All right, welcome, welcome, welcome, ladies.
So fun when you get on early and we have a minute to chat.
There's so much juicy stuff that comes up even before we start.
For those of you who are here live, welcome, thank you.
I think there's so much power in being there live and in community and holding the energy.
So, so glad that you're here.
Those of you that I know have a reason and a lot of you do, you've got events and kids
and all kinds of stuff going on that you want to do the replay.
So this is by grace being recorded.
So I'm super excited.
This of course is the Prosper Power Hour.
It's part of the Prosper Leader membership.
It's what we do every Wednesday, 8am Pacific Standard Time.
It is the heaven side of the heaven and earth combination.
So it's the prayer, the promise, the praise, the practice.
It's the spiritual side of our relationship and our business.
And of course, I think it's all spiritual, but this is where we get to focus exclusively
on that.
Thursdays, office hours, that's when we get into the earth side, the strategy, the structure,
all of that.
So super excited today.
The theme and the promise is something God put on my heart that I think is so needed
in this season.
And that is the promise of peace, the promise of peace, because who knows, there's a lot
of people lacking that right now.
Who knows that it's important.
Do you know, I'm going to teach a lot about this and we're going to pray about it, but
do you know that we not only can carry peace, which is incredible for our health, our brain,
our body, our mind, heart connection, coherence, all of that, but scripturally we're called
to actually release peace.
Scripture says we can go into a place and actually release peace.
So how important is what we're doing today as we really embody this and know we can release
peace in our home, for our children and grandchildren, in our communities, in our business environment.
What a beautiful thing when you think about that, what a beautiful thing.
And you know, peace is not the absence of pressure, right?
It's not the absence of demands that are coming from life.
I mean, I think Jesus had more demands than anybody.
They were pulling on him from all directions, but he could carry that peace.
And so peace is actually a state, it's a frequency, and it's the presence of God governing our
mind.
And so here's the fun thing.
When you think about peace, peace is a promise.
We're going to see that today.
It's a promise from God, from Jesus.
It's a gift from Jesus, so it's a promise, it's a gift.
It's also a choice, a choice, and it's a birthright, not a reward for good behavior.
So look at the depths of peace.
You know, it affects so much of our life, our relationships, our finances, our business,
our health.
It just affects so much, and it's got all these dimensions.
It's a promise, it's a practice, it's a choice, it's a gift, it's a birthright.
Like I just felt so led.
Yes, I love that.
Be amongst the peacemakers.
Blessed are the peacemakers.
I didn't even think about that.
Thank you, Andrea.
I love that.
Okay.
So today we're not really talking about like the typical conversation of managing stress.
We're talking about reclaiming peace as a promise, right?
Because we do one promise a week, and we get that stored up so that we've got such a treasure.
Remember, Jesus said that out of the heart flow the issues of life.
Jesus said that our mouth speaks out of the treasures in the heart.
And so we want to be storing up treasures in our heart.
And so these promises are amongst the treasures that we're storing.
And so we started with praise.
and prayer requests.
So if there's any I missed, put those in the chat.
But I'm super excited to see where God is working.
I'm praising and celebrating.
And one of our sisters, she's not on right now
because she's got an event here coming up, right?
After this call.
And I'm so excited to watch her.
She started from zero, zero leads, right?
Not even knowing where to find people
or even what her niche was.
And so I'm celebrating Sarah, those of you who know her.
And so I was sharing before the call started
that here now she's got,
we got her getting a newsletter subscription on LinkedIn.
We've got her going on Substack
and we've got her doing live events.
And her first event is today.
She's got 15 people confirmed.
So I'll keep you posted,
but this is something to just be praising
that women are moving forward
because that means impact to the people.
They're called to touch, they're in their divine purpose.
It means income, it means fulfillment, it means joy.
So I'm praising about that.
Like when my clients like rise,
like I celebrate and I praise.
So I'm praising about that.
I'm, and I'm praising, you know,
Andrea's coming up and she's getting her schedule in line.
So we're going to see something similar for her very soon.
And then we'll continue to pray during our prayer time.
