WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.160 All right, good morning, welcome, welcome, welcome. 2 00:00:06.160 --> 00:00:13.320 One of my favorite days of the week, Wednesday, this is the Prosper Power Hour. 3 00:00:13.320 --> 00:00:18.320 Of course, every Wednesday, as part of the Prosper Leader membership, we have the Prosper 4 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:20.280 Power Hour. 5 00:00:20.280 --> 00:00:24.320 And I like to say this is the heaven part of the heaven and earth. 6 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:29.680 I like thinking about business, God kind of gave to me about heaven and earth. 7 00:00:29.680 --> 00:00:36.560 Of course, I think it's all heaven, but there's the heaven, which is what we do today, which 8 00:00:36.560 --> 00:00:40.720 is a new promise every single week. 9 00:00:40.720 --> 00:00:46.680 So we can just be saturated, we can marinate in God's promises. 10 00:00:46.680 --> 00:00:55.560 And then there is the teaching around that, so we can grow. 11 00:00:55.560 --> 00:01:02.480 Then there's prayer, and then there is a practice we can do all week. 12 00:01:02.480 --> 00:01:07.760 So I'm super excited, it's a new theme every single week. 13 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:13.160 So Lord, I thank you for the time that we were sharing before. 14 00:01:13.160 --> 00:01:19.360 And during prayer, we'll just go over a lot of the prayer requests and the praise reports. 15 00:01:19.360 --> 00:01:20.360 Thank you. 16 00:01:20.360 --> 00:01:25.960 I ask today that you just speak through my mouth, that the words of, that the meditations 17 00:01:25.960 --> 00:01:31.360 of my heart will come through with the words of my mouth and be glorifying to you. 18 00:01:31.360 --> 00:01:34.560 In Jesus name, amen. 19 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:40.560 So it's February and it's a love month. 20 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:47.120 So love's been on my mind a lot. 21 00:01:47.120 --> 00:01:56.560 I want to share today around love, I think a little bit different teaching than maybe 22 00:01:56.560 --> 00:02:04.440 you typically hear. 23 00:02:04.440 --> 00:02:09.720 It's a very deep truth that God's been revealing, but let's just start with the promise. 24 00:02:09.720 --> 00:02:14.320 I have two verses for the promise today. 25 00:02:14.320 --> 00:02:19.320 The first one is, love never fails. 26 00:02:19.320 --> 00:02:27.320 Of course, that comes from the love chapter, which is 1 Corinthians chapter 13. 27 00:02:27.320 --> 00:02:29.480 This is verse eight. 28 00:02:29.480 --> 00:02:33.360 If you haven't read the love chapter lately, this is a good time. 29 00:02:33.360 --> 00:02:38.400 Read it every day in February, read it in different translations. 30 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:42.720 But I just grabbed one sentence from the love chapter. 31 00:02:42.720 --> 00:02:45.440 Just think about that. 32 00:02:45.440 --> 00:02:50.360 Love never fails. 33 00:02:50.360 --> 00:02:58.040 And I think we're going to get to the depth of why that's true, the principle behind that. 34 00:02:58.040 --> 00:03:13.960 And so I'm going to combine it with another verse, which is 1 John 4, 18. 35 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:19.680 1 John 4, 18. 36 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:32.680 And that one is really good in the Amplified because it talks about how perfect love, or 37 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:42.800 another translation is mature love, cast out fear. 38 00:03:42.800 --> 00:03:49.800 Or another translation says mature love kicks fear out the door. 39 00:03:49.800 --> 00:03:56.800 And so whenever we have fear, it says that our love is not mature. 40 00:03:56.800 --> 00:04:02.960 That's an interesting pairing, isn't it? 41 00:04:02.960 --> 00:04:11.960 So wherever fear is coming in, that's the degree that love needs to grow. 42 00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:20.519 Yeah, I just, I love, love, love that combination. 43 00:04:20.519 --> 00:04:24.240 I'm just looking, I have so many different translations of that. 44 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:31.600 I encourage you to read it in the Amplified, in the Passion translation, the Message. 45 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:40.520 Just really get some depth of what I think is one of the most beautiful chapters, 1 Corinthians 46 00:04:40.520 --> 00:04:48.040 13, one of the greatest treatises on love, and this idea of the relationship between, 47 00:04:48.040 --> 00:04:53.040 the inverse relationship between love and fear. 48 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:56.320 Really something to think about. 49 00:04:56.320 --> 00:05:00.040 So one translation. 50 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:07.040 says well-formed love banishes fear and fear is crippling. 51 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:18.720 So, you know, as we mature in general, we know that God hasn't promised 52 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:25.680 ease. There's nothing that says everything's going to be rainbows and unicorns. In fact, 53 00:05:26.640 --> 00:05:33.600 what I've learned is that the trials are the very thing that create this mature love. 54 00:05:34.960 --> 00:05:42.880 So, I wish we all learned when we're in our cozy comfy place, but the truth is we don't learn that 55 00:05:42.880 --> 00:05:48.560 much in our cozy comfy place. Unfortunately, I wish it was that way, but the truth is 56 00:05:49.200 --> 00:05:58.320 it's the challenges that really deepen our faith walk, deepen our love. And so, 57 00:05:58.320 --> 00:06:04.880 he didn't promise ease, but he did promise that love will not fail and God is love. 58 00:06:05.840 --> 00:06:10.400 And so, of course, love won't fail because God is love and God can't fail. 59 00:06:10.960 --> 00:06:16.880 So, when you think about that, isn't it nice to know that we have access to something 60 00:06:17.440 --> 00:06:24.240 that has a zero failure rate? Just think about that for a moment. 61 00:06:27.280 --> 00:06:33.440 So, if fear is present, it doesn't mean something's wrong. It means more love needs to mature. 