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All right, here we go.

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Hey, hey, what's happening?

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All right, what is up, what's going on?

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Hello, hello, what's happening?

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What's up?

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Yay.

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Okay, so as you probably heard,

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and we'll see if there's a few others that join us tonight.

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I know some people watch the replay.

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You know, tonight is Dion's final training with us.

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He's done 12 trains with us.

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It's been amazing.

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It's been an amazing ride.

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I know that I've grown, but I would love to honor Dion.

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And I'd love to hear from the two of you on here.

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And we'll start with Kerry.

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Kerry, what's the number one thing you've learned from Dion?

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Wow, number one.

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You know, it's a great question.

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You know, I think the best answer I could give that is really the thing that I keep saying to other people that I've learned here.

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And that is, you know, every circumstance, every situation,

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everything that we go through is an invitation to an upgrade,

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an invitation to experience the presence of Jesus in the heart of the Father.

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And so, you know, it's just that invitation, right?

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And, you know, in fact, I literally just said this to a co-worker who's going through some significant things in her life.

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She has been in her last handful of years.

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And, you know, she's gone.

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You know, I know all the answers, you know, but it's like, you know, God's timing.

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And it's like, you know, why God?

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And I'm like, well, you know, and there's no way for me to because of her circumstance, you know, I can't say I understand her situation.

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But just know that, you know, the Father loves you and this is an invitation into his heart, you know.

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And so that's what I would say is the number one thing that I have said over and over and over again to people that I've connected with.

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That's amazing.

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So you've learned something here and it's spidered out across all kinds of other people.

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That's really, really cool.

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That's awesome.

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Lisa, how about you?

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Well, the one thing that it's hard to pick one.

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I'm just saying to you.

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Yeah, there's so many good things.

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The one thing that came to mind when you asked Ray was the upstairs versus downstairs.

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And thinking with our heart or thinking with our head.

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And the one thing I've been practicing and catching myself and redirecting is to stop thinking with my head and start trusting with my heart on God's word.

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And that's the key is that the whole, I guess I want to say just trusting him and just not allowing other people there.

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I want to say negative views.

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The world is really crazy and just hearing so much in the world from other people.

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Well, you can't do this and you shouldn't do that.

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Don't shoot on me.

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I got my God.

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So that's the cool thing that I've recognized and I'm practicing more and more.

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And it's helping me with anxiety and more.

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And the one thing with anxiety I actually caught the other day is I'm recognizing when I get anxious, I'm not breathing.

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And it makes me be more anxious.

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So I'm like, wait a minute.

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So I stopped myself when I feel the knot in my stomach and I just take a couple of deep breaths and I'm good to go.

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So, yeah, lots of stuff.

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Very nice.

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So, Angela, I was just we were just going around and you may have seen that it is Dion's final training with us.

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This is 12th training with us.

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And all of us have learned so much.

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And so I had Carrie and Lisa share what was the number one thing that they've learned from Dion so far.

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Angela, do you do you have one thing you'd like to share that you've learned from Dion?

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Dion, I have many things, but I guess the one thing that I've been practicing a lot through these sessions is that I do have the Prince of Peace living inside of me.

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And when life comes up and I, Tico, the electric company calls and says, you know, success.

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under dollars, and it was the tenant, really,

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that was responsible for the bill.

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And it's very obvious that they should be paying the bill

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and not me to not just go crazy,

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to just really take a deep breath

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and make sure that I'm moving out in my report card,

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which is the fruit of the spirit, love, joy, peace,

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patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness,

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faithfulness, and self-control.

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But just realizing that I do have the Prince of Peace

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living inside of me,

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and it's just an opportunity to practice that peace.

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I had an opportunity to do that today.

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And when you move out that way,

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ultimately, people are just more reasonable with you

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and more willing to help you as well.

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So that's the first thing that comes to mind, Dan.

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Yeah, great.

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Thank you.

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That's awesome.

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Yeah, and for me, this may sound strange,

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but I shared this with you before,

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but my favorite training is when you shared that story

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of when you had to write that paper,

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you had to write the specs out,

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and it was gonna take you four to six hours,

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and the Lord said, don't do it,

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go lay on the couch, go read a book.

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And I think in analyzing, why did I like that so much?

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In that it helped me,

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like, it was good for me to hear

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someone else's kind of odd adventures with the Lord.

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And, cause a lot of my adventures seem odd.

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And, you know, and they lead me to a weird kind of place,

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and I'm questioning my sanity half the time.

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And it was neat to hear you go through

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that same kind of, you know, similar kind of process there,

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and that he's just how playful he is.

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You know, he's playful with us,

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and he likes to, you know,

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not tell us the end of the story, right?

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There was a reason he didn't say to you,

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hey, they're not gonna need it, right?

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You know, he wanted you, he liked you on that edge.

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And a lot of times I feel like he likes me on that edge.

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And then when we get there, it's like, oh, okay.

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And so that was just very helpful for me,

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and I just really loved it.

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So, but I've, you know, spent so much time with you,

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and I've just learned so much from you.

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We're just so grateful for you,

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and just thank you, thank you, thank you, man.

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Oh, no, it's been a pleasure.

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I've enjoyed it so much, thank you.

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Yeah, it's been a lot of fun coming on once a month.

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Certainly, yeah, I wanted to just keen what you said

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about how playful he is.

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You know, he's playful, but he never messes with us,

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you know, it's not for the sake of it.

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Right.

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And I like what you were saying,

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that he could have told me the outcome of that situation,

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but he didn't because he likes that simple trust

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is a very safe place for us, like a child, you know,

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simple trust, and he knows that if he can get us

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into that place of simple trust with him,

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and the reason is, is because trust is 80% of faith.

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You think about what faith is, right?

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Trust is, you know, we say have faith in God.

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It's interesting, the scriptures don't actually use

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the word in, in the Greek doesn't have that word.

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It just says, it's more directly translated,

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have God's faith.

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And so I think maybe more accurately in English,

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we could say pistos in the Greek literally means

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have God's faith.

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And you can do that when you know he is

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and you trust him, right?

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And so I think he always brings us back

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to this childlike trust, you know,

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trust me, because it matters a great deal to him

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that we feel safe in our relationship with him.

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That's why he says, you know, no height, no depth,

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no anything will separate you from the love of God.

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He goes to great lengths, in modern language,

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you would say no alien, no this being, no that,

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he would lay it on as thick as that.

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And because it's really, really important to him

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that we feel safe in his presence.

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And I think for many of us,

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because of the way we were raised, what we were taught,

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we're not quite sure that we are safe.

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We're not quite sure where we stand.

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We're not quite sure if maybe we've done something

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to disqualify that position with him.

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And so we talk ourselves out of it,

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only because we don't realize his presence doesn't leave us.

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It's that childlike simplicity.

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Unless you become as a child, you cannot enter the kingdom.

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It's interesting, he didn't say you won't go to heaven.

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He just said, you won't walk in the kingdom.

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And the kingdom is what happens when heaven touches earth.

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What's resulting is the kingdom.

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We bring the kingdom.

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That's why Jesus said, pray for the sick.

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He didn't say pray for the sick.

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He said, heal the sick.

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We came up.

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pray for the sick. He said, heal the sick, cast out demons, gave us all of this and then tell them

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the kingdom of God is at hand. So in other words, we start to walk in the kingdom or in our simple

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language we've been talking about the last year, upstairs versus downstairs. You know, you're in

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the world, but you're not of it. You're of a different place, you come from a different,

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you're a different, you know, person. You're a different species, you're a guardian dwelt being,

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you know. I love when Paul writes and says, I write to you because you're not merely human.

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It's like, that makes it clear. You're not merely human. You are a guardian dwelt being. You host

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the three greatest geniuses of the universe in you. And with them comes all of heaven,

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because all of heaven is aligned with Christ in you. And so we spend so much of our time

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trying to qualify ourselves, trying to get aligned, trying to dial it in, trying to be

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in right place with God, trying to make sure we've done our part. We've been taught all sorts of

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steps to take and things to do and so forth. But the truth is, at the end of the day,

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where we land yet, you know, in the 12th time together is, you and Christ are one.

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And the rest of it is learning to practice your oneness.

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And I think, how many of you were able to attend Brilliant's fall event two weeks ago? Yeah,

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couple of you. Okay. Well, you know, we spent a lot of time about oneness. We talked a great

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deal about oneness. Because all, all it means about living in the kingdom is just the art of

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Well, there are a lot of things you can presume on his goodness, his kindness,

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his faithfulness, and that you're one with him. So I think a lot of us are starting point

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is many times acts as though we're not saved. Because we because we're not sure we're not

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sure we're safe. We're not sure we're in right standing with him. Anyway. Oh,

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I love what you shared. I appreciate it. And it's good to hear. He definitely cares about

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about us being safe. It's a big deal to him. And I went to great lengths so that you'd have that.

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So cool. Yeah, and I loved I loved your talk on oneness. And you said oneness is more important

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than purpose. And, you know, and how it's easy to, you might run away with purpose, right? You

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might say, Oh, my purpose is to, you know, fight human trafficking. So you encounter every

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opportunity around human trafficking, you you do everything around that particular thing,

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without asking, Lord, are we doing this? You know, are you with me on this? Is this is this

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the right one to go after? And, and I just thought that was really, you know, powerful, you know,

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every, every opportunity that I see, I'm like, Lord, are we doing this? And if it's no, it's

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cool. No problem. You know, it's just it's just not a big deal. I'm like, Oh, I've got to do this

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one. And I just know, you know, hey, if we're not doing it, it's fine. I'm sure he's got someone

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better or someone different for this or something different for me, whatever. And so I just I

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thought that was really powerful. Because I think I think people can be easily duped into that.

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There's a there's a lot of a lot of projects and a lot of things that sounded really, really good.

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But when I prayed, I got we're not doing that one. And I go, Okay, cool.

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Or at least not now. Yeah, yeah. And I get that, too. I get a lot of not nows. Yeah, yeah.

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Well, I think I think a lot of that comes from that we were that we were trained that faithfulness

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starts with us. But it doesn't start with him. Even when I'm faithful, he remains faithful.

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In other words, your oneness is not dependent on your faithfulness. Your oneness is not dependent

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on your behavior. Your oneness is dependent on the fact that Jesus Christ died, paid for all the

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stuff that separated you from God, took it to hell and left your old self in hell. And now you're dead

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to the old self and your new self, which is in Jesus, you're now a new creation, the oldest past

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the newest come, we spend a lot of time going through that verse. And so if you were to ask,

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What's my purpose? I can answer that definitively. Your primary purpose is your oneness with the

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Lord. Now that oneness will have a purpose. Right together. He called it your yoke partnership. Come

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to me all your weary and heavy laden, I will give you rest, rest, the starting point that

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opens up that oneness. And then he says, take my yoke, my

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partnership and learn from me. And then he goes on to talk

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about my, my yoke is easy, my burden is light. So what does

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that mean for us? It means then that it starts with him in rest.

