And good morning, good morning, welcome to the Prosper Power Hour.
We are here every Wednesday, 8 a.m. Pacific Standard Time, part of the heaven and earth
equation of the Prosper Leader membership.
And so this is when we get together and we have a new promise every week and a new principle
to stand on and we pray and we celebrate all the praise reports, which is always fun
to do that before we get started.
And so welcome, welcome.
Today, I'm super excited.
God just drops on my spirit what the promise is that we're going to do each week.
And you've probably noticed he gives a unique twist to kind of think about it.
And so today he's got me in Ephesians 6 and it goes like this.
You know this part, but I think there's a little bit of depth that we're going to add.
It says, therefore, put on the full armor of God so that when the day of evil comes,
you may be able to stand your ground and after you have done everything to stand.
So there's a moment in life that we often face as believers, many moments.
But think about this where you prayed and you obeyed and you took action and you did
everything you know to do.
Am I talking to anybody?
And yet the outcome is still unfolding.
And this is a really decisive moment, a decisive period of time.
That's when many people will panic because they assume something's wrong.
They assume that God isn't moving, that maybe the prayers didn't get answered and that maybe
they better push harder and that, you know, something's off.
But Scripture says something really radical right here.
I want you to get this.
This is one to embody and visualize and imagine and reflect on when we think about this as
a promise.
That after you've done everything, that's what it says right here.
After you've done everything, it says, stand.
Think about that for a second.
You know, there's been so many seasons in my life and maybe in yours where God told
you to do something or gave you a word or something.
Welcome.
Hey, Amanda.
Welcome, welcome.
Welcome.
Thank you.
I'm so sorry.
With the time difference, I keep on forgetting because I'm the only one who doesn't change.
And I looked and I was like, wait, are we an hour difference?
And then I forgot.
Oh, welcome, welcome, welcome.
So we're talking about the verse in Ephesians 6, 13, and it's a unique twist to the promise
that is in there.
And so the verse says, therefore, put on the full armor of God.
You've probably heard that and thought about that.
And we know all the different parts of the armor of God, the helmet of salvation and
the shield of faith and the sword of the belt of truth, etc.
It says, put on the armor of God.
When the day of evil comes, you're able to stand your ground.
But this is the cool part I'm focusing on.
And after you've done everything, stand.
And so we're talking.
about these moments where we pray and we obey and we take action and like this says we do
everything that we know to do but it seems like something's not happening and you start to
question did god hear my prayer do i need to push harder you know do i need to panic and so the
radical thing here is it's saying that when these seasons come
stand
to stay standing and so i think about the times in my life when there was just like
really something pressing really something hard and i pressed into god and i prayed and i
journaled and i affirmed and i declared and you know i took the steps and i you know launched
what i was launching and then it like silence like no immediate results like you expect then
i prayed it's just gonna move it's just gonna happen and my old like overachiever wants to
kick in and take matters into my own hands and and push harder and maybe start changing something
redo everything you start to question did i miss god did i not hear you know any of you am i any
of you have experience like that but the thing is when you look at this verse standing the word
standing it's not passive it's standing in your spiritual authority and that's where
the promise really comes in
and you know as we go to a prayer in a minute you know god's just putting this on my heart
there's two ways we often actually cancel our own prayers did you know that we can do that we can
undo our prayers we can cancel our prayers so one is that we undo what we prayed and asked god for
for by continuing to talk about the problem continuing to speak lack think about lack
or speak fears think about fear let that come out of our mouth we're actually undoing our prayer
we're negating the power of our prayer with our words and the other way is a prayer of doubt and
we may think in our mind it's a prayer of faith but i want you to think about this we ask god for
something we ask god for a healing we ask god for provision we ask god for something and then
we keep going back and asking for the same thing
it actually is a prayer of not believing that god has answered
it's actually a a prayer of still staying in the place of lack or still playing and staying in the
place of not healed or still staying in that place so we keep going back and asking and asking and
asking and asking and so what i've learned is to pray the powerful prayer of faith
line it up with a promise which is why i started this whole prosper power hour that we have a new
promise every week because when you pray stand on at least one two three promises of god to back your
prayer to let heaven back your prayer that god says bring us to remembrance of his word right and so
you stand on what god said hold him accountable to his word and so once you've prayed that prayer
of faith and you're and and and you're standing on the promise you don't keep praying that prayer
over and over and over again the bible calls that vain repetitions we don't need long prayers the
bible calls that you know and that's what the pharisees would do actually from that point of
on we start thanking god for the prayer being answered i think it's in uh mark that says
whatever you ask for believe you have received it and you shall have all that you've asked for
so this is where having done all to stand we stand standing is is is spiritual authority
is is spiritual authority
It's talking about here, and this applies to healing,
it applies to finances, it applies to relationships,
it applies to your business growth,
it applies to knowing your calling and your purpose.
