WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:09.720 All right, welcome, welcome, welcome to the Prosper Power Hour. 2 00:00:09.720 --> 00:00:14.000 I'm so excited for what we're going to address today. 3 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:20.240 I think it's so powerful for life and for business. 4 00:00:20.240 --> 00:00:29.640 As we continue with the conversation of expectation and the role that expectations play in our 5 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:31.840 life, right? 6 00:00:31.840 --> 00:00:38.240 So if any of you are new to watching this or watching the replay, every Wednesday we 7 00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:41.800 gather here for the Prosper Power Hour. 8 00:00:41.800 --> 00:00:46.280 This is one of the benefits of being a Prosper Leader member. 9 00:00:46.280 --> 00:00:52.320 And so God really spoke to me last year about this combination of heaven and earth, and 10 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:58.120 you can be thinking about it in your own life and your own business if you're in balance, 11 00:00:58.120 --> 00:00:59.120 right? 12 00:00:59.600 --> 00:01:04.920 So heaven is the spiritual side of what we do, and work is very spiritual. 13 00:01:04.920 --> 00:01:07.840 And so it's the prayer, it's the promise. 14 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:09.600 We learn a new promise every week. 15 00:01:09.600 --> 00:01:12.780 It's the biblical principles to build on. 16 00:01:12.780 --> 00:01:15.460 It's the practice that we can keep going all week. 17 00:01:15.460 --> 00:01:16.680 So it's the heaven side. 18 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:21.560 And then tomorrow is office hours, and that's the earth side. 19 00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:28.760 That's the systems, the structure, the strategies, and who knows that we need both. 20 00:01:29.400 --> 00:01:31.520 They're both so important. 21 00:01:31.520 --> 00:01:34.240 One without the other is empty. 22 00:01:34.240 --> 00:01:39.840 It's kind of like the book in James, the verse in James, it says faith without works is dead. 23 00:01:39.840 --> 00:01:41.040 We need both. 24 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:45.360 Works without faith is dead, faith without works is dead. 25 00:01:45.360 --> 00:01:52.360 And so here we are talking about expectation. 26 00:01:52.360 --> 00:01:59.080 And I know Azena can't get on the screen, but maybe you could put on the chat, Azena, 27 00:01:59.080 --> 00:02:02.560 can I have permission to share what you shared last week about expectation? 28 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:05.120 That was just such a cool follow-up. 29 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:08.240 Just say permission in the chat if that's okay. 30 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:10.419 If not, I will not. 31 00:02:10.419 --> 00:02:17.840 So last week, you know, we had the testimony, and it was so beautiful to see what Christy, 32 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:25.960 how she's navigating cancer and how, like, the healing that God is doing as she walks 33 00:02:25.960 --> 00:02:28.680 in faith, as she walks in certainty. 34 00:02:28.680 --> 00:02:31.320 Okay, so I had a call with Azena. 35 00:02:31.320 --> 00:02:36.720 If you don't know Azena, she is your VIP travel agent. 36 00:02:36.720 --> 00:02:39.420 She creates experiences that are just amazing. 37 00:02:39.420 --> 00:02:41.740 You want to get to know Azena. 38 00:02:41.740 --> 00:02:49.700 So anyway, Azena was sharing that there was a trip she wanted to, because she is all about 39 00:02:49.700 --> 00:02:54.340 creating experiences, which that's my language. 40 00:02:54.340 --> 00:02:58.420 I believe that's the most important thing, creating memories, creating experiences, especially 41 00:02:58.420 --> 00:03:00.460 with our loved ones, right? 42 00:03:00.460 --> 00:03:05.500 And so the next experience that she had in her mind and heart to create for her and her 43 00:03:05.500 --> 00:03:10.140 little lens and her husband, and she brings the in-laws, the whole thing, right? 44 00:03:10.140 --> 00:03:15.220 And they just, it's VIP travel, like end to end, right? 45 00:03:15.220 --> 00:03:20.740 And so the next one was going to be in Kauai, in Hawaii. 46 00:03:20.740 --> 00:03:26.820 And I think the tickets for this, like they were, she watches them and she knows when 47 00:03:26.820 --> 00:03:28.220 they go down. 48 00:03:28.220 --> 00:03:36.740 And so anyway, the exact amount of the tickets, like, started coming as she walked in this 49 00:03:36.740 --> 00:03:37.740 expectation. 50 00:03:37.740 --> 00:03:44.380 And so the first one came in a Christmas card and someone that usually gives some, 51 00:03:44.380 --> 00:03:49.100 it was way more, and it was the exact amount of ticket number one, right? 52 00:03:49.100 --> 00:03:54.420 And then like this kept happening, coming from different sources, because who knows? 53 00:03:54.420 --> 00:03:57.740 There's one source, there's many resources. 54 00:03:57.740 --> 00:04:01.420 And so kept arriving, pay for that one, pay for that one, pay for that one. 55 00:04:01.420 --> 00:04:08.820 Any of you had that happen when you walk in that faith and you walk in that expectation? 56 00:04:08.820 --> 00:04:20.660 So when we drop the belief that many of us hold of limitation and lack, that things have 57 00:04:20.660 --> 00:04:27.580 to be hard, that there are limited resources, that they take too long, because all of those 58 00:04:27.580 --> 00:04:32.540 things shrink our being of how we look at things. 59 00:04:32.540 --> 00:04:37.660 And if you look at scripture, God says he came to gave us exceedingly, abundantly above 60 00:04:37.660 --> 00:04:39.820 all we could ask, hope, or imagine. 61 00:04:39.820 --> 00:04:41.740 Like just think about that. 62 00:04:41.740 --> 00:04:48.100 If you've been hoping or imagining something, God wants to give you more than that. 63 00:04:48.100 --> 00:04:52.860 Not just more than that, exceedingly, not just exceedingly, but exceedingly abundantly 64 00:04:52.860 --> 00:04:55.940 above and beyond all you could ask, hope, or imagine. 65 00:04:55.940 --> 00:04:59.940 Look at that visual, talk about expectation, right? 66 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:02.120 Today, we're going to talk about it from a different angle. 67 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:05.160 I think it's going to be really powerful for you personally. 68 00:05:05.160 --> 00:05:10.040 God's dropping this on my spirit and for your business and your relationships. 69 00:05:10.400 --> 00:05:15.200 Um, I'm going to open with a really quick prayer and then we'll go right into the 70 00:05:15.200 --> 00:05:19.640 promise. Cause remember we have four parts to the power hour promise, 71 00:05:20.080 --> 00:05:24.640 principle, prayer and practice. 72 00:05:24.920 --> 00:05:28.640 Okay, so let's do a quick prayer. We'll do the full prayer coming up. 73 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:31.320 So father, I just give thanks for this day. 74 00:05:31.320 --> 00:05:34.520 I give thanks for the gift of expectation. 75 00:05:35.400 --> 00:05:40.400 Like you said, according to your faith, be it done unto you. 76 00:05:41.080 --> 00:05:44.720 So Lord, I pray that today you'll raise our faith. You'll, 77 00:05:44.760 --> 00:05:49.760 you'll increase our capacity to hold faith and expectation to hold certainty 78 00:05:49.760 --> 00:05:54.760 about who you are and about what you can and are and will do in our lives. 79 00:05:54.760 --> 00:05:58.840 So open our spiritual senses, Lord, to hear what you are saying. 80 00:05:58.840 --> 00:06:01.800 Speak through my mouth. May the meditations of my heart, 81 00:06:01.800 --> 00:06:06.520 the words of my mouth be pleasing to you, my Lord, my God, 82 00:06:06.520 --> 00:06:09.920 my Redeemer. All right, let's dive in. Who's ready? 83 00:06:09.920 --> 00:06:13.720 Put ready in the chat. 84 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:16.480 So I'm going to start with a prayer. 