WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.520
Now we're going to be talking about how to actually operate from a place of rest.

2
00:00:07.520 --> 00:00:14.600
So we've been talking about the fact that we have what God speaks about rest, what it

3
00:00:14.600 --> 00:00:21.560
is, where it is, the fact that we have a right to it, in other words, how we can understand

4
00:00:21.560 --> 00:00:27.760
it and our relationship to it, et cetera, and then how to shift into it.

5
00:00:27.760 --> 00:00:33.120
So that's all great and wonderful, but we're so used to operating according to the other

6
00:00:33.120 --> 00:00:34.120
way.

7
00:00:34.120 --> 00:00:37.480
Now that we're here, what do we do now that we're here?

8
00:00:37.480 --> 00:00:43.000
I wanted to talk about that, what it means to actually operate in spirit versus operating,

9
00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:46.640
believing that we are dependent on what it is that we do, or we're dependent on what

10
00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:50.700
it is that we know, or tips, tricks, strategies, or whatever.

11
00:00:50.700 --> 00:00:56.960
So if we aren't reliant on that, what is it, if God is our source, what does that look

12
00:00:56.960 --> 00:01:03.320
like to be relying on another source other than that?

13
00:01:03.320 --> 00:01:10.200
How do we go from something that we have been able to tangibly see to this ethereal, conceptual

14
00:01:10.200 --> 00:01:17.000
idea that God says is his source, and he's just like, you know, if you come into, remember

15
00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:22.960
what he said about, he told the disciples this, he said, I think he used it in terms

16
00:01:22.960 --> 00:01:27.200
of if they were arrested, he said, if you are arrested or if you're called before the

17
00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:30.880
judge or something like that, he said, do not prepare.

18
00:01:30.880 --> 00:01:35.160
He said, because the Holy Spirit will tell you what you need to know in the moment.

19
00:01:35.160 --> 00:01:40.440
That's operating in the spirit, that's operating in rest, and God wants us to do that in everything,

20
00:01:40.440 --> 00:01:48.120
in businesses, in our relationships, in finances, in every area.

21
00:01:48.120 --> 00:01:54.000
So we're going to compare just really quick the idea, get a concept of what it means to

22
00:01:54.000 --> 00:02:00.360
operate in life versus death, so that we can recognize when we're operating in something

23
00:02:00.360 --> 00:02:05.160
that looks and feels to us like life, because we think, oh, surely this is going, me doing

24
00:02:05.160 --> 00:02:10.039
this thing is going to result in something that we have termed as good, so therefore

25
00:02:10.039 --> 00:02:12.360
this thing that I'm doing must be good.

26
00:02:12.360 --> 00:02:17.980
But how do we recognize that actually what it is that we're doing is leading to death?

27
00:02:17.980 --> 00:02:25.700
Because a lot of times we'll make a particular choice in efforts of obeying God.

28
00:02:25.700 --> 00:02:27.060
That's why we made this choice.

29
00:02:27.060 --> 00:02:31.820
God told me something, okay, I am going to try to do it.

30
00:02:31.820 --> 00:02:37.140
How do we recognize when we're flowing in the spirit and being obedient versus we are

31
00:02:37.140 --> 00:02:42.820
trying too hard to do it in our own strength?

32
00:02:42.820 --> 00:02:47.940
But in order to understand that, we need to understand the characteristics of spirit versus

33
00:02:47.940 --> 00:02:50.860
the characteristics of death.

34
00:02:50.860 --> 00:02:57.060
So again, in other words, the properties, characteristics, so that we can recognize

35
00:02:57.060 --> 00:03:00.940
them and be able to define, oh, I'm coming up against this characteristic.

36
00:03:00.940 --> 00:03:05.820
That must mean I'm operating out of death instead of life.

37
00:03:05.820 --> 00:03:09.740
And then we can choose to shift, as opposed to continuing on that trajectory wondering

38
00:03:09.740 --> 00:03:16.380
why God's not blessing it, because that's the term that we use when we have accusation

39
00:03:16.380 --> 00:03:20.180
against the Lord that he hasn't manifested according to the way that our formula should

40
00:03:20.180 --> 00:03:23.820
have worked, because he's the one that gave us our instruction.

41
00:03:23.820 --> 00:03:28.180
And we've obeyed him, and he hasn't followed through on his end of the bargain.

42
00:03:28.180 --> 00:03:34.260
But okay, so what is some properties and some characteristics of spirit?

43
00:03:34.260 --> 00:03:40.420
Spirit is ever-changing, but it's always the same.

44
00:03:40.420 --> 00:03:44.060
So think of it kind of like a river.

45
00:03:44.060 --> 00:03:49.300
So a river never looks the same from one moment to the next, but it's always water.

46
00:03:49.300 --> 00:03:54.620
It never ceases to be water, and water always acts the same, meaning like it always has

47
00:03:54.620 --> 00:03:58.020
the same properties, it always has the same characteristics, it always follows the same

48
00:03:58.020 --> 00:04:02.140
laws, but it never looks the same from one moment to the next.

49
00:04:02.140 --> 00:04:05.900
That's one of the reasons why operating in the spirit is so scary.

50
00:04:05.900 --> 00:04:08.260
It's unpredictable.

51
00:04:08.260 --> 00:04:10.100
Where is it going to go?

52
00:04:10.100 --> 00:04:11.340
What's going to happen in my life?

53
00:04:11.340 --> 00:04:13.500
I'm being carried around by it.

54
00:04:13.500 --> 00:04:23.420
I'm supposed to be in it, and I'm subjected myself to it, and my future, including tomorrow,

55
00:04:23.420 --> 00:04:26.340
is unpredictable.

56
00:04:26.340 --> 00:04:31.460
So that is actually a characteristic of the spirit.

57
00:04:31.460 --> 00:04:34.820
It's in constant movement, it's in constant flow.

58
00:04:34.820 --> 00:04:37.860
That's what life is.

59
00:04:37.860 --> 00:04:42.500
On the opposite end of the spectrum, in a certain manner of speaking, and I don't know

60
00:04:42.500 --> 00:04:54.180
how to describe this any better than I'm going to now, but from a certain perspective,

61
00:04:54.180 --> 00:04:59.940
the scientific community has defined death, not death of a living being, but like the

62
00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:02.320
element of what is actually death,

63
00:05:02.320 --> 00:05:06.880
they have described death as where

64
00:05:06.880 --> 00:05:11.880
there is absolutely a complete lack of movement.

65
00:05:12.360 --> 00:05:14.640
And by that I mean complete.

66
00:05:14.640 --> 00:05:17.160
Not that a person is dead and they're not moving.

67
00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:19.280
I mean like everything all the way down

68
00:05:19.280 --> 00:05:21.520
to the fact that there's bacteria,

69
00:05:21.520 --> 00:05:23.920
there's bacteria, there's cells,

70
00:05:23.920 --> 00:05:27.000
there's microorganisms, there's atoms,

71
00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:32.000
electrons and protons are encircling the nucleus

72
00:05:34.260 --> 00:05:37.560
and there's always movement in life somewhere.

73
00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:41.600
If an atom eventually gets to the point

74
00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:44.640
where it completely stops, scientifically

75
00:05:44.640 --> 00:05:47.240
that is what they have used to define death

76
00:05:47.240 --> 00:05:48.760
at its very core.

77
00:05:48.760 --> 00:05:51.400
Because they're trying to look for a,

78
00:05:51.400 --> 00:05:53.920
they don't believe in the,

79
00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:57.080
a lot of scientists don't believe in the spiritual

80
00:05:57.080 --> 00:05:58.160
so they're trying to figure out,

81
00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:00.120
okay well there's this thing called death

82
00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:02.560
that we all know exists but how would we define that

83
00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:05.800
and how it manifests and what it is that we see.

84
00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:07.920
And so the way, the best way that they've been able

85
00:06:07.920 --> 00:06:11.080
to come up with to describe it as non-believers

86
00:06:11.080 --> 00:06:15.840
is well, ultimately death, again not death

87
00:06:15.840 --> 00:06:18.200
of a human being or death of a living being

88
00:06:18.200 --> 00:06:21.240
but just the element and the idea of death in the universe.

89
00:06:21.240 --> 00:06:23.320
How would we define it at its very core?

90
00:06:23.320 --> 00:06:27.480
It's a complete, total lack of movement.

91
00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:29.280
That is what they've defined as death.

92
00:06:29.280 --> 00:06:31.600
It's fascinating because it's actually true

93
00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:33.920
as a principle, you know as a spiritual principle

94
00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:38.600
in creation by the Lord that death,

95
00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:41.360
spiritual death is lack of movement.

96
00:06:41.360 --> 00:06:45.480
So we can choose to partner with life

97
00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:50.240
or choose to partner with death in how we operate in life.

98
00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:54.360
So if God is calling us to abide in him

99
00:06:54.360 --> 00:06:59.360
and allow the spirit that is within us to flow freely

100
00:06:59.800 --> 00:07:04.040
but if we find ourselves being given an instruction

101
00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:06.000
by the Lord or we hear something within the Lord's heart

102
00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:08.680
and we're like okay, this is what we need to do,

103
00:07:08.680 --> 00:07:12.880
then if we take it as kind of an instruction

104
00:07:12.880 --> 00:07:15.760
and think oh my goodness, God's holding me accountable

105
00:07:15.760 --> 00:07:19.300
for this, I better not get it wrong.

106
00:07:19.300 --> 00:07:22.060
What we tend to do is we tend out of fear,

107
00:07:22.060 --> 00:07:26.540
we tend to grab a hold of something tighter,

108
00:07:26.540 --> 00:07:29.100
put a stranglehold on it because we're trying so hard

109
00:07:29.100 --> 00:07:31.220
to make sure that it is perfectly still

110
00:07:31.220 --> 00:07:33.640
and perfectly right to ensure

111
00:07:33.640 --> 00:07:35.220
that we get a particular result.

112
00:07:35.220 --> 00:07:37.920
The problem is that whenever you tighten your control

113
00:07:37.920 --> 00:07:40.460
on something, you're adding rigidity to it

114
00:07:40.460 --> 00:07:43.300
and rigidity leads to death because there's no movement.

115
00:07:44.340 --> 00:07:46.860
That's what control leads to.

116
00:07:46.860 --> 00:07:51.860
That's why God says release control, let go.

117
00:07:52.980 --> 00:07:55.700
That's why we're always going back to release,

118
00:07:55.700 --> 00:07:59.380
wherever the sign is, be still and know that I am God.

119
00:07:59.380 --> 00:08:01.620
It's all about release, it's all about let go.

120
00:08:01.620 --> 00:08:03.600
When God wants something of us,

121
00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:06.340
when we feel the desire within our Father's heart

122
00:08:06.340 --> 00:08:08.300
for us to move in a particular direction,

123
00:08:08.300 --> 00:08:12.260
to do something with him or whatever,

124
00:08:12.260 --> 00:08:17.100
what he wants us to do is to let go and flow with him

125
00:08:17.100 --> 00:08:19.420
and he will enable that thing to happen

126
00:08:19.420 --> 00:08:22.060
while we're along, not for the ride

127
00:08:22.060 --> 00:08:24.340
because we're just simply being carried along,

128
00:08:24.340 --> 00:08:26.300
but the idea of we are being carried along

129
00:08:26.300 --> 00:08:28.140
because he's doing all of the work,

130
00:08:28.140 --> 00:08:30.620
but we are intentionally partnering with him

131
00:08:30.620 --> 00:08:35.140
by choosing to submit ourselves to that.

132
00:08:35.140 --> 00:08:38.500
That is, and then we just go wherever the spirit goes

133
00:08:38.500 --> 00:08:39.780
and we're just gonna flow,

134
00:08:39.780 --> 00:08:41.820
as opposed to starting to lock down

135
00:08:42.340 --> 00:08:45.980
and okay, I need to make sure that I do

136
00:08:45.980 --> 00:08:48.180
or I allow or I make happen

137
00:08:48.180 --> 00:08:50.240
whatever it is that God has declared.

138
00:08:51.380 --> 00:08:53.300
That is bringing, that's bringing death.

139
00:08:53.300 --> 00:08:57.380
We see that if we believe that something

140
00:08:57.380 --> 00:08:59.700
that God wants to happen on the earth,

141
00:09:00.620 --> 00:09:02.840
maybe in somebody else's life,

142
00:09:02.840 --> 00:09:07.340
that, let's see, let's come up with an example.

143
00:09:07.340 --> 00:09:11.180
Say for instance, if God has given you a particular,

144
00:09:11.180 --> 00:09:12.940
a particular dream or vision or something,

145
00:09:12.940 --> 00:09:14.420
we're gonna be talking about all of this tomorrow

146
00:09:14.420 --> 00:09:16.060
about how to handle stuff like that,

147
00:09:16.060 --> 00:09:18.380
even things like how to handle

148
00:09:19.220 --> 00:09:21.360
what feel like unfulfilled promises.

149
00:09:21.360 --> 00:09:23.800
What do you do when it looks like God gave you a dream

150
00:09:23.800 --> 00:09:26.540
and it didn't come true or it's not coming true

151
00:09:26.540 --> 00:09:29.540
or however you would turn that, how do you handle that?

