All right, welcome, welcome, welcome.
Welcome, rock stars, well, we're excited.
So let's hear from, I'd love to hear what's one win since the last time we got together.
We'll start with Lisa.
What's one win, I am set a goal this week to file for an LLC and get some insurance
to start my declutter business.
And if I don't get it done by the end of the week, I beat myself, not physically or emotionally.
Somebody's got to do it.
Dion, you're hearing this, right?
You're going to, we're going to help us out.
Okay, great.
Great.
Okay.
Well, that's it.
That's a good goal.
Awesome.
Gary, what, what's a, what's a win for you?
You know what I think a win for me is just in moving forward in, in my thoughts and progress,
you know, I'm, I'm really down just listening to the Lord to find out what is moving forward.
What is that first step that now I need to go and you got a lot of things that have come
together in terms of just thoughts and the kind of the offer that I feel like the Lord
is putting on my, my heart, but now what is that first step?
So I can take that first step of faith.
Nice.
Leslie, how about you?
Hi, I went, I was sharing this journey that I'm on with your group with my hairdresser.
And so we started to talk about faith and her Christianity and mine.
And then we started talking about my skincare products and I don't know, because we're on
the same page with the faith.
She wants to get into the products and carry them in her salon.
So awesome.
It just really built my confidence in talking about Christianity with people because I think
there's more people out there.
Yeah.
I think there's more people out there that are afraid to talk about it, but want to share
it.
Then, then, then, you know, then you realize, and I, I never knew, I never knew she goes
to church every Sunday and I never knew any of that.
I started talking about it and our conversation just went like this, it was crazy.
So that made me feel really good.
Yeah.
I love it.
Yeah.
You know, it's my two thoughts on that is people, you know, people have different ways.
Like one, one of my buddies, he, he just asks, he'll say, Hey, are you a, are you a Christian
brother or sister?
You know, like he'll just ask, you know, and he's had some wonderful conversations that
way.
But me, I prefer, um, Hey, is there anything I can pray for you about?
And, and, you know, and I've had people say, well, I'm an atheist.
I'm like, that's okay.
I can still pray for you.
And so, you know, it's, um, I think it's really powerful.
You know, we're called to be the city on the hill that can't be hidden.
And I think a lot of people stop at just being good, you know, which a lot of people can
be good.
You know, they can, you know, there's, there's people out there that can do good things that
we don't know.
Are they Christian or not?
We have, we have no idea.
And so I think, I personally think it's powerful for you to, to bring that kind of thing up.
It builds my self-confidence too, because my background is abuse.
So I'm used to getting knocked down and when somebody doesn't knock you down and actually
opens their heart and invites you in, it doesn't hold a lot of things.
So yeah, it was all the way around.
Yeah.
Great job.
Stephanie.
I hear you keep disappearing or something.
I don't know.
Or you keep moving.
I would see you then.
Okay.
There you are.
Um, I'm finally like drafting up my opt in my PDF and my funnel.
And I plan on Thursday and pop that over to you so you can take a look at all the pieces
and see how they fit.
Perfect.
I love it.
I think last but not least, Kyle, you got a win for us?
Quick win?
Oh, you're muted.
I do.
Give me one second.
I gotta run to bed.
I'm at dance class, but I'm out in the hallway.
It just gets a lot of, um, yeah, so a win for me.
Definitely being disciplined when it comes to eating man eating it's been like a mountain to me nice and
Yeah, right now I'm just loading up on electrolytes cuz I'm a little from fasting but even how many days I
Mean, I don't know. I probably have been
consistently like
Carnivore right for the last month and a half like fasting 24 hours at a time every single day religiously
So yeah
But yeah, I've been just shredding it. But yeah, so that that's a win for me. Of course, man
Well, congrats, dude. Congrats
Yeah, absolutely
All right
Well, I am so I'm always super excited for these calls because I get to learn more from the incredible Dion and so Dion
How you doing tonight?
Great. How you doing? Good really really good man. It's
Yeah, you know I've
You know just been really spending a lot of time, you know, we had our every Monday we have our team huddle
so we were going through, you know, some of your content with with the team and
That's been great
going through and
Continuing to study Graham, you know all the time has been awesome and just just feeling very upgraded in a lot of different areas
Unlocked you look up great. Yeah. Thank you. I appreciate it. I appreciate it
And so yeah, I'm excited let's let you you know run run the show and do your thing and I'm gonna be taking notes I
Appreciate it. Thanks. I love hanging out with you guys. This is this is a highlight for me. I
Love to get to connect and so we've been going through this series of the 12 best kingdom
leadership habits and they really are habits that we have honed over I
Don't even know between me and Graham maybe 40 50 years and the stuff we're sharing isn't some
Theological view it's stuff that genuinely has moved us and have moved
moves many people that are in either our leadership school or you know on our inner circle or various other things that we do and
The thing I love most about it is I was just saying to Ray and Rebecca earlier
That you know, it's the starting point that's different, right?
because the difference between a
Religious perspective is that starts downstairs and it starts with me and then I have to do stuff to get to him
Upstairs and you know, the problem with that journey is that you never quite make it, right?
and
so you because you're always short and there's always something to be accused of and there's always something to feel like I dropped the
Bull on and anybody know what I'm talking about
But what do you guys got pipe up? You know, I just don't know what he's talking about. Yeah. Yeah
There you go. And by the way, you guys are welcome to just unmute and talk to me live
That's tough. We're a small enough group. We could probably do that if that's okay and
But here's here's what it is. Is there what if you could live without that accusation, you know
Most believers live in this kind of state of low-grade
Condemnation some of them isn't so it's some of it isn't so low-grade and you know when you grew up always feeling accused
it's really interesting where this word accused comes from and
You know, it's it's an interesting view that
In the Hebrew, there's this word called Satan OS
Where we it sounds like you thought it sounds Satan OS Satan OS and it literally just means the one who points
The one who points to accuse that's what it is
And if you wanted to be like really Hebrew about it
It means that the person who points to accuse another is being Satan. That's why he's called the accuser
Now that wasn't meant to put you on any condemnation that was meant to set you free for the but I hope to say next
Which is Jesus comes and takes every accusation that can be leveled against you and he takes it with him to the cross
So Jesus doesn't just die for you
He dies as you and so that whole account is gone got wiped from the books
So the enemy comes to point but now all that's left is he's pointing at Jesus in you
Oh, what's he can accuse Jesus of right because you're hidden with Christ in God
Did you see the double level there? You're so protected
You're so deeply embedded in God's heart in this. So when you came to Christ, it wasn't just oh, well
I think my sins are sorted now. I'm going to heaven got my fire insurance
It's not that plan
What it is is that you were transformed you move from an object of wrath to a beloved child
You move from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light
And now you're a new creation being now
We talked about that last time about being a new creation being and what that means for us and quite honestly
That's the starting point that shifts everything
because if you're a new creation being then you're starting from that place onward, right and
and so I was trying to think of an analogy that might help us process and think about this and
it is a bit like if if you're out in the boat and you should and you're fishing with a friend and
You fall in you fall in the water
But you can't swim. So you're flailing about you splashing. You're just fighting for your life
But you're also now imagine if if your friend standing on the boat starts shouting you about you got a fish
Why aren't you fishing where the fish you need to produce?
