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Well, I'm, uh, I would assume there'll be a few more join us.

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Uh, I don't know if people have special plans this week or, or what, or what's

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going on, but, um, but yeah, Kim, Kim's been busy, Dion.

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Yeah.

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I've seen your name, Kim on the app.

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And I think I commented on one of yours as well.

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Yeah.

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So, well, welcome to this and to brilliant to the ambassador program.

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Thank you so much.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So, uh, Dion, I'm gonna let you, I'm gonna let you run it.

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Um, Kim, I would, uh, yeah, I'm just, just excited.

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I know, I know you're excited too.

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So that's an understatement.

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Uh, Rebecca, would you pray us in?

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Yes.

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Happy to heavenly father, Lord God, thank you for bringing us together this evening.

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Lord, thank you for your precious presence.

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Um, we just thank you for being with us and knowing so well what we need tonight.

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God, I thank you for Dion and for Ray, for their wisdom and for the value we

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can glean each month on these calls.

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I just pray that you help us not be hearers Lord, but doers also give us

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the wisdom and discernment we need as we navigate the intricacies of our

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business lives and where it is you're calling us Lord, I pray that you help

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us strengthen the muscle of hearing your voice and getting in step with you.

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Father, would you help us remain present tonight with the posture?

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We need to receive all that you have in store for us.

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We come with thankful expectant hearts, just full of gratitude for who you

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are and the nature of how you are.

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We love you.

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And we welcome you tonight, Lord, have your way.

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We just trust you to guide us and pray these things in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Beautiful, beautiful.

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Well, Dion, you gave me a sneak peek.

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I think tonight's going to be a real treat.

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So I'm excited to have you go through it, my man.

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Oh yeah, for sure.

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Well, tonight is fun because we're at our halfway mark.

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And, um, when we introduced the series, we said we were going to take a minute

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and, uh, each month we're going to, we're going to look at one of these power

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hacks, if you like, or one of these secrets of how we walk with the Lord,

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because what is the kingdom advantage for us, you know, as we walking with the

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father and, you know, one of the, there've been a couple of underlying

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themes that sit in all of these, um, routines or habits, we call them a

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routine actually, because a routine is a habit with a soul, you know, habit

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can be mechanical, you know, like brushing your teeth and so forth.

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It doesn't really have a soul, even when you get good at it, you know, even

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when it's like in your lifestyle, it's not like, oh, I've got a whole different

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soul now that I brush my teeth every day.

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So it's not that sort of thing, right?

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So a routine is something deeper than that, because it's not, so a habit is

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like a downstairs thing we do and routines is an upstairs thing we do.

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And the best way to think of kingdom routines is God has routines with us,

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right?

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The father has a routine with you and he wants you to join him.

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So, you know, for instance, you know, you don't have to wait until you get

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everything right for God to find you beautiful.

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He finds you beautiful now because you're in Christ, right?

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So we've been learning that because you're in Christ, you're fully qualified

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because you're in Christ.

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And we've, you know, we've been saying throughout these six months, the

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checklist is got one item on it, you know, to check if you're qualified, are

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you in Christ?

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Yes, you're in, you're fully qualified.

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Why?

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Because you and Jesus are one.

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See, the routine he has with you is he's starting place for you is I'm one with

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And, you know, many of us in a more downstairs way learned that it was up to

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us to fix the relationship.

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It was up to us to, you know, I'm, you know, if God hasn't moved, he's the same.

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So if something's moved, it has been you, you must fix it, all that stuff.

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I don't know if you were taught that.

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I'll embarrassingly admit that not only was I taught that, but for a period of my

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ministry, I taught that.

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So guilty as charged over here.

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Apology on behalf of all pastors who taught that, including me.

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So I think when I came to the realization that God is with me in a certain way and

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all he's asking is for my consistent yes to our oneness, that's what he's asking

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for, just consistently.

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So what then under that structure, repentance is me agreeing with God about

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So we all think we know ourselves, but we really don't, right?

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Because we see ourselves in the valley floor.

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We have a perception of ourselves, a downstairs perception.

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It's based on our life experiences, our pain, our challenges, our talents, our

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successors, how we are raised, you know, where we were raised, etc. etc.

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And that sort of blend of all of that we think has created a sense of identity

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and when we use the word I that's what we're referring to.

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The interesting thing in the kingdom is that when you came to Christ

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that I died and you were given a new I, a new you, and so

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that's God's upstairs perspective, not your downstairs perception.

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A perception is a small thing in the midst of the battle, in the midst of life,

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in the midst of it all, but his perspective is this broad picture he has

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of you because he sees you fully as you truly are in Christ.

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This is the most amazing, refreshing, beautiful thing when you

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suddenly realize that he sees me this way.

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Now he wants my agreement, right? He can't

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just override me and tell me that's what it is

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and he's not looking for a servant relationship where I go, okay, yes, yes,

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whatever you say. What he's looking for is that son-daughter

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relationship. He wants a family relationship,

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has this enormous capacity for relationship. So with one he's

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rejoicing, another one is who's in sorrow, he's

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comforting them, all at the same time, all over the world.

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How much capacity for relationship does he have?

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So everything in the kingdom starts from God's heart

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and moves to ours. So the next logical question is then how?

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How does that happen? How can I learn that and how can I learn it so that

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my learning becomes permanent? How can I practice that

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so I become that? So in the kingdom, you know, downstairs learning is about

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what you know, but upstairs is about who you're becoming.

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So in the kingdom doesn't matter what you know.

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You can study the Bible for 30 years and not become much more.

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God looks at how much we move into his likeness, not how much we know about his

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likeness. Do you see what I mean? Now that's not

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to say downstairs learning isn't helpful. It is,

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but it's a secondary learning. The primary learning is the one we studied

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a few months back when Jesus said, you know, come to me all you're weary

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and heavy laden and I will give you rest. Take my yoke,

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take my partnership and learn from me, but then he adds these

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words because I'm gentle and humble. That means I'm really gentle

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with the learning. I know you're still figuring out who you are.

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I know you're still battling to believe that's actually who you are

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and battling to agree with me, but I'm patient, I'm humble,

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I'm lowly of heart. Lowly, that word is such a beautiful word

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means a little bit more than humble that we're translating into English

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and that is it has the sense of God talks to you where you're at.

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He doesn't talk, he doesn't talk over your head. He knows where you are and

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he speaks to exactly where you can. Imagine if you were training a small

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child to walk, right? You would get on the floor,

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you'd be like at their level, you'd be putting your hands out, come on,

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come on, another step. Yeah, there you go and take two steps. Yeah,

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it's like, you know, they just, you know, invented nuclear fission or

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something, you know, I mean you go, whoa, it's amazing because at that level

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it is amazing and so there is a joy in his heart when

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you move, when you take these steps towards

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him and he's endlessly patient with that.

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So that's what he is saying and then he says, and by the way,

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this whole arrangement, this whole partnership thing is really easy,

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makes your burden light. So I thought it would be fun,

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since we're halfway through, is tonight we do the six of these routines. Now

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I don't know if I shared with you where they come from. Did I share that

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in the early days where this all comes from? So Graham and I have collectively

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put these together. So he's been, this year I'll be,

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hey, it's April, 26th of April, it's coming up, I should keep an eye on that.

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26th of April, I will have been a believer for 48 years.

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So that's a while, right, and Graham will be 53

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years, so between us just a little over 100 years.

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So that, you know, and what this is, is the distillation

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of how do we go from his heart to my heart so that I am changed into

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his image. How does that transformation work? How does

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that direct learning work? Because direct learning automatically

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renews your mind, settles your heart, your emotions, it's

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feel safe, don't fear, I am with you, and it inspires your

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will, and you're like, we get to do this. When it's just head

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learning, it sounds more like, okay, you need to know this, these are

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the attributes of God, and you must make a quality decision of

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the act of your will to follow Him.

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That's what downstairs learning sounds like.

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Upstairs learning is you fall in love

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with the beauty of Jesus and you're so compelled,

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you're like, yes, I'm in, right?

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I mean, why not?

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So it's, and of course your will's involved,

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of course your, because upstairs learning

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involves all of you.

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Downstairs learning involves the weakest part of you,

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your head.

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you didn't invite him into your head,

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you invited him into your heart, right?

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And included your head,

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and it included all the other parts of you.

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So it's with the heart man believes.

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So that's why the ability to put these into practice

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come from upstairs faculties that you have capabilities

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that you got rewired when you came to Christ.

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So I mentioned a couple of the downstairs faculties

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you know well, your mind, your will,

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your emotions, and your conscience,

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the four main downstairs faculties.

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Upstairs, when you came to Christ,

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you got rewired so that you can walk with him,

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so that you can have relationship

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with this extraordinarily beautiful person.

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And one of them is the ability to receive from him.

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We receive Christ.

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Everything in the kingdom starts with a gift,

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so you have to be able to receive.

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Secondly, the ability to believe.

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When somebody says, well, I just can't believe that,

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that's the mind speaking, that's not the heart,

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because the heart has the capacity to believe.

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They just chose not to believe is what they're saying.

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Not they cannot, they will not.

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Because the capacity to believe is an upstairs faculty.

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Then the ability to relate, like you can receive from God

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and then you can have a relationship,

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this ability to have conversations and get into things

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and to sit with him and say,

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Father, what do you think when you look through my eyes

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in this situation, what do you see?

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All those life questions and so on

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that we deal with at Brilliant.

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And all those elements are designed

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to teach us that we can relate.

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And then, of course, we reign with Christ.

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We don't reign on our own for Christ, we reign with him.

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And so all upstairs learning sounds more like

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starting from fullness and moving.

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So in other words, we start in fullness

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and we work it from that point.

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We learn from fullness, we don't learn towards fullness.

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Towards fullness is a downstairs idea.

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Think of when you became a doctor or a lawyer, whatever,

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you studied and studied and you hit milestones

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until one day you graduated and then you passed the bar

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and then you became a lawyer or whatever it was.

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You accumulated and reached milestones along the way.

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In the kingdom, it works exactly the opposite.

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You got the fullness, all things are yours in Christ.

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Scripture says, if the father did not withhold

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even his own son, how much more

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will he not give you all things?

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So you have all things, so that's why we function

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from God, not towards him.

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We pray with God, not towards him.

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You know, we function from favor, not towards.

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We're not trying to downstairs dial in favor

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to try to attract God's favor.

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We already have his favor because we're in Christ.

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Remember, we're fully qualified.

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So what we're learning is that means

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it's all about the yoke.

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And that doesn't vary, that you're either one or you're not.

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You're married or you're not.

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You're not, well, I think I'm 37% married, I'm 92%.

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Last week I was doing better.

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You know, it's not that, right?

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So what I wanted to take a second was just tee this up

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to say the kingdom is a vast, beautiful place

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because the king is a beautiful person.

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and then I seek him and I diligently found him.

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That's exactly what that is.

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He is the initiator, we're the responder.

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He always initiates.

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So anything that tells you as a believer that it's up to you,

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that you're the initiator, get your act together,

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five steps to the better you and all that stuff

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is downstairs stuff.

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And by the way, useful for being in the world, right?

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If you're in business, you should have accountability

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and responsibility, two lovely downstairs words.

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They do not belong in the kingdom.

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They are not free of the spirit.

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I say this to set you free from,

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I think many of us were told,

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accountability and responsibility

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were primary spiritual disciplines.

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Jesus took full accountability for your sin

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and for your sin.

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being and he paid that price and he took full responsibility before the father so

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that you could be free and he gave you a new creation now downstairs you have to

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have accountability and responsibility because how would you run a business

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without accountability and responsibility right so it's not that it

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doesn't play a role it just plays a role you're in the world but you're not of it

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you're of the kingdom so what I'm gonna share with you at some point in your

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walk with Jesus has to become kingdom normal to you the reason is is that it's

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normal to him you know we've used other downstairs words like supernatural well

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if you're downstairs and you're looking upstairs and it does look supernatural

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right but it's not supernatural to God right to him it's natural and as he is

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so are you you're one with him so at some point it must be natural to you so

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it's natural we pray for the sick it's natural we see healing it's natural now

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it doesn't mean it always happens and it doesn't mean that we're not learning of

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course we're learning it's a process but we're but our starting place isn't trying

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to get somewhere we're not trying to break through something we're trying to

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abide with someone that's the key okay it was just a little freebie

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introduction but I just wanted to give a little framework for what we're about to

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share so let me share with you what we've already covered and I'm actually

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gonna give you the rest of them as I said we while we don't normally hand

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these out I do want you to have this so let me give you this okay so you should

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be able to see my screen there everybody see that mm-hmm good so week a month one

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we said every single of these routines have the four P's there's a prompt

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there's something that causes us to practice this routine and the prompt

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here is this one was called reset to rest so when you come with stress worry

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anxiety anything trying to gain control of my life I have a permission my

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permission is John 14 my peace I leave you I give you do not let do not let

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your jobs to reign with Christ not let your heart be troubled justified now God

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wouldn't give you that permission it was impossible for you to do that

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wouldn't that be just really unkind to tell you don't do something when you had

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no ability to do that but you entirely can do that so what do I practice then

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ah well now I practice letting the peace of Christ rule I call up his peace in me

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and I keep practicing and then one day I find it just stays for longer and longer

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and one day it's been hey a whole day and then it's a whole week and then

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you'll get to a point it'll be a whole year that you're so that means permanent

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peace because peace is a ruling power because the Prince of Peace lives in you

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we don't pray for peace because the Prince of Peace lives with us everything

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came with Jesus right hope this just makes you feel really free and happy

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makes me happy so and what person do I become I become an untroubled calm

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leader who lives in permanent peace knowing stress and worry are necessary

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when so much rest and peace is available did you know rest did you know that it's

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not that kingdom normal is to live without stress and worry did you know

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that I love that I love that I'm trying to say in a way that you don't feel

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condemned you say I've got some stress and worry in my life that's okay you're

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learning it's okay no worries with that I'm just trying to get my screens a

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little more organized here so I can still see you while I'm talking okay

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let's go to number two new every morning with month two we talked about this idea

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that the enemy relies like a snowball of negativity compounding day to day today

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to grow bigger and bigger and bigger negativity thing right and so the the

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Bible's answered the kingdom answer to that is new every morning your steadfast

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love he has your permission never ceases they are new every morning great is your

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faithful that means there's a big reset button God hits at midnight it's the big

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red button and the enemy has to start all over again with a negativity sucks

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to be him right because you don't have to deal with that next morning you act

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like you just got born again five minutes ago you start fresh so all of

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yesterday's negativity is not allowed into today and so what's what am I

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practicing I close out my day each night with him I start fresh every

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morning leaving yesterday behind and what do I expect today I expect

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His goodness. If you want more scripture for that, Psalm 92.

