Well, I'm, uh, I would assume there'll be a few more join us.
Uh, I don't know if people have special plans this week or, or what, or what's
going on, but, um, but yeah, Kim, Kim's been busy, Dion.
Yeah.
I've seen your name, Kim on the app.
And I think I commented on one of yours as well.
Yeah.
So, well, welcome to this and to brilliant to the ambassador program.
Thank you so much.
Yeah.
So, uh, Dion, I'm gonna let you, I'm gonna let you run it.
Um, Kim, I would, uh, yeah, I'm just, just excited.
I know, I know you're excited too.
So that's an understatement.
Uh, Rebecca, would you pray us in?
Yeah.
Yes.
Happy to heavenly father, Lord God, thank you for bringing us together this evening.
Lord, thank you for your precious presence.
Um, we just thank you for being with us and knowing so well what we need tonight.
God, I thank you for Dion and for Ray, for their wisdom and for the value we
can glean each month on these calls.
I just pray that you help us not be hearers Lord, but doers also give us
the wisdom and discernment we need as we navigate the intricacies of our
business lives and where it is you're calling us Lord, I pray that you help
us strengthen the muscle of hearing your voice and getting in step with you.
Father, would you help us remain present tonight with the posture?
We need to receive all that you have in store for us.
We come with thankful expectant hearts, just full of gratitude for who you
are and the nature of how you are.
We love you.
And we welcome you tonight, Lord, have your way.
We just trust you to guide us and pray these things in Jesus name.
Amen.
Beautiful, beautiful.
Well, Dion, you gave me a sneak peek.
I think tonight's going to be a real treat.
So I'm excited to have you go through it, my man.
Oh yeah, for sure.
Well, tonight is fun because we're at our halfway mark.
And, um, when we introduced the series, we said we were going to take a minute
and, uh, each month we're going to, we're going to look at one of these power
hacks, if you like, or one of these secrets of how we walk with the Lord,
because what is the kingdom advantage for us, you know, as we walking with the
father and, you know, one of the, there've been a couple of underlying
themes that sit in all of these, um, routines or habits, we call them a
routine actually, because a routine is a habit with a soul, you know, habit
can be mechanical, you know, like brushing your teeth and so forth.
It doesn't really have a soul, even when you get good at it, you know, even
when it's like in your lifestyle, it's not like, oh, I've got a whole different
soul now that I brush my teeth every day.
So it's not that sort of thing, right?
So a routine is something deeper than that, because it's not, so a habit is
like a downstairs thing we do and routines is an upstairs thing we do.
And the best way to think of kingdom routines is God has routines with us,
right?
The father has a routine with you and he wants you to join him.
So, you know, for instance, you know, you don't have to wait until you get
everything right for God to find you beautiful.
He finds you beautiful now because you're in Christ, right?
So we've been learning that because you're in Christ, you're fully qualified
because you're in Christ.
And we've, you know, we've been saying throughout these six months, the
checklist is got one item on it, you know, to check if you're qualified, are
you in Christ?
Yes, you're in, you're fully qualified.
Why?
Because you and Jesus are one.
See, the routine he has with you is he's starting place for you is I'm one with
you.
And, you know, many of us in a more downstairs way learned that it was up to
us to fix the relationship.
It was up to us to, you know, I'm, you know, if God hasn't moved, he's the same.
So if something's moved, it has been you, you must fix it, all that stuff.
I don't know if you were taught that.
I'll embarrassingly admit that not only was I taught that, but for a period of my
ministry, I taught that.
So guilty as charged over here.
Apology on behalf of all pastors who taught that, including me.
So I think when I came to the realization that God is with me in a certain way and
all he's asking is for my consistent yes to our oneness, that's what he's asking
for, just consistently.
So what then under that structure, repentance is me agreeing with God about
me.
So we all think we know ourselves, but we really don't, right?
Because we see ourselves in the valley floor.
We have a perception of ourselves, a downstairs perception.
It's based on our life experiences, our pain, our challenges, our talents, our
successors, how we are raised, you know, where we were raised, etc. etc.
And that sort of blend of all of that we think has created a sense of identity
and when we use the word I that's what we're referring to.
The interesting thing in the kingdom is that when you came to Christ
that I died and you were given a new I, a new you, and so
that's God's upstairs perspective, not your downstairs perception.
A perception is a small thing in the midst of the battle, in the midst of life,
in the midst of it all, but his perspective is this broad picture he has
of you because he sees you fully as you truly are in Christ.
This is the most amazing, refreshing, beautiful thing when you
suddenly realize that he sees me this way.
Now he wants my agreement, right? He can't
just override me and tell me that's what it is
and he's not looking for a servant relationship where I go, okay, yes, yes,
whatever you say. What he's looking for is that son-daughter
relationship. He wants a family relationship,
has this enormous capacity for relationship. So with one he's
rejoicing, another one is who's in sorrow, he's
comforting them, all at the same time, all over the world.
How much capacity for relationship does he have?
So everything in the kingdom starts from God's heart
and moves to ours. So the next logical question is then how?
How does that happen? How can I learn that and how can I learn it so that
my learning becomes permanent? How can I practice that
so I become that? So in the kingdom, you know, downstairs learning is about
what you know, but upstairs is about who you're becoming.
So in the kingdom doesn't matter what you know.
You can study the Bible for 30 years and not become much more.
God looks at how much we move into his likeness, not how much we know about his
likeness. Do you see what I mean? Now that's not
to say downstairs learning isn't helpful. It is,
but it's a secondary learning. The primary learning is the one we studied
a few months back when Jesus said, you know, come to me all you're weary
and heavy laden and I will give you rest. Take my yoke,
take my partnership and learn from me, but then he adds these
words because I'm gentle and humble. That means I'm really gentle
with the learning. I know you're still figuring out who you are.
I know you're still battling to believe that's actually who you are
and battling to agree with me, but I'm patient, I'm humble,
I'm lowly of heart. Lowly, that word is such a beautiful word
means a little bit more than humble that we're translating into English
and that is it has the sense of God talks to you where you're at.
He doesn't talk, he doesn't talk over your head. He knows where you are and
he speaks to exactly where you can. Imagine if you were training a small
child to walk, right? You would get on the floor,
you'd be like at their level, you'd be putting your hands out, come on,
come on, another step. Yeah, there you go and take two steps. Yeah,
it's like, you know, they just, you know, invented nuclear fission or
something, you know, I mean you go, whoa, it's amazing because at that level
it is amazing and so there is a joy in his heart when
you move, when you take these steps towards
him and he's endlessly patient with that.
So that's what he is saying and then he says, and by the way,
this whole arrangement, this whole partnership thing is really easy,
makes your burden light. So I thought it would be fun,
since we're halfway through, is tonight we do the six of these routines. Now
I don't know if I shared with you where they come from. Did I share that
in the early days where this all comes from? So Graham and I have collectively
put these together. So he's been, this year I'll be,
hey, it's April, 26th of April, it's coming up, I should keep an eye on that.
26th of April, I will have been a believer for 48 years.
So that's a while, right, and Graham will be 53
years, so between us just a little over 100 years.
So that, you know, and what this is, is the distillation
of how do we go from his heart to my heart so that I am changed into
his image. How does that transformation work? How does
that direct learning work? Because direct learning automatically
renews your mind, settles your heart, your emotions, it's
feel safe, don't fear, I am with you, and it inspires your
will, and you're like, we get to do this. When it's just head
learning, it sounds more like, okay, you need to know this, these are
the attributes of God, and you must make a quality decision of
the act of your will to follow Him.
That's what downstairs learning sounds like.
Upstairs learning is you fall in love
with the beauty of Jesus and you're so compelled,
you're like, yes, I'm in, right?
I mean, why not?
So it's, and of course your will's involved,
of course your, because upstairs learning
involves all of you.
Downstairs learning involves the weakest part of you,
your head.
So when you came to Jesus,
you didn't invite him into your head,
you invited him into your heart, right?
And included your head,
and it included all the other parts of you.
So it's with the heart man believes.
So that's why the ability to put these into practice
come from upstairs faculties that you have capabilities
that you got rewired when you came to Christ.