152
00:09:30.420 --> 00:09:33.340
But before not actually getting into that,

153
00:09:33.340 --> 00:09:35.180
let's just use this kind of as an example.

154
00:09:35.180 --> 00:09:38.260
Say for instance, God gives you a dream or a vision

155
00:09:38.260 --> 00:09:42.780
and it involves another, it involves another person.

156
00:09:42.780 --> 00:09:43.620
Okay, you know what?

157
00:09:43.620 --> 00:09:44.940
I thought of a better example.

158
00:09:44.940 --> 00:09:46.180
Let me word it like this.

159
00:09:46.180 --> 00:09:48.500
This will hopefully make it a lot more relevant

160
00:09:48.500 --> 00:09:49.700
and down to earth.

161
00:09:51.060 --> 00:09:53.100
Think of a parent with a child

162
00:09:54.940 --> 00:09:59.940
that we, if we put so much,

163
00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:04.680
we can be tempted to wrap our identity up,

164
00:10:04.680 --> 00:10:07.780
our identity up in our role as,

165
00:10:07.780 --> 00:10:10.620
and I'm gonna use mother because I'm a woman,

166
00:10:10.620 --> 00:10:13.820
so it's easier for me to talk from that perspective,

167
00:10:13.820 --> 00:10:16.580
as a mother, as a father, you know, whatever,

168
00:10:16.580 --> 00:10:20.620
that it's easy for us, especially, you know,

169
00:10:20.620 --> 00:10:22.140
if you're a mother, stay-at-home mom,

170
00:10:22.140 --> 00:10:24.540
and your whole world is wrapped up in, you know,

171
00:10:25.500 --> 00:10:29.100
taking care of the house and then being with your husband

172
00:10:29.460 --> 00:10:31.420
when he comes home and before he goes to work

173
00:10:31.420 --> 00:10:32.860
and all of that, and then the rest of it

174
00:10:32.860 --> 00:10:34.620
is all wrapped around this child.

175
00:10:36.740 --> 00:10:40.900
So often, people feel subconsciously identified

176
00:10:40.900 --> 00:10:44.460
by the free will choices that that child made.

177
00:10:44.460 --> 00:10:47.080
And we feel, if we're not careful,

178
00:10:47.080 --> 00:10:51.180
that God is holding us accountable,

179
00:10:51.180 --> 00:10:56.080
personally accountable, for how the child responds.

180
00:10:56.080 --> 00:11:00.200
So we know that God desires good things for this child,

181
00:11:00.200 --> 00:11:03.060
and they do something at two years old,

182
00:11:03.060 --> 00:11:04.840
and we immediately, in that moment,

183
00:11:04.840 --> 00:11:06.360
see them at 20 years old in jail

184
00:11:06.360 --> 00:11:08.480
if they just continue like that.

185
00:11:08.480 --> 00:11:10.860
And so we're somehow identifying with that,

186
00:11:10.860 --> 00:11:13.680
and we're thinking, you know, we're at the, I know,

187
00:11:13.680 --> 00:11:15.640
and we think, well, wait just a second,

188
00:11:15.640 --> 00:11:18.180
what is this saying about me as a mom

189
00:11:18.180 --> 00:11:21.180
that I have either, what is it that I have done

190
00:11:21.180 --> 00:11:23.080
that made the child think that they could do that?

191
00:11:23.080 --> 00:11:25.760
This must be saying something about me.

192
00:11:26.280 --> 00:11:28.080
And because we think that, and we think,

193
00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:29.560
God doesn't desire that,

194
00:11:29.560 --> 00:11:32.280
God has spoken good things over my child,

195
00:11:32.280 --> 00:11:35.520
I want to ensure that God's will happens,

196
00:11:35.520 --> 00:11:36.560
what do we do?

197
00:11:36.560 --> 00:11:38.040
Control of the child.

198
00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:41.120
And what that does is it brings death.

199
00:11:42.080 --> 00:11:44.000
It brings death in that child's life,

200
00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:45.760
I don't mean physically.

201
00:11:45.760 --> 00:11:50.760
It suppresses and stifles the spirit

202
00:11:50.800 --> 00:11:54.880
that that child was meant to be fathered into

203
00:11:54.880 --> 00:11:57.200
understanding how to express.

204
00:11:57.200 --> 00:12:02.200
And teaching a child how to express his spirit

205
00:12:03.080 --> 00:12:07.660
is a messy job because it doesn't always look pretty.

206
00:12:08.640 --> 00:12:12.680
It sometimes looks like mistakes, it looks like messes,

207
00:12:12.680 --> 00:12:15.160
it looks like destruction,

208
00:12:15.160 --> 00:12:18.440
but a child doesn't know how to handle it.

209
00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:21.920
I think of a, especially,

210
00:12:21.920 --> 00:12:23.080
I'm just gonna throw this one out there,

211
00:12:23.080 --> 00:12:25.560
especially a strong-willed child.

212
00:12:25.560 --> 00:12:27.720
We see this very evident in a strong-willed child.

213
00:12:27.720 --> 00:12:31.280
Strong-willed children are very challenging for us

214
00:12:31.280 --> 00:12:33.080
for a multitude of reasons,

215
00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:38.080
but understand the power of the spirit that God,

216
00:12:38.120 --> 00:12:39.520
the power of their particular spirit

217
00:12:39.520 --> 00:12:42.360
that God wants to express in such a very strong way

218
00:12:42.360 --> 00:12:46.020
through that child because of what that child is meant to,

219
00:12:46.020 --> 00:12:50.140
how that child is meant to release creation from frustration.

220
00:12:51.060 --> 00:12:55.820
It has all of this and it doesn't know how to handle it.

221
00:12:55.820 --> 00:12:58.300
It's a lot.

222
00:12:58.300 --> 00:13:02.940
And so it looks very messy raising a strong-willed child.

223
00:13:02.940 --> 00:13:06.380
And so a parent is supposed to guide the child

224
00:13:06.380 --> 00:13:08.500
to help them understand how to express

225
00:13:08.500 --> 00:13:09.940
who it is that they are.

226
00:13:10.900 --> 00:13:15.280
That, and what a child's free will choices are,

227
00:13:16.180 --> 00:13:19.780
are between them and the Lord, we guide them, yes.

228
00:13:20.300 --> 00:13:21.620
So we're not talking about you permit bad behavior.

229
00:13:21.620 --> 00:13:23.540
I'm not, please don't take what I'm saying to an extreme.

230
00:13:23.540 --> 00:13:25.300
I'm trying to make a point here.

231
00:13:25.300 --> 00:13:27.440
They are their own free will entity

232
00:13:27.440 --> 00:13:32.440
and their choices do not define who it is that you are

233
00:13:33.300 --> 00:13:37.640
and how it is that God sees you.

234
00:13:37.640 --> 00:13:40.580
You just are whole and held accountable to the Lord,

235
00:13:40.580 --> 00:13:42.220
to father or to mother them in the way

236
00:13:42.220 --> 00:13:43.700
that he tells you to do,

237
00:13:43.700 --> 00:13:45.960
but their choices do not define you.

238
00:13:45.960 --> 00:13:47.820
They do not identify you.

239
00:13:47.820 --> 00:13:50.260
But because we think that they do,

240
00:13:50.260 --> 00:13:52.300
subconsciously we think that they do

241
00:13:52.300 --> 00:13:55.460
and we emotionally, we react like that.

242
00:13:55.460 --> 00:13:56.900
And this is my point in making this

243
00:13:56.900 --> 00:14:00.860
and mentioning this example is whatever it is

244
00:14:00.860 --> 00:14:04.420
that we think is suddenly getting out of our control

245
00:14:04.420 --> 00:14:07.020
and we think is acting as a threat

246
00:14:07.020 --> 00:14:10.380
to how God's gonna see us, a threat to our identity,

247
00:14:10.380 --> 00:14:12.400
we start to try to control it.

248
00:14:12.400 --> 00:14:13.860
And we don't understand that,

249
00:14:13.860 --> 00:14:15.500
that idea of trying to control it

250
00:14:15.500 --> 00:14:18.060
in order to do a good thing,

251
00:14:18.060 --> 00:14:20.540
which is to make sure that we are always standing

252
00:14:20.540 --> 00:14:23.020
in the right identity in Christ.

253
00:14:23.020 --> 00:14:24.540
We don't understand we're doing the opposite

254
00:14:24.540 --> 00:14:25.680
of what we're trying to do.

255
00:14:25.680 --> 00:14:27.140
We're killing the thing.

256
00:14:27.140 --> 00:14:28.580
We're not bringing it life.

257
00:14:29.420 --> 00:14:34.100
So anyway, these are just some very brief examples

258
00:14:34.100 --> 00:14:39.020
of how to tell the difference between operating

259
00:14:39.020 --> 00:14:41.540
in a way that's actually bringing death

260
00:14:41.540 --> 00:14:44.340
that we have always labeled as a godly thing.

261
00:14:45.220 --> 00:14:47.420
We call it being steadfast.

262
00:14:48.380 --> 00:14:51.440
We call it, we'll sometimes call it being consistent.

263
00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:53.180
We'll call it hard work.

264
00:14:53.180 --> 00:14:54.720
We'll call it endurance.

265
00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:56.380
We'll label it all kinds of things.

266
00:14:56.380 --> 00:14:57.820
I'm not saying that those words are bad.

267
00:14:57.820 --> 00:14:59.740
I'm saying that we will take labels

268
00:14:59.740 --> 00:15:02.740
that God has put on us and we will label it as a godly thing.

269
00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:03.480
has used in the Bible attribute it to what it is that we're doing that is

270
00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:06.360
actually operating according to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and

271
00:15:06.360 --> 00:15:10.200
it's bringing forth the death. All those things about being steadfast, enduring,

272
00:15:10.200 --> 00:15:14.880
all of those are good things but they may need to be done from the tree of

273
00:15:14.880 --> 00:15:22.080
life, which is free-flowing, we've let go of our, we've let go of control and

274
00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:29.080
and we've released. So the difference between the two is not just, is not

275
00:15:29.080 --> 00:15:39.200
movement and lack of movement but it's also, excuse me, it's also formulas versus

276
00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:43.200
flow. So over here you've got all of the formulas, you've got all the do's and

277
00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:48.480
don'ts, you have you have all of the if you do this you get this, if you if you

278
00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:52.520
do this other thing you get this, if you don't do this on the other hand you get

279
00:15:52.520 --> 00:15:56.800
this. There's all these laws, all these rules, it's rigid, there's no

280
00:15:56.800 --> 00:16:00.560
exceptions, it's law. Remember what we were talking about, unfortunately it's on

281
00:16:00.560 --> 00:16:03.080
the other side of the board because I'm about to write on this one, but remember

282
00:16:03.080 --> 00:16:06.280
we were talking about, you know, in the soul and the body, it's knowledge of

283
00:16:06.280 --> 00:16:10.640
earthly laws and spiritual laws. Earthly laws and spiritual laws aren't bad, it's

284
00:16:10.640 --> 00:16:16.600
our dependence on them that's the problem and that just leads to

285
00:16:16.600 --> 00:16:21.680
death. The reason why it leads to death is there's rigidity, there's no movement

286
00:16:21.680 --> 00:16:28.240
in the law. We don't like the fact that people can go through the same law

287
00:16:28.240 --> 00:16:31.400
process, you know, like say for instance with the United States government, they

288
00:16:31.400 --> 00:16:36.080
can go through the same judicial process. We're not talking about anything, we're

289
00:16:36.080 --> 00:16:41.700
talking about good laws, we're not throwing in any aspect of, well

290
00:16:41.700 --> 00:16:44.400
my goodness, well was the judge correct or, you know, we're not talking about

291
00:16:44.400 --> 00:16:47.160
anything like that, we're talking about just strictly the law, just strictly the

292
00:16:47.160 --> 00:16:52.840
system itself. The law has no grace, there's no exception, there's no room

293
00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:56.120
for sonship, there's no room for mentorship, there's no room for growth.

294
00:16:56.120 --> 00:17:02.480
There's just, if you did this, this is the consequence, period.

295
00:17:02.480 --> 00:17:06.680
There's no grace, there's no movement, it's rigidity, that's why it leads to

296
00:17:06.680 --> 00:17:11.520
nothing but death and we don't like the fact that you can have somebody, that

297
00:17:11.520 --> 00:17:18.680
you can have, that sometimes the law is so rigid that it can't account for

298
00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:23.440
circumstances. It can't, you know, it can't, and so we've made our laws

299
00:17:23.440 --> 00:17:28.560
extremely complicated, understanding that we're more, that grace needs to be given

300
00:17:28.560 --> 00:17:33.400
and understanding that there's more than, that there's all kinds of exceptions to

301
00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:37.040
the rule and so it just makes the laws very, very complicated, but all it means

302
00:17:37.040 --> 00:17:41.920
is that we have to create more laws. Because the law has no grace in it, it has

303
00:17:41.920 --> 00:17:47.560
no flexibility, it leads to nothing but death, but in relationship, everything

304
00:17:47.560 --> 00:17:53.540
flows. In relationship, you can have grace. In relationship, there's movement. In

305
00:17:53.540 --> 00:18:03.800
relationship, there is, there's flexibility. So that locking down,

306
00:18:03.800 --> 00:18:10.680
remember? That locking down, that rigidity, this is resistance. So are we

307
00:18:10.680 --> 00:18:16.120
making all of these connections now? Death, resistance, rigidity, law, all of that.

