WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.780 Hey, everyone, I am so glad that you can join me for the breakthrough program and I wanted 2 00:00:08.780 --> 00:00:14.000 to do an intro video before we even have a teaching session to give you an idea of what 3 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:20.600 you can expect in the program, how to position yourself to receive the most benefit and getting 4 00:00:20.600 --> 00:00:25.580 the breakthrough to get the, as I always refer to the fastest and the most effective way, 5 00:00:25.580 --> 00:00:31.300 as well as how to go through the actual journal, especially because you will be starting the 6 00:00:31.300 --> 00:00:35.220 journal before we even get together for our first community group. 7 00:00:35.220 --> 00:00:41.340 So first of all, I wanted to make sure that y'all knew a few things. 8 00:00:41.340 --> 00:00:48.700 So I wrote down some notes so I could make sure to cover like the highlights. 9 00:00:48.700 --> 00:00:53.620 First of all, remember that in getting breakthrough, really what it is that we're doing is we're 10 00:00:53.620 --> 00:00:59.860 not adding some cool tool or tool belts, how to get breakthrough in certain either 11 00:00:59.860 --> 00:01:04.400 like a final breakthrough for the rest of our lives, or even how to get breakthrough 12 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:09.220 periodically when we might need it in various areas, because trust me, you will get it more 13 00:01:09.220 --> 00:01:11.420 than once in various areas of your life. 14 00:01:11.420 --> 00:01:17.140 I'm still going through times where my own spiritual wilderness is where I need a new 15 00:01:17.140 --> 00:01:20.860 breakthrough and then I'm always learning something new about the Lord. 16 00:01:20.860 --> 00:01:26.460 So it's not about a, having a tool in your tool belt about getting breakthrough when 17 00:01:26.460 --> 00:01:27.780 you need it. 18 00:01:27.780 --> 00:01:34.140 It's actually all about positioning yourself differently in life and in your relationship 19 00:01:34.140 --> 00:01:39.300 with the Lord and doing that is what gets you the breakthrough every time that you need 20 00:01:39.300 --> 00:01:40.300 it. 21 00:01:40.300 --> 00:01:45.180 Every time you go through a spiritual wilderness, it's because you reposition yourself more 22 00:01:45.180 --> 00:01:51.740 intimately with the Lord, letting go of more things, holding more closely to him in faith. 23 00:01:51.740 --> 00:01:53.580 And that is what gets you the breakthrough. 24 00:01:53.580 --> 00:01:57.820 It's like I said, it's not some special tool that you just pull out when you need it. 25 00:01:57.820 --> 00:02:05.580 It breakthrough really just gives us an opportunity to just move into a deeper level of intimacy 26 00:02:05.580 --> 00:02:07.300 and relationship with the Lord. 27 00:02:07.300 --> 00:02:12.780 So please don't compartmentalize this program from your life like, well, I do all my normal 28 00:02:12.780 --> 00:02:17.660 stuff, but then an additional thing that I'm doing, you know, during this month is 29 00:02:17.660 --> 00:02:22.300 I'm doing something called the breakthrough program and just kind of not thinking about 30 00:02:22.300 --> 00:02:24.060 it unless you're actually working on it. 31 00:02:24.060 --> 00:02:30.540 The whole point of this program is so that you will integrate it into your life so that 32 00:02:30.540 --> 00:02:35.820 this is what your life is sourced from, not the program itself, but what you learn in 33 00:02:35.820 --> 00:02:39.660 the program, what you learn about yourself, what you learn about the Lord. 34 00:02:39.740 --> 00:02:46.220 I encourage you that the way that this will have the greatest impact in your life and 35 00:02:46.220 --> 00:02:51.100 the way that you will get the breakthrough, the fastest is to infuse what it is you're 36 00:02:51.100 --> 00:02:57.500 learning into you yourself and therefore into the rest of your life. 37 00:02:57.500 --> 00:03:03.340 Not just something that you just kind of pick up, try to learn something, you know, like 38 00:03:03.340 --> 00:03:09.180 I said, a new tool to pull out of your tool belt or a new concept or whatever to remember 39 00:03:09.180 --> 00:03:10.220 when you need it. 40 00:03:10.220 --> 00:03:16.300 Now, this is a, this is repositioning yourself to yourself, which we'll be talking about 41 00:03:16.300 --> 00:03:21.100 later as well as in your relationship, repositioning you in relationship to the Lord. 42 00:03:21.900 --> 00:03:28.380 Um, so please do not compartmentalize this, just, just infuse this into the rest of your 43 00:03:28.380 --> 00:03:29.180 life. 44 00:03:29.180 --> 00:03:33.100 And it's a completely different approach to how to live life. 45 00:03:33.100 --> 00:03:36.620 So it will change how you feel when you get up in the morning. 46 00:03:36.620 --> 00:03:40.540 It'll change how you feel when you go to the grocery store, when you do, when you go 47 00:03:40.540 --> 00:03:47.180 through your to-do list, when you handle relationship conflict, when you are trying to make decisions, 48 00:03:47.180 --> 00:03:53.580 when you are having to navigate, uh, how to handle yourself or your children during a. 49 00:03:54.700 --> 00:03:57.020 Child's meltdown or whatever. 50 00:03:57.020 --> 00:04:02.140 This is a completely different approach to life and that different approach of how you 51 00:04:02.140 --> 00:04:03.100 approach yourself. 52 00:04:03.100 --> 00:04:06.060 And God specifically is what's going to get you to break through. 53 00:04:06.060 --> 00:04:11.180 So these are some point pointers that'll get you break through the fastest and the 54 00:04:11.180 --> 00:04:12.380 most effectively. 55 00:04:12.380 --> 00:04:14.460 So the first thing is commitment. 56 00:04:15.020 --> 00:04:20.540 So this can't be dabbled in and actually work and get you breakthrough. 57 00:04:20.540 --> 00:04:25.020 This actually requires your commitment that you've decided, you know what, this is what 58 00:04:25.020 --> 00:04:32.300 I want for me, because this is how valuable that the Lord is to me that he's not just 59 00:04:32.300 --> 00:04:32.540 this. 60 00:04:32.540 --> 00:04:35.740 Extra relationship in my life. 61 00:04:35.740 --> 00:04:40.540 You know, I've got my, my spouse and I have my children and I have my parents and I have 62 00:04:40.540 --> 00:04:48.220 my friends and then I have God know that your very existence you, you determine depends 63 00:04:48.220 --> 00:04:52.620 on God and on your relationship with him. 64 00:04:52.620 --> 00:04:59.340 And that you, as you go through this program, that you are committing yourself to him. 65 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:01.700 not committing yourself to doing the homework, 66 00:05:01.700 --> 00:05:06.700 not committing yourself to just check all of the boxes off 67 00:05:07.500 --> 00:05:10.080 and do all of this stuff and learn as much as you can. 68 00:05:10.080 --> 00:05:14.380 No, this is a commitment to yourself and to the Lord 69 00:05:14.380 --> 00:05:19.380 of who it is that you choose to be in relation to him. 70 00:05:20.540 --> 00:05:23.420 So I recommend that you choose that the theme 71 00:05:23.420 --> 00:05:27.660 of the next several weeks, as we go through the program, 72 00:05:27.660 --> 00:05:32.460 sets the tone and the flavor in which you choose 73 00:05:32.460 --> 00:05:36.460 to live life, in which you choose to take care of the kids 74 00:05:36.460 --> 00:05:40.300 or do the dishes or clean the house or go to PT meetings 75 00:05:40.300 --> 00:05:42.300 or go to work or whatever. 