And so the enemy tries one last tactic.
You've already prayed and you've already believed
and you've already taken action,
and the enemy tries the tactic
to make you abandon the ground
that actually you've already won.
You don't wait long enough for the victory.
And so the principle for today,
to go with this promise of Ephesians 6, 13,
the principle is standing in a position of authority,
understanding what scripture has to say about that.
So Ephesians 6 is about the armor of God.
And you can go through,
and I've had such amazing conversations around this
over the last week,
which is what made me feel led to teach this.
But notice something really important
when you study Ephesians 6.
Paul does not say, fight harder, push harder.
He says, stand.
Having done all to stand after the battle, stand.
And actually four times in this passage,
Paul repeats the word, stand.
So as a reminder this week,
just maybe keep the word stand,
you know, in your notes in front of you.
The word in Greek means to remain established, immovable.
That's what that word means.
So it's the posture of someone who knows the outcome.
Do you think about a soldier guarding like a territory
that's already been secured?
It's already been won.
They're not conquering, they're holding ground.
And this is a powerful, powerful principle for us
as believers, right?
Because many people are still duking it out
and fighting a battle that God has already won.
Scripture says, like when he said on the cross,
it is finished.
And so instead of standing in faith,
they keep going back into striving,
struggling, stressing, sacrificing.
But the armor protects us from that.
When you think about that.
So remember the armor.
If this is new to you,
go back and look at Ephesians chapter six.
But there is, when you read it,
let's just look at it really quick, all right?
I'm gonna read the whole thing.
Therefore put on every piece of God's armor
so every piece, I'm reading from the today,
the New Living Translation.
So therefore put on every piece of God's armor
so that, I always love in the Bible to so that,
do this so that this will happen.
It says, so that you will be able to resist the enemy
in the time of evil.
Then, I love the sequence,
then after the battle,
you will still be standing firm.
Stand your ground,
putting on the belt of truth,
the body armor of God's righteousness,
for shoes put on the peace that comes from the good news.
So you'll be fully prepared.
And in addition to all of these,
hold up the shield of faith to stop the fiery arrows.
Put on salvation as your helmet
and take the sword of the spirit,
which is the word of God.
Pray in the spirit at all times.
So look at the parts of the armor.
You've got truth to protect your thinking.
That's the first place the enemy tries to attack
is in your thinking.
That's why we've got to have truth.
Righteousness protects your heart from the accusation
that constantly comes and says you're not worthy.
Right? And peace stabilizes your direction.
It's the shoes of peace. It stabilizes your direction.
And faith extinguishes the fear.
Because faith and fear can't coexist.
So when you've got your shield of faith up,
it extinguishes the fear.
Salvation secures your identity.
You know who you are as a daughter of the Most High God.
And the Word establishes your authority.
So when these are in place, you can stand.
Isn't that good? Is this hitting anybody where you live?
Isn't that good?
Now you know me. I always like to add some neuroscience.
I'm scripture science strategy.
Let's talk about it from a brain perspective really quick.
When you feel uncertain, when you feel under pressure,
when fear wants to come in,
your body releases stress hormones.
You become a chemical stew.
Cortisol, adrenaline pushes to want to fight, flight.
Right? Fix.
That's where striving is happening.
Faith actually changes our brain and our entire physiology.
So when we return and we're standing,
when we return to this trust, this prayer, this truth,
we're standing on the truth. Your Word says.
