, and comfort that we expected the business or the ministry to give us.

1022
01:40:46.000 --> 01:40:50.640
Now that we already have it, we could wait 20 years for the business or ministry.

1023
01:40:51.600 --> 01:40:56.800
You know, in the hall of faith, Hebrews 11, it says they all received their,

1024
01:40:57.920 --> 01:41:07.520
they all, sorry, my battery on my phone. Oh, here we go. My battery off my phone

1025
01:41:08.320 --> 01:41:16.560
says it's dying. We can't have that. Let me see if I can bring this up, bring it a little closer.

1026
01:41:17.280 --> 01:41:26.960
Um, I have to move this. Um, anyway, um, it says that they never saw the things that they were

1027
01:41:26.960 --> 01:41:38.720
promised and yet they had faith. Let me make sure this is charging. It's not. There we go. Maybe

1028
01:41:38.720 --> 01:41:54.880
it's charging now. Oh, no, it's still not charging. Oh dear. This is not cool. Maybe.

1029
01:41:54.880 --> 01:42:09.360
There we go. Okay. Technology. I normally always make sure that all my stuff

1030
01:42:11.120 --> 01:42:20.800
is plugged in and ready to go and struggling. Normally make sure it's always plugged in,

1031
01:42:21.680 --> 01:42:30.720
but no, it is still not. So what are we going to do? I'd have to get something in just a second.

1032
01:42:30.720 --> 01:42:34.720
So yeah, I think that I can finish in just a few minutes and then we'll, we'll start the Q and A.

1033
01:42:35.280 --> 01:42:39.200
Um, and then I will go get, uh, we'll take like a, I don't know, a couple of minute break or

1034
01:42:39.200 --> 01:42:48.000
whatever, and I'll grab it a lightning cord. Um, uh, oh wow. What was I talking about? I had it

1035
01:42:48.960 --> 01:42:54.400
until, until I was, um, until I was ready to talk. Someone remind me in the chat what I was

1036
01:42:54.400 --> 01:42:58.480
talking about, what point I was trying to make. Well, I was talking about decisions, but what

1037
01:42:58.480 --> 01:43:06.080
aspect was I talking about, about the decision? Um, let's see, maybe my notes will remind me.

1038
01:43:06.080 --> 01:43:13.600
That's what the notes are for. Oh, thank you. I appreciate that. Um, well, I was talking about,

1039
01:43:14.160 --> 01:43:23.440
she's very sweet. Um, yeah. So you're listening 20 years. Yes. Uh,

1040
01:43:25.600 --> 01:43:30.800
I know it's the same about the 20 years. Oh yeah. Oh, okay. So talking about, and the fact that

1041
01:43:30.800 --> 01:43:36.880
being in the Lord, and now that we have everything now we're like, okay, Lord, what do you and I want

1042
01:43:36.880 --> 01:43:40.960
to do together? And then the Lord will present particular ideas and you present particular ideas,

1043
01:43:40.960 --> 01:43:47.120
et cetera, et cetera. And then you will know from that place, whether or not now is the time and

1044
01:43:47.120 --> 01:43:53.200
what are some things that you could do to begin to move forward. Now, here's what I, here's, um, so

1045
01:43:53.200 --> 01:43:59.920
letting up all of it, setting all of that up. You might then still wonder, okay, I think he's

1046
01:43:59.920 --> 01:44:07.600
telling me to move forward. I'm not sure, but I think he has. So what do I, um, what do I do?

1047
01:44:08.560 --> 01:44:15.280
Um, how, how do I, is it okay to move forward? Is it not? Okay. This is what I do. I,

1048
01:44:16.640 --> 01:44:20.560
I get an idea of what it is that I think he's saying, because I'm learning a being, right?

1049
01:44:20.560 --> 01:44:24.320
He's talking to me and I'm learning, I'm learning his language. I'm learning how he talks to me.

1050
01:44:24.880 --> 01:44:29.520
Um, I I'm hearing the voice of my father. I'm hearing the voice of my shepherd. I'm hearing

1051
01:44:29.520 --> 01:44:33.680
the voice of my beloved and I'm learning what he sounds like. I'm learning what phrases he

1052
01:44:33.920 --> 01:44:38.640
I'm learning what he means when he says certain things, right? So I'm like, okay, I think this

1053
01:44:38.640 --> 01:44:43.280
is what you're saying. So I'm going to step out and do this because I think this is where you are.

1054
01:44:43.840 --> 01:44:50.240
So that is how I recommend making decisions, make decisions. Now, again, that you're in a place of

1055
01:44:50.240 --> 01:44:56.160
rest and not fear. Now that you're in a place of rest, make decisions according to where you think

1056
01:44:56.160 --> 01:45:00.080
you see the father, where you think you're seeing.

1057
01:45:00.000 --> 01:45:06.680
His character, where do you think that his character might be manifesting or what you

1058
01:45:06.680 --> 01:45:10.120
think looks like him out there?

1059
01:45:10.120 --> 01:45:13.640
And I don't mean that, Oh, well, he's, he's talking to you over here and he's moving in

1060
01:45:13.640 --> 01:45:14.640
this direction.

1061
01:45:14.640 --> 01:45:20.680
I just mean, you think, you know what, Lord, I think that I could see your character from

1062
01:45:20.680 --> 01:45:21.680
what I know about you.

1063
01:45:21.680 --> 01:45:29.400
Not, not what I read in scripture, but, but you, you as a being, which obviously your

1064
01:45:29.400 --> 01:45:34.680
scripture is going to mirror, but you as a being that I'm in relationship with, I think

1065
01:45:34.680 --> 01:45:36.680
that you would be in these kinds of areas here.

1066
01:45:36.680 --> 01:45:40.280
I think you would do this kind of thing.

1067
01:45:40.280 --> 01:45:46.480
I think that not that you would do this kind of thing, like what would Jesus do, but who

1068
01:45:46.480 --> 01:45:56.100
are you, where do I sense out in, out in creation, it looking or expressing you, or when you

1069
01:45:56.100 --> 01:46:01.340
and I move into it together, I could see it expressing you, not, I could see it happening,

1070
01:46:01.340 --> 01:46:07.940
you know, possibly, but no, where do you actually, who it is that, that you actually think he

1071
01:46:07.940 --> 01:46:19.660
is and where do you, does your spirit sense that you and the Lord operating together could

1072
01:46:19.660 --> 01:46:34.060
manifest his, his character, because you were sensing that as opposed to you, as opposed

1073
01:46:34.060 --> 01:46:40.060
to you deciding where, well, how did I word that?

1074
01:46:40.060 --> 01:46:46.300
There is an element in which you can, as we learn to mature, as we mature and we learn

1075
01:46:46.300 --> 01:46:54.260
to manifest where you can choose where and how you and the Lord manifest your character,

1076
01:46:54.260 --> 01:46:59.740
but in the beginning, so if y'all are already at that point, some of you are at that point,

1077
01:46:59.740 --> 01:47:00.940
go for it.

1078
01:47:00.940 --> 01:47:03.360
You know, you, you know what to do there.

1079
01:47:03.360 --> 01:47:07.860
You know, you begin to operate according to where it is, begin to operate according to

1080
01:47:07.860 --> 01:47:13.580
your will of like, you know what, Lord, I believe that you're giving me the sanction

1081
01:47:13.580 --> 01:47:15.300
that you have matured me to a particular point.

1082
01:47:15.300 --> 01:47:16.300
This is what I'm feeling.

1083
01:47:16.300 --> 01:47:19.220
My spirit that you were asking me, what do I want to do?

1084
01:47:19.220 --> 01:47:26.360
And you're wanting me to step out in it and, and you'll, and you'll come with me and together

1085
01:47:26.360 --> 01:47:31.140
we'll do what it is that would the idea that I came up with.

1086
01:47:31.140 --> 01:47:37.220
But if your faith isn't there yet, the way that I, the way that I have done this, and

1087
01:47:37.220 --> 01:47:41.860
I still do this in particular areas where I'm not to, to the point where I feel mature

1088
01:47:41.860 --> 01:47:47.740
enough in my faith to be able to, to be able to make that choice and feel that God will

1089
01:47:47.740 --> 01:47:52.380
come through, not that he could, not that maybe, and not that I really, really hope

1090
01:47:52.380 --> 01:47:57.700
he will, but I believe he will come through with me on it.

1091
01:47:57.700 --> 01:48:02.740
If my faith just isn't there, then what I, then what I do is then I think, okay, God,

1092
01:48:02.740 --> 01:48:08.940
I am sensing that I think that your character is manifesting over here.

1093
01:48:09.020 --> 01:48:13.660
And so therefore I'm going to choose this because I'm, and I'm choosing it, not because

1094
01:48:13.660 --> 01:48:16.980
it's something that I want to do to be able to get something for myself.

1095
01:48:16.980 --> 01:48:20.860
I'm choosing it because God, I think that's what, where you are.

1096
01:48:20.860 --> 01:48:25.140
I think that that's what you look, actually look like, what I, the way that my, the way

1097
01:48:25.140 --> 01:48:28.900
that I've understood you thus far and how I've developed my relationship with you and

1098
01:48:28.900 --> 01:48:35.500
who I understand you are as being, I think that is actually how you look and how you

1099
01:48:35.500 --> 01:48:37.540
are and how you're manifesting.

1100
01:48:37.540 --> 01:48:40.380
And I believe that's something that you're wanting me to do.

1101
01:48:40.380 --> 01:48:44.220
Then what I recommend is start moving in that direction.

1102
01:48:44.220 --> 01:48:49.820
Tell him that, and you don't have to do it verbally, but, but have that posture and spirit

1103
01:48:49.820 --> 01:48:50.820
towards the Lord.

1104
01:48:50.820 --> 01:48:51.940
Lord, I believe that's where you are.

1105
01:48:51.940 --> 01:48:56.220
Now, me personally, I would actually tell the Lord that when I was here, when, when

1106
01:48:56.220 --> 01:49:00.260
I was first starting to do this, and actually I still do this sometimes if I need to, and

1107
01:49:00.260 --> 01:49:04.940
I need to actually express it, I will either say it in my mind or to the Lord, or I will

1108
01:49:04.940 --> 01:49:10.220
say it with my mouth, Lord, I am making this choice because I think that's who you are.

1109
01:49:10.220 --> 01:49:12.540
And that's where you are.

1110
01:49:12.540 --> 01:49:13.900
That is why I'm making that choice.

1111
01:49:13.900 --> 01:49:15.980
I'm not making it because I want it.

1112
01:49:15.980 --> 01:49:21.580
You might want it, but you're saying, Lord, I'm putting everything on the fact, all of

1113
01:49:21.580 --> 01:49:27.620
my risk, I'm putting, I am risking everything Lord, because I could lose a lot and could

1114
01:49:27.620 --> 01:49:32.300
bear consequences at possibly being wrong, but that's actually not an expression of your

1115
01:49:32.300 --> 01:49:33.300
character.

1116
01:49:33.300 --> 01:49:35.740
But I think that it is, and that's why I'm choosing it.

1117
01:49:35.740 --> 01:49:39.660
I'm choosing it because I'm looking for you and I think that's it.

1118
01:49:39.660 --> 01:49:43.540
And God will honor that and he will love that.