76 00:05:42.300 --> 00:05:44.580 It's remember, it's not the program itself, 77 00:05:44.580 --> 00:05:48.300 but it's what is talked about in the program. 78 00:05:48.300 --> 00:05:52.820 And so give this and everything it is that you're learning, 79 00:05:52.820 --> 00:05:55.540 everything, the ways in which you will find 80 00:05:55.540 --> 00:05:58.380 during your journaling that you are changing, 81 00:05:58.380 --> 00:06:01.140 give that access to the rest of your life, 82 00:06:01.140 --> 00:06:03.860 meaning like the other parts of your life, 83 00:06:03.860 --> 00:06:07.060 instead of disassociating from it, 84 00:06:07.060 --> 00:06:09.900 instead of going through, checking all the boxes, 85 00:06:09.900 --> 00:06:13.620 doing all of this stuff, but not giving of yourself. 86 00:06:13.620 --> 00:06:15.460 And that's one of the things that we'll be talking about 87 00:06:15.460 --> 00:06:16.820 in just a second. 88 00:06:16.820 --> 00:06:19.420 So I'll explain a bit deeper about what I mean about that, 89 00:06:19.420 --> 00:06:24.380 but give it actual access to yourself, 90 00:06:24.380 --> 00:06:27.580 meaning that you'll have to be vulnerable. 91 00:06:27.580 --> 00:06:29.740 And that's the next thing that I wanted to talk about. 92 00:06:29.740 --> 00:06:31.660 So first of all, it's commitment. 93 00:06:31.660 --> 00:06:36.660 It's also a choice, but it requires vulnerability. 94 00:06:37.260 --> 00:06:40.020 And we will be talking more in depth about it, 95 00:06:40.020 --> 00:06:43.460 especially as you learn to try to apply all of these things, 96 00:06:43.460 --> 00:06:45.660 learn to try to apply the teachings 97 00:06:45.660 --> 00:06:47.860 that we'll be talking about through practices 98 00:06:47.860 --> 00:06:50.100 or through your journal entries or whatever, 99 00:06:50.100 --> 00:06:53.860 when you intentionally engage with the information, 100 00:06:54.380 --> 00:06:56.220 with what it is that we talk about the Lord, 101 00:06:56.220 --> 00:06:59.020 with what it is that we talk about you, 102 00:06:59.020 --> 00:07:01.740 it's gonna require your vulnerability. 103 00:07:01.740 --> 00:07:03.660 And to prepare you for that, 104 00:07:03.660 --> 00:07:05.660 I thought instead of listening to me talk 105 00:07:05.660 --> 00:07:06.820 about vulnerability, 106 00:07:06.820 --> 00:07:09.140 because both of y'all have heard me talk 107 00:07:09.140 --> 00:07:12.860 about vulnerability in the rest intensive, 108 00:07:12.860 --> 00:07:14.900 but I thought, instead of me, 109 00:07:14.900 --> 00:07:19.420 let's give you something that's a little more interesting 110 00:07:19.420 --> 00:07:21.420 and give you another video to watch. 111 00:07:21.420 --> 00:07:25.780 And that is Brene Brown's viral TED talk 112 00:07:25.780 --> 00:07:28.860 that she made on the power of vulnerability. 113 00:07:28.860 --> 00:07:30.660 So I've included that in the program. 114 00:07:30.660 --> 00:07:33.060 So I recommend that you watch that. 115 00:07:33.060 --> 00:07:35.140 And just so that you hear a different voice, 116 00:07:35.140 --> 00:07:38.180 a different perspective, she's really fun storyteller. 117 00:07:38.180 --> 00:07:42.540 And so it's fun to hear her talk about how her discovery 118 00:07:42.540 --> 00:07:45.540 of the power of vulnerability changed her life, 119 00:07:45.540 --> 00:07:50.060 changed the complete trajectory of her research 120 00:07:50.060 --> 00:07:53.380 and how she chose to, I don't know, 121 00:07:53.380 --> 00:07:55.860 just that the various, how would you put that? 122 00:07:55.860 --> 00:07:58.780 The various topics that she then chose to pursue 123 00:07:58.780 --> 00:08:00.900 into research, the different people 124 00:08:00.900 --> 00:08:02.580 that she would choose to meet with 125 00:08:02.580 --> 00:08:07.060 and just really what she's become known for. 126 00:08:07.060 --> 00:08:09.580 With vulnerability, she'll be touching 127 00:08:09.580 --> 00:08:12.460 on a few things like shame, 128 00:08:12.460 --> 00:08:16.020 and some other topics that come up 129 00:08:16.020 --> 00:08:19.500 when that hinder us in our ability 130 00:08:19.500 --> 00:08:21.340 and whenever we try to be vulnerable. 131 00:08:21.340 --> 00:08:25.260 But the vulnerability is really, really important 132 00:08:25.260 --> 00:08:29.900 between you and the Lord and between you and yourself. 133 00:08:29.900 --> 00:08:32.820 And without that vulnerability, 134 00:08:32.820 --> 00:08:36.700 it is impossible to have breakthrough. 135 00:08:36.700 --> 00:08:41.700 Breakthrough requires vulnerability. 136 00:08:42.020 --> 00:08:44.980 And that's very challenging for us 137 00:08:44.980 --> 00:08:46.900 because that's what the Bible refers to 138 00:08:46.900 --> 00:08:51.020 when it says that we're called to be a living sacrifice. 139 00:08:51.020 --> 00:08:56.020 When God says that he is free and his whole gifts are free, 140 00:08:57.380 --> 00:08:59.340 but how do we get into the kingdom? 141 00:08:59.340 --> 00:09:02.300 We give it by being a living sacrifice. 142 00:09:02.300 --> 00:09:05.700 We get into the kingdom by being a living sacrifice, 143 00:09:05.700 --> 00:09:10.140 by laying down our right to ourselves, 144 00:09:10.140 --> 00:09:12.460 which is the same thing that Jesus did. 145 00:09:12.460 --> 00:09:14.700 And then choosing that it's Jesus 146 00:09:14.700 --> 00:09:18.340 and Jesus's work that gives us access to the father, 147 00:09:18.340 --> 00:09:21.020 not our work, not our earning. 148 00:09:21.020 --> 00:09:22.580 We can't do anything. 149 00:09:22.580 --> 00:09:26.220 And that leaves us in a very vulnerable position, 150 00:09:26.220 --> 00:09:28.740 completely at his mercy, right? 151 00:09:28.740 --> 00:09:32.220 And anyway, so vulnerability is required for breakthrough. 152 00:09:32.220 --> 00:09:34.820 We'll be talking more about that as we go along, 153 00:09:34.820 --> 00:09:37.900 but I just wanted to prepare you for it by saying it now 154 00:09:37.900 --> 00:09:40.780 and then recommending that you watch that video. 155 00:09:40.780 --> 00:09:42.900 The next thing I wanted to mention, 156 00:09:42.940 --> 00:09:47.940 and this was the most fun, I think, 157 00:09:48.140 --> 00:09:50.020 is that when you do this, 158 00:09:50.020 --> 00:09:52.220 this whole thing about breakthrough, 159 00:09:52.220 --> 00:09:56.780 I understand that this book might look 160 00:09:56.780 --> 00:10:00.020 kind of like a dark theme and you've got the bricks. 161 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:02.280 and you've got a door and you have this hindrance 162 00:10:02.280 --> 00:10:03.520 that's now been broken away. 163 00:10:03.520 --> 00:10:04.760 So that's a positive, 164 00:10:04.760 --> 00:10:07.000 but everything else can feel so negative. 165 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:10.800 The reason that I chose it to look like this 166 00:10:10.800 --> 00:10:14.200 and this basically to be the theme picture of Breakthrough, 167 00:10:14.200 --> 00:10:16.040 especially the Breakthrough Journal 168 00:10:16.040 --> 00:10:18.640 is because this is how we feel 169 00:10:18.640 --> 00:10:20.560 when we're meeting Breakthrough. 170 00:10:20.560 --> 00:10:23.200 Everything feels dark, it feels hard, 171 00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:26.000 it feels difficult, it feels impenetrable, 172 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:28.440 but know that the way to get Breakthrough 173 00:10:28.440 --> 00:10:32.040 is actually from viewing things from the positive. 