308
00:18:16.120 --> 00:18:20.080
We're mentioning these in different sessions, but I'm continually trying to

309
00:18:20.080 --> 00:18:23.040
reference other things that I've talked about or continually are telling you,

310
00:18:23.040 --> 00:18:26.360
okay, we're going to be talking about that later because we have to understand

311
00:18:26.360 --> 00:18:30.280
these are not compartmentalized topics. I've had to just kind of sort of

312
00:18:30.280 --> 00:18:33.780
categorize them to kind of separate them as much as possible to kind of get us

313
00:18:33.780 --> 00:18:38.700
help us be able to grasp a hold of a subject without muddying the waters too

314
00:18:38.700 --> 00:18:46.100
much, but it's all doing this. It's all interwoven. So to lock down, to try to

315
00:18:46.100 --> 00:18:52.100
control, that is another manifestation of the fact that, or another

316
00:18:52.100 --> 00:18:58.860
expression of how it's expressed when we're in resistance, is there's

317
00:18:58.860 --> 00:19:02.380
lockdown, there's control, it's all bringing forth, it's all bringing forth

318
00:19:02.380 --> 00:19:08.260
death. It's all the same, all in the same thing. One way that you can

319
00:19:08.260 --> 00:19:12.140
think about it is like what kind of a posture that we're supposed to have

320
00:19:12.140 --> 00:19:16.060
because, okay, all of this is great, Ashley, but how do I abide here? What does that

321
00:19:16.060 --> 00:19:20.140
feel like? What does that look like? What do I do? Because again, we're so used to

322
00:19:20.140 --> 00:19:24.740
give me something to do. What is it that I'm doing? What can

323
00:19:24.740 --> 00:19:28.300
that look like? And so we'll give ourselves a picture of what that looks

324
00:19:28.300 --> 00:19:36.860
like to kind of help us. I think of open hands in that river, in that river of the

325
00:19:36.860 --> 00:19:42.740
Spirit. It's not a perfect example, but it'll do. God calls us to keep our hands

326
00:19:42.740 --> 00:19:47.260
open in the river. When your hands are open in the river and the river of the

327
00:19:47.260 --> 00:19:51.940
Spirit is moving, of God is moving through your hands, you get to experience

328
00:19:51.940 --> 00:19:57.660
so much more of the Spirit because you get to experience all of the water that

329
00:19:57.660 --> 00:20:01.820
touches your hand all over, all...

330
00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:02.440
a different surface area on top, in between the fingers,

331
00:20:02.440 --> 00:20:03.440
underneath.

332
00:20:03.440 --> 00:20:06.360
And then as those water molecules pass on,

333
00:20:06.360 --> 00:20:07.840
the next ones come through.

334
00:20:07.840 --> 00:20:09.680
How much of the river are you getting

335
00:20:09.680 --> 00:20:11.720
to experience like that?

336
00:20:11.720 --> 00:20:15.840
But if we decide, oh my word, this looks so good.

337
00:20:15.840 --> 00:20:17.960
I love this aspect of the river, the spirit

338
00:20:17.960 --> 00:20:19.720
that I'm experiencing right now.

339
00:20:19.720 --> 00:20:23.320
I want to make sure that I am a good steward.

340
00:20:23.320 --> 00:20:25.320
Again, another godly term that we'll

341
00:20:25.320 --> 00:20:29.800
use to qualify our behavior is we'll think,

342
00:20:29.800 --> 00:20:32.480
OK, well, I really like this.

343
00:20:32.480 --> 00:20:33.440
I'm going to keep this.

344
00:20:33.440 --> 00:20:34.280
I'm going to use this.

345
00:20:34.280 --> 00:20:36.280
I think God's holding me accountable to make sure

346
00:20:36.280 --> 00:20:39.000
that this is how my life always looks.

347
00:20:39.000 --> 00:20:41.040
Because if it looks any different than this,

348
00:20:41.040 --> 00:20:43.600
it's going to be wrong.

349
00:20:43.600 --> 00:20:47.320
So I want to grab a hold of it so it doesn't escape.

350
00:20:47.320 --> 00:20:50.000
So we try to grab a hold of the water.

351
00:20:50.000 --> 00:20:52.560
But what's the problem when you have it?

352
00:20:52.560 --> 00:20:54.000
We've all tried to grab water.

353
00:20:54.000 --> 00:20:56.000
You can't.

354
00:20:56.000 --> 00:20:58.120
You can't grab water.

355
00:20:58.760 --> 00:21:01.680
The most that you can do is you can grab water like this.

356
00:21:01.680 --> 00:21:02.840
It all drains out.

357
00:21:02.840 --> 00:21:04.560
And as soon as you open up your hands,

358
00:21:04.560 --> 00:21:07.240
you have a few water droplets left that evaporate.

359
00:21:07.240 --> 00:21:09.960
You cannot hold on to water.

360
00:21:09.960 --> 00:21:11.440
You can't hold on to spirit.

361
00:21:11.440 --> 00:21:15.080
All you can do is submit yourself to it

362
00:21:15.080 --> 00:21:19.360
and allow yourself to experience it and to be carried in,

363
00:21:19.360 --> 00:21:22.720
to what we'll be talking about later, be a part of it

364
00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:25.520
and be life-giving ourselves.

365
00:21:25.520 --> 00:21:28.400
So that is the type of posture that we should have,

366
00:21:28.400 --> 00:21:32.400
is this idea of always keeping our hands open in the river

367
00:21:32.400 --> 00:21:34.760
and in the spirit and just allowing ourselves

368
00:21:34.760 --> 00:21:40.720
to experience what God has for us right now,

369
00:21:40.720 --> 00:21:44.480
instead of trying to control it and trying to make it something

370
00:21:44.480 --> 00:21:47.640
and trying to keep it.

371
00:21:47.640 --> 00:21:50.120
And another thing that I just want to point out,

372
00:21:50.120 --> 00:21:54.120
well, let me mention this.

373
00:21:54.120 --> 00:22:01.080
Talking about movement, how when something ceases to move,

374
00:22:01.080 --> 00:22:02.360
it dies.

375
00:22:02.360 --> 00:22:05.800
So in order for something to stay as life,

376
00:22:05.800 --> 00:22:08.080
it has to continue to move.

377
00:22:08.080 --> 00:22:11.440
And when something moves, it changes.

378
00:22:11.440 --> 00:22:12.120
And that's OK.

379
00:22:12.120 --> 00:22:16.160
We have got to be OK with change.

380
00:22:16.160 --> 00:22:19.600
We're not heading towards a destination.

381
00:22:19.600 --> 00:22:23.640
Our life is a journey.

382
00:22:23.640 --> 00:22:26.280
God isn't enduring us until we get somewhere.

383
00:22:26.280 --> 00:22:29.440
He says, no, the journey, this is it.

384
00:22:29.440 --> 00:22:32.000
This is where you're supposed to be.

385
00:22:32.000 --> 00:22:33.680
So it's in the movement.

386
00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:36.560
So it's OK for things to change in our lives.

387
00:22:36.560 --> 00:22:39.040
Our lives won't always look like this.

388
00:22:39.040 --> 00:22:44.760
And that's very, very important to allow it to be like that,

389
00:22:44.760 --> 00:22:47.720
because the spirit has to continually move in order

390
00:22:47.720 --> 00:22:48.840
to bring life.

391
00:22:49.240 --> 00:22:52.560
If it brought life, if the spirit brings life,

392
00:22:52.560 --> 00:22:55.200
and then it's moving, and that's how it came into our life,

393
00:22:55.200 --> 00:22:56.680
and we liked it so much, we tried

394
00:22:56.680 --> 00:23:00.240
to stop, and control, and hedge, and create boundaries,

395
00:23:00.240 --> 00:23:02.880
and create an environment in which we could try to keep it

396
00:23:02.880 --> 00:23:05.200
as much as possible, what's happening?

397
00:23:05.200 --> 00:23:06.520
We're stifling it.

398
00:23:06.520 --> 00:23:09.920
And we eventually lose it anyway, because we killed it.

399
00:23:09.920 --> 00:23:12.160
I had a vision about this one time.

400
00:23:12.160 --> 00:23:14.960
The Lord, a vision?

401
00:23:14.960 --> 00:23:15.600
No, a dream.

402
00:23:15.600 --> 00:23:18.320
I always dream of sleep.

403
00:23:19.160 --> 00:23:23.160
I was in a very dire financial situation.

404
00:23:23.160 --> 00:23:24.680
I think it was a year ago, I think.

405
00:23:24.680 --> 00:23:25.680
Yeah, it was a year ago.

406
00:23:25.680 --> 00:23:27.120
It was almost exactly a year ago.

407
00:23:27.120 --> 00:23:31.040
And wow, shockingly, almost to the day.

408
00:23:31.040 --> 00:23:32.000
That's pretty wild.

409
00:23:32.000 --> 00:23:35.720
Anyway, fun to be a year later telling this story.

410
00:23:35.720 --> 00:23:37.640
But I was in a very dire financial situation.

411
00:23:37.640 --> 00:23:40.920
I was trying to figure out, what message, Lord?

412
00:23:40.920 --> 00:23:42.460
Am I supposed to speak to the world?

413
00:23:42.460 --> 00:23:43.420
I know you have something in me.

414
00:23:43.420 --> 00:23:44.080
What is this?

415
00:23:44.080 --> 00:23:45.760
And am I supposed to have a business?

416
00:23:45.760 --> 00:23:46.800
What's it supposed to look like?

417
00:23:46.800 --> 00:23:48.280
Lord, I don't know what I'm doing.

418
00:23:48.280 --> 00:23:49.960
And no money is coming in, Lord.

419
00:23:49.960 --> 00:23:51.440
And my bank account is draining.

420
00:23:51.440 --> 00:23:53.880
And I'm on the last few dollars, or whatever.

421
00:23:53.880 --> 00:23:56.080
I was offered a job.

422
00:23:56.080 --> 00:24:01.240
And so I thought, OK, Lord, I would prefer to do the other.

423
00:24:01.240 --> 00:24:04.320
I'd prefer to pursue you.

424
00:24:04.320 --> 00:24:06.480
Again, we can make it sound really godly.

425
00:24:06.480 --> 00:24:13.760
I would prefer, Lord, to start a business,

426
00:24:13.760 --> 00:24:16.640
but it hasn't happened yet.

427
00:24:16.640 --> 00:24:19.960
And I know that you provide for me in a variety of ways.

428
00:24:19.960 --> 00:24:22.960
Is this your method of provision for me right now?

429
00:24:22.960 --> 00:24:27.680
Is your way of providing for me, for me to have this job?

430
00:24:27.680 --> 00:24:30.640
I don't want to reject it if this is your provision.

431
00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:33.400
If I'm praying and asking for your provision, and here it is.

432
00:24:33.400 --> 00:24:36.000
So I got the job offer.

433
00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:42.560
And I went, I think, I slept really late that morning.

434
00:24:42.560 --> 00:24:45.440
I got the job offer, I think, at like 8 in the morning.

435
00:24:46.040 --> 00:24:47.000
I just got it.

436
00:24:47.000 --> 00:24:50.040
I got it by text, and I was like, I don't know.

437
00:24:50.040 --> 00:24:53.400
I'd made a decision that I was going to take it.

438
00:24:53.400 --> 00:24:56.080
But I'll wait for just, I'll go to sleep,

439
00:24:56.080 --> 00:24:59.080
and I'll wait to answer it when I get up.

440
00:24:59.080 --> 00:25:01.240
So I went to sleep.

441
00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:02.420
And then I woke up, I guess, about 10 or whatever.

442
00:25:02.420 --> 00:25:04.760
And when I did, I had a dream.

443
00:25:04.760 --> 00:25:08.920
And God, in fact, I may have even prayed.

444
00:25:08.920 --> 00:25:10.680
I didn't think about that until now.

445
00:25:10.680 --> 00:25:12.600
I may have even prayed before I went to sleep.

446
00:25:12.600 --> 00:25:14.600
God, will you just tell me what it is?

447
00:25:14.600 --> 00:25:16.360
I wasn't asking him to do it in a dream.

448
00:25:16.360 --> 00:25:19.400
I was just asking, God, can you tell me, just to be sure,

449
00:25:19.400 --> 00:25:20.960
is this what you want me to do?

450
00:25:20.960 --> 00:25:22.480
Should I take this job?

451
00:25:22.480 --> 00:25:23.480
Anyway, I went to sleep.

452
00:25:23.480 --> 00:25:24.680
He gave me a dream.

453
00:25:24.720 --> 00:25:29.680
And in the dream that I had, in the interpretation

454
00:25:29.680 --> 00:25:34.600
of the dream, I had actually taken the job.

455
00:25:34.600 --> 00:25:40.280
But I was leaving a house that I was

456
00:25:40.280 --> 00:25:43.600
at where I had been performing this job that I had accepted.

457
00:25:43.600 --> 00:25:46.880
Everything was chaotic.

458
00:25:46.880 --> 00:25:50.880
The person who had offered me the job in real life

459
00:25:50.880 --> 00:25:52.920
on the phone in the dream, they were mad at me.

