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Good morning.
Welcome to the Prosper Power Hour.
This is one of my favorite times of the week.
Of course, I had so much fun yesterday.
Those of you that weren't there catch
the replay for the partner with God in business.
We went through the nine areas that as a faith-based founder,
are we really, is God part of those nine areas?
Are they spirit-led?
Are we receiving divine creativity, supernatural,
just spirit flowing through those nine areas of business?
Or I kind of came up with a new one.
Are we pray-and-go founders?
We send out a quick prayer.
God, please bless my day.
Please help my finances, take care of my children,
keep me safe, get me well, whatever.
We shoot out kind of the, I don't know,
I call it Santa Claus in the sky kind of prayers,
a Christmas list.
And then live the rest of the day and week
in our own strength.
And so the beauty of the Prosper Power Hour
is that God showed four areas.
When we bring heaven and earth together,
the heaven side was promise to be learning
a new promise every week.
So you are just filled with the promises of God
and you stand on those promises of God.
Principle, that you're building your business
as a faith-based founder on biblical principles
and not just what the most recent guru is teaching
or the fads or all of that.
So promise, principle, prayer.
And then of course, practice,
because faith without works is dead
if we're not putting it into practice.
So this hour, this power hour, it's called a power hour
because it's broken into four 15-minute segments, all right?
And so I had started originally with prayer
and I decided, no, the prayer will be more powerful
if we base it on the promise and the principle.
And then we just really seal it with prayer
and then we go into practice.
So this is your time and place to put in,
do we have any praise reports
and do we have any prayer requests?
And you can speak it.
Also, ideally, if you pop it in the chat,
I saved the chat reports as part of my praying
over you guys.
So pop in there.
If there's a praise, if there's a prayer request,
let's do a quick, quick review and jump right in.
So I talked about the rhythm, the prayer cadence
that we're doing every week at these,
the promise, the principle, the prayer, the practice.
And let's review for a second
so we don't forget the promises.
We don't want them to come and go.
So I especially like what we opened with in week one.
How many of you have been really standing on Psalms 103?
I like to call that God's benefit package, right?
Who remembers Psalms 103 and just the benefit package
it talks about, forget not his benefits.
When you walk with God, there are benefits.
And so who remembers the benefits
in the benefit package of Psalms 103?
Call them out if you remember.
Do you remember any of the benefit package
that we could be standing on, praying on?
Any of you remember those?
I'm looking it up right now.
And it talks about he who forgives all sins
and heals all your diseases.
Good, good.
So I think I did it in the Amplified
and or the Passion Translation.
I think I did it in the Amplified.
And so in the Amplified, it goes like this.
He forgives your sins, all your sins.
He heals all your diseases.
He redeems you from the pit,
crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies,
satisfies you with good.
I love this one.
Renews your youth, right?
And brings righteousness and justice.
So when you remember that, when you're praying,
you can stand on that and say,
God, you heal all my diseases.
You forgive all my sins.
You crown me, you pull me out of the pit.
Whatever that pit is, the pit of depression
or debt or whatever, you satisfy me with good things.
Right? Other promises gives us the desires of our heart.
You, you renew my youth.
You can stand on that.
When you, when you pray the word,
scripture says that his word never returns void.
So you send that word out and it's a giant boomerang.
It comes back with fruit, right?
And last week,
we also talked about the promise of Romans eight.
Any of you remember Romans eight, 37 to 39?
What the promise was we stood on last week.
Do you remember that?
Anybody?
Boy, it's a good thing we meet every week.
Keep your mind fixed on this.
Isaiah 43, I'm sorry, Romans eight, 37 to 39.
Remember it talks about us being more than conquerors.
And the beauty I read yesterday,
God had me read the entire chapter of Romans eight.
And I read it in the passion translation.
And I was shocked.
It's like five pages long in your Bible.
Romans eight is long.
That's gotta be one of Paul's greatest discourses.
And it's so strong.
