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I have a few more with us, I imagine we got a powerhouse session for you.

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And I just want to say if you didn't catch last month's last month's carry, what'd you

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think of last month?

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Dude, I, to me, that was, what's that?

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Spectacular.

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Yes.

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It was good of, I mean, I've been running a masterminds for 12 years that, that last

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month, what Dion shared was my favorite session I've ever been a part of.

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So good.

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So many good stories, highly recommend if you didn't watch last month, watch last month.

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I mean, you should, hopefully you watch every month, but definitely watch last month.

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And so really, really cool.

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We got a really powerful session for you here today.

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If you don't know, Jess and I are up in Asheville, we're actually doing a meetup on Wednesday.

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So we got people coming from all around and going to do a meetup at a barbecue place here

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in North Carolina.

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So that'd be cool on Wednesday.

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And then on Thursday, we launch a brand new book, Faith Driven Wealth.

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And that my friend, John C. Maxwell wrote the foreword.

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We're very grateful for that, but that launches on when on Thursday, sorry, June 12th.

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And so we're doing a virtual book party at 7 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, and we'll be a

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lot of fun.

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We'll have, I got a special guest coming on there and we'll have a lot of fun.

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If you haven't seen me doing videos, something that I thought was really cool when we walked

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into this house is they have this, you know, mountain strong Hurricane Helene, you know,

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back in September.

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And I'll tell you this neighborhood, every second or third home is destroyed.

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And so like, you know, it's a meaningful thing right there.

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The house, literally the house right next to us is completely demolished.

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This area was, you know, hit, you know, very hard.

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And unlike Florida homes, they're not, they're not prepared for hurricanes.

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And so it's a lot of, a lot of devastation around here.

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The roads are, you know, okay now, but yeah.

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So we're grateful to be up here and having a good time for sure.

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And so I don't want to take a whole lot of time, but after Dion is finished, I'm happy

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to hang out and spend time with you guys.

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You may have seen, I've been talking about some different concepts, the seven step blueprint

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that the Lord gave me.

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And so we've been having some fun for sure.

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And so Dion, I know you're fired up.

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I know you're excited.

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What's going on, my friend?

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Yeah, very excited.

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Very excited.

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I love these sessions that we do together.

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I think that, you know, being with this team and watching the growth that we've been covering,

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we've been getting into some very substantial topics, which you don't often get into even

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in kingdom leadership circles, you know?

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So yeah, I'm excited, excited about tonight.

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Well, I'll turn it over to you.

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I'll give you your time and I'm ready with my notes.

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Yeah, for sure.

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You know, we've been going through a whole series of these kingdom routines, if you like,

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or secrets of how do the Lord wants to be with you.

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Now when you think about routines in general, I think most people think about this, you

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know, as we do leadership courses, you know, like the 10 months of the Brennan School of

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Leadership or the one year program for the NSO call for CEOs and so forth.

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When we do these, I've noticed a trend.

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And the trend is this, that it takes about, it takes about two months.

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That's meaning every month, every week for two months, takes about eight sessions to

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get people off the performance treadmill.

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And because they've just been so groomed into that and to get the permission that the Lord

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is giving them, that the way he wants to be with them.

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And it's not like they cannot.

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And Dion, I don't want to skip past that.

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Can you share what do you mean?

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I know what you mean.

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But can you share what you mean by the performance treadmill?

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What do you mean by that?

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Yeah.

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So I think the performance treadmill and a simple analogy for it is most believers mix

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the old and the new covenants together.

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And we call this covenantal confusion because we had nothing to do with the old covenant.

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We're not Jewish.

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And we're included in Christ in the new covenant.

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But what happens is most people feel like, so think of a cup and most people think, well,

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I got bad stuff in my cup and I can only when I get rid of the bad stuff, then I can have

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an expectation that God will come and fill.

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the cup with good stuff. And God's plan wasn't to mess with a cup. He wanted to destroy that

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cup and give you a new cup. That's why you call it a new creation. So what the Lord does is,

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so what the performance trademark is, is that we get into a place where we're never enough.

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We're always a day late and a dollar short because you haven't done this, you haven't done that,

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you haven't done this. Every time we ask, we ask in a double-minded way, both from the new and

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the old covenant. Well, I don't deserve this, so I'm going to ask the Lord, but you don't know,

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and then maybe, and well, maybe I catch him in a good mood. It may or may not work. I'll try it.

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And so we'll literally try every, what I would almost call gimmick, because, you know, if you

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do this and you shout and you confess and you do that, and some of those are fine, but a lot of it

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is performance-based, that if you perform right, God will bless you. And this comes from an old

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covenant framework, which is first you, then God. If you behave, if you do your thing, God will bless

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you. If you don't, you'll get cursed. That's an old covenant way. Jesus, Hebrew says, God found

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fault with the old and replaced it with a new covenant built on what? Better promises. Well,

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what are the better promises? First God, then you. You know, freely you've received, so freely give.

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Freely you've been forgiven, freely you forgive others. So everything in the New Testament,

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while there's 630 laws in the Old, there's over 1,050 instructions in the New Testament we could

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call, you know, we call them imperatives in theology, and what this refers to is stuff you're

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meant to do. Not a single one of those 1,050 stand on their own. They don't start with you.

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Because Christ did this, therefore you do that. Everything starts because Jesus, therefore you.

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Because God, then you. So what this does is it flips and it shuts down the performance thing,

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because Jesus perfectly performed on your behalf. Okay, we're all a bunch of business people here,

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so we're all going, that's cool. How does that help my business? So I'm going to talk about

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practically how patience is a lethal weapon in the Kingdom, and the Scripture talks about,

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you know, it's through faith and patience that we inherit. So let me take a second and just walk us

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through a couple of ideas, and I'll share some of my story in this, and not just the idea of it, but

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how I learned this idea. And you know, the big idea is the enemy has zero patience.

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So think about that for a second, which means that when you operate in Kingdom patience,

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you've already won every battle before it starts. Let that land for a second, because I think,

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you know, most Christians that I've come across believe that patience is some sort of

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passive waiting, you know, just enduring, you know, grit of teeth, get through it until

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something changes. That's not what patience is. You know, they think that it's like kind of a

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holding on, but patience is actually how you thrive under pressure. Patience is putting your

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fight that you're going through into a round that the enemy has no weapons on that battlefield.

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So what if I told you that patience is actually an offensive weapon that guarantees victory?

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This is a very practical business, one of the most practical business things we can talk about.

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So what if the very thing you thought was your weakness, every believer says, well,

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I don't have patience. I'm not a patient person. Well, good news, that person died, and now the

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new you, which has the patience of Jesus, is in you. So what if what you thought was your weakness

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is actually your greatest strength in spiritual warfare? See, patience is this lethal warfare

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weapon, since the enemy has no equivalent weapon to match it. He has no patience. I mean, it's what

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got him kicked out of heaven, was impatience, right? He wanted to be like God. And so, you know, patience

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with some pride can cause a lot of, impatience with pride can cause a lot of damage. So let me

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just back up a second. So this is a very, very precious thing that I'm sharing with you because

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I learned it in such a painful time in my life. And so this goes back seven years, 2018,

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when we've shared, I've shared my story about losing our business and our ministry and basically

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everything. And I was facing probably the longest, most painful, darkest time of my life.

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There was about, about three or four months there, I just genuinely thought my life was over, that

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there was no more ministry. There was, I had nothing to say. I'd been so brutalized through this process.

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given me promises back since I was, because I got saved, you know, at 14. So God had given me all

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these promises, but there were one or two key business promises that just looked like it was in,

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it was just shattered, you know, everything I'd been building up for over 30 years in partnership

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with the Lord and prayer and fasting and every Monday morning, getting up and dedicating the

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whole morning just to the Lord, first fruits of the week, you know, and I dedicated it when my

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kids moved out of, we had a big home, you know, we had a, you know, seven bedroom home, downtown

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Atlanta, that we built our dream home. And then of course, as the kids left and went to college

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and so forth, I had all these extra bedrooms. So one, I committed to just a thinking room,

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and it was white wall, white boards, even had a padlock on the door so that no one could actually

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go in there. And that was my place with the Lord. It was like a, my little sacred space. And we

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would go there every Monday, and I would just like take down what he said, it's where I wrote

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the book wired here on my shoulder, sorry, other side. And, and I, and in this place, I mean, I had,

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you know, one 12 foot board and two six foot boards. And I would write up all these things,

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every plan. And I was all about innovation from heaven. I wanted to do to say what God was saying

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to what he was doing. And it all collapsed. And I was shocked. You know, and I asked, I asked Graham

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one day, I was chatting to him, I said, you know, why did God allow that? You know, and he said, he

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didn't, he didn't have much of a choice. God doesn't override people's free will. Not everything

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that you know, we love this theology that God is in, you know, that God is in control, he is not

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in control, he's in control of heaven. And he's ultimately in charge, and his purposes are

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immovable. But he's not in control that gave us control of the earth, you can't tell, look around,

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you know, and so a lot happens is we sometimes internalize crises, problems as either something

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we've done wrong, because we weren't, you know, performing correctly. Or we, you know, it's an

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attack from the enemy, which many times it just simply isn't. It's, you know, when a lot of people

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exercising free will, or collide 8 billion of us, or 9 billion of us all colliding,

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stuff happens, and God isn't going to override their free will, he's not going to, he made a

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covenant, he bound himself to partner with us. And so what he does is, he gives us promises

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as an expression of his kind intentions towards us. So that's Jeremiah 29.11. And I know the

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scriptures, I know in English, it says, I know the plans I have for you. It's not really plans,

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it's more like my immovable kind intentions, I know exactly what we're going to do together.

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And every time we run into free will and issues and problems in the world, you know, trials,

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tribulations, problems, whatever, when that happens, many of us think, well, why is God doing

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this, which he isn't. And so the question then is, then, what, how do I resolve the crisis that I'm

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in? And it's this, that when when people get in the way, he just works around it. In fact, he's so

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confident in himself that he gives you a promise. And he says, all things work together for the good

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of them that love God and are called according to his purpose. In other words, his purposes

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ultimately get there, whether he has to go this way around or that way around. And so that's why

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speculation is such a lethally bad idea in the kingdom. When God gives you an upstairs promise,

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we don't speculate to what that means downstairs, what that manifests like. And so when we'll stay

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away from that, we just keep ourselves standing in God's heart. Lord, I know you're kind, I know

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you're with me, I know you're protecting me, thank you for this promise. I have no clue downstairs

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how this is going to work, because everything in my business life right now is in complete shambles.

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I just lost 30 years of building a private equity firm, investing in four key companies, and

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doing pretty well. And, you know, the way that was the way that collapse was so

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inconceivable. And what I was accused of, it felt like they might as well have accused me of being

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a pedophile or something. It was just so inconceivable to me, and how that all unfolded.

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And of course, the Lord protected me, we went through that. But what I learned in the middle of

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that every day felt like torture, absolute torture. And I was trying so hard to be patient, beating

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myself up in frustration, tempting to manufacture more patients through sheer willpower. You know

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what I'm talking about, the performance treadmill regarding patients, right? I was going to

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manufacture patients. And one day, the Lord just said to me, son, can you please cut it out?

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He said, he said it so kindly though, you know, could you could you just stop that?

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He said you're trying to develop patience like it's some sort of muscle to build

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He said but patience my patience is already you have my patience. You and I are one

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And so like when you get married everything that's his becomes, you know hers or everyone's who's become his right?

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And in this case everything that belongs to jesus became mine and I got a new nature

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He's nature in me

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So he said you're trying to get patience when you already have my pay there isn't more beautiful

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More perfect patience than mine

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What you're learning is to walk in it. What you're learning is to practice that patience

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You know, it has its full manifestation

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So yes, it's not a passive thing. Well, I got patience and yet I don't act patient

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It's because I don't have to develop patience to use it

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So I am practicing patience because that's my new nature in christ

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I'm not practicing patience because i'm trying to become a patient person

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Now this might sound like a very small difference, but it's massive especially in business in business

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We get hit hard a lot, you know entrepreneurs, you know, as you know, i've done 27 startups, you know

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Which i'm sure I should have got psychiatric treatment for by now

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But you know that one morning when the lord said son, could you just cut it? Could you just stop?

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You're trying to create patience when you don't have to create

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Mimicry, you don't have to use mimicry to be love joy. Peace. Patience. Kindness good

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That's you've got the genuine article. You don't have to create a you don't have to create an imitation version

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You don't have to kind of act patient. So maybe i'll become patient

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No, you are patient because you have my patience in you so start with the right identity and the behavior will follow

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I was shocked by this

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And when the lord showed me that the enemy operates in haste and panic and urgency because he has no patience

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So everything's a crisis everything has to be done now

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And I realized this thing every time he tries to rush me pressurize me or create urgency whether he's doing it or someone else is doing it

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He's already lost because patience isn't my weakness. It's his

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Right. I don't need to develop patience. I needed to just I needed to wield it as a weapon

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So I started viewing patience as an offensive weapon

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Rather than a kind of defensive endurance

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You know grit my teeth endure get through it I was trying to survive crisis not thrive in a crisis

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So the lord said to me and so graham and I were talking one day and he says to me

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My friend, I am so jealous of you right now. I said jealous of me. My goodness graham

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I have lost my business. I've lost my business consists of 12 entities

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I lost something I spent my whole life being I had a national ministry

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I was traveling with all the who's who you know, you named them big preacher names and so i'm sitting in the green room with them

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And you know with our with our leadership company

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And suddenly I lost everything I lost friends of over 30 years standing

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I said how on earth can you he says because when you in the when you get in a situation where you can genuinely

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Practice patience because you can't practice patience when everything's calm

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And I thought about then I said, yeah, and he says you do know it's way more powerful than spiritual warfare

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You can shout at the devil if you like or you can practice patience and take him out

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That's the difference patience takes him off the battlefield because he has no defensive weapon against your patience

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So I want to share three quick keys with you

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The first we're just going to call it the patience paradox because it was such a paradox to me

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That how you win battles is doing the opposite of what you may have been taught

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Like you must just endure while god's in control somehow

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Yes, he works all things together, but not because he created the mess but because he protects you and takes you through the mess

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free will and all their issues

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Because ultimately he's he's ultimately in charge

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studying hebrews 612

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We inherit promises see what i'd been taught even though I had a great spiritual dad

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i'd been taught that

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Me my patience meant suffering while I just waited for god to pitch up or maybe possibly, you know

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Maybe something will happen

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for patience literally means

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means remain under, not under pressure, but remain under his faithfulness, remain under

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his rest while the promise manifests.

