All right, welcome, welcome, welcome.
This is the Prosper Power Hour, which we do, of course, every Wednesday for Prosper
Leader members, 8 a.m. Pacific Standard Time.
And this is the heaven side of the heaven and earth equation that I talk about in business
and in life.
And of course, I think it's all heaven, but we focus specifically on Wednesdays.
We do, God really gave me revelation on this, 15 minutes of a promise.
So that every week, 52 weeks or however many weeks we're on, we're getting a new promise
we can meditate on all week, because what I've found is a lot of women have two or three
go-to promises that they've heard throughout their life, but there's hundreds and hundreds
of promises and they're so powerful to stand on.
So we do a promise and then around that promise, we do a biblical principle, then we do prayer.
Each of these are 15 minutes approximately.
And then we do a practice that you can do all week.
So welcome, welcome, welcome.
Of course, tomorrow, Thursdays is the earth side, that's office hours.
And that's where we get into the systems and the structure and the strategies and you bring
those two together, and you've got a very holistic life, very holistic business, because
we tend to err on one side or the other.
So I'm going to take a sip of tea, you guys got my raspy voice this morning.
First talking of the morning.
So I'm super excited.
If you have any prayer requests or praise requests, pop them in the chat.
So today, I'm super excited what we're going to talk about.
It's about circumstances won't shake you.
I want you to think about that.
Circumstances, conditions won't shake you.
And the visual that I heard many, many years ago, probably 15, 20 years ago, that is really
stuck with me, is that in life, there's like two arenas, two arenas, like a wrestling,
let's say a wrestling or a boxing match, you know, and you've got the arenas, right?
And there's two arenas.
And one arena is the conditions, the circumstances, it's the what you see, right?
What you feel, what's happening in the tangible world.
That's one arena.
And of course, that's where we naturally want to go.
It's what's happening to us around us, right?
And that's one arena.
The other arena is faith.
It's what we're doing today.
It's God's word, it's promise, it's truth.
It's what God has already spoken.
So here's the thing, we don't get to avoid the match.
We're going to be in a match.
We're going to be in an arena, but we get to choose which ring that we're going to be
in.
Let that sink in.
You see, most people don't lose or go backwards in a battle because God isn't faithful or
the promises don't work or the word doesn't work.
It's because they're wrestling in the wrong arena.
And so today, this morning is about how to be unshakable, unmovable.
How to, not because your circumstances disappear, right?
There'll always be circumstances.
There'll always be conditions, conditions in our health and our body, conditions in
our finances, conditions in our relationship.
This is life.
This is always going to happen, but because you refuse to make those your authority.
So I'm super excited about this topic.
I know that when I first got a hold of this, my life completely changed.
It's one of the most powerful concepts, I think, in our faith walk.
So what is our promise today?
Our promise comes from Psalms 110.
12 verses 5 to 6. And I am reading it from the Passion Translation. Okay, so Psalms 1-12
verses 5 and 6 from the Passion Translation. So let this just soak in for a second.
Life is good. Just think about that. Life is good for the one who's generous and considerate of
others. He conducts his affairs with honesty and truth. Here's my favorite. His circumstances will
never shake him. Or we could put it in the feminine. Her circumstances will never shake her.
And others will always remember him or her as righteous. So I loved it when I was reading
Psalms a couple days ago and that just jumped out at me. I got out the highlighter.
Circumstances will never shake her. Just let that land for a second. You know, it doesn't say
that your circumstances won't come. It doesn't say that they won't be intense. It doesn't say
that they won't challenge you. It says they won't shake you. This is so, so big. You know,
the word shake kind of implies, you know, they won't, they won't dislodge you. They won't,
they won't pull you off of position. They, they won't destabilize you. They won't,
they won't knock you out, right? If we're talking arenas, they won't move you out of
alignment. So the promise is not, and this is where people really miss it. The promise is not
circumstantial peace. The peace is not based on circumstances. In fact, you know,
scripture says is peace that passes all understanding. Like you'll be like, how do I
have peace in the middle of this? And so this promise is, is about positional stability.
It's about being anchored. Or when I did the whole series on rooted to rise, it's about deeply
rooted. It's about being deeply grounded. And, and this is so, so big. So, so the promise
is that you can stand on this week and every week and you can memorize it and you can speak it and
you can turn it into a, an affirmation in your morning when you're doing your, your prosper
daily and you're, you're doing your affirmations to start with. I am right. These are affirmations.