So I mentioned a couple of the downstairs faculties
you know well, your mind, your will,
your emotions, and your conscience,
the four main downstairs faculties.
Upstairs, when you came to Christ,
you got rewired so that you can walk with him,
so that you can have relationship
with this extraordinarily beautiful person.
And one of them is the ability to receive from him.
We receive Christ.
Everything in the kingdom starts with a gift,
so you have to be able to receive.
Secondly, the ability to believe.
When somebody says, well, I just can't believe that,
that's the mind speaking, that's not the heart,
because the heart has the capacity to believe.
They just chose not to believe is what they're saying.
Not they cannot, they will not.
Because the capacity to believe is an upstairs faculty.
Then the ability to relate, like you can receive from God
and then you can have a relationship,
this ability to have conversations and get into things
and to sit with him and say,
Father, what do you think when you look through my eyes
in this situation, what do you see?
All those life questions and so on
that we deal with at Brilliant.
And all those elements are designed
to teach us that we can relate.
And then, of course, we reign with Christ.
We don't reign on our own for Christ, we reign with him.
And so all upstairs learning sounds more like
starting from fullness and moving.
So in other words, we start in fullness
and we work it from that point.
We learn from fullness, we don't learn towards fullness.
Towards fullness is a downstairs idea.
Think of when you became a doctor or a lawyer, whatever,
you studied and studied and you hit milestones
until one day you graduated and then you passed the bar
and then you became a lawyer or whatever it was.
You accumulated and reached milestones along the way.
In the kingdom, it works exactly the opposite.
You got the fullness, all things are yours in Christ.
Scripture says, if the father did not withhold
even his own son, how much more
will he not give you all things?
So you have all things, so that's why we function
from God, not towards him.
We pray with God, not towards him.
You know, we function from favor, not towards.
We're not trying to downstairs dial in favor
to try to attract God's favor.
We already have his favor because we're in Christ.
Remember, we're fully qualified.
So what we're learning is that means
it's all about the yoke.
It's about the oneness of you and Jesus.
And that doesn't vary, that you're either one or you're not.
You're married or you're not.
You're not, well, I think I'm 37% married, I'm 92%.
Last week I was doing better.
You know, it's not that, right?
Because we wouldn't speak about our marriages that way.
That would be insane, but same way with Christ.
So what I wanted to take a second was just tee this up
to say the kingdom is a vast, beautiful place
because the king is a beautiful person.
And in his beauty, he attracts us to himself.
So when he draws us to himself, and then it says,
and then I seek him and I diligently found him.
Well, the reason you sought him is because he drew you.
That's exactly what that is.
He is the initiator, we're the responder.
He always initiates.
So anything that tells you as a believer that it's up to you,
that you're the initiator, get your act together,
five steps to the better you and all that stuff
is downstairs stuff.
And by the way, useful for being in the world, right?
If you're in business, you should have accountability
and responsibility, two lovely downstairs words.
They do not belong in the kingdom.
They are not free of the spirit.
I say this to set you free from,
I think many of us were told,
accountability and responsibility
were primary spiritual disciplines.
They are not.
Here's why.
Jesus took full accountability for your sin
and for your sin.
being and he paid that price and he took full responsibility before the father so
that you could be free and he gave you a new creation now downstairs you have to
have accountability and responsibility because how would you run a business
without accountability and responsibility right so it's not that it
doesn't play a role it just plays a role you're in the world but you're not of it
you're of the kingdom so what I'm gonna share with you at some point in your
walk with Jesus has to become kingdom normal to you the reason is is that it's
normal to him you know we've used other downstairs words like supernatural well
if you're downstairs and you're looking upstairs and it does look supernatural
right but it's not supernatural to God right to him it's natural and as he is
so are you you're one with him so at some point it must be natural to you so
it's natural we pray for the sick it's natural we see healing it's natural now
it doesn't mean it always happens and it doesn't mean that we're not learning of
course we're learning it's a process but we're but our starting place isn't trying
to get somewhere we're not trying to break through something we're trying to
abide with someone that's the key okay it was just a little freebie
introduction but I just wanted to give a little framework for what we're about to
share so let me share with you what we've already covered and I'm actually
gonna give you the rest of them as I said we while we don't normally hand
these out I do want you to have this so let me give you this okay so you should
be able to see my screen there everybody see that mm-hmm good so week a month one
we said every single of these routines have the four P's there's a prompt
there's something that causes us to practice this routine and the prompt
here is this one was called reset to rest so when you come with stress worry
anxiety anything trying to gain control of my life I have a permission my
permission is John 14 my peace I leave you I give you do not let do not let
your jobs to reign with Christ not let your heart be troubled justified now God
wouldn't give you that permission it was impossible for you to do that
wouldn't that be just really unkind to tell you don't do something when you had
no ability to do that but you entirely can do that so what do I practice then
ah well now I practice letting the peace of Christ rule I call up his peace in me
and I keep practicing and then one day I find it just stays for longer and longer
and one day it's been hey a whole day and then it's a whole week and then
you'll get to a point it'll be a whole year that you're so that means permanent
peace because peace is a ruling power because the Prince of Peace lives in you
we don't pray for peace because the Prince of Peace lives with us everything
came with Jesus right hope this just makes you feel really free and happy
makes me happy so and what person do I become I become an untroubled calm
leader who lives in permanent peace knowing stress and worry are necessary
when so much rest and peace is available did you know rest did you know that it's
not that kingdom normal is to live without stress and worry did you know
that I love that I love that I'm trying to say in a way that you don't feel
condemned you say I've got some stress and worry in my life that's okay you're
learning it's okay no worries with that I'm just trying to get my screens a
little more organized here so I can still see you while I'm talking okay
let's go to number two new every morning with month two we talked about this idea
that the enemy relies like a snowball of negativity compounding day to day today
to grow bigger and bigger and bigger negativity thing right and so the the
Bible's answered the kingdom answer to that is new every morning your steadfast
love he has your permission never ceases they are new every morning great is your
faithful that means there's a big reset button God hits at midnight it's the big
red button and the enemy has to start all over again with a negativity sucks
to be him right because you don't have to deal with that next morning you act
like you just got born again five minutes ago you start fresh so all of
yesterday's negativity is not allowed into today and so what's what am I
practicing I close out my day each night with him I start fresh every
morning leaving yesterday behind and what do I expect today I expect
His goodness. If you want more scripture for that, Psalm 92.
Every morning, I thank you Lord for your goodness. I come with an expectation
in the evening. I thank you for your faithfulness. I start the day in
expectation and I end the day in thanksgiving
because he did exactly that. I experienced his
goodness. My mindset is set on the goodness of God.
As Graham so beautifully puts it, when you learn
to become overwhelmed by his goodness, you can't be overwhelmed by anything
else. No circumstance can... Look, you're
going to be overwhelmed by something, downstairs
stuff or his goodness upstairs. So you get to choose. And the person
you become by doing this is a kingdom leader that starts every
day fresh in the Lord, upgrading expectations. Not just I start
the expectations, but every day he wants it to become bigger and bigger and
bigger because he wants us to discover his
beauty. He's like, I'm with you in this. I'm wanting to give you this. And so when
we realize we don't have to earn it, but we do have to learn it. That's what
we're talking about learning. Then we talked about new creation.
That the prompt is, when my old self tries to remind me of who I used to be
or who I'm not, anything that tells you who you are not,
good news, that self is dead. Right? So when people
say, I'm just not a patient person, good news,
that self is dead. Well, you know, somebody was saying something, you know, the other
day to me and it wasn't very kind. And I said, good news, the person you just
showed me is dead. Because I know the real you in
Jesus, isn't that? So when we practice on,
I only work on my new self. God isn't asking you to get the old one to behave.
That would be ridiculous to go to the graveyard and shout at the tombstone and
try to get that person to behave. That's weird in the kingdom, that's not
normal. Heaven's looking, it's like, what is she
doing? Why is she standing talking to the dead
person? So I practice walking in my new nature
in Jesus. Every day I start fresh. And to quote another grammarism, you can't
fail your tests. You just get endless amount of attempts
to get an A. You'll just keep letting you do it until
you pass. How kind. So I'm becoming, so the person I
become is I become like Jesus. I'm made in his
likeness and image and I start to discover my new self. Did
you know that Jesus is introducing you to the
real you every day? And repentance is you agreeing
with that. That's repentance. In the old covenant,
repentance was saying sorry for things you did wrong.