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And if we can get the oneness sorted, then the purpose will be

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easy and light. And so people say, Well, I don't really

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experience that. And the reason is we try to bypass the oneness

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and go straight from here to purpose. And that's why 70% of

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people in full time ministry will end their lives not serving

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God at all. I don't mean they won't be in the ministry. I

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mean, they won't be serving God at all. Graham, which is one of

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big group that started is the last man standing. And, you

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know, my spiritual dad had some of the stories. And here's the

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thing. That it starts because when you make oneness, the main

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thing you have reserves to take on anything. But when it's up to

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you, then the way you go about doing that purpose will kill the

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purpose in you. Because you're doing you're doing it for God,

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not with him. And he was never interested in you doing it for

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him, unless you're part of the old covenant. And since you're

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not Jewish, you aren't. So that's easy to know. So we don't

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have to have this covenantal confusion. We're not in two

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covenants. We are in Christ, we're in the new covenant, Jesus

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came fulfilled the old so that you and he could be one. So you

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went to great lengths. But it's amazing. When we pray, we hear

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people pray, which is part of what I wanted to talk about

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tonight, about why, why many of our prayers are not answered, or

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at least we feel they aren't. And, and you know, Ray, we had a

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situation one of our one of our team key team members, you know,

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is going through some real big health challenges. And we were

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talking about this on text. And let's all pray, you know, let's

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all pray for Glenn. And then, you know, Graham just reminded

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me of a thought, which was so important. He said, prayer is

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not the place you start with. Pray comes later, but it's not

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when stuff goes wrong, the first thing you do is not pray. And

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we'll talk about why in a second. Because often, in that

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moment of concern, maybe even panic, maybe a bit of fear, what

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we pray is out of the flesh. It's just, it's, it's the stuff

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we pray in that moment of panic is not the stuff of prayer. Now

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the Lord doesn't mind if we want to chat to him about stuff,

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that's not what we're talking about. But that's not the

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starting point in the kingdom. The starting the point in the

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kingdom is always Thanksgiving. And so I was thinking about

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that. I thought, what a great way for us to land this 12 part

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series together. And so I wanted to give you three keys that get

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you to have 100% of your prayers answered. And you know, a

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little bit, it's going to land towards crafted prayer. So, you

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know, spoiler alert. But where I want to take you with it is

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this, you know, we always start in Thanksgiving. And the reason

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is Thanksgiving immediately puts us back upstairs. You know,

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just like Lisa was saying, we go, it's a quickest, fastest

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way to go upstairs. Because Thanksgiving flows from God's

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initiative. Father, thank you that you're kind. Thank you that

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you're faithful. Thank you that you know the situation with

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Glenn. Thank you for who Glenn is. Thank you for his

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contribution. Thank you for his friendship. Thank you for this.

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Thank you for this. And here's the interesting thing, keep

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going, and something starts to happen in you. Do you know what

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I'm talking about? You see, you're starting with his

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faithfulness first, and you're thanking him for who he is,

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you're not thanking him trying to get him to do something, which

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is where we go with panic prayers. I've been in, I've led

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a lot of prayer meetings in my life, in a lot of churches. And

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sometimes I listen to a prayer meeting, and I sit there and I

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go, Lord, how do you know which one of these prayers to answer?

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will, Father, and then they'll do, they'll do every variation

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they can think of. It's like they give God 23 options, pick

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one Lord, you know, and all that can be settled down with none of

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that's necessary. We don't, we don't start from panic, we don't

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start from fear, we start in his heart. Lord, thank you that

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you're with us. Thank you that you're good. Thank you that

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you're kind. And of course, what Thanksgiving does is it

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practices your new nature, which is just like him. You're

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not, you're not practicing to become someone you're practicing

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because Christ is in you. That's what you give thanks until you

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gain his perspective. I love the way Graham says, practice

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thanks until you become thanks. Now, this is a super simple

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exercise. This couldn't be

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simpler. I want you to try this. Please try this before this night is out. If you could do that

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as a gift to me, I'd be thrilled. Practice this simple thing. Just say to the Lord,

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thank you, and then repeat it until you find yourself shifting. Thank you, Lord. Thank you,

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Lord. Thank you. You know, it starts in your head, and then you realize you start to engage

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your whole being. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank

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you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Lord, thank you. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Just keep doing this.

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See what happens. You'll be like two minutes in, three minutes in, and you become thanks.

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Thanksgiving is born in you. It's like what shifts in that moment is the joy and peace

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in believing. That's what the scripture calls it, joy and peace. They always travel as a team,

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hit you at the same time. The Prince of Peace is in you, so just start to say thank you,

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because it just resets you back into rest. So when anxiety or worry or negativity,

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that's not the time to pray out of that. Make sense? We think, oh, well, I'm post-reaction,

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I must pray, but often that's not actually even prayer. I mean, it's you telling God what you

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pray. Prayer is something else. Prayer is taking God's intentions and partnering with him and

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making it a reality. It's bringing heaven to us. It's taking his will and his intention,

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making it on earth as it is in heaven. That's what prayer is. Prayer is partnering. It's

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a partnering system. So me panicking in my words and calling it prayer is not prayer.

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It's just me panicking and talking to God about it, which is fine. It's just not prayer.

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A much better thing to do is to start with thanksgiving. It resets you to rest,

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brings you back into peace, and it's a practical, practical kingdom routine

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that flips your perspective from problems to promise. It takes us upstairs, and thanksgiving

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then displaces that negativity and opens your heart up to, in that moment, be clear with how

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the Lord wants to be with you. It settles his presence in you. A simple way of putting it is

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thanksgiving makes you present to his presence. That's about as simple as I can make it.

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What I mean by that is his presence is always there. We know he's aware. So all our training

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is just awareness training. We're just learning to be aware. He's there. He hasn't gone anywhere,

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but we cloud and clutter it all because we're so used to feeling alone downstairs and not

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safe in his heart. What thanksgiving does is it takes us back up there, back to rest.

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So that's step one. Here are three quick scriptures that might

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help you with that. In fact, why don't I just drop them in the chat?

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And then you will have them too. So there, those are the three I would immediately...

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Is it complaining? Too long? Hang on one second. Yep, got it. So I love 1 Thessalonians 5.16.

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Rejoice always. It doesn't say rejoice when things are going great or when happy stuff's

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happening. Rejoice always. Pray without ceasing and everything give thanks for this is the will

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of God. So if you just want to hone in quickly on God's will, thanksgiving is the power hack.

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Simple routine that takes you upstairs, straight into his heart, straight into his will.

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Super cool. Here's another one. Philippians 4. Be anxious for nothing. That's not a suggestion.

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That's not one day when you beg. That's now. That's what you can do as childlike feeling

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safe in his heart. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication

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with thanksgiving. Notice that the prayer comes with thanksgiving. Let your request be made known

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to God and the peace of God which passes all understanding will do two things. They'll protect

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your heart and your mind. So you're putting your protection. So thanksgiving puts protection in

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place. And then of course, I think it was Angela who mentioned Colossians 3.15. And let, your job

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is to let. Thanksgiving helps you let the peace of Christ rule in your heart. And it goes on and

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to which you were called to one body, to oneness and be thankful. Notice how those two are connected

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and be thankful. And you can read the rest of the, I've got the rest of the verse there for you.

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Right. Yeah. I was just going to say, you know, a lot of people are like, I just want to know

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God's will for me. And you know, that Thessalonians, I mean, that's, that's his will for you.

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Says it right there.

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His purpose is oneness, His will is, you go into thanksgiving, His will will be clear.

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Paul's quite brutal with this, you know.

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I remember it took me years to figure out, why did Paul say, do not be foolish, know

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what God's will is, and I'm like, Paul, you're the apostle of grace, that's not very gracious,

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that's not nice, you know.

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simplest thing there is, childlike.

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I think what we mean by God's will is what to do in this particular situation.

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God's will is that you and He are one.

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God's will is that you grow up into all things.

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So those are easy.

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What we mean by God's will is, I don't know what to do right now, here and now, and we'll

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talk about that in a second.

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That's something slightly different.

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That's the difference between God's will and partnering.

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Take my yoke, partner with me.

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So let's say, so that was step one, is Thanksgiving.

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And so what happens when there's a crisis and you go Thanksgiving, you immediately wrap

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the whole problem up and take it upstairs.

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Now you're in Christ and now so are your problems.

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So we're all facing a problem.

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I bet everyone doesn't have to take too long to come up with one or two problems you'd

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like to take upstairs right now, right?

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It doesn't deal with a mess.

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It just wraps it up like a sheet and takes it upstairs, you know, straight away to the

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Doesn't try to unpack it.

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Just wrap it up and take it upstairs.

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We ask the Lord.

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We keep giving thanks until we start to get His perspective.

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Remember, downstairs is a perception.

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You're in the valley floor, you know, and you think this is the issue, but the issue

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is not the issue.

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The issue in front of your face is not the issue.

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There's an issue behind it, right?

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And when you go to the, when you go to the top of the mountain, you see the whole value

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go, Oh, I get it now.

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I see what's happening here, right?

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So you move, you move into His perspective and then we ask the Lord, what's your promise

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to me in this?

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What's your promise, Lord?

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Could be a verse, could be a scripture, could be a phrase that jumps up, could be a picture,

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could be a dream you have that night, there's promise.

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And the reason He gives you a promise, because now He's giving you a promise, which has got

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provision attached, right?

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It's got the person you're becoming attached because He says, you see this, this problem

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we just wrapped in Thanksgiving, I'm going to use that for your next upgrade, which is

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I think, Kerry, what you were talking about.

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So now we're pulling it all together.

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So now we're going to, so Father, so here's, here's three things that come with a promise.

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Perspective, Lord, what does this mean?

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Now we start talking because now I'm in Thanksgiving, now I can have the question.

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If we start with this question before the Thanksgiving, we come with our minds, our

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hearts unsettled, we don't feel safe, we're panicking, we're doing all that stuff, we're

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feeling stressful.

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Thanksgiving now, Lord, what does this mean?

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More precisely, how do you see this?

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Okay, now that I have your perspective to provision, what must I do?

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And we've used the analogy before in World War Two, when the, you know, when the Allied

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forces were moving through North Africa in the desert, the advanced forces went ahead

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and buried diesel, and they buried water and food, and then they hid it in under the sand.

