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So, when we're thinking about 10X, when we're thinking about taking our company to the next

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level, I've been on this relentless pursuit to learn how to co-create with the Lord.

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You know, it became very clear to me that Jesus is the key. You know, when you look

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through the whole mechanism, you realize very quickly that, you know, when Jesus, He taught

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us in a very specific way, you know, that He wants to be our yoke partner. And so you

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have yoke permission that comes from your yoke partner and you have yoke learning. And

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the reason I'm hyphenating all those words is because I want us to see, you know, that

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there is something very special in the way that we partner with the Lord. You know, we

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may, you know, I think last month we gave you a table of, you know, what all the different

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partnerships with, you know, what all the different routines, kingdom routines are

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like. And so this week, you know, this week we want to talk briefly around the routines,

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the routine I'm just simply called lightness. It's interesting that as we've studied last

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year, Matthew 11, that that verse in 28 that says, come to me all your weary and heavy

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laden, those who are pulling a heavy load. And then at the end of it, it says, because

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my burden is easy, my yoke is easy, my burden is light. So how did we go from a heavy burden

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to a light burden in two verses? What transpires for you to go from heavy burden to light burden?

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Well, what the difference is, Jesus got inserted, you know, and when Jesus gets inserted, he's

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saying, hey, this, you say, well, it's so hard to to learn how to partner with the Lord.

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And Jesus said, no, no, no, no. My yoke is easy. My partnering with me is the most logical

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and the easiest thing you can possibly do. Isn't that an amazing idea? Just think of

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just think how we right there blew through every religious excuse about why you can't,

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you know, because God never tells us what we cannot do. He only ever tells us who we're

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becoming and what we can do. And he makes it easy. He initiated something. Imagine if

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you initiated some fun thing with your kids, but then you made it so hard they couldn't play.

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Why would you do that? You're a horrible parent or you're just clumsy or something.

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He's neither of those. And and so this idea that what so the so here's the prompt.

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Right. We said every executive kingdom habit has four components as a prompt, has permission,

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has practice, has and it's about a person. We know what person might be coming.

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So what's the prompt when I feel my burden is heavy, when I feel stuck,

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when I feel I've hit a capacity in my business, what's my permission? Matthew 11, 28.

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You know, come to me and with your burden, with your being heavy laden, I will give you rest.

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So rest is the key that activates my yoke with the Lord and sets me up to learn from him directly.

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He's gentle. He's humble. And I find rest for my inner being.

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We talked a lot about rest at at the School of Leadership yesterday.

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And we're talking about that because God is at rest in you. He invites you to be at rest.

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So what does rest mean? It means you're not doing your own sweat.

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This is not my own self-effort, my own self-reliance, my own.

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It's all up to me. That's what rest is. So what are we going to do?

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What's the practice when we feel that? Well, we reset to rest.

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And so great question to ask. Jesus, how does our partnership work in this situation?

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That's a great question to ask the Lord about your business.

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Jesus, how does our partnership work in my business right now in this situation?

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Some of you in like a rebooting mode.

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Some of you are trying to launch your business and take it where it needs to go.

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And then what do you want to teach me that would make this burden feel light?

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I love that question. Lord Jesus, what do you want to teach me that will make this burden feel light?

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Because we know that rest activates our yoke. It sets us in right position.

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It's very difficult for us to be in partnership with the Lord when we're stressed out of our minds.

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It's very difficult to hear him. It's very difficult to even see what he's doing.

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Because we're just our brains are just in a in a very, you know, non receiving state.

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And so what is beautiful in this particular case is what's happening.

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happening is God wants us to reframe this. Whenever things look hard, one of the things

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we love to say at Brilliant is, what if you reframe it? What if you work backwards or

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turn the thing upside down? This seems impossible. What if it isn't? Well, we'll never get to

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10x. What if we can? That simple question of what if, because what it does is you're

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introducing the God of possibility. Jesus introduced his Father as the Father of possibility.

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With God, all things are possible. He didn't say all things are certain, all things are

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quick, because you have to be involved. It takes your will to be part of it. So in that

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sense, it's such a great question. What if this 10x-ing thing can actually be easy? Well,

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we're finding out more and more, especially from some of the latest business materials,

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from the latest cognitive sciences that we're learning, that when you try to 10x something,

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it turns out to be a lot easier than 2x. Think of it this way. Let's say last year it took

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you 100 transactions to do what you did. And I say, I want you to 2x it. Most of us are

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immediately depressed, because what? I did 200. Do you know how much work it was to do

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100 transactions? You want me to do 200 transactions? Are you out of your mind? You know, it's just

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why? Because and I love that the way Dan Sullivan puts it, he says, because when you 2x something,

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you go to your past, you consult your past. What have I done before? And how can that

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extend into my future for a 2x? When I talk to you about 10x, there's no past reference

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to that. So you just jump the curve. And now you're in creative mode. Now you're inspired.