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Every morning, I thank you Lord for your goodness. I come with an expectation

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in the evening. I thank you for your faithfulness. I start the day in

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expectation and I end the day in thanksgiving

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because he did exactly that. I experienced his

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goodness. My mindset is set on the goodness of God.

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As Graham so beautifully puts it, when you learn

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to become overwhelmed by his goodness, you can't be overwhelmed by anything

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else. No circumstance can... Look, you're

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going to be overwhelmed by something, downstairs

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stuff or his goodness upstairs. So you get to choose. And the person

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you become by doing this is a kingdom leader that starts every

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day fresh in the Lord, upgrading expectations. Not just I start

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the expectations, but every day he wants it to become bigger and bigger and

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bigger because he wants us to discover his

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beauty. He's like, I'm with you in this. I'm wanting to give you this. And so when

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we realize we don't have to earn it, but we do have to learn it. That's what

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we're talking about learning. Then we talked about new creation.

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That the prompt is, when my old self tries to remind me of who I used to be

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or who I'm not, anything that tells you who you are not,

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good news, that self is dead. Right? So when people

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say, I'm just not a patient person, good news,

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that self is dead. Well, you know, somebody was saying something, you know, the other

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day to me and it wasn't very kind. And I said, good news, the person you just

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showed me is dead. Because I know the real you in

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Jesus, isn't that? So when we practice on,

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I only work on my new self. God isn't asking you to get the old one to behave.

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That would be ridiculous to go to the graveyard and shout at the tombstone and

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try to get that person to behave. That's weird in the kingdom, that's not

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normal. Heaven's looking, it's like, what is she

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doing? Why is she standing talking to the dead

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person? So I practice walking in my new nature

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in Jesus. Every day I start fresh. And to quote another grammarism, you can't

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fail your tests. You just get endless amount of attempts

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to get an A. You'll just keep letting you do it until

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you pass. How kind. So I'm becoming, so the person I

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become is I become like Jesus. I'm made in his

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likeness and image and I start to discover my new self. Did

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you know that Jesus is introducing you to the

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real you every day? And repentance is you agreeing

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with that. That's repentance. In the old covenant,

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repentance was saying sorry for things you did wrong.

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things you didn't do right, that your new nature is capable of. Lord, give me

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another chance. Okay.

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Likeness. We talked likeness week, month four.

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my burns getting heavy. Anybody in that mode?

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Any of the time you have these these prompts, your permission is come to me

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or you're weary and heavy laden, I will give you rest. My yoke is easy, my

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burden is light. What do I practice? I practice reset to

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rest and I thank Jesus for our partnership.

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Jesus, I'm in yoke with you. So there's a lightness to my leadership.

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I become a leader whose yoke is easy, burden is light. I

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just finished writing a book which will be out soon. We're just having the cover

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designed and it's called Leading Light, meaning be a leader who

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leads lightly. So that likeness of leadership, you become that

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light leader. Last month we talked about five.

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Standing on your promises. So when I'm thinking about my future, I'm not

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speculating from a downstairs viewpoint about

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outcomes. Guys, if this is what I'm sharing with

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you, took me so many years to learn. I would love, I would have loved

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somebody to tell me this. God, when he gives you a promise, he

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gives you a place to stand in his upstairs, in his heart, not

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downstairs in my speculation. Oh well, if God said I'm going to be

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successful in business, that means, and then I translate downstairs, I map

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the upstairs to the downstairs and therein lies the problem.

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Here's why, I've never mapped correctly in 48 years

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and my batting average is like zero. I don't think they'll let me even, you

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know, wash the gear afterwards or hand out,

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you know, I'm not even on the team with that batting average.

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So here's what I've learned. When the scripture says, Jeremiah 29,

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I know the plans. The word plans in the Hebrew literally means the deep

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intentions of your life, I have for you declares the Lord,

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plans to prosper you, to give you hope and if you,

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the Lord knows that, He is perfectly committed

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to His purpose in you.

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To help you with that, He gives you a promise

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which gives you a place to stand in His heart.

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We're gonna talk about that in the next one in a minute.

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So that means, what do I practice?

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I explore His promises.

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So every time you get a promise from God,

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it's an invitation to become someone.

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If the promise is a 10-story building,

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God is saying to you, it's a compliment.

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He's saying, you're capable of rising to this level.

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That doesn't mean you're there today.

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When we try to rush out and execute on that promise,

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this is called believerism.

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Believerism is when I try to step into God's promise

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without becoming the person that God means me to be.

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Then I, people say, well, you took advantage,

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you know, you're taking God for granted

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or whatever the words are,

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but God does want us taking Him for granted.

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thank you, Lord, you're making me this person.

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And when you get to that, that promise gets pulled in.

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I meet so many believers who are sitting on prophetic words

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and promises from 20, 30 years ago

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and they've never come to bear.

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Well, there's a very obvious reason why.

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who are we becoming in Jesus,

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the promise will pull itself in.

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It's not like you're just on a passive timeline

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and God said, well, sometime in the future,

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there will be a 10-story building.

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You know, God is worrying about the height we travel at,

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not the distance we're covering.

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He wants us to travel at a higher level.

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So I'm becoming the person my promises describe.

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So I become overwhelmed by His goodness

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instead of my circumstances.

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So I become the person who starts more and more

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to travel at that level.

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because Jesus has done everything, not at all.

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This is a hugely growing gospel,

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but my starting point is I'm not dealing with the old.

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I'm free of that, I'm dead to sin, I'm alive to God.

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God gave me that permission, Romans 6, 11.

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Okay, today's one, and then we're gonna stop

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and we'll come back to this for the rest of them.

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Contracting with God's help.

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I love this verse because contracting with God's help

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comes from Isaiah.

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And for any of you who know this

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and have gone through this teaching with us before,

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let me stop the share for a second.

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Let me read this, this verse.

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I just love this.

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If I'd encourage you to read the whole of Isaiah 41.

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So do not fear, for I am with you.

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Do not be dismayed.

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if it was impossible for you to,

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if that was impossible for you, right?

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for I am your God.

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I will strengthen you and help you.

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Now think of this in your business, in what you're doing.

476
00:28:19.440 --> 00:28:23.600
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

477
00:28:23.600 --> 00:28:25.480
That means you can't be moved.

478
00:28:25.480 --> 00:28:27.000
Steady.

479
00:28:27.000 --> 00:28:28.680
All who rage against you.

480
00:28:28.680 --> 00:28:31.480
I was going through a lawsuit when I first learned this.

481
00:28:31.480 --> 00:28:33.360
And the Lord said, all who rage against you

482
00:28:33.360 --> 00:28:35.200
will surely be ashamed and disgraced.

483
00:28:35.200 --> 00:28:38.400
And those who oppose you will become as nothing.

484
00:28:38.400 --> 00:28:40.280
The Lord said, this loss will become as nothing.

485
00:28:40.280 --> 00:28:42.880
And that's exactly, they sat on it for three and a half years

486
00:28:42.880 --> 00:28:44.120
and just dropped it.

487
00:28:44.120 --> 00:28:45.600
Exactly what He said.

488
00:28:45.600 --> 00:28:48.000
See, I will make you into a threshing sledge.

489
00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:50.240
Think of that as a kingdom weapon.

490
00:28:50.240 --> 00:28:52.840
And you will thresh the mountains and crush them

491
00:28:52.840 --> 00:28:55.320
and reduce the hills to chaff.

492
00:28:56.240 --> 00:28:57.520
Isn't that beautiful?

493
00:28:57.520 --> 00:28:58.360
I love this.

494
00:28:58.360 --> 00:29:00.880
So what do I get to practice, right?

495
00:29:00.880 --> 00:29:03.400
I get to practice, Lord, thank you

496
00:29:03.400 --> 00:29:06.280
that you're strengthening me, that you're with me,

497
00:29:06.280 --> 00:29:07.760
that you're protecting me,

498
00:29:07.760 --> 00:29:10.720
and that you're making me into a powerful kingdom weapon.

499
00:29:10.720 --> 00:29:12.440
Let's go through the four things

500
00:29:12.440 --> 00:29:15.440
God promised in that one thing.

501
00:29:16.280 --> 00:29:19.640
Now, the reason we call this contracting with God's help

502
00:29:19.640 --> 00:29:21.480
is because you think of when you write a contract,

503
00:29:21.480 --> 00:29:23.120
it's rock solid.

504
00:29:23.120 --> 00:29:25.400
It's like a covenant, an agreement.

505
00:29:25.400 --> 00:29:27.320
You're making an agreement with God

506
00:29:27.320 --> 00:29:30.160
and you're taking Him at His word.

507
00:29:30.160 --> 00:29:31.400
Or again, to quote Graham,

508
00:29:31.400 --> 00:29:33.040
when God grants you something,

509
00:29:33.040 --> 00:29:35.840
He expects you to take Him for granted, right?

510
00:29:35.840 --> 00:29:37.360
I granted it to you.

511
00:29:37.360 --> 00:29:38.560
So here's what He's saying,

512
00:29:38.560 --> 00:29:42.160
Isaiah 41 10, fear not, I am with you.

513
00:29:42.160 --> 00:29:44.520
So here the Lord, He said, I will help you

514
00:29:44.560 --> 00:29:45.960
five times in this section.

515
00:29:45.960 --> 00:29:48.360
I will help you, I will help you, I will help you.

516
00:29:48.360 --> 00:29:50.800
It means surely I will help you.

517
00:29:50.800 --> 00:29:53.840
It's very, it's almost unprecedented in the scriptures

518
00:29:53.840 --> 00:29:57.280
where God repeats Himself again and again and again,

519
00:29:57.280 --> 00:30:00.080
because He wants us to be absolutely sure.

520
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:03.120
Because here's what the Father is doing for you right now.

521
00:30:03.120 --> 00:30:09.760
He says, you do know that I'm going to keep reminding you of this until you become completely

522
00:30:09.760 --> 00:30:11.900
confident in my goodness.

523
00:30:11.900 --> 00:30:17.440
The first time the Lord said that to me, I honestly, it just wrecked me.

524
00:30:17.440 --> 00:30:21.560
You know, I said, Lord, I'm thankful I don't have any meetings for a few hours because

525
00:30:21.560 --> 00:30:24.960
I don't know how I have to settle down.

526
00:30:24.960 --> 00:30:34.280
And when the Lord said, I want you to become 100% confident in my goodness, in my help.

527
00:30:34.280 --> 00:30:35.640
We're yoked together.

528
00:30:35.640 --> 00:30:37.080
I'm doing this with you.

529
00:30:37.080 --> 00:30:39.120
I'm not telling you, you're going to do it for me.

530
00:30:39.120 --> 00:30:40.160
That's downstairs stuff.

531
00:30:40.160 --> 00:30:41.400
We don't do stuff for God.

532
00:30:41.400 --> 00:30:43.400
We do it with him.

533
00:30:43.400 --> 00:30:51.160
And so presence help is number one, strengthen, he'll help, he will uphold, he will go with

534
00:30:51.160 --> 00:30:52.160
you.

535
00:30:52.160 --> 00:30:56.120
Jesus is saying, I will go with you, I will uphold you.

536
00:30:56.120 --> 00:30:58.520
So I call that presence help.

537
00:30:58.520 --> 00:31:01.440
Number two, he promises protection help.

538
00:31:01.440 --> 00:31:05.840
All those who are incensed against you shall be ashamed and disgraced.

539
00:31:05.840 --> 00:31:11.360
Now many times we're not always talking about the people, but the spirit behind those people,

540
00:31:11.360 --> 00:31:16.120
that demonic ugly thing that's of those people stepping into their old nature, whatever the

541
00:31:16.120 --> 00:31:18.800
reason is, that thing gets humiliated.

542
00:31:19.640 --> 00:31:22.920
Remember, there's also redemption for them.

543
00:31:22.920 --> 00:31:27.240
That's why we bless those who persecute us because we want them to be redeemed too.

544
00:31:27.240 --> 00:31:28.960
It's not just, well, it's healthy for you.

545
00:31:28.960 --> 00:31:30.120
Yes, it is.

546
00:31:30.120 --> 00:31:31.120
That's baby step one.

547
00:31:31.120 --> 00:31:35.880
But the more mature thing is we want them fully redeemed in the Lord too.

548
00:31:35.880 --> 00:31:41.080
So we bless them to put in them, to position them in the place of blessing so they too

549
00:31:41.080 --> 00:31:43.800
can be one for the Lord.

550
00:31:43.800 --> 00:31:48.520
And so it goes on and says, those who war against you shall be as nothing, a non-existent

551
00:31:48.520 --> 00:31:49.520
thing.

552
00:31:49.520 --> 00:31:52.920
For I, the Lord, will uphold your right hand.

553
00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:55.240
So again, he says, do not fear.

554
00:31:55.240 --> 00:31:57.400
So that means protection help.

555
00:31:57.400 --> 00:32:05.240
So even if I step in and even if the mistake is mine, he will protect me.

556
00:32:05.240 --> 00:32:11.600
Many of us maybe were raised, when I went through that terrible time in 2018 and I lost

557
00:32:11.600 --> 00:32:18.160
my business and I lost so much friendships, some of them for over 30 years, I was taking

558
00:32:18.160 --> 00:32:22.080
a walk in the woods and the Lord just showed me this.

559
00:32:22.080 --> 00:32:32.040
He said in this gentlest voice, he said, son, why do you believe that when things go well,

560
00:32:32.040 --> 00:32:37.720
you say, you give me glory, but when things go bad, you take it on yourself and say, God

561
00:32:37.720 --> 00:32:39.360
had nothing to do with this.

