All right, welcome, welcome, welcome to the Prosper Power Hour.
I'm so excited for what we're going to address today.
I think it's so powerful for life and for business.
As we continue with the conversation of expectation and the role that expectations play in our
life, right?
So if any of you are new to watching this or watching the replay, every Wednesday we
gather here for the Prosper Power Hour.
This is one of the benefits of being a Prosper Leader member.
And so God really spoke to me last year about this combination of heaven and earth, and
you can be thinking about it in your own life and your own business if you're in balance,
right?
So heaven is the spiritual side of what we do, and work is very spiritual.
And so it's the prayer, it's the promise.
We learn a new promise every week.
It's the biblical principles to build on.
It's the practice that we can keep going all week.
So it's the heaven side.
And then tomorrow is office hours, and that's the earth side.
That's the systems, the structure, the strategies, and who knows that we need both.
They're both so important.
One without the other is empty.
It's kind of like the book in James, the verse in James, it says faith without works is dead.
We need both.
Works without faith is dead, faith without works is dead.
And so here we are talking about expectation.
And I know Azena can't get on the screen, but maybe you could put on the chat, Azena,
can I have permission to share what you shared last week about expectation?
That was just such a cool follow-up.
Just say permission in the chat if that's okay.
If not, I will not.
So last week, you know, we had the testimony, and it was so beautiful to see what Christy,
how she's navigating cancer and how, like, the healing that God is doing as she walks
in faith, as she walks in certainty.
Okay, so I had a call with Azena.
If you don't know Azena, she is your VIP travel agent.
She creates experiences that are just amazing.
You want to get to know Azena.
So anyway, Azena was sharing that there was a trip she wanted to, because she is all about
creating experiences, which that's my language.
I believe that's the most important thing, creating memories, creating experiences, especially
with our loved ones, right?
And so the next experience that she had in her mind and heart to create for her and her
little lens and her husband, and she brings the in-laws, the whole thing, right?
And they just, it's VIP travel, like end to end, right?
And so the next one was going to be in Kauai, in Hawaii.
And I think the tickets for this, like they were, she watches them and she knows when
they go down.
And so anyway, the exact amount of the tickets, like, started coming as she walked in this
expectation.
And so the first one came in a Christmas card and someone that usually gives some,
it was way more, and it was the exact amount of ticket number one, right?
And then like this kept happening, coming from different sources, because who knows?
There's one source, there's many resources.
And so kept arriving, pay for that one, pay for that one, pay for that one.
Any of you had that happen when you walk in that faith and you walk in that expectation?
So when we drop the belief that many of us hold of limitation and lack, that things have
to be hard, that there are limited resources, that they take too long, because all of those
things shrink our being of how we look at things.
And if you look at scripture, God says he came to gave us exceedingly, abundantly above
all we could ask, hope, or imagine.
Like just think about that.
If you've been hoping or imagining something, God wants to give you more than that.
Not just more than that, exceedingly, not just exceedingly, but exceedingly abundantly
above and beyond all you could ask, hope, or imagine.
Look at that visual, talk about expectation, right?
Today, we're going to talk about it from a different angle.
I think it's going to be really powerful for you personally.
God's dropping this on my spirit and for your business and your relationships.
Um, I'm going to open with a really quick prayer and then we'll go right into the
promise. Cause remember we have four parts to the power hour promise,
principle, prayer and practice.
Okay, so let's do a quick prayer. We'll do the full prayer coming up.
So father, I just give thanks for this day.
I give thanks for the gift of expectation.
Like you said, according to your faith, be it done unto you.
So Lord, I pray that today you'll raise our faith. You'll,
you'll increase our capacity to hold faith and expectation to hold certainty
about who you are and about what you can and are and will do in our lives.
So open our spiritual senses, Lord, to hear what you are saying.
Speak through my mouth. May the meditations of my heart,
the words of my mouth be pleasing to you, my Lord, my God,
my Redeemer. All right, let's dive in. Who's ready?
Put ready in the chat.
So I'm going to start with a prayer.
In the chat.
So it's an unusual verse, um, at least in the way I'm going to use it.
You probably know this verse,
but you probably don't know it in the form of a promise.
So I want you to look at this verse with fresh eyes today.