We're standing on our identity who God made us.
The nervous system actually calms down.
The vagus nerve actually goes.
Did you know the vagus nerve actually goes to every organ in the body?
Do you know that it's profound?
And so when the nervous,
we talked about this in a couple of the previous lessons,
when we go into the parasympathetic, right?
The sympathetic nervous system is the fight or flight.
Everything shuts down, everything closed. We're in panic.
We're ready to run. We're ready to fight.
So creativity shuts down. The brain is not operating in fullness.
We're clenched up. Think about what happens with fear.
We clench our fists, our body clench up.
All the blood goes to the center, right?
Like it's not a creative expansive mode, the sympathetic.
And God has called us to be in the parasympathetic, right?
And that's when clarity returns and,
and creativity opens up.
Different parts of the brain open up our discernment.
We talked last week about discernment comes.
We did Hebrews four and Hebrews five, remember?
And that's why faith rest, which by the way, side note,
I'm super excited. Mark your calendar.
March 30th through April 3rd,
I'm doing resurrect your spirit and your business.
Five days of just complete preparing for resurrection Sunday on the fifth.
So it's going to resurrect your spirits, going to resurrect your business.
And so day five, which is also the last chapter in my, in my book,
if you haven't read the prosperous system in my book, in my story,
total soul prosperity, the last chapter is the faith rest life, right?
It's the faith rest.
And so that's why this faith rest produces discernment that we talked about
in Hebrew six last week.
And so when we're standing in faith,
we're literally allowing our brain and our body to return to a state of
peace.
That's so powerful.
To really be just absolutely living. You know, I, Isaiah 26,
three says he will keep thou in perfect peace.
Who keeps his mind stayed on God.
So when we're, you know, Paul says, fix your mind on these things.
Jesus gave us peace. He said, peace.
peace that passes all understanding and so that's what this faith rest and so
that's what the standing is that the storm can be just blazing but you can be
standing in peace in the middle of storm it's like you you wonder how you can
have I've been experiencing you wonder how you can have so much peace when when
Jesus could come out and he could speak to the storm and he could say peace be
still the only reason he could release peace on the outside is because he
carried that peace on the inside and he actually tells us to do the same thing
he tells us to go into a home and release peace think about that we can
release peace to our children we can release peace to our bodies we can
release peace to our marriage think about so having done all to stand stand
so standing is not just spiritual but it's actually neurologically stabilizing
it's actually for our whole body
which is health do you ever think about the word dis ease dis out of ease that's
what sickness kicks in right so this affects everything that's why what we're
doing every week and the standing on these promises is so powerful and
meditating on the word right it's so powerful it's affecting every part of
your life your finances get loosed you know your health gets restored as energy
flows your relationships start out like this affects everything and so that
promise when we come back to this promise in Ephesians 6 it's not that the
battle won't come we're going to face struggles and actually
that's part of God's plan because it's in every single struggle that you're
increasing capacity this is the way that God grows you my son's really going
through it right now he is being just hit left the right the top the bottom I
mean he is just really being hit and I keep telling them wow son God's got
something so big for you because you understand what's happening this is
increasing your capacity and I said you know this feels really big for you right
now but I'm telling you it's small in comparison you're gonna look back at this
and it's gonna be a blip in the screen compared to what God's gonna equip you
to handle in the future and you know one of the things he was talking you know
financial issues and I said I would you just think for a second have you ever
like studied and I'm not talking politically I'm just talking as a
businessman Elon Musk when he was about to lose his entire fortune Tesla was
going down didn't know he was gonna make it another day I said son you might be
stressing about some thousands you know here we're talking about millions and
millions and millions and I said I remember the story that Elon Musk
sleeping on the floor in the Tesla factory he wouldn't even leave because
he wanted to support all the workers and push through this crisis I said
imagine what he was feeling at that moment so if he looked at your problem
would it just take him out and it's like no why because the capacity increases so
so the Bible never says you won't have struggles battles any of that but what
it says is he's gonna increase your capacity and so the promise in Ephesians
6 isn't that the battle won't come but it's that when you put on the armor of
God you'll still be standing even when the battles over and standing means you
you didn't lose your peace you didn't lose your identity you didn't lose your
calling you didn't lose your faith you're standing and you're standing with
even greater capacity I mean just think about that for a minute isn't that
amazing think about and and my and my son acknowledged she says you know mom
you keep telling me that and I realize it's true because he said the things
that used to take me out like he has some a streetwear design company and you
know when he would get online he'd get complaints or returns or people hassling
him online it used to just take him out it was just so stressful
He's like, I just handle that now.