85 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:18.840 In the chat. 86 00:06:19.760 --> 00:06:24.640 So it's an unusual verse, um, at least in the way I'm going to use it. 87 00:06:24.920 --> 00:06:28.240 You probably know this verse, 88 00:06:28.480 --> 00:06:32.480 but you probably don't know it in the form of a promise. 89 00:06:32.760 --> 00:06:37.360 So I want you to look at this verse with fresh eyes today. 90 00:06:38.320 --> 00:06:42.160 Look at it with fresh eyes. Okay. 91 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:43.440 Um, 92 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:48.160 the verse we're going to be looking at is Ephesians 2.10, 93 00:06:49.800 --> 00:06:52.800 but let's just kind of lay a foundation for it. 94 00:06:52.800 --> 00:06:57.280 We're going to be in the amplified translation. That's going to be our promise. 95 00:06:57.800 --> 00:07:02.600 Okay. Here's how I want you looking at expectation. 96 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:06.400 It's not just like a faraway hope. 97 00:07:07.360 --> 00:07:09.160 It's actually a place. 98 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:13.360 Expectation faith is actually a place that you're coming 99 00:07:13.440 --> 00:07:17.080 from. This is a really important distinction. 100 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:22.000 You're not trying to get to something because 101 00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:25.920 biblically everything's already in us. 102 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:29.840 It's all over scripture, right? Out of the heart flow. 103 00:07:29.840 --> 00:07:32.840 The issues of life, the heart is in us, right? 104 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:37.800 Rivers of living water flow out of our inner being, 105 00:07:38.280 --> 00:07:42.600 right? Christ in me, the hope of glory, the mind of God, 106 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:44.880 you understand all these things are in us. 107 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:49.360 So if we're the temple of the Holy spirit and we have God in us, 108 00:07:49.960 --> 00:07:52.360 then we have all in us. 109 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:55.760 So when we're coming from a place, 110 00:07:56.000 --> 00:07:59.680 we're coming from a place of faith and certainty expectation, 111 00:07:59.680 --> 00:08:04.320 like we're talking about operating from this 112 00:08:04.320 --> 00:08:06.640 place, not trying to get to, 113 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:10.600 you see the opposite perspective, which is, 114 00:08:10.840 --> 00:08:13.800 it's a disguised victim perspective. 115 00:08:14.080 --> 00:08:18.240 And that is that if I can just get 116 00:08:18.400 --> 00:08:20.960 something from the outside and bring it in, 117 00:08:21.640 --> 00:08:23.640 then I'll be happy, healthy, prosperous. 118 00:08:23.640 --> 00:08:27.040 If I could just get more money, but just get more clients. 119 00:08:27.040 --> 00:08:31.120 If I can just get a man that's trying to get to 120 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:35.880 something biblically, we're coming from something. 121 00:08:35.880 --> 00:08:38.120 We're coming from a place of wholeness. 122 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:42.799 We're coming from a place of power. We're coming from a place, 123 00:08:43.480 --> 00:08:46.040 right? Of being seated in high places, 124 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:51.240 coming from a place of authority. Do you guys get the distinction type 125 00:08:51.240 --> 00:08:54.120 distinction? If you, if you see what I'm saying, 126 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:57.480 so this is actually a worldview. 127 00:08:57.760 --> 00:09:02.600 It's a perspective, right? So here's the, 128 00:09:02.600 --> 00:09:06.440 here's the challenge. Here's the challenge. 129 00:09:07.520 --> 00:09:11.360 Many people will say with their mouth, like scripture says, you, 130 00:09:11.400 --> 00:09:15.320 you speak about me with your mouth, but your heart is far from me. 131 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:21.000 Many people will easily say, yeah, God is good. God is good. 132 00:09:22.640 --> 00:09:25.880 But internally they have a different belief. There's a, 133 00:09:25.920 --> 00:09:30.680 there's a conflict and the internal is they're bracing 134 00:09:30.680 --> 00:09:32.920 for the other shoe to drop. 135 00:09:33.280 --> 00:09:37.200 Like there's inner belief that something's missing. 136 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:40.080 Something's broken. Right? So, so today, 137 00:09:40.080 --> 00:09:43.480 here's the question I want to open with before we get into our promise. 138 00:09:43.480 --> 00:09:47.760 Here's the question really, truly like, 139 00:09:47.760 --> 00:09:51.880 don't talk to me religious. You know, I hate religion, love Jesus, 140 00:09:51.880 --> 00:09:56.360 but I hate religion. Okay. By the word religion means back to bondage. Okay. 141 00:09:56.600 --> 00:09:59.960 So not religious answer. Give me, 142 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:09.280 Deep answer. What kind of life do you believe God has prepared for you? 143 00:10:10.800 --> 00:10:21.200 What kind of life do you believe God has prepared for you? Answer that for real, not in theory. 144 00:10:22.160 --> 00:10:32.080 And this has everything to do with how do you interpret hardship. When things aren't going so 145 00:10:32.080 --> 00:10:38.960 well and things are hard, what do you see? What do you think? What do you feel? What do you believe? 146 00:10:38.960 --> 00:10:47.920 How do you operate? Does it shrink you? Does it make you sick? Do you think that God has left you? 147 00:10:47.920 --> 00:10:51.120 Do you have a narrative running? What happens when things are hard? 148 00:10:52.880 --> 00:11:00.240 Here's another one. What about delay? When things are delayed, how do you respond? 149 00:11:01.760 --> 00:11:07.200 How about when you have pain? Right? Mental, physical, emotional pain. 150 00:11:08.640 --> 00:11:16.400 Okay. God puts his verse on my heart and it's got a distinction in it that you find in the 151 00:11:16.400 --> 00:11:24.880 Amplified Translation. The Amplified Translation, that version of the Bible, takes words and it's 152 00:11:24.880 --> 00:11:30.080 got in parentheses what those words really mean when you look at the original language. 153 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:35.760 So it's a great study Bible, right? It's one of my favorites to study from. So for example, 154 00:11:35.760 --> 00:11:43.200 if you think about John 3.16 and you say, whosoever believes in him will have eternal life, 155 00:11:43.760 --> 00:11:52.160 we interpret that as believe, like mental ascent. But that word believe, especially if you look it 156 00:11:52.160 --> 00:11:58.400 up in the Amplified, means lean your entire personality on, as if you're leaning on a wall. 157 00:11:58.400 --> 00:12:06.160 You're leaning. That's what that word means. Okay. And so when you go deeper to the meaning of words, 158 00:12:06.160 --> 00:12:11.120 it gets really rich because the English language is not as rich as the Greek, the Aramaic. 159 00:12:11.760 --> 00:12:17.280 So Ephesians 2.10, let me read it to you in the Amplified and let me tell you why it jumped out 160 00:12:17.280 --> 00:12:23.920 at me and God was putting it on my heart this week. The first part you've probably thought about, 161 00:12:23.920 --> 00:12:31.600 it opens with, for we are his workmanship. We are his workmanship. You've probably all heard that, 162 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:37.280 created in Christ, right? We are his workmanship. And you think, yeah, God's creator. Okay. 163 00:12:37.280 --> 00:12:45.840 Lottie Dottie. Okay. But the deeper meaning of that, okay. In the Amplified says his own 164 00:12:46.560 --> 00:12:56.560 masterwork or his masterpiece or his work of art. Okay. That original word is poema. 