460
00:25:52.920 --> 00:25:55.320
They were saying that I hadn't handled things correctly

461
00:25:55.320 --> 00:25:58.200
in the business, and da, da, da, da, da.

462
00:25:58.200 --> 00:26:03.400
And so I'd just been reprimanded in the dream.

463
00:26:03.400 --> 00:26:06.040
So I grabbed my little dog, Dasa,

464
00:26:06.040 --> 00:26:08.720
and then I grabbed this other dog, this other creature

465
00:26:08.720 --> 00:26:09.920
that I was responsible for.

466
00:26:09.920 --> 00:26:11.800
I don't know whose it is or what it was.

467
00:26:11.800 --> 00:26:13.880
It was just some little creature in the dream.

468
00:26:13.880 --> 00:26:15.440
And I leave that.

469
00:26:15.440 --> 00:26:18.520
I walk out of that house where I'd just been reprimanded,

470
00:26:18.520 --> 00:26:20.840
and all kinds of things are going wrong.

471
00:26:20.840 --> 00:26:25.040
And it took a 60-second walk in my dream

472
00:26:25.040 --> 00:26:27.800
to get to my house, the place where I was staying.

473
00:26:27.800 --> 00:26:31.120
Well, my dogs, I'm thinking, I don't want them to escape.

474
00:26:31.120 --> 00:26:34.280
There's a lot of people out here between these two houses.

475
00:26:34.280 --> 00:26:37.360
I don't want them to escape, and I don't want

476
00:26:37.360 --> 00:26:38.760
them to bother other people.

477
00:26:38.760 --> 00:26:41.800
I don't want them to be barking at other people.

478
00:26:41.800 --> 00:26:42.960
Other people have allergies.

479
00:26:42.960 --> 00:26:45.360
I don't want them to bother other people.

480
00:26:45.360 --> 00:26:47.280
So I took the two animals, and I'm

481
00:26:47.280 --> 00:26:48.840
holding really, really close.

482
00:26:48.840 --> 00:26:51.680
So I walked just 60 seconds, 60 seconds in.

483
00:26:51.680 --> 00:26:54.720
I opened the door, and I remember feeling, OK, good.

484
00:26:54.720 --> 00:26:55.880
I can relax now.

485
00:26:55.880 --> 00:26:57.560
I can let down my dogs.

486
00:26:57.560 --> 00:26:59.640
I'd killed them.

487
00:26:59.640 --> 00:27:08.240
I had stifled them, trying so hard to control what I thought

488
00:27:08.240 --> 00:27:10.320
was going to happen.

489
00:27:10.320 --> 00:27:12.040
To prevent something from happening,

490
00:27:12.040 --> 00:27:13.880
I ended up doing the opposite of what

491
00:27:13.880 --> 00:27:15.480
I had said I wanted to do.

492
00:27:15.480 --> 00:27:17.040
I ended up killing them.

493
00:27:17.040 --> 00:27:18.760
So I'm obviously in the dream.

494
00:27:18.760 --> 00:27:19.680
I am horrified.

495
00:27:19.680 --> 00:27:23.800
And so I'm praying to the Lord, Lord, Lord, please,

496
00:27:23.800 --> 00:27:25.960
surely I didn't kill them.

497
00:27:25.960 --> 00:27:27.480
I didn't mean to, Lord.

498
00:27:27.480 --> 00:27:29.160
I am so sorry.

499
00:27:29.160 --> 00:27:31.000
And even in my dream, I had been learning

500
00:27:31.000 --> 00:27:34.280
about how we're called to be able to command healing.

501
00:27:34.280 --> 00:27:36.560
So even in my dream, I was doing that.

502
00:27:36.560 --> 00:27:38.200
I was laying my hands on the dogs,

503
00:27:38.200 --> 00:27:40.280
and I was declaring healing over them and whatever.

504
00:27:40.280 --> 00:27:41.920
Well, I never found out.

505
00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:46.440
I mean, they never came back to life before I woke up.

506
00:27:46.440 --> 00:27:49.120
But I had this kind of feeling like, I think they're alive.

507
00:27:49.120 --> 00:27:50.560
OK, you're going to laugh at this.

508
00:27:50.560 --> 00:27:52.600
Y'all remember Princess Bride?

509
00:27:52.600 --> 00:27:54.520
So they were just mostly dead.

510
00:27:58.120 --> 00:27:59.440
That's what they were really like.

511
00:27:59.440 --> 00:28:02.240
I mean, it's just kind of like, you think that they're dead,

512
00:28:02.240 --> 00:28:06.080
because everything seems to be pointing to that.

513
00:28:06.080 --> 00:28:09.840
But really, they were just mostly dead.

514
00:28:09.840 --> 00:28:12.000
So what God was telling me in that dream is,

515
00:28:12.000 --> 00:28:15.280
he said, Ashley, if you take that job,

516
00:28:15.280 --> 00:28:16.920
all kinds of things will happen.

517
00:28:16.920 --> 00:28:18.960
You will not benefit the company,

518
00:28:18.960 --> 00:28:24.480
and it will not be the best that you can have.

519
00:28:24.480 --> 00:28:28.720
Because these dreams that you have of starting a business

520
00:28:28.720 --> 00:28:31.360
and doing all of that, these dreams that you have,

521
00:28:31.360 --> 00:28:34.640
that you're trying to put on hold, and trying to control,

522
00:28:34.640 --> 00:28:36.520
and trying to stifle, trying to protect them,

523
00:28:36.520 --> 00:28:39.960
and make sure that they're safe, so that after you finish

524
00:28:39.960 --> 00:28:42.240
this other thing, you can come back to it,

525
00:28:42.240 --> 00:28:44.600
you're going to kill it.

526
00:28:44.600 --> 00:28:46.440
You're going to hold on to it so hard,

527
00:28:46.440 --> 00:28:49.480
trying to make sure that it's there

528
00:28:49.480 --> 00:28:52.120
to be able to pick back up later,

529
00:28:52.120 --> 00:28:54.640
and you're going to stifle it.

530
00:28:54.640 --> 00:28:58.360
I'm not saying that if you have a particular dream,

531
00:28:58.360 --> 00:29:02.120
that if you were to let that go, and you were to take a job,

532
00:29:02.120 --> 00:29:04.160
that you would be stifling your own dream,

533
00:29:04.160 --> 00:29:06.000
and it wouldn't be there to pick it back up.

534
00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:07.760
That's not the moral of the story.

535
00:29:07.760 --> 00:29:10.040
The thing is that that's what God said was going

536
00:29:10.040 --> 00:29:12.280
to happen in my situation.

537
00:29:12.280 --> 00:29:16.000
He said, you will be able to revive this thing that I'm

538
00:29:16.000 --> 00:29:18.840
trying to birth in you, which happened to eventually

539
00:29:18.840 --> 00:29:21.680
be the message of rest.

540
00:29:21.680 --> 00:29:24.360
But it took a while for it to morph into that.

541
00:29:24.360 --> 00:29:26.120
But that's what he was trying to birth.

542
00:29:26.120 --> 00:29:28.120
But I didn't know that then.

543
00:29:28.120 --> 00:29:31.440
I didn't even have the word rest then.

544
00:29:31.440 --> 00:29:33.640
And all I knew is there's something in me

545
00:29:33.640 --> 00:29:35.320
that's trying to get out.

546
00:29:35.320 --> 00:29:38.760
So anyway, it was this thing that was very, very precious,

547
00:29:38.760 --> 00:29:40.200
that the Lord was giving to me.

548
00:29:40.200 --> 00:29:41.280
It was birthing.

549
00:29:41.280 --> 00:29:42.640
But it wasn't quite birthed yet.

550
00:29:42.640 --> 00:29:45.020
And I wanted to make sure it was protected and controlled

551
00:29:45.020 --> 00:29:46.560
and that I didn't lose it.

552
00:29:46.560 --> 00:29:50.600
And God says that by doing that, Ashley, you're going to kill it.

553
00:29:50.600 --> 00:29:52.280
You've got to let it go.

554
00:29:52.280 --> 00:29:54.560
You've got to let it go, meaning release.

555
00:29:54.560 --> 00:29:57.280
So what God actually ended up telling me in the dream

556
00:29:57.280 --> 00:30:01.000
is, no, Ashley, you're about to come to your breakthrough.

557
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:03.920
You've been doing this for over a year, you're about to come to your breakthrough and I want

558
00:30:03.920 --> 00:30:04.920
you to push through.

559
00:30:04.920 --> 00:30:09.720
I want you to push through a bit more because this is what it is that I have for you.

560
00:30:09.720 --> 00:30:14.760
But that was my own unique situation, so I'm not saying take what it is that I'm saying

561
00:30:14.760 --> 00:30:18.800
and compare it to your real life situation about the difference between taking a job

562
00:30:18.800 --> 00:30:21.000
versus starting off on your own.

563
00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:24.620
My whole point about this is talking about the difference between life and death and

564
00:30:24.620 --> 00:30:31.460
how we can try to hold on to a good thing that God is giving us and we think that we're

565
00:30:31.460 --> 00:30:36.780
preserving it in godliness and steadfastness and in consistency with the Lord and we're

566
00:30:36.780 --> 00:30:38.500
killing it.

567
00:30:38.500 --> 00:30:40.300
So we have to let it go.

568
00:30:40.300 --> 00:30:44.100
If God has given something and he says that something is going to happen and manifest

569
00:30:44.100 --> 00:30:49.660
into the earth through spirit, he will create the result.

570
00:30:49.660 --> 00:30:51.820
He'll create the result.

571
00:30:51.820 --> 00:30:56.980
We don't have to, we're not being held responsible for making sure that it happens, which is

572
00:30:56.980 --> 00:31:00.500
what makes us feel that we have to control the thing to ensure that it happens.

573
00:31:00.500 --> 00:31:04.940
You don't have to ensure that it happens, God will, but you have to make sure that you're

574
00:31:04.940 --> 00:31:10.580
released to him and you're not in resistance against him so that he's actually allowed

575
00:31:10.580 --> 00:31:16.460
to make it happen.

576
00:31:16.460 --> 00:31:22.980
So regarding movement, everything in life, in order for it to remain life, everything

577
00:31:22.980 --> 00:31:29.940
in your businesses, your finances, and your relationships has to constantly be in motion.

578
00:31:29.940 --> 00:31:35.460
It has to constantly be moving in order for it to have life, meaning that your businesses,

579
00:31:35.460 --> 00:31:40.100
your finances, and your relationships will consistently change, consistently.

580
00:31:40.100 --> 00:31:42.740
They won't look the same from one moment to the next.

581
00:31:42.740 --> 00:31:50.020
You go through seasons with your spouses, you'll go through seasons with what your finances

582
00:31:50.020 --> 00:31:53.780
look like or what your business looks like or what your career looks like, what your

583
00:31:53.780 --> 00:31:54.780
family looks like.

584
00:31:54.780 --> 00:32:00.420
If you are or are not having currently a functional or dysfunctional family, everything's going

585
00:32:00.420 --> 00:32:01.420
to look different.

586
00:32:01.420 --> 00:32:05.860
It has to continually stay in motion in order for it to stay alive.

587
00:32:05.860 --> 00:32:10.700
I was asking the Lord about, because I was very traumatized by even the word business

588
00:32:10.700 --> 00:32:14.420
because of what it is that I had...

589
00:32:14.420 --> 00:32:15.860
It's not what it is that I'd been through.

590
00:32:15.860 --> 00:32:19.300
My environment was not the problem when I was in business.

591
00:32:19.300 --> 00:32:28.100
The problem was what it is that I believed and what it is that I interpreted for my circumstances.

592
00:32:28.100 --> 00:32:32.500
So I was very traumatized, and I do not use that lightly.

593
00:32:32.500 --> 00:32:38.620
I was so traumatized by business that even someone saying the word business at this time

594
00:32:38.620 --> 00:32:45.660
last year about themselves, like, oh, Ashley, I own a business, I would physically get nauseated.

595
00:32:45.660 --> 00:32:52.420
So how some people might respond to something that they went through as physical abuse,

596
00:32:52.420 --> 00:32:56.540
and they're getting that kind of a trigger, I got that from the word business.

597
00:32:56.540 --> 00:32:58.420
It was that bad.

598
00:32:58.420 --> 00:33:00.780
And so the Lord had to heal me of all of that.

599
00:33:00.780 --> 00:33:06.580
So at this time last year, I began to seek the Lord, okay, God, I know you want to heal

600
00:33:06.580 --> 00:33:07.580
this in me.

601
00:33:07.580 --> 00:33:10.620
I know business is a good thing, and it's a beautiful thing because you created it.

602
00:33:10.620 --> 00:33:11.620
I don't see it.

603
00:33:11.620 --> 00:33:12.620
I don't feel it.

604
00:33:12.620 --> 00:33:15.340
I don't want anything to do with business ever again.

605
00:33:15.340 --> 00:33:17.620
I don't want to talk to business owners.

606
00:33:17.620 --> 00:33:19.060
I don't want to have a business.

607
00:33:19.060 --> 00:33:23.140
I just want to, like, hole up in some mountain somewhere where I literally don't even have

608
00:33:23.140 --> 00:33:25.140
to go to a store because there's a transaction.

