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All right, welcome, welcome, welcome.

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Welcome, rock stars, well, we're excited.

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So let's hear from, I'd love to hear what's one win since the last time we got together.

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We'll start with Lisa.

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What's one win, I am set a goal this week to file for an LLC and get some insurance

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to start my declutter business.

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And if I don't get it done by the end of the week, I beat myself, not physically or emotionally.

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Somebody's got to do it.

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Dion, you're hearing this, right?

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You're going to, we're going to help us out.

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Okay, great.

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Great.

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Okay.

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Well, that's it.

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That's a good goal.

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Awesome.

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Gary, what, what's a, what's a win for you?

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You know what I think a win for me is just in moving forward in, in my thoughts and progress,

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you know, I'm, I'm really down just listening to the Lord to find out what is moving forward.

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What is that first step that now I need to go and you got a lot of things that have come

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together in terms of just thoughts and the kind of the offer that I feel like the Lord

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is putting on my, my heart, but now what is that first step?

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So I can take that first step of faith.

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Nice.

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Nice.

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Leslie, how about you?

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Hi, I went, I was sharing this journey that I'm on with your group with my hairdresser.

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And so we started to talk about faith and her Christianity and mine.

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And then we started talking about my skincare products and I don't know, because we're on

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the same page with the faith.

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She wants to get into the products and carry them in her salon.

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So awesome.

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It just really built my confidence in talking about Christianity with people because I think

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there's more people out there.

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Yeah.

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I think there's more people out there that are afraid to talk about it, but want to share

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it.

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Then, then, then, you know, then you realize, and I, I never knew, I never knew she goes

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to church every Sunday and I never knew any of that.

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I started talking about it and our conversation just went like this, it was crazy.

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So that made me feel really good.

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Yeah.

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I love it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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You know, it's my two thoughts on that is people, you know, people have different ways.

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Like one, one of my buddies, he, he just asks, he'll say, Hey, are you a, are you a Christian

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brother or sister?

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You know, like he'll just ask, you know, and he's had some wonderful conversations that

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way.

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But me, I prefer, um, Hey, is there anything I can pray for you about?

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And, and, you know, and I've had people say, well, I'm an atheist.

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I'm like, that's okay.

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I can still pray for you.

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And so, you know, it's, um, I think it's really powerful.

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You know, we're called to be the city on the hill that can't be hidden.

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And I think a lot of people stop at just being good, you know, which a lot of people can

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be good.

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You know, they can, you know, there's, there's people out there that can do good things that

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we don't know.

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Are they Christian or not?

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We have, we have no idea.

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And so I think, I personally think it's powerful for you to, to bring that kind of thing up.

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It builds my self-confidence too, because my background is abuse.

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So I'm used to getting knocked down and when somebody doesn't knock you down and actually

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opens their heart and invites you in, it doesn't hold a lot of things.

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So yeah, it was all the way around.

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Great job.

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Great job.

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Stephanie.

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I hear you keep disappearing or something.

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I don't know.

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Or you keep moving.

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I would see you then.

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Okay.

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There you are.

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Um, I'm finally like drafting up my opt in my PDF and my funnel.

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And I plan on Thursday and pop that over to you so you can take a look at all the pieces

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and see how they fit.

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Perfect.

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Perfect.

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I love it.

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I love it.

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I think last but not least, Kyle, you got a win for us?

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Quick win?

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Oh, you're muted.

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I do.

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Give me one second.

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I gotta run to bed.

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I'm at dance class, but I'm out in the hallway.

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It just gets a lot of, um, yeah, so a win for me.

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Definitely being disciplined when it comes to eating man eating it's been like a mountain to me nice and

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Yeah, right now I'm just loading up on electrolytes cuz I'm a little from fasting but even how many days I

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Mean, I don't know. I probably have been

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consistently like

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Carnivore right for the last month and a half like fasting 24 hours at a time every single day religiously

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So yeah

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But yeah, I've been just shredding it. But yeah, so that that's a win for me. Of course, man

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Well, congrats, dude. Congrats

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Yeah, absolutely

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All right

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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

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How you doing tonight?

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Great. How you doing? Good really really good man. It's

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Yeah, you know I've

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You know just been really spending a lot of time, you know, we had our every Monday we have our team huddle

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so we were going through, you know, some of your content with with the team and

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That's been great

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going through and

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Continuing to study Graham, you know all the time has been awesome and just just feeling very upgraded in a lot of different areas

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Unlocked you look up great. Yeah. Thank you. I appreciate it. I appreciate it

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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

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Appreciate it. Thanks. I love hanging out with you guys. This is this is a highlight for me. I

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Love to get to connect and so we've been going through this series of the 12 best kingdom

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leadership habits and they really are habits that we have honed over I

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Don't even know between me and Graham maybe 40 50 years and the stuff we're sharing isn't some

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Theological view it's stuff that genuinely has moved us and have moved

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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

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The thing I love most about it is I was just saying to Ray and Rebecca earlier

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That you know, it's the starting point that's different, right?

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because the difference between a

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Religious perspective is that starts downstairs and it starts with me and then I have to do stuff to get to him

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Upstairs and you know, the problem with that journey is that you never quite make it, right?

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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

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Bull on and anybody know what I'm talking about

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But what do you guys got pipe up? You know, I just don't know what he's talking about. Yeah. Yeah

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There you go. And by the way, you guys are welcome to just unmute and talk to me live

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That's tough. We're a small enough group. We could probably do that if that's okay and

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But here's here's what it is. Is there what if you could live without that accusation, you know

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Most believers live in this kind of state of low-grade

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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

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it's really interesting where this word accused comes from and

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You know, it's it's an interesting view that

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In the Hebrew, there's this word called Satan OS

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Where we it sounds like you thought it sounds Satan OS Satan OS and it literally just means the one who points

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The one who points to accuse that's what it is

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And if you wanted to be like really Hebrew about it

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It means that the person who points to accuse another is being Satan. That's why he's called the accuser

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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

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Which is Jesus comes and takes every accusation that can be leveled against you and he takes it with him to the cross

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So Jesus doesn't just die for you

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He dies as you and so that whole account is gone got wiped from the books

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So the enemy comes to point but now all that's left is he's pointing at Jesus in you

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Oh, what's he can accuse Jesus of right because you're hidden with Christ in God

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Did you see the double level there? You're so protected

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You're so deeply embedded in God's heart in this. So when you came to Christ, it wasn't just oh, well

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I think my sins are sorted now. I'm going to heaven got my fire insurance

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It's not that plan

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What it is is that you were transformed you move from an object of wrath to a beloved child

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You move from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light

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And now you're a new creation being now

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We talked about that last time about being a new creation being and what that means for us and quite honestly

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That's the starting point that shifts everything

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because if you're a new creation being then you're starting from that place onward, right and

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and so I was trying to think of an analogy that might help us process and think about this and

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it is a bit like if if you're out in the boat and you should and you're fishing with a friend and

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You fall in you fall in the water

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But you can't swim. So you're flailing about you splashing. You're just fighting for your life

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But you're also now imagine if if your friend standing on the boat starts shouting you about you got a fish

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Why aren't you fishing where the fish you need to produce?

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You know, well the reason you can't produce is you are now in an unnatural environment

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You're on in you are submerged in an environment. That is that you cannot function or perform in

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So imagine if that friend is Jesus and he leans out of the boat and he takes your hand and he's okay

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Let me just pull and he pulls you into into the boat with himself

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Now you're in a different environment and that's what the kingdom is. Like you're still in the world

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You still you know floating on the water, but you're not of it anymore. You're now of the kingdom

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You got moved into a different environment now

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Imagine how weird it would be if you kept on flailing like you're still trying to breathe

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Now that's what happens with our old habits because we spend a life in in the old nature

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Right when we were in sin before we came to know Jesus and we learned all these mannerisms and habits

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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

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So now I get in the boat. I have to learn. Okay, breathe

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Okay, relax. Now, let's chat

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That's what happened when you came to Christ now when he says, okay now we're gonna go fishing and most of you

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Stepping into that that thing God has prepared for you to walk in and so the Lord says we throw the net like this

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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

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together and it's interesting that he never meant for you to do this on your own and

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So I want to go back to a key verse that has really been foundational in our conversations and that's Matthew 11

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Come to me all you are weary and burdened and I will give you rest. Okay, so that means

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That we're not in the water splashing around flailing about trying to survive and make it work anymore

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We're not a place of rest

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So when I got in the boat, I came to a place of rest and then he says now take my yoke

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This will pretend the boat is the yoke right and now learn from me

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See, I'm fishing you see how we're gonna throw the net out. You see how we're doing that you do that

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Because that's how Jesus learned from the father

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He watched what the father did and he did the same and he said the the son can initiate nothing of himself

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But only do what he sees the father doing and so this is a very this is a very unusual thought

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Because in the world when we're you know flailing about resting means drowning

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Right when you're in the water, if you don't keep moving man, you're gonna drown you're gonna get overwhelmed

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By your circumstance and your problems and your challenges and trying to stay alive and trying to make it work

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But in the kingdom you're being supported by different means in the kingdom

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You are in Christ. And so when Jesus take my rest and my yoke, he's yoke is partnering

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He's binding himself to you in friendship. He's putting his arm around you. It's another nice word for yoke

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Right, and he said and I'm gentle and I'm humble

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I'm going to walk with you in this and it says and you will find it gives a guarantee

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You will find rest for your soul. And again, the word they saw refers to your entire inner being

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Every aspect of your when you say the word I when you refer to yourself as I

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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?

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Yeah, I heard I thought this was just such a good example. I heard Graham

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sharing, you know when Jesus is sleeping on the boat and the the you know waters tossing and turning and

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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

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Why is it why you know, it's it's our nature to think if someone isn't freaking out they don't care

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Right, and that's not God's nature. God's nature is our nature

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to not freak out and to have faith amidst the turmoil. And so we get to practice that piece,

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we get to practice that. And I just found that really powerful.

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Yeah. In fact, I think we can go further with that and even say that downstairs,

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stress and being overcommitted and overworked, that's like a badge of honor. It's like, man,

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I'm working 18 hours a day. I'm putting it out there. I'm doing the thing. Look how stressed

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I am. Look how overworked I am. It's a badge of honor. And that's true for downstairs. But

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upstairs, the badge of honor is rest. You go, Lord, I have to double my productivity. That

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means I've take rest to a whole new level. That means I have to learn. Why? Because it's in rest,

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I stay in the boat. And you're not going to go any faster if you jump out the boat, start flailing

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about. That doesn't bring results quicker. It just exhausts you. That's all it's doing. And

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so Jesus is trying to teach us a different way. I love, somebody once said that, go back to your

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analogy, Ray, you just used about, you know, you can have victory, back to Jesus in the boat,

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you can have victory through any storm that you can sleep through.

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very spiritual, these are for people, you know, been serving God for a long time. This is an

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everyday normal thing in the kingdom, that we get to rest, that we get to work from that place of

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rest and peace. And so what we learn in the kingdom is that, you know, we're not going to

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learn in the kingdom is that worry, stress are completely unnecessary. There's no need,

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because we're not, we're not of the world. We're in it, but we're not of it. The Lord knows what

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we need to deliver and execute on. In fact, he helps make it go much faster, because now you're

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in a boat, you're kind of cheating now, right? And then the Holy Spirit comes and he's the outboard

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motor on the boat. And now you pick up momentum. Now you're moving at a whole different rate.

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almost didn't own it. Because how did we move so far, Lord? And that's the joy he has with us.

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So we're talking about tonight, we're going to talk about how to co-create with God. How

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does that yoke thing work? How does that practically work in a business context?

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And so the first thing we have to do is we know all transformation starts with,

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you know, renewing our minds. And so in the kingdom, there's this powerful idea called

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reframing. The world's caught on to this idea of reframing, but we have a different version of it,

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right? And so reframing is, what if the opposite was true? Oh, the Christian life is so hard.

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What if it's not? Well, let's summarize this hard Christian life. So God killed off your old

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nature, gave you a new nature. He gave you gifts, you know, like leadership and so on. He gave you

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gifts that you can walk in. He put you in partnership in yoke with Jesus to help you pull

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the load, gave you rest in exchange for your difficulty and stress. The Father went before

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you and prepared every good work to walk in. The Holy Spirit's your guide, your coach, your

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comforter. And if you get hurt in the world, which happens, you know, Jesus gives us joy,

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because the joy gives us strength. The Holy Spirit comes and He's our primary,

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you know, goodness and mercy follow us and they heal the past issues. They bring us into our

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present. Then God says, I know the future I have for you. Shall I just keep going? Just point out

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when I hit the hard part. Point out when I hit the difficult part that's impossible. I haven't said a

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single thing about what you do yet. Did you notice? Here's the big reframe. The big reframe is it

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doesn't start with you. Well, you know, Christian, we have to do our part. God helps those who help

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themselves, said the worldly believer who's never met the kingdom. Right? Because that's not a

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kingdom state. That's not normal in the kingdom. What's normal in the kingdom is that while we

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were still sinners, Christ died. What five-point plan did you have that helped with that?

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What big initiative did you take? What, you know, what did you take now? Is there bold action? Yes,

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but that comes at step five, not step one. Step one is in the kingdom, we start with a reframe.

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What is God like? When I know what He's like, then I know how He wants to be with me. Right?

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In this case, He loves to have me walk in peace and rest. So He wants to be with me in rest and

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peace, to use an immediate example. Then I, when I know what He's, how He wants to be with me,

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I know how He sees me. He sees me in Christ. He sees me as He does.

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behind me in my new nature. He doesn't see the old anymore because the enemy can't accuse

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it and that's all hidden with Jesus. That's already dealt with. So now he sees me a certain

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way. Then when I see that, when I agree with him about me, that's the definition of repentance.

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step was, well, now that I know he wants to be with me, I know how he sees me, I'm agreement

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with him, now I take bold action, step five. So because in the world, the way it works

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is you work to get your reward, right? You work through lots of different, you know,

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you study to become a doctor and you go through all the exams and you go through all the process

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and finally one day you're a doctor. In the kingdom, you start the other way around. All

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things are yours. You have a new nature given to you. All things are yours. If the father

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did not spare his own son, how much more will he not give you all things? And Paul later

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says all things are yours. So you start with everything so that you can perform. In the

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downstairs you perform to get qualified. Upstairs you are qualified so you can perform. It starts

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in God's heart. This is the biggest reframe for believers and it's the thing that what

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rest does for us is rest. We cease from our own solutions, our own efforts, our own work.

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We start in God's heart and we work towards, okay, now I know what to do. I'm going to

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break that down in more detail so don't worry if it's not clear yet. And so we call this

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effortless inversion. Did you know that all transformation in the kingdom is effortless?

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If it's white knuckled, I'm going to try harder. Guess what happened? We went downstairs to

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fix me. Okay, good news is that's not necessary in the kingdom. In the kingdom, I am a new

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creation. Thank you, Lord, that I have your new nature but I want to practice that new

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nature until it becomes permanent. I want to practice that peace until it's permanent.

