And good morning, good morning, good morning.
Happy Wednesday.
And if it's Wednesday, that means it's Prosper Power Hour.
And if it's Prosper Power Hour, that means we get our fresh promise, our fresh principle,
our fresh prayer, our fresh practice, right?
15 minutes of each of those every Wednesday for Prosper Leader members.
And of course, all the previous calls are recorded.
They are in the Prosper Leader membership site, membership.prosperandallthings.com.
And of course, that's a treasure trove, it's a vault of resources to grow you, grow your
faith, grow your business.
So welcome, welcome, welcome.
And let's see, I've got many of your cameras are hidden as you're getting ready.
And Len, you're front and center here.
Let me pin me that way.
So excited.
And I appreciate your kind comments, talking about what this has meant to you and how powerful
it is to come together and to integrate God's word and to go deep.
We don't like to swim in the shallow side.
We love going deep.
And I think you're going to like this today as well.
I'm super excited.
You know, today, we're not talking about positive thinking.
Many people mention positive thinking.
We're talking about possibility thinking, big difference, possibility thinking.
And what happens when the power of God and not our circumstances become our focus, our
reference point, right?
So possibility thinking, you see, there's a contrast.
Fear always contracts, I want you to understand that.
Whenever fear tries to knock on your door, and if you let it in, it contracts, it contracts
your body.
Think about what happens in your body when you're afraid.
All the blood leaves the extremity, goes to the very center of your being to conserve,
right?
The mind contracts, right?
So when we walk in fear, our possibility thinking contracts.
And just seeing the big picture, instead, we contract and we play small.
And I've been so, so blessed this week.
Those of you who attended the Profit with Peace Masterclass, it was really a powerful
step in awareness using the Prosper Time Budget.
And many of you had 15-minute calls with me afterwards.
And what we experienced in those 15 minutes is exactly what we're talking about here and
what we're going to see in scripture.
For many women, they had contracted.
Their circumstances, their circumstances had overwhelmed them.
And as the circumstances became more in the limelight, then hope began to shrink.
And scripture says that hope deferred makes the heart sick.
It dries out the bones.
Hope deferred.
But it says, wishes or desires, we did desires last week, right?
So true biblical desires, desires fulfilled are the tree of life.
So there's that contrast, that contrast between fear contracting and focusing on the mountain
in front of us and faith and possibility thinking that focuses on not how big the mountain is,
but how big our God is.
And that's the miracle zone, right?
And so fear contracts, faith expands.
And faith expands our capacity.
You hear me talk about capacity often because it's not talked about.
I don't ever hear that.
I don't hear conversations about capacity.
And this is the size of the vessel of the container, right?
We're the temple of the Holy Spirit.
We're a vessel.
And the capacity is the size of what can God in infinite, right?
God is infinite love, infinite potential, infinite possibility, infinite wisdom, infinite
abundance.
God in his infinite.
this wants to pour into us and a contracted vessel can receive
very little. When I used to teach classes live, I used to
have people like hold a sponge. Imagine holding a sponge and
just clench your hands so tight. How much can that sponge receive?
Contrary to expand your hands and the sponge can just fill up
our capacity is the same and so faith expands our capacity
instead of asking God, please give me more money. Give me
more divine appointments. Give me a man whatever it is we're
praying. Give me healing. We can pray those things but I
think an even bigger prayer that God wants us to pray or
pray is God expand my capacity. Expand my capacity and there's
a lot of references in scripture. You can think about
the parable of putting new wine into old wine skins. That's a
capacity story because if you put new wine in an old wine
skin, it's contracted, it's hard, it's fixed and so when
the wine ferments and expands, it just busts the whole thing.
We can't contain it. Same thing what happened with us. If we
have not expanded our capacity, the blessings God wants to pour
in just we blow up and you see that in real life examples. You
see when somebody goes from being completely poor and they
win the lottery or they whatever become a rock star or
movie star or whatever and if they have not expanded their
vessel and their capacity, there's cracks, there's leaks.
