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Happy Monday everyone.
For those of you that have never met me before I'm Bethany Cooper, I am one of your hard work coaches on your journey. You guys have hopefully been seeing me respond to you to your post and engage with you in the group if you haven't yet you will.
When you, you know, complete your posts and things like that.
It's really good to know that we are praying for you fervently. The team is praying for you the community is praying for you. You have a lot of people behind you including the Lord.
And so we're going to kick off tonight I'm going to pray and open us up.
I do have a couple housekeeping things just because I want to make sure those are recorded and live into the group, I didn't go into those this morning a lot, or this afternoon a lot just because I knew we weren't posting that one.
So we'll do that first.
So here's the most important thing and if you guys didn't see the post in the group, is that while you're here in this group, during the heart work during the love story accelerator that will come after that.
I want to remind you all to take off your helper hats. Okay, so you want to check those at the door completely. No coaching no giving advice, no medical recommendations even if it's herbal supplements like we just can't have any of that in this group.
One of the ways that we just guard that is we kind of remind you all just to receive cheer each other on encourage each other you can say you're praying for each other.
But even just like you guys don't have to ask each other questions to get more breakthrough. Okay, that's our job. So that's my job as a heart work coach the other heart coaches that you guys will start to meet in the next few weeks.
So make sure to keep that in mind.
And if it gives you any peace of mind when I came in and did my heart work.
And I had been leading for years, you know I'm a go getter. A lot of you guys are to a lot of you guys are in ministry boss babes, you know, we know that you can do it.
But, you know, even I had to learn how to just receive.
And there's a purpose in that.
So when you're here, you get to receive your 34.
Yeah, so to receive and learn and grow. And just always want to encourage you guys to come in with the mindset of, Lord, what is, what is it you want to show me today.
Do you want to expand in my heart in the way that I see you in the way that I see other people in the way I engage in the world, or sometimes in the ways that I hide, and I don't show up as my full self, for whatever reason.
And so that's one of the first things just to receive and not jump into that leader coach counselor role.
You guys will continue to get breakthroughs everybody's journey is going to look different. Okay, so don't get intimidated if you're seeing someone else getting, you know, whether they're saying they're crying a lot or they're getting a lot of breakthrough
and you're like, well, I'm not having any of that.
And sometimes that is, is just how it works. Some of you guys have a lot more walls up some of you guys have a lot more like layers that the Lord has to help you come out from under.
And sometimes that's why you might not cry as easily you might not feel like you're getting breakthroughs but it is still working so don't lose hope.
You guys are doing a great job.
You're already leaning into the material.
You guys are excited and that's what we want to see.
So just keep doing that.
Want to encourage you not to compete
and compare yourself to each other,
which is where I was going with those last comments.
You're all in this together.
You guys are a sister squad as one whole group.
And then you will also have like many sister squads
that we will explain to you tonight as well.
Don't rush, take your time, but also don't fall behind.
So there's this balance.
And if you start to feel overwhelmed,
the best thing you can do is ask God to help you.
We all at times will feel overwhelmed,
especially when we are going into the places
that some of us had do not enter signs on.
Some of you had, and still do,
do not enter signs on parts of your heart.
And God is asking you to let them into those places.
And going into those places can be very touchy.
It can be draining.
It's important for you guys to get rest,
to drink a lot of water, to eat healthy,
and to just really be kind to yourself
and your thoughts and your attitudes,
you know, all those kinds of things.
Come to prayer calls as much as you can.
It really will be a lifeline for you.
And that is my last housekeeping item.
Prayer calls Monday through Friday,
eight, or excuse me, I almost said 8 a.m.
10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Eastern time.
Then you have Supernatural Saturday,
every Saturday at 10 a.m. Eastern time as well.
And eventually you guys will also have Sunday night
open up to you.
But for now, while you're in the heart work,
you will stay just in the Monday through Saturday space.
And I think that's it.
So we're gonna go ahead and dive right in.
I'm gonna pray and we'll see what God wants to do tonight.
Thanks for being here.
101 of you, wow, that's awesome.
What a great, great experience you guys are gonna have.
Father, thank you so much for just who you are.
God, that you are a good father
who gives good gifts to your children.
God, I thank you that you're doing a work
in their hearts, their minds, their spirits.
Even now, God, we trust that your Holy Spirit is here,
that you're weaving in and out of even things
I've already started saying.
God, we just thank you that you would help them
to hear you first and foremost,
that I'm just a vessel and the ladies in the groups
that they'll be in are just vessels.
And we just thank you for revealings, for healing.
We ask you to bring anything in darkness to the light
so that there can be healing.
God, we ask you just to help us to surrender the pen to you,
to surrender to the process.
Lord, even if we don't understand it or we don't like it,
God, let us trust in it.
This is a proven process, God.
You've given so many people breakthrough, including myself.
So Lord, I just pray that even if the ladies aren't sure
what to think or believe,
God, help them to borrow from our faith
until they have an experience of their own.
We just thank you that you would continue to help
those that are grieving any losses in their life,
whether it's loss of former husbands that passed away,
it could be through divorce,
it could be loss of a mother or father passing away
or a child, it can be anything.
God, we ask you to comfort them
and just lift them up tonight.
And we just thank you for it in advance, in Jesus name.
All right, so the way tonight is gonna work,
I'm gonna share a couple of things with you guys
to kick off, just to kind of prime the pump, if you will.
And then we're gonna start breakout sessions.
The way breakout sessions will work
is I will give you a question,
you guys will go into the breakout session
and talk to each other about that question.
And then when we come all back together as a group,
I'll ask a few of you to share with the whole group
what you shared in your private breakout session, okay?
So you're gonna have to borrow courage tonight.
If some of you are super shy
and you never talk in front of people,
tonight might be the night to just give that a try.
It normally takes one person to get it going.
I will say that, typically the first time
it always takes someone to kind of take that leap
and then it helps ease everybody else.
So just wanna prepare you guys for that before you go in.
One of the things that we want to encourage you,
the theme this week is all about supernatural surrender.
I wasn't able to go into this this morning
in the early session today,
but I did wanna make sure that you guys see a couple ideas.
In that part one,
it briefly talked about your Jesus Cares Board.
This is a huge part of your process.
This is not a vision board, okay?
So when you see the examples,
it's not like, hey, what are my dreams?
And I just wanna put that up there.
This is more like,
what are areas you need to surrender to the Lord?
What are areas that you need to surrender to him
that you struggle to give to him completely?
Maybe there are things that you worry about.
out, you're afraid, you're like losing sleep over this stuff, you just feel bogged down
under it.
It could be things that you already have like massive cares about now, or it could be something
that comes up tomorrow.
Maybe some of you guys have financial cares, whatever your things are, that's what you
want to put on to these boards.
Some of you guys might have children that are far from you.
