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Hello everyone!

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Good to see you all!

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It says that I admitted everybody, but not everybody popped in.

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Everybody is here!

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I'm really excited for today.

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It's been a while since I've been.

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I didn't talk about business.

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It's good to see everyone!

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I have everyone just so that everybody knows.

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I have everybody on mute because I have noticed that there is tremendous feedback

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It goes out through your computer or whatever.

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I have everybody on mute.

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I'm really excited that since we can't be in person,

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we can all see each other and feel like we're all participating.

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There are multiple people praying specifically for y'all.

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I had seen posts that I was going to have a coaching program this weekend.

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They have been messaging me this morning saying that they are praying specifically for y'all, that they're excited.

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These are people that have already gone through some of the conferences or coaching programs or whatever.

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Anyway, they're very excited for y'all. I'm very excited for all of us.

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I always get to be enriched and encouraged in my faith when I teach these things.

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Again, I teach what it is.

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I'll be talking about this today because it's something I'll be encouraging y'all to do in your business or ministry or anything you do in your life.

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I teach what it is that I actually live.

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I'm not trying to devalue the gifts from the Lord that he gives us.

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I teach out of what it is that I actually live.

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When I articulate it in English, my faith is renewed.

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When I articulate it in Spanish, my faith is renewed.

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When I articulate it in Spanish, my faith is renewed.

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When I articulate it in English, my faith is increased by the hearing of it.

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I get very excited.

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I feel like a participant.

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I love it.

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I love it.

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I love it.

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I've had multiple teachings, but one big long teaching or coaching session over this many hours outside of doing it in March.

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The way that I'm the what it is that we're going to be doing today and how it is that I'm going to be talking about business from rest is in a way that I've never done before.

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It's a way that I've never done before.

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It's a way that I've never done before.

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He began to flesh out what we're doing this weekend.

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He began to flesh that out for me when I was in Naples

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about, I don't know, three, four weeks ago.

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So today is a big day.

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I'm very excited.

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I'm stepping out in obedience when the Lord said,

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hey, Ashley, why don't you do something different?

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I'm like, but what does different look like?

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This is different.

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I'm very excited.

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And anyway, so we're gonna be going, like I said,

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there was no prerequisite to this particular,

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to this particular coaching program today

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because what I'll be doing is in four and a half hours

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with the Lord's help,

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we'll be going from the beginning of knowing nothing

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about what rest is all the way through

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how to actually apply it in business.

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Not just the idea of, oh, this is how it looks in business,

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but how to actually take actionable steps

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to incorporate it in business

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because that's where all of the power is.

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The power isn't just in the knowledge

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and in the under, and in the learning of,

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oh, well, there's this idea that I could take advantage of.

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It's, yeah, but how do I do the dagger thing?

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When, because it's hard.

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There's a reason why we haven't done it.

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And it's beyond the fact that, oh, well,

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I just didn't know, or I didn't understand.

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No, there's an element and there are certain aspects

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in which we knew what to do, but we couldn't do it

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because there was so much resistance

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that would rise up within us because it is hard.

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And God has walked me through so much

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of that crossing over that hard threshold

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in a variety of ways that he began to teach me

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how to articulate to others,

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how to traverse the hard part that we get to like,

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okay, this just feels hard

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and I don't know how to keep going through hard.

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I don't know how to actually push through it

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where it's actually effective.

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And I actually moved through it

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as opposed to just continuing to like,

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kind of like staying in the valley of the shadow of death.

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How do you actually progress?

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So that's what's on my heart today

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is for this to be practical.

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So, but we are gonna start all the way at the beginning

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because if we don't understand these things,

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these things are the foundations

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of whenever we're struggling to shift into rest,

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whenever you have something very stressful

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and that brings up a lot of anxiety,

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in your situation in business,

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whether it be a very difficult relationship issue,

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I don't know if it would be like a partnership

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that you have in your business

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or it'd be difficulties with clients,

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or if it's that you have no money in the bank

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and bills are due for your business,

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what do you do in those stressful and anxious situations?

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Well, it's important for us to shift into rest

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because if we're stressed and anxious, we're not in rest.

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And that's where the rubber meets the road.

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That's where we really do need to be in rest.

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And if we're struggling to do that,

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in order to know how to move through it,

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it's going back to these foundational things.

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It's us not agreeing with

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or believing these foundational things

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that is setting us up for being in unrest.

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So we have to go back and come into agreement

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with those things in order to shift into rest.

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So these things might sound irrelevant,

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but they're the actual accusations

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that we're having against God

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if we're finding ourselves in a state of unrest.

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So these are the things that actually have to be dealt with

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that we actually have to come back into agreement with.

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Okay, so first of all,

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what I wanted to mention is

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y'all are more than welcome to take notes if you would like,

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but I do recommend that you don't.

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So you can listen to my thought process on this

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and decide whether or not

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that this is something you wanna do.

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It's about already practicing being in rest

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because we'll be fleshing this out a little bit more later,

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but the 95% scientists say,

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or psychologists, I don't remember

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which branch of science it is,

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but they say that 95% of everything it is that we do

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comes out of our subconscious.

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It's subconscious beliefs that we have

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and subconscious decisions that we're making

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that actually dictate all of our actions.

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And then it goes, this is like a fractal principle

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that we can see all over the place.

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we don't tell our heart to beat, et cetera.

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God created different aspects of creation,

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including our own bodies

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or including our mind and our subconscious

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to function without us constantly having to micromanage them

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and give them instruction.

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Like, look, I'm learning how to shift into rest.

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and micromanage all of the different parts of me,

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my spirit, soul, and body, and how to shift.

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because God actually created all of this.

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those things to know how to do it on their own.

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So it doesn't require, so that's a measure of rest,

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is thinking that, is understanding

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that we don't have to work for something.

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We don't even have to work to shift into rest.

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Ironically, the way to shift into rest is to stop.

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It's to actually be, is to choose rest.

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And we'll be talking a bit more about that later.

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But when we're taking notes,

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sometimes what we can do is we can detach ourselves

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from allowing ourselves to experience the moment

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and allow our spirit and soul

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to start shifting on their own.

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is we're trying to rely too much on information

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and we're taking on everything it is

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that we're hearing as information instead of a spirit

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and allowing it to transform us.

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and we're trying to funnel it through our consciousness,

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thinking that that is what we're relying on

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in order to be able to shift.

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it's actually creating the very resistance

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to being able to shift into rest.

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There's nothing wrong with taking notes,

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but if your interaction with notes

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is the value of the knowledge,

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is if you think, if I don't get this,

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if I don't capture this, I'm going to miss this

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and I'm not gonna be able to shift into rest or whatever,

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well, then that's creating the very resistance

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of being able to shift into rest

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and not acknowledging that our spirit and soul

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can do it without us,

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without us pushing it through all of our consciousness.

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However, some people take notes

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because it's the only way they can keep,

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it can keep their attention.

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They have to be doing something.

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They have to like, they have this energy

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and it has to be going out somewhere.

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we'll put it into something productive, like taking notes.

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If you do that, I would just recommend

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that you completely disassociate yourself from the notes.

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So my whole point is immerse yourself completely

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in just experiencing this

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and allowing your spirit to receive this,

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listening to your father's spirit talking to you,

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because that's what's gonna transform your life.

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I'm not, I absolutely no desire for anybody in here

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to decide that they want to start operating in this

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because something I said sounded logical.

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That's no reason to step into receiving and obeying

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something that I'm claiming is the father's message.

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It will transform your life

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if it comes directly from God's spirit into your spirit,

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that's what's gonna change everything.

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And so I recommend that you submit yourself to

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and create an opportunity and your availability to the Lord

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for all of that to happen,

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which you can do taking notes,

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but if you could disassociate from taking the notes

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and just doing a mindlessly while engaging,

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you will shift faster.

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You will, you can, you can have amazing, amazing shifts

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just being in this, in this series today,

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without, how would I put that?

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Without having much background experience,

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you can just start shifting now because we'll be learning

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it's who you already are.

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So we're just trying to get out of our own way.

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So that is just something that I would recommend

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that y'all can do whatever you want,

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but it's taking advantage of the fact that

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we have the opportunity to be at rest

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and God put that idea and that principle

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already into creation and science.