562
00:32:39.360 --> 00:32:44.960
And you think that I stand off from you waiting for you to fix it.

563
00:32:44.960 --> 00:32:46.960
And I realized I do that.

564
00:32:46.960 --> 00:32:51.040
Now, whether I learned that from my dad or wherever I learned, it doesn't matter.

565
00:32:51.040 --> 00:32:52.840
I had that in my heart.

566
00:32:52.840 --> 00:32:58.880
And the Lord said, I am with you on your best day, same as your worst, on your day that

567
00:32:58.880 --> 00:33:02.520
you're just knocking it out of the park and the day you're messing it up terribly.

568
00:33:02.520 --> 00:33:03.720
I do not change.

569
00:33:03.720 --> 00:33:06.080
I am with you the same.

570
00:33:06.080 --> 00:33:10.200
And my protection towards you is permanent, whether you're at fault or someone else is

571
00:33:10.200 --> 00:33:11.200
at fault.

572
00:33:11.200 --> 00:33:12.200
I'm with you.

573
00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:17.440
Point number three, possession help.

574
00:33:17.440 --> 00:33:22.720
So presence help, protection help, possession help.

575
00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:24.760
Help you take the territory.

576
00:33:24.760 --> 00:33:29.720
So God will help you make you into a threshing sledge.

577
00:33:29.720 --> 00:33:31.880
That means he will make you into a powerful weapon.

578
00:33:31.880 --> 00:33:33.560
And now I love this.

579
00:33:33.560 --> 00:33:39.200
I will make you into a new threshing sledge with sharp teeth.

580
00:33:39.200 --> 00:33:43.000
You shall thresh the mountains and beat them small.

581
00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:46.000
Are you facing mountains that need to be taken out?

582
00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:51.440
And many times we read this and we start with the 101 stuff, which is dealing with my mountain

583
00:33:51.440 --> 00:33:52.920
in front of me.

584
00:33:52.920 --> 00:33:59.800
But some of you are going to grow in and take out a mountain that the enemy has set up in

585
00:33:59.800 --> 00:34:05.640
an entire industry or in a physical territory or in the church.

586
00:34:05.640 --> 00:34:11.719
There are mountains that need to be taken down and God is fashioning you in his hand

587
00:34:11.719 --> 00:34:14.239
together with him.

588
00:34:14.239 --> 00:34:18.719
So what's the power of the instrument that, you know, the instrument has to be sharp,

589
00:34:18.719 --> 00:34:21.000
but it's been wielded by his mighty right hand.

590
00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:23.199
You and he are one, right?

591
00:34:23.199 --> 00:34:25.719
It's not like you become a weapon by yourself.

592
00:34:25.719 --> 00:34:28.040
Sword doesn't go off by itself and do that.

593
00:34:28.040 --> 00:34:30.080
It's in its master's hand.

594
00:34:30.080 --> 00:34:34.280
In this case, your yoke with the Lord is what takes that out.

595
00:34:34.280 --> 00:34:35.280
Okay.

596
00:34:35.920 --> 00:34:36.920
That's the most amazing thing.

597
00:34:36.920 --> 00:34:38.360
And that is number four.

598
00:34:38.360 --> 00:34:40.400
This is power provision.

599
00:34:40.400 --> 00:34:45.520
So God is going to give presence help, protection help, and possession help.

600
00:34:45.520 --> 00:34:50.199
I'm going to take my territory that he had purposed for him and I to do together.

601
00:34:50.199 --> 00:34:52.120
Your yoke purpose.

602
00:34:52.120 --> 00:34:54.000
God had a yoke purpose for you.

603
00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:58.880
That's why he gives you yoke promises, because all your promises are in Christ.

604
00:34:58.880 --> 00:34:59.920
Your yoke promises.

605
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:05.740
But then is the most amazing thing. Seven amazing things happen next and you're not

606
00:35:05.740 --> 00:35:14.120
even involved. Rivers in the desert, springs in the valleys, and God starts to, the poor

607
00:35:14.120 --> 00:35:18.120
and needy seek water but there is none. It says they're failing, they thirst and it says

608
00:35:18.120 --> 00:35:23.240
then the Lord just provides. I will open rivers in desolate heights, fountains in the midst

609
00:35:23.240 --> 00:35:28.080
of valleys. Listen how many times He says I will, I will, I will. I will make the wilderness

610
00:35:28.080 --> 00:35:33.840
a pool of water and the dry land springs of water. I will plant in the wilderness the

611
00:35:33.840 --> 00:35:39.760
cedar and the acacia tree. And He goes on and says I will set in the desert the cypress

612
00:35:39.760 --> 00:35:47.840
tree. And He goes on to say, and then He puts this, and they, the world, will see and know

613
00:35:47.840 --> 00:35:54.400
and consider and understand together that the hand of the Lord has done this and the

614
00:35:54.400 --> 00:35:59.400
Holy One of Israel has created this. Now what I want you to catch here, it took me

615
00:35:59.400 --> 00:36:05.800
a while to understand what the Lord was saying. That's level four. Level one is, I settle

616
00:36:05.800 --> 00:36:11.400
the issue, the Lord is with me and He's helping go with me. Level two, I settle, He's going

617
00:36:11.400 --> 00:36:16.160
to protect me. Number three, He's going to make me into a powerful weapon. Level four,

618
00:36:16.160 --> 00:36:19.500
then He's going to take off and do a whole bunch of stuff and then I'm going to be associated

619
00:36:19.500 --> 00:36:25.100
with it. And everyone's going to go, that Ray guy is amazing. Do you see what he did?

620
00:36:25.100 --> 00:36:28.260
And then Ray's going to say, but, but, but Lord, you did it all. And He goes, I know

621
00:36:28.260 --> 00:36:35.460
Ray, you're amazing. Because, because that's what the yoke is. That's the beauty of the

622
00:36:35.460 --> 00:36:41.620
yoke. Okay, well, let me pause there for a second. That's us contracting with God's help

623
00:36:41.620 --> 00:36:45.620
like a solid contract, a signed agreement, take it to the bank.

624
00:36:47.620 --> 00:36:49.620
Questions?

625
00:36:53.620 --> 00:37:02.620
Yeah, just so much, so much goodness there. I really had to learn that, you know, I would

626
00:37:02.620 --> 00:37:08.100
get, I don't even know if it was a promise, but I would get like a prompt or something.

627
00:37:08.100 --> 00:37:14.100
And then I would draw all these conclusions. Oh, this is what it looks like. Oh, it's good.

628
00:37:14.100 --> 00:37:23.100
Oh, this, like, I mean, I was so convinced that he, this one time in San Diego, I got

629
00:37:23.100 --> 00:37:27.700
this nudge and I just ran with it in my mind that I was going to be I'm going to heal everyone

630
00:37:27.700 --> 00:37:34.940
in that room. Like everything supernatural, right? Kingdom normal, I know. And, and then

631
00:37:34.940 --> 00:37:39.180
afterwards, I'm like, Lord, I even hear from you, then I start to question it, then I'm

632
00:37:39.180 --> 00:37:45.660
feeling bad about it, then I start to doubt. And, and so I just, I just learned, like,

633
00:37:45.660 --> 00:37:52.020
you know, your, your will over my desire. And I'm totally great with whatever, whatever

634
00:37:52.020 --> 00:37:58.860
you do, you know, and, you know, and so I learned the distinction of, you know, prompts

635
00:37:58.860 --> 00:38:00.340
versus promise.

636
00:38:00.340 --> 00:38:06.780
Yeah, for sure. The way the Lord phrased it with me was, I've given you a place to stand

637
00:38:06.780 --> 00:38:12.060
in my heart. That's a safe place under the shadow of my wing. Stay there. I didn't give

638
00:38:12.060 --> 00:38:17.060
you outcome as a place to stand. So I think what we've learned, what somewhere we learned

639
00:38:17.060 --> 00:38:24.180
that that's an expression of faith. But we can't faith it. That's believerism trying

640
00:38:24.180 --> 00:38:28.580
to faith it. And we faith it and faith it and then it doesn't faith and then we now

641
00:38:28.580 --> 00:38:33.500
we're confused. But Lord, didn't you say and I thought I heard you and do not do I not

642
00:38:33.500 --> 00:38:37.660
hear you properly? It's because what we're doing there is we're blending upstairs and

643
00:38:37.660 --> 00:38:46.020
downstairs learning together. And it was that when I realized the Lord there, think about

644
00:38:46.020 --> 00:38:52.540
he has a promise and here's an outcome. How many ways can you connect these two? You can

645
00:38:52.540 --> 00:38:58.460
go via the ceiling, via the floor, via over there. So would you agree close to an infinite

646
00:38:58.460 --> 00:39:04.260
number of pathways between these two points? What's the probability that the one you speculated

647
00:39:04.260 --> 00:39:11.740
on was going to be the one? Yeah, zero, basically. And so if it coincidentally is the one, it

648
00:39:11.740 --> 00:39:19.020
doesn't matter. But what I found is that way, if I don't see the promise fully fulfilled,

649
00:39:19.100 --> 00:39:24.220
I know we're just not there yet. And you win more wars through patience. One of the one

650
00:39:24.220 --> 00:39:30.500
of the routines we'll learn is patience as a weapon. You'll win more, you'll do more

651
00:39:30.500 --> 00:39:35.580
spiritual warfare and take out more enemies with patience than you will with actual spiritual

652
00:39:35.580 --> 00:39:46.060
warfare. Just saying. Can you say that? Sorry, go ahead. Rebecca, will you pin me just a

653
00:39:46.220 --> 00:39:52.140
like whoever's collaborating with him? So I'll give you a fun one.

654
00:39:54.620 --> 00:39:59.820
He, you know, God had me start doing a Monday journal where I

655
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:04.720
I prey on these different categories and I ask,

656
00:40:05.800 --> 00:40:08.680
I don't have, well, I could actually pull up the questions.

657
00:40:08.680 --> 00:40:12.480
He gave me these exact questions to ask.

658
00:40:15.300 --> 00:40:19.580
Okay, what is the increased growth profit impact?

659
00:40:19.580 --> 00:40:24.060
What are your intentions and any actions for me to take?

660
00:40:24.060 --> 00:40:25.980
Which it's almost always the action,

661
00:40:25.980 --> 00:40:28.180
what action do you want me to take is almost always never.

662
00:40:28.180 --> 00:40:30.860
I'm like, nah, like I don't have to do anything.

663
00:40:30.860 --> 00:40:33.020
Most of the times is what I get.

664
00:40:33.020 --> 00:40:37.500
And so one week he gave me, okay,

665
00:40:37.500 --> 00:40:42.500
this program is gonna grow by 10,000 this week.

666
00:40:43.980 --> 00:40:48.340
And that's why, actually, let me, the word was make.

667
00:40:48.340 --> 00:40:52.760
You're gonna make 10,000 from this this week.

668
00:40:52.760 --> 00:40:55.360
And so I'm like, oh, okay, all right, great.

669
00:40:55.360 --> 00:41:00.360
And so I get to six days in, it hasn't made nearly that.

670
00:41:02.740 --> 00:41:07.340
And then day seven, then day, Lord, did I not hear you?

671
00:41:07.340 --> 00:41:10.460
And so I prayed with a friend of mine

672
00:41:12.160 --> 00:41:16.100
and he said, that word make,

673
00:41:16.100 --> 00:41:19.820
like sometimes it's seed, sometimes it's harvest.

674
00:41:19.820 --> 00:41:24.140
And what's interesting is I had a guy reach out to me

675
00:41:24.160 --> 00:41:29.160
during that week, that the next week I made 20,000.

676
00:41:31.080 --> 00:41:35.800
And so I've learned, okay, when I'm getting a number,

677
00:41:35.800 --> 00:41:38.000
like, okay, is that seed, is that harvest?

678
00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:39.760
Like, what does that look like?

679
00:41:39.760 --> 00:41:42.800
Because there's actually been quite a few things

680
00:41:42.800 --> 00:41:45.560
where I've gotten a number and that number didn't happen,

681
00:41:45.560 --> 00:41:48.500
but now I've gone backwards and prayed and all of,

682
00:41:48.500 --> 00:41:51.800
most of it, any of the times that the number

683
00:41:51.820 --> 00:41:55.140
that I had in my head didn't happen, it was seed.

684
00:41:55.140 --> 00:41:58.660
And so, you know, that gave me some good stuff.

685
00:41:58.660 --> 00:42:03.100
I think you're going through 2 Corinthians 9, 6, is it?

686
00:42:03.100 --> 00:42:04.020
And-

687
00:42:04.020 --> 00:42:05.500
9, 6 through 13, yeah.

688
00:42:05.500 --> 00:42:09.500
Yeah, that is, every kingdom business person

689
00:42:09.500 --> 00:42:12.820
should have memorized that, certainly fully got that down

690
00:42:12.820 --> 00:42:17.780
because God says, I will give you seed to sow

691
00:42:17.780 --> 00:42:19.300
and bread to eat.

692
00:42:19.300 --> 00:42:20.140
Right.

693
00:42:20.160 --> 00:42:22.920
And so that means dollars come in and we say,

694
00:42:22.920 --> 00:42:24.720
Lord, is this seed or is this bread?

695
00:42:24.720 --> 00:42:26.960
Can I eat this or is this to sow?

696
00:42:26.960 --> 00:42:29.160
And so two quick stories.

697
00:42:29.160 --> 00:42:30.760
I just started my business.

698
00:42:30.760 --> 00:42:33.360
So I was just come out of the military,

699
00:42:33.360 --> 00:42:35.160
myself and another guy built

700
00:42:35.160 --> 00:42:38.400
in the electronic warfare division where I was an officer.

701
00:42:38.400 --> 00:42:41.160
I don't know how they give a young kid, 26 years old,

702
00:42:41.160 --> 00:42:43.720
hundreds of millions of dollars of weaponry,

703
00:42:43.720 --> 00:42:46.440
but they did to me, you know, you're an engineer,

704
00:42:46.440 --> 00:42:47.440
you know, whatever it is.

705
00:42:47.460 --> 00:42:50.380
And so we're going to start our first business

706
00:42:50.380 --> 00:42:53.700
and our first client, and we're doing really well.

