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Hi my friends, welcome back to Launch Your Big Dream Course, I'm Jennifer Miller and

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this week we're talking about conquering your limitations.

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You see, these limitations get in our way of us pursuing our big dreams with God.

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It might be the fears or limiting beliefs or the insecurities that we have to take action.

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So this week it's so important because week one we talked about dreaming with God and

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it's really safe and comfortable sitting on your couch or in your prayer room or going

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for a walk and dreaming with God.

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But once you start taking action, man, that's when the fear starts coming in and so that's

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why this week it's so important.

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So for our topics today, we're going to talk about breaking free from limitations, walking

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in God's unlimitedness and abundance, and the power of believing it's possible.

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Mark 9, 23 says, If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.

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There's such power in believing.

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So breaking free from limitations, Mary Kay Ash, the founder of Mary Kay says, Don't limit

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yourself.

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Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do.

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You can go as far as your mind lets you.

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What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

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So what are some common limitations?

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Well, some of these are mine and you can probably relate to some of them, but feeling unworthy

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or not valuable, you know, having your identity linked to something externally, whether that

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in a career, actually in fulfilling your dream, in relationships, into what you look like,

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the number in your bank account.

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I mean, man, so often we can link who we are to what we do, but see, in God's kingdom,

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our identity is linked into being a child of God, because God has the abundance, God

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has the wealth, God is valuable, and therefore, as part of his family, we are too.

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And then one of my common lies is not being good enough, like comparing myself to others

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and feeling like I don't measure up.

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And then self doubt or insecurity of like, well, what if they know I don't really know

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what I'm doing, or maybe I don't know how to do this, or maybe this is too difficult.

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And then this common lie of I'm just a fill in the blank, right?

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I'm just a, you know, my previous career, I'm just an accountant, or I'm just a mom,

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or I'm just a woman.

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I mean, man, these lies can come and hinder us from taking action.

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And imposter syndrome, right?

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Like some of the biggest successful people in the world still say they struggle with

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imposter syndrome, getting on that stage or going out in public or launching their company,

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they still have this lie of like, oh, no, what if people find out I'm an imposter?

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And then our inner judge and saboteur.

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I mean, man, like so often, right?

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We have this little like internal critic that beats us up, but it's like, well, that's not

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good enough.

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Or what if they don't like it?

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Or, you know, you could have done a better job.

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And those are not from God.

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Those are lies of the enemy.

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So how do you shift your limiting beliefs?

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Well, there's four steps.

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Identify the limiting beliefs.

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So take time and actually like write them down, which will be one of our exercises this

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week.

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Ask God for the root and the lie, like it's always kind of connected to fear, but there

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can be something underneath that fear.

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And then ask for God's perspective.

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What is his truth?

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And then create an empowering affirmation or use a Bible verse so that when that thought

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comes into your mind, you have something right away to conquer it.

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So here's a couple examples of mine.

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Number one, it's hard for me to finish things.

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Maybe I'm just a dreamer and not a doer.

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Like this happens so often because I love to dream big and I start things and honestly,

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I get things like 90% of the way complete.

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And then taking that last 10% step to complete something and get it from the finish line

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is so difficult.

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Like I procrastinate, I go into perfectionist mode and I think I need to redo the whole

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thing.

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I actually did that in some ways with this course.

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I had a version one and I'm like, oh, I thought good enough.

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I want to do it again.

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And those things can just pop into our mind and hinder us from taking action.

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Okay, well, what's the root or the lie?

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Fear of failure.

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You know, I start something new and I avoided if it feels hard or I think I'm going to fail,

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but the truth is we don't learn how to grow and get better unless we're willing to fail

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and willing to take action.

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You think about learning to ride your bike.

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You probably didn't start off a hundred percent perfect, like get on the bike and go your

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first time when you were a kid, you actually had to like, first of all, have your parents

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helping you and pushing you or a sibling, and then you probably fell a couple of times

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and had a.

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his knee or elbow, you know, thankfully and hopefully you had a helmet on, but either

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way you had to kind of get back up and be willing to try, be willing to fail.

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Well, what's God's truth? He said, I have finished, you know, we have the finishing

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power through Jesus Christ and we are created to be fruitful and multiply.

