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So welcome again.
My name is Bethany Cooper.
I'm one of the HeartWork coaches here in the community.
I am also, I guess, what's considered a master coach.
That's what Jackie and David call me now.
But I train the other HeartWork coaches that are in progress to become
coaches with us.
And it's just been a super exciting time.
So many new people are joining our program.
We're so glad to have you with us.
If you are new, it's your first live session.
You've never been with us on a live session before.
We'd love for you to put that in the chat for us so we can welcome you.
And I want to encourage you all, when you're able to come on screen,
if you don't know,
that's something we love to do here in phase one and beyond.
I want to encourage you all to let yourselves be seen,
even if you weren't planning on it.
Even if your hair is not done, all the things.
Let us see you and allow yourself to be known.
Couple, just really only one housekeeping item tonight.
I wanted to keep it really short.
Supernatural Saturday. If you all didn't hear it,
I built on something that Jackie started two weeks ago, Saturday,
taste and see,
and she started talking about the importance of walking and spiritual
gifts and being rooted in love as we do those.
And then after her and I chatted,
We decided to do a session on the gift of faith,
but not only that helping you all understand the difference between
having faith, you know,
saving faith when we give our lives to Christ versus measure of faith.
Versus the gift of faith. And what is the difference between those?
So I believe that will help you all in your walk with the Lord.
Even if you've been saved for a really long time,
sometimes just hearing something from somebody different can give greater
understanding. So I hope that's a blessing to you all.
That is under the replay tab in the app.
First session. Let's see. We have a couple ladies.
I'm seeing that in the chat now. Hi, Julia. Welcome Madison Armstrong.
Welcome.
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So it looks like your screen's good to go there. Martina. Is it.
Coco Silva.
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Okay.
I'm sorry.
I don't know if I got that right.
Martina's new.
Oh, this is your first live, but you're finishing.
Wait, finishing phase one week five.
So you've been here for a while, but haven't been able to be on a live.
I'm so glad that you're here.
And then another first timer.
And then once you are able to change your screen name,
Okay.
So we're going to go through a couple things for a few weeks.
Welcome back.
Hi.
So good to see you all.
We have a couple of things we're going to go through tonight.
Supernatural surrender.
And just some different aspects that the Lord was really impressing on
me to share with you all this morning that I'm going to kind of plant
some seeds before we step into supernatural surrender.
I just want you all to know that the Lord is working with us.
And He's launching this opportunity for all of us in this community to
step into the real you that God wants to awaken the real you.
And.
Really kind of leaning into some things to help you all do that as
well.
We have a lot to cover.
And I really want to make sure y'all have to breakout tonight.
So I'm going to go ahead and get started. Let me pray for us.
Lord, I thank you for everything that you do for us.
God, your love, your peace, God,
everything that you are and then some God,
we thank you that you pour that out into us tonight.
Lord, I thank you that even right now,
where the enemy would try to resist your truth, to resist your presence.
We thank you.
And that you would just place your hedge of protection around our
hearts, our minds, our bodies, our spirits, and our souls.
Help us to hear what your spirit is saying louder than any voice of the
enemy that you would bring things from the darkness into the light so
that there can be revealing for healing and transformation. God,
that you would come and work.
in us supernaturally tonight that you would help us to hear what your spirit is saying.
God, help us to, yes, Lord, to partner with your truth, to come out of alignment with lies and
unbelief and wrong perceptions of who you are, God. We thank you that you would help us to discern
the difference between darkness and light in our life and help us to use those things to lead us
into the truth that sets us free. We know that your word declares that your truth is what sets
us free as we partner with that, as we live in that, as we walk in that. So Lord, we ask you
to help us do all those things. You say that you'll empower us, you'll equip us, you've gone
before us, so we thank you for that even now. In Jesus' name, amen. So the place I want to start
tonight, ladies, is this. Fellowship with God is greatly hindered when we choose darkness over
light. When we choose darkness over light. And what I want to emphasize is that sometimes we're
not even consciously choosing darkness. Sometimes darkness kind of invades our space because of
things we've gone through in the past and those things that are not healed. When we show up in
situations, we may not be showing up as our full, alive self. What do I mean by that? The person that
God originally created us to be. So I'm going to give you an example. I was kind of leaning into
this more this afternoon, even after our first live session. And I want to give you an example
because I think this will become more and more clear. When you all go to be intimate with your
spirit mate one day, there are times when in the past we've gone through situations and dynamics
that if we have not gotten over, maybe we've forgiven ourselves for those situations, maybe
we've received the forgiveness that God gave us, but we haven't gotten rid of the shame and the
guilt and the condemnation. What can happen is you go into the next situation, dynamic relationship,
and you carry those things with you. And so even if maybe some of you haven't had a prior marriage
or situation, and maybe you haven't been intimate with someone, but there might be other things that
you've battled. Maybe lustful thoughts or imaginations or anything like that can also apply
to what I'm talking about. Now this is just one example of darkness that can invade our lives,
and they can hinder us from fellowship with God, as well as fellowship and closeness and intimacy
with other people. And so I want to lean into this a little bit tonight. First and foremost,
fellowshiping with God. Because you all, the spirit mate's the cherry on top. Yes, God led you here
because we believe that He has a love story for you. Some of you, that's not what you came here
for. You just came for heartwork, and that's awesome too. But the point is that God wants to
give you so much more than your spirit mate that you came in for, for those of you that that's what
what led you here. And in the process of that, God wants to help you understand how to return to your
first love. And for those of you that maybe didn't fall in love with Jesus or fall in love with the
presence of the Father, or understand what is the whole whole role of the Holy Spirit in my life,
if you don't have those understandings, I believe God wants to give those to you on this journey.
And that you would walk away not only after these five weeks, however long it takes you in the
heart work, or hopefully if you continue in phase two, that you will continue to grow closer and
closer and closer to the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit through this process. The very purpose
of light is to set us free from anything that would hinder us from deep intimacy with the Father.
The very purpose of light is to set you free
from anything that would hinder you from deep intimacy with the Father.
One of the things that God wanted me to mention to you all today, literally I've never had this
content in a supernatural surrender. This was something God specifically asked me to do for
all of you that are in phase one right now. And it's not because I think in this next statement,
because I'm about to say something, it's not because I think you're all so full of pride,
but this is what the Holy Spirit told me to say. So there are some people in here that I think the
Lord is going to kind of knock on the door of your heart in some areas that maybe there's
some things that have hindered you from even hearing His voice speaking to you at times.
But I want to encourage all of us, myself included, you all, I have to let go of pride too,
daily, even before I go live and do these
coaching sessions, I often pray and just remind myself that I can't do this in my own strength.
It's not about me. It's about the presence of the Holy Spirit, hopefully working through
me in every situation. So I want to encourage you all in your process of heart healing
to let go of any and all pride. And the Father can show you how pride shows up in your life.
It can show up in different ways. But in order for us to step into the light,
the light requires humility. It's actually rooted in humility. Jesus Christ, who is the light of
the world, was one of the most humble people we will ever see. So if you don't know how to be
humble, just look at Jesus. Let's go and this week, maybe even look at some of the ways he
was. He was not afraid to minister to children. He went to the woman at the well. He went to the
woman who touched the hem of his garment and all these, like there was all of the people with
leprosy. There was no part in him that would say, I can't touch you. I can't come close to you or
I'm, you know, have all these things. And no, he took his time with people and he invested in
people and y'all in order to do that, guess what? He had to be one without walls, right?
Think about it. Jesus had to live without walls in order to literally allow the spirit and
everything that was in him to flow through him in every situation. I don't know about you all,
but if you've ever tried to pray for someone and you're bitter and offended at people,
it feels different. Has anybody ever experienced that? It feels, it just feels different when,
when we're carrying anger or frustration or resentment or unforgiveness around in our spirit.
Yeah, we can still pray and we can still have effect. But I know from my experience,
that when I pray for people or minister to people and I've got a clear conscience and,
and I've prayed and I've really surrendered those things. I believe this is just me.
Y'all can experience something different, but I feel like it's different. Things flow better.