You know, well the reason you can't produce is you are now in an unnatural environment
You're on in you are submerged in an environment. That is that you cannot function or perform in
So imagine if that friend is Jesus and he leans out of the boat and he takes your hand and he's okay
Let me just pull and he pulls you into into the boat with himself
Now you're in a different environment and that's what the kingdom is. Like you're still in the world
You still you know floating on the water, but you're not of it anymore. You're now of the kingdom
You got moved into a different environment now
Imagine how weird it would be if you kept on flailing like you're still trying to breathe
Now that's what happens with our old habits because we spend a life in in the old nature
Right when we were in sin before we came to know Jesus and we learned all these mannerisms and habits
So we don't have a sin nature. We may have a sin habit, but we don't have and we can drop those habits
So now I get in the boat. I have to learn. Okay, breathe
Calm down
Okay, relax. Now, let's chat
That's what happened when you came to Christ now when he says, okay now we're gonna go fishing and most of you
You know are starting to work on
You know being productive
Stepping into that that thing God has prepared for you to walk in and so the Lord says we throw the net like this
You see I'm holding the net we're doing this and you you mimic him you copy him you do what he does and now you fish
together and it's interesting that he never meant for you to do this on your own and
So I want to go back to a key verse that has really been foundational in our conversations and that's Matthew 11
28 through 30
Come to me all you are weary and burdened and I will give you rest. Okay, so that means
That we're not in the water splashing around flailing about trying to survive and make it work anymore
We're not a place of rest
So when I got in the boat, I came to a place of rest and then he says now take my yoke
This will pretend the boat is the yoke right and now learn from me
See, I'm fishing you see how we're gonna throw the net out. You see how we're doing that you do that
Because that's how Jesus learned from the father
He watched what the father did and he did the same and he said the the son can initiate nothing of himself
But only do what he sees the father doing and so this is a very this is a very unusual thought
Because in the world when we're you know flailing about resting means drowning
Right when you're in the water, if you don't keep moving man, you're gonna drown you're gonna get overwhelmed
By your circumstance and your problems and your challenges and trying to stay alive and trying to make it work
But in the kingdom you're being supported by different means in the kingdom
You are in Christ. And so when Jesus take my rest and my yoke, he's yoke is partnering
He's binding himself to you in friendship. He's putting his arm around you. It's another nice word for yoke
Right, and he said and I'm gentle and I'm humble
I'm going to walk with you in this and it says and you will find it gives a guarantee
You will find rest for your soul. And again, the word they saw refers to your entire inner being
that means
Every aspect of your when you say the word I when you refer to yourself as I
That's what the word soul is the Greek word. So hey where we get our English word psyche from the sense of self, right?
Yeah, I heard I thought this was just such a good example. I heard Graham
sharing, you know when Jesus is sleeping on the boat and the the you know waters tossing and turning and
You know, they're freaking out and they're like, you know, what what do you don't care if we die, you know, and and so
the
it's a
Why why is it?
Why is it why you know, it's it's our nature to think if someone isn't freaking out they don't care
Right, and that's not God's nature. God's nature is our nature
to not freak out and to have faith amidst the turmoil. And so we get to practice that piece,
we get to practice that. And I just found that really powerful.
Yeah. In fact, I think we can go further with that and even say that downstairs,
stress and being overcommitted and overworked, that's like a badge of honor. It's like, man,
I'm working 18 hours a day. I'm putting it out there. I'm doing the thing. Look how stressed
I am. Look how overworked I am. It's a badge of honor. And that's true for downstairs. But
upstairs, the badge of honor is rest. You go, Lord, I have to double my productivity. That
means I've take rest to a whole new level. That means I have to learn. Why? Because it's in rest,
I stay in the boat. And you're not going to go any faster if you jump out the boat, start flailing
about. That doesn't bring results quicker. It just exhausts you. That's all it's doing. And
so Jesus is trying to teach us a different way. I love, somebody once said that, go back to your
analogy, Ray, you just used about, you know, you can have victory, back to Jesus in the boat,
you can have victory through any storm that you can sleep through.
So if you can just like rest through the storm you're going through, why are we doing that?
Because upstairs in the kingdom, this is normal for us. This isn't like, well, these are for the
very spiritual, these are for people, you know, been serving God for a long time. This is an
everyday normal thing in the kingdom, that we get to rest, that we get to work from that place of
rest and peace. And so what we learn in the kingdom is that, you know, we're not going to
learn in the kingdom is that worry, stress are completely unnecessary. There's no need,
because we're not, we're not of the world. We're in it, but we're not of it. The Lord knows what
we need to deliver and execute on. In fact, he helps make it go much faster, because now you're
in a boat, you're kind of cheating now, right? And then the Holy Spirit comes and he's the outboard
motor on the boat. And now you pick up momentum. Now you're moving at a whole different rate.
So what happens is, you end up going from one place to another, and you feel like you
almost didn't own it. Because how did we move so far, Lord? And that's the joy he has with us.
So we're talking about tonight, we're going to talk about how to co-create with God. How
does that yoke thing work? How does that practically work in a business context?
And so the first thing we have to do is we know all transformation starts with,
you know, renewing our minds. And so in the kingdom, there's this powerful idea called
reframing. The world's caught on to this idea of reframing, but we have a different version of it,
right? And so reframing is, what if the opposite was true? Oh, the Christian life is so hard.
What if it's not? Well, let's summarize this hard Christian life. So God killed off your old
nature, gave you a new nature. He gave you gifts, you know, like leadership and so on. He gave you
gifts that you can walk in. He put you in partnership in yoke with Jesus to help you pull
the load, gave you rest in exchange for your difficulty and stress. The Father went before
you and prepared every good work to walk in. The Holy Spirit's your guide, your coach, your
comforter. And if you get hurt in the world, which happens, you know, Jesus gives us joy,
because the joy gives us strength. The Holy Spirit comes and He's our primary,
you know, goodness and mercy follow us and they heal the past issues. They bring us into our
present. Then God says, I know the future I have for you. Shall I just keep going? Just point out
when I hit the hard part. Point out when I hit the difficult part that's impossible. I haven't said a
single thing about what you do yet. Did you notice? Here's the big reframe. The big reframe is it
doesn't start with you. Well, you know, Christian, we have to do our part. God helps those who help
themselves, said the worldly believer who's never met the kingdom. Right? Because that's not a
kingdom state. That's not normal in the kingdom. What's normal in the kingdom is that while we
were still sinners, Christ died. What five-point plan did you have that helped with that?
What big initiative did you take? What, you know, what did you take now? Is there bold action? Yes,
but that comes at step five, not step one. Step one is in the kingdom, we start with a reframe.
What is God like? When I know what He's like, then I know how He wants to be with me. Right?
In this case, He loves to have me walk in peace and rest. So He wants to be with me in rest and
peace, to use an immediate example. Then I, when I know what He's, how He wants to be with me,
I know how He sees me. He sees me in Christ. He sees me as He does.
behind me in my new nature. He doesn't see the old anymore because the enemy can't accuse
it and that's all hidden with Jesus. That's already dealt with. So now he sees me a certain
way. Then when I see that, when I agree with him about me, that's the definition of repentance.
Agreeing with God about me is the most powerful definition of repentance. And then the final
step was, well, now that I know he wants to be with me, I know how he sees me, I'm agreement
with him, now I take bold action, step five. So because in the world, the way it works
is you work to get your reward, right? You work through lots of different, you know,
you study to become a doctor and you go through all the exams and you go through all the process
and finally one day you're a doctor. In the kingdom, you start the other way around. All
things are yours. You have a new nature given to you. All things are yours. If the father
did not spare his own son, how much more will he not give you all things? And Paul later
says all things are yours. So you start with everything so that you can perform. In the
downstairs you perform to get qualified. Upstairs you are qualified so you can perform. It starts
in God's heart. This is the biggest reframe for believers and it's the thing that what
rest does for us is rest. We cease from our own solutions, our own efforts, our own work.
We start in God's heart and we work towards, okay, now I know what to do. I'm going to
break that down in more detail so don't worry if it's not clear yet. And so we call this
effortless inversion. Did you know that all transformation in the kingdom is effortless?
If it's white knuckled, I'm going to try harder. Guess what happened? We went downstairs to
fix me. Okay, good news is that's not necessary in the kingdom. In the kingdom, I am a new
creation. Thank you, Lord, that I have your new nature but I want to practice that new
nature until it becomes permanent. I want to practice that peace until it's permanent.
We talked about that a couple of months ago. I want to, I want to reset to rest because
rest is the means. But now we're taking another layer away. And so this idea is that we find
even in believers, we're in a mode, we're just trying too hard. We overthink, over engineer,
over perform, try to do it in our own way. I mean, we even, we even see this in the world,
and in reality, what the Lord is saying, could you put that down for a second? Can you get
in the boat? We don't need the we don't need to be flailing, you won't drown, you're in
the boat now. And that is our place of confidence. You are in Christ, and you're hidden with
Christ in God. So it's not like, you know, I'm not saying that tough things will happen,
you'll make mistakes. But these grace for all that we have to start with this major
reframe. And the reframe is, the Lord is with you, and that he loves you, and that he adores
you, and that you're fully accepted in the beloved. That's the starting point. The starting
point isn't I got to dial it in. So to get his favor, I'm in Christ, so I have his favor,
I have his peace. Praying for favor, it's like praying for air.
