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All right, I think this is a deep dive topic that's for a very select few, including me,

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by the way.

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I know what the topic is, and I'm excited to hear it, and this is a brand new topic

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that Dion has not shared on before, and so be ready, be ready.

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And so I'm excited.

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Dion, I'm just going to pass it to you and let you riff, let you go.

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Thank you.

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Sorry for me taking my sweet out of my mouth there.

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I don't want you to do that in the background.

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I know professionals get good at that.

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Well tonight, this isn't us four no more talk, is it?

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Oh, we got five.

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There we go.

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There you go.

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We just had 25% growth.

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It was amazing.

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So we're going to jump right in.

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Hey, Stephanie, good to see you.

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We're going to just jump right in.

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Tonight I want to talk about a new topic, something that's been growing very dear to

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me, and that is this idea of what sets us free in our relationship with the Lord and

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how do we walk in that freedom?

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So I've entitled it, Occupying the Space or Inhabiting the Space God Has Prepared for

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You to Walk in or to Live in.

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And I think, you know, one of the big things for the Lord is He likes language, which is

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around the idea of habitation, that we're a habitation, we're a temple of the Holy Spirit.

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He loves home language.

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We'll come and make our abode, to use a good old-fashioned English, with our home in you.

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Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are living in you.

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The kingdom of God is within you.

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So He loves all those metaphors and all that language.

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And so I've been watching, especially as we've been teaching our School of Leadership, you

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know, those people, we spend every week with them for almost 32 weeks.

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And you know, I've watched a very specific progression.

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The first eight weeks, it's the detox stage, you know, they're getting rid of all that

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performance stuff, they're dropping all the, I have, you know, all the stuff I'm supposed

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to do, because that's one thing most of us learned, is what we have to do to have a great

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relationship with God.

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But the Gospel is all the stuff God did to have a great relationship with you.

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It's so profound, the difference.

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Then what we do is just respond.

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Like the bride being pursued, you know, we're the bride, and He's the bridegroom.

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He pursues us with such a passion.

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Well, as I've watched those first two weeks, and then we get all the usual theological

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questions, all the usual stuff they were taught.

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And once people start to come free, and they start to learn their new nature habits, and

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they realize the old is gone, the new has come, suddenly a new language starts to develop.

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So tonight, I want to spend a minute reframing what it's like to inhabit that space that

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God has prepared for you.

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So I'm just going to make a couple of simple points tonight.

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And the first one is that God has a space He wants to share with you.

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And number two is learning how to live there.

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And then we'll just break it up into those two separate areas.

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So the space God wants for you is that, you know, He desperately wants you in His heart.

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And so He's made a space for you to inhabit, not just the space to visit.

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So this space isn't something we visit during worship, visit during an encounter, and then

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we go live our lives, and hopefully it helped.

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That actually is not the gospel.

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And it reminded me of a shocking story from a trip I did when I was in my 20s.

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And I was in Bavaria, the southern part of Germany.

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And we went to go and visit this castle that was originally built by King Ludwig II.

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And it was in the, you know, the late 1800s.

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And they spent like 10 or 12 years building this castle.

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And he literally came there, stayed there a few nights, and never came back again.

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And you go into this castle, into the master bedroom, which stares, looks up this mountain

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in Bavaria, and they carved this staircase, massive white staircase to be a waterfall

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that looks like it's about to rush right into the bed.

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And at the last minute, it tucks in under the building and flows behind.

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He literally came in, stayed that first night and said, yeah, it's nice.

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So think of the thousands of laborers and the unbelievable cost and everything they went into.

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And it's like, uh-huh, nice.

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And I feel sometimes that's the response

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from people in the kingdom.

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Jesus, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,

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had this grand plan before the beginning of time

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to create a space for you that was so vast,

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so glorious, so majestic, so incredibly mind-blowing.

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And many of us come and visit for a few nights and go, cool.

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And so what he wants from us

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is a completely different response.

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So I want to think about it this way.

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You know, it's about allowing God

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to draw you into the life that he wants with you.

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It's not about persuading him

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to move into your life and circumstances.

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We spend a lot of time trying to get God

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to come into our downstairs stuff and help out.

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And so we think if we dial it in or we behave

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or we say this magic prayer or we do this or this or that,

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but it's not about any of that, actually.

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The kingdom is about allowing him

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to draw you up into the space he has.

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He wants you to be part of his life.

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We hear a lot about you should invite God into your life,

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you should invite God into your life, which is true.

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But the bigger wonderful story

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is that God wants you in his life.

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So it's about allowing him to pull you into his life.

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And this is a complete reframe for many of us.

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So when you're pulled into that space,

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something extraordinary happens.

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You automatically start to move in step with him.

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That's the first thing.

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And the second thing is all the stuff

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that used to hold you back,

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all the things that were trapping you

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just automatically fall away.

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This sounds almost too good to be true.

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But the reason is, is that that stuff can't exist upstairs

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because Jesus paid for it.

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He killed it off.

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So this is the life God always intended for you to have.

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And he draws you in with his beauty.

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How does that work?

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It means that when you see the beauty of Jesus,

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you see yourself.

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Whatever you can see in Jesus, you can have.

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Because what you see in him

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is his beauty reflected in you.

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You and Christ are one.

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You're married to him.

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And so it's not like nobody,

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well, I'd be very disappointed

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if I ever heard downstairs language like this.

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If Bridget walked around telling people

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that she is a Dion follower,

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that would be catastrophic.

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It would mean, people would be thinking,

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what kind of a husband is he

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that he would make his wife say that?

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So when I hear Jesus follower, it's that same thing.

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What reflection of the father is that?

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He's out there, I'm over here,

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and I'm trying to follow him.

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Aren't you and he one?

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Somebody would say to Bridget,

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but aren't you guys married?

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Aren't you one?

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And she says, well, of course we're one.

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So she would never use language

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that would make it sound like we're separate

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or that he's in a different space than me.

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You know, they were like, are you guys separated?

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You know, you don't.

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And I think a lot of times we can have learned

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from the world separation language.

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well, if you're feeling far from God,

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he hasn't moved, guess who moved?

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You know, all that sort of stuff.

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And all this is downstairs separation language,

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but that's nothing of what the Lord invited us into.

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So the life God intended for you and for me

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was to draw you in with his beauty.

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He's not coercive.

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He's persuasive and he persuades with beauty.

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It's his beauty that's pulling you in.

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Because we're wired to respond to beauty.

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Whether it's a beautiful scenery, a beautiful person,

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a beautiful context, anything of beauty.

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We love art, we love music, we love things of beauty

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because we're designed to respond to beauty.

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And Jesus is the most beautiful person in the universe.

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And so what this reframe does is it changes us from,

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it's not about me trying to make less mistakes,

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it's about him getting it right in me.

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It's not about me getting it wrong,

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it's about him getting it right in me.

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See, the Lord owns your learning.

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Jesus completely owns your learning

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and he is pulling you into it

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because he wants you to be in his heart.

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He made this space for you.

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So this isn't a space we go and create

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and then invite God into.

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This is a space he created that he's inviting us into.

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is a complete reframe.

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What does that mean for us?

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That means that we're not measuring ourselves.

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How do I come into that space is by invitation.

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Jesus qualifies me to be in that space.

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It's who I'm married to,

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and I have been given his righteousness.

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I've been made the righteousness of God in Christ.

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So I step into a place he has prepared.

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It's a beautiful space that we're in that space.

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So when we do it the other way around,

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as opposed to I've got to create a quiet time

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and I've got to, all that stuff's fine,

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but when the mindset behind the scene,

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when the mindset is I'm trying to get God

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to invade a space I created,

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rather than I'm stepping into a space he's created,

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I want to go and inhabit the space he wants to share with me.

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And in the kingdom, we call that territory.

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So when you step into that space,

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you get released 50 times faster

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than you thought was possible,

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because he's called a quickening spirit.

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This is also referred to as kingdom acceleration.

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A few months ago, we talked about kingdom acceleration.

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When we step into that space,

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we're not trying to fix this one,

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we're just stepping into the new space.