Things feel better. It's like there's a river flowing and there's nothing in there stopping
it up like a dam. And I believe that's the kind of intimate relationship that God wants for each
one of you with him, where that's that flow of that relationship in the river, in the love,
and there's nothing in there blocking the water from flowing into you and through you to other
people. Darkness is a moral state where you hide things, have secrets, and give the enemy ground
to traffic in your life. Again, this isn't always intentional, ladies. A lot of times it's
subconscious. Darkness is a moral state where we hide things, we have secrets, and it's where the
enemy can come in and kind of wreak havoc and work freely. And so in this process, we want to
ask the Lord tonight, are there any areas where we are hiding parts of ourselves, where we're
hiding things, where we're keeping secrets, or where we're, you know, not being the full version
of ourselves in situations. And we're going to talk about this a little bit more when we go into
the real you, but I wanted to lay a little bit of groundwork to get us started tonight.
Are there any areas where, and this is one way you can signal, okay, darkness versus light, you know,
hatred versus love, fear versus faith. Guess what? Fear is rooted in the darkness, right? So it
doesn't, again, it's not like you're bad, okay? I'm not saying you're bad, but the Bible does talk about
good versus evil. Are we choosing evil things? Are we choosing unhealthy thoughts? Are we choosing
the healthy stuff and all of the things that are true and noble and lovely and of good report? Are
we walking in the fruits of the Spirit? Love, joy, peace, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
gentleness, and self-control. Is that what we convey to the world around us? And y'all,
most important, another key thing as I start to talk about this stuff is if you start to feel
shame even during our live sessions, I want you to know that's the enemy. And he's trying to cause
you to feel that, to withdraw even from these groups and these things, because he doesn't want
you to move forward. Because, hey, guess what? I've made a ton of mistakes, y'all. Just cats out of the
bag. If you didn't already know it from prior sessions, I've made all kinds of mistakes. And
praise the Lord, I've learned over and over again that I don't have to have shame, guilt, or
condemnation. I can walk in freedom, because Christ died to set me free from all of that,
and he died to set you free from that, too. All right, so in Supernatural Surrender, the official
So like kind of things I want to talk to you about regarding that, I want you to think
about waving the white flag, like on the inside that you're saying, Father, I am waving the
white flag and I'm saying to you, I can't do this without you.
I surrender completely to you, to your will, to your ways.
I surrender to your understanding.
The Bible says that his ways are above our ways and his thoughts are above our thoughts.
So I think that maybe it's saying we should surrender to his ways.
We should surrender to his thoughts.
And for some of you, you actually need inside of yourself to imagine yourself waving that
white flag and saying, yes, Father, yes, Father, you can come in.
I'm surrendering to you and I'm allowing you to come and work in my life.
We want to let God add his super to our natural.
Remember, we can't do anything without him.
And I'm going to read a scripture here in a minute that talks about that.
But I want you to also be thinking about the word release.
The definition of a release means to allow something to move, act, or flow freely.
You would release God to fully move, act, and flow freely in your life, in your heart,
in your mind, in your spirit, in your soul.
John 15, 4-5 says this,
Remain in me as I also remain in you.
No branch can bear fruit by itself.
It must remain in the vine.
Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
I am the vine.
You are the branches.
If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit.
Apart from me, you can do nothing.
So ladies, listen to this.
We can bear much fruit.
That means lots of fruit.
People are going to come and eat the fruit from our trees.
And as we talked about last week, it says in Proverbs 18, 22, that a man who has found
a wife has found a good thing.
So we believe that as you walk in the healing process here and you move closer to the Lord,
you're going to bear much fruit, including the fruit of a healthy love story.
As you continue to learn how to navigate that with us in community in the days to come.
God is a gentleman.
He's not going to force his way in you all.
He's not going to come and plow the door down and, you know, take you kicking and screaming
along the way with him.
That's not how God works.
If you've experienced that type of behavior from anybody in authority over you, man or
woman, whoever they are, whoever they were, earlier today in our one o'clock session,
someone was sharing.
I think it was Alina was sharing that she had a mentor from a church come into her life
and just start kind of like basically telling her he was going to mentor her and she never
asked him to.
Well, y'all, that's not healthy.
And guess what?
We get to give permission and we can also say, no, thank you.
Okay.
It's okay to say no, if we don't feel good about something or someone's trying to take
authority and kind of put themselves in a place of authority over us without permission.
So God is a gentleman and he will wait for you to give him permission to enter.
What do I mean by that?
Well, let's just think about when we've received Jesus as our Lord and savior, you all.
What happens there in that, in that exchange, what's happening?
He's coming, he's pursued us in advance.
The Bible talks about God leads us to repentance with his loving kindness.
So he's pursuing us.
And when he comes and he encounters us, we make a decision.
We allow him to enter our hearts and we choose Jesus Christ as our Lord and savior.
So he didn't plow his way right in, did he?
No, he waited for you to choose him because he gives everybody free will.
He will never force you to do anything.
He will never force his way on you.
He will convict us because he loves us.
He will correct us as a good dad does when we're doing stuff that's not good for us.
But it's still up to us to choose, to choose every day, to partner with the truth, to choose
every day, to read the word and get to know the Lord and to know his good ways and, and
to start to believe the truth that we can experience the goodness of God in the land
of the living.
We don't have to wait till heaven to experience that, but it takes partnering with him and
living a healthy life.
lifestyle to start to see those things and experience those things like never before.
I want you to imagine a sign that says, do not enter.
Anybody ever seen those?
Do not enter, dead end, don't go here, those kind of things?
Yeah.
Some of us have those kind of signs up in our hearts.
Whether you realize it or not, some of you have those signs up and God's trying to come
in and help you, but you've got signs up that say all over the place, don't come in, do
not enter, dead end.
You're going to have to turn around and go back the other way.
I'm kind of making fun here a little bit, but we do that, don't we?
No thank you, Lord.
When he starts coming and knocking on the door of the deep wound, yes, I said it.
The deep wound, the deep places, sometimes we even do that when it's just starts feeling
a little bit like uncomfortable, like, Ooh, no, wait, wait, I knew it was heart healing,
but I don't want to go there.
I'd rather just go on to the guy.
Y'all, we got, we have to go there because if we don't, we will not show up as a whole
version of ourselves in any relationship.
And every day we are going to continue to heal.
So it's not like we have to be perfect to meet someone healthy, but here's the thing.
Don't you want to be the healthiest version of yourself when you at least leave phase
one and, and let God come in and clean this stuff out because he loves you and he is going
to bring this cloth and he's going to lovingly clean the areas of your heart and he's going
to take all those places where you're crimson red and make you white as snow.
That's what the Bible says.
He makes us all the way clean.
Some of you, things were done to you and your innocence was stolen.
It was taken by other people.
And I want you to know that you can get your innocence back.
Can you have, you know, let's fit, let's just be honest.
The physical aspects may never return.
Okay.
But the reality is, is you can be made new in such a way that it will be like in your
spirit, like that didn't happen.
Okay.
He can give you innocence back and all of the things.
So if you're afraid to let God in, I want to encourage you tonight to give God full
access to give him permission to go into all the places of your heart and creating
you to be completely clean.
That Psalm 51 says, create me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within
me.
So Lord, we ask you to create in us clean hearts tonight.
Revelation 3 20 says, behold, I stand at the door and knock.
If any man hears my voice and opens the door, I will come into him and sup with him and
he with me.
So again, here's another example of Jesus standing at the door of our hearts and knocking
and not forcing his way in.
I'm going to read a little bit from the heart work book, just so we draw some attention
to a couple of things about supernatural surrenders.
We're talking about waving the white flag and letting God all the way in to our hearts.
It says this, ever since we were toddlers, our mantra has been, I do it myself.
We have been programmed by our broken world to never depend on anyone or anything.
And people that do like it's saying people that do depend on other people are considered
to be foolish and naive.
All through our lives, we are taught overtly and covertly that it's a good thing to be
in and stay in control.
And that is a lot of hard work.
One of the main reasons we don't want to depend on anyone else is we don't want to
be disappointed.
Being disappointed is painful, maybe even more painful than not trusting anyone to help
us in the first place.
So let's see how many of you really like to be in control and you'd rather just stay in
control.
Let's see it in the chat.
How many, if you'll admit it, because there are some of you, I know there are, and I love
all of you.
Even, even I used to be a control freak.
I still have to work on that.
Being in control.
Yeah.
So let's be thinking about what are the ways the enemy is still trying to get you to partner
with.