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So what you're doing in patience is you're moving from under the pressure of the situation

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downstairs to under the pressure of his nature upstairs, not the pressure, but under his

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nature.

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So you're going to remain under his nature.

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Lord, I know you're faithful.

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None of the stuff downstairs makes any sense.

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It's all chaos and a mess.

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But you're faithful and you're good and you're kind and you love me and you're with me and

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you're going to protect me.

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And boy, did he protect me.

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Stuff happened, you know, the rest of the story.

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And I just, I still stand amazed today that I get to do this.

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I get to sit here and chat to you and share this.

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is I had to start with recognition that patience is already a part of my new nature.

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Secondly, understanding that God has already said yes to his promises.

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The scripture says all the promises are yes in Christ.

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That means all of God's promises, because you're in Christ, already yes.

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Lord, can I have this?

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Yes.

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Yes.

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But he needs our permission.

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That's what amen means.

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When we come in agreement with God, it's not just him giving us permission.

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You may accept this promise as yours because you're in Christ, but also you have to give

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him your permission.

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It sounds, wow, that sounds a little arrogant.

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It's not that it's being arrogant.

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It's what submission of your will means.

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It's the, it's the exercising of your will.

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And then I saw my patience more as a joyful anticipation, not sort of a painful endurance.

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So when we deploy patience as a weapon against the enemy, we deploy it against his sense

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of urgency.

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And so you see this with David, exhibit this patience with Goliath.

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David didn't rush up to Goliath.

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He picked up the stones.

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He took his time.

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What was, what was David doing?

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He said, you know, this heathen, you know, is cursing the God of Israel.

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He tucked himself neatly in to God's nature towards him.

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He didn't look at Goliath's size and all the rest.

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Another one was Jesus sleeping in a stone.

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You know, that's ultimate patience in action.

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The miracle happened in their hands.

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We talked about that last month.

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So you see how they brought his nature into question?

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When you don't question God's nature, but question the sense of urgency, oh there's

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a storm, we're going to drown, it's going to be crisis, put that into a business context

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and you can see, you can have victory over any crisis you can sleep through.

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Think about that for a second.

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So I'm ignoring the urgency of that, the fake urgency that the enemy throws up.

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And so, you know, Daniel continued prayer routine despite the lion's den.

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There's a crisis in your face and yet your patience is you retreating into God's heart,

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not reacting to the crisis in front of you.

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Now the Lord will give you instruction on how to respond.

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It's not like you don't take any action, it's that you don't react, but you're not reacting

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to the situation, you're responding to the Lord in that situation.

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So let's talk about kingdom key number two, I'll talk about the rest weapon.

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So how you access his patience without any effort.

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Now this is going to sound, because you know, when we're so used to the performance thing,

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you know, I'm going to have to just try harder.

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No, you don't have to try harder, you know, I used to have such a short fuse, you know,

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for anybody who knows or met South African men, you know, we all did the military service

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thing.

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We grew up really tough.

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You know, my dad told me one day, hey, if you come home and you got a girl pregnant

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or you did drugs, I'm going to hit for distance.

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And I believed him because I'd seen him take guys out physically in a restaurant when they're

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fancy restaurants.

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Some guy made a comment or said something derogatory to my mom.

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And the guy got up, my dad wasn't a tall guy, he was about six foot.

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And this guy was like six foot four, he was like a big rugby player.

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My dad just hit him so hard in the solar plexus, the guy just folded into the table.

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He was as calm as a breeze.

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I'd seen him be aggressive.

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And so my heritage was that, you know?

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Grab somebody by the throat,

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whether it's figurative or literal,

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then shove them up against the wall

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and shut down all their options, you know?

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That's a very, very African, South African thing to do.

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So that old short fuse, aggressive,

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you just come out with all guns, you know, blazing,

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I had to get rid of.

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I think it's part of why God put me in Atlanta.

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It's a counterbalance to me.

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I asked him one day, Lord, why Atlanta of all places?

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You know, and he said, to be a counterbalance to you.

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And I said, okay.

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So I had this idea that I was a zero patient guy.

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I was like 19, look, lead me, follow me,

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or get out of my way.

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I literally told him that.

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my behavior instead of discovering my new nature.

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You see, in the kingdom, we discover our nature

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and practice it.

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We don't try to fix ourselves.

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We don't take the cup and say all the bad stuff,

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my impatience in the cup.

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God isn't interested in the old cup.

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He threw that away and gave you a new cup

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and it's filling it with himself,

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which turns out to be your new nature.

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The great mystery that you and God are one,

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you and Jesus are one.

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So that's when I learned that peace and patience

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work together in partnership.

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And peace and patience were something he has

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because peace is a ruling power.

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Let the peace of Christ do what?

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Reign.

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Okay, let's back up.

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What's my job?

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Three letters, let.

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What am I letting?

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The peace of Christ.

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Not my peace, not my imitation of peace,

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not me trying to force myself to be peaceful,

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not me on a performance treadmill,

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trying to act peaceful when I'm not feeling peaceful,

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all that stuff.

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What am I letting the peace of Christ do?

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Reign.

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And so peace is a ruling power.

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Now here's the interesting thing about patience

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in that role,

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is that I learned that the peace of Christ was permanent.

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I didn't have to engineer it

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because I just, everything was,

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I gotta be more peaceful,

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I must try to be more peaceful.

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That's not the way it works.

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That's not, what it is,

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is learning that he,

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the way the Lord wants to be with you

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is he wants to be peaceful and he's patient with you

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so that you can be peaceful and patient.

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So remember, everything starts with the cross.

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Everything starts from God's heart

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and then goes to your heart.

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It doesn't start with you.

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Performance training is,

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everything starts with you.

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Get your act together or God won't help.

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God helps those who help themselves

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is an old covenant idea

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and it has nothing to do with the gospel

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and absolutely nothing to do with the kingdom.

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So I had to unlearn so many things.

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So I didn't have to try to,

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so what did I used to do was what I do now.

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What I used to do was try harder to be patient,

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try to suppress my frustration

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and pretend I wasn't being frustrated,

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gratitude thing,

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feel guilty when I did that

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and kind of try to do better tomorrow.

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Then I realized, oh, that's nonsense.

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That's me trying to fix the old nature,

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which is dead, which is gross

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because we don't dig up dead people

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and try to get them to behave.

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So that's what it's like in the kingdom.

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So what do we do now?

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What do I do now?

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I just rest in my identity as a patient person.

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So I start with, I am a patient person.

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Why?

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Because Jesus gave me that new nature.

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Now I'm learning to practice that

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because I already have it

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and now I let his patience flow.

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I'm letting, I'm celebrating every victory.

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I can tell you patients in business meetings,

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sitting patiently,

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I was sitting with a group of our technology,

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we used to, in our private equity firm,

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we used to own a technology firm

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and we had about 25 employees in the company.

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So it wasn't a big company.

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And I was sitting around with a senior team

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and I'm about to take leadership and do my thing.

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And the Lord said, don't say anything.

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And I said, don't say anything.

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The Lord said, don't say anything.

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So somebody said, well, here's the problem

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and we've got this situation.

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And it looked like a really serious crisis.

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And I realized every one of them,

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even though they were all believers, by the way,

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every one of them were reacting

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to the urgency of the situation.

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And the Lord said, yeah, show the opposite spirit, patience.

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So I was really patient.

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And I said, Lord, how do you want me

458
00:29:55.540 --> 00:29:57.860
to demonstrate the patience?

459
00:29:57.860 --> 00:29:59.700
The Lord said, be patient with them.

460
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:03.040
So I was. I listened and the Lord said,

461
00:30:03.040 --> 00:30:06.400
you may ask clarifying questions, but make no statements.

462
00:30:06.400 --> 00:30:09.760
So explain that to me. When did this start?

463
00:30:10.800 --> 00:30:13.280
When does this have to be resolved by? What did the client say?

464
00:30:13.280 --> 00:30:16.080
We're about to lose a major client. What did the client say?

465
00:30:16.720 --> 00:30:18.960
I went through it and I just gathered information.

466
00:30:18.960 --> 00:30:22.160
So what do you think some of the options are?

467
00:30:22.160 --> 00:30:26.880
And I just asked questions. And then I did this deliberate thing.

468
00:30:27.760 --> 00:30:32.080
Every time I was going to answer, I paused for one or two seconds

469
00:30:32.080 --> 00:30:33.920
to show that I was being calm.

470
00:30:35.040 --> 00:30:40.560
And in that simple exercise of showing the opposite

471
00:30:40.560 --> 00:30:44.320
of what the crisis was trying to get us to do,

472
00:30:44.320 --> 00:30:46.240
we're all able to calm down.

473
00:30:46.240 --> 00:30:47.840
And finally, the one guy turns to me, says,

474
00:30:47.840 --> 00:30:49.920
you just walk in the room and we all just feel,

475
00:30:51.040 --> 00:30:52.960
OK, now we can get it done.

476
00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:55.360
And I said, Lord, you know, there was you, you know,

477
00:30:55.360 --> 00:30:58.000
because we host his presence and presence is everything

478
00:30:58.000 --> 00:30:59.440
as kingdom leaders. Right.

479
00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:03.840
And he says, you know, so, of course, he loves that.

480
00:31:03.840 --> 00:31:05.200
So let me give the third key.

481
00:31:06.960 --> 00:31:09.040
Patience is the the enemy's.

482
00:31:12.240 --> 00:31:15.760
It's the enemy's absolute Achilles heel.

483
00:31:16.800 --> 00:31:21.360
And why the devil loses every time when you exercise kingdom patience

484
00:31:21.360 --> 00:31:25.120
is he has no he has no thing to do against that.

485
00:31:25.120 --> 00:31:29.280
He can't argue with it because you can just wait him out.

486
00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:31.840
Because, OK, I don't get it this month.

487
00:31:31.840 --> 00:31:34.240
I get it next year. I get it 10 years from now.

488
00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:36.320
I know the Lord's faithful. I'm good.

489
00:31:36.880 --> 00:31:39.200
What is it? What on earth does he do with that?

490
00:31:39.200 --> 00:31:42.560
What what weapon can he fashion against that?

491
00:31:43.120 --> 00:31:44.880
You see this with Jesus, right?

492
00:31:44.880 --> 00:31:45.760
So Jesus.

493
00:31:47.360 --> 00:31:50.080
Goes into the wilderness, by the way, the wilderness is the place

494
00:31:50.080 --> 00:31:52.480
God sends you and he's happy with you, right?

495
00:31:53.200 --> 00:31:54.960
Jesus gets baptized by John.

496
00:31:55.600 --> 00:31:58.640
John hears the the Holy Spirit to send on him.

497
00:31:58.640 --> 00:32:03.840
He has a voice from heaven saying this is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased

498
00:32:03.840 --> 00:32:05.120
and then sends him to the desert.

499
00:32:05.920 --> 00:32:09.920
Most of us go into the desert because God wants you isolated all to himself.

500
00:32:10.560 --> 00:32:13.040
And often God will use these situations.

501
00:32:13.040 --> 00:32:17.520
But if we will walk there in patience and in peace, what did the enemy do?

502
00:32:17.520 --> 00:32:19.280
Try to create urgency.

503
00:32:19.280 --> 00:32:21.840
Hurry, drive him now, now, now.

504
00:32:21.840 --> 00:32:22.880
Instant do it.

505
00:32:22.880 --> 00:32:23.680
And what did he say?

506
00:32:23.680 --> 00:32:26.240
Turn these toads to bread now, right?

507
00:32:26.240 --> 00:32:28.160
Throw yourself down now.

508
00:32:28.160 --> 00:32:30.240
Bow to me and get it all now.

509
00:32:30.800 --> 00:32:32.560
And Jesus, what did he do?

510
00:32:33.200 --> 00:32:35.840
He patiently responded, defeated him every time.

511
00:32:35.840 --> 00:32:39.040
Jesus patience is what shut down the entire battle.

512
00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:43.680
Yes, he used some words, but it was his patience that shut down the enemy.

513
00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:46.160
Because he knows his time is short.

514
00:32:46.160 --> 00:32:49.680
And so he must operate in what I've learned to call fake urgency.

515
00:32:50.480 --> 00:32:51.760
So here's his strategy.

516
00:32:51.760 --> 00:32:53.280
Enemy creates fake urgency.

517
00:32:53.280 --> 00:32:56.960
We must do this now is where we get the word FOMO, fear of missing out.

518
00:32:56.960 --> 00:32:59.440
Your competitors are going to get there before you.

519
00:32:59.440 --> 00:33:00.720
People are using AI.

520
00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:02.000
You're not using AI.

521
00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:03.680
People are going to take your market share.

522
00:33:03.680 --> 00:33:06.080
This new technology is going to take you out of play.

523
00:33:06.080 --> 00:33:09.760
If that client goes away, that's the end of your business, etc.

524
00:33:09.760 --> 00:33:10.480
You know the rest.

525
00:33:11.040 --> 00:33:16.240
And so he manufactures pressure because when you're under pressure,

526
00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:19.680
you can't operate out of your yoke.

527
00:33:20.320 --> 00:33:21.360
Jesus said that.

528
00:33:21.360 --> 00:33:22.960
We've talked about that many times.

529
00:33:23.600 --> 00:33:24.320
Come to me.

530
00:33:24.320 --> 00:33:25.840
You're wearing heavy laden.

531
00:33:25.840 --> 00:33:28.080
Let's say under pressure, stress, burden.

532
00:33:28.800 --> 00:33:32.320
I will give you rest because rest activates your yoke.

533
00:33:32.880 --> 00:33:35.680
Patience, peace, rest.

534
00:33:35.680 --> 00:33:37.440
These are lethal weapons.

535
00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:38.320
Lethal.

