WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.280 Hey guys, how are you doing? I just watched the fire chat number 59 and I 2 00:00:10.280 --> 00:00:15.760 saw your faces and I heard the questions and it was just thank you so much 3 00:00:15.760 --> 00:00:23.400 Ashley for going through various theological questions and it keeps 4 00:00:23.400 --> 00:00:28.560 playing in my mind a lot of it made sense some things I think I still need 5 00:00:28.560 --> 00:00:39.120 to kind of search or figure out but it was very helpful very helpful your view 6 00:00:39.120 --> 00:00:47.040 and you explaining thoroughly some of the theological question that arose and 7 00:00:47.040 --> 00:00:57.000 some of them that I had with with the teaching so thanks for that it was good 8 00:00:57.000 --> 00:01:05.160 to see all of you and I just wanted to share something from this week I had the 9 00:01:05.160 --> 00:01:11.640 first journey share and I was gonna do a Facebook live and I was really scared 10 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:18.400 but I was happy that I had this group that I could share it with and it went 11 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:24.000 and I was gonna share some of my story of what's going on in the rest intensive 12 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:33.160 I shared how I was searching for peace everywhere after having been a bit 13 00:01:33.160 --> 00:01:38.120 burnt out and that I searched for it everywhere and I couldn't find it until 14 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:45.880 I heard this teaching about rest and I shared about how I've been learning to 15 00:01:45.880 --> 00:01:49.460 live in rest and that's what rest is actually a place in God and that I'm 16 00:01:49.460 --> 00:01:55.740 entitled by being the child of God to have peace all the time and how I now 17 00:01:55.740 --> 00:02:04.780 experience his love in a way that I haven't done for 20 some years and it 18 00:02:04.780 --> 00:02:12.380 was really good to share I was really happy afterwards that I did it and then 19 00:02:12.380 --> 00:02:20.940 I did feel like a shame attack come later on just like oh I did get a few 20 00:02:20.940 --> 00:02:26.220 responses like likes but not very many and in the beginning there weren't that 21 00:02:26.220 --> 00:02:31.980 many that viewed it after a while it was more than 200 they viewed parts of it or 22 00:02:31.980 --> 00:02:37.500 all of it but in the beginning there weren't so many and I think I was thrown 23 00:02:37.500 --> 00:02:43.340 it back about being so vulnerable and sharing something deep in my heart and 24 00:02:43.340 --> 00:02:51.180 not having a lot of feedback and not knowing what people felt or thought but 25 00:02:51.180 --> 00:02:59.020 then I had I was at work I had five minutes in the bathroom and with God 26 00:02:59.020 --> 00:03:04.820 just going through choosing to go into rest again after feeling all this shame 27 00:03:04.820 --> 00:03:14.900 so that helped and afterwards there actually has been a friend of mine came 28 00:03:14.900 --> 00:03:19.060 and asked me after she watched it she thought it was great and she's like how 29 00:03:19.060 --> 00:03:24.260 do you enter this rest I was with her and another friend and I started to 30 00:03:24.260 --> 00:03:30.420 share what God has done in my life and how I'm entering it and I shared some 31 00:03:30.420 --> 00:03:36.780 examples and then she said like well for me I'm reading this psychology book 32 00:03:36.780 --> 00:03:41.380 it's about you being met on your emotions when you have emotions it's 33 00:03:41.380 --> 00:03:47.740 very important to let them out and that people meet you on your emotions and 34 00:03:47.740 --> 00:03:54.180 also she was sharing about okay when all these things happen in my life and I get 35 00:03:54.180 --> 00:03:58.420 stressed I need to go back to the root and figure out why am I stressed and I'm 36 00:03:58.420 --> 00:04:04.660 learning all these things and she was showing me this psychologist book and I 37 00:04:04.660 --> 00:04:09.180 don't know I don't know what you guys think about it but as soon as she 38 00:04:09.180 --> 00:04:13.260 started talking about this I started thinking about the tree of knowledge 39 00:04:13.260 --> 00:04:18.579 with good and evil and also the thing that you taught Ashley about bypassing 40 00:04:18.579 --> 00:04:23.060 all these things that we have to do like whether it's psychological or mental or 41 00:04:23.060 --> 00:04:28.980 even inner healing things