WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.820 And good morning, good morning, good morning, or good afternoon, or good evening, depending 2 00:00:06.820 --> 00:00:09.100 what part of the world you are listening. 3 00:00:09.100 --> 00:00:14.740 We certainly have a lot of different states represented here this morning, here in the 4 00:00:14.740 --> 00:00:18.580 United States, and I am so excited. 5 00:00:18.580 --> 00:00:23.260 This is day one, or actually I'm calling it gate one. 6 00:00:23.260 --> 00:00:30.760 There's going to be 12 gates as we go from pressure to partnership. 7 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:35.860 I am super excited for this 12-week immersion. 8 00:00:35.860 --> 00:00:39.360 Welcome to those of you that are new to this. 9 00:00:39.360 --> 00:00:42.040 Welcome back to all the Prosper Leader members. 10 00:00:42.040 --> 00:00:47.600 This was just included in your membership as a Prosper Leader member. 11 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:58.240 And I am just absolutely on fire and excited for this content, for this experience, for 12 00:00:58.240 --> 00:01:01.400 this time together. 13 00:01:01.400 --> 00:01:19.920 Gate one, I've titled it from reactivity, reactivity to partnership, from reactivity 14 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:22.080 to partnership. 15 00:01:22.080 --> 00:01:30.480 And I'm focusing on the morning, your morning experience. 16 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:41.840 I subtitled it, how the day is won or lost before we even open our laptop. 17 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:46.020 How the day is won or lost before. 18 00:01:46.020 --> 00:01:51.280 So let's start just inviting the presence of God. 19 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:58.580 Let's get ourselves centered and grounded to get the most from this experience. 20 00:01:58.580 --> 00:02:01.480 You can be sitting up straight. 21 00:02:01.480 --> 00:02:04.220 I don't think most of you are laying down doing this one. 22 00:02:04.220 --> 00:02:11.180 So spine straight, sitting feet on the ground. 23 00:02:11.180 --> 00:02:19.260 And let's get conscious of our breath, of our breathing. 24 00:02:19.260 --> 00:02:25.220 Scripture has a lot to say about our breath. 25 00:02:25.220 --> 00:02:34.700 I don't know if you know, but in Hebrew, the word ruach, or in Greek, the word pneuma, 26 00:02:34.700 --> 00:02:43.920 it has meaning of breath, spirit, wind, interchangeable. 27 00:02:43.920 --> 00:02:50.060 You know, at creation, when God breathes, we became a living soul. 28 00:02:50.060 --> 00:02:54.340 And when we would release, when Jesus would release the Holy Spirit, it would be with 29 00:02:54.340 --> 00:02:57.100 breath. 30 00:02:57.100 --> 00:03:11.100 And so when we start really being conscious of our breath, and we have an inhale, and 31 00:03:11.100 --> 00:03:15.500 we have an exhale. 32 00:03:15.500 --> 00:03:28.980 And interesting, theologians have noticed the correlation between the name of God, Yahweh, 33 00:03:28.980 --> 00:03:34.740 that it resembles our breathing, actually. 34 00:03:34.740 --> 00:03:48.820 And so I love to open with that breathing, that as we breathe in Yah, I want you to think 35 00:03:48.820 --> 00:03:56.420 about Acts chapter 17, that it's He that gives breath to all living things. 36 00:03:56.420 --> 00:04:03.100 So when you breathe in, you're conscious of just breathing in the life of God, the breath 37 00:04:03.100 --> 00:04:05.780 of God, the spirit of God. 38 00:04:05.780 --> 00:04:11.180 You're just renewing, you're just taking in, you're nourishing your body, you're just taking 39 00:04:11.180 --> 00:04:15.540 in what the Holy Spirit has to offer. 40 00:04:15.540 --> 00:04:22.100 And when you breathe out, and what we know, we'll talk a little bit about our nervous 41 00:04:22.100 --> 00:04:24.700 system. 42 00:04:24.700 --> 00:04:33.020 When our exhale is longer than our inhale, we actually relax our nervous system. 43 00:04:33.940 --> 00:04:39.100 We can move into the parasympathetic, the rest and digest state. 44 00:04:39.100 --> 00:04:45.180 So when you ever want to do that, to make your exhale longer than your inhale. 45 00:04:45.180 --> 00:04:52.620 So when we inhale to Yah, we're mindful of just breathing in all of God, all of the Holy 46 00:04:52.620 --> 00:04:55.860 Spirit, just inviting in His presence. 47 00:04:55.860 --> 00:05:00.020 When we breathe out, Kwe, we'll see. 48 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:02.680 Think about Psalms 150. 49 00:05:02.680 --> 00:05:07.680 It says, let everything that has breath praise the Lord. 50 00:05:07.800 --> 00:05:10.520 And so we can breathe out, we can release everything, 51 00:05:10.520 --> 00:05:15.520 and we can release our praise as we start the morning. 