707
00:42:53.700 --> 00:42:56.980
And so we got two checks coming, our first two checks,

708
00:42:56.980 --> 00:42:59.420
and we didn't know whether it was going to be, you know,

709
00:42:59.420 --> 00:43:04.420
the thousand dollar check or the $50,000 check.

710
00:43:04.460 --> 00:43:06.100
And, but we said to the Lord,

711
00:43:06.100 --> 00:43:09.540
whichever it's going to be, first fruits are yours,

712
00:43:09.540 --> 00:43:12.020
whether it's the 10 or the 50, or the one or the 50.

713
00:43:12.020 --> 00:43:13.820
And so it turned out to be the one.

714
00:43:13.820 --> 00:43:15.620
And we gave that away.

715
00:43:15.640 --> 00:43:19.840
And we framed that, that was our first fruits check.

716
00:43:19.840 --> 00:43:21.640
Now that's a very Old Testament idea,

717
00:43:21.640 --> 00:43:23.200
but when you pull it through the cross,

718
00:43:23.200 --> 00:43:26.440
what it means is Jesus is the first fruits, right?

719
00:43:26.440 --> 00:43:28.280
He goes first, we respond.

720
00:43:28.280 --> 00:43:29.100
He goes first.

721
00:43:29.100 --> 00:43:31.360
So Lord is this, and then the scripture says,

722
00:43:31.360 --> 00:43:32.360
he will give you,

723
00:43:32.360 --> 00:43:35.440
he will increase the storehouse of your seed.

724
00:43:35.440 --> 00:43:37.280
He never says you'll increase your bread.

725
00:43:37.280 --> 00:43:38.120
Bread.

726
00:43:38.120 --> 00:43:38.940
Never.

727
00:43:38.940 --> 00:43:39.780
Right?

728
00:43:39.780 --> 00:43:40.620
We want the bread.

729
00:43:40.620 --> 00:43:41.440
No, we'll give you the bread.

730
00:43:41.440 --> 00:43:42.280
I need to eat.

731
00:43:42.280 --> 00:43:43.120
I need to pay the bills.

732
00:43:43.120 --> 00:43:44.120
I need to do payroll this month, right?

733
00:43:44.120 --> 00:43:45.120
We go through that.

734
00:43:45.620 --> 00:43:46.660
And the Lord says, I will, sorry,

735
00:43:46.660 --> 00:43:51.420
the second story is we were taking on a project

736
00:43:51.420 --> 00:43:53.540
and it was a really big project.

737
00:43:53.540 --> 00:43:56.220
And the Lord said to me, this is a big project.

738
00:43:56.220 --> 00:43:59.300
And, and I need a lot of capital to do it.

739
00:43:59.300 --> 00:44:00.300
I'll tell you the number.

740
00:44:00.300 --> 00:44:02.620
I needed $30 million to do it.

741
00:44:02.620 --> 00:44:05.340
And, and I said to the Lord,

742
00:44:05.340 --> 00:44:07.580
wow, I could have raised $30 million.

743
00:44:07.580 --> 00:44:08.780
I'm a young kid.

744
00:44:08.780 --> 00:44:11.820
Well, I'm not kid, but I'm like 31 years old.

745
00:44:11.820 --> 00:44:13.340
I've never raised that kind of money.

746
00:44:13.340 --> 00:44:15.800
I'd raised like one and a half million,

747
00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:17.640
which I thought I was a genius at doing,

748
00:44:17.640 --> 00:44:19.920
gave away way too much of my company doing it.

749
00:44:19.920 --> 00:44:22.920
But anyway, and so the Lord said,

750
00:44:22.920 --> 00:44:24.680
this is how I'm going to do this.

751
00:44:24.680 --> 00:44:27.680
In the kingdom, you can't get a harvest from stuff

752
00:44:27.680 --> 00:44:29.840
there is no seed in the ground.

753
00:44:29.840 --> 00:44:32.000
So I said, Lord, I need seed.

754
00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:33.260
I need a lot of seed.

755
00:44:33.260 --> 00:44:34.960
I don't know how much seed 30 million is,

756
00:44:34.960 --> 00:44:37.040
but you know, I need seed.

757
00:44:37.040 --> 00:44:40.400
So I just said, every check I get on from now until,

758
00:44:41.220 --> 00:44:43.380
okay, that's going to be seed.

759
00:44:43.380 --> 00:44:45.100
And I said, Lord, I'm just going to give it away.

760
00:44:45.100 --> 00:44:47.340
Even if I'm reckless with giving it away,

761
00:44:47.340 --> 00:44:48.380
I'm going to give it to the church.

762
00:44:48.380 --> 00:44:49.380
I'm going to give it to non-profits.

763
00:44:49.380 --> 00:44:52.580
I'm just going to give it all away until you tell me,

764
00:44:52.580 --> 00:44:54.180
you know, we've got enough seed in the ground.

765
00:44:54.180 --> 00:44:55.780
And that's what I did.

766
00:44:55.780 --> 00:44:57.520
Here's the most amazing thing.

767
00:44:58.380 --> 00:45:00.140
The first check I got in.

768
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:07.140
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

769
00:45:07.140 --> 00:45:12.100
States owned by one guy and they'd owned 13 insurance companies and he called me said man

770
00:45:12.100 --> 00:45:15.080
We need a bigger stake of this thing. We love what you're doing your tech company

771
00:45:15.080 --> 00:45:18.240
I had about 80 software programmers working in Atlanta and

772
00:45:18.960 --> 00:45:22.520
He said how much do you need? I said I needed 30 million

773
00:45:22.520 --> 00:45:28.880
I've you know went up to Kansas City did the presentation to him and he said I can't do 30

774
00:45:29.100 --> 00:45:34.800
But I can do 15 and he says but if I do 15, I bet you one of our partners will do it

775
00:45:34.800 --> 00:45:36.800
well the biggest

776
00:45:36.800 --> 00:45:44.120
Group in the country who run all your mutual funds 85% of all the mutual fund transactions in the United States

777
00:45:44.480 --> 00:45:50.180
Goes through a company called DST systems and DST put up the other 15 million

778
00:45:53.080 --> 00:45:55.080
Now I could have never

779
00:45:55.200 --> 00:46:00.000
No strategist could have come up with that nobody could have cleverly thought that out

780
00:46:00.880 --> 00:46:02.880
That just happened

781
00:46:03.180 --> 00:46:04.560
happened

782
00:46:04.560 --> 00:46:10.040
so that some of us are keep asking for big harvest, but there's no seed and

783
00:46:10.960 --> 00:46:16.040
Then I've been the next level. I learned about seed since we're talking about money here was

784
00:46:16.640 --> 00:46:21.720
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?

785
00:46:21.880 --> 00:46:27.960
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

786
00:46:27.960 --> 00:46:31.840
I want you to give where you your spiritual equity is

787
00:46:32.360 --> 00:46:35.960
Ray you and I talked briefly about this today, I think and so

788
00:46:37.240 --> 00:46:40.480
Jesus said we are treasuries there your heart will be also

789
00:46:41.480 --> 00:46:46.920
Many believers do the downstairs thing of well, I don't have a heart for that. So I don't give to that

790
00:46:46.920 --> 00:46:51.520
That's a downstairs thing upstairs is Oh father. We have a heart for that

791
00:46:51.520 --> 00:46:55.680
I don't have yet. I better get some seed in the ground. My heart needs to be in that thing and

792
00:46:56.200 --> 00:46:58.200
I realized that your seed

793
00:46:58.960 --> 00:47:03.760
Steers your heart and you think that's a very trivial things. No, what's not the first thing?

794
00:47:03.760 --> 00:47:09.440
I'm responding to the Lord saying our yoke together. We're getting into this. We need to be we need to give time

795
00:47:09.600 --> 00:47:13.920
We need to give money. We need to be all in we need spiritual equity in this thing

796
00:47:14.440 --> 00:47:19.440
Here's the hardest one level three of that learning was the Lord said now do that for yourself

797
00:47:20.440 --> 00:47:23.840
In your own education now you came on this program

798
00:47:24.240 --> 00:47:28.600
When you signed up for this thing, you did that you were at that level three you

799
00:47:29.120 --> 00:47:35.840
So seed into your own kingdom learning what you did is you co-invested in yourself with God?

800
00:47:38.640 --> 00:47:44.480
That's what makes it and when I learned that I realized I must help believers do that

801
00:47:45.080 --> 00:47:50.280
Because it's amazing how many times the believers who go out of their way to

802
00:47:50.800 --> 00:47:55.160
Sow into something that the father has said yes to now that it gets manipulative

803
00:47:55.160 --> 00:47:57.880
You can see that it has potential to be manipulative, right?

804
00:47:58.400 --> 00:48:05.080
We're not talking about that's why our counter answer to that is whatever upstairs permission leads to downstairs action

805
00:48:05.320 --> 00:48:11.480
The reason is you only ask father. Are we doing this because we're removing all the downstairs manipulative stuff

806
00:48:12.080 --> 00:48:16.880
So that they will sow into the kingdom and reap a rich reward

807
00:48:16.880 --> 00:48:23.480
The scripture goes on in that scriptures so that you will have everything you need and you can be generous on every occasion

808
00:48:23.480 --> 00:48:25.480
That's God's plan here

809
00:48:26.080 --> 00:48:27.480
everything you need

810
00:48:27.480 --> 00:48:33.480
Generous on every occasion why because you've learned he's generous heart. Remember how we said it goes from his heart to yours

811
00:48:34.480 --> 00:48:38.480
See, it's our hearts. It's us. We don't try it. We're not trying to get a generous heart

812
00:48:38.480 --> 00:48:44.480
We have a generous heart because that's our new nature. Now. We're practicing that generous heart to be like him

813
00:48:47.480 --> 00:48:49.480
We just gave away

814
00:48:49.480 --> 00:48:51.480
the main thing

815
00:48:51.480 --> 00:48:53.480
That's the main thing right there

816
00:48:53.480 --> 00:48:59.480
It really is because it's his generous heart in you that will move the world

817
00:49:01.480 --> 00:49:03.480
So I

818
00:49:03.480 --> 00:49:05.480
think that

819
00:49:06.480 --> 00:49:08.480
I think that

820
00:49:08.480 --> 00:49:13.480
So I just just you know, the Holy Spirit is really excited at the moment

821
00:49:13.480 --> 00:49:16.480
So let me try to tune in a little bit here. Excuse me for a minute

822
00:49:16.480 --> 00:49:20.480
And that is I think some of you just don't have enough seed in the ground what you're doing

823
00:49:20.480 --> 00:49:24.480
So I think some of you already picked up on that. No condemnation. That's your joy

824
00:49:24.480 --> 00:49:27.480
You've got to be a joyful giver by the way, or it isn't seed

825
00:49:28.480 --> 00:49:30.480
You've got to be a cheerful

826
00:49:30.480 --> 00:49:35.480
You've got to be in the reason you're happy is because you're doing it with him in partnership with him father

827
00:49:35.480 --> 00:49:38.480
We're doing this. So that's some of you doing that

828
00:49:38.480 --> 00:49:43.480
Some of you I think are in a position where you don't have a heart for a thing

829
00:49:44.480 --> 00:49:50.480
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

830
00:49:51.480 --> 00:49:54.480
and I and I but I do think that

831
00:49:54.480 --> 00:49:57.480
There are some of you right here right now

832
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:01.720
that are in for a huge harvest.

833
00:50:01.720 --> 00:50:04.880
You've done that, you've been with the Lord in that,

834
00:50:04.880 --> 00:50:07.020
you've been listening to the Lord in that,

835
00:50:07.020 --> 00:50:12.020
and the harvest comes at a time that is overwhelming.

836
00:50:12.080 --> 00:50:14.700
And you just sit in God, and you just cry

837
00:50:14.700 --> 00:50:17.100
because you're so overwhelmed.

838
00:50:17.100 --> 00:50:19.600
You know, I said to Bridget the other day,

839
00:50:19.600 --> 00:50:21.200
in fact, over the weekend, I said,

840
00:50:21.200 --> 00:50:23.400
no, let's not do any Thanksgiving right now,

841
00:50:23.400 --> 00:50:25.620
because if I start that, I'm gonna be a wreck

842
00:50:25.620 --> 00:50:27.820
for the next few hours, and I have to function.

843
00:50:27.820 --> 00:50:30.660
We had a Saturday afternoon thing with Ray,

844
00:50:30.660 --> 00:50:32.660
and I just couldn't, I couldn't go,

845
00:50:32.660 --> 00:50:34.980
I said, I'll do it after, because it'll just wreck me.

846
00:50:34.980 --> 00:50:37.740
I'll just start to, I just start to think

847
00:50:37.740 --> 00:50:40.580
of everything he's done, and then it's overwhelming.

848
00:50:40.580 --> 00:50:41.820
You know, it's just overwhelming,

849
00:50:41.820 --> 00:50:44.340
his goodness and his kindness.

850
00:50:44.340 --> 00:50:46.500
So, guys, I hope you enjoyed that.

851
00:50:46.500 --> 00:50:47.860
That was the first six months,

852
00:50:47.860 --> 00:50:52.180
wrapped up, halfway through.

853
00:50:52.180 --> 00:50:53.020
Back to you, Ray.

854
00:50:53.020 --> 00:50:53.860
What questions do you have?

855
00:50:53.860 --> 00:50:57.060
Well, you've got a few minutes.

856
00:50:57.100 --> 00:50:58.780
What questions do you have for Dion?

857
00:50:58.780 --> 00:51:00.580
I snagged some of his time,

858
00:51:00.580 --> 00:51:02.360
but would you like to ask him?

859
00:51:03.260 --> 00:51:07.440
Would you, I've got a hard stop in about five, 10 minutes,

860
00:51:07.440 --> 00:51:12.020
and you mentioned something about spiritual warfare,

861
00:51:12.020 --> 00:51:17.020
and it didn't sink in, and I would love to hear it again.

862
00:51:17.580 --> 00:51:18.940
Yeah, we'll actually get into it,

863
00:51:18.940 --> 00:51:20.780
I think, in a month or two's time.

864
00:51:20.780 --> 00:51:23.380
It's about patience as a weapon.