536
00:33:38.400 --> 00:33:42.160
And they're so lethal that it takes the enemy off the battlefield.

537
00:33:42.160 --> 00:33:46.880
So this fake urgency is exposed when you exercise your patience.

538
00:33:47.680 --> 00:33:49.040
And you can wait him out.

539
00:33:49.040 --> 00:33:50.240
How long do we need to go?

540
00:33:50.240 --> 00:33:50.800
10 years?

541
00:33:50.800 --> 00:33:51.360
20 years?

542
00:33:51.360 --> 00:33:52.400
Doesn't matter.

543
00:33:52.400 --> 00:33:54.240
How long did Abraham wait?

544
00:33:54.240 --> 00:33:56.640
25 years he waited for Isaac.

545
00:33:57.280 --> 00:34:00.240
He became the father of faith, the father of many nations.

546
00:34:01.040 --> 00:34:04.320
Now, you must imagine what was going through his brain.

547
00:34:04.320 --> 00:34:05.280
You know, he's 90.

548
00:34:05.280 --> 00:34:07.680
He's 100 year old body and his wife's 90 year old.

549
00:34:07.680 --> 00:34:10.400
This desert woman, she dried up long ago.

550
00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:13.679
Her ability to have children had long passed, right?

551
00:34:14.639 --> 00:34:15.760
And he waited.

552
00:34:15.760 --> 00:34:16.960
And he waited.

553
00:34:16.960 --> 00:34:20.159
And through faith and patience, he inherited.

554
00:34:21.600 --> 00:34:24.639
So we can go through lots and lots and lots of biblical examples.

555
00:34:24.639 --> 00:34:25.840
But let me land the plane.

556
00:34:26.400 --> 00:34:30.400
You already are a patient person because you have the nature of Jesus.

557
00:34:30.400 --> 00:34:32.400
You're not practicing to become patient.

558
00:34:33.040 --> 00:34:35.040
You're practicing because you are patient.

559
00:34:35.040 --> 00:34:36.639
Because you and Jesus are one.

560
00:34:37.600 --> 00:34:40.080
So think about this.

561
00:34:40.080 --> 00:34:42.320
The enemy counts on you not knowing this.

562
00:34:43.360 --> 00:34:46.560
Because if he can get you to manufacture or try to make up patience,

563
00:34:47.520 --> 00:34:49.040
patience will always be your weakness.

564
00:34:49.760 --> 00:34:54.320
Because you will see patience as purely a passive thing to endure the painful,

565
00:34:54.320 --> 00:34:59.840
not a powerful thing, not an offensive weapon in which you're standing in God's nature and you're in.

566
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:03.000
So patience becomes your offensive weapon.

567
00:35:03.000 --> 00:35:07.000
Because the enemy has no patience, it's his fatal flaw.

568
00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:10.000
So every time you rest in your patience, you've already won.

569
00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:13.000
Game over, right there. Game over.

570
00:35:13.000 --> 00:35:17.000
You're not waiting for God, you're waiting with God.

571
00:35:17.000 --> 00:35:20.000
And you say, well, why doesn't God just do it?

572
00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:23.000
Because He's aligning things, and it takes time.

573
00:35:23.000 --> 00:35:28.000
And sometimes people get in His way, and He works around them.

574
00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:30.000
He works all things.

575
00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:34.000
Without overriding their will, He works all things.

576
00:35:34.000 --> 00:35:39.000
So starting today, what if you could see every opportunity

577
00:35:39.000 --> 00:35:44.000
as a way for you to express your patience as a partnership.

578
00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:47.000
Doing it with God, not for Him.

579
00:35:47.000 --> 00:35:50.000
So patience is a ruling power.

580
00:35:50.000 --> 00:35:54.000
And that's why you get to do what you get to do.

581
00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:58.000
All right, let's turn to some questions. Let's talk.

582
00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:03.000
And Dion, can you just repeat the three keys?

583
00:36:03.000 --> 00:36:07.000
Because you share so much.

584
00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:09.000
I just want to make sure people got the three keys.

585
00:36:09.000 --> 00:36:13.000
Sure. Key number one is what we call the patience paradox.

586
00:36:13.000 --> 00:36:17.000
How you win battles by doing the opposite of what you were taught

587
00:36:17.000 --> 00:36:19.000
in religious circles. At least I had to do the opposite.

588
00:36:19.000 --> 00:36:21.000
Through faith and patience we inherit.

589
00:36:21.000 --> 00:36:24.000
The key number one is the patience paradox.

590
00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:26.000
You wait to inherit.

591
00:36:26.000 --> 00:36:29.000
Number two, the rest weapon.

592
00:36:29.000 --> 00:36:35.000
When you access His rest, His patience, because you're in Christ,

593
00:36:35.000 --> 00:36:37.000
not because you're trying to become patient.

594
00:36:37.000 --> 00:36:41.000
Number three is the enemy has no patience,

595
00:36:41.000 --> 00:36:44.000
so it's game over when you go there.

596
00:36:44.000 --> 00:36:47.000
So for the enemy, it's his Achilles heel.

597
00:36:47.000 --> 00:36:50.000
He has no patience, so when you pull out patience,

598
00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:54.000
he has no weapon that can stand against it.

599
00:36:54.000 --> 00:36:59.000
So all he does, so his only little fake weapon is the fake urgency,

600
00:36:59.000 --> 00:37:01.000
because he's hoping to get you out of patience.

601
00:37:01.000 --> 00:37:03.000
So it's like, you've got to do it now. You've got to push.

602
00:37:03.000 --> 00:37:06.000
Go, go, go, go, da, da, da, whatever the stuff is.

603
00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:12.000
That fake urgency is to try to get you out of your patience.

604
00:37:12.000 --> 00:37:15.000
But that's all he's got. But if you stay there, he's got nothing.

605
00:37:15.000 --> 00:37:22.000
He literally just, you know, I love the way Graham describes

606
00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:27.000
the difference between being an overcomer and more than an overcomer.

607
00:37:27.000 --> 00:37:31.000
An overcomer is you practice your patience and the enemy leaves.

608
00:37:31.000 --> 00:37:34.000
More than an overcomer, the enemy already knows you're going to do that

609
00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:38.000
and he doesn't even pitch up for the fight, because what's the point?

610
00:37:38.000 --> 00:37:41.000
By the way, he doesn't have endless resources.

611
00:37:41.000 --> 00:37:44.000
You do, because you're in the kingdom. You have eternal resources.

612
00:37:44.000 --> 00:37:49.000
Enemies on a budget, on everything, time, resources, everything.

613
00:37:49.000 --> 00:37:54.000
So patience, game over. You always win.

614
00:37:54.000 --> 00:37:58.000
Yeah. All right. Questions. Well, we've got Dion here.

615
00:37:58.000 --> 00:38:02.000
Who's got some questions? Go ahead, Kerry.

616
00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:08.000
So as you're talking, Dion, you know, one of the things that always comes to my head is,

617
00:38:09.000 --> 00:38:14.000
I'm always trying to define. So how would you define then the word patience

618
00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:17.000
in the context of, because a lot of times I think patience,

619
00:38:17.000 --> 00:38:23.000
most people think patience as in you've paused and now you're just waiting,

620
00:38:23.000 --> 00:38:29.000
which is kind of what you talked about, versus action with peace.

621
00:38:29.000 --> 00:38:32.000
I don't know. I mean, how would you define patience?

622
00:38:32.000 --> 00:38:36.000
As waiting with God. Yeah, it's waiting with God.

623
00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:41.000
It's not waiting for God. That puts us back into the performance thing.

624
00:38:41.000 --> 00:38:44.000
It's waiting with him. Lord, we're waiting on this. We're waiting on this.

625
00:38:44.000 --> 00:38:47.000
OK. It doesn't matter what the complexities are.

626
00:38:47.000 --> 00:38:50.000
So let's talk about it. So I talked to the Lord one day about that.

627
00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:54.000
Right. And I think I think maybe you're asking a deeper question.

628
00:38:54.000 --> 00:38:58.000
And so if I may, I'll just jump into that. Tell me if this is helpful.

629
00:38:58.000 --> 00:39:02.000
But I asked the Lord about that one day and I said, why do I have to have patience?

630
00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:06.000
When you give me a promise, why don't you just give me the thing?

631
00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:10.000
What's with the waiting part? You know, I get that I'm waiting with you.

632
00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:14.000
But why? And the Lord said, there are a lot of reasons.

633
00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:19.000
Sometimes you're not ready. If I gave you that territory, you can't hold it.

634
00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:23.000
I've got to develop you because I love you enough not to put you in a territory

635
00:39:23.000 --> 00:39:27.000
you can't hold. Right. So I'm strengthening you.

636
00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:30.000
I'm developing you into my image and likeness.

637
00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:33.000
Let us make man in our own image and likeness. Right.

638
00:39:33.000 --> 00:39:37.000
So that's just one twenty six. So, OK, could be that I'm being I'm not great.

639
00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:41.000
I can't hold the territory gives a lot of Christians have breakthrough

640
00:39:41.000 --> 00:39:45.000
and then lose their breakthrough. They don't know how to hold the breakthrough

641
00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:49.000
because they pushed and they became impatient.

642
00:39:49.000 --> 00:39:53.000
Second thing is that the Lord said sometimes nothing to do with you.

643
00:39:53.000 --> 00:39:57.000
It's got to do with others around you. If I if I put you there,

644
00:39:57.000 --> 00:40:01.000
they can't come with you. The ones I want to come with me.

645
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:02.560
to walk with you, can't come with you yet.

646
00:40:02.560 --> 00:40:06.260
This is particularly true of a kingdom leader or a pastor.

647
00:40:06.260 --> 00:40:08.880
One day we're going through a whole lot of stuff

648
00:40:08.880 --> 00:40:09.720
and I said to the Lord,

649
00:40:09.720 --> 00:40:11.960
what on earth is going on in our family?

650
00:40:11.960 --> 00:40:13.680
He says, well, the enemy can't get to them

651
00:40:13.680 --> 00:40:16.040
because they're in submission to you as elders.

652
00:40:16.040 --> 00:40:18.360
So you're taking it head on.

653
00:40:18.360 --> 00:40:20.640
As men, we often have this in our homes, right?

654
00:40:20.640 --> 00:40:23.080
So enemy can't get to your wife and children,

655
00:40:23.080 --> 00:40:24.680
so it goes off to you.

656
00:40:24.680 --> 00:40:27.200
And so sometimes it's got to do with those around you.

657
00:40:27.200 --> 00:40:30.880
So sometimes it's you, those around you.

658
00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:35.160
And then sometimes it's that the Lord

659
00:40:35.160 --> 00:40:40.160
is making the enemy pay by holding you back.

660
00:40:40.840 --> 00:40:42.200
So it's like a spring load.

661
00:40:42.200 --> 00:40:44.040
Did you know those little cars when you were kids

662
00:40:44.040 --> 00:40:45.560
and you pulled it back and you let it go

663
00:40:45.560 --> 00:40:46.760
and it shot forward?

664
00:40:46.760 --> 00:40:49.500
Sometimes the Lord's literally coiling you up.

665
00:40:49.500 --> 00:40:51.080
So not just when you enter the territory,

666
00:40:51.080 --> 00:40:52.880
but you enter with such force

667
00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:54.880
that it's game over for the enemy.

668
00:40:54.880 --> 00:40:57.840
So I was really intrigued by that.

669
00:40:57.840 --> 00:40:59.200
So in other words, sometimes it's strategy,

670
00:40:59.200 --> 00:41:00.760
sometimes it's you growing up,

671
00:41:00.760 --> 00:41:04.000
and sometimes it's those with you can go with you.

672
00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:06.760
And that helped me to realize it's not all about me.

673
00:41:09.280 --> 00:41:14.280
And when the enemy causes these delays,

674
00:41:14.280 --> 00:41:17.080
sometimes it's honestly, in my view,

675
00:41:17.080 --> 00:41:19.240
90 something percent of what we think is the enemy

676
00:41:19.240 --> 00:41:20.280
isn't the enemy at all.

677
00:41:20.280 --> 00:41:22.800
It's just people being dumb or making decisions

678
00:41:22.800 --> 00:41:24.080
and doing their thing.

679
00:41:24.080 --> 00:41:27.240
We live in a world with others and we collide with them.

680
00:41:27.240 --> 00:41:29.900
So think of molecules in a space.

681
00:41:29.900 --> 00:41:31.240
If the pressure's increased,

682
00:41:31.240 --> 00:41:33.420
what happens to the amount of collisions?

683
00:41:33.420 --> 00:41:35.720
Increase dramatically, right?

684
00:41:35.720 --> 00:41:37.680
So as an analogy, what you're doing

685
00:41:37.680 --> 00:41:39.120
is you're pushing the space out.

686
00:41:39.120 --> 00:41:42.040
What patience does is it pushes the space out

687
00:41:42.040 --> 00:41:46.040
and it takes away that artificial collision issue.

688
00:41:48.160 --> 00:41:51.720
Yeah, I'll give you a couple of things there.

689
00:41:51.720 --> 00:41:56.720
So like the springboard, I think a good example is Peter.

690
00:41:57.840 --> 00:42:01.560
Luke 22, 31, 32, Jesus tells Peter,

691
00:42:01.560 --> 00:42:03.200
Satan has asked to sift you like wheat,

692
00:42:03.200 --> 00:42:05.640
but when your faith returns, strengthen your brethren.

693
00:42:05.640 --> 00:42:09.480
And then he denies Christ three times, right?

694
00:42:09.480 --> 00:42:11.840
And there's all kinds of redemption

695
00:42:11.840 --> 00:42:16.180
where Jesus says, tell the disciples and Peter, right?

696
00:42:16.180 --> 00:42:18.120
Well, Peter was a disciple, but he wanted to point out

697
00:42:18.120 --> 00:42:20.280
because Peter's probably feeling pretty low.

698
00:42:20.280 --> 00:42:23.600
And then the psychological part of the campfire, right?

699
00:42:23.600 --> 00:42:26.160
So there's two places where it's mentioned.