Look at it with fresh eyes. Okay.
Um,
the verse we're going to be looking at is Ephesians 2.10,
but let's just kind of lay a foundation for it.
We're going to be in the amplified translation. That's going to be our promise.
Okay. Here's how I want you looking at expectation.
It's not just like a faraway hope.
It's actually a place.
Expectation faith is actually a place that you're coming
from. This is a really important distinction.
You're not trying to get to something because
biblically everything's already in us.
It's all over scripture, right? Out of the heart flow.
The issues of life, the heart is in us, right?
Rivers of living water flow out of our inner being,
right? Christ in me, the hope of glory, the mind of God,
you understand all these things are in us.
So if we're the temple of the Holy spirit and we have God in us,
then we have all in us.
So when we're coming from a place,
we're coming from a place of faith and certainty expectation,
like we're talking about operating from this
place, not trying to get to,
you see the opposite perspective, which is,
it's a disguised victim perspective.
And that is that if I can just get
something from the outside and bring it in,
then I'll be happy, healthy, prosperous.
If I could just get more money, but just get more clients.
If I can just get a man that's trying to get to
something biblically, we're coming from something.
We're coming from a place of wholeness.
We're coming from a place of power. We're coming from a place,
right? Of being seated in high places,
coming from a place of authority. Do you guys get the distinction type
distinction? If you, if you see what I'm saying,
so this is actually a worldview.
It's a perspective, right? So here's the,
here's the challenge. Here's the challenge.
Many people will say with their mouth, like scripture says, you,
you speak about me with your mouth, but your heart is far from me.
Many people will easily say, yeah, God is good. God is good.
But internally they have a different belief. There's a,
there's a conflict and the internal is they're bracing
for the other shoe to drop.
Like there's inner belief that something's missing.
Something's broken. Right? So, so today,
here's the question I want to open with before we get into our promise.
Here's the question really, truly like,
don't talk to me religious. You know, I hate religion, love Jesus,
but I hate religion. Okay. By the word religion means back to bondage. Okay.
So not religious answer. Give me,
Deep answer. What kind of life do you believe God has prepared for you?
What kind of life do you believe God has prepared for you? Answer that for real, not in theory.
And this has everything to do with how do you interpret hardship. When things aren't going so
well and things are hard, what do you see? What do you think? What do you feel? What do you believe?
How do you operate? Does it shrink you? Does it make you sick? Do you think that God has left you?
Do you have a narrative running? What happens when things are hard?
Here's another one. What about delay? When things are delayed, how do you respond?
How about when you have pain? Right? Mental, physical, emotional pain.
Okay. God puts his verse on my heart and it's got a distinction in it that you find in the
Amplified Translation. The Amplified Translation, that version of the Bible, takes words and it's
got in parentheses what those words really mean when you look at the original language.
So it's a great study Bible, right? It's one of my favorites to study from. So for example,
if you think about John 3.16 and you say, whosoever believes in him will have eternal life,
we interpret that as believe, like mental ascent. But that word believe, especially if you look it
up in the Amplified, means lean your entire personality on, as if you're leaning on a wall.
You're leaning. That's what that word means. Okay. And so when you go deeper to the meaning of words,
it gets really rich because the English language is not as rich as the Greek, the Aramaic.
So Ephesians 2.10, let me read it to you in the Amplified and let me tell you why it jumped out
at me and God was putting it on my heart this week. The first part you've probably thought about,
it opens with, for we are his workmanship. We are his workmanship. You've probably all heard that,
created in Christ, right? We are his workmanship. And you think, yeah, God's creator. Okay.
Lottie Dottie. Okay. But the deeper meaning of that, okay. In the Amplified says his own
masterwork or his masterpiece or his work of art. Okay. That original word is poema.
Poema. So doesn't that add a different nuance? We're actually God's poetry.
We're his masterpiece. We're his poetry. Okay. We've all kind of thought about that one a little
bit. That's not as new, perhaps. Created in Christ Jesus, born from above. And then the Amplified
goes in and says spiritually transformed, right? We've been, we're new creatures in Christ.
Renewed. Redo again. New, renewed, ready to be used for good works. Okay. Maybe you thought
about that. We're created in Christ. We're his masterpiece created for good works, which God
prepared. Now I love that part of the promise in that there is a good work that I'm called.
