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Hi, Diana, how are you finally was able to sign in, I mean I wasn't here because I wasn't

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able to sign in but but today I'm glad I came in early to do to look at the videos because I

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wouldn't have known when I was unable to log in and I wouldn't have had you know yes exactly yeah

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I thought about that I said oh good she's getting that all worked out now yeah how are you doing

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I'm doing good I'm here at my father-in-law's house and so my husband and I are

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um we're resting but I'm also working with this you know so the rest intensive so I do a lot of

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stuff in the background um and so I'm working actually basically all day and um and then he's

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uh he's trying to rest so I'm trying to rest in there so but yeah and then yesterday we went to

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or yesterday yeah yesterday we went to downtown St. Augustine and that was really special because

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it was the it's um the U.S.'s first um America's meaning like specifically the U.S.'s uh first uh

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city that was founded was St. Augustine by the Spaniards and so that was neat you get to see

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you know like the original fort and all of that and then they have some they have some

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uh like houses that were remade in that old style so they look like they're very old but

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you know that there's no way that those things have lasted from the 1500s anyway so all of the

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shops are in those old houses down at least at least one if not two streets and and that's really

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fun so we went there to and then um to shop and to eat and hang out and anyway it was it was really

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fun we we wanted to go to this Cuban restaurant because my my father-in-law is Cuban he came over

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from Cuba when he was 15 right uh before the borders closed he got out on like one of the

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last planes out of Cuba and when Fidel Castro took over and uh so anyway so my husband is half Cuban

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and so we like to eat a lot of Cuban food and we went to a Cuban restaurant that they knew of and

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we were very disappointed because we got there about like I don't know 5 30 I think or 5 and

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they said well we don't have an opening until 9 30 and it is a big restaurant I mean it is a

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really big restaurant just the real estate and then it's two floors so we're going how on earth

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but anyway this is very popular so I was so disappointed that we didn't get to go to go to

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a place that they knew of and that they were aware of but what is going on here um but what

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in Florida huh are you in Florida yeah I was going to say a Cuban restaurant

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with a big Cuban restaurant you have to be in Florida yes yes Jacksonville and so this was

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down in St. Augustine and um the in the downtown St. Augustine I'm trying to log into our into the

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zoom call from here to from my other computer just in case something because I've been having

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problems again with this computer so my husband and I are going to have to have it

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looked at here in Jacksonville but just in case this fails I'm gonna we won't lose on the meeting

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this website not now oh is it not law oh shoot it's not lodged into the internet

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I'm sure we'll be fine anyway um and uh so as typically happens you know you just kind of like

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just give it all to the lord just kind of rest and be like okay you know kind of like if you've

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seen Renata's and have you seen her journey share that she posted I think it was today

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um she experienced you know the same thing and that is just when you give it all to the lord

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that so often what happens is well I mean always what you get is something better but even sometimes

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in the natural like not just in the spiritual you get something better but so often in the natural

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it's just you get something better that you weren't expecting and so this restaurant wasn't

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available to us so we just stumbled upon this other and then they were trying to find this

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other Cuban restaurant couldn't find it so we found this other restaurant that neither of them

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had ever seen before and it's because it's fairly new and we knew nothing about it it was Italian

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coastal cuisine we walk in and I am telling you what it was an amazing meal they couldn't get us

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to leave we just kept ordering appetizer after appetizer and then we ordered the entree and then

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we ordered coffee and then dessert everything was excellent and I mean excellent

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We loved everything we got.

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It was so good.

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And so we're like, this is such a neat gem of a find.

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So that was a fun experience.

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So we've been enjoying our time with Ed's family.

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And then we're gonna go to his mom's

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who lives here in Jacksonville as well.

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We're gonna go stay with her, what is today's Sunday?

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So this week, now I'm gonna do some training

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while I'm down near her place.

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And then it's at a ministry that Ed used to work at

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before he moved to Morningstar.

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And so he's gonna help out at the event

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and then I'm gonna attend as a student.

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But that's at the end of next week.

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So anyway, that's my update.

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So, yeah.

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So anyway, let's see, you said that this past week

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has been very busy for you, you've been all right?

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Yes, yes, it's been good.

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I had a birthday yesterday, my sister.

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Was that fun?

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She celebrated her birthday.

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And so I'm a sister, a younger sister.

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And which is, I was gonna just say something really,

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it's been a very eventful week spiritually wise.

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It was just wild, very wild.

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Something I did not even know.

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I started, my dad died in 94.

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So that's like more, I don't know how many,

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20 some odd years ago.

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And Holy Spirit, and I kept thinking about him

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and thinking about him, I'm like,

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am I just thinking about my dad?

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Like, I do think about him, but not that much.

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And then I was feeling a lot of sadness.

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And he said, that's grief.

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And just the way the Holy Spirit has been talking to me

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also this week, so clearly, it's just mind blowing.

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Wow, I'm just amazed.

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Cause he just, he clearly said,

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what you're feeling is grief that is coming up

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because you never processed it.

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Like, it's like, I suppressed it 20 some odd years ago.

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I never, I'm like, really?

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It's like, yes.

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And all week I've been just feeling this ache

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and this grief.

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And so I don't know what to do with it.

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Honestly, I don't know what to do with it,

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but just, I've been trying to feel it

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and not push it away or not trying to,

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but I don't want to fall into grief either.

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Like, I don't want to stay there.

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So, but it's just weird.

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It's just an ache.

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And I have never felt that before, really.

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Yeah, wow.

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That's really powerful and very exciting

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that the Lord would show you that.

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We talked about it this past, what was it?

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I think it was this past rest group about,

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it could have been the past.

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Yeah, I think it was this past rest group.

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We talked about negative emotions and what to do with them,

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how it was important for them to come up and out.

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So if you look up, I posted all of the fireside chats

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and rest groups that we've had so far.

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So we've had, this is our third, technically our fourth,

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because I had the international rest group

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at three o'clock on Tuesday afternoon.

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But anyway, so all of those are posted.

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And as to, if you go to the rest group one,

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you'll see that at the end, near the end of it,

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we talk about negative emotions and the importance,

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like I said, to allow them to come up so we can feel them,

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because otherwise it means that,

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because if we don't allow ourselves to feel them,

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well, then we're just stifling them,

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we're stuffing them back down.

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And then that's literally how we get physical diseases,

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not to mention the spiritual and soulish ramifications.

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But there's a difference between that

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versus feeding on them.

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So allowing it to come up and feeling it with the Lord

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allows us to give it to them,

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allows us to let, to take whatever it is

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that we're feeling all of that about, and just let it go.

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Because there's something that we're holding onto

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and we have to let it just come up and out.

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And versus holding onto it and use in feeding it.

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If we feed on it, if we focus it,

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well, then it'll just, it'll strengthen it

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and then it'll stay.

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So, yeah, you're right.

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That balance is so challenging,

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but yeah, it sounds like you're doing an amazing job

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of just allowing yourself to grieve for the first time,

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but as opposed to stifling it again,

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but then, you know, being aware of,

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okay, well, not feeding on it,

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but allowing myself to fully grieve.

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It says that when Jesus, you know,

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heard that Lazarus had died

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and he knew what was going to happen.

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He knew he was going to go

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and he was going to talk to Lazarus's soul

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and resurrect him and all of that,

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but yet he still wept and he still grieved.

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Um, so anyway, um, figure that if Jesus grieves and it's okay for us to, but it

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just means that we're not supposed to take any of that and use it in some kind

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of an accusation against the Lord of his goodness or his sovereignty or his, you

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know, whatever it is that he says.

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Um, and, but it, but that grief means that we fully.

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We fully interacted with someone, you know, and take them into our hearts

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that we cared about and that we understood received and received the

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significance of their value.

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So, yeah, that's really good.

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I'm excited for you.

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All my words, such healing that we don't even know is down

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there that we could have.

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Right.

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It's just amazing.

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And then the videos, I was just looking, I was just like, Oh my God, so much.

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I didn't know, but you know, that's why I'm here.

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I'm so excited for you.

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That's huge.

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I'm excited to get to have seen all of the, um, uh, the journey shares and read

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them and everything, because people are experiencing the things that, you

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know, comes with this and all already, whenever we, uh, whenever people go

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through this immediately, if they take this thing to heart, if they're serious

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about it and they really start opening themselves up to the Lord, the Lord just

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takes off immediately and starts doing stuff.

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And, and, uh, and it's a, it always amazes everyone.

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It always amazes me.

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I was amazed at everyone else.

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How easy it is.

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It's like, we worked so hard for something and that all we had to do was God saying,

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no, it's all here.

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We're like, how on earth Lord is it all here?

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Because I'm working really hard for it.

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And I still can't find it.

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And all we had to do is let go.

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And as soon as we let go, as soon as we stopped trying, as soon as we accepted

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that we were who God says that we were.

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In other words, that what he was wanting from us was actually simply our default

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state and our natural state, then all of a sudden everything, so many, but the hard

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part is the letting it go.

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The hard part is learning to operate in a different way.

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Yeah.

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I'm so excited for you.

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Good.

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Well, um, hopefully, uh, the others will join us pretty quick.

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Um, does anyone have any questions to start us off with?

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Yeah, they're having trouble getting on.

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So I was trying to help direct, but, um, yeah, it's week two, February 2nd.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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Um, yeah, it's actually the same zoom link.

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So it, even though I have different days, same zoom link in each day.

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So it's not working as weird as it sounds.

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So I'm to go to a different day.

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Oh, okay.

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Are they on Facebook and they're no, they're on the, um, I don't see it.

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I was trying to send a picture.

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Yeah.

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Oh, really?

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Oh, I thought that on our, I usually like to have that open, but I'm

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using my phone as a camera.

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Yeah.

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Thank you so much for navigating that Rita.

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I appreciate that.

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Okay.

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There we go.

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Did it go?

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Yeah.

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So fireside chat, right?

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Yeah.

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Fireside chat.

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Yeah.

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Um, so how did y'all get in here?

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Um, that fireside chat and then the links in every single week.

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Yeah.

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So you went to today's and then you took you here.

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Okay, good.

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All right.

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I want to make sure everything's working the way it's supposed to.

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And that like, say for instance, so I'm, I'm used to this.

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This is my old, um, flood, like my old training coming out.

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So I have, and I used to manage software development teams.

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And so I'm very aware of like how to troubleshoot technical issues.

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So I'm like, okay.

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Okay.

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So Diana, how did you get in?

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Okay.

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Rita, how did you get in?

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Clicked on the exact same page.

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It got the same result.

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Yeah.

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She said today's date's not listing the problem, but I, I did

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see the today's date listed.

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She says, can you give me the steps from the beginning?

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How do I get to the fireside chat tab?

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So rest groups, right?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Either that just tell them to go to like week one and then look at today's date.

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Cause today is because it's week one.

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So go to today's date.

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And then if they click on that on what is today, February 5th fireside chat,

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if they click on that page, click on that, the page will pop up with the link.

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Okay.

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I'm going to start from groups though.

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She's like, can you tell me from the beginning?

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So groups rest intensive, right?

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Yeah.

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And then week one, right?

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Yes.

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So I'll probably do this differently.

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I'll probably organize all this differently.

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I organized it actually in the way that I thought would be most clear.

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So you always do that and you see if it works and if it doesn't,

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you organize it a different way.

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So maybe I need to organize it by like just fireside chats, rest groups.

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journey shares, instead of week one, week two, week, whatever.

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So.