And really to read it in the passion translation,
if you haven't done that yet,
read all of Romans eight in the passion translation.
It's incredible.
But anyway, last week we talked about Romans eight
and it was the idea that nothing can separate us
from the love of God, right?
In Christ Jesus, that was the promise.
Okay, ready for today's promise?
Who's ready?
Say ready.
Ready for today's promise?
Okay, today's promise is Isaiah 43 and it's 18 and 19.
And God really has been speaking to me about this.
And I did a whole study.
I like doing studies when God brings something to light
to just say, okay, let me just see the whole counsel of God
on this topic.
And the study was how many times God is doing a new thing.
How many times God is doing a new thing.
And so that's what Isaiah 43, 18 and 19 is.
And it says, behold, I'm doing a new thing.
I want you to really get this
because, and we're gonna go deeper in it in a second,
but first of all, just pause.
The Bible says, set law, pause and think about that.
See law.
Behold, I'm doing a new thing.
This is so important because we as humans
get stuck in the old thing.
The way we've always done it.
The way it's always been done.
The words that were spoken over us as a child,
the beliefs that we bought into,
the things that have happened in the past,
we immediately go to the old thing.
Oh, I tried that before, it didn't work.
Oh, I know that, right?
We go into the old thing.
The contrast that God wants is faith is meant to be fresh.
Your faith is meant to be fresh, not stale, not moldy,
not what you learned when you were seven years old
if you were blessed enough to learn it
when you were young like that.
So behold, I'm doing a new thing.
And then it says, now it springs forth.
So with a new thing, it's always popping up.
You know, every spring, the new plants come,
the new leaves come, right?
But here's the interesting part of that verse.
It says, do you not perceive it?
So God can be doing a new thing,
but if you don't perceive it, you don't even know
because you're stuck in the old thing.
And so I like to say we don't,
often we don't live 70 years.
We live the same year 70 times
because we're stuck for things to change.
We have to change for them to change.
We have to perceive what God is doing in this season.
The season is not the same as last season.
Many people are still trying to build their business
with gurus who are teaching stuff from 2020.
That doesn't work.
anymore or 2015 even worse yet so they're doing business the old way they're doing relationships
they're thinking the old way right and so behold I'm doing a new thing that's the first
promise is that God is always doing a new thing in your life it springs forth but first
we have to perceive it remember last week I talked about the five senses that we have
five senses in the natural we see we hear we you know we touch we taste we smell in
scripture it says that we have five spiritual senses and so scripture tells us to walk by
faith and not by sight scripture tells us Paul prayed that he would open the eyes of our heart
that we can perceive that's what this is talking about to perceive is to see with the inner eye
to see with the spirit of God to see through the lens to you know Jesus said you have eyes
but you don't see you have ears but you don't hear because they're relying on the natural what
they see which deceives us if you look at railroad tracks in a distant it looks like
they're coming together closer and closer in the distance they are not they are equally
spaced right looks like the horizon goes right into the ocean it is not right so looks like
the world is flat well that's up for debate but anyway the whole idea is that God's doing
something new and we need to perceive it and then it goes on to say this is so cool part of the
promise so the promise you're holding on to is God you're doing a new thing help me to perceive it
is the prayer and then here's even more of the promise I will make a way in the wilderness
and if you feel wilderness sometimes desert be it clients or funding or energy or whatever you
ever feel like you're in the wilderness God is saying here in Isaiah 43 I God I will make a way
in the wilderness and check this out rivers in the desert what appears dry or barren can be filled
instantly with life instantly and so maybe your old belief says it's gonna take a long time and
God's going no I can do it in an instant and your old thinking you know is is saying it's going to
be hard and God is saying no not for me is there anything too hard for me God says right so this
promise to remember and it's about perception will you not perceive it and I think about the
story of Hagar and you know she's it's it's it's in my book cast out the slave woman right when
she's cast out and she goes to the desert to die with limited water gives her son the water and
prepares to die she's in the desert there's no water and God opens her eyes there it is perception
spiritual eyes God opens her eyes and suddenly there's a well right there I would propose the
there all along she didn't have the eyes to see it until God opened her eyes and that's why we
talked last week about praying in our spiritual senses that will truly see stop relying on your
natural senses they deceive you and begin to ask God that you'll perceive the new thing and so I'll
send you for reference in the notes afterwards but I started looking at all the times God says new
thing in Ezekiel 36 26 he gives us a new heart he gives us a new spirit and I love that he talks
about replacing our our heart of stone with a heart of flesh and you know there's science to that
when we're stuck in the past you know you've probably seen the scriptural story when uh
turned and looked to the past and she turned into a pillar of salt that's science we calcify
when we are stuck in the past we get wrinkles we get linking that happens we get calcified in our
heart and so God's talking about this heart of stone we live
literally have seen, you know, they've dissected Pharaoh's artery, the one that God said that
he had a heart of stone and literally the arteries were calcified.