They lose it as fast as they get it, right? So as we go into
Christmas and the holiday season, I really saw this in
what we're going to look at today, which is Luke chapter
one. That's where we're going to find our promise and our
principle and our praise is going to be Luke chapter one
and so, you know, I want to say that most people are not
blocked by lack of effort but by really a constricted or I
like to say a constipated belief and so what I saw
happening telling my story with profit with peace is I was
doing these 15 minute calls and one of the things I would do on
the call is have them become aware of what's in their hand in
the Bible. One of the first things that God always asks is
what's in your hand because we have a tendency if we're
contracted to minimize what God has given us to work with and
he always starts with the seed. He always works with the small.
We don't just have like a Rolls Royce drop from the sky,
right? He starts with a seed and we often kind of minimize
that seed. He starts. That's why the Bible says, do not
despise small things and so we have to understand that he
starts with the seed and so you see this in scripture all over
the place. You see the woman that was contracted in fear
because her husband who was a prophet died and left her deep
in debt right now. Many people are dealing with debt so you
can relate to this story. Her debt was even more serious.
They didn't just come after you. They could take your
And so this woman approaches the prophet Elijah and saying,
you know, my husband was a good man, a prophet, but he's left
me in this deep debt and they're going to take my
children away. Every word coming out of her mouth was
fear. It was contracted. It was constricted, right? And so
Elijah immediately asked the same thing that Jesus asked
that God asked Moses the same question. What's in your hand,
right? And she answered in a contracted state, only a little
oil, only a little oil, right? We minimize. It's nothing. It's
just a little oil and we see the end as like our current
circumstance just continuing into the future and so we
despair and we lose hope and so then we start trying to figure
out how we can ration our little oil and we start thinking
small and we stop dreaming and this is what happened with
many of the people. I'm sad to say that's what I saw on many
of the 15 minute calls, but I'm elated to say that in 15
minutes, everything changed because we looked at what's in
your hand and I can think about like one of the last calls I
had. I mean, like all of the calls, these women are
brilliant. I mean, there's so much gold in them and so we
go, well, what's in your hand? And in her case, you know,
she's got a degree in journalism. She was working as
a journalist.
us. So we've got writing in our hands. She was she's certified
as a health and life coach. And so and she's got experience
coaching, and she's made money coaching in the past. And so all
these things kind of got buried as circumstances seem to just,
like cause a contraction, right? And this happens to all of us,
there's no judgment. And so the key is, you know, instead of
looking at the size of the mountain, the Bible says, say to
that mountain, be thou removed, we're looking at our God, who's
given us the power of life and death in our tongue, who's
given us, you know, the Holy Spirit in us, the mind of
Christ, you know, and so we change and we expand as we as we
began to see things differently. And so this past week, hope was
restored. These calls were incredible hope, like you
literally saw the lights go on. In fact, one woman who gave me a
testimony described that another brilliant woman PhDs, master's
degrees, like a brain like none other, and she lost her job and
wasn't getting another job. And so she was contracted and just
waiting, waiting on a job. And I said, what's in your hand?
Anyway, same exercise, she wrote her testimony. And if you're in
the Total Soul Prosperity Facebook group, which I
recommend you are, it's a it's a hop in beautiful community,
Total Soul Prosperity in the Facebook community. And we wrote
her her testimony, right. And her testimony, what she said is, I
feel like I've been in a dark, a dark hallway, and a door is open
to the blinding light, and my eyes are still adjusting to the
Like, this is what we're talking about today. Because in a dark
world, the Christmas story in a dark world, a dazzling, glorious
blinding light arrived as a small thing, in the form of a
child in a manger, right. So these these small, humble
beginnings, and so we're going to talk about that today, I
think you're going to get a fresh, fresh breath, I think,
from the Christmas story that we are going into. So before I
jump full into it, you guys got me excited. And I just kind of
gave you a little little monologue there. Little faith
monologue, faith log, how about that little faith log? So do we
have any praise reports? And do we have any prayer requests? And
you know, welcome, Christy, I didn't greet you, I see that
you're here. And you guys don't have your cameras on, but I see
you all. So, you know, again, welcome, Charla and Bev and
Melanne and Christy by Christy. Do we have any praise reports?