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Oh, well, I mean, I like, I mean, like, it helps us know, like,

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hey, we supposed to journey share this time. Yeah.

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Now, what I can do is I could just do I could do each I could

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do three tabs, you know, or three groups, or whatever you

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call them, like, I can't think of what you call them in the in

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the background, they're called collections, like, you know,

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fireside chats, rest groups, journey shares, those recall

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collection, or week one, week one is a collection. So I

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collected a group of days under week one, what I could do

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instead is I could just have, like journey shares. And then

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under that I list every single day that needs to be done. The

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reason that I did it the other way is that so everyone would

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know, okay, today is we'd have one place for everyone to go

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almost kind of like a calendar. What is on today? Okay, I go to

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week one, okay, what's happening in week one, and you see all the

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things that happen in week one by day. So basically, I did it by

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times instead of by categories. I did it by days instead of by

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categories of like, what type of thing. But anyway, I always

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wanted to know what is going to work best for the most number of

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people. Hey, Tamra, were you able to get on?

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Oh, it looks like it's just Karen.

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Yeah. Hey, yes. Hey, don't have any trouble.

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It's the one that was asking for the instructions. What you read

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a gamer so but she's Oh,

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what I did is I had to go to week two on my iPad. It just

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showed the seventh and the ninth I had to click more on

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week two then it showed then it showed today's date which is odd

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because you would have thought that February 5 would have

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showed first even if you did if the list wasn't fully extended.

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So I think that may be the issue Diane is having because she

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usually logs off on her phone as well.

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Oh, maybe from the phone is different. Oh, Karen. Oh, yeah.

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Let me see. Can we just go maybe I can just put the zoom link in

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the thing.

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Oh, yeah, put it in the

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in the chat was already. Yeah,

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yeah. That's good. Yeah. I don't know. I'm not logged into my

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phone. So I can't add it.

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Thanks.

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Yeah, I didn't have to click more. But maybe because like you

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said, you're on the iPad or the phone.

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Yes, we're to say.

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Yeah, it's a little different on the phone. The phone is that I

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find a bit challenging. Because you have to go to content. Oh,

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she found it. Yeah.

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I think we're all here now.

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Yay.

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Hey, Karen, you made it.

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Yay, Karen.

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Oh, we can't hear you. Let me. Uh, yeah, I can't unmute you. If

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you want to unmute yourself.

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Okay, so I'm going to unmute myself.

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Okay.

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So if you tap Karen, if you tap your phone, the unmute button

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will pop up will appear at the bottom. Yeah, there you go. We

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can't hear me now. We can hear you and see you.

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Can you hear me loud and clear? Or do I need my headphones?

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No, we hear you loud and clear. Can you hear us? Good.

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Yeah, for the first time I can. I mean, wow.

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Great. Right. Super. Well, I'm sorry that we can't hear you.

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Great. Right. Super. Well, I'm sorry that there was so much

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trouble on finding it. Did you figure out how to do it?

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Right. I get I guess so. I thought I mean, I was asking

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to go on a zoom 15 minutes ago. And I don't know why it I'd

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Yeah. So I don't know which one I was on any different than

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this, though. So that's what's frustrating is, I don't know.

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I'm sorry. What you can do is, you know, if you just go to

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like, whatever week that we're on, and then click on or really

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on any fireside chat, you know, it'll say like January 28

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fireside chat or something like that. You click on it on the

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page that will open next to it is a zoom link is the same zoom

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link for every fireside chat. And it's a different zoom link

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for every rest group. So sorry, meaning like all the rest groups

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are one zoom link for all six weeks. And then every fireside

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chat is the same zoom link for all six weeks.

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Okay now so okay so when we meet Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, are they all fireside chats?

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No, Sunday and Thursday are and then Tuesday is the rest group so all you have to do just go to

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when you go to the platform go to content if you're on your phone you know it says discussion

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go to content which is the last tab at the end because it'll say something like about

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discussion content click on content and go down to whatever week we're on and we're on

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we're on week one and if you open each week it'll have a list of the dates so look at today's date

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and see what what's going on that day like oh today's the fireside chatter and then open up

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that day yeah but then okay i'm having a problem because for one thing isn't this week two

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uh oh yes it is it is week two so did you go to me but either way so either way all of the

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fireside chats are the same zoom link okay okay but okay but i never could find this

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today's date anywhere two five is nowhere to be found for me so that's yeah erin i was having the

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same problem on my ipad i have i have the word it said more when i clicked more than it um everything

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it extended and then i was able to see all the dates for week two but before i clicked that it

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didn't show february 5th so that's why i was confused like you i don't know if it was looking

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the same way yeah okay i appreciate y'all telling me that i'm going to have to contact the people

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who um created the platform let them know that when i'm see i have to sort it on the back end

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and on the back end i've sorted it so it's according it's it's telling it to do it in the

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date that i tell it but apparently for some of you it's showing up in the date that i ordered it and

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in others it's ignoring that i gave it that i gave the platform that instruction so i'm going

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to have to let them know about that glitch so i'm sorry it's very sad yeah so it's cool so it's yeah

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because i'm on an android too so tell me again what'd you say sunday and sunday and what now is

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so sunday and thursday are fireside chats and tuesday is rest group so what's the difference

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so fireside chats are just a live q a's and then the so where people come on and they ask me

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questions and i you know about like hey you know i've been going through this you know and or and

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i've been having questions i've been experiencing this what's on earth is going on or how do i

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handle this and rest whatever live q a and then on tuesday nights that's when people we all get

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together like kind of like a small group and then y'all all divide into breakout rooms you know or

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if it's a small enough group well then everyone stays on the same group but then i get off video

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and off microphone and then y'all just discuss together basically kind of journey share together

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hey this is what i've been going through and kind of like y'all talk it out so basically it's you

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get to articulate things um without having to have a teacher there so which is kind of nice sometimes

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okay yeah okay all right i'll see if i can remember that yeah yeah and like yeah like i said

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if you just go to the to um whatever week that we're on and then just look for the date i'm sorry

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that you couldn't find the date today so like tim tamari said if you if you go down to anything

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um and it's and it won't give you enough information it'll say load more at the bottom

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and like this black i tried that i tried that too i don't know and it didn't work oh i'm sorry

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i don't know no i keep trying to uh look at the platform make sure that it's smooth for everyone

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um the reason that it was important to me to get off of facebook is i'm concerned that with fix

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facebook's crackdown they're cracking down on christian groups and they're completely deleting

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them so i wanted to get off of facebook before ours was deleted now no hopefully that would never

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happen but i've just been praying myself through facebook for two and a half years asking lord lord

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i'm because i'm like constantly hearing of like people that were especially for a period of time

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there that christian groups were christian private groups just like ours were being deleted by

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facebook just because and um invite even some non-christian um uh facebook profiles and groups

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were being completely erased um even just because they didn't who knows what i heard that yeah i've

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heard that too so so tuesday's fireside chat the other ones are rest no so sunday and thursday

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fireside chat see i have too too many things so yeah yeah i'm sorry for all the confusion like i

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say if you just

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Just try to go by the dates, that'll be easier.

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But if I can't find them, I need to know the other.

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Yeah, I thought they were all the same.

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So this is just kind of confusing to me.

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So.

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Yeah, I'm trying to think.

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I don't know.

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I'll see if there's something else that I can do

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to make it a little easier.

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I'm sorry, running into issues.

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Because I've had issues getting on here a few times now.

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Oh, I'm sorry.

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Yeah.

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And that, yeah.

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So, okay.

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So the Tuesdays, the rest, Sunday.

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So if I find anything that says rest,

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I can click on it and Tuesday, Thursday

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or the fireside chat.

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Yeah, Sunday, Thursday.

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I mean, Sunday.

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See, I'm getting, sorry.

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No, the reason that I do it that way is,

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and Rita knows this,

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is because originally rest groups were on Sunday nights.

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But the problem with that is then you only had one day

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between two live Q and A's.

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And it was just, it was too quick.

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I mean, people didn't have enough questions

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that could come up sometimes between in just two days.

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So what I did is I moved the live Q and A's

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further apart in the week.

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So that's why I did it that way.

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So, yeah.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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So does anyone have a question

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that they would like to start us off with?

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I don't have anything.

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Afraid that I can't think of any questions

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that have come in that I've seen to be able to.

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So if someone has anything that maybe has come up or.

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Oh.

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Has everything been making sense

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in going through the teachings?

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If anyone is trying to either catch up on the teachings

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or has gone through that kingship

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and releasing exercises video,

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you know, that we didn't do in the conference.

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And I said to just do that on your own.

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I believe that's session four.

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And has anyone had any questions about any of that?

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Under, I remember all of this stuff discussed in that.

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I think, I think meditation, which I know sounds crazy

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and it sounds kind of scary.

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You know, it's not, it's not new agey or anything,

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but kind that I'm talking about

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is just simply bring yourself down

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where you're removing yourself basically below a propensity

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to be afraid and being more open and supple to the Lord

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to receive what he has to say to us.

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So there was that.

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Do you have any tips on how to get to that place

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on meditation?

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I struggle because I'm like an overthinker

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and sometimes I have to tell myself to, you know,

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to be still like, you know,

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cause I'm just, how do you get to yourself?

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Any tips on?

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Have you watched the session yet?

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Yeah, I did.

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But, and then I put on music that, you know,

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just like instrumental, like, like that,

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that music and stuff.

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And at times I still find myself just struggling.

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Is it, does it get easier?

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So what are you struggling with specifically?

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Too many thoughts or, or, or feelings internal?

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I guess I, I like,

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I need an internal quietness or something.

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Sometimes I just don't get to that place that you,

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as I'm saying,

478
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is it a process to that place that you're talking about

479
00:29:06.860 --> 00:29:10.660
where you're completely, what did you call it?

480
00:29:12.100 --> 00:29:13.700
Yeah, moving into theta.

481
00:29:15.500 --> 00:29:16.340
Yes.

482
00:29:16.340 --> 00:29:20.060
So the, it is easier if,

483
00:29:20.060 --> 00:29:23.300
well, what I did to practice that is I would,

484
00:29:23.300 --> 00:29:25.980
like I mentioned in the, in the teaching,

485
00:29:25.980 --> 00:29:28.140
I, what helped me other,

486
00:29:28.140 --> 00:29:30.620
in other words, this isn't a magic formula.

487
00:29:30.620 --> 00:29:33.700
I'm just saying, this is what actually worked for me

488
00:29:33.700 --> 00:29:35.460
so that y'all can try it if you want.

489
00:29:35.460 --> 00:29:37.700
And if it doesn't work for you, you can modify it.

490
00:29:37.700 --> 00:29:41.180
But what worked for me is I imagined a,

491
00:29:41.180 --> 00:29:43.740
I closed my eyes and I would imagine a blank screen.

492
00:29:43.740 --> 00:29:47.460
Again, I wouldn't, I didn't stand and I didn't lie down.

493
00:29:47.460 --> 00:29:50.980
I would sit up, but I would close my eyes,

494
00:29:50.980 --> 00:29:53.140
imagine a blank screen in front of me

495
00:29:53.140 --> 00:29:57.540
and then pick a white dot that I kind of imagined as light

496
00:29:57.540 --> 00:29:59.100
and that I imagined as Jesus.

497
00:29:59.100 --> 00:30:00.300
Now I didn't give him a.

498
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:05.520
form because he would, I would bank him so far away that I couldn't get distracted by a form.