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So the commander would get X marks the spot.

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The commander didn't just start randomly digging in case there was provision, right?

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That's what I meant by the multiple prayer meeting.

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That's like digging everywhere.

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It's got to be, you know, it's got to be in here somewhere.

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As opposed to, okay, Lord, what must I do?

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And now we get into partnership.

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And then the third part, I said, gives perspective, provision, and the person, who am I becoming

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in this?

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How are you going to use this for my good?

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So you say, well, why does God use it for your good?

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Every problem you face, God has attached a possibility.

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But more than that, the possibility he attached, he picked to bring the maximum goodness and

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beauty into your life.

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One, because he loves bringing you that.

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lack of...

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trust, all the other stuff we all deal with, because beauty brings us

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into wholeness. So perspective, provision, and the person I'm becoming. Who do you

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see I'm becoming? I like to ask the Lord everything from

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his perspective. How do you see this? What do you, how do you want me to

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partner with you in this? And who do you see I'm becoming?

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So that was just about how to manage, you know, because I've noticed this with

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believers, don't just make the first mistake, you know, in other words, they go

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into panic prayers, but then when they get a promise, they

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don't know what to do with one. So they collect them like collecting

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stamps. I've got 23 promises, 19 prophetic words, and I don't know what

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to do with any of them, you know, but they're all nicely dated,

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and if you look through this, you can see my collection,

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right? So that, this is what you do with a promise,

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and it doesn't matter if it's a prophetic word, or a verse, or word the

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Lord spoke to you, or a dream. I've had a lot of those, and I live off

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my prophetic promises from the Lord. I mean, I have tons of them. I've written

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almost all of them myself. In the beginning, I'd help people would

450
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bring me words, but then I started to learn to get them

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straight from the Lord, because I realized you don't have to be a

452
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spiritual giant, you just have to be in Jesus,

453
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and so that means we're all qualified. And so what we're learning now is,

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I don't just listen to a promise and then hang on because of panic.

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Now I take a promise, and I understand what He's doing. I understand how He sees

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the situation. I understand how to partner with Him,

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and I understand who I'm becoming, how God's going to use this, and this

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is how we thrive in the midst of tough circumstances,

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because if we have to wait for everything to be calm before we can

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thrive, we'll never thrive, right? The nine times in your life you'll

461
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thrive, or the nine times everything was just

462
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great, you know. But the rest of the time is learning to thrive under pressure.

463
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So I think, yeah, I agree Lisa, knowing the best questions to ask the Lord,

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and it's, we position ourselves in His heart,

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and what I mean by that is, we go straight into His nature.

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We take Him at His word, Lord, you are faithful, you are kind,

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thank you that you're with me, and so on. I'm gonna, and that's when we get to step

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three, where we put a little simple crafted prayer together.

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We once did a series at Brilliant called

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How to Have 100% of Your Prayers Answered, and the reason we could make

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such a bold claim is because we weren't talking about our prayers, we were

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talking about the prayers Jesus and the Holy Spirit are praying for you,

473
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right? Because 100% of their prayers get answered, right?

474
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Because they know the Father's will precisely, and they're praying for you.

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So what are they praying about?

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Do you think they're praying about, oh Lord, I hope they make it,

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oh Lord, I would really like them to have some victory, but no,

478
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I don't know, you know, I don't know if the cross was enough,

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when I went to hell and destroyed sin and death catastrophically, I don't know.

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There's Him to struggle with that, you know.

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He's not praying about sin, He dealt with that. He's not praying about the devil, He

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made a public spectacle of Him. He's not praying about the world because

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I've overcome the world. In fact, be of good cheer, I've overcome the world.

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You will have trouble in this life, but I have overcome the world. So what are you

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being happy about? That the overcomer is with you. So what's

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Jesus praying? He's praying for fullness, for the full

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stature of Christ in you, for you to grow up in all things. That's

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what the Holy Spirit's praying, and the Holy Spirit holds Himself

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100% accountable to the Father to take everything Jesus paid for and

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make it yours. That's accountability now. Of course, we

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got the downstairs one where all accountability is up to you. That's the

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5% version. The 95% kingdom version is the Holy

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Spirit has taken full. So why don't you ask Him,

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Holy Spirit, what are you praying for me? Jesus, what are you praying for me?

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Now it takes a little practice to get that right, but something will come to

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mind, especially after you've just gone through

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step one and two, because thanksgiving puts you into a calm place.

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Then you went into the place of understanding how He sees it, the whole

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promise thing. Now you already have a pretty good idea

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because He just gave you a promise. You already know where He's heading

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with what He's praying for because He's praying His promise.

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Easy enough, right? Yeah, I just love that you're

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breaking down these steps because I think a lot of people, and I've

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when, you know, in the past when I would get upset at a circumstance,

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and then I would skip the whole thanksgiving thing, and I would, you know,

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I just go right to, what are you doing? You know, what's happening here?

507
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And that's just not when you hear accurately.

508
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It's just not. And, you know, and so then I then I get something, you know, not his

509
00:35:06.620 --> 00:35:11.580
voice, right, my own voice, usually. And and so I just, I just think it's so important

510
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to understand these, that they are actual steps.

511
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Yeah, there are there are steps that scripture calls, we could call them routines. I mean,

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we can call them steps, I think they're good to go through a routine. And what will happen,

513
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you practice these three steps in this routine, they'll become your natural lifestyle. And

514
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you know, you've got to practice for at least 90 days for them to take become natural, right?

515
00:35:37.540 --> 00:35:43.040
So and this feels very mechanical. But remember, the first time you drove a car, right? Okay,

516
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now right key in how to open this door, right is to press the button, which one which order

517
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is there in order, which one works. And everything was everything was a mission, right? Getting

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in the car, starting the car in reverse, which is the brake that and if there was

519
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an if it was a stick shift, and you had clutch and put in reverse, and man, you were exhausted,

520
00:36:05.240 --> 00:36:10.360
you only just got to the end of the driveway. You know, I mean, you it was a lot of mechanical

521
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steps. But when you go driving now, you don't think of that at all. In fact, you arrive

522
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at the mall and hardly remember picking up your keys, right? What was what happened there?

523
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The routine became automatic. Another way of saying biblical language is the routine

524
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became your lifestyle, you stepped into your new nature. So what are you doing? You're

525
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practicing how to be just like him. You're practicing. You're not practicing to become

526
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it you're practicing it because you are it you are a new creation. And that's why God

527
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just takes all the pressure off. You don't have to fix that old stuff. I know you responded

528
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badly in the past and you skipped the steps. I got all that. But we're not practicing you

529
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saying sorry, we practicing you stepping into Thanksgiving, you and I agreeing on a promise

530
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coming in alignment together. Now when I'm asking Lord, what are you praying? I already

531
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have the promise. Guess what he's praying? He's paying the promise people. This is so

532
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simple, right? He's praying the promise he just gave you. And then we so when we start

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to pray, so that's how we pray with God, not towards him. This develops a lifestyle

534
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where we stop trying to do stuff for God. He's not interested. He's not interested in

535
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you doing stuff for him. That is an old covenant model. It's got nothing to do with the gospel.

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The gospel is you and he are one. And this and the sheer pleasure of your company, the

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sheer delight of being with you. That's what he loves. And watching you grow up into all

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things watching you become more like him and him enjoying the process with you and you

539
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being aware that he's enjoying the process with you, you becoming aware of his delight

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in you. Easy to delight in the Lord when you discover he delights in you. He's always the

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initiator. There's not a single thing he asks of you that he didn't do first. When you find

542
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out how much joy you are to him, then you can easily delight yourself and rejoice always.

543
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Why? Why not? Because he doesn't change. He's not he's not his mood. He doesn't he has moods

544
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and they go from joyful to peaceful to restful. He has all these moods. None of them are negative.

545
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And so you but you're not trying to catch God in a good mood. He's always in some form

546
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of good mood, joyful to you, happy, always. And here's what I want to tell you. The trick

547
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is with crafted prayers, there is a little hack, make it so simple, you can memorize

548
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it number one, and to get a little prayer journal where you start to write these prayers

549
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in so that you don't have to come back and learn this all again. You know, you go around

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the mountain so many times, you get to label all the rocks and things along the way, because

551
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you've just been around so many times, you know, oh, it rained, there's a bit more mud

552
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on that rock than I remembered it was yesterday when I came around. So how about we stop doing

553
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the round the mountain thing. And one of the things I found that by journaling your prayers,

554
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and then as they answer, put the dates in there. This is really encouraging. I've got

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some big stuff I've prayed and I've got some little stuff God answered in the same hour

556
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I prayed it. So what I'm saying is pray it consistently. That's why I pray continuously.

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Hold on to that, because now you and the Lord are in alignment, you're praying what Jesus

558
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and the Holy Spirit are praying. You're not doing it from fear and panic. You're calm,

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you're safe, you're in his heart, and now you're praying. So I knew many of you want

560
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to start a kit. So I stole some stuff from our, well, stole is a wrong word. I took some

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stuff from our Green School of Leadership. And I thought, because we teach this, of course,

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and one of the ways we teach this, and so I put together six little...

563
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Now, if you can keep them short enough, it's like popcorn prayers, is the analogy Graham

564
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uses, because like popcorn, it just pops.

565
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The heat, when the heat comes, it pops into, it becomes full, you know, what's the word,

566
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it flowers completely, whatever the word is, it opens up.

567
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So the enemy puts you under pressure, pop, more spiritual things, more thanksgiving.

568
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He's going to get annoyed by that, just saying, it's going to get tiring for him.

569
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Every time he turns the heat up, you start popping, pop, pop, pop, pop.

570
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So your six little popcorn prayers, I will drop them in the chat so you can have them.

571
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But they're like starter kit, give you an idea of how to do it.

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So we get super practical as we land this part of it.

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So here's for something, when something new is beginning, you feel it's new, but you can't

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get your finger on it, here's one you can pray.

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Father, thank you that in this situation, you go ahead of me to prepare the way forward.

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I agree with your purposes and that they will prevail, making the outcome guaranteed.

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I like that one, I like that one for sure.

578
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And so the next one is, so when life is tricky, popcorn prayers become a place of agreement, right?

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Easy, Lord, I acknowledge your presence in me, with me, and for me.

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I know that you will always help me.

581
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I mean, that is so simple, right?

582
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But if you memorize that, pressure comes, you pop, you know what to do.

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Next one, during times of opposition and warfare, make a transition that, and you're making

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a transition that is painful, you're making a change, it's really tough, it feels not

585
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peaceful at all, then here's the prayer, Father, in this situation, your presence is creating

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a growth opportunity to practice freedom.