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And the fact that everything already knows how to function,

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we don't have to micromanage it

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in order for it to know what to do and what we expect of it.

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So you can go ahead and practice it now.

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If it was like, that's how I do it.

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But then there were also people at the conference

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that I did in March.

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So I'm telling you what, they were,

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they were writing furiously, like, my goodness,

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I really hope that they're,

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that they're disassociating themselves from it.

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And based on the, based on the transformation,

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sure enough, they were, they, they transformed.

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And those were some of the people that transformed the most

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because they were that engaged with the,

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with the spirit of what was being spoken,

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not in the information or knowledge

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as something they had to capture

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or a logic that they were trying to

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allow themselves to be convinced by.

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because we're transformed by the renewing of our mind

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and our real mind is deeper than our brain, so.

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Let's see.

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Okay, the one other thing I would like to say in preparation

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is that if I say something that you,

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how would I write this?

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That not to be worried that I'm going to say something

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that you disagree with,

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or that's going to take you off of track

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of your own relationship with the Lord,

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because I am not here to convince you.

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I'm here telling you what it is that I believe,

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what I love.

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live, what I own in my own relationship with the Lord.

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And I have to completely detach myself, even from other things

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that I learned, from people that I have learned it from,

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like if it's like doing certain things in the spirit

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or whatever.

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I have to learn how to detach it from them

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so that I own it in my own relationship with the Lord.

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if there's a certain measure to which I haven't lived,

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I don't teach it.

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So I'm just here telling you what it is that I believe.

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I'm not here trying to convince any of you

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that it's actually true.

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I'm just presenting you a lot of stuff from the Bible

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and then how it is that I've walked things out

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and what I've noticed works for me.

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And then you take that before the Lord

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and y'all work together in your spirits

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between you and the Lord to know what things that he wants

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you to grab ahold of and what things that he's personally

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revealing to you.

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And the reason I say that is if I say something in like it,

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you've never heard that before and it sounds scary,

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don't worry about it because if you have chosen

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that you're here following the Lord

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and you're not trying, you're not sitting here waiting

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to see what Ashley says and see if she convinces you,

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you're in a safer place.

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So it doesn't matter what it is that I say,

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but the Lord might be wanting to show you something

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and expand you into new boundaries.

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that just kind of like, okay, that's very new,

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I'm really not sure about that.

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I recommend that you don't reject it outright

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because what that does is it starts inside,

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it's like you start shutting down

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and then it's harder for the Lord to begin to reveal,

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to reveal new things to us and expand us into new territory.

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And instead, what I recommend you do is

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if you don't know how to receive it,

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if you don't know whether or not

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the Lord wants you to receive it,

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do what you can do if you want what I do.

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And I have what I call my Area 51 Warehouse

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that I put things in that I don't understand,

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but the Lord hasn't told me to reject it yet.

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I just don't know what to do about that.

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I'm like, I don't know about that.

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I just heard that, I'm not really sure.

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Lord, I don't wanna receive something

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that you don't want me to receive.

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I just, unless he tells me outright immediately,

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that is wrong.

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If he says that, well then yes, I recommend rejecting it.

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But otherwise, just stick it in your Area 51 Warehouse

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for the Lord to pull forward when he desires to

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and to reveal to you whether or not,

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reveal to you more fully whether or not

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that needs to be rejected or received.

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So later he might bring it up

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and show you how you can receive it,

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or he might bring it up and say,

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okay, now that you understand this better,

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then reject it.

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But that there, I just wanted to present that to y'all

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as a third option that you can take advantage of.

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You don't have to accept or reject something,

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you can stick something back there,

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which is basically like giving it over to the Lord,

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saying, okay, Lord, I'm open to this, if this is true,

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and I don't know what you're telling me to do with it yet,

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so here you go.

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And at least it's much more open in the spirit for the Lord

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to move us into new things.

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But without us feeling afraid that we're receiving something

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and being corrupted by something that might be wrong.

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So anyway, that's a third option

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that I just wanted to present to y'all,

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and that's what I've done,

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and that has helped tremendously,

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I mean, tremendously in helping me to move

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and shift faster with the Lord,

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because I approached it from that perspective,

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because it kept me open instead of shut down.

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We're talking in just a minute about the fact

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that whenever we shut down or we begin to stifle things,

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and it brings death, and death is the opposite of life,

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death is the opposite of spirit,

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death is the opposite of rest, so.

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Okay, so just really quickly before you get into anything,

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wanted to talk about what rest is.

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So rest, as many of y'all heard me say multiple times,

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is not inactivity.

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So we're used to associating rest

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with something like vacation,

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or sitting on the couch watching Netflix or whatever,

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or sleeping, but rest in the way

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that the Lord is talking about rest,

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in fact, that it's part of our inheritance,

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rest is not inactivity, and it doesn't mean

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that everything around us is going smooth.

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What it means is that everything it is

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that we're involved in can be effortless,

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as opposed to hard, full of strife, full of work.

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Whoa, sorry, I have my, I have a do not disturb on my phone,

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but for whatever reason, a call came through anyway,

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which I'm really not pleased with.

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Uh, so it's, it doesn't mean that everything in our life is smooth.

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In fact, for me, it's the opposite because, well, I don't want to say it's

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the opposite, but because I, in my relationship with the Lord have chosen

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to help establish rest on the earth.

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I'm very, very often put in extremely in, in situations that create extreme

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unrest within me, because then I'm called to overcome, but I have to have

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something to overcome, so those things come at me, it's not fun, they come at

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all of us, but I just mean that there are just certain ways in which he has me,

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uh, just certain situations that he has me in, in which those unrestful

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situations come up because I told him, Lord, I make myself available to you

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in my relationship with you, that I would like to establish rest on the earth.

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It's like, okay, so you're going to be in very unique situations,

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particular to unrest in order for you to overcome.

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So rest does not mean that, um, uh, that, uh, that doesn't

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mean that everything goes smooth.

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I mean, look at Jesus's life.

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Things didn't go smooth, not just when he died, but even during his ministry

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years, but rest just means that everything's effortless and we can receive

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from the Lord and we don't have to work for anything, there's nothing that

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we're earning, there's nothing left to do.

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We'll be talking today about the extent to which that's true.

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Cause we all know that it's like, oh, of course that's what the Bible says.

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But if our lives aren't manifesting the fact that we have truly received that

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inheritance from the Lord, because he said so, then there's apparently

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something, some connection that we're not making in the extent to

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which we can claim rest in him.

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So rest actually instead.

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So we've talked about what rest isn't.

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So rest instead is actually choosing that we are completely provided for

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protected, identified, loved, liked, and comforted by God, that he is the

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sole source of all of those things.

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And nothing, not even business is, uh, is our means of protection or provision.

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Business is not even God's means of providing for us.

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So it has nothing whatsoever to do with providing for us at all.

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Nothing.

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It's rest is to that degree.

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And to that extent that we are solely completely devoid of anything in the

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environment or, or anything, any aspect of our flesh, we are completely and

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solely dependent on the fact that God is all of those things for us and

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provides all of those things for us.

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Um, and he doesn't even use things as a means by which to provide for us.

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Well, we'll come to that more later, but that's what rest is where we've

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received everything from him already.

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And there's nothing left to do.

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So now that there's nothing left to do, we are free of the burden, the

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weight, and the responsibility of having to create a particular result because

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God wants us to rely on him for all of the results.

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So we don't have to do any of that anymore.

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We are now free to just be able to actively participate and partner with

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him in developing relationship and the development of that relationship.

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I'm introducing all kinds of ideas.

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What are we talking about?

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And flushing out later, but, uh, the development of that relationship is

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manifested on earth in various forms, including in business.

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That's that's the development.

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That is the manifestation of the develop of the point to which our

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relationship with God has developed this far.

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Is, is our, how, um, how our business looks, how we're

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interacting with our business, et cetera.

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That's what that is.

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Um, so that's what rest is in a nutshell.

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So now that I've just kind of mentioned that now we'll go into

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the foundations of how we can actually shift into rest and whenever, so

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that we can know whenever we're not in rest, these are the things we need

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to come back into agreement with.

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They're very basic.

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They're very simple, but there's a reason why we found them challenging.

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And I would like us to, um, to, to know that they don't have to be as

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challenging as we feel that we've been threatened to believe that they were.

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Or I, or I have might just be speaking to myself.