499
00:30:05.520 --> 00:30:11.520
But the fact that that light was Jesus would make me feel safe and would make help me anchor myself

500
00:30:11.520 --> 00:30:16.240
and my thoughts on God, as opposed to me kind of like being out in some ethereal

501
00:30:17.200 --> 00:30:24.960
aloneness, you know. And so anyway, because again, what I'm wanting to make myself subject,

502
00:30:25.360 --> 00:30:34.160
make myself supple to and suggestible to, in other words, easy to receive something

503
00:30:34.160 --> 00:30:39.840
that's being said. I only want it to be from God, not from my own fears, not from my own,

504
00:30:40.400 --> 00:30:45.360
you know, anything negative for my own soul and not anything from an outside spirit that's not

505
00:30:45.360 --> 00:30:50.800
of the Lord. So anyway, that's, that's another reason why I like focus on that light as being,

506
00:30:50.800 --> 00:30:57.040
you know, Jesus. And then I, and it also gives me kind of an anchor point because it's easier for me

507
00:30:57.040 --> 00:31:03.120
to get distracted if it's all blackness, because then there's just, there's just nothing to,

508
00:31:03.120 --> 00:31:08.240
to anchor myself to. So I've got an anchor. And then I just, I know that, you know, the thoughts

509
00:31:08.240 --> 00:31:12.640
are going to start coming. And sure enough, as they start coming, I just allow, I don't focus

510
00:31:12.640 --> 00:31:17.440
on him. I just like, okay. I just thought about that. Okay. I just thought about that, but I

511
00:31:17.440 --> 00:31:22.960
don't stop and think, oh my word. I don't latch on to the idea. I don't latch on to the fact that,

512
00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:26.720
oh my goodness, I can't believe I thought about that. Or I don't latch on to the fact of,

513
00:31:26.720 --> 00:31:30.160
oh my word, you know, that's right. I do need to look into that or, oh my word. Yeah. I need

514
00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:34.800
to add that to the grocery list. I, I just, I don't, basically I don't give it any power.

515
00:31:35.440 --> 00:31:41.200
I allow it to present itself. I allow it to try to get attention and I just don't empower it.

516
00:31:41.200 --> 00:31:45.920
I'm like, you know what? I'm just going to ignore it right now. It can yap. I don't know it.

517
00:31:46.160 --> 00:31:50.640
So I just kind of move through it. Like I mentioned in this, in the session,

518
00:31:50.640 --> 00:31:57.120
I just moved through it like a cloud. And what that does is it, because it is, is training me

519
00:31:57.840 --> 00:32:02.800
to govern is training me to govern myself because I'm, and I'm starting with my thoughts

520
00:32:03.440 --> 00:32:09.440
and that, and that actually be yet. And because I'm, because what it's doing is it's training me

521
00:32:09.920 --> 00:32:16.640
to move into my position of rulership and authority. I'm subconsciously taking rulership

522
00:32:16.640 --> 00:32:22.720
over my own emotions. And so, yes, it does start everything in me starts calming down

523
00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:29.840
simply because I'm learning to exercise my kingship. I'm learning to exercise the fact

524
00:32:29.840 --> 00:32:35.840
that I own myself and I govern myself. So as soon as I move into that position of like

525
00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:42.240
Governor governorship, you know, of kingship, all of the other aspects of me that are waiting for

526
00:32:42.240 --> 00:32:47.920
me to present myself that are waiting to be identified that they themselves are waiting

527
00:32:47.920 --> 00:32:54.000
to be identified by who I reveal myself to be. So if I reveal myself to be a King, then like,

528
00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:59.440
Oh, well, we're subjects of you. So now I know who I am. Now that you've presented yourself.

529
00:32:59.440 --> 00:33:04.960
Now I know who I am. And now I feel safe because I know who I am. And I know that you're there to

530
00:33:04.960 --> 00:33:11.120
protect me. So I calmed down. So everything in us, even our emotions will begin to, you know,

531
00:33:11.120 --> 00:33:14.560
when everything internally, or, you know, our heart rate, you know, our breathing, all of that

532
00:33:14.560 --> 00:33:21.920
will slow down as we begin to, as we begin to remember, even subconsciously, even if you're

533
00:33:21.920 --> 00:33:26.480
not consciously remembering it subconsciously, even if you're not consciously remembering it,

534
00:33:26.480 --> 00:33:31.360
subconsciously, you were remembering that you're a King and you're remembering that you rule and

535
00:33:31.360 --> 00:33:35.600
you're suddenly taking your position and everything around you will notice meaning like

536
00:33:35.600 --> 00:33:40.560
everything within you, your feelings, your beliefs, your thoughts, your body, whatever, it'll notice,

537
00:33:40.560 --> 00:33:47.200
Oh, there she is. Okay. Now I know what to do. And now I can calm down. So everything, you know,

538
00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:53.200
eventually will. So, um, and so, yeah, you just kind of, you just practice because really what

539
00:33:53.200 --> 00:34:00.480
you're doing is you're not practicing getting it to, how would you put that base? Uh, Oh,

540
00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:10.960
how, how would you word that? You are, you are, are taking more and more of a, um, Oh man,

541
00:34:10.960 --> 00:34:17.920
why am I, my, uh, where it's failing you tonight? You're just really what you're doing is you are

542
00:34:17.920 --> 00:34:24.719
reminding yourself more and more of who it is that you are, and you're moving yourself more

543
00:34:24.719 --> 00:34:32.719
into your default state. So that's what's taking a while. It's not usually really so much that

544
00:34:32.719 --> 00:34:39.040
your feelings are taking a while to get on board in something like this. And I, and this is not

545
00:34:39.040 --> 00:34:46.400
always the case, but it's usually the case that what's taking a while is you shifting into that

546
00:34:46.400 --> 00:34:52.560
position. It's not that you're shifting into that position and it's not responding again,

547
00:34:53.120 --> 00:34:59.120
that can happen. And that does happen periodically, but usually it doesn't usually by far

548
00:34:59.120 --> 00:34:59.840
the highest.

549
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:09.000
The highest amount of times, the highest percentage of times, it's just that it's taking a while because you're not stepping into that place.

550
00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:18.000
There's something that is still making us afraid or something that really, you know, that we're still not choosing.

551
00:35:18.000 --> 00:35:23.000
We're waiting for something to happen instead of putting ourselves there.

552
00:35:23.000 --> 00:35:37.000
So I suppose it's another way for me to word that is, or for me to explain, is that when we're in that situation, remember, this is teaching us how to shift into sitting in the position of kingship.

553
00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:47.000
So it's something that we're needing to actively do, so to speak. In other words, we have it, we're needing to make a choice.

554
00:35:47.000 --> 00:35:54.000
We can't just sit there and allow the thing to happen to us. And we're so, and that's what this exercise is all about.

555
00:35:54.000 --> 00:36:03.000
We're so used to feeling victim to what happens to us. Oh my word, this happens to me today because so-and-so made a decision and it affected my life.

556
00:36:03.000 --> 00:36:11.000
And now I have to deal with it. You know, we're so used to, or this is how I feel. And so now it's requiring a response from me.

557
00:36:11.000 --> 00:36:22.000
We're used to living our lives so often by what is requiring, from the perspective that our lives are dictated by what is requiring a response from us.

558
00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:39.000
When really, God says, no, no, no, get up every morning, remembering that you are who I said that you are, and you choosing very determinedly, very, very intentionally what you want to create, what you want to do, all with God.

559
00:36:39.000 --> 00:36:58.000
But my point is from a very offensive position instead of a defensive one. And so that's something that we, that we use this exercise to help strengthen within us is being intentional about positioning ourselves where God says that we are.

560
00:36:59.000 --> 00:37:09.000
We're not doing a series of like formulaic actions of, okay, imagine a blank screen, imagine this, imagine this, and then suddenly something's going to happen outside of our control.

561
00:37:09.000 --> 00:37:21.000
All that we're doing is we're giving ourselves a particular environment that is in which we're more likely to choose, but we still have to be the ones who have to do it.

562
00:37:21.000 --> 00:37:24.000
So anyways, all of this helping or making sense.

563
00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:26.000
Okay, good.

564
00:37:26.000 --> 00:37:27.000
Good.

565
00:37:27.000 --> 00:37:35.000
So and then when I've done this, I'm telling you, I, it was normal for me to do this sometimes on a daily basis for an hour.

566
00:37:35.000 --> 00:37:40.000
And it would feel like it was 510 minutes and I would look up and it would been an hour.

567
00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:49.000
Because she just, anyway, it's very, I don't know, everything just kind of everything within me just kind of stills and it just slows down.

568
00:37:49.000 --> 00:38:02.000
And you would think that it would have slowed down time so that's something that I've never understood is why and I would look up at the clock and think how on earth has it been an hour and 15 minutes I thought it was 10 minutes.

569
00:38:03.000 --> 00:38:18.000
And it would happen over and over every day and I don't understand, because to me it felt like I was everything within me had slowed so much that I thought that it was slowing time down, so to speak.

570
00:38:18.000 --> 00:38:23.000
In other words, that I was able to feel every millisecond.

571
00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:30.000
But really what it was is it's like when as soon as I slowed down I flew through time.

572
00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:34.000
How that works exactly I don't know, but I experienced it every day.

573
00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:41.000
So anyway, so I'm glad that that's helpful.

574
00:38:41.000 --> 00:39:08.000
So on that note, so we're meditating and learning to take control of our minds or, you know, in our thoughts to at some point after you've taken that do you put something in there and you start talking to God or, or are you just trying to teach yourself to be.

575
00:39:09.000 --> 00:39:15.000
Yes. So, go ahead.

576
00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:26.000
Yeah, I guess, you know, yeah I guess after the step of quieting yourself I guess I didn't know the next step. What would happen next. Yeah.

577
00:39:26.000 --> 00:39:43.000
So that's a good question. So one of two things you can use that to initiate listening to the Lord, being more open because you're dropping yourself down you're dropping your brain down and into what they know is more suggestible state.

578
00:39:43.000 --> 00:40:00.000
In other words, there's less resistance, which is why people talk about doing that with like hypnosis and whatever people who do hypnosis, because you're people are more suggestible now that what I'm talking about is nothing whatsoever to do with hypnosis.

579
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:05.820
And that people use that use, um, that people getting people to a particular

580
00:40:05.820 --> 00:40:08.400
state because they're suggestible.

581
00:40:08.400 --> 00:40:14.580
But remember all we're doing is we are breaking down our, all of the resistance

582
00:40:14.580 --> 00:40:17.840
that we're having against God, why we're not believing him, why we're not

583
00:40:17.840 --> 00:40:21.520
hearing him, why we're not whatever, or we're not receiving from him, right?

584
00:40:21.800 --> 00:40:23.220
That's all we're trying to do.

585
00:40:23.240 --> 00:40:24.700
We're not trying to do anything weird.

586
00:40:24.700 --> 00:40:26.060
You have full control of yourself.

587
00:40:26.080 --> 00:40:29.960
You're fully functioning, you know, in your consciousness and all of that.

588
00:40:30.200 --> 00:40:35.300
You are using it in order to, to gain control of yourself again, so to speak.

589
00:40:35.440 --> 00:40:39.400
So, um, by again, removing all of the resistance that you, and all of the,

590
00:40:39.400 --> 00:40:43.440
it, all of the, um, are they called inhibitions?

591
00:40:43.720 --> 00:40:46.820
You know, you know, all of the, all of the things that you're

592
00:40:47.040 --> 00:40:48.840
using to create your resistance anyway.