I feel like Lisa may have had a good question. Lisa, will you comment, share?
Well, and I actually, I'm in the middle of this. It's just, as you heard at the beginning,
I overanalyze. And I don't want to anymore. I remember when I first got saved 20 years
ago, I just did whatever God told me to do. I just did it. I just, vroom, vroom, I just
go and I went and I did. And I remember within the first week of getting saved, I was driving
around and God said, pull over and give that girl all the money you have in your pocket.
And I went, what? Only had $7, but it's just, I pulled up my wallet and said, I don't know
what's in here. And come to find out she was homeless. Yes, she was, you know, struggling
with drugs, but she was my pastor's niece. I come to find out. It was just, it just kept
going and going. And the more I learned, and I just went up to my, the assistant pastor
told him about it. And, um, cause I guess she gave me her name and she told me that
her uncle was a pastor at the Calvary chapel. And I went, I go there. So I just sat there
and talked with her and talked with her. And it was the coolest thing.
And I want to get back there, but the world has taken me over.
So hopefully you can help.
Yeah, for sure.
So Lisa, your story is not unusual.
And in the sense that,
you know, we start in simplicity and we end up in all this complexity
because life was thrown at us because life happened.
And Jesus said, you will have trouble in this world, but be of good cheer.
I've overcome the world.
So that means he set us up to be overcomers.
We're not working towards victory, working from victory.
That's a very different mindset.
Right. We're not trying to break through that into that new space.
We're not trying to catch up on whatever God's doing.
We're just trying to catch on.
But by that, I mean, when we say rest, what do we mean?
The chaos in our minds that that what if and this and then I have to this
and then if that goes wrong and then how am I going to pay that?
And all that packing that up and quite, you see, that stuff
belongs downstairs.
That's not who we are, because if we start with God,
we start in his heart and we know what he's really like.
You see, if we think that the Lord is annoyed, upset,
he's pretty ticked off most of the time, you know,
and because he knows what I'm really like.
Well, you know, you know what you really like?
You're like Jesus.
You know how he knows?
Because when Christ died, he watched you die.
And when he rose, Jesus from the dead, that's what baptism is.
You lay down in your watery grave.
You leave the old man, old person behind.
And I'm speaking, I mean, man by mankind, of course.
And you're you're raised in newness of life in Christ.
Now, that's the new you.
Jesus is working on.
So when you have permission from him not to deal with the old,
but only to deal with the new.
We dealt with that last month.
You're a new creation in Christ.
The old is gone.
The new has come.
If God isn't working on the old, why would he ask us to?
And by the way, all the past God redeems your past to give you a future.
That's why he says goodness and mercy will follow you all the days of your life.
So what that means is he's going to go back to some of those things
and he's going to insert himself in those memories.
He's going to assert himself in those things and he's going to bring wholeness
and healing to you in this in the process.
But you don't have to wait for that to start moving forward.
It's not up to you to fix your past, even if they were your fault.
Because the Jesus pay enough.
That's the question.
Did he suffer enough?
Did he pay enough?
Or does it need some effort on my part to finish what Jesus missed?
So that should give us great encouragement.
Yeah, it is finished if Lisa does this, this and this.
Yeah.
You know, and sometimes I mean, just the simplicity of.
God nudged me to do this.
I went and did it.
And then a miracle happened.
Right.
And, you know, and I have an old actually, I don't know if you well,
I don't need to say his name, but I have a client.
He was a client.
He was a client maybe, maybe a year ago or something like that.
And he really got used to, you know, he got in the habit of asking me questions.
Ray, can you pray about this?
Ray, can you pray about that?
And every once in a while, I would be like, hey, Lord wants to talk to you, dude.
Like, you know, that's right.
Like, I'll pray on it.
But, you know, like the Lord wants to talk to you.
Well, this past week, he's texted me three or four times.
I'm like, Lord, don't respond.
That's what I got very clearly.
I'm like, all right.
Didn't even respond.
So he sends me another thing.
I don't respond.
Sends me another thing.
I don't respond.
Then he's like, hey, are you getting these messages?
And I'm like, Lord, can I tell him what's going on?
The Lord wants to talk to you.
Can't answer him for you.
And so the next day he comes back, he goes, I think the Lord is telling me this.
And he was dead on.
But see, if I'm his savior, if I'm the middle guy, you know, then he doesn't do that.
So, you know, it's not always the Lord nudging you to give money or go pray for a stranger.
Sometimes it's to ignore somebody.
And that can be a little that's tougher for me, an action taker.
Right.
And and so just staying in step with the spirit and, you know, and just pray on that.
I pray all the time when I'm when I'm when I don't have a thing directly in front of me.
I'm like, OK, Lord, I got some free time.
What are we doing?
And and he just guides me and he will to you, too.
Yeah, these are great questions, Don, you're weighing in, which I love.
So we never.
have to plead with God for anything, correct, because God already did it all.
So let's let's talk about that for a second there, Don.
Is it the one who asked that? Yes.
So that issue is that it's not that we get to be passive.
It's that God is all about the relationship
and everything that could possibly hinder that relationship he's dealt with.
So in other words, you know, there's that old religious thing of,
yes, God, yes, you.
And if somebody moved, it wasn't God, it was you, you know, all that stuff.
And, you know, great idea, except it isn't in the Bible.
Other than that's genius, you know, so because what it's doing
is putting it back on you to reconcile yourself to God.
And what is to we studied last month, right?
If anyone is in Christ, they're a new creation.
Behold, all things have become new.
The old has passed. The new has come.
Now God has fully reconciled us to himself.
Did you notice that we were not in that transaction
other than our will agreeing to accept Christ?
Then it's our learning to walk in the fullness of his nature in us.
So it's not passive.
It's that everything is yours in Jesus.
You have peace, you have joy, you have favor.
I don't know if you remember, Ray, last week
we in our CEO inner circle, we've got several people
who are going through some pretty tough stuff, several of them
involved in litigation, lawsuits and various other things.
And I've been talking to them one on one.
And I said, why don't you let God's favor go before you and make a way?
And they said, well, I need to get it first.
And I said, yes, you got it when you in Jesus, all of the favor of heaven
was attracted to Jesus in you.
Now, listen to the genius of this.
Isn't this the most amazing thing?
God takes all favor and he puts it in Jesus in you.
That way can't go anywhere, can't get messed up, can't get hurt.
So God takes promises and gives it to Jesus in you.
That way it's going to stay there.
Even if you screw things up and mess things up, he'll wait patiently
until we're ready to move forward.
So everything we have in Christ sits in.
Think of Jesus as your nuclear power reactor.
Internally, all of heaven is carrying everything of heaven.
You need for everything you need for life and godliness.
The Bible says is in Christ.
Now you're becoming just like him.
So the growing part, the very active growing part
cannot just be you trying to get yourself sorted out.
It's you relationally engaging and direct learning.
Let's go back to our verse.
We started with right. Come to me and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke. So there is the connection.
I can't be in my yoke
if I'm in stress and worry and other things.
What I've done is I've put my yoke on pause while I got this.
I'm going to go flail around in the water some more.
So then the Lord says, but when we in rest, because rest activates our yoke.
So what happens is rest puts us in a place of relationship
because God is all about the relationship.
It's not just he wants to be part of our lives.
He wants us to be part of his life.
In other words, he doesn't see us as separate.
People say, well, you know, God loves you
the same way he loves Jesus, he loves Jesus in you.
And they will. What about me?
Yeah, well, that you is dead because the new you and Jesus are one.
So he loves you with the same affection he calls first love.
When the father loves the son, that was the first love that existed
from the beginning and dawn of time before the creation of the world.
And you got included.
His love for you is so immense, you couldn't possibly fathom.
In fact, he says no height, no depth, no.
And he goes through a whole lot of things that can separate you from that love.
So what does this mean?
He's all about knowing you and you knowing him.
He wants you to learn what's he like.
How is he? How does he want to be with you?
So one of the reframing things of this effortless inversion is
what if it could be easy?
Well, this is going to be hard.
What if it's not?
Right, I don't know, I'm just going to have to really go after.
Well, what if it could be fun?