I'm, I'm rooted and grounded. I am unmovable, right? In God's word. I am unshaken in God's
promises, right? I'm held. I'm supported. I'm walking by faith. So make up new. I am statements
every day I've gotten in the habit. I used to write them and now I've turned it into like a
beautiful meditation where I just close my eyes and I just start saying a bunch of, I am, there's
enough in me. I'm full in the treasury of my heart that I can just be speaking. And there's just
something that, that elevates when you do that. So, so this idea that I'm unmovable, I'm unshakable,
right? And then you can also turn it into a declaration, which is an, I will statement.
Usually that's what you're absolutely committed to doing that day, but you could make it.
I will not be shaken by conditions or circumstances today. You can turn it into a declaration
as well. So I pray that you're doing, you know, as you're doing the prosper 90 day planner,
I pray you're doing those affirmations on those declarations. They take minutes,
but they completely change our mindset. You know, we're transformed by the renewing of our mind.
Right. And, you know, it goes deeper. I don't have time today, but I have been I've had people
really close to me that have had hard circumstances this week. And for both of them, actually they,
it was so intense because the body.
never lies, that it translated into physical symptoms, which it often does. For one friend,
it started turning into tingling and numbness and hands and feet. And for a relative, it started
feeling like a heart attack because when we don't walk in this, that's what happens. The body is,
you know, taking on all of this. And there's something that God has taught me that has
gotten so strong in me from this repeated understanding and diving in this, that I
literally could share a couple ideas with them with absolute certainty and confidence.
And one is the book of James, chapter one, where it says, count it all joy when you encounter
diverse trials. Why? It goes on to say because of the character that God is using these trials
to strengthen you, to raise you, and to, you know, to give you these character traits of
perseverance and resilience and confidence. And so what I know is that these earthquakes that
kind of come into our life of circumstances, they actually increase our capacity so that God is
preparing us for a higher level, what he's got us doing. And you don't increase capacity when it's
all rainbows and unicorns. It's in coming through these challenges, standing on promises like this
and not being moved, that actually you go through it. And so, you know, yesterday, and both of them,
I was saying, this is going to be really good. You have to pause. You have to look at this.
You have to say, what a gift. You have to understand Romans 8, 28. So opposite of what
our eyes say, that everything's a mess and we want to go down the very rocky cliff of,
you know, everything's falling apart. This is going to happen. What if this happens? What am
I going to do? And get into fear and anxiety and all of that. You pause and you stand on these
promises and are unshakable. And of course, one of the promises we've done is Romans 8, 28, that
every single thing is working out for good. So you pause and you say, this is good. And then you say,
God, what's the good here that I'm not seeing? Because I know, I know you're increasing my
capacity. I know you're working this together for good. It doesn't feel good right now. It hurts
right now. It's scary, but this is good. And so, the principle that I want to share, that's
the promise, Psalms 112. The principle that I want to share is that faith and fear cannot coexist.
Faith and fear cannot coexist. In other words, they're not sisters. They're not cousins. They're
opposites. They can't, they can't both exist at the same time. And so, fear is simply faith. Get
this. Fear is inverted faith. Fear is faith pointed in the wrong direction. Did you know that?
Did you know that? You see, we're always using faith. It's not a matter of, I need more faith.
It's, it's, we're always using faith, either faith that this is going to work out, that this is good,
that God's working this all together, that this is increasing my capacity, that God is going to
show up so big, that this is going to be a miracle, that this is going to be a testimony. So there's
faith that it'll work out. And by the way, those of us that have been praying for Christy, and you
know, she had stage four cancer, and she just got the scan. It's not in her bones anymore. It's,
it's 90% clear, like it's almost completely gone. And she's been standing on that, right?
And we've been standing on that together. And so, we either are using faith that it's going to work
out, or we're using faith that it won't. We're using faith. And so, so the question is never, do I
have faith? The question is, where's my faith directing me? Right? And so, when you have this
wrestling ring kind of principle that we're talking about, you know that the conditions are
always there, but when do we lose? We lose when we're in the wrong arena.
If you're in the wrong arena, focusing on conditions and circumstances, you've already lost.
But if you're in the faith arena,
And the Word of God arena, you've already won.
You're more than a conqueror.
He's already won this battle for you,
and you're going to come out.