They were stone.
Still there when they did the science and dissected that.
You understand that this is real physically, spiritually, scientifically, and so God's
doing a new thing.
He's giving us a new heart and a new spirit.
2 Corinthians 5.17 says he makes us a new creation.
The old is gone.
Let me tell you, when God came into your life, what's different?
Are you still living as the old creation or the new one?
In Matthew 26, new covenant.
In John 13, a new command to love one another.
So let's just anchor this promise in.
Behold, I'm doing a new thing.
That's your promise this week.
God, you're doing a new thing.
God, help me perceive the new thing.
God, what's the new thing you're doing in business?
God, what's the new thing you're doing in whatever you're being called to serve in?
That's how you become a thought leader, not a parrot.
That's how God begins change.
You know, the stuff he downloads to me when he showed me the nine areas in yesterday's
call that need to be different.
I haven't seen that anywhere.
God just started showing me, okay, is this different?
Is this different?
Are you doing that like the world?
That's how you become a thought leader.
I think that's why with a week's notice, instantly 40 people registered.
No notice, no marketing, no funnels, no, you know, advertising.
Because it was fresh, it wasn't parroted.
And that's what God's calling you.
He's doing a new thing.
Now it springs forth, will you perceive it?
God, open the eyes of our heart, like Paul prayed, that we can perceive with the eyes
of our heart, right?
The new way that you're doing.
You're bringing rivers in this desert.
So let's do a really quick declaration and let's move on.
I know I'm talking a long time here.
Is that helpful?
Yeah?
Yes.
I love how passionate you are, Brenda, in it.
And I felt that the word new has been coming to me over the last week and the scripture
of you don't pour into old wineskins.
And so I have, I have known that.
I love that.
He's confirming for you and what a great verse to bring up because he talks about not putting
new wine.
God's given us new wine in old wineskins.
What a perfect setup right there.
Because for yesterday's business, isn't that what I was saying?
We're taking an old wineskin, the way business has always been done, right?
And we're trying to put new wine in it if we have the new wine, because we're walking
in that.
I love that, Marisa.
Thank you.
Yeah.
I am super passionate about that.
I got the scripture, the same one that you were talking about, Isaiah 43, 18, this morning
when I was praying in spirit quietly.
I love how God is just preparing all of us together.
New thing.
I love that.
He's speaking to those who are listening.
I texted one of my clients in New York and I was telling her, God's doing a new thing
in your life.
And she wrote back and she says, that's what I've been feeling.
That's what I've been speaking.
And like, she's got like three companies.
That's what I've been speaking.
And so you see, this is when we tune into the spirit, you start getting the confirmations
and the revelation.
I love that.
Let's do a little declaration real quick.
I'm going to say God is doing a new thing and you're going to say, I perceive it.
Okay.
Are you ready?
God is doing a new thing.
I perceive it.
Love it.
How about the next one?
I'm going to say he makes a way.