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So let me ask you, think of your revenue of last year. What if you 10x that this year?

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So you can't do the same thing you did last year, right? You need to do different things.

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So here's what happens. We look at those 100 transactions. And then I might ask you,

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was most of the money in some of the transactions? Like, did you find out that five of those

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transactions produced 30% of the business? And the other 95% produced the other 70%?

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Was there a disproportionate effort? Did you do something specific last year? Think about

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that. What did you do last year that specifically produced a disproportionate revenue? Because

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I bet you that of your 100 transactions, they didn't each contribute 1%. No way. In

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fact, there were a handful of them that produced a whole lot more. Well, why don't you identify

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those and take it from that point?

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So here's the interesting thing. When we start thinking 10x, we step into possibility. We

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step into kingdom. Now let's add the kingdom part of this. Most CEOs learn that when we

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overthink things, when we overanalyze it, we lock ourselves into a complex mental state.

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We're trying too hard. Trying harder is not the way to grow a business. At all. We overthink

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it. We overengineer it. We try too hard. As a result, many times we have victory snatched

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right out of our hands just as we're trying to get it going. It's because what we're doing

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is we're trying to take 1x and make it 2x. It seems like a logical thing to do, but it

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isn't. One, you're not wired that way. I loved what the CEO of LinkedIn said. He said, I've

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come to learn that part of the business strategy is to solve the simplest, easiest and most

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valuable problem. And actually, in fact, part of doing strategy is to solve the easiest

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problem. There's a problem that you solve that's actually quite easy for you.

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So when a strategy is so complex, and when a business grows, complexity comes. I don't

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know. We teach this stuff and we find ourselves in complexity all the time. Because with growth

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comes complexity. And we know that complexity is the enemy of clarity. And if we don't have

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clarity, we don't have simplicity and then we don't have speed. We're trying to get to

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simplicity to drive speed. So how do we make this? What is the simplest way to achieve

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be fun? What if you can actually like doing it? Well here is the secret to the answering that

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question. It will only be fun if it's got a 10x element. Now I'm picking randomly 10x but you know

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Jesus has a completely different method right? Hey you you're responsible for for 10 talents

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I'll give you 10 cities. That's a heck of a lot more than 10x. How much is a talent right?

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A few thousand dollars. How did you go from a few thousand dollars to running a city?

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Which I assume is hundreds of millions of dollars. So God doesn't even think in 10x

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he thinks in million x. So okay let's step into his world with baby step number one called 10x.

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Baby step number one. So why don't we do this?

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We don't do this because we don't see ourselves this way. So to help us do this I've created a

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four-step co-creation process for kingdom CEOs based on Matthew 11 and I've come up with a

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simple acronym called RISE. R-I-S-E and here are the pieces of it. Firstly

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R stands for recognize the possibility. You know here's what God does. I've asked the Lord

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to explain this to me. How do you present us with possibility? And the way that the Lord has been

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teaching me this is that every time you find yourself in a situation the first thing I had

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to change was God isn't measuring how many months or how many years I've been in business. He's not

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measuring that. He's only measuring movement. You move from this to this. You move from

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you know 10,000 a month to 100,000. You move from 100,000 to a million. You move from a million.

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He's only measuring our movement, our growth. He's not measuring time. It doesn't matter to him if

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it takes 10 years to make that movement or 10 minutes. It literally doesn't matter to him and

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the reason it doesn't matter is because the possibility existed the first day you saw it.

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So why didn't it go faster? I want to answer that question. Here's the first thing I said well Lord

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why do possibilities matter and he said because of beauty. So what happens we get in a situation

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may even look negative to us right so our downstairs mind our old nature will look at and

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say oh this is problematic and this is stressful and this is hard and this is difficult but your new

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nature in Christ sees it completely differently. So it's like hey Lord attached to this moment

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you've already to this temporary problem you've already attached a beautiful eternal possibility.

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What do I mean by eternal? It means that he's involved. He's in it with you. That means that

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he's himself binding and committing himself. That's why we say promises are the currency of

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heaven. Promises are the currency of the kingdom because God gives you a promise to fulfill a

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possibility. What happens with that possibility is we have to see okay that means Lord you're

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inviting me into this new space so it looks beautiful to you and desire is born in you.