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There is no need for me to become fretful or fearful, because your delight in me is

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overwhelming my heart.

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See what they made, the shift, you see the shift went from being aware of the pain of

590
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your situation, to aware of, oh, I'm moving to freedom, to aware of your delight in me.

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Now your heart's overwhelmed by his delight in you, not overwhelmed by the situation.

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Look, you're going to be overwhelmed by something, either by your circumstances and your problems,

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or by God's goodness, you get to choose.

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So why would you choose problems?

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Just saying.

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We learned some pretty dumb stuff from the old nature, didn't we?

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No, I choose my problems to overwhelm me.

598
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Why?

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Why when God's goodness and delight in you can overwhelm you?

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Sometimes going to the Lord in the midst of a tough, tough situation, I was in not too

601
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long ago, and I was talking to the Lord, and I knew that sense of overwhelm.

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And I said, Lord, I'm not falling for that.

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I'm just going to sit here until you just overwhelm me with your delight.

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And it's just like, warm honey.

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I said, there you go.

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I much prefer that.

607
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Right?

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Yeah, I like it when you've said, you know, someone will tell you, well, I'm doing fine

609
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under the circumstances.

610
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And then you're like, well, what are you doing under the circumstances?

611
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Right?

612
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Yeah.

613
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Yeah.

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That's not what overcomers do.

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Yeah.

616
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Yeah.

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Overcomers means you live over.

618
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You live over your circumstances.

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It doesn't mean they stop hurting guys.

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It doesn't mean they're not real.

621
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It doesn't mean we pretend they're not there.

622
00:43:58.460 --> 00:44:00.740
It doesn't mean we deny their reality.

623
00:44:01.620 --> 00:44:03.780
Abraham faced the facts of his body.

624
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He faced the facts of his wife's body.

625
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And the scripture has this beautiful line.

626
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I know we've studied it before.

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He did not deplete in any way his trust and faith in the Lord.

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Because he knows who the Lord is.

629
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Right?

630
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He's God.

631
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Okay.

632
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So here's another one.

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When you realize your emotional attachment to God needs to become more stable, enjoyable,

634
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and consistent.

635
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We started the call with this.

636
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Another way of safe.

637
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I need to feel emotionally safe with the Lord.

638
00:44:33.560 --> 00:44:35.360
This is a very big deal to him.

639
00:44:35.360 --> 00:44:36.560
That you feel this.

640
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That you feel safe.

641
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And I want to put a pause here because I've heard so many believers say feelings don't

642
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matter.

643
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How many were taught that?

644
00:44:44.940 --> 00:44:45.220
Yep.

645
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Feelings don't matter.

646
00:44:45.940 --> 00:44:46.700
It's only about faith.

647
00:44:47.200 --> 00:44:47.680
Okay.

648
00:44:48.020 --> 00:44:51.260
Well, firstly, I know what's meant by that.

649
00:44:51.260 --> 00:44:52.780
We don't lead with our feelings.

650
00:44:52.980 --> 00:44:55.080
But feelings tell us what we actually believe.

651
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Here's why.

652
00:44:58.020 --> 00:44:59.440
It's what the heart man believes.

653
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:04.220
What you believe your mind starts to think about, right?

654
00:45:04.480 --> 00:45:07.380
And what your mind thinks about generates emotions.

655
00:45:07.600 --> 00:45:11.260
We know from neuroscience, your mind literally creates the emotions

656
00:45:11.260 --> 00:45:13.740
that it thinks will match what it's thinking about.

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So that's why we start in Thanksgiving, because that's what we believe.

658
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Then the mind goes, oh, we're thinking about His faithfulness and His goodness

659
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and the last time He helped out and that He never lets us down.

660
00:45:26.140 --> 00:45:28.700
Got that, I'm in joy.

661
00:45:29.320 --> 00:45:31.580
I didn't mean to be in joy, I was in joy.

662
00:45:31.920 --> 00:45:36.000
But if I'm walking in depression, it's not what I'm thinking,

663
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it's what I'm believing. That starts with believing.

664
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Believing leads to thinking, leads to emotion.

665
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So when you see you're feeling unsafe, you go, hang on, Lord,

666
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what is it I'm believing that led me to think whatever thoughts

667
00:45:50.220 --> 00:45:51.400
that's led to this feeling?

668
00:45:51.480 --> 00:45:53.300
Now that you know the secret of how you're wired,

669
00:45:53.300 --> 00:45:56.600
now it's easy to know where to start.

670
00:45:57.680 --> 00:45:59.100
Believing is always the starting point.

671
00:45:59.740 --> 00:46:03.300
So when you feel like you need that emotional, need some reinforcement

672
00:46:03.820 --> 00:46:05.820
in your feeling safe with the Lord,

673
00:46:07.840 --> 00:46:11.480
Father, I'm thrilled to learn in you and from you.

674
00:46:11.900 --> 00:46:18.040
I ask for the joy and peace in believing in your goodness and kindness.

675
00:46:19.480 --> 00:46:24.740
See, God's goodness and kindness is what moves us forward.

676
00:46:25.000 --> 00:46:25.780
Romans 2.4.

677
00:46:25.900 --> 00:46:29.480
It's the goodness and kindness of God that leads us to metanoia,

678
00:46:29.800 --> 00:46:32.680
to change our thinking, to agree with God about me.

679
00:46:33.240 --> 00:46:38.780
Not to repent in the sense of do penance again and say sorry for bad stuff.

680
00:46:40.860 --> 00:46:42.800
That's not what repentance is.

681
00:46:43.220 --> 00:46:45.760
Repentance is me agreeing with God about me.

682
00:46:46.360 --> 00:46:48.180
You say, well, you don't really know me.

683
00:46:48.180 --> 00:46:50.500
Well, I would argue you don't really know you.

684
00:46:50.740 --> 00:46:52.400
You only know the old you, which is dead.

685
00:46:52.820 --> 00:46:55.900
God's trying to introduce you to the new you, which is you in Christ.

686
00:46:57.480 --> 00:47:00.540
Well, Lord, you know, if you knew what I was really like and the Lord saying,

687
00:47:00.940 --> 00:47:01.660
no, no, no, no, no.

688
00:47:01.660 --> 00:47:05.500
If you knew who you were really like, you would love the new you.

689
00:47:06.260 --> 00:47:08.700
You would adore your new you.

690
00:47:09.220 --> 00:47:10.920
So can I introduce you?

691
00:47:11.920 --> 00:47:16.380
And that's when we feel unsafe is when we think we have to serve God from our

692
00:47:16.380 --> 00:47:17.100
old nature.

693
00:47:18.180 --> 00:47:21.240
Many, many believers try to pray from their old nature.

694
00:47:23.580 --> 00:47:31.300
And the Father can't entertain that prayer because to do that,

695
00:47:31.340 --> 00:47:33.820
he'd have to dishonor what he's sundered on the cross.

696
00:47:34.220 --> 00:47:35.920
And he's not going to do that.

697
00:47:35.920 --> 00:47:37.600
So he just quietly waits.

698
00:47:39.660 --> 00:47:43.960
I wonder how much of our stuff we've called prayer really was.

699
00:47:44.480 --> 00:47:46.580
So now you know exactly how to have great prayer.

700
00:47:46.840 --> 00:47:46.960
Two more.

701
00:47:47.000 --> 00:47:47.640
How about two more?

702
00:47:47.660 --> 00:47:48.300
You want two more?

703
00:47:48.600 --> 00:47:49.440
I got it.

704
00:47:49.440 --> 00:47:50.040
I got more.

705
00:47:51.400 --> 00:47:51.900
All right.

706
00:47:51.900 --> 00:47:52.520
Here we go.

707
00:47:53.680 --> 00:47:56.160
When you don't want to be a victim of your circumstances,

708
00:47:56.160 --> 00:47:57.460
how many of you have been in a position?

709
00:47:57.700 --> 00:47:58.760
You don't want to be it.

710
00:47:58.820 --> 00:48:01.200
You know you don't have to be it, but you're feeling it anyway.

711
00:48:01.920 --> 00:48:04.800
Remember, when you feel something, it's because you believe something.

712
00:48:04.800 --> 00:48:06.200
Of course, you do think something.

713
00:48:06.560 --> 00:48:07.440
Of course, you do feel something.

714
00:48:07.880 --> 00:48:09.500
Remember that cascading system?

715
00:48:10.140 --> 00:48:12.640
So here's one that really works for me.

716
00:48:13.340 --> 00:48:17.760
Father, I'm practicing this joyful routine of thanksgiving with you.

717
00:48:18.800 --> 00:48:19.460
Not for you.

718
00:48:19.820 --> 00:48:20.300
With you.

719
00:48:20.740 --> 00:48:22.680
We are together in this.

720
00:48:23.140 --> 00:48:25.760
I am so thankful that in this situation,

721
00:48:26.060 --> 00:48:31.720
you are creating in me the person that you want me to become next.

722
00:48:31.980 --> 00:48:33.420
You are creating in me.

723
00:48:34.180 --> 00:48:36.860
Remember we studied Isaiah 41 together,

724
00:48:37.000 --> 00:48:39.260
the four ways God's going to help you?

725
00:48:39.260 --> 00:48:40.400
I'll go with you.

726
00:48:40.840 --> 00:48:42.580
He said, I will help you.

727
00:48:42.660 --> 00:48:45.380
If you look at it carefully, in five different ways,

728
00:48:45.380 --> 00:48:46.380
he said, I will help you.

729
00:48:46.560 --> 00:48:47.200
I will help you.

730
00:48:47.240 --> 00:48:47.820
I will help you.

731
00:48:47.920 --> 00:48:48.520
Surely, I'll help you.

732
00:48:48.800 --> 00:48:53.220
Graham Moy says there's five inferred ways he's going to help you.

733
00:48:53.440 --> 00:48:55.060
He doesn't use the word help five times.

734
00:48:55.400 --> 00:48:57.260
But he does say, I will help you.

735
00:48:57.280 --> 00:48:58.440
I'll go with you.

736
00:48:58.940 --> 00:49:00.180
I'll protect you.

737
00:49:00.180 --> 00:49:05.000
And I will turn you into a threshing sledge that will take a mountain down.

738
00:49:05.820 --> 00:49:08.120
I'm fashioning you into a kingdom weapon.

739
00:49:08.380 --> 00:49:10.160
I am doing that.

740
00:49:10.500 --> 00:49:13.620
So this prayer just says, Father,

741
00:49:13.620 --> 00:49:17.820
I'm practicing this joyful routine of thanksgiving with you.

742
00:49:18.060 --> 00:49:19.640
We're together in this.