You're going to say, I walk in it.
He makes a way.
I walk in it.
Love it.
Thank you guys for unmuting and participating.
I love it.
Okay.
I want to jump into the principle real quick and then we're going to really pray and don't
forget to put your prayer requests and your praise requests.
Okay.
Let's, let's combine.
Oldly to the throne of grace. Let's not treat this like
You know just another check on our list. Let's truly truly
Brenda mine is twofold today. So it's praiseworthy and prayer. Oh good. So, um
Praising that I get to be one of the speakers this friday at a networking event
Um, a friend of mine is posting a speed networking. So instead of speed dating we're speed networking
And i'm honored to be one of the speakers so prayer that my my
Speech reaches those ears and hearts that need to hear it
Um, so yeah, just praise and prayer for both of that, please
Awesome. Awesome. Okay. Did everybody write that down marisa put a little note in the chat just to remind me to marisa
Okay. Okay. Yes. All right. Anybody else praise or prayer requests?
Anybody else? Thank you for
For sharing that anybody else
Continued dana, are you in your place? Do we have a praise report about that?
You're muted
No, but I had a really good meeting yesterday, so i'm in prayer about my meeting yesterday with yako boyan's ministry
Okay. So are we still praying for you to find the place?
Okay, so dana we're as far as my as far as my business lane
I love I love my place where i'm at with my girlfriend right now
Oh, okay. So you do have the so that's a praise report. You have a place that you're staying now
Yes, okay. So that's a praise report. We were praying for that the first week or two
Okay, and so that part has been great. I'm just i'm going to be meeting with a really good friend of mine a very
Um, he's been very successful in business. So i'm here at my office
Okay, and i'll be meeting with david valier today. So if you guys can pray for that. I had a meeting yesterday
um was a divine
Connection with yako boyan's ministry. So yako wants to get together and have coffee with me and meet with the team
so
um, i'm just I need to have um,
I want to get my debt completely cleared and I want to be able to be in the right
with the right company, okay
okay, so
Can you put in the chat real quick? Are you able to?
Just so that we have a printout that I send to everybody so because people didn't make it today
So what we're praying for for you is is is clarity for for business for your next business move
Okay, got it. Good
anybody else
I met with the physical therapist yesterday for the first time
So i'm great that that's a major praise because they didn't have an opening till a month after the cast
came off
um, the prayer would be total healing because
As they did the exam they're saying well, my goal is to get this movement to 50
Percent this to x percent and and i'm listening to her and it's like why not have a hundred percent
You know, okay
So so it would be total healing of my arm
total healing
Good and I would use psalms 103 you heal. It's not a disease, but it's the same. It's an injury you heal all
Jesus you could do a whole study on all the times. Someone has said jesus healed all the word all was always there
It was always complete
It was all that asked and it was all in that it was complete
So we'll continue to pray and if you could pop it in the chat just so we have record. That'd be amazing
Okay, um jennifer. I know I think are you still driving? I'm not sure it looks like i'm parked now
Oh, you're parked. Okay. So do you have any praise or prayer requests?
um
I am asking for prayer, uh for my husband
Um, he
Was let go from his job that he thought he was going to retire at in july and
um, it's been
really hard the last few months, um
With him feeling like he is where he should be
and
Um, he applied for a job a sales job, which is completely not what he does. He's a construction worker
and has been for
30 years
And they offered him the position on
Monday and they revoked his offer yesterday
And he is
just like
He's trying to get out of where he's at, but God keeps shutting doors.
And so I just prayer that he can just be content with where God has him and trust that if we
need to be going somewhere else, it's going to come, you know, just, okay, yeah, I don't
know how to, how to work.
So I'm just, just in the chat, pray for husband's job, just so that we remember.
So God's got the perfect place, job or business.
Maybe he's supposed to start his own construction business.
That's funny that you say that because yeah, that's what was popping up when you were talking.
I'm listing all of these because I know Jennifer's driving and Helene's on the phone.