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Now, we bypass all the stuff that has tripped us up,

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all the nonsense that was holding us back,

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because in this space with him,

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you don't get it wrong, he gets it right.

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He isn't sitting there waiting for you to get it right

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so the space can work.

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He's not saying, oh, well, you got that wrong,

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now the space doesn't work.

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The space he creates a safe place.

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We can think of it as a fortress.

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Lord, I run into your fortress,

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or the shadow of his wings.

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The Bible gives very many words to the space,

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but it all has the same basic idea,

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that this is a safe place that he created

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that he's inviting us into.

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So what happens in this moment,

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when we move into that space,

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we discover the territory he prepared.

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And that's why the scripture says

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that we are his workmanship,

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created in Christ Jesus to do good works,

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which he has prepared beforehand for us to walk in.

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So that means that all those good works

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were prepared where?

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In Christ.

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They weren't just prepared downstairs in your life,

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and you'll step into them,

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and then everything that happens,

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we say, well, that was all God's will.

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I think a lot of stuff happens that isn't God's will.

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And when the Lord creates the space for us,

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he creates it in Christ,

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and he knew the only way to keep us fully qualified

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for that space is to hide us in Christ.

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We are hidden with Christ in God.

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So, number one, you feel safe.

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That's what it feels like.

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It feels safe.

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Number two, I stop panicking,

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wondering about where I stand with God.

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My standing now is settled.

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I relax in that standing,

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because here's what happens.

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The life of God in you keeps you moving forward,

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because the world, the flesh, the devil,

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can't keep up with what God is doing.

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And the reason is is because he moves us upstairs.

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watching people in our school

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go from this downstairs space they live in,

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where they visit upstairs, go to church,

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have an encounter, go to worship,

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get some ministry to pray for them, whatever.

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and go back and live downstairs.

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God never meant for us to live downstairs

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and visit upstairs.

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We were designed to live upstairs and visit downstairs.

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how to live in heaven.

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hey, this is quite a familiar place.

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I know where I'm at.

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and you didn't fit in?

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He's teaching us to live in the kingdom.

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with that process.

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that the enemy has on you.

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in this world. So the reason we get trapped, the reason we become vulnerable, the reason we

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fall into all the stuff that, you know, the world, the flesh and the devil is because we go back

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downstairs and we go live there. But actually, that's not your natural habitat. Since you were

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born again, you became a new creation. And new creations need new spaces to live in.

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You don't fit downstairs anymore. You can't. You're in the world, but you're not of it.

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You're of a different realm. You're now a God-indwelt being that's walking in fellowship

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with the Creator, with the Redeemer, and with the Comforter, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

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That means, foundationally, your starting point is, I'm safe. I'm fully redeemed. I'm fully

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accepted. I'm fully loved. And so that's just 101 starting point. Most of us, if you listen to most

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believers, they can spend 30, 40, even 50 years not being sure about those few things. Am I safe?

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Am I loved? Am I fully forgiven? And you can say to believers, look, at some point,

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you have to settle that issue. Actually, it's not about settling the issue. It's that He settled

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the issue. And He wants you to join Him in that frame of mind. So how would you live in that frame

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of mind upstairs if you're fully loved? Never doubt that. How would you live if you're fully

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forgiven, fully accepted, fully loved, and that all your learning, that Jesus is fully in charge

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of all your learning? I think so much of it goes to, even at Brilliant, we have to watch for

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language that sounds like we're going to swap this kind of learning for this kind of learning,

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and where it's all back to you doing it just in a different language or a different mode.

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So I want to say this. The reason Jesus said, take my yoke and learn from me, was He was setting up

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what living upstairs is like. When you're in partnership with me, it's going to feel really

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easy. My yoke is easy. It feels really easy. And what we do together will feel light to you.

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It doesn't mean that you don't work hard. You may work long hours, but it will feel effortless

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to you. So where are the leaders? Where are the kingdom business leaders that look like

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it's easy and light? Where's the lightness of being in the kingdom leader? It's not something

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we have to try to put on or mimic or imitate. It's just a natural consequence

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of living in your space God has created for you to inhabit. So let's talk about the second part

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of this, which is learning to live there. So God is saying, hey, this is my territory.

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I brought it with me into this relationship, and I'm sharing it with you. And now it's yours.

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This is who I am for you in this space. For Him and for you, it's innately personal,

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and it's innately loving and innately kind. So this is how God is with us in these spaces.

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It's not about solving problems and dealing with circumstances. He knows all that. Absolutely. But

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that is in His heart and mind is so automatically done and taken care of. He knows, Jesus said,

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the Lord knows that you need feeding. But look at the birds of the air. They don't worry about

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that stuff, right? The reason is because it's a settled issue. It's not that God doesn't care or

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doesn't want to talk about that. You can talk about it with anything with Him. But in His heart,

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it's such a set. Of course, you're my beloved. I would never leave my wife to go hungry or not be

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able to do whatever. And any husband who's had to go through that experience because of business

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issues or whatever knows that feeling. Well, God is not that, Jesus is not that kind of a husband.

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So what we're learning to do in this space is learning how to rest in this, how to walk with

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Him and how to be joyful and peaceful. What we're learning to do is become overcomers. When you live

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over your circumstances, you're an overcomer. That's what, where your circumstances don't give

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your emotions and your mindset, Jesus does. He gives permission. And we'll talk about that more

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in just a second. So I want to address one of the biggest traps that we see that has held people

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back. One of the biggest difficulties people struggle with when we watch them come through

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the school. It's amazing. We're now at the stage of the, I think we just did, we're doing

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week 19 tomorrow. And watching people in that stage already, you can see they're in a whole

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different level already. But they're not quite there yet, but getting there quickly.

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But here's the thing I've noticed, and I want to talk about visitational culture versus

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habitational culture. God doesn't want you, he didn't build the castle for you to walk

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and sleep a couple of nights and say, cool. You know, that, that waterfall thing he was,

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was, was pretty impressive. You know, that what he wants you to do is come and thoroughly enjoy

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the space with him. So here's the problem with a visitational culture. Firstly,

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it's not part of the kingdom. A visitational culture is not part of the kingdom. Here's why.

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In a visitational culture, I don't need to change. The whole setup is God can pitch up and fix

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everything. He's the repairman in this mode, except nothing gets repaired, because nothing

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is permanent, because you're only as good as your last encounter. And so you don't get to keep your

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growth. You can't build anything. And even when we're watching movements, or we talk to churches

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or pastors, and you see them building in that strong visitational mode, we firstly, that's a

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very man-made mode and a very old covenant idea that if you behave, God comes on you. And if you

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don't, then he spirit leaves. Yeah, but we're not part of that. We're part of nothing can separate

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you, no height, no depth, no this or that, no anything in this world, others can separate you

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from God's love. Once you're born again, you're a new creation, you and Christ are one. And so

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in a visitational culture where nothing is permanent, you're learning from a kingdom

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viewpoint, you're kind of learning in an illegal way. And I want to say that kindly, because

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in that, you're not part of that environment. That is not the space God has invited you into.

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You still have negativity, you still have worry, you still have very limited joy.

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So I want to tell you a quick story about a large group of pastors met in the city.

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And they were all talking, and they came from all these different denominations and different

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persuasions. And there was a lot of worry about an upcoming event. And clearly, they were worried

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about sheep stealing and whatever other stuff they were worried about. And it was one of those

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kind of conversations. And there was, well, I'm not so sure about this. And you guys who believe

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in, you know, healing, and you guys who believe in this, and there was all this, just no unity

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whatsoever. And there was a prophet in the house, and he just sat quietly and didn't say anything

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for an hour and a half. Until finally, somebody said, Well, you know, don't you have anything to

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say? I'll leave his name out. And it's not Graham. Yeah, I leave his name out for this conversation.

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But he just got up. He said, I have one question for you guys. One. If you and Jesus are one,

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how come you're not whole?

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He says, you still have negativity. You still have worry. There's no fullness of joy.

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You've not learned. And Jesus did not die. So you can struggle with that

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ongoingly. Now, is it time for growth? Is there grace for your learning? Absolutely. Sure.