62 00:06:33.760 --> 00:06:45.120 So, kind of let this settle in. Love doesn't fail because when we're walking in love, 63 00:06:45.760 --> 00:06:52.880 we're walking in alignment with God. We're walking as one with God and alignment with God, 64 00:06:53.200 --> 00:07:01.440 we're walking as one with God and alignment with God, union, co-laboring, co-existing, 65 00:07:02.880 --> 00:07:07.360 being one with the Father always produces fruit. 66 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:22.400 So, in the middle of Hallmark and, you know, Pink Hearts and all of that, to get to the depth 67 00:07:23.840 --> 00:07:33.040 of the implications, and I meant to look this up, I didn't, but I remember a story that touched me 68 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:39.040 so much. It's the story of Nikki Cruz. Have any of you followed the story of Nikki Cruz, 69 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:48.000 the evangelist, Nikki Cruz, and the pastor? Can't think of the pastor's name right now. 70 00:07:48.960 --> 00:07:58.480 We read his biography and my daughter in high school in speech club actually did a duo, 71 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:10.400 that's two people, living out this story. And so, it's a form of speaking that there's no props, 72 00:08:10.960 --> 00:08:15.040 so everything has to be done with just your voice and your body. 73 00:08:15.520 --> 00:08:23.040 And it's the story of this pastor who came from this cozy small town, 74 00:08:24.960 --> 00:08:33.840 little parsonage, white fence, happy life, small church, and he kept reading the newspaper 75 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:43.919 about Nikki Cruz, who was in New York, was the most violent of all gang members, probably ever. 76 00:08:45.040 --> 00:08:58.160 And he kept seeing it and God convicted him and he packed up his car and he went to New York 77 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:08.800 to minister to Nikki, and Nikki was brutal. And this pastor, if any of you think of his name, 78 00:09:08.800 --> 00:09:11.840 tell me, it's not coming to me right now, I should have looked it up, but anyway, 79 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:23.600 they're both famous evangelists now, end of the story. So, the scene that I remember 80 00:09:23.600 --> 00:09:32.080 that my daughter acted out was when Nikki said to the pastor, 81 00:09:33.920 --> 00:09:38.800 if you come one step closer to, and he had a switch, I think the book might be 82 00:09:38.880 --> 00:09:42.480 Crossing the Switchblade, he had a, he was pretty violent with a knife, 83 00:09:43.280 --> 00:09:51.680 and he said, you come any closer and I'm going to cut you up. And the pastor said, 84 00:09:53.200 --> 00:09:59.840 you can cut me into a million pieces on this street, and every single 85 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:05.200 peace will cry out from the street that God loves you. 86 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:14.720 And that day he broke. It's David Wilkerson. Thank you, Dave Wilkerson. Thank you, Natalie. 87 00:10:15.680 --> 00:10:19.920 Yeah, it's been a long time. Yeah, it just kept flashing on me this morning and I haven't thought 88 00:10:19.920 --> 00:10:26.000 about it since my daughter's in high school, so that tells you how long ago. Such a powerful, 89 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:36.240 powerful story about love in action and love not failing. Nikki went through radical changes and 90 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:41.280 went on to be one of the biggest evangelists and of course David Wilkerson had a huge church too. 91 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:48.960 So the promise is love never fails and perfect love casts out fear. That's what I want you 92 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:57.280 thinking about all week as we meditate on love. And then the principle is I want to go a little 93 00:10:57.280 --> 00:11:09.840 deeper in love. So the first thing is understand that God is the source. This is really important. 94 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:14.400 I'm going to share with you this waterfall principle that God gave me when he really 95 00:11:14.400 --> 00:11:22.000 explained this to me. And so the very source at the top of the water, what's feeding this 96 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:31.600 three-pronged waterfall is God. And this is really important because we are not the source of love 97 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:40.800 and others, no person, no thing, which is what we often go for, looking for love. We hope to get 98 00:11:40.800 --> 00:11:47.360 love from people. If we're women, we hope to get love from a man. And that's a beautiful thing that 99 00:11:47.360 --> 00:11:55.920 reflects God, but the origin of love because God is love. And it in scripture tells us that love, 100 00:11:55.920 --> 00:12:07.440 God has poured love into our heart. And so God is the source. So 1 John 4, 8 says God is love. 101 00:12:08.400 --> 00:12:18.800 And 1 John 4, 19 says we love because he first loved us. So many times we think we have to get 102 00:12:18.800 --> 00:12:26.240 our act together for God to love us. If you've been parented this way, if you grew up in a world 103 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:33.600 that was performance-based, I was. And so you would receive love when you did what the person wanted 104 00:12:33.680 --> 00:12:40.000 you to do, when you were behaving and being what the person wanted you to be. And that went through 105 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:48.240 a lot of my life. We take that faulty impression of love and we apply it to God. But scripture says 106 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:57.040 that God loved us before he first loved us. In fact, it says that while we were yet sinners, 107 00:12:57.840 --> 00:13:06.960 he loved us. And Romans 5, 5, which I love that number, double grace, it says love poured into 108 00:13:06.960 --> 00:13:16.000 our hearts by the Holy Spirit. So you were never meant to generate love through effort. 