Oh, thank you.
Oh, I so appreciate that.
Thank you, Lisa.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Yeah, I can do that.
Yep.
I'll just list everyone's on there.
So appreciate that.
Okay.
So, uh, yeah, we're going to pray for perception and discernment because look at what we're
talking about today.
God is doing a new thing and maybe the new thing is not a job.
That right there.
Love that.
We are, we are praying into that.
I got to thinking too, Maurice.
I think last time you said you had the chance at a second client, did you get the second
client too?
I did.
So I got the second client.
So actually I need some prayer there.
This is interesting.
This is someone who their wealth advisor found me on the internet.
I'm a little hesitant.
I've met with her, but usually they have to be committed, right?
We know that like you want your client committed.
So far she's canceled because she's been sick.
So please pray that she starts up coaching next week because I, it, it's not surprising
to me that all that the timing that she's now sick is when she gets to, you know, that
new change in her life.
Some people get scared and it comes out in physical sickness.
So yes, please be praying that she follows through.
Okay, good.
Um, okay.
Uh, joy, anything that you want us praying for or praising?
You know, I, I, I hate that I don't participate as much, but I really do feel like God has
always met me where I'm at and taking care of me.
So I just, I'm thankful for that.
And I, you know, I really do pray for not just the people in here, but the people that
are suffering in general.
So that's the only prayer I, you know, I just hope that everyone is as blessed as I am because
even in my hardship, God has always been there for me.
So I've never felt like I've needed much love, love, love your, um, place of gratitude.
And God, God honors that in a big way.
Thank you for, thank you for sharing that.
I didn't want to put you on the spot, but I didn't want to leave you out.
That's okay.
Okay, good.
All right.
Um, let's, you guys want the principle first or go into prayer now?
Give me a vote.
I think we should go into prayer.
I think prayer.
Let's do the prayer and then we'll finish with the principle and practice.
All right.
So, uh, anybody want to start the prayer?
I tend to start, but anybody want to start it and then I'll, I'll, maybe I'll finish
it this time.
You guys want to do it like that?
Sure.
Okay.
Oh, I'll start it.
Whoever wants to start it, everybody, I'll just let you guys keep going until I see there's
a lull at the end and then I'll, I'll, I'll wrap it up.
Lord, we just thank you for today.
Today is the day the Lord's made and we're going to rejoice and be glad in it and have
hearts that hear you and feel you Lord.
We just, we just thank you for today.
We thank, I thank you for even confirmation of, um, that you're doing a new thing.
And um, should we perceive it now?
I kept getting the word now, now, now life is now.
So Lord, I just, we just thank you for that.
I thank you for this great group of women.
I just pray right now in the mighty name of Jesus for healing any place that anybody needs
it in their body, their soul, their spirit.
I thank you for doors of opportunity to open quickly.
You can open a door instantly.
Lord, we thank you for closed doors.
We thank you for the spirit of discernment.
We thank you for the spirit of wisdom that you give us.
We just thank you in Jesus name.
I thank you for Jennifer right now for her husband.
I just pray for miracle signs and wonders.
And if this is his time of stretching and stepping out on his own, I pray that maybe
he even meet a partner that wants to go in with him.
So we just ask you for divine connection right now for a testimony story, for you to get
the glory Lord.
And I thank you right now for clarity as Alex prayed over me as I got here this morning.
I just thank you for the prayer of Alex and his friendship in my life and and I pray for my meeting today with David here at the office and I just pray for miracle signs and wonders and you to flow through him and actually even discernment on if I'm supposed to go to Charlotte this weekend.
I pray for clarity around that in the name of Jesus and I thank you for joy. We just pray right now. I just thank you that she's got the joy of the Lord. Her name's joy, but she's got the joy of the Lord and I thank you that you are meeting every one of her needs and even the ones that are in her heart that she's been coming to you very privately.