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Uh, okay.

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So why are we resisting?

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If, if rest is actually in God himself, rest is the place.

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It's not something that, um, it's not something that we do like, well,

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I'm working or I'm resting rest is actually a place, which is why I

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always like to capitalize it just to kind of help us, um, uh, help us

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differentiate it and rest as a place.

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It's in God himself.

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That's what rest is.

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So if rest is a place that.

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place is God himself. So if we're not in rest, it means that we're, that we're not acknowledging

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that we're in God and allowing ourselves to enjoy just being in God. So if we are,

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why are we not in rest? If we are not in rest, meaning that we think that we're not in God,

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then, you know, according to scripture, which we'll be mentioning the scripture in just a second,

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then it means that we're actually actively resisting God. We're resisting rest. If God

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says that we have it and he says he's already given it to us, but we're not there. Well,

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then it means, and we're not feeling it and it's not manifesting in our life. It means that we're

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actually actively resisting rest. If we're resisting rest and rest is in God, it means

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we're resisting God. So why, if we all love God and we're all pursuing him so passionately,

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why are we resisting him? We're resisting him because we don't feel safe with him.

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We don't feel safe with him because we have, I'm just shocked at how quickly I'm having to

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move through all of this information, but we, I'm sorry, I'm trying to like squeeze 20 hours

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into like four and a half. So here we go. But it's basically, y'all may have heard of things

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like mother wounds and father wounds. So a father wound develops in the, in the physical. If ever

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people have a, an issue with the masculine in their lives where they, the masculine in their

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lives did not allow them to feel protected, provided for, or identified. And so they have,

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if that, if that happens and they, and they didn't have that masculine from those,

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from them in those areas, it's referred to as a father wound. And what a mother wound comes from,

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if the, if the feminine, if the feminine aspect in their lives that was supposed to give them

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certain, you know, provide for certain needs, didn't make them feel loved, liked, and comforted,

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then they can develop what's referred to as the mother wound. Well, we project mother and father

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wounds onto God. So we believe that he's not providing for protecting, loving, liking, or,

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or that we can expect to be comforted by him. So we're afraid of him. We don't feel safe with him.

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He's not a safe place. We like him. We want to be around him. We want to feel him, but we don't

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want to be in him. And we don't want him to be in us, but in him is the place of rest. But he says

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that he's loving. He says, he says that he's love. He says that he's goodness. He says that

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he's righteousness. He says that he's freedom. He says that he's all of these wonderful things,

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but if he's that wonderful, why don't we, why don't we want it? Because we don't actually think

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it's true, or we don't think that it's true to the extent that he says that it is. And that

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is why we're resisting. And that's why we're not in rest. So to sum all that up, we're not in rest

496
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because we don't believe that God actually is who he says that he is and that he loves us,

497
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likes us, et cetera, to the extent that he says that he does. And, and therefore we don't feel

498
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safe, therefore resisting him, therefore we're not in rest. To be in rest, we have to choose

499
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that God really is love and submit ourselves fully, very vulnerably to that place that currently

500
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doesn't, that we don't feel safe in. And I want to help people, let me see if there's any,

501
00:28:27.760 --> 00:28:31.440
okay, so there's, there's one thing that I want to mention really quick about like

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the types of love that God can be to us. Obviously he can have a very tender love towards us,

503
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sheep, shepherd, parent, child, all those things sound really wonderful, very tender,

504
00:28:43.760 --> 00:28:48.080
very gentle. We like to talk about all of those all the time because it's safe.

505
00:28:49.680 --> 00:28:55.280
Not much is required of the sheep to be loved by the shepherd. Not much is required,

506
00:28:55.280 --> 00:29:00.080
isn't like a loving back of a child with a parent, especially if the child is very,

507
00:29:00.080 --> 00:29:05.440
is very young child, just, just is in a state of being. And then the parent gives it all of

508
00:29:05.440 --> 00:29:10.000
this love, all this attention, no matter how the child acts out, right? We love those ideas,

509
00:29:10.560 --> 00:29:16.000
but there is an, in order to go into greater intimacy of relationship with someone,

510
00:29:16.960 --> 00:29:22.000
one has to mature to the point where they actually have a contribution in the relationship,

511
00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:27.840
which is what happens in the, as a human being matures and can finally get into, get to the

512
00:29:27.840 --> 00:29:35.280
point where they can develop a lover relationship with another human being. And in order to have

513
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that type of, in order to be able to enjoy the benefits of that type of intimacy, that type of

514
00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:49.440
emotional intimacy with someone else, it requires complete vulnerability on both sides. So not just

515
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from God's side, you know, or if we want to compare it to men and women, not just from the masculine

516
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and the man's side, but also from the woman's side, the bride of Christ side, in order to go.

517
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to the level of intimacy that is given as an opportunity to step into.

518
00:30:06.960 --> 00:30:13.680
So, and that's scary, right? It's very, very vulnerable. In order to receive that benefit,

519
00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:21.280
we have to be vulnerable. We have to expose ourselves, and that can feel very scary,

520
00:30:21.280 --> 00:30:25.840
but God has said that that is the type of relationship that he desires to mature his

521
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children into. We don't have an opportunity to read this particular passage, but I recommend

522
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that you look up Ezekiel 16, six through 14, because that describes God's love during our

523
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lack of it. It describes that he just saw us on the road kicking about in our blood. It was a very

524
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gruesome picture that he painted, kicking about in our blood. And then he spoke over us and he

525
00:30:49.840 --> 00:30:58.080
said, live. And then he said that he allowed us to grow and mature. And then when he saw us again,

526
00:30:58.720 --> 00:31:05.840
he saw, quote, that you were old enough for love. So that we were developed to the point that he

527
00:31:05.840 --> 00:31:10.240
could have a particular intimate relationship with us, as opposed to just giving us everything,

528
00:31:10.240 --> 00:31:15.520
giving us life, giving us, pouring all of this out. We now have the opportunity of greater intimacy

529
00:31:15.520 --> 00:31:20.880
with him in union, but that will fight our own vulnerability. But anyway, he said, okay, they're

530
00:31:20.880 --> 00:31:26.560
now old enough for love. They're now old enough, not only for me to give it, but for me to receive

531
00:31:26.560 --> 00:31:31.920
it from them, for them to give it to me, for them to allow themselves to be that vulnerable with me.

532
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And then he says that he took us and that he, you know, rate us with amazing garments.

533
00:31:37.520 --> 00:31:44.480
And he goes into this really great, very long description of what it is that he, of how he,

534
00:31:46.240 --> 00:31:51.920
how would you put that? That he gave us all of these things that were a reflection of how he

535
00:31:51.920 --> 00:31:57.600
saw us. So they weren't making us more, more beautiful. They weren't making us more valuable,

536
00:31:57.600 --> 00:32:01.280
all these clothes and raiments and jewelry and everything that he said that he put on his bride.

537
00:32:01.280 --> 00:32:08.000
They weren't making us more valuable. It was a declaration of who, of the value that we had in

538
00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:16.560
his eyes. So in looking at that passage in Ezekiel 16, six through 14, you'll see that it only talks,

539
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and here's one of my main points about mentioning this passage. It only talks about God's response

540
00:32:22.080 --> 00:32:30.000
to us, not our response to him. So our, our response is not, and our contribution is not

541
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required to receive God's love. If we come to him very vulnerably though, that finally allows the

542
00:32:37.440 --> 00:32:46.320
intimacy in which we can receive greater, deeper benefits, such as abiding in rest, but it's not

543
00:32:46.320 --> 00:32:51.600
required of him to love us. And the reason that's important is God always initiates and he wants us

544
00:32:51.600 --> 00:32:58.560
to know, Hey, I require nothing of you for me to love you. So it gains our trust. Like, okay,

545
00:32:58.560 --> 00:33:05.120
well then maybe I, maybe you're safe enough for me to finally open myself up and be vulnerable

546
00:33:05.120 --> 00:33:11.440
so that finally we can share a particular intimacy and union that we couldn't before when you were

547
00:33:11.440 --> 00:33:16.480
just loving me, but I was hating you. Just remember what Jesus was saying where he says, you know,

548
00:33:16.480 --> 00:33:23.040
that God says that he, that he died while we hated him. He died for us while we hated him.