And so I literally, one of the people
that I was talking to, which was just yesterday,
was my son going through this.
And he had, man, he had a business hardship,
the kind that those of us that happens in business
that just like wipes you out.
And, you know, I mean, just makes you,
made him want to jump off a cliff or something.
And he's young.
He hasn't hit those.
Those of us that are seasoned, we understand.
These things happen in business
and it's not the end of the world, right?
But as a mother, this is the strange thing.
As a mother, and I'm hearing this
because enough time of God renewing my mind,
enough understanding of what the Word says,
I could actually feel joy.
Now, when I used to read the book of James,
I thought he's on drugs.
Count it all joy when you hit every kind of diverse trial.
Like, oh yeah, let's have a party.
Count it all joy, right?
But I could right now.
And I could talk to him about that
because I was like, oh wow.
I said, this is going to be good.
God is increasing your capacity right now.
You're going to come through this.
And on the other side, you're going to be wiser.
You're going to be stronger.
You're going to be more creative.
You're going to do things differently and better.
Something super good is going to come out of this.
And I could actually feel like, wow, I'm so grateful.
Number one, it was driving him back to the Word.
My son in the Word, so happy, right?
I'm overjoyed that this trial is doing that.
Two, he's already reflecting, you know,
I should have been wiser with money.
I should have, like, he's already getting
some of the lessons coming in, right?
And he's learning how do you go through these trials, right?
And so it's which arena are we in, right?
And so when we're in that wrong arena, why are we losing?
Because the conditions are speaking louder than truth
unless we switch arenas.
You see, faith is not denying reality.
It's not Pollyanna.
Yes, this thing happened to your health.
Yes, I need to take steps.
Or yes, this thing happened to my finances.
I need to take steps.
Or yes, this thing is breaking down in relationships.
We're not walking around Pollyanna.
It's not denying.
But it's refusing to let what you see.
Remember, God has given us spiritual eyes and physical eyes.
It's not letting all senses, right?
We've got physical eyes, spiritual eyes.
Physical ears, spiritual ears, right?
Physical perception, inner sight, right?
Physical taste and spiritual taste.
The Bible says, taste and know that the Lord is good.
Your word is sweeter than honey.
So everything has a physical and a spiritual.
And it's not letting what your eyes see,
which are these conditions, these circumstances,
not letting them define your truth,
not letting them define, not carrying it
into the future and using your God-given image maker
to imagine the worst case scenario.
That's faith out of control.
That's your God-given image maker out of control.
And so it's refusing.
And so it's understanding.
And this is another conversation.
We don't have time today,
but it's understanding that faith is actually a substance.
If you read Hebrews 11, one,
especially in the Amplified Translation, for example,
it says that faith is the substance of things hoped for.
The evidence, faith is the evidence, not what you're seeing.
Faith is the evidence of things unseen.
So faith lets you walk out and birth
and reveal, manifest, bring to your hands
the truth, not what your eyes are seeing.
Isn't that powerful?
And so you have to understand
and take back your God-given authority.
Jesus didn't say about the mountain.
He didn't say, ask the mountain politely, please move.
He didn't say, just figure out a way.
Like people always say, figure out a way to go over
and figure out a way to go around it.
Figure out, he said, say to the mountain, be thou removed.
Speak to the mountains with authority.
This is where certainty.
and confidence in Christ comes.
That's Mark 11, by the way.
So mountains move when you stop negotiating with conditions.
Stop negotiating.
I'll never forget, I've shared this story,
it touched my life so much.
A man named Walter that I met
when I was traveling in Kansas City.
And we had invited Walter,
it was when I was a founder
of a international nutrition company.
And we were gonna be speaking there.
And Walter had been invited to come hear us speak.
And that particular day, he had a doctor's appointment.
And he had advancing arthritis, crippling arthritis,
and he was a painter by trade.
And the doctor literally pointed to a wheelchair.
So imagine an authority in your life,
a doctor, an expert,
the one you're putting your trust in,
pointing to the wheelchair and said,
this is where you're going, you have to get ready.
Get your house ready, put down your paintbrush.
Like these are like these negative word curses,
really being spoken over him that could be so devastating.
And we have a choice in that moment,
whose word, whose report,
like Christie said about the cancer,
whose report will I believe, right?
And he walked out of the doctor's office
and he stood looking up at the sky at God.