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We talked about that a couple of months ago. I want to, I want to reset to rest because

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rest is the means. But now we're taking another layer away. And so this idea is that we find

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even in believers, we're in a mode, we're just trying too hard. We overthink, over engineer,

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over perform, try to do it in our own way. I mean, we even, we even see this in the world,

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and in reality, what the Lord is saying, could you put that down for a second? Can you get

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in the boat? We don't need the we don't need to be flailing, you won't drown, you're in

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the boat now. And that is our place of confidence. You are in Christ, and you're hidden with

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Christ in God. So it's not like, you know, I'm not saying that tough things will happen,

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you'll make mistakes. But these grace for all that we have to start with this major

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reframe. And the reframe is, the Lord is with you, and that he loves you, and that he adores

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you, and that you're fully accepted in the beloved. That's the starting point. The starting

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point isn't I got to dial it in. So to get his favor, I'm in Christ, so I have his favor,

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I have his peace. Praying for favor, it's like praying for air.

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I feel like Lisa may have had a good question. Lisa, will you comment, share?

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Well, and I actually, I'm in the middle of this. It's just, as you heard at the beginning,

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I overanalyze. And I don't want to anymore. I remember when I first got saved 20 years

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ago, I just did whatever God told me to do. I just did it. I just, vroom, vroom, I just

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go and I went and I did. And I remember within the first week of getting saved, I was driving

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around and God said, pull over and give that girl all the money you have in your pocket.

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And I went, what? Only had $7, but it's just, I pulled up my wallet and said, I don't know

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what's in here. And come to find out she was homeless. Yes, she was, you know, struggling

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with drugs, but she was my pastor's niece. I come to find out. It was just, it just kept

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going and going. And the more I learned, and I just went up to my, the assistant pastor

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told him about it. And, um, cause I guess she gave me her name and she told me that

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her uncle was a pastor at the Calvary chapel. And I went, I go there. So I just sat there

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and talked with her and talked with her. And it was the coolest thing.

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And I want to get back there, but the world has taken me over.

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So hopefully you can help.

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Yeah, for sure.

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So Lisa, your story is not unusual.

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you know, we start in simplicity and we end up in all this complexity

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because life was thrown at us because life happened.

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And Jesus said, you will have trouble in this world, but be of good cheer.

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I've overcome the world.

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We're not working towards victory, working from victory.

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That's a very different mindset.

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Right. We're not trying to break through that into that new space.

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We're not trying to catch up on whatever God's doing.

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We're just trying to catch on.

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But by that, I mean, when we say rest, what do we mean?

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The chaos in our minds that that what if and this and then I have to this

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and then if that goes wrong and then how am I going to pay that?

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And all that packing that up and quite, you see, that stuff

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belongs downstairs.

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That's not who we are, because if we start with God,

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we start in his heart and we know what he's really like.

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You see, if we think that the Lord is annoyed, upset,

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he's pretty ticked off most of the time, you know,

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and because he knows what I'm really like.

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Well, you know, you know what you really like?

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You're like Jesus.

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You know how he knows?

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Because when Christ died, he watched you die.

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And when he rose, Jesus from the dead, that's what baptism is.

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You lay down in your watery grave.

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You leave the old man, old person behind.

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Now, that's the new you.

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Jesus is working on.

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So when you have permission from him not to deal with the old,

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but only to deal with the new.

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We dealt with that last month.

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You're a new creation in Christ.

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The old is gone.

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The new has come.

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If God isn't working on the old, why would he ask us to?

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And by the way, all the past God redeems your past to give you a future.

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That's why he says goodness and mercy will follow you all the days of your life.

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So what that means is he's going to go back to some of those things

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and he's going to insert himself in those memories.

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He's going to assert himself in those things and he's going to bring wholeness

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and healing to you in this in the process.

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But you don't have to wait for that to start moving forward.

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It's not up to you to fix your past, even if they were your fault.

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Because the Jesus pay enough.

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That's the question.

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Did he suffer enough?

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Did he pay enough?

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So that should give us great encouragement.

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Yeah, it is finished if Lisa does this, this and this.

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You know, and sometimes I mean, just the simplicity of.

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God nudged me to do this.

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I went and did it.

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And then a miracle happened.

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And, you know, and I have an old actually, I don't know if you well,

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I don't need to say his name, but I have a client.

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He was a client.

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He was a client maybe, maybe a year ago or something like that.

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And he really got used to, you know, he got in the habit of asking me questions.

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Ray, can you pray about this?

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Ray, can you pray about that?

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And every once in a while, I would be like, hey, Lord wants to talk to you, dude.

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Like, you know, that's right.

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Like, I'll pray on it.

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But, you know, like the Lord wants to talk to you.

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Well, this past week, he's texted me three or four times.

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I'm like, Lord, don't respond.

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That's what I got very clearly.

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I'm like, all right.

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Didn't even respond.

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So he sends me another thing.

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I don't respond.

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I don't respond.

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Then he's like, hey, are you getting these messages?

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The Lord wants to talk to you.

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Can't answer him for you.

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And so the next day he comes back, he goes, I think the Lord is telling me this.

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And he was dead on.

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But see, if I'm his savior, if I'm the middle guy, you know, then he doesn't do that.

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So, you know, it's not always the Lord nudging you to give money or go pray for a stranger.

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Sometimes it's to ignore somebody.

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And that can be a little that's tougher for me, an action taker.

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And and so just staying in step with the spirit and, you know, and just pray on that.

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I pray all the time when I'm when I'm when I don't have a thing directly in front of me.

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I'm like, OK, Lord, I got some free time.

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What are we doing?

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And and he just guides me and he will to you, too.

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Yeah, these are great questions, Don, you're weighing in, which I love.

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So we never.

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have to plead with God for anything, correct, because God already did it all.

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So let's let's talk about that for a second there, Don.

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Is it the one who asked that? Yes.

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So that issue is that it's not that we get to be passive.

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It's that God is all about the relationship

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and everything that could possibly hinder that relationship he's dealt with.

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So in other words, you know, there's that old religious thing of,

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yes, God, yes, you.

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And if somebody moved, it wasn't God, it was you, you know, all that stuff.

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And, you know, great idea, except it isn't in the Bible.

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Other than that's genius, you know, so because what it's doing

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is putting it back on you to reconcile yourself to God.

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And what is to we studied last month, right?

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If anyone is in Christ, they're a new creation.

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Behold, all things have become new.

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The old has passed. The new has come.

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Now God has fully reconciled us to himself.

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Did you notice that we were not in that transaction

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other than our will agreeing to accept Christ?

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Then it's our learning to walk in the fullness of his nature in us.

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So it's not passive.

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It's that everything is yours in Jesus.

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You have peace, you have joy, you have favor.

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I don't know if you remember, Ray, last week

441
00:31:24.080 --> 00:31:27.600
we in our CEO inner circle, we've got several people

442
00:31:27.600 --> 00:31:29.840
who are going through some pretty tough stuff, several of them

443
00:31:29.840 --> 00:31:33.000
involved in litigation, lawsuits and various other things.

444
00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:35.160
And I've been talking to them one on one.

445
00:31:35.400 --> 00:31:39.880
And I said, why don't you let God's favor go before you and make a way?

446
00:31:40.720 --> 00:31:43.040
And they said, well, I need to get it first.

447
00:31:43.040 --> 00:31:47.000
And I said, yes, you got it when you in Jesus, all of the favor of heaven

448
00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:48.880
was attracted to Jesus in you.

449
00:31:48.880 --> 00:31:50.400
Now, listen to the genius of this.

450
00:31:50.400 --> 00:31:52.040
Isn't this the most amazing thing?

451
00:31:52.040 --> 00:31:55.520
God takes all favor and he puts it in Jesus in you.

452
00:31:55.600 --> 00:31:58.480
That way can't go anywhere, can't get messed up, can't get hurt.

453
00:31:59.600 --> 00:32:02.040
So God takes promises and gives it to Jesus in you.

454
00:32:02.120 --> 00:32:03.320
That way it's going to stay there.

455
00:32:03.320 --> 00:32:07.080
Even if you screw things up and mess things up, he'll wait patiently

456
00:32:07.840 --> 00:32:09.960
until we're ready to move forward.

457
00:32:10.360 --> 00:32:13.320
So everything we have in Christ sits in.

458
00:32:13.800 --> 00:32:16.800
Think of Jesus as your nuclear power reactor.

459
00:32:16.800 --> 00:32:20.720
Internally, all of heaven is carrying everything of heaven.

460
00:32:20.720 --> 00:32:23.320
You need for everything you need for life and godliness.

461
00:32:23.320 --> 00:32:25.440
The Bible says is in Christ.

462
00:32:25.760 --> 00:32:28.760
Now you're becoming just like him.

463
00:32:29.080 --> 00:32:32.640
So the growing part, the very active growing part

464
00:32:32.640 --> 00:32:35.360
cannot just be you trying to get yourself sorted out.

465
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It's you relationally engaging and direct learning.

466
00:32:39.480 --> 00:32:40.640
Let's go back to our verse.

467
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We started with right. Come to me and I will give you rest.

468
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Take my yoke. So there is the connection.

469
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I can't be in my yoke

470
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if I'm in stress and worry and other things.

471
00:32:51.680 --> 00:32:55.280
What I've done is I've put my yoke on pause while I got this.

472
00:32:55.280 --> 00:32:57.560
I'm going to go flail around in the water some more.

473
00:32:58.320 --> 00:33:02.880
So then the Lord says, but when we in rest, because rest activates our yoke.

474
00:33:03.960 --> 00:33:07.720
So what happens is rest puts us in a place of relationship

475
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because God is all about the relationship.

476
00:33:10.560 --> 00:33:13.800
It's not just he wants to be part of our lives.

477
00:33:13.840 --> 00:33:15.960
He wants us to be part of his life.

478
00:33:16.400 --> 00:33:18.800
In other words, he doesn't see us as separate.

479
00:33:19.520 --> 00:33:22.160
People say, well, you know, God loves you

480
00:33:22.880 --> 00:33:25.120
the same way he loves Jesus, he loves Jesus in you.

481
00:33:25.120 --> 00:33:26.320
And they will. What about me?

482
00:33:26.320 --> 00:33:29.600
Yeah, well, that you is dead because the new you and Jesus are one.

483
00:33:30.440 --> 00:33:34.040
So he loves you with the same affection he calls first love.

484
00:33:34.360 --> 00:33:38.520
When the father loves the son, that was the first love that existed

485
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from the beginning and dawn of time before the creation of the world.

486
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And you got included.

487
00:33:46.040 --> 00:33:49.880
His love for you is so immense, you couldn't possibly fathom.

488
00:33:49.880 --> 00:33:51.880
In fact, he says no height, no depth, no.

489
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And he goes through a whole lot of things that can separate you from that love.

490
00:33:56.280 --> 00:33:57.400
So what does this mean?

491
00:33:57.400 --> 00:34:01.840
He's all about knowing you and you knowing him.

492
00:34:01.840 --> 00:34:04.360
He wants you to learn what's he like.

493
00:34:05.040 --> 00:34:07.400
How is he? How does he want to be with you?

494
00:34:07.920 --> 00:34:12.280
So one of the reframing things of this effortless inversion is

495
00:34:12.440 --> 00:34:13.760
what if it could be easy?

496
00:34:13.760 --> 00:34:14.960
Well, this is going to be hard.

497
00:34:14.960 --> 00:34:15.880
What if it's not?

498
00:34:17.159 --> 00:34:20.880
Right, I don't know, I'm just going to have to really go after.

499
00:34:20.880 --> 00:34:23.199
Well, what if it could be fun?

500
00:34:23.199 --> 00:34:26.480
What if the joy of the Lord will get you through the process?

501
00:34:26.480 --> 00:34:30.719
So let's take that, for instance, right, that reframe for us

502
00:34:30.719 --> 00:34:33.480
because it's so now relationally driven, Jesus says.

503
00:34:33.719 --> 00:34:37.600
So when you've got problems, what should you be happy?

504
00:34:38.639 --> 00:34:40.719
Not because of the downstairs problems.

505
00:34:40.760 --> 00:34:43.880
Nobody's asking you to be happy about the downstairs issues.

506
00:34:44.080 --> 00:34:46.360
But who's in it with you upstairs?

507
00:34:46.560 --> 00:34:49.400
I have overcome the world. What does that do?

508
00:34:49.800 --> 00:34:54.400
So you will have trouble in this world, but be of good cheer for I've overcome

509
00:34:54.400 --> 00:34:55.719
the world. So let's go through.

510
00:34:55.719 --> 00:34:57.440
That's a reframe.

511
00:34:57.440 --> 00:34:59.680
What Jesus is saying, look at it my way.

512
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:05.500
Look at it the way I look at it, I see you have trouble, the world is full of people

513
00:35:05.500 --> 00:35:10.000
with free will and God has bound himself to this idea of free will, so he can't override

514
00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:15.600
all that, but he's going to navigate all that on your behalf and he's so confident in himself

515
00:35:15.600 --> 00:35:21.640
that he says all things work together for the good of them that love God and are called

516
00:35:21.640 --> 00:35:22.980
according to his purpose.

517
00:35:22.980 --> 00:35:27.960
That means he's going to navigate all that stuff, you say well why did God let that happen?

518
00:35:27.960 --> 00:35:32.640
I don't think he did, I think people let that happen, right?

519
00:35:32.640 --> 00:35:39.800
So the question is, what God is saying to you is, okay so that bad thing is happening

520
00:35:39.800 --> 00:35:44.960
or has happened to you, I understand that, now here's what I want you to do, I want you

521
00:35:44.960 --> 00:35:52.600
to know that I am with you in it and so because I'm in it with you, you get to be happy.

522
00:35:52.600 --> 00:35:59.280
Jesus said, my joy I give you, so I speak these words to you that you may have my joy

523
00:35:59.280 --> 00:36:01.240
and that your joy may be full.

524
00:36:01.240 --> 00:36:03.880
He doesn't want you to have joy, he wants you to have full joy, why?

525
00:36:03.880 --> 00:36:05.640
Because the joy of the Lord is your strength.

526
00:36:05.640 --> 00:36:07.440
So what would a worldly person say?

527
00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:11.560
I'll be so glad when this is over.

528
00:36:11.560 --> 00:36:17.120
That's worldly thinking, that's old thinking that we're now dead to, what are we saying?

529
00:36:17.120 --> 00:36:22.900
When the situation is resolved, then I will give myself permission to be joyful.

530
00:36:22.900 --> 00:36:27.680
In the kingdom, we choose to be joyful so that the strength of the Lord drives us through

531
00:36:27.680 --> 00:36:31.160
that difficult thing because we know who's in it with us.

532
00:36:31.160 --> 00:36:33.400
Do you see how the reframes are working?

533
00:36:33.400 --> 00:36:39.200
The way he thinks is so critical to understand if we're going to partner with him in business.