165 00:12:57.520 --> 00:13:03.760 Poema. So doesn't that add a different nuance? We're actually God's poetry. 166 00:13:03.760 --> 00:13:10.320 We're his masterpiece. We're his poetry. Okay. We've all kind of thought about that one a little 167 00:13:10.320 --> 00:13:17.680 bit. That's not as new, perhaps. Created in Christ Jesus, born from above. And then the Amplified 168 00:13:17.680 --> 00:13:23.920 goes in and says spiritually transformed, right? We've been, we're new creatures in Christ. 169 00:13:24.880 --> 00:13:33.680 Renewed. Redo again. New, renewed, ready to be used for good works. Okay. Maybe you thought 170 00:13:33.680 --> 00:13:39.040 about that. We're created in Christ. We're his masterpiece created for good works, which God 171 00:13:39.040 --> 00:13:47.040 prepared. Now I love that part of the promise in that there is a good work that I'm called. 172 00:13:47.760 --> 00:13:56.160 I'm called to do that good work. You know, I had a conversation earlier today and often we work, 173 00:13:56.160 --> 00:14:01.520 unfortunately in this society, we work for money. And I remember Jim Rohn saying, that's the worst 174 00:14:01.520 --> 00:14:06.720 reason in the world to work. You work because you're releasing your gifts because it's an 175 00:14:06.720 --> 00:14:11.760 opportunity for creativity. It's an opportunity for blessing. It's opportunity to bring gifts 176 00:14:11.760 --> 00:14:19.440 to the world. It's fulfilling, right? And so there's these works that are prepared for us. 177 00:14:19.440 --> 00:14:25.200 And you can tell if you're in the right place. I just told someone today, you know, 178 00:14:26.160 --> 00:14:30.880 he's in a small pond. He's playing in a small pond. He's created for so much greater. 179 00:14:30.880 --> 00:14:36.800 And the way that you know, is you're not feeling creative. You're not bringing solutions to the 180 00:14:36.800 --> 00:14:42.560 world. It's not fulfilling. It's not sparking joy. It's not using your highest and your best, 181 00:14:42.560 --> 00:14:49.520 right? So the first part of the promise is to realize I'm a masterpiece. I'm God's poema. 182 00:14:50.080 --> 00:14:59.040 I'm created for good works. Okay. But I love the second part. I love the second part. So the works 183 00:14:59.040 --> 00:14:59.920 that God prepared. 184 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:07.280 for us beforehand. Here's the part I want to have you highlight and underline in the Amplified. 185 00:15:07.280 --> 00:15:14.320 It says, so the good works which God prepared for us beforehand, taking paths, 186 00:15:16.160 --> 00:15:20.880 so I want you to get that word, getting paths. What do you think of with a path? It's a place 187 00:15:20.880 --> 00:15:26.320 that's gone before you. It's a place that's not overgrown in weeds. You don't have to take the 188 00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:34.320 machetes to go through. God has prepared a path. Can you picture a path, right? I mean, Psalms 23 189 00:15:34.320 --> 00:15:39.520 is an example of this beautiful path, right? He leads me in paths of righteousness. He makes me 190 00:15:39.520 --> 00:15:45.040 lay down in green pastures. He leads me beside still water. So there's this idea that there's 191 00:15:45.040 --> 00:15:52.160 a path that's already been prepared, which he set, but here's the cool part, so that we would 192 00:15:52.160 --> 00:16:01.200 walk in them, and this is the one I want you to really underline, living the good life 193 00:16:02.320 --> 00:16:12.640 which he pre-arranged and made ready for us. I love that. I love that. God already prepared 194 00:16:12.640 --> 00:16:21.360 a good life for me. He gave a path. He put gifts in me. He put desires in me. He put skills in me. 195 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:28.000 He brought people and circumstances to refine me, and as I grow my capacity, I'm able to fully 196 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:37.040 walk out this path, right? And it's something that you feel so passionate about. I look at each one 197 00:16:37.040 --> 00:16:43.840 of you and the gifts that you're using here in the world, right? Every one of you, like I brought up, 198 00:16:44.400 --> 00:16:53.680 Azena, she's got this passion for families and for leaders, like coaches and so on, to be able 199 00:16:53.680 --> 00:17:02.080 to create these experiences that live on for a lifetime. They're memorable. They bond, right? 200 00:17:02.640 --> 00:17:08.000 That's a passion in her. She lives it. She loves it. So when she's doing it, she's doing this. 201 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:13.760 She's walking that path of that good work. I can tell because she gets lit up and she's excited 202 00:17:13.760 --> 00:17:22.079 about it, right? Same for Charla. I love her podcast, the subtitle of her podcast, 203 00:17:22.079 --> 00:17:27.040 Collector. Let me see if I got this right, Charla, but Collector of Fascinating People, 204 00:17:27.040 --> 00:17:33.520 and everyone is fascinating. So Charla is amazing at bringing out, did I say that right or no? 205 00:17:34.080 --> 00:17:38.640 Did I say it right? Collector of Fascinating People? Collector and Connector of Fascinating 206 00:17:38.640 --> 00:17:44.320 People, and everyone is fascinating. Okay. Collector and Connector of Fascinating People, 207 00:17:44.320 --> 00:17:51.520 and everybody's fascinating. Especially you. Do you see the expectation in that and then why she 208 00:17:51.520 --> 00:17:56.640 lives it out? I mean, she's a great interviewer if you've been on her podcast and she just pulls 209 00:17:56.640 --> 00:18:02.960 this out of you because she's fascinated. So she's walking this good path and it's fun for her and 210 00:18:02.960 --> 00:18:11.520 it's natural for her and she's good at it, right? Kate has this ability that's so fabulous for 211 00:18:12.320 --> 00:18:20.800 nonprofits and institutions and she was playing in a pond too small originally. She was working 212 00:18:20.800 --> 00:18:27.200 a career and she was ready to bust out. And when I started coaching with her last year, I mean, 213 00:18:27.200 --> 00:18:33.440 she really busted out. She did six figures her first 90 days, yes, and a couple hundred 214 00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:42.160 thousand her first year. So because she was using her gifts and her gifts is solving problems and 215 00:18:42.160 --> 00:18:49.440 finding resources and project management. She has the ability to go into an organization that 216 00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:56.480 has needs and she's got this compassion and love of God and she brings solutions that, of course, 217 00:18:56.480 --> 00:19:02.800 they want, right? And so, of course, when she presents, it's like almost an easy sale and not 218 00:19:02.800 --> 00:19:07.600 only that, she goes out and gets the grant writing and tries to help them find the money too, 219 00:19:07.600 --> 00:19:13.440 right? So, you know, I agree with you, Charla. All my clients are absolutely fascinating, 220 00:19:13.440 --> 00:19:21.840 right? And so in every level, I could go on and on about each one of you. So I love this, 221 00:19:21.840 --> 00:19:27.120 that when you look at it, taking paths which he set so we would walk in them, 222 00:19:28.320 --> 00:19:36.640 living the good life which he pre-arranged and made ready for us. Of course, Jesus said, 223 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:42.000 I came that they may have life and have it abundantly, the abundant life. We've over 224 00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:48.560 spiritualized this. We've really missed the mark thinking that this is what happens in heaven. 