and and then I thought oh gosh I don't even know what 42 00:04:28.980 --> 00:04:34.380 I think about this and what is the tree of knowledge of good and evil and what 43 00:04:34.380 --> 00:04:38.060 she's saying is true it's important to learn to be met on your emotions it's 44 00:04:38.060 --> 00:04:44.700 good to find out the root issue of why you're reacting the way you are but then 45 00:04:44.700 --> 00:04:49.700 I was like but what how does this apply the teaching that we've learned now 46 00:04:49.780 --> 00:04:56.020 apply can't you just bypass it so then I was trying to tell her that it's really 47 00:04:56.020 --> 00:04:59.860 good and I glad that she's learning these things it sounds helpful but I 48 00:04:59.860 --> 00:05:02.060 think 49 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:05.680 I told her also, I don't actually think that that necessarily leads to freedom. 50 00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:09.520 That knowledge doesn't lead to freedom or figuring these things out. 51 00:05:09.520 --> 00:05:13.200 And I told her that psychology is a good thing. 52 00:05:13.200 --> 00:05:16.080 It's created by God, but it's subject to God. 53 00:05:16.080 --> 00:05:24.080 It needs to be from the top down to rule from the top down and not that we really need psychology. 54 00:05:24.080 --> 00:05:25.880 Psychology is not God. 55 00:05:25.880 --> 00:05:28.440 Psychology cannot set you free. 56 00:05:28.440 --> 00:05:40.320 But God has created psychology and inner healing and mental tools so he can use for freedom. 57 00:05:40.320 --> 00:05:51.000 And then I experienced that they kind of got, I think, offended or in resistance. 58 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:58.080 And one of them I felt was a bit attacking me and saying, well, like kind of saying that, 59 00:05:58.080 --> 00:06:05.000 oh, you kind of, you, so you think you know it all or now I feel like you have this, a 60 00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:12.080 lot of truth and, and, and that I'm not, that I can't see and you're seeing something I'm 61 00:06:12.080 --> 00:06:14.200 not seeing. 62 00:06:14.200 --> 00:06:18.560 And then I was literally phone back and I'm like, oh my gosh, is that how it sounds like? 63 00:06:18.560 --> 00:06:19.640 I'm so sorry. 64 00:06:19.640 --> 00:06:23.760 I didn't mean to really teach anything. 65 00:06:23.760 --> 00:06:29.640 I just wanted to set it in perspective of you guys actually asking, how do I enter rest? 66 00:06:29.640 --> 00:06:35.040 So I was a bit thrown off by that, how they kind of reacted. 67 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:41.600 And then, or maybe I did say it in an unwise way, I don't know. 68 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:47.320 But then I can tell that, oh my gosh, these things are kind of sensitive and I'm vulnerable 69 00:06:47.320 --> 00:06:54.360 and sharing my heart and that it does hurt if people misunderstand me or think that 70 00:06:54.360 --> 00:06:58.720 now I know everything because that's not, I feel like I'm learning and I'm trying to 71 00:06:58.720 --> 00:07:00.280 figuring it out as we go. 72 00:07:00.280 --> 00:07:06.400 And I have lots of questions and learning little by little and two steps forward and 73 00:07:06.400 --> 00:07:07.400 one back. 74 00:07:07.400 --> 00:07:13.040 So I don't know, that is actually maybe a question I could ask for a fire chat. 75 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:14.040 I don't know. 76 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:20.800 Maybe for our next rest group, but just how do you respond in those situations? 77 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:30.560 And is it like the things about being in Jesus can surpass or bypass all these things that 78 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:36.560 the world is learning and the church is learning with cognitive therapy, with inner healing, 79 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:42.240 with psychology. 80 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:45.280 So that is what I'm going through right now. 81 00:07:45.280 --> 00:07:48.320 And that was interesting and also a little bit hard. 82 00:07:48.320 --> 00:07:53.560 And this journey share is a little bit long, but that's what I wanted to share. 83 00:07:53.560 --> 00:07:56.000 And I would love to hear you guys' feedback. 84 00:07:56.000 --> 00:08:00.600 All right, have a really good Saturday and I'll see you again next week.