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I say that so often, like, God, give me the finishing power of Jesus on the cross.

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Give me, you know, the fruit of the spirit to help me be disciplined and have a sound mind

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and to, you know, be able to do hard things.

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And then our affirmation, I love this Bible verse, I can do all things through Christ

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who strengthens me.

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And I have to say this all the time.

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Another one of mine is that I have to work hard for blessings or financial provision.

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You don't have to quote unquote, kill myself for work.

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And I realized it was rooted in my value and identity was in how hard I was working, that

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I felt like if I was like slaving away, then I justified my income, especially in my previous

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role as a CFO and part of the executive team.

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I worked a crazy amount of hours to kind of justify that income.

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And the truth is my value and worth come from being a beloved child of God.

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You know, his provision and resources and blessings for you are out of relationship,

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not because of what you do for him.

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And then my affirmation is I am valuable, worthy, and enough just being me.

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So I'd encourage you this week as you go through these exercises to really dive deep.

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Like what is a limiting belief preventing you from stepping into your dream?

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Okay, point number two, walk in God's unlimitedness.

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I love going to the ocean.

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So much of my life with my dad stationed in the military and our family is good memories,

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like in the beaches of Virginia, North Carolina.

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We actually were stationed in Hawaii.

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And I got to spend so much time at the ocean.

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And I miss that living in Ohio now.

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But like every time I walk by the beach, like looking out in that deep water,

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the sand, the sky, it just speaks to the unlimitedness of God.

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Jeremy Lopez wrote this or has this quote,

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break out of the box of limitations and into the unlimitedness of God.

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And so often when we step into our dream, we get hindered because of our limitations,

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because we see ourselves of like, oh, maybe I don't have the best public speaking,

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or I'm not as good at social media, or I don't know how to run a business

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or technology is difficult.

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We start making all these excuses.

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But really, that comes from a limitation, lack, poverty mindset.

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You see, as adopted co-heirs with Christ, we don't lack for anything.

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And granted, we have to take time and learn and grow and things might feel uncomfortable.

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But when we have the power of the Holy Spirit, we have everything that we need.

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And so what is God's unlimited?

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God's love, mercy, faith, peace, like all of who God is, is at our disposal

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and his power in his anointing, our spiritual inheritance.

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I always think of this as like, I got a spiritual trust fund in heaven,

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and it unlocks by trusting God that we have to have this trust that he will provide.

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Wisdom and understanding the scripture is full of verses about asking for wisdom,

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the fullness of Jesus that we have, like all of who he is, is available to us now,

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not just at eternity.

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And then the fruit and the gifts of the spirit.

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So I love this idea again, of going back to the ocean.

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And when we go after our dreams, it's like leaving the safety of the shore,

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getting in this little boat.

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And at first, it's like, oh, this is fine.

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And then we get into deep waters and our boat seems really small

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and the waves seem really big.

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But see, the truth is, God, Jesus is calling us to step out of the boat,

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the boat being the limitations or own skills and experiences

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and be willing to walk on deep water with him, which is scary.

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You think of the story of Peter, and he's like, oh, there's Jesus walking the water.

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Tell me to come to you.

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And Jesus goes, come, like, get out of the boat.

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And he starts like walking on the water.

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And then he turns away from Jesus and starts looking up the waves.

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And all of a sudden, he starts sinking.

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And what does Jesus say?

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First of all, if it were me, I would have hoped that Jesus was like, great job.

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You did such a good job.

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He started walking on water.

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And it's OK that you sound like you're doing a great job.

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But he doesn't say that to Peter.

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He actually says, why did you doubt?

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You have little faith.

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Why?

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I'm here.

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I'm Jesus.

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You were OK.

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And it was his faith in Jesus, accessing the spirit, the miracles

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that allowed him to build the solidity of the water with his faith.

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Ephesians 3, 16 through 17 in the Passion Translation, which is,

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I love the Passion Translation, says,

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And I pray that he would unveil within you the unlimited riches of his glory and favor

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until supernatural strength floods your innermost being with his divine might.