In the new testament, it's saying sorry for not for
things you didn't do right, that your new nature is capable of. Lord, give me
another chance. Okay.
Likeness. We talked likeness week, month four.
And here we talked about the prompt is when I feel my heavy,
my burns getting heavy. Anybody in that mode?
Any of the time you have these these prompts, your permission is come to me
or you're weary and heavy laden, I will give you rest. My yoke is easy, my
burden is light. What do I practice? I practice reset to
rest and I thank Jesus for our partnership.
Jesus, I'm in yoke with you. So there's a lightness to my leadership.
I become a leader whose yoke is easy, burden is light. I
just finished writing a book which will be out soon. We're just having the cover
designed and it's called Leading Light, meaning be a leader who
leads lightly. So that likeness of leadership, you become that
light leader. Last month we talked about five.
Standing on your promises. So when I'm thinking about my future, I'm not
speculating from a downstairs viewpoint about
outcomes. Guys, if this is what I'm sharing with
you, took me so many years to learn. I would love, I would have loved
somebody to tell me this. God, when he gives you a promise, he
gives you a place to stand in his upstairs, in his heart, not
downstairs in my speculation. Oh well, if God said I'm going to be
successful in business, that means, and then I translate downstairs, I map
the upstairs to the downstairs and therein lies the problem.
Here's why, I've never mapped correctly in 48 years
and my batting average is like zero. I don't think they'll let me even, you
know, wash the gear afterwards or hand out,
you know, I'm not even on the team with that batting average.
So here's what I've learned. When the scripture says, Jeremiah 29,
I know the plans. The word plans in the Hebrew literally means the deep
intentions of your life, I have for you declares the Lord,
plans to prosper you, to give you hope and if you,
the Lord knows that, He is perfectly committed
to His purpose in you.
To help you with that, He gives you a promise
which gives you a place to stand in His heart.
We're gonna talk about that in the next one in a minute.
So that means, what do I practice?
I explore His promises.
So every time you get a promise from God,
it's an invitation to become someone.
If the promise is a 10-story building,
God is saying to you, it's a compliment.
He's saying, you're capable of rising to this level.
That doesn't mean you're there today.
When we try to rush out and execute on that promise,
this is called believerism.
Believerism is when I try to step into God's promise
without becoming the person that God means me to be.
Then I, people say, well, you took advantage,
you know, you're taking God for granted
or whatever the words are,
but God does want us taking Him for granted.
So what we go back to the Lord and say,
thank you, Lord, you're making me this person.
And when you get to that, that promise gets pulled in.
I meet so many believers who are sitting on prophetic words
and promises from 20, 30 years ago
and they've never come to bear.
Well, there's a very obvious reason why.
And that is, guys, let's step into
who are we becoming in Jesus,
the promise will pull itself in.
It's not like you're just on a passive timeline
and God said, well, sometime in the future,
there will be a 10-story building.
You know, God is worrying about the height we travel at,
not the distance we're covering.
He wants us to travel at a higher level.
So I'm becoming the person my promises describe.
So I become overwhelmed by His goodness
instead of my circumstances.
So I become the person who starts more and more
to travel at that level.
And that's the growing process.
So when we say, this isn't a passive gospel
because Jesus has done everything, not at all.
This is a hugely growing gospel,
but my starting point is I'm not dealing with the old.
I'm free of that, I'm dead to sin, I'm alive to God.
God gave me that permission, Romans 6, 11.
Okay, today's one, and then we're gonna stop
and we'll come back to this for the rest of them.
Contracting with God's help.
I love this verse because contracting with God's help
comes from Isaiah.
And for any of you who know this
and have gone through this teaching with us before,
let me stop the share for a second.
Let me read this, this verse.
I just love this.
If I'd encourage you to read the whole of Isaiah 41.
So do not fear, for I am with you.
Do not be dismayed.
Now, why would God say, do not,
if it was impossible for you to,
if that was impossible for you, right?
So He says, do not fear, do not be dismayed,
for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you.
Now think of this in your business, in what you're doing.
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
That means you can't be moved.
Steady.
All who rage against you.
I was going through a lawsuit when I first learned this.
And the Lord said, all who rage against you
will surely be ashamed and disgraced.
And those who oppose you will become as nothing.
The Lord said, this loss will become as nothing.
And that's exactly, they sat on it for three and a half years
and just dropped it.
Exactly what He said.
See, I will make you into a threshing sledge.
Think of that as a kingdom weapon.
And you will thresh the mountains and crush them
and reduce the hills to chaff.
Isn't that beautiful?
I love this.
So what do I get to practice, right?
I get to practice, Lord, thank you
that you're strengthening me, that you're with me,
that you're protecting me,
and that you're making me into a powerful kingdom weapon.
Let's go through the four things
God promised in that one thing.
Now, the reason we call this contracting with God's help
is because you think of when you write a contract,
it's rock solid.
It's like a covenant, an agreement.
You're making an agreement with God
and you're taking Him at His word.
Or again, to quote Graham,
when God grants you something,
He expects you to take Him for granted, right?
I granted it to you.
So here's what He's saying,
Isaiah 41 10, fear not, I am with you.
So here the Lord, He said, I will help you
five times in this section.
I will help you, I will help you, I will help you.
It means surely I will help you.
It's very, it's almost unprecedented in the scriptures
where God repeats Himself again and again and again,
because He wants us to be absolutely sure.
Because here's what the Father is doing for you right now.
He says, you do know that I'm going to keep reminding you of this until you become completely
confident in my goodness.
The first time the Lord said that to me, I honestly, it just wrecked me.
You know, I said, Lord, I'm thankful I don't have any meetings for a few hours because
I don't know how I have to settle down.
And when the Lord said, I want you to become 100% confident in my goodness, in my help.
We're yoked together.
I'm doing this with you.
I'm not telling you, you're going to do it for me.
That's downstairs stuff.
We don't do stuff for God.
We do it with him.
And so presence help is number one, strengthen, he'll help, he will uphold, he will go with
you.
Jesus is saying, I will go with you, I will uphold you.
So I call that presence help.
Number two, he promises protection help.
All those who are incensed against you shall be ashamed and disgraced.
Now many times we're not always talking about the people, but the spirit behind those people,
that demonic ugly thing that's of those people stepping into their old nature, whatever the
reason is, that thing gets humiliated.
Remember, there's also redemption for them.
That's why we bless those who persecute us because we want them to be redeemed too.
It's not just, well, it's healthy for you.
Yes, it is.
That's baby step one.
But the more mature thing is we want them fully redeemed in the Lord too.
So we bless them to put in them, to position them in the place of blessing so they too
can be one for the Lord.
And so it goes on and says, those who war against you shall be as nothing, a non-existent
thing.
For I, the Lord, will uphold your right hand.
So again, he says, do not fear.
So that means protection help.
So even if I step in and even if the mistake is mine, he will protect me.
Many of us maybe were raised, when I went through that terrible time in 2018 and I lost
my business and I lost so much friendships, some of them for over 30 years, I was taking
a walk in the woods and the Lord just showed me this.
He said in this gentlest voice, he said, son, why do you believe that when things go well,
you say, you give me glory, but when things go bad, you take it on yourself and say, God
had nothing to do with this.
And you think that I stand off from you waiting for you to fix it.
And I realized I do that.
Now, whether I learned that from my dad or wherever I learned, it doesn't matter.
I had that in my heart.
And the Lord said, I am with you on your best day, same as your worst, on your day that
you're just knocking it out of the park and the day you're messing it up terribly.
I do not change.
I am with you the same.
And my protection towards you is permanent, whether you're at fault or someone else is
at fault.
I'm with you.
Point number three, possession help.
So presence help, protection help, possession help.
Help you take the territory.
So God will help you make you into a threshing sledge.
That means he will make you into a powerful weapon.
And now I love this.
I will make you into a new threshing sledge with sharp teeth.
You shall thresh the mountains and beat them small.
