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25. And so God gave me a whole heap of stuff about numerology

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and how fives and 25s and the grace and the favour and all

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that kind of stuff. So I claimed it. So on Sunday, we got the

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blessing, or I got the blessing of laying hands on a couple of

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people, actually about four people, just in our services.

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And he delivered one from the weight of her ex-husband that

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she was carrying, just wrecked her and cleared it. And then

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another one, another lovely lady from her mum, she was carrying

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her mum, like literally physically, you could almost see

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her mum on her shoulders. And so boof, release that. So it was

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just, it was just amazing to what and they cried out like as

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they were crying, it was just being released from them just

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that weight, it was nuts. And then I went for lunch. And then

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we were meant to go and help some friends do their, clean up

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their house because they were moving. So that was my birthday

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present to myself was to go and help them. And I arrived and

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her, the husband of the house was the colour of those walls.

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And it was holding his chest. And I'm like, you don't look

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too good. And his wife goes, no, he's got chest pain. I'm like,

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she said, I don't know what to do. I said, call the ambulance.

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Like, he's that colour. Like what's going on? Anyway, I went

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over to him and just what's going on. And he said, I've got

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pain. And he was just so clammy, like his whole body was clammy

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sweaty. It was like, oh, this is nuts. So I just laid hands on

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his shoulders from behind. And I just said, just breathe. Just

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breathe. Yahweh. Yahweh. Because every time we breathe, we're

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breathing Jesus. I said, just breathe Jesus. Just Yahweh. Just

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breathe. And then declared that he was healed, declared to peace.

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He needed peace and rest in that moment. So I just declared peace

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and rest over him. And whatever. Anyway, got off the phone from

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the ambulance. Everyone's flitting around. I'm like, right,

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okay, my job's done. I just need to go and clean those windows

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that need to be done. So I saw the ambulance come. And so I

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directed them back in. And by the time I walked back into the

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sitting room where he was, colour was back. Clamminess had

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gone. Pain had gone. And I didn't click until Monday

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morning, the following day when God said I healed him in the

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sitting room. But I didn't click at the time. Anyway, they did

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all the scans and the ECGs. And he was fine. He was all good.

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But they went and they took him to hospital to have his checks

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done. He was all clear. And the following morning, God said,

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yeah, we didn't need that because I'd already done it in

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the sitting room. I'm like, what? I was just nuts. So it's

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not directly from the training here. And then yesterday, we're

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in City Prayer. And I could hear in the street something kicking

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off. So there's a man and a woman and she's given it

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something horrendous. And I'm like, there's no point standing

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here in City Prayer when there's stuff going on out there. We

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need to do what God's called us to do. So I went down to the

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window to see what was going on. And this guy was moving away.

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And this woman was giving it and she was kicking stuff and

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smashing stuff. I'm like, oh, here we go. Out we go onto the

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street. And so I called out to her, are you okay? I don't want

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your help. She's a Maori lady. And I'm a white chick. And you

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know, really kind of what can a white chick do for her? Anyway,

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I carried on walking, walked over there. And she said, I

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said, Look, are you okay? I'm just he's psychotic. I'm trying

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to look he's got this spear. He was going to kill people. And

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anyway, I'm like, can I give you a hug? What? I said, Can I give

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you a hug? And so she let me give her a hug. And I just said,

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Jesus loves you. And she just dropped like just dropped her

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whole weight on me. And just burst into tears. And I loved

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it because the atmosphere changed in that moment. And all

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I had to do was speak his name. It's nuts. This is this is the

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craziest journey on the planet. And it's flipping brilliant. And

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so just spoken. Yeah, but he doesn't I said, No, he doesn't

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want you. But Jesus does. But he doesn't. Yeah, but Jesus loves

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you. And just within two minutes, all of her anxiety

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gone, all of her stress had gone. She was weeping. Then she

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was back in the car. She was going to go home. She can drive

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home, get herself cleaned up and get into the wood. Nuts. So

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sorry, it's probably got nothing to do with tribe social at all.

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But I just like he is just and then I got to deliver 21

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prophecies to 18 year old boys yesterday, who all received

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them. Like, it's just crazy. Anyway, so just grateful to be

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on this journey. Whatever it is, I'm Jennifer bless her heart

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because I'm completely useless on the tick. I said, I will help

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you get your stuff on tribe. So that's our next step. And we

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catch up tomorrow because I just have done nothing in this

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space other than show up to this call. That's it. Anyway,

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glad you're here. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. What a

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way to kick it off. I turn 38 on the 25th of June. So I'm going

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to take a little bit of your testimony and say do it again,

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Lord. I would like my birthday week to kick off.

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Well, and congratulations for being so young. But the 25th, so

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the 20 we're in 2025. Yeah. And your you know, your birthday's

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on the 25th. So I'll I'll copy and it's quite long, but I'll

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copy and paste if I can into the chat there. And I've tweaked

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it is stuff from a like it is stuff from Google is stuff from

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AI. So there's a little bit in it that I'm like, oh, yeah, you

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can have that back. But I've just read it through the Holy

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Spirit. And there is so much grace and so much favor on

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every one of us because it's 20 and 25. So, you know, whether

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we're born on the 25th, or whatever the score is, it's just

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like there is next level favor this year. And we need to start

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claiming it. That was all. So happy birthday. 25th and claim

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it. Yeah.

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Love it. Who else has a win?