Some of you might have, you know, siblings or parents that don't know the word like there's
so many different aspects, but I just want to give you guys some ideas of what you might
be putting on your board.
Let me share this with you and I'm just going to show you a couple examples.
I want you guys to know this does not have to be a busy hard process.
You don't have to have a special board.
You can get started today.
This was is an example of my board when I went through boot camp and I've added some
things along the way.
So I am a very visual person.
I like to use pictures with words.
That's my preference.
You don't have to do that and please don't wait to do this because you don't have magazines
to do pictures.
Just get started however you can, whether that's looking on Google or just going with
words or whatever.
So this is just one example.
You know, for me, I have my spiritual daughters on here, I have my stepson on here.
There's things that I'm praying for for them.
I had before I got married, I wanted a spirit mate that was the fireworks that I was going
to feel fireworks and I wanted to travel around the world with them and I wanted to live and
love and laugh and, and all these things.
And I wanted someone that would commit and all of, you know, all of that as well.
I want you guys to know that literally things that you put on here, you will start to see
activity quickly.
Not that it's always the spirit mate, but I will tell you that things that I put on
the board, I saw God start working in them very rapidly.
The one that he started working in with me the most was the having fun, going on trips,
having fun, traveling and all of that kind of stuff.
So God started opening up doors for me to travel and just see what he was doing and
have more fun in my life.
These are other examples of other people's Jesus cares board.
They're kind of scaled out so you can't see all the things they've written, but see how
like some of them, it can just be simple post-it notes and that's great.
It doesn't, there's no competition here.
It's how you want to express it and what you want to do.
The other one has a little bit of flowers.
She has some post-its.
She has a scripture in the middle.
This is another one.
This lady was just kind of working on her.
So she had a couple of post-its, a couple of hearts, and then this other one's just
like a little clip, you know, putting a couple of things on there.
And that was the board she chose.
Again, you don't have to buy anything.
We've literally had some women just stick them on a wall in the corner of their bedroom.
Y'all, that is enough.
Again, this does not have to be a big ordeal.
And we would rather you do it versus again, waiting for you to have all the crafts and
all the things because stepping into this, you're saying, Jesus, I'm giving you these
cares today.
And so even if you only have a couple in your mind, you know, tonight, maybe even before
you go to bed, just writing it on a post-it note and sticking it up just to get yourself
started, I think will be a great help to you.
So the reason we bring that up in this week is because we really want to encourage you
guys to lean into the Holy Spirit.
If you haven't noticed, a lot of times I will ask you guys a question in my responses to
you.
The reason that we do that is because we're not trying to get you guys to always come
to us for an answer.
In the world, and in a lot of the body of Christ, too often, you know, we're looking
to the pastor and the leaders to have the answers for us.
But what we need to do more is ask the Holy Spirit.
We need to ask the Lord for the answers.
And so we're going to ask you guys questions.
And when you have these questions, the goal is not to dig.
Okay, so don't get out your shovels and try to dig that stuff up.
You want to ask the Holy Spirit to reveal things for healing and trust his timing to
reveal them.
Okay, super important to not dig.
So your first question, we're going to start to put you into breakouts is, um, as you're
thinking about the way that you relate to the Lord, what does it look like for God to
be emotionally involved in your life?
Do you believe he's emotionally involved in your life?
We had this question come up earlier, and some people were asking for some clarity on
what does that mean?
So I'm going to go ahead and kind of explain this a little bit before you go into the breakout.
If you think about any relationship where you feel close to someone, maybe it's your
sister, your mom.
your kids, whoever, maybe, you know, a friend to be emotionally involved in
their life, you're spending time with them, you're getting to know them.
Typically they're showing you some kind of love you're reciprocating that, you
know, you know, that they hear you, they pay attention to you, you know, maybe
you get together on holidays and you exchange gifts, whatever that looks like.
I know that might sound like a, a really big, like, well, how is God
going to give me a gift on a holiday?
You might be surprised.
He shows up in all kinds of ways, you all.
So for God to be emotionally involved in our life, it means that he's close, that
he is intimately involved in the, the makings and the weaving of your life.
For some of you, that might feel like a far stretch because you've gone through
circumstances and you feel like God abandoned you in them, but he didn't.
So we encourage you to ask the Lord in this process of answering this question.
If you're one of the people that feels like God, absolutely.
It doesn't even feel like God's emotionally involved in my life like that.
I would encourage you to ask him to reveal to you.
When is the first time you felt like he wasn't, and you can talk about that too.
When you go into your breakout groups and then you want to ask him to reveal the
lie that you believed that led you to that place.
Okay.
So that's how we unpack it.
That's how we do the heartwork.
So you're asking the question and then you're asking God to reveal the lie.
The lie comes from the enemy who comes in during trauma and he lies to you.
And when we believe his lie, that's how it takes root.
Okay.
So the only way to unpack that stuff is to ask the Lord to reveal it.
And then once you know what it is, then you ask him for the truth to replace it.
And you guys are learned.
You'll get better at this as time goes on in this course, you'll get a lot better.
All right.
So I'm going to be praying for you guys while you're in your breakout session.
Again, the question is, do you believe that God is emotionally involved with your life?
And if you don't, when is the first time you recall feeling like he wasn't all right.
So when you go into your breakout sessions, ladies, some of you, I see, I
have some ladies that were on earlier today, which is totally fine.
For those of you that were on earlier today, you already have your prayer partners.
We're going to try to pull this off the best that we can.
I already heard some people were emailing our admin team asking for people's
information, just so you know, we cannot give out anyone's information.
Okay.
We can't do that.
So what we're trying to do is we're trying to, when you go into the breakout
room that you're assigned to tonight, those are going to be your prayer
partners for your journey.
You guys are going to be in the same group all night long tonight.
Going forward, we might mix you guys up a little bit more.
So you'll want to write each other's names down.
You don't have to give out your phone number.
Ladies, everybody is in the Facebook group for the most part.
For those that are not in the Facebook group, you know, we'll
do our best to get you connected.
I'm going to take screenshots of the breakout breakout groups tonight,
and we'll try to get you connected.
So don't panic.
Okay.
We'll figure it out.
Please don't email the admin.
Well, we'll work through it together.
The reason we're bringing this back is we, we just really feel like it's really
critical, especially in a big group like this, you guys need to feel connected.
Now, when you connect with your prayer partners after the live, you know, that's
really dependent on your schedules.
What you guys, the level you want to engage in that again, no coaching, no
counseling, you would connect for prayer.
And encouragement.
That's it.
Okay.
That can be via text.
That can be voice memos, phone.
That's again, that's up to you guys.
We're not going to tell you, you have to do it any certain way.
So it's about you guys growing in relationship with each other.
Okay.
So just wanted to tell you that before I put you in so that you know, to
write each other's names down, you're only going to have two or three people in
a group, so that shouldn't take you should not take you a long time.