534
00:36:39.600 --> 00:36:47.680
Yeah, and the way I really, you know, I just loved, you know, how Graham, you know, shared

535
00:36:47.680 --> 00:36:56.640
that of, you know, he said, you know, that, you know, to practice, you know, to, well,

536
00:36:56.640 --> 00:37:02.160
he was talking, you know, someone said to him, well, I can't, I can't pretend, I can't

537
00:37:02.160 --> 00:37:07.560
fake loving them, like, no, no, no, you don't have to fake it, you get to practice it.

538
00:37:07.920 --> 00:37:13.880
So you get to practice patience, you get to practice joy, you get to practice peace.

539
00:37:13.880 --> 00:37:19.000
And the only, it makes no sense to practice those things when you don't have a conflict,

540
00:37:19.000 --> 00:37:25.840
you know, when you, and this is, you know, the more you get what Dion's talking about

541
00:37:25.840 --> 00:37:30.000
is the more it makes sense, counted all joy, my brothers, when you face trials of different

542
00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:36.480
sorts, James one, two, because if you recognize that, oh, if you understand God's nature,

543
00:37:36.480 --> 00:37:40.760
number one, and that is to always grow us and help us to, you know, to receive what

544
00:37:40.760 --> 00:37:47.840
we already got, and accept it, then you know that, oh, this trial is meant for me to, you

545
00:37:47.840 --> 00:37:52.600
know, to accept some new part of me for me to grow in some certain way.

546
00:37:52.600 --> 00:37:56.320
And and so that's how you can count it all joy.

547
00:37:56.320 --> 00:37:58.600
Oh, what are you going to do with this one, Lord?

548
00:37:58.600 --> 00:38:01.200
How are you going to, how are you going to show off?

549
00:38:01.200 --> 00:38:02.960
You're about to show off, aren't you a lawsuit?

550
00:38:02.960 --> 00:38:03.960
Oh, wow.

551
00:38:03.960 --> 00:38:04.960
This is a big one.

552
00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:08.120
Oh, man, you're really going to show off on aren't you?

553
00:38:08.120 --> 00:38:14.200
And so it allows us, you know, that to practice that joy and peace that that isn't worldly,

554
00:38:14.200 --> 00:38:20.360
you're not rejoicing in the lawsuit, you're not rejoicing in the thing, but you're, you're,

555
00:38:20.360 --> 00:38:21.920
you get to practice.

556
00:38:21.920 --> 00:38:25.880
And the more that you practice that, then the more it becomes natural, because that's

557
00:38:25.880 --> 00:38:27.080
how everything works.

558
00:38:27.080 --> 00:38:28.080
Yeah.

559
00:38:28.080 --> 00:38:31.200
So let's keep going with your analogy there, because that's such a good one, right?

560
00:38:31.200 --> 00:38:36.720
So you call me and you say, hey, brother, I got this huge problem now, huge trouble,

561
00:38:36.720 --> 00:38:37.720
I got a lawsuit.

562
00:38:37.720 --> 00:38:39.920
And I'm going, wow, that's fantastic, great.

563
00:38:39.920 --> 00:38:40.920
I'm so jealous.

564
00:38:40.920 --> 00:38:41.920
Right?

565
00:38:41.920 --> 00:38:45.120
Now we're talking kingdom, reframe, listen to the reframe.

566
00:38:45.120 --> 00:38:49.240
Hey, man, I'm sorry, you're going through the downstairs lawsuit thing, but I'm so excited

567
00:38:49.240 --> 00:38:50.240
for you.

568
00:38:50.240 --> 00:38:53.640
Because there's a massive upgrade, because everything the enemy throws at you as a curse

569
00:38:53.640 --> 00:38:55.000
turns into a blessing.

570
00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:58.200
He has no way, he has no way to take you down.

571
00:38:58.200 --> 00:38:59.200
Right?

572
00:39:00.200 --> 00:39:02.320
So you, so okay, well, what is the upgrade then?

573
00:39:02.320 --> 00:39:06.720
Well, right, here's the thing, the Lord's going to give you joy, when it makes no sense

574
00:39:06.720 --> 00:39:07.720
to have joy.

575
00:39:07.720 --> 00:39:10.040
He's going to give you peace that makes no sense.

576
00:39:10.040 --> 00:39:12.040
That's why it's called the peace that passes understanding.

577
00:39:12.040 --> 00:39:13.040
Oh, I see.

578
00:39:13.040 --> 00:39:14.040
I get it.

579
00:39:14.040 --> 00:39:15.640
Okay, so I get to be peaceful and joyful.

580
00:39:15.640 --> 00:39:17.260
What am I waiting for?

581
00:39:17.260 --> 00:39:20.300
So now Ray gets to go, we're praying together.

582
00:39:20.300 --> 00:39:23.960
So Lord, who do you want to be for Ray, in this time?

583
00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:25.760
I want to be his shelter.

584
00:39:25.760 --> 00:39:28.040
I want to be Psalm 91, the shadow.

585
00:39:28.040 --> 00:39:31.680
I want to teach him to be, I want to be his, his fortress.

586
00:39:31.680 --> 00:39:32.680
Right?

587
00:39:32.680 --> 00:39:35.040
Oh, you want to teach me you're a safe place.

588
00:39:35.040 --> 00:39:38.480
So while I'm there, do I get to be happy and full of peace?

589
00:39:38.480 --> 00:39:39.480
Absolutely.

590
00:39:39.480 --> 00:39:45.080
What does the enemy do to Ray when Ray lives there while the lawsuits going on?

591
00:39:45.080 --> 00:39:49.600
Just saying, can you see, we're in a whole different league.

592
00:39:49.600 --> 00:39:55.320
But if we don't know how he thinks, and we don't know what our standing is with him.

593
00:39:55.320 --> 00:39:59.320
And then I'm sitting there going, man, I'm so jealous.

594
00:39:59.320 --> 00:40:00.000
I wish I had.

595
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:03.840
that, you know, why am I saying that? Not because I want the trouble,

596
00:40:03.960 --> 00:40:06.960
but I want the fruit that's going to come out of Ray's life.

597
00:40:07.120 --> 00:40:11.680
That's going to be a permanent upgrade for him. That's right. Right.

598
00:40:11.680 --> 00:40:13.320
So that's all it is.

599
00:40:14.600 --> 00:40:18.360
So we, we're, you know, we're, you know, looking for,

600
00:40:18.960 --> 00:40:23.760
but I want this result and, you know, results are temporary lessons can last.

601
00:40:24.320 --> 00:40:26.600
And, and I, and I really believe that's why, you know,

602
00:40:26.600 --> 00:40:29.200
wealth is to be sought after more than silver and gold.

603
00:40:29.240 --> 00:40:32.360
And so like, you know, the lesson, the lesson is, you know,

604
00:40:32.360 --> 00:40:36.200
the growth is, is the gain. And, um,

605
00:40:37.800 --> 00:40:42.320
that's well, very well put. I like that phrase. I love that. So I've learned,

606
00:40:42.360 --> 00:40:45.520
so this is what I've learned. Let me put this all together for you. If I may,

607
00:40:45.560 --> 00:40:49.160
I see Lisa, you got your hand up there. Let's, uh, let's respond to you there.

608
00:40:49.160 --> 00:40:53.080
And then I'll, uh, I'll try to give you a practical.

609
00:40:53.680 --> 00:40:57.320
I just wanted to let you know, as you can tell, I'm very visual. Uh,

610
00:40:57.400 --> 00:40:58.440
I love colors.

611
00:40:58.760 --> 00:41:01.440
And as you've been going through everything from the beginning,

612
00:41:01.440 --> 00:41:05.880
you talked about Jesus in the boat, right? So now moving forward,

613
00:41:05.880 --> 00:41:10.480
what I can do because I'm extremely visual is I can picture

614
00:41:10.640 --> 00:41:15.440
Jesus holding my hand in the boat as I'm walking

615
00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:17.920
down the street or I'm driving in my truck,

616
00:41:18.000 --> 00:41:22.960
going down the road and my head just decides to take a left turn when I'm

617
00:41:22.960 --> 00:41:23.880
supposed to turn right.

618
00:41:24.840 --> 00:41:28.400
I can visualize Jesus is right there in the passenger seat.

619
00:41:29.520 --> 00:41:34.520
I mean, redirecting and focusing on what's true and what's real.

620
00:41:34.960 --> 00:41:37.920
Yeah. I love that.

621
00:41:39.160 --> 00:41:39.720
Well, I,

622
00:41:39.720 --> 00:41:44.520
I love these visual things because Jesus spoke simple visual things to,

623
00:41:44.880 --> 00:41:49.640
to simple people because he was trying to show that the gospel is for everyone.

624
00:41:49.680 --> 00:41:52.600
This isn't for the spiritual or just for the whatever.

625
00:41:53.120 --> 00:41:56.920
And, um, I, I like what Rebecca said, you know, when you go through,

626
00:41:57.080 --> 00:42:01.200
by the way, uh, she went through a massive wilderness season last year. Hey,

627
00:42:01.200 --> 00:42:04.040
you know, Rebecca, God sends you to the wilderness when he's happy with you.

628
00:42:04.040 --> 00:42:07.160
Right? Isn't that what happened to Jesus?

629
00:42:07.200 --> 00:42:10.920
This is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased and off to the wilderness.

630
00:42:10.920 --> 00:42:14.920
He went. All right. I love that.

631
00:42:15.240 --> 00:42:19.360
See, that's the reframe I'm talking about. The reframe is when you,

632
00:42:19.440 --> 00:42:23.480
that's why I can't start with me work towards God because then I'm in this low

633
00:42:23.480 --> 00:42:27.280
grade space. But when I start with God and the reframe kicks in.

634
00:42:28.640 --> 00:42:33.120
That's right. And also, you know, the wilderness is, um,

635
00:42:33.160 --> 00:42:37.720
also when he sent his, you know, the Israelites away from their shackles,

636
00:42:37.840 --> 00:42:41.240
right? So, so the wilderness is where he's de-shackling us.

637
00:42:41.680 --> 00:42:44.960
The wilderness is where he's cutting off chains. He's a breaker of chains.

638
00:42:45.280 --> 00:42:49.200
And so what chains is he breaking off? And, um, you know,

639
00:42:49.200 --> 00:42:51.800
and that's, uh, it's just powerful.

640
00:42:52.760 --> 00:42:54.080
Because what God is taking,

641
00:42:54.240 --> 00:42:58.640
see what God is taking you out of is he's taking you out of

642
00:42:58.640 --> 00:42:59.480
slavery.

643
00:43:00.200 --> 00:43:03.800
And what he's doing is he's moving you into a new place of sonship.

644
00:43:04.280 --> 00:43:08.760
And so you have to drop slavery thinking in our language,

645
00:43:08.920 --> 00:43:09.960
downstairs thinking.

646
00:43:10.720 --> 00:43:15.560
So you are no longer a slave to sin because you're dead to sin and alive

647
00:43:15.560 --> 00:43:17.000
to God. Right?

648
00:43:17.040 --> 00:43:21.680
So this is an extraordinary thing that we get to see in the scriptures.

649
00:43:21.680 --> 00:43:24.520
Romans six tells us we're a new creation in a new land,

650
00:43:24.520 --> 00:43:27.760
depending on the translation you read. Romans seven says, well,

651
00:43:27.760 --> 00:43:28.680
if you go under the law,

652
00:43:28.680 --> 00:43:31.600
you're going to end up doing things you don't mean to do. And then, you know,

653
00:43:31.600 --> 00:43:35.280
all that stuff, Richard, man, am I that Paul goes on? I'm the worst of sinners.

654
00:43:35.400 --> 00:43:39.120
That's Romans seven. And then he ends with this verse, but thanks be to God.

655
00:43:39.160 --> 00:43:43.320
That's not how it is in Christ. That's the one verse everybody leaves out.

656
00:43:43.920 --> 00:43:46.400
Cause if you go, if you get Romans six, right,

657
00:43:46.400 --> 00:43:49.360
which is what we've been spending a few months on, you're a new creation,

658
00:43:49.360 --> 00:43:52.760
you free, you're dead to sin. And then.

659
00:43:54.280 --> 00:43:57.760
Romans seven, you go right through that because you're in Christ now.

660
00:43:57.760 --> 00:43:59.920
And then you start Romans eight. There is now,

661
00:43:59.920 --> 00:44:04.080
therefore no condemnation to them who are in Christ.

662
00:44:04.800 --> 00:44:09.520
So this idea that if you come under the law, you live in condemnation.

663
00:44:10.120 --> 00:44:14.160
If you're in grace, if you're in Christ, you live free. So you,

664
00:44:14.160 --> 00:44:16.280
so what is God doing? He's teaching,

665
00:44:16.280 --> 00:44:21.280
he's reframing our thinking to stop acting like we're in Egypt.

666
00:44:22.200 --> 00:44:25.080
We're not in, we're not in, we're not slaves in Egypt.

667
00:44:25.440 --> 00:44:29.680
So when the minute stuff goes wrong, what's the first thing a slave mind says?

668
00:44:30.120 --> 00:44:32.760
Look, we don't have water to drink. We don't have God. What have you done?

669
00:44:32.760 --> 00:44:34.400
You brought us into the desert to kill us.

670
00:44:34.400 --> 00:44:38.440
How many times did they bring God's nature into question?

671
00:44:39.080 --> 00:44:43.680
Isn't that what the enemy did right in the beginning? Okay. Let's,

672
00:44:43.680 --> 00:44:48.680
let's blow it open a little more. Right. And that's here in the garden.

673
00:44:48.840 --> 00:44:51.040
There were two trees, the knowledge,

674
00:44:51.040 --> 00:44:55.040
the tree of knowledge of good and evil and the tree of life. Notice Jesus did.

675
00:44:55.040 --> 00:44:57.280
The God didn't say Connie from the tree of life.

676
00:44:57.280 --> 00:44:59.840
He just said from the knowledge of good and evil and then Satan.

677
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:03.160
when he said, God knows that if you eat of that tree,

678
00:45:03.160 --> 00:45:04.440
you'll be like him.

679
00:45:04.440 --> 00:45:06.680
Later on, I think it's in Genesis 2,

680
00:45:06.680 --> 00:45:09.280
God says, because they've eaten from that tree

681
00:45:09.280 --> 00:45:10.840
of the knowledge of good and evil,

682
00:45:10.840 --> 00:45:14.000
now they are like us, knowing good from evil.

683
00:45:14.000 --> 00:45:15.960
And therefore, we need to put an angel

684
00:45:15.960 --> 00:45:17.880
and stop them getting to the tree of life

685
00:45:17.880 --> 00:45:20.560
because these two can't go together.

686
00:45:20.560 --> 00:45:23.520
Jesus comes back as the tree of life.

687
00:45:23.520 --> 00:45:25.360
Now you're in the tree of life.

688
00:45:25.360 --> 00:45:28.800
And that's why the enemy is still trying to sell the idea

689
00:45:28.800 --> 00:45:31.040
that knowledge brings you to God.