109 00:13:16.880 --> 00:13:26.400 This is not something that we work. You were designed to be open and receptive to the love 110 00:13:26.400 --> 00:13:33.760 that God has already poured in. And you were designed to overflow. So in Mark 12, 111 00:13:34.480 --> 00:13:42.000 God showed me this waterfall. And so if you can, I didn't pick up the picture to put it here, 112 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:47.440 but if you can picture this very full kind of Niagara fall type thing, that's three prongs. 113 00:13:47.440 --> 00:13:54.880 It starts at the top and there's a first and a second and then a third. And so at the top is God. 114 00:13:55.680 --> 00:14:05.120 God is primary. God is the source of love. And then in Mark 12, where it says the greatest 115 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:17.040 commandment is to love God, love our neighbor as we love ourself. And so God is primary. 116 00:14:17.760 --> 00:14:22.880 And because he's poured his love into us when we're open, when we're receptive, 117 00:14:23.520 --> 00:14:32.640 we also love ourselves because we understand that we're God's daughter. We're his beloved. 118 00:14:32.640 --> 00:14:40.480 We're his bride. He's given everything for us and we're the temple of the Holy Spirit. And so 119 00:14:41.040 --> 00:14:47.040 we don't look on ourselves with contempt. We don't judge ourselves. We don't beat ourselves up. 120 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:54.640 Instead, we start opening ourselves to that love and then that spills out. 121 00:14:54.640 --> 00:15:00.000 The amount of love that we have in us overflows proportionately. 122 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:02.000 emotionally into 123 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:04.000 others. 124 00:15:04.000 --> 00:15:06.000 And so it's interesting 125 00:15:06.000 --> 00:15:08.000 in the scripture in Mark 126 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:10.000 12, it actually 127 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:12.000 assumes that we love ourselves. It 128 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:14.000 says we love our neighbor 129 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:16.000 as we love ourselves. 130 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:18.000 There's like this assumption that 131 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:20.000 we love ourselves. 132 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:22.000 And so 133 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:24.000 you know, this 134 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:26.000 self-hatred, this beating 135 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:28.000 ourself up, this walking in 136 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:30.000 judgment, this 137 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:32.000 over-critical 138 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:34.000 is not humility 139 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:36.000 and it's not God. 140 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:38.000 And 141 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:40.000 self-abandonment, 142 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:42.000 where we're so giving to others 143 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:44.000 that we're just in depleted 144 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:46.000 mode, that also 145 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:48.000 blocks the flow because the flow 146 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:50.000 is coming from the overflow. 147 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:54.000 And so the second thing 148 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:56.000 that God showed me, he showed me this 149 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:58.000 overflow principle, and 150 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:00.000 then as we're looking at love 151 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:02.000 and fear and the relationship 152 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:04.000 between love and fear, 153 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:06.000 he showed me 154 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:08.000 two tracks 155 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:10.000 and it's like 156 00:16:10.000 --> 00:16:12.000 two railroad 157 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:14.000 tracks almost. 158 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:16.000 And 159 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:18.000 so 160 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:20.000 one is love 161 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:22.000 and one is fear. 162 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:24.000 And love 163 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:26.000 is natural. 164 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:28.000 Fear is actually learned. 165 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:30.000 We pick that up 166 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:32.000 from the people that influenced 167 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:34.000 us when we're young. 168 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:36.000 You know, I was talking to someone that 169 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:38.000 didn't learn how to swim 170 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:40.000 until they were 50, and they were 171 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:42.000 very afraid of water. 172 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:44.000 And that was actually the case 173 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:46.000 with my ex-husband. 