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And so this comes from a visitational cultural idea. What the new covenant offers in Jesus

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is a habitational culture, which you never leave. You go move into that beautiful castle Jesus

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prepared, and you learn to rule and reign from there. You learn to have fellowship with them.

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You learn to have that beautiful space. So he's bringing you into a space that he created for you

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to inhabit, not to visit. And this is what that kind of life in the castle is really like.

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So in the book, Wired, I think I pointed, nope, wrong direction. Yep. I don't know where my

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camera is on that side of me. In the book, Wired, I wanted to, I talked a lot to the Lord about how

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to start that book. And I decided to choose the story of the Shulamite woman, which is being a

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song. It's just a fantastic story. And except I changed the story to act more in a way that I

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think most people hear the gospel, as opposed to what it actually is. And then I told the full

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story. But you know, the story, of course, is the Shulamite woman. She's, there's no dad in the

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picture. There's a mom, there's a lot of brothers, and they're really rough with her. They're tough

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on her. They're rough with her.

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with her, you get the impression, you know, they treat her abominably.

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And the scripture makes this point that she's very dark

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from being in the sun, which in the culture of the time was

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to show that you were very low class, you know, that you were a laborer or whatever

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it was, so culturally she was diminished.

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Anyway, one day she meets this amazing guy there in the woods and she meets this guy

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and they meet a couple of times, doesn't take long.

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They fall in love and she just cannot believe that he's handsome, he's smart,

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he's wonderful, super caring, very attentive to her.

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She was like, of course, she brings up the point.

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not the most favored nation status, not the most desirable,

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all the stuff that was of her culture at the time.

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Anyway, they fall in love, the relationship develops.

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She keeps it from her family.

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But one day they're in the fields and the and the king's entourage comes

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with all the procession that comes with the king's entourage.

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And, you know, the whole parade and all the workers in all the fields,

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they all go down on their one knee and their heads all bowed in respect to the king.

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And to her absolute horror, the carriage stops right in front of her.

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And she just keeps her head down.

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She's absolutely shaking from fear.

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And the king walks out and all she can do is see shoes and he picks her up and he

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lifts her up and he looks and she looks right into the eyes of her lover.

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She had no idea he was the king.

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Now, if we tell the rest of the story,

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the way some people hear the gospel is and he said, now behave.

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Remember, I love you.

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Gets in the carriage and drives off.

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What actually happened was he takes her and he puts her in the carriage

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and he takes her back to the castle, the one he prepared for her.

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And she has to learn a whole new way of life.

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She she she gets bathed, dressed beautifully.

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But now she has to learn how to walk, how to carry herself with authority.

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And then each each day, certain times of the day, they had the secret garden.

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They just the two of them hung out in.

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No one else was allowed there, just her.

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None of the attendants or anything were allowed in there.

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That was their moment, their place to be together.

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And she just loves and longs for those moments with him.

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But she has to learn to command.

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She has to learn how to live.

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She has to learn how to speak.

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Everything about her life is new.

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She's now a queen with authority.

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And that person I just described was you.

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That's you.

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That's what you're learning to go and inhabit the castle he created for you.

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And when he did that, you know, the habitational culture.

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This is how we learn best.

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It's how our learning becomes permanent.

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Your learning can never be permanent if you don't feel safe.

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Your learning cannot be permanent unless you're in a place that you know you're

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loved, you know, you're totally forgiven, you're totally adored.

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He's besotted with you.

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And in that space, that's when you're learning, feel safe and you will grow.

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And for many believers, that's the good news they need to hear.

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So Jesus will continually feed that in you

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because he means for you to joy him and he's enjoying you.

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He has four quick verses where he says that John 15, 11,

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these things I've spoken to you, that my joy may remain, not visit,

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remain in you and that your joy may be full.

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OK, so while that's a very extreme verse, is there another one?

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John 16, 24.

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Until now, you've asked nothing in my name.

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Ask and you will receive.

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Why? That your joy may be full.

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He's not using partly, partly joy, full joy.

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John 17, 13.

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But now I come to you and these things I speak in the world

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that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

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Jesus is really driving this home.

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1 John 1, 4 picks this up.

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And these things we write to you that your joy may be full.

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Every time joy is mentioned in the new covenant,

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it's mentioned in the context of fullness.

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Why?

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One, joy is a stronghold of God's affection.

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God has set you up and locked you in because joy makes us alive to our new man

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in Jesus, to our new creation being in Jesus.

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Joy is the vehicle of His presence abiding in us.

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Joy is the atmosphere of the castle we just talked about.

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And joy is very personal for God

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because it's how we get to know Him.

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Very difficult to get to know God

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without joy and without peace.

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And that's why it's called the joy and peace in believing.

473
00:30:24.580 --> 00:30:27.800
When you believed on His name, joy and peace came along.

474
00:30:28.220 --> 00:30:29.460
Jesus brought that with Him.

475
00:30:30.060 --> 00:30:31.360
And He gave it to you.

476
00:30:31.360 --> 00:30:35.800
So it's important to Him that we have fullness of joy

477
00:30:36.040 --> 00:30:38.980
because it's with fullness comes intimacy,

478
00:30:39.320 --> 00:30:41.460
goes to that place inside the castle

479
00:30:41.760 --> 00:30:44.280
that's just for you and for Him alone.

480
00:30:44.920 --> 00:30:47.760
This is such a different paradigm shift.

481
00:30:48.160 --> 00:30:52.280
And for us to know and to start to relax

482
00:30:52.280 --> 00:30:55.360
as that as a given fact in our lives

483
00:30:55.360 --> 00:30:59.340
so we don't have to keep struggling with our acceptance,

484
00:31:00.700 --> 00:31:02.340
our placement, how forgiven we are.

485
00:31:02.980 --> 00:31:05.740
Once we settle that and that goes away,

486
00:31:06.220 --> 00:31:09.620
then the question is, what will we be busy with?

487
00:31:10.400 --> 00:31:14.860
If we're not fighting sin or trying to conquer the devil

488
00:31:14.860 --> 00:31:17.040
even though He's already conquered.

489
00:31:17.900 --> 00:31:20.700
Everything comes to you in Jesus, everything.

490
00:31:21.200 --> 00:31:24.360
And now you're learning to be with your beloved

491
00:31:25.080 --> 00:31:28.020
and you get in the carriage, stopping a labor in the field,

492
00:31:28.200 --> 00:31:31.900
get in the carriage and go straight to the castle.

493
00:31:32.400 --> 00:31:33.560
New life awaits.

494
00:31:34.600 --> 00:31:37.640
And so in that place, He's prepared for you.

495
00:31:37.900 --> 00:31:39.640
So beautiful, Jesus said,

496
00:31:39.800 --> 00:31:41.500
I go to prepare a place for you.

497
00:31:41.520 --> 00:31:43.860
We think that means one day when I die and go to heaven.

498
00:31:44.120 --> 00:31:46.400
Sure, but it also means now.

499
00:31:46.660 --> 00:31:49.220
You do know you don't have to die to go to heaven, right?

500
00:31:49.500 --> 00:31:52.220
Because you're already seated with Him in heavenly places.

501
00:31:52.980 --> 00:31:54.260
So that's the case.

502
00:31:55.080 --> 00:31:56.060
You're there now.

503
00:31:57.500 --> 00:32:04.720
And so what I'd love to land it on is,

504
00:32:05.360 --> 00:32:06.400
beloved, you are safe.

505
00:32:07.480 --> 00:32:08.300
You are adored.

506
00:32:08.540 --> 00:32:11.040
And in this place God has for you,

507
00:32:11.100 --> 00:32:16.660
it's not about you making less mistakes or getting it wrong.

508
00:32:16.700 --> 00:32:19.980
It's about how He gets it right in you.

509
00:32:20.660 --> 00:32:23.340
So Jesus has taken full responsibility

510
00:32:23.340 --> 00:32:25.880
and accountability to the Father.

511
00:32:26.520 --> 00:32:29.080
And the Holy Spirit has committed to the Father

512
00:32:29.080 --> 00:32:32.160
to take everything that belongs to Jesus and make it yours.

513
00:32:33.080 --> 00:32:37.900
Your job is to allow Him to draw you into that space.