I'll just do it myself.
Cause God you're taking too long.
Or I'll just settle for this guy because you know what?
I don't know God, if you really do have someone great for me.
I feel lonely.
And so it's just easier to be with someone.
Or maybe it's, you know, staying in control regarding your kids or
whatever the dynamic is, but let's surrender all the way tonight.
So many times we think we've asked God to help us, but then when the
answer doesn't show up immediately and in the way we want it to, we.
Thank God failed us.
We think God is, is not doing what we've asked him to do when in reality, he's
doing exactly what we asked him to do, but because it doesn't feel good, we
declare God incompetent and off we go trying to fix it ourselves.
Self-help isn't a thing.
God never told us to go figure it out.
He doesn't say to us, good luck, kid.
I hope you make it.
I want you to just really just pause for a minute and ask the Lord.
Just let's, let's just do this.
It's just popped up in my head.
Let's just all close our eyes.
And I just want you to God right now.
I just pray that you would give the ladies a picture of what it looks
like, uh, to have you as their good dad.
Um, show them a road that they're on, show them flowers and life around them.
But God, most importantly, show that, show them how you're holding their hand.
I pray that you would just give them a divine revelation tonight of you as a
good dad and that they can trust you.
And, uh, as you show them the road, if there's anything that feels fearful to
them, maybe they're standing on the side of the road and, and they see you, but
they're just not sure yet if they want to come and take your hand, Lord, I pray
that you would just remove all fear.
Because we know that fear is false evidence appearing real and you would
help them to come towards you, God, and that you would meet them right where
they're at and minister to every knee that they have so that they can take you
by the hand and fully surrender to you in Jesus name.
Amen.
Um, yeah, God is so good.
You all, God doesn't ever tell us to go figure it out.
Good luck.
He wants to help us every step of the way.
He wants you to know tonight that he's already gone before you and he's
already gone before you into every situation.
And the word says that he has made a way for us to stand as we move forward.
John 14, 25 through 27 says this, all this I've spoken while still with you,
but the advocate, the Holy spirit, whom the father will send in my name will
teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
Peace.
I leave with you.
My peace.
I give to you.
As the world gives, do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
So the reality of what, why I'm pointing out this scripture is the
Holy spirit is that advocate that the father sent, but he's also given us
this incredible, incredible, supernatural peace, God himself is peace.
So there's never a situation that we can't find his peace in the midst of it.
He's left his peace with us.
He's given it to us.
Oftentimes the enemy, he'll come and try to steal our peace.
He'll try to steal our joy.
He wants us to walk around, discouraged, defeated, disappointed, you know,
down and depressed and all this stuff.
And the Lord is always like, I've got you.
Like I gave you peace.
Here's my joy.
Come and sit with me, come and receive fresh info every single
day we can get filled afresh.
And we are going to face challenges in our flesh.
And we're not going to always feel like celebrating, but there's also the
talks about a sacrifice of praise.
Now, sometimes you're not going to feel like worshiping, but
just choosing to worship.
It helps you take ground in and land for your life to take authority over things.
And so I want to encourage you on days, even when you don't feel like it, just
to worship, because it's not always about what we feel, it's about the faith
that we have and what God's doing.
As you're going through this process, um, in the supernatural surrender, I
want to remind you that we don't want you to dig.
We don't want you to dig.
We don't want you to try to figure things out on your own.
We don't want you, you know, calling all your family members, asking them
about, you know, family line stuff.
Y'all if you, if that stuff comes up organically, cool, but like what can
happen if you go starting to dig that stuff up is you can retraumatize yourself.
It can be kind of bad.
So I want to encourage you in this process, we teach revealing for healing
Lord, would you reveal anything that's in darkness and bring it to the light
so that I can be healed so that I can become whole, that you would make me
completely whole lacking, no good thing.
You know, it's, it's surrendering and relying on him in this process to
Reveal the things that you're ready for.
Because y'all, right now,
there's things that you're ready for.
You're ready to receive certain things.
But God's not gonna reveal stuff to you
that he knows you're not ready for
because he's a good dad and he loves you.
So when you're ready for any other stuff,
he'll reveal that to you at whatever point.
So we trust what the Lord brings up in this process.
We lean into the Holy Spirit.
And I like to say, pull the thread.
What does that mean?
Maybe you have a memory pop up
that you haven't thought of in a long time.
Maybe as you're praying or reading the word,
you start to cry and all of a sudden
you have these feelings and emotions
that are coming out of nowhere,
or a situation happens and you get triggered and emotions.
Whatever these different dynamics are,
that you would take note of those,
that you would journal about them,
and then keep asking God really good questions.
You know, I had this memory pop up.
I really don't know what this is about.
Can you reveal to me?
Like, what are you trying to show me through this?
Because you're in the heart work,
you all, I want you to understand
that pretty much any memory that pops up during this time
is the Lord revealing something to you
that he wants you to look at,
unless you're being assaulted by the enemy.
And that's gonna feel very oppressive and like an attack.
It's not gonna feel like that with the Lord, okay?
Now, some of you, again,
when it's certain situations in your life,
as soon as you start unpacking those with the Lord,
you might feel some of that
because you're not really wanting to process that stuff.
That's different than feeling very attacked
by the enemy as well, all right?
Okay, so I'm gonna get you ready
for your first breakout session.
And this is what the question is tonight.
What are some things that God is nudging you
to surrender to him tonight?
What is the difference between taking authority
and taking control?
Good question.
I will answer that here in just one minute.
Here's that question again.
What are some things that God is nudging you
to surrender to him tonight?
All right, so the difference, let me think.
How do I wanna describe the difference
between taking authority and taking control?
Well, I think the first thing that comes to mind
is when I say taking authority,
God has told us to go and make disciples.
He's told us to go into all the earth
and spread the gospel.
And he tells us that we can do that with authority.
So I can stand on the word and I can take authority
and go preach the gospel.
I can tell the truth and the good news to people
because that authority has already been given to me
in Jesus Christ.
It's not my own authority, it's his authority.
Do you see the difference?
When we try to take control, that's us doing it.
Us being the one that in our minds,
we think we have authority and strength and control
and we can determine an outcome versus,
hey, Lord, I know that you've given me this ground
in this land because your word tells me you have.
For example, when God led them to go to the walls of Jericho
and walk around them,
that was something he declared to them in advance
that they had authority to go do.
Does that make sense?
Does that help you all?
I can define it a little bit more.
I'll think about it while you all are in your breakout too.
If you all need me to explain it anymore,
some other examples I can give you.
But I really think the biggest thing is that authority,
when we step into that, it's already, okay,
it's already given to us by the Lord
and we can step in and stand in that authority.
So maybe we take authority, but it's already there.
We're standing in it.
Maybe that even helps a little more.
All right, so I'm looking forward to hearing
how the breakout sessions go.
Let me get them ready here for you.
I'm gonna do two to three people in a room.
It just makes it a little easier
because if somebody can't join.
And I'm gonna give you all two, four, six.
I'll give you seven minutes.
So keep it short, brief and powerful.
Remember your question is this,
what are some things that God is nudging you
to surrender to him tonight?
Go ahead and join those rooms, ladies.
Marley, you can go ahead into there
and just type in the chat.
Just let them know when you go into the breakout room
that you can't talk or use the video.
That will still work.
Oh, shoot. There she goes into there now.
Sorry, hold on one second.
I'm going to start to pray as soon as I get these ladies situated.
I have to move a couple of people around here.
Ruth, are you wanting to go into breakouts?
I know that you weren't able to earlier today.
I just want to check before I move this lady.
You can put it in the chat there for me.
Okay. Father, we just thank you right now.
Room 14.
I think they'll be okay.
Did you get kicked out of your...
Oh, there somebody goes.
Okay. Father, thank you so much for this night.
We thank you, Lord, for everything that you're already doing in this session.
God, we just ask you to give the ladies revelation and insight,
even as they're sharing in these breakout sessions
and those that are watching the replay.
We ask you just to help them to hear what your spirit is saying to them
regarding what they should surrender tonight
and completely wave the white flag to you
and allow you to come into those areas
and work in every area of their heart and their lives.
Hi, Jodi. Welcome.
I'm not sure if you were already on,
but we are doing a breakout session right now
on what are some things God is nudging you to surrender to him today.