And for those of you that already got assigned a partner earlier, just let
your people in your group know that.
Okay.
All right.
So you guys are gonna have about eight minutes to talk and you should
have that link there to join now.
All right.
Great job, everyone.
Awesome.
Okay.
Just go ahead.
Yep.
We have, um, Janice and Lachelle and Chantelle.
Do you guys see where to click to join?
Okay.
Sometimes it's just delayed with connection.
You guys should see that to join.
If you can click to join that breakout room, that way you guys
can have this small conversation.
Hi, Kate.
We just went into breakouts and we are talking about, do you believe that God is emotionally
involved with your life?
So I'm going to put you into a room.
Go ahead and accept that.
All right, awesome.
Chantel, are you able, you might be able, if LaShawn, Chantel can message me just so
I know if you guys are going to get, go into the breakout rooms tonight.
It's okay if you're at work and you can't for some reason.
All right.
Caitlin, I sent you a request to join a group.
You should see that.
Okay, I think we got everyone situated.
Praise the Lord.
So good.
Father, thank you so much for every one of these ladies.
Thank you for everything that you're doing in their lives.
I thank you, Lord, for just continuing to help them to understand what supernatural surrender
means, God, that it's an invitation, that you're asking them to let you to come into
the parts of their hearts and their lives so that you can bring healing and redemption
and restoration.
So Lord, we just thank you for just continuing to work in great and mighty ways.
Hi, Gina.
I'm going to go ahead and put you in a breakout.
They're almost done, but you can kind of just listen in for this first one since they're
almost finished.
And then we'll bring everybody back together.
Okay.
There you go.
You have that room to join.
So Lord, we just thank you also for helping us to have an understanding from heaven, like
what your plan and your purpose is for our lives in the fullness of what that original
plan was when you created us.
Lord, so much came in and entered through trauma, through the attacks of the enemy,
through our own decisions and mistakes.
And Lord, I thank you that your grace is sufficient and that you're doing a work far beyond what
we could ever ask or imagine.
And we just thank you that you're going to help the ladies just to hear what your spirit
is saying to them tonight.
Lord, we thank you for redeeming through your son, Jesus, our storylines, and you're
helping us to, Lord, just to know the things that we need to supernaturally surrender to
you.
Lord, I thank you that you would help us to let go of the wheel, that you would help us
to lean into trusting you in every area.
We thank you that our understanding is small, but you're so patient with us.
We thank you that you would help us to see with your eyes and hear with your ears what
your Holy Spirit is saying.
And we just thank you that you would lead us into a greater revelation of who you are
as love and that you would help us to continue to experience just your mighty power at work
in our lives, Lord, that you would help the ladies to experience supernatural breakthroughs
and restoration and healing.
And we thank you, Lord, for just coming into our midst and walking into every area of our
lives and bringing your healing power.
Lord, we just ask you to release from heaven divine virtue tonight, Lord, that you would
just help every one of these ladies to feel your presence washing over them, over their
minds, their hearts, their spirits, their bodies, and their souls.
We declare healing for those that are sick in any way, God, that you would make their
bodies completely whole, lacking no good thing.
We thank you for emotional and mental healing as well as physical healing.
We thank you for, Lord, thank you for restoring all that the locust has eaten and the moth
has destroyed, the areas where the enemy came in like a flood and he tried to bring torment.
But Lord, we know that fear is what has to do with torment, but that you have come to
bring us love and power and a sound mind.
So, Lord, we thank you that you would help.
us to take land for you through this process of healing. Okay, so I'll have you guys knew
if you guys can go and you guys will all want to mute for me. Okay. And so what we just
thank you that even as the ladies share in the group right now, or that you would just
help it to minister to each other. And we just ask for deeper revelation and understanding
and Jesus name. All right, let me meet a couple people. Super important if you're not talking
to me, because we'll get a lot of background noise with this many people. Okay, joy cart.
I don't know if I'm saying this right court, right? I can't won't let me mute you for some
reason. So if you can mute yourself, that would be helpful. Alright, so awesome. Hopefully
you guys enjoyed that time. I would love to have at least two of you will see how much
time allows tonight. Share with the group what you shared in your private breakout session.
So who would be willing to jump right in and go for it tonight?
I would be. Okay, go ahead, Joanne. Hi. Yes, I'm in the group with Karina and Belinda.
And we all basically said that we do feel God's life in, you know, through us emotionally.
Some of us have said that, you know, we felt him more at certain times, and then we go
away, he doesn't leave us, but we leave him maybe and come back. But for me, he's definitely
been in my journey, definitely. And in the other ladies as well. Often on it was wonderful
to meet them and be in this process. So I can't thank you enough for everything. Yeah,
that's so awesome. Thank you so much for sharing. And you know, ladies, one of the things that
she said, they're super important is that sometimes we move away from the Lord. You know,
it doesn't even mean that we turn away and we like no longer have a relationship with him.
But what can happen and you guys will experience this even in your physical relationships when
something happens and it triggers you, or you feel afraid and you're like, you know,
leaning back into those things as protection, self protection mechanisms, walls will go up.
And you'll feel it, you'll feel it in your flesh, right? If you if we're paying attention,
we tend to feel those things in our flesh. And so when we are willing to recognize those things,
even with the Lord, and choose like, wait a minute, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna lean into
that anymore. I'm going to choose to turn towards the Lord, instead of away from and part of the
process that, you know, has been helpful from my experience is, you know, asking the Lord to
help me understand the fullness of his love, you know, and I think a lot of us we grow up in church
and we're like, yeah, I understand love. I know he's love. We know it here. But we don't fully
know it down here, not in like deep in our being. So when these things happen, we revert back to
the lies that we believed from a long time ago from those sources of pain. And so you'll you'll
see that happen. And it's okay, when it does just recognize it. And every time you turn back
towards the Lord, instead, you're going to get stronger. And you're going to start to build a new
muscle instead of that old muscle, where you reverted to maybe unhealthy behaviors, isolation,
withdrawing, maybe, you know, some people will turn towards alcohol or food. I mean, there's so
many things that we do to self medicate. You know, we talk a lot in this group, you guys are going to
find we're real here. Okay, men and women struggle with pornography, men and women struggle with all
kinds of masturbation issues, we talk about it. And it's important that you guys understand,
like, these are all things people do to hide and self medicate. So whether it's, you know,
in our minds, big things like that, because that's how we label it in the church, or it's things like
food, or it's things like running away from situations, the Lord wants us to show up,
he wants us to show up and be who we are, and let him help us break out of that stuff. Okay.
All right, Meg, how about you?
