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Hey guys! I am hopping on to say hello and do my intro video. My name is Lizbeth

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and I go by Libby as well so you can use either one. I'm so excited I'm wearing my

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Raise a Hallelujah shirt that I just got recently this morning and the Lord just

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brought that song to mind as I was actually just receiving a pretty

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disturbing text message and just being reminded he was like, I raise a hallelujah

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in the presence of my enemies. Yes I do because he fights for me or heavens come

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to fight for me I think is the actual lyrics so I love that I put this on and

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then he used it and the lyrics of that song that worship song to encourage me

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not five minutes later so yeah God is so good and I'm so glad to be here with you

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guys and I guess it's all girls at this point so I'll call you girls and I'm so

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so thrilled to to have an encouraging community around something that's just

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such a paradigm shift for me. I don't think I'm alone I'm pretty sure that

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I've heard a lot of testimonials about how life-changing this has been for many

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of you and just how different it is than what we were taught in church and

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that we're often taught in a religious church you know again no no offense you

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know taken against the church it's just the reality that there's been a lot of

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mixture a lot of mixed gospel and I know for me the Lord called me out of

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religious mindsets and even fellowship about a year year and a half ago so

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that's been a huge thing for me as to he was deconstructing and breaking down

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you know the beginnings of just showing me what what was religious versus what

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was really the message you know of the Messiah and what he came and demonstrated

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and talked about and it's just so different than what we often learn in

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here so I'm so thankful for the purity that he's bringing to the gospel and the

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purity he's bringing to each of our lives and how he's doing this refining

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purging work but all for good you know all because of love and a lot of it has

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to do with old mindsets so I'm kind of here to say hi and also just confess and

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let you you know that I am in a season of thankfully you know a huge shift

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shift time and I know that's the purpose of this group and that's the purpose of

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the intensive and really what Ashley is looking for is that we would be ready

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for change and to make a shift and I am so there I'm so there I am just really

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ripe and ready so I'd love to hear your stories about how you came into the

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intensive how ready you felt or not for for the shift for the change but I'm

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just as my family here and my community and accountability confessing to you

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with great joy and boldness that I am ready and I need a shift and the Lord

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knows that the time is now it's not next month or next year or when things settle

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down a little bit or when things feel more stable honestly my life on every

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level right now is in his hands like up in the air in the sense that it doesn't

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look put together it doesn't look like the world or even Christians would say

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oh that's you know wise living or you know you really need there probably is

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more say like you religious you know people would say like you need to figure

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that out or you need to you know do this or that but I'm really listening and

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tuning into the Holy Spirit above all other voices which is different too

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because I've been notoriously in the past just really led by fear of man and

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people-pleasing and a lot of that stuff is just not serving me anymore and the

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Lord is just like okay it's me and only me and you are not able to move forward

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he's not letting me move forward and I don't want to disobey him and move

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forward into say a full-time job right now because of what's happened in the

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recent past and with COVID and everything he's not he's not giving me

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permission to that for that and it's not just like he's not giving me permission

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because he's taking from me it's a gift it's a an invitation to take the

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opportunity to trust him for provision while getting healing and really resting

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in him and knowing what that even means because rest is so foreign to me I'm not

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even gonna lie it's so foreign to me even in my

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mind if I'm not physically doing something a lot of times my mind is

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going it's thinking it's it's pretty much always non-stop and so it's a

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really big shift for me to even know and receive the invitation to rest to feel

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permission to rest to feel like that's okay that's not selfish or lazy or any

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of these other things but it's actually good it's just such an upside-down

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kingdom and I feel like this group and this community and what we're doing with

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the rest intensive and the focus here is very upside down Jesus and I'm thankful

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for that because that's been something that's been brewing in me for a long

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time and this is sort of the final I guess call into into a different way so

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so thankful for Ashley and already the teachings that I've listened to have

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blown my mind they've they're they're ones that I will already want to go back

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to if I didn't need to keep moving forward I would just stay on them and do

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the love exercise and really just dwell on what it means to not keep striving

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when you're already been in striving mode to try to fix the striving with

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more striving because it it's it's the default but I'm I'm shifting out of that

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and already with the teachings I've listened to is making so much sense but

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of course it takes time to build that habit of thought and a new way of

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thinking and being and so that's where I'm at and I would love just to hear

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your stories your testimonies I'd love to to pray with any of you or just to

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ask you to pray for me and my family I have two little girls I'm a single mama

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and we again are just trusting the Lord on every level right now so big for a

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lot of needed breakthrough not only out of like striving and running and hiding

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and these different things that are just opposed to everything we're talking

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about here with resting in his love but just a lot of sort of past mess that

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he's got to redeem and that he's promised to redeem and and bring justice

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to regarding my girl's dad and our custody situation it's been a very very

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very very traumatic several years but also traumatic kind of existence and so

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not saying I'm stuck in that or that it's I'm saying that to be dramatic

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just to be really honest with you that I'm coming from a lot of trauma and pain

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and really needing the Lord to see us through and break through and really

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looking to him with everything I have and not I don't have a backup plan I

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don't have like I've really given it all especially the past year in every way

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for the gospel and for what I feel he's called us to have a really big heart for

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women and girls and a ministry and business he's laid on my heart and that

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includes my little girls and a heart for trafficking and other injustices and so

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it really feels like this pivotal moment of crossing a threshold crossing over

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and into the new land and we've talked about that a lot this year a lot of

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prophetic people have talked about that and it's just still true like we're

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birthing something you know calling destiny and it's in in him and it's it's

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it can't be snatched away from us by anything any trials or any suffering and

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yet I have to go through him to get to that I have to go into what feels like

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the scariest letting go and facing whatever it is that's been so scary to

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face or felt so scary to face to receive his love and to lay down the

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shame and the fear that has been driving my life and so there's that and then all

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the practical things with like I said the girls and attorneys in court and

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abuse that's ongoing in that situation for some years now as well as like work

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and the timing of launching this ministry business and I'm just giving it

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all up right now for this rest intensive and asking him what it looks like to

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even what does it look like to give it up what does it look like to lay it down

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what does what's the trade here because I know it's a really positive and good

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trade but it's obviously uncomfortable and painful to go through transition

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like it's always gonna be uncomfortable and it's sometimes painful to to let go

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and to to adopt something completely new and none of us even have context for

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this because it's unprecedented times of shifting you know is what you told me

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and so and we can

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see that all around us and so it's it's I'm holding on to the hem of his garment

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I'm I literally feel like I'm holding on to the hem of his garment like pleading

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with him and believing and even telling him honestly like I need you I need

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healing I need change and shift like I can't go on like this there's not like a

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you know it's like several occasions we can think of in the Bible where people

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were desperate for their their breakthrough and their healing and they

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had to get it and they weren't willing to take no for an answer so that's where

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we are and yeah love you guys again you can call me Elizabeth or Libby if you'd

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rather and my girls are Olive who's eight almost nine and going on 12 she

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acts more like a 12 year old and thinks that way she's very deep and very wise

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and then I have a younger just turned seven year old Nellie we call her Nellie

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but her name's Penelope so Olive and Penelope and if you just be praying with

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us and for us as we walk into this this shift and into a completely new paradigm

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of rest which has never been really in my vocabulary before that would be

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beautiful and I want to be praying for you too and I'm so excited to get to

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know you all and be on the Thursday night Q&A call and just be involved in

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all the things here that there is to be involved in as we walk together into the

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new so all right love you all hope you have a beautiful and blessed day and

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talk to you soon