174 00:10:32.040 --> 00:10:35.800 It's a lot, you will get Breakthrough a lot faster that way 175 00:10:35.800 --> 00:10:39.280 if you approach things from where it is 176 00:10:39.280 --> 00:10:40.400 that you want to go 177 00:10:40.400 --> 00:10:42.960 as opposed to what you want to escape from. 178 00:10:42.960 --> 00:10:45.320 So remember it like this, 179 00:10:45.320 --> 00:10:47.800 to live is not suffering. 180 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:51.240 To live is Christ. 181 00:10:52.200 --> 00:10:53.840 And that's what it says in the Bible. 182 00:10:53.840 --> 00:10:55.480 To live is not suffering. 183 00:10:55.480 --> 00:10:56.800 The Bible doesn't say that. 184 00:10:56.840 --> 00:10:59.680 The Bible doesn't say that to live is suffering. 185 00:10:59.680 --> 00:11:02.200 To live is Christ. 186 00:11:02.200 --> 00:11:05.000 We're always moving to a positive. 187 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:08.400 It's not to escape the negative. 188 00:11:08.400 --> 00:11:13.000 Escaping the negative is a benefit that we get. 189 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:15.280 But why is it that we want the Lord? 190 00:11:15.280 --> 00:11:17.960 We want the Lord because He's that beautiful. 191 00:11:17.960 --> 00:11:22.360 He says that as we move towards Him, we receive freedom. 192 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:23.880 We step into freedom. 193 00:11:23.880 --> 00:11:25.440 We have intimacy. 194 00:11:25.440 --> 00:11:27.800 We have that closeness with Him. 195 00:11:27.800 --> 00:11:32.080 And so I recommend that you pursue the positivity 196 00:11:32.080 --> 00:11:34.880 and expect goodness. 197 00:11:34.880 --> 00:11:38.560 Expect the Breakthrough because you'll get it. 198 00:11:38.560 --> 00:11:43.560 So don't approach this as a wishful thinking 199 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:46.240 and I hope that this works 200 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:48.720 and I hope that God will meet me 201 00:11:48.720 --> 00:11:53.160 and or I really can't wait until I'm relieved 202 00:11:53.160 --> 00:11:54.960 of all of this negativity 203 00:11:54.960 --> 00:11:58.000 and all of this trauma and all of this suffering. 204 00:11:58.000 --> 00:11:59.560 You'll get rid of that. 205 00:11:59.560 --> 00:12:02.640 But remember that it's a lot more powerful 206 00:12:02.640 --> 00:12:04.760 that whatever it is we focus on, we feed. 207 00:12:04.760 --> 00:12:06.240 So if you're gonna focus on the negative, 208 00:12:06.240 --> 00:12:08.560 well then it's gonna increase the strength of the negative 209 00:12:08.560 --> 00:12:10.800 and make it harder to escape from. 210 00:12:10.800 --> 00:12:13.640 And so if you feed the positive, 211 00:12:13.640 --> 00:12:16.520 then you're strengthening the positive 212 00:12:16.520 --> 00:12:19.080 and you make it more powerful in your life. 213 00:12:19.080 --> 00:12:23.240 And it will help you get Breakthrough much, much, 214 00:12:23.240 --> 00:12:25.920 much faster and much easier. 215 00:12:27.040 --> 00:12:30.120 So by talking about the positive, 216 00:12:30.120 --> 00:12:32.200 one of the, in talking about, you know, 217 00:12:32.200 --> 00:12:33.560 approaching things from the positive, 218 00:12:33.560 --> 00:12:36.800 one of the ways I recommend that you do it 219 00:12:36.800 --> 00:12:39.080 is to think of it as in, 220 00:12:39.080 --> 00:12:41.960 we'll be talking a lot about letting go 221 00:12:41.960 --> 00:12:46.000 of things that are weighing us down and just playing. 222 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:48.920 So when you go through this program, 223 00:12:48.920 --> 00:12:53.160 don't see it as something that you're trying to buckle down 224 00:12:54.040 --> 00:12:57.560 and exert a lot of strength and a lot of willpower 225 00:12:57.560 --> 00:13:01.600 in order to get done, in order to make sure that this works, 226 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:04.720 in order to make sure that you get it right this time, 227 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:06.400 because that will hinder it. 228 00:13:06.400 --> 00:13:10.600 In fact, that's usually why people need Breakthrough 229 00:13:10.600 --> 00:13:13.760 is because they have been approaching things 230 00:13:13.760 --> 00:13:18.120 from the perspective of buckling down harder 231 00:13:18.120 --> 00:13:20.360 whenever things get difficult. 232 00:13:20.400 --> 00:13:23.720 And what that does is it entrenches you further 233 00:13:23.720 --> 00:13:25.360 in your situation, 234 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:29.240 instead of working to your benefit to get you out. 235 00:13:29.240 --> 00:13:33.280 So the way to get out faster is to loosen up 236 00:13:33.280 --> 00:13:35.960 so that basically the river can carry you out 237 00:13:35.960 --> 00:13:37.800 of the place that you're in. 238 00:13:37.800 --> 00:13:40.480 And you do that by playing, 239 00:13:40.480 --> 00:13:43.000 by approaching things much more positively, 240 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:47.960 by alleviating a lot of the worry, the stress, 241 00:13:47.960 --> 00:13:50.880 the concern, letting go of wishful thinking 242 00:13:50.880 --> 00:13:54.600 and exchanging it or trading it for expectation. 243 00:13:56.160 --> 00:13:57.880 I was watching a movie recently 244 00:13:57.880 --> 00:14:02.880 and where this man was asking this young girl 245 00:14:03.160 --> 00:14:07.920 who was a prodigy on the violin. 246 00:14:07.920 --> 00:14:10.280 And he was asking her, I think, 247 00:14:10.280 --> 00:14:12.760 oh, I don't remember what the exact question was, 248 00:14:12.760 --> 00:14:16.000 but basically, oh, maybe it was how do you feel 249 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:18.040 when you play or what happens 250 00:14:18.040 --> 00:14:19.960 when you play something like that? 251 00:14:19.960 --> 00:14:24.040 And she said, she said, when I play for my teacher, 252 00:14:24.040 --> 00:14:27.440 I mostly focus on not making mistakes. 253 00:14:27.440 --> 00:14:31.680 But when I play for myself, I don't think about anything. 254 00:14:31.680 --> 00:14:34.440 In other words, when she's just playing for herself, 255 00:14:34.440 --> 00:14:36.960 that's when her best stuff comes out 256 00:14:36.960 --> 00:14:39.760 because she's just allowing who it is that she is, 257 00:14:39.760 --> 00:14:41.600 who God created her to be, 258 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:45.400 to just come up and out naturally. 259 00:14:45.440 --> 00:14:48.680 And as opposed to focusing strictly on the negative 260 00:14:48.680 --> 00:14:50.000 of not making mistakes. 261 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:51.320 So I recommend that you do that. 262 00:14:51.320 --> 00:14:56.320 Take this program, your time doing the journaling, 263 00:14:57.280 --> 00:14:59.360 your time doing the practices. 264 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:04.600 Take it as having fun. 265 00:15:04.600 --> 00:15:09.280 Take it as, make it enjoyable for you. 266 00:15:09.280 --> 00:15:11.840 And expect goodness. 267 00:15:11.840 --> 00:15:14.920 Expect breakthrough. 268 00:15:14.920 --> 00:15:16.920 All right, so the last thing that I 269 00:15:16.920 --> 00:15:22.120 wanted to cover really quick are the practices. 270 00:15:22.120 --> 00:15:24.000 Well, I say the practices. 