Are you facing mountains that need to be taken out?
And many times we read this and we start with the 101 stuff, which is dealing with my mountain
in front of me.
But some of you are going to grow in and take out a mountain that the enemy has set up in
an entire industry or in a physical territory or in the church.
There are mountains that need to be taken down and God is fashioning you in his hand
together with him.
So what's the power of the instrument that, you know, the instrument has to be sharp,
but it's been wielded by his mighty right hand.
You and he are one, right?
It's not like you become a weapon by yourself.
Sword doesn't go off by itself and do that.
It's in its master's hand.
In this case, your yoke with the Lord is what takes that out.
Okay.
That's the most amazing thing.
And that is number four.
This is power provision.
So God is going to give presence help, protection help, and possession help.
I'm going to take my territory that he had purposed for him and I to do together.
Your yoke purpose.
God had a yoke purpose for you.
That's why he gives you yoke promises, because all your promises are in Christ.
Your yoke promises.
But then is the most amazing thing. Seven amazing things happen next and you're not
even involved. Rivers in the desert, springs in the valleys, and God starts to, the poor
and needy seek water but there is none. It says they're failing, they thirst and it says
then the Lord just provides. I will open rivers in desolate heights, fountains in the midst
of valleys. Listen how many times He says I will, I will, I will. I will make the wilderness
a pool of water and the dry land springs of water. I will plant in the wilderness the
cedar and the acacia tree. And He goes on and says I will set in the desert the cypress
tree. And He goes on to say, and then He puts this, and they, the world, will see and know
and consider and understand together that the hand of the Lord has done this and the
Holy One of Israel has created this. Now what I want you to catch here, it took me
a while to understand what the Lord was saying. That's level four. Level one is, I settle
the issue, the Lord is with me and He's helping go with me. Level two, I settle, He's going
to protect me. Number three, He's going to make me into a powerful weapon. Level four,
then He's going to take off and do a whole bunch of stuff and then I'm going to be associated
with it. And everyone's going to go, that Ray guy is amazing. Do you see what he did?
And then Ray's going to say, but, but, but Lord, you did it all. And He goes, I know
Ray, you're amazing. Because, because that's what the yoke is. That's the beauty of the
yoke. Okay, well, let me pause there for a second. That's us contracting with God's help
like a solid contract, a signed agreement, take it to the bank.
Questions?
Yeah, just so much, so much goodness there. I really had to learn that, you know, I would
get, I don't even know if it was a promise, but I would get like a prompt or something.
And then I would draw all these conclusions. Oh, this is what it looks like. Oh, it's good.
Oh, this, like, I mean, I was so convinced that he, this one time in San Diego, I got
this nudge and I just ran with it in my mind that I was going to be I'm going to heal everyone
in that room. Like everything supernatural, right? Kingdom normal, I know. And, and then
afterwards, I'm like, Lord, I even hear from you, then I start to question it, then I'm
feeling bad about it, then I start to doubt. And, and so I just, I just learned, like,
you know, your, your will over my desire. And I'm totally great with whatever, whatever
you do, you know, and, you know, and so I learned the distinction of, you know, prompts
versus promise.
Yeah, for sure. The way the Lord phrased it with me was, I've given you a place to stand
in my heart. That's a safe place under the shadow of my wing. Stay there. I didn't give
you outcome as a place to stand. So I think what we've learned, what somewhere we learned
that that's an expression of faith. But we can't faith it. That's believerism trying
to faith it. And we faith it and faith it and then it doesn't faith and then we now
we're confused. But Lord, didn't you say and I thought I heard you and do not do I not
hear you properly? It's because what we're doing there is we're blending upstairs and
downstairs learning together. And it was that when I realized the Lord there, think about
he has a promise and here's an outcome. How many ways can you connect these two? You can
go via the ceiling, via the floor, via over there. So would you agree close to an infinite
number of pathways between these two points? What's the probability that the one you speculated
on was going to be the one? Yeah, zero, basically. And so if it coincidentally is the one, it
doesn't matter. But what I found is that way, if I don't see the promise fully fulfilled,
I know we're just not there yet. And you win more wars through patience. One of the one
of the routines we'll learn is patience as a weapon. You'll win more, you'll do more
spiritual warfare and take out more enemies with patience than you will with actual spiritual
warfare. Just saying. Can you say that? Sorry, go ahead. Rebecca, will you pin me just a
like whoever's collaborating with him? So I'll give you a fun one.
He, you know, God had me start doing a Monday journal where I
I prey on these different categories and I ask,
I don't have, well, I could actually pull up the questions.
He gave me these exact questions to ask.
Okay, what is the increased growth profit impact?
What are your intentions and any actions for me to take?
Which it's almost always the action,
what action do you want me to take is almost always never.
I'm like, nah, like I don't have to do anything.
Most of the times is what I get.
And so one week he gave me, okay,
this program is gonna grow by 10,000 this week.
And that's why, actually, let me, the word was make.
You're gonna make 10,000 from this this week.
And so I'm like, oh, okay, all right, great.
And so I get to six days in, it hasn't made nearly that.
And then day seven, then day, Lord, did I not hear you?
And so I prayed with a friend of mine
and he said, that word make,
like sometimes it's seed, sometimes it's harvest.
And what's interesting is I had a guy reach out to me
during that week, that the next week I made 20,000.
And so I've learned, okay, when I'm getting a number,
like, okay, is that seed, is that harvest?
Like, what does that look like?
Because there's actually been quite a few things
where I've gotten a number and that number didn't happen,
but now I've gone backwards and prayed and all of,
most of it, any of the times that the number
that I had in my head didn't happen, it was seed.
And so, you know, that gave me some good stuff.
I think you're going through 2 Corinthians 9, 6, is it?
And-
9, 6 through 13, yeah.
Yeah, that is, every kingdom business person
should have memorized that, certainly fully got that down
because God says, I will give you seed to sow
and bread to eat.
Right.
And so that means dollars come in and we say,
Lord, is this seed or is this bread?
Can I eat this or is this to sow?
And so two quick stories.
I just started my business.
So I was just come out of the military,
myself and another guy built
in the electronic warfare division where I was an officer.
I don't know how they give a young kid, 26 years old,
hundreds of millions of dollars of weaponry,
but they did to me, you know, you're an engineer,
you know, whatever it is.
And so we're going to start our first business
and our first client, and we're doing really well.
And so we got two checks coming, our first two checks,
and we didn't know whether it was going to be, you know,
the thousand dollar check or the $50,000 check.
And, but we said to the Lord,
whichever it's going to be, first fruits are yours,
whether it's the 10 or the 50, or the one or the 50.
And so it turned out to be the one.
And we gave that away.
And we framed that, that was our first fruits check.
Now that's a very Old Testament idea,
but when you pull it through the cross,
what it means is Jesus is the first fruits, right?
He goes first, we respond.
He goes first.
So Lord is this, and then the scripture says,
he will give you,
he will increase the storehouse of your seed.
He never says you'll increase your bread.
Bread.
Never.
Right?
We want the bread.
No, we'll give you the bread.
I need to eat.
I need to pay the bills.
I need to do payroll this month, right?
We go through that.
And the Lord says, I will, sorry,
the second story is we were taking on a project
and it was a really big project.
And the Lord said to me, this is a big project.
And, and I need a lot of capital to do it.
I'll tell you the number.
I needed $30 million to do it.
And, and I said to the Lord,
wow, I could have raised $30 million.
I'm a young kid.
Well, I'm not kid, but I'm like 31 years old.
I've never raised that kind of money.
I'd raised like one and a half million,
which I thought I was a genius at doing,
gave away way too much of my company doing it.
But anyway, and so the Lord said,
this is how I'm going to do this.
In the kingdom, you can't get a harvest from stuff
there is no seed in the ground.
So I said, Lord, I need seed.
I need a lot of seed.
I don't know how much seed 30 million is,
but you know, I need seed.
So I just said, every check I get on from now until,
okay, that's going to be seed.
And I said, Lord, I'm just going to give it away.
Even if I'm reckless with giving it away,
I'm going to give it to the church.
I'm going to give it to non-profits.