700
00:42:26.160 --> 00:42:28.800
And one, when he's denying Christ,

701
00:42:28.800 --> 00:42:31.080
two, when he's walking up on the beach to see Jesus,

702
00:42:31.080 --> 00:42:33.680
and then Jesus asked him three times, do you love me?

703
00:42:33.680 --> 00:42:35.680
Right, so there's full redemption there,

704
00:42:35.680 --> 00:42:37.900
but that equipped him and sprung board him

705
00:42:37.900 --> 00:42:42.180
into the person that was so bold speaking at Pentecost.

706
00:42:43.640 --> 00:42:48.640
One thing that I needed to tell myself today is,

707
00:42:48.640 --> 00:42:50.040
and I'll share more on that later,

708
00:42:50.800 --> 00:42:54.880
but who by worrying has added one hour to their life?

709
00:42:54.880 --> 00:42:56.520
And Jesus said that.

710
00:42:56.520 --> 00:43:01.020
And so daily bread, staying in step with the spirit,

711
00:43:01.020 --> 00:43:03.240
what can I do today?

712
00:43:03.240 --> 00:43:07.760
Not where's my result or where's my redemption

713
00:43:07.760 --> 00:43:11.160
or where's my victory, but what can I do today?

714
00:43:11.160 --> 00:43:12.840
What can I do today?

715
00:43:12.840 --> 00:43:14.920
Let me stay in step with the spirit.

716
00:43:14.920 --> 00:43:19.920
And because when I look at my next two weeks,

717
00:43:20.560 --> 00:43:21.960
there's a lot going on, man.

718
00:43:21.960 --> 00:43:24.280
There's multiple cities, there's driving,

719
00:43:24.280 --> 00:43:28.360
there's kids, there's vacations, there's commitments,

720
00:43:28.360 --> 00:43:30.320
there's just a lot.

721
00:43:30.320 --> 00:43:33.840
When I look at today, what can I do right this hour?

722
00:43:33.840 --> 00:43:37.480
He'll guide me and he'll guide me perfectly

723
00:43:37.480 --> 00:43:39.560
every single time.

724
00:43:39.560 --> 00:43:42.080
But when I try to stretch it out and look at,

725
00:43:42.080 --> 00:43:44.320
what's the next Friday look like?

726
00:43:45.840 --> 00:43:46.820
It's stressful.

727
00:43:47.740 --> 00:43:48.580
And so.

728
00:43:48.580 --> 00:43:51.540
Well, you said a lot of really important things.

729
00:43:51.540 --> 00:43:52.380
Sorry, Ray.

730
00:43:53.860 --> 00:43:56.140
No, I think you said a lot of very important things.

731
00:43:56.140 --> 00:43:59.980
So let's just pick one of them on staying in step

732
00:43:59.980 --> 00:44:00.820
with the spirit.

733
00:44:00.820 --> 00:44:02.020
Scripture says, we live by the spirit,

734
00:44:02.020 --> 00:44:03.340
let us stay in step with the spirit,

735
00:44:03.340 --> 00:44:05.180
which seems to imply that you can live by the spirit

736
00:44:05.180 --> 00:44:06.860
and not be in step with the spirit.

737
00:44:06.860 --> 00:44:08.580
The inference is there, right?

738
00:44:08.580 --> 00:44:10.780
So you can be a spiritual person

739
00:44:10.780 --> 00:44:11.980
and not be in step with the spirit.

740
00:44:11.980 --> 00:44:14.300
And that's easy to do as it turns out,

741
00:44:14.340 --> 00:44:17.380
but it actually is actually easier for you

742
00:44:17.380 --> 00:44:19.580
when you're in patience.

743
00:44:19.580 --> 00:44:23.180
Because what patience does, it slows everything down.

744
00:44:24.140 --> 00:44:26.460
That might've been in the kingdom,

745
00:44:26.460 --> 00:44:28.540
you're getting rid of the fake hurry.

746
00:44:28.540 --> 00:44:30.220
So you're slowing everything down

747
00:44:30.220 --> 00:44:32.740
so you can take a minute and say to the Lord.

748
00:44:32.740 --> 00:44:34.820
So one of my questions I love to ask the Lord

749
00:44:34.820 --> 00:44:38.700
is how do you want me to be with you in this?

750
00:44:38.700 --> 00:44:39.860
That's a great question.

751
00:44:39.860 --> 00:44:42.420
How do you want me to be with you in this?

752
00:44:42.460 --> 00:44:43.820
Or another way to say,

753
00:44:43.820 --> 00:44:45.900
how do you want me to be before you in this?

754
00:44:45.900 --> 00:44:46.740
But I just like,

755
00:44:46.740 --> 00:44:48.460
how do you want me to be with you in this?

756
00:44:48.460 --> 00:44:50.140
And so, I'll go back,

757
00:44:50.140 --> 00:44:51.980
last week we went on vacation with all our kids.

758
00:44:51.980 --> 00:44:53.340
We booked a big beach house

759
00:44:53.340 --> 00:44:54.940
and all our kids and grandkids came

760
00:44:54.940 --> 00:44:57.180
and we hung out for a week, beach week.

761
00:44:57.180 --> 00:44:59.220
And I asked the Lord that question.

762
00:44:59.220 --> 00:45:01.020
You said, well, you're on vacation.

763
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:07.760
But I wanted to know, the Lord said, I want you to be as restful as you can be, and manage

764
00:45:07.760 --> 00:45:11.280
the atmosphere of rest on behalf of your family.

765
00:45:11.280 --> 00:45:15.120
Be the touchpoint for heaven of rest and peace.

766
00:45:15.120 --> 00:45:18.660
And we had a fantastic time, very restful, and you've got a lot of little grandkids that

767
00:45:18.660 --> 00:45:22.120
can be noisy, little ones, you know.

768
00:45:22.120 --> 00:45:29.820
And so I think that's really huge, what you just said, Ray, is that the reason we get

769
00:45:29.820 --> 00:45:34.800
into these issues is that we still have it in our minds that we're doing it for God.

770
00:45:34.800 --> 00:45:39.220
We haven't settled the partnership issue yet, that we're in yoke, we're one with Him, we're

771
00:45:39.220 --> 00:45:40.220
doing it with Him.

772
00:45:40.220 --> 00:45:47.060
We're waiting with Him, and when I know that He's faithful to deliver, then it doesn't

773
00:45:47.060 --> 00:45:53.140
matter if I get it this week, next year, or ten years from now.

774
00:45:53.140 --> 00:45:57.100
Because I don't know what territory we're taking, I don't know what I need for that

775
00:45:57.100 --> 00:46:00.820
territory, I don't know how to hold that territory, I don't know who's got to come

776
00:46:00.820 --> 00:46:06.820
with me into that territory, I don't know, you know, what territory we're taking after.

777
00:46:06.820 --> 00:46:11.780
I know absolutely nothing, actually, other than the promise.

778
00:46:11.780 --> 00:46:16.820
And the promise is a beautiful way to lock into God's intent for you.

779
00:46:16.820 --> 00:46:23.060
So don't tie that to a timeframe, and don't tie that to a specific expression, like, oh,

780
00:46:23.060 --> 00:46:26.740
it's going to look like this, I'm going to be able to pay for my bills when that closes

781
00:46:27.380 --> 00:46:30.980
Don't do that part, that's the trap.

782
00:46:30.980 --> 00:46:38.620
Because what, so if I've got two points, any two points here, and the distance between

783
00:46:38.620 --> 00:46:44.260
these two points, right, I can go any direction, I can go up through the roof and down, I can

784
00:46:44.260 --> 00:46:48.420
go from the table down, I can go this way, I can go this way, there's an infinite number

785
00:46:48.420 --> 00:46:51.780
of pathways between these two points.

786
00:46:51.780 --> 00:46:55.620
What's to say the one you speculated on is the one that the Lord's going to use?

787
00:46:55.620 --> 00:46:58.100
So what's the probability you're going to be disappointed?

788
00:46:58.100 --> 00:47:05.380
99.999, very large, close to 100%, because what's the chance you guessed right?

789
00:47:05.380 --> 00:47:09.660
And the reason we guess is because we want to resolve it so we don't have to trust the

790
00:47:09.660 --> 00:47:10.660
Lord.

791
00:47:10.660 --> 00:47:16.120
Our old nature doesn't like the idea of trusting the Lord, and our new nature loves it.

792
00:47:16.120 --> 00:47:18.340
We love being fully dependent on the Lord.

793
00:47:18.340 --> 00:47:21.000
We love that He's your keeper.

794
00:47:21.000 --> 00:47:27.000
So sometimes, here's a more of a secret thing that I do all the time.

795
00:47:27.000 --> 00:47:31.760
When something is going through, I call it the lie of the long battle.

796
00:47:31.760 --> 00:47:37.060
When you've been in a battle for a long time, you start, it starts to develop definition

797
00:47:37.060 --> 00:47:42.440
power over you, and you start to become, you know, you see this in ministry, well I'm the

798
00:47:42.440 --> 00:47:48.500
abused person, I'm the broke person, I'm the failure in business, I'm the, and it gets

799
00:47:48.500 --> 00:47:51.100
definition power, because we've been at it for so long.

800
00:47:51.100 --> 00:47:54.220
Has anybody know what I'm talking about for a second, because I felt a minute to share

801
00:47:54.220 --> 00:47:56.180
this for somebody?

802
00:47:56.180 --> 00:48:01.480
So when you believe the lie of the long battle, what patience does is removes the lie.

803
00:48:01.480 --> 00:48:05.640
Because what patience does is it says I know that you are faithful, Lord.

804
00:48:05.640 --> 00:48:10.820
So I know in whom I have believed, and it settles that issue.

805
00:48:10.820 --> 00:48:15.360
So the lie of the long battle, when we're in a very long protracted battle, I've learned

806
00:48:15.360 --> 00:48:20.320
another trick though, and I've learned to ask the Lord to be the keeper of that point.

807
00:48:20.320 --> 00:48:25.840
Lord, I don't see how this promise is going to come to pass, we've been at it for so long,

808
00:48:25.840 --> 00:48:29.400
would you just be the keeper of this promise?

809
00:48:29.400 --> 00:48:33.440
And that's really been helpful, he says, I'll be the keeper, well I'll put it in safekeeping,

810
00:48:33.440 --> 00:48:36.600
so take the pressure off you, so you don't have to be watching for the manifestation

811
00:48:36.600 --> 00:48:40.840
every 10 minutes, so relax now.

812
00:48:40.840 --> 00:48:43.200
Are we there yet?

813
00:48:43.520 --> 00:48:47.600
Yeah, are we there yet, are we there yet, exactly, exactly.

814
00:48:47.600 --> 00:48:53.840
Well that is a big deal though, Dion, because obviously the word says, forgive me for not

815
00:48:53.840 --> 00:48:57.760
getting the verse off my head, hope deferred makes the heart sick, right?

816
00:48:57.760 --> 00:48:59.440
Right, right, right.

817
00:48:59.440 --> 00:49:08.040
We've all had, I'm generalizing, many of us have had a prophetic promise, something that

818
00:49:08.160 --> 00:49:14.480
was spoken into our lives, where we confirm that with the Lord and it's like, yes, and

819
00:49:14.480 --> 00:49:21.320
then it doesn't happen, and you step into it, you believe for it, you take what action

820
00:49:21.320 --> 00:49:26.720
you believe God is leading you in, but it seems like, just like you mentioned in the

821
00:49:26.720 --> 00:49:33.720
context of Abraham, God didn't say it's going to happen next year, and it was 40 years,

822
00:49:34.040 --> 00:49:41.040
but walking that journey is that point of patience, I love the statement because it

823
00:49:42.760 --> 00:49:47.800
takes it off of me to go, okay, God, this isn't happening in the time that I thought

824
00:49:47.800 --> 00:49:52.000
it was, so how do I speed this up, and you don't.

825
00:49:52.000 --> 00:49:55.840
Don't speed it up, no, no, not at all, that's why we often say slow learning is kingdom

826
00:49:55.840 --> 00:49:59.840
learning, because of the hurry thing.

827
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:08.600
So, Kerry, so you were quoting from Proverbs 13, 12, I think, and in 13, 12 is an old covenant

828
00:50:08.600 --> 00:50:14.100
idea because our hope is now in Christ, which is permanent.

829
00:50:14.100 --> 00:50:18.120
So when you were in the old covenant, your hope could be deferred.

830
00:50:18.120 --> 00:50:23.520
So your hope cannot be deferred because Christ doesn't defer you.

831
00:50:23.520 --> 00:50:29.520
All the promises God gave you, this may be a little bit of a big idea, but take a second.

832
00:50:29.520 --> 00:50:35.240
All the promises God gave you, gave to Jesus in you so they could never be lost.

833
00:50:35.240 --> 00:50:38.440
Isn't that beautiful, right?

834
00:50:38.440 --> 00:50:44.420
God gives all the promises, all those prophetic to Jesus in you, and he holds them in safekeeping.

835
00:50:44.420 --> 00:50:49.500
Even if you do really dumb and stupid things, it doesn't change his promises because his

836
00:50:49.500 --> 00:50:52.240
gifts and promises are without repentance.

837
00:50:52.240 --> 00:50:53.900
He doesn't take them back.

838
00:50:53.900 --> 00:50:56.540
So there's no, there's no returns.

839
00:50:56.540 --> 00:51:03.820
So in this particular case, when you're thinking about, I was thinking of a really funny thing

840
00:51:03.820 --> 00:51:07.800
Graham said the other day, we were talking about this, and he said, oh, he said, you

841
00:51:07.800 --> 00:51:13.360
know, disillusion, you know, people get disillusioned, you know, we trust him for God, so I'm disillusioned.

842
00:51:13.360 --> 00:51:20.000
So he says, yep, God will dis your illusion, you know, and because he doesn't want you

843
00:51:20.000 --> 00:51:21.340
to live in an illusion.

844
00:51:21.340 --> 00:51:24.400
He wants you to live in truth and reality with him.

845
00:51:25.140 --> 00:51:31.860
So that's a great question, Lord, am I just, is there an illusion that you want to correct?

846
00:51:31.860 --> 00:51:33.660
Have I projected something here?

847
00:51:33.660 --> 00:51:34.660
Have I stepped ahead?