And he said, God, I've heard the doctor's report.
What do you say?
And he was open and receptive to hear another word,
the true word, he was open.
And God said, I have an answer for you
that you have not yet seen.
And he gets home and the answering machine
was inviting him.
In fact, the message on the answering machine
from Rhonda to Walter said,
Walter, cause he was a couple hours away,
ask God if you're supposed to come to our house
on this particular day.
And God said, that's what I'm talking about.
And he came and the particular nutritional product
that we had developed helped him so much.
But the point of this conversation is whose word,
who has authority?
So mountains move when you stop negotiating with conditions
and you stand in your authority.
And this is why we do the Prosper Power Hour, right?
Because the way that you can stand in authority
when you know who you are, who God says you are,
and when you know what God has already done
and that you're more than a conqueror
and you know your identity, you know your authority.
And part of that is being able,
the mind, heart, mouth connection
that I always teach, right?
It's able to, first of all, get ahold of your thoughts
because your thoughts wanna just run to the wrong arena.
Stabilize, pause, take a breath.
And then how are we transformed?
By the renewing of our mind.
So we change to the truth
and then we tap into the true feeling,
not the feeling of fear.
It's that fear that puts out just a toxic chemical stew
to your body that can land you in the emergency room.
Anxiety looks just like a heart attack, right?
And everything constricts in fear.
And so your circulation constricts,
your creativity constricts.
So we can't be in fear,
but perfect love casts out fear.
And so we're renewing our mind
and that's what these promises are,
that we're starting to speak the truth
and we're starting to stand on the word
and then we're tapping into the true feeling of that.
We're not letting our feelings and our imagination
take us down a path.
And then we speak, we speak.
And that's what this is, say to the mountain,
be thou removed, right?
And so it's that mind, heart, mouth connection
as we're standing in authority.
Authority is calm.
Fear is frantic.
Authority is calm.
And so I want you to understand before we go into prayer
that your imagination,
your God given image maker,
your imagination is neutral, but powerful.
God gave you this image maker
and it can be used to reach.
rehearse and replay disaster, or rehearse and replace all the things that can go wrong,
the conditions, or to rehearse promise and get into the feeling tonality,
which every feeling has a frequency, which simply means it has a wavelength.
Everything that God has created is vibrating. We know even the things that look solid,
the table or whatever, there's vibration. Go back to the science of understanding
the movement at the atomic and especially at the quantum level.
So you understand that it's moving at what frequency is it moving, right?
Do you know the highest frequencies are the fruits of the spirit?
Love, joy, peace. These are the highest frequencies. And so if you don't consciously
direct your God-given image maker, your imagination, well, then you have what the
Bible calls vain imaginings, right? So if you don't consciously direct it, fear will gladly
hijack it. And so that's why scripture repeatedly tells us, fix your mind.
We learned last week or a couple of weeks ago, Isaiah 26, 3, he will keep you in perfect peace,
whose mind is stayed on me, whose mind is fixed on me. Philippians, you know, Paul is saying
whatsoever is good, whatsoever is lovely. If it be any virtue, if there be any praise,
in other words, if it be high frequency, fix your mind on this.
This is your part. There's God's part. He's given the promise. He's paid the price on the cross.
He's done everything. He's made you the temple of Holy Spirit. He's given you authority,
but your part is to choose where you're fixing your mind, what arena that you're playing in.
Is that helpful? Before we go to prayer, does that help you? If you can get in the habit that
when conditions come, get, this is a, it's a new habit. We're not taught this in school.
Our parents didn't model this, right? When conditions come, it's the gift of the pause,
the pause protocol. Just pause and breathe. Take a deep breath. Make the exhale longer than the
inhale. This resets your, it recalibrates, resets your nervous system from the fight or flight,
sympathetic to the parasympathetic. Just pausing, breathing, and then if you want to add speaking,
thank you, God. You're going to work this together for good. Thank you, God. What's the good here
that I'm not seeing? Thank you, God. This is a gift. Help me see the gift.
Thank you, God. You're increasing my capacity right now. So what appears that wants to hijack
your brain, you can say, thank you. What a gift. And when you reflect, can you not look at your
life some of the hardest times? Can you not now look at them and see what a gift they are? Can
you not, can you not begin to see that? I'd love any, any comments in the chat. I love how this is
landing for you. Is this, we're going to go into prayer now, but is this landing for you? What's,
what's really jumping out in, in what I'm sharing? What is God showing you? And you're welcome to
unmute and just talk or type it in the chat, whatever's easier. I know some of you are,
don't even have the camera on. So what's landing for you as we get ready to go into prayer?
