All right, welcome to the Prosper Power Hour.
This is where we meet every Wednesday, 8 a.m.
It's part of the Prosper Leader membership.
We do Power Hour on Wednesdays at 8.
We do office hours, focusing on your business, Thursdays at 9.
And so during the Power Hour, this is where we have a new promise every week to focus
on.
And God gave me that as I began to see as I was coaching, where lots of women didn't
have a storehouse of promises, they knew some.
And so I thought, wow, what if we did this every week and like 52, you know, probably
maybe minus holidays, but you know, lots of promises, you know, how it says Mary stored
these things in her heart.
What if we have just all these promises stored in our heart and we just get to that place
where we're really standing, we're standing, you know, scripture says, having done all
to stand, stand, and we can just like, when we pray, we're praying in the word, right?
And so, so that's how this first got started.
And we do, we do a promise and we do a principle.
A lot of times I draw from scripture and science and strategy.
And then of course we pray, which is so wonderful to gather and pray for each other and be able
to build this community that week after week, we, and, and sometimes people aren't able
to be here, but they're always telling me everybody's listening to the replays.
But when you're here, I'm glad for those of you that are here, it's so special to actually
hang together, just have that, you know, the Bible says forsake, not the, the gathering
together.
Right.
And so it's a powerful time for us to, to gather and hold, hold that space for each
other.
So I'm excited.
So, you know, the, the theme for today is super, super important.
I think, I think there's two, if I was going to take all the world's problems that we face,
all the things that we face in our personal life, I would say I could, I can narrow it
down to two main issues.
There's two roots.
One is separation, being and believing that we're separate from God and each other, and
even within ourselves, our mind and our heart.
So separation and the other is lack.
And so the Lord was leaving me today to talk about the second, the, the lack.
I think this is the thing that steals peace and clarity and even success is when this
belief in lack kind of slips in and takes root in our mind and, and, and lack is in
all areas.
We, it can be in the area of time.
When we think we lack time, we get into pressure and rushing and stressing.
It can be lack when it comes to money, right?
Then we get into a contracted kind of reactive fear mode, right?
It can, it can be around clarity and we get into overthinking.
It can be in not believing we have support or love, again, kind of tied in with the separation.
We think we're all alone.
No one will help us if we get into either striving or people pleasing, right?
So all of those have the root of, of lack, right?
And often I've shared this, we, we wake up and we just start speaking and thinking lack.
I didn't get enough sleep, lack, right?
I don't have enough time, lack.
How am I going to pay my bills, lack?
I don't know how to do this, lack, right?
You see what I'm saying?
We just get, we just get in this place of thinking and speaking lack, which, which contracts
us and it puts us in a reactive mode.
And so I wanted to, that, that just hit me as our promise.
And so the two promises that hit me are the ones that I go to and put, let me see, let
me grab the chat so I can also see that, have the chat open, let me open the chat.
There we go.
So put in the chat, um, does that come up for you?
Lack tried to torment you.
Yeah?
I see a couple of you nodding your head, yes, yes, yes.
Oh, yeah, OK.
Yeah, for sure.
OK, good.
Because lack, to me, really feels almost
like a tormenting spirit.
Like it really tries to take your mind, honestly.
It torments, right?
So my two favorite verses, when I
feel that coming, that are so powerful, one is Psalms 23.
Psalms 23.
One of the most beautiful works in all of scripture, right?
David's Psalm 23.
And if you look at it in the New King James version,
verse 1 says, the Lord is my shepherd.
I shall not want.
And the word want means extreme lack.
So as a side note, I have done the best I can.
I still catch myself to eliminate the word want
from my vocabulary.
We will say, I just want.
I really want.
And every time you're declaring that,
you're declaring lack over that thing.
And so I've replaced the word want with desire,
if that's what you truly mean.
I desire this.
I desire that.
Because that root word, de, of sire, of the father, right?
And there's a lot of scriptures about God giving us
the desires of our heart, which is an amazing study.
But for right now, I just want you to be aware.
I desire you to be aware of the word want.
See how fast that wants to come out of our mouth, right?
And so awareness is the first step
to change and transformation.
If we look at Psalms 23.