So I can put you in a breakout.
Okay. I was in a breakout room,
but I was on my phone and I couldn't get my video or audio to work.
Oh, that's okay. Do you happen to know what room you were in?
14, maybe.
Okay.
There you go.
Tracy, I'm going to put you in a breakout.
We're talking about what are some things God is nudging you to surrender.
So you can go and click to join that.
If you're able to go. Yeah, there we go.
So father, we just thank you.
That is a reminder tonight.
Just the, even as I was sharing the example,
the importance of forgiving ourselves, forgiving other people
and getting rid of all bitterness, resentment, unforgiveness,
any kind of anger, wrath, malice,
any kind of underlying issues so that the river of living water can flow
into us and through us freely.
We thank you, Lord, that you would anoint our hearts, our minds,
her bodies, our spirits, and our souls.
Not only anoint them, but place.
I just heard you say just a healing sab upon us and that bomb of Gilead.
And we believe Lord that you can heal every aspect that's needed in us.
God, we thank you that you are the great physician,
that nothing is too hard for you.
That you're working in ways in our hearts, our minds, our bodies,
spirits, and souls that beyond what we can even imagine right now.
We thank you.
That Romans eight 28 says this.
So we are convinced that every detail of our lives is continually woven
together to fit into God's perfect plan of bringing good into our lives.
For we are his lovers who have been called to fulfill his designed purpose.
I love that.
Woven together to fit into God's perfect plan of bringing good into our
lives. God, I thank you.
Right now, just for the reminder that you bring good into our lives.
We thank you that you would help us to receive that understanding,
that revelation a little bit more tonight.
God that any barrier that any pain from the past that has been an obstacle
that has kept us from understanding who you are as a good father,
who gives us good things that even like Elijah, you,
you chased him down with the goodness of God.
And I believe God that you will do that in our lives as well.
So help us to understand that we are your beloved daughters in whom you are
well-pleased and that you enjoy talking to us.
You enjoy spending time with us and that we are,
as we're going to talk about a little bit more later, princesses,
we're Queens God.
And we thank you that as princesses daughters of the King.
That we are royalty and that you have a Royal inheritance for us,
that you have prepared a place for us.
In the presence of our enemies, as well as in your presence, God,
And that you enjoy lavishing your love upon us.
We thank you Lord that you would just remove any limiting belief system.
Systems meant orphan mentalities, any mindsets that are closed off.
Any, any areas where we Lord are.
hearing your truth as freely as we used to in the past is what I'm hearing. So I
don't know if somebody that's going to watch the replay or someone on here live
tonight used to feel like they heard from God a lot and now it feels like
there's just this thing stopping it. I want to just encourage you that that's
just the enemy trying to lie to you and convince you that God isn't close to you
anymore, but He's always been close to you. The Word declares that He will never
leave you nor forsake you and no matter what we do, no matter where we go, God is
always with us and as soon as we repent and confess things and turn towards Him
that can be that connection just reconnects. It's there. Basically like the
power starts to flow again and so we just thank you Lord for healing us, for
redeeming us, for rewriting our stories that you're taking all of the brokenness
and you're making every crooked place straight and yeah Lord I just thank you
that Psalm 51 is verse 10 when I was saying that earlier if anyone needs that
that create me a clean heart O God and renew a steadfast spirit in me. I look
down and it's right in my book there.
So as the ladies continue to finish up in their groups and start to return Lord
we thank you that you would help us to return to our first love that you would
help us to some of us fall in love with Jesus for the first time with you Father
and the presence of the Holy Spirit and not just being in the presence of the
Holy Spirit but having a revelation given to us of your love God that you
would continue to take all of the ashes and turn them into beauty that you would
take our mourning and turn it into dancing that you would transform us from
the inside out we thank you Lord for continuing to renew our minds day by day
by day that you're taking all the old stuff and you're as we continue to
surrender to you you're removing all the old stuff and you're replacing it with
brand new things that you are creating rivers in the desert places all of the
dry dead places God that even as Ezekiel was was sent to speak to the dry bones
God we thank you that you'll breathe life into the areas that have felt dead
and that though the bones will begin begin to rattle and come together and
the sinews and all the all the flesh will begin to come back upon those
places God and that those things will live again the things that are supposed
to Lord let's preface that will live again and we just thank you in advance
for that ladies welcome back hi what we're gonna do tonight is a little bit
different on this part of the session I'm not gonna jump in and coach unless I
really feel like it we did this this afternoon it was really powerful so what
I want to do is I want to do what I'm gonna call a popcorn share I just want
you know whoever feels lead and we'll get through as many people as we can
because I have to reserve time for our second half but what I want you to do is
just one after another now take turns the easiest way honestly is just to
raise your digital hand if you if you don't know how to do it if you tap on
the bottom of your screen it will either say raise hand right there or some of
you might see reaction and then have to push it or more and then you can push it
but basically when you raise your digital hand that I can just call on
people and then we can go that way that way people don't get upset or feel like
they're being cut off or talked over so what I want you to share is what it what
are the things that God was nudging you to surrender tonight so whoever would
like to go first and then we can kind of start from there
please Lisa go ahead Bethany so that dream where you mentioned that there
might be a fear of something I just realized today when I was talking to my
friends I just said that I have a way of doing things in past one and a half
years that I've lived by myself and that is the only time I live by myself so
it's not a fear per se I would put it in the way but I would put it in a way
that I have a little bit of nervousness going into a relationship that I've
never been into before with any men so I just don't know how that is gonna look
like or how different would it be I'm gonna have to change my eating habits
I'm gonna have to change all the things that I usually do which as I said like
it's not a fear but it's just gonna look different which is a nervousness but
although I don't know what comes out of it okay so I will say though some of the
things that you're saying are anxious thoughts and anxiousness is connected to
fear so it can be the nervousness too but what if what if what if what if I
have to change this what if I have to change that what if I can't do my
workout schedule whatever the things are ladies here's the reality yes your life
will change but there's a lot of things that I still do that I did before I was
It's called Healthy Boundaries.
All right, I'm not gonna coach, I promise.
I'm gonna wait.
All right, thank you.
You're welcome, good job.
Diana, go ahead.
Oh, you're muted if you're talking.
Yeah, I was trying to get it to stop.
Okay, so mine is I need to trust God more with my finances,
to know that he is my provider
and that he's gonna come through for me.
Yeah, that was huge.
Awesome, so good.
Thank you for sharing.
Laura, go ahead.
So for me, I created my own dog walking
and pet sitting business in 2020,
like shortly after my divorce.
And I am still like struggling to like grow the business.
I mean, it's had phases where it's been better than others.
But I just was reminded,
I did another business before that or before this.
And my mentor coach, she's a Christian also.
And she would like tell us
like how she was like always praying over her business.
So I just need to remind myself
to do that like more on a regular basis.
Cause I know that he's there for me
and like he's giving me like this passion
and love for animals or whatever.
And just to rely on him instead of like just,
I mean, I do work with coaches,
but sometimes like they'll like coach me in a way
that like, isn't really something that I really wanna do
or so, but to rely on him
that like he's always there for me
and he'll give me guidance and like lead me along the way.
That's really good.
And I will say, I think some of the shifts
that you've made in the last few weeks
are gonna also impact other areas of your life,
including your business.
I think things are gonna open up for you soon.
I really do.
Thanks for sharing.
That's awesome.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
Michelle, go ahead.
Hi, good evening.
Thank you.
Hi, you're welcome.
My, the nudging is, you said it before,
trying to fix things.
I always try to fix things
because of my abandonment issues
and no one can do it
and no one is gonna be there for me
to get it done.
And so even just tonight,
God reminded me to start trusting me.
I'm not like man.
So I'm really working on just let it go, to surrender.
So that's the place.
Stop trying to fix it.
Cause I can't.
Well, and I think the other side of that,
just the one thing I am gonna mention here
is coming out of agreement with no one will do it.
No one will come through for me,
and really coming into alignment agreement with God.
God, you always came through for me
and start asking him to reveal to you
the ways he's come through for you all along.
That's something that God led me to pray.
And it really made a huge difference
in my perspective of him.
Because when I was in the place of victim,
I didn't see how he had come through for me.
But when I was healing and started shifting into victor
and living and thriving,
I started seeing so many ways God had come through for me.