174 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:48.000 His parents, he did not learn 175 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:50.000 until, well, he was in his 30s 176 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:52.000 when we got married, and 177 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:54.000 his parents would just put the fear 178 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:56.000 of God in him about water, not 179 00:16:56.000 --> 00:16:58.000 going near water because someone they knew 180 00:16:58.000 --> 00:17:00.000 had drowned. But this is 181 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:02.000 the way that we actually inherit 182 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:04.000 and pick up fear. 183 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:06.000 And so love is natural 184 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:08.000 and fear is learned, 185 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:10.000 but what's amazing is love 186 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:12.000 and fear cannot coexist. 187 00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:14.000 And so the more love 188 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:16.000 comes in, the more fear goes out. 189 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:18.000 So instead of 190 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:20.000 wrestling with the fear, 191 00:17:20.000 --> 00:17:22.000 we increase the love. 192 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:24.000 We focus on 193 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:26.000 God's love, and we 194 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:28.000 focus on being receptive 195 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:30.000 and open 196 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:32.000 to love. 197 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:34.000 And I don't have it in front 198 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:36.000 of me, but I'm thinking of 199 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:38.000 something that Rumi said. 200 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:40.000 And he said 201 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:42.000 something about the idea 202 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:44.000 is not to try to get love, 203 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:46.000 but to remove everything 204 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:48.000 in us that is 205 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:50.000 blocking, that is not 206 00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:52.000 love, right? 207 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:54.000 And so love 208 00:17:54.000 --> 00:17:56.000 and fear cannot coexist 209 00:17:56.000 --> 00:17:58.000 and fear 210 00:17:58.000 --> 00:18:00.000 always reveals 211 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:02.000 a thought problem. 212 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:04.000 It's a 213 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:06.000 thought. It's a problem in our thinking. 214 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:08.000 This is why we're transformed 215 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:10.000 by the renewing of our mind. 216 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:12.000 And so whenever you feel 217 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:14.000 fear about anything, let that 218 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:16.000 be a signal. 219 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:18.000 Ah, right now 220 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:20.000 my love walk needs to grow. 221 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:22.000 And just like 222 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:24.000 open yourself, and 223 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:26.000 just even start speaking 224 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:28.000 it. I love you, God. 225 00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:30.000 I open myself to love. 226 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:32.000 Read scriptures about love. 227 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:34.000 I know your love has been 228 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:36.000 poured into my heart. Let your love 229 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:38.000 completely lead 230 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:40.000 and guide and direct 231 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:42.000 all my thoughts, all my 232 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:44.000 actions. I surrender 233 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:46.000 to love. And the 234 00:18:46.000 --> 00:18:48.000 more that love rises up, 235 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:50.000 the more that fear 236 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:52.000 goes down. Now, for 237 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:54.000 all of you in business, I want to make this 238 00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:56.000 really practical because this 239 00:18:56.000 --> 00:18:58.000 bridges to life and business. 240 00:18:58.000 --> 00:19:00.000 Fear is 241 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:02.000 often rising up 242 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:04.000 and so often we struggle 243 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:06.000 to charge. 244 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:08.000 People that have trouble charging, 245 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:10.000 under charge, give 246 00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:12.000 away everything free. 247 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:14.000 They are 248 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:16.000 not loving. They're not loving 249 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:18.000 the client 250 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:20.000 because the client, 251 00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:22.000 like anybody, is going 252 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:24.000 to do best when they invest 253 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:26.000 and are held accountable. They're going to put in 254 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:28.000 the best and they're going to grow and they're going to 255 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:30.000 stretch. And they're not loving 256 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:32.000 themselves. It's 257 00:19:32.000 --> 00:19:34.000 also fear is tied when 258 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:36.000 we're not showing up. 259 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:38.000 We fear that we 260 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:40.000 look too old or 261 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:42.000 we look too fat or we look not smart 262 00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:44.000 or we fear the imposter syndrome 263 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:46.000 and we just, that we're going to mess 264 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:48.000 up and people are going to think we're stupid, whatever. 