1119
01:49:43.540 --> 01:49:48.060
And then he will reveal to you whether or not that is actually a reflection of his character,

1120
01:49:48.060 --> 01:49:50.420
but he is going to love and honor.

1121
01:49:50.420 --> 01:49:57.660
He will honor the fact that what it was that your reason for making the choice was not

1122
01:49:57.660 --> 01:50:00.060
because you were trying to provide for protectors.

1123
01:50:00.000 --> 01:50:05.120
or please him, even please him, but that you were choosing it because you thought that was his

1124
01:50:05.120 --> 01:50:10.320
character and you were pursuing your father, you were pursuing a being that you're married to,

1125
01:50:10.320 --> 01:50:14.640
that you're unified with, and you were choosing to move in the direction wherever it is that you

1126
01:50:14.640 --> 01:50:21.600
see that he is. And so as far as like actually moving in that direction, what I do is I make

1127
01:50:21.600 --> 01:50:27.680
particular steps towards it. I will begin to think, what did I do? Okay, for instance,

1128
01:50:27.680 --> 01:50:32.160
when I was wondering if I should start posting certain things on Facebook, and this was like,

1129
01:50:32.160 --> 01:50:37.120
this is like two years ago, I think it was two years ago, two years, a year and a half,

1130
01:50:37.120 --> 01:50:41.840
two years ago, something like that. I would say, okay, well, God, I'm not sure if you want me to

1131
01:50:41.840 --> 01:50:47.040
post on Facebook or not post on Facebook. I think you want me to, I really didn't want to,

1132
01:50:47.040 --> 01:50:53.600
by the way, I really, really didn't, but I think that you want me to, so I'm going to do it.

1133
01:50:54.560 --> 01:50:58.720
What do you think about that? So, I mean, like I would actually make the decision,

1134
01:50:58.720 --> 01:51:02.240
not kind of like, okay, I will do it, but I didn't actually decide. I'm just telling him

1135
01:51:02.240 --> 01:51:08.640
to kind of, no, no, no. I had to actually decide, put myself out there, risking being slapped on

1136
01:51:08.640 --> 01:51:11.840
the hand because I was afraid of the Lord. I was like, what if he doesn't like it? You know,

1137
01:51:11.840 --> 01:51:16.000
is he going to punish me? Right? Hopefully y'all are way beyond that point, but that's the point

1138
01:51:16.000 --> 01:51:20.240
where I was, I was at the point where I was like, I don't know, I didn't believe, I'm struggling to

1139
01:51:20.720 --> 01:51:24.640
believe he was a good God. So I was learning and I was stepping out in it, but there was so much

1140
01:51:24.640 --> 01:51:31.360
accusation that I had against him anyway. So I was like, okay, God, I actually think that that,

1141
01:51:31.360 --> 01:51:34.400
that that's what you're telling me to do. And that's what I'm going to do. I'm making that

1142
01:51:34.400 --> 01:51:39.760
decision. And then I would sense, okay, does he like that? What does he think about that?

1143
01:51:40.640 --> 01:51:44.560
And, and then if I still didn't know, and if it was still kind of felt neutral, I'd be like,

1144
01:51:45.360 --> 01:51:51.200
okay, then, you know, and maybe I'd be gone. And maybe I would be like, uh, at bit in bed when I'm

1145
01:51:51.200 --> 01:51:55.440
telling the Lord this, you know, the night, um, at night about to go to sleep. So I would just

1146
01:51:55.440 --> 01:52:00.800
had, okay, tomorrow, then that is what I'm going to do. So we're not talking about like, okay,

1147
01:52:00.800 --> 01:52:05.680
it's in the morning and okay, I'm delaying it. I'll do that tomorrow. No, no, no. I'm I,

1148
01:52:05.680 --> 01:52:11.120
a lot of times would be making my decisions like either the morning of, and then decide that, okay,

1149
01:52:11.120 --> 01:52:14.960
that's what I'm going to do today. Or be at night, you know, as I was going to bed and I'm

1150
01:52:14.960 --> 01:52:18.160
like, okay, what am I going to do tomorrow? And that's where I'd be making my decision.

1151
01:52:18.160 --> 01:52:22.960
So whatever it is, you decide is what I'm going to do. And then actually do it. Whether it's

1152
01:52:22.960 --> 01:52:26.320
waking up the next morning, because you did it the night, but it made the decision night before.

1153
01:52:26.320 --> 01:52:29.600
And that's when you do it, or you made the decision that morning and that's what you do,

1154
01:52:29.600 --> 01:52:35.520
whatever it is, make the decision and do it right then not. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I'll do that tomorrow.

1155
01:52:36.080 --> 01:52:42.640
And yeah, if your entire day is booked, well, you know, but don't, don't make a decision

1156
01:52:42.640 --> 01:52:48.880
and delay, make a decision and move because remember faith without works instead.

1157
01:52:49.440 --> 01:52:53.520
And you're telling the Lord, Lord, I'm having faith. I think that's where you are. And so

1158
01:52:53.520 --> 01:52:58.720
that's where I'm putting my faith. If you really have faith, there will be works. So you decide

1159
01:52:58.720 --> 01:53:03.200
that's, that's some of that is works. If it is true intention, not just deciding,

1160
01:53:03.200 --> 01:53:07.920
if it is deciding you are risking and you have actually emotionally put yourself out there

1161
01:53:07.920 --> 01:53:13.440
inside, you emotionally put yourself out there. That's, that's an action. And then you see

1162
01:53:13.440 --> 01:53:16.960
testable spirit. What does the Lord say about that? What's the thing about that? You're doing

1163
01:53:16.960 --> 01:53:22.080
things together. You're not looking at him like a master. Okay. Are you okay with me? You know?

1164
01:53:22.080 --> 01:53:26.320
Okay. Are you still okay with me? You know, are you still okay with me? No, no, no. You were doing,

1165
01:53:27.440 --> 01:53:31.520
you were doing it with him. You're like, okay, God, we're doing this together. How, how are we,

1166
01:53:31.520 --> 01:53:37.360
are we liking this? This is good. This is not good. You know, do you, you know, you're with me.

1167
01:53:37.360 --> 01:53:46.880
Are you enjoying this? That kind of a thing. Then I do the next thing. And I think, and then I ask

1168
01:53:46.880 --> 01:53:51.760
the Lord, okay. Like for instance, I would, I would I would go to my computer and I would sit

1169
01:53:51.760 --> 01:53:56.800
down and I would start writing a post or I would think about, well, what video do I want to do?

1170
01:53:56.800 --> 01:54:00.000
You know, I would decide, do I want to do a written post or do I want a video? And I would

1171
01:54:00.000 --> 01:54:04.400
make a decision and I wouldn't belabor it. I would just make a decision. It's very important.

1172
01:54:04.400 --> 01:54:11.360
Do not overthink this. And because overthinking got us into unrest and we're trying to unlearn

1173
01:54:11.360 --> 01:54:15.920
all of those things, make a decision and move. It's kind of all be okay. We're used to being

1174
01:54:15.920 --> 01:54:23.040
punished for moving. Moving is spirit, moving is life. There's no punishment for moving.

1175
01:54:23.040 --> 01:54:26.640
So in the spirit, in the world's, in the world's eyes where everything had to be controlled,

1176
01:54:26.640 --> 01:54:32.400
everything had to be stifled and therefore it brought death. Yes. It was, movement was punished.

1177
01:54:32.400 --> 01:54:42.160
So movement is not punished in the spirit. So to move. So then I would, you know, make decisions,

1178
01:54:42.160 --> 01:54:45.600
written or video and say, for instance, I decided to do written. So I'd start writing it.

1179
01:54:46.880 --> 01:54:52.800
I start writing like, okay, Lord. And again, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not checking with God periodically

1180
01:54:52.800 --> 01:54:57.440
and then going back and like, okay, now, okay, God, I'm coming to you again. What do you think?

1181
01:54:57.440 --> 01:54:59.760
That separation, remember in most.

1182
01:55:00.000 --> 01:55:02.200
important thing to the Lord is union.

1183
01:55:02.200 --> 01:55:03.800
Do everything with him.

1184
01:55:03.800 --> 01:55:05.920
You're always with him.

1185
01:55:05.920 --> 01:55:08.960
You move into him and then you move into the world.

1186
01:55:08.960 --> 01:55:11.020
You don't, you're not in the world.

1187
01:55:11.020 --> 01:55:13.720
And then you invite him to come along.

1188
01:55:13.720 --> 01:55:16.060
Absolutely not. No, no, no.

1189
01:55:16.060 --> 01:55:18.360
You leave your world,

1190
01:55:18.360 --> 01:55:22.640
enter him, and then the two of you move into

1191
01:55:22.640 --> 01:55:26.160
the world while you're in him, move into the world.

1192
01:55:26.160 --> 01:55:28.000
So you move in him,

1193
01:55:28.160 --> 01:55:31.680
move towards the thing, and you start writing.

1194
01:55:31.680 --> 01:55:33.080
And, or that's what I would do.

1195
01:55:33.080 --> 01:55:35.000
You know, I would start writing the post.

1196
01:55:35.000 --> 01:55:36.720
And because I'm in him and I'm doing it

1197
01:55:36.720 --> 01:55:38.520
from the place that I'm in him,

1198
01:55:38.520 --> 01:55:40.600
as opposed to continually checking with him.

1199
01:55:40.600 --> 01:55:41.880
Okay, what do you think about this?

1200
01:55:41.880 --> 01:55:42.720
Am I okay?

1201
01:55:42.720 --> 01:55:44.520
You know, are you liking this so far?

1202
01:55:44.520 --> 01:55:45.520
Separation.

1203
01:55:45.520 --> 01:55:46.360
So I'm in him.

1204
01:55:46.360 --> 01:55:48.360
So I'm feeling him as I'm doing it.

1205
01:55:48.360 --> 01:55:51.120
And what it is I'm writing needs to be coming up

1206
01:55:51.120 --> 01:55:52.320
out of who it is that I am.

1207
01:55:52.320 --> 01:55:54.000
It needs to be coming up out of my spirit.

1208
01:55:54.000 --> 01:55:56.480
So whatever stuff that you're taking,

1209
01:55:56.480 --> 01:55:58.200
who do you think that you are?

1210
01:55:58.200 --> 01:55:59.280
Not who do you think that you are?

1211
01:55:59.280 --> 01:56:00.960
Who are you feeling?

1212
01:56:00.960 --> 01:56:01.800
What are you feeling?

1213
01:56:01.800 --> 01:56:03.400
And how does that feeling need to come out?

1214
01:56:03.400 --> 01:56:05.480
Even if you don't have words for what the feeling is,

1215
01:56:05.480 --> 01:56:07.160
that's okay.

1216
01:56:07.160 --> 01:56:09.480
Have that feel, whatever that feeling is,

1217
01:56:09.480 --> 01:56:11.840
how does that feeling feel like it needs to be expressed?

1218
01:56:11.840 --> 01:56:13.560
Oh, I feel like I need to write.

1219
01:56:13.560 --> 01:56:15.120
I feel like I need to go run.

1220
01:56:15.120 --> 01:56:18.320
I feel that I need to, and we're not talking about fear,

1221
01:56:18.320 --> 01:56:20.960
like, oh, I'm trying to avoid something.