609
00:33:25.140 --> 00:33:31.820
I mean, it was very, very extreme, and I literally actually thought that.

610
00:33:31.820 --> 00:33:32.820
That's not an exaggeration.

611
00:33:32.820 --> 00:33:37.420
I literally remember thinking that, and I remember wondering, okay, is that possible?

612
00:33:37.460 --> 00:33:38.460
Can I possibly do that?

613
00:33:38.460 --> 00:33:41.460
And I realized, no, you can't.

614
00:33:41.460 --> 00:33:45.460
You're not a survivor.

615
00:33:45.460 --> 00:33:50.100
So I began to realize, okay, well, the alternative then is to choose that God has given us a

616
00:33:50.100 --> 00:33:53.860
good gift, and he wants to redeem that for me.

617
00:33:53.860 --> 00:33:59.180
He wants to redeem what does business really mean so that I could receive it as the good

618
00:33:59.180 --> 00:34:06.460
gift and the beautiful thing that it's meant to be as opposed to the corrupted version

619
00:34:06.500 --> 00:34:10.900
that I had interpreted it to mean.

620
00:34:10.900 --> 00:34:13.260
My paradigm needed to shift.

621
00:34:13.260 --> 00:34:20.100
So I went to the Lord and asked him during this time, Lord, would you please heal me

622
00:34:20.100 --> 00:34:21.100
with business?

623
00:34:21.100 --> 00:34:25.300
And one of the things that I did one time is I went up to him and I asked him, okay,

624
00:34:25.300 --> 00:34:27.900
Jesus, what is business?

625
00:34:27.900 --> 00:34:32.500
From your perspective, when you created business, what is business?

626
00:34:32.500 --> 00:34:34.940
And he went into two steps.

627
00:34:34.940 --> 00:34:36.940
In other words, I said, what is the purpose of business?

628
00:34:36.940 --> 00:34:39.900
I think that's the way I asked him.

629
00:34:39.900 --> 00:34:44.699
And he took it in two steps, and the first thing he said was, he said, Ashley, people

630
00:34:44.699 --> 00:34:49.739
think that business is all about money, and he said it's not.

631
00:34:49.739 --> 00:34:54.620
The purpose of business is the movement of money.

632
00:34:54.620 --> 00:34:58.900
It's to constantly keep money in motion.

633
00:34:58.900 --> 00:35:00.020
In other words, not just money.

634
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:01.480
goods and services.

635
00:35:01.480 --> 00:35:03.200
It doesn't have to be tangible.

636
00:35:03.200 --> 00:35:05.080
That's what business is all about, he said.

637
00:35:05.080 --> 00:35:07.600
It's to facilitate a flow.

638
00:35:07.600 --> 00:35:11.520
Because in life, for things to be life and to be life-giving,

639
00:35:11.520 --> 00:35:13.880
they have to be in motion.

640
00:35:13.880 --> 00:35:16.800
Healthy economies are not economies that,

641
00:35:16.800 --> 00:35:20.640
and economists tell us this, that healthy economies are not

642
00:35:20.640 --> 00:35:23.040
those that have a lot of money versus those

643
00:35:23.040 --> 00:35:25.920
that don't have a lot of money within their countries.

644
00:35:25.920 --> 00:35:27.720
Healthy economies are those where

645
00:35:27.720 --> 00:35:32.240
money is constantly moving as opposed to staying stagnant.

646
00:35:32.240 --> 00:35:38.080
So that's why, whenever the economy gets very unhealthy,

647
00:35:38.080 --> 00:35:39.960
the United States government will figure out,

648
00:35:39.960 --> 00:35:44.000
how can we trigger the people to start buying and selling?

649
00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:47.120
How can we trigger the movement of money?

650
00:35:47.120 --> 00:35:49.720
Because it's the movement of money

651
00:35:49.720 --> 00:35:52.040
that makes an economy healthy.

652
00:35:52.040 --> 00:35:56.720
So this principle of movement applies

653
00:35:56.720 --> 00:36:00.360
in all areas of life, in all facets of life.

654
00:36:00.360 --> 00:36:04.640
Movement is vital to life.

655
00:36:04.640 --> 00:36:11.000
Without movement, there is no life.

656
00:36:11.000 --> 00:36:13.120
So he said, well, actually, business

657
00:36:13.120 --> 00:36:14.280
is the movement of money.

658
00:36:14.280 --> 00:36:16.720
Then he went deeper and he said, OK,

659
00:36:16.720 --> 00:36:19.120
now that you understand that, let me go even deeper.

660
00:36:19.120 --> 00:36:23.160
The purpose of business and the purpose of everything in life,

661
00:36:23.160 --> 00:36:25.280
finances, so to speak.

662
00:36:26.200 --> 00:36:28.560
There's layers to this purpose, but I'm just

663
00:36:28.560 --> 00:36:29.960
trying to be simplistic here.

664
00:36:29.960 --> 00:36:36.800
He said, what is going on in relationships and in finances

665
00:36:36.800 --> 00:36:40.680
and in business is just movement.

666
00:36:40.680 --> 00:36:44.160
So even in business, the point isn't the movement of money.

667
00:36:44.160 --> 00:36:46.080
It's deeper than that.

668
00:36:46.080 --> 00:36:50.080
The whole point of business is to facilitate movement

669
00:36:50.080 --> 00:36:52.760
in a particular way in the earth.

670
00:36:52.760 --> 00:36:55.520
Relationships facilitate movement

671
00:36:55.520 --> 00:36:58.760
in the earth in a different way and in different areas.

672
00:36:58.760 --> 00:37:01.440
And then the same thing with finances.

673
00:37:04.280 --> 00:37:08.400
So it's all about movement.

674
00:37:08.400 --> 00:37:14.920
Now, as far as spirit, our spirit and God's spirit

675
00:37:14.920 --> 00:37:16.240
being part of this flow.

676
00:37:16.240 --> 00:37:19.200
So that's what the difference is in how

677
00:37:19.240 --> 00:37:26.720
we can describe death versus life and spirit versus death.

678
00:37:26.720 --> 00:37:28.840
But how do we operate?

679
00:37:28.840 --> 00:37:30.400
How do we operate as spirits?

680
00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:33.000
How do I flow?

681
00:37:33.000 --> 00:37:34.720
How do I move?

682
00:37:34.720 --> 00:37:36.560
Because it's all about movement.

683
00:37:36.560 --> 00:37:38.120
So how am I part of that?

684
00:37:38.120 --> 00:37:39.680
How am I moving?

685
00:37:42.400 --> 00:37:46.640
So the way that I think of it is,

686
00:37:46.640 --> 00:37:48.840
and I'll be the first person to admit,

687
00:37:49.800 --> 00:37:51.920
I don't exactly know.

688
00:37:51.920 --> 00:37:54.080
This is just kind of something I sense in my spirit.

689
00:37:54.080 --> 00:37:56.120
And I'm not saying that this is the full picture.

690
00:37:56.120 --> 00:37:58.000
So take this with a grain of salt.

691
00:37:58.000 --> 00:38:01.440
This is not a theology you need to build your relationship

692
00:38:01.440 --> 00:38:02.400
with the Lord on.

693
00:38:02.400 --> 00:38:04.480
This is just kind of an idea.

694
00:38:04.480 --> 00:38:09.760
So take this to the Lord and see what he says.

695
00:38:09.760 --> 00:38:11.800
So this is as close as I've gotten.

696
00:38:11.800 --> 00:38:13.600
And it's not quite fully there, but this

697
00:38:13.600 --> 00:38:14.920
is as close as I've gotten.

698
00:38:14.960 --> 00:38:19.160
So think of when we join together with God's spirit.

699
00:38:19.160 --> 00:38:22.800
It's not just, OK, God, your spirit

700
00:38:22.800 --> 00:38:24.440
is channeling through me.

701
00:38:24.440 --> 00:38:28.560
I'm just a vessel, an open vessel

702
00:38:28.560 --> 00:38:29.800
through which you're moving.

703
00:38:29.800 --> 00:38:32.200
So it's only your spirit that's touching

704
00:38:32.200 --> 00:38:36.480
my business, my relationships, or my finances,

705
00:38:36.480 --> 00:38:39.120
as if we had no part in it whatsoever.

706
00:38:39.120 --> 00:38:40.280
And he just moves through me.

707
00:38:40.920 --> 00:38:46.160
I'm just, I have, he's, Jesus has taken the wheel,

708
00:38:46.160 --> 00:38:48.720
and I'm in the back seat doing nothing.

709
00:38:48.720 --> 00:38:50.520
And that's not the case.

710
00:38:50.520 --> 00:38:56.400
At the same time, it's not just us exerting our own spirit.

711
00:38:56.400 --> 00:38:58.760
Apart from God, this is what I want.

712
00:38:58.760 --> 00:39:00.600
This is how I will flow.

713
00:39:00.600 --> 00:39:02.080
This is the aspect of myself that I

714
00:39:02.080 --> 00:39:04.320
will pour into business, finances, relationships,

715
00:39:04.320 --> 00:39:05.120
whatever.

716
00:39:05.120 --> 00:39:06.520
It's more than that.

717
00:39:06.520 --> 00:39:09.720
Our spirit comes together with God's spirit

718
00:39:09.760 --> 00:39:14.120
and becomes something new.

719
00:39:14.120 --> 00:39:15.920
So when it enters the earth, it's

720
00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:19.320
not a combination of God's spirit plus our spirit.

721
00:39:19.320 --> 00:39:21.160
And so there's a little bit of God's spirit,

722
00:39:21.160 --> 00:39:23.000
and then there's a little bit of our spirit.

723
00:39:23.000 --> 00:39:25.680
And it depends on how you look at the manifestation.

724
00:39:25.680 --> 00:39:28.160
Oh, I could see that was God's spirit that caused that part.

725
00:39:28.160 --> 00:39:30.040
And that over there, that was Ashley's spirit

726
00:39:30.040 --> 00:39:31.080
that caused that part.

727
00:39:31.080 --> 00:39:32.360
I think of it a bit differently.

728
00:39:32.360 --> 00:39:34.200
Again, take this idea with a grain of salt.

729
00:39:34.200 --> 00:39:36.920
It's just to kind of get ourselves out of the box

730
00:39:36.920 --> 00:39:38.880
that we've been in and just kind of expand us

731
00:39:38.880 --> 00:39:42.280
into considering a different possibility.

732
00:39:42.280 --> 00:39:45.920
Think of it like a chemical reaction.

733
00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:48.600
Think of like sodium and chloride.

734
00:39:48.600 --> 00:39:51.440
Sodium has particular properties.

735
00:39:51.440 --> 00:39:53.920
Sorry, not chloride, chlorine.

736
00:39:53.920 --> 00:39:55.360
Sodium has particular properties.

737
00:39:55.360 --> 00:39:58.720
In fact, it is poisonous to the human body by itself.

738
00:39:58.720 --> 00:40:00.800
It's a metal.

739
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:04.960
So sodium metal is, especially in large portions,

740
00:40:04.960 --> 00:40:08.040
is poisonous to the human body.

741
00:40:08.040 --> 00:40:10.480
It has particular characteristics, et cetera.

742
00:40:10.480 --> 00:40:11.520
Chlorine, the same thing.

743
00:40:11.520 --> 00:40:13.240
It has a totally different set of properties,

744
00:40:13.240 --> 00:40:15.600
and it is also poisonous to the human body.

745
00:40:15.600 --> 00:40:17.380
But you combine them so that it becomes

746
00:40:17.380 --> 00:40:20.840
a completely separate element called sodium chloride,

747
00:40:20.840 --> 00:40:22.920
not sodium chlorine, sodium chloride,

748
00:40:22.920 --> 00:40:25.160
because it's an ionic compound.

749
00:40:25.160 --> 00:40:26.160
Did you get technical?

750
00:40:26.160 --> 00:40:27.120
It's an ionic compound.

751
00:40:27.120 --> 00:40:28.840
You can tell I used to teach chemistry.

752
00:40:28.840 --> 00:40:32.000
It's an ionic compound, and it has a totally different set

753
00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:33.520
of properties, and it is no longer

754
00:40:33.520 --> 00:40:36.960
poisonous to the human body.

755
00:40:36.960 --> 00:40:39.200
That point in using that as an example

756
00:40:39.200 --> 00:40:42.240
is think of when we interact with the world.

757
00:40:42.240 --> 00:40:43.880
We're one with Christ.

758
00:40:43.880 --> 00:40:46.920
God says that we are one spirit with Christ.

759
00:40:46.920 --> 00:40:50.720
It's not a bit of his spirit that joined with our spirit,

760
00:40:50.720 --> 00:40:54.680
and it's not just his spirit where

761
00:40:54.680 --> 00:40:58.000
there's no element of who it is that we are.

762
00:40:58.000 --> 00:41:00.800
Because remember, he desired relationship with us,

763
00:41:00.800 --> 00:41:04.960
so he separated us from himself to rejoin us to himself, yes,

764
00:41:04.960 --> 00:41:07.720
but in order to be able to enjoy us and benefit

765
00:41:07.720 --> 00:41:09.560
that he couldn't before, which is

766
00:41:09.560 --> 00:41:12.480
in the relationship of the fact that in a way

767
00:41:12.480 --> 00:41:14.880
there's like this other element to it.