Let me open up my chat. I did not do that. So I can't see if
you're chatting with me. And, um, okay, so, um, all right, so
we need to also be praying for Bev. It looks like she's having
high winds there in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and surrounding
areas, power outages, no school today. So yeah, let's, let's
pray for all the people that are going to face this kind of
harsh weather. And I'm glad that you put that in the chat. Did I
miss anything else? And so you could unmute if you have a
prayer request, or you can pop it in the chat. But we want to
make sure that today we cover that in prayer and also that we
celebrate the answers to prayer. So any praise reports
and any prayer requests before we dive into our promise of the
week?
I have a lot of actually praise reports. I just, um, I did just
get over being sick. But besides that, I mean, the bigger picture
is what God's doing in my healing. And he, I went to my
oncologist yesterday. And my numbers keep going down with the
testing, which is awesome. But the tumor is actually completely
gone. Same as you know, it's Yeah, so that's huge. And I'm
praying for you, even when you couldn't make it here, Christy.
Thank you. I'm so excited to hear. Yeah. So it's really,
really good. And he, he actually said to me, I know, this was
totally the Holy Spirit guiding him, because they were going to
do a completely different treatment on me, which was going
to be highly aggressive. And he, when I came in for the
treatment, this was back in September, he said, you know, I
just really feel like that's not the way to
I just really feel like we need to go this way.
And you know, and he explained why he said, I feel like this is what's going to do it.
And he said yesterday, last week, they came out with a study on breast cancer.
And the exact treatment that he gave me was in that study.
Wow.
So I just, I just see God's, you know, hand in, in every piece of my journey.
And I just keep looking up because it's like, they say it's going to be this, but I said,
well, God says it's going to be that, you know?
And so it's, it's pretty, pretty amazing.
We're still, you know, walking through some stuff, but it's, it's amazing to see the Lord
working in the way that he is through everyone.
Oh, we just celebrate that.
We celebrate that.
We celebrate the Lord.
We celebrate the Lord in you, Christy.
We celebrate your faith.
You've been such a beautiful model of what it looks like, because you always have two
reports, right?
You've got the initial doctor's report or whatever it is, financial report or whatever.
And then you've got the report of the Lord.
And, and you chose to stand on the word and you have spoken that.
You have testified of that.
You have believed that and you have not let fear dominate you.
And we open talking about how fear contracts and how faith expands and you've been expanding.
You've been touching lives and you've just been speaking.
And it's been so beautiful to watch.
I'm so honored and privileged that you're in this community and that we get to follow
this journey and be praying for you and supporting you.
And it's, it's really a perfect lead in to today's study, today's promise and principle
and everything as we're studying the Christmas story.
But I think the angle that we're studying, this is a perfect lead in as to how do you
respond to the negative reports that happen.
So thank you, Christy, for taking time to come and to share that and keep us abreast.
We have been praying for you every week and so, so excited to see how God completes this story.
I just love it.
Okay.
I don't want to leave anyone else out.
Is there any prayer requests that you want us praying today?
We're all going to pray together like we always do.
Is there any praise reports?
Otherwise, I'm going to keep it moving because I got a lot to share.
Okay.
You're welcome.
Yes, he is.
So good.
So the promise for today comes from Luke chapter one, Luke chapter one.
And I'm going to encourage you to read the entire chapter.
And it's, it's really a powerful contrast that you're going to see the angel Gabriel
appearing to two different people with good news to Zechariah and, of course, to Mary
with the birth of becoming pregnant with Jesus.
And so I found this week preparing the contrast a really great lesson for us to dive into.
So the primary promise, because we always memorize a promise every time we gather together
for the power hour, the promise is Luke one thirty seven, Luke one thirty seven.
And I imagine in almost every translation it will be the same.
I grabbed the new King James version because I learned it first kind of there, but it'd
be fun to see it in the Amplified and the Passion translation and, you know, all over
the place.
New Living Translation.
I love just looking at it from different perspectives.
But in the new King James version, the promise we're going to memorize is this.
For with God, nothing will be impossible.
Let that sink in for a minute.