1 in the amplified translation, then it
says, the Lord is my shepherd.
I shall not lack.
And so that's the translation I've chosen to memorize.
And so any time I feel the belief in lack,
and we'll talk about why this is so important,
any time I feel lack coming up, I will quickly speak that.
No, the Lord is my shepherd.
I shall not.
It doesn't say I may not, I could not.
I shall not lack.
I do not lack, right?
And then I like to combine with, since this is David writing,
it just go a few chapters forward to Psalms,
I think it's 37.
Yeah, Psalms 37.25.
Psalms 37.25.
And that's a cool declaration, too,
because David is talking about, I have been old,
and I have been young, and I have been old,
and never have I seen the righteous forsaken,
nor begging for bread.
And so it's just that reminder.
God's got us.
He's reflecting.
And there's another cool thing that just
hit me as we're talking.
And I heard a different coach share this,
and I also often use this.
And that is, if we can just get in the present, when
we start to feel lack, and you get
in the present at that moment, and you think about,
do you have a roof over your head?
Are you eating?
You have clothes.
And you say, I have enough.
I'm OK right now.
I'm safe in this moment, right?
I have enough to calm your nervous system.
I have enough.
And then what's cool is to go backwards and say,
I've always had enough.
And then you can confidently go forward.
I will always have enough.
So I have enough.
I've always had enough, and I will always have enough.
And that's another kind of cool way
just to kind of calm the angst when it tries to take over.
Right?
So.
When we go a little bit deeper about this verse
and about this idea of lack,
a lot of times when we read Psalms 23,
we just read it from a comfort standpoint.
Oh yeah, the Lord is my shepherd.
I shall not lack.
He leads me beside, you know, still waters.
He makes me lie down in green pastures.
You know, we kind of just look at it
from a comfort standpoint,
but I'd like you to think about it from a different light,
how I believe David perhaps wrote this.
As you study David's life,
I believe this was a declaration
of both identity and source.
I believe Psalms 23, more than comfort,
is a declaration of identity and source,
which are the two keys that we're really talking about.
So if you look at the Lord is my shepherd,
that's talking about source.
You think about sheep.
I remember in college, way back,
Philip Keller had written a book
about the Lord is my shepherd.
And he was a true shepherd and he understood sheep so much.
And it was the most beautiful book
talking about what a shepherd
and the relationship with the sheep.
And I, you know, it's been many, many, many years
since I've read that, but it left such an impression.
And so for the sheep, the shepherd is the source.
He's the one looking to find the green pastures
and taking the sheep where they can eat.
He's the one making sure, you know,
kind of like for your dog or your cat,
you are their source, right?
They know when you're going to the food bowl,
you are their source.
They depend on you.
They rely on you, right?
And the shepherd for the sheep, it's the same way.
We're kind of removed.
Most of us aren't shepherds.
We're removed from that, but we do have pets.
And my dog expects food in the morning and at night.
And it's like, you got dogs, Amanda, you were saying,
I mean, you're their source.
They know, I mean, they're not going hungry.
You're their source, right?
God is ultimately all of our source for everything, right?
And so the Lord is my shepherd.
As we think about it in our life,
I've always said, we've got to be so careful
to continuously have our mind that we have one source.
There's many channels, but there's one and only one source.
We have to be so careful.
We don't make anything else our source.
Our clients are not our source.
Our government's not our source.
Our retirement, you know, our 401k,
all of that can break down.
Those are channels, but there's one source
and we have to stay on that.
Lord, you are my shepherd.
You are my source.
And lately I've been thinking about that.
And what's been coming in my mind
is when I think of one of the names of God, El Shaddai,
which means the all sufficient one,
the all sufficient one, El Shaddai, right?
All sufficient.
And if you think about that,
we're the temple of the Holy Spirit.
We think about Christ lives in us.
That means the all sufficient one lives in me.
So the all sufficient one is my source.
I mean, just think about that for a minute.
Doesn't that just change things?
The all sufficient one is my source.
He lacks nothing.
Why would I lack anything?
And of course, we could go into so many scriptures,
you know, when God says it's the father's good pleasure
to give you the kingdom.
Like when Jesus talked about,
if you know how to give to your children,
how much more does your father know how to take care of you?