265 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:50.000 And so 266 00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:52.000 this fear shows up 267 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:54.000 in visibility. 268 00:19:54.000 --> 00:19:56.000 Visibility. 269 00:19:56.000 --> 00:19:58.000 It shows up in constant 270 00:19:58.000 --> 00:20:00.000 waiting. The getting 271 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:02.000 out. 272 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:06.800 ready to get ready, to get ready, to get ready. The procrastination, it shows up in our relationships 273 00:20:06.800 --> 00:20:13.520 and keeping relationships, sabotaging relationships. It shows up in our ability 274 00:20:13.520 --> 00:20:24.560 to be open to receive help. So, perfect love doesn't remove responsibility. 275 00:20:25.520 --> 00:20:35.280 It removes this striving, fear, punishment-based living. It replaces it. 276 00:20:37.200 --> 00:20:42.960 So, we're going to take time to pray right now, and then I'm going to give you a practice that 277 00:20:42.960 --> 00:20:49.920 we can use. But before we pray, those of you that weren't here earlier, before it started, 278 00:20:50.640 --> 00:20:56.240 we're also praising. We enter his courts with praise, enter his gates with thanksgiving, 279 00:20:56.240 --> 00:21:02.960 his courts with praise. So, we're really thankful that Kim's mom is getting funding for a home. 280 00:21:02.960 --> 00:21:09.200 She's been a primary caretaker 24-7 for many years. She's been a saint of a woman, and it 281 00:21:09.200 --> 00:21:13.680 looks like she's getting funding and going to have a home, and Kim's going to have a beautiful new 282 00:21:13.680 --> 00:21:19.280 season. We're celebrating that Christy just got back from a marriage retreat. You saw her handsome 283 00:21:19.280 --> 00:21:27.280 husband, and we're celebrating and we're continuing to pray for Natalie, her grandson, 284 00:21:28.160 --> 00:21:38.000 Bruce IV, having that tongue surgery, just recovery and told that that goes well, and that 285 00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:47.200 Bruce III, her son, gets healing from the sciatica, that the shot that he had, and just that 286 00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:55.600 God's hand will just absolutely flow through his body and remove this pain. And then we're 287 00:21:55.600 --> 00:22:01.200 just praying for Natalie. It's interesting, both her and Kim got the same word about 288 00:22:01.840 --> 00:22:09.680 taking up the mat. And so, just praying for breakthrough. Remember, one of God's names 289 00:22:09.680 --> 00:22:17.760 is Jehovah Bel-Perezin, the God of the breakthrough. So, we're praying for Kim and for 290 00:22:17.760 --> 00:22:25.760 Natalie and for all of us, Jehovah Bel-Perezin. So, in what I shared, is there anything that 291 00:22:25.760 --> 00:22:31.360 jumped out for you that you want to share? As you share, it will deepen and it blesses everyone, 292 00:22:32.080 --> 00:22:39.200 and then we'll go into prayer. Any comments, anything that stood out, anything that 293 00:22:39.280 --> 00:22:41.520 you really related to in what I shared? 294 00:22:50.320 --> 00:22:56.480 Anybody? Anything that, was this helpful? Was this meaningful? Was there something that just 295 00:22:56.480 --> 00:23:01.440 was a good reminder for you? Yeah, it's a really good reminder. The whole 296 00:23:02.400 --> 00:23:10.960 thing, speaking of fear and that love casts out all fear, I think it's a great reminder for us, 297 00:23:12.080 --> 00:23:18.320 for each of us to just really remember to just walk in the fruit of the spirit, 298 00:23:18.320 --> 00:23:27.600 because love conquers all. And just being able, and it really made, I have been transitioning 299 00:23:27.600 --> 00:23:37.680 my relationships with customers, team, friends, and I've noticed that there is a shift, 300 00:23:38.480 --> 00:23:45.440 and people are looking for connection, so gratefully, and not necessarily through social 301 00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:55.040 media, but for picking up the phone and just a care. Really want to hear you. Yes. And I think 302 00:23:55.120 --> 00:24:00.480 that, you know, you have to start out with loving yourself enough to say, you know what, 303 00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:08.080 I'm more than enough. Yes. Right. And that I can, and so I have just really shifted my focus on that, 304 00:24:08.080 --> 00:24:16.160 and I'm having fun, great conversations. Love that. And just renewal. Love that. 305 00:24:16.960 --> 00:24:24.400 Love that. You know, Kim, you just reminded me by speaking up, you guys had probably seen the 306 00:24:24.400 --> 00:24:32.400 emails and things on February 14th at 9 a.m. I'm doing a short, just a micro event, one hour, 307 00:24:32.400 --> 00:24:40.640 55 minutes, and it is a whole different way of doing business. And it's exactly that. 308 00:24:41.200 --> 00:24:49.440 God has been showing me these concentric circles, and it's just really very opposite of what's 309 00:24:49.440 --> 00:24:55.440 being taught out there. And so, yeah, it's about relationship, it's about connecting, 310 00:24:55.440 --> 00:24:59.920 and a beautiful, systematic way to do that. So I'm glad that you shared that. 311 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:12.000 The other thing that really hit me, Kim, is that, you know, often we try to fight the fear, and that's really a futile effort. 