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If you were at the church gathering on Monday night we've got into this quite a bit.

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So the idea of this is you're in your present business structure. What's the possibility

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the Father's talking to you about right now? Now the reason why that isn't an easy conversation

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is because most of us start with what we think is possible. What we want the possibility to be.

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I didn't say that. I said his possibility. With God all things are possible. He didn't just say

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all things are possible if you can see they possible. This wasn't some new age Jedi mind

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trick. This was the Lord saying I'm involved. I bring all the reasons of heaven. Do you know

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what's possible for the Lord right now in your situation? So thing number one is to get his

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brilliant perspective on what he calls a beautiful possibility for you. Let's take a second there.

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Does that make sense to you? Father what is your beautiful possibility for me? You don't have to

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ask him for this year because he doesn't mind if it takes you a year or 10 years. He wants you to

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go up level. What the 10x thing does is it stretches us out of our past and drives us into

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our future because there's no record of us jumping. We've never done this 10x before.

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You know what the difference between confidence and courage is?

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Confidence feels good.

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Courage doesn't.

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Courage is doing it without feeling good.

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Now, in the Kingdom, we get to take bold action because we have His permission.

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So, let's go through this step-by-step.

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Firstly, Lord, what is the possibility?

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And then, here's what I've found all the time.

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I say to the Lord,

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Oh, we can do this over five years.

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And the Lord said, I don't mind if it's five minutes or five years.

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That will happen.

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Let's not worry about the outcome.

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Let's not focus on outcome.

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Let's focus on who you're becoming or who your team needs to become to pull off that possibility.

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Okay, well, that leaves us to the eye of rise.

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You have to inherit the gift.

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So, Father, I need a 10X gift

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because we know in the Kingdom everything starts with a gift.

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So, Father, I need a 10X gift.

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What 10X gift are you giving me right now?

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In other words, God is going to upgrade your identity.

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You know, you're focusing on operating from that new identity rather than striving on who you were last year.

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So, good news is, the person you were last year died and every morning you start fresh in Jesus.

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How cool is that?

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Why is this important?

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Because identity sets the boundaries of reality.

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Or simply put, identity creates reality.

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A 2X person will not create a 10X reality.

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This is the number one mistake I see prophetic people make.

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They get a word from the Lord.

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It's a big word and they go passive.

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I'll just wait.

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Well, he does because it's not up to me anymore.

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He's going to do it all.

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No, it's called co-creating.

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But if you don't buy into the 10X thing, you will not take downstairs 10X actions that are as big as the possibility.

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What do we do?

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We say, oh, the Lord gave me this big word.

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Right?

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Hey, we've all done this.

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It has a horrible theological name.

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It's called believerism.

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It's a horrible thing and we all do it.

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We've all done it at some point.

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What happens is when something didn't work, we try to believe God for even more.

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If you found yourself doing that, stop that.

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Put that all aside.

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Start again.

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Say, Lord, what right one thing, what gift are you giving me right now so that my new identity.

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And then you step into that identity.

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Remember, we're not practicing stuff in the kingdom to become someone.

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We're practicing something in the kingdom because we are someone.

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You are a new creation in Christ.

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All things are possible.

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So you're stepping into that person and say, okay, Lord, what person do I have to be to receive this 10X?

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So let's just make it simple and say the Lord says, yep, last year you did half a million dollars.

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This year I want you to do five million.

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And as I said, I made up the this year part.

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And the reason is because he doesn't measure time in that way.

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He only measures movement.

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So that's the kindness of God to us, right?

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If it takes three years, okay.

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He's fine with that.

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But, hey, wouldn't it be cool in three years' time if you had five million, even if you were half a million last year?

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Wouldn't that be amazing?

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Wouldn't it be amazing if it took 10 years?

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It would still be amazing.

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Wouldn't it be really amazing if you did it in six months?

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So what's the difference?

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And that leaves us to S of rise.

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You have to step into the permission.

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We have to, and I like the Lord when he gives me a big, bold promise.

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I know that his promises is his word of honor to us.

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He's saying to you, this is my word of honor to you.

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And the Lord binds himself to that promise in you.

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So I like to ask the Lord, what's my permission right now?

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Now, this has an interesting regulation effect.

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It regulates the actions you take.

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Because I want to operate within the permission and the authority of my yoke in Christ.

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I want to be, you know, I want my yoke permission.

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I don't want permission I'm giving myself.