593
00:40:49.320 --> 00:40:55.400
Um, so that's the whole practice is just basically to teach you and to

594
00:40:55.400 --> 00:40:59.440
strengthen that muscle of regaining control of yourself.

595
00:40:59.680 --> 00:41:03.520
And to realize, oh, I really do govern myself.

596
00:41:03.540 --> 00:41:06.240
I really am not subject to my thoughts.

597
00:41:06.720 --> 00:41:08.520
I can control my own thoughts.

598
00:41:08.560 --> 00:41:11.680
I can, in other words, I can determine what it is that I listen to pay

599
00:41:11.680 --> 00:41:14.040
attention to follow through on or whatever.

600
00:41:14.640 --> 00:41:18.180
So that's, it's kind of like this revelation of a thing of like, oh my

601
00:41:18.180 --> 00:41:20.920
word, I'm really not subject to my life.

602
00:41:20.920 --> 00:41:22.840
Like I thought it, like I thought it was.

603
00:41:23.080 --> 00:41:27.280
So it's that kind of an exercise, but you can use it kind of

604
00:41:27.280 --> 00:41:28.800
just to strengthen your muscle.

605
00:41:29.320 --> 00:41:31.960
But you can extend that into, okay.

606
00:41:31.960 --> 00:41:36.360
Now talk, you can then do that process for a bit and then

607
00:41:36.360 --> 00:41:37.480
start talking to the Lord.

608
00:41:37.880 --> 00:41:42.560
Cause the, again, the whole point of this is you strengthen the muscle so that you

609
00:41:42.560 --> 00:41:45.680
can go to that place every time.

610
00:41:46.320 --> 00:41:50.840
And you can, without going through this whole thing of like seeing blackness,

611
00:41:50.920 --> 00:41:55.240
it, you know, with a, with a white dot that you're thinking of as light, and

612
00:41:55.240 --> 00:41:58.600
then imagining your thoughts going through you like clouds, you know,

613
00:41:58.800 --> 00:42:04.240
you don't have to, it's, it's making yourself familiar enough with gaining

614
00:42:04.240 --> 00:42:10.240
control and shifting into that place of Kingship so that eventually you'll be

615
00:42:10.240 --> 00:42:13.800
so used to it that you don't even have to use this tool.

616
00:42:14.040 --> 00:42:15.160
You'll just go there.

617
00:42:15.360 --> 00:42:17.080
You'll just drop your resistance.

618
00:42:17.120 --> 00:42:20.720
You'll more easily hear from the Lord because you just don't, like I said,

619
00:42:20.720 --> 00:42:22.160
you're not having as much resistance.

620
00:42:22.600 --> 00:42:24.560
It's similar to the rest shifting tools.

621
00:42:24.560 --> 00:42:29.360
You know, how eventually those, those tools are all to just teach you how to

622
00:42:29.360 --> 00:42:32.880
find that place within you that's in resistance and just letting it go.

623
00:42:32.880 --> 00:42:36.360
And that eventually you'll get so used to finding that place because

624
00:42:36.360 --> 00:42:37.920
the tools just help you find a place.

625
00:42:38.600 --> 00:42:41.920
And so, and teach you how to like understand what it means and

626
00:42:41.920 --> 00:42:43.560
feels like to let something go.

627
00:42:43.560 --> 00:42:46.400
And eventually you'll become so familiar with that process.

628
00:42:46.400 --> 00:42:49.240
You don't even need the tool to go to the place within you.

629
00:42:49.240 --> 00:42:50.800
That's got resistance in the left.

630
00:42:50.800 --> 00:42:53.400
The thing go, that's what this exercise is.

631
00:42:53.760 --> 00:42:59.160
It's to basically strengthen a muscle so that eventually you won't even need the

632
00:42:59.160 --> 00:43:05.640
tool in order to just stop resisting and very clearly hear the Lord or start

633
00:43:05.640 --> 00:43:07.400
talking to him without distractions.

634
00:43:07.400 --> 00:43:13.640
That's kind of the whole point of this is we feel very victim to our distractions.

635
00:43:14.320 --> 00:43:14.720
Oh my goodness.

636
00:43:14.720 --> 00:43:16.280
I couldn't do it because I was too distracted.

637
00:43:16.360 --> 00:43:17.800
I mean, you're just like, I can't, I can't pay attention

638
00:43:17.800 --> 00:43:18.800
because the television's on.

639
00:43:18.800 --> 00:43:20.200
I can't pay attention because there's music.

640
00:43:20.200 --> 00:43:21.160
I can't be attention.

641
00:43:21.800 --> 00:43:25.200
We're feel victim to our environment.

642
00:43:25.640 --> 00:43:29.200
And so this is to teach us how to, that we're not victim to our

643
00:43:29.200 --> 00:43:30.480
environment, including our own.

644
00:43:31.000 --> 00:43:32.360
Our own thought environment.

645
00:43:33.000 --> 00:43:37.520
And the more that we gain control of ourselves, the more that we can control

646
00:43:37.520 --> 00:43:41.320
ourselves in any environment, and we're not even doing the tool.

647
00:43:41.320 --> 00:43:41.680
Why?

648
00:43:41.680 --> 00:43:44.120
Because we simply use the tool to strengthen the muscle.

649
00:43:44.560 --> 00:43:46.200
So now we can use the muscle whenever we want.

650
00:43:46.840 --> 00:43:47.720
That's the point of it.

651
00:43:48.440 --> 00:43:49.320
Does that make sense?

652
00:43:50.040 --> 00:43:50.880
Yes.

653
00:43:50.920 --> 00:43:51.400
Okay.

654
00:43:52.240 --> 00:43:55.760
But you can use this exercise if you want to, like, right before you

655
00:43:55.760 --> 00:43:58.840
start talking to the Lord and whatever, you can do that.

656
00:43:58.880 --> 00:43:59.520
Absolutely.

657
00:43:59.720 --> 00:44:04.160
But it's not like you can't find this tool somewhere in the Bible of like,

658
00:44:04.200 --> 00:44:08.080
oh, he said, before you talk to him, you know, to do this, it's just to like,

659
00:44:08.200 --> 00:44:14.520
help us, like I said, strengthen, um, and ask it re, um, I don't know, kind

660
00:44:14.520 --> 00:44:22.320
of put hands and feet to practicing being a king, governing ourselves, being

661
00:44:22.320 --> 00:44:27.600
in control of ourselves, making the rules by which, uh, by which we live.

662
00:44:28.440 --> 00:44:31.120
So those two having to respond.

663
00:44:31.280 --> 00:44:35.960
I mean, I equate it to being still like that, that Bible verse

664
00:44:36.000 --> 00:44:37.280
teaching ourselves to be still.

665
00:44:37.520 --> 00:44:37.760
Yeah.

666
00:44:37.760 --> 00:44:38.280
Be still.

667
00:44:38.280 --> 00:44:39.160
I know that I'm God.

668
00:44:39.720 --> 00:44:40.080
Yeah.

669
00:44:41.160 --> 00:44:41.720
Thank you.

670
00:44:41.880 --> 00:44:43.280
Yeah, you're welcome.

671
00:44:44.520 --> 00:44:50.560
Does anyone have anything else, anything else that's come up?

672
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:12.680
Have y'all, have the rest shifting tools been helpful?

673
00:45:12.680 --> 00:45:18.880
Have y'all been able to apply them or what have you been using the most?

674
00:45:18.880 --> 00:45:23.480
Have you been using, trying to, you know, remembering and choosing that God loves you,

675
00:45:23.480 --> 00:45:26.160
that you're unconditionally accepted?

676
00:45:26.160 --> 00:45:28.760
That for me is what I had to remember the most.

677
00:45:28.760 --> 00:45:32.320
I had to choose no, and that's what I recommend to everybody.

678
00:45:32.320 --> 00:45:37.640
That's the most important foundational thing is to choose that you're unconditionally accepted

679
00:45:37.640 --> 00:45:40.960
without shame and condemnation, and that you're unified with him.

680
00:45:40.960 --> 00:45:46.760
Remember that's the first two things that we talked about were the fact that God loves

681
00:45:46.760 --> 00:45:52.800
us and, and unconditionally, and that we are unified with him to the extent that he says

682
00:45:52.800 --> 00:45:54.000
that we are.

683
00:45:54.000 --> 00:45:58.000
It's not like, oh, we're, we're inside of him and oh, isn't that nice?

684
00:45:58.000 --> 00:46:00.720
You know, no, we're, we're like, we're so integrated with him.

685
00:46:00.720 --> 00:46:01.720
We can't be separated.

686
00:46:01.720 --> 00:46:03.840
He is the head and we are the body.

687
00:46:03.840 --> 00:46:07.600
I mean, we're just like this, we're that integrated, right?

688
00:46:07.600 --> 00:46:11.560
The body gives instruction to the head, gives instruction to the body and the body can't

689
00:46:11.560 --> 00:46:15.480
exist or function without instruction and direction from the head.

690
00:46:15.480 --> 00:46:20.040
Remember it's the head that gives instruction to the heart to pump and the lungs to breathe

691
00:46:20.040 --> 00:46:24.160
and tells everybody what it is you're supposed to do that kind of a thing.

692
00:46:24.160 --> 00:46:25.480
And we're that integrated with him.

693
00:46:25.480 --> 00:46:34.640
So as, as much as it might seem like it's not as easy to real, um, that it doesn't seem

694
00:46:34.640 --> 00:46:41.280
as relevant sometimes to specific situations as maybe a rest tool would be, Oh, well, you

695
00:46:41.280 --> 00:46:42.760
know, I'm in the middle of the situation.

696
00:46:42.760 --> 00:46:50.280
It's a lot easier for me to connect a rest tool to it, you know, um, while it, so you

697
00:46:50.280 --> 00:46:52.640
can absolutely use a rest tool.

698
00:46:52.640 --> 00:46:58.200
Just remember though, that the most powerful thing that will change everything because

699
00:46:58.200 --> 00:47:04.280
the rest tools are completely powerless without these things, the most powerful thing is actually

700
00:47:04.280 --> 00:47:13.160
to, to really, um, have a, an interaction with an experience with God, meaning like,

701
00:47:13.160 --> 00:47:19.040
like as a, as a normal occurrence, not like a one-time experience, a normal, um, interaction

702
00:47:19.040 --> 00:47:28.440
with the Lord that, um, that you are unconditionally loved and accepted that you are who he says

703
00:47:28.440 --> 00:47:33.040
that you are, that you have, that there is no shame, no, no condemnation, even when you're

704
00:47:33.040 --> 00:47:38.240
in the middle of a sin of sinning, that you're so unified with him, that there's no separation

705
00:47:38.240 --> 00:47:44.600
even when you sin and actually live like that.

706
00:47:44.600 --> 00:47:51.760
So ask yourself things like if God loved me, as much as he said that it says that he does

707
00:47:51.760 --> 00:47:56.920
how, what would I do in this situation or how, you know, how, what choice would I make

708
00:47:56.920 --> 00:47:57.920
in this situation?

709
00:47:57.920 --> 00:48:06.480
And the same thing about union, if I really am not separated from God and I am as unified

710
00:48:06.480 --> 00:48:12.200
with him, as he says that I am, what would I do?

711
00:48:12.200 --> 00:48:14.880
And what would I, what would I believe?

712
00:48:14.880 --> 00:48:17.160
What, what would I act on?

