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OK, so guys, thanks for the thanks for that.

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I want to go over this and explain today.

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So when we talk about new every morning,

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this is routine number two as a kingdom leadership.

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For me, these are things I'm sharing with you are deeply part of my daily walk

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with the Lord and how that helps me in my business.

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So the spreadsheet we're creating has four columns.

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Column one is what's the prompt?

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Right. In other words, what's the cue?

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What's the thing that causes me to use this?

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Right. This one, when I wake up in the morning is the prompt.

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What's the permission?

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What permission is God giving me in that prompt?

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And then three, what's what do I get to practice?

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Right. What's the routine part?

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What's the part I get to practice so it can become permanent part of my walk

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with Jesus? And finally, then, if I keep practicing

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it to the point that it does become permanent, what person do I become?

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All right. So I hope that was helpful.

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Now, we're going to do that every single

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month and we will at some point put out that spreadsheet.

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So you'll have literally an entire cheat

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sheet with those four elements, the prompt, the permission,

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the practice and the person you're becoming for all 12.

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And I'll give you that and that will be your teacher.

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And then you build your own.

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That's the idea. But to start off with, let me let me give you the ones we use.

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So when we're talking about the prompt.

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So this is when I wake up in the morning

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and I don't want negatives to compound in my life.

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Right. So we know the enemy's on a budget and we have abundance in the kingdom.

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So when you're on a budget, what the enemy has to rely on is you to compound

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negatives for him and get a snowball effect going, because that's where he can get

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to more people. But if every morning you cut the negatives off and you make him

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start again, it's like he's building the Jenga blocks

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of negativity and you pull the one at the bottom and it all collapses.

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You start his mercies on you every morning.

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So that's the permission part.

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The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases.

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It's relentless. That's a nice way.

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The steadfast love of the Lord is relentless towards you.

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His mercies never end.

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His mercies are relentless.

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His love is relentless.

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And they knew every morning, every morning,

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you get a full, fresh dose, fresh every day from the Lord.

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And then then your only response is, Father, great is your faithfulness.

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That's Lamentations 3, 22 and 23.

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OK, so that's the permission.

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My goodness, what a permission for a kingdom business leader

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to not allow any negatives of yesterday.

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Lord, you be the keeper of all that.

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Don't you like the Lord being your keeper?

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Lord, you be the keeper of that.

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I'm putting that in storage.

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And now I start fresh today.

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Unless you're bringing that in for us

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to talk through and talk about what possibility that opens up.

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I'm not addressing that.

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And you say, that sounds amazing.

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You know, Britain and I were going through a scenario where we had to make a big

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decision and there was a lot of conversation about this decision

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and a business decision.

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And so we finally got to a point and we said, OK,

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we're giving it to the Lord to be the keeper.

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He's got a storage facility and he locks it in there and he keeps it in safe place.

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So, Father, this is going into storage.

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Be my keeper, take care.

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But by keeper, I mean, he'll he'll protect you, keep the stuff going.

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It's an amazing thing that he does.

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If the Lord says we're not dealing with that right now.

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And then you say, well, Lord, you be the keeper.

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That terrible situation, that relationship,

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that incredible problem with that client who keeps doing whatever,

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whatever that is, put it into into safekeeping.

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I found this to be one of the most powerful things that I do.

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Now, I learned another little hack.

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Go to sleep in peace, you can wake up in peace.

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So I close out every day.

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I go to sleep in peace.

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So I do this little handover routine that I do with the Lord.

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I just go through my day.

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You got that.

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Be the keeper of that, be the keeper of that.

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Then the Lord said to me, you know,

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you can ask me to be working on stuff through the night.

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Right. And when you wake up in the morning,

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the three fathers and the Holy Spirit have been working through the night and you

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wake up in the morning and they're like, ta-da.

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Now, that doesn't happen every morning, but it has happened.

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And so I leave yesterday behind.

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My mind needs.

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So I love the scripture that gives that teaches us how to do this.

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Now, if I keep practicing, what will happen?

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What kind of person would I become if I did this?

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Right.

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I become a kingdom leader that starts fresh every day and has the full

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resources of heaven fresh every morning.

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Right, because what's happening now is that I've left all the.

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They do, but behind I've put stuff in safekeeping with the Lord.

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And then, you know, sometimes, you know, how things keep jumping back into your

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mind. You start thinking about and then it jumps back, especially is really

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negative. It keeps jumping into my keep jumping to mind.

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That's what stops.

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Now, how free would you be if that stopped in your life?

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Just saying.

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Right. That's amazing.

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It's amazing. So you're living in his in his mercy and grace

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every day. And so goodness and mercy are following

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you all the days of your life.

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Notice it's his days.

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So goodness and mercy catch up from goodness and mercy.