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I recorded my testimony this past week, and I was just

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editing it before we're gonna get out. So yeah, I was gonna

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start sharing that and just felt like I needed to start,

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you know, coming into the light sort of I haven't really shared

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anything with, you know, friends or family even, you know, about

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the past few years of my life. And so that's kind of why we

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joined tribe to to kind of like, also in a broader perspective,

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find their tribe. But anyway, so that was a that's a step I've

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that I've been sharing stuff in like, I'm brilliant with the

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church, but it was, it wasn't quite different to share it

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or in public. I haven't haven't posted it yet. But I will

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definitely do that. But it was different experience to record

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it. So

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yeah, post it. That's awesome. And post it into the tribe

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group so we can all see it. Yeah, we'd love to see that.

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That's huge.

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Yeah. Cool.

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Who else?

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Finishing up a 30 day challenge that has been a lot of fun. So

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everything is done, recorded, scheduled. So that was a huge

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thing to get done before the weekend. And it's been

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interesting to just feel like finding my who in terms of my

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followers and the people that are like starting to follow my

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my views. I've had 27,000 views on Instagram in the last 30

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days. He's not in like one video by any means, but just

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collectively. And, you know, just starting to feel like

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through all of that posting, just God's kind of redirecting

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or just kind of showing me like what's next and just getting

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confident with all the tech side of things in scheduling and

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kind of automation there. And I think I've like had, like

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doubled my social media following in the last 30 days,

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which has just been fun, because I feel like that was

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something where I've just stuck at, you know, like, you know,

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and I think, you know, what Brad talked about last week is like,

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are you an educator versus entertainer? I think was really

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huge, just because, you know, I'm more comfortable, like a

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talking head, you know, sitting at my desk, sharing

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PowerPoints and content. And there was a lot of permission or

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just, like not having to be like the world or having to follow

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all the Tick Tock dances or just trying to get the views like we

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can be authentically ourselves. But as you know, I've had

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people who are, you know, appreciating it. And then, you

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know, the comments like here and there, of like, you know, I just

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needed to hear this today, or, you know, wow, this, you know,

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was really like special, or I like this was like, perfect, or

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please, you know, keep posting or just those small little

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comments of people you don't know that are being encouraged

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and touched. I think, you know, just your words matter. And

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like each of us, even if it's on a social media platform,

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I think, you know, just your words matter. And like each of

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us, even if it's on a small scale, like it's making a

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difference. And, you know, you never know, like, who needs to

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hear what you have to say. And so it might not be the millions

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of followers or like big influence, but it's the one, you

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know, that that matters. So I think that's been encouraging.

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That's awesome. Well done. For the consistency, that's huge.

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And I think to guys, like something in my journey of

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content creation, when it came to the consistency and getting

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the reps in, that I wish I had paid more attention to when I

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was in it, and I'll be in it again someday soon, is not just

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the output and what that was doing for the outside world and

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the impact I was making, which is huge. But also, I wish I

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would have been paying attention more, more aware of what was

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happening within me. To do the consistent showing up, you know,

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talking about just even the the confidence, the boldness, the

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courage to post and put it out there. Yes.

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that definitely influences others but there was also something the Lord was doing with me as I

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was becoming so and I know Marcella did that recently as well 30 day declaration challenge

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which is awesome so thank you so much for sharing I'm really proud that is not a small task

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not at all anyone else want to share any wins before we kind of jump in today

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okay going once going twice Marcella I saw it I saw

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um just um you know like you're saying just um reflecting on you know when God gives us

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something to do and then how it impacts us and so like for me just balancing all of the

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things that I have like in this season it's just like I've ate so much and he's just really been

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urging me to like produce out of what he what I've learned and gained and how he's just putting

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it together and um so while I did the 30 day challenge and then I shifted and I had to focus

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on something else and I was like oh my gosh Lord I feel like I in a moment I felt like oh I failed

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I dropped off again but only for a few days and so the Lord was just so kind and so gentle and

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he was like Marcella you have enough content now you can now go back and repurpose something

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that you have posted so I just like just very casually it felt haphazard to me like just take

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a clip of this put it up there and then to like you know like Jennifer you you don't it just does

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something you're like I didn't even try so hard I just obeyed and so that's what I'm learning is

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like just really yielding myself to what he's calling me to do without overthinking it and

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though I'm not doing it for views it the views do does help you know it does kind of really

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hurt you too yeah eyeballs are people it's not just a number yeah you know to get you know to

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do something like that and to get like 80 comments was just like okay all right Lord I see that this

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is where you called me I can settle here and keep going and so I'm learning to just allow him to do

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that and not feel um that what he's given me is because what he has given me is a lot and I could

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feel that but to know that he that I can walk with him in partnership and steward it and I

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gotta do it every day I don't have to like hustle it up I can just settle into it so that's that's

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all I wanted to say that's such a great segue into what I feel led to share today and I'm gonna

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break some rules because the people tell you when you show up to coaching calls when you show up to

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public speaking events you don't want to admit any hesitancy any nerves any because that's not fair to

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the audience you don't put that on the audience but this is a coaching group this is a learning

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group and so the best way we learn is we we're vulnerable right and we model and we go the way

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just so we can show the way so I'm just gonna say I was a little hesitant to do today's call

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okay because it's been a while now some of you have been with me for a while and you know I've

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been on the a um I don't even it's not really sabbatical it's just a different a season shift

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at a major season shift became a mother three years ago felt uh led to really step back was

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very humbled by it because I thought I was going to be able to keep on keeping on and doing all the

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things because um some people can and they do a good job but for me I couldn't do all the things

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at once and so I I needed to prioritize and I chose family and um became more home-centric

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and um it's been a wonderful journey but when Bruce said hey I really I really think it'd be

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great if you jumped on a call and did some coaching my first initial reaction was I don't have anything

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to give that was my first initial reaction and I felt like the holy spirit stopped me in that

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moment and said I don't like that way of thinking because it's not true number one

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and it wasn't a matter of you know feeling pressured like I have to do it

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but I felt like there was an invitation to step into doing this again uh in in a new way

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meaning not a new me necessarily or new version of me but an expanded version of myself because

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that's what's happened over the last three years it's happened to all of you I'm sure as well in

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your own spheres of influence and industries and in your home life and what God has been showing

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you is there is a ever-increasing expansion of the awareness of who you are and who you're becoming

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in God and so um one of the reasons I was hesitant and felt like I didn't have anything to give is

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because I've been out of it for a little bit so I didn't really feel like I had the latest strategy

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or tactic to share that would help you grow your channels or your business or bring in more income

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or revenue and so I felt a bit intimidated of like well then I don't have anything to give but

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Then I kind of had a Peter moment where it was like gold and silver, I have none.