690
00:45:31.040 --> 00:45:34.240
It doesn't, the tree of life brings you to God.

691
00:45:34.240 --> 00:45:35.640
They are mutually.

692
00:45:35.640 --> 00:45:37.720
So this idea that if you have some sort

693
00:45:37.720 --> 00:45:39.640
of specialist knowledge,

694
00:45:39.640 --> 00:45:42.560
then you get some specialist whatever.

695
00:45:42.560 --> 00:45:45.400
And that, downstairs might be true,

696
00:45:45.400 --> 00:45:49.120
but upstairs, there's only Jesus.

697
00:45:49.120 --> 00:45:53.440
You, he, I am the way, the truth, and the life.

698
00:45:53.440 --> 00:45:58.440
So now you are grafted in to the tree of life

699
00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:01.320
all life is in Jesus.

700
00:46:01.320 --> 00:46:05.040
This is such a big mind shift for so many of us.

701
00:46:05.040 --> 00:46:06.480
This is such a big reframe,

702
00:46:06.480 --> 00:46:08.480
but the fun part is that it's effortless

703
00:46:08.480 --> 00:46:12.920
because you have the mind of Christ, the scripture says.

704
00:46:15.280 --> 00:46:16.880
So if you have the mind of Christ,

705
00:46:16.880 --> 00:46:18.720
how come you need to renew your mind?

706
00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:21.240
Right, good question.

707
00:46:21.240 --> 00:46:24.760
And the reason is, is that you have the mind of Christ.

708
00:46:24.760 --> 00:46:27.160
It came with your new nature.

709
00:46:27.160 --> 00:46:28.800
Same as you have all favor,

710
00:46:28.800 --> 00:46:30.600
but you have to learn to walk in that favor.

711
00:46:30.600 --> 00:46:32.600
Not get it, walk in it.

712
00:46:32.600 --> 00:46:34.200
You, the prince of peace lives in you,

713
00:46:34.200 --> 00:46:37.880
but now you need to let the peace of Christ reign

714
00:46:37.880 --> 00:46:39.480
because peace is a ruling power,

715
00:46:39.480 --> 00:46:41.320
we learned a few months ago.

716
00:46:41.320 --> 00:46:43.600
So what you're doing is you have all these things.

717
00:46:43.600 --> 00:46:45.960
Now you're learning with the Lord.

718
00:46:45.960 --> 00:46:48.160
You're in the boat now, you're calm.

719
00:46:48.160 --> 00:46:49.920
You're not flailing about,

720
00:46:49.920 --> 00:46:51.480
but now you're learning new ways.

721
00:46:51.480 --> 00:46:53.480
And he's saying, I will teach you.

722
00:46:53.480 --> 00:46:56.880
And that's why he offered, and learn from me.

723
00:46:57.560 --> 00:47:00.840
Take my yoke and learn from me, not about me,

724
00:47:00.840 --> 00:47:02.560
not head knowledge.

725
00:47:03.880 --> 00:47:05.960
So the difference between head knowledge

726
00:47:05.960 --> 00:47:08.480
is the tree of knowledge.

727
00:47:08.480 --> 00:47:10.640
Heart knowledge is the tree of life.

728
00:47:10.640 --> 00:47:12.400
I was transformed.

729
00:47:13.240 --> 00:47:15.880
So in this space between the two spaces,

730
00:47:15.880 --> 00:47:18.880
let me give you four steps I've learned

731
00:47:18.880 --> 00:47:21.280
and created that I kind of go through.

732
00:47:21.280 --> 00:47:22.360
And to make it easier, remember,

733
00:47:22.360 --> 00:47:26.960
I just use an acronym RISE, R-I-S-E, RISE.

734
00:47:26.960 --> 00:47:28.240
And here's RISE.

735
00:47:28.240 --> 00:47:33.240
First R is, now this is applying all of this to business.

736
00:47:34.160 --> 00:47:35.840
And I heard several of you say things

737
00:47:35.840 --> 00:47:38.000
that made me think this may be helpful.

738
00:47:38.000 --> 00:47:40.560
So let's try to be really practical.

739
00:47:40.560 --> 00:47:43.440
R is recognize the possibility.

740
00:47:43.440 --> 00:47:45.040
What do I mean by that?

741
00:47:45.040 --> 00:47:46.640
Now I have a different mindset.

742
00:47:46.640 --> 00:47:48.560
Lord, I have this problem.

743
00:47:48.560 --> 00:47:51.040
And as Ray and I were doing the role play earlier,

744
00:47:51.040 --> 00:47:53.280
he calls me, Ray, I'm so jealous.

745
00:47:53.280 --> 00:47:54.560
That's so amazing, man.

746
00:47:54.560 --> 00:47:55.480
That's fantastic.

747
00:47:55.480 --> 00:47:56.480
Got that problem?

748
00:47:56.480 --> 00:47:57.760
Wish I had a problem that size.

749
00:47:57.760 --> 00:47:59.200
That's amazing.

750
00:47:59.200 --> 00:48:00.040
Why?

751
00:48:00.040 --> 00:48:01.240
So now what's the next question?

752
00:48:01.240 --> 00:48:04.320
So what's the beautiful possibility, Lord,

753
00:48:04.320 --> 00:48:06.760
you've attached to this for Ray?

754
00:48:06.760 --> 00:48:10.600
God has already attached his possibility

755
00:48:10.600 --> 00:48:13.160
to every situation that you face.

756
00:48:14.520 --> 00:48:15.680
I wish I can get into all this.

757
00:48:15.680 --> 00:48:18.600
This is so fascinating how he does this.

758
00:48:18.600 --> 00:48:22.000
So because we start to see the challenges

759
00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:23.400
through Jesus' perception,

760
00:48:23.400 --> 00:48:25.760
not only is Jesus gonna upgrade you,

761
00:48:25.760 --> 00:48:27.880
but at some point the downstairs

762
00:48:27.880 --> 00:48:29.240
is also gonna come in line.

763
00:48:29.240 --> 00:48:31.760
You're gonna have breakthrough and actual blessing

764
00:48:31.760 --> 00:48:33.040
and actual walking there.

765
00:48:33.040 --> 00:48:36.400
But the breakthrough is not the downstairs resolution

766
00:48:36.400 --> 00:48:37.920
of your circumstances.

767
00:48:37.920 --> 00:48:41.040
Breakthrough is that you become someone new.

768
00:48:41.920 --> 00:48:43.000
That's the breakthrough.

769
00:48:43.000 --> 00:48:45.640
Who you're becoming is the breakthrough.

770
00:48:45.640 --> 00:48:50.640
Then because you've become, identity defines reality.

771
00:48:52.160 --> 00:48:55.040
Because you've become someone new upstairs,

772
00:48:55.040 --> 00:48:57.880
the downstairs has no choice but to submit.

773
00:49:03.080 --> 00:49:07.080
If you got that last sentence, you've got a lot.

774
00:49:07.080 --> 00:49:08.840
Because what you're gaining here

775
00:49:08.840 --> 00:49:11.080
is his brilliant perspective,

776
00:49:11.080 --> 00:49:13.240
hence the name of our business, Brilliant Perspectives,

777
00:49:13.240 --> 00:49:15.560
because he has a brilliant perspective.

778
00:49:16.560 --> 00:49:19.920
The I then is, okay, Lord, so I can see.

779
00:49:19.920 --> 00:49:23.840
So what's this possibility you've attached to this problem?

780
00:49:23.840 --> 00:49:25.720
Okay, well, I can't deal with that.

781
00:49:25.720 --> 00:49:26.840
I need a gift.

782
00:49:26.840 --> 00:49:28.520
Everything in the kingdom starts with a gift.

783
00:49:28.520 --> 00:49:31.640
So I is inherit the gift, right?

784
00:49:31.640 --> 00:49:33.480
And what the Lord taught me is

785
00:49:33.480 --> 00:49:35.720
every time I ask him about the gift,

786
00:49:35.720 --> 00:49:38.040
I ask it in a downstairs manner,

787
00:49:38.040 --> 00:49:40.960
meaning, well, maybe we use more common business language.

788
00:49:40.960 --> 00:49:43.600
I ask for a 2X gift, not a 10X gift.

789
00:49:44.600 --> 00:49:46.560
To use Dan Sullivan's idea here,

790
00:49:48.080 --> 00:49:50.480
that 10X is easier than 2X.

791
00:49:50.480 --> 00:49:51.720
Great book, by the way.

792
00:49:53.520 --> 00:49:55.520
But it's the same kingdom idea.

793
00:49:55.520 --> 00:49:56.720
So let's use that.

794
00:49:56.720 --> 00:49:59.960
Because when I think 2X, when I ask small,

795
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:05.040
I'm thinking about my previous experience with God and I'm extrapolating it a bit more

796
00:50:05.040 --> 00:50:07.800
and I'm saying, well, then I can only ask for that.

797
00:50:07.800 --> 00:50:11.040
And wow, let's just go all in and ask for double that.

798
00:50:11.040 --> 00:50:15.000
Did you know that double portion is the least that you can have in the kingdom?

799
00:50:15.000 --> 00:50:19.200
Because that comes all the way from Isaiah, Isaiah 61.

800
00:50:19.200 --> 00:50:22.480
That you will get a double portion, well that's under the old covenant.

801
00:50:22.480 --> 00:50:25.000
That's the least amount you can get is 2x.

802
00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:26.400
That's absolute minimum.

803
00:50:26.400 --> 00:50:28.500
But God is more like 10x, why?

804
00:50:28.500 --> 00:50:30.020
Because I have no reference.

805
00:50:30.020 --> 00:50:35.160
If I said to you, hey Ray, you took 100 transactions to do your business last year.

806
00:50:35.160 --> 00:50:41.040
Now you have to 2x it, you're immediately, oh my goodness, 100, I got to go to 200 transactions?

807
00:50:41.040 --> 00:50:42.320
I'm exhausted already.

808
00:50:42.320 --> 00:50:44.980
I'm deflated, I'm not interested.

809
00:50:44.980 --> 00:50:45.980
That sounds awful.

810
00:50:45.980 --> 00:50:49.120
Do you know how hard I worked to get the 100 and you want me to make it 200?

811
00:50:49.120 --> 00:50:50.960
How am I going to do that?

812
00:50:50.960 --> 00:50:55.820
But if I said to you, Ray, I want you to 10x, you got to go from 100 transactions to 1,000.

813
00:50:55.820 --> 00:50:59.400
You don't consult your past, because there's no reference.

814
00:50:59.400 --> 00:51:01.220
You consult your future.

815
00:51:01.220 --> 00:51:06.980
Now you're into Jeremiah 29, 11, I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord.

816
00:51:06.980 --> 00:51:11.020
To bless you and prosper you and give you a hope and a future.

817
00:51:11.020 --> 00:51:14.820
So God's always pulling you from the present into the future.

818
00:51:14.820 --> 00:51:15.820
That's his gift.

819
00:51:15.820 --> 00:51:19.340
So the question is, Lord, what's the 10x gift you're giving me?

820
00:51:19.340 --> 00:51:25.300
So we know there's an upgrade to your identity, but we also know that identity creates reality.

821
00:51:25.300 --> 00:51:28.900
That leaves us into S, step into permission.

822
00:51:28.900 --> 00:51:34.860
So the most helpful question I've learned with the Lord is when I'm facing a situation,

823
00:51:34.860 --> 00:51:39.060
I see what's the possibility he's attached, and it's usually like blows my mind kind of

824
00:51:39.060 --> 00:51:40.060
possibility.

825
00:51:40.060 --> 00:51:44.720
Then the Lord said, well, here's a 10x gift you need for that, right?

826
00:51:44.720 --> 00:51:47.100
Because as you know, it's already in Christ in you.

827
00:51:47.100 --> 00:51:51.780
It's just, we're just letting it, we're just focusing on it now, we're operating in it.

828
00:51:51.780 --> 00:51:53.660
Now I said, Lord, what's my permission?

829
00:51:53.700 --> 00:51:58.580
Now permission is great because permission acts as a regulator that you don't get ahead

830
00:51:58.580 --> 00:52:00.340
of yourself.

831
00:52:00.340 --> 00:52:04.340
So the Lord says, okay, I want you to build a billion dollar business or whatever it is

832
00:52:04.340 --> 00:52:08.460
he's saying, this is the possibility I'm now releasing in you.

833
00:52:08.460 --> 00:52:10.900
Then the permission right now is going to your research.

834
00:52:10.900 --> 00:52:13.860
And that's what Ray's been walking you through week by week.

835
00:52:13.860 --> 00:52:17.100
He's been walking you through the steps of permission.

836
00:52:17.100 --> 00:52:19.740
Take this next step, take this next step, take this next step.

837
00:52:19.740 --> 00:52:27.420
These permissions, I remember a local pastor, we'd just moved into this area and we met

838
00:52:27.420 --> 00:52:29.700
and we became friends with the senior pastor very quickly.

839
00:52:29.700 --> 00:52:34.220
And they had like 13 churches and that, you know, they were growing very quickly and we

840
00:52:34.220 --> 00:52:35.840
quickly became friends.

841
00:52:35.840 --> 00:52:39.100
And of course, him and his wife came and spent the evening with us and we talked about all

842
00:52:39.100 --> 00:52:42.180
the things we can do because we grew up in church and planted churches and being part

843
00:52:42.180 --> 00:52:43.180
of all that.

844
00:52:43.180 --> 00:52:45.980
And so, you know, immediately I got excited about all the stuff I could do.

845
00:52:45.980 --> 00:52:49.420
But I realized I hadn't asked the Lord any of this.

846
00:52:49.420 --> 00:52:52.380
So I go to the Lord and I started to apply RISE, right?

847
00:52:52.380 --> 00:52:55.420
The first thing I asked is, Lord, what's the possibility here?

848
00:52:55.420 --> 00:52:59.060
And the Lord said, the possibility is that you strengthen this couple.

849
00:52:59.060 --> 00:53:01.620
I said, no, but Lord, I can help them with this, this and this.

850
00:53:01.620 --> 00:53:05.520
And the Lord said, no, no, the possibility is to strengthen this couple.

851
00:53:05.520 --> 00:53:06.520
So what's the gift now?

852
00:53:06.520 --> 00:53:09.620
I need a gift of encouragement, right?

853
00:53:09.620 --> 00:53:12.220
Not just a gift of encouragement, this better be prophetic.

854
00:53:12.220 --> 00:53:14.900
I mean, this guy's an apostolic figure in his own right.

855
00:53:14.900 --> 00:53:17.100
He's got churches on three continents.

856
00:53:17.100 --> 00:53:18.820
I've got to step up.

857
00:53:18.820 --> 00:53:23.900
I have to have a 10X encouragement, can't just be good, great job, awesome.

858
00:53:23.900 --> 00:53:24.900
That's not going to help him.

859
00:53:24.900 --> 00:53:25.900
Right.

860
00:53:25.900 --> 00:53:27.060
I have to have something from heaven for him.