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If you screwed up yesterday's mercy will cover it.

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If you did something amazing and goodness, you can build on that.

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God will just these goodness and mercy will follow you and catch up with you

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every single day.

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There's no budget in heaven.

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You start fresh every morning with full abundance.

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You know, stress and worry and panic

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and anxiety are just not required.

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They are necessary when so much peace and rest

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and grace is available.

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It's like saying we really, really have to budget.

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We're trying to buy this, you know, we're trying and you're acting like, you

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know, you're counting pennies out of a little bag.

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And God says, you do know you have the credit card, right?

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The debit card, you know, the one with ten million dollars in it.

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You don't you do know you can pay for groceries.

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Right. And by the way, tomorrow morning, it's back to ten million and the next

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morning it's back to ten million and the next morning it's back to ten million.

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Just saying that that's a different mindset to how you tackle your day.

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It sets a different expectation.

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So I want to share with you quickly, if I may,

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three keys that have really helped me make this a reality in my life.

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Because these routines are the most pleasurable part

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of maintaining a friendship and a fellowship with Jesus.

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Jesus said, I no longer call you servants.

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I call you friends. Why?

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Because servants don't know what the master is doing.

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But I tell you what I'm doing.

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And I love that.

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He's the same way the father taught me.

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I'll teach you.

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That's the Van Zyl translation.

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And so in that mode,

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you know, what happens is he's restoring your soul every morning.

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And so we learn to walk in newness of life every single day.

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We are a new creation.

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All things have been made new.

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The old is past.

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And so what we're doing is we're learning routines of our new creation,

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that we are a new creation.

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We're learning routines.

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Our old man, which good news is dead in Christ, taught us bad habits.

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Which good news is dead in Christ, taught us bad habits, taught us routines.

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What do we mean by routines?

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What's the biblical word for routines is the ways of the Lord.

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How to be with the Lord, more precisely, knowing how he wants to be with you now.

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So thing number one, never allow yesterday's negative to cross over into today.

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So Kingdom Key one, never allow yesterday's negative to cross into today.

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You know, when we carry over a negative into the next day,

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we actively deny ourselves the peace and rest of the Lord to our own detriment.

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And you know, what really helped me was some neuroscience here

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by a neuroscientist named Dr.

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Rick Hansen, and he discovered anybody know Rick Hansen's training?

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Yeah. So Rick Hansen discovered that the human brain has a natural bias towards the negative.

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Right. And you can understand that, you know, so according to Hansen,

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the brain is like Velcro and it keeps negatives that stick to the Velcro.

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Right. And it uses Teflon and they just slide off on all the positive stuff.

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So all the negative stuff sticks in your mind and the positive just slides off.

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And because he was answering a key question, and maybe you can relate to this.

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At the end of the day, are you more likely to remember

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the 20 positive things or the one negative thing?

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See, the one, the 20 just slid off Teflon and the one Velcro stuck.

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So the idea there's some theories about, you know, you need five positives to offset everyone.

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This turns out not to be true.

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You could have 50 positives.

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They'll all slide off. And the one negative is the thing that will stick.

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It will capture it.

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Now, that's OK, because we have the mind of Christ and we're learning to renew our mind.

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We're learning. We're teaching our mind to live where our heart is.

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Remember, your heart, your spirit person is shaping your mind.

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Right. Your heart is by far the eternal part of you, is far more powerful.

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Mind is one of your weaker functions. So, when the scripture says, okay, let me explain how this

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works. The scripture says in 2 Corinthians 10 5, we demolish, not tinker with, not play around with,

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demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against what? The knowledge of God. And

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what do we do? We take captive every thought. So, an argument comes against us, we demolish that.

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The thoughts in our minds that come up, we take them captive and what do we do? We bring them and

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make them obedient to Christ. Let's use Hansen's analogy. That means we're going to Velcro the

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positive and Teflon the negative, the other way around. The natural mind does it one way,

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the renewed mind, the mind of Christ, Velcros the positive, Teflon slides off the negative.

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Because what the mind captures, it speculates on. Now, we know from basic neuroscience that

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your brain has no emotional circuits, that your brain is literally speculates or predicts

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something happening and then it generates an emotion to match that speculation. Are we going

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to fail? Are we going to have this problem? I'm going to get fired today and the mind says, oh,

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I know what goes with that, this emotion, depression, whatever. And so, it creates that

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emotion in the moment. But if you stop speculating about negativity and replace,

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here's the exchange. What if you exchange speculations with anticipation of goodness?