225 00:19:49.120 --> 00:19:56.240 Jesus didn't intend that. It's all the way through scripture. This was not meant to like 226 00:19:56.240 --> 00:19:59.920 go get to the bus stop, you know, to heaven and sit and wait for the bus. 227 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:06.320 us to heaven and stop living. No, we're called to occupy and we're called to advance and we're 228 00:20:06.320 --> 00:20:14.000 called to expand and we're called to do mighty exploits. And so I want you to think about this 229 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:25.920 promise. So, you know, last week when we looked at how, you know, Christie handled the diagnosis 230 00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:31.840 of cancer. And it was a beautiful introduction to this, that we always have a choice, 231 00:20:31.840 --> 00:20:37.920 you know, what God says and the report, the report of my bank account, the report of, 232 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:43.440 you know, the doctor we always have. And often it comes from authorities and we want to just 233 00:20:43.440 --> 00:20:49.440 shrink down. But she, from the very beginning said, no, that's, that's not what God says. 234 00:20:49.440 --> 00:20:54.720 And that's the purpose of this prosper power hour. That's the purpose of learning a promise 235 00:20:54.720 --> 00:21:00.720 so that you can look. And if your life is, is dull or frustrating or boring, or it's making 236 00:21:00.720 --> 00:21:06.160 you sick. And it's not that you don't go through hard times. Like that's a very hard time. 237 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:13.600 Christie went through. Okay. But she was coming from this faith and expectation that this is 238 00:21:13.600 --> 00:21:19.760 going to lead to even greater abundance, greater abundance, you know, as a testimony 239 00:21:20.320 --> 00:21:25.440 that God still heals greater abundance for the hope that she brings to the world, 240 00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:32.880 a greater abundance for what it's doing for her marriage, greater abundance for the life. 241 00:21:32.880 --> 00:21:39.200 She's going to live going forward. Do you see? So it's the perspective we take about hard things. 242 00:21:40.080 --> 00:21:47.200 And do we look at it, you know, from, from this lens. So, you know, the touch points here is 243 00:21:47.920 --> 00:21:59.680 you're not random and your life is not reactionary. You see, whenever you are reacting, 244 00:22:01.200 --> 00:22:05.200 then you're not coming from this place of wholeness. You're not coming from this place 245 00:22:05.920 --> 00:22:10.560 that I have everything. If I have Christ, if I seek first, the kingdom of God, everything else 246 00:22:10.560 --> 00:22:17.360 is added. So if I'm coming from this shalom place, nothing missing, nothing broken, I'm coming from 247 00:22:17.360 --> 00:22:23.520 this place of wholeness, then I don't need anything. This is why David could say, and did 248 00:22:23.520 --> 00:22:30.640 David go through hard times? Heck yes. Each one that increased his capacity and prepared him 249 00:22:30.640 --> 00:22:38.160 to be the greatest King in Israel. Right? So we see this time and time again. It doesn't mean 250 00:22:38.160 --> 00:22:42.800 you're not going to go through hardships, but you have a different perspective of that hardship. 251 00:22:43.600 --> 00:22:51.920 It's increasing your capacity to go even higher. And so the next time that you're facing a bad 252 00:22:51.920 --> 00:23:00.560 report of a pain, a discomforting situation, the brain's solution, the brain, the body consciousness, 253 00:23:00.560 --> 00:23:06.720 the brain wants to keep you safe. The brain wants to keep you playing small, which by the way, 254 00:23:06.720 --> 00:23:13.920 doesn't work. You can't play small enough to keep yourself safe. I told a woman that yesterday. 255 00:23:13.920 --> 00:23:18.240 I said, you can't play small enough to keep yourself safe. And she says, you know, you're so right. 256 00:23:18.240 --> 00:23:23.280 I've been playing so small and all this stuff is still happening to me. Okay. Some people are afraid 257 00:23:23.280 --> 00:23:27.840 to get big in their business, in their life, in their relationships, right? They're afraid to play 258 00:23:27.840 --> 00:23:32.960 big thinking they're going to be safe, but you can't play small enough to keep yourself safe. 259 00:23:33.520 --> 00:23:45.360 Right. Okay. So when we react and we react with judgment or we react with, you know, fear, we react 260 00:23:45.360 --> 00:23:50.800 by shrinking or we, you know, we react. It's because we think we lack something. We think 261 00:23:50.800 --> 00:23:56.320 we're missing something. But when you're coming from a place of faith, expectation, certainty, 262 00:23:56.320 --> 00:24:03.040 these all go together. Then you, you no longer react because you have everything already. 263 00:24:03.040 --> 00:24:07.920 You react. When you think you need something, you need someone's approval. You need someone's love. 264 00:24:07.920 --> 00:24:12.800 You need someone's money. You need someone's security when you're coming from a place of lack, 265 00:24:12.800 --> 00:24:20.160 which is why David said the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not lack. I know I'm blending two scriptures, 266 00:24:20.160 --> 00:24:26.320 Psalms 23, if you want to reference Psalms 23, and this one, Ephesians 2.10. I'm going back and 267 00:24:26.320 --> 00:24:31.200 forth, Old Testament, New Testament. But David could declare, I mean, one of the most beautiful 268 00:24:31.200 --> 00:24:39.520 Psalms of all time, the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not lack. I think the word is want in many 269 00:24:39.520 --> 00:24:45.200 translations. Want, by the way, remove that word from your vocabulary. Want, want means extreme 270 00:24:45.200 --> 00:24:51.040 lack, right? So the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not lack. When you're coming from that place that 271 00:24:51.040 --> 00:24:59.840 I lack nothing. God had to teach me that. You literally, this is a spiritual capacity increasing 272 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:05.000 exercise of coming to the place that you lack nothing. 273 00:25:06.160 --> 00:25:08.020 It's a place of certainty. 274 00:25:08.020 --> 00:25:12.240 Whenever you feel you lack and you need something, 275 00:25:12.240 --> 00:25:14.520 you need approval, you need a raise, 276 00:25:14.520 --> 00:25:19.520 you need money, you need love, then you're going to react. 277 00:25:19.920 --> 00:25:23.140 But when you're coming from this place of wholeness, 278 00:25:23.140 --> 00:25:25.100 you won't react. 279 00:25:25.100 --> 00:25:27.280 And you'll say, oh no, I'm on the good path 280 00:25:27.280 --> 00:25:29.240 and the good life that God has for me, 281 00:25:29.280 --> 00:25:31.760 which is exceedingly abundantly above and beyond 282 00:25:31.760 --> 00:25:34.120 all I could ask, hope, or imagine. 283 00:25:34.120 --> 00:25:38.040 So when something happens uncomfortable, we don't shrink. 284 00:25:38.040 --> 00:25:42.100 We say, what's the good here that I'm not seeing? 285 00:25:43.100 --> 00:25:45.720 What's the capacity God's trying to grow? 286 00:25:45.720 --> 00:25:48.560 Because every trial you go through 287 00:25:48.560 --> 00:25:51.780 increases your capacity for bigger ventures. 288 00:25:51.780 --> 00:25:53.960 I like studying successful people 289 00:25:53.960 --> 00:25:55.880 and I'm not being political here, 290 00:25:55.880 --> 00:25:58.140 I'm just studying successful people. 291 00:25:58.140 --> 00:26:02.480 So I remember watching Elon Musk's, 292 00:26:02.480 --> 00:26:05.020 a documentary on his life. 293 00:26:05.020 --> 00:26:07.300 And I remember when he was going through hard times 294 00:26:07.300 --> 00:26:10.220 with Tesla and I mean, it was bad. 295 00:26:10.220 --> 00:26:12.740 He didn't know if he was going to make it another day. 296 00:26:12.740 --> 00:26:16.300 And I remember him sleeping on the floor 297 00:26:16.300 --> 00:26:19.100 in the Tesla factory, staying there 24 seven. 298 00:26:19.100 --> 00:26:21.860 He didn't want to have a house, he didn't want to leave 299 00:26:21.860 --> 00:26:25.020 because he didn't want to expect more from his employees 300 00:26:25.020 --> 00:26:27.180 than he did of himself. 