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I want permission because I found my permission I'm giving myself is either way overstated or way understated.

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I don't seem to nail that down.

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The reason is I'm overreacting in a kind of a believerism way.

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I'm underreacting is not having enough faith and trust way.

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So simple way we can set that all aside, make it relational.

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Remember when you're struggling with the stuff, just make it relational.

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What would you tell your church?

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child do the same thing. So here's what I'm asking the Lord. What's my permission right

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now? And the Lord will say, I want you to write the plan or I want you to call Sun Tzu

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or go and meet Sun Tzu. Get on a plane, go somewhere and go meet them and I will make

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a way for you to do that. And it's really interesting. Sometimes the Lord will say,

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I want you to write up, let's say, the Lord will say, do your four square analysis. Dollars

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versus effort. Remember the four squares? And we know high effort, low dollars is quadrant

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four. We identify quadrant four first, then we identify quadrant one. Quadrant four,

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what is low dollars and high effort? Get rid of that business today. Okay, well show some

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grace. Tomorrow, end of business. Get out of that business. Why? It's fighting you and

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keeping you in 2X. It's locking you into 2X is what it's doing. See quadrant four isn't

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just because it isn't profitable, it's because it makes you a 2X person and keeps you in

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a 2X level. I never saw this before until the Lord showed me this. There are things

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we do that keep us in 2X mindset, in a 2X identity. But if I'm looking for 10X, now

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I'm looking at quadrant one. What was lower effort that scales but high dollars? And so

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I have a conversation with the Lord. I said, Lord, are any of these products the ones you

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want us to do? And the Lord said, no, I'm giving you a new product. Maybe that's the

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answer. Or, no, that product I gave you, I know you've got it as a three right now. It

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can easily be a one if you attach this. So now we're in this co-creating mode with Him.

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We're co-creating products. Who will we present this to? Who's this for? What's the avatar

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of the person who's going to use this? You can see how very relational co-creating is.

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It's not God tells you, you go do it. I think by now we're past all that at this group.

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We're past doing things for God. The most cursed thing ever done to believers. Because

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we're always on our own and we're always falling short. And then we've got this notion that

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there's this magic pathway. Because in your brain, if you're doing things for God, you

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think you're on this perfect pathway and His perfect plan. And if you step out of the plan,

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you step off the yellow brick road, well, you're an idiot. Or, which we'll never say,

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God's plan sucks. But we don't say the last part. We just might feel it. So there's no

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fancy yellow brick road with perfect pathway. We have to get up in the morning, turn left,

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not right, go to this or that milk, buy that thing and eat that cereal. There's no such

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life in Jesus. I don't know where this all comes from, but it doesn't exist. What does

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exist is for freedom. Christ sets you free. Everything in His partnership is to make you

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free. That's what it's about. Then when you're free, He wants to co-create and invite you.

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Take my yoke. He didn't say, I'm forcing my yoke. You have to take my yoke. He invites

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you and says, hey, I'll exchange all that stress stuff for rest. So you and I, I will

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teach you. Learn from me. And don't worry, I'll be gentle. I'll be humble. You won't

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feel small doing it. You'll feel big doing it. This is a very different mindset when

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you go with, as opposed to the perfect pathway thing, which we got sold theologically, what

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if we step into adventure with God? What if it's about story and journey and developing

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a story and a journey with the Lord that can take twists and turns? Because He makes all

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things. He is so confident in Himself that even if you're making wrong decisions and

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even if people sue you or whatever, all their free will is exerted in your world. God can

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navigate through all that complexity and He's so confident in Himself He says, I love

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this, all things work together for the good of them that love God and called according

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to His purpose. I got you. God's plans don't change, but the route getting there might

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based on people's will. Well, I stepped off the magic pathway. Well, there isn't a magic

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pathway, so there is no yellow brick road. The whole thing's a sham. Forget that. That

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isn't how He is. He doesn't want to be with us in a robotic sense where at best you can

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call that being a great servant. And Jesus said, yeah, but that's not you. I no longer

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call you servants. I call you friends. Why? Because the servant doesn't know what his

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master's doing. If you feel like you don't know what the Lord is doing, guess what? Guess

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what mode you're in? Okay, abandon the servant mode. God, tell me what to do. I just want

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to be an obedient servant. No, no, the Lord says, I want a friend. I want a yoke partner.

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I want to co-create with you. Let's go and do this together.

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So Lord, what is your dream then?

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And this shocking analysis hit me when I realized God needs me to actualize His dreams in my life.