Um, so I, in our group, I shared that I want to believe God is invested. And I can see where he
has, like where he has spared me from pain from certain pain, or giving me pushes towards other
things. But I think kind of that you were disappointed, but kind of that those instances
where I feel like where I am disappointed, because he didn't do what I thought he needed to do,
or whatever, I have just created, like a reluctance, you know, even when it's,
he answered my prayer, just not in the way I wanted it. And then I have to get as you kind
of said, I guess I kind of have to remind myself, I have to come back to but he answered my prayer,
like, he didn't leave me hanging. It just wasn't what I wanted.
into here and so that's kind of where I was.
That's so good.
Can anyone relate to what Meg said?
Like you wanna believe he's emotionally involved
but sometimes it just feels tough.
It does.
But the reality is, is that he will continue to show you,
yes, ladies, show your sports.
Okay, go ahead and do that if you want to.
To ask him to show you
how he's emotionally involved in your life
and how he's always been there.
So one of the examples I gave this morning,
I'm gonna give it again tonight
because I think it's helpful,
is years ago I was in a really bad relationship.
I didn't know it was bad when I went into it.
He sounded right.
He said all the right things.
He did all these amazing things.
He like super love-bombed me is what I know now
but I didn't know enough.
Like I didn't know what I didn't know.
And so one of the things I wanna encourage you guys
to do in your process, like some of the mistakes we make,
it's because we don't know any better.
And so it's okay to just quit beating yourself up over it.
The reality is you're here now and you're learning,
you're investing in yourself so that you can grow
in ways that you need to grow.
And so if we will quit beating ourselves up
about those mistakes and just allow God to transform it
and use those to teach us and make us stronger
so we don't keep making those mistakes,
then what we know to be true in this community
as well as in the body of Christ,
but we're seeing a ton of it here
is as people are breaking free,
we're seeing people make really great choices
in relationships.
I believe I'm one of them.
I have an amazing husband now, but I say all that to say,
when I went into that relationship,
I was broken over my divorce.
I'd been divorced for enough time, all that,
but what I hadn't dealt with yet
was the loss of my stepson.
When I told my ex-husband I was gonna file for divorce,
he never let me see my stepson ever again.
And this is not just like,
oh, maybe this is someone I was around a little bit.
Like he lived with us.
I was a second mom to him.
We spent like every day together.
I took him to school.
I did all the homework, you know,
like I was not his mom,
but I definitely, when his mom moved away,
I mean, I filled that role.
So for that to happen, I just, I mean, it really rocked me.
And so then when I met this other guy,
I hadn't dealt with that yet.
And I even told him on the front end,
I knew he had two kids.
I said, I don't wanna meet your kids until this time.
And, you know, I said all those things,
but then he started sending me pictures of his kids
and my heart just, I couldn't even help it.
I just got so drawn right into that.
And so in the beginning, in my mind,
I was, I believed that God led me to this person,
but God was showing me that he was not healthy.
And he was showing me red flags, but I blew past those.
And because I did,
there was a lot of not good things that happened.
And so I wanna say that tonight
because the example I'm giving you
is that sometimes God himself is speaking to us
and he's trying to help us,
but we're just, we're, you know,
for whatever reason, we're not listening.
Sometimes it's because, you know, again,
we have these walls up, we have this brokenness.
For me, I was broken over my stepson
and I got sucked into that through the kids.
And then also some other things.
So it's where we recognize these areas
that we need to own as well, okay?
So that's part of the goal of this supernatural surrender.
It's also surrendering and not blaming God for things.
Like that was my choice.
God didn't make me do that, I chose.
And when I finally came to the place
that I took ownership of that,
you all, that brought me incredible freedom.
Even though it was really hard,
that gave me a lot of freedom
because I took my power back too, okay?
So keep that in mind.
All right, Serene, I would love to hear
what you have to say.
Did I say your name right?
Yes, it is Serene.
Thank you.
Okay, awesome.
In my group, I told the ladies
that I was actually super excited about the journey,
about him being involved in my emotions
because it was one area that I did not think
that he was involved in and wanted to be involved in.
So it was, for me, welcoming and I embraced it fully.
Don't like it, but I embraced it
because I knew it was necessary for my journey.
And I know that the other two ladies in my group,
Ashley and Lachelle, Ashley embraced it,
but Lachelle was a little bit like,
she wanted, she wants it, but she's like taking baby steps.
steps with it. So it was interesting to see everybody's dynamics. So I embrace it fully.
And that's it. Oh, good. Thank you for sharing that. And I think that's a good thing for us
to acknowledge before we get ready for the next breakout session too, is God is a gentleman.
He really is. And so he's never going to force himself on you all. He won't. He's not like what
we experienced in the world. He will knock on the door of our hearts and he will ask if he can come
in. He comes in by invitation. So we have to invite him in. In your heart workbook, there is
a submission activation. It's a prayer. I can't tell you the page just because you guys will have
it on a different page. So you'll just have to look for it. It's called the submission activation,
but it's a prayer. And I would encourage you guys to read this over yourselves. I'm going to read it
over, you know, so I want to ask you guys just kind of like close your eyes and let this kind
of wash over you. And then we're going to get ready for the next breakout session.
Father God, I give you permission to search me and to reveal anything in my heart that does not
belong to my true identity. And that is hindering me from living the life you created me to live.
Holy spirit, I invite you into the darkest places in my heart,
show me the areas that are still wounded and are still hurting. When you reveal these broken places
to me, I covenant with you to release them into your care and to respond with forgiveness and
repentance. I set aside this season of my life for a time of healing and wholeness and ask holy
spirit to take charge of this process. I ask that you dwell with me and in me, I need you. I cannot
heal myself. I want to be free from the past, free to be who I truly am. Help me to become who
you created me to be. Show me the lies I have believed about myself, my life, my surroundings,
even the lies I have believed about you. Teach me the greater truth. Teach me your ways. Teach me how
to think and how to live abundantly. Teach me, show me, heal me, grow me. Amen. So your next question is
how do you feel about the word submission? That's what you're going to talk about in your group.
One of the things before you go in there that I think is important to mention, and again, if you
were on earlier today, you'll hear some of this. It might come out exactly the same. It could come
out a little different, but submission is a mutual choice of respect and love. When we truly submit
from a heart posture of love to our future spirit mates, to God, it's a lot different experience
versus feeling like someone is forcing their way on us. Some of you might have had negative
experiences in prior marriages, maybe family growing up, maybe leadership people that were
over you, where they lorded their authority over you and tried to force you to submit.
That's not what we're talking about here. Those are good things to talk about, but the main
person we want to learn how to submit to is God. So in that, really asking God to reveal to you
what is your true belief and understanding of submission? What does the word say about
submission? What does the Bible actually say? One of the things my husband and I talk a lot
about is even before we got married, that was one of my first questions to him because I was
in an abusive marriage in the past and I did not want that again. I wanted to know what his
view of submission was. We're on the same page that it is a mutual choice to love, to respect,
and to submit to one another in unity. Again, it's very similar when we choose to submit to
the Lord, but again, he will not force us. It's a choice we have to make. I'm going to
put you guys in your breakout groups. If you've joined us since the last breakout group, don't
worry. I will get you situated here in just a minute. All right, ladies, go ahead and join your
groups.