271 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:30.120 The things that will be like the actual practical applications 272 00:15:30.120 --> 00:15:33.240 as you go through the program. 273 00:15:33.240 --> 00:15:36.640 And first of all, so on this page, 274 00:15:36.640 --> 00:15:39.240 it talks about how to use the journal. 275 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:44.320 I recommend that you read this real quick about just welcoming 276 00:15:44.320 --> 00:15:47.480 you into your breakthrough, into the program, 277 00:15:47.480 --> 00:15:49.360 into what it is that God is wanting 278 00:15:49.360 --> 00:15:51.120 to do and work in your life. 279 00:15:51.120 --> 00:15:53.640 And then on this page, this is just how to use this journal. 280 00:15:53.640 --> 00:15:56.920 So I could only write so much detail on here, 281 00:15:56.920 --> 00:16:00.320 so I wanted to go over it in person. 282 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:02.200 We talked about commitment. 283 00:16:02.200 --> 00:16:03.960 Now the session notes, and you'll 284 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:06.880 see in here that I mentioned that I recommend trying 285 00:16:06.880 --> 00:16:09.280 to listen as much as you can. 286 00:16:09.280 --> 00:16:11.720 So the session notes, let me just mention this really quick. 287 00:16:11.720 --> 00:16:13.440 Those are right here. 288 00:16:13.440 --> 00:16:20.120 Those are going to be after each section, so each teaching 289 00:16:20.120 --> 00:16:22.520 that I'll be doing. 290 00:16:22.640 --> 00:16:26.720 Then this will be the, this is the section 291 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:29.800 that I put aside if you want to have any notes that you write 292 00:16:29.800 --> 00:16:32.240 down during the session. 293 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:35.960 And I recommend that you can do it however you want. 294 00:16:35.960 --> 00:16:38.120 Y'all are all adults taking this program. 295 00:16:38.120 --> 00:16:39.720 You can do whatever you want, whatever 296 00:16:39.720 --> 00:16:41.160 is most helpful to you. 297 00:16:41.160 --> 00:16:44.240 But I recommend you allowing your, 298 00:16:44.240 --> 00:16:47.440 give yourself credit, your spirit, your soul 299 00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:52.640 to give it credit and trust that it is gathering, 300 00:16:52.640 --> 00:16:55.920 not just information, it's gathering truths 301 00:16:55.920 --> 00:16:57.880 and it knows what to do with them. 302 00:16:57.880 --> 00:17:00.960 You don't have to consciously grab a hold of a concept 303 00:17:00.960 --> 00:17:03.680 every time and understand very particularly 304 00:17:03.680 --> 00:17:08.000 about how to apply it in order for you to be changed. 305 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:10.359 So sometimes when we're writing down notes, 306 00:17:10.359 --> 00:17:13.720 we're trying to rely too much on our knowledge. 307 00:17:13.720 --> 00:17:15.520 OK, I need to remember this. 308 00:17:15.520 --> 00:17:17.760 I need to remember that it was said just this way 309 00:17:17.760 --> 00:17:20.839 because I think that that was a pithy way or a very logical way 310 00:17:20.839 --> 00:17:22.000 to explain that. 311 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:25.200 And I figure that if I remember it in the important times, 312 00:17:25.200 --> 00:17:26.680 well, then I can grab a hold of that 313 00:17:26.680 --> 00:17:30.800 and convince myself in the moment to change my action. 314 00:17:30.800 --> 00:17:32.640 And we're relying too much on knowledge. 315 00:17:32.640 --> 00:17:35.560 And instead, I recommend that you allow yourself, 316 00:17:35.560 --> 00:17:39.640 that's usually why we get stuck and we need a breakthrough. 317 00:17:39.640 --> 00:17:41.320 So again, in order to get breakthrough, 318 00:17:41.320 --> 00:17:43.880 I recommend that you just let go and you 319 00:17:43.880 --> 00:17:45.080 start to play a little bit. 320 00:17:45.080 --> 00:17:48.400 Just take it in a much more relaxed state. 321 00:17:48.400 --> 00:17:49.640 Expect goodness. 322 00:17:49.640 --> 00:17:53.440 Expect change just simply by listening. 323 00:17:53.440 --> 00:17:59.120 Simply by listening and being able to just receive it 324 00:17:59.120 --> 00:18:01.920 without trying to grab a hold of everything 325 00:18:01.920 --> 00:18:06.160 as if kind of like a poverty mentality of expecting 326 00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:08.240 that if you don't grab a hold of everything 327 00:18:08.240 --> 00:18:10.960 and consciously put it to memory, 328 00:18:10.960 --> 00:18:12.800 that you're not going to be changed, 329 00:18:12.840 --> 00:18:13.720 that you're going to forget, 330 00:18:13.720 --> 00:18:16.880 that you're not going to apply it when you need to, et cetera. 331 00:18:16.880 --> 00:18:19.480 So recommend that if you write notes, 332 00:18:19.480 --> 00:18:23.720 that you write them like as phrases or as bullet points, 333 00:18:23.720 --> 00:18:26.000 instead of word for word 334 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:27.960 or trying to jot down a lot of them. 335 00:18:27.960 --> 00:18:31.440 I recommend just listening as much as possible 336 00:18:31.440 --> 00:18:33.120 and then writing down anything 337 00:18:33.120 --> 00:18:36.320 that just really strongly jumps out at you. 338 00:18:36.320 --> 00:18:38.680 You're going to have multiple things that jump out at you. 339 00:18:38.680 --> 00:18:41.080 Allow yourself subconsciously 340 00:18:41.120 --> 00:18:44.520 in your subconscious and in your unconsciousness 341 00:18:44.520 --> 00:18:47.200 to just naturally change 342 00:18:47.200 --> 00:18:49.440 and just write down certain things 343 00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:53.800 that just like are just the biggest truth bombs 344 00:18:53.800 --> 00:18:55.440 that you think would be very helpful. 345 00:18:55.440 --> 00:18:58.080 So that's just my personal recommendation. 346 00:18:58.080 --> 00:19:02.480 And then this section over here is your reflections, 347 00:19:02.480 --> 00:19:04.080 your personal reflections, 348 00:19:04.080 --> 00:19:07.880 should you choose to write anything down of this session. 349 00:19:07.880 --> 00:19:10.040 So maybe after the session is done, 350 00:19:10.040 --> 00:19:13.760 then you go and you write in your own words, 351 00:19:13.760 --> 00:19:16.640 what, I don't know, basically your, 352 00:19:16.640 --> 00:19:17.480 how would I put that? 353 00:19:17.480 --> 00:19:20.920 Basically your internal response to it. 354 00:19:20.920 --> 00:19:22.640 How did all of this, 355 00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:26.120 you know, everything that we talk about in here, 356 00:19:26.960 --> 00:19:28.320 how did it hit you? 357 00:19:28.320 --> 00:19:31.600 Did you agree with it based off of how you've grown up? 358 00:19:31.600 --> 00:19:33.360 Did you grow up that way? 359 00:19:33.360 --> 00:19:37.160 Does this feel very different from how you approach things? 