With God, nothing, no thing, nothing will be impossible.
That's an incredible promise.
That's a a blank check in any area of your life, health, finances, ministry, relationships,
service.
Like this is a beautiful promise that is worth meditating on.
on and writing. I have it all over my house. It's on my towels. It's everywhere. So let's
make a couple of distinctions on this promise. The angel, just like what Christie's going
through, the angel did not say, this will be easy. He didn't tell Mary, hey, life's
gonna be peachy, unicorns and rainbows, right, when he gave this word. He did not say, this
will be easy. But he did say, this is not limited by what you see. Now, we've talked
about this before, haven't we? That we've got natural senses, natural eyes, natural
ears, natural mouth taste, right, natural touch. And we've got spiritual. We've got
spiritual eyes, spiritual ears. That's why Jesus said you have eyes, but you don't see
ears that you don't hear. He was saying, activate your spiritual eyes. Don't judge by what you
see because it's not accurate. What we see is not accurate. Because if you even understand
the principle of sight, you'll understand why it's not accurate. Because you're not
actually seeing out of your eyes. Messages of, you know, particles of light is what's
being picked up by your eyes. That's it, right? It goes into the brain and then the brain
filters it through your past experience to find something familiar and say, this is that.
So your brain interprets it and says, adds a meaning to it. But that may not be the meaning
that God has. Do you see why our eyes can deceive us? So it's very important that we
also understand our spiritual eyes. And so what he's saying here is, this is not limited
by what you see, by what you know, right? So let's look at a contrast. Let's look at
the contrast between Zechariah and Mary. Zechariah and Mary, these are both in Luke
chapter one. This is going to be your study, right? And I love what Christie wrote. This
is so good. It won't be easy, but it'll be worth it. You know, any of you that have come
out the other side, which I imagine is most of you, of hard times and seen what God has
done. You will understand that everything that has come into your life is working together
for good. And everything is a gift, even when it's hard. And the more we walk with God,
the more that we understand that. So let's compare Zechariah and Mary. Okay. So Zechariah,
we find that in Luke chapter one, especially verses 18 to 20. So somebody want to read
that Luke chapter one, tell us what translation you're reading and read us verses 18 to 20
of Luke chapter one. Let's look at Zechariah. Example number one, door number one, right?
Number one, Luke chapter one, 18 to 20.
Who wants to read that? I can read it, Brenda. Let me see. This is in the new King James version
as well. Okay. And Zechariah said to the angel, how shall I know this? For I am an old man and
my wife is well advanced in years. And the angel answered and said to him, I am Gabriel, who stands
in the presence of God and was sent to speak to you and bring you these glad tidings. But behold,
you will be mute and not able to speak until the day these things take place,
because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their own time.
Thank you. So in this case, Zechariah focused more on the circumstances.
And even though a very angel who came from the very presence of God, one of the major,
archangels, Gabriel, is giving this news that his prayers, he's been praying, he and his wife
have been praying for a child and a very angel. I want you to just get in this scene. A very
angel appears. He's standing there talking to Gabriel, like one of the number one angels who
stands in the presence of God and says, your prayers have been answered. And what does he do
with the answered prayers?
Right? And so in this verse, he receives a promise. You're going to have a child.
But he measured that word by circumstances. The circumstances were bigger in his eyes. He was
using his natural eyes. It was measured by circumstances. And so he responded with fear,
disguised as logic. How often you get, you know, you need to take your head out of the clouds.
You know, we need to be logical about this. You need to, you know, get here and face reality.
How many of people fear is disguised as logic, right? Playing small is disguised as logic.
And God in his infinite mercy knew, because of the power of our words, like we've been talking about,
that Zechariah could not keep talking. If he keeps talking, remember how we talked about earlier in
one of the studies, that our very words can undo our prayers, can undo the promise of what God is
bringing. And the angel knew right there that, ooh, if you keep talking, this promise is going
to be null and void, because you just almost reversed it right here. You know what? In God's
grace, you're going to be mute and not be able to say a word. I'm going to give you that gift
of that temporary medical problem of muteness, right? That, like, run to the doctor. Look what
happened. I lost my voice. I can't talk. I can't, right? So in God's mercy right there, that was
necessary for the fulfillment of the promise. I love that. I love that. Let me just see.