514
00:32:39.280 --> 00:32:40.300
Let Him woo you.

515
00:32:41.060 --> 00:32:45.360
And this is the biggest mindset shift we've seen

516
00:32:45.360 --> 00:32:47.380
that brings people into freedom,

517
00:32:47.380 --> 00:32:49.280
where people will say things like,

518
00:32:49.620 --> 00:32:51.420
I've grown more in three months or six months

519
00:32:51.420 --> 00:32:55.100
than I have in 30 years because of this.

520
00:32:55.480 --> 00:32:57.980
They found out God is deeply relational

521
00:32:58.760 --> 00:33:00.700
and He's all in on the relationship.

522
00:33:00.840 --> 00:33:04.240
So I'm gonna pause it there, have some discussion.

523
00:33:09.080 --> 00:33:10.780
Yeah, powerful, powerful.

524
00:33:12.940 --> 00:33:16.020
So Lisa or Stephanie, any questions,

525
00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:20.120
anything you'd like to bring up there?

526
00:33:23.100 --> 00:33:25.720
Yeah, it's just awesome.

527
00:33:27.820 --> 00:33:32.600
Just constantly, what He helped me with last week

528
00:33:33.340 --> 00:33:37.540
was last Monday, I called Dion

529
00:33:37.540 --> 00:33:40.640
and I was pretty stressed about something.

530
00:33:40.640 --> 00:33:47.360
And so I'm having these very stressful thoughts

531
00:33:47.540 --> 00:33:50.080
and I'm like, man, I thought I was past this.

532
00:33:50.160 --> 00:33:51.980
Why am I having these stressful thoughts?

533
00:33:52.760 --> 00:33:55.600
And it's weird because I was praying.

534
00:33:55.900 --> 00:33:58.880
I'm like, Lord, I thought I was past these stressful,

535
00:33:59.400 --> 00:34:03.540
like I thought I was past these things stressing me out

536
00:34:03.540 --> 00:34:05.640
and I kept getting, you are.

537
00:34:05.780 --> 00:34:09.500
And I'm like, but I seem stressed out.

538
00:34:10.639 --> 00:34:12.540
And so I'm like, what do you mean?

539
00:34:13.500 --> 00:34:16.560
And what I now realize He was doing

540
00:34:16.900 --> 00:34:21.920
is He was training me to just really have discernment

541
00:34:21.920 --> 00:34:23.860
around what aren't my thoughts.

542
00:34:25.320 --> 00:34:30.300
And that was a type of spiritual warfare.

543
00:34:30.520 --> 00:34:37.780
That was a type of just me thinking that these thoughts

544
00:34:37.780 --> 00:34:40.840
that I was having were mine, they weren't.

545
00:34:41.380 --> 00:34:46.139
I was past them, but I allowed these negative thoughts

546
00:34:46.360 --> 00:34:48.880
to kind of happen on me.

547
00:34:49.520 --> 00:34:54.239
And so He's, this past week, He's trained me to,

548
00:34:54.739 --> 00:34:57.800
okay, when you're experiencing that, it's not you,

549
00:34:58.420 --> 00:34:59.400
rebuke it, get rid of it.

550
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.520
And so I've been doing that.

551
00:35:03.280 --> 00:35:07.320
So I've probably I've done it several times this past week,

552
00:35:07.320 --> 00:35:13.800
but he's taught me to no longer be tricked by thinking you've slid backwards

553
00:35:13.800 --> 00:35:17.020
in your growth, it's just you just need to have awareness.

554
00:35:18.340 --> 00:35:22.100
And and so, you know, that was that was helpful.

555
00:35:22.980 --> 00:35:26.960
So let's talk about that, Ray, because when we talked about it last week,

556
00:35:27.600 --> 00:35:30.200
we can say a few more things that might help with this.

557
00:35:30.800 --> 00:35:34.580
It comes from a mindset that the enemy is already a conquered foe.

558
00:35:34.860 --> 00:35:36.440
God made a public spectacle.

559
00:35:36.700 --> 00:35:38.080
What was designed to be a public

560
00:35:38.080 --> 00:35:41.540
humiliation of Jesus turned into a public God flipped it and was a public

561
00:35:41.540 --> 00:35:46.340
humiliation of the enemy he's crushed, conquered and anything he has.

562
00:35:46.360 --> 00:35:49.360
He's stolen, deceived or lied to to get to it.

563
00:35:49.360 --> 00:35:51.380
So everything he can't create anything.

564
00:35:51.380 --> 00:35:53.380
He can only take what is and reduce it to nothing.

565
00:35:53.440 --> 00:35:54.360
That's all he's got.

566
00:35:54.360 --> 00:35:55.960
You can't create a single thing.

567
00:35:56.900 --> 00:35:59.400
Second, the second mindset shift that you

568
00:35:59.400 --> 00:36:04.360
just brought up as you used a key word, you said, I thought I had to realize they

569
00:36:04.360 --> 00:36:08.240
not quote my thoughts. Well, they may have been thoughts you

570
00:36:08.240 --> 00:36:11.280
previously had from your old nature, but that nature is dead.

571
00:36:11.360 --> 00:36:12.580
So it isn't you anymore.

572
00:36:12.860 --> 00:36:14.140
So it isn't your thoughts.

573
00:36:14.160 --> 00:36:15.380
You're right about that.

574
00:36:15.640 --> 00:36:19.360
It's your old dead thoughts that came from the flesh or the world or the devil.

575
00:36:19.400 --> 00:36:21.840
Isn't the source makes absolutely no difference.

576
00:36:21.940 --> 00:36:23.460
The stress is the same. Right.

577
00:36:23.460 --> 00:36:26.000
So the impact's the same.

578
00:36:26.160 --> 00:36:28.080
It doesn't matter who, when, how.

579
00:36:28.720 --> 00:36:33.260
The issue is that God sees you as the new you in Christ.

580
00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:36.500
So that's not some fake thing.

581
00:36:36.700 --> 00:36:38.200
That's the real you he sees.

582
00:36:38.340 --> 00:36:42.060
The problem is you don't see the real you in Christ.

583
00:36:42.140 --> 00:36:48.440
So he spends all his time trying to introduce you to you, the real you in Jesus.

584
00:36:48.500 --> 00:36:50.260
And well, Lord, that's just not the way I am.

585
00:36:50.300 --> 00:36:52.340
And he goes, you don't know anything about how you are.

586
00:36:52.340 --> 00:36:57.820
You don't know yourself because you you only know yourself in your historical

587
00:36:57.820 --> 00:37:03.020
years up to now, much of which has been informed by the world or your old nature.

588
00:37:03.160 --> 00:37:06.260
So when he introduces you to the new you,

589
00:37:06.260 --> 00:37:10.460
which is, I think, part of what the Lord was saying, you do know that we're past all this.

590
00:37:10.540 --> 00:37:13.080
It's called taking every thought captive.

591
00:37:13.700 --> 00:37:14.960
What thoughts are we taking captive?

592
00:37:15.400 --> 00:37:18.720
The thoughts that don't belong in our in our space with God.

593
00:37:18.740 --> 00:37:21.040
We don't have those thoughts here. Right.

594
00:37:21.040 --> 00:37:23.300
It's like people who use, you know,

595
00:37:23.300 --> 00:37:27.780
really bad language and they go, well, I was just being authentic to the old self.

596
00:37:28.280 --> 00:37:31.980
Why would you use words that have venom in it to the outside?

597
00:37:32.120 --> 00:37:33.980
If I brought the president of the United

598
00:37:34.240 --> 00:37:38.500
States, regardless of which president it is, into your living room,

599
00:37:38.720 --> 00:37:40.720
you would not use language like that.

600
00:37:41.220 --> 00:37:42.820
You'd be on your best behavior.

601
00:37:42.920 --> 00:37:45.860
You'd be in a whole different space because the president,

602
00:37:46.220 --> 00:37:48.600
the difference here is this isn't the president.

603
00:37:48.600 --> 00:37:52.720
This is the creator of the universe and the lover of our soul and the one who knows

604
00:37:53.020 --> 00:37:56.640
you the best, loves you the most, who's with you.