I'm called to do that good work. You know, I had a conversation earlier today and often we work,
unfortunately in this society, we work for money. And I remember Jim Rohn saying, that's the worst
reason in the world to work. You work because you're releasing your gifts because it's an
opportunity for creativity. It's an opportunity for blessing. It's opportunity to bring gifts
to the world. It's fulfilling, right? And so there's these works that are prepared for us.
And you can tell if you're in the right place. I just told someone today, you know,
he's in a small pond. He's playing in a small pond. He's created for so much greater.
And the way that you know, is you're not feeling creative. You're not bringing solutions to the
world. It's not fulfilling. It's not sparking joy. It's not using your highest and your best,
right? So the first part of the promise is to realize I'm a masterpiece. I'm God's poema.
I'm created for good works. Okay. But I love the second part. I love the second part. So the works
that God prepared.
for us beforehand. Here's the part I want to have you highlight and underline in the Amplified.
It says, so the good works which God prepared for us beforehand, taking paths,
so I want you to get that word, getting paths. What do you think of with a path? It's a place
that's gone before you. It's a place that's not overgrown in weeds. You don't have to take the
machetes to go through. God has prepared a path. Can you picture a path, right? I mean, Psalms 23
is an example of this beautiful path, right? He leads me in paths of righteousness. He makes me
lay down in green pastures. He leads me beside still water. So there's this idea that there's
a path that's already been prepared, which he set, but here's the cool part, so that we would
walk in them, and this is the one I want you to really underline, living the good life
which he pre-arranged and made ready for us. I love that. I love that. God already prepared
a good life for me. He gave a path. He put gifts in me. He put desires in me. He put skills in me.
He brought people and circumstances to refine me, and as I grow my capacity, I'm able to fully
walk out this path, right? And it's something that you feel so passionate about. I look at each one
of you and the gifts that you're using here in the world, right? Every one of you, like I brought up,
Azena, she's got this passion for families and for leaders, like coaches and so on, to be able
to create these experiences that live on for a lifetime. They're memorable. They bond, right?
That's a passion in her. She lives it. She loves it. So when she's doing it, she's doing this.
She's walking that path of that good work. I can tell because she gets lit up and she's excited
about it, right? Same for Charla. I love her podcast, the subtitle of her podcast,
Collector. Let me see if I got this right, Charla, but Collector of Fascinating People,
and everyone is fascinating. So Charla is amazing at bringing out, did I say that right or no?
Did I say it right? Collector of Fascinating People? Collector and Connector of Fascinating
People, and everyone is fascinating. Okay. Collector and Connector of Fascinating People,
and everybody's fascinating. Especially you. Do you see the expectation in that and then why she
lives it out? I mean, she's a great interviewer if you've been on her podcast and she just pulls
this out of you because she's fascinated. So she's walking this good path and it's fun for her and
it's natural for her and she's good at it, right? Kate has this ability that's so fabulous for
nonprofits and institutions and she was playing in a pond too small originally. She was working
a career and she was ready to bust out. And when I started coaching with her last year, I mean,
she really busted out. She did six figures her first 90 days, yes, and a couple hundred
thousand her first year. So because she was using her gifts and her gifts is solving problems and
finding resources and project management. She has the ability to go into an organization that
has needs and she's got this compassion and love of God and she brings solutions that, of course,
they want, right? And so, of course, when she presents, it's like almost an easy sale and not
only that, she goes out and gets the grant writing and tries to help them find the money too,
right? So, you know, I agree with you, Charla. All my clients are absolutely fascinating,
right? And so in every level, I could go on and on about each one of you. So I love this,
that when you look at it, taking paths which he set so we would walk in them,
living the good life which he pre-arranged and made ready for us. Of course, Jesus said,
I came that they may have life and have it abundantly, the abundant life. We've over
spiritualized this. We've really missed the mark thinking that this is what happens in heaven.