768
00:41:14.880 --> 00:41:16.720
Don't think of it as separation, but there's

769
00:41:16.720 --> 00:41:19.080
this other element which allows relationship

770
00:41:19.080 --> 00:41:20.240
between the two aspects.

771
00:41:20.240 --> 00:41:21.440
And yet he says it's one.

772
00:41:21.440 --> 00:41:24.360
It's hard to explain, and it's hard to understand,

773
00:41:24.360 --> 00:41:25.360
just like the Trinity.

774
00:41:25.360 --> 00:41:28.320
Trying to explain the Trinity to a five-year-old Sunday class

775
00:41:28.320 --> 00:41:30.000
is very difficult. So it's like that.

776
00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:31.960
It's like, well, this is kind of how it works,

777
00:41:31.960 --> 00:41:33.360
and this is as good as I got.

778
00:41:33.360 --> 00:41:37.200
Anyway, that is what we are giving creation.

779
00:41:37.200 --> 00:41:40.800
It is this new compound, this new thing, this new entity.

780
00:41:40.800 --> 00:41:42.880
So when God and you have joined together

781
00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:45.600
and you manifest yourself into creation,

782
00:41:45.600 --> 00:41:49.120
it's going to look different than when God and I do it.

783
00:41:49.120 --> 00:41:51.360
We're very, very unique together.

784
00:41:51.360 --> 00:41:52.800
I'm not saying this theologically.

785
00:41:52.800 --> 00:41:54.640
This is exactly how it works.

786
00:41:54.640 --> 00:41:56.480
Just kind of think of that kind of an idea.

787
00:41:56.480 --> 00:41:58.040
We need to stop thinking of ourselves

788
00:41:58.040 --> 00:42:04.680
so much as that it's only God, and we have no part in it,

789
00:42:04.680 --> 00:42:07.040
or that it's us, and it's very egotistical,

790
00:42:07.040 --> 00:42:12.240
and God has left us abandoned and alone to implement things.

791
00:42:12.240 --> 00:42:15.160
It's us doing it together, but doing it together

792
00:42:15.160 --> 00:42:19.200
to such an extent that it's not him doing a little bit

793
00:42:19.200 --> 00:42:20.800
and then giving a part to me.

794
00:42:20.800 --> 00:42:22.760
No, it's the two of us doing it together

795
00:42:22.760 --> 00:42:27.160
so that creation gets something very, very unique.

796
00:42:27.160 --> 00:42:31.080
That's the point of kind of like this picture.

797
00:42:31.080 --> 00:42:35.400
Remember that God desires that to have relationship.

798
00:42:35.400 --> 00:42:38.280
He desires that we bring ourselves to the table.

799
00:42:38.280 --> 00:42:40.040
He wants our contribution.

800
00:42:40.040 --> 00:42:41.560
He wants our spirit.

801
00:42:41.560 --> 00:42:43.480
We'll be talking more about that when we talk

802
00:42:43.480 --> 00:42:46.040
about how to make decisions, because we make decisions

803
00:42:46.040 --> 00:42:49.880
with God because God allows us to have a say so.

804
00:42:49.880 --> 00:42:52.100
He's actually maturing us to the point

805
00:42:52.100 --> 00:42:56.820
where we have a greater and greater weight

806
00:42:56.820 --> 00:42:58.540
in the discussion.

807
00:42:58.540 --> 00:43:00.860
He's bringing us to that maturity.

808
00:43:00.860 --> 00:43:04.020
So God, and he wants to be changed by us.

809
00:43:04.020 --> 00:43:07.260
So the spirit is bringing life.

810
00:43:07.260 --> 00:43:09.900
Adam was a living being, it says,

811
00:43:09.900 --> 00:43:12.540
but you were a life-giving spirit.

812
00:43:12.540 --> 00:43:14.380
That is what you do.

813
00:43:14.380 --> 00:43:16.140
You're giving life.

814
00:43:16.140 --> 00:43:17.100
We talked about spirit.

815
00:43:17.100 --> 00:43:17.900
We talked about life.

816
00:43:17.900 --> 00:43:18.940
We talked about movement.

817
00:43:18.940 --> 00:43:20.940
That's what we're giving to the earth.

818
00:43:20.940 --> 00:43:24.540
And so let's draw this really quickly.

819
00:43:32.740 --> 00:43:34.180
Here are some little markers.

820
00:43:38.580 --> 00:43:42.060
So let's imagine.

821
00:43:42.060 --> 00:43:44.020
So this is spirit.

822
00:43:46.700 --> 00:43:50.780
Operating in life is extremely simple.

823
00:43:50.780 --> 00:43:51.540
Extremely.

824
00:44:03.460 --> 00:44:06.820
So I like to usually divide this into three different categories

825
00:44:06.820 --> 00:44:08.700
just because, I don't know, that tends

826
00:44:08.700 --> 00:44:11.420
to be the three things people bring up the most.

827
00:44:11.420 --> 00:44:13.100
Business, relationship, and finances.

828
00:44:13.100 --> 00:44:14.980
And yes, business is different than finances.

829
00:44:17.620 --> 00:44:20.260
Well, let me do this.

830
00:44:20.260 --> 00:44:32.100
This is business, relationships, and finances.

831
00:44:37.940 --> 00:44:42.180
Now, how we interact with all of these

832
00:44:42.180 --> 00:44:55.700
is the world sees this, sees that, and sees that.

833
00:44:55.700 --> 00:45:01.220
So when we interact with business like the same person.

834
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:04.400
You, you interact in your business and you get a result that looks like this.

835
00:45:04.400 --> 00:45:07.040
When you interact in your relationships, you get results like this.

836
00:45:07.040 --> 00:45:09.680
When you interact with your finances, you get results like this.

837
00:45:09.680 --> 00:45:14.080
The world looks down here and it, and it tries to back engineer it and

838
00:45:14.080 --> 00:45:16.080
figure out how can I get this result?

839
00:45:16.080 --> 00:45:19.360
Because everything in life is all, I mean, everything according to the tree of

840
00:45:19.360 --> 00:45:22.960
the knowledge of good and evil is all about how do I predict and

841
00:45:22.960 --> 00:45:25.880
control the outcome to make me feel safe?

842
00:45:25.880 --> 00:45:28.840
So they want this particular outcome, so they're trying to back engineer it.

843
00:45:28.840 --> 00:45:29.960
How do we get that?

844
00:45:29.960 --> 00:45:33.240
So they look and notice that all of the results look different.

845
00:45:33.240 --> 00:45:35.880
So they think, how would you get different results?

846
00:45:35.880 --> 00:45:37.920
It must have a different input.

847
00:45:37.920 --> 00:45:41.920
So if you try to operate your business, your relationships and

848
00:45:41.920 --> 00:45:45.680
your finances according to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,

849
00:45:45.680 --> 00:45:48.840
that is a lot of information you have to learn.

850
00:45:48.840 --> 00:45:53.440
There's all of these formulas that are associated with all of these in order to

851
00:45:53.440 --> 00:45:56.120
get different results.

852
00:45:56.160 --> 00:46:00.840
And we think that we have to apply those formulas in all of those different ways

853
00:46:00.840 --> 00:46:03.560
in order to get different results.

854
00:46:03.560 --> 00:46:07.800
So instead of, so we have to learn a whole bunch of things in this area,

855
00:46:07.800 --> 00:46:10.680
a whole bunch of things in this area, and a whole bunch of things in this area,

856
00:46:10.680 --> 00:46:13.440
in order to try to be successful across life.

857
00:46:13.440 --> 00:46:16.120
But thankfully, it is a lot easier than that.

858
00:46:17.720 --> 00:46:23.240
Because you actually apply the exact same thing in the exact same way

859
00:46:23.240 --> 00:46:26.000
across all areas of your life all the time.

860
00:46:27.040 --> 00:46:29.520
You just apply spirit.

861
00:46:29.520 --> 00:46:35.280
You apply the same spiritual principles in the same way in all areas of your life.

862
00:46:35.280 --> 00:46:39.600
And so think of spirit as kind of like, just think of it kind of like the,

863
00:46:39.600 --> 00:46:40.600
like a sun or whatever.

864
00:46:41.640 --> 00:46:47.120
So when you, so in other words, light coming into all of these.

865
00:46:47.120 --> 00:46:51.000
And the reason I drew them like triangles is think of them kind of like prisms.

866
00:46:51.000 --> 00:46:57.680
When you're applying the same white light to all of them.

867
00:46:57.680 --> 00:47:02.280
But when they get, when they get, when they pass through a prism,

868
00:47:02.280 --> 00:47:05.800
it's going to divide the white light and, or sorry, not the prism.

869
00:47:05.800 --> 00:47:07.640
Let's, let's, let's use a different word.

870
00:47:07.640 --> 00:47:10.120
Let's throw, let's call them filters.

871
00:47:10.120 --> 00:47:14.920
When you apply them, put, put light, pass light through different filters,

872
00:47:14.920 --> 00:47:18.880
you're gonna get a different color on, on the other side.

873
00:47:19.880 --> 00:47:24.000
So through spirit, you might get, sorry, through spirit.

874
00:47:24.000 --> 00:47:27.160
When you pass your spirit through business,

875
00:47:27.160 --> 00:47:31.240
because of business already operates according to certain principles.

876
00:47:31.240 --> 00:47:35.400
So when your spirit moves through business, through those principles,

877
00:47:35.400 --> 00:47:39.000
those principles are created by God to function on their own

878
00:47:39.000 --> 00:47:41.160
without needing to be micromanaged.

879
00:47:41.160 --> 00:47:44.080
And they know how to automatically create a result.

880
00:47:44.080 --> 00:47:45.400
That is how they were created.

881
00:47:45.400 --> 00:47:47.280
You do not have to manipulate.

882
00:47:47.880 --> 00:47:50.720
You don't have to manipulate and learn and

883
00:47:50.720 --> 00:47:57.360
understand law, laws to, to such a degree in order to get a particular result.

884
00:47:57.360 --> 00:48:00.320
You can, but remember you're not subject to it.

885
00:48:00.320 --> 00:48:01.480
That's the problem.

886
00:48:01.480 --> 00:48:04.040
We can use tips, tricks, and strategies, and formulas.

887
00:48:04.040 --> 00:48:07.560
But if we think that we're dependent on them in order to get a particular result

888
00:48:07.560 --> 00:48:11.800
that God has promised to us, a million dollars or whatever, or

889
00:48:11.800 --> 00:48:16.160
our business is gonna turn into X, or our relationship is gonna look like this.

890
00:48:16.240 --> 00:48:17.400
You're gonna be married.

891
00:48:17.400 --> 00:48:18.600
You're gonna have children.

892
00:48:18.600 --> 00:48:20.680
You are, you're gonna get X dollar amount.

893
00:48:22.200 --> 00:48:26.680
Then if we think that we are dependent on learning something in order to

894
00:48:26.680 --> 00:48:30.960
ensure that what God's will wants to happen actually happens,

895
00:48:30.960 --> 00:48:33.800
as operating according to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

896
00:48:33.800 --> 00:48:34.880
It's a lot of hard work.

897
00:48:34.880 --> 00:48:38.760
We have to learn all of those things in order to guarantee ourselves

898
00:48:38.760 --> 00:48:40.680
a very specific result.

899
00:48:40.680 --> 00:48:45.280
But if you understand that your spirit, you can just operate as spirit.

900
00:48:45.280 --> 00:48:47.440
That is all you apply.

901
00:48:47.440 --> 00:48:48.720
You apply you.

902
00:48:48.720 --> 00:48:49.840
That's what spirit is.

903
00:48:49.840 --> 00:48:51.960
Spirit is not something you have.

904
00:48:51.960 --> 00:48:53.720
Spirit is who you are.

905
00:48:53.720 --> 00:48:58.440
So as you pass spirit through business, you might, you get blue.

906
00:48:58.440 --> 00:49:03.680
As you pass spirit through relationships, automatically, according to the light,

907
00:49:03.680 --> 00:49:08.560
and the spirit passes through the principles that God set in motion.

908
00:49:08.560 --> 00:49:10.680
This is how relationships will work.

909
00:49:10.680 --> 00:49:13.120
And you'll get red on the other side.

910
00:49:13.120 --> 00:49:16.440
Effortlessly, it created it, according to the laws that God set in motion.

911
00:49:16.440 --> 00:49:17.880
You didn't have to work for it.

912
00:49:17.880 --> 00:49:19.360
You rested.

913
00:49:19.360 --> 00:49:20.720
Same thing with finances.

914
00:49:20.720 --> 00:49:22.240
You know, it might turn purple, I don't know.

915
00:49:24.520 --> 00:49:28.400
But it's extremely, extremely effortless.

916
00:49:28.400 --> 00:49:33.560
What you're, these are just business relationships,

917
00:49:33.560 --> 00:49:37.360
finances, anything else is meant to serve you.

918
00:49:37.360 --> 00:49:41.480
Not you structure your life in order to give your business what it needs.

919
00:49:41.520 --> 00:49:43.680
Your business needs you.

920
00:49:43.680 --> 00:49:44.920
It is meant to serve you.