605
00:37:56.740 --> 00:38:00.280
But he's trying to introduce you and he's trying to get agreement.

606
00:38:00.300 --> 00:38:05.040
When we say God allowing him to draw us in, it means agreeing with him

607
00:38:05.500 --> 00:38:09.360
about who he, what he's really like and who you really like.

608
00:38:10.060 --> 00:38:13.680
Oh, that's why when you see the beauty of Jesus, oh, I'm like that.

609
00:38:14.100 --> 00:38:15.160
Jesus is so peaceful.

610
00:38:15.220 --> 00:38:15.980
I'm peaceful.

611
00:38:16.680 --> 00:38:17.480
Jesus is joyful.

612
00:38:17.480 --> 00:38:19.600
I'm joyful as he is.

613
00:38:19.860 --> 00:38:24.660
So are you. So when you get to see, right, when you get to see his beauty,

614
00:38:24.680 --> 00:38:28.740
you get to see your own beauty as you discover God, you discover yourself.

615
00:38:28.740 --> 00:38:30.500
It's like an instant mirror.

616
00:38:31.180 --> 00:38:34.160
And it's like so the Lord says now in that note, those are not your thoughts.

617
00:38:34.200 --> 00:38:36.040
You know why? Because they're not his thoughts.

618
00:38:36.920 --> 00:38:38.520
When we were going through a tough thing

619
00:38:38.520 --> 00:38:41.380
and I know we've told the story several times, but it's useful here, I think.

620
00:38:41.920 --> 00:38:46.820
And that is when I'm talking to Graham in the midst of all this, I've been with three

621
00:38:46.820 --> 00:38:50.300
soul films through the day, I'm going through every imaginable thought.

622
00:38:50.520 --> 00:38:53.380
I feel like the scum of the earth in this moment.

623
00:38:55.240 --> 00:38:57.160
And Graham says to me, how are you doing?

624
00:38:57.340 --> 00:38:59.880
I said, Graham, I'm really worn out.

625
00:38:59.900 --> 00:39:01.140
And he said, no, you're not.

626
00:39:01.780 --> 00:39:05.240
And Bridget, like, nearly lost her mind, like, you have no idea.

627
00:39:05.440 --> 00:39:09.140
And she goes, you know, he was with attorneys and so on, very politely.

628
00:39:09.300 --> 00:39:13.000
But I could tell, I know Bridget well enough, she'd gone into lioness mode.

629
00:39:13.500 --> 00:39:14.540
Don't mess with my man.

630
00:39:15.060 --> 00:39:15.360
And

631
00:39:16.860 --> 00:39:17.380
and

632
00:39:18.740 --> 00:39:21.160
Bridget literally doesn't care who the person is on the other end.

633
00:39:21.240 --> 00:39:23.600
She's not impressed by titles, people, whatever.

634
00:39:23.700 --> 00:39:25.200
It doesn't impress her, never has.

635
00:39:25.980 --> 00:39:27.800
And and he just waited patiently.

636
00:39:27.900 --> 00:39:30.140
And he said, no, the reason I know you're

637
00:39:30.140 --> 00:39:32.740
not stressed out is because Jesus is not stressed out.

638
00:39:33.560 --> 00:39:35.400
So you're not stressed out.

639
00:39:35.680 --> 00:39:37.580
And as I've told the story many times,

640
00:39:38.180 --> 00:39:40.760
half an hour later, I'm not stressed out.

641
00:39:40.760 --> 00:39:41.320
What happened?

642
00:39:41.660 --> 00:39:43.320
Let's just break that down for a second.

643
00:39:43.320 --> 00:39:44.140
What happened?

644
00:39:45.060 --> 00:39:50.840
I took an old thought that I took ownership of again, that I learned from my old self

645
00:39:50.840 --> 00:39:54.240
or the world, or you're supposed to be stressed when you're being sued or whatever

646
00:39:54.240 --> 00:39:57.860
the thing is, it just doesn't matter when you're in a storm.

647
00:39:58.160 --> 00:39:59.560
Yeah, you're in a storm. Right.

648
00:39:59.580 --> 00:39:59.900
And of course.

649
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:01.760
He's sleeping in the storm, in the boat,

650
00:40:02.280 --> 00:40:03.480
which is, that's why he's sleeping,

651
00:40:03.600 --> 00:40:04.800
to invite you to rest too.

652
00:40:05.200 --> 00:40:07.640
So as you're going through that moment,

653
00:40:07.740 --> 00:40:10.360
and all Graham did was just create an alignment

654
00:40:10.360 --> 00:40:13.460
with what God is like, and therefore what you're like.

655
00:40:13.480 --> 00:40:18.420
I saw a beauty of what Jesus being unstressed

656
00:40:18.700 --> 00:40:20.320
in a stressful situation,

657
00:40:20.580 --> 00:40:23.400
therefore I am unstressed in a stressful situation.

658
00:40:23.700 --> 00:40:25.360
What could be stressful isn't.

659
00:40:26.180 --> 00:40:29.020
There is a storm brewing, and Jesus is sleeping.

660
00:40:29.860 --> 00:40:31.660
So when God isn't speaking to you in a storm,

661
00:40:31.760 --> 00:40:32.640
it's because he's resting,

662
00:40:32.760 --> 00:40:34.720
and he's inviting you to join him in the rest.

663
00:40:35.800 --> 00:40:37.040
And then to the amount you rest,

664
00:40:37.120 --> 00:40:38.620
you can speak peace to the storm,

665
00:40:38.800 --> 00:40:41.060
and then you can sail on in calm.

666
00:40:41.620 --> 00:40:44.100
So you get as much authority over the storm,

667
00:40:44.380 --> 00:40:46.840
depending on how you can rest through it.

668
00:40:47.900 --> 00:40:48.380
Powerful.

669
00:40:49.000 --> 00:40:50.880
So what happens in those things?

670
00:40:50.920 --> 00:40:53.120
So here's the question to you, very easy.

671
00:40:53.540 --> 00:40:57.500
My beloved Jesus, is he stressed?

672
00:40:58.060 --> 00:40:59.960
Is he worried about finances?

673
00:41:00.300 --> 00:41:02.580
Is he worried about losing that big client?

674
00:41:02.760 --> 00:41:04.720
Is he worried about that relational issue?

675
00:41:05.560 --> 00:41:07.640
What is his heart?

676
00:41:08.120 --> 00:41:10.680
As he is, so am I.

677
00:41:10.900 --> 00:41:13.320
So I agree with that beautiful thing in Jesus.

678
00:41:13.400 --> 00:41:15.380
That's why all beauty starts in Jesus.

679
00:41:15.380 --> 00:41:17.960
It's not about your identity, identity, identity.

680
00:41:18.020 --> 00:41:20.980
It's about his identity, and then what,

681
00:41:21.380 --> 00:41:22.440
therefore your identity.

682
00:41:22.600 --> 00:41:24.740
Yours is a derivative identity.

683
00:41:26.040 --> 00:41:27.200
That's the key.

684
00:41:27.460 --> 00:41:31.300
As I derive my identity from my beloved,

685
00:41:31.840 --> 00:41:33.800
I look into his face and I go,

686
00:41:34.340 --> 00:41:37.060
hey, he's not worn out, I'm not worn out.

687
00:41:37.540 --> 00:41:40.100
He's full of joy, I have his joy in me.

688
00:41:40.200 --> 00:41:41.980
So I'm gonna practice his joy.

689
00:41:42.380 --> 00:41:44.600
So I have nothing downstairs to be joyful about.

690
00:41:44.600 --> 00:41:45.880
That's not why you're being joyful.

691
00:41:46.240 --> 00:41:48.460
You're being joyful because Jesus is with you.

692
00:41:48.700 --> 00:41:49.960
Because the overcomer,

693
00:41:51.880 --> 00:41:54.720
when Jesus said, you will have trouble in this world,

694
00:41:54.720 --> 00:41:56.700
but be of good cheer, be happy,

695
00:41:57.060 --> 00:41:59.080
because I have overcome the world.