848
00:51:34.660 --> 00:51:38.220
And that's why we have counselors, why we have mentors, probably why you signed up for

849
00:51:38.220 --> 00:51:42.660
this is to get that compressed learning.

850
00:51:42.660 --> 00:51:43.860
What should take 10 years?

851
00:51:43.860 --> 00:51:45.260
What if it can take 10 months?

852
00:51:45.260 --> 00:51:49.700
Because you don't go through the pain we went through.

853
00:51:49.920 --> 00:51:55.720
So, yeah, every single thing we're sharing here, by the way, is is stuff where I've lived

854
00:51:55.720 --> 00:52:00.520
in business and in ministry for many years, and well, some of them more recent, like seven

855
00:52:00.520 --> 00:52:03.040
years ago.

856
00:52:03.040 --> 00:52:04.040
And I'm still learning.

857
00:52:04.040 --> 00:52:09.760
I mean, you never get past that, you know, yeah.

858
00:52:09.760 --> 00:52:18.680
More questions while we have Dion on here.

859
00:52:18.680 --> 00:52:23.580
So, Ray, I think this, what this sets us free from, let's talk about what this sets

860
00:52:23.580 --> 00:52:24.580
us free from.

861
00:52:24.580 --> 00:52:27.740
It sets us free from being over fake pressure.

862
00:52:27.740 --> 00:52:31.980
It sets us free from illusions and speculations.

863
00:52:31.980 --> 00:52:38.300
It sets us free from feeling like we have to manufacture these traits to look more like

864
00:52:38.300 --> 00:52:39.300
God.

865
00:52:39.300 --> 00:52:40.620
We're not trying to look like God.

866
00:52:40.620 --> 00:52:42.160
We have his nature in us.

867
00:52:42.160 --> 00:52:43.660
We are one with him.

868
00:52:43.660 --> 00:52:53.360
It also sets us free from the idea that people made us do something.

869
00:52:53.360 --> 00:52:56.600
You know, I'm a patient person till I'm around you.

870
00:52:56.600 --> 00:52:57.960
You make me impatient.

871
00:52:57.960 --> 00:52:59.800
Nobody makes you do a thing.

872
00:52:59.800 --> 00:53:02.400
You just make me, that guy makes me angry.

873
00:53:02.400 --> 00:53:07.480
She, you know, no, she and he doesn't do anything.

874
00:53:07.480 --> 00:53:09.640
You're immovable in Jesus.

875
00:53:09.640 --> 00:53:12.240
You are immovable in Jesus.

876
00:53:12.240 --> 00:53:13.820
You're in a safe place.

877
00:53:13.820 --> 00:53:15.180
He adores you.

878
00:53:15.180 --> 00:53:16.620
He loves you.

879
00:53:16.620 --> 00:53:21.220
And he deserves for you to have all the fullness Jesus paid for.

880
00:53:21.220 --> 00:53:22.220
Yeah.

881
00:53:22.220 --> 00:53:23.220
Amen.

882
00:53:23.220 --> 00:53:24.220
Yeah.

883
00:53:24.220 --> 00:53:25.220
But that takes away.

884
00:53:25.220 --> 00:53:28.220
I don't deserve.

885
00:53:28.220 --> 00:53:29.580
Yeah.

886
00:53:29.580 --> 00:53:36.500
I was reminded of a great question of, you know, when, when you're building up in your

887
00:53:36.500 --> 00:53:43.080
mind, you know, something is it's difficulty or, or whatever.

888
00:53:43.080 --> 00:53:48.880
I think I first heard this from you, I think, but actually a friend going through the brilliant

889
00:53:48.880 --> 00:53:51.160
plus app brought it to me today.

890
00:53:51.160 --> 00:53:53.960
And that is, what if it gets to be easy?

891
00:53:53.960 --> 00:53:54.960
Inversion.

892
00:53:54.960 --> 00:53:58.420
What if it gets to be easy?

893
00:53:58.420 --> 00:54:05.320
So whatever that thing is that you think is so difficult, hitting diamond or, you know,

894
00:54:05.340 --> 00:54:08.980
paying off the thing or whatever, what if it gets to be easy?

895
00:54:08.980 --> 00:54:13.940
What if, what if, what if we played like that more with those kinds of questions?

896
00:54:13.940 --> 00:54:19.240
What if it gets to be easy and okay, what's, what's that daily bread?

897
00:54:19.240 --> 00:54:20.240
What's that?

898
00:54:20.240 --> 00:54:22.120
What am I, what am I to do today?

899
00:54:22.120 --> 00:54:24.500
What am I, what am I after today?

900
00:54:24.500 --> 00:54:27.580
And yeah, it's different.

901
00:54:27.580 --> 00:54:28.580
Yeah.

902
00:54:28.760 --> 00:54:35.320
You know, Greg McKeon, who wrote essentialism, and then he wrote effortless.

903
00:54:35.320 --> 00:54:41.120
And I've met Greg, he spoke at one of my events now, Greg deals with very high and C level

904
00:54:41.120 --> 00:54:46.320
people in Silicon Valley is an interesting guy, because he's a believer.

905
00:54:46.320 --> 00:54:50.960
And if you read effortless, it's really great book, because effortless is what's these,

906
00:54:50.960 --> 00:54:52.040
sorry, essentialism.

907
00:54:52.040 --> 00:54:56.880
What's the essential thing I need to be doing and say no to everything else, right?

908
00:54:56.880 --> 00:54:59.980
And effortless was, what if I make the essential thing...

909
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:05.760
a joy. And so the concept of of inversion is what if it can be

910
00:55:05.760 --> 00:55:08.560
easy? Well, the Christian life is so hard. What if it's not?

911
00:55:09.560 --> 00:55:14.880
Yeah, take up your cross. I know. And that is, oh, my life

912
00:55:14.880 --> 00:55:18.880
has to be hard. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, for sure. But you did take

913
00:55:18.880 --> 00:55:22.640
up your cross when you follow Jesus. Now you're one with him.

914
00:55:23.520 --> 00:55:29.920
And so a lot of times, we, we drag out the process of

915
00:55:30.160 --> 00:55:34.080
salvation, not not realizing it's a completed thing. By that

916
00:55:34.080 --> 00:55:40.680
I mean, like, take, I have to, I have to die to self. And so

917
00:55:40.680 --> 00:55:43.080
Graham wrote a great thing in his book, I think it's in

918
00:55:43.080 --> 00:55:47.720
newness advantage, or maybe it's in the nature of freedom. It's

919
00:55:47.720 --> 00:55:50.520
called the chapter heading is dying to yourself and having a

920
00:55:50.520 --> 00:55:55.120
fantastic time doing it. See, there's inversion, Graham is

921
00:55:55.120 --> 00:55:58.600
genius at inversion, inversion, like he'll say, with God,

922
00:55:58.600 --> 00:56:03.440
nobody's safe from his goodness, you'll catch you at the end with

923
00:56:03.440 --> 00:56:06.840
the inversion. So he's very good at the inversions, because

924
00:56:06.840 --> 00:56:12.080
that's how the Lord is. So he, he did this, because this was so

925
00:56:12.080 --> 00:56:15.800
simple, a child can do it. Unless you become as a child,

926
00:56:15.800 --> 00:56:18.240
you cannot enter the kingdom, the kingdom is meant to be

927
00:56:18.240 --> 00:56:22.160
childlike in its simplicity. And when you nail it all down,

928
00:56:22.720 --> 00:56:26.960
patience is because you have childlike trust in the goodness

929
00:56:26.960 --> 00:56:30.200
and kindness of Jesus, like a, like a little kid who just

930
00:56:30.200 --> 00:56:34.480
believes dad when he says, you know, I mean, your kid doesn't

931
00:56:34.480 --> 00:56:36.280
come to every morning, so dad, are you sure you're gonna feed

932
00:56:36.280 --> 00:56:38.240
me this week? Are you sure you're gonna feed? When am I

933
00:56:38.240 --> 00:56:41.200
gonna get food? Sweetheart, I gave you breakfast, I'll give

934
00:56:41.200 --> 00:56:43.840
you lunch. But are you sure I'm gonna have lunch? What time is

935
00:56:43.840 --> 00:56:46.920
lunch? Is lunch tonight? But if you translate that into how we

936
00:56:46.920 --> 00:56:48.960
talk to the father, you know,

937
00:56:50.800 --> 00:56:54.120
to say, yeah, I joke with very generous joke with my kids. I'm

938
00:56:54.120 --> 00:56:56.440
like, I just I just fed you yesterday. You weren't you

939
00:56:56.440 --> 00:56:59.040
weren't exactly last week. What's with this greed?

940
00:57:00.800 --> 00:57:01.320
I know.

941
00:57:03.960 --> 00:57:08.280
Oh, awesome. Yeah. Any, any? Okay, Angela, are you raising

942
00:57:08.280 --> 00:57:10.080
your hand? I think you are. Okay. Yeah.

943
00:57:10.600 --> 00:57:16.160
I enjoy. Hello. I just feel like we're going through the fire and

944
00:57:16.160 --> 00:57:20.200
so many, you know, areas of our life, just, you know, things

945
00:57:20.200 --> 00:57:23.840
were going just so great. And then it just seems like, you

946
00:57:23.840 --> 00:57:28.040
know, our salon got vandalized, the contract with the mix is put

947
00:57:28.040 --> 00:57:33.480
on a six month hold. You know, just it seems like one thing

948
00:57:33.480 --> 00:57:36.320
after another, like this new company, I'm with the back

949
00:57:36.320 --> 00:57:41.000
office is such a mess. And my whole 40 team that I brought on

950
00:57:41.000 --> 00:57:50.920
is just like, what is going on? And I'm a doer. And so I just

951
00:57:50.920 --> 00:57:55.120
feel like I'm trying to be patient in the fire. And I know

952
00:57:55.120 --> 00:57:58.120
like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, like God is in, you

953
00:57:58.120 --> 00:58:02.040
know, Jesus is there in the fire with me. But I sometimes feel

954
00:58:02.040 --> 00:58:06.680
like Abraham, I'm like, we got to make this baby. Like, you

955
00:58:06.680 --> 00:58:10.120
know, and I don't sometimes I just, it's hard for me to just

956
00:58:10.120 --> 00:58:10.960
be still and

957
00:58:12.240 --> 00:58:12.520
yeah.

958
00:58:14.080 --> 00:58:20.040
Hey, I, you know, it's, I will say what Graham said to me, I

959
00:58:20.040 --> 00:58:24.480
envy you. And why envy you? Because these, these are some of

960
00:58:24.480 --> 00:58:28.320
the most precious growth times in the kingdom. Yes, downstairs

961
00:58:28.320 --> 00:58:31.680
is tough. And it's really difficult. And that's what James

962
00:58:31.680 --> 00:58:37.000
one tells us about right, says my brethren, counted all joy

963
00:58:37.040 --> 00:58:39.840
when you fall into various trials, knowing what that the

964
00:58:39.840 --> 00:58:43.640
testing of your faith produces patience. See, that's the key.

965
00:58:43.840 --> 00:58:47.400
Then patience has its perfect work, that you may be complete,

966
00:58:47.640 --> 00:58:52.560
lacking nothing. So patience produces completeness. And if

967
00:58:52.560 --> 00:58:55.880
you like, so so so what's happening there is God isn't

968
00:58:56.040 --> 00:58:59.560
testing you to see if you'll be patient enough. He's revealing

969
00:58:59.560 --> 00:59:01.960
the patience he's already placed in you and giving you an

970
00:59:01.960 --> 00:59:05.880
opportunity to make that a ruling power in your life.

971
00:59:06.440 --> 00:59:10.440
Think about this, there is nothing the enemy ultimately can

972
00:59:10.440 --> 00:59:13.920
do to let me drop that in the scripture for you. There is

973
00:59:13.920 --> 00:59:19.200
nothing the enemy can do. There is nothing the enemy can do to

974
00:59:19.200 --> 00:59:23.000
ultimately win. So if he curses you, God turns into a blessing.

975
00:59:23.960 --> 00:59:27.320
If he throws a tribulation, God uses to grow you up so you can

976
00:59:27.320 --> 00:59:30.880
take more territory. So the very thing he used to take list could

977
00:59:30.880 --> 00:59:33.480
get you to take less territory God uses to get you to take

978
00:59:33.480 --> 00:59:36.960
more. He inverts, we talked about inversion a minute ago,

979
00:59:36.960 --> 00:59:41.240
God's a perfect, he's perfectly good inversion. So putting your

980
00:59:41.240 --> 00:59:45.160
eyes on him, take your eyes off the circumstance. We're not, you

981
00:59:45.160 --> 00:59:49.040
know, Abraham faced the fact that his body was old, he faced

982
00:59:49.040 --> 00:59:53.600
the facts, but he believed the truth. We face the facts

983
00:59:53.600 --> 00:59:58.000
downstairs, but we believe the truth upstairs. Lord, you said,

984
00:59:58.320 --> 00:59:59.880
he loves it when we tell him that.

985
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:03.000
I am holding on to your goodness.

986
01:00:03.000 --> 01:00:05.780
Thank you, Lord, that you're with me in this.

987
01:00:05.780 --> 01:00:07.200
Thank you for your promise.

988
01:00:07.200 --> 01:00:10.720
I'm going to come out of this lacking nothing.

989
01:00:10.720 --> 01:00:12.800
Not even smelling of smoke.

990
01:00:12.800 --> 01:00:13.800
Amen.

991
01:00:13.800 --> 01:00:14.800
Amen.

992
01:00:14.800 --> 01:00:15.800
Right?

993
01:00:15.800 --> 01:00:16.800
Amen.

994
01:00:16.800 --> 01:00:19.720
So that gives you a place to stand, Angela.

995
01:00:19.720 --> 01:00:21.340
Stand in His nature.

996
01:00:21.340 --> 01:00:24.200
Don't try and stand in your circumstances.

997
01:00:24.200 --> 01:00:27.600
Remember we talked about not being under the pressure, not being under the circumstances?

998
01:00:28.440 --> 01:00:30.720
People say, well, I'm doing fine under the circumstances.

999
01:00:30.720 --> 01:00:33.640
Well, what are you doing down there?