What if the joy of the Lord will get you through the process?
So let's take that, for instance, right, that reframe for us
because it's so now relationally driven, Jesus says.
So when you've got problems, what should you be happy?
Not because of the downstairs problems.
Nobody's asking you to be happy about the downstairs issues.
But who's in it with you upstairs?
I have overcome the world. What does that do?
So you will have trouble in this world, but be of good cheer for I've overcome
the world. So let's go through.
That's a reframe.
What Jesus is saying, look at it my way.
Look at it the way I look at it, I see you have trouble, the world is full of people
with free will and God has bound himself to this idea of free will, so he can't override
all that, but he's going to navigate all that on your behalf and he's so confident in himself
that he says all things work together for the good of them that love God and are called
according to his purpose.
That means he's going to navigate all that stuff, you say well why did God let that happen?
I don't think he did, I think people let that happen, right?
So the question is, what God is saying to you is, okay so that bad thing is happening
or has happened to you, I understand that, now here's what I want you to do, I want you
to know that I am with you in it and so because I'm in it with you, you get to be happy.
Jesus said, my joy I give you, so I speak these words to you that you may have my joy
and that your joy may be full.
He doesn't want you to have joy, he wants you to have full joy, why?
Because the joy of the Lord is your strength.
So what would a worldly person say?
I'll be so glad when this is over.
That's worldly thinking, that's old thinking that we're now dead to, what are we saying?
When the situation is resolved, then I will give myself permission to be joyful.
In the kingdom, we choose to be joyful so that the strength of the Lord drives us through
that difficult thing because we know who's in it with us.
Do you see how the reframes are working?
The way he thinks is so critical to understand if we're going to partner with him in business.
Yeah, and the way I really, you know, I just loved, you know, how Graham, you know, shared
that of, you know, he said, you know, that, you know, to practice, you know, to, well,
he was talking, you know, someone said to him, well, I can't, I can't pretend, I can't
fake loving them, like, no, no, no, you don't have to fake it, you get to practice it.
So you get to practice patience, you get to practice joy, you get to practice peace.
And the only, it makes no sense to practice those things when you don't have a conflict,
you know, when you, and this is, you know, the more you get what Dion's talking about
is the more it makes sense, counted all joy, my brothers, when you face trials of different
sorts, James one, two, because if you recognize that, oh, if you understand God's nature,
number one, and that is to always grow us and help us to, you know, to receive what
we already got, and accept it, then you know that, oh, this trial is meant for me to, you
know, to accept some new part of me for me to grow in some certain way.
And and so that's how you can count it all joy.
Oh, what are you going to do with this one, Lord?
How are you going to, how are you going to show off?
You're about to show off, aren't you a lawsuit?
Oh, wow.
This is a big one.
Oh, man, you're really going to show off on aren't you?
And so it allows us, you know, that to practice that joy and peace that that isn't worldly,
you're not rejoicing in the lawsuit, you're not rejoicing in the thing, but you're, you're,
you get to practice.
And the more that you practice that, then the more it becomes natural, because that's
how everything works.
Yeah.
So let's keep going with your analogy there, because that's such a good one, right?
So you call me and you say, hey, brother, I got this huge problem now, huge trouble,
I got a lawsuit.
And I'm going, wow, that's fantastic, great.
I'm so jealous.
Right?
Now we're talking kingdom, reframe, listen to the reframe.
Hey, man, I'm sorry, you're going through the downstairs lawsuit thing, but I'm so excited
for you.
Because there's a massive upgrade, because everything the enemy throws at you as a curse
turns into a blessing.
He has no way, he has no way to take you down.
Right?
So you, so okay, well, what is the upgrade then?
Well, right, here's the thing, the Lord's going to give you joy, when it makes no sense
to have joy.
He's going to give you peace that makes no sense.
That's why it's called the peace that passes understanding.
Oh, I see.
I get it.
Okay, so I get to be peaceful and joyful.
What am I waiting for?
So now Ray gets to go, we're praying together.
So Lord, who do you want to be for Ray, in this time?
I want to be his shelter.
I want to be Psalm 91, the shadow.
I want to teach him to be, I want to be his, his fortress.
Right?
Oh, you want to teach me you're a safe place.
So while I'm there, do I get to be happy and full of peace?
Absolutely.
What does the enemy do to Ray when Ray lives there while the lawsuits going on?
Just saying, can you see, we're in a whole different league.
But if we don't know how he thinks, and we don't know what our standing is with him.
And then I'm sitting there going, man, I'm so jealous.
I wish I had.
that, you know, why am I saying that? Not because I want the trouble,
but I want the fruit that's going to come out of Ray's life.
That's going to be a permanent upgrade for him. That's right. Right.
So that's all it is.
So we, we're, you know, we're, you know, looking for,
but I want this result and, you know, results are temporary lessons can last.
And, and I, and I really believe that's why, you know,
wealth is to be sought after more than silver and gold.
And so like, you know, the lesson, the lesson is, you know,
the growth is, is the gain. And, um,
that's well, very well put. I like that phrase. I love that. So I've learned,
so this is what I've learned. Let me put this all together for you. If I may,
I see Lisa, you got your hand up there. Let's, uh, let's respond to you there.
And then I'll, uh, I'll try to give you a practical.
I just wanted to let you know, as you can tell, I'm very visual. Uh,
I love colors.
And as you've been going through everything from the beginning,
you talked about Jesus in the boat, right? So now moving forward,
what I can do because I'm extremely visual is I can picture
Jesus holding my hand in the boat as I'm walking
down the street or I'm driving in my truck,
going down the road and my head just decides to take a left turn when I'm
supposed to turn right.
I can visualize Jesus is right there in the passenger seat.
I mean, redirecting and focusing on what's true and what's real.
Yeah. I love that.
Well, I,
I love these visual things because Jesus spoke simple visual things to,
to simple people because he was trying to show that the gospel is for everyone.
This isn't for the spiritual or just for the whatever.
And, um, I, I like what Rebecca said, you know, when you go through,
by the way, uh, she went through a massive wilderness season last year. Hey,
you know, Rebecca, God sends you to the wilderness when he's happy with you.
Right? Isn't that what happened to Jesus?
This is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased and off to the wilderness.
He went. All right. I love that.
See, that's the reframe I'm talking about. The reframe is when you,
that's why I can't start with me work towards God because then I'm in this low
grade space. But when I start with God and the reframe kicks in.
That's right. And also, you know, the wilderness is, um,
also when he sent his, you know, the Israelites away from their shackles,
right? So, so the wilderness is where he's de-shackling us.
The wilderness is where he's cutting off chains. He's a breaker of chains.
And so what chains is he breaking off? And, um, you know,
and that's, uh, it's just powerful.
Because what God is taking,
see what God is taking you out of is he's taking you out of
slavery.
And what he's doing is he's moving you into a new place of sonship.
And so you have to drop slavery thinking in our language,
downstairs thinking.
So you are no longer a slave to sin because you're dead to sin and alive
to God. Right?
So this is an extraordinary thing that we get to see in the scriptures.
Romans six tells us we're a new creation in a new land,
depending on the translation you read. Romans seven says, well,
if you go under the law,
you're going to end up doing things you don't mean to do. And then, you know,
all that stuff, Richard, man, am I that Paul goes on? I'm the worst of sinners.
That's Romans seven. And then he ends with this verse, but thanks be to God.
That's not how it is in Christ. That's the one verse everybody leaves out.
Cause if you go, if you get Romans six, right,
which is what we've been spending a few months on, you're a new creation,
you free, you're dead to sin. And then.
Romans seven, you go right through that because you're in Christ now.
And then you start Romans eight. There is now,
therefore no condemnation to them who are in Christ.
So this idea that if you come under the law, you live in condemnation.
If you're in grace, if you're in Christ, you live free. So you,
so what is God doing? He's teaching,
he's reframing our thinking to stop acting like we're in Egypt.
We're not in, we're not in, we're not slaves in Egypt.
So when the minute stuff goes wrong, what's the first thing a slave mind says?
Look, we don't have water to drink. We don't have God. What have you done?
You brought us into the desert to kill us.
How many times did they bring God's nature into question?
Isn't that what the enemy did right in the beginning? Okay. Let's,
let's blow it open a little more. Right. And that's here in the garden.