865
00:51:23.380 --> 00:51:24.220
Okay.

866
00:51:24.220 --> 00:51:25.860
And the reason patience is a weapon,

867
00:51:25.860 --> 00:51:28.060
firstly, patience is part of your new nature.

868
00:51:28.060 --> 00:51:30.980
Remember, you can go and read Galatians 5.

869
00:51:30.980 --> 00:51:32.700
The fruit of the spirit is a description

870
00:51:32.700 --> 00:51:35.060
of your new nature in Christ.

871
00:51:35.060 --> 00:51:38.180
So, you're not, you're practicing being loving

872
00:51:38.180 --> 00:51:40.260
because you have his heart,

873
00:51:40.260 --> 00:51:42.300
because you're a loving person.

874
00:51:42.300 --> 00:51:43.780
You're not trying to become a loving person

875
00:51:43.780 --> 00:51:45.100
or a patient person.

876
00:51:46.220 --> 00:51:49.060
So, patience, the reason patience is so effective

877
00:51:49.060 --> 00:51:50.560
is because the enemy has none.

878
00:51:52.900 --> 00:51:54.780
Think about what caused him to fall,

879
00:51:54.780 --> 00:51:56.140
right in the beginning, was impatience.

880
00:51:56.140 --> 00:51:59.140
He wanted to be like God, there was an impatience.

881
00:51:59.140 --> 00:52:01.260
So, what impatience is,

882
00:52:01.260 --> 00:52:04.700
is when I don't want to rely on our yoke anymore,

883
00:52:04.700 --> 00:52:07.380
I want it now, I wanna push ahead.

884
00:52:07.380 --> 00:52:10.460
I don't wanna be in step, I want to be the architect,

885
00:52:10.460 --> 00:52:13.060
I wanna be in control, I want it now, I'm pushing.

886
00:52:13.060 --> 00:52:16.620
So, impatience is a kind of rebellion,

887
00:52:17.460 --> 00:52:19.300
and it's a kind of distrust,

888
00:52:19.300 --> 00:52:20.960
because if you think of faith,

889
00:52:20.960 --> 00:52:24.020
most of faith is just childlike trust.

890
00:52:24.020 --> 00:52:25.100
Father, I trust you.

891
00:52:25.100 --> 00:52:28.280
That's the heart of all faith, right?

892
00:52:28.280 --> 00:52:30.860
And the scripture doesn't say have faith in God,

893
00:52:30.860 --> 00:52:33.060
that's our English translation for you.

894
00:52:33.060 --> 00:52:34.980
It's actually the faith of God,

895
00:52:34.980 --> 00:52:38.060
in and of don't exist in the Greek.

896
00:52:38.060 --> 00:52:42.320
We infer them, we infer those words into English,

897
00:52:42.320 --> 00:52:44.220
which unfortunately are rather misleading.

898
00:52:44.220 --> 00:52:47.860
But pistis in the Greek literally means the faith of God,

899
00:52:47.860 --> 00:52:49.620
have the faith of God.

900
00:52:50.620 --> 00:52:54.420
And that's why you can be faithful,

901
00:52:54.420 --> 00:52:56.820
because you have his faith.

902
00:52:56.820 --> 00:52:58.740
Well, I don't have enough faith for that.

903
00:52:58.740 --> 00:53:02.300
Good news, that person's dead.

904
00:53:02.300 --> 00:53:05.680
That striving person trying to make it all happen.

905
00:53:05.680 --> 00:53:06.520
Amen.

906
00:53:08.060 --> 00:53:11.700
It was a sad day, you got a death certificate for that one.

907
00:53:11.700 --> 00:53:13.140
And now you have a birth certificate,

908
00:53:13.140 --> 00:53:15.980
you can say yes to the new with a birth certificate, yeah.

909
00:53:16.020 --> 00:53:19.900
So, we have his faith, exactly.

910
00:53:20.740 --> 00:53:23.100
The Bible sometimes calls it the gift of faith.

911
00:53:27.140 --> 00:53:28.340
Was that short enough?

912
00:53:30.300 --> 00:53:32.180
That's great, that's great.

913
00:53:32.180 --> 00:53:33.900
We can also talk about business stuff.

914
00:53:33.900 --> 00:53:36.900
I mean, I know this is my main job here is to do this piece

915
00:53:36.900 --> 00:53:38.100
because we promised that.

916
00:53:38.100 --> 00:53:41.500
Business questions, any business questions for Dion?

917
00:53:41.500 --> 00:53:42.660
Yeah, yeah.

918
00:53:42.660 --> 00:53:43.500
Yeah.

919
00:53:44.500 --> 00:53:46.740
I get to talk to Dion all the time.

920
00:53:46.740 --> 00:53:49.580
So, like I talk to him literally every day.

921
00:53:49.580 --> 00:53:51.780
Dawn, Dawn's getting hungry.

922
00:53:51.780 --> 00:53:52.620
Good.

923
00:53:53.620 --> 00:53:56.980
Actually, I guess this is business

924
00:53:56.980 --> 00:54:01.380
and the topic of this evening

925
00:54:01.380 --> 00:54:06.380
and the planting, the seeds.

926
00:54:07.300 --> 00:54:12.300
I guess I'd like you to just dig into that a little bit more.

927
00:54:17.380 --> 00:54:21.060
I believe I understand, but yet I feel like

928
00:54:21.060 --> 00:54:26.060
there's something, he shows me where to plant.

929
00:54:28.380 --> 00:54:33.380
I'm planting, but I wanna make sure that I'm planting

930
00:54:33.380 --> 00:54:37.860
for that, I'm truly understanding

931
00:54:37.860 --> 00:54:39.620
what you're saying about it.

932
00:54:40.980 --> 00:54:45.980
Sure, I was just gonna drop you a quick summary

933
00:54:46.860 --> 00:54:49.020
that will go very quickly to that.

934
00:54:53.300 --> 00:54:54.140
So,

935
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:02.160
Got it. I found what I was looking for.

936
00:55:11.040 --> 00:55:12.560
We often talk about

937
00:55:15.680 --> 00:55:20.400
why the four keys to your giving

938
00:55:22.160 --> 00:55:25.600
and the principles associated. I'm just going to drop it here in the chat for you.

939
00:55:25.600 --> 00:55:30.480
There we go. Okay, so there it is. I hope it's probably a bit of a mess because it

940
00:55:30.480 --> 00:55:36.080
came straight from Google Docs, but basically you have four keys to your giving. I don't see it.

941
00:55:37.520 --> 00:55:39.120
Can you, did it not go through?

942
00:55:40.960 --> 00:55:45.120
Oh, it's saying it's too much. It's saying I dropped too much at once. Give me, I'll do it

943
00:55:45.120 --> 00:55:54.160
in two parts. Four keys to your giving. Can you just drop it like Rebecca did with the other

944
00:55:54.160 --> 00:55:58.320
as a PDF? Oh, there we go. Here's the first one and here's the script.

945
00:55:59.120 --> 00:56:05.600
So can I, how do I save this? Oh, you can copy it. Yeah, you can copy it. Sometimes it doesn't

946
00:56:05.600 --> 00:56:12.960
let me copy. Okay, I will quickly make it. I'm going to try copying it. No, it's not letting

947
00:56:12.960 --> 00:56:19.440
me copy. Yeah, I'll do it for you. Yeah, in a second. So I'll drop it here in a minute. So

948
00:56:19.440 --> 00:56:23.600
I've already created a new document. Thank you. Okay, there we go.

949
00:56:29.440 --> 00:56:35.360
Okay, let me talk while I'm doing this. So the four keys, yep, now I've got it already.

950
00:56:44.560 --> 00:56:49.280
Where did they go? I've got five screens. I've got to go and find where it popped up.

951
00:56:49.920 --> 00:56:54.240
Oh, there it is. Okay, got it. Four keys to your giving.

952
00:56:56.480 --> 00:56:59.840
So yeah, that was a little bit messy for you. Here's more of a

953
00:57:02.560 --> 00:57:11.200
PDF. Thank you. Yeah, you know, and I think that where I started getting confused was

954
00:57:12.000 --> 00:57:20.800
the seed and the bread. Yeah. You know, and as I'm reading this, it's making more sense. Yeah.

955
00:57:20.800 --> 00:57:26.400
Okay, so let's go through it. So the four principles, the four main things here are

956
00:57:26.400 --> 00:57:33.120
principle of sowing and reaping. So like a farmer, sow seed, and that's what you reap,

957
00:57:33.120 --> 00:57:40.800
right? So nobody goes up to the farmer and says, you evil farmer, you, the only reason you plant

958
00:57:40.800 --> 00:57:46.400
seed is because you want to harvest, you mean evil thing, right? So nobody talks to the farmer

959
00:57:46.400 --> 00:57:51.200
that way. So Jesus is simply saying, or Paul is using the example here, it's the same, right?

960
00:57:51.920 --> 00:57:57.600
The second principle is called giving from freedom. Each of you should give what is decided

961
00:57:57.600 --> 00:58:04.240
in their own heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion. We never give under compulsion.

962
00:58:05.040 --> 00:58:12.320
So what's kingdom normal is nobody manipulates you into giving and you don't manipulate yourself

963
00:58:12.320 --> 00:58:17.680
into forgiving. That's why it means give with a generous heart, right? We give generously because

964
00:58:17.680 --> 00:58:22.880
we're not manipulating ourselves or feeling manipulated. Neither do we try to manipulate

965
00:58:22.880 --> 00:58:28.800
God. We don't create a spreadsheet and say, okay, I gave $1,000, you owe me. I was raised with that

966
00:58:28.800 --> 00:58:40.640
belief. He puts it on your heart and you just do it out of obedience and wanting to

967
00:58:40.640 --> 00:58:53.840
follow his direction. Let's upgrade from servant mode, obedience, to sonship, boy and girl sons.

968
00:58:54.560 --> 00:59:01.040
Um, so you're a daughter of the king. And now as a daughter, he's helping you understand what

969
00:59:01.040 --> 00:59:05.600
he's doing. Jesus said, I don't call you servants anymore because servants don't know what their

970
00:59:05.600 --> 00:59:11.040
master is doing. I call you friends. So when you're in friend mode with God or yoke mode,

971
00:59:11.040 --> 00:59:15.520
he's saying we're doing this because it's important that we open up this new territory.

972
00:59:15.520 --> 00:59:21.120
We're setting up this new space. We're going into this space. We need to sow into this space.

973
00:59:21.840 --> 00:59:28.800
Ah. So what's happening is you are, you're are cooperating. You're his hands and feet.

974
00:59:29.600 --> 00:59:34.720
And so it's not just pure giving out of obedience. We don't know what's going on. We don't understand.

975
00:59:34.720 --> 00:59:39.920
So you can ask the Lord, Lord, what is this opening up for me? What is this giving? What,

976
00:59:39.920 --> 00:59:44.720
what should my expectation be for what we're going to go into together if we do this?

977
00:59:45.280 --> 00:59:49.600
And then the next thing is the Lord's goal. Now, remember he has a God,

978
00:59:49.600 --> 00:59:55.440
God is able to bless you abundantly so that in all things at all times,

979
00:59:55.440 --> 00:59:59.840
you'll be enriched in every way. So you can be generous on every.

980
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:02.000
Occasion, so what's the lord saying is that?

981
01:00:02.960 --> 01:00:06.320
If you start stepping into the generosity of my heart

982
01:00:07.200 --> 01:00:14.880
Then that that you become the first fruit principle of it meaning you get to taste it first you yourself become blessed

983
01:00:15.280 --> 01:00:20.500
So that you can be generous on every occasion. Well, what happens if you keep being generous on every occasion?

984
01:00:21.200 --> 01:00:23.200
More flows through you, right?

985
01:00:24.000 --> 01:00:27.680
So people say well i'm not interested in the money. That's that's dumb

986
01:00:28.320 --> 01:00:29.840
Of course

987
01:00:29.840 --> 01:00:31.840
Right. I think it's a lie

988
01:00:32.880 --> 01:00:36.320
I wouldn't say that in a church context, but it really from a business point of view

989
01:00:36.400 --> 01:00:41.680
The reason it's dumb is because you're stripping away a whole portion of the yoke

990
01:00:42.160 --> 01:00:46.820
The joy of the yoke we're doing this father. Oh, we're giving he wants you to do it with understanding

991
01:00:47.360 --> 01:00:50.080
And therefore because of the understanding there's joy

992
01:00:50.880 --> 01:00:56.000
We're doing this. We're opening up this territory. We're investing in this. We're putting seed in the ground

993
01:00:56.000 --> 01:00:58.000
We're opening up this new thing

994
01:00:58.080 --> 01:01:03.360
And then I know that the lord knows what I need and he's going to enrich me in every way

995
01:01:03.360 --> 01:01:05.360
And by the way, you give financially

996
01:01:05.520 --> 01:01:08.880
enriched in every way means relationship and influence and

997
01:01:09.360 --> 01:01:15.280
Health and so you're giving out just a one small way and you're reaping in a huge upstairs way

998
01:01:15.440 --> 01:01:21.060
It's what god is the lord's promising and then he says it's our bit. It's like a business partnership

999
01:01:21.760 --> 01:01:25.680
You know, like all of a sudden i'm realizing like we're doing this together

1000
01:01:26.240 --> 01:01:28.720
and so all i'm doing is

1001
01:01:30.300 --> 01:01:34.080
Abiding in that resting in that and i'm getting

1002
01:01:36.080 --> 01:01:39.040
A piece of it from everything that's right

1003
01:01:40.080 --> 01:01:42.240
Exactly. I get it. He calls it yoke

1004
01:01:43.120 --> 01:01:45.120
Yoke. Yeah

1005
01:01:45.680 --> 01:01:47.680
My yoke, that's why it's easy

1006
01:01:47.680 --> 01:01:50.640
That's why it's easy and that's why your burden becomes light

1007
01:01:51.200 --> 01:01:52.880
You see he said

1008
01:01:52.880 --> 01:01:55.120
The yoke doesn't work if we stressed out

1009
01:01:55.840 --> 01:01:58.880
See stress is is me feeling it's all on me

1010
01:01:59.280 --> 01:02:03.300
Stress is me not realizing he's in it with me me not realizing

1011
01:02:04.240 --> 01:02:05.920
That he and I are one

1012
01:02:05.920 --> 01:02:12.900
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

1013
01:02:14.160 --> 01:02:15.600
But you know what he's gonna do, right?