549
00:33:23.920 --> 00:33:32.240
So in thinking about how, how we have struggled to believe that God is loved to that extent. And

550
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so therefore resisting and shifting into arrest or resisting moving there. How do we get over that?

551
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Cause all this sounds good, but I don't want us to ever hear anything that I say at all today

552
00:33:44.560 --> 00:33:50.560
in condemnation whatsoever. It's all towards greater love and freedom that God is always,

553
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that God is always, is always pouring into us and reaching, reaching out to us.

554
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And so I want us to, to, to not just know all of these things, not just hear all these things

555
00:34:03.920 --> 00:34:08.880
as, okay, well, that's what we shouldn't be doing. And apparently we're not doing it. Okay.

556
00:34:08.880 --> 00:34:14.960
Yeah. Now I feel really good. No. Then what do we do? How do we change that? We all know that

557
00:34:14.960 --> 00:34:19.600
we need to love God more, but we don't know how there's a reason why we're saying no.

558
00:34:20.560 --> 00:34:25.040
There's a reason why it, why it's scary. There's a reason why it doesn't feel safe.

559
00:34:25.040 --> 00:34:29.840
Those are all very valid and we need to acknowledge that. So all that's, you know,

560
00:34:29.840 --> 00:34:36.159
all that, just being what it is, how do I move from this situation to actually choosing that

561
00:34:36.159 --> 00:34:42.159
God is as love as he says that he is, how do I shift? How do I finally receive his love as

562
00:34:42.159 --> 00:34:48.239
opposed to constantly resisting it? So this is how I did. Cause I had tremendous accusation against

563
00:34:48.239 --> 00:34:54.800
God. Tremendous. I did not feel safe with him at all. I did not feel or, um, or ultimately

564
00:34:54.800 --> 00:34:59.760
believe that God loved me, even though I could talk it really well because I was in scripture.

565
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:04.000
My life did not manifest the fact that I believed I was loved.

566
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And I remember telling the Lord up to even a few years ago, I say, God, I cannot.

567
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I know that you tell me that you're loving on me. I cannot see it.

568
00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:21.000
Even in the good things, God, that you're doing for me, I cannot see that as love.

569
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And I'm sorry. I felt that this is all of my fault.

570
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It's all my responsibility. You're loving me.

571
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And I'm just, you know, it's I'm I'm not seeing something.

572
00:35:34.000 --> 00:35:38.000
But at the same time, I had accusation against God because I'm like, God, you know, can you just show it to me better?

573
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Because I'm just not seeing it.

574
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So he walked me through a process where I was actually finally able to begin to receive his love.

575
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And so that's what's important in rest, like everything else has to be received.

576
00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:56.000
It can't be worked for rest being God and God being love.

577
00:35:56.000 --> 00:36:01.000
Same thing with love. That love has to be just received.

578
00:36:01.000 --> 00:36:07.000
So what I had to do was I had to stop the resistance. So here are some of the things that helped me.

579
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I had to finally stop. I had to realize that that God did not make me obligated to love him back.

580
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So I recommend that as you're trying to as you're going to the Lord to try to.

581
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To try to position yourself so that you have faith to receive his love, that the very first thing that you do is what I talk about a lot in rest.

582
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And that's whatever it is you're doing to stop doing it.

583
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In other words, related specifically to love, that you stop trying to love him and release yourself from the obligation of loving him.

584
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And I don't mean actively try to stop loving him. I mean, stop.

585
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How do I remember that? Just stop. Stop trying. Stop thinking that. Oh, I should.

586
00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:04.000
God does not does not put you under any obligation to love him at all.

587
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And so release yourself from the obligation. It will feel scary. And what I'm saying sounds very heretical.

588
00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:16.000
It will feel very scary because we're all of a sudden, you know, we've got all of these commandments and going through our minds like, well, God says to love him.

589
00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:22.000
And God says that's the greatest commandment and all of this. But understand that is who you already are.

590
00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:29.000
You were the new man. The old man has died. The new man lives. The new man always evades his father.

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00:37:29.000 --> 00:37:35.000
The new man always loves his father. The new man always knows that he's loved by his father.

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00:37:35.000 --> 00:37:42.000
You don't have to try anymore. The trying is the old man who thinks he's not something he thinks he has to do something.

593
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But Paul says repeatedly, hey, look, you keep trying to resurrect the old man. He's dead.

594
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You don't need to try anymore. You already are the thing. But if we keep thinking that we're the other, that's creating the very resistance because we're focused on this man.

595
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It's dead. That's creating the very resistance to just allowing ourselves to be what God says that we already are.

596
00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:07.000
God says that we already love him. So we need to stop.

597
00:38:07.000 --> 00:38:12.000
Whatever it is that we're doing, that's trying to resurrect this old man, which is trying.

598
00:38:12.000 --> 00:38:16.000
New man doesn't have to try. He just is. You don't have to try to be a man or a woman.

599
00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:20.000
You just are. You're just born like this. I don't know. It's very easy.

600
00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:24.000
It's the same thing with the same thing with the new man. You already are the thing.

601
00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:28.000
So in order to start being what you already are, stop trying.

602
00:38:28.000 --> 00:38:37.000
The trying is resistance. Whenever we try that effort, that's exertion and stop trying.

603
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And you'll discover when you stop trying, which will sound very scary because we're used to think if I don't try, it's that old Calvinistic theological stuff that has infiltrated every single denomination.

604
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That that idea that if I don't try, well, then I'm bad.

605
00:38:54.000 --> 00:38:59.000
I'm ultimately going to find that there's nothing but evil within me, and that's what's going to take over.

606
00:38:59.000 --> 00:39:05.000
So I have to put all my will and all my exertion into trying in order to keep from being bad because, oh, my goodness.

607
00:39:05.000 --> 00:39:08.000
God said the heartful heart is deceitful of all things.

608
00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:11.000
No, that that's not what God.

609
00:39:11.000 --> 00:39:14.000
What it is that we think that he's saying, it's not what God was saying.

610
00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:17.000
God was talking about the flesh. But remember, he says that we're the new man.

611
00:39:17.000 --> 00:39:21.000
That's the seed of our identity. And we still have the flesh.

612
00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:29.000
Yes, but we are the new man and we can choose who it is that we are, which overcomes the flesh.

613
00:39:29.000 --> 00:39:35.000
So the first thing that helps me to finally start feeling loved by the Lord is to stop trying to love him.

614
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And when I stopped trying to love him and when I chose that, if Jesus died for me while I was hating him and if Jesus died for me and others while we were killing him, that apparently I really am not obligated to love God.

615
00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:57.000
Because he'll die for me out of love for me to have me back to him when I'm killing him.

616
00:39:57.000 --> 00:40:00.000
So apparently I really am not obligated to love God.

617
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:06.480
But what he did is when I, when I chose him, he changed me so that I became the new man

618
00:40:06.480 --> 00:40:08.520
who always loves him.

619
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So if I stopped trying, I discover that I already love him in a way that is effortless

620
00:40:12.820 --> 00:40:19.040
in a way that is deeper than any of my trying in my flesh could love God because I love

621
00:40:19.040 --> 00:40:24.720
him in spirit and that's expansive and that's big and that's enriching.

622
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And I hate that we are going through all of this stuff.

623
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Actually I talked just about love for like an hour, but that is what I would recommend.

624
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Here's another, here's an exercise that you can do.

625
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I recommend that you go before the Lord and allow yourself and your situation would look

626
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different.

627
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I'm just going to tell you what mine looked like and what worked for me and then you can

628
00:40:49.580 --> 00:40:54.300
morph it into what works for you to present yourself before the Lord, get to a really

629
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quiet place.

630
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I personally would often sit on my bed and then I would imagine Jesus, I would invite

631
00:41:01.500 --> 00:41:05.140
Jesus like in my spirit, I would invite him to come.

632
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In other words, I would, I would allow myself to be vulnerable of being in the presence

633
00:41:08.220 --> 00:41:11.700
of Jesus because I found him scary or what's he going to say or is he going to look on

634
00:41:11.700 --> 00:41:15.900
me in condemnation and oh my goodness, he can reveal something to me, you know, that

635
00:41:15.900 --> 00:41:22.260
some sin that I have or whatever, I was like, okay, Lord, I invite you to come and to be

636
00:41:22.260 --> 00:41:25.500
who it is that you are.