301 00:26:27.180 --> 00:26:30.380 And so I remember thinking the loyalty as he slept there 302 00:26:30.380 --> 00:26:33.220 and he just worked on this, but what happened? 303 00:26:33.220 --> 00:26:34.780 Of course, they turned it around 304 00:26:34.780 --> 00:26:38.300 and look at everybody owns a Tesla practically, 305 00:26:38.300 --> 00:26:43.300 myself included, but the capacity as to future things, 306 00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:48.180 I don't care if it's SpaceX or what he's doing 307 00:26:48.180 --> 00:26:53.180 with electricity or internet around the world or any of it, 308 00:26:53.340 --> 00:26:58.340 we come to the next thing with increased capacity, 309 00:26:59.060 --> 00:27:00.980 we can hold even more. 310 00:27:00.980 --> 00:27:03.860 And so I want you as a side note, 311 00:27:03.860 --> 00:27:07.580 if you've never read James chapter one, 312 00:27:07.580 --> 00:27:11.360 which I used to think James was on drugs when I read this, 313 00:27:11.360 --> 00:27:16.360 James chapter one says, count it all joy. 314 00:27:16.620 --> 00:27:18.040 I want you to think about that joy, 315 00:27:18.040 --> 00:27:20.600 the highest frequency of vibration. 316 00:27:20.600 --> 00:27:23.020 We're supposed to count it all joy 317 00:27:23.860 --> 00:27:24.700 when things are great, 318 00:27:24.700 --> 00:27:27.260 when things are rainbow and unicorns, no. 319 00:27:27.260 --> 00:27:32.260 Count it all joy when you face diverse trials. 320 00:27:32.260 --> 00:27:37.260 In other words, trials of every kind, count it all joy. 321 00:27:37.820 --> 00:27:39.920 And I used to think, what the heck? 322 00:27:39.920 --> 00:27:41.980 Until you get an understanding, 323 00:27:41.980 --> 00:27:44.140 why do we count trials of joy? 324 00:27:44.140 --> 00:27:47.040 Because every trial is not a punishment. 325 00:27:48.140 --> 00:27:52.380 It's not a punishment, it's a producer. 326 00:27:52.420 --> 00:27:53.700 Write that down. 327 00:27:53.700 --> 00:27:58.700 A trial is not a punishment, it's a producer. 328 00:28:00.300 --> 00:28:01.760 It's a producer. 329 00:28:03.540 --> 00:28:06.060 So here's the core truth, 330 00:28:06.060 --> 00:28:07.620 and then we're gonna get into prayer. 331 00:28:07.620 --> 00:28:09.660 Here's the core truth. 332 00:28:09.660 --> 00:28:12.740 We don't suffer most from what happens to us. 333 00:28:12.740 --> 00:28:14.960 When you're experiencing suffering, 334 00:28:16.380 --> 00:28:18.280 when you're experiencing suffering, 335 00:28:18.280 --> 00:28:20.940 we don't suffer based on the thing happening to us. 336 00:28:20.940 --> 00:28:23.420 That's just a thing happening. 337 00:28:23.420 --> 00:28:28.220 We suffer from the meaning we assign to it. 338 00:28:29.240 --> 00:28:31.840 You have to understand that, 339 00:28:31.840 --> 00:28:35.720 that nothing has meaning until we assign a meaning to it. 340 00:28:35.720 --> 00:28:38.820 We say, oh, this means that. 341 00:28:40.660 --> 00:28:44.140 And it's that meaning, oh, this means 342 00:28:44.140 --> 00:28:45.400 that God's punishing me. 343 00:28:45.400 --> 00:28:48.340 This means, you know, this is karma. 344 00:28:48.340 --> 00:28:52.260 This means, you know, that person is bad. 345 00:28:52.260 --> 00:28:54.460 This means I'm bad. 346 00:28:54.460 --> 00:28:56.520 This means I'm not good enough. 347 00:28:56.520 --> 00:29:00.460 The suffering comes by the meaning we attach to it. 348 00:29:00.460 --> 00:29:03.620 And so when you can remove that meaning, 349 00:29:03.620 --> 00:29:07.420 then you're free, right? 350 00:29:07.420 --> 00:29:09.220 You just become free. 351 00:29:09.220 --> 00:29:12.380 And so we can break these meanings. 352 00:29:12.380 --> 00:29:15.960 Like a meaning would be bad things always happen to me. 353 00:29:15.960 --> 00:29:18.560 I've had clients and they say, yeah, in my family, 354 00:29:18.560 --> 00:29:20.160 we don't make money or in my family, 355 00:29:20.160 --> 00:29:21.960 bad things always happen to us. 356 00:29:21.960 --> 00:29:22.800 I don't know. 357 00:29:22.800 --> 00:29:24.880 We have a curse, whatever. 358 00:29:24.880 --> 00:29:27.160 Or if it feels hard, it must be wrong. 359 00:29:27.160 --> 00:29:30.400 I don't think I should be doing this because it's hard. 360 00:29:31.340 --> 00:29:32.440 That's a belief system. 361 00:29:32.440 --> 00:29:35.300 That's a meaning, okay? 362 00:29:37.980 --> 00:29:40.760 If it hurts, God must not be hearing my prayers. 363 00:29:40.760 --> 00:29:42.200 God must be distant. 364 00:29:42.200 --> 00:29:44.740 These are meanings. 365 00:29:45.620 --> 00:29:49.500 And that's broken with the verse that we have today. 366 00:29:49.500 --> 00:29:53.340 It's also broken with the corollary of Romans 8, 28. 367 00:29:53.340 --> 00:29:55.780 Romans 8, 28, that says God is working 368 00:29:55.780 --> 00:29:59.100 every single thing together for my good, right? 369 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:06.400 And so these trials, James 1, counted all joy when you face trials. 370 00:30:06.400 --> 00:30:09.200 Trials are not punishment. They're producers. What do I mean? 371 00:30:09.200 --> 00:30:13.280 They're producers. Scripture says they produce endurance. 372 00:30:13.280 --> 00:30:18.560 That's a form of capacity, right? When you're a runner, you start out, 373 00:30:18.560 --> 00:30:22.640 you can barely run a mile. Pretty soon you increase your capacity 374 00:30:22.640 --> 00:30:25.120 and you're running two. You're running five. 375 00:30:25.120 --> 00:30:28.160 You can do a half marathon. You can do a mile, right? 376 00:30:28.160 --> 00:30:32.880 So it produces endurance. That's a form of capacity. 377 00:30:32.880 --> 00:30:38.480 It produces maturity. You can look at something and you can 378 00:30:38.480 --> 00:30:45.200 honestly look at it and have compassion. Like sometimes don't people act so childish? 379 00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:49.920 Like don't people act so childless sometimes, right? 380 00:30:49.920 --> 00:30:53.520 And so you can rise above it and act with maturity. 381 00:30:53.520 --> 00:30:57.520 It increases your capacity. It gives you a testimony. 382 00:30:57.520 --> 00:31:04.160 It gives you a deeper faith. Your faith was forged in the fire of trials. 383 00:31:04.160 --> 00:31:08.320 Very few of us get faith in, you know, what's the saying? 384 00:31:08.320 --> 00:31:10.080 Rainbows and unicorns? What's that saying? 385 00:31:10.080 --> 00:31:12.880 Anyway, you know what I mean, right? Very few of us get faith 386 00:31:12.880 --> 00:31:17.200 when everything's hunky-dory. In fact, I would venture to say 387 00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:21.840 your prayer life gets forged in the fire of trials. 388 00:31:21.840 --> 00:31:25.040 That's when you really start praying. When everything's going good, 389 00:31:25.120 --> 00:31:27.840 all of a sudden you're too busy to pray. Have you ever noticed that? 390 00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:33.200 So we reframe. We reframe this. 391 00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:37.120 Hard does not mean bad. Delay does not mean denial. 392 00:31:37.120 --> 00:31:41.600 Pain does not mean punishment. I'm increasing my capacity 393 00:31:41.600 --> 00:31:45.440 and God has a good path for me, a good life for me. 394 00:31:46.720 --> 00:31:54.560 And so one of my favorite teachers, he's actually a Jewish mystic, 395 00:31:54.640 --> 00:32:01.600 but he teaches that when something hits, that you pause 396 00:32:03.120 --> 00:32:08.080 and you say, what a gift. Or you pause and you say, what an opportunity. 397 00:32:09.440 --> 00:32:12.240 So something bad's coming at you, quote unquote bad, 398 00:32:12.960 --> 00:32:20.240 and you say, pause, what a gift. And then you begin to look. 399 00:32:20.240 --> 00:32:23.680 You look at it, you say, what's the good here that I'm not seeing? 400 00:32:25.040 --> 00:32:27.520 And suddenly you attach a different meaning. 401 00:32:27.520 --> 00:32:30.480 God, what are you, how are you growing my capacity? 402 00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:34.960 What are you producing in and through me? What's the good that I'm not seeing? 