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Strategies and tactics, I have none, but what I do have, I'm going to give you

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today, what I do have, I'm going to share.

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And so, um, for those of you who don't know me, I'm Lindsay, I'm Bruce's wife,

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proud, proudly carrying that title and that role, love being Bruce's wife.

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And, um, we are on a journey together of pioneering.

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We've, um, done business together for, well, I would, I would probably say

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we've just celebrated 14 years of marriage.

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When we got married, I, before we got married, I should say, I told people I

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would never marry an entrepreneur, never.

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spirit and all that that entails.

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So I said, okay, I'm going to marry an entrepreneur, but I'm not going

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to ever become an entrepreneur.

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I will have, you know, the office and the stability, and you can go

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and do the entrepreneurial thing.

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you know, paycheck and stuff.

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And then through a series of events, we don't have time to get into today.

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I lost that secure, safe, stable nine to five job.

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know what I was going to do.

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Like I was pretty much burnout.

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I didn't really feel motivated to do it again.

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You know, do the interview thing, do all that.

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And Bruce said, what if we do something together?

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things, me and my nine to five and him and his entrepreneurial business, which by

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the way, was extremely successful and stable and secure for the most part.

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So there's way, you know, ebbs and flows, but by no means was either,

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you know, the only secure one.

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What if we do something together?

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And what my yes, which was very hesitant.

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I would say at the time I was a very reluctant pioneer.

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My yes changed the trajectory of our marriage, of our family, of our business.

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Um, and it doesn't happen for everyone that way.

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You're not saying that every couple has to do it that way, but what was important

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was I stepped into an identity that was always meant for me, that I was reluctant

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and hesitant to take on because it didn't feel secure enough.

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Um, and all that to say in my entrepreneur journey over the last, I don't know, do

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the math, was it 14 years all along?

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We could probably argue all those angles, but what I have found is that strategy

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and tactics are wonderful, but they're ever changing because they're never

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changing and, you know, so it's great for now and then you'll have to kind of keep

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up with it, but what has, what sticks often is mindset, how we think, what we

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think, what we believe is pretty permanent.

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So I'm going to talk about some mindset stuff today.

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And, um, it's one of the things I kind of want to talk about today is

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it's one of the things I kind of, I'll launch into it this way.

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Back in April, I did something I had never done before.

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I read the Bible all the way through in 30 days and it was incredible.

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with Jesus for a really long time.

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It was long overdue that I do something like that.

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I think I've only read through the Bible through in a year.

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One time I did one of those yearly plans, which was wonderful.

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I think that was back in 2017, but, um, I, there's some women at church that

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said, Hey, we're going to do the, read the Bible through in 30 days.

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And it was amazing.

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It was amazing to do that.

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Anyone, any one of you can do that.

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I would recommend using the Bible app.

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I read and I listened, which was incredible.

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Um, but the point is not that I did it.

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What I wanted to share was after that 30 days, there was one scripture that

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stood out to me above all the rest that I had read in 30 days and has followed me

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every single day since finishing that 30 day journey.

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And I want to share that with you today.

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I thought that would be a good tee up because it's, I thought it'd be a little

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bit more intriguing than, Hey, there's scripture means a lot to me, but it's

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like, no, out of everything I read for 30 days, straight in the Bible, cover to

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cover, this is the one thing that has followed me and has become deeply

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implanted in my thinking and the way that I think and how I think about things.

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So a little bit of context, it's in Isaiah, so up until this point, you know, we're reading

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through Genesis and Exodus and all that the Israelites are facing and Kings and Chronicles

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and all of the failure and all of the sin and all of the idolatry and all of the stupidity

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of these people who were chosen by God and yet could not, could not keep it together.

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they were better than the one true God. And so up, you know, and so maybe it's been 15 days in

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and I've just read through all of that and I'm, I'm wearied by the journey of these Israelites

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and it's like, I don't even, I don't want to read anymore because it's not just reading that,

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it's also reading the judgments of what they've done and what the consequences are for that.

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today and all of that. So I get to Isaiah 43 and I read these words and it's the Lord speaking to

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his people and he says, but Jacob, you have not called on me because Israel, you've become weary

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of me. You've not called on me because you've become weary of me. And that stopped me in my

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tracks. And I don't think I can really portray the intensity of, you know, I'm trying to, but

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reading through all of the failure and, and all of the faithfulness of God, the failure of the

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people and the faithfulness of God. And it's just this continual journey for, you know, years and

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years and years and generations and generations. And I'm feeling the weight and the pressure and

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the heaviness of just that burden of separation between God and his people that they continue to

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choose. It's not even something that he has put on them. It's what they've chosen. They've chosen

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this over relationship with the one true God. And the words of God to them is, but you've not

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called on me. What a difference that would make if you just call on me. And why haven't you called

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on me? Because you've grown weary of me. And so I looked up that word weary. Cause when I first

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read it, I'm like, oh wow. I mean, it's, it's still even emotional sometimes to think about like

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growing weary of the Lord, growing tired of him. I dove in a little bit deeper to that word

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and it's yaga and it means toil.