360 00:19:37.160 --> 00:19:39.360 And so it feels very challenging 361 00:19:39.360 --> 00:19:42.560 or does it feel very freeing or, you know, whatever, 362 00:19:42.560 --> 00:19:45.920 if there's any, the point of this journaling, 363 00:19:45.920 --> 00:19:49.520 whether you're writing down your notes or thoughts, 364 00:19:49.520 --> 00:19:51.880 or you're starting to write down specific things, 365 00:19:51.880 --> 00:19:53.440 you know, in the morning or in the evening, 366 00:19:53.440 --> 00:19:55.760 the whole point of this is to get you 367 00:19:55.760 --> 00:19:59.920 to articulate things for yourself of how 368 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:09.440 you are internally responding. And then that will help get you some it will. These are tools that I 369 00:20:09.440 --> 00:20:14.960 have provided to help you more likely get breakthrough. It's not that any of these 370 00:20:14.960 --> 00:20:20.080 things are magic. It's just that they're tools that you can use. So that's what those sections 371 00:20:20.080 --> 00:20:30.560 are for. Go back. And practices. Okay, so those are going to be back here. We'll be talking about 372 00:20:30.560 --> 00:20:35.200 those in more detail later. But I just wanted to let you know, as you flip through your journal, 373 00:20:35.200 --> 00:20:39.280 and you're wondering what each of the different parts are, this is where you would be articulating 374 00:20:39.920 --> 00:20:44.640 your when you did the practice, what was it like, you know, what's your response to it, 375 00:20:44.640 --> 00:20:49.360 that kind of thing. None of this, you know, you look at all these pages with all of this writing, 376 00:20:49.360 --> 00:20:55.600 none of this is meant to be burdensome, or time consuming. But they're just placeholders for you 377 00:20:55.600 --> 00:21:01.840 to be able to quickly even in one bullet point five, or if you're if you're a really big writer, 378 00:21:01.840 --> 00:21:06.240 you might pull up the whole page, whatever it is that you like to do, gives you a space 379 00:21:06.800 --> 00:21:13.520 that is specifically designated to articulate something to yourself about your journey. 380 00:21:14.000 --> 00:21:23.680 Um, okay, let's see. So the next one is our all of the journal response, which are these. 381 00:21:23.680 --> 00:21:30.640 So you will have these prompts and you'll have three in the morning and three in the evening. 382 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:36.000 But I recommend that you do when you have your journal prompts is set your timer for five 383 00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:40.640 minutes. Unless you use your timer all of the time, you might be like me and you just use it if 384 00:21:40.640 --> 00:21:46.080 you you know, maybe like, for one thing a day. For me, I have it always set on how long it takes 385 00:21:46.080 --> 00:21:51.280 my tea to steep in the morning. And it's always set to that amount of that amount of minutes and 386 00:21:51.280 --> 00:21:58.000 seconds. So if you're like me, then that's very easy. Just set your timer on your phone for five 387 00:21:58.000 --> 00:22:04.080 minutes. Because that is all that it should take for you to do this. But the reason I say that to 388 00:22:04.080 --> 00:22:09.760 set your timer for five minutes instead of simply just take five minutes to do this is intentionally 389 00:22:10.720 --> 00:22:17.760 put yourself in a place without any distraction. And realize that you're not going to suddenly be 390 00:22:17.760 --> 00:22:22.800 sitting there for 10 minutes and forget that you needed to go do something. And you just got all 391 00:22:22.800 --> 00:22:28.720 wrapped up in this, you have an alarm that will let you know when time is up. So it frees you from 392 00:22:28.720 --> 00:22:34.960 having to think having to make sure to stay aware of how long you're spending on this, 393 00:22:34.960 --> 00:22:40.480 just set the timer, and then think of that it gives you the space to think of nothing, 394 00:22:40.480 --> 00:22:45.120 but what you're doing, which is going to increase the likelihood that you'll be very intentional 395 00:22:45.120 --> 00:22:51.600 when you do this. So the first question is, who does God say he is? Write down some you can write 396 00:22:51.600 --> 00:22:56.880 down a sentence if you want to or just a phrase, but it needs to be something meaningful to you. 397 00:22:56.880 --> 00:23:02.000 So if you say something like because the whole point of the breakthrough is the breakthrough 398 00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:08.720 program is to focus on God and us. So we have to be very intentional about how we're changing our 399 00:23:08.720 --> 00:23:16.080 approach to who God is and who we are, meaning like who we know ourselves to be, who we choose 400 00:23:16.080 --> 00:23:21.040 that we are, who God has said that we are, right? So we have to be very intentional in order for any 401 00:23:21.040 --> 00:23:25.520 for that kind of thing to change. So who does God say he is? So if you just write down something 402 00:23:25.520 --> 00:23:32.560 like, oh, he, he is righteous. Well, that all sounds great. We all know that from church. We 403 00:23:32.560 --> 00:23:38.480 all know that from the Bible, but how many of us really truly have an emotional response 404 00:23:39.360 --> 00:23:48.880 and are able to consciously articulate what that means? God is righteous. Okay. Well, we know he's 405 00:23:48.880 --> 00:23:53.680 righteous. What does that mean? And why is that? Why does that change how you would go about your 406 00:23:53.680 --> 00:24:00.400 day? You know, so like something like that until his righteousness means something deeply personal 407 00:24:00.400 --> 00:24:05.680 to you, I wouldn't recommend using that one. Um, and wrecking or the fact that he's holy, 408 00:24:05.680 --> 00:24:10.320 you know, or something like that, you just something else, you something like, you know, 409 00:24:10.320 --> 00:24:15.120 who does God say he is? He says he is provider. Do you struggle believing that he's going to 410 00:24:15.120 --> 00:24:21.680 provide for you? We all know in theory that he will, but does he provide all of your, you know, 411 00:24:21.680 --> 00:24:26.000 will he provide you the money that you need when you need it? Does he provide you the emotional, 412 00:24:27.200 --> 00:24:34.640 uh, would you put that the emotional, uh, uh, does he meet your emotional needs when you have 413 00:24:34.640 --> 00:24:42.320 particular emotions? Can you trust to be comforted by him when you want to be that kind of thing? 414 00:24:42.320 --> 00:24:46.960 It's those kinds of things about the Lord that we need to change our, our beliefs about. So, 415 00:24:46.960 --> 00:24:50.240 you know, who does God say that he is? And then write down something that you want to 416 00:24:50.240 --> 00:24:56.800 intentionally remember that day. He is comforter, or he is provider, or he is protector, or he 417 00:24:56.800 --> 00:24:59.840 protects me when that did it. 418 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:04.520 or he provides for me by, I don't know, whatever. 419 00:25:04.520 --> 00:25:06.000 But just make it real short. 420 00:25:06.000 --> 00:25:07.120 This isn't a paragraph. 421 00:25:07.120 --> 00:25:09.200 This is just meant to be like a phrase, 422 00:25:09.200 --> 00:25:13.720 but be intentional about what you are choosing that God is. 423 00:25:13.720 --> 00:25:16.280 And then who does God say that I am? 424 00:25:16.280 --> 00:25:19.000 Again, saying something like righteous or holy 425 00:25:19.000 --> 00:25:19.920 or one with him. 426 00:25:19.920 --> 00:25:24.920 If you cannot deeply connect with it yet, 427 00:25:25.680 --> 00:25:26.900 I recommend not writing it. 428 00:25:26.900 --> 00:25:29.840 I recommend writing something that challenges you. 429 00:25:31.060 --> 00:25:33.900 Maybe the fact that he says that you're perfect, 430 00:25:34.820 --> 00:25:38.620 that you are a saint and not a sinner, 431 00:25:38.620 --> 00:25:40.980 or I don't know, something like that. 432 00:25:40.980 --> 00:25:43.300 And we'll be talking more about both of these. 