1222
01:56:20.960 --> 01:56:23.640
No, we're not talking about those kinds of feelings.

1223
01:56:23.640 --> 01:56:26.720
Feeling of something that need that is in you

1224
01:56:26.720 --> 01:56:28.320
related to the business or ministry,

1225
01:56:28.320 --> 01:56:29.160
whatever it is you're doing,

1226
01:56:29.160 --> 01:56:34.160
that needs to come up and out and live that out loud.

1227
01:56:34.560 --> 01:56:36.040
Give it some kind of an expression.

1228
01:56:36.040 --> 01:56:37.200
It doesn't have to be perfect.

1229
01:56:37.200 --> 01:56:39.360
And it doesn't have to be a permanent thing

1230
01:56:39.360 --> 01:56:42.040
that you do in your business or ministry from then on.

1231
01:56:42.040 --> 01:56:43.440
Just right now,

1232
01:56:43.440 --> 01:56:46.200
it's just that you're trying to figure yourself out too.

1233
01:56:46.200 --> 01:56:48.160
You're trying to figure out who are you?

1234
01:56:48.160 --> 01:56:49.960
What are these arms and legs that God gave you?

1235
01:56:49.960 --> 01:56:51.600
And how on earth do you use them?

1236
01:56:52.360 --> 01:56:54.560
So, because you already have everything,

1237
01:56:54.560 --> 01:56:56.200
we're just learning how to use what it is

1238
01:56:56.200 --> 01:56:57.760
that we already have.

1239
01:56:57.760 --> 01:56:58.680
So it's the same thing here.

1240
01:56:58.680 --> 01:57:01.440
So live and operate more out of your spirit.

1241
01:57:01.440 --> 01:57:02.600
I think we're gonna be talking about that

1242
01:57:02.600 --> 01:57:04.120
a bit more tomorrow when we're talking about

1243
01:57:04.120 --> 01:57:06.120
how to interact with clients and themselves,

1244
01:57:06.120 --> 01:57:08.080
clients and customers.

1245
01:57:08.080 --> 01:57:09.680
But anyway, so whatever it is you're doing,

1246
01:57:09.680 --> 01:57:11.840
whatever it is that you're doing in that next step,

1247
01:57:11.840 --> 01:57:12.960
and it could be as something as simple

1248
01:57:12.960 --> 01:57:14.360
as writing a Facebook post,

1249
01:57:15.960 --> 01:57:18.480
let it come out of your spirit.

1250
01:57:18.480 --> 01:57:21.000
Don't try to accomplish something and think,

1251
01:57:21.240 --> 01:57:23.680
what result do I want out of this post?

1252
01:57:24.760 --> 01:57:27.040
And write to that.

1253
01:57:27.040 --> 01:57:28.320
That's what the world taught us.

1254
01:57:28.320 --> 01:57:30.280
And that's what I used to teach.

1255
01:57:30.280 --> 01:57:32.280
So you can do all those things.

1256
01:57:32.280 --> 01:57:33.200
They're not bad.

1257
01:57:33.200 --> 01:57:35.200
God created those things to work.

1258
01:57:35.200 --> 01:57:37.560
But this is a conference about rest.

1259
01:57:37.560 --> 01:57:39.880
So I'm teaching something.

1260
01:57:39.880 --> 01:57:42.200
I'm teaching a different way that you can approach it.

1261
01:57:42.200 --> 01:57:45.480
You can choose whether or not you want to do it that way.

1262
01:57:45.480 --> 01:57:47.040
And you can choose to what degree

1263
01:57:47.040 --> 01:57:50.200
that you have the faith to do it that way right now.

1264
01:57:50.200 --> 01:57:53.600
And then tomorrow or next month or next year,

1265
01:57:53.600 --> 01:57:57.760
you'll have a faith to operate in it to a greater degree.

1266
01:57:57.760 --> 01:57:59.760
No condemnation for only doing it

1267
01:57:59.760 --> 01:58:01.240
to the level in which you have faith

1268
01:58:01.240 --> 01:58:03.400
and not doing it beyond that.

1269
01:58:03.400 --> 01:58:05.200
So it's perfectly fine.

1270
01:58:05.200 --> 01:58:07.960
Or you could choose to use a strategy or formula

1271
01:58:07.960 --> 01:58:09.840
and say, hey, my God is a good God.

1272
01:58:09.840 --> 01:58:10.800
Lord, you gave me this tool.

1273
01:58:10.800 --> 01:58:11.920
Thank you so much for this gift.

1274
01:58:11.920 --> 01:58:13.320
And this is what I want to do.

1275
01:58:13.320 --> 01:58:16.200
So please don't say,

1276
01:58:16.200 --> 01:58:20.520
please don't take what I am saying about rest

1277
01:58:21.680 --> 01:58:23.640
and then draw conclusions of,

1278
01:58:23.640 --> 01:58:25.520
oh, well, that means everything else is bad.

1279
01:58:25.520 --> 01:58:27.800
No, it doesn't.

1280
01:58:27.800 --> 01:58:29.560
But everything that we do,

1281
01:58:29.560 --> 01:58:31.800
God wants us to understand more and more

1282
01:58:31.800 --> 01:58:34.920
that we have an opportunity to operate out of freedom

1283
01:58:34.920 --> 01:58:37.600
in him so that he is the source

1284
01:58:37.600 --> 01:58:39.520
through which we are using the tools.

1285
01:58:39.520 --> 01:58:41.720
He is the source through which we are operating

1286
01:58:41.720 --> 01:58:43.360
out of rest, whatever.

1287
01:58:44.480 --> 01:58:45.800
But I just wanted to point that out.

1288
01:58:46.440 --> 01:58:47.600
So anyway, just whatever it is you're doing,

1289
01:58:47.600 --> 01:58:50.040
just take the next step and then sense,

1290
01:58:50.040 --> 01:58:52.000
okay, how's this feeling in the spirit?

1291
01:58:53.080 --> 01:58:54.920
And then, Lord, what are you thinking about this?

1292
01:58:54.920 --> 01:58:56.240
And he might be completely neutral

1293
01:58:56.240 --> 01:58:57.760
and he's not telling you what to do.

1294
01:58:57.760 --> 01:58:59.000
If he's not telling you what to do,

1295
01:58:59.000 --> 01:59:00.960
sometimes what he's doing is he's asking you,

1296
01:59:00.960 --> 01:59:02.600
what do you want to do?

1297
01:59:02.600 --> 01:59:03.440
And do it.

1298
01:59:04.720 --> 01:59:07.200
So, because you're asking him, your heart,

1299
01:59:07.200 --> 01:59:09.440
remember, continually shift into rest,

1300
01:59:09.440 --> 01:59:11.360
not operating out of fear.

1301
01:59:11.360 --> 01:59:13.160
If you find yourself being afraid again

1302
01:59:13.160 --> 01:59:16.240
or stressed or anxious, shift again.

1303
01:59:16.240 --> 01:59:18.320
Constant, you might be in the middle of writing a post

1304
01:59:18.320 --> 01:59:20.240
and all of a sudden you start getting frustrated.

1305
01:59:20.240 --> 01:59:21.880
Why can't I think of the next thing to say?

1306
01:59:21.880 --> 01:59:23.600
Or I have writer's block.

1307
01:59:23.600 --> 01:59:24.480
Shift into rest.

1308
01:59:24.480 --> 01:59:26.720
There's anxiety, there's stress.

1309
01:59:26.720 --> 01:59:28.640
That's an accusation against the Lord somewhere

1310
01:59:28.640 --> 01:59:29.840
that the stress and the anxiety

1311
01:59:29.840 --> 01:59:31.040
is the manifestation of.

1312
01:59:31.040 --> 01:59:33.640
Shift, just shift.

1313
01:59:33.640 --> 01:59:35.840
It's all okay, it's all right, just let it go.

1314
01:59:35.840 --> 01:59:37.920
Like, oh, my word, I'm stressed again, okay.

1315
01:59:37.920 --> 01:59:39.240
God says I don't have to be.

1316
01:59:39.240 --> 01:59:41.720
God says that whatever it is I'm worried about

1317
01:59:41.720 --> 01:59:43.000
actually isn't true.

1318
01:59:43.680 --> 01:59:44.520
So you just let it go.

1319
01:59:45.760 --> 01:59:49.720
And anyway, so you do that and then,

1320
01:59:51.160 --> 01:59:52.400
and you keep doing that.

1321
01:59:52.400 --> 01:59:56.960
Then what, so you could research something.

1322
01:59:56.960 --> 01:59:58.280
You might buy something.

1323
01:59:58.280 --> 01:59:59.600
You might buy a course.

1324
02:00:00.000 --> 02:00:02.440
I do whatever.

1325
02:00:02.440 --> 02:00:05.760
So say you actually go all the way through the thing

1326
02:00:05.760 --> 02:00:07.920
and you continue to make steps and they're not

1327
02:00:07.920 --> 02:00:09.360
and sometimes the steps are going

1328
02:00:09.360 --> 02:00:11.480
to be beyond the point where they're hidden.

1329
02:00:11.480 --> 02:00:13.040
Like in other words, like if I'm just

1330
02:00:13.040 --> 02:00:14.480
writing a post at my kitchen table,

1331
02:00:14.480 --> 02:00:16.280
nobody knows that than me.

1332
02:00:16.280 --> 02:00:18.400
But what if there are consequences to the fact

1333
02:00:18.400 --> 02:00:20.200
that I was spending my time writing that post instead

1334
02:00:20.200 --> 02:00:21.880
of doing something else and it becomes

1335
02:00:21.880 --> 02:00:24.840
evident to in either my life by some consequence

1336
02:00:24.840 --> 02:00:27.520
that I bear because I didn't do the other thing

1337
02:00:27.520 --> 02:00:32.240
or the like, I don't know, I don't know what that would be.

1338
02:00:32.240 --> 02:00:34.200
But I don't know.

1339
02:00:34.200 --> 02:00:41.280
Go run an errand or it could be something

1340
02:00:41.280 --> 02:00:46.320
like it could be something that you feel

1341
02:00:46.320 --> 02:00:49.320
could hurt your reputation if someone else knew

1342
02:00:49.320 --> 02:00:52.280
that you were doing that you were doing this instead

1343
02:00:52.280 --> 02:00:55.560
of doing something else or I don't know whatever.

1344
02:00:55.560 --> 02:00:57.680
Or you buy something and you feel

1345
02:00:57.680 --> 02:01:00.720
that that's the next step the Lord wants you to take

1346
02:01:00.720 --> 02:01:02.720
and you spend money on it.

1347
02:01:02.720 --> 02:01:04.480
So you could bear consequences.

1348
02:01:04.480 --> 02:01:05.760
So it's a risk, right?

1349
02:01:05.760 --> 02:01:09.160
You could bear consequences if God's like, yeah,

1350
02:01:09.160 --> 02:01:10.640
but you thought that that was my character

1351
02:01:10.640 --> 02:01:12.120
and you chose that because you thought

1352
02:01:12.120 --> 02:01:13.520
that that's what I was there.

