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So welcome, welcome.
I know those of you that are already here, you've already had your time, which is why
it's so powerful to come live.
You get your prosperous sister and you get to connect and that's always amazing for me
to get to watch and see.
And so God changed what I was going to do.
I was going to continue and kind of build on what we did last Saturday or the Saturday
before with the sales masterclass.
I was going to review that sales mountain and see where you're at and where you need
your support.
So I encourage you to do that about what God talked to me about sharing this morning is
faith in your business.
So as we start the second quarter, looking back at first quarter and what role did faith
play?
Not just in your personal life.
That's where it all starts, obviously, but you know, my passion is to help equip and
empower you to build profitable faith integrated businesses.
So how's the faith integration?
What role did faith play in your business in first quarter?
What are we celebrating?
What are the wins that, wow, this is how I integrated faith.
And many of you have stepped up.
You've started sharing your faith publicly.
You've integrated it into your teaching and some of you are doing, you know, new things
with it, having Bible studies.
I mean, there's so many ways and I'd love to continue to hear, but the question is,
am I?
And there's a question that Jesus asked or that's in scripture that says, when I return,
will I find faith on the earth?
And so that would be really, if I came and looked at your business, would I find faith?
Are you believing for a vision that's so big that it absolutely requires faith?
The only way you could do it is by faith.
That's a God-sized vision.
I was doing a coaching with a brand new person yesterday and she was like, God, just giving
me this vision, but it's way too big.
I can't think like this.
It's way too big.
I'm like, no, you're tapping into your divine purpose.
Your divine call is supposed to feel that big because we're not supposed to do it by
ourselves.
We're supposed to do it with God, right?
So how'd you do first quarter with your faith?
What do you want to do different?
Second quarter.
Today's the first day of second quarter.
If you're listening live, what do you want to do different?
To bring more faith, to integrate your business more with faith.
So let's start with prayer.
Then I'm going to share some thoughts with you.
Oh Father, I just give thanks for this day, this season, for the opportunity to unite
completely with you.
You are the vine.
We are the branches and there should never be a separation between those.
That your life force flows, that your spirit flows, that your anointing flows, that your
revelation knowledge flows, that your vision flows, that your power flows in and through
us, in and through our business.
So Lord, I just ask that you've told us we all have faith and that we only need faith
the size of a mustard seed to move mountains and say to that mountain, be thou removed
and cast into the sea, be it the mountain of death, the mountain of doubt, the mountain
of fear, the mountain of sickness, whatever it is that faith speaks and faith can speak
to the circumstances and move the circumstances.
So I'm asking Lord, increase our faith.
Teach us to walk in our faith, live through us, coach through us, teach through us, speak
through us, write through us.
We ask and in this call Lord, let whatever needs to be said for each prosperous sister
to rise to the fullness of what she's being called to.
Let it come forth. We ask that you open our spiritual senses to hear from you in Jesus name.
Amen. Okay, you all should have received this. It's called the Power of Faith and Expectation.
And so you have this some exercises in the back of it. Romans 10 11 opens with whoever believes
in him. And that word, by the way, believes it's like leaning on a wall, putting your entire
faith. You're leaning into God with your entire weight. So whoever believes, it's not an
intellectual belief. Scripture says, you know, even the demons believe. That's no big deal
intellectually. It's when you're completely leaning on him. And so the Amplified Translation
adds the words, whoever adheres to, trusts in, and relies on him will not be disappointed
in his expectations. And I love that translation, the Amplified, about that because it brings two
words together that really belong together. And that's faith and expectation. When you're walking
in faith, you expect. And when you expect, you make space for. I like to think about expecting
a child and a grandchild or whatever it is. When you're expecting, you start getting ready,
right? You're buying the supplies, you're making the bedroom, you're getting the furniture,
you're painting, whatever you're doing, you're like getting ready. So your faith and expectation
are tied together. So faith before you get on the phone with a client, what are you expecting?
What are you making space for in your, you know, you just launched Karen and you're going to have
your soft launch and with your brochure and with that, what are you expecting to happen in those
rooms as those women show up? What are you expecting, right? And I could say that for each
one of you, new season for you, Charla, and things are shifting. What are you expecting?