That's just like nothing, right?
That's an increase in capacity, right?
And so he's beginning to see and understand that
so that when things hit, you're able to just pause
and say, ah, pause, breathe, what a gift.
Everything you're going through, pause, breathe.
What a gift.
God's gonna use this to expand me.
This is taking me to my next level.
Isn't that cool?
All right, so let's take some time to pray powerfully.
And remember, we enter his gates with thanksgiving.
We enter his courts with praise.
And so we celebrate what God's already doing.
And then we can, scripture says,
come boldly to the throne room
that we may obtain help in times of need.
And I love words, that word help.
It's actually a rope that, like I've been to Israel
and the Jesus boat that they actually recovered
when I was there, I was watching them pull out a Jesus boat
from the time of Christ.
And it's planks of boards and held together by rope
and holds the whole boat together.
And that's the word in that verse,
come boldly to the throne room
that you might have help in times of need.
That word help is that rope
that's holding the planks together,
that's holding you together.
So that's the beauty that we can gather together.
And Amanda, we've been seeing amazing answers
to prayer in this group.
And we're seeing, we've had Christy come on a couple times
and like she had advanced stage three breast cancer
and it's almost completely gone.
There's only like 10% and it's staying the same.
It's not changing.
And none of that was supposed to happen.
It's like God is moving, he's healing, he's providing.
He's a good, good God.
He's a good, good father.
Okay, so let's take some time right now to pray.
We'll just take turns praying and then I'll close us out.
I'll close us out with prayer and then we'll come back
and we'll talk about the practice for this week
to apply this, okay?
So let's go ahead and start praying.
And I don't know, Len said that she has to,
she's having an inspection in her house.
So she might've had to check out real quick.
I see her screen is black, but anyway, let's take time.
You guys, let's pray and then I'll complete the prayer.
Brenda, did we have some prayer requests?
You know, we didn't get any fresh prayer requests.
We got some praise reports,
including that a Len is about to have
her third great grandchild.
She's got 10 grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
I know that my jaw dropped too, like so,
but we'll continue to pray for a Len.
She's got her surgery coming up on her wrist.
We'll continue to pray for Christy
and complete and total healing.
And she's such a testimony for God.
She's just sharing her testimony.
God showed her to share her testimony
with a million people as God would heal her.
Talk about standing on promise.
And we got a praise report that Kim's mom is settling in.
She's gonna see her today
and we continue to pray for Kim's mom.
And I think, am I forgetting something?
Natalie, Natalie, what about your sons?
Yes, yes, thank you.
So Bruce is up and walking and moving around.
He went for his third checkup.
He had a surgery.
I left that Thursday.
He had a surgery that Friday.
They videotaped him that Friday.
He was sitting up.
He couldn't sit up before.
He was sitting up.
He actually drove over to my house when I got home.
And so the son I left was not the son I came home to.
So I was so thankful about that.
Oh, praise God.
That's a praise report.
So yeah, so we just have to make sure
that he's careful in his healing
because you know how men wanna get back to certain things.
But he went to the doctor.
The doctor said things look good, look great.
Just to give him a self-care.
another three weeks before he starts doing any more, any kind of heavy work. Anthony is still
looking for employment. He's similar to your son. He's getting hit left and right. He had to move
out of his apartment because they changed the requirements. And he was already, unfortunately,
because he was not working, he was behind on his rent. And so they said, if you move out
by the end of the month, we won't get, we won't ding your thing for an apartment.