1353
02:01:13.520 --> 02:01:15.720
But I'm now showing you now that you bought the thing

1354
02:01:15.720 --> 02:01:18.280
and you've spent $2,000 or however much it was

1355
02:01:18.280 --> 02:01:20.760
because that's how much I used to spend on some of my courses.

1356
02:01:20.760 --> 02:01:22.840
I would spend like, oops, I would

1357
02:01:22.840 --> 02:01:26.320
spend on like 1,000.

1358
02:01:26.320 --> 02:01:35.520
Yeah, I spent 1,000, I spent 2,000, 5,000, and 6,000.

1359
02:01:35.520 --> 02:01:36.960
I think those are the different amounts

1360
02:01:36.960 --> 02:01:38.080
that I've spent on courses.

1361
02:01:38.080 --> 02:01:39.920
And I spent all of that within a year.

1362
02:01:39.920 --> 02:01:42.320
So actually, maybe more than that.

1363
02:01:42.320 --> 02:01:48.040
I spent about $15,000 on courses,

1364
02:01:48.080 --> 02:01:52.920
I think, in a year, I thought.

1365
02:01:52.920 --> 02:01:56.520
Anyway, point is, and that I did not have income.

1366
02:01:59.080 --> 02:02:04.080
So I was running on my savings.

1367
02:02:04.080 --> 02:02:06.480
But, well, I had a little bit in,

1368
02:02:06.480 --> 02:02:08.600
but that was like this little side thing

1369
02:02:08.600 --> 02:02:12.800
that the Lord, that felt like a very much like a side trail

1370
02:02:12.800 --> 02:02:14.080
that the Lord was taking me on.

1371
02:02:14.080 --> 02:02:18.400
But the Lord ended up, here just a second.

1372
02:02:18.400 --> 02:02:21.320
The Lord ended up, oh, there we go.

1373
02:02:21.320 --> 02:02:23.480
The Lord ended up using that, again,

1374
02:02:23.480 --> 02:02:25.240
things that we think don't have anything

1375
02:02:25.240 --> 02:02:27.160
to do with what it is we're going to be doing.

1376
02:02:27.160 --> 02:02:30.360
He ends up using that in our life to nurture seed

1377
02:02:30.360 --> 02:02:32.520
or and to prepare ground or whatever.

1378
02:02:32.520 --> 02:02:35.760
Anyway, point is, that I wanted to get to about making

1379
02:02:35.760 --> 02:02:39.360
the decisions is, say that you actually do something

1380
02:02:39.360 --> 02:02:43.800
and now you're risking the fact that you

1381
02:02:44.320 --> 02:02:51.760
will bear the consequence of if what it is that you thought

1382
02:02:51.760 --> 02:02:54.240
was reflective of God's character,

1383
02:02:54.240 --> 02:02:59.240
actually he taught you once you did it that it wasn't.

1384
02:02:59.240 --> 02:03:03.400
You will bear an aspect of the consequence

1385
02:03:03.400 --> 02:03:04.520
because you'll learn it.

1386
02:03:04.520 --> 02:03:09.280
However, God loving the fact that the reason you chose it

1387
02:03:09.280 --> 02:03:11.320
was because you thought that was his character,

1388
02:03:11.320 --> 02:03:13.640
he provides you a safe environment

1389
02:03:13.640 --> 02:03:15.640
in which to bear that consequence,

1390
02:03:15.640 --> 02:03:18.200
just like we do for children.

1391
02:03:18.200 --> 02:03:21.440
We don't allow them to bear the entire weight

1392
02:03:21.440 --> 02:03:23.280
of what that consequence would be if they

1393
02:03:23.280 --> 02:03:25.000
did that out in the real world.

1394
02:03:25.000 --> 02:03:26.400
God does the same thing with us.

1395
02:03:26.400 --> 02:03:30.560
He's like, no, no, no, you need to learn that actually

1396
02:03:30.560 --> 02:03:35.920
will harm you if you do that and because you've done that.

1397
02:03:35.920 --> 02:03:37.680
That kind of thing, if you incorporate that

1398
02:03:37.680 --> 02:03:39.280
into your business, it'll harm you.

1399
02:03:39.280 --> 02:03:41.120
And do you see how that harms?

1400
02:03:41.120 --> 02:03:42.720
You're like, oh, my word, Lord, there's

1401
02:03:42.720 --> 02:03:44.880
all these consequences now, there's whatever.

1402
02:03:44.880 --> 02:03:45.960
And God's like, I know.

1403
02:03:45.960 --> 02:03:48.640
But I'm still, I'm providing for you.

1404
02:03:48.640 --> 02:03:49.600
I'm protecting you.

1405
02:03:49.600 --> 02:03:50.760
It's OK.

1406
02:03:50.760 --> 02:03:52.200
The whole point of doing this thing

1407
02:03:52.200 --> 02:03:53.880
isn't to make a successful business.

1408
02:03:53.880 --> 02:03:57.080
The whole point of this thing is for you to know me.

1409
02:03:57.080 --> 02:03:59.560
That's why we're doing this business in this ministry.

1410
02:03:59.560 --> 02:04:03.480
It's for you and I to express who it is that we are together,

1411
02:04:03.480 --> 02:04:06.800
the Lord says to us.

1412
02:04:06.800 --> 02:04:10.040
And anyway, and so you're being fathered,

1413
02:04:10.040 --> 02:04:12.720
I'm fathering you into how to do that.

1414
02:04:12.720 --> 02:04:14.160
That's what it is that we're doing.

1415
02:04:14.160 --> 02:04:17.560
So it's OK.

1416
02:04:17.560 --> 02:04:21.240
So understand that even if you step into something

1417
02:04:21.240 --> 02:04:23.880
and make a decision and you, quote unquote,

1418
02:04:23.880 --> 02:04:27.880
bear a consequence, it's like a child bearing a consequence.

1419
02:04:27.880 --> 02:04:32.120
It's not the same as bearing that consequence out

1420
02:04:32.120 --> 02:04:34.400
in the big bad world.

1421
02:04:34.400 --> 02:04:37.080
God provides a protective covering for you

1422
02:04:37.080 --> 02:04:41.400
to learn because you chose it because you thought that

1423
02:04:41.400 --> 02:04:44.840
was him, not choosing it because you were

1424
02:04:44.840 --> 02:04:48.760
trying to do the right thing.

1425
02:04:48.760 --> 02:04:50.960
Remember the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,

1426
02:04:50.960 --> 02:04:52.520
trying to do the right thing.

1427
02:04:52.520 --> 02:04:53.760
No, no, no.

1428
02:04:53.760 --> 02:04:56.240
You're in him and you're looking for his character.

1429
02:04:56.240 --> 02:04:59.320
You're not trying to please him.

1430
02:04:59.320 --> 02:05:01.120
You're trying.

1431
02:05:00.000 --> 02:05:08.000
to act like him and act like his character and he honors that and so he's going to provide you he's

1432
02:05:08.000 --> 02:05:12.560
like oh you thought that was me so you thought that that's that were you watching me you thought

1433
02:05:12.560 --> 02:05:17.040
that that's what i was doing oh that's that's sweet and i love you and i love you trying he's

1434
02:05:17.040 --> 02:05:22.400
like now let me show you how i really am doing it how it's actually really working so in other

1435
02:05:22.400 --> 02:05:30.400
words it's all okay we're always trying to not bear the consequence of god's wrath by making

1436
02:05:30.400 --> 02:05:38.720
a wrong decision as if making a quote-unquote wrong decision is sin no sin is unbelief that's

1437
02:05:38.720 --> 02:05:45.760
what sin is so so it's all okay so i wanted to point out where we make a decision and it didn't

1438
02:05:45.760 --> 02:05:57.520
work out god's like okay i will now use that to fertilize to fertilize what um your uh what

1439
02:05:57.520 --> 02:06:05.280
actually will bring fruit so this can't bring um uh is not meant to bring an actual fruit because

1440
02:06:05.280 --> 02:06:10.400
there's death in it that's actually not my character but because it's dead just like the

1441
02:06:10.400 --> 02:06:15.760
indians would put a fish into next to a kernel of corn um in the ground to fertilize it because

1442
02:06:15.760 --> 02:06:20.400
they whenever they would catch a dead fish they can't eat a dead fish because it's already dead

1443
02:06:20.400 --> 02:06:25.600
so it's but you know it would make them sick but they can use the dead fish to fertilize their

1444
02:06:25.600 --> 02:06:32.400
other food right god does the same thing with our with us it's that's why god can work everything

1445
02:06:32.400 --> 02:06:39.280
out for good to those who love the lord you chose it thinking it was him so he's like i will use it

1446
02:06:39.280 --> 02:06:45.040
and it will fertilize you don't think the mistake is wasted don't think that it's bad you chose it

1447
02:06:45.040 --> 02:06:50.480
because you're choosing me and i'm just and we're on a journey of me showing you who i am so that's

1448
02:06:50.480 --> 02:06:57.120
what we're doing uh so uh and and then sometimes our decisions will work will work out and we'll

1449
02:06:57.120 --> 02:07:01.840
discover oh my word that was god and all sudden it's like everything explodes and everything

1450
02:07:01.840 --> 02:07:05.600
blossoms and it's like our path just clears or something amazing happens and all these

1451
02:07:05.600 --> 02:07:10.960
clouds are attracted to us or whatever and uh so there's wonderful things but i wanted to mention

1452
02:07:10.960 --> 02:07:15.120
the one we're all scared of so we can understand that there's no reason to fear no we shouldn't

1453
02:07:15.120 --> 02:07:23.920
be afraid um last uh now i did want to talk about one thing really quick okay so i i have time to

1454
02:07:23.920 --> 02:07:32.000
talk about this um and then we're going to have a a quick q a session um just wanted to talk about

1455
02:07:32.000 --> 02:07:41.280
um uh intention i talked about this during the conference uh and i wanted to mention something

1456
02:07:41.280 --> 02:07:49.200
about intention especially related to in making decisions where we're trying to figure out where

1457
02:07:49.200 --> 02:08:01.360
god is and how to continue to um continue to move forward so think of intention or like in other

1458
02:08:01.360 --> 02:08:06.240
words we decide to do something or we think okay this is how god works and this is his character

1459
02:08:06.240 --> 02:08:13.040
and this is how we manifest when we what ends up happening is when we're young we try to in the

1460
02:08:13.040 --> 02:08:19.120
lord we try to do something what we is what it's like that what we've done is we've sent out our

1461
02:08:19.120 --> 02:08:24.880
intention um you know what it is that we want to do what is that we're trying to do or whatever

1462
02:08:24.880 --> 02:08:31.760
and we end up spreading it out like this in all this area we cover a really wide area and we just

1463
02:08:31.760 --> 02:08:38.080
like put something out there like i don't know i think this is right i'm gonna try and then we do

1464
02:08:38.080 --> 02:08:44.400
it well it and we kind of like stumble into it and then oh my word it works like oh my goodness

1465
02:08:44.400 --> 02:08:49.840
god showed up he manifested his character this is amazing i figured it out we get all excited

1466
02:08:50.400 --> 02:08:55.280
then and maybe maybe that'll work the first few times and this is why people come back to me in

1467
02:08:55.280 --> 02:08:58.480
the rest intensive you know in the in the coaching program that's why people continue to come back to

1468
02:08:58.480 --> 02:09:03.120
me they're just like okay actually it worked the first three times but now i'm in this other

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situation this one's different this one must be different because it's not working now like no

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what god is doing is what we did is we had we had kind of spread ourselves just kind of like

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throwing something out there like i i think this is intention and and it covers this wide

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this wide area and it's not precise and so we keep doing that and god's like okay no no no

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it we'll do it like the fourth time or whatever and i'm just throwing out a number we'll do it

1474
02:09:31.760 --> 02:09:36.080
the fourth time it doesn't work i'm worried it worked the first three times it doesn't work now

1475
02:09:36.080 --> 02:09:39.920
well all that's going on is god's just like i'm trying to back up so you can see it cause just

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like okay you i i actually want you to learn to hone your intention to hone in your understanding

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of what it is that i look like to hone in your understanding of what your spirit is and how it

1478
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me and how you can how you can express

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It's very precisely on the earth. This isn't precise. This is general. This is machine gunfire spray fire.