Ellen wrote something here in the chat. Spiritual senses. I wrote down this morning to pray
for the activation of the spiritual senses and the children of the light. That's so good. Yes.
So, you know, really two prayers out of what we've talked about so far, and that opening our
spiritual senses, opening our awareness, right, which is activating our faith eyes, right? We
walk by faith and not by sight, which goes back to how we open, which is increasing our capacity,
right? So this all fits together with a nice, you know, bow, right? It all says it. Well, now,
let's contrast. That's Zechariah's response to the promise and the angelic appearance in this
Christmas story. Let's look at Mary a little further down in Luke chapter 1 and verses 34
through 38. Who wants to read Luke 1 verses 34 to 38? And you can read from whatever translation.
Just let us know. Luke 1, 34 to 38. Who wants to read that for us?
Okay, this is from the Amplified Bible. Okay, wonderful. Mary said to the angel,
how will this be since I am a virgin and have no intimacy with any man?
Then the angel replied to her, the Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the most high
will overshadow you, kind of like a cloud. For that reason, the holy, pure, sinless child shall
be called the son of God. And listen, even your relative Elizabeth has also conceived a son in
her old age. And she who was called barren is now in her sixth month. For with God, nothing is or
ever shall be impossible. Then Mary said, behold, I am the servant of the Lord. May it be done to me
according to your word. And the angel left her. I love that. Read those last two verses about
with God, it's not impossible and be it done unto me. Read those again slowly. Let's digest those.
For with God is or ever shall be what's I'm sorry, for with God, nothing is or ever shall be
impossible. Then Mary said, behold, I am the servant of the Lord. May it be done to me according
to your word. And the angel left her. I love this. So keep in mind, this is all part of God, like
weaving this divine tapestry. So Elizabeth, her cousin, is now that's Zechariah's wife that we
Okay, now
now six months pregnant, who's going to be, if you don't know,
with John the Baptist, who's going to be the forerunner making
the way for Jesus, right, and who baptizes Jesus, etc. And so
we saw Zechariah, we didn't go into Elizabeth, she had a
beautiful response, but we didn't go into her. And now
we're looking at Mary. So Gabriel leaves that and Gabriel
comes to Mary, and also tells an impossibility. She's a virgin,
she has not had any sexual relationships with a man. So
talk about what as man we would call impossible. That's a
definite impossibility. And so natural for her to make that
statement of well, but hers was more a curiosity. Instead of a
negative blocking of the possibility. It was almost like
I mean, how can that happen? I've never never even had sexual
relationships. How is that even possible, which opened the door
for our promise today, which is with God, nothing is impossible.
And I love the Amplified that you read, nothing is or never
shall be no thing like this is a promise to like have everywhere
and let this sink in. And so even though Mary acknowledged
the impossibility, quote, unquote, right? She didn't argue.
She asked how, not if it would happen. She believed it. She
just was curious how, and she anchored to the Word of God, not
her biology, not the circumstance, not her apparent
situation. And she received it. She walked in acceptance, she
walked in allowance, which it's a whole nother study. If we go
into how we're always in resistance, we're resisting what
God is doing. And she didn't, even though it made no sense. It
seemed like a physical impossibility. It seemed like an
overwhelming word. It says that, you know, let it be done
according according to your word. So you can tell that as as
an open humility, you know, and I saw that with Christie, okay,
if this is what God is doing, God have your way, let's reach a
million people with this. Let's glorify you with this. Okay, I
receive this assignment. I take on this divine assignment.