So he had to move out with no place to go, but we're working through it. And so he's in the
works for an apartment and hopefully everything comes through this week and he's approved and
he'll be able to move in next Thursday. So we're believing, still believing for him a job
or employment, or even, you know, I've been trying to get him to start his own business,
but you have to be in the mood for, you have to get into that space, but a job that can support
him and his son, him and his family to do what, to do and live the best way that, I mean, in a
way that's comfortable and works for them. Yeah. Good. Okay. So we're going to, we're going to
pray for provision for Bruce and yeah, let's just pray for our son. For Anthony, provision for
Anthony. Oh, for, for Anthony. I'm sorry. Yeah. And total continued healing for Anthony. Thank
you for correcting me. So Bruce's continued healing, total, total healing and Anthony for
provision, a job or a business as God leads that way. And if you guys include Derek in that with,
with his business provision within his business that's, that's a prayer request as well. And,
and Natalie, you're back from Africa. Yep. Just a praise report about that was amazing. Yes,
it was totally amazing. Totally, totally amazing. I'm always amazed at what,
what, when, when I give, when I go there and I see what they've done, the expansion, the growth,
and just like, when I see you this weekend, I get to see you this weekend. I'm having a gathering
in Texas. So any Texans I found out I'm Natalie's coming in from Minnesota, but I've got six or
seven, eight clients in Texas. I don't even know more probably it's just kind of randomly coming
together. So I'm so excited. I was supposed to leave today, but my flight got overbooked
because I'm leaving in the morning, but it doesn't matter. I'm going to be there either way.
Okay. And, and Charlotte said, she's got a lot of bedrooms. If you need a place to stay or
anything like, Oh no, I got a girl. I got so many people there that are clamoring for me to stay
with them. And I'm like, I can't stay with all of y'all. So what a blessing, but yeah. No, I'm
going to go salsa dancing Friday night. If you're there, I saw that we're going to gather on
Saturday. No, I'm coming salsa dancing. Although I don't salsa dance. I'm going to get out there
and play with you. Oh my goodness. I'm so excited to meet you in person. Like, Oh my God, this is
so fun. Oh, I'm just thrilled. Okay, man, you just made my day sister. I'm so excited to spend time
with you in the flesh. We've only seen each other on zoom, like all my clients. And so other than
those who live close, like Kim and stuff that I get to see in person and hug in person. I'm so
excited. Amanda, where are you at Arizona? I can't remember Arizona. Okay. You got part of what part
of Arizona, Amanda? I'm over by the Phoenix area. Oh, I'll be there next month. Oh, really?
Nice. Yeah, I'm going to a conference, a health conference there. Through the 18th. I'll be there.
So maybe. Yeah, that's awesome. So, um, so Amanda's our newest prosper leader member. She just joined
like, I don't know, yesterday or something. So welcome her. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, I did
to be here. And some people don't have their cameras on, but I'm welcome, Bev. I see that
you're here. She's usually getting ready. She's a therapist. In addition to being a coach, she's one
of my coaching clients, beautiful coaching clients. And so she gets ready during this time.
So she doesn't put her camera on, but she's here in spirit. And so you guys acknowledge Bev and
then a Len, I think they're checking the defensible space around her house or something. So anyway,
without further ado, Amanda, any prayer requests on your end before we.
start praying? I can't think of any right now. Okay. Okay. All right. Let's let's dive in. Let's
pray. Let's pray. I'm sorry, since my mic is on. Oh, gracious Father, we thank you. We thank you
for the ability to gather. Being in multiple places, the ability to gather and hear your word
and expand on your word and stand on your word, in your word, in the way that you have taught
it today. So we thank you this morning for the incredible teaching. And we ask you, Lord, Father
God, to refill our sister for all that she has poured out, to refill her, to overflow, Lord,
Father God. And we thank you for her commitment and her diligence. Lord, we lift up our sister
Helene, Lord, Father God, as she prepares for her surgery. We pray, Lord, Father God, for
excellent and expedient care, Lord, Father God, be given to her in every form of the way.
Touch and anoint every person that will be in contact with her, Lord, Father God,
and just as they will bless her, let her be a blessing to them, Lord, Father God.