713
00:48:17.160 --> 00:48:23.880
Because remember that that is faith, that faith is acting, that faith has to have an

714
00:48:23.880 --> 00:48:26.880
action in order to actually be faith.

715
00:48:26.880 --> 00:48:31.600
It's not because it's a formula like, okay, well, you know, there's, you know, one plus

716
00:48:31.600 --> 00:48:32.960
one is two.

717
00:48:32.960 --> 00:48:40.120
It's that it's that if you really do have faith, then you will act on it because it

718
00:48:40.120 --> 00:48:45.480
means that that is what is what you base your sense of reality on.

719
00:48:45.480 --> 00:48:51.840
And we always, always, always, always, always, always, always without fail live and act by

720
00:48:51.840 --> 00:48:56.140
what we really believe is real.

721
00:48:56.140 --> 00:49:03.100
We do not act on things that we don't believe are real, um, always, but even like it, we

722
00:49:03.100 --> 00:49:08.660
can say that we believe something is real all we want, but if subconsciously we don't,

723
00:49:08.660 --> 00:49:14.700
we want to act like it or, and if, if we do it anyway, if we act on it anyway, even without

724
00:49:14.700 --> 00:49:18.740
the faith, remember what I talked about before, you know, if you like go to the faith is going

725
00:49:18.740 --> 00:49:22.700
to the edge of the cliff and then believing in something that God said, and if God's,

726
00:49:22.700 --> 00:49:26.740
and then because you believe it, it creates a stepping stone for you to step out onto

727
00:49:26.740 --> 00:49:28.140
it.

728
00:49:28.140 --> 00:49:32.900
But how I said that if you don't have faith faith in it, just stepping out and acting

729
00:49:32.900 --> 00:49:38.700
on it, won't, won't get you anywhere because your faith didn't create the step.

730
00:49:38.700 --> 00:49:44.140
You know, it's, it's that kind of a thing you just, because you act on it.

731
00:49:44.140 --> 00:49:48.300
So we can do that sometimes we can be, we can want to believe God so much that we think,

732
00:49:48.300 --> 00:49:49.500
okay, well, what does faith mean?

733
00:49:49.500 --> 00:49:52.860
Well, I thought if I really believe it, then I'll act on it.

734
00:49:52.860 --> 00:49:53.860
Okay.

735
00:49:53.860 --> 00:49:54.860
Okay.

736
00:49:54.860 --> 00:49:58.340
So I'll just act on it because, but if you don't remember that, if you don't have the

737
00:49:58.340 --> 00:50:00.020
faith, then, then.

738
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:05.120
You're not going to get the, you're not going to get the benefits of acting on it.

739
00:50:05.120 --> 00:50:07.800
You, you, you'll act on it and you'll fail.

740
00:50:08.320 --> 00:50:11.520
And it won't work for all the reasons that you thought in the

741
00:50:11.520 --> 00:50:12.920
first place, it wasn't going to work.

742
00:50:13.720 --> 00:50:15.520
You're going to bear those consequences.

743
00:50:16.000 --> 00:50:16.360
Why?

744
00:50:16.520 --> 00:50:21.640
Because your faith didn't, didn't create a step to support your action.

745
00:50:22.400 --> 00:50:26.720
So, um, I don't remember how it got off on all of that, but, um, it's

746
00:50:26.720 --> 00:50:29.640
very important to, um, to act.

747
00:50:29.680 --> 00:50:34.960
Oh, that's what I was saying, you know, to think, okay, Lord, I'm

748
00:50:34.960 --> 00:50:38.160
choosing that you really do believe.

749
00:50:38.360 --> 00:50:41.840
I mean, if you really do believe that you really did say that

750
00:50:41.880 --> 00:50:43.760
you accept me unconditionally.

751
00:50:43.880 --> 00:50:45.400
So I've just sinned.

752
00:50:46.360 --> 00:50:47.560
So now what do I do?

753
00:50:47.560 --> 00:50:58.080
Well, before I would feel so guilty that I would pay for, I would pay for

754
00:50:58.080 --> 00:51:02.240
reconnection with you by apologizing over and over and over and over and over

755
00:51:02.240 --> 00:51:09.400
and feeling really bad, but Lord, that whole action was based off my belief

756
00:51:09.480 --> 00:51:12.400
that I'm separated from you and that terrified me.

757
00:51:13.240 --> 00:51:20.120
So if I'm wanting to change that belief, Lord, so you're telling me that I'm not

758
00:51:20.120 --> 00:51:22.040
separated from you, even when I sin.

759
00:51:22.120 --> 00:51:22.400
Okay.

760
00:51:22.400 --> 00:51:23.280
So what would I do?

761
00:51:23.920 --> 00:51:24.200
Okay.

762
00:51:24.200 --> 00:51:26.320
Lord, I'm desiring to believe that.

763
00:51:27.240 --> 00:51:30.400
And so, Lord, I am going to believe it.

764
00:51:30.560 --> 00:51:33.280
I'm in other words, I'm going to choose that it's true, because

765
00:51:33.280 --> 00:51:34.960
remember what I said about faith.

766
00:51:35.440 --> 00:51:39.880
That you choose that it's true because it's an act of your will.

767
00:51:39.920 --> 00:51:45.720
You determine for yourself that that is the reality of

768
00:51:45.720 --> 00:51:46.840
the world in which you live.

769
00:51:47.360 --> 00:51:49.600
You make it up.

770
00:51:50.680 --> 00:51:51.800
That's what it's going to feel like.

771
00:51:51.800 --> 00:51:55.760
You're not making it up because God said it first, but it will feel to you like

772
00:51:55.760 --> 00:51:59.960
you were making up something that's not even true, that's how it will feel.

773
00:52:00.360 --> 00:52:01.280
You won't believe it.

774
00:52:02.120 --> 00:52:05.600
And you know, and you won't feel like it and you will have no law and

775
00:52:05.600 --> 00:52:06.960
you'll have no logic to back it up.

776
00:52:07.440 --> 00:52:11.440
But God said, so, okay, Lord, you said that I'm not separated

777
00:52:11.440 --> 00:52:12.360
from you, even when I sin.

778
00:52:12.360 --> 00:52:16.640
So therefore, if that's true, God, I can prove it to myself by choosing that

779
00:52:16.640 --> 00:52:19.480
that's true, and I'm going to act on it.

780
00:52:19.480 --> 00:52:24.600
I'm going to put myself in a vulnerable position with you too.

781
00:52:24.600 --> 00:52:26.120
And again, this is a safe one.

782
00:52:26.120 --> 00:52:29.400
You're not like walking out in the middle of the street, you know, coming

783
00:52:29.480 --> 00:52:32.080
on oncoming traffic or something and being really ridiculous.

784
00:52:32.360 --> 00:52:33.480
You're putting yourself in it.

785
00:52:33.480 --> 00:52:36.680
And in quote, unquote, like safe place to be able to exercise and

786
00:52:36.680 --> 00:52:40.160
practice these things with the Lord, put yourself in a vulnerable

787
00:52:40.160 --> 00:52:41.440
position with the Lord.

788
00:52:42.080 --> 00:52:49.000
So he can, um, for him to show up as he says that he is like, okay, God.

789
00:52:49.240 --> 00:52:53.000
And here's the thing though, remember, you're not supposed to test God.

790
00:52:53.560 --> 00:52:56.880
This isn't testing that has a specific.

791
00:52:57.600 --> 00:52:59.280
Very negative heart to it.

792
00:52:59.640 --> 00:53:02.520
Like, okay, well, I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna make up, prove himself.

793
00:53:02.840 --> 00:53:04.120
That's not what you're doing.

794
00:53:04.240 --> 00:53:04.640
Really?

795
00:53:04.640 --> 00:53:08.840
What you're doing is you are forcing yourself out of your old

796
00:53:08.840 --> 00:53:12.840
box into, to, into believing what God said.

797
00:53:13.000 --> 00:53:14.840
So it was like, okay, I used to act like this.

798
00:53:15.000 --> 00:53:15.280
Okay.

799
00:53:15.280 --> 00:53:17.760
God, that's was based on this belief.

800
00:53:17.760 --> 00:53:21.440
So instead of Lord, I'm going to choose that you're not separated, that I'm not

801
00:53:21.440 --> 00:53:23.200
separated from you even when I sin.

802
00:53:23.320 --> 00:53:28.480
And Lord, you say that if I ask anything of you in your name, that I'm going to

803
00:53:28.480 --> 00:53:31.600
receive it because you say, God, that you're a good God, you say that you're

804
00:53:31.600 --> 00:53:36.640
an abundant, that you are, um, that you, that you take care of me in abundance.

805
00:53:37.120 --> 00:53:39.720
So therefore Lord, I'm going to ask you for something.

806
00:53:40.760 --> 00:53:46.160
And then I'm going to see by experience, I'm going to prove to myself by putting

807
00:53:46.160 --> 00:53:50.000
myself in a very vulnerable position, the Lord, that the Lord really is who he says

808
00:53:50.000 --> 00:53:52.320
that he is, you're not testing God.

809
00:53:52.320 --> 00:53:53.720
Cause here's the difference.

810
00:53:54.480 --> 00:53:57.800
Testing God is going to God, not believing it.

811
00:53:58.880 --> 00:54:01.320
And then wanting him to prove you wrong.

812
00:54:02.480 --> 00:54:08.520
That's going to him expecting that he's guilty and him had enforcing

813
00:54:08.520 --> 00:54:10.200
him to prove his innocence.

814
00:54:10.720 --> 00:54:11.800
That will get us nowhere.

815
00:54:12.720 --> 00:54:14.800
And it says in the Bible that that's wrong.

816
00:54:15.080 --> 00:54:21.360
It says we're not supposed to test God, but where you are, that if you're coming

817
00:54:21.360 --> 00:54:26.200
to God's choosing that, what he says is true, really what you're doing

818
00:54:26.200 --> 00:54:27.680
is you're risking yourself.

819
00:54:28.440 --> 00:54:31.240
You were trying to take what you use.

820
00:54:31.280 --> 00:54:36.280
You're, you're trying to, um, write what, what a friend of mine refers to as

821
00:54:36.520 --> 00:54:41.560
writing a new record for yourself that you've been in this position before.

822
00:54:41.680 --> 00:54:46.640
And you made a particular choice and maybe you tried to trust God or whatever,

823
00:54:46.640 --> 00:54:52.000
but you had no faith and it was only, um, you had no faith in it and it was only

824
00:54:52.000 --> 00:54:54.200
action and you saw what happened.

825
00:54:54.200 --> 00:54:59.920
No faith without faith or, you know, trying to step out on something action.

826
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:03.840
Without faith, completely fall down because there's no, there's no step to hold yet.

827
00:55:03.880 --> 00:55:04.200
Right.

828
00:55:04.520 --> 00:55:06.160
So you're like, okay, I've been here before.

829
00:55:06.160 --> 00:55:07.600
Last time I tried, it didn't work.

830
00:55:08.320 --> 00:55:11.640
Also, if I did the opposite of what God says, these things happen.

831
00:55:11.640 --> 00:55:17.280
So when God says that I should step out and that he really is there and I've

832
00:55:17.280 --> 00:55:18.800
tried it before and it didn't work.

833
00:55:19.480 --> 00:55:23.040
So now I'm going to risk it again, but this time I'm going to do

834
00:55:23.040 --> 00:55:24.280
it from a different position.

835
00:55:24.280 --> 00:55:25.600
I'm going to do it, trusting God.

836
00:55:25.600 --> 00:55:28.720
Last time I did it, not trusting God, testing God.