Don't forget to pray for Elen.
And actually we're all teaming up
and just visualizing the scar tissue melting.
She's been doing that since that was brought up last week.
And so we're going to continue that.
So as we go forward,
I want you to think about the places
that we're going to claim the promise
and we're going to just breathe and receive new peace.
So are there areas in your life
where there's been lack of peace?
Are there areas in your life where there's been anxiety
or uncertainty or health challenges
or decision-making fatigue
or financial pressure, relational pressure?
These are the things, I mean, this is real life,
what we're talking about when Jesus promises peace.
And when we look at what scripture says about peace,
this is very practical.
It's like super important and praying it for our world
when you look at the turmoil
and that turmoil in the world
is a reflection of collectively what each of us,
when each of us are not being the light
that Jesus said that we are called to be,
when we're not walking in the peace,
collectively that translates to the world.
It's not the opposite.
It's not that the world is out of peace
and that's affecting us.
It's each one of us stepping into the peace
that God has given us to be able to create that.
So really powerful.
So our scripture today,
the first scripture is Isaiah 26, three.
Isaiah 26, three.
And so I'm gonna do one Old Testament.
I'm gonna do one New Testament.
Now this scripture is particularly dear to me.
Isaiah 26, three is particularly dear to me
because when I found Christ, Christ found me.
I was a very lost 17 year old
coming from a very troubled background, right?
Just absolute insanity, the background I grew up in.
And I stumbled into this revival meeting
in this tiny country church.
I've shared this with some of you.
And the pastor, of course, when you're 17,
people look so old,
but I really guess he was maybe 70, maybe 80,
but he was up there.
And he had been diagnosed with terminal, terminal cancer,
like decades before that.
And God had healed him and he was preaching.
And he had, as he repeated,
it was like five nights, I think, every night,
he repeated this scripture, Isaiah 26, three.
And so it was actually one of the very first scriptures
I ever memorized.
So it's very dear to my heart.
And so it says that he, God will keep us in perfect peace.
I want you to think about that. What would it be like in your life that you're in perfect peace?
It means that the circumstances don't take you out of your peace because there's always
conditions, there's always circumstances, but God can keep us in perfect peace. This is really
a phenomenon to think about. That is such an awesome, awesome gift, you know, that
the mountains in life don't move us, but we speak to the mountains. So, Isaiah 26 3 says,
He will keep you in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee because He trusts in thee. So,
God will keep us in perfect peace when we keep our mind fixed on Him. So, peace is a byproduct
of a choice where we place our thoughts, where we place our mind. So, what a beautiful, beautiful,
and it goes on to say because they trust in you. So, you will keep in perfect peace those whose
mind are steadfast because they trust in you. So, this is a trust issue that allows us. So,
perfect peace, when you think about it, it's like peace upon peace, right? It's not fragile,
it's not partial, it's not conditional, it's not based on circumstances. The condition
is where the mind rests, not the circumstances, right? So, the condition is where the mind rests,
not the circumstances. So, God does not say, I'll give you peace when things settle, right?
God does not say, I'll give you peace when things settle. That's not, it's not conditional,
right? He says, I will keep you in peace when your mind stays with me. It's a really important
distinction. I think our God-given ability to choose is so much bigger than we ever give it
credit. So, the second scripture we're going to pair with that is John 14, 27. So, we've got Old
Testament, Isaiah 26, 3, New Testament with Jesus, John 14, 27. And Jesus, if you think about
when he said this, John 14 is like Jesus' final speech, John's 14 through 16, as he's telling
them, I'm leaving, which was the most devastating news they could have heard. You know, if you think
about it, they had a mindset that a Messiah was going to come and rescue them. A Messiah was going
to come, deal with these Romans that were oppressing them, get the Romans off their back,
establish, you know, Jerusalem, establish them. And, you know, everything was going to be hunky
dory. And so, when Jesus met all of that of the Messiah, like all of their hope was in that vision
that they had. And then Jesus breaks the hard news. I'm going away. What? Where are you going?