We continue to pray for Christi, for total healing, Lord, Father God, as she has been obedient to the
call on her life and going forward in what you have said, Lord, Father, we thank you and totally
stand and believe, Lord, Father God, for her total healing. Lord, Father God, we continue to pray for
Anthony, provision for Anthony and provision for Derek, Lord, Father God, as you are the great
provider, there is nothing limited, lacking, or impossible in your kingdom, Lord, Father God.
So we thank you, Lord, Father God, and we pray for a mighty release of provision, Lord, Father
God, as they stand, Lord, Father God, believing in you, the one and true living God. Lord, we thank
you, Lord, Father God, for Bruce's complete healing, Lord, Father God, as he is moving,
Lord, Father God, from step by step from precept to precept, Lord, Father God, he is
expanding and growing, Lord, Father God, and we just thank you for his complete healing.
And we thank you, Lord, Father God, for Kim's mom, Lord, Father God, as she is settling in,
we thank you, Lord, Father God, just that you give her a peace in her heart,
and we thank you, Lord, Father God, because that gives Kim a peace in her heart, it gives her
a steadiness, Lord, Father God, an assuredness, Lord, Father God, that her mom as well, whenever
we care for ones, we want them to be cared for. So we thank you, Lord, Father God, that you care
for the things that concern us, and so we cast our cares upon you in this way, and we continue
to give thanks, and we pray, Lord, Father God, for traveling mercies for myself and Brenda as we
travel to a distant place to not only meet each other, but to join others in fellowship,
so we thank you in Jesus' most precious and holy name.
Father God, we come to you in humble adoration as you're the creator and the finisher of our
lives, Lord, as we are standing in the armor of what you have for us, Lord, in every area of
Ephesians 6 and beyond, Father, that you sculpt us, Lord, into the true being and your best version
of who you have created us to be, Father. So we thank you, Father God, we come with thanksgiving,
and we thank you for the blessings that are being given, Father, the truth that you have already
prepared for us as we humbly wait on you, and thank you for the provisions of each and every
one of the men in this group, Lord. Derek, Lord, that he is just in waiting on that edge of what
you have for him, Father, we're just so thankful for that, and for the provision over Derek and
over Anthony, Lord, we just thank you for that, and envision that new place of home for both
Anthony and his son, Lord. We're so thankful for Bruce and that he is walking
step-by-step with you, Father God. We thank you for the praises for the time that Natalie spent
in Africa, and all that she is part of in the areas, the distance lands, and here within
our United States, Lord, we pray for travel mercies for these ladies as
as they go fellowship and become one in prayer and unity
for you, Father God, for your glory.
We thank you for Amanda, Lord, for being here.
Lord, we ask that you would just bless her beyond measure
and in every area of life, Lord,
that she would know that she can stand
on your promises and authority,
that each and every one of us stand on the authority
and promises that you have for each of our lives, Lord.
We thank you for Bev,
and we thank you for Helene, Father God.
Thank you for each of these women, Lord,
for the praises that they have and the prayer requests
that they have Helene's wrist, Father,
that it is finished, that you will complete
that surgery, Lord, and it will be expedient in recovery,
and she will be a blessing and testimony
to others.
Bev, we just are so thankful to have you here.
We ask that the Lord just bless you
and keep you close to his heart at all times, Father.
For Brenda, Lord, we just thank you, thank you, thank you.
We cannot thank you enough for creating this sisterhood
of prosperity and love and kindness,
like all of the things, Father,
not only that we stand in the armor of God and truth,
but that we walk in the fruit of the Spirit, Father,
that we know that we are dearly loved and chosen,
Father God, and we just thank you
for this time together, Lord.
We thank you for the covering of all things great
that you have for us, Lord,
that we know that endless good comes in endless ways,
Father, as we are standing, Father God,
not as the Webster Dictionary tells us to stand,
but your promises of yes and amen to us, Lord.
So we just thank you in your precious name, amen.
Lord, I just thank you so much
for us being able to gather together and stand,
stand in the knowledge that we are loved,
that we are held, that we are guided,
that we are guarded,
that when you said it is finished on the cross, Lord God,
it included complete healing,
spirit, soul, and body.