1480
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That's just like, no, no, no. Let's it. And so we're like, okay, well, I'm just gonna, you know, we try to adjust and like, well, I don't know, maybe.

1481
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What if I tried this. And so we reduce it by say like a quarter.

1482
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So instead of spray is spraying all of this, we just, we just do this and it works.

1483
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Figured it out. So it's not over here. It's over here. And we get very excited. And so we'll do it for another few times.

1484
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And it works and works. And then all of a sudden it didn't work anymore.

1485
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So I was like, yeah, it's in this area. I'm just wanting you to home.

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I'm just wanting you to home. Just wanting you to home. So you can find it.

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You can find that place of your intention. You can find more, more, a greater understanding and greater depth of who God's character is or who it is that you are or whatever.

1488
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And that is some of what God is doing there. He's just trying to narrow everything.

1489
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So I wanted to point that out. So in case you get discouraged, that's something that you thought that you understood about the Lord or that you thought you understood about what he wanted you to do in business and how all of a sudden it's not working.

1490
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Try to home. Try to home in. What, what, what, what was in the thing that was working?

1491
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There's something in there. It's not all of this.

1492
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There's something in there. And so just start narrowing it, start honing in on things, start honing in on in order to find what that thing actually is.

1493
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That is where spirit is, where movement is, where the Lord is, where his character is manifesting, what it is that his character actually looks like.

1494
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So I wanted, I wanted to mention that because people can get very discouraged. We can all get very discouraged if we're not careful that like, well, Lord, I had it all figured out.

1495
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And now it's not working. And I'm doing the same thing I've always done. So you're not holding a beer into the bar.

1496
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I'm doing my end. I'm being very, very obedient. I'm doing the exact same thing I've done all of this time.

1497
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Hone it, hone it, hone it. You know, I want you to be more precise. You know how, because you can only be, you can only exert your will when you know what your will is and how to actually send it somewhere.

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You got to learn it, got to learn who I am, you got to learn who you are, you got to learn how to hone it in.

1499
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I wanted to mention those two things. So we are going to break for just like two minutes while I go get a new power cord.

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And, well, I say that, but no, it might be pretty fast.

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So yeah, I don't know, maybe we can do it pretty fast here. I'll see if I can, if I can trade it out really quick and then we will do a quick Q&A.

1502
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So let me turn off my video real quick, see if I can get this, my phone to finally start charging and I'll be right back.

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from me so that I'm not holding on so tightly to like my church, my friends, my life here,

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my house, my anything. And he's just left this big space for me to explore the possibility of

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what's in the future. And I just don't know what to do with all this because it's, I just,

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.

1653
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there's so much fear and trepidation even though it's going away, like I think it's,

1654
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I'm praying about it a lot. I'm still terrified and I know you've been through this before

1655
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and I feel like in a way it's a death of a lot of things right now. I feel like my soul

1656
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is going through a death of wanting my way, wanting to look a certain way, but at the same

1657
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time the fear is still there. So I'm not totally free of it yet, but I was just kind of curious

1658
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on your take on all that because it's really been on my heart a lot lately.

1659
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You're muted. You're muted, Ashley. I'd love to hear what you're saying, but you're muted.

1660
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Thanks. I did that because I'm getting, there's some, it's not feedback, but there's something

1661
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that I'm hearing. And so I thought, well, maybe it was feedback. So I muted myself while you're

1662
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talking. So I was going to say that I'd love to, I'd love to answer you, but I'm afraid it's just

1663
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the same answer. It's the fact that we actually, it's that, it's that scary. It's that terrifying.

1664
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It's worse than scary. It really is terrifying. We think we're going to die. You remember that

1665
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story that I tell where I literally, not figuratively, literally thought my body was

1666
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going to die because it hurt that bad. And I caught myself in the middle of thinking it.

1667
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I didn't like think it later because I was just being dramatic. No, I caught myself. I'm like,

1668
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well, that was why on earth would I actually think that my body's physically going to die because I'm

1669
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making a spiritual decision. But I did, I'd like already started to plan it out and think,

1670
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I'm like, you know, you know, well, maybe if I steer the car this way,

1671
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well then fewer people are going to get hurt. I mean, just weird, weird stuff.

1672
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And we, we just finally have to do it. I'm afraid that the only thing that makes it

1673
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easier is when is if we don't choose to just to, if we don't just choose the Lord

1674
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then and choose to let go of our, of, of, of our ownership of whatever it is that we're holding

1675
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onto provision protection you know, whatever. If, if we don't and we don't do it and we,

1676
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and we choose to not do it long enough, then what can happen is if we end up actually ever

1677
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making the choice it's because the pain became too great. So we created, so by not making the

1678
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choice, the pain was when it was easier, it actually became harder and harder and harder

1679
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and harder to make the choice until finally the reason why it was easy to make the choice

1680
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is because there was no other choice. The pain hurt so bad. That's why I always recommend to

1681
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people make the choice is early earlier instead of later, because it doesn't do anything, but either

1682
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deny ourselves the thing, like completely, like we're going to stay later and it'll get easier

1683
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until, until we die or, and then we'll never get to actually step into it.

1684
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And then we also don't get to receive the benefits of having done it earlier.

1685
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Or what will happen is things will actually just get more and more painful. Either way,

1686
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we experience more pain. It just depends on whether or not we eventually do end up choosing

1687
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because it hurts so bad, or if we just continue to endure the pain, but it will never get easier.

1688
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It never will get easier to make the decision. I'm afraid this is as easy as it gets.

1689
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It's this hard. It will, it will get, it'll get worse. The only thing that will make it easier

1690
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is it looks as bad as it is. It looks better compared to the hell that you feel that you're in.

1691
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That's, I mean, I'm sorry to be that you're going to be that one. I'm telling you,

1692
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I'm telling you from personal experience, it will get so bad, so bad that as hard as this is,

1693
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will look good in comparison. It's already getting bad. It's, it's already,

1694
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I don't look like it is, but it's, it's.

1695
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insides feel like they're dying, like they're in fight or flight constantly. I'm so tired, I'm just

1696
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worn out from it, like there's so much going on inside me that I can hardly actually function,

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like I can hardly go to work. It's pretty bad right now and I'm still holding on so tightly.

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One of the things that you can do, I know you're not going to like the answer,

1699
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but I'm giving you an answer of like something you can actually do to move forward, is to let

1700
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go of not ever leaving teaching. And I know that this is what we're talking about. When I talk

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about releasing things, these are what I'm talking about. It's like release whatever it is we don't

1702
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want to let go of. That thing is what we have to let go of. And there's probably multiple things

1703
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that we're hanging on to. And this will be one of them, like I don't want to, I don't want to leave,

1704
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I don't want to stay. We have to let go of both. And we have to, okay, I never leave, or I have to,

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and then we have to let go of, okay, if God tells me, or if I might, you know, when I made the

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decision to leave, and then yeah, I'm out that money, I don't have the opportunity to gain all

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the benefits of the lifelong, you know, pension and all of that. It's both of those things

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that we let go of, meaning that we let go of our ownership, and we allow God to,

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we allow our lives to look like whatever God's character looks like, and we don't get to dictate

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what love and goodness looks like. The love and goodness look like all kinds of things. Love and

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goodness look like Jesus dying on the cross. So when you were talking, what I was remembering was,

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I was remembering the Garden of Gethsemane, when Jesus struggled so bad, and his physically,

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he was struggling so bad that he sweat blood. His body was under so much stress that those

1714
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capillaries in this, next to the sweat glands broke, and he sweated blood. And he told the

1715
02:27:04.080 --> 02:27:09.840
disciples who he had asked to pray with, for, with him, for him, he said, my spirit is willing,

1716
02:27:09.840 --> 02:27:13.920
but my flesh is weak. He didn't say the word my, so so many people think that he was talking to

1717
02:27:13.920 --> 02:27:18.000
the disciples about the fact that disciples kept going to sleep and weren't praying, but,

1718
02:27:18.960 --> 02:27:25.520
but, but I believe that he was, he was, Jesus was talking about himself. He was saying, my spirit

1719
02:27:25.520 --> 02:27:31.440
is willing to do what God wants me to do, but my flesh is weak, and his body was physically reacting.

1720
02:27:31.440 --> 02:27:38.800
It was, it was under so much stress. There was an aspect of dying. In fact, fascinatingly, if you,

1721
02:27:38.800 --> 02:27:46.800
if you research, if you research, if people that have gone into medically,

1722
02:27:47.840 --> 02:27:52.960
how, what must have been happening in Jesus's body, because of stuff that talks about in scripture,

1723
02:27:52.960 --> 02:27:58.560
like the, the sweat glands, and sweating blood, and various other things that it said

1724
02:27:58.560 --> 02:28:04.480
that Jesus went through, what they say, what medical professionals say,

1725
02:28:04.480 --> 02:28:12.320
is that Jesus started dying in the garden. His body physically started dying in the garden,

1726
02:28:13.200 --> 02:28:20.560
which I find very fascinating, because it is a physical picture of what was going on in,

1727
02:28:20.560 --> 02:28:27.680
in between his spirit and his soul, between the spirit and his flesh, death. So Jesus really does

1728
02:28:27.680 --> 02:28:34.240
know and understand that it's not just because he experienced it, and it wasn't just, and he wanted

1729
02:28:34.240 --> 02:28:40.320
people to stand with him. He had to do it alone. Remember, he had to go off on his own, and, and do

1730
02:28:40.320 --> 02:28:45.200
it alone, between him and God. I mean, no one can do it with us, not even our husbands, nobody,

1731
02:28:46.160 --> 02:28:52.960
you know, not our spouses, nobody. You have to do it alone, but Jesus wanted people to stand with him,

1732
02:28:53.520 --> 02:28:59.520
and, and they weren't even doing that. So, I mean, this was hard. Jesus really does understand,

1733
02:28:59.520 --> 02:29:04.560
because he actually physically walked it out, not just, well, I created everybody like that,

1734
02:29:04.560 --> 02:29:10.560
and I just understand, and, you know, he actually physically walked this out and made that choice,

1735
02:29:10.560 --> 02:29:15.200
and then he asked the Lord, Lord, if it be your will, may this cut past from me, but if I, rather,

1736
02:29:15.200 --> 02:29:20.640
your will, instead of my will be done. God's love and goodness, because he said, your love and