1014
01:02:15.600 --> 01:02:20.560
He's gonna pull 90 of the load and then you're gonna pull 10. He's gonna say look what dawn did

1015
01:02:21.520 --> 01:02:23.520
I

1016
01:02:23.840 --> 01:02:30.720
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

1017
01:02:31.760 --> 01:02:37.440
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

1018
01:02:37.520 --> 01:02:41.840
That's why we have you on this board and and i'm thinking lord. That was

1019
01:02:42.620 --> 01:02:48.640
100 percent you and the lord says I know you're a genius. I agree with him, you know, he has so much fun

1020
01:02:48.720 --> 01:02:52.480
He's playful with this. He's not as sour as we think he is

1021
01:02:53.200 --> 01:02:58.640
He's really playful. He loves, you know, he's the he's such a joyful person

1022
01:02:59.920 --> 01:03:05.460
And that's what he wants for you that your peace is permanent. Your joy is permanent even in tough circumstances

1023
01:03:06.000 --> 01:03:08.000
Jesus said you will have trouble

1024
01:03:08.160 --> 01:03:10.320
What's the answer but be of good cheer?

1025
01:03:11.040 --> 01:03:14.900
Be happy for i've overcome the world why we're in partnership

1026
01:03:16.000 --> 01:03:18.000
You're in partnership with the overcomer

1027
01:03:19.200 --> 01:03:21.200
Isn't that amazing though?

1028
01:03:21.200 --> 01:03:22.960
You can't lose

1029
01:03:22.960 --> 01:03:28.240
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

1030
01:03:30.320 --> 01:03:32.160
He's an overcomer

1031
01:03:32.160 --> 01:03:38.640
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

1032
01:03:40.080 --> 01:03:42.080
So and and you know, there's an upgrade

1033
01:03:43.120 --> 01:03:44.880
Always an upgrade

1034
01:03:44.880 --> 01:03:47.760
If you're going through a trial or challenge, there's always an upgrade

1035
01:03:48.480 --> 01:03:50.000
Always an upgrade

1036
01:03:50.000 --> 01:03:55.360
He's just too kind to in fact, he's usually trying to sneak in two or three other upgrades

1037
01:03:56.080 --> 01:03:57.600
right

1038
01:03:57.600 --> 01:04:00.000
You go back, you know, uh you

1039
01:04:00.880 --> 01:04:05.280
You know one of the things we teach at the school, uh leadership is that the lord is working

1040
01:04:05.280 --> 01:04:09.600
Let the lord be the architect on the thing you're working on. Don't don't you work on your stuff self, right?

1041
01:04:09.680 --> 01:04:11.680
So let him work on what you're working on

1042
01:04:12.240 --> 01:04:15.280
And then put the other let him keep the other stuff in storage

1043
01:04:16.000 --> 01:04:19.920
But then when he's finished working on that you go back to storage and half the stuff he's missing

1044
01:04:20.480 --> 01:04:25.360
He said lord, where's that selfishness? And I said, well while we were doing this we quickly fixed this this this and this

1045
01:04:26.640 --> 01:04:28.400
That's what happens when he gets involved

1046
01:04:28.400 --> 01:04:33.280
He's just you just blow your mind with kindness and you go I thought we were still going to work on that

1047
01:04:33.360 --> 01:04:35.360
No, no that that we covered that already

1048
01:04:37.200 --> 01:04:41.760
I already handled that. Thanks. Anyway, I got it. Yeah, he takes care of it. So

1049
01:04:42.560 --> 01:04:45.040
Well, I know we have a few minutes over there but um, yeah

1050
01:04:45.600 --> 01:04:47.440
I love hanging out with you guys

1051
01:04:47.440 --> 01:04:54.800
Yeah, I appreciate you dion everyone. Give some give some love to dion. Thank you dion. Thank you. Thank you so much

1052
01:04:55.200 --> 01:04:56.700
incredible night

1053
01:04:56.700 --> 01:04:58.080
Appreciate you

1054
01:04:58.080 --> 01:05:00.080
Great. Well, thank you so much and

1055
01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:02.560
We'll see you next month.

1056
01:05:02.560 --> 01:05:04.000
Yes.

1057
01:05:04.000 --> 01:05:06.200
I'll probably see you tomorrow.

1058
01:05:06.200 --> 01:05:07.560
I'll see you every day.

1059
01:05:07.560 --> 01:05:08.800
Yeah.

1060
01:05:08.800 --> 01:05:09.960
Thanks.

1061
01:05:09.960 --> 01:05:11.400
All right, you got it.

1062
01:05:11.400 --> 01:05:13.440
Appreciate it.

1063
01:05:13.440 --> 01:05:14.120
Awesome.

1064
01:05:14.120 --> 01:05:14.800
So good.

1065
01:05:14.800 --> 01:05:15.640
So good.

1066
01:05:15.640 --> 01:05:16.760
I love that.

1067
01:05:16.760 --> 01:05:17.960
I love that recap.

1068
01:05:17.960 --> 01:05:20.160
I love him going through.

1069
01:05:20.160 --> 01:05:23.920
It's always good reminders and going through all of that.

1070
01:05:23.920 --> 01:05:29.320
And so, yeah, I've had a busy few days here.

1071
01:05:29.320 --> 01:05:30.280
How can I help you?

1072
01:05:30.280 --> 01:05:32.520
Is there anything I can help you with?

1073
01:05:32.520 --> 01:05:33.720
Feel free to raise your hand.

1074
01:05:33.720 --> 01:05:34.480
I'm here for you.

1075
01:05:37.200 --> 01:05:38.440
Kim, you got something?

1076
01:05:38.440 --> 01:05:40.720
I feel like you got something.

1077
01:05:40.720 --> 01:05:41.400
Darn it.

1078
01:05:41.400 --> 01:05:44.120
I was contemplating.

1079
01:05:44.120 --> 01:05:47.680
However, it's not business.

1080
01:05:47.680 --> 01:05:50.320
It's actually health.

1081
01:05:50.320 --> 01:06:00.280
I want to know how I can align myself with biblical living

1082
01:06:00.280 --> 01:06:01.920
for this vessel.

1083
01:06:01.920 --> 01:06:02.400
Yeah.

1084
01:06:06.840 --> 01:06:12.200
Yeah, I mean, I just can't believe what he's done with me.

1085
01:06:12.200 --> 01:06:18.160
And it's because my whole life I battled with food

1086
01:06:18.160 --> 01:06:19.600
because I was starved as a kid.

1087
01:06:20.080 --> 01:06:21.160
Eating was freedom.

1088
01:06:21.160 --> 01:06:25.720
And he's made it so easy.

1089
01:06:25.720 --> 01:06:29.800
I mean, I'm like this close to having six-pack abs.

1090
01:06:29.800 --> 01:06:33.920
And that's just so crazy.

1091
01:06:33.920 --> 01:06:39.480
And when I meet, when I run into people, they're like, oh my God,

1092
01:06:39.480 --> 01:06:41.480
I didn't even recognize you, but in a good way.

1093
01:06:41.480 --> 01:06:43.040
Like, wow.

1094
01:06:43.040 --> 01:06:46.720
And when I saw Dion, when I went to Brilliance a couple of weeks

1095
01:06:46.760 --> 01:06:52.160
ago, he's like, dude, you look 20 years younger.

1096
01:06:52.160 --> 01:06:56.320
And so I just gave the Lord permission.

1097
01:06:56.320 --> 01:06:57.840
I said, Lord, I give you permission.

1098
01:06:57.840 --> 01:06:59.400
Make me excellent in every way.

1099
01:06:59.400 --> 01:07:01.520
And tell me.

1100
01:07:01.520 --> 01:07:02.440
I give you permission.

1101
01:07:02.440 --> 01:07:03.280
Tell me what to eat.

1102
01:07:03.280 --> 01:07:04.760
Tell me what to drink.

1103
01:07:04.760 --> 01:07:10.240
And sometimes he led me to someone who would give me a tip.

1104
01:07:10.240 --> 01:07:11.760
And I have prayed this.

1105
01:07:11.760 --> 01:07:14.120
I'm like, Lord, is what you have me do,

1106
01:07:14.120 --> 01:07:15.480
is that what everyone should do?

1107
01:07:15.480 --> 01:07:16.400
No.

1108
01:07:16.400 --> 01:07:18.440
It's different.

1109
01:07:18.440 --> 01:07:21.040
Like, I don't eat any fruit.

1110
01:07:21.040 --> 01:07:22.400
I don't eat.

1111
01:07:22.400 --> 01:07:24.720
Like, there's a lot of stuff that I

1112
01:07:24.720 --> 01:07:27.800
would think that the biohackers would tell me to eat.

1113
01:07:27.800 --> 01:07:30.280
A lot of the stuff that biohackers say,

1114
01:07:30.280 --> 01:07:32.560
I get a no to.

1115
01:07:32.560 --> 01:07:36.640
But so I just, I eat a lot of protein.

1116
01:07:36.640 --> 01:07:39.680
I eat meat.

1117
01:07:39.680 --> 01:07:40.760
I drink water.

1118
01:07:40.760 --> 01:07:41.640
That's it.

1119
01:07:41.640 --> 01:07:44.720
Sometimes lemon, not very often.

1120
01:07:44.800 --> 01:07:48.440
And I don't have any alcohol or anything like that.

1121
01:07:48.440 --> 01:07:51.200
But that doesn't mean that's the right fit for you.

1122
01:07:51.200 --> 01:07:55.160
But I would ask, Lord, what is it?

1123
01:07:55.160 --> 01:07:58.520
And it's interesting.

1124
01:07:58.520 --> 01:08:02.480
My first year with Christ, I did do a lot of fasting.

1125
01:08:02.480 --> 01:08:06.760
I think I did three seven-day fasts, not in a row.

1126
01:08:06.760 --> 01:08:11.960
But he's only had me fast and only for one day

1127
01:08:12.000 --> 01:08:15.120
in this probably last year, maybe.

1128
01:08:15.120 --> 01:08:16.720
So he doesn't have me fast very much.

1129
01:08:16.720 --> 01:08:18.000
But that may be different.

1130
01:08:18.000 --> 01:08:19.680
That may be different for you.

1131
01:08:19.680 --> 01:08:24.200
And so it's just, what I realized

1132
01:08:25.399 --> 01:08:28.920
was just how gentle he is.

1133
01:08:28.920 --> 01:08:32.040
He wants you to come to that conclusion

1134
01:08:32.040 --> 01:08:35.600
and surrender without like a force.

1135
01:08:35.600 --> 01:08:38.160
And so as long as you're, I really believe

1136
01:08:38.160 --> 01:08:40.960
if you surrender, Lord, show me.

1137
01:08:40.960 --> 01:08:41.800
Show me what to do.

1138
01:08:42.640 --> 01:08:44.760
And all of a sudden, you'll be on Instagram

1139
01:08:44.760 --> 01:08:46.840
and a video will stand out to you.

1140
01:08:46.840 --> 01:08:50.439
And it'll be about whatever, face plunging

1141
01:08:50.439 --> 01:08:51.880
or something like that.

1142
01:08:51.880 --> 01:08:56.000
You know, like he had me, when I was out in California,

1143
01:08:56.000 --> 01:09:01.000
this is probably the most different thing I do

1144
01:09:01.800 --> 01:09:06.800
than most people, is he had me have lunch with a guy.

1145
01:09:08.920 --> 01:09:11.240
And I said, oh, what are you getting to drink?

1146
01:09:11.680 --> 01:09:14.160
And he goes, oh, I don't drink when I eat.

1147
01:09:14.160 --> 01:09:16.520
I'm like, you don't drink when you eat?

1148
01:09:16.520 --> 01:09:18.800
He goes, yeah, no, I wait 30 minutes.

1149
01:09:18.800 --> 01:09:20.040
And here's why.

1150
01:09:20.040 --> 01:09:22.359
And I actually heard that.

1151
01:09:22.359 --> 01:09:25.160
The only other time I ever heard that was in Israel.

1152
01:09:25.160 --> 01:09:28.479
And some of the Jewish people said that.

1153
01:09:28.479 --> 01:09:30.600
And so I prayed to Lord, Lord, do you want me to do that?

1154
01:09:30.600 --> 01:09:32.600
Yeah, and so every once in a while,

1155
01:09:32.600 --> 01:09:34.359
you may catch my timer go off

1156
01:09:34.359 --> 01:09:36.359
and you see me chug a water.

1157
01:09:36.359 --> 01:09:41.200
And so I don't drink any water when I eat.

1158
01:09:42.040 --> 01:09:43.760
And like 30 minutes before or after

1159
01:09:43.760 --> 01:09:46.200
is when I'll drink anything, I only drink water.

1160
01:09:46.200 --> 01:09:48.479
And, but it's been easy.

1161
01:09:48.479 --> 01:09:51.920
You know, my kids, they had an early, you know,

1162
01:09:51.920 --> 01:09:55.960
Easter thing, so there was 50 million Reese cups out there.

1163
01:09:55.960 --> 01:10:00.320
In the past, I would have taken them all down, all of them.