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Instead of speculating negative stuff, this could happen and that could happen and that bad thing

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will happen and we can't, you know, or we can take that captive and exchange it for anticipation

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of God's goodness. So, Psalms 92 tells us where to get this from. It is a good thing to give thanks

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to the Lord. It says this, to declare his loving kindness in the morning and his faithfulness at

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night. So, we start off the day with huge expectations in God of goodness. At night,

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as we're doing the handoff, we're saying, thank you, Lord, for your faithfulness today. Does that

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make sense? So, as we're going through this process, goodness and mercy become very real

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part and that's why they follow the days of your life. They don't follow you, they follow the days

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of your life. I think that's fascinating. I'd love to get into that, but I'll keep it to the point

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here. So, you're only learning to allow yourself to be overwhelmed by his goodness. Here's the

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result of this practice. If you keep using this routine, the only thing that will overwhelm you,

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because the negative will hit, slide off, positive will grab and you'll exchange speculating about

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the negative to anticipating his goodness. When you exchange that, what will happen is,

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instead of being overwhelmed by severe negative things, you learn to become overwhelmed by his

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goodness. And so, the way Graham would say it is, you only ever learn to be challenged by his

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goodness, not your circumstances. This life in Jesus is entirely possible. So, I ask you,

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I ask you this question, what would it be like to work for a leader like that? Be that leader.

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What would it be like to work with a leader that when something happens, the first thing

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they look at is, how can I prosper from this situation? They take the negative situation,

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they flip the coin. Every temporary problem has a permanent possibility from heaven attached to it.

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Guaranteed. God, your workmanship created in Christ to do good works that the Father has

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already prepared beforehand that you should walk in them. Now, if you know that,

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isn't that something? So, you start off anticipating goodness. So, when the enemy

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hands you something negative, or even if it's not the enemy, I think most of the time we think it's

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the enemy, it's just people and stuff and life, whatever it might be. So, we don't take our

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problems from yesterday into today. There's no requirement in the gospel for you to accumulate

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negativity. I don't know about you, but that makes me happy. That makes me so happy, you know. It's

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this constant invitation to start fresh. Okay, let's talk about key number two. Key number two,

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I already touched a little bit, start each day with an expectation of his goodness. You know,

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when the Lord first started teaching me this, I'm, you know, just a real talk here. I thought this

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would be easy. I would like, okay, no negatives today. Good. So, my expectation of goodness,

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and immediately I went to, I wanted

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God to rescue me out of a situation. What was I doing? I was trying to pull God into my reality

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to rescue me and fix stuff. What he was trying to do is draw me into his reality and live in freedom

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and abundance. Abundance of peace, resources, his mindset. You see which religion teaches us to pray

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prayers, begging prayers, desperate prayers, to try and pull God into our reality to address stuff.

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What God is doing is trying to pull us up to his reality, come live in the kingdom

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with him. You know at some point your head has to go and live where your heart is. Just saying.

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So what I learned in this is, you know David put it this way, he said

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I would have despaired, right? I would have despaired and he thought about it and he said

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you know he would have surrendered his identity to despair because of all the credible things.

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Listen we've all been through unbelievable challenges. You know our story and you know

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how brutal our scenario was. When you've lost your net worth pushing for eight you know eight

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figure net worth that year, losing all friends, losing our business, being made a public, you

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know humiliation, being having relationships with all these profound leaders all over the country

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and suddenly being seen in such a negative light. It was unbelievably painful

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and you genuinely feel my life is over. I'm done. I got nothing more. I literally said to my kids

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one night, I said I don't even know if I'll ever preach again or even teach again. I got nothing

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left. I mean I'm done, right? And you see what happens is you give in to despair but you can be

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like David and do an instead. Do you know what an instead is? The exchange store. Go to the exchange

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store. Isaiah 61. So he gives you the oil of joy for mourning. So he replaces ashes with beauty.

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He replaces you know this idea of you know complete humiliation. He gives you double portion

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and he gives you your inheritance. Isn't that amazing? Now put that in real business terms.

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Some of you are facing right now today some real real business challenges. I know almost all your

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stories I think with these portions of them enough to make that statement true. Now you can choose

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to believe in the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. That's what David said. I would have

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despaired unless I'd seen the goodness of God in the land of the living. That's what you get to do.

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So God is teaching us to live one day at a time with the Lord. You only have to have grace for

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today. Did you ever notice that the Bible says pray for your daily bread not your weekly bread,

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monthly bread, annual bread, gold bread, whatever the bread you want to have. He just says pray for

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your daily bread. So goodness is designed to overwhelm fear. God's goodness the reason he

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gives you that isn't some way of making you schizophrenic. He's saying I'm teaching you

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because my goodness will overwhelm every fear. It will put you in a place of peace. Well we know

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from neuroscience that when you're a place of peace and rest you're the most creative,

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most present. You know it brings out your best leadership. It brings out your best ideas.