861
00:53:27.060 --> 00:53:28.700
I have to speak into his identity.

862
00:53:28.700 --> 00:53:30.780
I have to hear from God for him.

863
00:53:30.780 --> 00:53:32.820
So then I said, Lord, what's my permission?

864
00:53:32.820 --> 00:53:36.620
The Lord said, your permission is to be their friend.

865
00:53:36.620 --> 00:53:39.460
When I shared that with them, I was like, well, what about all the stuff we talked about?

866
00:53:39.460 --> 00:53:41.220
I said, I have no permission for that.

867
00:53:41.220 --> 00:53:42.220
I'm so sorry.

868
00:53:42.220 --> 00:53:45.260
I'd love, I'd love to.

869
00:53:45.260 --> 00:53:48.900
Then E, rise, E, execute.

870
00:53:48.900 --> 00:53:56.060
Now I get to the point of taking bold action because I have his permission and I'm functioning

871
00:53:56.060 --> 00:54:00.060
from a confidence born out of his own heart.

872
00:54:00.060 --> 00:54:05.220
I'm now spirit-empowered confidence that just takes everything to the next level.

873
00:54:05.220 --> 00:54:08.540
And this is where you see acceleration.

874
00:54:08.540 --> 00:54:10.900
The Bible sometimes calls Jesus a quickening spirit.

875
00:54:10.900 --> 00:54:14.980
But guess what happens when you're in this mode, when you're in this state of execution

876
00:54:14.980 --> 00:54:20.860
from permission, from the gift, from the possibility he gave you.

877
00:54:20.860 --> 00:54:23.060
Now you're doing it relationally.

878
00:54:23.060 --> 00:54:27.740
And what starts to happen is what used to take a month now takes a week.

879
00:54:27.740 --> 00:54:29.420
What used to take a week now takes a day.

880
00:54:29.420 --> 00:54:32.540
What used to take a day now takes an hour.

881
00:54:32.540 --> 00:54:34.260
And a massive acceleration.

882
00:54:34.460 --> 00:54:40.740
Honestly, what I just said, I could literally spend the rest of the time, the rest of the

883
00:54:40.740 --> 00:54:44.260
evening just telling story after story of how the Lord's done that for me.

884
00:54:44.260 --> 00:54:45.260
Stuff I was so sure.

885
00:54:45.260 --> 00:54:48.260
My wife doesn't even believe me anymore when I tell her it's taken me six hours to do something.

886
00:54:48.260 --> 00:54:49.700
She says, I'll get the tea ready.

887
00:54:49.700 --> 00:54:52.540
You'll be back in an hour or half an hour.

888
00:54:52.540 --> 00:54:54.300
She doesn't even believe me anymore.

889
00:54:54.300 --> 00:54:58.180
And the reason is, it's not because I'm sandbagging how long it's going to take.

890
00:54:58.180 --> 00:55:00.100
It's because what's happened is I've learned.

891
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:04.800
that the Lord just steps in and it's like, and there's a picture of this that with the disciples

892
00:55:04.800 --> 00:55:11.120
back to boats, the theme of the evening, is that Jesus steps in their boat, and immediately they

893
00:55:11.120 --> 00:55:15.520
are on the other side of the lake instantly. That's what I'm talking about. God gets in the

894
00:55:15.520 --> 00:55:25.440
boat, it just moves. Ray. I'm done by the way. I love this. I love the four steps. I haven't,

895
00:55:25.440 --> 00:55:37.280
I have missed that specificity, but I did this today. So he's been, God's been nudging me

896
00:55:37.920 --> 00:55:44.960
that I want you to do local meetings. And I'm like, okay, so I would go to like pray on it.

897
00:55:45.680 --> 00:55:55.760
And I just kind of got that it wasn't the time. And so on Friday, he had me

898
00:55:56.640 --> 00:56:03.600
accept a speaking gig downtown Fort Myers. And I didn't even think about it. But when I got there,

899
00:56:03.600 --> 00:56:10.320
I realized this is actually the property that I had my first speaking gig at 21 years ago.

900
00:56:10.800 --> 00:56:20.400
Wow. And I didn't even realize it. And so what I got is, this is, this is like a redo. This is like

901
00:56:20.400 --> 00:56:27.280
a, you know, now you get to chance to do this, you know, just in a very different way. And so

902
00:56:27.280 --> 00:56:33.600
anyway, back to today. So today, I got, I got, I do a God walk every day. So I just, I just walk

903
00:56:33.600 --> 00:56:36.800
and she's like 20 minutes or so. And I'm just like, All right, you know, what do you got to say?

904
00:56:37.760 --> 00:56:46.480
What should I be asking? Should I ask about this, this, this? And, and so I get, okay, it's time for

905
00:56:46.480 --> 00:56:53.440
the local meeting. Okay, who should I reach out to? Heather Kane. And I know, I know Heather Kane

906
00:56:53.440 --> 00:56:59.280
is a Keller Williams agent, and she has a an office at houses, you know, you can put like 45

907
00:56:59.280 --> 00:57:04.720
people there to, you know, start off and like, okay, and these are the four people that will

908
00:57:04.720 --> 00:57:12.960
help you boom, boom, boom, boom. And so I'm like, Okay, got it. And so I reach out to Heather Kane,

909
00:57:12.960 --> 00:57:18.800
she responds immediately with I won't charge anything, you can totally use it. I'm all in,

910
00:57:18.800 --> 00:57:25.040
I'd love this sounds amazing. This is awesome. The four people, I think all four now have responded

911
00:57:25.040 --> 00:57:29.520
that they're interested, like they're excited about it. And so we have a date, it'll be March

912
00:57:29.520 --> 00:57:35.840
18. And so like, I just love, I just love that. I just love how you broke it down.

913
00:57:37.600 --> 00:57:42.480
It's just really powerful. Thank you. Well, I dropped I dropped my notes in the chat. So you

914
00:57:42.480 --> 00:57:49.280
got it. If you want to copy those, or stick it in the whatever. I think for me, I had to learn

915
00:57:49.280 --> 00:57:56.080
the sequence of this. So let me say the sequence one more time is what's the starting point.

916
00:57:57.040 --> 00:58:01.920
The starting point has to be his heart, because that's where the reframing takes place.

917
00:58:02.480 --> 00:58:08.880
That's why we because a perception at Brilliant, we define a perception is in the valley floor,

918
00:58:08.880 --> 00:58:12.800
in the downstairs circumstances, that your perception of what's going on, which

919
00:58:12.800 --> 00:58:19.360
rarely is actually correct, by the way, but you have a perception upstairs, you have a perspective.

920
00:58:20.320 --> 00:58:26.560
And the upstairs perspective is how God sees it. And what happens is when we start when we start

921
00:58:26.560 --> 00:58:32.880
in that space, Lord, how do you see this? What possibility have you already attached to this?

922
00:58:32.880 --> 00:58:37.440
Because he doesn't withhold a single possibility from you ever. That's not in his nature to do

923
00:58:37.440 --> 00:58:42.960
that. He never withholds. You may be scrambling a minute to catch on. You know, that's why I said

924
00:58:42.960 --> 00:58:47.440
you have to catch on, not always catch up, but you have to catch on. That's what Jesus was saying.

925
00:58:47.920 --> 00:58:51.840
My father works. I work. OK, Lord, I want to work, but I don't know what you're working on.

926
00:58:52.400 --> 00:58:59.520
So, OK, and once once we get the possibility and we start to get that perspective, oh,

927
00:58:59.520 --> 00:59:06.720
I see, oh, there's this bigger thing going on. So I live in this all the time, every day.

928
00:59:06.720 --> 00:59:12.160
And then I my first step isn't execution. Notice I didn't go from the R to the E,

929
00:59:12.800 --> 00:59:17.600
because all those A types, you know, you just point us in the general direction. We want to

930
00:59:17.600 --> 00:59:23.040
go and kill the whole army on the way through there and take the hill. Hold a second. You need

931
00:59:23.040 --> 00:59:29.520
some weapons to go and do that. You know, so you need the gift. There are gifts. God's gifts are

932
00:59:29.520 --> 00:59:35.920
just bountiful. Do you know that every single description of your inheritance in Jesus starts

933
00:59:35.920 --> 00:59:41.280
with superlatives? It's exceedingly abundantly great. There's no just oh, you have gifts and

934
00:59:41.280 --> 00:59:46.080
you have this and you have this. Even your ability to take that chaos noise in your head captive.

935
00:59:47.040 --> 00:59:53.200
The weapons of our warfare are not downstairs carnal, but upstairs mighty in God to take

936
00:59:53.200 --> 00:59:58.720
captive every thought and pretension and stronghold that sets itself up against the knowledge of

937
00:59:58.720 --> 00:59:59.920
Christ. Well, you know,

938
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:02.360
Not fighting your old man, you're not fighting your new man,

939
01:00:02.360 --> 01:00:03.200
you're fighting your old man.

940
01:00:03.200 --> 01:00:04.160
You're taking it captive.

941
01:00:04.160 --> 01:00:07.840
You have the super weapon to take thoughts captive.

942
01:00:07.840 --> 01:00:09.400
Did you know that?

943
01:00:09.400 --> 01:00:11.080
Do you know you can exercise that?

944
01:00:11.080 --> 01:00:13.320
Okay, so that's the gift.

945
01:00:13.320 --> 01:00:16.080
In that moment, here's the gift.

946
01:00:16.080 --> 01:00:19.080
Take these negative thoughts captive.

947
01:00:19.080 --> 01:00:22.380
Once you, what God is, he's on a mission

948
01:00:22.380 --> 01:00:23.480
to teach you what he's like,

949
01:00:23.480 --> 01:00:26.440
but he's also on a mission to eradicate all negativity

950
01:00:26.440 --> 01:00:28.120
from your internal world.

951
01:00:28.160 --> 01:00:30.320
Do you know that's possible?

952
01:00:30.320 --> 01:00:32.640
Do you know that's actually what he promised?

953
01:00:32.640 --> 01:00:34.160
The downstairs negative stuff will happen

954
01:00:34.160 --> 01:00:35.000
because you're in the world

955
01:00:35.000 --> 01:00:37.740
and stuff happens in the world, trouble.

956
01:00:37.740 --> 01:00:40.680
But God doesn't mean for any of that negativity

957
01:00:40.680 --> 01:00:42.200
to invade your soul.

958
01:00:45.000 --> 01:00:46.640
Because you can't start in the negative

959
01:00:46.640 --> 01:00:47.940
and end up in the kingdom.

960
01:00:50.440 --> 01:00:51.880
It's so good.

961
01:00:51.880 --> 01:00:53.440
So good.

962
01:00:53.440 --> 01:00:54.740
Well, I went a minute or two over,

963
01:00:54.740 --> 01:00:57.240
but it's so much fun to hang out with you.

964
01:00:57.240 --> 01:00:58.360
Super appreciate you.

965
01:00:58.360 --> 01:01:01.120
So Dion, everyone, give him some love.

966
01:01:01.120 --> 01:01:04.600
I'll stick around and do a few more things with you guys,

967
01:01:04.600 --> 01:01:06.880
but appreciate you, Dion.

968
01:01:06.880 --> 01:01:07.720
Thank you.

969
01:01:07.720 --> 01:01:08.840
Thank you so much.

970
01:01:08.840 --> 01:01:09.680
Thanks, guys.

971
01:01:09.680 --> 01:01:10.720
So helpful.

972
01:01:10.720 --> 01:01:11.760
Thank you so much.

973
01:01:11.760 --> 01:01:13.160
Yay.

974
01:01:13.160 --> 01:01:14.800
Awesome.

975
01:01:14.800 --> 01:01:17.600
So wasn't that, was that awesome, guys?

976
01:01:17.600 --> 01:01:19.000
Yeah.

977
01:01:19.000 --> 01:01:19.920
So good.

978
01:01:19.920 --> 01:01:20.760
So good.

979
01:01:20.760 --> 01:01:21.580
So fabulous.

980
01:01:21.580 --> 01:01:23.580
Quick question, Rebecca,

981
01:01:24.340 --> 01:01:29.340
you know, we can't copy and paste from the chat.

982
01:01:29.740 --> 01:01:30.600
I did copy it.

983
01:01:30.600 --> 01:01:31.440
I have it.

984
01:01:31.440 --> 01:01:32.500
So I'll share those.

985
01:01:32.500 --> 01:01:33.700
I'll share them.

986
01:01:33.700 --> 01:01:34.520
Okay.

987
01:01:34.520 --> 01:01:35.360
No problem.

988
01:01:35.360 --> 01:01:36.200
Yeah.

989
01:01:36.200 --> 01:01:38.620
I'll take a screenshot with my camera, my phone.

990
01:01:38.620 --> 01:01:39.760
Oh, yeah.

991
01:01:39.760 --> 01:01:40.780
I could have done that too.

992
01:01:40.780 --> 01:01:42.260
I didn't even think of it.

993
01:01:42.260 --> 01:01:43.100
Yeah.

994
01:01:43.100 --> 01:01:44.460
But I took notes,

995
01:01:44.460 --> 01:01:47.820
but what he has written is way better than what I wrote.

996
01:01:49.700 --> 01:01:51.620
He's pretty good like that.

997
01:01:51.620 --> 01:01:52.940
Oh my gosh.

998
01:01:52.940 --> 01:01:53.780
Like.

999
01:01:55.620 --> 01:01:56.660
That's good, man.

1000
01:01:56.660 --> 01:01:57.500
That's so good.

1001
01:01:57.500 --> 01:01:58.340
So good.

1002
01:01:58.340 --> 01:02:02.940
And it's so fun because it's been happening.

1003
01:02:02.940 --> 01:02:03.780
Yeah.

1004
01:02:03.780 --> 01:02:04.640
You know, over the last few months,

1005
01:02:04.640 --> 01:02:06.460
I just see it more and more.

1006
01:02:06.460 --> 01:02:07.380
It's just,

1007
01:02:10.100 --> 01:02:13.620
and you just stay so relaxed.

1008
01:02:13.620 --> 01:02:14.460
Yeah.

1009
01:02:14.460 --> 01:02:15.280
Yeah.

1010
01:02:15.280 --> 01:02:17.900
You know, you just like, really,

1011
01:02:17.900 --> 01:02:20.620
it's like, oh, some, you know,

1012
01:02:20.620 --> 01:02:21.540
another red light.

1013
01:02:21.540 --> 01:02:22.700
Awesome.

1014
01:02:24.900 --> 01:02:29.900
Cause I know it's God's timing and this is all the time.

1015
01:02:30.140 --> 01:02:31.300
I get in my car and I say,

1016
01:02:31.300 --> 01:02:32.940
thanks God for getting me there.

1017
01:02:32.940 --> 01:02:35.020
You know, like it's just a,

1018
01:02:36.460 --> 01:02:38.140
it's so fun.

1019
01:02:39.020 --> 01:02:39.860
Yeah.