All right, everybody should have a link to join now, I believe.
Okay, did you have a link to join?
Father, thank you so much for every one of these ladies that are in the groups right
now.
They're talking about submission, Lord, and we know at times how difficult that can be.
So Lord, we just pray right now that you would remove any stony, hardened places of our hearts
and put in those places hearts that are soft and pliable to you, Lord, we thank you that
you would transform us by the renewing of our minds that all things have passed away
and behold, all things have become new and you, God, I thank you that we can trust you,
God, that we can give you the tough parts of our hearts and know that you are working
all things together for our good, because you love us and your work and your plans,
you want to bring those to pass in our lives, Jeremiah 29, 11 says that, you know, the plans
you have for us, Lord, plans to prosper us, to give us a hope in a future not to harm
us or bring evil into our lives.
So Lord, I thank you that you would help us to resist the lies of the enemy that would
cause us to think that you do not have our best interest at heart, Lord, help us to lean
into what the word says about your character, about who you are, God, that we would meditate
on your word day and night, and we would, Lord, take it in in such a way that it would
be written on the tablets of our hearts, God, that we would go about our days and we would
think of you, that we would think on things that are true and noble and lovely and of
good report, things that are above only and not beneath, that we would be blessed when
we rise up, blessed when we lie down, that we would be blessed when we go in and blessed
when we go out.
So Lord, I thank you that we would be marked by your glory, that we would be marked by
your healing and your grace, that people would look at us and look at our lives and wonder
what is different about us.
Your word declares how precious are your thoughts about us, so God, they cannot be numbered.
We can't even count them.
They outnumber the grains of sand, and when we wake up, you are still with us.
So Lord, I thank you that you are with us at all times, and we can trust our hearts
safely in you.
We thank you that you would remind us, Lord, that we need to be alert and be present because
you're about to do something new.
It's bursting out.
Don't we see it?
There it is.
It's making a road through the desert, rivers, and the badlands.
That's from Isaiah 43, 19 in the message version, ladies.
We encourage you to really soak in scripture that's in the book, scripture that is going
to transform the way that you think about life and the plans and the purposes God has
for you.
God is doing a new thing.
He's doing a new thing, so you have to align with that.
Even when you don't see it, he is working.
Okay, I think we have everyone back now.
Okay, perfect.
And who would be willing to, Jenny, are you willing to share?
Did you put your hand up?
Okay, awesome.
Thanks.
Go ahead.
Hi, so my group, we were just talking about sort of our issues with submission.
At first, we were talking about it could be easy to submit to someone who is worthy to
submit to and like a good leader.
But then as we were talking, I realized I was like very, I was getting like bristly
and like about the whole subject, and I think I have like some trust issues.
And so we were talking about like being guarded and how that's natural if you've been hurt,
but then how do you move beyond that?
Yeah, so I just wanted to bring that up because we were a couple of us in the group were like
just really, you know, talking about being guarded and being hurt and in regards to the
submission.
Yeah, this is such a great question.
Thank you so much for what you shared.
You know, the first thing I'll say is what really stood out to me too, is when you said
someone worthy, someone that we deem is worthy to submit to, right?
And so I think the first thing that I need to draw out is, I'm just going to do something.
I did this at our church recently, and it was so funny, but it came back to me when
I just was saying this.
So like, if I have these sunglasses, right, and I put these on, everything that I see
now is impacted by these glasses.
Like literally, I can hardly see my screen, like I see squares, but I can't see any of
you unless I move a certain way.
And I'm saying this because, got some feedback there.
If I'm walking around in my life with these glasses on, let's say these glasses came,
these lenses that I'm looking through came from trauma or pain that I experienced.
And I never take these off.
Every person that I look at, including God, every situation I encounter, I'm literally looking through that lens.
And so what one of the things that we have to do is ask the Lord to help us remove the lenses that are faulty, if that makes sense.
And he understands why we have them. He, he feels for us when we are wounded, he, his heart breaks when our heart breaks.
So he has understanding and compassion. The word declares that he's close to the brokenhearted and those who are crushed in spirit.
So if he says that in his word, he's not a man that he should lie.
So he is going to be near to us and he's going to try to comfort us any way that he can.
So that's the first thing is like, OK, well, it's who we deem worthy.
But if our lenses are are kind of skewing that, that can be one thing.
Now, I'm not talking about toxic, abusive relationships.
So don't hear me saying that if there are toxic, abusive relationships, they're toxic, abusive relationships.
So that's not what we're talking about here. OK, but the other thing is there is that the trust issues, what you ask is how do you move beyond the pain or situations that cause you to now struggle to trust?
My first answer is honestly, your heart healing.
You know, as your heart heals, you will start to not only trust in God more, but you'll start to trust in humanity, more people.
But the other thing is and you guys might not like it, but this is the reality.
Jackie said this way back when I was in boot camp and mentorship.
Love is a risk. It is.
Anybody that we choose to love, we are taking a risk, even friends.
But man, it's worth it when it's good.
Right. And sometimes it ends up not being good, but look at what we learn in the process.
That relationship that I was in was not good, but I loved with everything I had in me.
I didn't hold back. I wish I had done some things differently.
But I have grown so much through all of that.
And that's part of what I mean, part of I think why God has me doing what I'm doing now, because I made some mistakes along the way.
Some were things done to me by other people that led me down the wrong path.
You know, some of it was my own choices.
But as we heal, from my perspective, I believe that we start to kind of open the door a little more.
The more we heal, we're like, OK, maybe it is.
It's kind of like, you know, when we teach our kids to look out a door or before they cross the street, look both ways.
It's kind of like that, like we're opening the door and we're just kind of looking around like, is it safe to come out?
And the Lord is going to show you when it's safe to come out and when it's not.
And even for those of you that have maybe maybe you feel like you have a broken picker or maybe maybe you've had a lot of people that have used you and mistreated you.
You're going to learn why in this process, why that's happened.
People that are big givers tend to attract takers.
But as you heal, you'll learn how to set healthy boundaries.
And that will that will be a huge part of it.
And you'll learn that God is defending you and how he is.
For example, when he was telling me the red flags, the next time I was encountering someone that was unhealthy and God was like, here's a red flag, I didn't just blow past it anymore.
So that's that was kind of a long answer, but I hope that you see the different facets and sides of that.
All right. Awesome.
Lauren, go ahead.
Yeah, so I will say just this question about thinking about those words, surrender, submission and authority is stirred up a lot of emotions in me.
But submission specifically, my initial thought was that I will submit if I'm in agreement with someone.