There were two trees, the knowledge,
the tree of knowledge of good and evil and the tree of life. Notice Jesus did.
The God didn't say Connie from the tree of life.
He just said from the knowledge of good and evil and then Satan.
when he said, God knows that if you eat of that tree,
you'll be like him.
Later on, I think it's in Genesis 2,
God says, because they've eaten from that tree
of the knowledge of good and evil,
now they are like us, knowing good from evil.
And therefore, we need to put an angel
and stop them getting to the tree of life
because these two can't go together.
Jesus comes back as the tree of life.
Now you're in the tree of life.
And that's why the enemy is still trying to sell the idea
that knowledge brings you to God.
It doesn't, the tree of life brings you to God.
They are mutually.
So this idea that if you have some sort
of specialist knowledge,
then you get some specialist whatever.
And that, downstairs might be true,
but upstairs, there's only Jesus.
You, he, I am the way, the truth, and the life.
So now you are grafted in to the tree of life
all life is in Jesus.
This is such a big mind shift for so many of us.
This is such a big reframe,
but the fun part is that it's effortless
because you have the mind of Christ, the scripture says.
So if you have the mind of Christ,
how come you need to renew your mind?
Right, good question.
And the reason is, is that you have the mind of Christ.
It came with your new nature.
Same as you have all favor,
but you have to learn to walk in that favor.
Not get it, walk in it.
You, the prince of peace lives in you,
but now you need to let the peace of Christ reign
because peace is a ruling power,
we learned a few months ago.
So what you're doing is you have all these things.
Now you're learning with the Lord.
You're in the boat now, you're calm.
You're not flailing about,
but now you're learning new ways.
And he's saying, I will teach you.
And that's why he offered, and learn from me.
Take my yoke and learn from me, not about me,
not head knowledge.
So the difference between head knowledge
is the tree of knowledge.
Heart knowledge is the tree of life.
I was transformed.
So in this space between the two spaces,
let me give you four steps I've learned
and created that I kind of go through.
And to make it easier, remember,
I just use an acronym RISE, R-I-S-E, RISE.
And here's RISE.
First R is, now this is applying all of this to business.
And I heard several of you say things
that made me think this may be helpful.
So let's try to be really practical.
R is recognize the possibility.
What do I mean by that?
Now I have a different mindset.
Lord, I have this problem.
And as Ray and I were doing the role play earlier,
he calls me, Ray, I'm so jealous.
That's so amazing, man.
That's fantastic.
Got that problem?
Wish I had a problem that size.
That's amazing.
Why?
So now what's the next question?
So what's the beautiful possibility, Lord,
you've attached to this for Ray?
God has already attached his possibility
to every situation that you face.
I wish I can get into all this.
This is so fascinating how he does this.
So because we start to see the challenges
through Jesus' perception,
not only is Jesus gonna upgrade you,
but at some point the downstairs
is also gonna come in line.
You're gonna have breakthrough and actual blessing
and actual walking there.
But the breakthrough is not the downstairs resolution
of your circumstances.
Breakthrough is that you become someone new.
That's the breakthrough.
Who you're becoming is the breakthrough.
Then because you've become, identity defines reality.
Because you've become someone new upstairs,
the downstairs has no choice but to submit.
If you got that last sentence, you've got a lot.
Because what you're gaining here
is his brilliant perspective,
hence the name of our business, Brilliant Perspectives,
because he has a brilliant perspective.
The I then is, okay, Lord, so I can see.
So what's this possibility you've attached to this problem?
Okay, well, I can't deal with that.
I need a gift.
Everything in the kingdom starts with a gift.
So I is inherit the gift, right?
And what the Lord taught me is
every time I ask him about the gift,
I ask it in a downstairs manner,
meaning, well, maybe we use more common business language.
I ask for a 2X gift, not a 10X gift.
To use Dan Sullivan's idea here,
that 10X is easier than 2X.
Great book, by the way.
But it's the same kingdom idea.
So let's use that.
Because when I think 2X, when I ask small,
I'm thinking about my previous experience with God and I'm extrapolating it a bit more
and I'm saying, well, then I can only ask for that.
And wow, let's just go all in and ask for double that.
Did you know that double portion is the least that you can have in the kingdom?
Because that comes all the way from Isaiah, Isaiah 61.
That you will get a double portion, well that's under the old covenant.
That's the least amount you can get is 2x.
That's absolute minimum.
But God is more like 10x, why?
Because I have no reference.
If I said to you, hey Ray, you took 100 transactions to do your business last year.
Now you have to 2x it, you're immediately, oh my goodness, 100, I got to go to 200 transactions?
I'm exhausted already.
I'm deflated, I'm not interested.
That sounds awful.
Do you know how hard I worked to get the 100 and you want me to make it 200?
How am I going to do that?
But if I said to you, Ray, I want you to 10x, you got to go from 100 transactions to 1,000.
You don't consult your past, because there's no reference.
You consult your future.
Now you're into Jeremiah 29, 11, I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord.
To bless you and prosper you and give you a hope and a future.
So God's always pulling you from the present into the future.
That's his gift.
So the question is, Lord, what's the 10x gift you're giving me?
So we know there's an upgrade to your identity, but we also know that identity creates reality.
That leaves us into S, step into permission.
So the most helpful question I've learned with the Lord is when I'm facing a situation,
I see what's the possibility he's attached, and it's usually like blows my mind kind of
possibility.
Then the Lord said, well, here's a 10x gift you need for that, right?
Because as you know, it's already in Christ in you.
It's just, we're just letting it, we're just focusing on it now, we're operating in it.
Now I said, Lord, what's my permission?
Now permission is great because permission acts as a regulator that you don't get ahead
of yourself.
So the Lord says, okay, I want you to build a billion dollar business or whatever it is
he's saying, this is the possibility I'm now releasing in you.
Then the permission right now is going to your research.
And that's what Ray's been walking you through week by week.
He's been walking you through the steps of permission.
Take this next step, take this next step, take this next step.
These permissions, I remember a local pastor, we'd just moved into this area and we met
and we became friends with the senior pastor very quickly.
And they had like 13 churches and that, you know, they were growing very quickly and we
quickly became friends.
And of course, him and his wife came and spent the evening with us and we talked about all
the things we can do because we grew up in church and planted churches and being part
of all that.
And so, you know, immediately I got excited about all the stuff I could do.
But I realized I hadn't asked the Lord any of this.
So I go to the Lord and I started to apply RISE, right?
The first thing I asked is, Lord, what's the possibility here?
And the Lord said, the possibility is that you strengthen this couple.
I said, no, but Lord, I can help them with this, this and this.
And the Lord said, no, no, the possibility is to strengthen this couple.
So what's the gift now?
I need a gift of encouragement, right?
Not just a gift of encouragement, this better be prophetic.
I mean, this guy's an apostolic figure in his own right.
He's got churches on three continents.
I've got to step up.
I have to have a 10X encouragement, can't just be good, great job, awesome.
That's not going to help him.
Right.
I have to have something from heaven for him.
I have to speak into his identity.
I have to hear from God for him.
So then I said, Lord, what's my permission?
The Lord said, your permission is to be their friend.
When I shared that with them, I was like, well, what about all the stuff we talked about?
I said, I have no permission for that.
I'm so sorry.
I'd love, I'd love to.
Then E, rise, E, execute.
Now I get to the point of taking bold action because I have his permission and I'm functioning
from a confidence born out of his own heart.
I'm now spirit-empowered confidence that just takes everything to the next level.
And this is where you see acceleration.
The Bible sometimes calls Jesus a quickening spirit.
But guess what happens when you're in this mode, when you're in this state of execution
from permission, from the gift, from the possibility he gave you.
Now you're doing it relationally.
And what starts to happen is what used to take a month now takes a week.
What used to take a week now takes a day.
What used to take a day now takes an hour.
And a massive acceleration.
Honestly, what I just said, I could literally spend the rest of the time, the rest of the
evening just telling story after story of how the Lord's done that for me.
Stuff I was so sure.
My wife doesn't even believe me anymore when I tell her it's taken me six hours to do something.
She says, I'll get the tea ready.
You'll be back in an hour or half an hour.
She doesn't even believe me anymore.
And the reason is, it's not because I'm sandbagging how long it's going to take.