And even times where I would just feel like,
oh my gosh, I think he protected me
when I was driving on the freeway
or just little things like that.
But sometimes there's things that he's doing
that we don't even know.
But as I prayed that he started showing me stuff,
I guess is why I'm saying that.
So I would encourage you all to pray those kinds of things
and ask him to show you,
like, Lord, how have you been there for me all along?
Help me to see it and just see what he shows you.
But great job.
Thanks for sharing.
Ruth, you're welcome.
Ruth, go ahead.
Hi, everyone.
I think for me, I mentioned a fear of the future
or anxiety about my future,
but wondering if it's really more a sense of control
and maybe even a lack of trust
that God wants me to surrender.
I got a prophetic word a few times this year
about God wanting me to move or relocate.
But it's like, I'm in a situation
where the city I live in and the job I have
was because I prayed and God gave me an answer.
So it's almost like someone gave me
to study the life of Abraham,
but it's like God gave him Isaac
and then God asked for Isaac.
And so I'm kind of in that situation
where I think God wants me to surrender that,
oh, goodness, this is all I got.
Like, I can't, I need to, like, preserve this.
I need to hold on to this.
Otherwise, if I lose it,
I don't know what's gonna happen.
Yeah, and I do understand that.
I don't know if y'all-
Remember a couple of weeks ago, I was giving that example of the little girl with the,
with she's got this little teddy bear and then Jesus is kneeling by her and he's got
a lot bigger teddy bear.
And I think it's important.
We actually touched on this in the afternoon session, ladies, sometimes it's not necessarily
that God is going to ask you to give that thing up, but it's, it's him asking if you're
willing, willing, you know, and sometimes he will lead us to give things up.
But I also thought of when you were sharing Ruth years ago, uh, my young adult pastor,
he was also our worship leader was sharing how he had this dream.
And I mean, he played the guitar, he was amazing.
And in the dream, uh, he, this is going to sound scary at first y'all, but this did not
happen.
This did not come to be or any of that, but it was something God was just trying to talk
to him about for a purpose.
Um, but his hand, he lost his hand, got injured in the dream and he couldn't play anymore.
And he shared with us the process of what that led him to.
Like he cried, you know, processing that dream and just the reality of like a, that he didn't
want to lose that gift, but also, and I'm not saying this is you or your situation,
but I'm just using it for anybody.
But also God was talking to him about how he had made that thing an idol.
And sometimes ladies, God will ask us if we're willing to give something up, even the things
that he, we prayed for and he gave us, not because he's trying to torture us.
Or sometimes, like I said, he won't even take us to that place where we have to give it
up, but he's wanting to know, does that thing have more of your heart than I do?
And so I just want to put that out there again, Ruth, I'm not saying that necessarily applies
to you and your situation, but it might for other people, if that doesn't resonate for
you.
Um, but thank you so much as you're continuing to pray, really want to encourage you, um,
to ask God to give you faith for the future, to combat the fear of the future, Sharon would
love to hear what you have to say.
Yeah.
I think for me, um, the prompting God is giving me is, um, to release fear of failure.
And, um, in essence is also like a fear of, I mean, I guess, uh, being overly controlling
and, um, I sense that it's also causing a lot of delay in different aspects of my life.
So I just really want to, you know, give away fear of failure and also like perfectionism.
Where, where do you see the fear of failure show up the most?
Um, I, I think the most, I think mostly like with relationships and, um, feeling like I,
you know, I'm not sure that I'm going to be successful, you know, in finding, um, who
God has intended for me and, uh, having waited all this long, um, you know, I've been able
to, you know, get a lot of things done in other aspects of my life.
And so I just feel in this specific area, I do feel like a failure.
Um, yeah.
I'm the eldest of six siblings and, you know, uh, you know, most of the others, uh, you
know, they already, you know, married and settled and, um, you know, had the opportunity
to lead in different things.
But then this is one area that I feel like I have left myself down and others in our
family.
Okay.
Well, why do you think that you've let your family down because they're younger than you
and they got married first?
Uh, because I kind of like, um, have been, I'm the eldest and, um, sort of have that
responsibility on me in terms of showing the way.
Um, so I, and I don't know, it may be just be my own internal processing, but that's
just how I feel that I've been able to sort of help my siblings through other things.
But this is the one thing I know I'm not able to help walk them through.
Okay.
Um, so ladies, this is another one.
I'm just going to pause for a minute long enough to share one thing.
Remember that God doesn't want us to take responsibility for things that we're not supposed
to take responsibility for while we might be the oldest.
And some of that does come when you're the oldest, I think naturally, you know, your
parents are asking you to do things.
I know that my oldest brother was often asked to do things for us and my mom was a single
mom.
So that made it even trickier, but you all, we want to make sure that we're not living
under, um, the word that comes to me as a shroud, a shroud of like responsibility and
darkness in the sense that we are claiming or believing.
thing that we've let people down because we haven't led in everything. Like it was our
duty to show them like, this is, this is getting married. This is what marriage looks like
and all these things when, even if you're the oldest, like unless someone said that
to you, which maybe someone did along the way is my guess, um, you know, or implied
like, Hey, you know, you're this age and you're not married yet. You know, people say those
things, um, especially family members that want babies and grandbabies and all the things,
you know, there's all of these expectations. Right. But God doesn't want you carrying that,
that weight on yourself anymore. I just, as you move forward, I want to encourage you
to really give yourself permission to put that responsibility down because it was never
intended for you. Okay. Super important. So thankful that you shared that praying for
you. And, uh, I'm going to go ahead and have Anna share just cause I'm already, I'm watching
my time. I gotta be careful. Go ahead, Anna. Hi. So a lot of what everyone said resonated
with me, especially, um, that feeling of delay. Um, but I, I think that specifically the Lord
wants me to release the idea that I had for my life. Um, and so that's always often a difficult
one because, you know, you imagine things going a certain way and when they don't, it's difficult.
Yeah, that's really good, Anna. And, and you're the first one that said anything like that today.
I think that's really cool. The Holy spirit's pulling that out. I want to encourage you to pray
and ask God to give you a new idea for your life. Okay. Okay. So yeah, because here's the thing,
ladies, I can say that I had had very similar feelings, but God gave me some new visions and
some new ideas and he showed me some new stuff that he was doing. And then when he showed me
that I didn't feel so sad anymore about what didn't happen because I was partnering with what
was coming, what was unfolding and all the good things there. So I want to encourage you to do
that. So good. Okay. One more person. Joy. Oh, okay. I think God loves me. You want to design
me to surrender my needs and desire, um, to him. So more surrender to him because the past,
uh, painful experience, um, God, I want to meet a serenade. Sometimes it's because of a fear
or doubt. Um, I need to surrender to God to face it and deal with it. Yeah.
Really good. Thank you so much. And I think I had Sharon up there and I don't know if I accidentally
put the wrong person's hand down. There was a Sharon Oh, but I think there was also a Sharon.
Sharon, did you want to share? Um, well, real quick, I just, um, I haven't dated for, I can,
I can understand the fear of failure because I haven't dated in 40 years. So that's not very,
um, not a positive thing to think about. So rather than focus on that, I need to focus on
trusting the process here and focus on that. Not on the fact that it's been 40 years. That's,
that's a long time. Yeah. 20 years. I didn't say 40 years, 20 years.
Okay. Well, either way, I want you to know that you're not alone. We actually have
quite a bit of ladies that are in the same boat with you. And some that were
in the same boat with you and guess what they're engaged in. Some of them are married now.
So, um, want to encourage you that, uh, it's never too late. And, uh, if you, if you all go
into phase two and phase three, the other phases that are available, uh, phase two, we, we spend a
lot of time on coaching y'all on how to date successfully in a healthy way and get coaching
specifically on that. So you're going to have community around you. That's going to help you
coaches and community, um, learn how to do it. So even if you've not done it for a really long
time, it's a little different now, right? It was different even for myself when I hadn't dated for
a while and then started dating again. And, uh, so there's a lot of good things ahead for you.
And so glad that you chose to share tonight as well. I'm going to start to shift into our
additional content ladies. Cause I want to get us, like I said, to have another breakout. And I,
if we have time, I do want to do some coaching on it. So let's talk about the real you,
who are you really, who are you really? And do you let people see who you really are?