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He doesn't need me overall. His purposes are regardless of me. This is true.

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But in my life, in my call, in my purpose, He needs me to act like a friend and be a yoke partner.

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And this is such a glorious life, so upgraded away from the doing things for God stuff as a servant.

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So, what if this year in your business you experience God in that way, in a 10x way?

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And that leads me to E.

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Okay, so S was step into permission, E was execute bold action.

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So, ask the Lord, so Father what bold action do you want me to take to co-create with you?

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Now here's the most amazing thing that no unbeliever has, that this is your kingdom advantage.

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Not only do you now have the Father's permission, you have Jesus tied in yoke with you.

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The Father's gone before you and prepared every good way for you to walk in.

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And then the Holy Spirit's got nine power gifts He's like throwing in there.

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We need a miracle, we need healings, we need a word of knowledge, we need a word of wisdom.

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He's like in there just loading you up for this experience.

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So, now what happens is when I have this permission, I have high expectation because I'm stepping out and expecting God to show me His favor.

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Right? I'm expecting His favor to go before me and make a way for me.

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I know I have your favor because I'm in Christ, so I don't earn the favor, Jesus is in there for me.

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So, I'm just going to let your favor go ahead of me in this.

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Well, be careful if you raise your expectations too high because you might get disappointed.

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I'd like to shoot that theory in the head.

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That is the most worldly bit of tripe I've ever heard.

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Like God would do that.

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Like you could expect Him to be kinder than He actually is.

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That you would expect Him to show you more goodness.

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I don't even know where the theological frame, that is such a hellish idea.

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And I say that because I'm amazed how many pastors say that.

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I don't want to tell people that because then they raise their expectation.

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What if it doesn't work?

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I don't know.

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So, I want to say this.

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Don't focus on outcomes, focus on the partnership.

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Focus on how you're doing it together.

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Because in my view of 35, 36 years of building businesses,

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I can tell you it's never worked out on the time scales the way I thought.

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In fact, pretty much nothing.

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So, I can pretty much tell you that if there is a magical way

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in which you know six months or a year in advance, then it works out like that.

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If anything, it goes way better than I have imagined.

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Or the thing died.

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There was some learning involved.

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And even if it was my own mess or my own stupidity or my own ignorance,

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God said, no worries, no worries, I got this.

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I'm so confident.

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I'm going to make this promise available.

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I'm going to work all things together for your good.

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It's okay.

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That's why it's called redemption.

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God isn't interested in restoring.

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You know, Robin and I were talking yesterday about his business.

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If you've been at a previous high and you're lower than that now,

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then you want to get back to.

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Yeah, don't do that.

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There is no back.

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And Robin, I'm so appreciative that you brought that up

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right in the beginning of the call.

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There is no going back.

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Because that's a 2X idea.

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That's a historic thing.

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And here's the thing, when God redeems you,

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he puts you back to where you would have been had you not been interrupted.

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You arrive at 5 p.m. with all the workers and you still get full pay.

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Because he's that kind.

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That's the difference between restoration and redemption.

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Restoration is restoring what was.

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Redemption is restoring what it ought to have been all along.

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That was in his heart.

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That's a much higher thing.

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So the redeemer is with you.

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Some of you right now need to partner with the redeemer.

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Some of you need to partner with the healer.

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You got hurt in this process.

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Especially if lawsuits are involved.

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Some of you, because that's very offensive, lawsuits.

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Some of you got betrayed.

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And so you need to know God is the faith.

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Some of you need him just to be your anchor because the future is so uncertain right now for you.

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Whatever the partnership is, make it 10x. So maybe it's not 10x in dollars, maybe it's 10x in your confidence in him.

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Maybe it's 10x in the quality of the friends he starts to surround you with.

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Because what I've learned is we all, in the world, Dan Sullivan put it this way, I thought this was genius.

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He said, most people do not believe they can have an impact on the world.

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In other words, they're 2x people. Very few people believe they can actually make a difference.

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So guess what? The 2x spot has a lot of competition. There's a lot of people fighting for that space.

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If you go for the 10x spot, that's open territory. Very few people are chasing to be there.

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So I hope today, I hope you're inspired to do the rise. To rise with the Lord to the new level.

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To recognize the possibility. Inherit the gift, a 10x gift that's of that level.

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Step into 10x permission and take 10x bold action.

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You can't have a 10x promise upstairs and a 2x execution downstairs. That's called a triangle.

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You've got to make it a square.

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You've got to match the boldness of your actions with the bigness of your promise.

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Your end of the reading.