637
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So Jesus would come in for whatever reason.

638
00:41:27.980 --> 00:41:31.500
I personally would just imagine sitting in my bed and just looking at me.

639
00:41:31.500 --> 00:41:36.500
And then what I would practice is I would practice making, um, uh, making eye contact

640
00:41:36.500 --> 00:41:40.980
with him and not breaking the eye contact because I found out that when I was looking

641
00:41:40.980 --> 00:41:46.060
at him and allowing him to love me, if that, that eye contact would get so intense that

642
00:41:46.060 --> 00:41:51.500
I keep wanting to look away and in order to kind of like break the intensity of it.

643
00:41:51.500 --> 00:41:55.900
So what that, what, what was happening is he was trying to love me and I was resisting

644
00:41:55.900 --> 00:41:56.900
receiving it.

645
00:41:56.900 --> 00:42:01.500
I was doing what it is that I could to keep it at bay, which wasn't allowing me to trust

646
00:42:01.500 --> 00:42:02.500
him.

647
00:42:02.500 --> 00:42:06.500
What wasn't allowing me to shift him to rest because I'm resisting and the place of rest

648
00:42:06.500 --> 00:42:12.860
is in him and he's trying to give me him and I won't, and I, and I, I'm too, I'm too afraid.

649
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So I wouldn't allow myself to break eye contact, uh, even, um, I would allow myself to stay

650
00:42:18.360 --> 00:42:25.240
in that scary place and to, to allow him and his love to break down all of my walls,

651
00:42:25.240 --> 00:42:27.480
all of my resistance, et cetera.

652
00:42:27.480 --> 00:42:35.200
The other thing that I would do is I tried to not, um, love him back for the same reason.

653
00:42:35.200 --> 00:42:39.360
It's not breaking eye contact because sometimes are trying to love him back.

654
00:42:39.360 --> 00:42:42.600
Now, if you just do it naturally, this is no big deal here.

655
00:42:42.600 --> 00:42:47.760
Here's my point is what I found myself wanting to do is he was true.

656
00:42:47.760 --> 00:42:51.880
He was trying to love me and I'm trying to practice receiving it without any effort on

657
00:42:51.880 --> 00:42:57.920
my, uh, without thinking that I need to exert it in the effort and give it back to him.

658
00:42:57.920 --> 00:43:07.040
So because I, I was, I was still, so I was struggling so much to disassociate, um, to,

659
00:43:07.040 --> 00:43:14.960
to just how to fit for that, to disassociate me loving him with work because I'm trying

660
00:43:14.960 --> 00:43:15.960
to do something.

661
00:43:15.960 --> 00:43:20.720
I think I'm supposed to do, but God said it's a commandment and I'm going to, what would

662
00:43:20.720 --> 00:43:21.720
that say about me?

663
00:43:21.720 --> 00:43:30.920
If I didn't love God, I had too many bad things attached to it that I had to stop trying to

664
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love God.

665
00:43:32.240 --> 00:43:37.360
Um, and because that was creating my own resistance to receiving his love, because if he's loving

666
00:43:37.360 --> 00:43:41.640
me, sometimes what I would do is I would start feeling so overwhelmed with the love and making

667
00:43:41.640 --> 00:43:42.640
like, Oh, my word.

668
00:43:42.640 --> 00:43:43.640
Lord is so wonderful.

669
00:43:43.640 --> 00:43:44.640
Yes.

670
00:43:44.640 --> 00:43:45.640
I love you too.

671
00:43:45.640 --> 00:43:51.560
But the type of, I was so young and immature in my love for the Lord that I was doing it

672
00:43:51.560 --> 00:43:52.560
so much.

673
00:43:52.560 --> 00:43:58.880
And I only knew how to do it out of my old man and my old man was trying to resist the

674
00:43:58.880 --> 00:44:03.640
overwhelm that I was feeling of receiving love without giving anything back.

675
00:44:03.640 --> 00:44:05.000
That was hard.

676
00:44:05.000 --> 00:44:09.240
Think of when people give you things in abundance, how much of a burden that that can feel to

677
00:44:09.240 --> 00:44:15.840
us in our old man, in our culture, where we're thinking, no, no, you don't just retake

678
00:44:15.840 --> 00:44:16.840
my goodness.

679
00:44:16.840 --> 00:44:21.200
You know, that's, that's lazy or that's, um, that's selfish.

680
00:44:21.200 --> 00:44:26.320
And so what we, we do and what we're programmed to do by society is, Oh no, there's, there's

681
00:44:26.320 --> 00:44:29.760
give and take, you know, they've given to you, so you need to give back.

682
00:44:29.760 --> 00:44:33.480
We do that with the Lord, like, okay, he's given me love.

683
00:44:33.480 --> 00:44:35.400
I give him love back.

684
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And that what we can find ourselves doing in that type of an exercise is when God is

685
00:44:40.160 --> 00:44:45.440
trying to love us and we're, and we're trying to practice receiving it, we can feel so overwhelmed

686
00:44:45.440 --> 00:44:47.760
with receiving it that we don't deserve it.

687
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And we feel that, Oh, I need to love him back too.

688
00:44:50.760 --> 00:44:56.360
And then we start, and then we start trying to intentionally love him back, which is actually

689
00:44:56.360 --> 00:45:00.000
resisting the fact that God wants us to do nothing.

690
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:05.920
receive. Nothing but, but trust that we can get from him without giving him anything back.

691
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And he wants us to believe that that's true. So there's no reason for you to be afraid that if

692
00:45:12.400 --> 00:45:17.200
you stop trying to love God, that you're not going to love God. Because he said that you're

693
00:45:17.200 --> 00:45:23.440
the new man who always, not sometimes and not as capable, no, always loves his father.

694
00:45:24.960 --> 00:45:29.200
So it's who you are. So trust is one of the things that we have to have in faith. If God

695
00:45:29.200 --> 00:45:33.600
says it's true, we have to believe it. And if we believe it, we have to act on it. If we don't act

696
00:45:33.600 --> 00:45:37.840
on it, we don't actually believe it. James talks about that. You know, faith without works is dead.

697
00:45:37.840 --> 00:45:43.600
Unless we actually act on it, we do not believe it. So if God says that we do not have to love

698
00:45:43.600 --> 00:45:51.040
him back, act like it. And that will begin to heal. That will begin to help you love the Lord

699
00:45:51.040 --> 00:45:56.720
because you already do. So what we're doing in that type of an exercise is you're training yourself

700
00:45:56.720 --> 00:46:05.760
to practice stopping the trying. And that's a really, really big deal, which is a kind of

701
00:46:05.760 --> 00:46:10.160
a thing that we'll be continuing to be talking about as we talk about other things in which

702
00:46:10.160 --> 00:46:16.720
we need to shift and to rest about. That we need to stop trying because it's the trying itself

703
00:46:16.720 --> 00:46:23.600
that's actually creating the resistance. And to stop resisting and to finally be in rest, stop

704
00:46:24.160 --> 00:46:33.760
crying. It sounds really surprising, but I am telling you what, every single time it works.

705
00:46:33.760 --> 00:46:39.760
I had nobody to teach me these things. And I mean, other people knew them. So I'm not saying that I'm

706
00:46:39.760 --> 00:46:42.960
the only one who knows and other people knew them, but I didn't know those people who knew

707
00:46:42.960 --> 00:46:48.480
these things and they weren't telling me this. So I had to figure all of this out by trial and error,

708
00:46:48.480 --> 00:46:54.320
risking my relationship with God. And the reason I want to tell you that is the way that I learned

709
00:46:54.320 --> 00:47:01.840
this is because I worked it, walked it out. It wasn't theory. I had, I did it and it worked and

710
00:47:01.840 --> 00:47:06.480
it doesn't, didn't just work. It continues to work every single time I need to shift into rest. All I

711
00:47:06.480 --> 00:47:10.480
have to do is stop trying, which is hard to do. It's hard to stop trying. But my point is that

712
00:47:10.480 --> 00:47:16.960
that's all I have to do. And once I do it, I'm in rest. It's like, that's wild because I was always

713
00:47:16.960 --> 00:47:21.680
taught, if you don't try, you're bad. If you don't try, you're lazy. You know, if you don't try, well,

714
00:47:21.680 --> 00:47:27.360
then you're not an obedient God. And I was like, no, you already are all of the things. You don't