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Where do we see toil show up in scripture at the first Genesis three, all the way in the beginning.

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And this is after even Adam and Eve have eaten of the fruit and the Lord is speaking to the curse

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that is now enacted because of that, because of sin, because of separation. And he said to the

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woman, I will intensify your labor pains. You will bear children with painful effort. Your desire

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will be for your husband, yet he will rule over you. And then he said to the man, because you've

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listened to your wife and ate from the tree, which I've commanded you not to eat from the ground is

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cursed because of you. You will eat from it by means of painful labor. Now I'm reading from the

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Christian standard Bible, that translation. So they actually do a pretty good job of, of using,

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cause it's the same word, that painful labor, painful effort and painful labor. And earlier

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translations like King James, they talk about the woman will give pain in, in sorrow. Some

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translations say in pain. And then when they're talking to Adam, the translation will talk about

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toil. When you work with the ground, there'll be toil, but it's the same word. It's the same word.

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And we'll talk a little bit about that in a second. Let me finish reading this. It says it

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will produce thorns and thistles for you. And you will eat the plants of the field. You will eat

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bread by the sweat of your own brow until you return to the ground since you were taken from

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it for you are dust and you return to dust. Okay. So this was really interesting. Probably

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stuff that you already know. Adam and Eve were not cursed. He didn't curse Adam and Eve, but

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curse entered into the work of their hands. And it was toil that became entangled in their work.

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Work was not curse. Hard work is not a curse. It's doing it by the sweat of your own brow.

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The curse is that toil enters into the work, which is really separation because the curse

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is doing it by the sweat of your own brow. No longer doing it in partnership with the Lord,

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but operating out of a place of separation from the Lord.

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Lord because of sin. Toil. And it's the same for the woman and the same for man. So I don't know

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if that messes with your theology. I probably doesn't because we've got a good group here,

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but way back when it was all about, you know, pain for the woman, sorrow for the woman,

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toil for the man. It's the same thing. Toil and toil. What you're going to produce,

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what you're going to try to bring life to, bring life, you know, through birth or through the

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ground, through cultivating the earth. When you try to bring life, there's going to be toil

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attached to it. That's the curse. Then we go to Isaiah. It's not the same word, but it's still

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toil. It's not the same word in the Hebrew. That would be really cool if it was, but it's still

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toil. So the word in Genesis that's used is kapio. I'm probably not saying that right.

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Weariness, exhaustion related to burden, grief, or toil.

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Jacob, you're not called on me because you've likened relationship with me. You've likened

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communion with me. You've likened talking to me to toil.

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You've made it like toil, like painful labor to call on me, to talk to me, to relate with me.

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They're at the base of the mountain in Exodus, and the Lord is offering them relationship,

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and they say, no, Moses, you go. Just tell us what to do, and we'll do it.

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It's too scary. This feels too much. Moses, you do it for us and just come tell us what to do.

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people, he gave them the law as a means to help protect them from themselves, from the elements,

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from a broken world, from a cursed ground, because he's that good.

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because of Christ. And so a scripture that many of you are probably very familiar with,

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Matthew 11, weariness kind of comes up again. And what does Jesus say?

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Come to me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and

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learn from me, because I'm lowly. Other translations say gentle and humble in heart,

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and you'll find rest for your souls, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

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I think what's key here is though he's speaking of rest, he's not necessarily speaking of

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inactivity, because there's still a yoke, right? There's still connection.

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There's still work being done. There's still partnership. There's things being produced.

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But the difference is toil has been released from all of that. And now it's easy and light again.

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The Lord was creating, Adam was naming, there was partnership. And work was actually

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a way of bringing life and a way of bringing communion between man and the Lord. It was a

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really beautiful thing, work, producing, creating, partnering, building.

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When you're in the entrepreneurial journey, there's a real temptation to believe again in

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that separation life, because I'm like on my own doing this, and I'm feeling solo.

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It has to be hard and painful and burdensome. And then we adopt things like hustle culture

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and girl bossing it. And we create an identity out of our work,

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instead of letting work come from our identity and spring forth.

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stepping away from the screen for a little bit, being more in the hiddenness,

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and is learning the cadence of this restful work, restful production.

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A question might be, does that mean if it's painful that it's bad or that toil has entered it?

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Not necessarily. I speak from experience having just birthed my second daughter.

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That just because it's painful does not necessarily mean it's done in toil.

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What's different is how we relate to pain, how we see pain.

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We're not led by the pain, we lead the pain to a place and a purpose.

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This is not me saying it has to be painful, but just because it's painful, because it will feel

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painful at times. This entrepreneurial journey, the pioneering journey will feel painful at times

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because it's new and it's different and it's unfamiliar. Often what we

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call pain is really just because we lack a different word or language for it, but maybe

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it's unfamiliar and therefore it's uncomfortable and therefore it might feel stretching. It might

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feel pressurized and therefore we call it pain. That's okay. We don't maybe have the word for it,

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but how we relate to it is much different. I want to take us to Romans 8. Romans 8,

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I feel like is just, I go there a lot. It's like the crown jewel of scripture. I'm sure

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there's many crown jewels, so don't fight me on that. Don't debate me, but I love Romans 8 because

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it's our new identity on display. It's life and the spirit on display.