What do you mean you're going away? And then he breaks it to them that he's going to be crucified,
that he's going to die. Like, you couldn't have given worse news. Imagine having a guru hero,
which we should not have, but imagine that you did, someone you were putting your full
faith and trust in, and he tells you, I'm dying, I'm out of here. Like, devastating. And in that,
those difficult words, those worst possible case scenario of the worst possible thing that can
happen, he's telling that. And that's where this verse is. I mean, just put it in context, right?
Context. And so, Jesus says, peace, I leave with you. My peace, I give you. I do not give as the
world gives. So let that sink in as we as we just kind of get into the whole, you know, teaching of
this, right? This peace is not circumstantial. If you're waiting for your circumstances to change,
for you to be
happy, healthy, prosperous, for you to be peaceful. That's not the scriptural truth.
The truth is in the midst of the storm, like Jesus did to the literal storm, he could say,
peace be still. To our storms, he has equipped us to carry peace and say to that, peace be still.
We have authority over the conditions that are trying to take us off our game.
We're so trained to think that conditions need to change. This is an external mindset that is
is not biblical and it really creates a lot of pain. So it's not circumstantial, it's not earned,
it's not fragile, it's not given or taken. You don't get good enough to get this peace.
It's Jesus's very own peace transferred to us. Just think about that for a moment.
You carry the peace of God. What a gift to you. What if we model that? What if we release that?
What if we teach that? What if we bring that to the storms in our life? So really hitting home
on these distinctions. The world offers peace. Now, this is why it's not the peace that the
world promises. The world offers peace after problems are solved. As soon as we tackle this
dictator, as soon as we get this country out, as soon as we get a new president, as soon as we
get a new law, then we can have peace. That's not what scripture's teaching here.
Do you see the beauty of this? The world offers peace after the problems are solved.
Jesus offered peace before the problems even move.
And so here's the key principle of how the peace actually works. Here's the scriptural principle.
First of all, peace is both a gift. Jesus gives it. It's a gift. Remember, I opened saying that
one of the things that God is really teaching me is we have to learn to be in a receptive mode.
This, by the way, those of you that are local, I'm teaching in the upcoming His View
event. I'm super excited. February 7th. It's understanding biblically the feminine and the
masculine. Do you know there's many things in scripture that are feminine. The Spirit of
Wisdom in Proverbs is called a she, right? The Spirit in the creation is called a she.
And so there is this Spirit hovering over the water. There is this feminine receptive that
many of us who are female have lost that feminine ability to be open and receptive.
And, you know, we carry the womb, right? We carry where things are birthed, not just our physical
children, but we carry vision. Things are birthed in our womb. There's so much scripture to this.
I'm going to be teaching it coming forward. But to understand that the masculine energy in
scripture came after, and it's the doing. And yet we as women have somehow come convinced that we're
supposed to be doing, doing, doing, doing. And that we have to make it happen. And it's up to us.
And so therefore, this openness and this receptivity is lost. And so this ability to carry
peace and to receive is missing. And so what I'm sharing with you, I'm hoping you're getting the
drift of this because this is so transformational. And so it's a gift. It's also a discipline. It's
a choice. And it's a practice. And it's a discipline that it says he grants us perfect
peace whose mind is stayed. You could also go to Philippians that talks about whatsoever is
lovely, whatsoever is beautiful. If there be any virtue, if there be any praise, fix your mind
on these things. These are high frequency things. So fixing our mind is a choice and it's a discipline.
And so peace is not passive. So being in this feminine energy
is not passive. It's not being a doormat. It's not doing
nothing. Peace is partnered. Peace is partnered. And so if
you think about this, let's talk for health for a second. When
peace governs the nervous system, we move from the
sympathetic, the fight or flight, fright system into the
parasympathetic, right? What happens when we move into the
parasympathetic? Creativity increases. Decision making
improves. Immune function strengthens. Emotional
regulation stabilizes. Discernment sharpens. Stress and
anxiety. You know, when you're walking in the sympathetic, the
fight flight, right? When you're walking in that stress and
anxiety that is so natural to our culture, it narrows your
ability to see and hear and feel it narrows your perception. You
know, Paul prayed that the eyes of our heart would be opened.