52 00:05:16.320 --> 00:05:20.080 This is something you can do in just a minute 53 00:05:20.080 --> 00:05:22.200 as you're commanding your morning, 54 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:26.560 as you're learning to move. 55 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:28.520 Oh, I love it. 56 00:05:28.520 --> 00:05:29.600 Thank you, Stacey. 57 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:30.680 Yeah, I'm gonna look that up. 58 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:32.840 Stacey has just put in. 59 00:05:32.840 --> 00:05:35.600 I was thinking, when Stacey got on, 60 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:37.020 she's a biblical counselor. 61 00:05:37.020 --> 00:05:39.600 She's amazing and got so much wisdom. 62 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:41.720 I was thinking she'd have a lot to contribute. 63 00:05:41.720 --> 00:05:42.920 So thank you, Stacey. 64 00:05:42.920 --> 00:05:44.100 Thank you. 65 00:05:44.100 --> 00:05:46.200 We'll have to, I'm gonna click on that 66 00:05:46.200 --> 00:05:48.560 so it's in my storage for a minute later. 67 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:51.600 Then I gotta come back to you guys so I don't get lost. 68 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:53.200 Okay, all right. 69 00:05:53.200 --> 00:05:54.520 How do you pronounce? 70 00:05:54.520 --> 00:05:55.360 Uh-oh. 71 00:05:55.360 --> 00:05:57.000 H-O-U-H. 72 00:05:57.000 --> 00:05:57.840 Uh-oh. 73 00:05:57.880 --> 00:06:00.000 There is no vowels to say it correctly. 74 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:01.760 No, I gotta stop this. 75 00:06:01.760 --> 00:06:03.840 Okay, you guys, this is what she gave us. 76 00:06:03.840 --> 00:06:06.480 Okay, let's come back. 77 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:07.520 I was trying to save it. 78 00:06:07.520 --> 00:06:08.560 All righty. 79 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:12.840 Okay, so let's just practice this a little bit, right? 80 00:06:12.840 --> 00:06:14.960 So let's breathe in together. 81 00:06:18.200 --> 00:06:19.640 Hold at the top. 82 00:06:25.080 --> 00:06:26.160 Let's do it again. 83 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:28.280 Breathe in to the yaw. 84 00:06:31.880 --> 00:06:33.000 And breathe out. 85 00:06:39.880 --> 00:06:40.880 Let's do it again. 86 00:06:57.160 --> 00:07:02.160 You can already feel the difference just with that. 87 00:07:03.720 --> 00:07:07.360 Pop in the chat if you're already just doing 88 00:07:07.360 --> 00:07:12.360 that one simple thing as we command in the morning. 89 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:17.920 You know, most women begin their day 90 00:07:19.520 --> 00:07:22.120 with a little bit of meditation. 91 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:27.360 Women begin their day by being reached by the world 92 00:07:32.200 --> 00:07:35.680 before they're reached by the presence of God, 93 00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:37.080 by the peace of God. 94 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:40.960 And so part of the goal today is to begin, 95 00:07:40.960 --> 00:07:44.080 as we're moving from pressure to partnership, 96 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:48.600 to begin to put in place some of these partnership, 97 00:07:48.640 --> 00:07:53.240 simple, simple things that we can do. 98 00:07:54.280 --> 00:07:56.000 We're gonna practice some things 99 00:07:56.000 --> 00:07:57.840 that are just very different today 100 00:07:57.840 --> 00:08:01.920 to lay the foundation for these 12 gates 101 00:08:02.920 --> 00:08:05.760 from pressure to partnership. 102 00:08:05.760 --> 00:08:10.000 You see, the real problem that so many women, 103 00:08:10.000 --> 00:08:14.160 the challenge that so many men and women, 104 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:17.080 but I'm speaking to women here, 105 00:08:17.080 --> 00:08:22.080 is that we're just, we're waking up straight into pressure. 106 00:08:25.240 --> 00:08:27.920 And we've got it coming from everywhere, right? 107 00:08:27.920 --> 00:08:30.640 I mean, each of them have different sounds. 108 00:08:30.640 --> 00:08:34.000 The email is chiming, the messenger is chiming, 109 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:37.600 the phone is, you know, the messenger's chiming 110 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:41.120 and WhatsApp is chiming and, you know, 111 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:44.760 all of these, the emails are chiming 112 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:49.240 and it's like, you know, it used to be hard to reach us. 113 00:08:49.240 --> 00:08:51.920 It was, you know, a phone call, right? 