Because when we read forward, we know with Mary, it's going to
involve humiliation and isolation and judgment and all
kinds of things. And yet, she was the most chosen and the most
blessed when you read, you know, Elizabeth's prayer, you
know, blessed are thou amongst women, right? And so couched in
this seemingly hard time of being doubted and judged and
divorced and cast out and you know, all of the things that she
would go through. She's considered in the Bible is one of
the blessed, you know, blessed art thou O Mary, right? And so,
you know, I want you to just think about this carefully right
now, let's just get into your spirit. You know, are you living
more like Zechariah focusing on your circumstances and the
impossibility and the negativity and the fear and contraction and
playing small and and you know, letting your words reverse your
prayers? Or are you speaking more like Mary? I you know, this
doesn't make sense. It seems impossible in the natural, but
with you nothing is impossible. And let it be done unto me. I'm
humbled. I'm honored that I get to be part of this journey. So
they both heard an impossible promise. Both were barren, you
know, for different reasons. And both were promised a child
straight from heaven. And so both heard an impossible quote
unquote, impossible promise, but only one expanded her capacity
to receive the promise. Like let that land for a moment. What
promises has God given you and have your current conditions
overridden the promise? What goals dreams we talked last
week desires has God implanted on your heart? If he's put a
desire in your heart and your heart is sanctified, and that
desire doesn't leave, right? I shared in my case, you know,
with the retreats and other nations, if that if that desire
doesn't leave, it's because the answer is already there. If the
answer were not there, you would not have that desire. Okay, when
you're walking with God. So so so beautiful. Okay, let's pray
and then come back to the principle and and the practice.
Okay, we got a lot to pack in here in the next few minutes. So
Anybody that wants to pray, let's just jump in and you know this prayer is about breaking agreement
with fear-based thinking and reopen our capacity, right? So asking God to show us where we've been
shrinking instead of trusting, asking God where fear has caused us to play small or delay or
protect ourselves from disappointment, this is another thing. We just don't set goals because
we don't want to be disappointed. That's by the way an amazing word, disappointed. It's two words,
disappointment, dis. You're being taken out of a current appointment to go into a new appointment.
It's a beautiful place to be and yet we hate that because of the neurochemicals that happen in our
so in order to not be disappointed, we just, if I don't aim for anything, I can't get disappointed.
That's another form of this contraction that we're talking about. It takes on a lot of different,
you know, clothing, a lot of different costumes. So we're going to pray over the specific prayer
requests. We're going to declare Luke 1.37, nothing is impossible, over those situations
and we're going to speak from identity and from place of permission, right? Let it be done
according to your word. Your word prevails, you Lord. Nothing's impossible with you. All right,
let's pray. Who wants to pray first? Let's just go ahead and you guys, each person can take turn,
can be short, can be long. Remember, we open his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with
praise. That's our access pass that we've learned in the past that we can come in with gratitude.
We can come in with just breathing, knowing that God is in us and with us and then let's pray over
what you're getting today. What's God showing you? Let's pray, let's praise and yeah, I'm excited
and then I'll close it out. Okay, so anybody that wants to start, just go ahead. Yes, Heavenly
Father, I pray that I can finally be released from these limiting money beliefs that have been
driving my life and I pray that others will be released as well. I've been given new eyes in
regard to this and it's been very powerful. In your name, amen. Thank you, Lord. Thank you.
Thank you, Lord.
Who else? Let's keep it praying.
Your voice. God, I just praise you for all that you're doing right now and I ask that she would
just continue to bring faith to the surface for all of us, Lord, because there's always
a deeper place you want to take us to. I thank you, God, that you will just bring to the forefront
that nothing is impossible for you because I'm seeing it right now in my life. Miracles
upon miracles, Lord. I just release abundance over every single person in this group.
I release faith and I release love and peace and such a joy, no matter what you're going through,
that everything will be in alignment with what God has said for your life,
even those past dreams that maybe you thought were dead.
We just ask, Holy Spirit, bring life and light to those things, in Jesus' name.
God, you're an awesome God and I just want to thank you so much that just as in the Bible,
you tell us to ask and keep knocking and that we'll receive. I'm so grateful that you're the
leader, that you're the father, that you're showing us this, that you keep nudging the
children of the light, that you keep pushing us, touching us, showing up in our presence.
God, I pray that the children of the light will be activated, that they wake up,
and that they live by faith, they walk by faith, they move each foot in front of the other,
knowing that they are never alone. And I pray, Lord, that when they do have a sense of fear,
that you'll just bump into them.