I'm just going to give it all away until you tell me,
you know, we've got enough seed in the ground.
And that's what I did.
Here's the most amazing thing.
The first check I got in.
Was the guys who already had put in the one-and-a-half which is the biggest life insurance come privately held life insurance company in the United
States owned by one guy and they'd owned 13 insurance companies and he called me said man
We need a bigger stake of this thing. We love what you're doing your tech company
I had about 80 software programmers working in Atlanta and
He said how much do you need? I said I needed 30 million
I've you know went up to Kansas City did the presentation to him and he said I can't do 30
But I can do 15 and he says but if I do 15, I bet you one of our partners will do it
well the biggest
Group in the country who run all your mutual funds 85% of all the mutual fund transactions in the United States
Goes through a company called DST systems and DST put up the other 15 million
Now I could have never
No strategist could have come up with that nobody could have cleverly thought that out
That just happened
happened
so that some of us are keep asking for big harvest, but there's no seed and
Then I've been the next level. I learned about seed since we're talking about money here was
The Lord said don't just give it away recklessly like you did last time. He's very kind with our learning, isn't he?
It's like yeah, that was okay because that's the level you were at you were but now we're moving it up a level now
I want you to give where you your spiritual equity is
Ray you and I talked briefly about this today, I think and so
Jesus said we are treasuries there your heart will be also
Many believers do the downstairs thing of well, I don't have a heart for that. So I don't give to that
That's a downstairs thing upstairs is Oh father. We have a heart for that
I don't have yet. I better get some seed in the ground. My heart needs to be in that thing and
I realized that your seed
Steers your heart and you think that's a very trivial things. No, what's not the first thing?
I'm responding to the Lord saying our yoke together. We're getting into this. We need to be we need to give time
We need to give money. We need to be all in we need spiritual equity in this thing
Here's the hardest one level three of that learning was the Lord said now do that for yourself
In your own education now you came on this program
When you signed up for this thing, you did that you were at that level three you
So seed into your own kingdom learning what you did is you co-invested in yourself with God?
That's what makes it and when I learned that I realized I must help believers do that
Because it's amazing how many times the believers who go out of their way to
Sow into something that the father has said yes to now that it gets manipulative
You can see that it has potential to be manipulative, right?
We're not talking about that's why our counter answer to that is whatever upstairs permission leads to downstairs action
The reason is you only ask father. Are we doing this because we're removing all the downstairs manipulative stuff
So that they will sow into the kingdom and reap a rich reward
The scripture goes on in that scriptures so that you will have everything you need and you can be generous on every occasion
That's God's plan here
everything you need
Generous on every occasion why because you've learned he's generous heart. Remember how we said it goes from his heart to yours
See, it's our hearts. It's us. We don't try it. We're not trying to get a generous heart
We have a generous heart because that's our new nature. Now. We're practicing that generous heart to be like him
We just gave away
the main thing
That's the main thing right there
It really is because it's his generous heart in you that will move the world
So I
think that
I think that
So I just just you know, the Holy Spirit is really excited at the moment
So let me try to tune in a little bit here. Excuse me for a minute
And that is I think some of you just don't have enough seed in the ground what you're doing
So I think some of you already picked up on that. No condemnation. That's your joy
You've got to be a joyful giver by the way, or it isn't seed
You've got to be a cheerful
You've got to be in the reason you're happy is because you're doing it with him in partnership with him father
We're doing this. So that's some of you doing that
Some of you I think are in a position where you don't have a heart for a thing
That the Lord wants you to have a heart for and that's just you sewing into that thing time money and so on into something
and I and I but I do think that
There are some of you right here right now
that are in for a huge harvest.
You've done that, you've been with the Lord in that,
you've been listening to the Lord in that,
and the harvest comes at a time that is overwhelming.
And you just sit in God, and you just cry
because you're so overwhelmed.
You know, I said to Bridget the other day,
in fact, over the weekend, I said,
no, let's not do any Thanksgiving right now,
because if I start that, I'm gonna be a wreck
for the next few hours, and I have to function.
We had a Saturday afternoon thing with Ray,
and I just couldn't, I couldn't go,
I said, I'll do it after, because it'll just wreck me.
I'll just start to, I just start to think
of everything he's done, and then it's overwhelming.
You know, it's just overwhelming,
his goodness and his kindness.
So, guys, I hope you enjoyed that.
That was the first six months,
wrapped up, halfway through.
Back to you, Ray.
What questions do you have?
Well, you've got a few minutes.
What questions do you have for Dion?
I snagged some of his time,
but would you like to ask him?
Would you, I've got a hard stop in about five, 10 minutes,
and you mentioned something about spiritual warfare,
and it didn't sink in, and I would love to hear it again.
Yeah, we'll actually get into it,
I think, in a month or two's time.
It's about patience as a weapon.
Okay.
And the reason patience is a weapon,
firstly, patience is part of your new nature.
Remember, you can go and read Galatians 5.
The fruit of the spirit is a description
of your new nature in Christ.
So, you're not, you're practicing being loving
because you have his heart,
because you're a loving person.
You're not trying to become a loving person
or a patient person.
So, patience, the reason patience is so effective
is because the enemy has none.
Think about what caused him to fall,
right in the beginning, was impatience.
He wanted to be like God, there was an impatience.
So, what impatience is,
is when I don't want to rely on our yoke anymore,
I want it now, I wanna push ahead.
I don't wanna be in step, I want to be the architect,
I wanna be in control, I want it now, I'm pushing.
So, impatience is a kind of rebellion,
and it's a kind of distrust,
because if you think of faith,
most of faith is just childlike trust.
Father, I trust you.
That's the heart of all faith, right?
And the scripture doesn't say have faith in God,
that's our English translation for you.
It's actually the faith of God,
in and of don't exist in the Greek.
We infer them, we infer those words into English,
which unfortunately are rather misleading.
But pistis in the Greek literally means the faith of God,
have the faith of God.
And that's why you can be faithful,
because you have his faith.
Well, I don't have enough faith for that.
Good news, that person's dead.
That striving person trying to make it all happen.
Amen.
It was a sad day, you got a death certificate for that one.
And now you have a birth certificate,
you can say yes to the new with a birth certificate, yeah.
So, we have his faith, exactly.
The Bible sometimes calls it the gift of faith.
Was that short enough?
That's great, that's great.
We can also talk about business stuff.
I mean, I know this is my main job here is to do this piece
because we promised that.
Business questions, any business questions for Dion?
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
I get to talk to Dion all the time.
So, like I talk to him literally every day.
Dawn, Dawn's getting hungry.
Good.
Actually, I guess this is business
and the topic of this evening
and the planting, the seeds.
I guess I'd like you to just dig into that a little bit more.
I believe I understand, but yet I feel like
there's something, he shows me where to plant.
I'm planting, but I wanna make sure that I'm planting
for that, I'm truly understanding
what you're saying about it.
Sure, I was just gonna drop you a quick summary
that will go very quickly to that.
So,
Got it. I found what I was looking for.
We often talk about
why the four keys to your giving
and the principles associated. I'm just going to drop it here in the chat for you.
There we go. Okay, so there it is. I hope it's probably a bit of a mess because it
came straight from Google Docs, but basically you have four keys to your giving. I don't see it.
Can you, did it not go through?
Oh, it's saying it's too much. It's saying I dropped too much at once. Give me, I'll do it
in two parts. Four keys to your giving. Can you just drop it like Rebecca did with the other
as a PDF? Oh, there we go. Here's the first one and here's the script.
So can I, how do I save this? Oh, you can copy it. Yeah, you can copy it. Sometimes it doesn't
let me copy. Okay, I will quickly make it. I'm going to try copying it. No, it's not letting
me copy. Yeah, I'll do it for you. Yeah, in a second. So I'll drop it here in a minute. So
I've already created a new document. Thank you. Okay, there we go.
Okay, let me talk while I'm doing this. So the four keys, yep, now I've got it already.
Where did they go? I've got five screens. I've got to go and find where it popped up.
Oh, there it is. Okay, got it. Four keys to your giving.
So yeah, that was a little bit messy for you. Here's more of a
PDF. Thank you. Yeah, you know, and I think that where I started getting confused was
the seed and the bread. Yeah. You know, and as I'm reading this, it's making more sense. Yeah.