743
00:49:19.920 --> 00:49:20.860
You and I are one.

744
00:49:21.220 --> 00:49:24.040
I'm so thankful that in this situation,

745
00:49:24.500 --> 00:49:29.780
you are creating in me the person that you want me to become next.

746
00:49:30.260 --> 00:49:31.200
Love that.

747
00:49:31.840 --> 00:49:32.600
All of it's on him.

748
00:49:32.720 --> 00:49:33.360
Did you notice that?

749
00:49:33.760 --> 00:49:35.880
I'm just thankful he's doing it.

750
00:49:35.880 --> 00:49:37.360
I just want to be in full alignment.

751
00:49:37.560 --> 00:49:39.340
It takes your will to say yes.

752
00:49:39.360 --> 00:49:42.940
He's not going to override you and force you to become that, obviously,

753
00:49:42.940 --> 00:49:45.300
because that wouldn't be in his nature to do that.

754
00:49:46.280 --> 00:49:48.720
Last one is, you're facing life choices.

755
00:49:49.740 --> 00:49:51.380
Just big life choices.

756
00:49:52.860 --> 00:49:59.660
Father, I choose your image and likeness to shape my identity and character in Jesus.

757
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:05.240
Lord, I'm going to enjoy this training for all you're worth.

758
00:50:06.500 --> 00:50:09.080
Not for all I'm worth, all you're worth.

759
00:50:09.460 --> 00:50:10.620
Now how much is he worth?

760
00:50:11.060 --> 00:50:15.900
See what you're doing in that moment is you're going into a big unknown thing, you don't

761
00:50:15.900 --> 00:50:21.860
know what it is, and you're taking a mindset up front that this is going to, it's going

762
00:50:21.860 --> 00:50:27.100
to raise you in your, increase your growth in his image and likeness.

763
00:50:27.100 --> 00:50:32.340
And that's what's going to shape that new identity and you're already deciding up front,

764
00:50:32.480 --> 00:50:33.660
I'm going to love the training.

765
00:50:34.760 --> 00:50:39.460
God loves your training, he loves who you're becoming, and he knows exactly who you're

766
00:50:39.460 --> 00:50:39.960
becoming next.

767
00:50:40.420 --> 00:50:45.020
And he's looking at you saying, looking at you, you know, you can be safe, I've got you.

768
00:50:45.320 --> 00:50:49.400
What I want from you is alignment and oneness.

769
00:50:50.500 --> 00:50:52.380
I'll never force that on you.

770
00:50:53.340 --> 00:50:59.380
Like the perfect lover bridegroom that he is, he'll never force himself on you, he'll

771
00:50:59.380 --> 00:51:00.260
never put you in that.

772
00:51:00.660 --> 00:51:04.020
So when you feel uncomfortable, the first thing he does is assure you.

773
00:51:05.500 --> 00:51:11.120
And Ray, I'm through my piece, fumble pot.

774
00:51:12.320 --> 00:51:12.320


775
00:51:12.700 --> 00:51:17.280
And can you, did you try posting those in the chat or?

776
00:51:17.500 --> 00:51:19.040
I will do it right away.

777
00:51:19.200 --> 00:51:19.680
Oh, okay.

778
00:51:19.680 --> 00:51:25.880
And I'll take those because I know sometimes people struggle with copying the from the

779
00:51:25.880 --> 00:51:26.220
chat.

780
00:51:26.880 --> 00:51:30.540
I'll paste those in the replay of the Facebook group.

781
00:51:31.440 --> 00:51:35.100
And I can probably then also put them in the Boxer group.

782
00:51:35.740 --> 00:51:41.920
But you know, one thing that I realized, you know, hearing you go through that is, oops,

783
00:51:42.420 --> 00:51:43.680
what happened?

784
00:51:44.680 --> 00:51:49.900
I'm just doing the, I'm doing it in two sections because it's complaining about too much text.

785
00:51:50.880 --> 00:51:51.240
Sure.

786
00:51:52.860 --> 00:52:04.800
Yeah, it just makes me realize, so I, I've gotten to the point and I've had plenty of

787
00:52:04.800 --> 00:52:09.220
opportunities to freak out, but I've gotten to the point where I'm, I am, I'm no longer

788
00:52:09.220 --> 00:52:10.840
freaking out on circumstances.

789
00:52:10.840 --> 00:52:14.520
So whatever it is, I'm just like, okay, Lord, I know you're with me.

790
00:52:15.840 --> 00:52:24.140
But I recognize there's another level because I'm still like, okay, I know you're with me,

791
00:52:24.140 --> 00:52:24.520
you know?

792
00:52:25.140 --> 00:52:31.360
So I realized I'm kind of sheepishly like, I'm not freaking out about the circumstance,

793
00:52:31.360 --> 00:52:35.220
but I still have some like, okay, let's do it.

794
00:52:35.220 --> 00:52:45.160
And you know, and just those prayers are much more powerful of just going with power, you

795
00:52:45.160 --> 00:52:45.160


796
00:52:45.540 --> 00:52:48.500
And, and so that's, that's, that's really cool.

797
00:52:48.500 --> 00:52:53.500
I think the thing that, which I like that you're commenting on, there is an emotional

798
00:52:53.500 --> 00:52:57.120
state in the kingdom that's different from the emotional state in the world.

799
00:52:57.820 --> 00:53:00.200
This emotional state doesn't exist in the world.

800
00:53:01.780 --> 00:53:04.420
This is an emotional state that's coming out of your spirit.

801
00:53:04.420 --> 00:53:06.100
It's coming out of a different place.

802
00:53:06.340 --> 00:53:06.760
It's a different.

803
00:53:07.800 --> 00:53:13.460
So I would say, take your emotions seriously, in the sense that there are indications of

804
00:53:13.460 --> 00:53:17.980
what you genuinely believe, and immediately switch back to Thanksgiving, start the process

805
00:53:17.980 --> 00:53:20.000
and watch your emotions change.

806
00:53:20.600 --> 00:53:24.180
You're not a victim of your emotions at all.

807
00:53:24.900 --> 00:53:26.780
But you can't force your wiring either.

808
00:53:26.860 --> 00:53:34.140
If your mind, if I wake up, and I think today's going to be a tough day, I'm probably not

809
00:53:34.140 --> 00:53:35.180
getting that deal.

810
00:53:36.580 --> 00:53:38.100
I'm not sure I'm going to pay the rent.

811
00:53:38.760 --> 00:53:40.660
I don't know what I'm going to tell my spouse.

812
00:53:41.500 --> 00:53:46.780
You know, I've been waiting for weeks for the other shoe to, you know, shoe to drop.

813
00:53:47.440 --> 00:53:54.820
Oh, man, what my mind goes, Oh, I know, depression, anxiety, I know what goes with that.

814
00:53:55.300 --> 00:53:58.780
And by the way, you can know that all day long that your brain's doing that.

815
00:53:58.980 --> 00:54:01.960
That's what the famous university study, the 20 year study.

816
00:54:01.960 --> 00:54:05.120
I keep thinking it's Stanford, but it isn't Stanford.

817
00:54:05.280 --> 00:54:06.340
And I'll go look it up again.

818
00:54:06.440 --> 00:54:07.740
But it's a research.

819
00:54:08.060 --> 00:54:08.540
It's well known.

820
00:54:08.640 --> 00:54:10.760
You can get it on TED Talks.

821
00:54:11.380 --> 00:54:13.260
There was a professor who did this study.

822
00:54:13.320 --> 00:54:17.400
And they even went further in the study and proved that even if you know that's what your

823
00:54:17.400 --> 00:54:18.860
brain's doing, it doesn't help.

824
00:54:19.760 --> 00:54:21.560
The reason is you're not changing your thinking.

825
00:54:21.560 --> 00:54:25.460
And you can't just force your thinking to change because your thinking goes of what

826
00:54:25.460 --> 00:54:26.200
you believe.

827
00:54:26.520 --> 00:54:28.840
You see, I might say, no, no, it's not going to be that bad.

828
00:54:28.920 --> 00:54:30.100
Come on, positive thinking.

829
00:54:30.100 --> 00:54:34.760
What you're trying to do is trying to use your thinking to change what you actually

830
00:54:34.760 --> 00:54:41.240
believe, I'm going to fail, what you actually believe, that I get the negative thoughts

831
00:54:41.240 --> 00:54:41.860
out of your head.

832
00:54:42.060 --> 00:54:43.980
That's why you can't stop feeling bad.

833
00:54:44.300 --> 00:54:46.100
But here's the cool thing about that.

834
00:54:46.200 --> 00:54:48.220
That's the weakest part of the whole thing.

835
00:54:48.480 --> 00:54:53.440
The most stronger part, by far, is the one that's life giving, because you're now you're

836
00:54:53.440 --> 00:54:54.040
not alone.

837
00:54:54.300 --> 00:54:55.780
Thank you that I'm not alone in this.

838
00:54:56.160 --> 00:54:57.240
Thank you that you're with me.

839
00:54:57.440 --> 00:54:57.820
Thank you.

840
00:54:57.900 --> 00:54:58.180
Thank you.

841
00:54:58.360 --> 00:54:58.520
Thank you.

842
00:54:58.720 --> 00:54:58.880
Thank you.