It's because what's happened is I've learned.
that the Lord just steps in and it's like, and there's a picture of this that with the disciples
back to boats, the theme of the evening, is that Jesus steps in their boat, and immediately they
are on the other side of the lake instantly. That's what I'm talking about. God gets in the
boat, it just moves. Ray. I'm done by the way. I love this. I love the four steps. I haven't,
I have missed that specificity, but I did this today. So he's been, God's been nudging me
that I want you to do local meetings. And I'm like, okay, so I would go to like pray on it.
And I just kind of got that it wasn't the time. And so on Friday, he had me
accept a speaking gig downtown Fort Myers. And I didn't even think about it. But when I got there,
I realized this is actually the property that I had my first speaking gig at 21 years ago.
Wow. And I didn't even realize it. And so what I got is, this is, this is like a redo. This is like
a, you know, now you get to chance to do this, you know, just in a very different way. And so
anyway, back to today. So today, I got, I got, I do a God walk every day. So I just, I just walk
and she's like 20 minutes or so. And I'm just like, All right, you know, what do you got to say?
What should I be asking? Should I ask about this, this, this? And, and so I get, okay, it's time for
the local meeting. Okay, who should I reach out to? Heather Kane. And I know, I know Heather Kane
is a Keller Williams agent, and she has a an office at houses, you know, you can put like 45
people there to, you know, start off and like, okay, and these are the four people that will
help you boom, boom, boom, boom. And so I'm like, Okay, got it. And so I reach out to Heather Kane,
she responds immediately with I won't charge anything, you can totally use it. I'm all in,
I'd love this sounds amazing. This is awesome. The four people, I think all four now have responded
that they're interested, like they're excited about it. And so we have a date, it'll be March
18. And so like, I just love, I just love that. I just love how you broke it down.
It's just really powerful. Thank you. Well, I dropped I dropped my notes in the chat. So you
got it. If you want to copy those, or stick it in the whatever. I think for me, I had to learn
the sequence of this. So let me say the sequence one more time is what's the starting point.
The starting point has to be his heart, because that's where the reframing takes place.
That's why we because a perception at Brilliant, we define a perception is in the valley floor,
in the downstairs circumstances, that your perception of what's going on, which
rarely is actually correct, by the way, but you have a perception upstairs, you have a perspective.
And the upstairs perspective is how God sees it. And what happens is when we start when we start
in that space, Lord, how do you see this? What possibility have you already attached to this?
Because he doesn't withhold a single possibility from you ever. That's not in his nature to do
that. He never withholds. You may be scrambling a minute to catch on. You know, that's why I said
you have to catch on, not always catch up, but you have to catch on. That's what Jesus was saying.
My father works. I work. OK, Lord, I want to work, but I don't know what you're working on.
So, OK, and once once we get the possibility and we start to get that perspective, oh,
I see, oh, there's this bigger thing going on. So I live in this all the time, every day.
And then I my first step isn't execution. Notice I didn't go from the R to the E,
because all those A types, you know, you just point us in the general direction. We want to
go and kill the whole army on the way through there and take the hill. Hold a second. You need
some weapons to go and do that. You know, so you need the gift. There are gifts. God's gifts are
just bountiful. Do you know that every single description of your inheritance in Jesus starts
with superlatives? It's exceedingly abundantly great. There's no just oh, you have gifts and
you have this and you have this. Even your ability to take that chaos noise in your head captive.
The weapons of our warfare are not downstairs carnal, but upstairs mighty in God to take
captive every thought and pretension and stronghold that sets itself up against the knowledge of
Christ. Well, you know,
Not fighting your old man, you're not fighting your new man,
you're fighting your old man.
You're taking it captive.
You have the super weapon to take thoughts captive.
Did you know that?
Do you know you can exercise that?
Okay, so that's the gift.
In that moment, here's the gift.
Take these negative thoughts captive.
Once you, what God is, he's on a mission
to teach you what he's like,
but he's also on a mission to eradicate all negativity
from your internal world.
Do you know that's possible?
Do you know that's actually what he promised?
The downstairs negative stuff will happen
because you're in the world
and stuff happens in the world, trouble.
But God doesn't mean for any of that negativity
to invade your soul.
Because you can't start in the negative
and end up in the kingdom.
It's so good.
So good.
Well, I went a minute or two over,
but it's so much fun to hang out with you.
Super appreciate you.
So Dion, everyone, give him some love.
I'll stick around and do a few more things with you guys,
but appreciate you, Dion.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Thanks, guys.
So helpful.
Thank you so much.
Yay.
Awesome.
So wasn't that, was that awesome, guys?
Yeah.
So good.
So fabulous.
Quick question, Rebecca,
you know, we can't copy and paste from the chat.
I did copy it.
I have it.
So I'll share those.
I'll share them.
Okay.
No problem.
Yeah.
I'll take a screenshot with my camera, my phone.
Oh, yeah.
I could have done that too.
I didn't even think of it.
Yeah.
But I took notes,
but what he has written is way better than what I wrote.
He's pretty good like that.
Oh my gosh.
Like.
That's good, man.
That's so good.
So good.
And it's so fun because it's been happening.
Yeah.
You know, over the last few months,
I just see it more and more.
It's just,
and you just stay so relaxed.
Yeah.
You know, you just like, really,
it's like, oh, some, you know,
another red light.
Awesome.
Cause I know it's God's timing and this is all the time.
I get in my car and I say,
thanks God for getting me there.
You know, like it's just a,
it's so fun.
Yeah.
It's just,
and I'm listening more to other people too.
Like to, to really see how are they,
like, how are they really processing, you know,
other believers, even how I see that.
And they, they've, they live in this struggle and.
For sure.
A hundred percent.
And I've stepped out of performance, you know, like,
oh my gosh, I have to perform at camp.
Yeah.
Oh my gosh.
I have to perform and I can't sit down.
And you really got me thinking about that because you said,
am I supposed to watch TV?
It goes, it goes, yes.
And literally I've been asking him questions constantly
and he's got not sick of me, you know?
Yeah.
So it's.
Well, it says, you know, you know,
when you lack wisdom,
ask will be given to you liberally and without reproach.
Oh, right.
So, you know, there's no, all right, you hit, you get 10,
10 to a Don, go ahead and make them count.
Right.
And it's, and it is that shift in up there versus down here.
And that's why it is the renewing
because we're being bombarded constantly all day
in so many ways.
And so to just keep stepping back
and just keep that conversation going.
Yeah.
It's so good.
Yeah.
And so, I mean, for, for me, I, you know, I,
I'm, I I've been really utilizing the last two steps.
Do I, what's, what's your permission here and execute?
And so do you want me to respond to this person?
No.
Okay.
All right.
Then I won't, I'll execute.
Do you want me to do something with this person?
Yeah.
Okay.
Then I'll execute, you know?
And so what I, what I haven't,
I haven't been doing the whole,
Hey Lord, what is the possibility with this?
I haven't been asking those kinds of questions and,
you know, and okay, you know.
Let me, you know, thank you for helping me inherit that gift.
I have been very good at that of just listening.
You know, when I listen, when I read or listen to the Bible,
that's one of the number one things I'm looking for is,
is there a trait that I'm not accepting?
Is there a trait that I haven't adopted?
And if so, I know the hack.
Father, thank you for helping me with this.
And so like, you know, I was,
Graham cook has a training in his app about the fruit of the spirit.
And that's, it's really, really good. And.
Had me listen to, you know, a couple of them multiple times.
And, and also when I was going through my, my reading, you know, I've.
Go through the gospels a lot. And so I'm, I just finished John.
And I got, all right, Lord, just move forward.
Reread John.
And as soon as I got that, I knew.
There's some kind of trait in there that I've missed.
There's something in there that he's, he's wanting me to accept.
And, you know, not, not.
Grind at, not like, Oh, come on, you're good at this time.
You know, cause there's no, you know, struggle.
It's just recognition and saying, Oh, Hey, thank you for helping me with this.
Thank you for helping grow, grow this.
And, and we'll do that kind of.
Of prayers. We, you know, in tonight.
But any.
Any questions, anything I can, I can help with this. This is so big.
I mean, if you can get just tonight, if you can just get tonight.
Maybe relisten to this, rewatch it. And I would, I would.