Okay, so let's go through it. So the four principles, the four main things here are
principle of sowing and reaping. So like a farmer, sow seed, and that's what you reap,
right? So nobody goes up to the farmer and says, you evil farmer, you, the only reason you plant
seed is because you want to harvest, you mean evil thing, right? So nobody talks to the farmer
that way. So Jesus is simply saying, or Paul is using the example here, it's the same, right?
The second principle is called giving from freedom. Each of you should give what is decided
in their own heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion. We never give under compulsion.
So what's kingdom normal is nobody manipulates you into giving and you don't manipulate yourself
into forgiving. That's why it means give with a generous heart, right? We give generously because
we're not manipulating ourselves or feeling manipulated. Neither do we try to manipulate
God. We don't create a spreadsheet and say, okay, I gave $1,000, you owe me. I was raised with that
belief. He puts it on your heart and you just do it out of obedience and wanting to
follow his direction. Let's upgrade from servant mode, obedience, to sonship, boy and girl sons.
Um, so you're a daughter of the king. And now as a daughter, he's helping you understand what
he's doing. Jesus said, I don't call you servants anymore because servants don't know what their
master is doing. I call you friends. So when you're in friend mode with God or yoke mode,
he's saying we're doing this because it's important that we open up this new territory.
We're setting up this new space. We're going into this space. We need to sow into this space.
Ah. So what's happening is you are, you're are cooperating. You're his hands and feet.
And so it's not just pure giving out of obedience. We don't know what's going on. We don't understand.
So you can ask the Lord, Lord, what is this opening up for me? What is this giving? What,
what should my expectation be for what we're going to go into together if we do this?
And then the next thing is the Lord's goal. Now, remember he has a God,
God is able to bless you abundantly so that in all things at all times,
you'll be enriched in every way. So you can be generous on every.
Occasion, so what's the lord saying is that?
If you start stepping into the generosity of my heart
Then that that you become the first fruit principle of it meaning you get to taste it first you yourself become blessed
So that you can be generous on every occasion. Well, what happens if you keep being generous on every occasion?
More flows through you, right?
So people say well i'm not interested in the money. That's that's dumb
Of course
Right. I think it's a lie
I wouldn't say that in a church context, but it really from a business point of view
The reason it's dumb is because you're stripping away a whole portion of the yoke
The joy of the yoke we're doing this father. Oh, we're giving he wants you to do it with understanding
And therefore because of the understanding there's joy
We're doing this. We're opening up this territory. We're investing in this. We're putting seed in the ground
We're opening up this new thing
And then I know that the lord knows what I need and he's going to enrich me in every way
And by the way, you give financially
enriched in every way means relationship and influence and
Health and so you're giving out just a one small way and you're reaping in a huge upstairs way
It's what god is the lord's promising and then he says it's our bit. It's like a business partnership
You know, like all of a sudden i'm realizing like we're doing this together
and so all i'm doing is
Abiding in that resting in that and i'm getting
A piece of it from everything that's right
Exactly. I get it. He calls it yoke
Yoke. Yeah
My yoke, that's why it's easy
That's why it's easy and that's why your burden becomes light
You see he said
The yoke doesn't work if we stressed out
See stress is is me feeling it's all on me
Stress is me not realizing he's in it with me me not realizing
That he and I are one
And so yoke says hey think of yoke as he puts his arm around you, but or he also signed the agreement now your partners
But you know what he's gonna do, right?
He's gonna pull 90 of the load and then you're gonna pull 10. He's gonna say look what dawn did
I
I could sit here the whole night and tell stories and spawn stories when the lord did that he set me up in board meetings
I get it. I get a word of knowledge and i'd say something and it would be exactly what we need and and the guys
That's why we have you on this board and and i'm thinking lord. That was
100 percent you and the lord says I know you're a genius. I agree with him, you know, he has so much fun
He's playful with this. He's not as sour as we think he is
He's really playful. He loves, you know, he's the he's such a joyful person
And that's what he wants for you that your peace is permanent. Your joy is permanent even in tough circumstances
Jesus said you will have trouble
What's the answer but be of good cheer?
Be happy for i've overcome the world why we're in partnership
You're in partnership with the overcomer
Isn't that amazing though?
You can't lose
It doesn't mean your business will initially work or not work, but doesn't matter you start another one, but somewhere along the line it'll work
He's an overcomer
You're not you're not happy because bad stuff's happening. You're happy because you're with it in with the overcomer. That's why you're happy
So and and you know, there's an upgrade
Always an upgrade
If you're going through a trial or challenge, there's always an upgrade
Always an upgrade
He's just too kind to in fact, he's usually trying to sneak in two or three other upgrades
right
You go back, you know, uh you
You know one of the things we teach at the school, uh leadership is that the lord is working
Let the lord be the architect on the thing you're working on. Don't don't you work on your stuff self, right?
So let him work on what you're working on
And then put the other let him keep the other stuff in storage
But then when he's finished working on that you go back to storage and half the stuff he's missing
He said lord, where's that selfishness? And I said, well while we were doing this we quickly fixed this this this and this
That's what happens when he gets involved
He's just you just blow your mind with kindness and you go I thought we were still going to work on that
No, no that that we covered that already
I already handled that. Thanks. Anyway, I got it. Yeah, he takes care of it. So
Well, I know we have a few minutes over there but um, yeah
I love hanging out with you guys
Yeah, I appreciate you dion everyone. Give some give some love to dion. Thank you dion. Thank you. Thank you so much
incredible night
Appreciate you
Great. Well, thank you so much and
We'll see you next month.
Yes.
I'll probably see you tomorrow.
I'll see you every day.
Yeah.
Thanks.
All right, you got it.
Appreciate it.
Awesome.
So good.
I love that.
I love that recap.
I love him going through.
It's always good reminders and going through all of that.
And so, yeah, I've had a busy few days here.
How can I help you?
Is there anything I can help you with?
Feel free to raise your hand.
I'm here for you.
Kim, you got something?
I feel like you got something.
Darn it.
I was contemplating.
However, it's not business.
It's actually health.
I want to know how I can align myself with biblical living
for this vessel.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, I just can't believe what he's done with me.
And it's because my whole life I battled with food
because I was starved as a kid.
Eating was freedom.
And he's made it so easy.
I mean, I'm like this close to having six-pack abs.
And that's just so crazy.
And when I meet, when I run into people, they're like, oh my God,
I didn't even recognize you, but in a good way.
Like, wow.
And when I saw Dion, when I went to Brilliance a couple of weeks
ago, he's like, dude, you look 20 years younger.
And so I just gave the Lord permission.
I said, Lord, I give you permission.
Make me excellent in every way.
And tell me.
I give you permission.
Tell me what to eat.
Tell me what to drink.
And sometimes he led me to someone who would give me a tip.
And I have prayed this.
I'm like, Lord, is what you have me do,
is that what everyone should do?
No.
It's different.
Like, I don't eat any fruit.
I don't eat.
Like, there's a lot of stuff that I
would think that the biohackers would tell me to eat.
A lot of the stuff that biohackers say,
I get a no to.
But so I just, I eat a lot of protein.
I eat meat.
I drink water.
That's it.
Sometimes lemon, not very often.
And I don't have any alcohol or anything like that.
But that doesn't mean that's the right fit for you.
But I would ask, Lord, what is it?
And it's interesting.
My first year with Christ, I did do a lot of fasting.
I think I did three seven-day fasts, not in a row.
But he's only had me fast and only for one day
in this probably last year, maybe.
So he doesn't have me fast very much.
But that may be different.
That may be different for you.
And so it's just, what I realized
was just how gentle he is.
He wants you to come to that conclusion
and surrender without like a force.
And so as long as you're, I really believe
if you surrender, Lord, show me.
Show me what to do.
And all of a sudden, you'll be on Instagram
and a video will stand out to you.
And it'll be about whatever, face plunging
or something like that.
You know, like he had me, when I was out in California,
this is probably the most different thing I do
than most people, is he had me have lunch with a guy.
And I said, oh, what are you getting to drink?