Like if you start compounding the nature
that God is all giving, all generous, all loving,
all sufficient, all knowing, you know,
omniscient, omnipresent, right?
Then that's our source and that's who lives in us, right?
And so when you say that to yourself,
the Lord is my shepherd and you're just like, wow.
Yes, Lord, you're my source.
You're all my source.
And the Lord is my shepherd also is the leadership.
He leads me, he guides me, right?
And so you think about the shepherd, you know.
No, with them being able to kind of,
the crook can like pull a sheep a certain direction,
can lead the sheep, follow his voice,
the voice of another they won't.
And that provision that comes is from relationship.
It's not transactional.
The sheep don't have to perform
for the shepherd to be the shepherd.
We don't perform for God to be our source.
It's not transactional.
It's being connected to the source.
It's relationship, right?
So the Lord is my shepherd.
I shall not lack.
That's the declaration.
That's not a hope.
That's a result of being led,
of being connected to the source.
You guys feel that?
Like to get in the habit of saying that.
And I've remembered different times in my life.
You know, I kind of have Psalms 23 memorized
and I think about that.
And I think about, you know,
goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.
And I can remember even grocery shopping
and just getting in that space.
Goodness and mercy follow me all the days of my life.
He leaves the 99 for us, the all sufficient one.
I love that.
Yes.
Yeah.
I heard his spirit.
Like, it's funny because the, not to interrupt,
but I heard, I've been hearing his spirit
and about the shepherd and he will.
And so it's been like this,
kind of this new cornerstone for me.
And so as you were speaking, I was like,
the Lord is my shepherd.
I lack nothing.
He will leave the 99 for me.
Yes.
You know, and just to pause on that and say, Lord,
I need, you know, I'm desiring to hear from you right now.
So good.
Yeah.
So he, but that leaving the 99 for us, for me,
holy Lord, I must not lack anything in you.
Yeah.
So that it's interesting that you say that Brenda,
because over the last couple of weeks,
you've been speaking that to me.
Yeah.
I love that.
That's so good.
If we can get in the habit, you know,
we have to stand guard at the door of our mouth, right?
And to be very careful to never speak lack intentionally,
like not be speaking it to our children,
because most of us, I know for me, that's the undoing.
There was constant, my parents were
very financially successful,
and yet lack was always the conversation.
If you guys saw my newsletter and stuff,
it's like, it was always the conversation.
And if you ask for something and they had plenty,
but it was the instinctual money doesn't grow on trees.
And where do you think you're gonna afford that?
It's all that early programming
that we all carry in ourselves.
And so we're reversing, we're creating new neural pathways,
using our mouths for good instead of for evil, right?
And so we have to be so careful,
not to ourselves and our thoughts,
but to begin to just reverse that
by speaking the word, right?
And I shall not lack, period.
Period, I shall not lack.
So here's a core teaching about this.
Lack doesn't actually, this is a bigger thought.
This is an expansive thought.
It doesn't actually come from absence.
Lack doesn't come from absence.
It comes from disconnection from the source.
There is enough of everything for you
and actually everyone on the planet.
So it's not for a lack of resources
and there's new resources being found all the time.
And yet, if we think about lack, we begin to create it.
If we think about lack, we begin to create it.
And so it is this idea to break the belief
that there's not enough.
This was part of the programming we were given too.
You know, that there's one prize, there's one this,
there's one that, and if you get the job,
someone else doesn't get the job.
If you get the piece of cake, someone else doesn't get that.
It's that some zero kind of thinking
that we're programmed in that is not solution oriented,
that is not the way that God thinks.
You don't see that in scripture.
If I'm saved, doesn't mean you're not saved.
If God blesses me, doesn't mean you're not blessed.
If I have abundance, doesn't mean you don't have abundance.
I'm circulating my wealth.
so that everybody has abundance, right?
It's, we've got to get out of that some zero mentality.
And it is absolutely a mindset.
And, you know, we've got a mindset coach on here, Linda,
right?
It's absolutely lack is a mindset,
but that mindset is not coming from absence.
It's coming from disconnecting from the source.
If you think I'm completely connected
with all sufficient one, how can I possibly lack?