But even in writing that, I realized that's me wanting to control everything, which is a big thing for me.
And then I said, it's also a scary word, because what if I submit and something goes wrong, like I'm led in a bad direction?
But I was really grateful that as soon as I had that thought, the Holy Spirit reminded me of the truth is that when I'm leading, yeah, I take myself in all sorts of bad directions very regularly.
But if God is leading me, if I submit and let God lead me, that even if the situation is hard or goes wrong, so to speak, like maybe it's not a perfect outcome, that God won't lead me in a bad direction.
That was one of the things in our reading this week.
And so, yeah, control is a big thing.
God's still trying to work on letting me give to him.
But just thinking through these words.
convicting in a good way, but he's lovingly like saying, Hey, Lauren, like I've got more
for you.
Like, just, just, just give me this garbage, you know, just give it to me.
That's good.
Yeah.
Again, it just, you know, the word is talking, the Lord is talking to me a lot about the
word invitation.
So you guys want to hear it a lot when I pray lead prayer calls when I'm teaching right
now, because it's just, I just hear the Holy spirit saying that to the body of Christ as
a whole, it's an invitation.
It's an invitation.
And, uh, the only thing I want to share in that is, uh, you said it's scary because what
if I choose wrong?
One of the things we also have to remember is God is so big.
He's so big and he's so capable that even if we choose wrong, he can help redirect us
back to where we need to be.
So it takes a little bit of the pressure off of having to be perfect.
Because I think sometimes, you know, people are so afraid to make the wrong decision that
we just stay stuck.
And so sometimes it's getting out there, giving it a shot, trying it out and letting God teach
you, you know, and knowing that just like, um, the image I'm having come up in my, in
my spirit is like, you know, when a parent has their little, little toddler and the toddler's
learning to walk and they're starting to kind of run a little bit that parents, they're
looking out for them.
And if they fall, they're there to help them get back up.
Right.
That's the image the Lord wants to give you guys tonight.
Like he's right there.
And yeah, you might fall down and bump your knee a little bit along the way, but he's
going to help you.
And he's going to meet you like what we were talking about emotionally, intimately in those
moments.
Yeah.
He's going to be right there.
All right, Margaret, how about you?
I'm sorry, I had to find my mute button.
Oh, that's all right.
So yeah, we were talking and we were talking about how, you know, we've had in our group,
we had, you know, um, experiences where, where submission in Jackie's book, she talks about
how, you know, became a dirty word kind of like, because it was, um, you know, it got
abused in churches and, um, and by the men that we've been with.
And, um, and so that was the hardest thing for me, um, was understanding that, you know,
God is not a man and, um, you can submit to him.
And, um, ultimately what God has been teaching me and I was sharing with the group in my
group was that, um, it doesn't mean that you keep your mouth shut when you submit to God.
If you're submitting to your husband, if you're, you know, abiding by, you know, submit
to your husbands, your husbands are supposed to lay their life down for you and you're
supposed to submit to them or whatever, however you want to work it, however you want to put
it out there, you know, doctrinally or religiously or whatever, ultimately you're not submitting
to your husband, you're submitting to God.
And so when you obey, you're obeying, you're obeying your Abba daddy.
And so, and it's like, you don't need to keep your mouth shut.
Doesn't mean that you don't share your heart.
It doesn't mean that you don't be a part of the process.
And I think the biggest thing for me was understanding, like looking at scripture, you know, and seeing
Sarah, you know, Sarah submitted to her husband and then she was putting a harem, you know,
you know, but God protected her, you know, so it's like if, if the events occur, you
know, in the situation that you're in by, by submission, God's going to take care of
that.
He's going to protect you.
And you also don't keep your mouth shut to the point of like where Abigail, Abigail submitted
to her husband.
But at the same time when he was sleeping, she went out and, you know, saved her whole
village because she didn't, you know, listen to her idiot husband.
She went out and you know, stop David from annihilating the village.
So it's like, ultimately God is going to, God is going to work it out.
He's going to take, he's going to take, you know, when you submit to him, you know, you're
doing it religiously.
Yeah.
So I'm going to challenge a little bit, kind of like some of the way that you're looking
at that there.
I do agree that Sarah and Abraham, that's the one I want to kind of hone in on.
Sarah also made some really significant choices in that process that were not healthy choices
that led her to where she was at.
So when you were describing that the ownership was all on Abraham, okay.
Where they were mutually both deciding things in that process.
It's important for you guys to understand that we all make choices.
We all do.
And so we all have consequences to our choices, even those in the Bible, you know, that we
see.
So just so that we're keeping that kind of in a good, healthy perspective.
And that.
you know, God, yes, he was protecting, he was providing the whole way through 100%.
So just continue to lean into God defending you guys. And, you know, learning how to submit,
as I was saying earlier, it is a mutual choice to love and respect and honor one another.
Truly, you know, and yes, I do think that it includes being able to be honest with your
husband when you're married and tell him what is in your heart and knowing that he will love you,
even if he doesn't agree. Okay. All right. We're going to go into the next breakout session
because we are our time to end tonight is 915. I saw someone asked that it's going to be about
an hour and 15 minutes when we do these lives. Our next question is, are you a control freak?
As we're talking about some of this stuff, are you a control freak? Some of you guys might be
like, nope, I'm good. I'm great. Like I don't over control. And I love to give this example
because it's so true. You know, the Jesus take the wheel song, super popular song years ago by
Carrie Underwood, everybody sang that like out loud, you know, full force. But like, how often
do we say that? But then we just were like, okay, Jesus, here you go. Oh, forget it. No,
you're not quick enough. Like I can help you out and I can make this work so much quicker and
better. And then we're like, oh crap, it's not working. My plan's not working. Jesus, here you
go. And I'm kind of making light, but like, that is really what we do. We give it away and we take
it back. We give it away and we take it back. Right. Where, what we're trying to get you guys
to the point of is saying, how can I completely give this to you, Jesus? How can I really just
let this go into your hands and release it to you? So what areas are you a control freak?
What areas do you struggle to give God complete control in your life? So that's your breakout
session question. Let me put you in there and then we will see you guys in a little bit.
Here you go.
I was in room 12.
Yeah, I just put you in because there's only two, two ladies in that one room.
Here, hold on one second. Let me put you, because see, I have three ladies in the other room right
now. Let me just put you in group 11 for this time, Katie, just that way those ladies will have
an even number of people.
Okay.
I'm still here.
Nothing. It should have given you that invite to join.
All right. I'll just put you in 12 and see if it.
See, now that invites popping up, but the 11 didn't.
Okay. That's okay. Go ahead.
Father, thank you so much for everything that you're continuing to reveal to every one of these
ladies. Thank you, Lord, for helping us to let go of control. We thank you, Lord, that you would
help us to yield to you, to give up, to give in, to let go, to throw in the towel, to concede,
to wave the white flag, Lord, that we would completely surrender all of that to you.