114 00:08:51.920 --> 00:08:56.360 And you didn't have to, but all these things. 115 00:08:56.360 --> 00:09:00.840 So that immediately as we're waking up, 116 00:09:00.840 --> 00:09:05.840 we're already in parasympathetic, in the sympathetic, right? 117 00:09:06.520 --> 00:09:09.640 We're already in that stress. 118 00:09:09.640 --> 00:09:10.880 Before we're even awake, 119 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:15.440 the nervous system is already in survival. 120 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:18.560 Any of you relating to that, 121 00:09:18.560 --> 00:09:21.680 that more and more things are invading into your life 122 00:09:21.680 --> 00:09:24.120 by the time you open your eyes? 123 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:27.680 There's a sense of urgency, a sense of panic, 124 00:09:27.680 --> 00:09:32.400 a sense of fear and, you know, we've got two states. 125 00:09:32.400 --> 00:09:36.680 We've got the sympathetic and the parasympathetic, right? 126 00:09:36.680 --> 00:09:40.480 And the sympathetic is this fight or flight 127 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:44.640 and this is where our cortisol is elevated. 128 00:09:44.640 --> 00:09:48.280 It's we're in a hypervigilant state, you know? 129 00:09:48.280 --> 00:09:52.800 It's like the lions are attacking all the time, right? 130 00:09:52.800 --> 00:09:54.520 We're in that tension. 131 00:09:54.520 --> 00:09:58.720 We're in that reaction mode. 132 00:09:58.720 --> 00:09:59.560 And we're in this, 133 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:09.600 pressure loop. I've been saying this all week in many of the things that I've written. 134 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:19.200 You cannot build peace externally. You can't create a peaceful world, a peaceful business, 135 00:10:19.200 --> 00:10:27.360 peaceful relationships. We can't build peace externally from an internally reactive and 136 00:10:27.440 --> 00:10:34.400 contracted state. See, we have to learn to reason biblically. 137 00:10:35.680 --> 00:10:42.000 Biblically, the circumstances don't define us. The outer does not come first. 138 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:50.960 Biblically, out of the heart flow the issues of life. Out of the heart, the mouth speaks. 139 00:10:51.920 --> 00:11:01.040 Rivers of living water flow out of our belly. Learning to live and reason biblically 140 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:10.880 is we're focusing on the inner man first to create the outer peace that we so desire. 141 00:11:12.800 --> 00:11:19.840 It's so important. We can't build this outside first. We've got women in such an internally 142 00:11:19.840 --> 00:11:27.360 reactive and contracted state trying to build something wonderful on the outside. 143 00:11:28.160 --> 00:11:34.880 And what I want to bring to your attention is that Jesus never built reactively. 144 00:11:36.480 --> 00:11:45.280 Jesus never built reactively. If you want to make a couple notes and you could study 145 00:11:45.280 --> 00:11:56.160 these scriptures, if you look at Mark 1.35, it says that very early in the morning, 146 00:11:57.120 --> 00:12:01.440 while it was still dark, he would command the morning before sunrise, 147 00:12:02.240 --> 00:12:11.920 Jesus would leave his house and he would go to a solitary place where he prayed. 148 00:12:15.680 --> 00:12:19.760 Imagine starting from that solitary place. 149 00:12:22.160 --> 00:12:25.440 I've done that in different seasons of my life in different ways. 150 00:12:27.040 --> 00:12:35.040 You know, the Lord found me at age 17. I was still at home. A lot of craziness in my home. 151 00:12:35.760 --> 00:12:41.280 Addictions and domestic violence and all kinds of things. And when the Lord found me 152 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:47.440 and he called me and redeemed me, I would get up like this early in the morning and I would leave 153 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:52.640 the house. You know, I was still in school and all of that. I would leave the house and I would go 154 00:12:52.640 --> 00:12:56.800 the driveway. There was a driveway at my neighbor's that was at the top of the hill that could 155 00:12:56.800 --> 00:13:02.480 overlook the whole valley. And I'd sit at the top of the valley and give my mornings to God. 156 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:10.240 And the greatest thing I've done since age 17, it's now part of my life, my