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an explosive power. Then, by constantly using your faith, the life of Christ will be released

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deep inside of you and the resting place of his love will become the very source and root

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of your life. My friends, you have unlimited access to who God is through adoption into

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his family, through Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit. And so I listed just a few

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of those things below. You have access to divine health because Jesus conquered sin

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and the greed and sickness. You have access to love and favor and provision and resources,

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wisdom, your true identity, your value, your giftings, your self-worth, your power, your

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inheritance, your riches. I mean, this list honestly is unlimited. I couldn't even fit

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everything on here. And when you pursue your dreams, you have to stop putting yourself

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and God in a box. You have to be willing to just say like, okay, Holy Spirit, show

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me where I have a lack mindset and help me to see you as unlimited and partner with me

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in this journey.

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Number three, believe it's possible. David Schwartz wrote a book called The Power of

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Thinking Big or The Magic of Thinking Big. Excuse me. I love this book. It's old. I don't

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even know what year he wrote it, but it's an old book. And he has a quote. It says,

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When you believe something can be done, really believe. Your mind will find the ways to do

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it. Believing a solution paves the way to the solution. Believing it's possible paves

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the way to the solution. Okay, so believe all things are possible and believe you are

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possible. You know, again, we talked about Mark at the beginning that says like, you

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know, if you believe all things are possible with God, but you also have to believe that

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you're possible, that you can do hard things. Think even bigger. I think sometimes the reason

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why we don't achieve something is actually our mindset is too small and God wants us

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to dream a bigger dream with him. And then embrace the power of your weakness. Okay,

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I love this. My weaknesses are honestly, I love I'm hungry. Like I love to eat like it's

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you know, comfort of mind is like eating comfort food. But the truth is like, that's actually

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one of my strengths. Because in addition to being hungry in the natural and sometimes

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turning to food for comfort. I also love spiritual food. And I love ideas. And I love to share

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with people this spiritual food. You know, I love hosting dinner parties and feeding

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my friend. But I really love hosting like parties like this, like courses, and getting

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to share like the truth of God's Word and have people just be satisfied and filled up

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by the goodness. And so sometimes the thing that we think disqualifies us, or a weakness

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is actually our greatest strength, we need to press into it and believe there's a reason

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that God can use it for his purposes. And then visualize your success. If we talked

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about it on day one, like what is perfect day look like, but actually visualize like

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maybe it's a daily exercise, like, okay, God, I want to get this one thing done today. And

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then visualize, like actually achieving it and actually how you're going to feel like

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step into the mental vision of it, but also the emotion. And when you do that, it actually

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creates the path to achieving it. And then something else I love is like this idea of

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what if now I don't know about you, but so often I can do these negative what if scenarios

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in my mind, where I start to be like, what if I fail? But if no one wants to buy my course,

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like what if I just, you know, can't do something? What if I messed up? Like, what if this happens,

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I go down a negative path. And I have to just quickly like, catch myself and be like, okay,

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what is like the best it can happen? I have this sign up in my room, and it says, what's

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the best that can happen? And I have to look at it all the time and remind myself of like,

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what if it works? Like, what if I succeed? Like, what if it's like, exceeds my expectations?

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Ephesians 320? What if like, it's there to prosper me? What if this difficult thing is

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actually a blessing? And then most importantly, expressed gratitude. I mean, be thankful ahead

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of time. Thank God for where you at. Thank him for the difficulties and thank him for

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your future. So again, going back to this idea of believing that it creates a bridge

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to your future. I love this. You have your now and you have your future. And believing

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actually creates the way to bring your future to the now but it also helps you to know the

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path to take forward. And so believing creates a bridge from your now to your future. That's

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something that God has shown me. And Mark 11 23 says, truly I say to you, what whoever

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says in this mountain be removed and be cast into the sea and does not doubt in his heart

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but believes that those things he says will be done. He will have whatever he says. Now

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I didn't write this in the points. But one of the things I want to talk about is the

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power of our words to create our bright future to create our dreams.

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that we have to be willing to speak words of life,

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speak words of believing,

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speak words that break the limitations.

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And we go back to the beginning

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where we talked about affirmations.

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Like I can do hard things.

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Like I am, you know, creating the life of my dreams.

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I, you know, am able to work with technology

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or it's easy for me to see the path forward

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or it's easy for me to connect with friends.

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It's easy for me to write this book.

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It's easy for me to exercise.