Jesus didn't intend that. It's all the way through scripture. This was not meant to like
go get to the bus stop, you know, to heaven and sit and wait for the bus.
us to heaven and stop living. No, we're called to occupy and we're called to advance and we're
called to expand and we're called to do mighty exploits. And so I want you to think about this
promise. So, you know, last week when we looked at how, you know, Christie handled the diagnosis
of cancer. And it was a beautiful introduction to this, that we always have a choice,
you know, what God says and the report, the report of my bank account, the report of,
you know, the doctor we always have. And often it comes from authorities and we want to just
shrink down. But she, from the very beginning said, no, that's, that's not what God says.
And that's the purpose of this prosper power hour. That's the purpose of learning a promise
so that you can look. And if your life is, is dull or frustrating or boring, or it's making
you sick. And it's not that you don't go through hard times. Like that's a very hard time.
Christie went through. Okay. But she was coming from this faith and expectation that this is
going to lead to even greater abundance, greater abundance, you know, as a testimony
that God still heals greater abundance for the hope that she brings to the world,
a greater abundance for what it's doing for her marriage, greater abundance for the life.
She's going to live going forward. Do you see? So it's the perspective we take about hard things.
And do we look at it, you know, from, from this lens. So, you know, the touch points here is
you're not random and your life is not reactionary. You see, whenever you are reacting,
then you're not coming from this place of wholeness. You're not coming from this place
that I have everything. If I have Christ, if I seek first, the kingdom of God, everything else
is added. So if I'm coming from this shalom place, nothing missing, nothing broken, I'm coming from
this place of wholeness, then I don't need anything. This is why David could say, and did
David go through hard times? Heck yes. Each one that increased his capacity and prepared him
to be the greatest King in Israel. Right? So we see this time and time again. It doesn't mean
you're not going to go through hardships, but you have a different perspective of that hardship.
It's increasing your capacity to go even higher. And so the next time that you're facing a bad
report of a pain, a discomforting situation, the brain's solution, the brain, the body consciousness,
the brain wants to keep you safe. The brain wants to keep you playing small, which by the way,
doesn't work. You can't play small enough to keep yourself safe. I told a woman that yesterday.
I said, you can't play small enough to keep yourself safe. And she says, you know, you're so right.
I've been playing so small and all this stuff is still happening to me. Okay. Some people are afraid
to get big in their business, in their life, in their relationships, right? They're afraid to play
big thinking they're going to be safe, but you can't play small enough to keep yourself safe.
Right. Okay. So when we react and we react with judgment or we react with, you know, fear, we react
by shrinking or we, you know, we react. It's because we think we lack something. We think
we're missing something. But when you're coming from a place of faith, expectation, certainty,
these all go together. Then you, you no longer react because you have everything already.
You react. When you think you need something, you need someone's approval. You need someone's love.
You need someone's money. You need someone's security when you're coming from a place of lack,
which is why David said the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not lack. I know I'm blending two scriptures,
Psalms 23, if you want to reference Psalms 23, and this one, Ephesians 2.10. I'm going back and
forth, Old Testament, New Testament. But David could declare, I mean, one of the most beautiful
Psalms of all time, the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not lack. I think the word is want in many
translations. Want, by the way, remove that word from your vocabulary. Want, want means extreme
lack, right? So the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not lack. When you're coming from that place that
I lack nothing. God had to teach me that. You literally, this is a spiritual capacity increasing
exercise of coming to the place that you lack nothing.
It's a place of certainty.
Whenever you feel you lack and you need something,
you need approval, you need a raise,
you need money, you need love, then you're going to react.
But when you're coming from this place of wholeness,
you won't react.
And you'll say, oh no, I'm on the good path
and the good life that God has for me,
which is exceedingly abundantly above and beyond
all I could ask, hope, or imagine.
So when something happens uncomfortable, we don't shrink.
We say, what's the good here that I'm not seeing?
What's the capacity God's trying to grow?
Because every trial you go through
increases your capacity for bigger ventures.
I like studying successful people
and I'm not being political here,
I'm just studying successful people.
So I remember watching Elon Musk's,
a documentary on his life.
And I remember when he was going through hard times
with Tesla and I mean, it was bad.
He didn't know if he was going to make it another day.
And I remember him sleeping on the floor
in the Tesla factory, staying there 24 seven.
He didn't want to have a house, he didn't want to leave
because he didn't want to expect more from his employees
than he did of himself.
And so I remember thinking the loyalty as he slept there
and he just worked on this, but what happened?