Faith and expectation. And we know scientifically that expectation really, really matters. You know,
if you think about medicine, there's the placebo effect. You all know the placebo effect, right?
You could be taking a sugar placebo pill and believe that it's going to do something. And it
does as much as the medicine. Placebo is so powerful, right? And the nocebo is equally
powerful. It's the opposite. It's that you believe it's going to harm or there's going to be a
negative effect from it. And sure enough, patients, the studies, they're more likely to experience
the negative effects. So what we expect, our faith and expectation actually shifts
what we experience and what our life is like. So in the second quarter, what are you expecting?
Write it down right now. Take this moment and be real.
Is your expectation, is it growing from last quarter? Do you expect something more,
something greater? What are you expecting?
Okay. There's an example in this one that I liked. Pete Rose, a famous baseball player,
was being interviewed in spring training. The year was about to break. And so one reporter
blurted out, Pete, you only need 78 hits to break the record. How many at-bats do you think you need
to get that 78 hits? And without hesitation, Pete just stared at the reporter, almost a little
puzzled. And then in a very matter of fact, you could tell he'd been doing his inner work, said
78. The reporter yelled back, oh, come on, Pete, you don't expect to get 78 hits and 78 at-bats,
do you? Awaiting his reply to this
what appeared to be a boastful claim, right?
Pete said, every time I step up to the plate,
I expect to get a hit.
If I don't expect to get a hit,
I have no right to step into the batter's box
in the first place.
If you go up hoping, difference between faith and hope,
hoping to get a hit, he continued,
then I probably don't have a prayer to get a hit.
It's the positive expectation
that has gotten me all the hits in the first place.
So I'd like you to apply that not from baseball,
but to your business.
What do you expect with every call?
What do you expect with every new client?
Do you expect transformation?
Do you expect miracles?
Do you expect breakthrough?
Do you expect the new client to join you?
Do you expect your business to grow?
Powerful thought.
You know, Micah 7, 7 says, but as for me,
I will look to the Lord and confident in him,
I will keep watch.
I will wait with hope and expectancy
for the God of my salvation, for my God will hear me.
And Luke 7, 7, interesting, both of these are 7, 7s.
Divine perfection.
I don't think there's any accidents
in even how the Bible's laid out.
And so we see in Luke 7, 7,
neither do I consider myself worthy
to come to you, the centurion,
but just speak a word and my servant will be healed.
Right?
You believe that much?
Lord, just speak the word into my business
and it'll be done.
Speak the word into my finances and it's done.
I expect it.
So here's an interesting acronym for faith.
You might not have heard it, F-A-I-T-H.
Feel as if the thing happened.
Feel as if it's already done.
It's the frequency of already done.
You're not waiting for external circumstances to change.
From within you, you feel the feeling
like this has already happened.
You live it many times before you actually live it.
When we plant a seed, we expect a harvest.
We imagine the harvest.
We prepare for the harvest.
We water, fertilize weeds out of there.
But during the gestation period,
everything has a gestation period.
We don't dig it up to see if it's growing.
We don't walk away in a week
because we don't see the fruit.
Instead, we expect, we feel it.
And of course, that's scriptural, right?
Ask, believing, Mark says,
that you have already received it and you shall have it.
So when you're coming to God, it's not prayers of doubt.
God, please help my finances.
And it's just every single day, the same prayer.
Well, you didn't expect an answer
or you wouldn't keep praying like that.
That's a prayer of doubt.
You pray once and from that point on,
you think, you stand, you expect,
you feel it as if it's already done.
Does that make sense?
It's like the woman that had the issue of blood
and now she's just working her way to get to Jesus.
Her self-talk is, if I can just get a hold of his garment,
I shall be healed.
And the Bible says she kept saying that to herself.
I shall.
So fear is the opposite of that.
Fear is inside out faith.
It's inverted faith, right?
And so I want you to remember your God-given power of choice
that both faith and fear is a choice.
It's really important to understand,
it's not just something happening to you
that you have no choice.
This is where you're taking back your power.
What we've been covering so much together
is to learn to have biblical reasoning,
which is opposite of the world's reasoning.
The world's reasoning is that our answer is outside
and we're waiting for someone or something to change
in order for me to be happy, healthy, prosperous.