Judge him a little bit and remind him that you've got this because with you in our presence
nothing is impossible.
In Jesus name, Amen.
Amen.
Anyone else want to pray?
Lord, thank you so much for this time, this space to dwell in your presence.
I feel you here, Lord, and your presence is the fullness of joy.
Thank you, Lord.
You never leave us or forsake us.
Thank you, Lord, that with you nothing is impossible.
Nothing ever was, be or ever shall be impossible.
May we be people of the word.
May we be people that learn your promises and stand on your promises and believe your
promises and speak your promises and live your promises for your glory.
I pray for a mighty outbreak of healing and abundance and wisdom and revelation for every
single Prosper Leader member, for every person that is part of this gathering every Wednesday,
Lord.
I pray for each sister represented here, strengthen her with might in her inner woman
by the power of your Holy Spirit, renew her mind to eliminate the fear-based thinking
and to step into the truth of who you are, Creator God, infinite love, infinite mercy,
infinite, Lord, infinite possibilities.
May we step into the fullness that we were born for, that we were created for.
May we stop minimalizing ourselves and what you're doing in and through us and what's
possible by putting our eyes on the circumstances.
God, may we move our eyes off of the circumstances, off of the mountain.
May we speak to the mountain in faith and say, be thou removed in Jesus' name.
Health challenges, be thou removed in Jesus' name.
Financial challenges and debt, be thou removed in Jesus' name.
Lack of any form, be thou removed in Jesus' name.
May we, as Proverbs talk about, above all seek wisdom, that we walk in wisdom to be
able to carry out the miracle.
Many times you heal and then because of lack of wisdom, we go eat the things that kill
us and speak the things that kill us and undo the miracle.
So, Lord, I'm asking not just for the breakthrough miracle, I'm asking for the consistency miracle
that comes from wisdom, that comes from time in your presence, that comes from standing
in your word, that comes from the power of your Holy Spirit.
So, Lord, I thank you for what you're doing.
I thank you for continued healing in Christi's body.
I thank you for mercy and protection over people in this weather, Lord, that you will
calm the storms and you will watch over them and that they will dwell in their houses with
peace.
And, Lord, I pray that our mouths will become vessels of praise and that others will see.
I love the Psalms where you say, you pulled me out of the mud and mire.
I would call that the fear-based stinking thinking.
You pulled me out of the mud and mire and set my foot on a solid rock.
You put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to my God, and others will see and
will know that you are the Lord Most High.
We thank you in Jesus' name.
Amen.
It's so good to gather.
Okay, how many minutes do I have to pull?
We got three minutes to pull this off?
Okay, really quick.
The principle.
God expands capacity before manifestation.
So, faith.
Faith is not pretending that the circumstances don't exist.
Faith is choosing a higher reference point.
In other words, it's not the circumstance, it's God.
That's our reference point.
And so whereas fear-based thinking
contracts and narrows our vision and puts us
into survival and control, faith-based thinking
expands the body and the mind.
It restores creativity and hope.
And it allows God's power to move through.
So I'll send you notes on this,
but this is all tied to stewardship.
We're called to steward our God-given dreams.
We're called to steward our holy desires.
We're called to steward the revelation
that God gives us, right?
We're called to steward these promises.
So fear causes us to bury them.
Faith causes us to really steward them
and live them and birth them, right?
And so what you make room for determines what you carry.
Write that down.
What you make room for determines what you carry.
OK, I'm going to send you the practice in notes
because we're going to move from awareness to reframing
to embodying to an aligned prayer.
But we don't have time, but that's
because we did what we're supposed to do.
I love you.
And we need to decide if we're going to meet next week.
So send me back your vote.
And I want you to know, very, very, very important,
mark your calendars December 26 for seven days, 26, 27, 28,
29, 30, 31, and January 1st.
It is our seven-day jumpstart 2026 online experience.
Powerful way to take everything we're talking about
and bring this into the new year.
It's free.
It's every morning at 8 AM.
I'll be sending out the email.
Watch for the link so you can register, get the workbook,
et cetera, all right?
I love you, and we'll talk soon.
God bless you.