And he goes, oh, I don't drink when I eat.
I'm like, you don't drink when you eat?
He goes, yeah, no, I wait 30 minutes.
And here's why.
And I actually heard that.
The only other time I ever heard that was in Israel.
And some of the Jewish people said that.
And so I prayed to Lord, Lord, do you want me to do that?
Yeah, and so every once in a while,
you may catch my timer go off
and you see me chug a water.
And so I don't drink any water when I eat.
And like 30 minutes before or after
is when I'll drink anything, I only drink water.
And, but it's been easy.
You know, my kids, they had an early, you know,
Easter thing, so there was 50 million Reese cups out there.
In the past, I would have taken them all down, all of them.
I mean, I would have like hit him for my kids like when they're not like
Like I don't crave any of that stuff. He's made it really easy
And so I don't know if you if you mean just like diet, but whatever whatever you mean
Give him permission Lord. I give you permission Lord. Thank you for walking me through this and
You know, he guided me to people that gave me different exercises. He guided me to
Different ads like I saw this ad on these
These things that you wrap around
bars to make lifting them heavier or harder and so it builds your like I have I gripped these dumbbells like this instead of
like this right and so like he asked me to like these weird hacks and
and
He's led me through that to do these things. And and so it's just it's just been a blast. It's been so cool
That's amazing. That's amazing
But it hasn't I look back and I feel like there's so many like I remember I did this one
diet where everything came in these little packets and you had to
Mix them and everything and most of them taste terrible and like I've I've I've tried to lose this kind of weight before on my own
And I tried all kinds of things that work for other people and I couldn't get it to work
It's just been easy
And that's what he'll do he'll make you know, whatever
Whatever you give him permission to and surrender to him. He'll make easy
Awesome. Yeah, okay
Thank you for that. I mean when I heard your story you did your your live about kind of your routine
It really resonated with me. I mean I grew up on food stamps, you know my story mom would trade those in for her cigarettes
So I either ate yeah off the kids trays at lunch at school or and that I realized when you said that oh my gosh
It's freedom. I can make my own choice and indulge and binge and that leads to the next thing. So
I have been sugar-free for about six months now
but
There's a lot of room for improvement. So this is absolutely my next step
Yeah
He'll guide you he'll guide you awesome
Where else can I help guys
By the guys you guys do not ding me nearly enough on boxer you should be
Let me help. You don't have to wait till these meetings. You're gonna be asking me questions all the time
I'd love to help you guys
Carry you got something. I feel like you got something. Well, that's really funny
actually, and I'll have to ding me on it because it's probably more than what you can want to deal with right now, but
looking to
Doing some reach outs doing some prospecting on LinkedIn and so looking
I've already have something that I have typically used in a just kind of a check interest message
But wondering what your thoughts were, especially specifically on LinkedIn
where
Obviously, it's a different bird. I mean people are used to
You know being being approached for opportunities and options
You know, do you keep it small? Do you keep it short? Do you keep it simple or do you?
Do an invitation or a check interest message that maybe it's a little bit more?
Humane, you know, I don't know. I don't know
Check interest message that maybe it's a little bit more
Uh, here's some more detail of who we are and what we're looking for is does is are you a fit for that?
any thoughts
Yeah, I mean i'd be more than happy. I've you know, bring up your message. I'd love i'd love to hear it. Um, but i'm
You know, I found the people like I I never did a ton of prospecting on LinkedIn
But I know people who have and I know people who have gotten results
It's not that different right? It really isn't. Um, I just
You know you we can we can kind of build it up in our mind of oh
It needs to be more professional or it needs to be more business oriented or something like that
I think psychology psychology and so
it's um
You know i'm going to
Uh get to the point
Because if if they don't know me
That is a universal
Get to the point. Don't don't don't give me a big long
diatribe and and
You know try to befriend me like like get to the point. What are you? What is it? What do you want?
Why should I consider what you're doing like getting to the point is is I think universal if if they don't know you
And and if they do know you
Get into the point too
But in a just a little bit nicer way
nicer is probably not the right word, but
um
In a longer term way. Hey, i'd love to catch up. But listen i'm on this project
and
your name popped in my head, would you be at all open take a
look at this thing and then whether whether you're
interested or not, more than happy, let's schedule time to
catch up. So it would just be a little bit longer term kind of
kind of play. All right. Okay. But do you have your your script
or your I don't have it. I don't have it in front of me right
now. No, I was just I was I was I had been working on it earlier.
And that's why I was asking because in some some some
thought process that I've heard where they were going way
deeper in the context of, in other words, going the next
level in conversation up front, versus just starting the
conversation and then going from there is I'm saying.
Yeah, usually, you'll have to show me example, usually, I'm
going to be against that usually I'm going to have short in
prospecting, marketing, different story, like some, some
of you saw the Sunday video I did. Very thorough, it's an
hour, it's an hour long. And I share the whole origin story. I
mean, I share I share two different examples like I in
marketing, that's a different story. In prospecting, I'm
typically going to be get to the point, see openness, then a
little bit more. That's usually what I'm gonna be. But I'll,
but I'll take a look at it whenever, whenever you'd like,
for sure. Okay. Did I ever have you heard my favorite LinkedIn
story? It involves Malaysia? Have you heard this? So I'll
tell you the full story. I don't always tell the full story
because sometimes I worry for people. But my buddy, Eric, and
one of the companies I was in years ago, the company was
opening in Malaysia. And so he's on LinkedIn, just hammering
out, you know, just just prospecting people in Malaysia,
anyone and everyone in Malaysia, like he doesn't know anyone. And
so he gets this guy and the guy says, Hey, me and my partner
interested. You know, why don't you come over? And so here's the
part that I don't always share. So Eric goes to his wife and
says, Hey, don't pay the mortgage. I have a good feeling
on this. I'm gonna fly to Malaysia. He flies to Malaysia
meets up with a guy James and I forget the other guy's name.
He's a big insurance guy meets up with these two guys, they
move forward. That team starts putting in over 25,000 people a
month. They have a center that like five, six days a week, they
have 1000 people a night in this thing. And so like, I don't know
how much he made. I mean, it's got to be at least a half a
million that would be on the extremely conservative side, but
more likely probably a couple million. And so that was cold
prospecting on Malaysia, new country open, like, you know,
that that's a, that's a real story. And that's, you know,
that's my favorite.
Yeah, absolutely. Wow. Okay, thanks.
So just you just you just never know.
Right. Very cool. And then beyond that, I mean, beyond that,
you know, I think that just a word about tonight about Deon's
stuff. Yeah. Because, you know, my, my past has been where, where
I, I would even in the context of our business feel like that.
I don't know if I told you this, when we started our business,
whatever it was 14 years ago. That's right. When, you know, we
had been listening to the art of thinking brilliantly. And it was
literally was shifting our mindset, because, you know, we
had just lost everything. And, you know, literally everything.
And just looking at it from a much different perspective. So
then when we started our business, you know, I was,
that's literally how I was starting my business. It was,
okay, God, today, you know, who do you want me to talk to? You
want me to go meet, you know, and just, and what transpired in
that process was no nothing. I mean, nothing that I could see
is probably the better way of saying that nothing that I could
see. And I am that person that he was talking about where, you
know, I then got discouraged, because I'm like, Okay, God,
this is what we were doing. But we're not I'm literally mean,
you know, for months and months, and not really seeing any
results out of that. And then kind of went back to downstairs
thinking of Yeah, if it's going to be it's up to me. Yeah. And
so, you know, find myself
still sometimes connected to the downstairs thinking.
For sure.
They gotta unlatch and recognize that that's not
kingdom thinking.
Yeah, for sure.
I mean, I think I'm doing that less and less,
but there's still a piece of that, right?
There's still a, wait a minute,
you're gonna run with this thing?
You're gonna do this?
You don't need me to do anything on that?
It's gotten better, but yeah.
Yeah, I'm actually going through
Art of Thinking brilliantly right now.
It's so good.
So good.
Yeah, Graham's amazing.
Yep, absolutely.
So thank you.
And for those that love Dion,
I mean, Dion's been studying Graham for like 20 years,
and so he's just got it down pretty darn good.
Pretty darn good.