You know, thank the father. Thank you, father, for helping me accept this truth.
Thank you, father, for helping me step into this.
Thank you for father for helping me absorb this help,
helping me walk in this new creation.
And, you know, and I I've had multiple things that man, the old me.
Holy crap. What I've been stressed out about.
And I'm just not at all. It's not even a blip on the radar.
I'm starting to do, you know, it's like there's zero.
Reaction there.
And in the past, I would have been very stressed out.
And I just, I just don't get it. I'm like, all right, Lord.
I see this is going on and, you know, I know it's your perfect timing.
So I look forward to however you're going to meet with us.
It's fine.
And it's just, it's just a different.
It's a different experience.
I have one question and.
Yes.
You're open to when.
In the, when I wake up in the morning through,
I would say through like two, three o'clock.
It's like, I'm, I'm hearing God consistently consistently.
It's like, I'm tired or something.
Maybe I'm not eating enough protein or something, but, but after two,
three o'clock.
It's like, I'm.
My brain is fluffy. I call it.
I'm just here, but I'm not.
Okay.
When you're.
When you are hearing from him.
Are you asking for.
Hey, Lord, is there something you'd like me to do right now?
Not always.
I was out because what out, what I'll do is, and I do,
I literally do this all day long.
I is Lord, is there something you want me to do right now?
And most of the times I get a yes.
And I'm like, okay.
And then I'll, I'll, I'll kind of guess, and then.
He will let me guess.
And then he'll kind of take, if I, if I don't get it, I'm just like,
all right, you're having it. He'll give me some kind of hint.
And I'm like, oh, oh, you want me? Oh, you want me to do this? Oh, okay.
And.
And so I'm, I'm that my, my default is.
What do you want? Is there something you want me to do?
And, and I, and, and I say that not in a.
Slave.
What can I do for your boss? I do it as a, a Prince.
I do it as a son of the King.
And so I'm honored that the King would ask me to do anything.
You know, I don't need to do anything, but I,
I'm honored that you would have a step for me to take.
And so I want to do that step with excellence.
I want to, you know,
take the permission of the of the King and my father.
And, and go in and do that thing.
Most, I mean, I think at this point, it might be every day,
almost every day, at some point in the day,
he will have a meeting get canceled,
or he will have something happen
where I have time to take a walk with him.
And he tells me to leave my phone,
and I go on this walk, and he gives me downloads of,
but not, usually,
not just knowledge, but action steps.
And so, on the walk, he's like,
I want you to reach out to Heather Kane,
I want you to reach out to Adam Corcoran,
I want you to reach out to Howie,
I want you to reach out to Lauren,
I want you to reach out, he gives me the names,
tells me, that's gonna be your event team,
you're gonna tell her you wanna start it next week,
that's the one day she's out of town,
so we booked it for next month,
which is actually what he wanted.
And so, I am looking for what is it to do,
and, you know what I mean?
And so I would, I think,
I would try that out.
What is it that you'd like me to do today?
You know, is there anything you'd like me to do right now?
And sometimes it's, I mean, it's interesting,
like he's had me sell some things, get rid of some stuff.
And I'm like, hmm, all right, cool.
Trying to think of an interesting one.
Um.
I mean, I just give him permission, you know, to,
you know, because when you accept Jesus
as your Lord and Savior,
I think a lot of people have accepted him as Savior,
fire insurance, let me not burn in hell,
but never accepted him as Lord.
Lord means guide me in all my ways.
Lord means let me invite him into every area of my life
and let him guide that.
That's Lord.
Lord is, I'm being, I'm getting guidance and directed by,
he's the Lord of my life.
I think there's very,
I think there's actually very few people
that have truly accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior.
That hits home.
Thank you.
Very few.
There's just, you know, like people,
people are always like, wow, you pray about everything.
I'm like, to me, that's, why wouldn't you?
If you have infinite wisdom, Holy Spirit,
that's here as our guide and our comforter,
I don't understand why, you know,
I just don't understand why you wouldn't.
And so, you know, and it's just practicing that,
you know, practicing, there are still,
I mean, there might be a couple of decisions a day
that I don't ask him guidance on,
but that's, it's gotten less and less and less
and less and less and less.
And I think by doing that, me, myself, Ray,
is going to help me because I am, in the past,
I'm like, I have to make a list.
I have to make a list.
And the list just is,
He can help you with that list.
Lord, help me make this list.
What should I go after today?
And it's always interesting.
It's never, it's not one time have I thought,
you know what, I think I should do this, this, this, this.
All right, Lord, what do you think?
You agree?
Never, not one time.
There may be elements of what I thought
would be a good idea.
It's never the same, ever.
I've never, ever nailed it,
just on my own without prayer.
And so, you know, He'll just have me do interesting stuff
that I wouldn't have thought to do.
And so, you know, I would, while you're hearing them,
because I do believe that,
are, I believe that there's like these steps, right?
That He wants us to take.
And as we take this step, it unlocks a new action step,
or it unlocks a new directive, it unlocks a new thing.
And as we're not, you know, if we're not taking these steps,
then I think there's a delay.
I think there's a delay of, you know,
what are the steps He's leading us toward?
We ain't there yet.
But He's so gentle, He's not gonna say,
hey, you need to do this, you know?
I've never, I've never had that. Now I've had it where I had a revelation of, hmm,
Lord, if, if that didn't happen, if that didn't happen, would I have drawn this conclusion? No.
I'm like, ah, got it. Got it. And so it's, he's so gentle, you know, like my whole,
all the way up until last week, I still had my desires above his will.
I was obedient. I would ask him what to do. I would do it, but I was doing it for the hopes
of my gain. That's what I was doing it. So think about that in a, that's powerful.
Think about that in kingdom terms. All right. So the Prince was doing what the King said,
but only for his own fame and own power. And, and so when I, when I realized that that's from
Isaiah one, three, and four, when I realized that I'm like, I know the hack father. Thank
you for helping me put your will above my desires. And that's, and that's when things,
that's when I had a major click and, and I realized I'm like, wait a minute, you,
you let me draw my own conclusion there. He didn't tell me, Hey buddy, I need you to have
my will above your desire. Come on, snap too. He never did that. He let me, he let me for,
you know, the last two years, just learn, learn. What does it look like when Ray is only playing
for when Ray's being obedient, but Ray's doing it for his own gain versus walking in his will
as an honored son and walking in sonship, which is very different purpose that, that aligns with
glorify him. Amen. Do you ever sell disco? Are you sure? I'm sorry. Do you ever just,
do you ever say, do you ever just go, are you sure? Like sometimes he is, he'll tell me something
and I'm like, are you sure? That's what you want me to know. I mean, you, you confirm it,
right? You confirm. So if I, if I get a direction, I'll purposely ask, okay, should I do this? I'll
ask something that's against that direction. Cause I want to make sure I get a yes.
I don't know. I want to make sure I am. I getting a yes. Am I getting it? And I do this.
I mean, I do it all the time and you know, the one, you know, I have to
always be, you know, just aware, you know, I, I, I, I'm constantly father, thank you for blessing
me and my family. I'm constantly doing that because that repels spiritual stuff from you,
just doing that. And, and so I want to make sure I'm not being influenced. I'm not, I want to make
sure of two things that I'm not being influenced by spiritual warfare and that I don't have an
idol in my heart that I don't have like, you know, and I, I, I, I has, I don't want to let
my guard down, but I feel like his will is above everything in my life now. And that I, I literally
seek the kingdom above all things. I really believe I'm there, but I'm not going to let my
guard down. I'm always going to do these little tests and I'm going to confirm, okay, you're
saying I'm going to do this. Okay. And, you know, I'll tell you an interesting one. We
I think I shared this on the huddle today, I think with our, with our team. And so like, we're going
to a charity event where we went to a charity event this Saturday and we got invited as guests
and we got invited as guests to the, you know, the, the premier table, right. And this is,
you know, million dollar event, you know, tickets are like two grand each per person and you know,
just a full show. And they had Romero Brito there, the artist, like the super famous Brazilian
artist, he was there and there were, you know, celebrities there and stuff. And so, you know,
Jess in this kind of scenario, Jess has this pressure of what we need to be, you know,
we were invited, we need to be extremely generous. And I'm like, maybe, I mean, he's called us to be
extremely generous in many, many places, but let's not assume that let's pray about it.