837
00:55:29.640 --> 00:55:35.600
And claim and believing that it wasn't going to work and just hoping that I was

838
00:55:35.600 --> 00:55:42.080
wrong and just requiring of God that he proved himself innocent, you know, and

839
00:55:42.080 --> 00:55:44.480
then I fell and here I am again.

840
00:55:45.080 --> 00:55:48.120
So what you're doing is you're proving it to yourself.

841
00:55:48.720 --> 00:55:51.240
You're proving to yourself that God is who he is.

842
00:55:51.840 --> 00:55:54.160
You're not asking God to prove it.

843
00:55:54.880 --> 00:55:55.800
That's the difference.

844
00:55:55.840 --> 00:55:57.000
And it's a heart issue.

845
00:55:57.000 --> 00:55:59.120
It's a heart position makes.

846
00:55:59.720 --> 00:56:00.720
All the difference in the world.

847
00:56:00.760 --> 00:56:04.160
I'm telling you, because I experienced it, meaning like I've experienced

848
00:56:04.160 --> 00:56:08.160
both many, many, many, many, many, many times stepping out and action

849
00:56:08.160 --> 00:56:12.920
without faith, completely failed, completely flopped, and then got very

850
00:56:12.920 --> 00:56:15.640
hurt and then got very bitter and resentful against the Lord.

851
00:56:15.840 --> 00:56:21.480
And then I had a whole plethora of examples in which I had faith in God and

852
00:56:21.480 --> 00:56:25.800
what he said, and I stepped out on that faith, meaning like I really did choose.

853
00:56:26.080 --> 00:56:28.520
And I stepped out and he completely supported it.

854
00:56:29.240 --> 00:56:30.480
So, um, do anyway.

855
00:56:31.720 --> 00:56:36.600
Um, but I, so my, the way that I got there was, um, just wanting to remind

856
00:56:36.600 --> 00:56:42.120
everyone that the most important thing is not that we're trying to, that the

857
00:56:42.120 --> 00:56:46.560
point of the rest intensive is not, Hey, we're all in a bad place and we

858
00:56:46.560 --> 00:56:47.920
need to be in a better place.

859
00:56:47.960 --> 00:56:48.840
That's not it.

860
00:56:49.840 --> 00:56:52.600
It is focusing on God's goodness and his love.

861
00:56:53.480 --> 00:56:54.520
God is good.

862
00:56:55.360 --> 00:56:57.280
And what he wants for you is freedom.

863
00:56:58.000 --> 00:56:59.560
He loves you unconditionally there.

864
00:56:59.560 --> 00:57:05.440
You are not is, and to choose that you are not under any more shame and condemnation.

865
00:57:06.240 --> 00:57:14.320
It's to focus on, on the goodness of who he says he is and who he says that you are.

866
00:57:15.080 --> 00:57:17.320
That is what I recommend you focusing on.

867
00:57:17.360 --> 00:57:20.480
That will completely change your life and it will completely change

868
00:57:20.480 --> 00:57:23.800
the tone of your experience during the rest intensive.

869
00:57:24.080 --> 00:57:28.040
If you approach the rest intensive, like, okay, Ashley, I don't feel good.

870
00:57:28.040 --> 00:57:29.200
I want to escape it.

871
00:57:30.000 --> 00:57:31.680
That will be a very long road.

872
00:57:31.920 --> 00:57:34.280
It will feel very, very difficult.

873
00:57:34.680 --> 00:57:38.040
And Rita's Rita's nose, like smiling.

874
00:57:38.040 --> 00:57:40.000
She's like, I've watched other people go through it.

875
00:57:40.000 --> 00:57:41.840
You could ask her whether she's gone through it.

876
00:57:41.880 --> 00:57:45.840
I've gone through it, but I'm telling you totally changes the tone of it.

877
00:57:46.440 --> 00:57:49.600
But if you, and I'm noticed by the way, I've noticed a world of difference in

878
00:57:49.600 --> 00:57:53.680
the people who go through the rest intensive and view it as a positive

879
00:57:53.680 --> 00:57:56.240
forward thing that is drawing them to God.

880
00:57:56.480 --> 00:57:56.960
Oh my word.

881
00:57:56.960 --> 00:58:01.520
He loves me as opposed to, okay, what can I believe about God that

882
00:58:01.520 --> 00:58:04.120
will let me escape how painful this is?

883
00:58:05.320 --> 00:58:07.360
That is a very long journey.

884
00:58:07.840 --> 00:58:11.960
And, um, and you, you can, you can absolutely do it.

885
00:58:12.000 --> 00:58:13.880
It will take a lot longer though.

886
00:58:14.520 --> 00:58:20.360
What I've noticed a huge difference in is how quickly and how powerfully people

887
00:58:20.360 --> 00:58:26.240
move and stay in, you know, in love and freedom and continuing to follow the

888
00:58:26.240 --> 00:58:32.600
Lord like that by them choosing to focus on God's love, unconditional acceptance.

889
00:58:32.920 --> 00:58:37.600
No shame, no condemnation union with him that he's that good.

890
00:58:38.320 --> 00:58:41.160
I mean, keep asking yourself, is God really that good?

891
00:58:41.440 --> 00:58:42.080
Yes.

892
00:58:43.040 --> 00:58:45.520
And then you go deeper, you know, is God really that good?

893
00:58:45.800 --> 00:58:46.520
Yes.

894
00:58:47.120 --> 00:58:53.720
If you use that to draw yourself, then you will have, then you will shift much

895
00:58:53.720 --> 00:58:58.640
faster, much more powerfully, and it will be a much more positive experience.

896
00:58:59.360 --> 00:59:03.320
So that's where all the power is because remember whatever we focus on, we feed.

897
00:59:03.320 --> 00:59:06.680
So if we were going to always focus on what, where it is, we're trying to escape

898
00:59:06.680 --> 00:59:08.400
from, we're feeding the monster.

899
00:59:08.400 --> 00:59:09.560
We're trying to flee from.

900
00:59:09.920 --> 00:59:13.400
We're actually making a lot harder to escape because we're focusing on

901
00:59:13.400 --> 00:59:14.880
trying to get out of the dadgum thing.

902
00:59:15.080 --> 00:59:17.160
And God's just like, no, no, no, forget about it.

903
00:59:17.680 --> 00:59:20.880
You're giving it entirely too much power and attention.

904
00:59:21.360 --> 00:59:22.760
Just focus on me.

905
00:59:23.400 --> 00:59:27.320
And then I would, in my love will completely transform your life.

906
00:59:27.840 --> 00:59:32.480
You will begin to make decisions without even needing to ask Ashley about how you

907
00:59:32.480 --> 00:59:37.360
make these certain decisions and rest simply because my love and my freedom

908
00:59:37.360 --> 00:59:43.440
will open you up to being able to more clearly know on your own of how to make

909
00:59:43.440 --> 00:59:47.560
these decisions, you know, and how to shift into rest and all of that.

910
00:59:47.920 --> 00:59:49.560
That's what shifted me into rest.

911
00:59:50.000 --> 00:59:53.120
I'm tell, see, I'm telling y'all tools that worked for me.

912
00:59:53.280 --> 00:59:54.920
No one told me those tools.

913
00:59:55.160 --> 00:59:56.080
How did I learn them?

914
00:59:56.280 --> 01:00:00.000
I learned them because what I always had to focus on was, okay, God says he's.

915
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:00.880
That much love.

916
01:00:01.200 --> 01:00:03.280
He says, there's no shame and no condemnation.

917
01:00:03.280 --> 01:00:05.000
He says that there's no separation.

918
01:00:05.000 --> 01:00:08.080
He says he's that I'm, I need that unified with him.

919
01:00:08.800 --> 01:00:11.640
So what, what am I doing?

920
01:00:11.640 --> 01:00:16.160
That's not letting me let that's resisting me choosing that.

921
01:00:16.720 --> 01:00:18.680
And then how do I let that go?

922
01:00:19.160 --> 01:00:24.600
So what helped me learn everything that I did was focusing on those things.

923
01:00:25.040 --> 01:00:29.360
I didn't have the tools, the tools were developed in my

924
01:00:29.360 --> 01:00:33.800
seeking out how to follow these things, how to believe in, how to act on them,

925
01:00:33.840 --> 01:00:35.800
how to choose them, how to move forward.

926
01:00:36.040 --> 01:00:38.400
So basically I wasn't trying to escape.

927
01:00:39.400 --> 01:00:44.760
If I, when I had been living my life, trying to living my life, trying to escape

928
01:00:44.760 --> 01:00:49.200
all of the pain and using God and like, is it kind of like a formula of how to

929
01:00:49.200 --> 01:00:53.440
escape all these bad things just simply so I can live an easier, better life that

930
01:00:53.440 --> 01:00:56.120
just that it was a long and painful road.

931
01:00:56.360 --> 01:00:58.480
And it brought me absolutely to the end of myself.

932
01:00:58.840 --> 01:01:03.560
So what switched for me is when I stopped focusing on what I was trying to escape

933
01:01:03.560 --> 01:01:10.800
from, I no longer required of God to allow me to escape or to work or to, you

934
01:01:10.800 --> 01:01:11.800
know, cause me to escape.

935
01:01:12.440 --> 01:01:15.680
I no longer require God to get me out of where I was.

936
01:01:16.920 --> 01:01:18.640
That's what changed everything for me.

937
01:01:18.880 --> 01:01:21.480
And instead, what I did is I chose God.

938
01:01:21.880 --> 01:01:22.720
Who are you?

939
01:01:23.120 --> 01:01:27.200
And I want to get to know that I want to believe that I want to have faith in that.

940
01:01:27.200 --> 01:01:28.440
I want to live like that.

941
01:01:29.120 --> 01:01:35.320
And whatever that causes, even the bad, painful, suffering things to happen in my

942
01:01:35.320 --> 01:01:41.280
life, so be it that's fine, but I'm just going to focus Lord on the good, not on

943
01:01:41.280 --> 01:01:44.080
escaping the bad, and that's when everything changed.

944
01:01:44.120 --> 01:01:50.240
So just FYI, it's very important to, to be focusing in the rest intensive on the

945
01:01:50.240 --> 01:01:55.520
fact that God is so much better than we thought that he was as opposed to how

946
01:01:55.520 --> 01:01:58.000
can I use God to help me escape?

947
01:01:59.080 --> 01:02:00.960
So that will be a very long, painful road.

948
01:02:01.160 --> 01:02:04.040
And what I'm going to do is I already have some of these, I already have these

949
01:02:04.040 --> 01:02:08.800
journey shares in here from past people that have gone through the rest intensive,

950
01:02:08.800 --> 01:02:10.800
but you'd have to scroll way down to find them.

951
01:02:10.800 --> 01:02:15.360
So I'm going to find a few of them and pop them up from up top, either that, or

952
01:02:15.360 --> 01:02:16.760
put them in a special category.

953
01:02:16.760 --> 01:02:17.480
I'm not really sure.

954
01:02:17.520 --> 01:02:22.880
And so that y'all can read those and hopefully be encouraged by them.

955
01:02:23.200 --> 01:02:26.600
There are people that have that again, they, you know, I've been, I've been

956
01:02:26.600 --> 01:02:30.720
mentoring people for almost three years now, it'd be three years, April 4th, I

957
01:02:30.720 --> 01:02:34.920
think, and these are people that have gone through this, that I've taught this

958
01:02:34.920 --> 01:02:39.600
to, and then they went to try to apply it in their own life and real life situations.