Yeah, it's clear, like if you listen to Graham at all,
when Dion's speaking, you're hearing Graham.
I mean. Yes, yes.
Yeah, you are.
I mean, they have, multiple times a week,
they'll have three, four, five hour conversations,
and they've been doing that for years.
And so, yeah, it's good, it's good.
Dawn, anything I can help you with, my dear?
Well, I definitely have some things
that I've been working on, and not asking you.
Please ask.
Well, and you know, I guess I had it in my mind backwards,
like I thought I was just gonna be given more direction
from the other side, and not,
me having to come up with where, what to ask you.
So sometimes I'm not even sure what to ask you.
But I've come up with some things tonight.
I want to definitely be exploring more speaking,
and you're an expert in that.
And so, I mean, I just, I need some guidance,
for where to start, and you've shared some things with me
in the past, like I'm totally open doing it for free,
like you had said, but I really need
some step-by-step direction for what to do next.
And now that I have some of my books out,
I have the devotional that just came out,
which I'm really excited about,
and I really want to be able to share more with more people.
And I believe that the Lord is guiding me
in that direction.
And obviously I want to make money doing it,
but that's not even the motivation.
The motivation is I know God's put it in me.
Sure.
And so, yeah, so, you know,
and you can boxer me on it or whatever,
and I loved what you sent me today, totally.
I listen to him every day, sometimes for hours,
like while I'm doing other things, I'm listening.
And so it's constant, just constant.
Yeah.
And, you know, every once in a while,
I share it in the boxer group,
because I'm like, oh, she really needs to listen to this.
Because it's been transforming for me.
And going over these lessons again,
is just, I'm just, I'm blown away constantly,
just blown away.
And so I hesitate sometimes, Ray,
because I don't want to be,
I want to be getting direction.
I want to be looking,
but I'm also wanting to really be guided too.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, so not trying to go,
okay, Dawn, you need to do this, this, and this.
And okay, ask Ray about this, this, and this.
And, you know, and so,
and I really liked what he said tonight too.
So it's not even being obedient, it's just yoking.
Yeah.
So I'm really, I've been working a lot on the yoking.
Yeah.
And it's, so it's a little, it's just a little,
it's still a shift for me of the,
that, you know, action taking gone. Right? And like what you
were saying earlier, it's like, Oh, God, you don't want me to
do anything. Right? It's like, so like, for example, the, the I
guess, fuller story is this during that week, like when God
said, you're gonna make X amount, and in this program, and
you don't need to do anything. And I'm like, okay. And the guy
asked me, it was while we're on the cruise, that his referrals
generate 20,000 to me. And so like, I didn't have to do
anything. And and so I will tell you what, what I got prompted
with. And when it comes to speech, right? I think the big
mistake that a lot of people make is they're like, well, if
someone offered me a stage, I'd come up with a speech. And it
actually is the opposite. Yeah, it's you. So he's been giving
me talks. And I've been so happy recorded those. I haven't
recorded them. So you take whatever talk he gives you.
Okay, that's a video. Each of those talks he gives you is a
video. And when people hear that video, they're going to see you
on their stage. And so it's it's create the speech, do the
speech, then the stage will appear. Most people think if the
if the stage appears, then I'll do my speech. Yes, that's the
wrong way.
Well, and you taught me that, too, you know that I need to
know what I'm what I'm talking about, what I'm supposed to be
sharing, what you do, you do know, it's just let other
people see that
because that that was a that was a fear in the past of like,
yeah, what are you going to talk about? Well, I feel like I've
gotten a lot of downloads about that, but I've never made
videos. And so I'll definitely do that. That's great.
Because that's because that's stage one stage one is your
phone, right? That's that's stage one.
Well, that's what that that's, that's a good answer. That's
good. Like, I can sit I can do that step easy. So I'll do
that. Good. Yeah. Yeah. And then I do have some other things with
the coaching that, you know, I want to, I've made some tweaks
and and I've been hesitant on the webinar because I because I
was just like, Oh, should I be changing some of this up based
on what you sent me? You know, and so maybe I should just send
you the webinar stuff and you can look at it and then
yeah, like today I was there's a I was helping someone with
their they have a $20,000 coaching proposal for a company
and the the most common problem with something like that is we
tend to talk all about the delivery not the destination.
Yeah. And so we talked about we're going to get six zooms
and you're going to get three hours and you're going to get
the end and that's that's all the what it is. But people buy
what it does. What's the transformation? And so you know,
we have to include that. And then I'm like, Okay, who are
you presenting this to? And she told me and the characteristics
she described is clearly a red guy, you know, red personality
type, but she has a seven page small print offer. And I'm like,
yeah, he ain't gonna read this. You need it. You can have five
bullet points. Exactly. You need a cover sheet with five bullet
points. What what can you expect? And they're going to
look at is this worth $20,000? Okay, I'll do it and they won't
read the rest. And and so I'm happy to look at whatever, you
know, whatever you got. I do this. Okay. Yeah, I can send you
my slot. I'm not sure how I can send you my slides. You can
email it to me. It's Ray at Higdon group.com. Okay, slides.
Slides are very fast for me to yeah. Well, and that you know,
those are the tweaks probably where, you know, I know you've
done that in the past with other people's stuff and said, take
this out, shift this around, you know, yeah. So and that's kind
of where I'm at with it. So I will definitely send you the
slides. And I'm happy to throw a little information in there in
between. So you can know what I'm saying. But
of course, awesome. I'm excited to help. And
you know, I've been, you know, like I said, I've been
hesitant. It's like, what am I supposed to be asking? Yeah, I
don't know. I'm just working.
Yeah.
So how I've gotten the most value from, because a lot, a lot of programs you join, you don't have that kind of access to the guru or whatever, right?
You just show up, they have a curriculum, you either snap into it or you don't, and so when I've had access, I'm basically looking at, okay, what am I doing?
Do they know anything about it? Let me, let me just run things by them. Hey, I'm thinking I'm going to do this. What do you think about that?
And that's usually when I've gotten brilliance from Russell Brunson, from Cardone, from, you know, Joe Polish, from Hoverson, from, you know, it's, it's, it's, I'm doing this thing.
What do you think about this? What would you tweak? And that's usually when I, at least in these kind of programs, have gotten a lot of value.
That's good. That's good to know. And because it's, you know, I've had coaching with you, which again, is a completely different setup, right?
And, and done other, so many other things with you, but this, so this has been new for me. And I just felt like, I'm not, I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing.
Does that, does this help this conversation?
Oh, yes. Yes. Because I was feeling, I was feeling frustrated. I'm like, you know, I mean, I love this, like the monthly thing, but it's not enough for me to quantify the whole thing, you know, so sure. So that's very good. Yeah, no, I might even just say, hey, help me come up with a couple slides.
I'm happy to. I mean, I can't help it. When I see someone's offer, I have, I'm going to tell you, this is how I would pitch that. Yeah. Add this, change this. Great. Well, that's good. I'm ready for that. So, yeah, cool.
That would be very helpful. Thank you. Awesome. Well, I appreciate you guys. If you get anything else, just hit me up, please. It is never a bother. You guys are, I'm just so grateful for you guys. I'm honored that you're here with us and put me, put me to work. Anything I can help with. I'm more than happy to. And Rebecca's more than happy to help you in any way she can as well. And so appreciate you guys.
I did send you a message on Instagram, by the way, a couple of weeks ago about something that a decision that I had made. Yeah. And I think you might have missed the message because you didn't respond to that specific thing. So I can send it in a box.
You send me the daily things, which I, it was, it was a, it was a kind of a lengthier message. And I should have sent it in boxer. I don't know. I guess because you joined a new company. Is that the one you're referring to? Yeah. Okay, cool. All right. I'll I'll read it and I'll respond to it. I did. You're right. I did miss it because it's right in between the Bible thing.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, and that's why. So, so that I, you know, I'll probably add into some of that on the boxer thing then too. Perfect. Awesome. Happy to help. Thank you. All right, guys. Appreciate it. Appreciate you guys. Rebecca as well. Yay. Thanks guys. All the things that you do. Thank you. You're welcome. Okay. Goodnight, everyone. Bye.