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Like start to write a list

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of those things that can trip you up

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and then have God and partner with him

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with our Bible verses or decrees or powerful affirmation.

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And honestly, sometimes it's like telling that mountain

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to be removed, the thing in front of you.

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And for me, one of my fears and difficulties

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is actually like posting on social media.

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As much as, you know, I'm comfortable on Zoom

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and in front of a camera,

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actually going on social media is uncomfortable for me

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because it's not something that I've done a lot regularly.

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I've done a ton of Zoom and presenting as my career.

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you know, move forward in and to be more proactive in.

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this fear and this lie that I'm believing

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that I'm just not good at this,

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like go in the name of Jesus.

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Like, you know, get down, like just remove from me.

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And it's also this idea of walls of Jericho

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that, you know, the thing that we want to pursue,

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like we talked about it before

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or we're talking about it in the next weeks,

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that it's this wall that stands in front of you.

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And so often your provision and blessings and resources

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are on the other side of just like shouting for this wall

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to be gone in your life.

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Okay, I love recommending books.

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I'm a huge reader.

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And so these are some of the books I recommend.

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Steven De Silva, one of my favorite people in the world.

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He had been a mentor of mine for the last few years.

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I had the privilege of coaching with him

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and he wrote a book called Money and the Prosperous Soul.

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He's an ex-CFO of Bethel Church out in California.

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And what I love about this book is he talks about

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our like going from kind of an orphan poverty spirit

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to being adopted into the kingdom of God.

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We have a similar heart that we love seeing people prosper

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and such a good book.

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If you ever feel like you have money blocks

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or the ability to just walk in like taking dominion

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and walking in your God calling.

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Joyce Marder wrote a book called Financial Mindset Fix.

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There's actually a free workbook on her website

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that you can download that goes with it.

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Not a Christian book, but at the same time, it is great.

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She's a therapist to go through any blocks

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that you might have with money.

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So often why we struggle in pursuing our dreams

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is that the money isn't there as provision

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or we feel guilty charging for services

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or the things that we do.

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in the abundance of God.

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Believe It is a good inspirational book

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from Jamie Curran Lima.

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She's the founder of It Cosmetics.

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Like she struggled with rosacea in her face

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and wanted to create a product

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that was able to just help women feel beautiful.

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And she just shares her honest story of the challenges,

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but believing in her dream.

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Paul Ballas wrote a book, I love it.

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It's one of my favorite books, If You Can Believe.

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And it's just a daily book with the Holy Spirit

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of like walking in believing bigger.

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He talks about his ministry

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and how God's called them to do difficult things.

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And it's a source of huge encouragement for me.

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And then the book again, I recommended before,

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The Magic of Thinking Big,

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just talking about like breaking up with excuses,

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believing that you can do things

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and how those work to bring about your dreams.

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Okay, so our exercises for this week.

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I am so excited for you.

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These are great exercises.

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Number one, shifting your limiting beliefs.

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We talked about that.

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Number two, embracing your true value.

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Like where does your value and worth come from?

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like these are maybe more like action steps,

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but like how to believe that you're possible.

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And like, there's a lot packed into this week.

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So feel free to take the time to dive deeper.

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If you don't wanna go through every exercise,

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especially the last one, like pick a couple.

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And they're not meant to be overwhelming,

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but these are exercises that like do the work.

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Like these aren't just like mental exercises

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or feel good exercises.

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These are heart and spirit and emotion exercises

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to bring you freedom.

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And so my friends, I am so excited.

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I wanna pray for you for this week.

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And I just pray that God would bless you.

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So Lord, I just pray that you'd pour out

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on my friends this week as we conquer limitations.

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Lord, that every lie of the enemy would be broken

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in the name of Jesus.

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God, that they would have powerful affirmations

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in who you are and who they are in your kingdom.

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God, I pray for the power to believe,

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to be raised up within them for bold faith

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as we go into the next weeks of setting a strategic plan

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and courageously taking action.

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God, I pray for encouragement.

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My friend that any of the weights or lies or limitations that they've held on to god would just be removed in the name of jesus

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I speak breakthrough over my friends this day and I pray god that they would wake up to their true identity

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Value worth and just faith of who they are in jesus name. Amen. Okay. Bye my friends

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I can't wait to see you again next week