I just pray that you give her the desire of your heart. The word says delight yourself in the Lord and I'll give you the desire of your heart. So I speak that over our group today in the mighty name of Jesus. We love you. We honor you and give you all the glory in Jesus name.
I just want to continue that prayer starting with gratitude gratitude for everything that God has done in our lives gratitude for everything. He's still continuing to do whether we see that or not just having that blind faith, excuse me, lifting our hearts up and our minds up to him knowing that we are sourced within to he resides in us as the Holy Spirit.
He speaks through us and just knowing that we're in true alignment. We are just in fine alignment with his will and with his way just knowing the true perfection of all of this for us knowing that true love that true comfort that true healing knowing that dis-ease is just that it's just dis-ease in the body praying for total and all completion of healing in Helene's arm.
Just praying and knowing God's word in our hearts just praying over Brenda as she continues to hear from spirit and aligns with spirit in all of our businesses just thanking her for this opportunity in this space for prayer just continuing to pray praying over Jennifer praying over joy over Dana over Helene and over Brenda just thankful for this time and this space full of grace full of love and full of peace as we move forward every day knowing that is already done.
What you believe you receive in Jesus name. Amen.
Father God I just thank you
for this precious precious time
with my precious sisters
your daughters
who are seated in high places with you
temples of the Holy Spirit
filled with your presence
with the mind of Christ
and I'm asking today
for elevation
as you're doing a new thing that first we will perceive
that new thing
and second
that we will
willingly
grow our capacity
to receive
at the level of that new thing you never are going downhill with the new thing you take us from glory to glory
as
we are able so Lord again I pray that you increase our capacity
to hear your voice
to
perceive what you are doing
increase our capacity for believing
even what appears to be impossible
increase our capacity for courage
to step out of the ordinary and take bold
steps
increase our capacity to love increase our capacity
to dig deep
in the treasure troves of your word and your spirit
increase our capacity
to steward
our businesses
increase our capacity to receive and multiply finances for your glory
increase our capacity
I thank you for Marisa and the praise
these reports of the two new clients and I pray for the second client that you will heal
her physically, spiritually, relationally, that you will work through Marisa to bring
great transformation in her life, in all of her clients, and we call in for all of us,
the clients, the customers, the jobs, the opportunities, the love, we open our hearts
and we say we are receptive, you make rivers and desert wherever there's been desert, we
open our hearts to receive, to both give and to receive, whichever area we're weak, if
we're weak in the giving, increase our capacity to give lavishly as you've given lavishly
sparing nothing, not even your own son, increase our capacity to give, for those of us that
are strong on the giving but weak on the receiving, increase our capacity to receive, we open
ourselves to more love, more joy, more peace, more passion, more purpose, more clarity,
I pray for Dana that she has absolute clarity for the new thing you're doing in her life
and the courage to step in, help her discern between the many voices to hear most and foremost
your voice, bless her with the desires you've placed in her heart, you know them, open the
doors Lord, we give so much thanks in Jesus name, amen, I love the Bible verse that says
how good it is to come together, right, how good it is to come together, okay, let's go
into the principle that we apply this week, I love that, I was getting believe and receive, love
that, love that, okay, the principle comes from seek first, it's Matthew 6, seek first the kingdom
of God and the principle is that there's a divine order to everything and when the order is in place
then the provision and the direction follow, but there's a divine order
and looking at what we seek first,
if our body gives us symptoms, do we seek prayer first, God's presence, God's healing first
or medical, there's a place for everything, but I'm looking at the order of it,
when we have a financial need, do we seek first, do we see God as the source or do we
see our husband or the job or the government or our clients or whatever as our source,
what do we look for first, do we look expecting a mighty move of God, rivers in the desert or
do we look straight to things in the natural
and you could apply this to every area,
so Matthew 6, 33 says seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and if you read the whole verse,
it says and then and then all these things will be added, what was all these things,
it was the things that had them concerned, the food, the provision, the clothing,
and God tried to say, wait a minute, do you not understand, like you're worried about what you're
going to eat, do you see how I feed the birds, you're worried about what you're going to wear,
do you see how beautiful I dress the flowers, can you dress like one of these lilies,
can you dress like one of these roses, you're worried right and he says,
instead seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, let me tell you a definition of
righteousness I like, break that word into right use ness,
Seek first his kingdom and right useness, right stewarding,
useness of my gifts, of my talents, of my time,
of my resources, and all these things will be added.