This is the world, it's external locus of control.
We think we need to get something.
We think someone, something needs to change.
Biblical, out of the heart flows the issues of life.
Biblical, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
Biblical, Christ in me, the hope of glory.
Everything's happening from the inside.
And so as you learn to reason biblically,
you learn to reason from the inside out.
And so you learn, like John, John 14, 1,
Jesus said, do not let, this is choice,
do not let your heart be troubled, afraid, or cowardly.
You get this? It's your God-given ability to choose.
Choose, do not let, it's a choice.
Believe confidently, the Amplified translation says,
believe confidently, believe with expectation in God
and trust in him.
Have faith, hold on to it, rely.
So this idea is you choose not to yield to fear.
You choose to walk in faith.
You choose to expect.
And Mark 5, when you see the story of the centurion
is walking in faith and asking Jesus to speak the word,
and he gets the negative report.
We all get negative reports.
I don't care if it's from the news or the doctor or whatever,
the negative report comes and says,
don't bother the teacher anymore.
The child's dead.
That would be the perfect place to doubt, to mourn, to give up,
to walk away.
And it says that Jesus refused to hear.
He overheard, but he ignored.
And he said to him, don't yield to fear.
All you need to do is keep on believing.
So you see in this that our God-given ability to choose,
that faith and fear is a choice.
And you also see that where there is no expectation,
some of us don't want to be disappointed,
so we don't want to raise our expectations.
And there's a scientific reason for that.
When we expect and we're excited,
dopamine is released in the brain and it feels so good.
But when we're not, when we don't get what we expected,
there's this big drop in dopamine and it doesn't feel so good.
And so, because of that, we try to kind of protect ourselves and we go,
I won't get my hopes up. I won't expect too much.
I don't want to be disappointed. This is opposite of faith.
This is opposite of expectation.
You see how that works?
And so, A.W. Tozer said,
true faith is never found alone.
It's always accompanied by expectation.
So when I say, how is faith in your business right now?
How are you integrating? Look at your level of expectation.
How much are you expecting? How much are you preparing for?
How much are you excited?
How much time do you spend just visualizing and experiencing it?
Clients coming, clients being transformed, your meeting going well,
your book getting written, your, your talk being filled,
like how much time we're so good at negative rehearsal.
What if I trip?
What if I get up there and I forget what I'm going to say?
That's the inverted faith where we're rehearsing the reverse.
We're supposed to reverse the act.
We're supposed to play out the expectation.
So a W toaster said true faith is never found alone.
It's always accompanied by expectation.
The man who believes the promises of God expects to see them.
Fulfilled.
So do you know faith in business?
Do you know that a business professional.
Is called all main.
It means a man of a business professional means a man of faith.
A woman of faith.
Oh, main.
Oh, H M E I N.
Man of faith.
That's because business requires faith because it's a form of co-creating.
We're co-laboring.
We're co-heirs.
We're co we're, we're working together.
in union with God. And so this is so powerful. So I want you to
write down as we kind of wrap up, and I'll open the last five
minutes for a little bit of conversation. But I want you to
write down for reflection, what do you expect the rest of this
quarter and the rest of this year? What do you expect? I have
to turn my book into the publisher by the end of this
month. What am I expecting? It's so easy to be self critical.
It's so easy to think you didn't say enough. What am I
expecting? God to write through life to be changed it to go
international it to be an international bestseller it to
be a kingdom influence it to be a door opener. What are you
expecting? Write it down. What do you expect in second quarter?