What do I mean by that? Well,
Do you have little quirks about yourself and little things that you don't let other people
see or that you're afraid to let them see?
I'm going to give a couple examples for you and just to get you kind of thinking about
this a little bit, what I'm trying to get at as we start to talk about the real you.
When I went on my first date with Brian, who's my now husband, we went to a coffee shop.
Sorry, y'all, I need a drink of water.
We went to a coffee shop, got our drinks, sat down, and within a few minutes, literally,
of the conversation, he kind of blurts out, I like Legos and Marvel, just like blurted
it out.
I think we chat about it a lot now, and I just kind of was like, okay, I like puzzles.
That was genuinely my response.
It didn't faze me at all.
The reason I bring it up is we've talked, Brian and I, a lot about this.
He did that because his ex-wife used to give him a hard time because he likes Legos as
an adult.
He likes Marvel.
He likes to be silly and have fun.
Other people, even his mom on occasion, has made comments about how those are for kids
and that kind of stuff, where people have an idea or a thought about what they think
about something.
Sometimes people don't think about how that's going to impact the person they're saying
it to.
He wanted to know if I was going to reject him right out of the gate, and so that's why
he said that so quickly.
Praise the Lord, I had a good response because I would have felt so sad if I didn't respond
well to that, and then that would have been different.
I do believe that God is wanting you to start thinking about aspects of yourself that you're
afraid, whether someone else has put it down, or like I said a few minutes ago, you're afraid
to let somebody know that you actually like that thing.
We have a lot of women that, and y'all, when I say this, I know that there are some guys
that don't have boundaries when they play video games, but we have some women that literally
say, I will not date someone who plays video games, because there's this stigma that guys
that are gamers are just lazy and they don't do anything.
Well, guess what?
I have a husband who loves to game, he loves this video game that he plays, and he sets
healthy boundaries, and it's not a thing, y'all, and I just want you to know that it's
okay for people to like stuff that we might not like.
On occasion, I like to play video games, but I'm not as into the game that he plays, so
I don't play that with him or anything, but you know what's really cool is some nights
we have, I'll go do my thing, he goes and does his thing, and y'all, it works just fine.
So I want you to keep an open mind about people.
I have another example for you, totally different example.
It came out of a conversation I was having with a friend last night.
My friend is a first grade teacher, and so she's really good at stuff with kids, and
she has a lot of cute stuff that kids would like and all this stuff.
Well, she went to an event this weekend with adult women, friends, people from a community
that she's in, and she took this pen pouch with her.
Well, it's a really cute pen pouch.
It's got a little smiley face on it, and it's decorated, and it's cute.
It's like a cute little pen pouch.
Anyways, this other woman that was one of the organizers there, my friend said, this
is what my friend said to me in her text.
She looked at me like I was weird and said, why would you have that?
So here's the thing.
I want you all to understand out of this a couple things.
My friend, as I have grown in friendship with her over the years, the enemy has often
in her life tried to lie to her since she was a child and tell her over and over and
over again that she was weird.
One of the ways he told her was from some of the abuse and things that she had been
through.
Another was she really liked reading books, and kids made fun of her for reading books,
and sometimes even adults did.
And then she just internalized the lie that the enemy told her because the enemy told
her she was weird, because she wasn't like other people in some ways.
And so that night at that event this weekend, the enemy was knocking on the door like, are
you going to let me back in?
in, are you going to partner with this lie again?
That's what he was doing.
And so she had to make a choice
whether or not to allow that to impact her again.
Was she going to believe that she's weird again?
Because someone else says, well, why do you have,
why would you have that?
Now, that woman didn't say you're weird,
but it was the look
and it was what she is already battling with internally.
Do you understand what I'm saying here?
So some of you are battling things internally
that if someone looks at you a wrong way
or even says something like she did,
why would you have that?
You automatically are pulling back from who you really are.
And some of you would not take that pen pouch back
the next time, which I can understand
that would maybe feel uncomfortable.
But I want you to get to the point
that I use my own example this afternoon.
I love these little, they're not markers.
I don't know what they're, wax maybe,
but I love them for my books.
I love it.
I love to mark my books up.
I take them with me when I travel.
They're in my book bag.
I move them in my purse.
Wherever I go, if I'm going to take a book,
I'm taking all these things with me, right?
Now, I don't have a cute little case for them,
but if someone looked at me like,
why do you have all those?
And treated me in some way that could have
in the past made me feel weird.
I'm telling you all, I'm totally cool with who I am
at this point in my life and that stuff doesn't bother me
because I like pens.
I don't care if somebody else likes that I have them.
And if I ever get a cute pen pouch
and someone doesn't think it's age appropriate or whatever,
okay, we can just move on, right?
But so many of us, I'm using this as a light example,
but so many of us don't.
We actually change who we are or things about ourselves
because somebody said something to us
or caused us to think that we were weird
or different in a not good way.
So I want you to just be thinking about
if stuff is coming to your mind tonight,
even as I'm talking about that,
I would like you to write it down
because I believe the Lord wants to heal those areas.
And he wants to come into, you know, even some of you,
somebody said to you were stupid,
all these negative things that were said over us,
God doesn't want you to carry that anymore.
He doesn't want you to believe that stuff anymore.
You're not weird.
Everybody likes different stuff.
Can't we all just love each other just the way that we are
and not try to make people be just like us?
Let's do that.
Yeah.
That's cute.
Glenna likes Snoopy and she likes to wear Snoopy clothing
and that's awesome.
My oldest spiritual daughter,
I can't remember if it was two Christmases ago,
she wanted a ton of Hello Kitty stuff.
Okay, I bought it for her.
I don't care.
And she was, I see she's 21 now.
So she was 20 or something, 20, 19 or 20 then.
Well, back in the day, Hello Kitty was for little girls.
So I could have been that parent and been like,
no, that's for little girls.
Or I could just be like, okay.
And just get it.
You know, I hope this is hitting home for some of you
because some of you, you are genuinely afraid
to be who you are.
And God wants you to step out of that.
The real you, your true identity.
Remember last week we talked about
who told you that you were naked.
God wants us to come out from under
all of that rubble and mess
and step into the truth that we're a supernova.
Every single one of you has something amazing
on the inside of you that you're carrying
that can change the world.
And some of you, I want you to understand
that loving the person next to you, your neighbor,
is your version of changing the world.
Some of us are called to minister to groups.
Some of us are called, we're all called to minister to one.
Okay, just to go minister and love on one.
But like, it's gonna look different for everybody.
We're not all called to preach and speak
and do all the things.
Everybody has giftings and the body
has different parts for a reason.
Because we need all the body parts.
We need people to be who God called them to be,
who God created you to be.
What are the gifts and the talents and the skills
and things that you have in you
that literally lighten the world up
whether you realize it or not when you operate in them?
Romans 8, 37 through 39 says this,
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us,
for I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, nor the present,
neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything
else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our
Lord. All of you are more than conquerors. You're more than a conqueror. That means not only do you
conquer, but you conquer really well if you believe and if you walk in all that God has for you,
that power and that presence, the same power that rose Jesus Christ from the dead is living in you
if you accept Jesus and it can operate through you. And the truth here is this,
in addition to that, if God is for you, who can be against you?
So even these things that you all were saying earlier, these areas that you need to surrender
to the Lord, guess what? As soon as you surrender and hopefully you're utilizing your Jesus Cares
Board, I was almost going to try to pull mine over here, but I'm afraid everything on my desk
is going to fall. Y'all, I've been using my Jesus Cares Board still all these years later. Today,
I put another post-it on there, put the person's name and I put the couple things that I'm feeling,
some resistance and some stuff going on there. And man, I felt better as soon as I wrote it
and then I put it up there and I just, Lord, I know that you're going to work in that situation
supernaturally. And now I can just, I can just let that go.
There's something about that. So I want to encourage you all, use your Jesus Cares Board,
cast your cares upon Him because He cares for you. And then guess what? You can just go and live your
life and have the fun and adventure and press on because it's time. It's time for you as a princess
to awaken. And yes, I know we're queens too, but some of us are trying to be queens when you haven't
learned how to be a princess. I didn't have that earlier. That just came to me,
but I think it's true. I think that some of us are trying to be the queen,
but we don't even believe we're a princess. What do I mean by that? I mean that you don't look at
yourself like a princess. You don't walk like a princess. You don't believe that you are royalty
and that everything that is the father's is yours because life has told you something different.