being. I can't 157 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:18.720 imagine any other way, is to have this partnership first thing in the morning. And so Jesus would do 158 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:28.160 this. Mark 1.35. He would go to a solitary place. Luke 5.16. It says Jesus often withdrew 159 00:13:28.880 --> 00:13:35.920 to lonely places and prayed. You also create a sanctuary in your home. I've always had a place 160 00:13:35.920 --> 00:13:44.320 to go in my home to be with God. When I was in a later season of my life and I had three kids and 161 00:13:44.320 --> 00:13:50.640 I was homeschooling and my Korean in-laws lived with us and everything would just, you know, 162 00:13:51.440 --> 00:13:55.520 be pulling on me. When you got young ones, those of you that have young ones, 163 00:13:56.400 --> 00:14:00.080 and I would retreat to that private place before any of them woke up. 164 00:14:01.040 --> 00:14:08.320 Most important thing I've ever done for my spiritual life. And so Jesus would withdraw 165 00:14:08.320 --> 00:14:21.360 early, go to a solitary place, and he would abide first before assignment. Abide before 166 00:14:22.320 --> 00:14:32.960 assignment. He would move from listening, not by pressure. He would not be rushed. He would not be 167 00:14:33.520 --> 00:14:47.120 driven by others' urgency. He would not be manipulated. Divine timing would always outrun 168 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:54.640 human performance. You know, I often put myself in the story and the situation. 169 00:14:55.280 --> 00:14:59.360 You know, Jesus was very close with Mary and Martha. 170 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:05.760 Lazarus. They were dear friends. He spent a lot of time at their home. The scripture says he loved 171 00:15:05.760 --> 00:15:15.840 them very much. And he got word that his son, Lazarus, was very, very sick. Now I want you 172 00:15:15.840 --> 00:15:22.560 to think how you would respond. Someone you really love, a friend, calls you and says, 173 00:15:22.560 --> 00:15:31.200 come. Our dear friend is very sick. They may not make it. Think about what normally the reaction 174 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:35.600 that rises up in your mind that you're like putting together. How can I cancel appointments? 175 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:39.840 I got to get in the car. And how can, who can I put in charge of the dogs and the kids? Any of 176 00:15:39.840 --> 00:15:45.920 you get in that and you just like, you run to the situation. You get in the reactive mode. 177 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:54.320 And Jesus modeled something so profound because it says right in that scripture that he, 178 00:15:55.280 --> 00:16:04.560 he loved them very much, but it says he waited a couple days before starting his walk to go there. 179 00:16:06.800 --> 00:16:11.760 He didn't get there till the fourth day. Lazarus had been three days dead. 180 00:16:12.640 --> 00:16:18.160 And you know, in the Hebrew thinking, the soul kind of stayed near the body for a few days. There 181 00:16:18.160 --> 00:16:24.880 was a chance of, of life coming back that maybe they were unconscious and they'd come back. But 182 00:16:24.880 --> 00:16:36.240 by that point, all hope is lost. And Jesus let divine timing guide when he left and when he got 183 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:45.280 there and the glory of God was revealed. Do we have the ability to stop allowing urgency 184 00:16:46.400 --> 00:16:54.240 to dictate our timing and start moving in divine timing? 185 00:16:56.080 --> 00:17:03.200 Most of you know, I'm a Latin ballroom dancer. It is so much fun. And it's taught me so much 186 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:10.000 about God because there's a leader and there's a follower. And I've been a leader all my life, 187 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:16.000 learning to follow. That was a different journey. Trusting someone else to lead you, 188 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:23.200 not be in the head, not anticipating, not tense, not rigid, not trying to control, 189 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:30.000 but being led. Scripture says those that are led by the spirit are the sons and daughters of God, 190 00:17:30.560 --> 00:17:39.280 right? Being led. And so not letting urgency. So there wasn't this frantic pace that we live at, 191 00:17:39.280 --> 00:17:45.280 right? There wasn't this being manipulated. And yet, of course, he was so, he was so fruitful. 