403 00:32:34.960 --> 00:32:39.760 And this is where peace is restored. This is how Jesus can sleep through a storm. 404 00:32:40.720 --> 00:32:43.920 This is how he can walk into a storm with absolute certainty 405 00:32:43.920 --> 00:32:46.400 and say, peace, be still. And so can we. 406 00:32:47.040 --> 00:32:49.280 We can speak to the storm. Scripture says that. 407 00:32:49.280 --> 00:32:52.640 Scripture says we can speak to the mountain and say, be thou removed. 408 00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:55.360 I don't care if it's the mountain of frustration, the mountain of debt, 409 00:32:55.360 --> 00:32:58.960 the mountain of fear, like be thou removed, 410 00:32:59.680 --> 00:33:02.720 dissolve, disintegrate, you have no power in my life. 411 00:33:03.440 --> 00:33:09.280 You guys feel that you feel that level of faith and expectation. 412 00:33:09.280 --> 00:33:16.480 And so you begin to look at life through a redemptive lens. 413 00:33:17.520 --> 00:33:21.520 You see, God is redeeming everything back to its original. 414 00:33:22.240 --> 00:33:27.600 And so when you have a redemptive lens, then nothing is wasted. 415 00:33:29.040 --> 00:33:31.520 Trials, tribulations, nothing's wasted. 416 00:33:31.520 --> 00:33:34.000 You're like, oh, wow, what's the good here? I'm not seeing. 417 00:33:34.560 --> 00:33:37.920 I'm going to grow through this. I'm going to come out of this stronger. 418 00:33:37.920 --> 00:33:40.480 I'm going to come out the other side with more capacity. 419 00:33:40.480 --> 00:33:42.320 I'm going to come out of this more mature. 420 00:33:42.320 --> 00:33:45.760 I'm going to come out of this with more love, more compassion, 421 00:33:45.760 --> 00:33:49.600 more faith, more joy, more power, right? 422 00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:53.440 And you can actually see the capacity. 423 00:33:54.000 --> 00:33:57.760 Like, you know, I remember when Kate first started coaching. 424 00:33:57.760 --> 00:34:00.560 And of course, when you're just starting, like she's brand new consultant. 425 00:34:00.560 --> 00:34:03.440 She's never done it. She's only worked for corporate. 426 00:34:03.440 --> 00:34:06.320 And here she is like, it's a wild, wild West. 427 00:34:06.320 --> 00:34:09.040 And of course, you have these natural feelings. 428 00:34:09.040 --> 00:34:10.960 Can I really do this? Are they going to buy? 429 00:34:10.960 --> 00:34:13.600 Are they going to believe in me? I don't have a testimony yet. 430 00:34:13.600 --> 00:34:15.520 I mean, I'm just starting, right? 431 00:34:15.520 --> 00:34:18.800 And, you know, with the guidance, she went out with that confidence. 432 00:34:18.800 --> 00:34:23.600 Well, now, you know, after year one and $200,000 in contracts, 433 00:34:23.600 --> 00:34:25.199 she's going for over a million. 434 00:34:25.199 --> 00:34:27.840 I think she'll break higher than a million this year, right? 435 00:34:27.840 --> 00:34:30.159 She did that in the middle of government shutdowns 436 00:34:30.159 --> 00:34:32.800 and funding shutting down and all kinds of other stuff, right? 437 00:34:33.360 --> 00:34:38.639 So now she's got a whole different way of talking. 438 00:34:38.639 --> 00:34:41.120 She's coming from increased capacity. 439 00:34:41.120 --> 00:34:44.960 I know, I feel, I believe. 440 00:34:44.960 --> 00:34:48.159 Am I right, Kate? Like, are you going into this year? 441 00:34:48.239 --> 00:34:52.880 Like, did that stretching and going through the fear and the unknown, 442 00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:55.600 like, you're different this year than you were last year, right? 443 00:34:56.880 --> 00:34:58.400 Yeah. Yeah. 444 00:34:58.400 --> 00:34:59.840 So, um. 445 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:06.160 So I love that. In fact, if you want to speak up real quick, and then we're gonna go into prayer, but how 446 00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:08.480 How are you? 447 00:35:08.480 --> 00:35:12.120 Different like as you went through you went through trials, right? 448 00:35:12.120 --> 00:35:17.400 It was because here your your business required funding and now all funding got shut down 449 00:35:17.400 --> 00:35:23.000 In fact many of the nonprofits like there's government shut down, right? Yes, and so 450 00:35:23.520 --> 00:35:26.160 How how are you? 451 00:35:26.680 --> 00:35:30.080 Like you went through that how did it grow your 452 00:35:31.120 --> 00:35:36.920 Capacity and and how are you? How are you going through this time different? 453 00:35:38.600 --> 00:35:41.200 Yeah, I know that's a wonderful question so 454 00:35:41.960 --> 00:35:44.600 You know six months or so into the business. I 455 00:35:45.640 --> 00:35:50.080 Got my biggest contract which was a federally funded project 456 00:35:50.760 --> 00:35:52.760 and that 457 00:35:53.400 --> 00:35:58.360 We got started, you know in good faith all the paperwork got signed and all of that so we had an agreement 458 00:35:58.520 --> 00:36:02.960 we hadn't yet gotten paid but I was paying my contractors and we were working on the project and 459 00:36:03.280 --> 00:36:08.440 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 460 00:36:08.440 --> 00:36:13.920 Down so I had already paid people. I already already incurred expenses and now everything was frozen 461 00:36:14.440 --> 00:36:16.440 What did you feel at that moment? 462 00:36:16.440 --> 00:36:22.360 What were you first tempted to feel did you start to like feel fear or doubt or 463 00:36:22.600 --> 00:36:28.200 Did you feel anything at that moment? I I did I did I I worked through about a week of 464 00:36:28.800 --> 00:36:34.080 Fear and and and doubt in myself and and like oh, did I do this wrong? 465 00:36:34.080 --> 00:36:38.120 Should I not have started in good faith? Like I'm such a you know new business leader 466 00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:40.960 But 467 00:36:41.040 --> 00:36:43.040 That you all hear this because 468 00:36:43.200 --> 00:36:48.600 She said I went through it about a week and one of the powerful things that I teach is in 469 00:36:48.900 --> 00:36:52.300 Coaching is learning to shorten your disappointment time 470 00:36:52.520 --> 00:36:58.600 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 471 00:36:58.720 --> 00:37:05.020 She's shortened her disappoints like yes, you're gonna feel it. There was self-doubt. She says that came in there 472 00:37:05.020 --> 00:37:11.420 There was fear right? This is normal. This is normal. But what she did is there's a container around it 473 00:37:11.420 --> 00:37:17.460 We shorten this disappointment time. Okay, how did you come out the other side? Yes. Okay, so then government reopened 474 00:37:18.180 --> 00:37:22.660 The my client got the the funding and now I needed to get the funding from the client 475 00:37:23.100 --> 00:37:25.100 and it got stuck in 476 00:37:25.860 --> 00:37:27.340 bureaucracy and 477 00:37:27.340 --> 00:37:28.980 systems that were broken 478 00:37:28.980 --> 00:37:34.180 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 479 00:37:34.180 --> 00:37:36.220 the year and I just remember one day God said 480 00:37:36.780 --> 00:37:43.100 It's not gonna be you on the chopping block and it was the story of Abraham and Isaac going up that hill Wow 481 00:37:43.900 --> 00:37:49.260 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 482 00:37:49.540 --> 00:37:55.160 Wow, so we did Christmas, you know, we did I didn't I didn't like I didn't go small on my family 483 00:37:55.160 --> 00:37:59.260 I said we're gonna we're gonna live not extravagantly, you know, like not beyond our means 484 00:37:59.260 --> 00:38:03.920 But we're gonna live like we would normally do and thank God it actually came in yesterday Brenda 485 00:38:03.920 --> 00:38:07.560 So this I mean it's beautiful. We get to hear this fresh 486 00:38:09.960 --> 00:38:11.960 We made it through we made it through 487 00:38:12.320 --> 00:38:19.440 Yay, and and you didn't stop living and so did you find that your faith grew? 488 00:38:19.440 --> 00:38:23.840 Did you find that your capacity grew like the next time a trial comes? 