1000
01:00:33.640 --> 01:00:34.640
Why are you under the circumstances?

1001
01:00:34.640 --> 01:00:36.680
What on earth are you doing there?

1002
01:00:36.680 --> 01:00:38.480
What's the point of that?

1003
01:00:38.480 --> 01:00:40.320
We live above our circumstances.

1004
01:00:40.320 --> 01:00:41.880
That's what makes us overcomers.

1005
01:00:41.880 --> 01:00:45.880
It's our unique kingdom advantage as kingdom business people.

1006
01:00:45.880 --> 01:00:46.880
We get to live above.

1007
01:00:46.880 --> 01:00:49.200
It doesn't mean we don't feel the pain.

1008
01:00:49.200 --> 01:00:53.920
The downstairs is, you know, we face the phone calls and the issues and the conversations

1009
01:00:53.920 --> 01:00:57.320
and it's difficult, but there's a grace for that.

1010
01:00:57.320 --> 01:00:59.520
God's using it the whole time.

1011
01:00:59.520 --> 01:01:02.760
So yay, upgrade for Angela.

1012
01:01:02.760 --> 01:01:03.760
Amen.

1013
01:01:03.760 --> 01:01:09.760
I mean, I'm, you know, when I'm in fronted with, you know, people that need Jesus, I

1014
01:01:09.760 --> 01:01:15.080
have no problem being bold for Him and I just, I mean, that's where my heart really shines.

1015
01:01:15.080 --> 01:01:22.680
So from going to the conference and leading the guy next to me to Jesus, you know, I know

1016
01:01:22.680 --> 01:01:26.040
Jesus is the way, so He does have all the promises.

1017
01:01:26.040 --> 01:01:27.040
So amen.

1018
01:01:27.760 --> 01:01:31.800
There's a little book, our brilliant books, book things Graham wrote called Hiddenness

1019
01:01:31.800 --> 01:01:33.960
and Manifestation.

1020
01:01:33.960 --> 01:01:38.120
You go through times of hiddenness and it feels like everything's going wrong and nothing's

1021
01:01:38.120 --> 01:01:42.800
lining up and all this stuff and you go through this time of hiddenness and God builds you

1022
01:01:42.800 --> 01:01:44.920
up and suddenly there's a manifestation.

1023
01:01:44.920 --> 01:01:52.600
So you go through these, think of it as, you know, that you have the waves coming out and

1024
01:01:52.600 --> 01:01:54.600
the waves coming in, you know, pulling in.

1025
01:01:54.680 --> 01:01:57.120
The waves going out and the waves coming in.

1026
01:01:57.120 --> 01:01:59.480
You can't always be in business.

1027
01:01:59.480 --> 01:02:03.960
We just want to be go, go, waves going out, waves going out, go, go, go, but there has

1028
01:02:03.960 --> 01:02:08.840
to be a retraction for there to be a next expansion, a retraction and a next expansion

1029
01:02:08.840 --> 01:02:11.240
each time the waves got further.

1030
01:02:11.240 --> 01:02:15.480
I think what we want to, we think if it's in the kingdom, it just wave, it just goes,

1031
01:02:15.480 --> 01:02:20.360
keeps going, you know, because we were on a roll at one point, so we get shocked.

1032
01:02:20.400 --> 01:02:28.360
So there's these, these, these natural rhythms in the kingdom and God, God uses them to our

1033
01:02:28.360 --> 01:02:30.360
maximum advantage.

1034
01:02:30.360 --> 01:02:39.360
Yeah, I got a good prayer for you that I feel like that I prayed today and I'll share some

1035
01:02:39.360 --> 01:02:44.360
of mine and that is what lies am I believing?

1036
01:02:44.360 --> 01:02:49.360
And so it's very likely when you're getting a lot of punches to believe the lie that the

1037
01:02:49.360 --> 01:02:52.360
punches will never end.

1038
01:02:52.360 --> 01:02:53.360
Right.

1039
01:02:53.360 --> 01:02:57.360
So for me, I'll share with you two of my four that I was believing.

1040
01:02:57.360 --> 01:03:02.360
I can't handle all that I have and I am overwhelmed.

1041
01:03:02.360 --> 01:03:04.360
So there were, those are two lies.

1042
01:03:04.360 --> 01:03:18.360
Now, the deeper I thought about this, it was, I'm not going in any direction or making any

1043
01:03:18.360 --> 01:03:21.360
decision that the Lord hasn't nudged me to do.

1044
01:03:21.360 --> 01:03:29.360
So for him to do that and me to have an overwhelm is a lack of trust.

1045
01:03:29.360 --> 01:03:34.360
And so if he's nudged me to take on more responsibility, he's not asking me to do that

1046
01:03:34.360 --> 01:03:36.360
without the power to handle that.

1047
01:03:36.360 --> 01:03:39.360
So for me, it's a lie.

1048
01:03:39.360 --> 01:03:45.360
If I see this new responsibility as I'm not able to handle it, that's, that's a lie.

1049
01:03:45.360 --> 01:03:49.360
And so, you know, you might, you know, check that out in prayer.

1050
01:03:49.360 --> 01:03:51.360
You know, what lies am I believing?

1051
01:03:51.360 --> 01:03:54.360
And then I just said, I rebuke this lie in the name of Jesus Christ.

1052
01:03:54.360 --> 01:03:57.360
Father, thank you for rebuking this lie for me.

1053
01:03:57.360 --> 01:03:59.360
And, you know, that's...

1054
01:03:59.360 --> 01:04:01.360
What's the opposite of that, Ray?

1055
01:04:01.360 --> 01:04:04.360
What's the opposite of that lie for you?

1056
01:04:04.360 --> 01:04:06.360
Oh, I did that.

1057
01:04:06.360 --> 01:04:08.360
So it depends.

1058
01:04:08.360 --> 01:04:13.360
So one of them, an agreement I said is I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

1059
01:04:13.360 --> 01:04:16.360
Right. And so, you know, that...

1060
01:04:16.360 --> 01:04:19.360
What else do I use?

1061
01:04:19.360 --> 01:04:21.360
All things are possible.

1062
01:04:21.360 --> 01:04:25.360
Well, so there was one...

1063
01:04:25.360 --> 01:04:27.360
I guess I can't really get away from this one.

1064
01:04:27.360 --> 01:04:30.360
But there was one where there's some...

1065
01:04:30.360 --> 01:04:32.360
Dion knows what I'm talking about.

1066
01:04:32.360 --> 01:04:35.360
But there's something I'm taking on.

1067
01:04:35.360 --> 01:04:40.360
And I've just been questioning my smartness around it.

1068
01:04:40.360 --> 01:04:45.360
Like, can I handle, like, what needs to be done intellectually here?

1069
01:04:45.360 --> 01:04:50.360
And one of the Proverbs is, you know, he who winneth souls is wise.

1070
01:04:50.360 --> 01:04:53.360
I win souls every single week.

1071
01:04:53.360 --> 01:04:54.360
So do you, right?

1072
01:04:54.360 --> 01:04:56.360
So you have wisdom, right?

1073
01:04:56.360 --> 01:04:58.360
You win souls, you're wise.

1074
01:04:58.360 --> 01:04:59.360
And so...

1075
01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:04.080
That was my, my one, two punch of, you know, I can do all things through Christ

1076
01:05:04.080 --> 01:05:07.000
who strengthens me and, and he, who went as souls as wise.

1077
01:05:07.640 --> 01:05:09.000
And so that's how I.

1078
01:05:09.720 --> 01:05:10.800
So the question there.

1079
01:05:11.640 --> 01:05:11.880
Yeah.

1080
01:05:11.880 --> 01:05:15.120
The question might help here is how do I make that relational?

1081
01:05:16.440 --> 01:05:18.880
Because I think we get into the transactional space very

1082
01:05:18.880 --> 01:05:20.400
quickly when we're under pressure.

1083
01:05:21.160 --> 01:05:25.260
So how do I make that comment relation relational that Ray just said?

1084
01:05:25.260 --> 01:05:27.840
So for instance, um, raise it.

1085
01:05:27.840 --> 01:05:28.200
Okay.

1086
01:05:28.280 --> 01:05:29.440
We go for a few more minutes.

1087
01:05:31.440 --> 01:05:31.600
Yeah.

1088
01:05:31.600 --> 01:05:31.800
Yeah.

1089
01:05:32.080 --> 01:05:39.840
So, um, So the way we make that relational is think of it from God's viewpoint.

1090
01:05:40.480 --> 01:05:40.720
Right.

1091
01:05:40.720 --> 01:05:45.120
So in Angela, in your case, it's an Isaiah 41 moment for you.

1092
01:05:45.200 --> 01:05:47.240
The Lord says, I will help you.

1093
01:05:47.520 --> 01:05:48.440
I will help you.

1094
01:05:48.440 --> 01:05:52.040
Surely I will help you five times in Isaiah 41 says, I will help you.

1095
01:05:52.840 --> 01:05:55.080
It's very, very, very Ray in the scriptures.

1096
01:05:55.080 --> 01:05:56.840
God repeats himself that many times.

1097
01:05:57.120 --> 01:05:58.080
I'll go with you.

1098
01:05:58.120 --> 01:05:58.880
Fear not.

1099
01:05:59.240 --> 01:06:03.280
So how can he just say, fear not because your emotions are under

1100
01:06:03.280 --> 01:06:05.040
your control in that sense.

1101
01:06:05.120 --> 01:06:08.400
Not that you control your emotions is that you replace them with

1102
01:06:08.400 --> 01:06:09.760
these kindness, with these faith.

1103
01:06:10.320 --> 01:06:11.160
Thank you, Lord.

1104
01:06:11.560 --> 01:06:12.240
You with me?

1105
01:06:12.440 --> 01:06:14.880
It's that internal chaos goes quiet.

1106
01:06:14.920 --> 01:06:16.040
That's what rest is.

1107
01:06:16.680 --> 01:06:18.880
It's an internal settle down.

1108
01:06:19.440 --> 01:06:20.920
So make it relational.

1109
01:06:21.600 --> 01:06:25.080
And the way you can make it relational and say, Lord, how do you want me to be

1110
01:06:25.120 --> 01:06:26.000
with you in this?

1111
01:06:26.040 --> 01:06:27.680
And how do you want to be with me?

1112
01:06:27.720 --> 01:06:29.280
So make it both ways.

1113
01:06:29.640 --> 01:06:34.280
When you know what that is, now, you know how to be, not what to do, but what to

1114
01:06:34.280 --> 01:06:38.320
how to be, and then you can figure out what to do, because again, when you're,

1115
01:06:38.360 --> 01:06:43.200
when your mind knows what your heart believes, your mind can then function at

1116
01:06:43.200 --> 01:06:44.040
its best level.

1117
01:06:44.280 --> 01:06:47.320
It can be most creative because once your heart, Oh, we believe in God's

1118
01:06:47.320 --> 01:06:47.960
faithfulness.

1119
01:06:48.160 --> 01:06:49.040
Oh, we know he's with us.

1120
01:06:49.080 --> 01:06:49.400
Okay.

1121
01:06:49.400 --> 01:06:50.120
So what does that mean?

1122
01:06:50.120 --> 01:06:53.920
Now we can get downstairs practical, figure out all the strategies and work

1123
01:06:53.920 --> 01:06:54.520
it all out.

1124
01:06:54.720 --> 01:06:57.240
The mind is, cannot figure out what you believe.

1125
01:06:58.000 --> 01:06:59.080
That is a hard thing.

1126
01:06:59.200 --> 01:07:00.800
It's with the heart man believes.

1127
01:07:01.240 --> 01:07:06.680
So the question here is, what does God believe about you in this moment that you

1128
01:07:06.680 --> 01:07:09.400
need to believe about you in this moment?

1129
01:07:09.920 --> 01:07:14.880
So that's the opposite of all the, of what lie am I believing?

1130
01:07:14.920 --> 01:07:17.760
It's what truth is he believing among me?

1131
01:07:18.040 --> 01:07:19.120
See what I'm saying there?

1132
01:07:19.320 --> 01:07:21.880
So that's makes it relational, not transactional.

1133
01:07:22.240 --> 01:07:24.880
Otherwise we can come put ourselves back under pressure again.

1134
01:07:24.880 --> 01:07:26.360
Well, you see, I should be better at this.

1135
01:07:26.600 --> 01:07:28.320
How many times are we going to go through the same thing?

1136
01:07:28.360 --> 01:07:29.560
Why am I learning this again?

1137
01:07:29.840 --> 01:07:31.560
We go, we do the beat up thing.

1138
01:07:31.960 --> 01:07:38.120
Whenever you're beating yourself up, you know, um, for me, it was one day I was

1139
01:07:38.120 --> 01:07:41.640
doing that because I, I think all entrepreneurs and A type personalities

1140
01:07:41.640 --> 01:07:44.040
are very good at doing that to ourselves.

1141
01:07:44.040 --> 01:07:45.800
And the Lord said to me, okay, new rule.

1142
01:07:46.000 --> 01:07:50.840
You're not allowed to be less kind to yourself than I am to you.

1143
01:07:52.200 --> 01:07:52.480
Hmm.

1144
01:07:53.080 --> 01:07:58.120
So then my question was, well, how kind are you being right?

1145
01:07:58.280 --> 01:07:59.680
So that's a great question.

1146
01:07:59.720 --> 01:08:02.080
Lord, how kind are you being to me right now?

1147
01:08:02.120 --> 01:08:04.760
Cause a lot of times we can't see it because all we look at is

1148
01:08:04.760 --> 01:08:06.440
downstairs manifestation stuff.

1149
01:08:06.760 --> 01:08:11.440
Well, I didn't get the contract, so that's not kind, you know, right.

1150
01:08:12.440 --> 01:08:12.920
Powerful.

1151
01:08:13.760 --> 01:08:14.400
Okay guys.

1152
01:08:14.400 --> 01:08:15.520
Well, it's always a joy.

1153
01:08:15.720 --> 01:08:16.720
Thanks for the extra time.

1154
01:08:18.399 --> 01:08:19.200
Thank you, Dion.

1155
01:08:19.240 --> 01:08:19.840
Appreciate you.