1164
01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:04.000
I mean, I would have like hit him for my kids like when they're not like

1165
01:10:05.280 --> 01:10:08.600
Like I don't crave any of that stuff. He's made it really easy

1166
01:10:08.600 --> 01:10:13.700
And so I don't know if you if you mean just like diet, but whatever whatever you mean

1167
01:10:14.220 --> 01:10:19.040
Give him permission Lord. I give you permission Lord. Thank you for walking me through this and

1168
01:10:19.840 --> 01:10:24.400
You know, he guided me to people that gave me different exercises. He guided me to

1169
01:10:24.920 --> 01:10:29.760
Different ads like I saw this ad on these

1170
01:10:31.760 --> 01:10:33.760
These things that you wrap around

1171
01:10:34.840 --> 01:10:42.240
bars to make lifting them heavier or harder and so it builds your like I have I gripped these dumbbells like this instead of

1172
01:10:42.240 --> 01:10:46.480
like this right and so like he asked me to like these weird hacks and

1173
01:10:47.280 --> 01:10:48.640
and

1174
01:10:48.640 --> 01:10:54.280
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

1175
01:10:54.960 --> 01:10:56.960
That's amazing. That's amazing

1176
01:10:57.240 --> 01:11:02.280
But it hasn't I look back and I feel like there's so many like I remember I did this one

1177
01:11:02.800 --> 01:11:06.640
diet where everything came in these little packets and you had to

1178
01:11:07.040 --> 01:11:14.760
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

1179
01:11:15.440 --> 01:11:19.120
And I tried all kinds of things that work for other people and I couldn't get it to work

1180
01:11:19.920 --> 01:11:21.640
It's just been easy

1181
01:11:21.640 --> 01:11:24.600
And that's what he'll do he'll make you know, whatever

1182
01:11:25.320 --> 01:11:28.200
Whatever you give him permission to and surrender to him. He'll make easy

1183
01:11:29.160 --> 01:11:31.160
Awesome. Yeah, okay

1184
01:11:31.560 --> 01:11:36.720
Thank you for that. I mean when I heard your story you did your your live about kind of your routine

1185
01:11:37.240 --> 01:11:45.200
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

1186
01:11:45.200 --> 01:11:52.960
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

1187
01:11:53.520 --> 01:11:59.520
It's freedom. I can make my own choice and indulge and binge and that leads to the next thing. So

1188
01:12:00.320 --> 01:12:03.520
I have been sugar-free for about six months now

1189
01:12:04.320 --> 01:12:05.600
but

1190
01:12:05.600 --> 01:12:10.560
There's a lot of room for improvement. So this is absolutely my next step

1191
01:12:11.360 --> 01:12:12.320
Yeah

1192
01:12:12.320 --> 01:12:13.280
Yeah

1193
01:12:13.280 --> 01:12:15.520
He'll guide you he'll guide you awesome

1194
01:12:17.520 --> 01:12:19.520
Where else can I help guys

1195
01:12:20.640 --> 01:12:25.200
By the guys you guys do not ding me nearly enough on boxer you should be

1196
01:12:25.760 --> 01:12:29.520
Let me help. You don't have to wait till these meetings. You're gonna be asking me questions all the time

1197
01:12:30.400 --> 01:12:32.400
I'd love to help you guys

1198
01:12:33.280 --> 01:12:37.520
Carry you got something. I feel like you got something. Well, that's really funny

1199
01:12:38.960 --> 01:12:44.000
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

1200
01:12:44.720 --> 01:12:46.720
looking to

1201
01:12:47.840 --> 01:12:52.480
Doing some reach outs doing some prospecting on LinkedIn and so looking

1202
01:12:52.960 --> 01:12:57.760
I've already have something that I have typically used in a just kind of a check interest message

1203
01:12:57.760 --> 01:13:02.160
But wondering what your thoughts were, especially specifically on LinkedIn

1204
01:13:02.800 --> 01:13:04.080
where

1205
01:13:04.080 --> 01:13:06.640
Obviously, it's a different bird. I mean people are used to

1206
01:13:07.280 --> 01:13:10.480
You know being being approached for opportunities and options

1207
01:13:11.680 --> 01:13:15.360
You know, do you keep it small? Do you keep it short? Do you keep it simple or do you?

1208
01:13:16.080 --> 01:13:20.880
Do an invitation or a check interest message that maybe it's a little bit more?

1209
01:13:21.920 --> 01:13:24.240
Humane, you know, I don't know. I don't know

1210
01:13:24.240 --> 01:13:26.560
Check interest message that maybe it's a little bit more

1211
01:13:27.280 --> 01:13:33.120
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?

1212
01:13:34.080 --> 01:13:35.520
any thoughts

1213
01:13:35.520 --> 01:13:42.720
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

1214
01:13:43.840 --> 01:13:49.840
You know, I found the people like I I never did a ton of prospecting on LinkedIn

1215
01:13:50.160 --> 01:13:54.000
But I know people who have and I know people who have gotten results

1216
01:13:55.440 --> 01:13:59.760
It's not that different right? It really isn't. Um, I just

1217
01:14:01.440 --> 01:14:04.400
You know you we can we can kind of build it up in our mind of oh

1218
01:14:04.400 --> 01:14:08.480
It needs to be more professional or it needs to be more business oriented or something like that

1219
01:14:09.840 --> 01:14:12.400
I think psychology psychology and so

1220
01:14:13.360 --> 01:14:15.360
it's um

1221
01:14:15.440 --> 01:14:17.440
You know i'm going to

1222
01:14:17.680 --> 01:14:19.680
Uh get to the point

1223
01:14:19.760 --> 01:14:21.760
Because if if they don't know me

1224
01:14:21.920 --> 01:14:23.680
That is a universal

1225
01:14:23.680 --> 01:14:27.360
Get to the point. Don't don't don't give me a big long

1226
01:14:28.140 --> 01:14:30.140
diatribe and and

1227
01:14:30.240 --> 01:14:35.360
You know try to befriend me like like get to the point. What are you? What is it? What do you want?

1228
01:14:36.320 --> 01:14:43.040
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

1229
01:14:43.840 --> 01:14:45.600
And and if they do know you

1230
01:14:45.600 --> 01:14:47.440
Get into the point too

1231
01:14:47.440 --> 01:14:49.440
But in a just a little bit nicer way

1232
01:14:50.480 --> 01:14:52.480
nicer is probably not the right word, but

1233
01:14:52.640 --> 01:14:54.320
um

1234
01:14:54.320 --> 01:14:58.740
In a longer term way. Hey, i'd love to catch up. But listen i'm on this project

1235
01:14:59.520 --> 01:15:01.520
and

1236
01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:02.720
your name popped in my head, would you be at all open take a

1237
01:15:02.720 --> 01:15:05.360
look at this thing and then whether whether you're

1238
01:15:05.360 --> 01:15:08.320
interested or not, more than happy, let's schedule time to

1239
01:15:08.320 --> 01:15:11.840
catch up. So it would just be a little bit longer term kind of

1240
01:15:11.860 --> 01:15:16.160
kind of play. All right. Okay. But do you have your your script

1241
01:15:16.160 --> 01:15:18.560
or your I don't have it. I don't have it in front of me right

1242
01:15:18.560 --> 01:15:22.840
now. No, I was just I was I was I had been working on it earlier.

1243
01:15:22.840 --> 01:15:26.520
And that's why I was asking because in some some some

1244
01:15:26.520 --> 01:15:32.680
thought process that I've heard where they were going way

1245
01:15:32.680 --> 01:15:36.440
deeper in the context of, in other words, going the next

1246
01:15:36.440 --> 01:15:41.640
level in conversation up front, versus just starting the

1247
01:15:41.640 --> 01:15:44.280
conversation and then going from there is I'm saying.

1248
01:15:46.080 --> 01:15:50.320
Yeah, usually, you'll have to show me example, usually, I'm

1249
01:15:50.320 --> 01:15:54.280
going to be against that usually I'm going to have short in

1250
01:15:54.280 --> 01:15:58.880
prospecting, marketing, different story, like some, some

1251
01:15:58.880 --> 01:16:02.720
of you saw the Sunday video I did. Very thorough, it's an

1252
01:16:02.720 --> 01:16:08.480
hour, it's an hour long. And I share the whole origin story. I

1253
01:16:08.480 --> 01:16:12.200
mean, I share I share two different examples like I in

1254
01:16:12.200 --> 01:16:17.320
marketing, that's a different story. In prospecting, I'm

1255
01:16:17.360 --> 01:16:23.160
typically going to be get to the point, see openness, then a

1256
01:16:23.160 --> 01:16:26.400
little bit more. That's usually what I'm gonna be. But I'll,

1257
01:16:26.400 --> 01:16:28.760
but I'll take a look at it whenever, whenever you'd like,

1258
01:16:28.800 --> 01:16:32.880
for sure. Okay. Did I ever have you heard my favorite LinkedIn

1259
01:16:32.880 --> 01:16:39.040
story? It involves Malaysia? Have you heard this? So I'll

1260
01:16:39.040 --> 01:16:41.920
tell you the full story. I don't always tell the full story

1261
01:16:41.920 --> 01:16:47.000
because sometimes I worry for people. But my buddy, Eric, and

1262
01:16:47.480 --> 01:16:51.760
one of the companies I was in years ago, the company was

1263
01:16:51.760 --> 01:16:58.560
opening in Malaysia. And so he's on LinkedIn, just hammering

1264
01:16:58.560 --> 01:17:01.320
out, you know, just just prospecting people in Malaysia,

1265
01:17:01.360 --> 01:17:04.360
anyone and everyone in Malaysia, like he doesn't know anyone. And

1266
01:17:04.360 --> 01:17:07.920
so he gets this guy and the guy says, Hey, me and my partner

1267
01:17:07.920 --> 01:17:13.600
interested. You know, why don't you come over? And so here's the

1268
01:17:13.600 --> 01:17:16.480
part that I don't always share. So Eric goes to his wife and

1269
01:17:16.480 --> 01:17:20.960
says, Hey, don't pay the mortgage. I have a good feeling

1270
01:17:20.960 --> 01:17:25.800
on this. I'm gonna fly to Malaysia. He flies to Malaysia

1271
01:17:25.840 --> 01:17:28.720
meets up with a guy James and I forget the other guy's name.

1272
01:17:28.760 --> 01:17:32.000
He's a big insurance guy meets up with these two guys, they

1273
01:17:32.000 --> 01:17:37.560
move forward. That team starts putting in over 25,000 people a

1274
01:17:37.560 --> 01:17:43.640
month. They have a center that like five, six days a week, they

1275
01:17:43.640 --> 01:17:48.720
have 1000 people a night in this thing. And so like, I don't know

1276
01:17:48.720 --> 01:17:52.600
how much he made. I mean, it's got to be at least a half a

1277
01:17:52.600 --> 01:17:55.480
million that would be on the extremely conservative side, but

1278
01:17:55.680 --> 01:17:59.320
more likely probably a couple million. And so that was cold

1279
01:17:59.320 --> 01:18:03.000
prospecting on Malaysia, new country open, like, you know,

1280
01:18:03.080 --> 01:18:06.200
that that's a, that's a real story. And that's, you know,

1281
01:18:06.240 --> 01:18:07.160
that's my favorite.

1282
01:18:07.560 --> 01:18:10.160
Yeah, absolutely. Wow. Okay, thanks.

1283
01:18:10.160 --> 01:18:12.600
So just you just you just never know.

1284
01:18:13.600 --> 01:18:18.240
Right. Very cool. And then beyond that, I mean, beyond that,

1285
01:18:19.040 --> 01:18:25.880
you know, I think that just a word about tonight about Deon's

1286
01:18:25.920 --> 01:18:33.840
stuff. Yeah. Because, you know, my, my past has been where, where

1287
01:18:33.840 --> 01:18:38.320
I, I would even in the context of our business feel like that.

1288
01:18:39.040 --> 01:18:42.920
I don't know if I told you this, when we started our business,

1289
01:18:43.520 --> 01:18:48.720
whatever it was 14 years ago. That's right. When, you know, we

1290
01:18:48.720 --> 01:18:53.280
had been listening to the art of thinking brilliantly. And it was

1291
01:18:54.000 --> 01:18:57.400
literally was shifting our mindset, because, you know, we

1292
01:18:57.400 --> 01:19:00.760
had just lost everything. And, you know, literally everything.

1293
01:19:02.360 --> 01:19:05.360
And just looking at it from a much different perspective. So

1294
01:19:05.360 --> 01:19:10.040
then when we started our business, you know, I was,

1295
01:19:10.120 --> 01:19:12.560
that's literally how I was starting my business. It was,

1296
01:19:12.760 --> 01:19:17.040
okay, God, today, you know, who do you want me to talk to? You

1297
01:19:17.040 --> 01:19:21.440
want me to go meet, you know, and just, and what transpired in

1298
01:19:21.440 --> 01:19:26.880
that process was no nothing. I mean, nothing that I could see

1299
01:19:26.880 --> 01:19:29.720
is probably the better way of saying that nothing that I could

1300
01:19:29.720 --> 01:19:34.800
see. And I am that person that he was talking about where, you

1301
01:19:34.800 --> 01:19:38.840
know, I then got discouraged, because I'm like, Okay, God,

1302
01:19:38.880 --> 01:19:42.800
this is what we were doing. But we're not I'm literally mean,

1303
01:19:42.840 --> 01:19:46.280
you know, for months and months, and not really seeing any

1304
01:19:46.280 --> 01:19:51.240
results out of that. And then kind of went back to downstairs

1305
01:19:51.240 --> 01:19:57.000
thinking of Yeah, if it's going to be it's up to me. Yeah. And

1306
01:19:57.000 --> 01:19:59.000
so, you know, find myself

1307
01:20:00.000 --> 01:20:05.000
still sometimes connected to the downstairs thinking.

1308
01:20:05.020 --> 01:20:05.960
For sure.

1309
01:20:05.960 --> 01:20:10.960
They gotta unlatch and recognize that that's not

1310
01:20:12.400 --> 01:20:13.640
kingdom thinking.

1311
01:20:13.640 --> 01:20:15.540
Yeah, for sure.

1312
01:20:17.880 --> 01:20:20.160
I mean, I think I'm doing that less and less,

1313
01:20:20.160 --> 01:20:22.680
but there's still a piece of that, right?

1314
01:20:22.680 --> 01:20:24.880
There's still a, wait a minute,

1315
01:20:24.880 --> 01:20:26.280
you're gonna run with this thing?

1316
01:20:26.280 --> 01:20:27.800
You're gonna do this?

1317
01:20:28.240 --> 01:20:30.340
You don't need me to do anything on that?

1318
01:20:32.840 --> 01:20:35.400
It's gotten better, but yeah.

1319
01:20:36.280 --> 01:20:37.440
Yeah, I'm actually going through

1320
01:20:37.440 --> 01:20:39.440
Art of Thinking brilliantly right now.

1321
01:20:39.440 --> 01:20:40.440
It's so good.

1322
01:20:40.440 --> 01:20:41.280
So good.