Of course, they turned it around
and look at everybody owns a Tesla practically,
myself included, but the capacity as to future things,
I don't care if it's SpaceX or what he's doing
with electricity or internet around the world or any of it,
we come to the next thing with increased capacity,
we can hold even more.
And so I want you as a side note,
if you've never read James chapter one,
which I used to think James was on drugs when I read this,
James chapter one says, count it all joy.
I want you to think about that joy,
the highest frequency of vibration.
We're supposed to count it all joy
when things are great,
when things are rainbow and unicorns, no.
Count it all joy when you face diverse trials.
In other words, trials of every kind, count it all joy.
And I used to think, what the heck?
Until you get an understanding,
why do we count trials of joy?
Because every trial is not a punishment.
It's not a punishment, it's a producer.
Write that down.
A trial is not a punishment, it's a producer.
It's a producer.
So here's the core truth,
and then we're gonna get into prayer.
Here's the core truth.
We don't suffer most from what happens to us.
When you're experiencing suffering,
when you're experiencing suffering,
we don't suffer based on the thing happening to us.
That's just a thing happening.
We suffer from the meaning we assign to it.
You have to understand that,
that nothing has meaning until we assign a meaning to it.
We say, oh, this means that.
And it's that meaning, oh, this means
that God's punishing me.
This means, you know, this is karma.
This means, you know, that person is bad.
This means I'm bad.
This means I'm not good enough.
The suffering comes by the meaning we attach to it.
And so when you can remove that meaning,
then you're free, right?
You just become free.
And so we can break these meanings.
Like a meaning would be bad things always happen to me.
I've had clients and they say, yeah, in my family,
we don't make money or in my family,
bad things always happen to us.
I don't know.
We have a curse, whatever.
Or if it feels hard, it must be wrong.
I don't think I should be doing this because it's hard.
That's a belief system.
That's a meaning, okay?
If it hurts, God must not be hearing my prayers.
God must be distant.
These are meanings.
And that's broken with the verse that we have today.
It's also broken with the corollary of Romans 8, 28.
Romans 8, 28, that says God is working
every single thing together for my good, right?
And so these trials, James 1, counted all joy when you face trials.
Trials are not punishment. They're producers. What do I mean?
They're producers. Scripture says they produce endurance.
That's a form of capacity, right? When you're a runner, you start out,
you can barely run a mile. Pretty soon you increase your capacity
and you're running two. You're running five.
You can do a half marathon. You can do a mile, right?
So it produces endurance. That's a form of capacity.
It produces maturity. You can look at something and you can
honestly look at it and have compassion. Like sometimes don't people act so childish?
Like don't people act so childless sometimes, right?
And so you can rise above it and act with maturity.
It increases your capacity. It gives you a testimony.
It gives you a deeper faith. Your faith was forged in the fire of trials.
Very few of us get faith in, you know, what's the saying?
Rainbows and unicorns? What's that saying?
Anyway, you know what I mean, right? Very few of us get faith
when everything's hunky-dory. In fact, I would venture to say
your prayer life gets forged in the fire of trials.
That's when you really start praying. When everything's going good,
all of a sudden you're too busy to pray. Have you ever noticed that?
So we reframe. We reframe this.
Hard does not mean bad. Delay does not mean denial.
Pain does not mean punishment. I'm increasing my capacity
and God has a good path for me, a good life for me.
And so one of my favorite teachers, he's actually a Jewish mystic,
but he teaches that when something hits, that you pause
and you say, what a gift. Or you pause and you say, what an opportunity.
So something bad's coming at you, quote unquote bad,
and you say, pause, what a gift. And then you begin to look.
You look at it, you say, what's the good here that I'm not seeing?
And suddenly you attach a different meaning.
God, what are you, how are you growing my capacity?
What are you producing in and through me? What's the good that I'm not seeing?
And this is where peace is restored. This is how Jesus can sleep through a storm.
This is how he can walk into a storm with absolute certainty
and say, peace, be still. And so can we.
We can speak to the storm. Scripture says that.
Scripture says we can speak to the mountain and say, be thou removed.
I don't care if it's the mountain of frustration, the mountain of debt,
the mountain of fear, like be thou removed,
dissolve, disintegrate, you have no power in my life.