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I'm not going to read the whole thing. I could, but I'm not going to. I would encourage you to

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though, but I'll start in Romans 8.18 and read a little bit. It says, for I consider that the

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sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing to the glory that is going to be

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revealed to us. Some translations, I think, say it more accurately, be revealed in us,

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the glory that will be revealed in us. This one says to us, that's okay. For the creation

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eagerly, I would say, yeah, for creation eagerly waits with anticipation for God's sons, that's

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you and me, even if you're a girl, to be revealed. For creation was subjected to futility, not

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willingly, but because of him who subjected it in hope that the creation itself will be set free

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from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom of God's children. For we know that

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the whole creation has been groaning together with labor pains, toil, travail, is this word,

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Sanadino, I'm probably saying that wrong. If there's any Greek scholars, please forgive me,

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until now. So, how we relate to pain might need to look different. I think how we

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think about work might need to change. If you're feeling stuck, if it's feeling

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like toil, if it's feeling like painful labor all the time,

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we might have to change how we think about work. And I'll just read a little bit more of

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Romans 8, because I just think this is actually a little bit funny. We read this a lot in

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seriousness, which is fine, that's appropriate, but also I think it's a little bit of Paul being

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funny. So, towards the end, he's talking about who can separate us from the love of Christ. This is

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what I just wanted to just highlight. Again, you already know this stuff, but it's important to

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rehear it, the soil of our hearts to once again have the seeds of our identity in Christ,

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continually be planted and cultivated in our lives. So, we know that we are released from toil,

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not because of anything that we've done, but because of Christ. We've been released from all

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of that. Toil has been released from our work. That is just the truth. It might not feel that way.

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It might not be expressed in that way right now as we're learning and we're growing and we're

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practicing things into permanency, but it is the truth. Toil does not belong in your work anymore.

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It's because we can no longer be separated, because toil was really an expression of

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separation that sin brought into the world. It was never God's design. It was man's choice

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again and again and again, but God is faithful to his word. He's faithful to his plan. Jesus came

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and solidified our unity in him and with the three, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

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Once again, so what can separate us from that? Can affliction? Sounds like toil. No. Can distress? No.

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Sounds like toil. Can persecution? Can famine or nakedness or sword? This is where I kind of

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think it's funny, because Paul says, as it's written, because of you, we are being put to death

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all day long. My pages are sticking together. We are counted as sheep to be slaughtered and Paul goes,

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no. I just find it really funny. Almost just like a parenting moment where the kids are just

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out of, you know, they're just like, just like we're being thrown as sheep to the slaughter.

442
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like that a little bit can you just admit it's okay if that's not you i can say there were times

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there have been times my entrepreneurial journey where the head has literally hit the desk and it's

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like lord why me why me i'm a sheep being brought to slaughter and paul you know holy spirit you

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know those words no no no in all these things

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we are more than conquerors through him who loved us

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so if pain hits if it's feeling like toil we have to remind ourselves that we've it's conquered

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it's done

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and it's time to before we do anything differently think differently about this work about this

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journey about this business about what might feel like a failure what might feel slow or sluggish

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and we need to relate to even the pain of that differently

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and what we can do i always feel like we need an anchor in those moments because you're not

453
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going to remember a dissertation you're not going to remember a sermon you're not gonna

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remember everything i said on this call is i want to remember one thing we need to be at rest

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and all that rest is is trust rest is trust and trust is rest and so we need to and what are we

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trusting not necessarily our own abilities not necessarily the next strategy the strategies are

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good they're not bad tactics tactics are good our abilities are not bad okay i don't want us to

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abandon ourselves because that's sometimes where we go with this type of preach you know it's like

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okay well i'm just i'm nothing you know not none of me and more of you god it's like no that's an

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old prayer it no longer relates because we're in christ so all of me lord because it's all of you

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because because if it's true about jesus it's true about me now because as he is so am i in

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this world so are you in this world okay so we're not going to abandon ourselves we're not going to

463
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reap shame and condemnation on ourselves and call it wisdom or call it humility

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we're not going to do any of that what we are we are going to do is we're going to trust

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that we're living in unfinished work that god wants us to succeed

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that we exist for such a time as this and he is who he says he is so if i'm experiencing

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what feels like lack perhaps what it is is some unbelief and some distrust that needs to be

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okay i've done a lot of talking does anybody does that resonating is it not resonating does

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anybody want to debate me

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xavier are you able to unmute i saw you in the chat

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you do not know how many times it's in the past four days okay i've been talking to you

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know how many times it's in the past four days okay different people have said for such a time

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as this okay oh yeah it's a good one yeah you know and the the first and that's not including

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the holy spirit who's been telling me for such a time as this these were just confirmations

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so um yeah so this was you know very very timely for me i'm sure it is for others others too but

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you really have no idea just just how much resonance what you've shared you know as as

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what a difference it's made so thank you i'm so thankful i'm so thankful i guess we're in this

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together yeah we are in this together and the the first such a time as this like that's not just a

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cute saying obviously we know it's straight scripture but for real because there's a real

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temptation right now in the greater globe for okay so should i dive into this i think it's

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important i think it's important because we're all leading communities try to keep it short

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so some of the early church fathers write about the early day martyrs and they talk about how it

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was a sign and a wonder to those who did not believe in christ yet because the martyrs did

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not fear death and up until that point in the ancient world like people feared death they did

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not know what was going to happen on the other side of death and there was a lot of you know

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from mythology and theology and all this stuff there was a lot of uh theories on what was going

487
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to happen but people didn't really know and so think about this in like ancient roman times

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these people are willingly going to the slaughter and not afraid because they believe in jesus so

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deeply and that was a sign in the wonder the early church fathers write about how it was a sign in

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the wonder to the secular world that these people didn't

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fear death. I would like to propose that we're in a new era and what's going to be a sign and

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a wonder to people is the sons of God not fearing life. Because when things get hard, and they're

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hard right now, the world's a crazy place. I would argue it's not as crazy, you know, people are like

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it's just getting worse and worse and worse. No, like go to Rome, look at Pompeii, like people

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were always crazy, right? Read the Old Testament, people did weird things. They threw their children

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to the fire, you know. So I think there's an exposure, I think there's a greater awareness

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because of the information age and we know too much. Tree of knowledge was never supposed to be

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embedded in our innocent hearts, okay? I'm trying to keep this short, there's a lot of

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trails I can go on, but this is what's important. There is, I think, in the secular world

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within the younger generations, almost a welcome of death because life is hard.