1737
02:29:20.640 --> 02:29:25.280
goodness, I choose your character over the manifestation, and I don't get to choose what

1738
02:29:25.280 --> 02:29:31.120
that manifestation looks like. That's what he was saying when he said, made this cut past for me, but

1739
02:29:31.120 --> 02:29:37.280
not, but not my will, but yours be done. He said, your, your, the manifestation, God,

1740
02:29:37.280 --> 02:29:43.280
of your character gets to, gets to be whatever you choose it to be, and God's looked like Jesus's

1741
02:29:43.280 --> 02:29:47.840
physical death, and not only that, but the torture that he went through, and the fact that he was

1742
02:29:47.840 --> 02:29:53.520
betrayed by all those people, and all of his, all of his disciples left him, and he had to then,

1743
02:29:53.840 --> 02:29:57.840
his own mother had to watch him die on a cross, and he had to watch her watching him,

1744
02:29:57.840 --> 02:29:59.760
and he had to give up his mother to, you know,

1745
02:30:00.000 --> 02:30:05.920
John, all kinds of things. And, you know, he cries out to his father, you know, on the cross. It's

1746
02:30:05.920 --> 02:30:11.280
just terrible, terrible, terrible. And then, and then the two thieves were teasing him. They're

1747
02:30:11.280 --> 02:30:15.280
dying too. And they're, they're teasing. It was just bad all around. Since he was naked, it was

1748
02:30:15.280 --> 02:30:24.400
just awful. It's terrible. So anyway, he really does, he really does know. And he walked it out

1749
02:30:24.400 --> 02:30:30.240
for us as an example, not just as a, hey, I understand. There's that, and we can get comfort

1750
02:30:30.240 --> 02:30:36.400
in that. But it's more than that. God's like, no, no, no, I overcame. And you can claim his

1751
02:30:36.400 --> 02:30:43.120
overcoming. Jesus already overcame, and he already did the harder thing. So you still have to walk

1752
02:30:43.120 --> 02:30:48.080
the path. But he's the one who walked through the jungle with a butter knife. So now it's easier for

1753
02:30:48.080 --> 02:30:53.920
you. But because he overcame, so you can claim his victory, because we're one with Christ. So

1754
02:30:53.920 --> 02:31:00.080
we're one body. But you still have to walk it. But he really did live it. He didn't just,

1755
02:31:00.080 --> 02:31:05.280
doesn't just know it because he created us like that. He actually lived it first. So.

1756
02:31:11.360 --> 02:31:19.360
Yeah, so basically, I have to let go of quitting teaching and let go of not quitting teaching at

1757
02:31:19.360 --> 02:31:27.840
the same time. Those are the both things that you're afraid of. Yeah. And so that is a funny

1758
02:31:27.840 --> 02:31:35.440
little sound. It's almost like a baby cry. Yeah. But so if I'm letting go of both of them,

1759
02:31:37.600 --> 02:31:45.280
then it just comes down to me, I feel like, what do I do? Like in that space? Right? Yeah.

1760
02:31:46.240 --> 02:31:55.920
Because we have made our lives about these things. Who am I? What do I do? What? Okay,

1761
02:31:55.920 --> 02:32:01.120
so if I don't do that, and if I'm not leaving, but I'm not going, what am I doing? We're always

1762
02:32:01.120 --> 02:32:05.840
looking for something to grab ahold of. And God's like me, you grab ahold of me and you let go of

1763
02:32:05.840 --> 02:32:12.480
everything. You let go of everything to do everything that it and everything that you're

1764
02:32:12.480 --> 02:32:16.400
trying to discover about yourself of who it is that you are trying to self-analyze, trying to

1765
02:32:16.400 --> 02:32:20.080
figure out, well, how do I feel what's going on today? Whatever it is that we're getting,

1766
02:32:21.280 --> 02:32:25.280
you know, how am I processing this? Am I processing it? Okay. Am I processing it in a mature way? Am

1767
02:32:25.280 --> 02:32:31.280
I showing that I really am learning from the Lord? Am I maturing in this? Am I, you know, whatever

1768
02:32:32.160 --> 02:32:38.080
God's like, let go of all of it. All of it. Let grab ahold of where there's nothing left,

1769
02:32:38.640 --> 02:32:46.480
but me, he says, and you and me, and then we'll just let that be it. And then from that, you can,

1770
02:32:47.440 --> 02:32:54.720
there'll be a new launching pad because you will be operating now in spirit and in life. And,

1771
02:32:54.720 --> 02:32:59.920
and you'd be going, because remember I said, instead of being in the world and inviting God

1772
02:32:59.920 --> 02:33:06.880
into it, you insert, you enter God, you leave your world and enter God. That's what we're doing

1773
02:33:06.880 --> 02:33:11.280
where we're releasing is and releasing, we're shifting into rest. We let go of our world

1774
02:33:12.480 --> 02:33:16.800
and enter God in me. And now we're in God. Now the two of us enter the world.

1775
02:33:18.640 --> 02:33:23.520
And by that, I'm talking about your circumstances, your situations, whatever you leave them,

1776
02:33:23.520 --> 02:33:28.880
leave them, like completely leave them. Meaning, meaning like, you know, emotionally let go of,

1777
02:33:28.880 --> 02:33:34.640
you know, ownership and all of that. Enter him. So you've abandoned that. So you abandon

1778
02:33:34.640 --> 02:33:40.320
everything and enter him, you know, again, talking spiritually, like letting everything

1779
02:33:40.320 --> 02:33:45.600
go. I don't mean like physically abandoning, let go of, of the fact that it has to be different

1780
02:33:45.600 --> 02:33:51.680
than what it is. So I recommend that, that, that rest shifting tool of no judgment,

1781
02:33:52.320 --> 02:33:56.560
it should be different than what it is. That's what me personally, if I was in your situation

1782
02:33:56.560 --> 02:34:01.440
and different one might work for you, what would work for me, I believe in your situation because

1783
02:34:01.440 --> 02:34:06.320
having been in some, some similar situations is the fact that it's my accusation that it shouldn't

1784
02:34:06.320 --> 02:34:14.160
be the way that it is. And it should be different. And then you know, I should, I should, if I'm here,

1785
02:34:14.160 --> 02:34:19.200
either I shouldn't be in this job, or if I'm here, I should be happy about it.

1786
02:34:20.000 --> 02:34:25.360
Or I should like it, or I should enjoy it or so whatever, but Lord, I don't. And you know,

1787
02:34:25.360 --> 02:34:30.080
therefore this isn't fair or whatever. We have all these shoulds and shouldn'ts going on.

1788
02:34:30.080 --> 02:34:37.600
We let go of all of them, just let go of all of them. And and this isn't a process that we just

1789
02:34:37.600 --> 02:34:42.880
can, that we have to necessarily sit there and mentally go through. It's not a mental checklist

1790
02:34:42.880 --> 02:34:47.200
that we can actually just decide, okay, I'm going to not take this mental checklist and go before

1791
02:34:47.200 --> 02:34:51.360
the Lord. And then I'm going to, and I'm going to sit there and I'm going to mentally tell the Lord,

1792
02:34:51.360 --> 02:34:55.040
I'm going to let go of each one. You can do that as like an exercise if you'd like,

1793
02:34:55.040 --> 02:34:59.920
but it's not going to and it might like break off.

1794
02:35:00.000 --> 02:35:04.400
a little more, it might help you like shift and trust a little more, but it won't, that's not

1795
02:35:04.400 --> 02:35:12.560
actually the same thing as actually truly letting go and, and, and releasing ownership. But I've

1796
02:35:12.560 --> 02:35:21.360
noticed that for me, um, when I, when I let things go, I usually let go of just of kind of like all

1797
02:35:21.360 --> 02:35:25.360
of it at the same time. It's like this entire accusation thing that I have against the Lord.

1798
02:35:25.360 --> 02:35:30.960
And I just, I just let the whole thing go, let it all go. And whenever I notice that I've grabbed

1799
02:35:30.960 --> 02:35:36.160
ahold of one of them again, I let it go. But otherwise I just, I wish that I could explain

1800
02:35:36.160 --> 02:35:43.120
that a bit, a bit better than, than I just did. Um, anyway, that, so, uh, you can, you can, uh,

1801
02:35:43.120 --> 02:35:48.080
that may not be helpful. So let that one go if you need to, but, um, um, well,

1802
02:35:49.440 --> 02:35:52.480
as you're thinking about what you're going to say, something that's coming up for me is

1803
02:35:52.800 --> 02:35:57.600
I hear, I hear all of that. I feel like I'm in a space of letting go, but I feel in the letting

1804
02:35:57.600 --> 02:36:05.120
go and paralyzed. Like, I don't know what to do. Like I literally I'm, I'm so stuck because I,

1805
02:36:06.240 --> 02:36:13.520
I've let go in a lot of ways of things, but I, I don't know what direction to take it,

1806
02:36:13.520 --> 02:36:19.040
like physically take a step in. Like it's, it's a weird, I can't really explain it. It's just,

1807
02:36:20.000 --> 02:36:26.800
I don't know where to go. Yeah. Don't that's what I'm saying is in order to know what to do,

1808
02:36:26.800 --> 02:36:32.400
you shift into rest first, you let go of everything. You don't do anything instead.

1809
02:36:34.240 --> 02:36:38.640
So we're keep wanting to replace it. We keep wanting to replace the doing with another doing

1810
02:36:39.600 --> 02:36:45.120
you stop doing anything. And I mean, like spiritually, emotionally, I'm not talking

1811
02:36:45.360 --> 02:36:51.840
physically. You stop doing, you allow everything to just be instead of thinking it should be

1812
02:36:51.840 --> 02:36:56.400
different. So what should I do different? I shouldn't be like this. I shouldn't do this.

1813
02:36:56.400 --> 02:37:01.280
I should do something. There's no, no more doing don't replace it with another doing.

1814
02:37:02.160 --> 02:37:08.880
Don't do anything. Stop doing whatever it is you are doing, you know, spiritually, emotionally

1815
02:37:09.760 --> 02:37:16.720
don't do it anymore. Meaning like, let it go. But then, okay. So then I can not do anything,

1816
02:37:16.720 --> 02:37:21.760
but then I'm lying here, not doing anything. I'm just breathing and then I'm good,

1817
02:37:22.640 --> 02:37:27.440
but I don't know what to, I can get up and go get food. I can, I can do certain things, but

1818
02:37:28.080 --> 02:37:34.240
going to work is really hard. And I've even found concentrating on the businesses has been a bit

1819
02:37:34.240 --> 02:37:41.120
hard because I'm really stuck in the middle. And I just like, I like, I feel literally feel

1820
02:37:41.120 --> 02:37:46.800
paralyzed. Like, I just don't know. I mean, if I'm in rest and I'm lying there and I'm fully in rest,

1821
02:37:46.800 --> 02:37:53.440
or at least as much as I can possibly be at this point, then, then I'm just good,

1822
02:37:53.440 --> 02:37:59.200
but I'm lying down. But then as soon as I get up, I'm, I don't know where to go. Like it's,

1823
02:37:59.200 --> 02:38:02.880
I don't know if this makes any sense. It's a really weird feeling. I don't think I've

1824
02:38:02.880 --> 02:38:09.280
experienced it before. So, yeah. So, okay. So now, now I'm understanding

1825
02:38:13.040 --> 02:38:19.200
what you were replacing with. So the, there's things outside of us that we have used as

1826
02:38:19.200 --> 02:38:26.320
motivation to move in life, to get up in the morning, to do anything other than eat. Like,

1827
02:38:26.320 --> 02:38:30.800
why, why am I living? Why am I moving? What, where am I moving towards? And there can be,

1828
02:38:30.800 --> 02:38:36.320
and it could be things like going to school. It may not like you, you work in school,

1829
02:38:36.320 --> 02:38:43.760
you know, going to work you know, working on, on your business. We're helping your husband,

1830
02:38:43.760 --> 02:38:52.560
helping they, you know, whatever it's, there's all of these motivations outside of you.