And this is the stress narrows that and it reduces our access
to wisdom. Scripture says, she wisdom is crying out in the
streets. And the stress and the shutdown reduces access to that
wisdom. We're in a reactionary mode. And the reactionary mode
is not good for our health or our decisions or our creativity
or our relationships. This is why learning to just pause and
get out of the reactionary mode that you immediately need to fix
something we want. You know, we're driven by the desire for
pleasure and the desire to avoid pain. And so as soon as
something feels painful, our reactionary nature wants to
solve it immediately get into a solvent mode, we get into a do
it, do it, do it, do it mode. And it's opposite of what we're
talking about here. And so we end up triggering these
reactionary decisions that often don't work out so good. So peace
expands our perception. Peace restores access to insight, sight
on the inside, it removes access, it ties in our access
to it restores it to intuition to insight, it creates space to
hear God clearly, hear God clearly. Hear God clearly. I was
tempted last night. I'm in the middle of looking at a possible
retreat when I'm in Texas going over to Belize and I found the
most perfect place you guys it's just amazing. And just tempted
just okay, just do it. Just take action. Just reserve it. Let's
go. And I'm teaching myself to just pause. Take a breath and
let the Holy Spirit speak sleep on it. But what if it's gone?
What if somebody takes it that's lack thinking what's meant for
me can't be taken away. Pause so that this morning I could hear
clearly. And so, so peace is is not just spiritual. I want you
to understand that it's functional. This is your life.
This is your business. What would your business be like if
you were? What would your business be like if you were
making more peace based decisions? And if you were
living less reactionary, and reactionary is always fear based
not love based. So when we're in reactionary, we're believing
that we don't have enough or we're not enough. Or it's fear
based and that we're in a what if kind of scenario and we want
to fix it and we want to avoid pain. And so this is not the
Spirit led. And I've talked to you many times about dancing. If
I'm in a reactionary mode and partner dancing, which is such
a visual of, of keeping in step with the Spirit of being led by
the Spirit. Salsa dancing is such an example of that. If I
get reactionary, and I anticipate and I think I know
the next moves and I take over control and I stop being led.
And I miss the most amazing gift of what it's like to be led. And
this is true. I think that the Holy Spirit is calling us
sisters. He's calling us to rise in this feminine of
that he's created us to. He's calling us to rise in this ability to receive, in this ability to hear,
in this ability to pause, in this ability to carry vision, in this ability to release peace.
We've got to release peace to our children and our grandchildren. They're really freaked out.
They're getting so many messages. If we don't release peace into their life and we keep...
I know when I was a mom, I was like, hurry up, you got to get there, hurry up, you're missing.
Why'd you do that? You didn't get that done. You need to, you know. And it's this reactionary
that's tearing down a fiber of our family, of our health, of our relationship with God. So
this peace isn't just functional. It's not just spiritual. It's so functional as to how it
impacts us. And so what steals peace the most often is not crisis. Actually, it's mental drift.
It's not keeping our mind fixed like Isaiah 26.3. Mental drift looks like replaying conversations,
rehashing the past over and over and over, rehashing, replaying. It looks like using our
God-given imagination in worst-case outcomes. What if I run out of money? What if no clients
show up? What if I get cancer? What if this cancer doesn't heal? What if I, you know, am
unable to take care of myself? What if this happens to my loved ones? What if we use our
God-given image maker in reverse, the opposite of faith, right? Fear is opposite of faith.
And so, or we just anticipate, like I just talked about in dancing, so that we're living like three
steps ahead of grace. We're like ahead of God. We're ahead of the move of God. We're trying to
solve tomorrow's problems with today's strength. And God told us that tomorrow has enough troubles
of its own. It told us stay today, right? And so, Isaiah doesn't say that peace will come to
those whose circumstances are perfect. He says it comes to those whose mind is stayed.