843
00:54:58.880 --> 00:54:59.980
When I start to

844
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:10.120
shift my belief in my heart moves now my mind says oh i know what goes with that joy the joy and

845
00:55:10.120 --> 00:55:15.160
peace in believing you don't have to manufacture peace you don't have to feel try to feel more

846
00:55:15.160 --> 00:55:21.760
peacefully 50 feelings there's no mimicry involved you're not imitating peace you're

847
00:55:21.760 --> 00:55:26.480
letting his peace reign well how did his peace get to you you started in his heart

848
00:55:27.280 --> 00:55:33.600
and so many times so many times the lord says don't have because you don't ask

849
00:55:34.980 --> 00:55:42.040
so well lord you know i need it yeah but i'm the perfect gentleman i will not i'm i think of the

850
00:55:42.040 --> 00:55:49.020
you know think of what the perfect lover would be like you know who really is attentive not just

851
00:55:49.020 --> 00:55:55.440
after a physical act but really intentive really knows you really cares about how you how you're

852
00:55:55.440 --> 00:56:00.800
in this moment that's exactly how he is and there's three geniuses in the universe

853
00:56:01.400 --> 00:56:05.420
so he has a mind-boggling idea that just every now and again i think about this

854
00:56:05.420 --> 00:56:09.840
i love to have thoughts like this for the lord i said lord

855
00:56:13.020 --> 00:56:19.880
amen you're so good and so kind and it's just one day i got this thought hit me yeah we had

856
00:56:19.960 --> 00:56:24.640
eternity to practice with each other father son and holy spirit we're practicing laughing and joy

857
00:56:24.640 --> 00:56:30.160
and being being considerate and thoughtful and kind and good and just all of that

858
00:56:31.160 --> 00:56:36.040
they so perfected that fellowship and now you're included

859
00:56:38.060 --> 00:56:43.680
you're included look at the logo of brilliant do you see the three three plus me there's three

860
00:56:43.680 --> 00:56:48.520
different colors there in my logo if you look at the bottom right corner of my screen you'll see it

861
00:56:48.520 --> 00:56:55.500
probably put up a logo here we designed that logo around that idea that if you look at each

862
00:56:55.500 --> 00:57:00.500
of them they're slightly different those three are not the same but yet they're the same and

863
00:57:00.500 --> 00:57:05.680
they're one and yet they're three and guess who's right in the center of it you you get

864
00:57:05.680 --> 00:57:12.340
trapped in the middle of the father loving the son of the son joking with the holy spirit with

865
00:57:12.340 --> 00:57:19.660
the holy spirit you know rejoicing over you you know to jesus and the back and forth and on rare

866
00:57:19.660 --> 00:57:26.000
occasions and it's something i'm really practicing a lot of on rare occasions the lord says i just

867
00:57:26.000 --> 00:57:31.420
want you to get you can get so quiet in your spirit be still and know that i'm god be so

868
00:57:31.420 --> 00:57:37.620
quiet the rest goes to a place of stillness and in that place i've heard the three of them talking

869
00:57:37.620 --> 00:57:45.480
about me best conversation ever i you know i'm just blown away or i'm laughing so hard

870
00:57:45.660 --> 00:57:49.460
because you know should we tell him i don't know spoil the surprise

871
00:57:51.380 --> 00:57:58.760
they're playful they're loving super sweet hilarious absolutely hilarious god has the

872
00:57:58.760 --> 00:58:07.020
best sense of humor ever he invented it of course he's the master of it so what most of us need to

873
00:58:07.020 --> 00:58:13.920
do is take this very narrow religious nervous not sure where i stand feeling unsafe thing and scrap

874
00:58:15.100 --> 00:58:22.160
it that is not included in the gospel the joy and peace in believing now you're learning to become

875
00:58:22.160 --> 00:58:28.200
like him and here's the really good news he's not in a hurry with the process that's what grace is

876
00:58:28.560 --> 00:58:34.820
grace is his kindness while you learn oh lord i've been learning this for 10 years that's okay

877
00:58:35.460 --> 00:58:37.200
you keep going until you get an a

878
00:58:38.900 --> 00:58:46.740
then we move to the next topic no failing just keep going until you get an a very cool

879
00:58:49.100 --> 00:58:52.840
dion do you have do you have time if anyone has a question yeah

880
00:58:53.860 --> 00:59:00.020
so um so guys uh yeah dion on here and uh do you have a question

881
00:59:01.940 --> 00:59:07.560
okay lisa go ahead lisa go ahead i don't have a question i just want to change my answer from

882
00:59:09.720 --> 00:59:20.940
earlier okay dion your stories and how you present everything to us it's every time

883
00:59:21.540 --> 00:59:27.240
i get on here and i just listen to you it's it's it's like the holy spirit in me is just going

884
00:59:27.240 --> 00:59:33.320
here it is here it is you're right here you're with me and and i just want to say thank you

885
00:59:34.000 --> 00:59:43.600
because i just it empowers me so much more every time and it's like i'm on fire again

886
00:59:43.600 --> 00:59:50.100
from 20 years ago when i first got saved so thank you first love i love that for you lisa thank you

887
00:59:50.100 --> 00:59:59.820
first love yeah yeah and uh carrie i think you had yeah yeah so you know it's just

888
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:04.160
Based on, again, I'm not going to change my answer, but I'm going to add to it because

889
01:00:05.740 --> 01:00:11.760
through the last handful of months, I've had the opportunity to share a lot. In fact, I'm

890
01:00:12.740 --> 01:00:20.160
sharing a devotional right now on air about rest and living from that place of rest and

891
01:00:21.080 --> 01:00:28.020
going back and looking at, you know, how first God rested, you know, first God rested after

892
01:00:28.020 --> 01:00:34.140
creation, then ultimately Jesus rested because he had the same sentence. It was,

893
01:00:34.880 --> 01:00:38.100
it's finished. And then he rested at the right hand of the Father, right?

894
01:00:39.140 --> 01:00:43.780
And so he invites us to live from that place, which is, you know, things I've learned here.

895
01:00:44.720 --> 01:00:50.840
The other, I think what I've been pondering, so for instance, your logo.

896
01:00:52.880 --> 01:01:00.120
In fact, I was just thinking about this last night. It's, you know, if you look at Shadrach,

897
01:01:00.440 --> 01:01:06.840
Meshach, and Abednego, which again is a perfect example of old covenant. You had these three

898
01:01:06.840 --> 01:01:14.880
young men who were being obedient and they end up in a fire and in the midst of the fire,

899
01:01:14.880 --> 01:01:23.860
there's a fourth and it's God. Now, our God is a consuming fire and in his presence,

900
01:01:24.280 --> 01:01:32.400
there are three, but there's a fourth because in the fire of his presence, he has invited us

901
01:01:32.400 --> 01:01:39.740
into that fellowship. Yeah, that's beautiful. I love that. Yeah, that's good. And so my question

902
01:01:39.740 --> 01:01:46.420
is, and it's related to this idea of, again, if you, you know, the way we speak about the

903
01:01:46.420 --> 01:01:55.480
sanctifying work of the spirit is that he is in, you know, he's forming us. We are being made into

904
01:01:55.480 --> 01:02:03.500
the image of Jesus, but is it so much he is creating the image of Jesus in us or he is

905
01:02:03.720 --> 01:02:11.740
revealing the image of Jesus that has already been formed in us because we have become a new

906
01:02:11.700 --> 01:02:18.640
creation? Yeah. So is he, is he, is he doing the work or is he simply revealing is, is, is,

907
01:02:18.960 --> 01:02:25.660
is this life, the spirit simply revealing that, that image within us? Yeah, that's, that's a very

908
01:02:25.840 --> 01:02:33.300
good theological question. I, to me, I think is, I think of more as a third way. And that is he,

909
01:02:33.300 --> 01:02:38.680
he's nature in you, as he is, so are you in this world. So in that sense, you're correct,

910
01:02:38.880 --> 01:02:44.080
he is in you. But now we're learning to be made in his image and likeness. We're practicing

911
01:02:44.560 --> 01:02:50.580
our new nature here on earth. And the reason we're practicing here is so when we get to heaven,

912
01:02:50.980 --> 01:02:57.780
we were, we were trained how to be there. So when we get to heaven, everything looks familiar. Oh,

913
01:02:57.780 --> 01:03:02.360
I know this peaceful deal. Oh, this is very familiar to me. I know exactly where I am.

914
01:03:02.360 --> 01:03:07.200
I don't want everything to be new to me when I get to heaven. So I think what we're doing is

915
01:03:07.200 --> 01:03:14.060
we're practicing because we're that new person. We're not subject or victims to the old. And so

916
01:03:14.060 --> 01:03:21.040
to help us with that God gives us the permission, consider yourself dead to sin and alive to me.

917
01:03:21.040 --> 01:03:27.540
And the focus there is being alive to him. When Christ died, you died. When he was raised,

918
01:03:27.540 --> 01:03:33.700
you were raised in newness of life in him. So now that you are a new person in life,

919
01:03:33.800 --> 01:03:38.340
but now you learned, so you don't have two natures, you don't have a certain nature,

920
01:03:38.380 --> 01:03:42.120
you just have a certain habit, which you learn from the old self, which is now dead.

921
01:03:42.260 --> 01:03:47.840
So you've got these dead man habits, but gross, right? Now you're learning Jesus habits,

922
01:03:48.280 --> 01:03:54.180
how to be like him, how to think like him, how to, but there's a piece of him that each of us

923
01:03:54.400 --> 01:04:00.180
carry. That's what makes us not all the same, because we carry a piece of his nature,

924
01:04:00.760 --> 01:04:05.420
because there's something he's bringing to the world through you carry that I can't do.

925
01:04:05.900 --> 01:04:10.920
And so I love that. So maybe there's a variant on your second choice.

926
01:04:12.660 --> 01:04:20.140
Yeah, I think I would say this one thing, whatever you do, strip out all the passivity

927
01:04:20.140 --> 01:04:27.420
that that's in that language. Because if we make it passive, we make it God is doing this,

928
01:04:27.660 --> 01:04:32.320
he's revealing it, he's doing this, I stand here passively and wait, you know, because it's all

929
01:04:32.320 --> 01:04:36.920
painful, but whatever, I'm sure it'll work out at the end. We don't make it relational. We don't

930
01:04:36.920 --> 01:04:42.360
catch the sheer delight, the beauty of being in fellowship together with him, the three of them

931
01:04:42.620 --> 01:04:46.940
having conversation, I'm including Christ, I'm not the fourth member of the Godhead. I'm just

932
01:04:46.940 --> 01:04:52.280
including Christ as the bride. And now in that space, I get to learn how to laugh again.

933
01:04:52.760 --> 01:04:55.520
And there'll be times in your relationship with Jesus,

934
01:04:56.600 --> 01:04:59.980
that he will teach you that two warriors partner with him in laughter.

935
01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:08.460
I was when I was in my crisis in 2018-19. I heard Graham say that and it close on offended me.

936
01:05:09.020 --> 01:05:13.580
I say close on because he said true warriors learn to partner with God in laughter.

937
01:05:14.800 --> 01:05:18.680
And and then I realized, hang on a second, the joy of the Lord is my strength. I need strength

938
01:05:18.680 --> 01:05:22.800
for this. I can't be strong afterwards. I'll be so glad when this is over. It's a dumb idea because

939
01:05:22.800 --> 01:05:27.640
I need to be glad now because I need the strength now. Right. But then I realized it's relational.

940
01:05:28.200 --> 01:05:33.880
He looks at your situation. It's not a you're not a challenge to him. This is not a challenge.

941
01:05:34.080 --> 01:05:39.320
Right. And I realized, oh, there's not a challenge to you. And then it was funny. I started to laugh.

942
01:05:40.020 --> 01:05:45.720
So within minutes of Oh, hang on, that doesn't sound very kind to Oh, my goodness,

943
01:05:45.720 --> 01:05:53.460
this is beautifully freeing. So now stepping to so I think, as a teacher, I would ask you,

944
01:05:53.460 --> 01:05:57.660
ask yourself the question, can I make it more relational? Lord, can I make this more relational?