1831
02:38:53.520 --> 02:38:59.520
And, and so what you do instead is you replace them with, you choose God,

1832
02:39:01.200 --> 02:39:09.120
you abandon, you know, again, that whole releasing ownership, you release ownership of everything,

1833
02:39:09.120 --> 02:39:12.080
that everything should work out a certain way, that your husband should be a certain way,

1834
02:39:12.080 --> 02:39:15.280
that your daughter should be a certain way, that your interaction with your daughter should be a

1835
02:39:15.280 --> 02:39:20.320
certain way that you go on, you're staying at your company, at your, at your aging job,

1836
02:39:20.640 --> 02:39:23.920
you know, it should be this way that your business does or doesn't work out,

1837
02:39:23.920 --> 02:39:26.880
that you have an answer for what it is you should do, that you should,

1838
02:39:26.880 --> 02:39:32.880
you know, whatever you come to God without, without requiring an answer.

1839
02:39:34.160 --> 02:39:39.920
You give up your right to an answer. You give up your right to be it, the situation being different,

1840
02:39:39.920 --> 02:39:46.240
and you give up your right to God telling you what to do, like telling you the next thing to do.

1841
02:39:46.880 --> 02:39:53.600
So now your motivation of living is Him, is developing a relationship with Him,

1842
02:39:53.600 --> 02:39:59.840
not learning about Him and going to more Bible studies, doing life with Him, doing the dishes.

1843
02:40:00.400 --> 02:40:05.400
with God in your spirit, preparing a meal with God,

1844
02:40:05.520 --> 02:40:08.240
enjoying just being, enjoying the flowing,

1845
02:40:08.240 --> 02:40:09.840
enjoying him, enjoying you,

1846
02:40:09.840 --> 02:40:11.240
choosing that whatever it is you're doing,

1847
02:40:11.240 --> 02:40:12.680
God's enjoying you.

1848
02:40:12.680 --> 02:40:15.360
And I would intentionally think that is what I used to do.

1849
02:40:15.360 --> 02:40:17.040
You know, and I still do that sometimes.

1850
02:40:17.040 --> 02:40:18.960
God is, God's enjoying me.

1851
02:40:18.960 --> 02:40:22.680
I am choosing, God is looking down on me right now

1852
02:40:22.680 --> 02:40:24.840
and he loves me doing this.

1853
02:40:24.840 --> 02:40:26.560
He just loves watching me

1854
02:40:26.560 --> 02:40:28.000
because he was saying all those things.

1855
02:40:28.000 --> 02:40:30.360
So I actually had to choose it.

1856
02:40:30.360 --> 02:40:33.560
And then, and I actually, and I,

1857
02:40:33.560 --> 02:40:34.800
and when I say I choose it,

1858
02:40:34.800 --> 02:40:39.360
meaning like I created that as my reality.

1859
02:40:39.360 --> 02:40:41.320
And I, the reason I had a right to do that

1860
02:40:41.320 --> 02:40:42.880
is because he said it first,

1861
02:40:42.880 --> 02:40:44.800
because I'm not making something about a nothing,

1862
02:40:44.800 --> 02:40:46.680
but I'm taking him to this word and I'm choosing it.

1863
02:40:46.680 --> 02:40:48.240
So that's what I did with everything.

1864
02:40:48.240 --> 02:40:50.840
I did the same thing with my work

1865
02:40:50.840 --> 02:40:54.480
because I did not like my work either when I was doing it.

1866
02:40:54.480 --> 02:40:57.160
And so it was a really weird love-hate relationship.

1867
02:40:57.160 --> 02:40:58.640
I was wanting my business to work,

1868
02:40:58.640 --> 02:41:00.520
but I was, I didn't want,

1869
02:41:00.520 --> 02:41:02.280
I wanted to lie on my bed and do nothing

1870
02:41:02.280 --> 02:41:04.240
or watch movies or whatever,

1871
02:41:04.240 --> 02:41:06.560
because like I've said many times,

1872
02:41:06.560 --> 02:41:09.320
even the word business would make me feel nauseated.

1873
02:41:09.320 --> 02:41:11.960
I wanted nothing to do with work.

1874
02:41:11.960 --> 02:41:14.720
And yet, and yet I felt God was telling,

1875
02:41:14.720 --> 02:41:16.840
wasn't releasing me from it.

1876
02:41:16.840 --> 02:41:21.560
So I chose, okay, well then I'm not getting motivation

1877
02:41:21.560 --> 02:41:23.360
from doing business because I'm feeling

1878
02:41:23.360 --> 02:41:24.560
that whatever it is I'm working towards

1879
02:41:24.560 --> 02:41:25.520
still isn't coming.

1880
02:41:26.520 --> 02:41:30.080
And I don't want to do business anyway.

1881
02:41:30.080 --> 02:41:31.800
So I don't like that.

1882
02:41:31.800 --> 02:41:32.920
So I just don't like where I am

1883
02:41:32.920 --> 02:41:34.960
and I don't like where I'm going.

1884
02:41:34.960 --> 02:41:36.800
So I just had, I thought, okay,

1885
02:41:36.800 --> 02:41:38.520
but I'm going to continue to get up and do it

1886
02:41:38.520 --> 02:41:41.360
because I feel that God's, that that's where God has me.

1887
02:41:41.360 --> 02:41:43.480
So how am I going to do this?

1888
02:41:43.480 --> 02:41:48.480
I thought I'm going to choose that my purpose in life

1889
02:41:49.320 --> 02:41:50.720
and what it is that I'm doing

1890
02:41:50.720 --> 02:41:52.080
when I'm working on my business,

1891
02:41:52.080 --> 02:41:54.680
which I have no idea what I'm doing and how it's going

1892
02:41:54.720 --> 02:41:56.400
and what's supposed to be going on

1893
02:41:56.400 --> 02:41:57.360
or where on earth it's going

1894
02:41:57.360 --> 02:41:59.800
because nothing seems to be going anywhere.

1895
02:41:59.800 --> 02:42:03.040
I'm choosing that I'm developing that what it is

1896
02:42:03.040 --> 02:42:05.280
that I'm doing is I am trying to find my God.

1897
02:42:05.280 --> 02:42:07.160
I am trying to discover what he looks like

1898
02:42:07.160 --> 02:42:09.720
and what he tastes like, what he feels like

1899
02:42:09.720 --> 02:42:12.000
and what he's created and how things work

1900
02:42:12.000 --> 02:42:15.240
and understand that that came up in the mind of God first

1901
02:42:15.240 --> 02:42:17.200
when I'm like looking at Facebook

1902
02:42:17.200 --> 02:42:19.200
and I'm discovering all these cool things that it can do

1903
02:42:19.200 --> 02:42:21.080
and all of these things I could take advantage of.

1904
02:42:21.080 --> 02:42:23.080
And I'm just, I'm like half interested

1905
02:42:23.080 --> 02:42:25.480
because the Lord created a really neat world

1906
02:42:25.480 --> 02:42:27.880
and then I'm half being frustrated by the fact

1907
02:42:27.880 --> 02:42:28.880
that I really don't want to be here

1908
02:42:28.880 --> 02:42:30.120
and I really don't care,

1909
02:42:30.120 --> 02:42:33.000
but I haven't tried to figure out how to make myself care.

1910
02:42:33.000 --> 02:42:34.200
I had to choose him.

1911
02:42:34.200 --> 02:42:39.200
I had to stop choosing a reason to live outside of myself

1912
02:42:39.840 --> 02:42:41.280
and a reason for motivation.

1913
02:42:41.280 --> 02:42:43.240
And that's what you replace it with.

1914
02:42:43.240 --> 02:42:46.680
So as far as the doing, what are you doing that you're like,

1915
02:42:46.680 --> 02:42:49.960
well, I were like, what do I replace the doing with?

1916
02:42:49.960 --> 02:42:51.200
What else do I do?

1917
02:42:51.200 --> 02:42:52.800
You choose God.

1918
02:42:53.000 --> 02:42:54.680
You choose to develop a relationship with him.

1919
02:42:54.680 --> 02:42:58.960
Choose to just be where,

1920
02:43:00.000 --> 02:43:05.000
to live being where he is in a world in which he is being

1921
02:43:07.000 --> 02:43:10.360
and the two of you are being together.

1922
02:43:10.360 --> 02:43:12.520
And what does God say about himself?

1923
02:43:12.520 --> 02:43:13.440
God says that he loves me.

1924
02:43:13.440 --> 02:43:17.360
Okay, well then am I being, I'm being loved.

1925
02:43:18.400 --> 02:43:22.120
I'm seeing, I'm choosing that I'm seeing his goodness.

1926
02:43:22.120 --> 02:43:23.600
I'm seeing what his goodness fully looks like.

1927
02:43:23.600 --> 02:43:25.080
And God's going to reveal to me eventually

1928
02:43:25.080 --> 02:43:26.240
that all these things I'm looking at

1929
02:43:26.240 --> 02:43:28.560
are actually his goodness, but I don't see it right now.

1930
02:43:28.560 --> 02:43:30.280
But I'm choosing that it's all good,

1931
02:43:30.280 --> 02:43:32.360
even though I don't see how it could possibly be good.

1932
02:43:32.360 --> 02:43:34.240
I'm choosing, God says that he manifests goodness

1933
02:43:34.240 --> 02:43:35.080
in my life.

1934
02:43:35.080 --> 02:43:36.080
So I'm choosing things apparently are good,

1935
02:43:36.080 --> 02:43:38.320
even though I don't understand that, you know,

1936
02:43:38.320 --> 02:43:40.960
or whatever else it is that God says about himself.

1937
02:43:40.960 --> 02:43:43.720
He's righteous and holy and he's consistent.

1938
02:43:43.720 --> 02:43:48.360
And he doesn't, he does never break his word.

1939
02:43:48.360 --> 02:43:50.200
And I don't know, whatever.

1940
02:43:50.200 --> 02:43:54.280
But you just be in him and you don't,

1941
02:43:54.280 --> 02:43:57.080
you're not trying to arrive anywhere.

1942
02:44:00.040 --> 02:44:03.360
So it's that drastic, it's that radical.

1943
02:44:03.360 --> 02:44:04.960
It's that recklessly abandoning.