You guys feel that you feel that level of faith and expectation.
And so you begin to look at life through a redemptive lens.
You see, God is redeeming everything back to its original.
And so when you have a redemptive lens, then nothing is wasted.
Trials, tribulations, nothing's wasted.
You're like, oh, wow, what's the good here? I'm not seeing.
I'm going to grow through this. I'm going to come out of this stronger.
I'm going to come out the other side with more capacity.
I'm going to come out of this more mature.
I'm going to come out of this with more love, more compassion,
more faith, more joy, more power, right?
And you can actually see the capacity.
Like, you know, I remember when Kate first started coaching.
And of course, when you're just starting, like she's brand new consultant.
She's never done it. She's only worked for corporate.
And here she is like, it's a wild, wild West.
And of course, you have these natural feelings.
Can I really do this? Are they going to buy?
Are they going to believe in me? I don't have a testimony yet.
I mean, I'm just starting, right?
And, you know, with the guidance, she went out with that confidence.
Well, now, you know, after year one and $200,000 in contracts,
she's going for over a million.
I think she'll break higher than a million this year, right?
She did that in the middle of government shutdowns
and funding shutting down and all kinds of other stuff, right?
So now she's got a whole different way of talking.
She's coming from increased capacity.
I know, I feel, I believe.
Am I right, Kate? Like, are you going into this year?
Like, did that stretching and going through the fear and the unknown,
like, you're different this year than you were last year, right?
Yeah. Yeah.
So, um.
So I love that. In fact, if you want to speak up real quick, and then we're gonna go into prayer, but how
How are you?
Different like as you went through you went through trials, right?
It was because here your your business required funding and now all funding got shut down
In fact many of the nonprofits like there's government shut down, right? Yes, and so
How how are you?
Like you went through that how did it grow your
Capacity and and how are you? How are you going through this time different?
Yeah, I know that's a wonderful question so
You know six months or so into the business. I
Got my biggest contract which was a federally funded project
and that
We got started, you know in good faith all the paperwork got signed and all of that so we had an agreement
we hadn't yet gotten paid but I was paying my contractors and we were working on the project and
Everything was looking like it was gonna get work out for us to get paid at the end of September and then the government shut
Down so I had already paid people. I already already incurred expenses and now everything was frozen
What did you feel at that moment?
What were you first tempted to feel did you start to like feel fear or doubt or
Did you feel anything at that moment? I I did I did I I worked through about a week of
Fear and and and doubt in myself and and like oh, did I do this wrong?
Should I not have started in good faith? Like I'm such a you know new business leader
But
That you all hear this because
She said I went through it about a week and one of the powerful things that I teach is in
Coaching is learning to shorten your disappointment time
So in the past something might have taken you out a month and then it might be three weeks and then she says about a week
She's shortened her disappoints like yes, you're gonna feel it. There was self-doubt. She says that came in there
There was fear right? This is normal. This is normal. But what she did is there's a container around it
We shorten this disappointment time. Okay, how did you come out the other side? Yes. Okay, so then government reopened
The my client got the the funding and now I needed to get the funding from the client
and it got stuck in
bureaucracy and
systems that were broken
So we're heading towards the end of the year and I had a big expense coming that had to be paid before the end of
the year and I just remember one day God said
It's not gonna be you on the chopping block and it was the story of Abraham and Isaac going up that hill Wow
And it was like it's not gonna be the Sun on the chopping block. It wasn't gonna be me means I said, okay
Wow, so we did Christmas, you know, we did I didn't I didn't like I didn't go small on my family
I said we're gonna we're gonna live not extravagantly, you know, like not beyond our means
But we're gonna live like we would normally do and thank God it actually came in yesterday Brenda
So this I mean it's beautiful. We get to hear this fresh
We made it through we made it through
Yay, and and you didn't stop living and so did you find that your faith grew?
Did you find that your capacity grew like the next time a trial comes?
Do you feel kind of like you've already run five miles like you feel confident run ten because you're going from
200,000 to over a million like that takes a different level of capacity. What what internal changes have you seen?
What shifts?