945
01:05:57.860 --> 01:06:04.620
Can I show how you're in this relationship with us? Can I show how you're thinking,

946
01:06:04.820 --> 01:06:10.640
how you're feeling, how you are towards us, and how it delights you when we are, you know,

947
01:06:11.800 --> 01:06:14.760
because I can see that change. I've been watching in you over these

948
01:06:14.880 --> 01:06:22.240
this last year now. That's been amazing. So very cool. I love what you're doing. It's great.

949
01:06:26.340 --> 01:06:27.540
Okay, Angela.

950
01:06:29.940 --> 01:06:35.820
So I go to Pastor Rodney Hard Brown's church. He's the Oh, yeah, he's known for laughter.

951
01:06:36.640 --> 01:06:41.980
Yeah, yeah. Another crazy South African. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. That's right. Yeah.

952
01:06:42.340 --> 01:06:48.900
No. We used to be in the same circles, although we don't actually know each other.

953
01:06:49.620 --> 01:06:52.820
Okay, we've got a lot of common friends. Yeah.

954
01:06:52.860 --> 01:07:01.580
There's a beautiful. So he has four conferences a year. Yeah. And the one coming up is

955
01:07:02.260 --> 01:07:10.120
the faith conference. So it's everyone's welcome. So it's no charge. So eight days.

956
01:07:10.120 --> 01:07:19.900
Um, no, and I know that you're talking about asking, I thought that was really great asking,

957
01:07:20.120 --> 01:07:27.240
you know, Jesus and the Trinity, right? What, what are you praying towards me?

958
01:07:28.920 --> 01:07:33.160
What a shortcut to that just be praying in your heavenly language.

959
01:07:34.160 --> 01:07:38.920
I think, praying in your heavenly language, praying in tongues to me, which I absolutely

960
01:07:38.920 --> 01:07:42.920
love doing of the nine gifts, it's the only one you can trigger at your own will.

961
01:07:43.660 --> 01:07:48.000
The rest are gifts, you have to wait for the moment, right? So they're not grace gifts in

962
01:07:48.000 --> 01:07:52.860
the sense like, oh, I'm person only flows in this all nine are available to all everyone.

963
01:07:53.180 --> 01:07:58.520
But speaking tongues is the fastest way to build a strong spirit. My spiritual dad taught me that.

964
01:07:59.060 --> 01:08:05.280
Do you want a little freebie here? Do we have time Ray? Yeah. Okay, here's, here's what I learned

965
01:08:05.280 --> 01:08:09.720
at 15 years old, I'm driving in the car with my spiritual dad, the pastor, David Goodes.

966
01:08:10.180 --> 01:08:15.200
And he says, we're talking about speaking in tongues. And I'm asking, what's the point and

967
01:08:15.280 --> 01:08:19.340
because your mind's unfruitful, you know, so it's just your spirit praying. So the Holy Spirit

968
01:08:19.340 --> 01:08:25.779
partnering with you praying. So one way you can do that, which I learned was praying the spirit

969
01:08:25.779 --> 01:08:31.120
and then ask for the and then just switch to English and ask for the interpretation. So you

970
01:08:31.120 --> 01:08:35.020
pray your own interpretation, you'll hear exactly what the Holy Spirit is praying for you. So that's

971
01:08:35.020 --> 01:08:40.979
a cheat code, right? You can get straight away what he's praying. When we were learning this

972
01:08:40.979 --> 01:08:45.580
as a business group, we were eight business partners, all engineers, eight engineers all

973
01:08:46.680 --> 01:08:50.899
together. And David would come every Friday morning and pray with the company. So we're coming

974
01:08:50.899 --> 01:08:58.319
an hour earlier in the boardroom. And then, and so, you know, all these heavy, very conservative

975
01:09:00.819 --> 01:09:06.460
engineers in the room. And, and he says, Okay, we're gonna, we're gonna practice this. And he

976
01:09:06.460 --> 01:09:10.240
said, and so what we're going to do, everybody stand up. And he's not going to ask you to

977
01:09:10.240 --> 01:09:13.580
something really uncomfortable. I'm not going to ask you to pray in this, but I'm going to ask you

978
01:09:13.580 --> 01:09:20.620
to shout in this spirit. Now, I know all you conservative engineers all freaking out. He said,

979
01:09:20.640 --> 01:09:28.300
but the reason we're doing that is our spirit is overwhelming my mind, my mind is so busy and

980
01:09:28.300 --> 01:09:33.240
just going to get really loud enough to just overwhelm it. And then just listen to me in the

981
01:09:33.240 --> 01:09:38.399
background. I'll shout pretty loudly. Then I'm going to say now and then everybody switch to

982
01:09:38.399 --> 01:09:43.920
English and listen to yourself. Don't listen to each other. Listen to yourself was the freakiest

983
01:09:43.920 --> 01:09:48.920
thing we've ever done. And that's how I learned, by the way, because he didn't mess with the,

984
01:09:49.660 --> 01:09:54.060
you know, takes 10 years. It's like with him, everything took 10 minutes. So we get in there,

985
01:09:54.060 --> 01:09:59.700
we're doing the thing. We start off, you know, kind of loud. He said, guys, stop, stop. When I

986
01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:01.700
Shout, shout, do you know how to shout?

987
01:10:01.840 --> 01:10:02.480
Yes, you know how to shout.

988
01:10:02.580 --> 01:10:05.660
Like when you had a rugby game or a football game, do this.

989
01:10:06.060 --> 01:10:08.600
So we go for it, finally gets us loosened up enough

990
01:10:08.600 --> 01:10:09.620
to actually do it.

991
01:10:09.800 --> 01:10:11.780
And we're all going for it.

992
01:10:11.780 --> 01:10:15.880
By the way, Rodney Hardwell would know Pastor David Griffiths

993
01:10:15.880 --> 01:10:16.820
just by the way.

994
01:10:17.220 --> 01:10:20.740
Anyway, so we're all shouting and he says,

995
01:10:20.840 --> 01:10:22.940
now we all switched to English and we stopped

996
01:10:22.940 --> 01:10:26.420
and we all prophesied, eight of us, exactly the same thing.

997
01:10:27.320 --> 01:10:27.760
Wow.

998
01:10:27.920 --> 01:10:29.320
And we all went, oh.

999
01:10:29.320 --> 01:10:32.260
See, there's no mental process for that.

1000
01:10:32.660 --> 01:10:34.680
Because your spirit connecting to God's spirit,

1001
01:10:34.920 --> 01:10:36.700
same Holy Spirit praying to all of us,

1002
01:10:36.720 --> 01:10:37.920
praying the same thing in English.

1003
01:10:38.900 --> 01:10:41.120
And the last hack is David taught me.

1004
01:10:41.260 --> 01:10:43.620
We're driving in the car and he says to me,

1005
01:10:43.780 --> 01:10:45.760
so this is a few years earlier than that,

1006
01:10:45.960 --> 01:10:50.960
and he says, hey, we're talking about praying the Spirit.

1007
01:10:51.040 --> 01:10:51.840
He said, well, that's the only way

1008
01:10:51.840 --> 01:10:52.860
you can pray continuously.

1009
01:10:53.960 --> 01:10:55.500
So he said, I can teach you.

1010
01:10:55.900 --> 01:10:57.480
Again, starts now with David.

1011
01:10:58.360 --> 01:10:59.660
So I said, okay.

1012
01:10:59.700 --> 01:11:01.360
He said, okay, pray in the Spirit, I am.

1013
01:11:01.840 --> 01:11:07.860
And so he said, all right, now can you go from using words

1014
01:11:07.860 --> 01:11:10.640
to just coming from your spirit, but don't use your mouth.

1015
01:11:11.480 --> 01:11:12.680
So he says, can you hear it?

1016
01:11:12.680 --> 01:11:13.740
Yep, yep, still going.

1017
01:11:13.780 --> 01:11:14.700
Yep, still going.

1018
01:11:14.980 --> 01:11:16.460
So he said, okay, let's talk about this.

1019
01:11:16.500 --> 01:11:18.340
We talk for two, three minutes about whatever.

1020
01:11:18.480 --> 01:11:19.760
And he says, is it still going?

1021
01:11:19.940 --> 01:11:20.840
And I go, no.

1022
01:11:20.860 --> 01:11:22.120
He says, okay, you can practice,

1023
01:11:22.360 --> 01:11:24.480
but you can keep it going 24 seven.

1024
01:11:25.400 --> 01:11:27.100
You can pray in your sleep, pray in the Spirit,

1025
01:11:27.100 --> 01:11:29.380
that's what pray continuously means.

1026
01:11:30.660 --> 01:11:32.480
It means when you're praying in your mind,

1027
01:11:32.700 --> 01:11:34.760
you're praying those things consistently,

1028
01:11:35.160 --> 01:11:37.160
but praying continuously can only be done

1029
01:11:37.160 --> 01:11:38.180
in partners of the Holy Spirit.

1030
01:11:38.200 --> 01:11:41.120
I've never heard anyone teach that before or since.

1031
01:11:42.240 --> 01:11:46.720
So that to me is go straight from tongues to English

1032
01:11:47.360 --> 01:11:49.320
and you'll hear what he's praying.

1033
01:11:51.360 --> 01:11:52.640
I like that, thank you.

1034
01:11:52.840 --> 01:11:55.080
I haven't shared that in a long time, so.

1035
01:11:55.860 --> 01:11:56.520
That was good.

1036
01:11:57.080 --> 01:11:58.820
Yeah, yeah, it's good.

1037
01:11:59.100 --> 01:11:59.880
Yeah.

1038
01:12:00.640 --> 01:12:02.200
Very cool.

1039
01:12:03.480 --> 01:12:06.340
Yeah, I've had an interesting history

1040
01:12:07.180 --> 01:12:08.840
with praying in tongues.

1041
01:12:09.940 --> 01:12:14.560
I've only had one morning I woke up and it was involuntary.

1042
01:12:16.900 --> 01:12:20.200
I wasn't doing it, it was just happening.

1043
01:12:21.740 --> 01:12:24.840
And so that made me think, I'm like, oh, is that,

1044
01:12:25.400 --> 01:12:28.240
have all the other times been me just forcing it

1045
01:12:28.240 --> 01:12:28.760
or something?

1046
01:12:28.980 --> 01:12:30.680
So I kind of went away from it,

1047
01:12:30.680 --> 01:12:32.300
but the way that you're describing it,

1048
01:12:33.000 --> 01:12:35.900
sounds like I got a new ventures.

1049
01:12:35.960 --> 01:12:36.400
Yeah.