1156
01:08:20.880 --> 01:08:21.200
Okay.

1157
01:08:21.200 --> 01:08:21.640
Excellent.

1158
01:08:21.640 --> 01:08:22.359
Thanks so much.

1159
01:08:22.640 --> 01:08:22.880
Bye.

1160
01:08:24.080 --> 01:08:24.720
All right.

1161
01:08:24.840 --> 01:08:29.439
So I've got, uh, I got nudged on several things to share with you guys.

1162
01:08:29.960 --> 01:08:32.200
Um, and I think I'll, I think it'll be helpful.

1163
01:08:32.359 --> 01:08:33.600
So appreciate you guys.

1164
01:08:33.600 --> 01:08:40.240
So first I want to share with you a breakthrough that kind of was on.

1165
01:08:40.840 --> 01:08:44.120
And, uh, and then I'm like, man, is this right?

1166
01:08:44.279 --> 01:08:49.000
And then I just, I just kept getting new, uh, new things being shown to me.

1167
01:08:49.600 --> 01:08:55.479
And so I'm, uh, right now I'm going through the passion translation and I

1168
01:08:55.479 --> 01:09:00.640
always, um, you know, I've gone through a bunch of different translations and,

1169
01:09:00.640 --> 01:09:04.319
and I always get something, you know, always, always get something new out of.

1170
01:09:04.960 --> 01:09:08.040
Like the, the biggest one for me was Galatians three and the

1171
01:09:08.040 --> 01:09:10.520
message literally blew my mind.

1172
01:09:10.680 --> 01:09:14.040
I'd read Galatians 30, 40 times.

1173
01:09:14.600 --> 01:09:20.399
Um, anyway, so I'm gonna give you three, three different scriptures that

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01:09:20.399 --> 01:09:22.359
to me all point to the same thing.

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01:09:22.479 --> 01:09:22.880
Okay.

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01:09:23.319 --> 01:09:26.680
And so I'm gonna start with Proverbs eight, Proverbs eight from the passion

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translation, and I'm just, I'm just gonna read it.

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01:09:30.960 --> 01:09:32.399
Just, you know, enjoy.

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01:09:33.080 --> 01:09:37.120
Can't you hear the voice of wisdom from the top of the mountains of influence?

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01:09:37.120 --> 01:09:40.560
She speaks into the gateways of the glorious city at the place where

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01:09:40.560 --> 01:09:43.080
pathways merge at the entrance of every portal.

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01:09:43.399 --> 01:09:47.439
There she stands ready to impart understanding, shouting aloud to all

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01:09:47.439 --> 01:09:51.840
who enter preaching her sermon to those who will listen, I'm calling to you.

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01:09:51.880 --> 01:09:52.760
Sons of Adam.

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01:09:52.880 --> 01:09:53.279
Yes.

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01:09:53.279 --> 01:09:54.640
And to you daughters as well.

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01:09:54.960 --> 01:09:58.440
Listen to me and you will be prudent and wise for even the foolish and feeble

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01:09:58.440 --> 01:10:00.000
can receive an understanding heart.

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01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:06.320
that will change their inner being. The meaning of my words will release within you revelation for you to reign in life.

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01:10:06.880 --> 01:10:10.200
My lyrics will empower you to live by what is right.

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01:10:11.120 --> 01:10:13.120
For everything I say is

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01:10:13.600 --> 01:10:17.360
unquestionably true, and I refuse to endure the lies of lawlessness.

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01:10:17.800 --> 01:10:23.520
My words will never lead you astray. All the declarations of my mouth can be trusted."

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01:10:24.160 --> 01:10:26.160
I'm gonna have to put my glasses on here.

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01:10:27.160 --> 01:10:29.160
That's another story.

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01:10:30.000 --> 01:10:32.560
They contain no twisted logic or perversion of the truth.

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01:10:32.640 --> 01:10:36.340
All my words are clear and straightforward to everyone who possesses spiritual understanding.

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01:10:36.720 --> 01:10:42.320
If you have an open mind, you will receive revelation knowledge. My wise correction is more valuable than silver or gold.

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01:10:42.720 --> 01:10:46.640
The finest gold is nothing compared to the revelation knowledge I can impart.

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01:10:47.280 --> 01:10:50.640
Wisdom is so priceless that it exceeds the value of any jewel.

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01:10:51.120 --> 01:10:56.160
Nothing you could wish for can equal her, for I am wisdom, and I am shrewd and intelligent.

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01:10:56.560 --> 01:11:00.000
I have at my disposal living understanding to devise a plan for your life.

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01:11:00.480 --> 01:11:04.080
Wisdom pours into you when you begin to hate every form of evil in your life,

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01:11:04.400 --> 01:11:06.640
and that's what worship and fearing God is all about.

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01:11:06.960 --> 01:11:12.160
Then you will discover that your pompous pride and perverse speech are the very ways of wickedness that I hate.

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01:11:12.960 --> 01:11:18.800
You will find true success when you find me, for I have insight into wise plans that are designed just for you.

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01:11:19.280 --> 01:11:22.240
I hold in my hands living understanding, courage, and strength.

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01:11:22.560 --> 01:11:26.160
I empower kings to reign and rulers to make laws that are just.

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01:11:27.680 --> 01:11:31.520
I empower princes to rise and take dominion, and generous ones to govern the earth.

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01:11:31.600 --> 01:11:36.560
I will show my love to those who passionately love me, for they will search and search continually until they find me.

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01:11:37.260 --> 01:11:40.640
Unending wealth and glory come to those who discover where I dwell.

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01:11:41.040 --> 01:11:44.480
The riches of righteousness and a long, satisfying life will be given to them.

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01:11:44.880 --> 01:11:50.640
What I impart has greater worth than gold and treasure, and the increase I bring benefits more than a windfall of income.

1214
01:11:51.120 --> 01:11:54.640
I lead you into the ways of righteousness to discover the paths of true justice.

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01:11:55.040 --> 01:11:59.680
Those who love me gain great wealth and glorious inheritance, and I will fill their lives with treasures.

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01:12:00.320 --> 01:12:01.600
In the beginning,

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01:12:01.600 --> 01:12:07.940
Oh, pay attention. That's pretty interesting. In the beginning, I was there, for God possessed me even before he created the universe.

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01:12:08.480 --> 01:12:11.600
From eternity past, I was set in place before the world began.

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01:12:11.920 --> 01:12:18.160
I was anointed from the beginning. Before the ocean's depths were poured out, and before there were any glorious fountains overflowing with water,

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01:12:18.480 --> 01:12:20.000
I was there dancing.

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01:12:20.000 --> 01:12:23.120
Even before one mountain had been sculpted or one hill raised up,

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01:12:23.200 --> 01:12:24.800
I was already there dancing.

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01:12:24.800 --> 01:12:27.760
When he created the earth, the fields, even the first atom of dust,

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01:12:27.840 --> 01:12:32.000
I was already there. When he hung the tapestry of the heavens and stretched out the horizons of the earth.

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01:12:32.400 --> 01:12:36.480
When the clouds and skies were set in place and the subterranean fountains began to flow strong,

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01:12:36.480 --> 01:12:37.680
I was already there.

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01:12:37.680 --> 01:12:43.120
When he set in place the pillars of the earth and spoke the decrees of the seas, commanding the waves so that they wouldn't overstep

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01:12:43.200 --> 01:12:45.200
their boundaries, I was there.

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01:12:45.280 --> 01:12:48.320
Close to the creator's side as his master artist, daily

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01:12:48.320 --> 01:12:53.920
he was filled with delight in me, as I playfully rejoiced before him and laughed and played so happy with what he had made,

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01:12:54.240 --> 01:12:56.240
while finding my delight in the children of men.

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01:12:56.800 --> 01:13:01.520
So listen, my sons and daughters, to everything I tell you, for nothing will bring you more joy than following my ways.

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01:13:01.840 --> 01:13:04.800
Listen to my counsel, for my instruction will enlighten you.

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01:13:04.800 --> 01:13:07.840
You'll be wise not to ignore it. If you wait at wisdom's doorway,

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01:13:08.240 --> 01:13:13.040
longing to hear a word for every day, joy will break forth within you as you listen for what I'll say.

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01:13:13.520 --> 01:13:18.720
For the fountain of life pours into you every time that you find me, and this is the secret of growing in the delight in the

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01:13:18.800 --> 01:13:20.080
favor of the Lord.

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01:13:20.080 --> 01:13:22.560
But those who stumble and miss me will be sorry they did.

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01:13:22.960 --> 01:13:28.160
For ignoring what I have to say will bring harm to your own soul. Those who hate me are simply flirting with death.

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01:13:29.280 --> 01:13:30.960
And so

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01:13:30.960 --> 01:13:32.960
for me that whole thing is

1242
01:13:33.360 --> 01:13:34.720
the Holy Spirit.

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01:13:34.720 --> 01:13:40.640
Written by the Holy Spirit, about the Holy Spirit, about listening to the Holy Spirit, and even that last line,

1244
01:13:40.880 --> 01:13:43.200
you know, what's the unforgivable sin?

1245
01:13:44.300 --> 01:13:50.320
Blaspheming the Holy Spirit. He talks about that. Those who ignore me and hate me flirt with death.

1246
01:13:50.800 --> 01:13:52.080
And so

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next

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I just want to share with you. This is quick. Okay, no more. That's the longest I'm going to read to you, okay?

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01:13:59.920 --> 01:14:01.920
But in Acts 14,

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01:14:04.560 --> 01:14:06.560
I just got this

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01:14:06.880 --> 01:14:08.880
the other day or I think today maybe

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01:14:09.680 --> 01:14:11.680
so Acts 14

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01:14:12.560 --> 01:14:14.960
22 it looks like

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01:14:16.480 --> 01:14:24.240
It is necessary for us to enter into the realm of God's kingdom because that's the only way we will endure our many trials and

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01:14:24.620 --> 01:14:26.560
persecutions.

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01:14:26.560 --> 01:14:30.560
And so what I believe both of those are actually pointing us to

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01:14:31.120 --> 01:14:34.160
is the real definition of Matthew 6 33, which is

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01:14:34.880 --> 01:14:38.080
Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things will be added unto you.

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01:14:38.640 --> 01:14:41.360
So I think most people take that as a

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01:14:42.080 --> 01:14:43.520
just

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01:14:43.520 --> 01:14:48.480
Hey, make God a priority and stuff. I actually believe this is

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01:14:49.280 --> 01:14:50.400
seek

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01:14:50.400 --> 01:14:55.760
Seek the guidance of the Holy Spirit in every decision that you make and all these things will be added unto you and all

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01:14:56.080 --> 01:14:59.680
of those promises, those wonderful promises of Proverbs 8

1265
01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:04.240
is literally right there for the taking, okay?

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01:15:04.240 --> 01:15:09.240
And so we have,

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01:15:09.480 --> 01:15:12.320
and it's interesting how all of this is,

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01:15:12.320 --> 01:15:14.820
just the last few days have kind of come together.

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01:15:15.920 --> 01:15:20.080
So right now we have our nine-year-old daughter

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01:15:20.080 --> 01:15:22.040
in a summer camp, right?

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01:15:22.040 --> 01:15:23.780
She's in a one-week summer camp.

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01:15:23.780 --> 01:15:25.840
Now last week, I don't share this a whole lot,

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01:15:25.840 --> 01:15:27.600
or I'm sorry, last year,

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01:15:28.600 --> 01:15:31.620
she was in a two-week summer camp, got kicked out.

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01:15:32.920 --> 01:15:36.960
She's a spark plug, she's intense.

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01:15:36.960 --> 01:15:38.980
We don't always know how to handle her.

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01:15:38.980 --> 01:15:43.400
And in talking with, she's very strong-willed,

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01:15:43.400 --> 01:15:45.520
she's very, very smart.

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01:15:45.520 --> 01:15:49.920
And sometimes she just don't play well with others.

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01:15:49.920 --> 01:15:52.360
And so this whole week we're like praying,

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01:15:52.360 --> 01:15:54.000
Lord, please protect her.

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01:15:54.000 --> 01:15:55.080
Lord, please help her out.

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01:15:55.080 --> 01:15:57.200
Like have her be kind, you know?

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01:15:57.200 --> 01:16:01.320
And so if you didn't know,

1285
01:16:01.320 --> 01:16:04.480
Dion's wife, both Dion and Bridget

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01:16:04.480 --> 01:16:07.120
have ran parenting conferences for,

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01:16:07.120 --> 01:16:10.540
you know, Christian parenting conferences for 25 years.

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01:16:10.540 --> 01:16:15.440
And his wife, Bridget, who's wonderful,

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01:16:15.440 --> 01:16:19.100
she wrote a book called Wired for Parenting.

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01:16:19.100 --> 01:16:24.100
And I have not read it, but my wife has, and she loves it.

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01:16:24.900 --> 01:16:27.380
And so I just asked her for some advice.

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01:16:27.380 --> 01:16:30.800
And so we got on a one-hour Zoom with her today.

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01:16:30.800 --> 01:16:33.340
And if there's interest,

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01:16:33.340 --> 01:16:35.140
maybe I can talk her into coming in here

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01:16:35.140 --> 01:16:37.560
and doing something special for you guys.

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01:16:37.560 --> 01:16:38.940
She's absolutely brilliant.

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01:16:38.940 --> 01:16:43.100
And, you know, her, all four of their kids

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01:16:43.100 --> 01:16:45.580
are serving the Lord, married, successful,

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01:16:45.580 --> 01:16:48.860
like, you know, it's just great fruit, right?

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01:16:48.860 --> 01:16:53.500
And so she made me realize something

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01:16:53.940 --> 01:16:57.500
that when I'm dealing with my daughter

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01:16:57.500 --> 01:17:02.380
and she's acting out, I do first go to spiritual

1303
01:17:02.380 --> 01:17:04.660
and that I see, okay, is she under attack?

1304
01:17:04.660 --> 01:17:08.240
Is she into teas, you know, that kind of stuff.

1305
01:17:08.240 --> 01:17:10.560
And so I pray stuff off her all the time.