959
01:02:40.000 --> 01:02:42.320
And they came back with these amazing testimonies.

960
01:02:42.320 --> 01:02:44.800
I mean, time after time, after time, time again.

961
01:02:44.800 --> 01:02:48.320
So I'm going to find some of those so that y'all can know, Hey, look, it's not

962
01:02:48.320 --> 01:02:52.360
just me, it's other people who've been on this journey and what it is that they

963
01:02:52.360 --> 01:02:56.440
experienced, because maybe what it'll do is it'll help you flesh out what it is

964
01:02:56.440 --> 01:03:01.600
that I'm talking about into your daily life by hearing how other people, um,

965
01:03:01.640 --> 01:03:07.720
actually, um, lived it and experienced it and what they saw of their own God in

966
01:03:07.720 --> 01:03:11.280
their lives, because that's where everything changes, all this stuff that

967
01:03:11.280 --> 01:03:13.280
I'm talking about, uh, it just sounds good.

968
01:03:13.560 --> 01:03:18.840
It won't change your life until you, until you choose between you and God that

969
01:03:18.840 --> 01:03:24.560
he is who he says that he is, and you step out and risk yourself on him really

970
01:03:24.560 --> 01:03:25.880
being who he says that he is.

971
01:03:26.160 --> 01:03:31.160
And let yourself experience, um, actually got himself experienced

972
01:03:31.160 --> 01:03:32.240
that he is who he says he is.

973
01:03:32.440 --> 01:03:36.400
So, and then you'll start seeing what happens in your life and you'll find that.

974
01:03:37.200 --> 01:03:40.520
That you, what it does is odd as it is.

975
01:03:40.760 --> 01:03:43.440
And it's, it's, it's actually very exciting.

976
01:03:44.160 --> 01:03:47.320
You won't care as much about what happens.

977
01:03:47.520 --> 01:03:48.960
It's basically like promises.

978
01:03:48.960 --> 01:03:51.880
Remember we talked about the promises the other day, how it, how

979
01:03:51.880 --> 01:03:53.360
we're not supposed to focus on.

980
01:03:53.720 --> 01:03:57.360
Oh, I think it was in the, uh, it was in the, um, international rest group.

981
01:03:57.640 --> 01:04:00.800
So I recommend if y'all haven't seen that, I've posted all of the rest groups

982
01:04:00.800 --> 01:04:04.400
in the fireside chats we've had so far recommend you go and you watch the,

983
01:04:04.480 --> 01:04:06.440
uh, the international rest group one.

984
01:04:06.840 --> 01:04:12.000
Um, cause we were, um, you can hear, you know, Renata and Annette and I visiting.

985
01:04:12.400 --> 01:04:16.960
And in there, we were talking about promises versus the one who promised

986
01:04:16.960 --> 01:04:20.040
and how important it is for us to focus on the one who promised

987
01:04:20.080 --> 01:04:21.560
instead of what he promised.

988
01:04:22.200 --> 01:04:26.360
And, uh, uh, anyway, so we'll, you'll discover that when you begin to

989
01:04:26.360 --> 01:04:30.680
experience, we begin to risk yourself on God's character and give up the

990
01:04:30.680 --> 01:04:32.200
things that meant so much to you.

991
01:04:32.920 --> 01:04:36.760
That God will start manifesting the goodness of his character and his

992
01:04:36.760 --> 01:04:40.760
abundance and his love and all of this is specific ways in your life that

993
01:04:40.760 --> 01:04:45.880
matter to you, that makes sense to you, that, that you value, and you will

994
01:04:45.880 --> 01:04:53.360
find that all it will do will just get you will is you won't be as excited

995
01:04:53.360 --> 01:04:58.680
about what happened as you will be about what it showed about God and it

996
01:04:58.680 --> 01:05:00.040
basically what it can do.

997
01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:05.060
who is it can begin to loosen your whole even more and more to this world because

998
01:05:05.060 --> 01:05:09.660
you're, because you begin to actually experience how good God is, and then

999
01:05:09.660 --> 01:05:14.800
he's just all you want, and it'll help you loosen your, your need and your

1000
01:05:14.800 --> 01:05:18.060
hold of how things manifest on earth.

1001
01:05:18.120 --> 01:05:20.420
Like, are you in pain or are you in comfort?

1002
01:05:21.020 --> 01:05:22.460
You stop caring as much.

1003
01:05:22.580 --> 01:05:25.780
I know that that sounds weird, but it's because you finally discover

1004
01:05:25.780 --> 01:05:27.260
God's as good as he says that he is.

1005
01:05:27.560 --> 01:05:29.800
And if he's that well, then who cares about the world?

1006
01:05:30.460 --> 01:05:36.000
And the more that you do that, the more that you feed into that, then, um, the

1007
01:05:36.000 --> 01:05:40.380
more, and the more you let go of this world, the more of this, the, um, of this

1008
01:05:40.380 --> 01:05:44.400
world that sometimes that God will give you why, because you no longer need it.

1009
01:05:45.180 --> 01:05:50.000
But he doesn't want to give something to us and, and like, like fill our lives

1010
01:05:50.000 --> 01:05:54.300
with things that are actually creating greater resistance to him, because it's

1011
01:05:54.300 --> 01:05:57.000
actually not giving us what it is that we're asking for.

1012
01:05:57.480 --> 01:06:01.480
So as weird as it is, you know, he's, he's, um, kind of interesting, you know,

1013
01:06:01.480 --> 01:06:06.420
how he fulfills our, our, our, um, our, and answers our prayers that we ask him

1014
01:06:06.420 --> 01:06:08.680
for, Lord, I want to know more of you and all of that.

1015
01:06:09.080 --> 01:06:10.720
So it was like, this is, this is it.

1016
01:06:11.180 --> 01:06:14.780
Um, you know, and you think I'm withholding things from you and instead

1017
01:06:14.780 --> 01:06:17.520
I'm trying to give you what it is that you actually want.

1018
01:06:17.980 --> 01:06:21.260
So anyway, I'll post some of those up and I think that you'll

1019
01:06:21.260 --> 01:06:22.240
be really encouraged by them.

1020
01:06:22.300 --> 01:06:24.060
I'm always encouraged when I read them, you know?

1021
01:06:24.700 --> 01:06:32.640
Um, and, uh, so I will, it is after time, so I will let y'all go and hope

1022
01:06:32.640 --> 01:06:37.440
that y'all have a good evening and, uh, don't forget the, the journey shares.

1023
01:06:37.440 --> 01:06:38.360
Those are great.

1024
01:06:38.400 --> 01:06:39.480
I'm enjoying those.

1025
01:06:40.240 --> 01:06:45.700
Um, and on the journey shares, uh, I had noticed this and so poor Renata

1026
01:06:45.700 --> 01:06:50.020
had noticed the same thing, maybe even Rita, that you can't post

1027
01:06:50.080 --> 01:06:52.980
emojis in the actual post itself.

1028
01:06:53.000 --> 01:06:54.640
It will reject the post.

1029
01:06:55.060 --> 01:06:56.320
It'll completely disappear.

1030
01:06:56.400 --> 01:06:57.760
And I wouldn't want that to happen to y'all.

1031
01:06:58.320 --> 01:07:01.280
So, um, I, and it took me a while to figure it out.

1032
01:07:01.280 --> 01:07:03.560
I thought, why are some of these posts disappearing?

1033
01:07:03.800 --> 01:07:05.760
So I thought, let's see if I remove the emojis.

1034
01:07:05.760 --> 01:07:06.480
Yeah, sure enough.

1035
01:07:06.540 --> 01:07:08.760
You know, if you remove the emojis, it won't disappear.

1036
01:07:08.760 --> 01:07:13.200
So, um, so just don't put any emojis in the post, which is

1037
01:07:13.200 --> 01:07:14.560
very sad because I love emojis.

1038
01:07:14.920 --> 01:07:18.720
But it does, the program does let you put them in the comment section.

1039
01:07:19.020 --> 01:07:20.540
So, um, there's that.

1040
01:07:20.660 --> 01:07:27.180
Um, and it's, uh, also if you do a video videos are my favorites, Rita and

1041
01:07:27.180 --> 01:07:30.460
Renata will tell you they are my favorite, um, cause it helps me

1042
01:07:30.460 --> 01:07:32.220
connect so much with people.

1043
01:07:32.460 --> 01:07:38.540
But, um, uh, the, uh, if you do post a video, do some kind of a text or

1044
01:07:38.540 --> 01:07:42.060
something, you just say, it could just be like, Hey, Hey there, or journey

1045
01:07:42.060 --> 01:07:46.920
share, because the, if you click on the video, it won't let people, it won't

1046
01:07:46.940 --> 01:07:49.140
let people comment if you only do a video.

1047
01:07:49.440 --> 01:07:53.420
So if you do a little text at the bottom of the video, like you, you post a video,

1048
01:07:53.420 --> 01:07:57.700
but you also put some little texts in there, it will let people comment on it.

1049
01:07:57.700 --> 01:08:00.420
Cause they can open up the post by clicking on the text.

1050
01:08:00.420 --> 01:08:03.540
If you click on the video, it'll just start playing the video, but it won't

1051
01:08:03.540 --> 01:08:05.260
open it as weird as it is though.

1052
01:08:05.660 --> 01:08:08.020
Just little glitches that I apologize for.

1053
01:08:08.280 --> 01:08:12.260
But, um, again, I'm very pleased with the overall platform and I'm very

1054
01:08:12.260 --> 01:08:14.220
excited that it gets us off Facebook.

1055
01:08:14.640 --> 01:08:18.000
Um, but the program is still in, uh, still being developed.

1056
01:08:18.040 --> 01:08:21.720
There are some really big ministries that are actually using it right now.

1057
01:08:22.200 --> 01:08:25.200
And some are using it as their sole platform.

1058
01:08:26.040 --> 01:08:30.420
Um, so I'm trying to do the same thing cause it, um, it gives me more, um,

1059
01:08:30.439 --> 01:08:34.800
autonomy and control over the content, um, without me being afraid that it's

1060
01:08:34.800 --> 01:08:38.319
going to disappear or something because I'm on some other free platforms.

1061
01:08:38.319 --> 01:08:42.540
So anyway, so I'm okay with dealing with these little glitches, but I wanted to

1062
01:08:42.540 --> 01:08:44.319
make sure that y'all knew how to navigate it.

1063
01:08:44.840 --> 01:08:46.080
Does anyone have a question?

1064
01:08:46.840 --> 01:08:48.240
Great question, Ashley.

1065
01:08:48.920 --> 01:08:51.720
And I haven't done, I haven't done any journey share.

1066
01:08:51.720 --> 01:08:54.000
So is that like, is that okay?

1067
01:08:55.080 --> 01:08:58.380
Yeah, just try to jump on there soon and do some, because the

1068
01:08:58.380 --> 01:09:00.240
whole point is to articulate.

1069
01:09:00.300 --> 01:09:02.100
Um, so it is part of the program.

1070
01:09:02.319 --> 01:09:08.020
So in the point of it is to art is, um, to articulate what it is that some, that,

1071
01:09:08.040 --> 01:09:11.700
um, for yourself, what you're going through, you know, between you and the

1072
01:09:11.700 --> 01:09:16.319
Lord and, um, and just basically, you know, just kind of like what you've been

1073
01:09:16.319 --> 01:09:18.880
talking about, like say for instance, on the rest group or whatever.