192 00:17:46.560 --> 00:17:53.920 You could read that story in John chapter 11, verses five and six. So as we're talking about 193 00:17:54.000 --> 00:18:04.080 moving from pressure to partnership, what if partnership and not pressure was always the 194 00:18:04.080 --> 00:18:14.560 kingdom model? What if partnership and not pressure was always the kingdom model? So 195 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:22.960 we're going to be talking today. We're going to open this gate one, commanding the morning. 196 00:18:24.560 --> 00:18:34.400 Taking back that holy, holy, holy time, because the first voice that you hear matters. The first 197 00:18:34.400 --> 00:18:41.200 thoughts that you have, they set the rhythm, they set the course for the whole day. 198 00:18:43.600 --> 00:18:51.760 Many of you know, and many of you have it, that I created the Prosper Daily Planner. 199 00:18:52.640 --> 00:19:03.040 This has been my rhythm for years and what I use with my clients. You can find it at BLT. 200 00:19:03.840 --> 00:19:14.640 I'll just put this because you may want to know, Biddley Prosper Planner. So I don't want to teach 201 00:19:15.040 --> 00:19:22.800 this this morning from a sense of productivity or something else to do. That's not what today 202 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:33.200 is about. But this is a powerful tool and every single part of it has an important role. 203 00:19:34.160 --> 00:19:43.200 So at the top left, right here, is the morning spiritual practice. 204 00:19:44.080 --> 00:19:50.000 And the amount of time doesn't matter. And how many of them? We're not being religious about 205 00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:57.680 this. This is not something to bring perfectionism. It's something to bring partnership in. And so it 206 00:19:57.680 --> 00:19:59.840 could be one minute for each of 207 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:07.120 these things. Thank you, Jackie. I live by it. You can see I'm using my own tool. And you know, 208 00:20:07.120 --> 00:20:12.480 the top of it says a prosper daily plan a day keeps the squirrels away. I can squirrel with 209 00:20:12.480 --> 00:20:20.640 the best of them. Okay. And so this is how I keep myself on track. But and my clients, 210 00:20:20.640 --> 00:20:25.520 but I want to talk to you from the perspective of what we're talking about today. So not so much 211 00:20:25.520 --> 00:20:32.240 productivity in business, but understand the role this plays in moving from pressure 212 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:38.000 to partnership. So there's many different components in there. And there's just little 213 00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:45.600 boxes for you to check. There's recommended times. But you can do any amount of time. 214 00:20:45.600 --> 00:20:53.120 So one of the things there is gratitude. And I like to start there from the time I 215 00:20:53.120 --> 00:21:00.800 open my eyes, you see, I don't know how many of you let me just ask you, how many of you does 216 00:21:01.440 --> 00:21:08.240 lack the belief in lack, just creep in and try to rob your peace. When I say lack, 217 00:21:08.240 --> 00:21:14.720 I don't just mean lack of finances. That's its own stress. But I mean, lack of time. I mean, 218 00:21:14.720 --> 00:21:20.800 like, do you wake up going, Oh, I didn't get enough sleep, black, I don't have enough time 219 00:21:20.800 --> 00:21:27.200 to do all of this lack. I don't have enough money to pay the bills today. Any of you like 220 00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:34.240 lack steals your peace. So this is one of the biggest to command the morning 221 00:21:35.280 --> 00:21:42.880 to restore your peace to restore partnership is we've got to break out of this mindset of lack. 222 00:21:43.840 --> 00:21:52.480 It's a it's really a nervous system. You know, throw you into sympathetic. And so gratitude 223 00:21:53.440 --> 00:21:59.360 is the way to just immediately shift things first in the morning. And you can do it a lot 224 00:21:59.360 --> 00:22:03.520 of different ways. You can wake up from the time you train yourself from the time you open your 225 00:22:03.520 --> 00:22:10.720 eyes. You can start with thank you. You can start I like to mix thank you and I love. 226 00:22:11.280 --> 00:22:17.840 And so I'll just be Oh, thank you, God for waking me up this morning. Oh, I love my bed. I love my 227 00:22:17.840 --> 00:22:25.680 pillow. Oh, I'll get up and open my sliding door and let my dog I love my dog and I love my yard 228 00:22:25.680 --> 00:22:31.600 and I love the morning air and thank you that I woke up with a sound mind and a sound body and I 229 00:22:31.600 --> 00:22:38.480 can breathe and, and thank you and I just go into a