1323
01:20:42.640 --> 01:20:44.120
Yeah, Graham's amazing.

1324
01:20:44.120 --> 01:20:44.960
Yep, absolutely.

1325
01:20:44.960 --> 01:20:45.800
So thank you.

1326
01:20:45.800 --> 01:20:49.500
And for those that love Dion,

1327
01:20:49.500 --> 01:20:54.280
I mean, Dion's been studying Graham for like 20 years,

1328
01:20:54.280 --> 01:20:57.480
and so he's just got it down pretty darn good.

1329
01:20:57.480 --> 01:20:58.960
Pretty darn good.

1330
01:20:58.960 --> 01:21:02.400
Yeah, it's clear, like if you listen to Graham at all,

1331
01:21:02.400 --> 01:21:05.360
when Dion's speaking, you're hearing Graham.

1332
01:21:05.360 --> 01:21:07.080
I mean. Yes, yes.

1333
01:21:07.080 --> 01:21:07.920
Yeah, you are.

1334
01:21:07.920 --> 01:21:10.600
I mean, they have, multiple times a week,

1335
01:21:10.600 --> 01:21:13.020
they'll have three, four, five hour conversations,

1336
01:21:13.020 --> 01:21:16.120
and they've been doing that for years.

1337
01:21:16.120 --> 01:21:19.000
And so, yeah, it's good, it's good.

1338
01:21:20.880 --> 01:21:23.560
Dawn, anything I can help you with, my dear?

1339
01:21:24.560 --> 01:21:29.560
Well, I definitely have some things

1340
01:21:30.920 --> 01:21:35.920
that I've been working on, and not asking you.

1341
01:21:37.520 --> 01:21:38.840
Please ask.

1342
01:21:38.840 --> 01:21:43.040
Well, and you know, I guess I had it in my mind backwards,

1343
01:21:43.040 --> 01:21:46.400
like I thought I was just gonna be given more direction

1344
01:21:48.040 --> 01:21:51.000
from the other side, and not,

1345
01:21:51.400 --> 01:21:54.480
me having to come up with where, what to ask you.

1346
01:21:54.480 --> 01:21:56.800
So sometimes I'm not even sure what to ask you.

1347
01:21:58.120 --> 01:22:03.120
But I've come up with some things tonight.

1348
01:22:03.120 --> 01:22:08.120
I want to definitely be exploring more speaking,

1349
01:22:10.400 --> 01:22:13.840
and you're an expert in that.

1350
01:22:13.840 --> 01:22:18.840
And so, I mean, I just, I need some guidance,

1351
01:22:19.840 --> 01:22:23.440
for where to start, and you've shared some things with me

1352
01:22:23.440 --> 01:22:27.960
in the past, like I'm totally open doing it for free,

1353
01:22:27.960 --> 01:22:30.360
like you had said, but I really need

1354
01:22:30.360 --> 01:22:35.360
some step-by-step direction for what to do next.

1355
01:22:36.840 --> 01:22:39.480
And now that I have some of my books out,

1356
01:22:39.480 --> 01:22:43.320
I have the devotional that just came out,

1357
01:22:43.320 --> 01:22:44.920
which I'm really excited about,

1358
01:22:45.240 --> 01:22:50.240
and I really want to be able to share more with more people.

1359
01:22:54.320 --> 01:22:58.400
And I believe that the Lord is guiding me

1360
01:22:58.400 --> 01:23:00.120
in that direction.

1361
01:23:00.120 --> 01:23:04.920
And obviously I want to make money doing it,

1362
01:23:04.920 --> 01:23:06.640
but that's not even the motivation.

1363
01:23:06.640 --> 01:23:09.760
The motivation is I know God's put it in me.

1364
01:23:09.760 --> 01:23:10.600
Sure.

1365
01:23:10.600 --> 01:23:13.520
And so, yeah, so, you know,

1366
01:23:13.520 --> 01:23:15.800
and you can boxer me on it or whatever,

1367
01:23:15.800 --> 01:23:19.400
and I loved what you sent me today, totally.

1368
01:23:19.400 --> 01:23:23.720
I listen to him every day, sometimes for hours,

1369
01:23:23.720 --> 01:23:27.240
like while I'm doing other things, I'm listening.

1370
01:23:27.240 --> 01:23:30.520
And so it's constant, just constant.

1371
01:23:30.520 --> 01:23:31.360
Yeah.

1372
01:23:32.280 --> 01:23:34.760
And, you know, every once in a while,

1373
01:23:34.760 --> 01:23:36.080
I share it in the boxer group,

1374
01:23:36.080 --> 01:23:39.080
because I'm like, oh, she really needs to listen to this.

1375
01:23:40.640 --> 01:23:43.840
Because it's been transforming for me.

1376
01:23:43.840 --> 01:23:46.600
And going over these lessons again,

1377
01:23:48.680 --> 01:23:52.520
is just, I'm just, I'm blown away constantly,

1378
01:23:52.520 --> 01:23:54.160
just blown away.

1379
01:23:58.240 --> 01:24:02.560
And so I hesitate sometimes, Ray,

1380
01:24:02.560 --> 01:24:05.280
because I don't want to be,

1381
01:24:06.920 --> 01:24:08.800
I want to be getting direction.

1382
01:24:08.840 --> 01:24:13.800
I want to be looking,

1383
01:24:13.800 --> 01:24:18.480
but I'm also wanting to really be guided too.

1384
01:24:19.920 --> 01:24:20.880
You know what I'm saying?

1385
01:24:20.880 --> 01:24:23.680
Like, so not trying to go,

1386
01:24:23.680 --> 01:24:26.360
okay, Dawn, you need to do this, this, and this.

1387
01:24:26.360 --> 01:24:28.880
And okay, ask Ray about this, this, and this.

1388
01:24:28.880 --> 01:24:33.880
And, you know, and so,

1389
01:24:35.440 --> 01:24:37.280
and I really liked what he said tonight too.

1390
01:24:37.280 --> 01:24:40.160
So it's not even being obedient, it's just yoking.

1391
01:24:41.360 --> 01:24:42.360
Yeah.

1392
01:24:42.360 --> 01:24:45.760
So I'm really, I've been working a lot on the yoking.

1393
01:24:45.760 --> 01:24:46.600
Yeah.

1394
01:24:49.400 --> 01:24:53.640
And it's, so it's a little, it's just a little,

1395
01:24:55.920 --> 01:25:00.200
it's still a shift for me of the,

1396
01:25:00.000 --> 01:25:05.520
that, you know, action taking gone. Right? And like what you

1397
01:25:05.520 --> 01:25:09.240
were saying earlier, it's like, Oh, God, you don't want me to

1398
01:25:09.240 --> 01:25:16.200
do anything. Right? It's like, so like, for example, the, the I

1399
01:25:16.200 --> 01:25:21.840
guess, fuller story is this during that week, like when God

1400
01:25:22.240 --> 01:25:26.720
said, you're gonna make X amount, and in this program, and

1401
01:25:26.720 --> 01:25:31.360
you don't need to do anything. And I'm like, okay. And the guy

1402
01:25:31.360 --> 01:25:35.880
asked me, it was while we're on the cruise, that his referrals

1403
01:25:35.880 --> 01:25:40.560
generate 20,000 to me. And so like, I didn't have to do

1404
01:25:40.560 --> 01:25:46.600
anything. And and so I will tell you what, what I got prompted

1405
01:25:46.600 --> 01:25:52.160
with. And when it comes to speech, right? I think the big

1406
01:25:52.160 --> 01:25:55.800
mistake that a lot of people make is they're like, well, if

1407
01:25:55.800 --> 01:25:59.240
someone offered me a stage, I'd come up with a speech. And it

1408
01:25:59.240 --> 01:26:03.640
actually is the opposite. Yeah, it's you. So he's been giving

1409
01:26:03.640 --> 01:26:08.560
me talks. And I've been so happy recorded those. I haven't

1410
01:26:08.560 --> 01:26:12.360
recorded them. So you take whatever talk he gives you.

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01:26:12.600 --> 01:26:15.560
Okay, that's a video. Each of those talks he gives you is a

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video. And when people hear that video, they're going to see you

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01:26:20.040 --> 01:26:25.280
on their stage. And so it's it's create the speech, do the

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01:26:25.280 --> 01:26:29.480
speech, then the stage will appear. Most people think if the

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01:26:29.520 --> 01:26:33.680
if the stage appears, then I'll do my speech. Yes, that's the

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wrong way.

1417
01:26:35.480 --> 01:26:39.080
Well, and you taught me that, too, you know that I need to

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01:26:39.080 --> 01:26:45.320
know what I'm what I'm talking about, what I'm supposed to be

1419
01:26:45.320 --> 01:26:50.120
sharing, what you do, you do know, it's just let other

1420
01:26:50.120 --> 01:26:50.960
people see that

1421
01:26:50.960 --> 01:26:54.840
because that that was a that was a fear in the past of like,

1422
01:26:54.880 --> 01:26:59.320
yeah, what are you going to talk about? Well, I feel like I've

1423
01:26:59.320 --> 01:27:02.000
gotten a lot of downloads about that, but I've never made

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01:27:02.000 --> 01:27:05.000
videos. And so I'll definitely do that. That's great.

1425
01:27:05.160 --> 01:27:08.440
Because that's because that's stage one stage one is your

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01:27:08.440 --> 01:27:10.400
phone, right? That's that's stage one.

1427
01:27:10.600 --> 01:27:14.720
Well, that's what that that's, that's a good answer. That's

1428
01:27:14.720 --> 01:27:20.840
good. Like, I can sit I can do that step easy. So I'll do

1429
01:27:20.840 --> 01:27:25.240
that. Good. Yeah. Yeah. And then I do have some other things with

1430
01:27:25.240 --> 01:27:30.720
the coaching that, you know, I want to, I've made some tweaks

1431
01:27:30.720 --> 01:27:40.320
and and I've been hesitant on the webinar because I because I

1432
01:27:40.320 --> 01:27:44.320
was just like, Oh, should I be changing some of this up based

1433
01:27:44.320 --> 01:27:48.880
on what you sent me? You know, and so maybe I should just send

1434
01:27:48.880 --> 01:27:52.160
you the webinar stuff and you can look at it and then

1435
01:27:52.200 --> 01:27:58.560
yeah, like today I was there's a I was helping someone with

1436
01:27:58.560 --> 01:28:02.920
their they have a $20,000 coaching proposal for a company

1437
01:28:03.240 --> 01:28:12.200
and the the most common problem with something like that is we

1438
01:28:12.200 --> 01:28:15.760
tend to talk all about the delivery not the destination.

1439
01:28:16.320 --> 01:28:19.560
Yeah. And so we talked about we're going to get six zooms

1440
01:28:19.560 --> 01:28:21.400
and you're going to get three hours and you're going to get

1441
01:28:21.400 --> 01:28:25.840
the end and that's that's all the what it is. But people buy

1442
01:28:25.840 --> 01:28:30.360
what it does. What's the transformation? And so you know,

1443
01:28:30.360 --> 01:28:32.880
we have to include that. And then I'm like, Okay, who are

1444
01:28:32.880 --> 01:28:37.320
you presenting this to? And she told me and the characteristics

1445
01:28:37.320 --> 01:28:41.520
she described is clearly a red guy, you know, red personality

1446
01:28:41.520 --> 01:28:46.880
type, but she has a seven page small print offer. And I'm like,

1447
01:28:46.960 --> 01:28:50.200
yeah, he ain't gonna read this. You need it. You can have five

1448
01:28:50.200 --> 01:28:54.680
bullet points. Exactly. You need a cover sheet with five bullet

1449
01:28:54.680 --> 01:28:57.920
points. What what can you expect? And they're going to

1450
01:28:57.920 --> 01:29:01.840
look at is this worth $20,000? Okay, I'll do it and they won't

1451
01:29:01.840 --> 01:29:06.640
read the rest. And and so I'm happy to look at whatever, you

1452
01:29:06.640 --> 01:29:09.560
know, whatever you got. I do this. Okay. Yeah, I can send you

1453
01:29:09.560 --> 01:29:13.720
my slot. I'm not sure how I can send you my slides. You can

1454
01:29:13.720 --> 01:29:18.720
email it to me. It's Ray at Higdon group.com. Okay, slides.

1455
01:29:18.740 --> 01:29:24.000
Slides are very fast for me to yeah. Well, and that you know,

1456
01:29:24.000 --> 01:29:28.840
those are the tweaks probably where, you know, I know you've

1457
01:29:28.840 --> 01:29:33.000
done that in the past with other people's stuff and said, take

1458
01:29:33.000 --> 01:29:36.320
this out, shift this around, you know, yeah. So and that's kind

1459
01:29:36.320 --> 01:29:38.840
of where I'm at with it. So I will definitely send you the

1460
01:29:38.840 --> 01:29:43.640
slides. And I'm happy to throw a little information in there in

1461
01:29:43.640 --> 01:29:46.040
between. So you can know what I'm saying. But

1462
01:29:46.920 --> 01:29:50.360
of course, awesome. I'm excited to help. And

1463
01:29:51.040 --> 01:29:53.400
you know, I've been, you know, like I said, I've been

1464
01:29:53.400 --> 01:29:56.320
hesitant. It's like, what am I supposed to be asking? Yeah, I

1465
01:29:56.320 --> 01:29:57.760
don't know. I'm just working.

1466
01:29:59.680 --> 01:29:59.960
Yeah.

1467
01:30:00.000 --> 01:30:13.440
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?

1468
01:30:13.440 --> 01:30:25.840
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?

1469
01:30:25.840 --> 01:30:33.280
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?

1470
01:30:33.280 --> 01:30:44.960
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.

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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.

1472
01:30:55.120 --> 01:31:05.520
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?

1473
01:31:05.520 --> 01:31:18.400
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.

1474
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Does that, does this help this conversation?

1475
01:31:20.720 --> 01:31:44.960
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.

1476
01:31:45.920 --> 01:32:03.040
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.

1477
01:32:04.000 --> 01:32:29.920
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.

1478
01:32:29.920 --> 01:32:50.720
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.

1479
01:32:50.720 --> 01:33:18.080
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.

1480
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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.