489 00:38:24.160 --> 00:38:30.720 Do you feel kind of like you've already run five miles like you feel confident run ten because you're going from 490 00:38:31.120 --> 00:38:38.840 200,000 to over a million like that takes a different level of capacity. What what internal changes have you seen? 491 00:38:38.840 --> 00:38:40.600 What shifts? 492 00:38:40.600 --> 00:38:46.560 Yeah, I mean, I think that my my risk tolerance has gone up like my God risk tolerance 493 00:38:47.680 --> 00:38:53.240 Yeah, if he says go I like I'm more apt to go for the big bigger things now. Yeah 494 00:38:53.920 --> 00:38:55.920 knowing that he's got it and 495 00:38:56.160 --> 00:38:58.160 Yeah, that's that's a huge one for me 496 00:38:58.920 --> 00:39:03.240 So good. Well, I you didn't know I was gonna pull you up on the spot. Nobody ever does 497 00:39:03.240 --> 00:39:07.000 Thank you for being willing to share that because it's such a beautiful 498 00:39:08.080 --> 00:39:10.800 Story, and it's also a story 499 00:39:10.800 --> 00:39:18.560 What I saw is that that one of the capacities so her risk capacity increased another as her coach that I saw 500 00:39:18.960 --> 00:39:22.160 was the capacity of resilience of 501 00:39:22.960 --> 00:39:29.880 Resilience and so she made a shift and she says, okay, I can't go that way funding's not there 502 00:39:29.880 --> 00:39:35.960 I'll focus more on the project management side of things and so she actually added a 503 00:39:36.680 --> 00:39:38.360 dimension to her business 504 00:39:38.360 --> 00:39:46.080 Which I think ultimately is going to be even bigger than the original one and easier to sell and more people are gonna see 505 00:39:46.080 --> 00:39:48.760 it. Okay. Thank you so much for 506 00:39:49.760 --> 00:39:55.440 Sharing let me I think I removed the spotlight. Did I remove the spotlight? Mm-hmm. Yes. Okay. All right 507 00:39:56.480 --> 00:39:59.960 This is our time to pray. So did 508 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:07.040 God bless you. Put blessed. Did you get something juicy out of that? I want to know. 509 00:40:09.200 --> 00:40:14.000 How did that feel for you? Did you grab something? Did you hear something? Because 510 00:40:14.000 --> 00:40:20.800 when we share our testimony, it's for everybody in the room. Everybody's going through something 511 00:40:20.800 --> 00:40:28.080 that can relate to that. And so that's the reason I call you guys up and just because I love you. 512 00:40:28.080 --> 00:40:34.640 Okay. So as we pray right now, you know, we don't pray superficial prayers. We pray with 513 00:40:34.640 --> 00:40:41.680 expectation. We pray with faith. We pray with thanksgiving. We all contribute. And so this is 514 00:40:42.640 --> 00:40:50.080 a great time to pray if you have been reacting, if you have been coming from a place of lack. 515 00:40:50.080 --> 00:40:55.680 And that slips in for all of us. I have to continuously break association with lack. 516 00:40:55.680 --> 00:41:03.200 That's something we can pray, right? To let go of fear-based expectations or maybe meanings 517 00:41:03.920 --> 00:41:10.160 that really don't line up with the word, right? Pain doesn't mean punishment. You know, 518 00:41:10.160 --> 00:41:18.800 delay doesn't mean denial, etc. So let's come to the Lord. Do we have, I forgot to do this at the 519 00:41:18.800 --> 00:41:26.480 beginning. Do we have any praise reports and do we have any prayer requests? Praise reports, 520 00:41:27.040 --> 00:41:30.160 prayer requests. I want to make sure when we pray that we include those. 521 00:41:31.120 --> 00:41:37.760 You can just unmute yourself and speak up. I have, excuse me, I have prayer requests. 522 00:41:37.760 --> 00:41:48.480 Okay. If you recall, I broke my wrist in August and we're having challenges with the healing of 523 00:41:49.200 --> 00:41:56.960 it. It's still swelled. I guess scar tissue developed over the bone and through physical 524 00:41:56.960 --> 00:42:06.080 therapy, it's supposed to break off and it's not breaking off. And just, yeah, I have to go through 525 00:42:06.080 --> 00:42:13.520 12 more weeks of physical therapy. And if that doesn't work, then there's other procedures 526 00:42:13.520 --> 00:42:18.960 that they would have to do to get it to break off. Okay. So we're praying for healing, 527 00:42:18.960 --> 00:42:25.360 for swelling to go down, scar tissue to release. Okay. So you guys write this down that you pray 528 00:42:25.360 --> 00:42:30.400 all week, not just here. And we pray with faith and expectation. What does that look like? Means 529 00:42:30.400 --> 00:42:37.200 you actually imagine like the scar tissue dissolving. You actually see it. You actually 530 00:42:37.760 --> 00:42:46.560 speak it. You feel it, right? Okay. Anybody else, prayer requests or praise reports? I forgot to ask 531 00:42:46.560 --> 00:43:02.480 that. Prayer requests, praise reports. Okay. Then let's just go ahead. Everybody jump in. 532 00:43:02.560 --> 00:43:07.760 Anybody can pray. Just you guys go through it and then I'll close us out. And then I will give you 533 00:43:07.760 --> 00:43:14.080 the principle for the practice for the week that you can keep on practicing. Okay. So you've got 534 00:43:14.080 --> 00:43:22.480 to remember the promise, Ephesians 2.10. And so let's go ahead and pray. Everybody can just pray 535 00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:30.320 together. Just take turns. No prayer too small. It all matters. 536 00:43:41.200 --> 00:43:46.800 My Lord, I'm so grateful that we have Brenda in our lives. 537 00:43:47.520 --> 00:43:56.240 It's a huge praise to have her wisdom every week, and her brilliance to guide this, 538 00:43:58.640 --> 00:44:02.080 you know, through us, through this amazing times that we're living in right now. 539 00:44:02.880 --> 00:44:09.360 I tend to be so optimistic and outrageously optimistic. And I know she shares that. And I'm 540 00:44:09.360 --> 00:44:15.600 very grateful for that. I'm grateful for these praise reports with Cade and so many, and Chris 541 00:44:16.560 --> 00:44:25.440 Dean and Helene. I'm really, I'm, I believe with everything in me that if God can create it, 542 00:44:25.440 --> 00:44:34.560 he can heal it and does and will, and it is already done. And thank you for sharing that. 543 00:44:34.560 --> 00:44:42.640 So we can join you in that pair. And my, I'll just say thank you for the guest I had last week 544 00:44:42.640 --> 00:44:49.360 on my show that had, he's got the Pain Academy and for people with chronic pain and he had, 545 00:44:49.360 --> 00:44:55.840 and it was about his hands. So maybe we can share that as well. Thank you. Thank you for 546 00:44:57.680 --> 00:44:59.840 just every, thank you. 547 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:01.840 for breathing free oxygen. 548 00:45:01.840 --> 00:45:03.440 Thank you for every little thing. 549 00:45:03.440 --> 00:45:05.460 There's no lack in this world. 550 00:45:19.400 --> 00:45:22.120 Father, I thank you so much for this time together 551 00:45:22.120 --> 00:45:26.720 and this encouragement as we come together as sisters. 552 00:45:26.720 --> 00:45:29.120 I thank you for your word that we are created 553 00:45:30.320 --> 00:45:32.560 that we are masterpieces of yours 554 00:45:32.560 --> 00:45:34.280 and that we are created for these good works. 555 00:45:34.280 --> 00:45:37.120 I love this idea of this path, Lord, 556 00:45:37.120 --> 00:45:38.720 that you've already laid out for us. 557 00:45:38.720 --> 00:45:41.480 You've already laid out for each one of us, God. 558 00:45:41.480 --> 00:45:42.800 So I pray, Lord, 559 00:45:44.280 --> 00:45:47.100 I pray, Lord, that we would be sensitive to your spirit, 560 00:45:47.100 --> 00:45:49.200 that we would be led by you, God, 561 00:45:49.200 --> 00:45:52.880 down these paths courageously, boldly, 562 00:45:52.880 --> 00:45:54.960 saying yes to you, Lord, and trusting you 563 00:45:54.960 --> 00:45:58.720 no matter what the path might look like. 564 00:45:58.960 --> 00:46:01.920 We can't see the whole thing, but we trust you, Lord God. 565 00:46:01.920 --> 00:46:04.260 I pray for an increase of faith this year, Lord, 566 00:46:04.260 --> 00:46:07.180 and it may come, even if it comes through a trial, Lord, 567 00:46:07.180 --> 00:46:09.960 I pray that it would continue to produce in us 568 00:46:09.960 --> 00:46:12.440 the good things that we'll need for the next season. 