312 00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:18.000 And I think fear is like darkness. You just have to turn on the light, and there is no darkness. 313 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:25.000 And so love is like that light switch. If there's fear and you turn on the light, there's no place for fear. 314 00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:30.000 The darkness can't hide. Light just completely. And you cannot hide. 315 00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:35.000 Love truly, you know, overrides that. 316 00:25:35.000 --> 00:25:38.000 So thank you. Thank you for sharing. Appreciate that. 317 00:25:38.000 --> 00:25:44.000 Anybody else? Anything that just jumped out? 318 00:25:45.000 --> 00:25:54.000 I like how you share that, you know, instead of focusing on the fear, just really to speak out love, right? 319 00:25:54.000 --> 00:26:01.000 To share your love of the Father. I think also to receive God's love. 320 00:26:01.000 --> 00:26:07.000 Like talking about who we are in Christ and that love that we have in Him. 321 00:26:07.000 --> 00:26:12.000 And to not focus on what we're fearful of, right? 322 00:26:13.000 --> 00:26:17.000 So that doesn't have power over us, but that we can... 323 00:26:17.000 --> 00:26:19.000 So good. 324 00:26:19.000 --> 00:26:23.000 I mean, remember, whatever we focus on expands. 325 00:26:23.000 --> 00:26:26.000 So if we give attention to the fear, you get more fear. 326 00:26:26.000 --> 00:26:29.000 If we give attention to the love, you get more love. 327 00:26:29.000 --> 00:26:33.000 So good. So good. Thank you for sharing that. Love that. 328 00:26:33.000 --> 00:26:36.000 Anybody else? Some takeaways? 329 00:26:37.000 --> 00:26:43.000 I really like this. And I don't know if I shared this with you before. 330 00:26:43.000 --> 00:26:48.000 A gentleman, he's a supervisor. 331 00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:54.000 And he's taken the Corinthians, the love prayer. 332 00:26:54.000 --> 00:26:59.000 And every place where there says love, he puts his name. 333 00:26:59.000 --> 00:27:00.000 Oh, wow. 334 00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:05.000 And he reads it every day as a checklist. 335 00:27:05.000 --> 00:27:06.000 Wow. 336 00:27:06.000 --> 00:27:07.000 For how he shows up. Yeah. 337 00:27:07.000 --> 00:27:12.000 So instead of love is patient, love is kind, Natalie is patient, Natalie is... 338 00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:13.000 Natalie is kind. 339 00:27:13.000 --> 00:27:15.000 Reg is patient. Wow. 340 00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:16.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 341 00:27:16.000 --> 00:27:17.000 Really good. 342 00:27:17.000 --> 00:27:20.000 Yeah, yeah. And so... 343 00:27:20.000 --> 00:27:24.000 And he said that when you do that, you just like... 344 00:27:24.000 --> 00:27:31.000 It can shift kind of like, ooh, okay. You know what I'm saying? 345 00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:35.000 It helps him. For him, it helped him. 346 00:27:35.000 --> 00:27:45.000 And so then what I did is I took it and then I did an exchange out and put my name in all the places where it says love. 347 00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:46.000 Nice. 348 00:27:46.000 --> 00:27:53.000 And when I read that, I just go, some days I just go, all right, Lord, I think I'm thankful for your grace. 349 00:27:53.000 --> 00:27:55.000 Yeah. Yeah. 350 00:27:56.000 --> 00:28:03.000 And that's what really hit me in what you're saying, Natalie, is we can't do this by ourselves. 351 00:28:03.000 --> 00:28:05.000 No, we can't. We can't. 352 00:28:05.000 --> 00:28:11.000 And so, you know, last night I woke up several times. 353 00:28:12.000 --> 00:28:23.000 And each time that I woke up, I've been listening to a YouTube that is on surrender. 354 00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:25.000 And I would play it again. 355 00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:30.000 And I believe so much of this is just surrender. 356 00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:36.000 And so it's God live through me today. 357 00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:39.000 God speak through me today. 358 00:28:39.000 --> 00:28:44.000 God love through me today. 359 00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:48.000 God heal through me today. 360 00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:49.000 Right. 361 00:28:49.000 --> 00:28:53.000 And God create through me today. 362 00:28:54.000 --> 00:29:03.000 Because scripture, this is so missed in the modern church, especially if you look at Jesus's final prayers. 363 00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:10.000 Is that he prayed that we would be one and that we would understand oneness. 364 00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:15.000 That he's in the father and the father's in him and he's in us and we're in him. 365 00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:17.000 And you just look at that. 366 00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:25.000 And if you start living instead of separated, that God is far away and he's some genie in the sky. 367 00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:35.000 But that you ask him to literally like that you have the awareness for him to just live through you as you surrender. 368 00:29:35.000 --> 00:29:41.000 That's the only way that that that prayer with your name in it can actually happen. 369 00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:43.000 There's no strength. 370 00:29:43.000 --> 00:29:46.000 We're going to fall a million times. 371 00:29:47.000 --> 00:29:56.000 You know, and you have to just continuously remind yourself because love is often uncomfortable, frankly. 372 00:29:56.000 --> 00:29:59.000 It gets into our comfort level. 