715
00:47:27.360 --> 00:47:31.440
have to try to be them anymore. You have to trust that you are them. And then you finally start

716
00:47:31.440 --> 00:47:37.520
acting like it because you're choosing that you are who I've said that you are. And you've been

717
00:47:37.600 --> 00:47:46.000
changed into a new creature. Okay. So let's go to the next thing. We are just

718
00:47:46.800 --> 00:47:56.960
going through all of this entirely too fast. Okay. That's the next one. All right. Now the,

719
00:47:56.960 --> 00:48:01.200
another thing that's very important is, is a foundational thing, you know, choosing that

720
00:48:01.200 --> 00:48:05.200
we're loved by the Lord. That is the most foundational thing. Do you know that if you

721
00:48:05.200 --> 00:48:08.640
believe that you are loved by God, to the extent that he says that you are,

722
00:48:10.080 --> 00:48:14.960
and that he wants that form of like intimacy and union with you, like, like lovers in order to

723
00:48:14.960 --> 00:48:21.840
create that, that, that, that intimacy, that union in that, out of that vulnerability. If you do that,

724
00:48:21.840 --> 00:48:27.440
you will shift into rest, meaning nothing else in this, in this, in this whole session, everything

725
00:48:27.440 --> 00:48:35.760
comes out of, out of love, being able to choose that God is as loving as he says that he is to

726
00:48:35.760 --> 00:48:40.960
the degree that he says that he is that, because in the reason I can say that so boldly is God's

727
00:48:40.960 --> 00:48:48.400
love is so transformative. It takes over that, that shifts you into rest. If you truly, if we

728
00:48:48.400 --> 00:48:53.120
all truly believe that God loved us as much as he says that he does, that takes care of everything.

729
00:48:53.840 --> 00:48:58.720
Um, we, then we always believe our father and that's what rest is rest allow at rest is when

730
00:48:58.720 --> 00:49:03.520
we believe that, that everything that he says is actually true to the extent that we act on it.

731
00:49:03.520 --> 00:49:06.720
It's not just belief like, Oh yeah, I know that. And I can tell someone else, you know,

732
00:49:06.720 --> 00:49:11.360
believing in, in the way that James talks about it, where he says, faith without works is dead,

733
00:49:11.360 --> 00:49:15.840
where we believe that what God says is true to the point that we act on it. All of that comes

734
00:49:15.840 --> 00:49:22.000
just by believing that we are loved by God, to the extent that he says that we are, which is

735
00:49:22.480 --> 00:49:31.520
fathomless, absolutely fathomless, fathomless. Um, uh, and, uh, God subjects all of the aspect,

736
00:49:31.520 --> 00:49:36.640
all other aspects of his character to love all of it, even his strength and his power,

737
00:49:36.640 --> 00:49:42.640
everything in God's character is subject to is subject to his love. He subjects him all

738
00:49:42.640 --> 00:49:47.680
aspects of his character to his love and that, and the object of love in the universe is you,

739
00:49:48.640 --> 00:49:54.960
the object of that force of that greatest force in the universe is you. And that's all you need

740
00:49:54.960 --> 00:49:59.760
to know. But, you know, in addition to that, you'd like to know something else that

741
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:02.760
we can do that really helps in being able to shift

742
00:50:02.760 --> 00:50:05.000
into rest really helps us in our identity.

743
00:50:06.000 --> 00:50:09.400
Is like whenever we feel, you know, threatened, anxious

744
00:50:09.400 --> 00:50:11.440
for, because we're about to meet with someone

745
00:50:11.440 --> 00:50:13.320
or wonder, can I do this in my business?

746
00:50:13.320 --> 00:50:15.360
You know, can I, am I strong enough for this?

747
00:50:15.360 --> 00:50:17.400
You know, God's given me this

748
00:50:17.400 --> 00:50:19.640
but there's all these obstacles, can I do it?

749
00:50:19.640 --> 00:50:21.800
A lot of it can come back to,

750
00:50:23.200 --> 00:50:26.160
comes back to understanding our identity

751
00:50:26.160 --> 00:50:28.800
and part of our identity can be understood

752
00:50:28.800 --> 00:50:33.080
by the fact that we're one spirit with God, one spirit

753
00:50:33.080 --> 00:50:35.800
not just conjoined with him, we are one spirit.

754
00:50:35.800 --> 00:50:38.440
And it mentions that multiple times in scripture

755
00:50:38.440 --> 00:50:40.960
which I don't have time to go into all of them.

756
00:50:40.960 --> 00:50:42.880
So I wanted to make sure to give you the scripture

757
00:50:42.880 --> 00:50:44.960
references so that you could look them up.

758
00:50:47.720 --> 00:50:52.720
But first of all, wanted to say that in the union with God

759
00:50:53.040 --> 00:50:54.600
that's where we started.

760
00:50:54.600 --> 00:50:56.800
We started in union with God.

761
00:50:56.800 --> 00:50:59.800
He found us in him, took us out of him.

762
00:50:59.800 --> 00:51:04.800
That was in Ephesians three, verse four talks,

763
00:51:04.840 --> 00:51:07.600
sorry, not three, Ephesians one, verse four

764
00:51:07.600 --> 00:51:11.320
says that God chose us in him

765
00:51:11.320 --> 00:51:13.640
before the creation of the world, in him.

766
00:51:13.640 --> 00:51:15.440
So in other words, he looked inside himself,

767
00:51:15.440 --> 00:51:18.200
saw us, pulled us out.

768
00:51:18.200 --> 00:51:20.160
I used, when I first heard that, I was like

769
00:51:20.160 --> 00:51:21.360
I don't know about that.

770
00:51:21.360 --> 00:51:24.960
I've never heard that before, that doesn't sound right.

771
00:51:24.960 --> 00:51:26.800
I mean, that means that like when God said

772
00:51:26.800 --> 00:51:30.360
I was born of him that like I carry his DNA

773
00:51:30.360 --> 00:51:31.360
and that just doesn't sound right.

774
00:51:31.360 --> 00:51:32.280
That sounds heretical.

775
00:51:32.280 --> 00:51:34.120
It sounds like they're saying I'm God.

776
00:51:34.120 --> 00:51:36.400
We're not saying that we're God who created us.

777
00:51:36.400 --> 00:51:38.800
We're not saying that we're, you know,

778
00:51:38.800 --> 00:51:43.800
that we have the same preeminence as Jesus or anything

779
00:51:44.160 --> 00:51:45.880
but God says that he found us in him.

780
00:51:45.880 --> 00:51:47.960
He chose us in him.

781
00:51:47.960 --> 00:51:51.640
And then he separated, he created us as our own entity

782
00:51:51.640 --> 00:51:56.160
so to speak, and then he reunified us with him

783
00:51:56.160 --> 00:51:58.760
which created the best of both worlds

784
00:51:58.760 --> 00:52:01.080
because now you have relationship

785
00:52:01.080 --> 00:52:04.160
which you can only have when you've got a separate entity.

786
00:52:04.160 --> 00:52:06.640
You can only have, you have relationship

787
00:52:06.640 --> 00:52:08.760
but now you also get the benefit of union.

788
00:52:08.760 --> 00:52:10.760
So you have relationship within union.

789
00:52:10.760 --> 00:52:13.400
If we weren't separated out, there's no relationship

790
00:52:13.400 --> 00:52:15.040
because it was always together.

791
00:52:15.040 --> 00:52:15.880
It was always unified.

792
00:52:15.880 --> 00:52:18.320
It was always one, but you're separating it.

793
00:52:18.320 --> 00:52:20.520
Now it's a separate identity in a way.

794
00:52:20.520 --> 00:52:23.160
And then you reunify it back to yourself

795
00:52:23.160 --> 00:52:24.400
but now that you're reunified

796
00:52:24.400 --> 00:52:26.320
after it was quote unquote separated

797
00:52:26.320 --> 00:52:29.920
and that may not be the perfect theological term for it

798
00:52:29.920 --> 00:52:31.520
but just think of it kind of like that

799
00:52:31.520 --> 00:52:33.760
that God created us as our own identity

800
00:52:33.760 --> 00:52:35.280
and then reunified us.

801
00:52:35.280 --> 00:52:39.760
Now we have the benefit of relationship, which is amazing.