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It's true. And I think what's going to be a sign and a wonder to them is those who do not fear life.

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So why did I get on that trail? Oh, because for such a time as this, right? And what we can trust,

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what we can be at rest in, okay, in these times when the news stories are crazy and, you know,

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this prophet is saying it's going to be, something's coming next, it's going to be worse

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than COVID and it's going to take people out and whatever. And all of the swirl, okay,

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is we can be reminded that we exist literally for such a time as this, because God, our creator,

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who knows all things and sees all things, thought it best that Xavier live in today.

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That Sally's birthday would be May 25 and that she'd be turning 50, 55 did you say?

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This year. It was on his timeline. We can trust that. So when it's feeling heavy,

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when it's feeling like, oh my goodness, like, do I have what it takes?

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We can be reminded that we were born for such a time as this and we can welcome life.

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Okay, Holly, I saw you have your hand raised.

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Hi, Lindsay.

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Hello.

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Well, that was before you went on your little thing. That was really good, too.

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Bring us back, Holly, bring us back.

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Well, now I forget because that was really good, too. But maybe to Xavier's point,

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I've been hearing that as well. And we definitely are in a new era. And what I've been hearing over

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and over and over from everyone, from prophetic people to, you know, to, you know, to, you know,

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over and over and over from everyone, from prophetic people to all over the place,

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is that we're living in one of the most significant times ever in the history of the world.

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So that is amazing that we're alive right now. And, you know, I think that we are corporately,

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finally understanding what you said about the union, that we're in perfect union with God,

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with Jesus, with the Holy Spirit, there is no separation. And I think we haven't been

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functioning like that, really. But now we are starting to understand that, like everything we

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do is in union with the whole Trinity, and we're actually a physical expression of them. And so

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when we're walking around, when we're talking, when we're whatever we're doing, there's no

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difference between us and the Father, Jesus and Holy Spirit, we're one in the same. So that's a

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really great responsibility. But then to be able to do that in rest and trust, where 99.9% of it

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is done for us, and we just have to show up and be who we're created to be, then that takes all

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the pressure off. It's a lot easier. So I love that. Yeah. Yeah, yes. Amen. I mean, we're born

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for such a time as this. I hear I would agree. Personally, I would agree that I think we are

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living in one of the most significant times in history. If it's not true, it's most significant

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to us because we're here. This is it, you know? Right, to us. Yeah, I mean, it's either way,

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either way. So I think what's, you know, because there is also, and I want to say this well,

536
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but you know, I kind of grew up in like rapture culture, where it was like, just like, let's just

537
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wait it out. Like, let's just get out of here, right? And I'm not going to get into all of that

538
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eschatology and stuff. But I think what's important is that we're still here. We have today.

539
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And so what has happened maybe even in the past with that, with me even saying that is like,

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we're still here, we're still today as we put so much pressure on ourselves of like, oh my gosh,

541
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I have to do.

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everything right and I have to do it well and I can't mess up and again that is toil

543
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because we get stuck on a gold star we get stuck on a pass fail we get stuck on a destination

544
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that's always somewhere out here somewhere and we're not enjoying the life and the communion

545
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that today's work is cultivating the partnership that we have in the Lord with the Lord today

546
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and this is why the fruit of the spirit is so important things like joy and peace but also

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patience and self-control because with patience we actually can sit in today and not feel so

548
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restless and realize well I'm not where I necessarily would love to be with my revenue

549
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or I wish really wish this project was over with or I'll be so glad when I hit these markers

550
00:45:53.200 --> 00:45:58.640
or these follower numbers or whatever but we can actually enjoy and soak in today and then the

551
00:45:58.640 --> 00:46:05.200
self-control of actually staying in today doesn't mean that we can't plan for the future and that's

552
00:46:05.200 --> 00:46:16.240
what I'm saying but so often we manufacture toil by not enjoying the journey of what we're on with

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the Lord whether it's an entrepreneurship or in parenthood or in our marriage or in our

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friendships or in our community or the church that we're at all those things so yes Sally I see

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your hand I've just got a bit of an action to share an image I've put some of the image on

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there that he showed me for New Zealand so and it just supports what you're saying about and

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where we are and the sector time is this is Christ's church so Christ's church is in the

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South Island of the New Zealand and it's the city that is furthest away from Jerusalem

559
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and Hastings where I live is actually the name for first fruits so there is a massive massive shift

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00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:06.000
that's happening here and it's happening all over the world and each one of us so he keeps he's

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shown me this for years but each one of us is a lampstand and as more of us gather and connect

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00:47:12.640 --> 00:47:19.600
it's like us it's like an electrical current of the Holy Spirit that sparks and arcs and so

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I've got AI to do this image but what I see is when God's looking down as we all connect because

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we are the church we not the building the people and as the people the gospel the people us cover

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the earth all he sees is white light of the Holy Spirit and it's the white light of the Holy Spirit

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that covers New Zealand but will cover the whole earth and right now we are international we are