696
00:41:59.360 --> 00:42:01.920
So when the overcomer is with you,

697
00:42:02.220 --> 00:42:05.100
that's reason enough to be joyful.

698
00:42:06.220 --> 00:42:08.160
It's a paradigm shift.

699
00:42:08.980 --> 00:42:10.180
Now let me ask you, Christian,

700
00:42:10.280 --> 00:42:12.600
what on earth does the world,

701
00:42:13.380 --> 00:42:15.020
the flesh, or the devil for that matter,

702
00:42:15.360 --> 00:42:16.680
notice he's on the back of the line,

703
00:42:17.480 --> 00:42:19.980
what would he do with someone like that?

704
00:42:21.180 --> 00:42:24.400
Who looks, who stares fear dead in its face and just laughs,

705
00:42:24.400 --> 00:42:26.340
and says, well, he isn't fearful, so, meh.

706
00:42:27.120 --> 00:42:28.120
I'm not fearful.

707
00:42:29.440 --> 00:42:30.040
Powerful.

708
00:42:30.640 --> 00:42:32.840
I wanna make sure Stephanie, Lisa, or Rebecca,

709
00:42:33.900 --> 00:42:36.180
questions while we got Dionne on here.

710
00:42:37.420 --> 00:42:39.200
And Rebecca, you can swap me out.

711
00:42:40.880 --> 00:42:42.300
I don't have any questions.

712
00:42:43.580 --> 00:42:46.540
I just wanna say thank you, Dionne.

713
00:42:47.620 --> 00:42:50.600
When you were telling the story of the Shulamite woman,

714
00:42:51.440 --> 00:42:56.780
it was as if God was saying, that's you, that's you.

715
00:42:57.160 --> 00:43:00.080
And you brought me to tears, and I wanna say thank you.

716
00:43:01.640 --> 00:43:04.880
I've been a believer for over 20 years,

717
00:43:05.400 --> 00:43:10.780
and I have to keep remembering how much peace I had

718
00:43:10.780 --> 00:43:12.020
when I first got saved.

719
00:43:13.400 --> 00:43:15.480
Nothing bothered me.

720
00:43:15.540 --> 00:43:16.560
Absolutely nothing.

721
00:43:17.040 --> 00:43:19.720
And I have, I keep going back to the old me,

722
00:43:19.720 --> 00:43:21.200
like you said, the downstairs.

723
00:43:21.880 --> 00:43:26.640
And as I've gone through the Mind of a Saint,

724
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I wanna call it a program conference in the app,

725
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it's very, it's in alignment with what you talked about.

726
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And knowing that everything's gonna be beautiful.

727
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I mean, I've never set goals in my life before,

728
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because I made it more difficult than it needed to be.

729
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And I actually watched the legacy of Bob Proctor,

730
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and he talked about the secret and all that,

731
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and it's biblical.

732
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And he said, the secret is just write up a goal card.

733
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What are your goals?

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And speak them over yourself all the time.

735
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Guess what I got?

736
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I got a goal card.

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And knowing that I don't have to worry

738
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about finances anymore.

739
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I don't have to worry about my future husband,

740
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God's working it, and it's gonna show up,

741
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I don't know when, I've got a goal.

742
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We'll see if it happens in my timeline.

743
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If not, that's okay.

744
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But it's having that,

745
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I'm excited to have that peace again, and thank you.

746
00:44:41.440 --> 00:44:42.440
Oh, you're most welcome.

747
00:44:44.920 --> 00:44:47.840
One of the things I think we're learning is that

748
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in this space, his dreams for us are bigger than our dreams,

749
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because our dreams are based on our history.

750
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And we tend to try to get permission from our

751
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:05.620
past for our future, right? So we look at our past and say, well, sometimes I trusted

752
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and it didn't work out, sometimes I didn't, you know, it didn't work out. So we scale

753
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down and then we kind of add a zero to make it look like faith. What he's actually doing

754
00:45:17.100 --> 00:45:23.060
is when we put that aside and say, Lord, what's your dream for me right now? And we can call

755
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it a goal if we like. What I found is when I do the downstairs, when I do a goal, I project

756
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from my past into my future. When God gives me a goal, he goes from his heart, which knows

757
00:45:38.640 --> 00:45:43.280
the plans he has for me, plans to bless me and prosper, give me a hope and a future.

758
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And he shares a piece of that for me that won't distract me. Because if he tells me

759
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too much, I'd get the wrong idea, go in the wrong direction. I'd make strategic errors.

760
00:45:54.060 --> 00:45:58.260
Sometimes he tells you a lot, sometimes he tells you a little. What's he doing? He's

761
00:45:58.260 --> 00:46:03.480
drawing you into himself. He keeps drawing in. So what he'll do is he'll talk to you

762
00:46:03.480 --> 00:46:07.500
at a certain level, then he just stops talking at that level. Ray, you and I have talked

763
00:46:07.500 --> 00:46:13.220
about this, right? What's he doing? He's drawing you into a higher level. So what worked before.

764
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So when you're first saved, it's like, you know, it's very instructional, like, you know,

765
00:46:18.140 --> 00:46:22.600
you're learning obedience, like obedient child. Good. And then that stops working.

766
00:46:23.860 --> 00:46:28.920
And he stops because he pulls you into himself and the silence draws you in. And then you

767
00:46:28.920 --> 00:46:34.760
start asking very, very different questions. So instead of saying, Lord, what must I do?

768
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You start saying, Lord, who must I be? And then you start asking, Lord, what are we doing

769
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together? Who am I becoming in you? Lord, what is it about my learning that you love

770
00:46:47.400 --> 00:46:54.360
right now? What is it about who I'm becoming next that you love? And I love pleasing you.

771
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I love making you happy, Jesus. Tell me, what are we, you know, what are we doing, who we're

772
00:47:00.760 --> 00:47:07.640
being together? When we realize it's not him and me trying to get it right, or try to get

773
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it less wrong. It's not about that. It's about the togetherness. That's the thing for him.

774
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So when he shares his dream, he doesn't rely on your history. He relies, he relies on his

775
00:47:21.140 --> 00:47:27.840
heart and on what you are fashioned and purposed for. And it's the big mistake I've seen a

776
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lot of Christian businesses make as they try to build out the big dream, the down the road,

777
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the 20 years down the road. In my personal experience, he can give you a word. But if

778
00:47:39.380 --> 00:47:44.520
God gives you a prophetic word, it starts today. It's for now. So it's not like, oh,

779
00:47:44.520 --> 00:47:48.020
God gave me a word, and it's for 20 years in the future. No, he gave it to you today

780
00:47:48.020 --> 00:47:53.840
because you were ready for it today. It's already starting to step into its functioning.

781
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And the reason he introduced you to it now is so that you would engage him and start

782
00:47:59.320 --> 00:48:05.140
taking that, he's drawing you in up all the time. So God calls, it's like Egypt, he calls

783
00:48:05.140 --> 00:48:10.000
us out of the old, and then you go into the desert. That's where you find God, right?

784
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Into the new, and then he calls us up. So what happens is once Egypt's gone, and we're

785
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in the desert, then we sometimes have the wishing for Egypt days. Back in the old days,

786
00:48:23.340 --> 00:48:30.280
we had food, meat to eat, you know, then we, what comes into question in the desert? Why

787
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did God bring us out here to die? What is that? An accusation against his character,

788
00:48:35.700 --> 00:48:40.600
against his nature. So God settles you in his nature, then he takes you into the promised

789
00:48:40.380 --> 00:48:49.340
land. So what I'm saying is when you're talking about goals and dreams, it's a great, it's

790
00:48:49.340 --> 00:48:56.760
a great question to ask him, Lord, what is your dream for me right now that we're working

791
00:48:56.760 --> 00:49:00.580
on together? Not that you want me to do for you, he doesn't want you to do stuff for him,

792
00:49:00.600 --> 00:49:05.980
he wants you to do stuff with him. So what is it you have for me now? And you could even

793
00:49:05.980 --> 00:49:09.940
go to him and say, hey, I have this card, how does that sound to you? And he might say

794
00:49:09.940 --> 00:49:14.740
I love it. And he might say, nope, not even close. That's okay.