And so your mindsets and your belief systems and your heart postures are telling you that
all you've got is scraps and that's all God's going to ever give you because you're not worth
more than that. That's a lie of the devil. He's trying to tell you that all you are going to get
are crumbs, that your place is under the table. It's not at the table. It's not with the feast
and that all the things that you've experienced in the past are going to be your future as well.
That's not truth. Ephesians 5.14 says this, awake, awake, oh sleeper,
and rise up from the dead and Christ will shine on you.
Where are you sleeping in parts of your heart and life right now?
When my niece was little, she lived with us. My sister lived with us when she had my niece.
I was still in high school. I think I was a junior when my sister had my niece, Jasmine.
I'm trying to think about this, but she was really little and she loved blowing the, you know,
the wish things, you know, the dandelions that turn into the wish things or however that process
goes. And she would put them up real close and try to blow them and she couldn't quite do it.
Why am I telling you this? Because you know what? I think some of us need to remember those moments
from when we were little kids, or maybe when you had a little kid, those childlike moments of wonder
and awe of just something so simple as a, it's actually a weed, but it's this fun thing to do
to go out and just blow this and just see them fly. And imagine that those are your dreams and
they're not flying away from you, but they're being ignited and you're awakening to something
new. What are you awakening to? You're awakening to true love's kiss, the kiss from having God
awakening you, you know, just like in, uh,
It was a sleeping beauty and the prince comes and he kisses her and he awakes her up. Well in the spirit realm
That's what we believe is happening to you while you're here in the heart work process
If you're doing the heart work, there is stuff that's gonna get awakened in you that you didn't even know was dead. I
Believe it because I've experienced it and I believe that's gonna happen for all of you as well
We are gonna awaken to a couple different things ladies here. Here they are to your true God-given identity
Here it is ladies the identity that God gave you before trauma or wounds ever entered your life
We we can't even comprehend that
We can get a glimpse of it a little bit more every day, but the fullness of who God originally created us to be
It's tough for us to comprehend it because most of us have known trauma most of our lives
But God wants to give you a new story a new identity
He wants to help you understand it and I talked about wreck-it Ralph a lot. I forgot about it this afternoon
There's a movie called wreck-it Ralph. It's a kids movie. It's been I mean, it's been years since it came out
But if you want to watch it or even look up what I'm gonna tell you it'll help you kind of
Come full circle with this story. There's a little character in there Vanellope
And she's a glitch when you first start watching the movie, she's a glitch and she's got these glitchy glitch problems
She's like kind of disappearing and she's then she's there and then she's glitching out
And I think y'all know what glitches are right in a TV or whatnot. Yeah, well
Without giving it away y'all. She really wasn't a glitch
She was something else and
It was it was really beautiful story. It was really beautiful
And it was it was really beautiful story as it unfolded on
Because there was this bad guy
In the story and so it kind of for me when I watch it God talks to me through movies a lot
So when I was watching it, I'm like, oh my gosh, just like the devil this guy in this movie
He's the one that created the glitch in her to begin with
He put something a chip in her and that's what caused her to glitch
But y'all she was always a princess
And so the story it starts to unfold where she starts remembering who she really was and
That's that's truth for some of you the enemy came and he put this chip in you
Through the trauma through the lies the wounds and it's been causing you to glitch ever since
But you've always been a princess. That's who you are
so God wants to help you wake up to that to awaken to restoration and
Reconciliation inside of yourself with other people with God himself and as well as wake up in big bold future
dreams awakening childhood dreams
Some of you all I believe God's gonna cause some things to come back to life that you wanted to do
When you were a child, so I talked about this this afternoon now some of you
if it's a physical thing that you dreamed of doing and
There's just no way for that to physically happen anymore. Let's ask God to give us some new dreams. Okay, because some of those things or
Ask God to show you a different way to do it
So what I mean by that is maybe you physically can't do I kind of used like if you wanted to be a basketball star
Well, I don't know. Maybe a lot of people even in their older age can be a basketball star, but probably not
Okay, but maybe there's something else God can show you that you can do. All right
God's also gonna give you new dreams. Some of you are gonna have a start like you're gonna start desiring to
I'm just gonna just whatever comes up. Maybe some of you are gonna want to go
Take a course to learn coding
maybe some of you are gonna want to go and learn how go back to school and learn how to
You know start your own business Laura was talking about doing like coaching she's doing earlier
You know these dreams that awaken in us. Maybe you've always had a desire to
Create an invention. I don't know but like maybe it's too right. Maybe it's to speak. Maybe it's to
Start a nonprofit and help someone
I don't know what your dreams are
But I believe God's gonna awaken stuff in you as you heal more and more and more and step into the real you
Here is the key
To all of this we all have to choose what we are going to believe
Do you believe what God says about you or are you gonna choose to partner with and believe what the enemy says about you?
Every single day we have a choice for this. Okay. All right
I'm gonna put you in your breakout in what ways does the enemy change?
challenge the real you? That's the question. In what ways does
the enemy challenge the real you? Does he often use
comparison, competition, or imitation? Or maybe all of them
or maybe some of them, you know, whatever he does in you? That's
that's the question. In what ways does the enemy challenge
the real you? Does he often use comparison, competition or
imitation? I am going to recreate the breakout rooms. I'm
going to put you with some different people. Um, and I'm
going to give you five minutes this time. So you got to be
short, brief and powerful. And make sure everybody gets to
share. Go ahead and click to join those rooms, ladies.
Right, father, we just thank you that you are the one that
gives us dreams. That you are the dream giver. So we thank you
God that you would awaken dreams within us. And we thank you God
that you would help us every day to grow in the understanding of
who you originally created us to be God. I thank you that you
would give these ladies dreams in the daytime dreams in the
nighttime, God that you would give them a glimpse from heaven
about how you see them the way that you view them all the
things that you want to bring into their life. God, we thank
you that you are continuing to renew our minds that you're
taking all the old stuff, you're transforming our minds
and yeah, Lord forming us into the image of God to look a
little bit more like Jesus every single day. Here is Matthew 514
through 16. In the message version, it says this, here's
another way to put it, you're here to be light. Excuse me,
bringing out the God colors in the world. God is not a secret
to be kept. We're going public with this as public as a city on
a hill. If I make you lightbearers, you don't think
I'm going to hide you under a bucket, do you? I'm putting you
on a light stand. Now that I've put you there on a hilltop on a
light stand, shine, keep open house, be generous with your
lives. By opening up to others, you'll prompt people to open up
with God, this generous Father in heaven. Y'all, that's so
powerful. I love how it says, now that I've put you there on a
hilltop on a light stand, shine. Lord, I thank you that
you would help every one of these ladies begin to shine more
and more and more in their life from the inside out, not just on
the outside as a performance thing that we try to do or
achieve, but God, that literally, the more that you
heal us on the inside, that it would just permeate to all those
around us, that women would start hearing from friends or
family people or people that they would encounter that
they're just glowing, God, and that you would do that
supernaturally in them and through them. And we just thank
you in advance for that. Romans 8, 30 through 32 in the Passion
Translation says this, having determined our destiny ahead of
time, he called us to himself and transferred his perfect
righteousness to everyone he called. And those who possess
his perfect righteousness, he glorified with his son. So what
does all this mean? God has determined to stand with us.
Tell me who then could ever stand against us, which is kind
of what I was saying earlier later, ladies, goes on, for God
has proved his love by giving us his greatest treasure, the gift
of his son. And since God freely offered him up as the sacrifice
for us all, he certainly won't withhold from us anything else
he has to give. Remember, I was saying he's a good father, and
everything that is his is ours. He will, you know, as a good
father, not give us all the candy, if you all the good
stuff all at once, because we might just like a little kid
would get sick. He gives us the gifts when we're ready for them
when we're able to receive them. And sometimes we he does, man,
when he lavishes, sometimes we get a lot of gifts, and they're
coming all at once. And it just will floor you in a good way,
regarding all of God's promises and plans for you. It's really
awesome. Okay, here's another one. This is so good. This goes
in alignment with we are daughters of the king. Romans
817. From the passions translation, it says, and since
we are his true children, we qualify to share all his
treasures. For indeed, we are heirs of God himself. And since
we are joined to Christ, we also inherit all that he is, and all
that he has, we will experience being co glorified with him.
provided that we accept his sufferings as our own. So, you know, that we would suffer with him,
but we would also reign with him. Basically, that's what that's saying. That's pretty awesome.