1020
01:02:39.860 --> 01:02:40.700
It's just,

1021
01:02:40.700 --> 01:02:45.700
and I'm listening more to other people too.

1022
01:02:45.700 --> 01:02:48.700
Like to, to really see how are they,

1023
01:02:48.700 --> 01:02:51.700
like, how are they really processing, you know,

1024
01:02:51.700 --> 01:02:55.700
other believers, even how I see that.

1025
01:02:55.700 --> 01:03:00.700
And they, they've, they live in this struggle and.

1026
01:03:00.900 --> 01:03:01.740
For sure.

1027
01:03:01.740 --> 01:03:02.580
A hundred percent.

1028
01:03:02.580 --> 01:03:07.580
And I've stepped out of performance, you know, like,

1029
01:03:08.620 --> 01:03:11.860
oh my gosh, I have to perform at camp.

1030
01:03:11.860 --> 01:03:12.700
Yeah.

1031
01:03:12.740 --> 01:03:13.580
Oh my gosh.

1032
01:03:13.580 --> 01:03:16.660
I have to perform and I can't sit down.

1033
01:03:16.660 --> 01:03:21.660
And you really got me thinking about that because you said,

1034
01:03:23.020 --> 01:03:24.580
am I supposed to watch TV?

1035
01:03:24.580 --> 01:03:25.900
It goes, it goes, yes.

1036
01:03:25.900 --> 01:03:29.340
And literally I've been asking him questions constantly

1037
01:03:29.340 --> 01:03:32.300
and he's got not sick of me, you know?

1038
01:03:32.300 --> 01:03:33.140
Yeah.

1039
01:03:33.140 --> 01:03:33.980
So it's.

1040
01:03:33.980 --> 01:03:35.300
Well, it says, you know, you know,

1041
01:03:35.300 --> 01:03:36.140
when you lack wisdom,

1042
01:03:36.140 --> 01:03:39.620
ask will be given to you liberally and without reproach.

1043
01:03:39.620 --> 01:03:40.780
Oh, right.

1044
01:03:40.780 --> 01:03:44.580
So, you know, there's no, all right, you hit, you get 10,

1045
01:03:44.580 --> 01:03:47.740
10 to a Don, go ahead and make them count.

1046
01:03:47.740 --> 01:03:48.580
Right.

1047
01:03:48.580 --> 01:03:53.580
And it's, and it is that shift in up there versus down here.

1048
01:03:55.060 --> 01:03:59.260
And that's why it is the renewing

1049
01:03:59.260 --> 01:04:04.260
because we're being bombarded constantly all day

1050
01:04:06.740 --> 01:04:09.220
in so many ways.

1051
01:04:09.220 --> 01:04:12.420
And so to just keep stepping back

1052
01:04:13.580 --> 01:04:16.740
and just keep that conversation going.

1053
01:04:16.740 --> 01:04:17.700
Yeah.

1054
01:04:17.700 --> 01:04:20.580
It's so good.

1055
01:04:20.580 --> 01:04:21.420
Yeah.

1056
01:04:21.420 --> 01:04:24.420
And so, I mean, for, for me, I, you know, I,

1057
01:04:28.060 --> 01:04:32.260
I'm, I I've been really utilizing the last two steps.

1058
01:04:32.260 --> 01:04:36.980
Do I, what's, what's your permission here and execute?

1059
01:04:37.020 --> 01:04:40.020
And so do you want me to respond to this person?

1060
01:04:40.020 --> 01:04:40.860
No.

1061
01:04:40.860 --> 01:04:41.700
Okay.

1062
01:04:41.700 --> 01:04:42.540
All right.

1063
01:04:42.540 --> 01:04:43.740
Then I won't, I'll execute.

1064
01:04:43.740 --> 01:04:45.220
Do you want me to do something with this person?

1065
01:04:45.220 --> 01:04:46.060
Yeah.

1066
01:04:46.060 --> 01:04:46.900
Okay.

1067
01:04:46.900 --> 01:04:47.740
Then I'll execute, you know?

1068
01:04:47.740 --> 01:04:49.100
And so what I, what I haven't,

1069
01:04:49.100 --> 01:04:51.060
I haven't been doing the whole,

1070
01:04:51.060 --> 01:04:53.220
Hey Lord, what is the possibility with this?

1071
01:04:53.220 --> 01:04:56.180
I haven't been asking those kinds of questions and,

1072
01:04:57.660 --> 01:05:00.060
you know, and okay, you know.

1073
01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:04.000
Let me, you know, thank you for helping me inherit that gift.

1074
01:05:04.000 --> 01:05:08.000
I have been very good at that of just listening.

1075
01:05:08.000 --> 01:05:11.000
You know, when I listen, when I read or listen to the Bible,

1076
01:05:11.000 --> 01:05:15.000
that's one of the number one things I'm looking for is,

1077
01:05:15.000 --> 01:05:18.000
is there a trait that I'm not accepting?

1078
01:05:18.000 --> 01:05:23.000
Is there a trait that I haven't adopted?

1079
01:05:23.000 --> 01:05:25.000
And if so, I know the hack.

1080
01:05:25.000 --> 01:05:28.000
Father, thank you for helping me with this.

1081
01:05:28.000 --> 01:05:30.000
And so like, you know, I was,

1082
01:05:30.000 --> 01:05:35.000
Graham cook has a training in his app about the fruit of the spirit.

1083
01:05:35.000 --> 01:05:38.000
And that's, it's really, really good. And.

1084
01:05:38.000 --> 01:05:44.000
Had me listen to, you know, a couple of them multiple times.

1085
01:05:44.000 --> 01:05:50.000
And, and also when I was going through my, my reading, you know, I've.

1086
01:05:50.000 --> 01:05:54.000
Go through the gospels a lot. And so I'm, I just finished John.

1087
01:05:54.000 --> 01:05:57.000
And I got, all right, Lord, just move forward.

1088
01:05:57.000 --> 01:05:59.000
Reread John.

1089
01:05:59.000 --> 01:06:02.000
And as soon as I got that, I knew.

1090
01:06:02.000 --> 01:06:05.000
There's some kind of trait in there that I've missed.

1091
01:06:05.000 --> 01:06:09.000
There's something in there that he's, he's wanting me to accept.

1092
01:06:09.000 --> 01:06:11.000
And, you know, not, not.

1093
01:06:11.000 --> 01:06:15.000
Grind at, not like, Oh, come on, you're good at this time.

1094
01:06:15.000 --> 01:06:18.000
You know, cause there's no, you know, struggle.

1095
01:06:18.000 --> 01:06:23.000
It's just recognition and saying, Oh, Hey, thank you for helping me with this.

1096
01:06:23.000 --> 01:06:25.000
Thank you for helping grow, grow this.

1097
01:06:25.000 --> 01:06:27.000
And, and we'll do that kind of.

1098
01:06:27.000 --> 01:06:30.000
Of prayers. We, you know, in tonight.

1099
01:06:30.000 --> 01:06:34.000
But any.

1100
01:06:34.000 --> 01:06:38.000
Any questions, anything I can, I can help with this. This is so big.

1101
01:06:38.000 --> 01:06:41.000
I mean, if you can get just tonight, if you can just get tonight.

1102
01:06:41.000 --> 01:06:45.000
Maybe relisten to this, rewatch it. And I would, I would.

1103
01:06:45.000 --> 01:06:49.000
You know, thank the father. Thank you, father, for helping me accept this truth.

1104
01:06:49.000 --> 01:06:51.000
Thank you, father, for helping me step into this.

1105
01:06:51.000 --> 01:06:54.000
Thank you for father for helping me absorb this help,

1106
01:06:54.000 --> 01:06:56.000
helping me walk in this new creation.

1107
01:06:56.000 --> 01:07:02.000
And, you know, and I I've had multiple things that man, the old me.

1108
01:07:02.000 --> 01:07:05.000
Holy crap. What I've been stressed out about.

1109
01:07:05.000 --> 01:07:08.000
And I'm just not at all. It's not even a blip on the radar.

1110
01:07:08.000 --> 01:07:12.000
I'm starting to do, you know, it's like there's zero.

1111
01:07:12.000 --> 01:07:14.000
Reaction there.

1112
01:07:14.000 --> 01:07:17.000
And in the past, I would have been very stressed out.

1113
01:07:17.000 --> 01:07:20.000
And I just, I just don't get it. I'm like, all right, Lord.

1114
01:07:20.000 --> 01:07:23.000
I see this is going on and, you know, I know it's your perfect timing.

1115
01:07:23.000 --> 01:07:25.000
So I look forward to however you're going to meet with us.

1116
01:07:25.000 --> 01:07:27.000
It's fine.

1117
01:07:27.000 --> 01:07:29.000
And it's just, it's just a different.

1118
01:07:29.000 --> 01:07:33.000
It's a different experience.

1119
01:07:33.000 --> 01:07:35.000
I have one question and.

1120
01:07:35.000 --> 01:07:36.000
Yes.

1121
01:07:36.000 --> 01:07:39.000
You're open to when.

1122
01:07:39.000 --> 01:07:42.000
In the, when I wake up in the morning through,

1123
01:07:42.000 --> 01:07:44.000
I would say through like two, three o'clock.

1124
01:07:44.000 --> 01:07:47.000
It's like, I'm, I'm hearing God consistently consistently.

1125
01:07:47.000 --> 01:07:49.000
It's like, I'm tired or something.

1126
01:07:49.000 --> 01:07:53.000
Maybe I'm not eating enough protein or something, but, but after two,

1127
01:07:53.000 --> 01:07:54.000
three o'clock.

1128
01:07:54.000 --> 01:07:57.000
It's like, I'm.

1129
01:07:57.000 --> 01:07:59.000
My brain is fluffy. I call it.

1130
01:07:59.000 --> 01:08:05.000
I'm just here, but I'm not.

1131
01:08:06.000 --> 01:08:21.000
Okay.

1132
01:08:21.000 --> 01:08:23.000
When you're.

1133
01:08:23.000 --> 01:08:27.000
When you are hearing from him.

1134
01:08:27.000 --> 01:08:31.000
Are you asking for.

1135
01:08:31.000 --> 01:08:33.000
Hey, Lord, is there something you'd like me to do right now?

1136
01:08:34.000 --> 01:08:36.000
Not always.

1137
01:08:36.000 --> 01:08:41.000
I was out because what out, what I'll do is, and I do,

1138
01:08:41.000 --> 01:08:43.000
I literally do this all day long.

1139
01:08:43.000 --> 01:08:47.000
I is Lord, is there something you want me to do right now?

1140
01:08:47.000 --> 01:08:50.000
And most of the times I get a yes.

1141
01:08:50.000 --> 01:08:52.000
And I'm like, okay.

1142
01:08:52.000 --> 01:08:56.000
And then I'll, I'll, I'll kind of guess, and then.

1143
01:08:56.000 --> 01:08:59.000
He will let me guess.

1144
01:08:59.000 --> 01:09:02.000
And then he'll kind of take, if I, if I don't get it, I'm just like,

1145
01:09:02.000 --> 01:09:04.000
all right, you're having it. He'll give me some kind of hint.

1146
01:09:04.000 --> 01:09:08.000
And I'm like, oh, oh, you want me? Oh, you want me to do this? Oh, okay.

1147
01:09:08.000 --> 01:09:11.000
And.

1148
01:09:11.000 --> 01:09:16.000
And so I'm, I'm that my, my default is.

1149
01:09:16.000 --> 01:09:19.000
What do you want? Is there something you want me to do?

1150
01:09:19.000 --> 01:09:24.000
And, and I, and, and I say that not in a.

1151
01:09:25.000 --> 01:09:28.000
Slave.

1152
01:09:28.000 --> 01:09:33.000
What can I do for your boss? I do it as a, a Prince.

1153
01:09:33.000 --> 01:09:36.000
I do it as a son of the King.

1154
01:09:36.000 --> 01:09:41.000
And so I'm honored that the King would ask me to do anything.

1155
01:09:41.000 --> 01:09:43.000
You know, I don't need to do anything, but I,

1156
01:09:43.000 --> 01:09:47.000
I'm honored that you would have a step for me to take.

1157
01:09:47.000 --> 01:09:50.000
And so I want to do that step with excellence.

1158
01:09:51.000 --> 01:09:52.000
I want to, you know,

1159
01:09:52.000 --> 01:09:56.000
take the permission of the of the King and my father.

1160
01:09:56.000 --> 01:09:59.000
And, and go in and do that thing.

1161
01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:03.720
Most, I mean, I think at this point, it might be every day,

1162
01:10:03.720 --> 01:10:06.400
almost every day, at some point in the day,

1163
01:10:06.400 --> 01:10:09.620
he will have a meeting get canceled,

1164
01:10:09.620 --> 01:10:11.960
or he will have something happen

1165
01:10:11.960 --> 01:10:14.100
where I have time to take a walk with him.

1166
01:10:15.000 --> 01:10:17.760
And he tells me to leave my phone,

1167
01:10:17.760 --> 01:10:22.080
and I go on this walk, and he gives me downloads of,

1168
01:10:22.080 --> 01:10:26.080
but not, usually,

1169
01:10:26.120 --> 01:10:30.600
not just knowledge, but action steps.

1170
01:10:30.600 --> 01:10:32.240
And so, on the walk, he's like,

1171
01:10:32.240 --> 01:10:34.120
I want you to reach out to Heather Kane,

1172
01:10:34.120 --> 01:10:36.800
I want you to reach out to Adam Corcoran,

1173
01:10:36.800 --> 01:10:38.320
I want you to reach out to Howie,

1174
01:10:38.320 --> 01:10:39.880
I want you to reach out to Lauren,

1175
01:10:39.880 --> 01:10:42.920
I want you to reach out, he gives me the names,

1176
01:10:42.920 --> 01:10:45.960
tells me, that's gonna be your event team,

1177
01:10:45.960 --> 01:10:50.760
you're gonna tell her you wanna start it next week,

1178
01:10:50.760 --> 01:10:52.360
that's the one day she's out of town,

1179
01:10:52.360 --> 01:10:54.000
so we booked it for next month,

1180
01:10:54.000 --> 01:10:55.700
which is actually what he wanted.

1181
01:10:56.920 --> 01:11:01.920
And so, I am looking for what is it to do,

1182
01:11:05.200 --> 01:11:06.880
and, you know what I mean?

1183
01:11:06.880 --> 01:11:10.360
And so I would, I think,

1184
01:11:12.440 --> 01:11:14.080
I would try that out.

1185
01:11:14.080 --> 01:11:15.400
I would try that out.

1186
01:11:15.400 --> 01:11:17.920
What is it that you'd like me to do today?

1187
01:11:20.040 --> 01:11:23.880
You know, is there anything you'd like me to do right now?

1188
01:11:24.600 --> 01:11:26.680
And sometimes it's, I mean, it's interesting,

1189
01:11:26.680 --> 01:11:31.680
like he's had me sell some things, get rid of some stuff.

1190
01:11:34.680 --> 01:11:37.660
And I'm like, hmm, all right, cool.