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covering the earth with our connections of the Holy Spirit and as we're sharing

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and I just I can't tell you how convicted I am that we are in such a time of grace

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and of favor and of blessing and he is here absolutely to take ground but we do it together

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because together everyone achieves more and that's how he wanted it he wanted it in relationship and

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family and when I stepped out yesterday there was no fear as that woman was kicking off and

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the spears and there's daggers and there's also there was nothing all I saw was his love for that

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woman and I believe that his love is going to cover the earth in this season and each one of us

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if we just do the one thing that he's called us to do and we all do our one thing we're going to

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cover the whole earth just like that and he's going to come back that's my sense thank you sally

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how do I practice this practically how do you practice trust um graham cook I know some of

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you know who that is um I want to give him credit for this but he always says you know pick a truth

578
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and be true to it just pick a truth and be true to it because there's many there's there's so much

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truth there's so much truth so it feels a little overwhelming of like I have to trust all things

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but like pick a truth and be true to it how do you identify like a truth to pick maybe identify a

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place where it's feeling like toil and ask the holy spirit or maybe something will pop into your

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mind immediately a verse to anchor yourself in for the next week and whenever there's a thought

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when you're thinking maybe it's a project it's like man anytime I think about it just feels like

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laborious pain you know it just feels like toil think differently like for me this coaching call

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so I had five seconds when bruce asked me like a month ago hey like I think it'd be great I had

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the I had you know the quick like I don't really know if I had something to share okay that's a

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that's a place of toil in my life that's a perceived lack perceived separation I don't

588
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have anything to give what a lie what an absolute lie I'm literally Romans 8

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says, the same spirit who raised Christ from the dead lives in me. I don't have anything to give.

590
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What a lie. Okay, so I had five seconds to just identify the toil and then for the next month,

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what would have been, you know, every time I thought about this call, you know, maybe that

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pit in my stomach, the dread, the nervousness, oh my gosh, what am I going to talk about?

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I just decided it was going to be great. I'm going to enjoy this. Not just like,

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oh, it's going to be great. I'm going to share something profound. I'm going to come and I'm

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going to enjoy this. I'm going to have fun. There's going to be life and there's going to

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be communion. And that's what I did. Not necessarily a scripture, just a thought, a belief.

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And so that's what, that's something you guys can do to practice, whether it's big or small.

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Another thing that I'm practicing, because again, what would happen to me, just this is me,

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everyone's different, is I would hear a testimony like Sally's, that would feel like toil to me.

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Because I think, well, my interactions with people aren't necessarily like that right now.

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And then I would feel the weight of like, should I go find some like chaos and some crazy and bring

602
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some order to it? I'm just being real. Or like someone gives a testimony, like I laid hands on

603
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this person who was in a wheelchair at the mall. I went up to them. I felt like the Lord said,

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you're going to go to the mall. You're going to see someone with a yellow sweater. They're going

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to be in a wheelchair. You're going to go, their name's going to be Kennedy. You're going to say

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Kennedy, rise up and walk. And I know people that that's happened to. It's amazing. But instead of

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always rejoicing in that, it would feel like another task on my to-do list of like, no,

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I have to go to the mall and rise above my social anxiety, not my social anxiety,

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rise above social anxiety. It's not mine, but it sometimes comes. And it's like, no,

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that's not, maybe one day that's the journey I'll be on. I'll be at the mall and I'll see

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someone. I'll feel the Holy Spirit. Absolutely obey that. But often it's in the small things at

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first where we're creating a habit and a reflex of trust and of rest. So for me, when I'm taking

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walks around my neighborhood, I think about Romans eight and I think about how it says,

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creation is longing for the revealing of the glory that is in me to unlock it from frustration.

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So it doesn't have to be weird, guys. It might sound weird to you, but I walk around my neighborhood

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and I see myself as a son of God, which is accurate and the glory in me being revealed

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to a frustrated creation. I see brown grass. I think that's frustrated creation. That's not

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glorified grass. That's frustrated grass. It's dead. And so I just think to myself as I walk by,

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I'm releasing you from frustration.

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I'm speaking life to my neighborhood. I live here. So my neighbors should feel whether they

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attribute it to me or not, the peace of the atmosphere of my home, the glory being revealed

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to me. These are just thoughts. I'm not necessarily doing anything with it yet, right? I'm not laying

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hands on the grass, but I have to think differently about who I am based on who God is

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and who he says I am in him, right? So it's accurate. It's not wishful thinking. It's not

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optimism. This is full on faith and trust based on scripture, which is true. That's one way I practice.

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I do that sometimes walking through cities and there's homeless people.

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I don't always necessarily feel that I need to go lay hands on them or approach them.

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Not necessarily, but I know by just my presence being there, if I'm there, that means Jesus is

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there. And I just think and see a difference being made in the streets as I'm walking.

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And I'm at rest and I watch. So what would have typically have happened in the past before I

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believed the truth is I would have felt really sorry for them. I would have felt really bogged

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down by the sadness, which is not wrong unless it's talking you out of your identity and the

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power of Jesus in you. I'm practicing this in my home. I'm practicing this in motherhood.

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I'm not dreading the mundane of another day as a mom of littles. If you know, you know. It's like

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every day is a little bit the same and you're like, am I making a difference? Especially when

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people are like, so when are you going to do podcasting again? And I'm like, I probably should.

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But actually I want my family to get the first fruit of my ministry. And this is how this is

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being expressed right now is me being fully focused on these two girls. And it's going to

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look the same maybe every day, but I'm trusting and I'm at rest that this is significant.

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And I'm not less than, and I'm not behind, and I'm not disappointing God.