Yeah, I mean, I think that my my risk tolerance has gone up like my God risk tolerance
Yeah, if he says go I like I'm more apt to go for the big bigger things now. Yeah
knowing that he's got it and
Yeah, that's that's a huge one for me
So good. Well, I you didn't know I was gonna pull you up on the spot. Nobody ever does
Thank you for being willing to share that because it's such a beautiful
Story, and it's also a story
What I saw is that that one of the capacities so her risk capacity increased another as her coach that I saw
was the capacity of resilience of
Resilience and so she made a shift and she says, okay, I can't go that way funding's not there
I'll focus more on the project management side of things and so she actually added a
dimension to her business
Which I think ultimately is going to be even bigger than the original one and easier to sell and more people are gonna see
it. Okay. Thank you so much for
Sharing let me I think I removed the spotlight. Did I remove the spotlight? Mm-hmm. Yes. Okay. All right
This is our time to pray. So did
God bless you. Put blessed. Did you get something juicy out of that? I want to know.
How did that feel for you? Did you grab something? Did you hear something? Because
when we share our testimony, it's for everybody in the room. Everybody's going through something
that can relate to that. And so that's the reason I call you guys up and just because I love you.
Okay. So as we pray right now, you know, we don't pray superficial prayers. We pray with
expectation. We pray with faith. We pray with thanksgiving. We all contribute. And so this is
a great time to pray if you have been reacting, if you have been coming from a place of lack.
And that slips in for all of us. I have to continuously break association with lack.
That's something we can pray, right? To let go of fear-based expectations or maybe meanings
that really don't line up with the word, right? Pain doesn't mean punishment. You know,
delay doesn't mean denial, etc. So let's come to the Lord. Do we have, I forgot to do this at the
beginning. Do we have any praise reports and do we have any prayer requests? Praise reports,
prayer requests. I want to make sure when we pray that we include those.
You can just unmute yourself and speak up. I have, excuse me, I have prayer requests.
Okay. If you recall, I broke my wrist in August and we're having challenges with the healing of
it. It's still swelled. I guess scar tissue developed over the bone and through physical
therapy, it's supposed to break off and it's not breaking off. And just, yeah, I have to go through
12 more weeks of physical therapy. And if that doesn't work, then there's other procedures
that they would have to do to get it to break off. Okay. So we're praying for healing,
for swelling to go down, scar tissue to release. Okay. So you guys write this down that you pray
all week, not just here. And we pray with faith and expectation. What does that look like? Means
you actually imagine like the scar tissue dissolving. You actually see it. You actually
speak it. You feel it, right? Okay. Anybody else, prayer requests or praise reports? I forgot to ask
that. Prayer requests, praise reports. Okay. Then let's just go ahead. Everybody jump in.
Anybody can pray. Just you guys go through it and then I'll close us out. And then I will give you
the principle for the practice for the week that you can keep on practicing. Okay. So you've got
to remember the promise, Ephesians 2.10. And so let's go ahead and pray. Everybody can just pray
together. Just take turns. No prayer too small. It all matters.
My Lord, I'm so grateful that we have Brenda in our lives.
It's a huge praise to have her wisdom every week, and her brilliance to guide this,
you know, through us, through this amazing times that we're living in right now.
I tend to be so optimistic and outrageously optimistic. And I know she shares that. And I'm
very grateful for that. I'm grateful for these praise reports with Cade and so many, and Chris
Dean and Helene. I'm really, I'm, I believe with everything in me that if God can create it,
he can heal it and does and will, and it is already done. And thank you for sharing that.
So we can join you in that pair. And my, I'll just say thank you for the guest I had last week
on my show that had, he's got the Pain Academy and for people with chronic pain and he had,
and it was about his hands. So maybe we can share that as well. Thank you. Thank you for
just every, thank you.
for breathing free oxygen.
Thank you for every little thing.
There's no lack in this world.
Father, I thank you so much for this time together
and this encouragement as we come together as sisters.
I thank you for your word that we are created
that we are masterpieces of yours
and that we are created for these good works.
I love this idea of this path, Lord,
that you've already laid out for us.
You've already laid out for each one of us, God.
So I pray, Lord,
I pray, Lord, that we would be sensitive to your spirit,
that we would be led by you, God,
down these paths courageously, boldly,
saying yes to you, Lord, and trusting you
no matter what the path might look like.