1944
02:44:05.960 --> 02:44:08.720
It's a reckless abandoning of everything,

1945
02:44:08.720 --> 02:44:12.080
of a framework and a structure in which we've created,

1946
02:44:12.080 --> 02:44:15.000
that we've created our,

1947
02:44:15.000 --> 02:44:19.440
we've created to not only support our life,

1948
02:44:19.440 --> 02:44:21.240
meaning like internally our life,

1949
02:44:21.240 --> 02:44:24.360
not just like our physical life, our life,

1950
02:44:24.360 --> 02:44:27.760
you know, our sense of identity and being,

1951
02:44:27.760 --> 02:44:29.920
and what it is I know about myself

1952
02:44:29.920 --> 02:44:31.920
and how I know myself and whatever.

1953
02:44:31.920 --> 02:44:33.480
It's not only a structure that we've used

1954
02:44:33.480 --> 02:44:34.480
to support our life,

1955
02:44:34.480 --> 02:44:39.480
it's actually a structure in which we want to,

1956
02:44:39.640 --> 02:44:44.640
that we expect to define our life and identify our life.

1957
02:44:49.480 --> 02:44:51.640
And it's giving up all of that.

1958
02:44:51.640 --> 02:44:55.000
It's like, well, then if I don't have that, what do I do?

1959
02:44:55.000 --> 02:44:55.880
Who am I?

1960
02:44:55.880 --> 02:44:56.760
What's the point?

1961
02:44:56.760 --> 02:44:58.000
Where's my motivation?

1962
02:44:58.000 --> 02:45:00.200
God, answer to all those questions.

1963
02:45:00.000 --> 02:45:03.000
All of them is always God.

1964
02:45:03.000 --> 02:45:07.000
And it all sounds esoterical when we're talking about it.

1965
02:45:07.000 --> 02:45:13.000
But when you abandon yourself completely by faith, free falling into him,

1966
02:45:13.000 --> 02:45:19.000
you finally discover when you're in him, oh my word, it's actually true.

1967
02:45:19.000 --> 02:45:22.000
But on the outside, we don't see how it could possibly be true.

1968
02:45:22.000 --> 02:45:26.000
We only discover it's true because the things of the spirit can only be understood by the spirit.

1969
02:45:26.000 --> 02:45:30.000
So it can only be understood once it's actually experienced in him.

1970
02:45:30.000 --> 02:45:32.000
It can't be understood on this side.

1971
02:45:32.000 --> 02:45:34.000
It's going to sound great and it sounds wonderful.

1972
02:45:34.000 --> 02:45:36.000
But there's a reason why we still don't take a leap.

1973
02:45:36.000 --> 02:45:43.000
We don't see how it actually could be possible enough that we actually trusted enough to abandon everything and free fall into it.

1974
02:45:43.000 --> 02:45:49.000
But when you free fall into it and you land there, it proves itself.

1975
02:45:49.000 --> 02:45:52.000
So it really is scary and terrifying.

1976
02:45:53.000 --> 02:45:55.000
It felt like when I became a Christian.

1977
02:45:55.000 --> 02:46:02.000
Just like you hear about it, but until you're on the other side and you become a Christian and given your life to the Lord, you can't possibly understand it.

1978
02:46:02.000 --> 02:46:04.000
And I was terrified to do that too.

1979
02:46:04.000 --> 02:46:06.000
It was like free falling, letting go of control.

1980
02:46:06.000 --> 02:46:11.000
But yeah, I think I'll ponder, kind of ponder everything you've said.

1981
02:46:11.000 --> 02:46:17.000
I'll probably have more questions, but I will ponder it.

1982
02:46:17.000 --> 02:46:19.000
I'm afraid it's the same answer.

1983
02:46:20.000 --> 02:46:21.000
It's just the choosing.

1984
02:46:21.000 --> 02:46:22.000
It's the doing of the thing.

1985
02:46:22.000 --> 02:46:24.000
It's the actual doing of the thing.

1986
02:46:24.000 --> 02:46:27.000
It's just, there's no way.

1987
02:46:27.000 --> 02:46:32.000
Yeah, I think I still struggle to understand how to do it.

1988
02:46:32.000 --> 02:46:36.000
It's like I want a manual, like a visual aid and manual to follow.

1989
02:46:36.000 --> 02:46:41.000
I'm still trying to figure out how you do it.

1990
02:46:41.000 --> 02:46:47.000
There's safety and security in understanding.

1991
02:46:48.000 --> 02:46:50.000
Like we have to give up understanding.

1992
02:46:50.000 --> 02:46:53.000
And I don't say any of this lightly, trust me.

1993
02:46:53.000 --> 02:46:56.000
I'm very, I take everything you say extremely seriously.

1994
02:46:56.000 --> 02:47:00.000
It's, that's the answer because I really want to help you.

1995
02:47:00.000 --> 02:47:01.000
That is it.

1996
02:47:01.000 --> 02:47:09.000
It's the fondly letting go of, instead of like I should understand, it should, I should understand.

1997
02:47:09.000 --> 02:47:15.000
Giving up our ownership of that, giving up our right to that, that we will choose without understanding.

1998
02:47:16.000 --> 02:47:23.000
We, and we just, we just, we just do it.

1999
02:47:23.000 --> 02:47:32.000
We, where you present yourself to the Lord and you, and, and you let, and you let go.

2000
02:47:32.000 --> 02:47:38.000
It's really, yeah, anyway.

2001
02:47:39.000 --> 02:47:42.000
Yeah, I get to keep figuring the, well, not figuring it out,

2002
02:47:42.000 --> 02:47:51.000
but I get to keep letting this one sit with me and go deeper and deeper because it's, yeah, it's a tough one for me.

2003
02:47:51.000 --> 02:47:52.000
Yeah. Yeah.

2004
02:47:52.000 --> 02:47:54.000
Ask the Lord to reveal it.

2005
02:47:54.000 --> 02:48:00.000
And then I recommend talking to your body and your soul and your spirit before you go to bed every night.

2006
02:48:00.000 --> 02:48:05.000
And then they can shift without all of this going through your mental brain.

2007
02:48:06.000 --> 02:48:09.000
Tell them to shift.

2008
02:48:09.000 --> 02:48:11.000
Tell them whatever it is you want to tell them.

2009
02:48:11.000 --> 02:48:18.000
Whatever it is you're struggling with that you're just like, you know, I don't know, help you let go.

2010
02:48:18.000 --> 02:48:19.000
Help you not be afraid.

2011
02:48:19.000 --> 02:48:32.000
Help, you know, to, to under, that your soul understand that your soul choose to let go.

2012
02:48:32.000 --> 02:48:43.000
And that your soul choose to let go and that you choose, that you choose the Lord.

2013
02:48:43.000 --> 02:48:51.000
Because it knows actually how, because the spirit can reveal to it how to do it.

2014
02:48:51.000 --> 02:48:53.000
That's my point that I'm trying to make.

2015
02:48:53.000 --> 02:49:00.000
So letting it hear the spirit, because there's so much antagonism between the soul and spirit,

2016
02:49:00.000 --> 02:49:10.000
letting the soul allow the spirit to talk to it and the spirit and then trusting the spirit and, you know,

2017
02:49:10.000 --> 02:49:17.000
your spirit and following its, following its guidance.

2018
02:49:17.000 --> 02:49:20.000
And that's how I, that's how I would do it.

2019
02:49:20.000 --> 02:49:27.000
You don't, and also you don't always have to know the question that you're wanting to ask your soul or your spirit.

2020
02:49:27.000 --> 02:49:30.000
You just, that's another thing.

2021
02:49:30.000 --> 02:49:32.000
They already know the question that you want to ask.

2022
02:49:32.000 --> 02:49:35.000
You just talk as well as you're able to.

2023
02:49:35.000 --> 02:49:36.000
It's not magic.

2024
02:49:36.000 --> 02:49:37.000
There's no magic.

2025
02:49:37.000 --> 02:49:39.000
There's no magic in the words that you're going to use or not use.

2026
02:49:39.000 --> 02:49:42.000
That's not the point thing is it knows the struggle.

2027
02:49:42.000 --> 02:49:48.000
And so you're trying to find that, that intention and send it towards, Hey, look, fix this.

2028
02:49:48.000 --> 02:49:51.000
You know, work on this, you know, be safe with your spirit.

2029
02:49:51.000 --> 02:49:53.000
I don't know why.

2030
02:49:53.000 --> 02:49:58.000
I don't know what it is that you, that you are, are continuing to resist against the spirit, but let it go.

2031
02:49:58.000 --> 02:50:00.000
You know, feel safe with it.

2032
02:50:00.000 --> 02:50:04.320
in the spirit, you know, show it that it can be safe with you, you know, that kind of thing.

2033
02:50:04.320 --> 02:50:06.960
You don't even have to know the, know the question.

2034
02:50:08.800 --> 02:50:09.300
So.

2035
02:50:10.480 --> 02:50:11.760
All right, well thank you.

2036
02:50:12.720 --> 02:50:13.360
You're welcome.

2037
02:50:14.640 --> 02:50:18.160
Does anyone else have a question?

2038
02:50:19.280 --> 02:50:25.840
So I know it's, I know it's almost 10 here, almost 11 for those on the East Coast, but

2039
02:50:26.800 --> 02:50:32.880
I am here if someone did have a question that that just needed to be answered tonight,

2040
02:50:32.880 --> 02:50:38.320
but we will have, so I can take one more question and then we'll have Q&A tomorrow.

2041
02:50:39.120 --> 02:50:41.200
Did anyone have anything before we go?

2042
02:50:43.600 --> 02:50:45.120
Excuse me, my word.

2043
02:50:45.120 --> 02:50:47.440
While someone's thinking, let me check the chat.

2044
02:50:48.080 --> 02:50:54.480
I have to come halfway through because of my little, yes, we will be recording tomorrow

2045
02:50:55.200 --> 02:50:55.760
and then.

2046
02:50:58.960 --> 02:50:59.460
Perfect.

2047
02:51:01.200 --> 02:51:01.700
Okay.

2048
02:51:03.600 --> 02:51:05.040
No more questions then.

2049
02:51:05.040 --> 02:51:06.400
Everybody good for tonight?

2050
02:51:09.040 --> 02:51:10.240
You're welcome, Michelle.

2051
02:51:11.440 --> 02:51:14.000
Okay, I will see all of y'all then.

2052
02:51:16.080 --> 02:51:18.400
I'll see all of y'all tomorrow.

2053
02:51:18.400 --> 02:51:21.040
So the recording will come out and be available.

2054
02:51:21.040 --> 02:51:27.280
I will email everybody it and it will be on available by noon tomorrow.

2055
02:51:27.280 --> 02:51:29.600
So I don't know if I'm going to have it earlier or not.

2056
02:51:29.600 --> 02:51:31.200
If I do, that's wonderful.

2057
02:51:31.200 --> 02:51:36.320
But otherwise, just plan on it being available by noon tomorrow.

2058
02:51:36.320 --> 02:51:39.280
So I will see all of y'all tomorrow then.

2059
02:51:39.280 --> 02:51:40.480
Y'all have a good night.

2060
02:51:40.480 --> 02:51:41.280
You too, bye.

2061
02:51:44.320 --> 02:51:44.820
Night.

2062
02:51:45.680 --> 02:51:46.320
Good night.

2063
02:51:51.040 --> 02:51:52.420
Bye.

2064
02:52:51.040 --> 02:52:52.420
Bye.