802
00:52:39.760 --> 00:52:42.440
That flow, that back and forth, that giving

803
00:52:42.440 --> 00:52:45.080
that each giving to the other and investing in the other

804
00:52:45.080 --> 00:52:48.760
and feeding on each other, get a feedback loop that way

805
00:52:48.800 --> 00:52:50.840
which you don't get in union.

806
00:52:50.840 --> 00:52:53.520
You get that, but you also get all the benefits of union

807
00:52:53.520 --> 00:52:54.800
where there's no separation.

808
00:52:54.800 --> 00:52:57.000
It's the absolute perfect scenario.

809
00:52:57.000 --> 00:52:59.840
When I first heard this, I don't know

810
00:52:59.840 --> 00:53:01.440
that that's theologically correct.

811
00:53:01.440 --> 00:53:06.120
But then I realized that it's pictured all over scripture.

812
00:53:06.120 --> 00:53:07.840
And we'll just mention a couple of them.

813
00:53:07.840 --> 00:53:12.600
One is Adam, Eve was actually a rib, actual DNA

814
00:53:12.600 --> 00:53:15.480
actual piece of Adam that was taken out

815
00:53:15.480 --> 00:53:19.120
that was seen in Adam, taken out,

816
00:53:19.120 --> 00:53:21.280
you know, and the side was open, taken out

817
00:53:21.280 --> 00:53:22.920
and then made into Eve.

818
00:53:22.920 --> 00:53:26.480
And then the two were reunified in, you know

819
00:53:26.480 --> 00:53:30.920
in the conjoining of man and woman as one flesh.

820
00:53:30.920 --> 00:53:32.600
And that's why Adam looked at her and said

821
00:53:32.600 --> 00:53:35.480
you are bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh.

822
00:53:35.480 --> 00:53:39.280
That was a picture of the fact that God

823
00:53:39.280 --> 00:53:41.400
has taken, had taken us out of him

824
00:53:41.400 --> 00:53:44.200
and intended to reunify us back to him.

825
00:53:44.200 --> 00:53:47.160
Then the second Adam, which is Jesus

826
00:53:47.160 --> 00:53:48.400
pictured the same thing.

827
00:53:48.400 --> 00:53:51.800
When he was on the cross, his side was opened symbolically

828
00:53:52.880 --> 00:53:56.480
or all of this was symbolized when his side was opened

829
00:53:56.480 --> 00:54:00.360
by the soldier who stuck his spear up into Jesus

830
00:54:00.360 --> 00:54:01.400
through his heart.

831
00:54:01.400 --> 00:54:04.880
And as we all know, when he drew the spear out

832
00:54:04.880 --> 00:54:06.880
in order to see if Jesus really was dead

833
00:54:06.880 --> 00:54:08.360
out came blood and water.

834
00:54:08.360 --> 00:54:11.200
Symbolically, that was referring to the facts

835
00:54:11.200 --> 00:54:13.920
that was picturing back to what had happened with Adam

836
00:54:14.680 --> 00:54:18.240
where Christ's bride was being born out of him

837
00:54:18.240 --> 00:54:20.240
so that he could be reunified with him

838
00:54:20.240 --> 00:54:22.520
which is what was happening on the cross anyway.

839
00:54:22.520 --> 00:54:24.200
Because remember that's when the veil was torn

840
00:54:24.200 --> 00:54:26.240
in the temple, meaning that there was reunification

841
00:54:26.240 --> 00:54:30.960
that there was ability for God and man to come back together

842
00:54:30.960 --> 00:54:33.040
and for us to be able to have access to God

843
00:54:33.040 --> 00:54:36.440
that happened at Jesus's death, not his resurrection.

844
00:54:36.440 --> 00:54:38.760
So his side was opened.

845
00:54:38.760 --> 00:54:40.400
The bride was born.

846
00:54:40.400 --> 00:54:42.240
And of course with the blood

847
00:54:42.240 --> 00:54:45.120
the covenant of marriage was paid for.

848
00:54:45.120 --> 00:54:47.720
And then, so Jesus paid for his bride.

849
00:54:47.720 --> 00:54:50.800
And then the water that also came out from his body

850
00:54:50.800 --> 00:54:53.160
symbolized what it talks about in Ephesians

851
00:54:53.160 --> 00:54:57.240
where it says that a wife is needed to

852
00:54:57.240 --> 00:55:00.080
or a husband is called to wash his wife.

853
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:03.960
by the water of the word, I think is how it's phrased.

854
00:55:03.960 --> 00:55:06.560
So it's a cleansing, it's a,

855
00:55:06.560 --> 00:55:08.000
the whole thing is very redemptive.

856
00:55:08.000 --> 00:55:13.000
The husband is providing everything for his bride.

857
00:55:13.720 --> 00:55:18.080
He's paying for her and he's paying the price for her

858
00:55:18.080 --> 00:55:19.760
and then he's cleansing her.

859
00:55:19.760 --> 00:55:21.680
And so that's what Jesus was doing.

860
00:55:21.680 --> 00:55:22.920
So when I saw all of that,

861
00:55:22.920 --> 00:55:25.000
and I saw that in both of those pictures,

862
00:55:25.000 --> 00:55:28.160
we started in him, that the bride started in

863
00:55:28.240 --> 00:55:30.200
and then was taken out to be rejoined.

864
00:55:30.200 --> 00:55:32.800
It's like, oh my word, so it really is true.

865
00:55:32.800 --> 00:55:36.880
Ephesians 1, 4 really was talking about that.

866
00:55:36.880 --> 00:55:39.160
He found us in him, took us out of him

867
00:55:39.160 --> 00:55:41.120
in order to be reunified.

868
00:55:41.120 --> 00:55:45.460
This is important because I always was so scared

869
00:55:45.460 --> 00:55:48.000
because even though I knew that now I was unified

870
00:55:48.000 --> 00:55:50.160
with the Lord, Jesus talks about it all through scripture.

871
00:55:50.160 --> 00:55:52.800
We'll mention a couple more passages.

872
00:55:52.800 --> 00:55:56.800
I thought, yeah, but at my beginning, I was separated.

873
00:55:56.880 --> 00:56:00.320
At the beginning, I was created outside of him.

874
00:56:01.680 --> 00:56:04.680
And I got that idea with the fact that Adam was created

875
00:56:04.680 --> 00:56:05.880
at the dust of the ground.

876
00:56:05.880 --> 00:56:07.640
Well, that was just Adam's flesh.

877
00:56:07.640 --> 00:56:11.360
That wasn't Adam's spirit, which case in point,

878
00:56:11.360 --> 00:56:14.160
if you look in Matthew and it talks about the genealogy

879
00:56:14.160 --> 00:56:16.920
of Jesus, it calls Adam the son of God.

880
00:56:16.920 --> 00:56:19.880
He was born out of God's spirit,

881
00:56:19.880 --> 00:56:21.760
but his flesh was created from the ground.

882
00:56:21.760 --> 00:56:23.760
But because I was only seeing things

883
00:56:23.760 --> 00:56:25.080
from a fleshly point of view, I thought,

884
00:56:25.080 --> 00:56:28.640
see, I was just, God showed, God pictured it in Adam.

885
00:56:28.640 --> 00:56:30.000
I was created separate from him.

886
00:56:30.000 --> 00:56:31.520
I was created from the earth.

887
00:56:31.520 --> 00:56:34.000
And then he rejoined me and he joined me with him

888
00:56:34.000 --> 00:56:35.240
and that's nice.

889
00:56:35.240 --> 00:56:37.560
But at one point I was separated from him

890
00:56:37.560 --> 00:56:39.560
and that bothered me.

891
00:56:39.560 --> 00:56:41.640
That really made me feel very unsafe

892
00:56:41.640 --> 00:56:44.040
until Ephesians 1, 4.

893
00:56:44.040 --> 00:56:47.200
You mean that I came out of him.

894
00:56:47.200 --> 00:56:49.500
It gave me such security.

895
00:56:49.500 --> 00:56:52.760
That is a very core essence of our identity.

896
00:56:52.760 --> 00:56:55.080
The way that I see our identity as our identity

897
00:56:55.080 --> 00:56:58.680
is the point at which our spirit is unified with God's spirit.