1074
01:09:19.240 --> 01:09:21.840
So if you'd go in there and do those, that would be great.

1075
01:09:22.000 --> 01:09:23.819
It really is extremely effective.

1076
01:09:24.160 --> 01:09:26.560
Um, I'm a process improvement specialist.

1077
01:09:26.580 --> 01:09:31.140
In other words, I, I was hired by companies, really good money by

1078
01:09:31.140 --> 01:09:35.840
companies to cut down on the amount of work because, uh, um, that's just kind

1079
01:09:35.840 --> 01:09:37.540
of my specialty is cutting out busy work.

1080
01:09:37.880 --> 01:09:41.880
So I promise that anything that's in the program is only the stuff that I've

1081
01:09:41.880 --> 01:09:45.700
noticed was actually effective in the people that shifted the most.

1082
01:09:46.000 --> 01:09:49.120
I started doing kind of an analysis of everyone who was shifting

1083
01:09:49.120 --> 01:09:50.640
the most versus people who weren't.

1084
01:09:51.040 --> 01:09:55.760
And I noticed that people who did posts, people who did, especially people who did

1085
01:09:55.760 --> 01:09:59.760
video posts, but people who did post people who were the most vulnerable by.

1086
01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:04.020
Well, it doesn't mean you have to give private information, but vulnerable about

1087
01:10:04.020 --> 01:10:08.580
your, like your processing things with the Lord, it doesn't have to be, oh, well,

1088
01:10:08.580 --> 01:10:11.780
I had this fight with my husband and we said this and we said that that's private

1089
01:10:11.780 --> 01:10:12.260
information.

1090
01:10:12.260 --> 01:10:15.360
You don't have to say that some people do because they feel very comfortable.

1091
01:10:15.780 --> 01:10:19.440
It has to be very vulnerable about like, Hey, you know, I was struggling with this

1092
01:10:19.440 --> 01:10:21.760
with the Lord found out I wasn't believing him about this.

1093
01:10:21.760 --> 01:10:26.180
So I talked to him yesterday and I know it's hard, but if we can't be vulnerable

1094
01:10:26.180 --> 01:10:29.540
with people, it, we can't be vulnerable with the Lord.

1095
01:10:29.620 --> 01:10:31.140
That's what I've noticed over and over.

1096
01:10:31.180 --> 01:10:37.460
In fact, I have a, a couple of journey shares from someone else who

1097
01:10:37.460 --> 01:10:39.260
know who found this out the hard way.

1098
01:10:39.620 --> 01:10:41.900
And I'll try to find those and post those up as well.

1099
01:10:41.900 --> 01:10:45.900
So they all getting good encouragement by the major breakthrough that she got after

1100
01:10:45.900 --> 01:10:50.300
several months of trying and couldn't until she did a journey share and then she

1101
01:10:50.300 --> 01:10:50.660
got it.

1102
01:10:51.100 --> 01:10:55.540
So she got a breakthrough and, uh, cause she was able to use that as a tool to

1103
01:10:55.580 --> 01:10:57.140
finally be vulnerable with the Lord.

1104
01:10:57.260 --> 01:11:00.060
And she kept thought she kept thinking she was being vulnerable to learn.

1105
01:11:00.060 --> 01:11:01.140
I told her, no, you're not.

1106
01:11:01.700 --> 01:11:05.580
And I was very kind about it, but it's like, no, no, you're not.

1107
01:11:05.580 --> 01:11:08.260
I said, and this is how you can, it's just like, how am I not?

1108
01:11:08.300 --> 01:11:12.020
I said, have you been vulnerable, you know, online, you know, with the, in the

1109
01:11:12.020 --> 01:11:14.660
group and she's like, no, I don't want to, that's too terrifying.

1110
01:11:14.660 --> 01:11:15.540
It's too scary.

1111
01:11:15.940 --> 01:11:19.620
I said, if you do that, it will finally break the thing in you.

1112
01:11:19.620 --> 01:11:21.660
That's keeping you from being vulnerable to God.

1113
01:11:21.740 --> 01:11:22.620
Oh, she was terrified.

1114
01:11:22.860 --> 01:11:24.060
She did it anyway.

1115
01:11:24.620 --> 01:11:25.500
And she got a breakthrough.

1116
01:11:25.540 --> 01:11:27.860
She was ecstatic.

1117
01:11:27.860 --> 01:11:30.980
So she got online and she did a testimony about it.

1118
01:11:30.980 --> 01:11:33.180
She's like, Ashley told me it would happen.

1119
01:11:33.540 --> 01:11:37.220
So, um, so anyway, that's the point of them is to help people.

1120
01:11:37.220 --> 01:11:40.100
They will, people will shift more effectively that way.

1121
01:11:40.100 --> 01:11:42.940
So anyway, simply to help everybody else.

1122
01:11:43.260 --> 01:11:45.020
I hope you mean, okay.

1123
01:11:45.020 --> 01:11:47.020
What are the, what would a video be about?

1124
01:11:47.020 --> 01:11:48.100
I don't understand that.

1125
01:11:48.940 --> 01:11:49.460
Okay.

1126
01:11:49.460 --> 01:11:55.620
So just go to the, uh, go to like any of the pages that say journey share, click

1127
01:11:55.620 --> 01:11:59.060
on it and it'll give the, it'll give instructions about the journey share

1128
01:11:59.740 --> 01:12:01.180
and about what they are.

1129
01:12:01.180 --> 01:12:04.500
Also, if you look in the discussion tab, you'll see other people who've been

1130
01:12:04.500 --> 01:12:09.020
posting things like they'll post a video or they'll post a, they'll post a written

1131
01:12:09.020 --> 01:12:10.980
post, you know, the writeup stuff.

1132
01:12:11.500 --> 01:12:14.260
And, and then you, and then you just see how people are doing it.

1133
01:12:14.580 --> 01:12:14.900
Okay.

1134
01:12:14.900 --> 01:12:16.340
What kind of video would it be though?

1135
01:12:16.340 --> 01:12:17.340
I don't quite get that.

1136
01:12:17.740 --> 01:12:20.020
It's a video where you do a video about yourself.

1137
01:12:20.060 --> 01:12:21.540
Like you get on as if you're on Facebook.

1138
01:12:22.500 --> 01:12:23.980
Oh yeah.

1139
01:12:24.020 --> 01:12:28.220
So it's that, or you can do a written post and just look at examples that other

1140
01:12:28.220 --> 01:12:31.620
people have done, some people in, you know, people in this group, as well as

1141
01:12:31.620 --> 01:12:34.740
like people for, if you keep scrolling, you'll see people that aren't in this

1142
01:12:34.740 --> 01:12:38.660
group, people from prior rest intensives and you'll see stuff that they do.

1143
01:12:38.780 --> 01:12:42.300
I mean, there's like, I haven't finished moving them all over yet, but there's

1144
01:12:42.300 --> 01:12:42.860
hundreds.

1145
01:12:43.660 --> 01:12:47.340
So yeah, give you ideas about like how other people are doing it.

1146
01:12:47.340 --> 01:12:54.780
And some people are more open than others, meaning more, um, more open about

1147
01:12:54.780 --> 01:12:59.020
their private, you know, lives and then other people keep that close to the vest.

1148
01:12:59.020 --> 01:13:03.660
But the only people that shift are the people that are vulnerable about their

1149
01:13:03.660 --> 01:13:06.980
walk with God, you know, the struggle, like through, you know, whether it is,

1150
01:13:07.900 --> 01:13:12.140
I don't, I think I'm kind of vulnerable, but I'm not the best about wanting to

1151
01:13:12.580 --> 01:13:13.020
type.

1152
01:13:13.340 --> 01:13:17.820
I'm not, I don't even like text typing emails for a while.

1153
01:13:17.820 --> 01:13:19.100
So that's, what's hard for me.

1154
01:13:19.100 --> 01:13:20.180
I'm just going to be honest with you.

1155
01:13:20.180 --> 01:13:24.540
I don't, I'd rather talk to you than type things out and text things to people.

1156
01:13:24.860 --> 01:13:30.020
I feel like I'm so, but I, but I don't like videos, but I don't like doing videos.

1157
01:13:30.020 --> 01:13:34.540
So, oh, well, I'd rather talk to somebody.

1158
01:13:34.540 --> 01:13:37.660
So this, this, this is, I'm just telling you my little dilemma here.

1159
01:13:38.500 --> 01:13:38.860
Yeah.

1160
01:13:38.860 --> 01:13:42.780
Well, you just do a video talking to us.

1161
01:13:42.780 --> 01:13:43.500
That's what you're doing.

1162
01:13:43.500 --> 01:13:45.180
You're not doing a video for yourself.

1163
01:13:45.420 --> 01:13:47.460
You're doing it and you're talking to us.

1164
01:13:47.740 --> 01:13:51.340
Like for instance, Renata's gotten on a couple of times and Annette, and they both

1165
01:13:51.340 --> 01:13:53.460
done videos and they're talking to us.

1166
01:13:53.460 --> 01:13:54.620
So it's like, Hey, everybody.

1167
01:13:54.620 --> 01:13:59.580
So just thought I'd let you know, you know, what's going on and that's what it's like.

1168
01:14:00.020 --> 01:14:02.100
So if you look at it, it'll make more sense.

1169
01:14:02.100 --> 01:14:02.540
I think.

1170
01:14:03.300 --> 01:14:03.740
Okay.

1171
01:14:04.420 --> 01:14:04.780
Yeah.

1172
01:14:05.420 --> 01:14:06.140
All right.

1173
01:14:08.620 --> 01:14:12.700
And by the way, whenever y'all do a journey share, you don't have to, but if you want,

1174
01:14:12.700 --> 01:14:17.660
you can go through and like, just hit the little, um, that little like circle next

1175
01:14:17.660 --> 01:14:21.460
to the journey share that has the date with the journey share it next to it.

1176
01:14:21.700 --> 01:14:25.540
If you click on it, then you'll know, then you can kind of keep track of if you

1177
01:14:25.580 --> 01:14:27.740
have completing your journey shares that week.

1178
01:14:28.140 --> 01:14:30.220
Um, and I don't see those.

1179
01:14:30.220 --> 01:14:31.340
I don't see the little dots.

1180
01:14:31.340 --> 01:14:33.460
It's just for you to keep track of your week.

1181
01:14:33.740 --> 01:14:35.340
If that's helpful, may not be helpful.

1182
01:14:35.340 --> 01:14:36.060
You don't have to do it.

1183
01:14:36.220 --> 01:14:40.940
I just want to let you know, for some people, some people are very structured and they like,

1184
01:14:40.940 --> 01:14:42.300
they like that kind of thing.

1185
01:14:42.300 --> 01:14:45.740
Me, that's entirely too much structure for other people.

1186
01:14:46.380 --> 01:14:48.540
So, but if you like it and if that's helpful, there it is.

1187
01:14:49.340 --> 01:14:49.740
Okay.

1188
01:14:49.740 --> 01:14:50.780
Well, it's good to see y'all.

1189
01:14:50.780 --> 01:14:54.780
If y'all have any questions, just feel free to reach out on the Facebook messenger.

1190
01:14:54.780 --> 01:14:59.580
Wish there was something in this platform that let us do it, but that I've been told it's coming.

1191
01:14:59.580 --> 01:15:00.080
So.

1192
01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:02.000
Anyway, good to see y'all.

1193
01:15:02.000 --> 01:15:04.000
Thank you.

1194
01:15:04.000 --> 01:15:05.000
Thank you.