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and I'm not wasting away my gifts, and so you'll find your thing, whatever it is.

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Find a truth and be true to it. Let's practice that this week. I want to honor your time. I

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know we've got like four minutes left. Macy, is there anything that you just keep me on track?

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Is there anything that we need to do before I? No, we're good. I would really love to pray over

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everyone, if that's okay. Pray over your endeavors, pray over the work of your hands,

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pray over how the Lord is expanding you into a deeper awareness of your identity.

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I want to make sure that I've said all that I wanted to say, if I didn't say anything. Oh,

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I do want to say this. I thought this was really interesting. I'll keep it short. This is from

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an Instagram account called The Faith-Filled Therapist. Her name is Jo, I think it's Hargraves,

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and I think you guys would really enjoy some of the stuff that she puts out there, but she was

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talking about renewing your mind, because we're talking about thinking and believing,

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and this is all about renewing your mind. We know Romans 12 to be transformed by the

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renewing of their mind. She says, neuroscience calls it neuroplasticity, your brain's ability

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to rewire itself based on what you repeat, focus on, and believe. I'm sure Marcella knows all about

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this. When we renew our minds, we're not just thinking better thoughts, we're rewiring our

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brain's default mode network, DMN, default mode network. The DMN is part of the brain active

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during mind-wandering and self-talk. Left unrenewed, it loops patterns of fear,

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shames, and old stories, but when we meditate on truth, it reshapes. Renewing the mind reduces

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rumination, increases emotional regulations, strengthens the prefrontal cortex, the part of

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the brain that helps us choose wisely, respond calmly, and live with intention. She just said

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some ways that you can renew your mind, reading scripture with expectancy, declaring who God says

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we are, redirecting thoughts from old patterns, when old patterns show up, like, hey, you don't

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have anything to give. No, we're just going to think a different thought, and then practicing

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presence, prayer, and truth. Transformation is an instant, but every time you choose truth,

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you're rewiring your brain and reshaping your life. We're renewing our minds this week.

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I want to leave you with one thing, and then I'll pray really quick. What's really interesting

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about this verse back in Isaiah 43 that I just thought was really intriguing for all of us

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pioneers, Isaiah 43 is right, so this is verse 22, but when we go up to verse 18, it says,

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do not remember the past events. Pay no attention to things of old. Behold, look, I'm doing something

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new. Even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness,

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rivers in the desert, wild animals, jackals, ostriches will honor me because I provide water

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in the wilderness and rivers in the deserts to give drink to my chosen people. The people I form

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for myself will declare my praise, but Jacob, you have not called out to me because you become weary

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of me. We're doing new things. We're pioneering with the Lord, with the pioneer himself, Jesus,

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the author and perfecter of our faith. Firstborn among many brethren, the chief cornerstone,

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head of our church, right? He has preeminence. We have what it takes. If it's true about Jesus,

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it's true about you. You're seated in heavenly places with him. So Lord, we thank you. Father,

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we thank you for this truth. Jesus, we thank you for who you are, for what you came and did

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before the foundations of the world, the lamb was chosen. Lord, you knew and you did it. You said,

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I will create my people, a people for myself. They're not going to choose me, but I will choose

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them. And when they don't choose me, I've already hit the plan in place. The lamb is already

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slain. Jesus came willingly. Holy spirit was then released as our guarantee, sealed it like an

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engagement ring. And here we are. If it's true about Jesus, it's now true about us.

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I speak to the nervous systems right now of everyone on this call. And I say, be aligned

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with the truth. I speak to your bodies and your souls, your mind, your will, and emotions.

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And I honor you. Many of our bodies, many of our souls, we've been carrying so much burden,

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so much toil with this belief that we're separated. This belief that it's all up to us

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to make it happen, to advance the kingdom, to succeed, to build the business, to have a healthy

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family, to have a healthy marriage. It's all up to us. Our bodies have been carrying the weight

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of that. Some of our bodies, some of our souls have been carrying the weight of that. Our

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emotions are all mixed up. Our nervous systems are dysregulated. We call it into alignment

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because just like Romans 8 says, we are not led by the flesh. So bodies and souls,

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you do not have to lead.

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I call up the Spirit, who is one with Christ, the Spirit in each and every one of us on

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this call, and I say, rewrite the DNA, make a new record, behold, the new has come, the

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old has passed.

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We speak peace, we speak joy.

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We thank you that our lives are marked by beauty, joy, and praise.

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The glory in us is coming up to be revealed, and that will be being expressed through our

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lives and even the work of our hands.

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Lord, I pray that you would set right and rewire our brains to think differently about

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work, that you would release us from any pressure of toil, any belief, which is really unbelief,

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that what we're doing always is going to fail, or it's not going to measure up, or it's not

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going to produce, it's not going to bring life like it should.

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We cancel all of that unbelief, and we call up the Spirit right now, who knows the truth

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and always believes the truth, and we say, write a new record.

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Holy Spirit, you are our helper, lead us and guide us in this truth this week.

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Give us a truth that we can be true to.

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I thank you for the testimonies that will come forth from this call, from the practice

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of truth and rest.

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I declare, Father, we trust you.

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If you said it, we believe it.

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And I pray these things with the authority that was given to me by Jesus Christ, and

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I say, amen.

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Let it be so.

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All right.

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Thank you so much.

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We went a little bit over.

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This was so fun.

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I'll be back.

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We'll do this again.

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But I hope this was helpful.

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Bruce and I are praying for you guys.

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We believe in you and all that you're pioneering, and we're here for you if you need help.

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So have a wonderful week.

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You just have to end the call on your side, Lindsey.

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I'm trying to find the end button.

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It's at the bottom right.