Even, and here's the thing, this is the real key
is scripture says, judge not by appearances.
So we have to be really careful.
Our eyes are not accurate.
Your eyes, you know, your eyes are seeing something
different than my eyes are seeing.
We're not actually seeing, we're seeing photons of light
that are going to our brain to be interpreted
based on the information that it has based on perception.
So we're not, none of us are even seeing the same thing.
So to trust our eyes, if I trust my eyes at a distance,
it looks like two railroad tracks are getting closer.
If I trust my eyes, it looks like the horizon,
like the earth is flat.
If I, you know, and I know there's an argument
for either case on that, but my point is I can't,
I can't trust the medical report.
I can use that as a reference to go back to the source.
I can't trust my bank account statement.
I can use that as a reference to go back to the source.
I have to keep my eyes on the Lord.
Does that make sense?
And so, so it's, it's not absence,
it's disconnection from the source.
Does that make sense?
It's a, it's a different, different way of thinking
because we will move toward,
we'll move toward what we think we lack.
So our brain is programmed to keep us safe.
So your brain is always scanning for what's missing.
That's the nature of the brain.
And that activates the stress response,
which then causes us to react,
which then moves us into all the things we talked about,
you know, people pleasing, overworking, over, you know,
it moves us into a reactive mode.
When you are coming from the place, I shall not lack,
then you're not in the reactive mode.
If you're in the reactive mode, you rush, you overwork,
you know, you're grasping, you're,
you're doing all that stuff, you're settling.
It's from a false principles, from a false starting point.
If we were operating from truth, we wouldn't do those things.
And so, so you don't, you don't solve lack.
So we, this is, this is the divine reversal.
You know, we fix it in, in our mind, in, in reconnecting,
because we get in the reactive mode and we want to fix it.
And it's only when we get to the place that for most,
that we can't actually fix it or figure out how to fix it,
that then we lean on the Lord.
But our nature is to try to fix it.
I'll just work extra hours.
I'll just prospect more.
I'll just, you know, I'll just, I'll just,
we get in this reactive mode.
And that's putting us into the sympathetic fear and flight.
It's releasing a cascade of stress hormones.
So to learn, to stay in a non-reactive mode,
even in the face of apparent negativity,
by keeping our eyes on the source
and keeping our mind, heart, eyes, mouth,
speaking only truth, no matter what our eyes see.
If you, if you think about the example,
when Elisha's servant said, we're toast, we're done.
There's armies completely around us, we're surrounded.
That's what eyes see.
There's no answers.
There's no way of getting out of this in the natural.
We can't do anything.
And Elisha said, open my servant's eyes to see,
spiritual eyes to see.
And he saw all of the angels, all of heaven's armies around.
You see, that's the truth.
He opened my eyes to see the truth,
that there's abundance, that we lack nothing,
that God is always with us, thank God, right?
And so, so the key I want you to think about,
and then let's get into prayer.
The key is when lack shows up,
think about these three steps.
Number one.
One, recognize it.
Start having awareness.
Awareness is the first step to transformation.
So you just go, wow, right now I'm feeling lack.
Just recognize it.
Oh, this is lack, lack of time, lack of sleep, lack of money,
lack of love, whatever.
Right now, lack of support.
I'm feeling lack.
Like, acknowledge it, right?
Then return to the truth and replace it with a scripture.
But the Lord is my shepherd.
I shall not lack.
And actually say it out loud.
I shall not lack, period.
I do not lack, period.
End of subject.
No matter what my eyes see, what my eyes see
is what I created from previous thinking, right?
And so as I change, my eyes will see different things.
And then go back to the source.
Reconnect to God.
Reconnect.
Just pause and breathe and say, God, this is a big one.
God, what's true about this?
This is something I've been doing a lot of, too.
What's the truth about this?
This is what my mind wants to think.
This is where my fear wants to go.
But what's true?
Scripture says I desire truth in my inward being, right?
What would alignment look like here?
What's true?
Tell me the truth about this, God.
I'm afraid.
Tell me the truth about this.
So real-life application, if you think about it,
apply this before a sales conversation, right?
Apply this before you're going through your checking bank
account or you're overwhelmed with time
or you're comparing yourself to others or any of that stuff.