Well, I'll share. This is so timely. And I was, when I saw the email for it this morning, I was
like, I got to be there. I just recently signed a new client, a pretty big project, and I prepped
for the kickoff meeting yesterday, you know, spent all the time putting everything together,
got to the meeting. And one of the three people that represented the counties that I'm serving
kind of came in. It's like, why do we even need to be here? We don't need this scope of work.
We can do this on our own. It was like, after they had signed the agreement, the contract was
executed, we were ready to kick off. And all of a sudden it kind of blew up. Right. And so in that
moment, you know, you start to have those feelings, you're experiencing that, like,
oh my goodness, this, this big project is slipping right out of my hands. I don't even know this
person and they're already upset with me that I'm here to serve them.
Yes. And so hearing this, it's just like grounding again and like there's there's a gift in this.
Yes. Maybe it's the gift of not working with them.
It can be. It's you. And this is why I love the question is what is the good here that I'm not
seeing? And and this can be, you know, it can be in the in the private prayer time and and so on.
Right. Because you will see. And it can be like I was saying to my son yesterday, it's like
you've got to get in a calm place to have some creative. Like I teach you guys CEO hours,
right, to say what is in this that will actually cause me with God to create something even more
incredible. Right. Because it's usually I mean, it's funny, you know, you got to post it note
here or something. It's like the things that we have often come out of a mistake or an experiment
gone wrong or business gone wrong or like it's like it turns into the next evolution. And so,
um, yeah, I mean, I can't wait to hear the rest of the story. But first and foremost,
God's growing your capacity because you're growing so much so fast, Kate. Right. I mean,
when you look at in coaching how far you went in your first year in business, right, from from zero
from no business, you know, no leads to, you know, a couple hundred thousand dollars in contracts.
And now this year to be going for the millions on a million dollars requires a different capacity.
Yes. Then then a six figure requires a different capacity than a seven figure. And so guess what
increases our capacity? It's exactly stuff like this. So you can smile and you're like, oh,
thank you. You're increasing my capacity. What do I need to learn? What do I understand?
Need to understand how can I grow? And it becomes a gift. Thank you for being so transparent and
sharing that. I can't wait to hear the rest of the story. It's going to be a fun testimony.
I'm quite sure. So I was going to say something here to who I have said I am for a long time
is bold, faith, no fear. So I put that in the chat. But and I guess we do have things happen.
I had I just got I think what she felt was like this gut punch or stab to the heart,
this unexpected, you know, unmet expectations is my talk going to be my show today, you know,
and you talked about that a few weeks ago and I had already written that. Wow.
Before then that it was going to be my next solo show. So anyway, I had I have an Airbnb in my home
and I have 14 five star reviews and absolute immaculate attention to detail is my
description. You know, it's just a labor of love. And I had a tenant book for two weeks over the
new year. And he he abandoned early, he went after a week early and requested a refund.
And I was like, whoa, you know, hey, I hope your family's OK. I hope everything's OK. Everything
is just really my mama says, take the high road. That's what I did. Well, he came back. So I mean,
I said, you know, I'm in a dilemma, you know, really, that's not here's the policy of Airbnb.
Here's you know, but he wanted the whole thing back. So he made a complaint to Airbnb that I
spent basically three days going back and forth with three different people or four different
people, that my place was messy and dirty. And little did he know, I have an album with 47
pictures of it that are timestamped that right before he got there. So but then he wrote a five
then he wrote a one star review. Just guess beware. I mean, it's ugly. It's just it's just
ugly. Like I was monitoring his parking when he got there. I happen to be outside. And anyway,
it's a long story. One star review. And it just gut punches you when when it's your it's I mean,
I don't take much personally. It takes a lot. But I was the takeaway, Charlotte, real quick,
because we're going to run out. The takeaway is I am going I'm not going to fight the review.
I wrote a response and just like me, you know, maybe less basically. And I'm sorry,
you had a bad experience and just left it. Yes. Because I think it reflects a whole lot more on
him. There was no it was lies, just flat out lies. Well, and you have you have and he says he said
He was a Christian and, and he called out in the, you know, he called out my faith,
you know, and, or my Christianity or whatever.