1191
01:11:39.120 --> 01:11:41.020
Trying to think of an interesting one.

1192
01:11:41.020 --> 01:11:41.860
Um.

1193
01:11:53.780 --> 01:11:56.780
I mean, I just give him permission, you know, to,

1194
01:11:56.780 --> 01:11:59.060
you know, because when you accept Jesus

1195
01:11:59.060 --> 01:12:02.500
as your Lord and Savior,

1196
01:12:03.600 --> 01:12:06.900
I think a lot of people have accepted him as Savior,

1197
01:12:06.900 --> 01:12:09.860
fire insurance, let me not burn in hell,

1198
01:12:09.860 --> 01:12:11.580
but never accepted him as Lord.

1199
01:12:11.580 --> 01:12:14.140
Lord means guide me in all my ways.

1200
01:12:14.140 --> 01:12:17.740
Lord means let me invite him into every area of my life

1201
01:12:17.740 --> 01:12:19.860
and let him guide that.

1202
01:12:19.860 --> 01:12:21.100
That's Lord.

1203
01:12:21.100 --> 01:12:26.100
Lord is, I'm being, I'm getting guidance and directed by,

1204
01:12:28.020 --> 01:12:30.000
he's the Lord of my life.

1205
01:12:30.900 --> 01:12:31.740
I think there's very,

1206
01:12:31.740 --> 01:12:33.580
I think there's actually very few people

1207
01:12:33.580 --> 01:12:38.380
that have truly accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior.

1208
01:12:38.380 --> 01:12:39.340
That hits home.

1209
01:12:40.900 --> 01:12:41.740
Thank you.

1210
01:12:41.740 --> 01:12:42.560
Very few.

1211
01:12:42.560 --> 01:12:44.260
There's just, you know, like people,

1212
01:12:44.260 --> 01:12:46.700
people are always like, wow, you pray about everything.

1213
01:12:46.700 --> 01:12:50.940
I'm like, to me, that's, why wouldn't you?

1214
01:12:52.260 --> 01:12:56.360
If you have infinite wisdom, Holy Spirit,

1215
01:12:56.360 --> 01:12:59.020
that's here as our guide and our comforter,

1216
01:12:59.020 --> 01:13:00.900
I don't understand why, you know,

1217
01:13:01.780 --> 01:13:04.400
I just don't understand why you wouldn't.

1218
01:13:04.400 --> 01:13:06.860
And so, you know, and it's just practicing that,

1219
01:13:06.860 --> 01:13:09.140
you know, practicing, there are still,

1220
01:13:09.140 --> 01:13:11.420
I mean, there might be a couple of decisions a day

1221
01:13:11.420 --> 01:13:16.100
that I don't ask him guidance on,

1222
01:13:16.100 --> 01:13:17.900
but that's, it's gotten less and less and less

1223
01:13:17.900 --> 01:13:19.500
and less and less and less.

1224
01:13:19.500 --> 01:13:22.980
And I think by doing that, me, myself, Ray,

1225
01:13:22.980 --> 01:13:26.860
is going to help me because I am, in the past,

1226
01:13:26.860 --> 01:13:28.780
I'm like, I have to make a list.

1227
01:13:28.780 --> 01:13:30.300
I have to make a list.

1228
01:13:30.300 --> 01:13:31.980
And the list just is,

1229
01:13:31.980 --> 01:13:34.820
He can help you with that list.

1230
01:13:34.820 --> 01:13:36.980
Lord, help me make this list.

1231
01:13:36.980 --> 01:13:38.840
What should I go after today?

1232
01:13:40.300 --> 01:13:41.900
And it's always interesting.

1233
01:13:41.900 --> 01:13:45.780
It's never, it's not one time have I thought,

1234
01:13:45.780 --> 01:13:48.420
you know what, I think I should do this, this, this, this.

1235
01:13:48.420 --> 01:13:49.420
All right, Lord, what do you think?

1236
01:13:49.420 --> 01:13:50.560
You agree?

1237
01:13:50.560 --> 01:13:52.740
Never, not one time.

1238
01:13:53.820 --> 01:13:56.700
There may be elements of what I thought

1239
01:13:56.700 --> 01:13:58.180
would be a good idea.

1240
01:13:58.180 --> 01:14:00.360
It's never the same, ever.

1241
01:14:00.360 --> 01:14:02.420
I've never, ever nailed it,

1242
01:14:02.420 --> 01:14:04.700
just on my own without prayer.

1243
01:14:05.540 --> 01:14:09.900
And so, you know, He'll just have me do interesting stuff

1244
01:14:09.900 --> 01:14:11.900
that I wouldn't have thought to do.

1245
01:14:11.900 --> 01:14:16.060
And so, you know, I would, while you're hearing them,

1246
01:14:16.060 --> 01:14:18.260
because I do believe that,

1247
01:14:22.340 --> 01:14:27.340
are, I believe that there's like these steps, right?

1248
01:14:28.660 --> 01:14:31.500
That He wants us to take.

1249
01:14:31.540 --> 01:14:36.180
And as we take this step, it unlocks a new action step,

1250
01:14:36.180 --> 01:14:39.660
or it unlocks a new directive, it unlocks a new thing.

1251
01:14:39.660 --> 01:14:44.180
And as we're not, you know, if we're not taking these steps,

1252
01:14:44.180 --> 01:14:46.660
then I think there's a delay.

1253
01:14:46.660 --> 01:14:49.020
I think there's a delay of, you know,

1254
01:14:49.020 --> 01:14:53.740
what are the steps He's leading us toward?

1255
01:14:53.740 --> 01:14:54.780
We ain't there yet.

1256
01:14:55.660 --> 01:14:57.300
But He's so gentle, He's not gonna say,

1257
01:14:57.300 --> 01:14:59.740
hey, you need to do this, you know?

1258
01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:07.680
I've never, I've never had that. Now I've had it where I had a revelation of, hmm,

1259
01:15:09.200 --> 01:15:16.480
Lord, if, if that didn't happen, if that didn't happen, would I have drawn this conclusion? No.

1260
01:15:17.680 --> 01:15:28.080
I'm like, ah, got it. Got it. And so it's, he's so gentle, you know, like my whole,

1261
01:15:28.800 --> 01:15:33.840
all the way up until last week, I still had my desires above his will.

1262
01:15:35.200 --> 01:15:40.560
I was obedient. I would ask him what to do. I would do it, but I was doing it for the hopes

1263
01:15:40.560 --> 01:15:46.640
of my gain. That's what I was doing it. So think about that in a, that's powerful.

1264
01:15:46.640 --> 01:15:52.640
Think about that in kingdom terms. All right. So the Prince was doing what the King said,

1265
01:15:52.640 --> 01:15:58.080
but only for his own fame and own power. And, and so when I, when I realized that that's from

1266
01:15:58.080 --> 01:16:04.800
Isaiah one, three, and four, when I realized that I'm like, I know the hack father. Thank

1267
01:16:04.800 --> 01:16:11.680
you for helping me put your will above my desires. And that's, and that's when things,

1268
01:16:11.680 --> 01:16:17.520
that's when I had a major click and, and I realized I'm like, wait a minute, you,

1269
01:16:18.160 --> 01:16:24.320
you let me draw my own conclusion there. He didn't tell me, Hey buddy, I need you to have

1270
01:16:24.320 --> 01:16:31.040
my will above your desire. Come on, snap too. He never did that. He let me, he let me for,

1271
01:16:31.040 --> 01:16:36.800
you know, the last two years, just learn, learn. What does it look like when Ray is only playing

1272
01:16:36.800 --> 01:16:43.760
for when Ray's being obedient, but Ray's doing it for his own gain versus walking in his will

1273
01:16:43.760 --> 01:16:50.720
as an honored son and walking in sonship, which is very different purpose that, that aligns with

1274
01:16:52.240 --> 01:17:01.200
glorify him. Amen. Do you ever sell disco? Are you sure? I'm sorry. Do you ever just,

1275
01:17:01.200 --> 01:17:08.000
do you ever say, do you ever just go, are you sure? Like sometimes he is, he'll tell me something

1276
01:17:08.000 --> 01:17:12.480
and I'm like, are you sure? That's what you want me to know. I mean, you, you confirm it,

1277
01:17:12.480 --> 01:17:19.600
right? You confirm. So if I, if I get a direction, I'll purposely ask, okay, should I do this? I'll

1278
01:17:19.600 --> 01:17:23.760
ask something that's against that direction. Cause I want to make sure I get a yes.

1279
01:17:24.560 --> 01:17:30.000
I don't know. I want to make sure I am. I getting a yes. Am I getting it? And I do this.

1280
01:17:31.360 --> 01:17:37.120
I mean, I do it all the time and you know, the one, you know, I have to

1281
01:17:37.440 --> 01:17:45.120
always be, you know, just aware, you know, I, I, I, I'm constantly father, thank you for blessing

1282
01:17:45.120 --> 01:17:54.080
me and my family. I'm constantly doing that because that repels spiritual stuff from you,

1283
01:17:54.080 --> 01:17:59.440
just doing that. And, and so I want to make sure I'm not being influenced. I'm not, I want to make

1284
01:17:59.440 --> 01:18:04.320
sure of two things that I'm not being influenced by spiritual warfare and that I don't have an

1285
01:18:04.320 --> 01:18:10.560
idol in my heart that I don't have like, you know, and I, I, I, I has, I don't want to let

1286
01:18:10.560 --> 01:18:19.840
my guard down, but I feel like his will is above everything in my life now. And that I, I literally

1287
01:18:19.840 --> 01:18:24.400
seek the kingdom above all things. I really believe I'm there, but I'm not going to let my

1288
01:18:24.400 --> 01:18:28.640
guard down. I'm always going to do these little tests and I'm going to confirm, okay, you're

1289
01:18:28.640 --> 01:18:34.160
saying I'm going to do this. Okay. And, you know, I'll tell you an interesting one. We

1290
01:18:36.720 --> 01:18:43.280
I think I shared this on the huddle today, I think with our, with our team. And so like, we're going

1291
01:18:43.280 --> 01:18:51.680
to a charity event where we went to a charity event this Saturday and we got invited as guests

1292
01:18:52.240 --> 01:18:59.360
and we got invited as guests to the, you know, the, the premier table, right. And this is,

1293
01:18:59.360 --> 01:19:05.760
you know, million dollar event, you know, tickets are like two grand each per person and you know,

1294
01:19:05.760 --> 01:19:13.600
just a full show. And they had Romero Brito there, the artist, like the super famous Brazilian

1295
01:19:13.600 --> 01:19:20.720
artist, he was there and there were, you know, celebrities there and stuff. And so, you know,

1296
01:19:20.720 --> 01:19:29.760
Jess in this kind of scenario, Jess has this pressure of what we need to be, you know,

1297
01:19:29.760 --> 01:19:37.040
we were invited, we need to be extremely generous. And I'm like, maybe, I mean, he's called us to be

1298
01:19:37.040 --> 01:19:43.200
extremely generous in many, many places, but let's not assume that let's pray about it.

1299
01:19:43.920 --> 01:19:46.800
And so I prayed about it and I got only give a thousand.

1300
01:19:48.240 --> 01:19:54.080
I'm like, okay. And so I tell her and she's like, Oh, she doesn't like that. Cause you know,

1301
01:19:54.080 --> 01:19:59.760
that's less than what we were. And so, you know, sometimes I'm like, they've just received sometimes.

1302
01:20:00.000 --> 01:20:05.840
You know, sometimes it's just about receiving and so I pray about it and I'm like, listen,

1303
01:20:06.400 --> 01:20:12.400
you pray about it, whatever you get, I am absolutely open to listen. I'm not listening

1304
01:20:12.400 --> 01:20:18.560
to your logic, but I will listen to your prayer. Pray about it. So she got in prayer, she came back

1305
01:20:19.200 --> 01:20:28.400
and she said, I'm getting that I need to let you be the steward that he's calling you to be

1306
01:20:29.040 --> 01:20:34.880
and for you to, for you to listen. Now, in my heart, when she said that, I got,

1307
01:20:36.480 --> 01:20:44.000
I think he wanted this to happen. I actually think he wants me to give more. And so I go and pray

1308
01:20:44.720 --> 01:20:50.560
and I come back and I say, actually, he's asking, he's, he's allowing us to give X and it was more

1309
01:20:50.560 --> 01:20:58.240
than a thousand, but he wanted that conversation to happen. He went and if, if he tells me the

1310
01:20:58.240 --> 01:21:03.680
amount he wants me, he's eventually going to get me to, we don't have that conversation.

1311
01:21:03.680 --> 01:21:10.080
Cause it would have actually appeased her. You see what I mean? And so it's there,

1312
01:21:10.080 --> 01:21:16.640
the missing pieces that are the steps, like you said, it's like that part unlocks the next part

1313
01:21:16.640 --> 01:21:23.920
that unlocks the next part. And so if we don't, if the, if something doesn't occur and I'm seeing

1314
01:21:23.920 --> 01:21:34.080
it all the time, it's like, Oh my gosh, I wouldn't even be here right now if that didn't happen.

1315
01:21:35.040 --> 01:21:46.960
Yeah. And yeah, I just, it's, and it's so relaxing. Yeah. Yeah. None of this was stressed.

1316
01:21:46.960 --> 01:21:54.240
I wasn't stressed the entire time, but you looked great by the way. Awesome. Oh my gosh.

1317
01:21:54.240 --> 01:22:02.000
They were amazing. So good. I was like, wow. Yeah. It was pop. It was pop art. So it was celebrating

1318
01:22:02.000 --> 01:22:07.440
Brito, you know, like again, this famous artist, he started on the Brazilian streets,

1319
01:22:08.160 --> 01:22:13.360
painting stuff, selling it for like 50 cents. And now he's one of the most famous artists,

1320
01:22:14.160 --> 01:22:19.040
you know, in the world he's done every celebrity and, you know, it was, it was cool. It was a

1321
01:22:19.040 --> 01:22:26.240
really cool event. It was really cool for sure. No, but I, and I love that. It reminds me of the

1322
01:22:26.240 --> 01:22:35.040
story of like, when you didn't say anything to Jess at church and she goes and runs into

1323
01:22:35.040 --> 01:22:42.320
her girlfriend. Like if it all hadn't, it was all part of the process. It was all part of the steps,

1324
01:22:42.320 --> 01:22:49.040
right? And the more that we relinquish thinking we need to fix, change, control any of it

1325
01:22:49.120 --> 01:22:58.400
and trust him, it all shifts. Yeah. Cause he, we're just letting him open the door for us.

1326
01:22:58.960 --> 01:23:05.920
Yeah. Yeah. And you know, John, uh, three 27 talks about all results come from the father.