795
00:49:15.480 --> 00:49:20.040
That's awesome. Because through this, and you talk that he's the bridegroom, and I'm

796
00:49:20.180 --> 00:49:26.920
the bride. And I, and I knew that, from a knowledge perspective. Yet, when you went

797
00:49:26.920 --> 00:49:33.980
through the story, it's like, now I have someone to talk to, and ask deeper questions. What

798
00:49:33.980 --> 00:49:39.160
it said, what does he have for me? And, and in the past, I kept saying, I don't know the

799
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right questions. Because that was downstairs thinking of what the world has drilled into

800
00:49:45.600 --> 00:49:52.020
my head for me to believe that's not true. So now, I actually have a husband, and I know

801
00:49:51.960 --> 00:49:59.900
that. But it's, I don't know, it's just, it's been a whirlwind of just awesomeness. So I'm

802
00:49:59.900 --> 00:49:59.980
excited.

803
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:01.180
I did. Thank you.

804
00:50:01.260 --> 00:50:04.500
Well done. Yeah. You could ask him Lord, what question would

805
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you like me to ask you? It's like chat GPT. I don't know what

806
00:50:09.460 --> 00:50:12.400
question to ask. What would be the greatest question to ask you

807
00:50:12.400 --> 00:50:15.840
chat GPT to get the highest quality answer? Well, this is

808
00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:20.960
not chat GPT. This is the kingdom which is eternal. So I've

809
00:50:20.960 --> 00:50:23.440
gone to the Lord said Lord, I don't even know what question to

810
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ask you right now. But you know, because you know what, you're in

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charge of my learning. I'm not in charge of my learning. Yay. I

812
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want you to feel so free and so loved and but I'd love you

813
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tonight. The invitation from the Lord was in my heart as I

814
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partnered with his heart was that you settled in completely

815
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relaxed in his presence, moving to the castle, make it your

816
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don't ever leave.

817
00:50:57.340 --> 00:51:00.560
And, and Dion, that story is that Song of Solomon, right?

818
00:51:01.840 --> 00:51:06.040
Yeah, yes. For those that may not know the reference of its

819
00:51:06.040 --> 00:51:11.140
Song of Solomon, the Shulamite woman. Yeah. Stephanie or

820
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Rebecca? Anything? Any questions, comments?

821
00:51:15.260 --> 00:51:18.700
I know. I don't have any questions. I just same as Lisa,

822
00:51:18.700 --> 00:51:25.440
I feel really grateful. I boxed Ray a couple weeks ago. I hit

823
00:51:25.440 --> 00:51:30.260
me tonight, like, how far we've come. I'm like, just in Lisa's

824
00:51:30.840 --> 00:51:35.580
speaking and what she's saying. And like, when I started this, I

825
00:51:35.580 --> 00:51:38.680
felt like a toddler and like, the way that you've spoken

826
00:51:38.680 --> 00:51:41.680
about God has been totally different from what I've heard

827
00:51:41.820 --> 00:51:46.460
all my life, and that it's not performative. And then I was

828
00:51:46.460 --> 00:51:48.400
telling Ray, like, I thought I was coming to the mastermind to

829
00:51:48.400 --> 00:51:52.060
like, perform and, and do the things. And what it's been is

830
00:51:52.060 --> 00:51:56.980
it's been an undoing. And it's been. At first, it was like, so

831
00:51:56.980 --> 00:52:00.720
frustrating. And I was wrestling with myself around it. And then

832
00:52:00.720 --> 00:52:03.920
there came a surrender point. And just to what you're

833
00:52:03.920 --> 00:52:08.280
speaking to tonight, about him taking you into the desert,

834
00:52:08.460 --> 00:52:13.060
like, that's how I felt. And I've noticed, it got me teary

835
00:52:13.060 --> 00:52:17.520
tonight of like, just the way that I'm relating to things that

836
00:52:17.520 --> 00:52:20.720
are happening in my life and the relationship that I have

837
00:52:20.720 --> 00:52:24.640
with him of relaxing and settling that place of like,

838
00:52:24.880 --> 00:52:29.300
when he's not speaking to you, like rest. I'm finally starting

839
00:52:29.560 --> 00:52:35.260
to like, get to that place of like, oh, like, first time Ray

840
00:52:35.260 --> 00:52:39.120
was like, he has peace. So I have peace. When you were

841
00:52:39.120 --> 00:52:41.580
telling the money story. I was like, that sounds so fantastic.

842
00:52:41.580 --> 00:52:47.180
I'm so happy for you for that. I am not there. And that'd be

843
00:52:47.180 --> 00:52:51.280
great. Like, that's a great place to get to. And now I feel

844
00:52:51.280 --> 00:52:55.320
like, wow, I'm starting to experience like, what you were

845
00:52:55.840 --> 00:53:00.360
saying to Lisa about goals, like, it is all in the past. And

846
00:53:00.360 --> 00:53:02.920
there's a lot of habits that I've had based on my old

847
00:53:02.920 --> 00:53:06.760
identity that come up. And like, they're just habits. That's all

848
00:53:06.760 --> 00:53:12.980
like, it's just there. And so like, I don't know what the like

849
00:53:12.980 --> 00:53:17.180
how the new me moves in this. And like, I'm figuring all that

850
00:53:17.180 --> 00:53:21.360
out. But it's a, it's been just a profound journey. And I just

851
00:53:21.360 --> 00:53:25.780
want to say thank you, because I never ever thought I would be

852
00:53:25.780 --> 00:53:26.840
here at this place.

853
00:53:27.480 --> 00:53:32.580
Well, firstly, well done. And as you're speaking, I just want you

854
00:53:32.580 --> 00:53:37.520
to be aware, Stephanie, that you're not trying to get to that

855
00:53:37.520 --> 00:53:41.920
place, you are in place because you're in Christ. So I know that

856
00:53:41.920 --> 00:53:44.580
we learned we have to get somewhere because downstairs,

857
00:53:44.840 --> 00:53:47.480
that's how it works. We are learning goes in graduated

858
00:53:47.460 --> 00:53:52.340
steps. And we learn towards something upstairs, we start in

859
00:53:52.340 --> 00:53:55.860
fullness and learn to live in it. You know, so it is a

860
00:53:55.860 --> 00:53:59.880
completely different and I know you, I can see you got that. I'm

861
00:53:59.880 --> 00:54:02.560
just wanting to take the pressure off like, well, one day

862
00:54:02.560 --> 00:54:06.440
when I'm there, the kingdom is always now and the kingdom is

863
00:54:06.440 --> 00:54:13.120
normal. Meaning this isn't some special thing. What a master

864
00:54:13.440 --> 00:54:19.680
mind class does is it helps you access kingdom acceleration. So

865
00:54:19.680 --> 00:54:22.460
it compresses your learning from this, it doesn't take you 30

866
00:54:22.460 --> 00:54:26.620
years like it took me. So this year, I've been a believer for

867
00:54:26.620 --> 00:54:31.920
47 years, and I've had a mentor, and 48 years, and I've had a

868
00:54:33.080 --> 00:54:38.340
So the question is, can I could have I skipped 30 of those years

869
00:54:38.380 --> 00:54:44.840
probably, maybe 40 of them. And so that's the joy. Almost all of

870
00:54:44.840 --> 00:54:49.560
it is in what I spoke of tonight. And so I love that for

871
00:54:49.560 --> 00:54:51.940
you. That's really, really cool. Yeah.