What's your faith standing on? Where have I allowed fear to
cause me to play small or exaggerate? So the idea is what
are you magnifying? Fear magnifies the conditions. Fear
magnifies the circumstance. We just spend a lot of time
talking about the circumstance how bad it is. We spend a lot of
time magnifying the condition, the negative report, that's
fear. Faith magnifies God that it's so much bigger. So much
bigger. I was listening to a story Jane Hammond was sharing a
story and her daughter got all these, she's in her 30s, her
daughter got all these aneurysms in her in the brain, and they
were inoperable and they were telling her to, you know, just
make preparations, because there was one more that was so big,
and they were going to try and go in and try to do a stint for
that one to try to extend her life maybe for maybe a year. And
Jane is a mighty, mighty woman of God, and they stood on faith
and they declared and they held and as they were in that
waiting room, and she's talking about right now, Purim and, and
Esther and the story of Esther and Purim means divine reversal
where God is going to reverse some of those things in your
life that you've been standing on faith for. And so that they
waited for hours in the surgery and the doctor came out, it was
risky, she may not live. And the doctor came out completely
baffled, took her in to look at the many, many different views
of her brain. And there was many, many aneurysms. Looking at
every view of the brain, there wasn't a single aneurysm. He
said, we have no explanation for this. There's don't know what to
say, but she has no aneurysms. And Jane was talking about faith
for during Purim for divine reversal. What do you need to
have faith for a divine reversal? So what loosens from
the year so far in first quarter? Was there a place that
you dropped the ball? What can you restore faith that you can
plan, you can have expectation, you can put it on your calendar,
you can do it? And lastly, how will I apply this lesson,
Hebrews 11, one now faith. So I'd love any comments, maybe
just quick popcorn. What is God showing you today in this
conversation? What popped up? Remember the tide that rises
raises all ships. That's our philosophy here. So everything
you share that raises everybody, every way that you
grow, every prayer, every miracle raises everybody here.
We're prosper sisters. So any quick comments? We've got just
you know, a couple minutes to wrap up any quick comments love
to hear from you.
Yeah, first I was thinking, how do I have faith in my business?
Like, how am I incorporating like spirituality? So I liked
this, but you know, like thinking, Oh, okay, like, how do
I face my days? The opposite of fear is faith? No, it really got
my head it got my head screwed on a little bit better.
I'm excited. Imagine what can happen to go through this
quarter, hand in hand with God with faith, where you're
just like, Papa, what are we going to do here today?
How are we going to pray for this woman?
What are we going to create today?
Can you imagine the excitement,
like a little kid again, restoring, holding hands
and talking through every part of your business?
Absolutely, thank you.
Love it.
Who else?
Jennifer, it looked like you were raising your hand.
Oh, well, I wasn't, but that's okay.
Oh, your screen lit up.
That's all I could see.
Well, that's God, I guess.
Yeah, I'm just like really raising my expectations
of how quickly I can step back into things
and expecting, you know, after years and years and years
of getting speaking gigs off of previous ones,
I've stepped out and I'm stepping back in,
but I'm expecting to get them.
I'm expecting to publish the Bible study
that's been written and finding a new publisher.
And then my last one and expecting to just be able
to be used by God in whatever avenue.
My problem is I have so many things I could do
and it's like, Lord, what do you want me to do?
Yeah, good, good, good, I love that.
Love that.
What is it for this season?
The now faith, Hebrews 11 one.
What do I need faith for now?
What are you doing this season, Lord?
I love that.
Okay, anyone else?
Any comments?
You guys went and turned your cameras off on me.
I'm gonna say real quick, Natalie,
have a safe and wonderful trip.
I can't wait to hear about Africa.
I'm super excited to hear all about it.
Thank you, thank you.
And I'd love to know needs as well.
Okay.
As you're going about too.
So just really keep me blow by blow,
super excited for you.
I sure will.
Okay.
Anybody else?
Any closing comments?
Nope.
All right.
I love you all.
I'll see you office hours on Thursday
and you all got the link to register
for the Resurrect Your Spirit and Business.
Super excited to see you there in just a couple of weeks
as we really prepare with faith and expectation
for this Resurrection Sunday to be completely different.
Charlotte, are you raising your hand?
I think I'm kind of raising my hand
because I was gonna say something a little bit earlier
about the faith.
I speak faith all the time.
I mean, it's who I am, is bold faith, no fear, all of that.
But actually standing in faith this big
to see it for myself
is a little bit of a different angle for me.
Nice.
Good.
So you saw it a little bit differently today.
Yeah, it's a little,
well, I preach this all the time,
but am I acting on it as well?
I guess that's-
I love that.
Thank you for that.
Transparent.
And let's see.
Tracy put in the comment exactly what I needed to hear
and focus on at this moment.
All right.
I'm glad.
Tracy, bless you.
All right.
We'll see you Thursday for office hours, 9 a.m.
Blessings.
And you wanted me to stay?
Yes, please.
Let me just stop the recording.