I was reminded as we were praying,
Michelle's not able to be on the call,
but she just had surgery,
so we pray total healing and recovery
and strengthening of her body.
I know she's got multiple surgeries,
so Lord, we lift up our sister, Michelle,
just bless her and heal her.
I thank you that Bev's cataract surgery went well,
and she's now had both of them.
And Lord, I'm just praying that not only will she see better
but she will see your glory.
She will see with her inner eyes
and know how deeply she is loved and held
as all of us will know.
And I pray as she's about to do her next event
on the 14th,
I just pray that you bring the people
that she's called to serve, Lord God,
give her strength, fill her event,
bless the work of her hands, prosper her, Lord God.
And actually got a couple of Prosper Sisters
that are doing events, micro events on that day.
And so I lift up the businesses
represented by each Prosper Sister.
Lord, I pray that you strengthen them with might
in their inner women,
that they will stand and having done all to stand,
they will stand in love, they will stand in their identity,
they will stand in the authority of your word,
they will stand in the faith
that you are working and always working,
that you are faithful, that you are trustworthy.
And so, Lord, I pray complete and total blessings, Lord,
that you prosper the work of their hands.
I thank you for the gift of even Zoom.
Zoom and being able to gather online from all these places
and build relationships.
And so I pray that these relationships
within all the Prosper Sisters continue to grow.
Thank you for Kate as she's having breakthroughs.
She's not here today either, but bless her.
Prosper her business, Lord God, in the way
that you have been to just really serve
in these underdeveloped communities, God.
What a blessing she is bringing, Father.
So just continue to give her wisdom.
And Lord, we just love you.
We thank you.
We thank you for your word.
We thank you for the promises that we can stand on.
We thank you for the ability to pray.
And we love you.
In Jesus' name, amen.
Oh, so good to gather with you all.
So our practice for this week and our declaration,
just throughout the week, just kind of just be,
start with awareness.
Awareness is the first step to transformation.
So am I standing?
Like maybe even take a Superman, Superwoman pose for a second
just to remind yourself.
Like just pause sometimes and just stand.
And just stand in what God has said about you.
Stand on the word.
And so ask yourself, am I standing or striving?
And if you find yourself starting to strive,
just stop for a second and do a Wonder Woman pose there
and stand, right, whenever the pressure wants to come.
And then to say this declaration,
I've done what God asked me to do.
Now I stand in faith and watch him work.
I've done what God has asked me to do now.
Now I'm just standing here open, receptive,
ready to receive what God is doing.
So powerful.
You know, standing is, what I want you to get out of this
is standing is not inactivity.
It's not passiveness.
Standing is the confidence that God is moving
even when you can't yet see the results.
Remember in previous week,
we talked about the gestation period
between the time you plant the seed
and the time you see something come out of the ground.
It looks like nothing's happening.
It's the gestation period.
That's when we need to stand.
We don't go in and dig it up, right?
Or we don't walk away and abandon the garden
and go plant somewhere else.
We stand.
You know, many people quit
like five minutes before their breakthrough,
five minutes before the finish line.
But kingdom people know something different
having done all the stand.
We stand.
We may continue to, you know,
C-A-N-I, Constant Never-Ending Improvement.
We may continue to get downloads from God
and businesses, constant iterations.
You're constantly improving,
but you're standing.
You're standing in what God did, right?
I just love that.
Another declaration,
as you go through the parts of the armor,
you can say, truth guards my mind.
Peace steadies my steps.
Faith protects my heart.
I will not retreat.
I will stand.
Truth guards my mind.
Peace steadies my steps.
Faith protects my heart.
I will not retreat.
I will stand.
I release striving.
I release fear.
God is working even when I can't see it.
So now I stand in faith.
You guys can play with this, right?
You can make your own declaration.
You know, in the Prosper Daily,
there's room for three declarations.
They're I will statements, right?
And you can make these declarations to just keep it fresh.
Keep it fresh every day.
day. All right, sisters, I'll see you tomorrow in office
hours. Natalie, I'll see you on Friday. So excited in Texas. And
I'll see you all of course, next week. Same, same time, same
place. So glad that you joined us. Amanda, speak next time.
Blessings.