373 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:06.560 You know, some of you know, I've had a homeless woman, Alicia, living camped on my front yard 374 00:30:07.120 --> 00:30:15.760 since October. And I can get pretty impatient. I don't want her coming in and using my bathroom 375 00:30:15.760 --> 00:30:22.320 or my refrigerator. It's not comfortable. It's not my little cozy home. And then I have to ask, 376 00:30:22.320 --> 00:30:25.600 like we used to say, what would Jesus do? I have to say, what would love do? 377 00:30:26.560 --> 00:30:34.160 What would you want done if you were in that situation, right? So it's only by, like you said, 378 00:30:34.160 --> 00:30:38.880 Natalie, it's only by the grace of God that we can even do this. It's only by the grace of God 379 00:30:38.880 --> 00:30:46.400 we can do any of this. But it's not by striving. It's not by push. It's not by might. It's not 380 00:30:46.400 --> 00:30:53.680 by force, but by my spirit, saith the Lord. It's not something we can muscle up. Oh, today I'm 381 00:30:53.760 --> 00:30:59.840 going to be loving. Yeah, that'll last five minutes. All right, before we run out of time, 382 00:30:59.840 --> 00:31:05.040 let's pray. Anybody go first and I'll wrap it up, okay? 383 00:31:14.320 --> 00:31:22.880 Heavenly Father, we are just so thankful for you, Lord. This message of love today, 384 00:31:22.880 --> 00:31:28.720 Father, is just so powerful, Lord, that 385 00:31:31.840 --> 00:31:38.320 it really settles us into your promises and the lack of failure 386 00:31:40.480 --> 00:31:48.240 and the areas of who you are, your eternal love for us, Father. We just thank you that you love 387 00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:57.840 us right where we are at, in the moment that we are at, and that you carry our burdens, 388 00:31:59.520 --> 00:32:06.080 you carry your grace for us, and that you intercede at all times, Father. 389 00:32:07.280 --> 00:32:15.040 How powerful is your love, Lord? We're so thankful for the reminder, and thank you for Brenda, 390 00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:24.240 for reminding us that we live and love through you and only you. Father, we thank you for these 391 00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:31.200 amazing women that showed up today, that chose to show up to hear this message. It's your message. 392 00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:40.400 It is our life source message, Lord. We thank you for the blessings and the healings 393 00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:50.000 over Bruce, Bruce III and Bruce IV, for all Bruce's, Lord. Amen, Lord. We thank you for the 394 00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:58.880 healings over Natalie. Yes. We thank you for the faithfulness that you have on our long journeys 395 00:32:59.920 --> 00:33:10.080 to supplement us with incredible blessings, hope. I pray for, I thank you for the time that you 396 00:33:10.800 --> 00:33:17.440 had with my mother, and that her new journey, Lord, is going to be excellent through you, 397 00:33:18.240 --> 00:33:24.960 that she will see new things in her years that are left, Father, as I hear you call me to that. 398 00:33:26.240 --> 00:33:34.720 We thank you for Christy and her husband, and that their marriage would just intercede 399 00:33:35.520 --> 00:33:46.800 even greater than ever before, Lord. We thank you for Brenda and her amazing tenacity to prove 400 00:33:46.800 --> 00:33:54.080 over and over and over her compassion for each and every one of us, Lord. We thank you for this 401 00:33:54.080 --> 00:34:01.840 day, Lord, the day that you have made. Lord, let us rejoice. Let love come first, Father. 402 00:34:02.800 --> 00:34:10.400 Let love always come first in each and every one of our hearts, Lord, that we may wage against the 403 00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:19.120 enemy, and that your eternal grace and love upon us will shine through each and every one of us 404 00:34:20.159 --> 00:34:22.400 to impact those so greatly. 405 00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:38.400 Amen. 406 00:34:58.960 --> 00:35:00.400 It's great to have you. 407 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:04.080 Heavenly Father, I stand in agreement with my sister, 408 00:35:04.080 --> 00:35:04.920 Lord Father God. 409 00:35:04.920 --> 00:35:06.640 Your word says with two or more agreed, 410 00:35:06.640 --> 00:35:08.800 there you are in the midst, Lord Father God. 411 00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:12.240 I stand with her, Lord Father God, in the prayers 412 00:35:13.120 --> 00:35:15.120 that she has uttered before your throne of grace, 413 00:35:15.120 --> 00:35:15.960 Lord Father God. 414 00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:16.960 And I thank you, Lord Father God, 415 00:35:16.960 --> 00:35:20.880 that you are a God that hears our prayers and responds. 416 00:35:20.880 --> 00:35:23.520 Your word says, call unto me, 417 00:35:23.520 --> 00:35:24.920 and I will come, Lord Father God. 418 00:35:24.920 --> 00:35:26.680 And so we have called unto you, Lord Father God. 419 00:35:26.680 --> 00:35:29.340 We continue to thank you, Lord Father God, 420 00:35:29.340 --> 00:35:32.020 for the opportunity and the time to be in your presence, 421 00:35:32.020 --> 00:35:37.020 to delve into your word, to hold on to the promise 422 00:35:37.500 --> 00:35:40.540 and to know that they are real, Lord Father God. 423 00:35:40.540 --> 00:35:43.860 So help us activate these words in our lives 424 00:35:43.860 --> 00:35:46.260 in ways that we may not have thought of it before, 425 00:35:46.260 --> 00:35:47.100 Lord Father God. 426 00:35:47.100 --> 00:35:50.980 Help us understand or help us operate in love, 427 00:35:50.980 --> 00:35:54.020 understanding your love is the greatest of them all, 428 00:35:54.020 --> 00:35:55.180 Lord Father God. 429 00:35:55.180 --> 00:35:58.180 We thank you for your mercy and your grace, 430 00:35:58.180 --> 00:36:01.340 Lord Father God, that helps us each and every day 431 00:36:01.340 --> 00:36:03.860 because without it, we are not perfected, 432 00:36:03.860 --> 00:36:06.620 but we are perfected in you. 433 00:36:06.620 --> 00:36:09.300 So we thank you today, Lord Father God, 434 00:36:09.300 --> 00:36:13.740 as we sit with one another, as we speak with one another, 435 00:36:13.740 --> 00:36:16.660 as we learn from one another, Lord Father God, 436 00:36:16.660 --> 00:36:21.660 we thank you for this opportunity to be, 437 00:36:22.060 --> 00:36:27.060 to sit, to know who you are in Jesus' name. 438 00:36:28.180 --> 00:36:29.020 Amen. 439 00:36:38.660 --> 00:36:42.340 Lord Jesus, I just thank you for my sisters. 