When you try to go down a black road,
then just shift from I don't have enough to I'm led,
I'm provided for, I move from overflow.
I'm one with the all-sufficient one.
The all-sufficient one lives in me.
I'm the temple of the all-sufficient one.
I have the mind of the all-sufficient one.
Like Kim said, the one who leaves the 99 for me.
I'm never alone.
I'm never forsaken.
Isn't that a great reminder?
So let's pray.
And as we pray, we'll continue to pray everything
that we brought up.
At the beginning, we'll continue to pray for Jackie's sister.
We'll continue to pray for the transition for Linda's mom,
how that's supposed to go, and for the house.
And we'll continue to pray for Amanda and the house sale
and financial breakthrough in her business.
We've got different people that we
need to continue to pray for that are healing.
We'll continue to do that.
So as we pray, also, this is the prayer
that we break agreement with lack.
We break agreement with the belief in lack
and restoring trust in God as our source.
We can be praying for all of us for that as well.
All right, I'll let you guys start.
And then I will conclude us.
We'll just take some time and pray.
Thank you, God.
We are just so thankful to be connected
to this beautiful day, Lord, that you've made for each
and every one of us, Father.
And it is no denying that or coincidence
that you have us here in a place of each and every one
of these women with so much movement going on, Lord.
I just keep hearing movement.
And Brenda, in her fine wisdom, speaking on lack and capacity,
that we see each and every one of us being stretched
at this time in life, Lord.
And in that, Lord, we know that there's a new birthing.
You are our all-sufficient shepherd, Father God.
Lord, let us break.
the lines of lack and separation with you.
Father, I'm just thanking you for every moving part
with Amanda and her move, the sell of her home.
Jackie and Sunny, the moving parts, Sunny's new place,
Amanda's new home, the sell of her home.
Linda, the home that her parents built.
Lord, we just pray that all of these areas of movement,
whether it's geography or right within our spaces, Lord,
whether it's within our cellular levels, Lord,
dental, health, homes, family, Lord,
that we would just come to you
and just profess to you, Lord, what is this truth, Father?
Let us be separated, not from you,
but from the tyranny of lack
and any of that associated with, Lord.
I would just thank you for your gracious love
for each and every one of us,
the great shepherd that you would lead the 99
for each and every one of us.
Father, how pure, how beautiful
is that promise from you, Father?
We just thank you for the week ahead,
for every praise report that is coming back, Lord,
that we will stretch in a way
that will bring about new praises
and new areas of life that we've never seen before, Lord,
and that we know that we are on this journey with you,
through you and for you, Father God,
so that we can raise your kingdom
and be a testimony to your truth, Father God.
So we just thank you for that, for all the healing,
all the movements, all the blessings for your glory, Lord.
Father God, to add to what Kim said,
help us to remember Deuteronomy 31, six,
it says, you will never leave us nor forsake us.
So even when it appears that we are going
through the valley of the shadows,
remind us, remind us, remind us that you are there,
hold our hands, touch our shoulders,
wrap us in your embrace as we proceed
through these seasons that you bring us through.
And help us to remember, you bring us through them.
We don't stay in them forever.
We eventually reach the other side,
the destination that you have intended for us,
the destination that we could not see
when we began the journey.
And just help us to praise you in the darkness,
praise you in the dryness, praise you in the areas
where we are unsure that you are even still working
and walking with us and help us to remember,
you'd never leave us, you never forsake us.
You are always present with us and we can trust in that
from the beginning of our days to the end of them, Lord.
Thank you for your love, your grace,
and your mercy for us always.
Amen.
Dear Heavenly Father, we just come before you today
on this beautiful day and all this gathering
of these amazing women, Lord,
and we just thank you, God, for the wisdom
that we are able to keep on learning, God,
what your truth is, God.
Keep on speaking your truth over us, Lord,
and not what we believe or what our eyes see, God.
Help us to stay focused on you
and to know that you are our main source.
Let us break any agreement of lack, God,
and let us not overthink things
and to get into the mode of fear.