921
00:49:44.920 --> 00:49:47.040
To do it in any other way is serving your business.

922
00:49:47.040 --> 00:49:49.000
It's being in servitude to it.

923
00:49:49.000 --> 00:49:54.760
And that's an issue because God says, no, no, no, you are not enslaved.

924
00:49:54.760 --> 00:49:55.800
You are in me.

925
00:49:55.800 --> 00:49:56.880
I am all that you need.

926
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:08.880
Something else I was going to say about that, oh yeah, so these, how would I word that?

927
00:50:08.880 --> 00:50:16.120
They are, they're not, they, okay, remember how we've been talking about the fact that

928
00:50:16.120 --> 00:50:25.240
creation knows how to function and it is, and all it needs in order to function according,

929
00:50:25.240 --> 00:50:30.760
in order and not chaos, is it needs a son of God to present himself.

930
00:50:30.760 --> 00:50:34.760
So when you give it your spirit, it's like, oh, I know what to do with that.

931
00:50:34.760 --> 00:50:35.760
I was made for that.

932
00:50:35.760 --> 00:50:36.760
I know how to function.

933
00:50:36.760 --> 00:50:39.040
I will turn into order now.

934
00:50:39.040 --> 00:50:42.480
And it organizes itself into order and it operates appropriately.

935
00:50:42.480 --> 00:50:48.080
If you don't give it spirit, it's in chaos, and no wonder we need all those tips, tricks,

936
00:50:48.080 --> 00:50:52.280
strategies, and formulas in order to try to get it to work.

937
00:50:52.280 --> 00:50:55.200
It's of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

938
00:50:55.200 --> 00:51:01.000
We've, we have made it, we have robbed it of its life source, so we have to give it

939
00:51:01.000 --> 00:51:03.680
a fake one.

940
00:51:03.680 --> 00:51:05.600
It makes it just that much harder.

941
00:51:05.600 --> 00:51:10.640
So it is not complicated to operate in life.

942
00:51:10.640 --> 00:51:14.840
You don't, you're not subject to what it is that you don't know.

943
00:51:14.840 --> 00:51:17.840
You're not victimized by what it is that you don't know.

944
00:51:17.840 --> 00:51:19.760
You don't have to go to another conference.

945
00:51:19.760 --> 00:51:23.120
You don't have to go read another business strategy book.

946
00:51:23.120 --> 00:51:26.680
You don't even need, you don't need to hire a business consultant.

947
00:51:26.680 --> 00:51:28.640
I used to be a business consultant.

948
00:51:28.640 --> 00:51:30.400
You know, you don't need any of those things.

949
00:51:30.400 --> 00:51:31.400
You can use them.

950
00:51:31.400 --> 00:51:36.400
Remember, as long as you were shifted into your identity, God said, everything is permissible.

951
00:51:36.400 --> 00:51:38.000
Use it if you want to.

952
00:51:38.000 --> 00:51:44.400
You know, hire a business coach, hire a consultant, go to a conference, do whatever, but use it

953
00:51:44.400 --> 00:51:48.160
as a son of God, knowing that it is meant to serve you, not you serve it.

954
00:51:48.160 --> 00:51:51.000
If we think we need it, we're serving it.

955
00:51:51.520 --> 00:51:58.160
So anyway, business, your relationships, your finances, if you don't like them, they need you.

956
00:51:58.160 --> 00:52:01.120
You're missing.

957
00:52:01.120 --> 00:52:06.880
If you don't like your business, relationships, or finances right now, it's missing you because

958
00:52:06.880 --> 00:52:10.840
you've made it devoid of its life source, so it can't function unless you have a lot

959
00:52:10.840 --> 00:52:16.120
of work, unless you apply a lot of work, unless you learn what tips, trick, or strategy that

960
00:52:16.120 --> 00:52:19.840
you haven't implemented that somebody else out there knows, and so you're constantly

961
00:52:19.840 --> 00:52:20.840
searching for it.

962
00:52:20.840 --> 00:52:23.760
It's a lot harder to live life that way.

963
00:52:23.760 --> 00:52:27.280
So this is how simple that it can be.

964
00:52:27.280 --> 00:52:31.000
This is how I live my life, and I used to be a turnaround business consultant that would

965
00:52:31.000 --> 00:52:37.880
deal in businesses in very, very extreme and dire financial situations, and I'm telling

966
00:52:37.880 --> 00:52:39.240
you this principle works.

967
00:52:39.240 --> 00:52:43.720
It does not matter how extreme that it is, and it doesn't matter how extreme the relationships

968
00:52:43.720 --> 00:52:44.720
issues are.

969
00:52:44.840 --> 00:52:50.200
I gave you just one example in my life of an extreme relationship issue with that man

970
00:52:50.200 --> 00:52:52.000
who was very verbally abusive.

971
00:52:52.000 --> 00:52:56.440
I've been in other professionals in personal situations that have been very extreme, and

972
00:52:56.440 --> 00:53:01.040
I'm telling you the same principle that I apply in business and in my finances, I can

973
00:53:01.040 --> 00:53:07.800
apply to very extreme relationship issues, and it works in all of them because a son

974
00:53:07.800 --> 00:53:18.960
of God is presenting itself to creation, and creation is equipped and created to wait

975
00:53:18.960 --> 00:53:29.040
or to know what to do and how to function as long as it sees itself in relationship

976
00:53:29.040 --> 00:53:31.440
to you, to a king.

977
00:53:31.440 --> 00:53:39.800
The reason it's you is because heaven is the Lord's, and the earth was given to man.

978
00:53:39.800 --> 00:53:41.400
Man was sent to have dominion.

979
00:53:41.400 --> 00:53:43.400
It's waiting for you.

980
00:53:43.400 --> 00:53:46.120
This is a microcosm of how God governs his universe.

981
00:53:46.120 --> 00:53:49.840
He's saying, I want you to govern your microcosm that I gave you.

982
00:53:49.840 --> 00:53:52.120
I want you to look like me.

983
00:53:52.120 --> 00:53:59.440
Watch how I govern, and you copy me, and I'll mature you into that.

984
00:54:00.440 --> 00:54:08.440
Okay, just a few more points, and then we'll close with a song.

985
00:54:19.440 --> 00:54:22.440
Okay, I've already mentioned that.

986
00:54:23.440 --> 00:54:37.880
Okay, your business, even though I understand we're talking about business relationship

987
00:54:37.880 --> 00:54:43.720
and finances is creation, the very essence of what it is that they are, so to speak,

988
00:54:43.720 --> 00:54:47.640
in other words, what gives it life, what makes it function, what makes all the wheels turn

989
00:54:47.640 --> 00:54:52.440
or whatever, is you.

990
00:54:52.440 --> 00:54:59.440
It makes it a lot to think that your business, or your marriage, or your career, or your

991
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:04.600
or your parenting or whatever is this thing, your finances,

992
00:55:04.600 --> 00:55:08.080
your budget, whatever, is this thing outside of you

993
00:55:08.080 --> 00:55:13.800
that you need to control or whatever

994
00:55:13.800 --> 00:55:17.160
is going to make everything 10 times harder because you're

995
00:55:17.160 --> 00:55:20.280
separating yourself from it.

996
00:55:20.280 --> 00:55:27.720
So understand that it doesn't have life in all of them.

997
00:55:27.800 --> 00:55:33.560
And then you come along, and it's life response

998
00:55:33.560 --> 00:55:35.320
to your life, and therefore, it reacts.

999
00:55:35.320 --> 00:55:36.800
That's not what happens.

1000
00:55:36.800 --> 00:55:40.200
What happens is, or what's really going on,

1001
00:55:40.200 --> 00:55:44.920
is your life is the life of the business.

1002
00:55:44.920 --> 00:55:50.720
So again, it's almost like another microcosm of the fact

1003
00:55:50.720 --> 00:55:53.560
that God values union so highly.

1004
00:55:53.560 --> 00:55:56.080
It's not that we're unifying ourself with our business.

1005
00:55:56.120 --> 00:55:58.160
It's the fact that we need to understand

1006
00:55:58.160 --> 00:56:01.120
it's kind of like an empty shell.

1007
00:56:01.120 --> 00:56:03.760
There's no life in it.

1008
00:56:03.760 --> 00:56:07.040
I know that we're trying to personify creation

1009
00:56:07.040 --> 00:56:12.200
by talking about the fact that when it sees the Son of God,

1010
00:56:12.200 --> 00:56:13.520
it will respond.

1011
00:56:13.520 --> 00:56:16.020
And we're used to thinking, oh, well, that's like a living

1012
00:56:16.020 --> 00:56:20.920
being, so it has its own life.

1013
00:56:20.920 --> 00:56:23.120
You'll have to kind of bridge that gap there.

1014
00:56:23.120 --> 00:56:24.520
We're just trying to personify it

1015
00:56:24.520 --> 00:56:27.240
to understand how principles are set up

1016
00:56:27.240 --> 00:56:30.280
to respond to a Son of God.

1017
00:56:30.280 --> 00:56:33.680
But it doesn't have a life outside of you.

1018
00:56:33.680 --> 00:56:35.360
So it's not your enemy.

1019
00:56:35.360 --> 00:56:38.320
It's not a machine that you're trying

1020
00:56:38.320 --> 00:56:45.200
to discover what levers and buttons to push and pull.

1021
00:56:45.200 --> 00:56:46.560
It's not something outside of you

1022
00:56:46.560 --> 00:56:49.120
that you're trying to manipulate.

1023
00:56:49.120 --> 00:56:54.200
You are breathing God's breath has been breathed into you,

1024
00:56:54.200 --> 00:56:55.320
which is spirit.

1025
00:56:55.320 --> 00:56:59.040
So now you breathe that same spirit of God,

1026
00:56:59.040 --> 00:57:02.120
because you're in Him, bring that same spirit of God

1027
00:57:02.120 --> 00:57:04.200
into your business, into your marriage,

1028
00:57:04.200 --> 00:57:07.760
into your other relationships, into your finances, whatever.

1029
00:57:07.760 --> 00:57:11.640
And that gives it life.

1030
00:57:11.640 --> 00:57:13.880
They're empty shells otherwise.

1031
00:57:13.880 --> 00:57:17.080
Don't separate yourself so much from it,

1032
00:57:17.080 --> 00:57:19.680
because then you think that it's your enemy.

1033
00:57:19.680 --> 00:57:21.240
It's not your enemy.

1034
00:57:21.240 --> 00:57:23.920
It can't do anything without you.

1035
00:57:23.920 --> 00:57:25.520
It's not a threat.

1036
00:57:25.520 --> 00:57:29.400
And you're not subject to it.

1037
00:57:29.400 --> 00:57:30.560
I hope that that made sense.

1038
00:57:30.560 --> 00:57:35.480
I'm not really sure if I fully explained that in the way

1039
00:57:35.480 --> 00:57:36.280
that I mean.

1040
00:57:36.280 --> 00:57:38.000
I know what I mean, and I know what I'm trying to get across.

1041
00:57:38.000 --> 00:57:39.280
But hopefully that made sense.

1042
00:57:39.280 --> 00:57:42.680
And if it didn't, don't worry about it.

1043
00:57:42.680 --> 00:57:44.520
It was just kind of like something extra

1044
00:57:44.520 --> 00:57:45.920
that I wanted to kind of throw in,

1045
00:57:45.920 --> 00:57:52.960
because I noticed just when I was

1046
00:57:52.960 --> 00:57:56.160
struggling to start my business,

1047
00:57:56.160 --> 00:57:59.840
there were times where I was very resentful.

1048
00:57:59.840 --> 00:58:01.560
And you're only resentful if you feel

1049
00:58:01.560 --> 00:58:03.200
like you're being threatened.

1050
00:58:03.200 --> 00:58:07.200
You feel like it's this thing that's after you,

1051
00:58:07.200 --> 00:58:10.440
or that you're oppressed by, or that can cause you to do

1052
00:58:10.440 --> 00:58:13.200
things, and it can't.

1053
00:58:13.200 --> 00:58:15.320
It can't.

1054
00:58:15.320 --> 00:58:20.800
Same thing with marriage, relationships, your budget.

1055
00:58:20.800 --> 00:58:23.760
Business and relationships don't need knowledge.

1056
00:58:23.760 --> 00:58:26.080
They need you in order to work.

1057
00:58:26.080 --> 00:58:28.520
If you apply knowledge to them, and you give knowledge

1058
00:58:28.520 --> 00:58:30.400
to them as the source, you can use knowledge.

1059
00:58:30.400 --> 00:58:31.040
That's fine.

1060
00:58:31.040 --> 00:58:33.080
But if you give knowledge to them and saying,

1061
00:58:33.080 --> 00:58:35.880
this is your life source, not, hey,

1062
00:58:35.880 --> 00:58:38.600
this is a tool we're going to be using as part of the activity.

1063
00:58:38.600 --> 00:58:40.200
But I'm providing you your life source.

1064
00:58:40.200 --> 00:58:42.080
My spirit is providing you your life source.

1065
00:58:42.080 --> 00:58:44.000
If you don't do that, and you say, hey, look,

1066
00:58:44.000 --> 00:58:44.720
here's knowledge.

1067
00:58:44.720 --> 00:58:45.600
Here's something that I learned.