I'm like, Hmm, Hmm.
May you be blessed.
Something's going on that I couldn't.
And typically if somebody doesn't want to be here, I did, I did
go ahead and refund half of it.
I split the difference with him, but, um, I didn't have to, you know,
it hits me, Charlotte is that, um, it's going to bring even more business
because sometimes negative press is like awesome press because now they've got
to read, but they were thinking about coming.
They read that now they got to read all the other reviews and then they see all
the amazing five-star reviews and it just gets you more business.
So, um, it reminds me of, of Joseph, what it says in Genesis, what the enemy
meant for harm, God will use for good.
I believe that could be a powerful promise.
Absolutely.
And my I'm, you know, you hear me say it all the time.
Everything is always working out for me at all.
I mean, I believe it is.
And you still get gut punched every so often.
Yes.
It's not that we don't feel it for a second, but that's why the training.
Of pausing and breathing and the mind heart mouth connection is so powerful.
Thank you for sharing Charlotte.
I love that.
Okay, guys.
I want to make sure we have plenty of time for prayer and I've got a
client right behind this.
So, um, we have prayer requests.
Everybody can pray, um, for Kim.
She's been going through some vertigo and she's going through some testing right now.
So she's asking us to pray, um, for healing and, you know, the, the, the truth
to come out and, um, and then, uh, Christie lives in Minnesota and she's
asking us to be praying, uh, there.
And if there's anything else, please speak up, but we hold these prayers.
I send them out to you in the, in the email afterwards and, um, just hold
the promise all week, hold the principle, hold the prayer, and I'm
going to give you a practice.
So whoever wants to start, let's just pray right now.
And then I will come back and, um, wrap it up and give you
your practice for this week.
Father God, I just thank you for this, uh, time together.
I'm so very thankful for Brenda.
So very thankful to hear both Kate and Charlotte and their stories and Christie,
right, all the stories, um, my story right now, Lord, and to be reminded of those
promises that you've so thoughtfully and eternally, um, given to us Lord, uh,
that our faith in you covers all circumstances, all conditions, and that
what we see in our physical lives and what we see spiritually, Lord, is covered
to remove any mountains that currently take place in our lives and to, to, to
recover and reclaim the righteousness of your mighty name, your promises,
your yeses, and your amens.
Um, I just prayed father God for covering over each and every one of us and beyond
Lord, that we will just be reminded.
Thank you for the reminder, Lord, that every mountain is to be removed, but only
if we agree, we come into agreement and that we pause and that we breathe and that
we pray in and that we trust in every promise, every declaration that you have
for us, Lord, and we just pray for those things in your mighty name.
Thank you.
Lord, we thank you that you are a good, good father.
We thank you that you call us your daughters.
Um, and that every good and perfect gift comes from you.
I pray father that each one of us would stand in the authority that you've given
us to, um, claim whatever it is that you've given us to stand up and to say yes to.
And father, we pray that you would be in our minds, Jesus, that you would give us
clarity and wisdom and counsel and that you would be in our hearts and in our minds.
And that we would be able to live a life that is just as good and perfect as you
Jesus, that you would give us clarity and wisdom and capacity.
Father, we thank you that you continue to grow us in ways that, um, seem so beyond
us father, but we thank you that you love us and that you're here with us and that
you desire us to grow in our capacity, our trust at our whole.
than you.
And Father, I just thank you for your beautiful design, that you work all these things for our good,
that you are already working it more. I thank you God. You are more committed to our transformation
than we are sometimes. Thank you, Holy Spirit, for helping us in those moments, reminding us,
bringing your word to our attention. Thank you, God, for your healing. Thank you, Lord,
that you are above and more powerful than any sickness, any destruction that would come against
us, any pestilence, like the psalm says, Lord, and we sit with you in victory, Lord. We sit with you
in your authority, seated above all of these. So, Lord, I pray that over Kim, Lord, that this vertigo
is gone from her body, Lord, that it doesn't haunt her any longer, that it has no place,
because the blood of Jesus already paid for her, and the victory has already been won for her. So I
stand in that, and I pray that it becomes the experience of the reality, that she experiences
the reality of what you've already done for her. God, I thank you. We trust you. Thank you for this
deeper level of trust that we get to have through these trials, Lord, this deeper communion with you,
Lord, as we run to you in these moments and these pauses, and thank you, God, for the ripple effect
that it's going to have on the people around us that who are going to benefit from us pausing,
and the people we influence, like our kids, are going to see that and be able to take that
with them too, Lord. Thank you. Thank you, Lord, for this transformation.