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You are your best person when you're at peace. So if you're stressed out and threatened and

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speculating about negatives and fears getting involved in that, you're shrinking down as a

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person. God is expanding you making you into his image and likeness by teaching you to expect

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goodness and not allow the compounding effect day to day of negatives. Is this helping?

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So nothing can work against you when you are in that place of God's presence.

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So look you're going to have difficult people, difficult problems, but they're all beautiful ways

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of practicing his kindness in us. We're learning as business leaders to relax in God's love. Now

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we have peace with God. No more fighting. I know where I stand. I'm right there. So for me

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practicing God's pleasure of, see God it's not just I'm practicing, I'm not just delighting

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in the Lord. I'm practicing the fact that he's delighting in me. My delight in him is just a

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response to his delight. If you know God delights in you, well many of us are taught only delights

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in you when you perform. No he delights in you because you're in Christ. Okay you know you're

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you know you're approved, you're a complete delight. You know why? You're in Christ.

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You just met all the criteria for God to delight in you.

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I love that.

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is God's nature is a ruling power.

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Man, this took me a long time to learn.

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but I wish I'd learned this earlier,

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maybe I should just say it, right?

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in the nature of God, everything.

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Everything in the kingdom starts with a gift,

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we know it starts with the gift of Jesus, everything.

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God's nature is a ruling power.

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so we know peace is a ruling power,

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because the Prince of Peace is in you,

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but more of which we learned last month.

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Give you a new nature, et cetera.

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you know, et cetera, seated in a heavenly place,

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but okay, we understand why God put us in Jesus,

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but why did God put Jesus in you?

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we brought this up.

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Jesus is the nuclear reactor in you.

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It's like God put this power source in you.

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It's like God put a nuclear reactor in you,

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like everything you need,

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everything that you need for life and Godliness

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is held by Jesus in you.

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Every promise God gives, it gives to Jesus in you,

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and that's why it's safe and it doesn't go anywhere.

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exactly the same relationship with the Father

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that Jesus had,

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because what worked for Jesus was designed to work for you.

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Jesus showed us how to walk with the Father,

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and the Father showed us how He wants to walk with Jesus

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so we could do exactly the same thing.

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God put you in Jesus and put Jesus in you.

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He put this double-linked situation and locked you in

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and hid you in the safest place in the universe

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where you'd be guaranteed His favor,

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His delight, and His goodness.

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becomes a practice of abiding,

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over time, abiding will become a habitation.

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It gets to be the place we live.

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We go to live there.

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I'm not reaching for my phone.

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I'm not reaching for anything that could be a negative.

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I'm not responding to texts or whatever.

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I start my day, thank you, Lord.

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Today, I'm gonna be overwhelmed by your goodness.

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Do you wanna talk about that?

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I've woken up some mornings and the Lord says,

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you know that problem you were working on

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the last few days?

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Here's what we're gonna do.

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Can you put that in safekeeping?

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Let me be the keeper.

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Lord, you got it.

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What are we doing today, Lord?

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What gifts are you?

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it's not just to experience his goodness

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because that gift changes your personality.

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That gift upgrades you into the person

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you're becoming in Jesus.

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Father, what does this situation mean for our relationship?

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Father, how can I prosper from this situation?

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what must I do to partner with you?

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how do you wanna be with me in this?

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Father, how do you want me to be before you in this?

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I want you to be at rest.

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I want you to be whatever.

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with a tremendous amount of content

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that had to be created.

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called Ministry Leadership and Church Governance.

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It's an eight-week program, some of you are on it.

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I had a lot of videos, a lot of content to create.

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we had a church service, et cetera, et cetera.

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details on Monday morning. I woke up and I learned never to let that come into

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today. That's not how I start my day. I don't start with my to-do list. I start

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with the one who loves me more and knows me best. So I said, so Father what are we

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doing? The Lord said we're gonna be at complete rest and we're gonna be joyful.

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I said today or the whole week? He said the whole week. That's what we're gonna do.

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Honestly guys, by the end of last night I'd done almost everything. I have no

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idea how. It's like I put three, four hours aside for this, got it done in 90

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minutes. Put 90 minutes aside for that. You see Jesus is a quickening

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spirit. He compresses the time frames. I just love, I just love our partnership.

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this without crying. I was just sitting there, you know, there was a lot going on. The

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Lord said okay let me keep that and I started handing this and then I just sat

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waiting and I thought he was gonna give me some instruction or he was gonna tell

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me something and I just heard the sweetest, sweetest voice saying, hey Dion

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I love our partnership. And then I just cried. It was so sweet. I love our

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partnership. When the Lord said that to me I was like, I mean it just undone me.

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You know, it just undid me rather. So simple question. Father for the next 24

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hours I accept the honor of being one with you in all things today. I love our

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partnership and he loves his partnership with you. Okay.