We can't see the whole thing, but we trust you, Lord God.
I pray for an increase of faith this year, Lord,
and it may come, even if it comes through a trial, Lord,
I pray that it would continue to produce in us
the good things that we'll need for the next season.
We stand on your truth.
We stand on your word.
We stand on your nature, Lord,
and I thank you for this healing in advance,
for the scar tissue dissolving, Lord, in Jesus' name.
Amen.
God, I want to thank you so much
for all the divine appointments that you present
in our lives, that when we come to the Bible study,
that the right people are there,
the people who are supposed to show up show up,
that when we have family events,
the people who are supposed to show up show up.
You're a loving God, and you're constantly guiding our ways,
and I just feel so blessed to be called your daughter,
to be able to each day wake up
and know that you've already prepared
and planned my life for me, my path,
and that it's all meant for good.
I love you, Lord, and thank you so much
for all of these beautiful women in this group.
Amen.
Thank you, thank you.
I know some of you are at work, so you can't speak up,
so I'm just gonna bring this by saying,
Lord, we just thank you.
We just thank you.
We enter your courts with thanksgiving,
and your gates with praise.
Thank you that you are a miracle-working God,
a capacity-increasing God, a faithful, loving, good God.
Thank you that you came that we may have life
and have it more abundantly, the ZO life.
I love that word, the ZO life.
It's just every dimension of fulfilling and profitable
and joy and productive and healing.
It's just the total package.
So I thank you, Lord.
I thank you for a lens, complete healing.
We touch and we agree and we stand together for miracles.
You're no respecter of miracles.
The miracle you did for Christy,
the miracle you did for Kate, you're doing for Elen.
You're no respecter of people.
So we trust in you.
You've said, according to our faith, be it done unto us.
So we expect with excitement and anticipation
to you be all glory.
I thank you for every one of these women,
both listening live and the replay,
all the prosper sisters, may blessings,
may this week just be filled with untold blessings
and revelation and surprises.
Surprise them, Lord.
Surprise them with your goodness.
I love in the Psalms 23 that his goodness and mercy
follow me all the days of my life.
We give thanks for that in Jesus name.
Amen and amen.
All right, real quick, we got to practice
and then I got to go, I got a client.
Your practice, first of all,
take something that you're going through.
be your wrist, it could be whatever you're going through, government shutdown, whatever.
If God is working this for good, right? Because he's working everything together for good. If
God is working this for good, one thing he may be producing in me is. So you take that thing,
and if God is working together for good, because that's what he said, I'm going to go on that
assumption, one thing he may be producing in me right now is. And then I want you to speak
Ephesians 2.10 in the amplified translation. So I want you to speak it in the present most
powerful words. The most powerful words in the English language are I am. So I am God's workmanship.
Begin to speak that. Now when you do the Prosper Daily Planner, you can get this on Amazon,
but this is the way I keep myself on track. And every day, like here's today's, you know,
the second thing on there is five minutes, and you can make it any time, but of I am affirmations.
Now I used to have to write them down, and now it's become a muscle. So I'll just close my eyes,
and I am, and you just start speaking all of the I am's. So in this case, you could say,
I am God's workmanship. That could be part of your I am's. I am God's poema created to do good
works. I am walking paths he prepared for me, right? My life is not random. Okay. And then
the third is what is one action? Because remember, faith without works is dead. What's
one inspired action you can take this week to live this out? A conversation, a boundary, a pause
instead of reacting, a prayer instead of panic. Not striving, just alignment. But what's one
action that you can take? So in closing, expectation is not pretending that everything's
easy. We're not being Pollyanna. We're facing the reality. But expectation is trusting that
God is good. He's always working. He's still working. He's always working no matter what the
season, and this will turn out for good. And when that happens, then peace returns, right? Your
faith gets strong, your capacity increases. All right. Bless you all. Thanks for being here. We'll
see you tomorrow in office hours as we work on the systems and structures of your business.
Have a blessed, blessed day and walk that good path that God created for you. Are you waving
your hand, Sharla? Take a picture. This is I love you with a hug. Oh, okay. I don't know that sign
language. I love you with a hug. Okay. Thank you. I love you with a hug too. Okay. Bye-bye.