440 00:36:43.380 --> 00:36:44.780 I thank you for this time. 441 00:36:44.780 --> 00:36:46.380 I treasure this time. 442 00:36:47.700 --> 00:36:49.360 I thank you for your word. 443 00:36:50.540 --> 00:36:52.560 I thank you for your promises. 444 00:36:53.580 --> 00:36:56.740 I thank you for your promise that love never fails. 445 00:36:58.380 --> 00:37:00.100 I thank you for the truth 446 00:37:01.420 --> 00:37:05.060 that you've poured your love into our heart. 447 00:37:07.220 --> 00:37:10.940 We were made by love, created by love, 448 00:37:12.740 --> 00:37:14.100 filled with love. 449 00:37:17.140 --> 00:37:20.300 If God is love, then the Holy Spirit in us is love. 450 00:37:21.980 --> 00:37:25.020 Then the mind of Christ in us is a mind of love. 451 00:37:25.900 --> 00:37:29.900 Every fiber of our being was meant to walk and live 452 00:37:29.900 --> 00:37:33.020 and be in love, 453 00:37:35.020 --> 00:37:36.140 not with striving, 454 00:37:39.140 --> 00:37:41.740 not with criticism or perfectionism, 455 00:37:44.100 --> 00:37:45.220 but surrendered. 456 00:37:45.220 --> 00:37:49.540 And so today, together, we say, Lord, 457 00:37:51.180 --> 00:37:52.540 live through us, 458 00:37:53.500 --> 00:37:57.100 live through us, love through us, 459 00:37:58.180 --> 00:37:59.780 heal through us, 460 00:38:00.820 --> 00:38:02.940 coach through us, speak through us, 461 00:38:02.940 --> 00:38:05.620 write through us, create through us, 462 00:38:07.020 --> 00:38:10.460 show up through us. 463 00:38:12.580 --> 00:38:14.100 We're so grateful, Lord. 464 00:38:16.700 --> 00:38:21.340 We're so grateful that love covers a multitude of sins, 465 00:38:21.780 --> 00:38:24.660 that love heals. 466 00:38:26.860 --> 00:38:28.500 We bless your name, Lord, 467 00:38:29.380 --> 00:38:32.860 and we give you all glory, all honor, 468 00:38:32.860 --> 00:38:35.660 all praise in Jesus' name. 469 00:38:37.300 --> 00:38:38.140 Amen. 470 00:38:39.140 --> 00:38:39.980 Amen. 471 00:38:42.260 --> 00:38:47.100 Okay, practice for the week. 472 00:38:48.220 --> 00:38:50.420 Practice for the week. 473 00:38:50.420 --> 00:38:51.620 First of all, 474 00:38:52.660 --> 00:38:57.660 notice whenever fear appears. 475 00:39:02.100 --> 00:39:04.060 Just notice it. 476 00:39:04.060 --> 00:39:07.140 Awareness is the first step to transformation. 477 00:39:08.500 --> 00:39:10.740 So when something comes forth, 478 00:39:10.740 --> 00:39:14.060 say, is this love-based or is this fear-based? 479 00:39:14.060 --> 00:39:16.060 Which track am I on? 480 00:39:16.060 --> 00:39:17.260 Which monorail? 481 00:39:17.260 --> 00:39:19.700 This one goes there, this one goes this way. 482 00:39:20.660 --> 00:39:23.820 Another really powerful question is, 483 00:39:23.820 --> 00:39:26.180 if I truly love myself deeply, 484 00:39:27.100 --> 00:39:29.700 would I do this or what would I do? 485 00:39:30.620 --> 00:39:32.420 A lot of times we're taking action 486 00:39:32.420 --> 00:39:34.220 and it's apart from love. 487 00:39:34.220 --> 00:39:36.220 It's based on fear. 488 00:39:36.220 --> 00:39:38.780 Oh, if I don't do it, they're gonna be mad. 489 00:39:38.780 --> 00:39:40.900 If I don't do it, I'm not gonna make money. 490 00:39:40.900 --> 00:39:44.500 If I don't do it, like it's this fear-based thinking. 491 00:39:44.500 --> 00:39:48.380 And so if I truly love God, if I truly love myself, 492 00:39:49.380 --> 00:39:50.460 what would I do? 493 00:39:50.460 --> 00:39:52.140 Or another question you can ask is, 494 00:39:52.140 --> 00:39:53.700 what would love do here? 495 00:39:53.700 --> 00:39:56.340 What would love do in this situation? 496 00:39:56.340 --> 00:39:59.500 So your practice this week is to start having awareness. 497 00:39:59.500 --> 00:40:00.340 Is this? 498 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:04.000 Is this love, or is this fear? Which track am I on? 499 00:40:04.000 --> 00:40:12.000 And then begin to re-script, write a new script. 500 00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:19.000 I choose to completely love and accept myself. 501 00:40:19.000 --> 00:40:25.000 And I like starting with I choose, then going to I feel, and then going to I am. 502 00:40:25.000 --> 00:40:33.000 A lot of times, people, when they do affirmations, the I am affirmations, they can't get straight to the I am. 503 00:40:33.000 --> 00:40:41.000 They're not feeling it. So they, like, if I just say, I am accepting of myself, your brain goes, no, you're not. 504 00:40:41.000 --> 00:40:46.000 So the way that we can work into this is we say, I choose. 505 00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:53.000 Now we're using our God-given ability to choose. I choose to fully love and accept myself. 506 00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:59.000 Then you can go to I feel, and you tap into that feeling. 507 00:40:59.000 --> 00:41:03.000 What would that feel if I truly loved and accepted myself? What would that feel like? 508 00:41:03.000 --> 00:41:06.000 How would I talk? How would I walk? How would I treat myself? 509 00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:10.000 What would I eat? How would I sleep? 510 00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:15.000 Then you can get to the I am. 511 00:41:15.000 --> 00:41:22.000 And then think about one thing you could do this week to put this into action. 512 00:41:23.000 --> 00:41:31.000 One boundary, one truth spoken, one rest choice, one aligned step. 513 00:41:31.000 --> 00:41:37.000 It doesn't have to be dramatic. It doesn't have to be forced, but true. 514 00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:43.000 Just one. 515 00:41:43.000 --> 00:41:51.000 So as I close, when love leads, fear loses power. 516 00:41:51.000 --> 00:41:56.000 And whatever love builds, lasts. 517 00:41:56.000 --> 00:42:02.000 You might want to write that down. Where love leads, fear loses power. 518 00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:10.000 And what love builds, lasts, endures. 519 00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:18.000 All right, ladies. It's been such a blessing. 520 00:42:18.000 --> 00:42:23.000 We'll see you tomorrow in office hours, 9 a.m. 521 00:42:23.000 --> 00:42:27.000 Have a fabulous love-filled day and love-filled month. 522 00:42:27.000 --> 00:42:31.000 See you soon.