And so I prayed about it and I got only give a thousand.
I'm like, okay. And so I tell her and she's like, Oh, she doesn't like that. Cause you know,
that's less than what we were. And so, you know, sometimes I'm like, they've just received sometimes.
You know, sometimes it's just about receiving and so I pray about it and I'm like, listen,
you pray about it, whatever you get, I am absolutely open to listen. I'm not listening
to your logic, but I will listen to your prayer. Pray about it. So she got in prayer, she came back
and she said, I'm getting that I need to let you be the steward that he's calling you to be
and for you to, for you to listen. Now, in my heart, when she said that, I got,
I think he wanted this to happen. I actually think he wants me to give more. And so I go and pray
and I come back and I say, actually, he's asking, he's, he's allowing us to give X and it was more
than a thousand, but he wanted that conversation to happen. He went and if, if he tells me the
amount he wants me, he's eventually going to get me to, we don't have that conversation.
Cause it would have actually appeased her. You see what I mean? And so it's there,
the missing pieces that are the steps, like you said, it's like that part unlocks the next part
that unlocks the next part. And so if we don't, if the, if something doesn't occur and I'm seeing
it all the time, it's like, Oh my gosh, I wouldn't even be here right now if that didn't happen.
Yeah. And yeah, I just, it's, and it's so relaxing. Yeah. Yeah. None of this was stressed.
I wasn't stressed the entire time, but you looked great by the way. Awesome. Oh my gosh.
They were amazing. So good. I was like, wow. Yeah. It was pop. It was pop art. So it was celebrating
Brito, you know, like again, this famous artist, he started on the Brazilian streets,
painting stuff, selling it for like 50 cents. And now he's one of the most famous artists,
you know, in the world he's done every celebrity and, you know, it was, it was cool. It was a
really cool event. It was really cool for sure. No, but I, and I love that. It reminds me of the
story of like, when you didn't say anything to Jess at church and she goes and runs into
her girlfriend. Like if it all hadn't, it was all part of the process. It was all part of the steps,
right? And the more that we relinquish thinking we need to fix, change, control any of it
and trust him, it all shifts. Yeah. Cause he, we're just letting him open the door for us.
Yeah. Yeah. And you know, John, uh, three 27 talks about all results come from the father.
And, and so we just stay in step with the spirit. We know his nature. He's here to grow us and bless
us. He's a perfect father. And, and so great. Awesome. And the one, the one thing I got to add
to that conversation is that with you and Jess praying together as a whole and, you know, she
goes and she'll pray and, and then you pray, but yet you, you pray together also huge in a
relationship. Yeah. Yeah. And it also adds, it also adds in the, the power of that unity between
the two of you, you know, where it wasn't just you taking action. It was the two of you now
in agreement together. For sure. For sure. No doubt. That's powerful. Just me thinking about
it as like, Ooh, someday, someday I'm going to have that. Well, just, you know, put that,
put that list together, Lord, and, you know, put it together, Lord, this is what I'm looking for.
I have it. These are the traits. Okay. I do have a list. I would just, thank you. I would just
constantly, I mean, whatever we're told, you know, flip for Philippians four, Mark 11, 24,
when you pray praise, if you've already received and prayer and petition with Thanksgiving,
present your request to God. And so father, thank you for sending me the perfect person
that matches all this stuff. And I might, and I might pray on that, Lord, am I missing anything
from this list? Is there something I'm supposed to add here? And, and so, and then just saying,
Hey, thank you. And then, you know, he may have you in, when you do these prayers of Lord,
is there something you want me to do? He may have you go to this function or something where boom,
you meet him.
And before, you know, you know, just asking Lord,
is there something you want me to do?
You know, he's had me, you know,
like the Burger King thing, you know,
the Burger King thing is still one of the wildest experiences
I've ever had.
You know, when I'm on the way to a speaking event,
I don't have my presentation ready.
And I'm like, I'll just get there early.
No.
Lord, do you want me to stop somewhere?
Burger King.
I'm like, Burger King?
I'm like, this can't be the Lord.
The Lord ain't sending me to Burger King.
And then right up on the, on the right,
quarter mile up, Burger King.
I'm like, all right.
And I walk in and it was most,
one of the weirdest and wildest experiences I've ever had.
As I approached the cash register,
the lady sees me, starts backing up and saying,
your presence, and she starts crying
for I've said anything to her.
And I knew, I don't know why,
but I knew he sent me in for her.
I'm like, is there anything I could pray for you about?
And her best friend had just died.
I would not have, you know,
I just wouldn't have experienced that if, if, you know,
if I just, my logic was get to the event early
so I can do my PowerPoint.
His idea was having me go in that Burger King
and help that, that girl.
And, and so it's just something that these steps,
you know, that was a very weird experience.
She was saying, I never do this.
And she's like this, and she's crying like tears.
And, and she's backing away from me
and just like your presence.
And it was just, obviously it's not my presence,
God's presence.
And, you know, he let me experience that.
And then, you know, after I left there, I cried.
Cause I was just like, man, that was so cool, man.
Like how many people get to experience that?
Like that was so wild.
And, you know, and it's just, it's just so neat
when he does, when he does stuff like that.
I'm excited.
It's going to be a breakthrough.
I'm just sitting there because I, yeah, I believe it.
And Lisa, I want to encourage you to look at your list.
If you wrote it a while ago,
because God's had me take some things off the list.
So good.
Thank you.
And I would have, I like, I would have thought for sure,
but that was me.
That's what I thought.
And you know, funny thing, Ray just looked at me.
I don't remember which time it was when I saw you.
I think it was at, when we did the speaking event
and she looked at me and she goes, how did she say it?
Like be open, but being different than what you think,
you know, like to this man, right?
Be open to that.
It might be different than, you know,
it might look different than you think.
And so as I'm editing the list, no more, no more.
I'm her, her voice was in my head.
Like I told you, she, I had her tell you that, you know,
like wild, I'm telling you so wild.
Wow.
But so be, I'm just saying, Lisa,
it's so easy for us to think, here's all the things, right?
Here's the ideas, here's the list.
And I believe that those things were on the list
for a reason, because it excommunicated people
off of my radar that I wouldn't have paid attention to
because it wasn't the right time.
Powerful.
Well, Rebecca, you want to pray us out?
Sure.
Yeah.
And base, you know, I mean, you're already so good at this.
I don't know what to say.
This, my brain's just kind of all over the place
after this too.
You don't want to do it today?
I'll do it.
Okay.
And then of course, you know, if there's something
that you didn't get covered or question or anything,
you know, just box me.
Sarah's not on here, right?
I was trying to reach her.
Yeah, I was here.
And so, yeah.
So Father, we're so grateful for you.
Father, thank you for your presence.
Thank you for bringing us all together, Lord.
Thank you for these wonderful lessons tonight, Lord.
And Father, I just thank you for helping us to accept them.
Father, thank you for helping us
to walk in this new creation, Lord.
Father, thank you for helping us
to really receive the truth
that in the way that you see us
and that all of heaven's favor is attracted to us
because of Jesus with us, Lord.
Thank you for helping us receive that.
Thank you for.
helping us realize that.
Thank you for helping us to really grasp
all the things that Dion shared with us here today, Lord,
that is of your truth, Lord.
And Father, thank you for just equipping us to do that.
Father, thank you for helping us with understanding
what permission we have with you, Lord,
and just how you delight in us, Lord,
and just how you see us, Lord.
Thank you for helping us to just let go of the old,
let go of the sinful, you know,
the ideas of us having a sinful nature,
and thank you for helping us to upgrade all of our habits
to just be more powerful walking with you, Lord.
Thank you for growing us
in all of the fruit of the Spirit, Lord.
We're just so grateful for you.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
We appreciate you so very much.
You're worthy of our praise.
You're worthy of our glory and our power and strength.
You're the creator of the heavens and the earth,
creator of all things beautiful, the perfect Father.
Thank you for growing us in son and daughtership, Lord.
Thank you in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Amen.
That's what we got, yeah.
Amen, thank you so much.
Yes.
Yeah, that's a great one.
I really always.
All right, love you guys.
Always pouring into us.
Thank you, Ray.
We love you, too.
Bye-bye.
Bye.