1306
01:17:11.920 --> 01:17:14.940
But what I haven't been doing,

1307
01:17:14.940 --> 01:17:17.920
which is quite frankly strange,

1308
01:17:17.920 --> 01:17:19.660
is I haven't been going to the Holy Spirit

1309
01:17:19.660 --> 01:17:20.700
and asking for advice.

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01:17:20.700 --> 01:17:22.940
I haven't been asking for guidance, you know?

1311
01:17:22.940 --> 01:17:25.160
Hey, what should I do in this situation?

1312
01:17:25.160 --> 01:17:26.060
I haven't been doing that.

1313
01:17:26.060 --> 01:17:31.060
And so I meet with Bridget and Dion's wife.

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01:17:31.820 --> 01:17:36.340
And so I come up with some questions to ask, okay?

1315
01:17:36.340 --> 01:17:39.020
And so my first question is,

1316
01:17:39.020 --> 01:17:41.360
Lord, how can I better guide Sabrina?

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01:17:42.580 --> 01:17:45.960
And the answer, turn to me in every situation.

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01:17:48.020 --> 01:17:52.700
Proverbs 8, Acts 14, Matthew 6, 3, 3.

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01:17:53.460 --> 01:17:54.460
And it's just, you know,

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01:17:54.460 --> 01:17:58.300
I got a whole page of a download with Sabrina.

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01:17:58.300 --> 01:18:02.380
And so I just want to encourage you

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01:18:02.380 --> 01:18:06.020
to know that he wants to help you.

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01:18:06.020 --> 01:18:10.240
And I have experienced where he'll allow things

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01:18:10.240 --> 01:18:14.900
to get rough to get us to do that.

1325
01:18:14.900 --> 01:18:15.740
I'm telling you.

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01:18:15.740 --> 01:18:18.020
So this morning, no one, you know,

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01:18:18.020 --> 01:18:19.620
I probably won't share this with anyone,

1328
01:18:19.620 --> 01:18:22.380
but you know, this morning I wake up

1329
01:18:23.220 --> 01:18:27.500
and I go, you know, I do my full morning stuff.

1330
01:18:27.500 --> 01:18:29.580
And so I go to work on my laptop.

1331
01:18:29.580 --> 01:18:32.000
I can't read anything on my laptop.

1332
01:18:33.100 --> 01:18:34.740
Everything's cloudy.

1333
01:18:34.740 --> 01:18:36.340
My eyes are just so cloudy.

1334
01:18:36.340 --> 01:18:38.100
I can't, I can't, nothing.

1335
01:18:39.100 --> 01:18:40.980
And so, you know, I, you know,

1336
01:18:40.980 --> 01:18:43.920
text a few of my, you know, Holy Spirit friends.

1337
01:18:43.920 --> 01:18:45.600
And I'm like, hey, can you check my eyes?

1338
01:18:45.600 --> 01:18:48.820
And one person was like, nah, I don't see anything.

1339
01:18:48.820 --> 01:18:51.220
The other person, and I always liked their,

1340
01:18:51.220 --> 01:18:53.540
cause they both come from very different perspectives.

1341
01:18:53.540 --> 01:18:55.140
Actually, I texted three of them

1342
01:18:55.140 --> 01:18:57.500
and they all come from different perspectives.

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01:18:57.500 --> 01:18:58.420
Okay.

1344
01:18:58.420 --> 01:19:01.700
And the one nailed it.

1345
01:19:01.700 --> 01:19:05.600
And I was like, this is actually a divine blocking.

1346
01:19:06.580 --> 01:19:10.340
Is there's something that you're doing

1347
01:19:10.340 --> 01:19:12.420
that he's trying to help you correct.

1348
01:19:12.420 --> 01:19:14.600
He's trying to work out of your life.

1349
01:19:14.600 --> 01:19:16.980
And so what I was, what I,

1350
01:19:16.980 --> 01:19:20.780
what was happening is I was very stressed.

1351
01:19:21.300 --> 01:19:23.820
I've taken on some big roles

1352
01:19:23.820 --> 01:19:26.460
with some new projects and things like that.

1353
01:19:26.460 --> 01:19:29.180
And, you know, and I'm just, I'm just looking

1354
01:19:29.180 --> 01:19:32.380
and there's been this,

1355
01:19:32.380 --> 01:19:37.220
just interesting stretching of AI things I got to learn

1356
01:19:37.220 --> 01:19:40.060
and this thing and this, and I'm just like.

1357
01:19:40.060 --> 01:19:43.620
And I was just very stressed about it.

1358
01:19:43.620 --> 01:19:47.980
And so, you know, I got into prayer

1359
01:19:48.020 --> 01:19:50.820
and I got, you know, pray about the lie.

1360
01:19:50.820 --> 01:19:52.220
What are the lies you're believing?

1361
01:19:52.220 --> 01:19:53.760
So I shared with you some of those, right.

1362
01:19:53.760 --> 01:19:56.260
Overwhelm, I can't handle all this.

1363
01:19:56.260 --> 01:19:59.740
And, you know, and pray those things, you know.

1364
01:20:00.000 --> 01:20:05.000
rebuke those things, but if my eyes weren't cloudy,

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01:20:09.320 --> 01:20:10.880
I wouldn't have prayed that.

1366
01:20:10.880 --> 01:20:15.160
And I would have stayed stressed all day long, all day long.

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01:20:15.160 --> 01:20:20.160
And so, it's never, it's literally never,

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01:20:21.380 --> 01:20:22.960
look at the situation.

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01:20:22.960 --> 01:20:26.200
It's never, why Lord, why my eyes?

1370
01:20:26.920 --> 01:20:31.120
It's going, okay, Lord, what does this mean?

1371
01:20:31.120 --> 01:20:32.500
What is missing?

1372
01:20:32.500 --> 01:20:34.300
What do you wanna be for me in this?

1373
01:20:36.840 --> 01:20:39.060
What would make your heart happy with this situation?

1374
01:20:39.060 --> 01:20:41.280
Like asking different questions.

1375
01:20:41.280 --> 01:20:43.700
It's not the cancellation, the termination,

1376
01:20:43.700 --> 01:20:47.660
the lawsuit, the foreclosure, the health issue,

1377
01:20:47.660 --> 01:20:50.080
the prognosis, it's never the thing.

1378
01:20:50.080 --> 01:20:52.720
It's always, God, where are you in this?

1379
01:20:52.720 --> 01:20:55.280
Let me go to you in this situation.

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01:20:55.280 --> 01:20:59.700
And so, it's just very helpful.

1381
01:21:01.240 --> 01:21:06.240
And then, yeah, I think that's what I had.

1382
01:21:07.800 --> 01:21:09.640
That's what I had to cover.

1383
01:21:09.640 --> 01:21:12.840
So, let me know if you're interested in,

1384
01:21:12.840 --> 01:21:14.560
I'm pretty sure Bridget would come in here.

1385
01:21:14.560 --> 01:21:16.000
She's just awesome.

1386
01:21:16.960 --> 01:21:19.800
If you guys wanted her to share some parenting stuff,

1387
01:21:19.800 --> 01:21:24.240
it was very, I've read several parenting books.

1388
01:21:24.240 --> 01:21:26.960
Her take, very, very different.

1389
01:21:26.960 --> 01:21:31.440
She shared with me, I'm sure Dion would be okay with this,

1390
01:21:31.440 --> 01:21:34.660
but she shared with me one instance

1391
01:21:34.660 --> 01:21:39.660
where one of the older sons was disrespectful to her

1392
01:21:40.200 --> 01:21:44.260
and Dion's about to go whip some tail, okay?

1393
01:21:44.260 --> 01:21:48.540
And so, Dion tells him, hey, wait downstairs.

1394
01:21:48.540 --> 01:21:51.840
And on his way downstairs, the Holy Spirit's like,

1395
01:21:51.840 --> 01:21:53.740
don't you dare be tough on him.

1396
01:21:54.680 --> 01:21:57.320
And he's like, what, you're, you know,

1397
01:21:57.320 --> 01:21:59.280
because we wanna be tough on him.

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01:21:59.280 --> 01:22:01.800
And, you know, and he goes down there

1399
01:22:01.800 --> 01:22:03.840
and he just says, what's going on?

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01:22:03.840 --> 01:22:05.600
And he just burst out crying.

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01:22:05.600 --> 01:22:06.920
He was under so much stress.

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01:22:06.920 --> 01:22:10.920
And, you know, it was, the Lord wanted him to be gentle.

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01:22:10.920 --> 01:22:14.040
And I'm positive there have been times

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01:22:14.040 --> 01:22:16.980
where I've blown up at, you know, Sabrina or Graham.

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01:22:16.980 --> 01:22:19.340
I mean, not as much Graham, but Sabrina,

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01:22:20.280 --> 01:22:21.800
where I probably wasn't supposed to.

1407
01:22:21.800 --> 01:22:23.600
And I should have been asking for wisdom

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01:22:23.920 --> 01:22:27.600
versus just operate from reaction.

1409
01:22:27.600 --> 01:22:32.600
And so, but parenting, that's just a category, you know?

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There's, where else do we do that?

1411
01:22:35.320 --> 01:22:36.760
You know, where else do I do that?

1412
01:22:36.760 --> 01:22:40.000
And so just always turning to him for wisdom,

1413
01:22:40.000 --> 01:22:43.560
always, you know, Holy Spirit's crying out

1414
01:22:43.560 --> 01:22:45.400
aloud in the streets, in the marketplace,

1415
01:22:45.400 --> 01:22:48.000
everywhere from the top of the city, right?

1416
01:22:48.000 --> 01:22:51.940
Always crying out for us to listen, gotta listen.

1417
01:22:51.940 --> 01:22:55.380
But the enemy loves us paying attention to the situation.

1418
01:22:55.380 --> 01:22:56.820
Right, because we're in a situation,

1419
01:22:56.820 --> 01:22:59.980
we can't, you know, we can't keep both eyes on,

1420
01:22:59.980 --> 01:23:03.140
we can't, you know, we can't have one eye on the situation,

1421
01:23:03.140 --> 01:23:06.940
one eye on God, we need to turn to God.

1422
01:23:06.940 --> 01:23:10.420
Seek ye first, not the stress of the situation,

1423
01:23:10.420 --> 01:23:12.700
seek ye first the kingdom of God.

1424
01:23:12.700 --> 01:23:16.180
And so, I hope that helps.

1425
01:23:16.180 --> 01:23:19.380
And so questions or anything to add

1426
01:23:19.380 --> 01:23:21.200
or breakthroughs, questions?

1427
01:23:22.540 --> 01:23:24.620
Always love our time with Dion.

1428
01:23:24.620 --> 01:23:27.020
I get a lot of time with him, we talk every day.

1429
01:23:29.820 --> 01:23:31.900
And if not, then I'll pray this out.

1430
01:23:35.620 --> 01:23:38.980
Okay, and we appreciate your, you know,

1431
01:23:38.980 --> 01:23:42.140
our prayer warrior, Rebecca,

1432
01:23:42.140 --> 01:23:46.940
she is dealing with a very tough sore throat

1433
01:23:46.940 --> 01:23:49.180
and vocal thing that's being healed as we speak.

1434
01:23:49.180 --> 01:23:52.320
So we appreciate your prayers for her

1435
01:23:52.320 --> 01:23:53.160
and I'll pray this out.

1436
01:23:53.160 --> 01:23:55.180
So Father, we're so grateful for you.

1437
01:23:55.180 --> 01:23:57.380
Father, thank you for your presence.

1438
01:23:57.380 --> 01:23:59.460
You are our Lord and our light, our rock,

1439
01:23:59.460 --> 01:24:01.580
our refuge, our redeemer, our protector,

1440
01:24:01.580 --> 01:24:03.660
our provider, our source, our everything.

1441
01:24:03.660 --> 01:24:05.420
Thank you for all you do for us, Lord.

1442
01:24:05.420 --> 01:24:09.180
Father, thank you for helping us to prioritize you

1443
01:24:09.180 --> 01:24:11.700
and seeking you always.

1444
01:24:11.700 --> 01:24:14.340
Father, we thank you for you always being bigger

1445
01:24:14.340 --> 01:24:16.500
in our minds and our hearts

1446
01:24:16.500 --> 01:24:19.020
than any situation we ever encounter, Lord.

1447
01:24:19.860 --> 01:24:20.540
Thank you for clarity, guidance, direction,

1448
01:24:20.540 --> 01:24:22.380
wisdom, strength, and discernment.

1449
01:24:22.380 --> 01:24:24.060
And Father, I just thank you for blessing

1450
01:24:24.060 --> 01:24:26.340
every single person on here from the crown of their head

1451
01:24:26.340 --> 01:24:28.020
to the soles of their feet, Lord.

1452
01:24:28.020 --> 01:24:29.540
Father, thank you for blessing their family

1453
01:24:29.540 --> 01:24:31.420
and the work of their hands, Lord.

1454
01:24:31.420 --> 01:24:33.660
And Father, we're just so, so grateful for you.

1455
01:24:33.660 --> 01:24:35.060
You're worthy of all praise,

1456
01:24:35.060 --> 01:24:36.820
you're worthy of all glory and power and strength,

1457
01:24:36.820 --> 01:24:38.660
and we are honored to be your children.

1458
01:24:38.660 --> 01:24:41.540
We thank you in the mighty matchless name of Jesus Christ.

1459
01:24:41.540 --> 01:24:42.500
Amen.

1460
01:24:42.500 --> 01:24:43.340
Amen.

1461
01:24:43.340 --> 01:24:44.380
Thank you, Ray.

1462
01:24:44.380 --> 01:24:45.220
Amen.

1463
01:24:45.220 --> 01:24:46.060
Appreciate you guys.

1464
01:24:46.060 --> 01:24:47.380
Appreciate you guys.

1465
01:24:48.260 --> 01:24:49.540
If you come up with something,

1466
01:24:49.540 --> 01:24:51.340
hit me on Vox or you know the deal.

1467
01:24:51.340 --> 01:24:52.180
All right?

1468
01:24:52.180 --> 01:24:53.020
Will do.

1469
01:24:53.020 --> 01:24:54.100
Awesome, appreciate you.

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01:24:54.100 --> 01:24:54.940
Blessings.