569 00:46:12.440 --> 00:46:13.640 We stand on your truth. 570 00:46:13.640 --> 00:46:15.080 We stand on your word. 571 00:46:15.080 --> 00:46:16.920 We stand on your nature, Lord, 572 00:46:16.920 --> 00:46:19.160 and I thank you for this healing in advance, 573 00:46:20.640 --> 00:46:25.040 for the scar tissue dissolving, Lord, in Jesus' name. 574 00:46:28.720 --> 00:46:29.560 Amen. 575 00:46:37.400 --> 00:46:40.440 God, I want to thank you so much 576 00:46:40.440 --> 00:46:44.320 for all the divine appointments that you present 577 00:46:44.320 --> 00:46:49.000 in our lives, that when we come to the Bible study, 578 00:46:49.000 --> 00:46:51.000 that the right people are there, 579 00:46:51.000 --> 00:46:54.400 the people who are supposed to show up show up, 580 00:46:54.400 --> 00:46:57.240 that when we have family events, 581 00:46:57.240 --> 00:47:00.920 the people who are supposed to show up show up. 582 00:47:00.920 --> 00:47:05.920 You're a loving God, and you're constantly guiding our ways, 583 00:47:06.380 --> 00:47:11.180 and I just feel so blessed to be called your daughter, 584 00:47:11.180 --> 00:47:15.240 to be able to each day wake up 585 00:47:15.240 --> 00:47:17.820 and know that you've already prepared 586 00:47:17.820 --> 00:47:21.440 and planned my life for me, my path, 587 00:47:21.440 --> 00:47:23.920 and that it's all meant for good. 588 00:47:23.920 --> 00:47:26.840 I love you, Lord, and thank you so much 589 00:47:26.840 --> 00:47:30.080 for all of these beautiful women in this group. 590 00:47:30.080 --> 00:47:30.920 Amen. 591 00:47:32.640 --> 00:47:35.280 Thank you, thank you. 592 00:47:35.280 --> 00:47:39.840 I know some of you are at work, so you can't speak up, 593 00:47:39.840 --> 00:47:42.840 so I'm just gonna bring this by saying, 594 00:47:42.840 --> 00:47:45.320 Lord, we just thank you. 595 00:47:46.880 --> 00:47:48.440 We just thank you. 596 00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:53.160 We enter your courts with thanksgiving, 597 00:47:53.160 --> 00:47:55.120 and your gates with praise. 598 00:47:56.640 --> 00:48:00.160 Thank you that you are a miracle-working God, 599 00:48:00.160 --> 00:48:05.160 a capacity-increasing God, a faithful, loving, good God. 600 00:48:07.400 --> 00:48:11.120 Thank you that you came that we may have life 601 00:48:11.120 --> 00:48:15.960 and have it more abundantly, the ZO life. 602 00:48:15.960 --> 00:48:20.640 I love that word, the ZO life. 603 00:48:21.640 --> 00:48:26.640 It's just every dimension of fulfilling and profitable 604 00:48:28.600 --> 00:48:32.160 and joy and productive and healing. 605 00:48:32.160 --> 00:48:35.880 It's just the total package. 606 00:48:37.840 --> 00:48:39.000 So I thank you, Lord. 607 00:48:39.000 --> 00:48:42.520 I thank you for a lens, complete healing. 608 00:48:42.520 --> 00:48:47.400 We touch and we agree and we stand together for miracles. 609 00:48:48.280 --> 00:48:50.120 You're no respecter of miracles. 610 00:48:50.600 --> 00:48:51.600 The miracle you did for Christy, 611 00:48:51.600 --> 00:48:55.640 the miracle you did for Kate, you're doing for Elen. 612 00:48:57.000 --> 00:48:59.440 You're no respecter of people. 613 00:48:59.440 --> 00:49:02.600 So we trust in you. 614 00:49:02.600 --> 00:49:05.680 You've said, according to our faith, be it done unto us. 615 00:49:05.680 --> 00:49:10.680 So we expect with excitement and anticipation 616 00:49:11.400 --> 00:49:13.680 to you be all glory. 617 00:49:13.680 --> 00:49:16.560 I thank you for every one of these women, 618 00:49:16.560 --> 00:49:18.840 both listening live and the replay, 619 00:49:18.840 --> 00:49:22.160 all the prosper sisters, may blessings, 620 00:49:22.160 --> 00:49:26.040 may this week just be filled with untold blessings 621 00:49:26.040 --> 00:49:28.560 and revelation and surprises. 622 00:49:28.560 --> 00:49:30.080 Surprise them, Lord. 623 00:49:30.080 --> 00:49:32.880 Surprise them with your goodness. 624 00:49:32.880 --> 00:49:37.320 I love in the Psalms 23 that his goodness and mercy 625 00:49:37.320 --> 00:49:39.720 follow me all the days of my life. 626 00:49:39.720 --> 00:49:43.200 We give thanks for that in Jesus name. 627 00:49:43.200 --> 00:49:47.440 Amen and amen. 628 00:49:47.480 --> 00:49:50.160 All right, real quick, we got to practice 629 00:49:50.160 --> 00:49:51.960 and then I got to go, I got a client. 630 00:49:51.960 --> 00:49:56.960 Your practice, first of all, 631 00:49:56.960 --> 00:49:59.320 take something that you're going through. 632 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:04.400 be your wrist, it could be whatever you're going through, government shutdown, whatever. 633 00:50:05.680 --> 00:50:10.720 If God is working this for good, right? Because he's working everything together for good. If 634 00:50:10.720 --> 00:50:18.560 God is working this for good, one thing he may be producing in me is. So you take that thing, 635 00:50:19.600 --> 00:50:23.360 and if God is working together for good, because that's what he said, I'm going to go on that 636 00:50:23.360 --> 00:50:31.040 assumption, one thing he may be producing in me right now is. And then I want you to speak 637 00:50:31.760 --> 00:50:40.640 Ephesians 2.10 in the amplified translation. So I want you to speak it in the present most 638 00:50:40.640 --> 00:50:49.040 powerful words. The most powerful words in the English language are I am. So I am God's workmanship. 639 00:50:50.000 --> 00:50:58.000 Begin to speak that. Now when you do the Prosper Daily Planner, you can get this on Amazon, 640 00:50:58.000 --> 00:51:04.240 but this is the way I keep myself on track. And every day, like here's today's, you know, 641 00:51:04.240 --> 00:51:11.280 the second thing on there is five minutes, and you can make it any time, but of I am affirmations. 642 00:51:11.280 --> 00:51:17.760 Now I used to have to write them down, and now it's become a muscle. So I'll just close my eyes, 643 00:51:17.760 --> 00:51:24.640 and I am, and you just start speaking all of the I am's. So in this case, you could say, 644 00:51:24.640 --> 00:51:32.240 I am God's workmanship. That could be part of your I am's. I am God's poema created to do good 645 00:51:32.240 --> 00:51:41.600 works. I am walking paths he prepared for me, right? My life is not random. Okay. And then 646 00:51:41.600 --> 00:51:48.000 the third is what is one action? Because remember, faith without works is dead. What's 647 00:51:48.000 --> 00:51:56.400 one inspired action you can take this week to live this out? A conversation, a boundary, a pause 648 00:51:56.400 --> 00:52:01.920 instead of reacting, a prayer instead of panic. Not striving, just alignment. But what's one 649 00:52:02.560 --> 00:52:10.960 action that you can take? So in closing, expectation is not pretending that everything's 650 00:52:10.960 --> 00:52:17.920 easy. We're not being Pollyanna. We're facing the reality. But expectation is trusting that 651 00:52:17.920 --> 00:52:24.400 God is good. He's always working. He's still working. He's always working no matter what the 652 00:52:24.400 --> 00:52:34.320 season, and this will turn out for good. And when that happens, then peace returns, right? Your 653 00:52:34.320 --> 00:52:41.440 faith gets strong, your capacity increases. All right. Bless you all. Thanks for being here. We'll 654 00:52:41.440 --> 00:52:46.560 see you tomorrow in office hours as we work on the systems and structures of your business. 655 00:52:46.560 --> 00:52:53.120 Have a blessed, blessed day and walk that good path that God created for you. Are you waving 656 00:52:53.120 --> 00:53:02.880 your hand, Sharla? Take a picture. This is I love you with a hug. Oh, okay. I don't know that sign 657 00:53:02.880 --> 00:53:08.000 language. I love you with a hug. Okay. Thank you. I love you with a hug too. Okay. Bye-bye.