Let us wake up every single day, God,
with a new mindset of knowing that you are a provider
and you are.
health helper and you are a main source and we just ask you God to continue to pray over
these women Lord and just continue to restore us and we just ask you Lord to pray over Jackie's
sister continuously Lord with finding the right apartment for her God keep on opening her heart
and softening her heart God and let her bring her back to you Lord and to lean on you God
through the situation that she's going through in her life and we just ask you Lord to be with Linda
and her mom these new changes God these new transitions and put her in the right place
with hospice and just comfort her Lord and just give her peace and just let everything be okay
with her house as well and we just ask you Lord to be with Brenda as she's going through
this dental situation and just give her more peace and the answers that she is searching for Lord
and I just ask you Lord to continue to be with me and with this house that we are selling God
and we just ask you Lord to continue to bring the right buyer for us Lord and the right cost
and just everything just fall into place Lord to give us more peace of mind and I just ask you
Lord for the breakthrough of my business Lord that you bring the right clients the right people
that you truly want me to serve God and we just ask you Lord to just continue to bless us Lord
and with your abundance of blessings and just be with us the rest of this week in Jesus's name amen.
Father I keep hearing as we're praying
for each of us to pay attention to the words that he gives us
that we would write them down or put them on our phone whatever he is saying to us and not
to be disobedient and I pray that each word that you give us Father that we would walk that out
with you that we would ask about that with you and we would not take that lightly Lord
and so I thank you for that reminder because sometimes we get busy or we ask was that really
you Holy Spirit and so I pray that we would just have an open heart and open mind and just open
our senses Lord because you created them Father so I thank you for the words that you're going
so I thank you for the words that you're going to give each of us Father thank you Father.
Thank you Lord for such a precious time to gather
once you are more gathered there you are thank you Lord for being here thank you for the way
that you're working you're moving you're providing and you're teaching and you're growing
us and yes even stretching us as I thought about capacity and even as Kim was praying Lord I
saw the picture of how the cervix has to open up and stretch when the baby's being born
and how painful that stretching feels and yet that's necessary for the birth
of life and future and hope and you were just showing me that as we were praying that
that stretching that you're doing in our relationships in our finances in our health
in all areas Lord that in that stretching we would deepen our connection with you
you we would learn to see with our spiritual senses not only our natural senses
to keep our spiritual eyes fixed on you and our spiritual ears listening
In that same Psalms of David, it says that the sheep hear your voice and the
voice of another they will not follow. Teach us to block out the noise of fear,
doubt, worry, media, confusion, and anything else. That we just keep you and your
words fixed. You've said in Isaiah 26 3 that you will keep us in perfect peace,
perfect peace, when our mind is fixed on you because we trust in you.
Thank you Lord. Paul said the same thing. Whatever's true, whatever's beautiful,
whatever's lovely, whatever good, rapport, fix your mind. And so Lord teach us to
fix our mind on that which is true and lovely. And as Jackie said, I've been
getting that same word that when you speak, write it down, review it, hold that
like Mary did, and store it in our hearts. Let us be so full of word, Lord,
your word. Let us be so full of truth, your truth. Let us be so full of love,
your love, that we just are spilling out and overflowing everywhere that we go.
We love you, Lord. For all the stretching that's going on right now, I pray that
your mercy is even greater. Mercy triumphs over judgment. Your mercies are
new every single day. I pray mercy on Linda's mom and home and on Rafael. I
pray mercy on Amanda and the selling and the buying and the business and finances.
I pray mercy on Kim and the health issues and also with dental issues. And
I pray mercy on Jackie as right now she's being stretched in her marriage. I
pray mercy in her marriage and in her husband's career changes. I pray mercy in
her finances.
Goodness and mercy. Follow me, the psalm says in Psalms 23. Goodness and mercy.
Follow me all the days of my life. Thank you that your goodness is literally just
chasing after me, running after me. We lean in your arms of mercy. We love you.
Be with us this week, Lord. Be glorified. Keep us our eyes on you. Keep us in
direct connection with you in all that we do. Be glorified. In Jesus' name, Amen.
Oh, beautiful time, ladies. Thanks for coming in person and for all of you that
didn't make it in person or listening to the replay. We're praying for you. We love
you as well. And we'll see you same time, same place next week and tomorrow for
office hours. Blessings, blessings, blessings. See you soon.