Do you get this? Stayed. That means anchored. It means returned. It means re-centered,
right? So, let's take some time for prayer, and then we'll come back for practice, right? And so,
let's pray for the prayer requests, but let's pray about this very thing of keeping our mind
fixed, about receiving peace, holding peace, releasing peace. Scripture says, Jesus says,
that you can release peace into a room. You can come in. And of course, the Jewish word for peace,
shalom, right? It's nothing missing, nothing broken. It's like releasing this divine
perfection, releasing this peace over your body. How often do you say to the storm in your own body,
peace? Be still. Do you see that? Do you see the beauty of this gift, the power?
How often are we releasing peace to our clients? So, let's really pray this in, that this is such
a deepening experience that carries, that we're going to have a lot of praise reports next time.
Is this hitting you guys where you are? Are you getting something really? Yes.
Awesome. Awesome. All right. Whoever wants to pray first, let's just pray, and then I will,
I'll bring it back around, and then we'll go into some powerful practice. Okay.
Anybody that wants to pray?
Lord, all week, I have been, actually, for several weeks, been asking you, why do I get so,
I guess, frustrated when I'm under pressure? And for me, when I get under pressure, and yet,
I get under pressure, and yet, I'm still working or mentoring somebody else. They feel that, Lord,
and I've been coming to you and asking you, what is missing in me? And it's this Jesus peace.
And the funny thing is, I have my salutations on letters and stuff that doesn't just say peace,
but Jesus peace, because there's a huge difference, I believe. So, Father,
thank you that this morning you revealed to me that i don't have jesus peace
um in those times like brenda was saying it's always it's not just whenever and
you it's not circumstantial so i just thank you and praise you for that um showing me that this
morning father god i just thank you for this word um bringing over andrea and that frustration
lord you know that i am right there with her or that i see so many things in life right now
and have fallen away from your perfect peace lord um i pray with this and thank you thank you
thank you lord for having brenda bring this into perspective for us um and that we see you
in such a light lord that we see you in such femininity um to receive this gift that you have
so graciously given to us father um just praying father god for each and every one of us in this
room and beyond father that you would um bring about a reclamation of peace into our lives
like jesus peace father like peace like no other father that it would cover us
for every corner of the earth father that this world would be covered that we would be
the peacemakers lord that we would be the cultivators of your gift father for not only
our own lives lord that we would be an example to those that equally and even greater need this
jesus peace father when i see the world right now and hear the words that brenda so eloquently
brought before us father through you then i know that this is part of your kingdom building
lord and i just pray for these things father god in your incredible name father
let your glory cover the earth with jesus peace father i just thank you thank you father
jesus i just want to thank you so much for brenda and all the beautiful ladies in this bible study
i want to thank you for their transparency to lay it all on the line to be better leaders
better mothers better women lord so many of our children of the light are reactionary
in all that they do and so many of them are smoking pot alcohol whatever the drug of choice is
it's so that they can get peace in their being and i pray lord that men and women of god will
come to these children and show them the way that true peace is with you jesus it's through you
that all the storms in our lives those are opportunities of growth for us and all that we
need to do is we need to focus on you focus on bringing peace into our hearts bringing peace
into the room god you give us so many gifts and we're still here we're still showing up
and we still screw up but yet your gifts keep coming we love you jesus
we love you with all of our hearts and thank you for all that you do for us in jesus name amen
you
mother god i just thank you for
these beautiful women
for this community
for the work that you're doing in and through us
god i just thank you for your promise
that you leave us peace and that is described as the peace that passes
is all understanding and that you've been speaking to me about be still and know that
I am God the ability to pause and no matter what is happening to be able to pause and
even say thank you what a gift because in Romans 8 28 you've said every single thing
is working together for our good so thank you that we can move from reactionary constant
doing doing that robs us of our energy and our peace and thank you that we can move into
a receptive to receive your gifts the gifts of the spirit love joy peace the fruits of
the spirit and thank you Lord that that this piece is often tied with breath so that we
scripture says we can breathe out peace and that we can speak peace and that we can breathe
in peace and that we can receive peace and blessed Jesus said blessed are the peacemakers
that we can make peace by your grace because of what you're doing so Lord I pray I pray
peace to the storms in every life of every woman represented and to their children and
their children's children I pray your perfect peace the peace that passes all understanding
to be with them to be in them to be through them we receive your gift today we say thank
you and we choose to fix our mind on you that you God are bigger than any problem
that you God know our needs so often the stress and the pressure is because we think we need
something but scripture actually says we have all we have Christ in us we have the mind of
Christ we're the temple of the Holy Spirit we contain you Christ in me the hope of glory if
I have you I have all and when I can come from that place of having this and that place of
beingness I'm able to show up and release your presence thank you for that gift I pray that this
will be such a line in the sand such a pivotal moment for everyone listening live and going
forward that this will be the beginning of a new season of peace within and peace through us peace
through our words peace through our action peace through our thoughts and we will truly grab ahold
of this promise and live it I ask in Jesus name amen amen amen amen a beautiful beautiful
okay good so so so good so so good um I'm gonna share a practice but before I do anybody want
to share anything is God speaking anything to you are you getting a word as we're praying or
in this study uh anything you want to share I think he was perfectly speaking his peace over
me praise God how he just so gracefully interjects at the perfect time it's God I'm so he's the
Kim you're so rich
you're so pregnant with goodness, so much to share.