872
00:54:52.760 --> 00:54:57.560
One, one thing, you know, the scripture is let the Prince of

873
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rain, it's not learn

874
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It's not get it already. It's not, you know, go get there and let him, you know, it's let it's just let

875
00:55:07.940 --> 00:55:13.820
Yeah, and so what I'm finding that I'm not letting peace reign. I

876
00:55:13.820 --> 00:55:15.520
just need to

877
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Back up and just let and be like, okay

878
00:55:19.200 --> 00:55:25.480
Let me not focus on the situation. Let me focus on God seek he first the kingdom of God and and all of a sudden

879
00:55:25.980 --> 00:55:27.700
Not a big deal

880
00:55:28.480 --> 00:55:30.780
Another word might be give permission

881
00:55:31.900 --> 00:55:34.020
You know letting is giving permission

882
00:55:34.600 --> 00:55:40.580
It's you aligning your will God will never override your will he would never break your sovereign being status

883
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Because he doesn't want a relationship with a robot. He wants with you and

884
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So he's always always

885
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Luring you in drawing you deep and in the kindest uses goodness and kindness to bring you to repentance

886
00:55:53.640 --> 00:56:00.420
What is repentance agreeing with God about me that you co-know-yourself the same way God knows you

887
00:56:00.420 --> 00:56:03.360
That's it. That's repentance in the New Covenant

888
00:56:04.320 --> 00:56:10.900
Repentance is stepping into where you should be who you actually are in Jesus

889
00:56:12.040 --> 00:56:16.540
Repentance in the Old Testament is saying sorry for the stuff you did wrong

890
00:56:17.420 --> 00:56:22.220
So that's a completely different thing. So the way repentance would sound

891
00:56:22.780 --> 00:56:29.140
In the new if I were to draw it out to bring all the elements together and I've done something really dumb right this minute

892
00:56:29.140 --> 00:56:31.240
I would say

893
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Father thank you that I'm dead to that dumb thing. I just did and I'm alive to you

894
00:56:38.440 --> 00:56:40.880
Thank you that I'm already completely forgiven

895
00:56:41.360 --> 00:56:44.380
Thank you that you have completely cleansed me and

896
00:56:45.460 --> 00:56:51.940
Thank you that you're teaching me how to walk in the new thing. So what would the opposite of the dumb thing be? Oh

897
00:56:51.940 --> 00:56:57.540
That's beautiful. That's who I am. I get it and suddenly the sin

898
00:56:57.720 --> 00:57:01.500
Brings a revelation of Jesus of beauty and therefore your new nature in him

899
00:57:02.760 --> 00:57:05.660
How how tough is that? So every time the enemy?

900
00:57:06.320 --> 00:57:08.380
Yeah when the enemy so people say

901
00:57:09.800 --> 00:57:14.460
You know because the sin fixation is a visitational idea and

902
00:57:15.250 --> 00:57:21.010
And the can you in the you just quoted the verse seek ye first the kingdom of God and his

903
00:57:21.110 --> 00:57:28.050
Righteousness, you could add in you the inference in the scripture. There is in you seek the right his righteousness in you

904
00:57:29.270 --> 00:57:31.170
Mm-hmm. Now what happens is oh

905
00:57:32.170 --> 00:57:35.830
I've been given the gift of righteousness. I didn't earn it. You can't earn a gift

906
00:57:36.590 --> 00:57:42.810
Right you you but you've got to learn the gift, right? So if I gave Ray a brand new laptop and

907
00:57:42.900 --> 00:57:45.720
But it has no operating system

908
00:57:46.520 --> 00:57:48.660
My picking on a sore spot, right?

909
00:57:50.020 --> 00:57:56.860
If I gave Ray a brand new laptop, but they had no operating system and no buttons and no keyboard it ran entirely on AI

910
00:57:57.720 --> 00:57:59.780
It's the most genius thing ever

911
00:58:00.120 --> 00:58:04.520
Is that it's it's it's a million times more powerful than any laptop out there

912
00:58:04.520 --> 00:58:08.540
It'd be of no use to him whatsoever. He didn't learn how to use that gift

913
00:58:09.640 --> 00:58:11.400
That's a bit like is in the kingdom

914
00:58:11.400 --> 00:58:14.180
God has given you the gift of righteousness

915
00:58:14.560 --> 00:58:16.440
Righteousness is how you access everything

916
00:58:17.160 --> 00:58:19.740
If you think he just didn't just give you himself

917
00:58:19.740 --> 00:58:25.400
He gave you the mind of Christ, which means you said well, I can't think in that way. Actually you can

918
00:58:26.360 --> 00:58:34.580
What if it's not hard to live in fellowship with the Lord? Oh, hang on. Somebody said it was easy and light

919
00:58:35.380 --> 00:58:41.420
Let's join that decision, let's say yes to that plan. Oh the Christian life is so hard Jesus

920
00:58:43.460 --> 00:58:44.580
Disrespectfully disagrees

921
00:58:47.080 --> 00:58:51.020
It's not hard he paid with his life to make it easy for you

922
00:58:52.000 --> 00:58:55.460
He's bright. I know we're a few minutes over but

923
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Right as always a lot of fun to hang out with you guys. I always enjoy it

924
00:59:00.500 --> 00:59:05.580
Thanks for taking this this talk on its maiden voyage tonight

925
00:59:06.020 --> 00:59:10.540
It was awesome DM. Will you will you pray us out? Is that all right for sure?

926
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Father

927
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Tonight just it's just a sweet sense of your joy

928
00:59:24.840 --> 00:59:28.780
Lord just the atmosphere of belief of peace

929
00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:32.460
Your kindness to us is extraordinary

930
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Thank you Jesus that you gave your life so we could go and live in the fortress in the castle with you

931
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Thank you that you've given us your peace and your joy the joy and peace in believing

932
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Lord, what a great gift. Thank you Lord that you just packaged all the gifts up

933
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Put them all in Jesus then put us in Jesus so we couldn't miss a single one

934
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What an extraordinary thing you've done

935
00:59:57.060 --> 00:59:59.980
Lord we stand amazed at our salvation

936
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:03.420
the goodness of the gospel, the kindness of your heart.

937
01:00:04.620 --> 01:00:06.440
Thank you for these folks, Lord, tonight,

938
01:00:06.520 --> 01:00:09.780
and those who are listening in the replay.

939
01:00:11.000 --> 01:00:14.200
Thank you, Father, that they are stepping

940
01:00:14.200 --> 01:00:17.400
into the full freedom that Jesus already set them free into.

941
01:00:18.380 --> 01:00:19.520
Lord, they're being transformed

942
01:00:19.520 --> 01:00:22.220
into this new place in Jesus.

943
01:00:22.960 --> 01:00:24.320
Lord, we thank you for the gift.

944
01:00:24.460 --> 01:00:26.900
Now we wanna learn to use the gift,

945
01:00:27.100 --> 01:00:29.700
and we thank you in Jesus' name, amen.

946
01:00:30.480 --> 01:00:32.760
Amen, love it, thank you, thank you.

947
01:00:32.800 --> 01:00:34.640
I had a great, as I was saying,

948
01:00:34.920 --> 01:00:36.880
that funny picture popped into a story

949
01:00:36.880 --> 01:00:38.160
I told my little granddaughter,

950
01:00:39.060 --> 01:00:41.860
two goldfish in one of those round fish bowls,

951
01:00:41.900 --> 01:00:42.980
you know, that looks like a windshield,

952
01:00:43.480 --> 01:00:44.560
two goldfish in a windfield,

953
01:00:44.600 --> 01:00:46.020
the one fish turns to the other one and says,

954
01:00:46.400 --> 01:00:47.500
how do you drive this thing?

955
01:00:48.180 --> 01:00:50.360
You know, so it's a little bit like that in the kingdom.

956
01:00:50.480 --> 01:00:51.520
Where are the controls?

957
01:00:52.240 --> 01:00:54.960
There are no controls, you just have to be with him.

958
01:00:55.580 --> 01:00:57.240
There's no way to drive this thing.

959
01:00:57.520 --> 01:00:58.680
Guys, thank you so much.

960
01:00:59.400 --> 01:00:59.660
Thanks.

961
01:01:01.520 --> 01:01:04.440
And guys, if you have anything, feel free to box me.

962
01:01:04.580 --> 01:01:05.660
You know, I'm here for you.

963
01:01:05.940 --> 01:01:07.660
And just really, really good.

964
01:01:07.960 --> 01:01:08.800
Appreciate you guys showing up.

965
01:01:09.080 --> 01:01:10.500
Thank you, Rebecca, you're amazing.

966
01:01:10.940 --> 01:01:11.440
Thanks guys.

967
01:01:12.200 --> 01:01:13.700
Thank you guys, awesome.