Think about a scene that's coming to me right now.
When God is on the mountain ready to meet his people,
he's calling his people and say,
bring them, I wanna talk to them.
God being God, it was pretty intense.
I don't know, there was volcanoes or lightning
or shaking of the mountain, whatever was going on,
but the people decided they were pretty freaked out
by approaching God directly.
And so it says that they said to Moses,
you go meet with God and come back and tell us.
That's an early version in the Bible
of the idea of getting secondhand food.
I'll just wait and see what the priest says,
what the pastor says, what the guru says,
what the trend says.
And so interesting what happened.
Well, Moses is up getting direct revelation
and meeting with God and saying, show me your glory.
I'm not afraid to show me your glory.
I wanna experience more of your presence.
They're getting bored on the mountains
and start taking all their gold earrings
and things that they had taken from Egypt
that God had blessed them with
and start making a golden calf to worship.
It's like, I'd rather worship what I know.
I know gold, I know money, I know business.
I don't know this God.
Do you see what happened?
And so seek first his kingdom and his right useness.
That was not right useness of their resources.
That was beginning to make their resources their God.
And that was disconnecting from the resource
of hearing directly from God.
And many people are not.
We talked about spiritual senses last week
and I talked about eyes.
Do a study on spiritual ears and how many time
God said, my sheep hear my voice.
How many times God told to listen?
It's a whole nother study.
So this seek first the kingdom
there's a right order to everything.
And so I'm gonna add a couple of verses to go with that.
One is Proverbs 3, verses five and six,
which says trust in the Lord.
And then it says, do not lean on your own understanding.
You see how this all fits together?
There's a right order, seek first the kingdom.
Open your spiritual senses
that you can perceive the new thing, right?
And I am laughing, Brenda, look at trust in the Lord
with all your heart is the tea mug I grabbed this morning.
I love that you are so tuned in.
I love that God is speaking.
He's speaking all the time.
That's a whole study we can do how God speaks.
Yeah, I just felt him move in my heart
right as you were speaking.
I almost brought me to tears a moment ago
that it's his plan, right?
Like I'm so used to being independent and strong
and my plan and doing it myself
that I just really felt the Holy Spirit
and God within me just say, you don't have to plan.
Like you don't have to plan, just move out of the way.
Like my plan.
Thank you for sharing that.
Thank you, thank you for that.
So beautiful, so beautiful.
You know, many of you know that God has taught me so much.
If you watch my Instagram every Sunday around seven,
I do a salsa saga where I talk about how,
what God teaches me about life and business
from Latin ballroom dancing.
And he began to show me, like, why did he call me to dance?
And he began to show me because it's that very thing,
Marisa, salsa dancing or Latin ballroom dancing
is a partner dance.
And there's a leader and there's a follower.
I've been a leader all my life, right?
We're strong women and that doesn't work in dance.
So if you try like, oh, okay, I know this pattern, I know.
You know, this move and you jump ahead.
Scripture says, keep in step with the spirit, right?
Those that are led by the spirit, led by the spirit,
right?
And so you make a move, and actually, he
was going to do something else.
And you're way off, or you make the move, and you're off timing.
It's fat, right?
And I could go on and on with those lessons,
but I had to learn to trust the leader, which
is a form of love.
It's letting go and trusting, letting go and trusting.
There's a surrender, which you led me right into my notes,
OK?
So you got Proverbs 3, 5, and 6, which
is trust in the Lord, lean not on your own understanding,
acknowledge him in all your ways,
and he'll make your path straight.