1068
00:58:45.600 --> 00:58:47.160
Here's a tip, trick, or strategy.

1069
00:58:47.160 --> 00:58:49.240
And doggone it, it better work.

1070
00:58:49.240 --> 00:58:51.000
Because that better create a result.

1071
00:58:51.000 --> 00:58:54.120
That should be the fuel that actually prompts a result.

1072
00:58:54.120 --> 00:58:59.920
If you give it, excuse me, if you actually give it that,

1073
00:58:59.920 --> 00:59:02.000
you're giving it death.

1074
00:59:02.000 --> 00:59:04.080
Your business and your finances, your relationships

1075
00:59:04.080 --> 00:59:05.320
don't need knowledge.

1076
00:59:05.320 --> 00:59:06.560
They need you.

1077
00:59:06.560 --> 00:59:08.640
So if you don't, again, you don't like something,

1078
00:59:08.640 --> 00:59:11.800
it's you that's missing, and you that it needs.

1079
00:59:11.800 --> 00:59:16.640
So can you kind of give me an example

1080
00:59:16.640 --> 00:59:22.440
of what it might look like when someone's making decisions

1081
00:59:22.440 --> 00:59:25.440
like in business or finances or whatever,

1082
00:59:25.440 --> 00:59:27.120
in the spirit versus not in the spirit?

1083
00:59:27.120 --> 00:59:31.800
Like, what might that look like?

1084
00:59:31.800 --> 00:59:35.720
Does it create different results?

1085
00:59:35.720 --> 00:59:40.120
I'm just trying to wrap my head around it.

1086
00:59:40.120 --> 00:59:43.080
So the results can look the same.

1087
00:59:43.080 --> 00:59:46.520
You can get a million dollars in your business

1088
00:59:46.520 --> 00:59:47.800
by applying spirit.

1089
00:59:47.800 --> 00:59:49.280
You can also get a million dollars

1090
00:59:49.280 --> 00:59:51.440
by applying formulas.

1091
00:59:51.440 --> 00:59:54.640
The thing is that to get a million dollars, in other words,

1092
00:59:54.640 --> 00:59:56.200
the fruit can look exactly the same,

1093
00:59:56.200 --> 00:59:58.960
which is why it's confusing because we're so

1094
00:59:58.960 --> 01:00:01.240
used to looking at a result.

1095
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:05.520
Which is another reason why we keep laboring the fact you can't look at the manifestation and hold God accountable to it because

1096
01:00:06.160 --> 01:00:08.160
Does it have life in it or does it have death?

1097
01:00:08.280 --> 01:00:12.600
Well, because creation is subject to frustration everything that we're seeing right now is is

1098
01:00:12.800 --> 01:00:16.620
You know so much of what it is that we're seeing is actually death and it can't tell us about God at all

1099
01:00:16.880 --> 01:00:20.360
So when we are when we're operating, you know

1100
01:00:20.480 --> 01:00:25.460
Out of when we're giving it knowledge when we're giving it formulas and we're giving it giving it strategies

1101
01:00:25.520 --> 01:00:27.520
We have to work ten times harder

1102
01:00:27.960 --> 01:00:29.520
We can get the same result

1103
01:00:29.520 --> 01:00:35.200
But we're working ten times harder to get it and in the end result even though the the result looks the same one is ten million

1104
01:00:35.200 --> 01:00:40.560
Dollars in error one is million dollars and the others and is million dollars. God says that this breeds nothing but death

1105
01:00:40.560 --> 01:00:41.960
There's nothing but death in it

1106
01:00:41.960 --> 01:00:43.960
It's not even that it results in death

1107
01:00:44.040 --> 01:00:47.640
It started as death because the fuel that we gave it is us us

1108
01:00:48.160 --> 01:00:54.120
You know in proximity to the law and the law created death within us and that's all it is that we had to give it

1109
01:00:55.120 --> 01:00:58.000
So the results can look the same

1110
01:00:58.320 --> 01:01:05.120
but one brings one brings death and one brings life the importance of life and how it is that we see the difference eventually in

1111
01:01:05.120 --> 01:01:06.960
the result of

1112
01:01:06.960 --> 01:01:11.060
Those million dollars and how well how does the million dollars that is born of death?

1113
01:01:11.560 --> 01:01:15.760
How does it interact differently in the world than million dollars that is birthed in life is?

1114
01:01:16.120 --> 01:01:21.280
when things come into contact with something that has originally born at

1115
01:01:22.000 --> 01:01:24.000
The invisible realm and of the supernatural

1116
01:01:24.840 --> 01:01:27.960
Meaning eventually all the way back because where did we get our spirit?

1117
01:01:27.960 --> 01:01:32.200
We got it from God if it was birthed from that people and creation cannot

1118
01:01:32.440 --> 01:01:35.520
help but be transformed when it comes into the presence of God and

1119
01:01:36.120 --> 01:01:41.360
That and and what happens in that business and in that million dollars and in that environment

1120
01:01:41.880 --> 01:01:48.440
Actually changes creation and releases it from frustration and the other just just adds more to it

1121
01:01:48.760 --> 01:01:50.760
Adds more chaos and adds more corruption

1122
01:01:51.920 --> 01:01:53.560
so

1123
01:01:53.560 --> 01:01:55.560
Anyway, did I answer the question?

1124
01:02:02.000 --> 01:02:04.120
It can breed different results, yeah

1125
01:02:05.200 --> 01:02:06.520
You know

1126
01:02:06.520 --> 01:02:07.120
Excuse me

1127
01:02:07.120 --> 01:02:13.560
It can but I did want to make make make the comparison of the same result because you can absolutely get the same result

1128
01:02:14.440 --> 01:02:20.320
It it looks exactly the same but the substance and the value of the result is different

1129
01:02:20.320 --> 01:02:23.280
So therefore essentially down at its core the result is very different

1130
01:02:23.400 --> 01:02:26.760
But it looks the same on the outside with million dollars a million dollars

1131
01:02:26.880 --> 01:02:31.960
But if we look at the spiritual results one resulted in death and one resulted in life

1132
01:02:31.960 --> 01:02:36.120
So yes, they do breed different results, but in the way that we're used to looking at results

1133
01:02:36.640 --> 01:02:41.240
Well, did I get the million dollars did not get the million dollars operating my business out of spirit in this particular?

1134
01:02:41.240 --> 01:02:44.240
And at this particular time, did I get that result? Yes, I did

1135
01:02:44.240 --> 01:02:48.840
I operated out of strategies in this one how to work ten times harder. Did I get a million dollars?

1136
01:02:48.840 --> 01:02:52.200
Yeah, I did. So we tend to think of that as our result. But yeah, you're right

1137
01:02:52.520 --> 01:02:59.680
Ultimately deep down totally different result one brings death one brings life one one releases creation from frustration

1138
01:03:01.240 --> 01:03:03.240
Moves them into freedom

1139
01:03:05.000 --> 01:03:08.520
Okay, and so well

1140
01:03:09.280 --> 01:03:14.840
I'll be talking more about that. I guess next time or you know in the next session

1141
01:03:18.200 --> 01:03:20.200
Okay, I already said that so

1142
01:03:20.400 --> 01:03:22.400
give your

1143
01:03:22.520 --> 01:03:26.240
so we'll go ahead and pull up this song and the last thing that

1144
01:03:26.840 --> 01:03:31.040
And then we can close and then we will meet back up or we're gonna meet back up it

1145
01:03:31.040 --> 01:03:34.800
we're gonna meet back up here at and seven seven to nine and

1146
01:03:35.720 --> 01:03:41.200
We're gonna be talking about how to operate in business and operate in spirit the way that we've been talking about

1147
01:03:41.520 --> 01:03:44.160
much more specifically in relationships and

1148
01:03:44.920 --> 01:03:46.920
and in business

1149
01:03:47.600 --> 01:03:54.520
Yeah, a lot of like how to attract clients how to interact with difficult people all kinds of things so

1150
01:03:55.120 --> 01:04:01.900
Remember that that and give creation give business relationships finances other aspects of your life in your life

1151
01:04:02.260 --> 01:04:07.920
Give it your spirit and what it is when you're giving it your spirit is you are breathing into it the breath of God

1152
01:04:09.020 --> 01:04:15.340
So we'll play the song and then I hope y'all have a really good dinner and I'll see you back here at seven

1153
01:04:31.900 --> 01:04:33.900
This is

1154
01:04:36.340 --> 01:04:41.500
Through the eyes of men, it seems there's so much we have lost

1155
01:04:42.380 --> 01:04:47.860
As we look down the road where all the prodigals have a wall

1156
01:04:49.140 --> 01:04:55.900
One by one the enemy is whisper lies and let them off as slaves

1157
01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:02.000
♪♪♪

1158
01:05:02.000 --> 01:05:08.380
♪ But we know that You are God, Yours is the victory. ♪

1159
01:05:08.380 --> 01:05:14.640
♪ We know there is more to come that we may not yet see. ♪

1160
01:05:14.640 --> 01:05:23.900
♪ So with the faith You've given us, we'll step into the valley unafraid. ♪

1161
01:05:23.900 --> 01:05:27.480
♪ Yeah. ♪

1162
01:05:27.640 --> 01:05:34.180
♪ As we call out to dry bones, come alive, come alive. ♪

1163
01:05:34.180 --> 01:05:40.560
♪ We call out to dead hearts, come alive, come alive. ♪

1164
01:05:40.560 --> 01:05:46.780
♪ A battle of the ashes, let it see an army rise. ♪

1165
01:05:46.780 --> 01:05:52.660
♪ We call out to dry bones, come alive. ♪

1166
01:05:52.660 --> 01:05:56.660
♪♪♪

1167
01:05:56.680 --> 01:06:02.980
♪ God of endless mercy, God of unrelenting love. ♪

1168
01:06:02.980 --> 01:06:09.280
♪ Rescue every daughter, bring us back the wayward sons. ♪

1169
01:06:09.280 --> 01:06:17.460
♪ And by Your Spirit, breathe upon them, show the world that You alone can save. ♪

1170
01:06:17.460 --> 01:06:22.120
♪ You alone can save. ♪

1171
01:06:22.120 --> 01:06:28.720
♪ As we call out to dry bones, come alive, come alive. ♪

1172
01:06:28.720 --> 01:06:35.120
♪ We call out to dead hearts, come alive, come alive. ♪

1173
01:06:35.120 --> 01:06:41.320
♪ A battle of the ashes, let it see an army rise. ♪

1174
01:06:41.320 --> 01:06:46.820
♪ We call out to dry bones, come alive. ♪

1175
01:06:46.820 --> 01:06:50.820
♪♪♪

1176
01:06:50.820 --> 01:06:57.320
♪ So breathe, oh breath of God, now breathe, oh breath of God. ♪

1177
01:06:57.320 --> 01:07:03.320
♪ Breathe, oh breath of God, now breathe. ♪

1178
01:07:03.820 --> 01:07:10.320
♪ Breathe, oh breath of God, now breathe, oh breath of God. ♪

1179
01:07:10.320 --> 01:07:16.320
♪ Breathe, oh breath of God, now breathe. ♪

1180
01:07:16.320 --> 01:07:22.820
♪ As we call out to dry bones, come alive, come alive. ♪

1181
01:07:22.820 --> 01:07:29.320
♪ We call out to dead hearts, come alive, come alive. ♪

1182
01:07:29.320 --> 01:07:35.320
♪ A battle of the ashes, let it see an army rise. ♪

1183
01:07:35.320 --> 01:07:41.820
♪ We call out to dry bones, come alive, yeah. ♪

1184
01:07:41.820 --> 01:07:49.320
♪ We call out to dry bones, come alive. ♪

1185
01:07:50.320 --> 01:07:57.320
♪ Oh, come alive. ♪

1186
01:07:57.320 --> 01:08:04.320
♪♪♪

1187
01:08:04.320 --> 01:08:08.320
So we have been given the breath of God, which is spirit,

1188
01:08:08.320 --> 01:08:11.320
and we now breathe that into these dead things.

1189
01:08:11.320 --> 01:08:13.320
They're lifeless.

1190
01:08:13.320 --> 01:08:15.320
We're not giving them a life of their own.

1191
01:08:15.320 --> 01:08:19.319
We are their life, and we're sending it forth,

1192
01:08:19.319 --> 01:08:22.319
and they're like dead, they're like dry bones,

1193
01:08:22.319 --> 01:08:24.319
and we're breathing into them, and we're declaring over them

1194
01:08:24.319 --> 01:08:27.319
what God declared over us when we saw in Ezekiel 16

1195
01:08:27.319 --> 01:08:29.319
that he saw us on the side of the road.

1196
01:08:29.319 --> 01:08:31.319
It said, kicking about in our blood, what did he say

1197
01:08:31.319 --> 01:08:33.319
was the very first interaction that he had with us?

1198
01:08:33.319 --> 01:08:35.319
He declared, live.

1199
01:08:35.319 --> 01:08:37.319
We're called to act like our Father.

1200
01:08:37.319 --> 01:08:39.319
That was God's first words to us.

1201
01:08:39.319 --> 01:08:41.319
That's how we interact with creation.

1202
01:08:41.319 --> 01:08:42.319
We're bringing life.