898
00:56:58.680 --> 00:57:01.560
It's not us as a separate entity and who are we

899
00:57:01.560 --> 00:57:03.120
and what's our personality and all that.

900
00:57:03.120 --> 00:57:07.600
No, it's because we can't be identified outside of God.

901
00:57:07.600 --> 00:57:11.920
So an aspect and a definition of our identity

902
00:57:11.920 --> 00:57:15.640
has to include God in it.

903
00:57:15.640 --> 00:57:17.640
So the way that I can think of to describe it,

904
00:57:17.640 --> 00:57:19.680
and I'm sure that the Lord's gonna reveal some more to me,

905
00:57:19.760 --> 00:57:22.880
but this is just kind of like the crayon child's drawing

906
00:57:22.880 --> 00:57:24.800
of me being able to understand

907
00:57:24.800 --> 00:57:28.880
what is this concept called identity.

908
00:57:28.880 --> 00:57:30.560
It's the point at which our spirit

909
00:57:30.560 --> 00:57:32.720
is unified with God's spirit.

910
00:57:32.720 --> 00:57:34.680
And you are unified with God's spirit.

911
00:57:34.680 --> 00:57:36.520
I'm unified with God's spirit.

912
00:57:36.520 --> 00:57:38.120
But think of it almost like we're unified

913
00:57:38.120 --> 00:57:40.040
at different points or something like that.

914
00:57:40.040 --> 00:57:43.400
It gives us a uniqueness in which we are,

915
00:57:43.400 --> 00:57:46.960
we share, we have something very unique

916
00:57:46.960 --> 00:57:49.440
and individual in our relationships with God.

917
00:57:50.120 --> 00:57:52.080
We're all unified with him and we're all one body.

918
00:57:52.080 --> 00:57:53.840
So we're all unified with each other,

919
00:57:53.840 --> 00:57:55.600
but there's still a uniqueness.

920
00:57:55.600 --> 00:58:00.600
There's still something that makes us uniquely special

921
00:58:01.640 --> 00:58:04.600
to God, regardless of anybody else,

922
00:58:04.600 --> 00:58:08.200
as opposed to him just like accepting you or accepting me

923
00:58:08.200 --> 00:58:11.040
just because, well, you just come with the package.

924
00:58:11.040 --> 00:58:12.960
I took the package and you happen to be part of it.

925
00:58:12.960 --> 00:58:15.400
Well, that doesn't make any of us feel very special.

926
00:58:15.400 --> 00:58:17.640
God says, yes, you are one whole

927
00:58:17.640 --> 00:58:18.880
and you get to enjoy the benefit

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of being unified with each other.

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And we get to enjoy the benefit of all being unified as one.

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But he also wants us to know that the specialness

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and the uniqueness of the fact

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that there is an individual aspect

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at the very core of who we are,

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which is our identity in our relationship with the Lord.

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So when we know that we're loved by God

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and we choose that we are loved by him

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to the extent that he says that we are,

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and we understand that in scripture repeatedly,

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I'm gonna mention a couple more verses real quick,

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that we are unified with God to such an extent

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that we cannot be separated.

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It's not like we're, well, we're just close together

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and we're just, we exist in the same body as him.

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No, we'll talk about it in a second,

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where one is in there's no way to create separation at all.

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So there's no fear.

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That's the very essence of who it is

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that you are.

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It's not just a benefit that you got.

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It now is the new you.

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It is the new man.

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It is that new creature.

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And you can be assured.

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And so you can, if you ever,

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because it's doubting that,

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that makes us doubt ourselves in circumstances.

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When situations come up and oh my goodness, Lord,

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can I do this now?

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Lord, you told me to do this in my business.

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And oh my goodness, Lord, this seems scary.

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You know, do I have what it takes?

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Or I'm feeling intimidated by a meeting

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that I have coming up or intimidated by, I don't know,

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just whatever.

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The, you know, I have a phone call coming up

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and, you know, do I have what it takes?

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It's, we, it's important.

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for us to remember, because we're doubting who it is that we are, because we wouldn't doubt God.

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And we're that unified with him. That is a core essence of our being. It's not just something we

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get to benefit from. So I wanted to mention some scripture verses here really quick.

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First Corinthians 6.17 talks about the fact that we're one with him in spirit.

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John 14.20 says that we're all one. He mentions all of them. Father, Son, Holy Spirit, and us.

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If we were to ever doubt whether or not we're just unified with Jesus, or if we're unified,

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you know, with the others as well, it is completely dispelled by John 14.20. We're all one.

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Father, Son, Holy Spirit, and us. We're part of the Trinity. We're part of the Trinity,

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which doesn't make it a quadruple. We're part of the Trinity because we're in Christ,

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and Christ is part of the Trinity. Remember, Christ always has the preeminence. He's the head

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of the body. The head is part of the body. So we're one, you know, but he always has the

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preeminence, always. And we honor him for that, and he always led the way for all of us.

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And then my favorite passage, which we're not going to be able to go into it, it's so sad,

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but I'll just give you the summary of it. It's Galatians 3, and I have here 15 to 25,

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but I think it might just be, yeah, so yeah, I, for some reason, I think it's actually shorter

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than that, but if you look at Galatians 3, 15 to 25 and 29, that's my favorite passage that talks

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about our union with the Lord, because Paul says very specifically that a promise was given to

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Abraham's seed, and he specifies, and he says, seed singular, not seeds plural. That's the,

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that's the, the wording that he uses. He said not seeds. He said seed singular, not seeds plural. So

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he said it's one. It's not two of them. Then he goes, then, and he said, and Christ is that seed.

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So when God gave a promise to Abraham's seed, he said he was giving it, that promise to Abraham's

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seed, which is Christ. Then in verse 29, he said, and you are that seed. So Paul had talked about

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the fact, hey, don't take it as plural, because it's not plural. It's only one. I mean, he spelled

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it out. We didn't have to infer that from scripture and realize, oh, well, you know what?

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Some theologian realized one time, you know what? That's actually a singular word. Paul spelled it

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out so we wouldn't miss it. He said, Christ is that seed, and you are that seed. Not, not plural,

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but singular. Paul spelled it out. He wanted us to know that there is no way in which we're just

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kind of conjoined or together in the same body or anything like that. He says, no, it's one spirit,

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one seed. It mentions in 1 Corinthians 6, 17, like I mentioned earlier, that's where it references

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how we're one with him. It said one with him in spirit. Spirit is the seed of our identity.

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We have spirit, soul, and body, and we get confused and frustrated, and we have all kinds

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of doubts in our, in how we interact with our world, if we think our identity is in our soul

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or identity is in our body. But it's not. Our identity is in our spirit. So our very identity

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is in the place that we are unified as one seed, not two, but one seed in spirit with Christ.

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So we have this much solid foundation of his love and of his, and in oneness with spirit to be able

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to, to be able to have a solid foundation from which to trust that we can, that to be able to

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trust into the point where we can shift into rest, because all we're having to do to shift

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into rest is to believe him, which we'll be talking about why that is in just a second.

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But anyway, so those are two very, very important things. So those are the two foundations. I wanted

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to give us maybe like a five minute break really quick. So I show that it is 1106. I think for some

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of y'all, well, I didn't know about Hawaii. Sorry, Jeanette. I, who knows what it is in Hawaii right

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now. Five minutes for everybody. I show that it's currently like 1106. And so five more minutes,

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so we get like 1111 for central standard time for Yenny and I. So she and I are on the same time.

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So oh, and Will, I forgot. I forgot Bill is as well. And then, and then Jean,

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Janine, I'm like singing in my head. Janine is in Atlanta. So we're all in different times.

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So just take like about five minutes, and we'll be back. And then we will be talking about

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and two trees, which are two different ways in which we can operate in life. And we're two

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different choices that we're constantly being presented with, which is rest and unrest,

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so that we can recognize when we're when we have a choice.

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and so that we can know, oh, this is what I'm supposed to, this is what I have the opportunity

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to choose. In other words, in other words, clear the fog so we won't be so confused. Like, Lord,

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what's going on? We have a bit more of a foundation. And then we'll be talking about

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the three realms, which is spirit, soul, and body, and operating in each one of those.

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And then after that, we talk about shifting into rest, which is always my favorite. Of course,

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everything's my favorite, and I always say that. Okay, so I'll see y'all in about five minutes.

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you

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you

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you