And Lord, that we would ask you to help us in that process.
Hi, Tammy. Did it bump you out of a group or are you just joining just so I know where to put you?
Yes, I'm here. Hi.
Hi. Did it bump you out of one of the groups? Like, were you already in a group?
What do you mean?
Were you already in one of the breakout sessions, or did you just join us?
Well, I was already in.
I was trying to download my picture and...
It's okay.
Okay.
Yeah.
Just what group were you in?
Do you know?
I don't know.
I just know I signed up for the experience group.
Okay.
Yeah.
You don't understand what I'm asking.
It's okay.
I'm going to send you a link.
That's okay.
Go ahead.
You should see a link to join the breakout group, and what they're doing is they're talking
about being like control freaks.
What area do they need to let go of control?
Oh, you mean the group?
You guys don't know.
Okay.
I totally get it now.
Thank you.
Okay.
You're welcome.
Okay.
Bye-bye.
Bye.
So you have...
Oh, okay.
So Laura Breedis, thank you that you're going to continue to show the ladies that control
is an illusion, and being out of control can actually be a good thing, and even a healthy
place for some of us to be.
Sometimes we try to control so many things that we're not even giving enough room for
the Holy Spirit to work in our lives.
So Laura, thank you that you're going to continue to show each one of these ladies how to be
more real than they've ever been, and how to release and relinquish control to you.
We thank you that you would just continue to supernaturally give them the ability to
surrender and fall back into the arms of the one who loves them, the one who created them,
the one who formed them in their mother's womb.
We thank you that as Psalm 139 declares, they're fearfully and wonderfully made.
You didn't make any mistakes in God.
You looked at them and you said, you are good.
You are lovely.
You are cherished.
You are worth far more than rubies.
And so for whoever sees this in replay, we pray that that blesses you and ministers to
you.
God loves you and he is on your side.
Lord, I thank you that you would help them to invite your searching gaze into their hearts,
that you would examine them through and through, find out everything that might be hidden within
them, and put them to the test and sit through all their anxious cares.
See if there's any path of pain that they are walking on and lead them back to your
glorious ways, the path that brings them back to you.
That's from Psalm 139, ladies, from Passion Translation, verses 23 and 24.
We need God to help us sift through those drunk drawers of life, the places where we
have shoved everything that we didn't know what to do with at the time.
So Lord, show the ladies what areas have they been stuffing things down and stuffing things
down and the areas where you want to help them lean in to unpack that stuff, that they
don't have to do that alone, that you're with them in the journey.
We thank you that even tonight on this session, that you would quicken memories within them,
that you would help them to, you know, not dismiss the things that you're speaking to
them, that you'll help them to lean in and let you do what you do best.
We thank you, God, that time does heal wounds.
And how does it do this?
Because time removes us far enough away from the original trauma that we are deceived into
thinking that it doesn't bother us anymore.
So it's not just time that heals all wounds.
It's allowing God to come in and heal those very, very sensitive areas.
Lord, we thank you that you would help them to truly heal, that you would make them completely
whole, lacking no good thing.
We thank you, Lord.
Oh, hi, Michelle.
Did I kick you out?
Oh, okay.
They're in breakout sessions right now.
Oh, you guys are coming back.
Oh, that's all right.
That's totally fine.
You guys can hang out.
I'm just praying.
You guys have another minute and 15, if you want to come back and hang out here, that's
totally fine.
Maybe people are coming back early.
All right.
Hi.
All right.
Hi.
All right.
So Lord, we just thank you that one of the things here is us giving permission.
So we give you authorization.
We grant you the ability to come in and work within us.
We thank you that you're revealing things for healing and that you're helping us take
down do not enter signs.
We thank you that you're helping us brick by brick to take down the walls that separate
us from you as well as separate us from ourselves and other people.
And we thank you that we can trust you, that you are trustworthy.
God, we thank you that one of your attributes says that you are good, that you are faithful,
that you are kind.
And so Lord, we thank you that you would help us in the days ahead to lean into those truths
and to know that you are working on our behalf and you love us.
and have our best interests at heart.
Proverbs 3, 5 in the message version says,
"'Trust God from the bottom of your heart.
"'Don't try to figure out everything on your own.
"'Listen for God's voice in everything you do,
"'everywhere you go.
"'He's the one who will keep you on track.
"'Don't assume that you know it all.'"
So Lord, we thank you that you would help us
to lean into you,
to trust that you're gonna show us what we need to know,
the things that we don't even remember
because they've been pressed down for so long
in our hearts, our spirits, our souls.
God, we thank you that you'll help those things
to percolate to the surface
so that there can be healing
and redemption and reconciliation.
And we just thank you that you're gonna help us
to continue to trust every image,
every thought, every memory
that we'll just write those things down
and ask you more about them.
That we'll trust that even in the way
that you lovingly remind us of things
that have been in the dark or pressed down in our souls
that maybe we didn't even remember,
that even your loving kindness
is what's drawing those things out,
that you're so good that you reveal those things
in the perfect timing that they need to be revealed.
We're still waiting for several groups to come back.
So give us a minute.
I think they're coming now.
All right, all right, all right.
All right, bear with us.
I am going to...
I thought we had a few more minutes.
So I do wanna give a couple of people some time to share.
If you have to jump off, we understand
because it is about 9.15,
but if you wanna hang with us for a few more minutes,
I think it'll be good.
Who is willing to share with the whole group
what you shared in your private breakout group?
Go ahead, is it Italia?
Is that right?
Yes, it's Italia.
Okay, awesome, go ahead.
So anyways, I was in a group with Margaret and Ariel,
and we were just talking about how,
you know, we all have different journeys.
Like some of us like was like a single mother.
And so that caused us to be independent.
Some of us lost our parent at a young age.
That caused us to be independent.
The other one, it's just like,
they've been independent their whole life basically.
And it made us become very like self-sufficient
and it made us depend on ourselves instead of on God.
And then it's almost like,
it's scary for us to give up control
when we've done it for so long, you know?
And just because we have these different backgrounds
and these different journeys,
we're still like giving up control
is something that is almost foreign to us.
We realized there's beauty in surrendering to God
and giving control to Him
so we don't take on that heavy burden
that surely He doesn't want us to carry.
Yes.
Man, that was so good.
I love the way that you described that
and just every different person's journey.
And what's interesting is earlier today,
one of the things that God brought up in my spirit
that I shared with the early group,
and I honestly, sometimes I forget what even comes up
kind of supernaturally like that,
but it was the idea of picking up someone else's bag
and carrying it.
So even when people, like a parent dies
or they abandon us in some way,
or there's some kind of loss,
whether it was a husband that left us
and didn't fulfill their role,
what can happen is we can believe the lie of the enemy
that it's now our responsibility to carry that load.
And it never was.