433 00:25:43.300 --> 00:25:44.820 So just do what it is you can. 434 00:25:44.820 --> 00:25:48.420 We'll be having, I think this one is session, 435 00:25:48.420 --> 00:25:49.600 who does God say that he is? 436 00:25:49.600 --> 00:25:51.640 That I think is session two. 437 00:25:51.640 --> 00:25:54.740 And who does God say that I am is session three. 438 00:25:54.740 --> 00:25:58.900 So we will be going, having our own individual teachings 439 00:25:58.900 --> 00:26:02.060 just on these, and that'll give you more step 440 00:26:02.060 --> 00:26:03.900 to be able to write and to be able to practice. 441 00:26:03.900 --> 00:26:05.820 But this is just getting you started. 442 00:26:05.820 --> 00:26:10.820 And then you'll have today, I choose to live by... 443 00:26:12.460 --> 00:26:14.460 In other words, by doing this, 444 00:26:14.460 --> 00:26:19.460 or by approaching this situation in this way 445 00:26:21.660 --> 00:26:23.420 with the Lord or whatever. 446 00:26:23.420 --> 00:26:27.740 I recommend that you don't use words like remember, 447 00:26:27.740 --> 00:26:32.740 or think, like, or I choose, what did I say? 448 00:26:35.140 --> 00:26:38.900 Today, I choose to live by remembering that, 449 00:26:38.900 --> 00:26:40.900 again, we're going to our head again. 450 00:26:42.420 --> 00:26:47.420 Or I choose to live by reminding myself, 451 00:26:49.700 --> 00:26:52.700 or by thinking about, or by reflecting on, 452 00:26:52.740 --> 00:26:57.740 or by believing, make it a little more substantial than that. 453 00:26:59.780 --> 00:27:02.580 And then again, what you're doing 454 00:27:02.580 --> 00:27:05.580 is you're setting your intention for the day. 455 00:27:05.580 --> 00:27:08.420 Again, I gave you a huge section here, 456 00:27:08.420 --> 00:27:10.420 but really, you can write really big. 457 00:27:10.420 --> 00:27:13.620 These are just phrases, just start like one phrase here, 458 00:27:13.620 --> 00:27:17.180 one phrase here, and maybe one phrase here. 459 00:27:17.180 --> 00:27:18.980 That's it, it's very simple. 460 00:27:18.980 --> 00:27:21.820 So it should only take five minutes. 461 00:27:21.820 --> 00:27:23.460 Again, the whole purpose of that 462 00:27:23.460 --> 00:27:28.460 is to give you time to just set an intention, 463 00:27:28.580 --> 00:27:32.620 not to have this whole huge thought process, 464 00:27:32.620 --> 00:27:35.740 but to make a determination and choice for the day. 465 00:27:35.740 --> 00:27:39.780 Same thing for the evening, this is how I saw God today. 466 00:27:39.780 --> 00:27:41.740 Think of this, because remember, 467 00:27:41.740 --> 00:27:45.700 what we're doing is we're choosing how we're seeing God. 468 00:27:47.020 --> 00:27:50.140 What this is basically like is, 469 00:27:51.140 --> 00:27:53.500 and the reason that I did this is, 470 00:27:53.500 --> 00:27:55.380 the reason I chose these questions 471 00:27:55.380 --> 00:27:58.580 is this is what changed me and my relationship with the Lord. 472 00:27:58.580 --> 00:28:01.980 These are literally the practical things that I did 473 00:28:01.980 --> 00:28:06.980 and that I approached my life from that changed everything. 474 00:28:08.340 --> 00:28:10.380 And they changed how I saw God, 475 00:28:10.380 --> 00:28:11.700 they changed how I saw myself, 476 00:28:11.700 --> 00:28:14.740 and therefore it changed how I made decisions. 477 00:28:14.740 --> 00:28:16.340 What decisions that I made, 478 00:28:16.340 --> 00:28:19.820 it changed the opportunities that suddenly appeared to me. 479 00:28:20.500 --> 00:28:21.340 Why? 480 00:28:21.340 --> 00:28:22.940 Because simply by making different choices, 481 00:28:22.940 --> 00:28:25.660 I was positioning myself differently in the spirit 482 00:28:25.660 --> 00:28:30.660 and new and better and more spiritual blessed opportunities 483 00:28:30.940 --> 00:28:33.500 came my way as a result, which is really fascinating. 484 00:28:33.500 --> 00:28:37.700 So how I saw God today, that might be something like, 485 00:28:37.700 --> 00:28:39.780 okay, well, let me compare it to, 486 00:28:39.780 --> 00:28:41.700 or contrast it to what we're doing now. 487 00:28:41.700 --> 00:28:44.740 What we've been doing is we've been looking at 488 00:28:44.740 --> 00:28:46.180 things that have happened in life. 489 00:28:46.180 --> 00:28:47.940 And we're like, see Lord, 490 00:28:47.940 --> 00:28:50.820 you say that you're X, Y, and Z in scripture, 491 00:28:50.820 --> 00:28:55.820 but I have proof from how I've seen life work, 492 00:28:55.940 --> 00:28:57.780 that that's not true. 493 00:28:57.780 --> 00:29:00.100 And so what we've done is we've looked at 494 00:29:00.100 --> 00:29:01.460 things that have happened in life 495 00:29:01.460 --> 00:29:03.580 and we're like, see God, this is who you are. 496 00:29:03.580 --> 00:29:05.580 This is how I see you. 497 00:29:05.580 --> 00:29:07.220 This Lord is how you showed up. 498 00:29:07.220 --> 00:29:10.260 You say you're this, but this is how you showed up. 499 00:29:10.260 --> 00:29:14.180 What we're wanting to do is we're wanting to change 500 00:29:14.180 --> 00:29:15.860 how we see God. 501 00:29:16.540 --> 00:29:18.820 How did we choose that we were gonna see God today? 502 00:29:18.820 --> 00:29:20.020 Begin looking for that. 503 00:29:20.020 --> 00:29:21.860 Begin looking for like, say for instance, 504 00:29:21.860 --> 00:29:23.740 if you chose that he was provider, 505 00:29:23.740 --> 00:29:28.220 begin looking for ways that he demonstrates 506 00:29:28.220 --> 00:29:32.100 and is expressing and is trying to communicate to you 507 00:29:32.100 --> 00:29:34.220 the fact that he is provider. 508 00:29:34.220 --> 00:29:37.980 And you will be able to see that your life 509 00:29:37.980 --> 00:29:40.540 actually affirms who God says that he is, 510 00:29:40.540 --> 00:29:45.100 as opposed to contradicting who God says that he is. 511 00:29:45.100 --> 00:29:50.100 Right now, we're very good at trying to find contradictions 512 00:29:50.260 --> 00:29:51.980 and using that to build our faith on. 513 00:29:51.980 --> 00:29:53.620 We'll see you can't trust God. 514 00:29:53.620 --> 00:29:55.460 We're not safe with God. 515 00:29:55.460 --> 00:29:58.500 When I go to God, he's always gonna correct me or whatever. 516 00:29:58.500 --> 00:30:00.300 And instead we need to be looking. 517 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:19.000 For an opening our eyes to be able to see that actually life is affirming that what God says about him really is true. So that's what we're changing. And we're also changing how I saw, you know, how we see ourselves. So how I saw me today. So who does God say that you are, and then look for that. 518 00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:21.000 That day. 519 00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:36.000 And, and we'll be again as you go through this part of our meeting together so often is to for me to be able to hear from y'all. Okay, so how is this going when you're doing this. 520 00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:45.000 You know how, who did you decide that you know God was that day or that you were going to say that you that God says that you are. And then what were you going to remember that day. 521 00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:57.000 And then, how did you see it. So I'll begin to, I'll be able to help you understand how to see those things in life I'll be able to see how you're interpreting it. 522 00:30:57.000 --> 00:31:08.000 And then maybe give you perspective on like how else, how else you can see it, you know, in life. And the same thing you know today I chose to live by. 523 00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:19.000 So there's a it's hard to see but there's a little comma right after the word live. So that's why I pause there so today I choose to live by doing this, or whatever. 