And so when we think that we lack or we need something
or we're missing something, this is where peace leaves.
But that's lie-based, it's fear-based.
And so standing in the truth and same thing,
I mean, Andrea, my goodness, like what you bring to a room
with your worship and the gifts, your leadership,
your coach.
So this is so important.
I mean, Elen, you've been such an influence in my life
and you've been such a blessing in my life, right?
So each of us, right?
This is so true.
So when we think about the practice,
this practice of living stayed,
living stayed, not scattered.
Think about that.
See, the peace leaves when we try to do too many things,
when our whole energy is scattered all over.
And so your practice this week,
the first one is gonna be called the stayed mind reset,
remember Isaiah 26 three, whose mind is stayed, right?
So practice number one is the stayed mind reset.
This is gonna be a daily tool.
So you're gonna notice if your peace is leaking,
got a peace leak, right?
You're going to name, so notice name,
if you're carrying something that's not yours to carry,
cause we do that a lot.
And we're going to return, Jesus,
I placed my mind back on you and we're going to receive,
we're gonna practice.
I've been sharing that I think one of the most important
practices right now is one of my words
for the year is the ability to increase our capacity.
And there's so many capacities, right?
Increase our capacity to love,
increase our capacity to forgive,
increase our capacity, you know,
to teach all of these things, right?
But increase our capacity in this case to receive.
So we've got to switch things around
from the do, do, do, do to the open receptive.
I'm here, Lord.
I'm open, I'm receptive.
I'm still, my mind is stayed on you
and I'm open to receive this peace
so that I can very naturally release this peace.
And doing this, I'm telling you,
your peace goes through the roof, that prayer.
And when things hit you, just promise yourself
you will not be in a reactionary mode.
Pause, what a gift and receive
what God is saying for this, right?
So practice number one, the stayed mind reset.
Notice, where's your peace leaking?
What are you carrying that's not yours?
Jesus, I place my mind back on you
and then sit in stillness at least 60 seconds
and just practice receiving, practice being still.
The second practice is an anchoring question
that you can use all week.
What does peace require of me right now?
Not what should I fix?
Not what should I push?
What does peace require?
Not what should I worry about?
What does peace require of me right now?
And so as I close, as you go home
and just meditate on this all week,
look up scriptures, do a concordance search on peace,
speak it, sing it, meditate on it,
write it, journal about it.
Remember, peace is not weakness, right?
Peace is not avoidance, peace is not weakness.
This is governing authority.
So you don't protect peace after life calms down.
You protect peace so life can come into order.
I always say this.
If it costs my peace, it's too expensive.
Anything that costs my peace is too high of a price tag.
So I pray, as we leave this, that the Lord just
blesses you with peace in your mind, peace in your body,
peace in your home, peace in your businesses,
peace in the decisions that you're making.
Be blessed with God's perfect peace.
In Jesus' name, see you all later.