Lord, we just thank you for this beautiful time. You've said wherever two or more are gathered,
that there you are, and we feel your presence. We feel the way you're working.
Thank you for what Joseph said, that whatever the enemy meant for evil, you used for good.
That those hard times that Joseph went through, from being betrayed from his family, being sold
into slavery, being lied to, being forgotten, like every one of those things was just perfectly
preparing him for his divine call, actually second highest authority in the world at that time.
That's what you're doing in us, that you are raising us up, that you're molding us,
that you're shaping us, so Lord, I ask that you help us to train our minds and train our
imagination and stand, like you say, stand guard at the door of our mouth, stand guard at our heart,
because out of it flow the issues of life. Lord, let these words take root and be deep and create
transformation in our life, and I pray that every one of these conditions will be used for your
glory, that Kim will have a powerful testimony, that Kate will have a powerful testimony, that
Sharla will have a power, that each and every one of us will have a powerful testimony, that our
test becomes our testimony when we get in the right arena. Faith, so Lord, increase our faith,
increase our complete trust and reliance of knowing that you are in us, you are around us,
you are upon us, you are working through us, and you are good, and we love you. We pray continued
healing in states like Minnesota, continued healing in bodies like Christie, continued
healing in businesses. Lord, as your presence comes and renews and works all things together
for good, we celebrate that, we praise you, we're so grateful, Lord, and we love you in Jesus' name.
Amen and amen.
Okay, real quick, our practice for this week,
it's going to be this unshakable pause
that we have been talking about.
So this is not theory, this is what you do in real time,
when circumstances hit, right?
When you get the email, when you get the diagnosis,
when you get the review, when you get the conversation,
when you get the bank account,
when you get the delay, whatever, you pause.
You pause, no reacting, no spiraling, no fixing,
because that's our nature, we want to go into fix it mode.
And this is not what God is calling us to.
So step one, you pause.
Step two, you breathe, you slow your body down,
you get out of the sympathetic back
into the parasympathetic before you do anything else.
You can put a hand on your heart
and you take one slow inhale through the nose
and you just picture just breathing in God,
God's peace, God's spirit.
And then one slow exhale through the mouth,
make the exhale longer than the inhale.
This resets, this recalibrates.
So your nervous system gets the signal, I'm safe.
I can calm down, I'm safe.
I can get out of fight or flight, I'm safe.
So you pause, you breathe, and then you declare.
We use the power of saying out loud, this is a gift.
This is a gift.
And the creator is working this together for my good.
This is a gift.
And the creator's working this together for my good.
You're anchoring it in Romans 8, 28.
Not this feels good, because it probably doesn't,
but God is good here.
And step four, you're redirecting your imagination.
Taking back, when your imagination tries to get hijacked,
you're redirecting your imagination.
So you quickly kind of take a survey.
What picture is my mind rehearsing right now?
What am I, faith, right?
What am I meditating on?
Because that's what's happening, you're meditating.
What am I meditating?
Is it on faith or is it on inverted faith, fear?
What am I meditating on right here?
Take back that hijack
and then deliberately replace the image.
See what you desire to see.
See a perfect resolution.
See provision, see healing, see peace.
See yourself standing unshaken.
Like literally, you get to rewrite the story.
See the client coming back and saying, I'm sorry,
I kind of lost it and I really do want to work with you.
See like a great idea coming out of this
and everybody's celebrating, seeing new resources.
Like you get to guide this.
You get to like not let it be hijacked, right?
So that you're choosing the ring.
So one final question,
which ring am I standing in right now?
Faith or circumstances?
Just do a quick check.
Which ring am I standing?
And then consciously move back into the faith.
You might want to take physical steps.
Wherever you're standing,
just move and literally say,
no, I'm getting back in the faith arena.
See unshakable people aren't louder.
They're not more intense.
They're not pretending nothing hurts.
They're just anchored.
They're just rooted.
They're just grounded.
And they understand that circumstances are temporary,
but promise is permanent.
All right, lady, gotta go.
Blessings, blessings.
See you tomorrow in office hours.