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Hey everyone! Alright, so I am reposting an old post from a previous Rest

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Intensive member that proves the amazing impact and effectiveness of making

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journey share posts. I know that they're hard. I know that it's hard to be

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vulnerable. I know that it might not be a fun exercise to do. Maybe some people

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don't enjoy writing. Maybe some people enjoy not or don't enjoy doing

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videos. I understand all of that, but what this does is remember that in order

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to get a different result, we have to actually start living our lives

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differently. We can't continue to live our lives the way that we've been living

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them and expect to to get different results. So this exercise of the

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journey share of being vulnerable with the people in the group will enable us

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to be finally be vulnerable with the Lord in areas that we felt that we had

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been and yet we were not getting the benefits of it. In other words, we're not

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actually seeing any results in our lives. It means that we're not actually being

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vulnerable with Him. So the journey shares are basically a tool that

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enable us to start to open ourselves up to being vulnerable, to start doing the

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hard work of writing or doing a video. Videos, by the way, are much more

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powerful and effective than the written because, again, they're more vulnerable

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but if someone needs to start out slowly, they can do the written. But

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anyway, so I'm gonna post this because she had posted a membership intro

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video. You know, as y'all are all required to do, she posted a member intro

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video back when she joined in August of 2020 and she did not post a single

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journey share until January the next year and that's months later and she was

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struggling with the breakthrough. She could not, for the life of her, get a

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breakthrough and she was so disheartened. She was so, so, you know, just, she was

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just really struggling and I'm telling you what, she had, she had countless

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one-on-one sessions with me and she attended all of the fireside chats and

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and she would read everybody else's journey shares and whatever and she was

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trying to do all the work with the Lord, you know, privately in her own life and

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she could not get the breakthrough and so I told her because she was just,

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she was just distraught, you know, and in January she reached out to me and told

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me, Ashley, you know that I cannot seem to get the breakthrough. I can't

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figure out what it is and I told her, I said, well, I said, you know, the important

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thing is that we have to be vulnerable to the Lord. That's how we're able to get

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our breakthrough and she's like, well, I think that I am, you know, I'm doing all

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of this stuff, whatever and I said, well, so here's the thing, I said, if you're

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not getting the results, it means that you're not actually being vulnerable. So

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here's what you can do to break that barrier, in other words, break that

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oppressive chain that you seem to be shackled to, you know, in the Spirit and

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you can't seem to figure out how to latch on to that thing and where that

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thing is in order to break it. I said, if you are vulnerable in a post with other

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people, I said, that will help you break off the thing that is resisting your

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vulnerability to the Lord in the Spirit and she's like, oh my word, I really don't

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want to do this. You can even tell, even in the post, she's like, I

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really don't want to do this. I think I'm gonna have massive regret, but I'm trying. I'm

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gonna trust Ashley and so what you won't see in the post is actually her

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response after the post and that was in a fireside chat, the very next fireside

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chat that we had after she made this post. She was glowing. She was so excited.

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She's like, guys, she said, I made that post to all of y'all, you know, and was just

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very honest and transparent about where it is that I was and I couldn't get a

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breakthrough and Ashley said, if I posted this, that it would help me with my

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vulnerability to the Lord and break that resistance that I had to Him that I

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didn't even know that I had and she's like, and everything worked. She's like, I

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finally got my breakthrough with the Lord. I finally get it. I finally

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understand. I can finally connect with Him in the way that she was wanting to.

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So anyway, I'm just posting this, reposting her old post as an

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encouragement to all of y'all in making these journey shares for yourselves at

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the power of this type of vulnerability. Again, I know it's hard, but remember,

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you're choosing God, not a lifestyle. You are trying to step out and

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write a new record of what your relationship with God is and then

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allowing your lifestyle and allowing for your lifestyle, the

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chips to just fall where they may because you are choosing a higher value.

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value system. So, that's why I do require the journey shares is because of the

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effectiveness that I have learned. See, back then they weren't required to do

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journey shares. As you noticed, you know, between August and January, she didn't

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have a single one. I didn't require them back then. But, and it wasn't just this

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one, it was all the other people that were passing her by in their

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relationship with the Lord that were getting results. Why? Well, you know, for a

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variety of reasons, but they were, well, why they were getting, they were, is

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because they were being vulnerable with the Lord. But, as far as what tools they

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were using, they were using a variety of tools. One of which was they were all

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posting more than she was. In other words, they were being more vulnerable with

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themselves, with the Lord, and with others more than she was. And it proved, you

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know, in the post. Anyway, I am telling you what, this woman has gone off and has

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just taken off as a result of, ever since then. She has her own coaching

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program where she coaches people through healing, experiencing God's love.

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Why? Because she knows firsthand what it means and what it's like and how to live

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a life like this. So, anyway, just wanted to send this, repost this, in order to

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encourage everyone. And so, I'm very much looking forward to continue to seeing

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your journey shares. Remember that if you're feeling this resistance, if this

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is the kind of thing that the Rest Intensive is all about, is to push past

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this resistance. If you push past these things that we're not, we're not getting

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headway because we have this resistance and we're getting to this resistance and

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then we're stopping. We're like, oh, I don't, I don't want to do that. I don't

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want to have to go that far. I don't want to have to push past that. So, anyway, I

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hope that this, that this reposting is very encouraging to you and I will talk

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to you later. See you in the group.