1327
01:23:07.360 --> 01:23:13.600
And, and so we just stay in step with the spirit. We know his nature. He's here to grow us and bless

1328
01:23:13.600 --> 01:23:22.800
us. He's a perfect father. And, and so great. Awesome. And the one, the one thing I got to add

1329
01:23:22.800 --> 01:23:31.520
to that conversation is that with you and Jess praying together as a whole and, you know, she

1330
01:23:31.520 --> 01:23:38.560
goes and she'll pray and, and then you pray, but yet you, you pray together also huge in a

1331
01:23:38.560 --> 01:23:48.640
relationship. Yeah. Yeah. And it also adds, it also adds in the, the power of that unity between

1332
01:23:48.640 --> 01:23:54.240
the two of you, you know, where it wasn't just you taking action. It was the two of you now

1333
01:23:54.240 --> 01:24:01.920
in agreement together. For sure. For sure. No doubt. That's powerful. Just me thinking about

1334
01:24:01.920 --> 01:24:09.120
it as like, Ooh, someday, someday I'm going to have that. Well, just, you know, put that,

1335
01:24:09.120 --> 01:24:13.600
put that list together, Lord, and, you know, put it together, Lord, this is what I'm looking for.

1336
01:24:14.240 --> 01:24:19.840
I have it. These are the traits. Okay. I do have a list. I would just, thank you. I would just

1337
01:24:20.400 --> 01:24:25.280
constantly, I mean, whatever we're told, you know, flip for Philippians four, Mark 11, 24,

1338
01:24:25.280 --> 01:24:28.720
when you pray praise, if you've already received and prayer and petition with Thanksgiving,

1339
01:24:28.720 --> 01:24:32.480
present your request to God. And so father, thank you for sending me the perfect person

1340
01:24:32.480 --> 01:24:37.760
that matches all this stuff. And I might, and I might pray on that, Lord, am I missing anything

1341
01:24:37.760 --> 01:24:43.280
from this list? Is there something I'm supposed to add here? And, and so, and then just saying,

1342
01:24:43.280 --> 01:24:50.800
Hey, thank you. And then, you know, he may have you in, when you do these prayers of Lord,

1343
01:24:50.800 --> 01:24:58.000
is there something you want me to do? He may have you go to this function or something where boom,

1344
01:24:58.000 --> 01:25:00.320
you meet him.

1345
01:25:00.000 --> 01:25:03.000
And before, you know, you know, just asking Lord,

1346
01:25:03.000 --> 01:25:05.560
is there something you want me to do?

1347
01:25:05.560 --> 01:25:06.640
You know, he's had me, you know,

1348
01:25:06.640 --> 01:25:08.340
like the Burger King thing, you know,

1349
01:25:08.340 --> 01:25:10.720
the Burger King thing is still one of the wildest experiences

1350
01:25:10.720 --> 01:25:11.960
I've ever had.

1351
01:25:11.960 --> 01:25:14.000
You know, when I'm on the way to a speaking event,

1352
01:25:14.000 --> 01:25:15.640
I don't have my presentation ready.

1353
01:25:15.640 --> 01:25:17.360
And I'm like, I'll just get there early.

1354
01:25:17.360 --> 01:25:18.200
No.

1355
01:25:19.420 --> 01:25:20.840
Lord, do you want me to stop somewhere?

1356
01:25:20.840 --> 01:25:21.740
Burger King.

1357
01:25:21.740 --> 01:25:23.820
I'm like, Burger King?

1358
01:25:23.820 --> 01:25:25.280
I'm like, this can't be the Lord.

1359
01:25:25.280 --> 01:25:27.480
The Lord ain't sending me to Burger King.

1360
01:25:27.480 --> 01:25:29.600
And then right up on the, on the right,

1361
01:25:29.600 --> 01:25:32.400
quarter mile up, Burger King.

1362
01:25:32.400 --> 01:25:34.360
I'm like, all right.

1363
01:25:34.360 --> 01:25:36.120
And I walk in and it was most,

1364
01:25:36.120 --> 01:25:40.800
one of the weirdest and wildest experiences I've ever had.

1365
01:25:40.800 --> 01:25:43.840
As I approached the cash register,

1366
01:25:43.840 --> 01:25:47.480
the lady sees me, starts backing up and saying,

1367
01:25:47.480 --> 01:25:50.640
your presence, and she starts crying

1368
01:25:50.640 --> 01:25:52.840
for I've said anything to her.

1369
01:25:52.840 --> 01:25:55.220
And I knew, I don't know why,

1370
01:25:55.220 --> 01:25:57.400
but I knew he sent me in for her.

1371
01:25:57.440 --> 01:25:59.840
I'm like, is there anything I could pray for you about?

1372
01:25:59.840 --> 01:26:01.540
And her best friend had just died.

1373
01:26:04.560 --> 01:26:05.960
I would not have, you know,

1374
01:26:05.960 --> 01:26:09.160
I just wouldn't have experienced that if, if, you know,

1375
01:26:09.160 --> 01:26:11.920
if I just, my logic was get to the event early

1376
01:26:11.920 --> 01:26:13.860
so I can do my PowerPoint.

1377
01:26:13.860 --> 01:26:16.080
His idea was having me go in that Burger King

1378
01:26:16.080 --> 01:26:18.120
and help that, that girl.

1379
01:26:18.120 --> 01:26:23.120
And, and so it's just something that these steps,

1380
01:26:24.120 --> 01:26:26.620
you know, that was a very weird experience.

1381
01:26:26.620 --> 01:26:29.100
She was saying, I never do this.

1382
01:26:29.100 --> 01:26:31.940
And she's like this, and she's crying like tears.

1383
01:26:31.940 --> 01:26:33.820
And, and she's backing away from me

1384
01:26:33.820 --> 01:26:35.220
and just like your presence.

1385
01:26:35.220 --> 01:26:37.540
And it was just, obviously it's not my presence,

1386
01:26:37.540 --> 01:26:38.860
God's presence.

1387
01:26:38.860 --> 01:26:41.460
And, you know, he let me experience that.

1388
01:26:41.460 --> 01:26:43.620
And then, you know, after I left there, I cried.

1389
01:26:43.620 --> 01:26:46.400
Cause I was just like, man, that was so cool, man.

1390
01:26:46.400 --> 01:26:48.140
Like how many people get to experience that?

1391
01:26:48.140 --> 01:26:50.240
Like that was so wild.

1392
01:26:50.240 --> 01:26:52.740
And, you know, and it's just, it's just so neat

1393
01:26:52.740 --> 01:26:54.940
when he does, when he does stuff like that.

1394
01:26:56.620 --> 01:26:57.460
I'm excited.

1395
01:26:57.460 --> 01:26:58.340
It's going to be a breakthrough.

1396
01:26:58.340 --> 01:27:03.060
I'm just sitting there because I, yeah, I believe it.

1397
01:27:03.060 --> 01:27:05.860
And Lisa, I want to encourage you to look at your list.

1398
01:27:05.860 --> 01:27:07.220
If you wrote it a while ago,

1399
01:27:07.220 --> 01:27:11.740
because God's had me take some things off the list.

1400
01:27:11.740 --> 01:27:12.580
So good.

1401
01:27:12.580 --> 01:27:13.420
Thank you.

1402
01:27:13.420 --> 01:27:18.180
And I would have, I like, I would have thought for sure,

1403
01:27:18.180 --> 01:27:20.460
but that was me.

1404
01:27:20.460 --> 01:27:21.660
That's what I thought.

1405
01:27:21.660 --> 01:27:26.420
And you know, funny thing, Ray just looked at me.

1406
01:27:27.220 --> 01:27:30.220
I don't remember which time it was when I saw you.

1407
01:27:31.260 --> 01:27:34.300
I think it was at, when we did the speaking event

1408
01:27:34.300 --> 01:27:39.300
and she looked at me and she goes, how did she say it?

1409
01:27:40.700 --> 01:27:45.700
Like be open, but being different than what you think,

1410
01:27:48.060 --> 01:27:50.740
you know, like to this man, right?

1411
01:27:50.740 --> 01:27:52.420
Be open to that.

1412
01:27:52.420 --> 01:27:54.420
It might be different than, you know,

1413
01:27:54.420 --> 01:27:56.420
it might look different than you think.

1414
01:27:58.100 --> 01:28:03.100
And so as I'm editing the list, no more, no more.

1415
01:28:03.900 --> 01:28:07.700
I'm her, her voice was in my head.

1416
01:28:07.700 --> 01:28:12.700
Like I told you, she, I had her tell you that, you know,

1417
01:28:12.940 --> 01:28:17.740
like wild, I'm telling you so wild.

1418
01:28:17.740 --> 01:28:18.580
Wow.

1419
01:28:18.580 --> 01:28:20.820
But so be, I'm just saying, Lisa,

1420
01:28:20.820 --> 01:28:25.420
it's so easy for us to think, here's all the things, right?

1421
01:28:25.420 --> 01:28:28.420
Here's the ideas, here's the list.

1422
01:28:28.420 --> 01:28:32.340
And I believe that those things were on the list

1423
01:28:32.340 --> 01:28:37.340
for a reason, because it excommunicated people

1424
01:28:39.860 --> 01:28:44.860
off of my radar that I wouldn't have paid attention to

1425
01:28:44.900 --> 01:28:46.540
because it wasn't the right time.

1426
01:28:48.420 --> 01:28:49.260
Powerful.

1427
01:28:51.020 --> 01:28:51.860
Powerful.

1428
01:28:53.020 --> 01:28:56.020
Well, Rebecca, you want to pray us out?

1429
01:28:57.460 --> 01:28:58.300
Sure.

1430
01:28:58.300 --> 01:28:59.140
Yeah.

1431
01:28:59.140 --> 01:29:02.620
And base, you know, I mean, you're already so good at this.

1432
01:29:02.620 --> 01:29:03.660
I don't know what to say.

1433
01:29:03.660 --> 01:29:06.860
This, my brain's just kind of all over the place

1434
01:29:06.860 --> 01:29:07.900
after this too.

1435
01:29:07.900 --> 01:29:10.180
You don't want to do it today?

1436
01:29:10.180 --> 01:29:11.020
I'll do it.

1437
01:29:11.020 --> 01:29:12.500
I'll do it.

1438
01:29:12.500 --> 01:29:13.340
Okay.

1439
01:29:14.860 --> 01:29:16.420
And then of course, you know, if there's something

1440
01:29:16.420 --> 01:29:18.340
that you didn't get covered or question or anything,

1441
01:29:18.340 --> 01:29:20.660
you know, just box me.

1442
01:29:20.660 --> 01:29:21.940
Sarah's not on here, right?

1443
01:29:21.940 --> 01:29:23.740
I was trying to reach her.

1444
01:29:23.740 --> 01:29:24.860
Yeah, I was here.

1445
01:29:26.060 --> 01:29:27.340
And so, yeah.

1446
01:29:27.340 --> 01:29:28.660
So Father, we're so grateful for you.

1447
01:29:28.660 --> 01:29:30.740
Father, thank you for your presence.

1448
01:29:30.740 --> 01:29:32.860
Thank you for bringing us all together, Lord.

1449
01:29:32.860 --> 01:29:36.580
Thank you for these wonderful lessons tonight, Lord.

1450
01:29:36.580 --> 01:29:39.460
And Father, I just thank you for helping us to accept them.

1451
01:29:39.460 --> 01:29:41.060
Father, thank you for helping us

1452
01:29:41.060 --> 01:29:43.420
to walk in this new creation, Lord.

1453
01:29:43.420 --> 01:29:44.900
Father, thank you for helping us

1454
01:29:45.260 --> 01:29:48.500
to really receive the truth

1455
01:29:48.500 --> 01:29:51.340
that in the way that you see us

1456
01:29:51.340 --> 01:29:55.100
and that all of heaven's favor is attracted to us

1457
01:29:55.100 --> 01:29:57.820
because of Jesus with us, Lord.

1458
01:29:57.820 --> 01:29:59.620
Thank you for helping us receive that.

1459
01:29:59.620 --> 01:30:00.460
Thank you for.

1460
01:30:00.000 --> 01:30:01.820
helping us realize that.

1461
01:30:01.820 --> 01:30:05.260
Thank you for helping us to really grasp

1462
01:30:05.260 --> 01:30:08.220
all the things that Dion shared with us here today, Lord,

1463
01:30:08.220 --> 01:30:10.940
that is of your truth, Lord.

1464
01:30:10.940 --> 01:30:14.180
And Father, thank you for just equipping us to do that.

1465
01:30:14.180 --> 01:30:16.620
Father, thank you for helping us with understanding

1466
01:30:16.620 --> 01:30:19.260
what permission we have with you, Lord,

1467
01:30:19.260 --> 01:30:21.620
and just how you delight in us, Lord,

1468
01:30:21.620 --> 01:30:24.120
and just how you see us, Lord.

1469
01:30:25.740 --> 01:30:29.660
Thank you for helping us to just let go of the old,

1470
01:30:29.660 --> 01:30:32.460
let go of the sinful, you know,

1471
01:30:32.460 --> 01:30:34.860
the ideas of us having a sinful nature,

1472
01:30:34.860 --> 01:30:38.960
and thank you for helping us to upgrade all of our habits

1473
01:30:38.960 --> 01:30:42.220
to just be more powerful walking with you, Lord.

1474
01:30:42.220 --> 01:30:43.520
Thank you for growing us

1475
01:30:43.520 --> 01:30:46.060
in all of the fruit of the Spirit, Lord.

1476
01:30:46.060 --> 01:30:47.700
We're just so grateful for you.

1477
01:30:48.620 --> 01:30:49.500
Thank you, thank you, thank you.

1478
01:30:49.500 --> 01:30:51.320
We appreciate you so very much.

1479
01:30:51.320 --> 01:30:52.540
You're worthy of our praise.

1480
01:30:52.540 --> 01:30:54.840
You're worthy of our glory and our power and strength.

1481
01:30:54.840 --> 01:30:56.540
You're the creator of the heavens and the earth,

1482
01:30:56.540 --> 01:30:59.420
creator of all things beautiful, the perfect Father.

1483
01:31:00.180 --> 01:31:03.780
Thank you for growing us in son and daughtership, Lord.

1484
01:31:03.780 --> 01:31:07.140
Thank you in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, amen.

1485
01:31:08.700 --> 01:31:09.700
Amen.

1486
01:31:09.700 --> 01:31:10.540
Amen.

1487
01:31:10.540 --> 01:31:12.460
That's what we got, yeah.

1488
01:31:12.460 --> 01:31:14.860
Amen, thank you so much.

1489
01:31:14.860 --> 01:31:15.700
Yes.

1490
01:31:15.700 --> 01:31:17.140
Yeah, that's a great one.

1491
01:31:17.140 --> 01:31:18.380
I really always.

1492
01:31:18.380 --> 01:31:19.700
All right, love you guys.

1493
01:31:19.700 --> 01:31:20.540
Always pouring into us.

1494
01:31:20.540 --> 01:31:21.380
Thank you, Ray.

1495
01:31:21.380 --> 01:31:22.380
We love you, too.

1496
01:31:22.380 --> 01:31:23.220
Bye-bye.

1497
01:31:23.220 --> 01:31:24.060
Bye.