It never was.
And so part of allowing God to come in
and help you give up control essentially
is allowing Him to heal those deep places
where the hurt originally came in.
So as you guys are continuing in the journey,
we'll talk a little bit about getting to the root of it.
And again, we don't encourage you guys to dig.
The way the root is revealed
is by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
One of the things I was praying before you came back
is we have to trust the Holy Spirit to reveal things
that need revealed in their perfect timing.
You guys, I can tell you just even recently,
the Lord brought something to my mind that,
I mean, I've been on this healing journey
for quite some time.
I do hard work coaching on a regular basis.
And just now in the last month or two,
a memory came to me that I hadn't,
I mean, I didn't even remember that it even happened.
But there's a reason that He waits.
He waits until we are ready.
And sometimes we feel like we're not ready,
but He knows that we are, okay?
And so just trust the timing
and just be really very careful.
careful to not diminish thoughts that you guys have, or when
things percolate to the surface, like if if it's something that
you don't even remember, like it's okay to write down and be
like, I have this thought, it's kind of weird. I don't know
where it came from. But just ask the Lord to reveal that as well.
But on what you said is how you to, you know, the reality is, is
that in order to receive a spirit mate, we have to learn
how to let people in. Right. So we, the more that we practice
letting God have more control and not being so
self-sufficient, asking him for help. And the more that it will
prepare us for that interaction with our spirit mate, because I
can promise you when you guys find healthy men, they want to
help you. They want to help you they want to be chivalrous. They
don't want us just for like, you know, forging ahead. I mean,
there are times that I still have to remind myself, let him
open that door for me. Like, you know, and even sometimes it feels
silly, because I'm just standing there like, because he might be,
you know, a little bit behind me. But he would rather me wait
for him for him to open the door. So us practicing even with
the Lord, and you're like, well, God isn't here in the physical.
So how's he gonna open my door? Well, maybe it's not a physical
door. But maybe he's like, okay, let me open this door. Maybe
it's for a job. Maybe there's something that you're working on
right now. And you haven't invited him into that process
with you. You know, what does it look like to let the Holy Spirit
come in and lead the way? All right. Great share. I love that.
So also, you know, in that as you guys are unpacking those
losses. I would just encourage you to let God love you ask
Jesus where he was at when those losses happened. And what does
Jesus want to tell you? What does he want you to know from
his perspective about that loss? And you'll find that great
healing will come from that. Yeah, yeah, I mean, it's real.
People have a hard time letting men help them for sure. Yeah.
And you guys will get more and more coaching on that in the
days ahead. Rachel, I think I saw your hand up to were you
willing to share? We'll take one more.
Yeah, I can share. We all three of us in our group agreed that
we're all fairly controlling. And sometimes it looks
different. I when when I went to the question, the book, I
thought, oh, I've got areas of my life that I'm controlling and
then other areas that I'm not. And so just to kind of gauge
myself, I was writing the areas that I was controlling. And I
got to the areas where I wasn't controlling. And I realized
there weren't any. And then, as we kind of talked through that,
I loved what one of the women said is, maybe we're dealing
with this so that we're not the red flag, because these are the
red flags in our life. And as we work through these, then we're
not going to step into a relationship with, like, this
this is, I'm so controlling, it's going to end a relationship
as I move forward with this. So I'm thankful for this being
revealed in this way. Even with the Lord allowing a little sense
of humor in it. So
yeah. So, you know, this is super important, you all and what
she's saying here. And no matter what, like, we all have areas,
we still need healing. You know, I mean, I can tell you
that the healing journey continues, the intensive healing
that you'll go through in here will be a little bit more, you
know, intensive, if you will. And not to use that word twice,
but it really will be. But it's not like when the the five weeks
are over, that you're just like, okay, I'm all done now. Like,
you know, the reality is, is even when you step into trying
to date again, there's going to be healing there. When you get
into a relationship, there's going to be healing there, you
know, after you get married, there's going to be healing
there. So just know, like, God is in with you for the long
haul. He's in this journey with us for the long haul. And he
leads us to places Jackie talks a lot like, you know, hurt in
relationship, healed in relationship, hurt in community,
healed in community, you know, where are the deepest places you
all have been hurt, where you tend to control a lot? Do you
know, a lot of the reasons we control is because we're trying
to create a sense of safety, even though it is often a false
sense. Because really, we're never fully safe, even like
we're safe in the Lord, but we can't protect ourselves from
everything.
Right. And so the more we lean into trusting and leaning on and relying on the Lord.
It's going to change everything. It really will. So yeah, just keep unpacking those things with
the Lord. He wants to show you guys so, so many more things. It's going to be a great journey.
I'm going to pray for you guys and we're going to close out tonight.
Keep showing up for yourselves. Keep showing up in the group. You guys have been amazing
already so far. It's been so exciting to get to know some of you, just that little glimpse we've
already seen and just, you know, breakthroughs people are already getting things, you know,
God is saying to you guys, again, no comparison, ladies, the enemy loves to try to get ladies to
pit against each other. But here in this community, we're trying to take ground where we break down
those walls and women really love each other. We're not perfect. People are going to make mistakes,
but we're going to do our best to create an amazing sisterhood community that really can
transform the world. One person at a time. It takes one person at a time. That's it.
And so it starts with you guys. All right. Father, thank you so much for just this amazing group of
ladies. Thank you for those that are here live tonight, as well as those that are watching the
replay or were here earlier today. God, thank you for the healing work that you've already begun in
them. God, thank you for what you are going to do in the days ahead. God, give them dreams at night
and visions in the day, God, and Lord, protect their dreaming time and their sleeping time from
the enemy. Several of these ladies have already had the enemy trying to torment them in their
dreams. So we just thank you for your hedge of protection around them, around them and their
families, and God, that you would guard and keep watch over them, that you would protect them from
distractions and just any other onslaught of the enemy. Your word declares that when the
enemy comes in like a flood, you cause him to flee seven ways. So Lord, we thank you that fear has to
do with torment. So we are not going to lean into fear, but Lord, we thank you that you're going to
give us the spirit of love and of power and of a sound mind, that we will be women that have a
sound mind, that we will take our thoughts captive and make them obedient to your word, to your truth.
And that begins by us getting to know you, Father, better. So Lord, help us to have a fresh
revelation of your love, of your grace, of who you are as joy, who you are as peace, that help us to
lean into you and to trust you a little bit more this night. In Jesus' name, amen. All right, so
we'll be seeing you guys again live next week. We are doing both the one o'clock PM Eastern time and
then the eight o'clock PM Eastern time every Monday. And so it's up to you, whatever you
choose, okay, whichever time. And if one week you come at one and another week you come at eight,
that's totally fine. Okay. So it's really up to you guys to choose. So I'll be seeing you
guys in the group. Have an amazing night, everyone. Good night. Bye.