524 00:31:19.000 --> 00:31:34.000 So today I chose to live because it's in the evening so you've already made the intention now you're in the evening today I chose to live by, and then describe or articulate again it could just be a phrase that could be, you know, it could be a sentence 525 00:31:35.000 --> 00:31:50.000 of mentioning something that you did or some way in which you approached things or how it is that maybe you, you stayed more emotionally stable. 526 00:31:51.000 --> 00:32:07.000 Why because you remember these things about God and about yourself etc so today I chose to live by, and then articulate something that demonstrates how you walked out the intention that you had made that morning. 527 00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:16.000 And then the last thing is the conversations with God conversations, you're going to have this twice a week. 528 00:32:17.000 --> 00:32:30.000 And that is going to that those pages look like this again you don't have to fill up all of this time, all of this space I just mentioned it I just provided again just for those of you who are real big journalists or for particular days where you're just 529 00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:41.000 going to have a lot more that comes up. You've now got the room. And so these conversations with God are started out with things like you know father these are my thoughts, feelings and questions. 530 00:32:41.000 --> 00:32:44.000 What is on your heart towards me today father. 531 00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:54.000 The reason that I included this is this is very, very, very, very, very helpful for people who are having a hard time hearing God. 532 00:32:55.000 --> 00:33:11.000 And so I recommend approaching it from the perspective of your writing, as if in trying to communicate with God, as if he doesn't know what you're saying until you write it. 533 00:33:11.000 --> 00:33:23.000 And so I've been talking all this time about all of these different sections in which you just I recommend just writing like if you don't want to write full sentences then just write phrases or write bullet points or something like that. 534 00:33:23.000 --> 00:33:30.000 But when it comes to when it comes to find it. 535 00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:37.000 When it comes to conversations with God conversation with God, I recommend you write it in full sentences like a conversation. 536 00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:48.000 No, you know, God you know that this is what I think this is what I'm feeling you know, or, you know, whatever. And then you can do it however you want you can. 537 00:33:48.000 --> 00:33:59.000 So the way that I do it is I whenever I'm writing out what God says back to me I put it in quotes, so that I know the difference between me talking to him versus him talking back to me. 538 00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:09.000 So the way that you that I recommend that you approach it again, full sentences, as if God doesn't know what you're saying to him until you write it. 539 00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:20.000 You're talking to someone who can't talk and you can't talk to them and they can't talk to you. And the only way to be able to communicate it is to write it, think of it kind of like that so write it out. 540 00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:34.000 It will kind of force you a little bit to not be as distracted as you as we can get when we just start thinking and trying to have conversation with God, we can get distracted and also kind of like force you to articulate what you really feel what you 541 00:34:35.000 --> 00:34:47.000 Then what you will notice and it's really fascinating is, think of it, just like you do to the Lord, think of it as you don't know what God says until you write it out. 542 00:34:47.000 --> 00:34:55.000 So God doesn't know what you're trying to tell him until you write it, and then he can see what you're saying and then be like, okay, so that's what you're saying. 543 00:34:55.000 --> 00:35:00.000 Okay, child, here's my response. And as you write it, you will feel things from the Lord. 544 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:04.240 And write out what you're feeling, write out what it, you feel like he's saying. 545 00:35:04.840 --> 00:35:09.960 Um, and, uh, anyway, so people that have. 546 00:35:10.840 --> 00:35:15.000 Um, had a really difficult time hearing from the Lord and be like, you know, I 547 00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:17.720 used to be able to hear from the Lord, or I've never been able to hear from the 548 00:35:17.720 --> 00:35:19.240 Lord and I don't know how to do it. 549 00:35:19.640 --> 00:35:23.960 They've been able to hear from him when they write, start writing it out. 550 00:35:23.960 --> 00:35:28.840 And when they go through this type of an exercise, so, um, anyway, so I hope 551 00:35:28.840 --> 00:35:30.840 that that is, that that would be helpful. 552 00:35:31.400 --> 00:35:34.800 Um, the last thing I wanted to mention is there's a lot of 553 00:35:35.120 --> 00:35:37.360 scriptures that I include in the journal. 554 00:35:37.800 --> 00:35:41.400 Let me actually, let me mention that before I close up the journal. 555 00:35:42.000 --> 00:35:47.720 When, um, Hey, remember that these are the section titles for 556 00:35:47.720 --> 00:35:49.240 each of the teaching sessions. 557 00:35:49.880 --> 00:35:53.520 Over here across from it is always going to be a brick wall. 558 00:35:53.520 --> 00:35:58.120 This one's actually called the brick wall because these are all the struggles 559 00:35:58.120 --> 00:36:02.800 that I will be my own personal struggles, wilderness experiences that I've been 560 00:36:02.800 --> 00:36:11.160 through and, um, that I needed breakthrough from, and that God gave me 561 00:36:11.160 --> 00:36:14.960 breakthrough in, and there'll be a lot. 562 00:36:14.960 --> 00:36:17.920 And I'll be telling the stories of each of these as we go through them. 563 00:36:18.720 --> 00:36:22.840 When we get to those particular sections and underneath them, I have mentioned. 564 00:36:23.320 --> 00:36:30.800 Uh, I've written scripture verses out that all talk in ways that, that lets you 565 00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:36.840 know that people like Joe, David, Jesus trying to remember who else I've written. 566 00:36:36.840 --> 00:36:41.960 I think song of Solomon, Solomon, all kinds of people in the Bible 567 00:36:42.280 --> 00:36:44.960 experienced these same struggles. 568 00:36:45.320 --> 00:36:48.320 That I, and I know that I'm not the only one who's gone through these 569 00:36:48.360 --> 00:36:49.600 particular spiritual struggles. 570 00:36:49.720 --> 00:36:53.400 These, the ones, the reason I highlight them is like, for instance, the brick 571 00:36:53.400 --> 00:36:56.880 wall, which we'll be talking about what all of that means, um, is that. 572 00:36:57.280 --> 00:37:04.000 You know, these are actual spiritual, common spiritual wilderness experiences. 