1050
01:12:37.540 --> 01:12:41.060
Well, I think tongues,

1051
01:12:41.580 --> 01:12:44.160
the old Pentecostal preachers of which David was one,

1052
01:12:44.600 --> 01:12:46.120
didn't believe you go full to the Holy Spirit

1053
01:12:46.120 --> 01:12:46.880
without speaking in tongues.

1054
01:12:47.000 --> 01:12:47.980
So what would be the point?

1055
01:12:48.660 --> 01:12:50.360
And their view was that,

1056
01:12:50.560 --> 01:12:52.360
they always talked about being full to the Spirit,

1057
01:12:52.460 --> 01:12:53.860
the evidence is speaking in other tongues.

1058
01:12:53.860 --> 01:12:55.620
And not just tongues, but other tongues,

1059
01:12:55.840 --> 01:12:57.360
meaning that you don't just have one,

1060
01:12:57.780 --> 01:12:58.440
you have variants.

1061
01:12:58.700 --> 01:13:01.700
Some sound a bit more like this language or that language,

1062
01:13:01.760 --> 01:13:03.600
they're not that language, they sound like it

1063
01:13:04.280 --> 01:13:08.000
because there's some thought that every language on earth,

1064
01:13:08.180 --> 01:13:09.220
and there are a lot of them,

1065
01:13:09.320 --> 01:13:13.060
what are they 900 in India alone, dialects and so forth.

1066
01:13:13.160 --> 01:13:16.000
But for every one of those, there's a heavenly equivalent.

1067
01:13:17.600 --> 01:13:20.640
And then there are languages that only the angels speak

1068
01:13:20.640 --> 01:13:23.380
or that we do from in the spirit realm

1069
01:13:23.380 --> 01:13:24.840
that there are no,

1070
01:13:26.300 --> 01:13:29.620
but I could tell you so many stories of actual languages

1071
01:13:29.620 --> 01:13:32.260
that the person was speaking not having learned the language.

1072
01:13:32.840 --> 01:13:34.420
So get back to David's stories,

1073
01:13:34.500 --> 01:13:35.680
because there's a lot of those.

1074
01:13:36.360 --> 01:13:40.200
We were out in the bush and there's a,

1075
01:13:41.180 --> 01:13:42.080
there are Bushmen,

1076
01:13:42.800 --> 01:13:46.380
they're very, one of the oldest, oldest tribes in Africa,

1077
01:13:46.580 --> 01:13:47.580
very old Bushmen.

1078
01:13:48.040 --> 01:13:49.040
And they speak with that,

1079
01:13:49.540 --> 01:13:52.640
you know, a lot of, five different tongue clicks

1080
01:13:52.640 --> 01:13:54.040
and so on, that's very quick.

1081
01:13:56.580 --> 01:14:00.220
And so David's through interpreters leading them,

1082
01:14:00.860 --> 01:14:01.640
leads them to the Lord.

1083
01:14:02.060 --> 01:14:05.240
You know, being David, you got led to the Lord,

1084
01:14:05.520 --> 01:14:08.200
got baptized, filled with the Holy Spirit, deliverance.

1085
01:14:08.200 --> 01:14:10.320
That was the first hour of your walk with Jesus.

1086
01:14:10.540 --> 01:14:12.220
Not this 20 year drawn out thing,

1087
01:14:12.240 --> 01:14:13.600
he never believed in that.

1088
01:14:13.840 --> 01:14:16.120
So it was like now, so we,

1089
01:14:16.240 --> 01:14:17.500
because it's kingdom now with him.

1090
01:14:18.020 --> 01:14:20.920
And so they do that and he lays hands on this one Bushman

1091
01:14:20.980 --> 01:14:24.800
and she, remember, cannot speak English, breaks out.

1092
01:14:24.900 --> 01:14:26.680
She thinks she's just making humming sounds.

1093
01:14:27.020 --> 01:14:28.740
She's speaking the Queen's English.

1094
01:14:28.820 --> 01:14:31.480
I mean, perfect English pronunciation,

1095
01:14:32.020 --> 01:14:33.820
the most incredible vocabulary,

1096
01:14:34.720 --> 01:14:36.600
exalting the Lord with this vocabulary.

1097
01:14:37.140 --> 01:14:40.580
David had a huge vocabulary, but he said, you know,

1098
01:14:40.580 --> 01:14:42.400
it's like, do I have to look up that word?

1099
01:14:42.560 --> 01:14:44.280
They were so beautiful.

1100
01:14:45.100 --> 01:14:47.560
And so you have that, you know,

1101
01:14:48.640 --> 01:14:51.160
I know of a Afrikaans couple that thought

1102
01:14:51.160 --> 01:14:53.000
that Lord wanted them to move to England.

1103
01:14:53.340 --> 01:14:54.960
They moved, they went to England,

1104
01:14:55.560 --> 01:14:58.100
go to the first church prayer meeting.

1105
01:14:58.440 --> 01:14:59.980
Somebody speaks in tongues, don't realize.

1106
01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:02.300
as they're speaking perfect Afrikaans and the Lord says,

1107
01:15:02.460 --> 01:15:04.420
what are you doing? Yeah, I didn't send you here. You need

1108
01:15:04.420 --> 01:15:08.920
to go back home. Nobody. And the pastor goes, Hey, we can't have

1109
01:15:08.920 --> 01:15:12.060
a time without interpretation. And he she pleases. Now, I

1110
01:15:12.060 --> 01:15:14.700
think that was for me, Pastor. He said, Well, do you want to

1111
01:15:14.700 --> 01:15:16.940
share with the congregation? No, not really.

1112
01:15:18.900 --> 01:15:19.640
That's amazing.

1113
01:15:19.980 --> 01:15:24.440
Yeah. So it's a fantastic world that we have. So cool. Yeah.

1114
01:15:24.600 --> 01:15:27.340
Anyway, well, those fun things. I'll give it a wrap.

1115
01:15:27.340 --> 01:15:31.220
Yeah, very cool. Well, Dion, thank you so much. Thank you.

1116
01:15:31.460 --> 01:15:34.140
Thank you for coming in here. We've had you for we had the

1117
01:15:34.140 --> 01:15:38.280
pleasure of you for a full year. And I've just seen our members

1118
01:15:38.280 --> 01:15:40.920
grow. And we're just so grateful for you. I'm grateful for you.

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And just thank you. Thank you so much.

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Thank you so much. Yeah, it is been such an incredible honor to

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over these 12 months, just sit here and learn from you. So

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thank you.

1123
01:15:54.100 --> 01:15:57.520
Oh, thanks, Gary. Appreciate it. Well, thanks, everybody. It's

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been a real honor. Great joy.

1125
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Yeah. Appreciate you. All right, man. Very, very cool. Well,

1126
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that was awesome. That was really neat. So I got, you know,

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two things I'll be doing tonight. I'll be doing the

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Thank You, Lord. practice. I want to do that for, you know, I

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01:16:15.060 --> 01:16:19.940
heard, you know, Graham did that at an event. I don't know if you

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guys are aware of that. But he just, he went on. And he's just

1131
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he's just started saying thank you. And the presence of the

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Lord was so powerful in that room, like people are just

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01:16:30.600 --> 01:16:34.980
falling to the ground and crying and everything. And so I'm going

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to do that. And I'm gonna get back. You know, it's

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interesting, my first, like, maybe, you know, six months or

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01:16:45.040 --> 01:16:49.580
so, you know, I used to practice praying in tongues and, and then

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01:16:49.580 --> 01:16:51.860
when I had that experience, I'm like, Oh, maybe I've been

1138
01:16:52.100 --> 01:16:54.840
forcing it or something like, you know, I don't know. But the

1139
01:16:54.840 --> 01:16:57.980
way he described it makes me I got to go back to that. I got to

1140
01:16:57.980 --> 01:17:03.040
pray about that, too. So very cool. Well, as you guys know,

1141
01:17:03.040 --> 01:17:05.440
you can hit me up on Voxer if there's anything I can help you

1142
01:17:05.800 --> 01:17:11.020
with. And, Carrie, do you want to pray us out? I feel like

1143
01:17:11.200 --> 01:17:12.420
you're on fire tonight.

1144
01:17:12.580 --> 01:17:16.820
Yeah, absolutely. Thank you. Yeah. All right. So Father, we

1145
01:17:16.820 --> 01:17:20.580
do, we come and we say thank you. And, you know, the truth

1146
01:17:20.580 --> 01:17:25.620
of the matter is, your Word is very clear that when we come

1147
01:17:25.620 --> 01:17:30.060
with that gratitude, that heart of thanksgiving, the Holy

1148
01:17:30.060 --> 01:17:35.080
Spirit, you, you bring the glory of heaven, you bring the heart

1149
01:17:35.080 --> 01:17:40.600
of the Father, you release everything that we need, as we

1150
01:17:40.600 --> 01:17:44.040
give you praise, as we praise the Father, as we praise Jesus,

1151
01:17:44.040 --> 01:17:48.820
and as we offer that thanksgiving. And so we end this

1152
01:17:48.820 --> 01:17:52.580
night by saying thank you. Thank you for the privilege of

1153
01:17:52.640 --> 01:17:56.880
hearing from you. Thank you for the privilege of being able to

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01:17:56.880 --> 01:18:01.480
hear from one who is your son, not just your servant, but your

1155
01:18:01.480 --> 01:18:06.300
son, who's faithfully just sharing, sharing what you've

1156
01:18:06.300 --> 01:18:11.120
taught him. And so we say thank you. And we can't, we can't do

1157
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anything, Father God, but just to come with this heart of

1158
01:18:14.720 --> 01:18:20.020
gratitude, knowing that in that place, we, we're, we're in your

1159
01:18:20.020 --> 01:18:24.480
presence and everything flows from your presence. And so God,

1160
01:18:24.540 --> 01:18:27.620
we just, we're grateful. I'm grateful for Ray. I'm grateful

1161
01:18:27.620 --> 01:18:31.960
for the, uh, the opportunity that we have had to, to really

1162
01:18:31.960 --> 01:18:36.540
just be in this partnership with you together, uh, Father God.

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So, uh, with that, thank you for your presence and we know we go

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with your blessing in Jesus name. Amen.

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01:18:44.220 --> 01:18:48.360
Amen. Beautiful, beautiful. My friend. Awesome. Awesome. Well,

1166
01:18:48.360 --> 01:18:51.380
love you guys. God bless you guys. And anything I can help

1167
01:18:51.380 --> 01:18:54.220
with, hit me up on Boxer. Thanks, Thomas. Thanks for

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01:18:54.220 --> 01:18:55.180
being on here, bud.

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Thank you.