Ephesians 3, 17 through 19. I also want to read this over you all tonight. In the NLT version
says this, then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him, your roots will grow
down into God's love and keep you strong. And may you have the power to understand as all God's
people should, how wide, how long, how high and how deep his love is. May you experience the
experience, the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will
be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God. Lord, we just thank you
that you're going to help us become more rooted and grounded in you every day, that we will be
like a green leaf that will also be like the scriptures talk about us ladies being green
leaves and flourishing. And if you ever want to look that up, there's several scriptures that
talk about the green leaf, but also that we would be like that tree planted by rivers of living
water. And this one doesn't say that, but I love how this says your roots will grow down into God's
love and keep you strong. So Lord, we thank you that you will help our roots to grow down deep
into you so that we can become strong down into your love and the understanding of who you are
as a good father. We thank you, God, that you would, yeah, Lord, just remove any filters and
things that are on our eyes, our hearts, our minds, our spirits and souls that cause us to
look at you and your character in any way that is not truth about who you are. We thank you,
God, that you are good and loving and you give us mercy and grace every day. And I thank you,
Lord, just in my spirit. I heard the Lord say that he's a, he's abounding grace upon grace,
upon grace, like multiple layers of grace upon you all. And so just want to bless you with that.
Welcome back. So glad that y'all are back. I try to pray and just declare scripture over you all,
and especially like while you're in there sharing, but also for our ladies that watch replay,
um, and so if y'all just ever need something to listen to, feel free to go back and fast forward
to those areas and let that minister to you. Um, okay. So I want to show you before I probably will
let one or two people share. We don't have a lot of time. I don't want to keep you all long. I do
want to very quickly talk about the activation this week. Um, I want to talk about the silhouette
of yourself. I'm going to show you some examples. Just like I did last week,
ladies do not feel like you have to do it like this. I want this to be your thing. Now,
some of you, I know I gave the activation for the roots and the trees last, the roots and fruits one
last week, ladies, just keep working on this stuff and put it in there whenever you get it
finished, but please still, you know, don't write it off because you get behind on those. Okay.
These are extra. I know that they are, but I really genuinely know that some of you are going
to get your breakthrough, um, from literally doing these things. All right. So what we do with
this is you can draw just an outline of yourself, a silhouette, and you can do it a lot of different
ways. I'm going to show you several different examples. Um, but the key is this. I want you
to ask God to help you hear what his spirit is saying to you. What is his spirit speaking over
you? Who does God say you are? God, who do you say that I am? God, who do you say that I am?
And listen for what he says. And I want you to write it down on a piece of paper first,
because here's why some of you are going to hear some negative stuff. Now that needs to go on a
separate piece of paper, write the negative thing down, and then ask the Lord to give you the truth
to replace the lie. Okay. And then you process that through, because if you keep hearing negative,
well, you'll have to just keep praying and process that through until you get to the truth.
And then all of the truth statements, because they're not always just one word. Sometimes God
is going to say a phrase over you, and you would put that on here as well. Okay. So it doesn't have
to just be one word. This example I want to show you is, this woman did this Picasso-like
self-portrait, because before she took the heart work, she really struggled with a
distorted poor self-image. You see her chat there. That's what she said. And she struggled with her
self-image for a really long time, internally and externally. And so she wanted to represent
that distorted view being covered by truth that God spoke of her.
and I'm just going to read a couple.
She wrote mature, respectable, precious, chosen, and admirable.
That's just a couple there. Here's the next one.
As I talked about the daughter of the king in the session when we did this before,
this lady really ministered to her,
so she put a crown on her drawing,
and she just drew with pencil,
and then she did the words in color,
and the colors mean different things to her.
If you see, she did some of the words in pen,
and then other words in colors,
and there's only one that's in pink, reliable.
I think that's so cool.
This is like flow with what the Holy Spirit wants you to do.
Across her eyes, she wrote imaginative,
and then there's a little flower drawn there.
I think that's really neat as well.
I want to encourage you-all,
really allow yourself to express this the way that you need to.
Here's another one.
This, I love she put her freckles on there and everything,
her blonde hair, discerner, dreamer,
uplifting, kind, loyal, passionate.
This lady as well as another one later on,
both did not like seeing themselves on screen.
Part of their healing process, ladies,
was actually coming on screen and letting themselves be seen,
and then drawing the silhouette of themselves,
help them really process loving who they are,
and loving how God created them.
This lady here just drew this outline,
and there were different ones that she felt led to put up on her mind,
in her head, in her face,
and then other ones down on her body,
which I think is awesome.
Again, this is about what is God saying to you and conveying that onto paper.
I don't have a copy of this one tonight,
but one lady recently felt led to draw a ballerina,
and she doesn't feel led to do ballet classes,
but she felt like that was the picture of God,
like a Cinderella ballerina,
and it was really beautiful, very powerful.
This lady here, if you can see,
she also highlighted free and seen.
Those really stood out to her.
Here's another one. She wrote the real me at the top.
Loved, beloved, lovely, light bearer, compassionate,
soft-hearted, intercessor.
Those are just a couple of her words.
She wrote on there, resident of heaven.
I just saw that. That's awesome.
Here's another one. She felt led to put a crown.
I love it. She put red lips,
super cute, vibrant, cheerful.
Carrie's piece were a couple of hers.
Here's one. Look at this, ladies.
I just love all of these.
They're so cool.
Everybody's different personalities and things are coming forward.
She's flourishing and growth is coming out of her mind.
That's what that's representing for her.
Really cool.
She says, who am I?
Who does God say I am?
And then she wrote all these different,
so she's flourishing.
She's a nurturer. She's wise.
And then she's got all the words on her body as well.
Mother in Israel is written on there.
I think that's really neat too.
Here's the last one I'm going to show you.
This is my other young lady
that had really a big struggle with being on screen.
And she started just really flourishing through heartwork
and was doing even photos of herself
and posting in the group.
I want y'all to know,
I know that some of you really struggle with this stuff,
but if you will come into the group
and do the opposite of what you don't want to do,
I think it'll help you, you know, again,
break into freedom in ways you can't even imagine.
So as she did her silhouette,
if you notice here,
she drew a bunch of flowers over her eyes.
And if I remember correctly,
when she wrote her, like her text,
when she did this post,
she was saying how God was giving her new eyes
to see herself.
That's what that was representing to her.
Child of God, desirable, creative,
hearer of God's voice,
divinely designed.
Look at all that ladies.
All right.
So powerful.
I pray that you'll make this journey
of the silhouette of yourself, your own.
And if it's all in pencil, that's fine,
but let it be yours.
Own what is God saying to you?
Let him talk to you.
And if you do this and you're struggling to hear,
just keep asking.
Just keep asking.
Cause it will come to you.
Some people, it might take you longer and that's okay.
That's okay.
All right, ladies, we're already at 934.
I probably shouldn't go any longer.
So if you do want to share
about what you shared in the breakout group
about the real you,
we love to hear about your dreams
that are awakening within you.
Feel free to come and post that kind of stuff
in the group too.
And we're just excited to.
see what God's doing in all of you.
We just love being here on this journey with you.
Let me pray for us.
Father, thank you so much
for everything that you've already done tonight.
God, thank you for rewriting our stories,
for taking all the broken shattered pieces
of our hearts and our lives
and taking those into your hand
and molding them into a masterpiece.
We thank you, God, that we are the clay
and you're the potter
and you're literally weaving all the things together
in our lives for our good
and to save many people alive.
And we just thank you in advance for that.
We thank you that you'll help us
a little bit more to surrender this week,
that we'll continue to take down, do not enter signs
and God that we will step further into the fullness
of who you originally created us to be
and know who we are as the beloved daughter of the King,
that we are a daughter of the King
and that we will take our royal place as an heir
and step into the truth that we are a princess
in Jesus name, amen.
God bless you.
We'll see you all in the group.
Have a great night, everyone.
Bye.
Thanks so much, Bethany.
Bye ladies.