573 00:37:04.480 --> 00:37:09.560 And I wanted people to be able to hear their story and their frustration in 574 00:37:09.560 --> 00:37:11.880 my stories in case it would be helpful. 575 00:37:12.080 --> 00:37:15.920 So that's what these scripture verses are for are, are they are 576 00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:18.560 not the answer to the struggle. 577 00:37:18.720 --> 00:37:24.680 They are a scripture verse in the Bible that expresses the struggle 578 00:37:25.200 --> 00:37:27.360 in this, um, in the wilderness experience. 579 00:37:27.400 --> 00:37:31.040 And then in the session notes, which I will be giving, um, more 580 00:37:31.360 --> 00:37:33.280 clarity on each of these verses. 581 00:37:33.960 --> 00:37:42.160 This is a, is a verse in, um, what will always be a verse that addresses, which 582 00:37:42.160 --> 00:37:48.120 is where God is addressing basically the answer to another was a breakthrough 583 00:37:48.120 --> 00:37:50.680 answer to this particular struggle. 584 00:37:50.720 --> 00:37:51.760 So that's what those are. 585 00:37:52.240 --> 00:37:54.680 The reason I wanted to point all of that out, because we will have a lot of 586 00:37:54.680 --> 00:37:58.400 scripture verses that we're going through more than just that are included in here. 587 00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:01.840 I've gone through so much struggle. 588 00:38:02.480 --> 00:38:07.480 And so when I was getting scripture verses for this program, this is 589 00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:10.600 where I looked at my home, my own Bible. 590 00:38:11.040 --> 00:38:16.280 So you see, I have all of these scripture verses with, and next to them are, let's 591 00:38:16.280 --> 00:38:20.000 see if I can hold it up because it's very heavy Bible next to them are all 592 00:38:20.040 --> 00:38:23.520 descriptions of those particular passages. 593 00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:28.560 Um, and, and one of them, for instance, that we'll be talking about, let's see 594 00:38:28.560 --> 00:38:30.360 if I can find that particular one. 595 00:38:31.960 --> 00:38:36.080 Oh, I can't find it right now, but for instance, for Psalm six, I wrote that 596 00:38:36.080 --> 00:38:42.080 down, I wrote Psalm six, and then I put as the description crying out to God in 597 00:38:42.080 --> 00:38:48.440 despair, because, and the reason that I wrote these particular passages down is 598 00:38:48.440 --> 00:38:53.000 that in my own personal journey and walk with the Lord over the past so many years 599 00:38:53.400 --> 00:38:58.040 is whenever I would come across a particular passage that would jump out at 600 00:38:58.040 --> 00:39:03.840 me because it meant something very personal to me in the moment, me and my 601 00:39:03.840 --> 00:39:04.840 relationship with the Lord. 602 00:39:04.840 --> 00:39:11.560 And I wanted to remember where I could go to get encouragement, to get encouragement 603 00:39:11.560 --> 00:39:14.240 that I'm not the only one that's felt like that. 604 00:39:14.680 --> 00:39:20.600 Um, or where scripture basically, you know, articulates that my, my internal 605 00:39:20.600 --> 00:39:25.680 feelings or whatever, I would write it down so that whenever I needed encouragement 606 00:39:25.680 --> 00:39:30.120 or if I needed encouragement as in like, I wanted to know someone else who went 607 00:39:30.120 --> 00:39:35.080 through that struggle, or I wanted encouragement of like an, of an answer 608 00:39:35.080 --> 00:39:39.960 to my struggle, like some kind of, uh, where God, you know, addresses, addresses 609 00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:43.920 me in his kindness and his generosity and his goodness and his abundance. 610 00:39:44.360 --> 00:39:48.000 Then I would be able to look through all of these phrases and then be able to see 611 00:39:48.000 --> 00:39:52.120 a corresponding scripture verse and then passage, and then go to that one. 612 00:39:52.120 --> 00:39:56.640 So when I was looking for scripture versus, uh, for the breakthrough 613 00:39:56.640 --> 00:39:58.320 program, that's where I went. 614 00:39:59.040 --> 00:39:59.800 I mentioned that. 615 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:05.840 That y'all will know that I didn't just create this because I felt people needed it. 616 00:40:06.140 --> 00:40:07.820 This is very personal. 617 00:40:07.860 --> 00:40:14.640 I will be walking people through literally like at least a decade of my, if not two of 618 00:40:14.640 --> 00:40:23.840 my life and my personal relationship with God, the really deep hurt and pain, not 619 00:40:23.980 --> 00:40:29.820 pain that somebody else hurt me, no pain between me and God and how God 620 00:40:29.820 --> 00:40:35.380 himself brought me breakthrough from each of these specific wilderness experiences. 621 00:40:35.380 --> 00:40:38.860 And I hope that you will be able to hear your own struggle, your own pain, your 622 00:40:38.860 --> 00:40:44.220 own turmoil, your own questions in my own, in my story, and that in that the 623 00:40:44.220 --> 00:40:49.500 scripture verses that the Lord in the passages that the Lord showed me of other 624 00:40:49.500 --> 00:40:53.140 people in scripture that experienced the same struggles that I did, as well as 625 00:40:53.140 --> 00:41:00.940 scripture that, that showed his goodness and his kindness that addressed that 626 00:41:00.940 --> 00:41:04.060 struggle and brought me breakthrough. 627 00:41:04.180 --> 00:41:09.140 I'm hoping that all of those things will be very encouraging to y'all as well, so 628 00:41:09.140 --> 00:41:16.100 that you can, even though I, the program is kind of fleshed out from my own 629 00:41:16.100 --> 00:41:21.860 personal experience, I'm hoping that all that that does is it prompts conversations 630 00:41:21.860 --> 00:41:26.860 between you and the Lord, where all of this becomes very personal between you and 631 00:41:26.860 --> 00:41:31.900 the Lord, that the journey that you take, that this journal through all of the 632 00:41:31.900 --> 00:41:37.580 things that you'll be writing in it, that you, that your journey will be. 633 00:41:38.140 --> 00:41:42.980 Marked out with all of the milestones that you go through in the next few 634 00:41:42.980 --> 00:41:50.060 weeks and that it, that all it will be, will be a documentation of you, yours 635 00:41:50.060 --> 00:41:58.100 and the Lord's personal journey and into, into his heart, him bring, because 636 00:41:58.300 --> 00:42:02.180 remember that even though we think of it as our journey into his heart, 637 00:42:02.900 --> 00:42:04.940 everything comes from the Lord. 638 00:42:04.980 --> 00:42:07.660 Even faith, even faith is a gift from God. 639 00:42:07.660 --> 00:42:10.860 We have nothing to be able to give him except ourselves. 640 00:42:11.260 --> 00:42:13.500 And that, and that's where that vulnerability comes. 641 00:42:13.500 --> 00:42:17.780 So anyway, if y'all have any questions, just reach out to me. 642 00:42:18.340 --> 00:42:20.700 But I hope that all of that explanation was helpful. 643 00:42:20.980 --> 00:42:27.900 I will have the next session on Monday and up in the portal. 644 00:42:27.980 --> 00:42:31.900 And that's when our first community gathering will also be. 645 00:42:32.820 --> 00:42:37.700 And so anyway, hope all this is helpful and I'm looking forward to 646 00:42:37.700 --> 00:42:39.780 starting with y'all tomorrow.