Then we've already been doing Romans 12, 2
about renewing the mind.
So this was the order I got this morning,
as you're talking about it, number one, surrender.
And so you cannot dance on the dance floor
and be led in the most beautiful dance
if you're not willing to surrender
to the leadership of the leader.
It becomes a wrestling match, not a divine dance.
So surrender.
And when we're talking about a new thing, part of the surrender
is releasing our reliance on old strategies,
releasing our reliance on the familiar,
releasing our reliance on the outcome or the timeline
or the how.
God has told us to come boldly to his throne room
that we may find help in times of needs.
And that word help is so strong.
It's the rope that holds the boat together.
If you've ever seen the Jesus boats, I was there in Israel.
They're like boards, and they're held together by rope.
And so come boldly to the throne of God.
We're called to bring our prayers boldly.
It says, like you said earlier, he'll
give us the desires of our heart.
It says you have not because you ask not.
God is calling us to ask, right?
Then we surrender the how, and we surrender the when,
and we surrender, right?
Then we surrender, then we seek guidance.
We ask specifically, and we learn to listen.
Yesterday, I gave the altar formula where you ask,
and then you listen is the L, right?
So seek guidance and listen.
Open your spiritual senses.
What is he saying?
What is he showing you?
Where do you get these confirmations
like you got today, Marisa?
Where are the confirmations?
Or like you got, Jennifer, that's
one of the ways God speaks is you'll
hear it two or three times, often in the same day
or the same hour, right?
And then begin to integrate it, which
is where we're going next, where you begin to practice it.
You begin to live it.
You integrate it in your decision making,
in your hiring, in your offer and sales,
in your pricing, in your calendar,
in your partnership.
You see, you begin to live this where it infuses the entire,
like yeast, infuses the entire loaf of bread.
You integrate it.
And you begin to make this as a practice.
You put God first as a practice.
There's a teaching in scripture about first fruits,
first fruits of the morning.
What's the very first thing you give your time and energy
and thoughts to?
First thing in the morning, first fruits.
When you get money coming in, what's the first thing?
What's the first fruits?
When you get increase, what's the first fruits?
So putting God first, your first planning,
your first meeting of the calendar, your tithes.
All right, let's do the activation practice here
in the last couple minutes.
I have so much to share.
I end up doing a lot of notes because there's just like,
I'm just like, oh, I don't want to forget that.
I don't want to forget that.
OK, so let's do a practice right now really quick.
I'm going to set the timer for two minutes.
I'm going to set the timer for two minutes of just listening.
So asking, Lord, where are you already
making a way in my business or my healing
or my relationships, whatever God's got on your heart?
Where are you already making a way?
and I want you just being still, and then begin to journal, or if you want to do this through
writing, journaling, what's the first thing God shows you? A picture, a person, a step?
What's the first thing? I remember, just as an example, when I was getting ready to
launch my coach certification, and I knew the amount of working pieces that were part of that,
and I was like, Lord, I need help on this. Who's supposed to be the team player? Who's supposed to
be the assistant on this? Immediately, a name popped in my head. This is where you've got to
listen, and then you've got to act. A name popped in my head. It was someone I knew through a women's
networking barely, and I didn't even know if she had those gifts or talents, and I reached out to
her, and I said, I know we don't really know each other, but God put you on my heart. You're supposed
to partner with me, I believe, in creating the Prosper Coach Certification Program. I did not
know she was a school teacher. I did not know she was a curriculum development person. I did not know
she was amazing at graphic artists and putting together slides. I didn't know any of that. God
knew, and boom, all of that came together with ease and grace, no struggle, so I want you to think
about that and pray about that right now. Where are you already making a way, and then document what
comes to you.
Sorry for the dog barking.
Brenda, thank you. My apologies. I have to jump off for my next call. Okay, all right. To all of you,
continue that practice, and I'll send it to you in the notes. Thank you so much.