constant thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank 230 00:22:38.960 --> 00:22:46.720 you. Thank you. Thank you. And this alone just like it breaks laugh and it just shifts your 231 00:22:46.720 --> 00:22:57.840 nervous system. So gratitude, then the two most powerful words in the universe are I am I am. 232 00:22:58.560 --> 00:23:05.920 And this is where we're, we're aligning our identity. We're stepping back into who God says 233 00:23:05.920 --> 00:23:13.040 we are. Right? And suing doing different I am affirmations and you can do those combined with 234 00:23:13.040 --> 00:23:20.400 biblical promises. I am a daughter of the Most High God. I am blessed. I am filled with the 235 00:23:20.400 --> 00:23:25.760 Holy Spirit. I am the temple of the Holy Spirit. I am, you know, we can just start going on and 236 00:23:25.760 --> 00:23:32.720 you can you can add even the things I am, you know, a highly sought out speaker. I'm a, I'm a, 237 00:23:32.720 --> 00:23:38.080 you know, whatever that you're working on author or whatever you can, but, but really lining up 238 00:23:38.080 --> 00:23:43.280 your identity with what God says about you. I am heir to the kingdom. I'm daughter of the Most High 239 00:23:43.280 --> 00:23:52.560 God. I am filled with the Holy Spirit. And we just start lining up those things and then some time 240 00:23:52.560 --> 00:23:59.760 for prayer and meditation. This is the nervous system regulation, whether it's breathing, whether 241 00:23:59.840 --> 00:24:06.960 it's, it's worship, whether it's prayer, whether there's so many things that we can, we can do 242 00:24:06.960 --> 00:24:15.600 there. I want to do one of my favorite things in this series, and that is using a journal, not just 243 00:24:15.600 --> 00:24:24.000 to write, you know, whatever into the journal journals are used so many ways. I actually have 244 00:24:24.000 --> 00:24:31.360 a journal template, but one of my favorite ways to journal, and I want to do this with you that 245 00:24:31.360 --> 00:24:39.200 you actually experience it here today. So if you have a journal, I'm going to give you a second to 246 00:24:39.200 --> 00:24:47.760 grab the journal. And what I want you to grab is two colors of pen. I am a fan of gel pens 247 00:24:48.480 --> 00:24:56.400 and my two favorite colors are purple, which is royalty, which is God, and pink, which is me. 248 00:24:57.040 --> 00:24:59.920 But what I'd like you to do for this exercise is 249 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:03.040 is to grab your journal. 250 00:25:03.040 --> 00:25:06.760 I'm going to grab mine as we're talking. 251 00:25:06.760 --> 00:25:09.520 I like using The Tree of Life. 252 00:25:09.520 --> 00:25:11.040 I like using Hardbound. 253 00:25:11.040 --> 00:25:14.960 I think this is also rhema word, word of God. 254 00:25:14.960 --> 00:25:17.440 I treat it seriously. 255 00:25:17.440 --> 00:25:19.440 But grab your journal. 256 00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:22.200 Grab the two pens. 257 00:25:22.200 --> 00:25:26.520 And I'm going to show you my two-pen prayer meditation. 258 00:25:26.520 --> 00:25:29.120 If you look at mine, you see that there's two colors. 259 00:25:29.120 --> 00:25:31.480 I don't know if you can tell. 260 00:25:31.480 --> 00:25:36.080 So the pink is me talking to God. 261 00:25:36.080 --> 00:25:39.000 And the purple, and this will come with practice. 262 00:25:39.000 --> 00:25:40.360 Some of you have already done it. 263 00:25:40.360 --> 00:25:41.240 It'll come easy. 264 00:25:41.240 --> 00:25:44.400 Some of you, it's like priming a well. 265 00:25:44.400 --> 00:25:46.320 Don't be hard on yourself. 266 00:25:46.320 --> 00:25:48.000 You'll get better and better at this. 267 00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:50.160 And it'll become one of the most significant parts 268 00:25:50.160 --> 00:25:53.200 of your morning practice. 269 00:25:53.200 --> 00:25:57.160 And so what I normally do, I talk to God in the pink. 270 00:25:57.160 --> 00:26:00.680 And I usually ask questions. 271 00:26:00.680 --> 00:26:02.840 And then I change pens. 272 00:26:02.840 --> 00:26:09.800 And I allow God to speak back to me. 273 00:26:09.800 --> 00:26:16.240 We're going to do a very short, just simple version of this 274 00:26:16.240 --> 00:26:21.400 to begin to hear the voice of God. 275 00:26:21.400 --> 00:26:24.920 You see, most women have never slowed down 276 00:26:24.920 --> 00:26:30.240 enough to distinguish their fear, their pressure, 277 00:26:30.240 --> 00:26:36.320 their mental noise from the actual voice of God. 278 00:26:36.320 --> 00:26:38.160 So some of you are more trained. 279 00:26:38.160 --> 00:26:41.400 You're just used to listening to God. 280 00:26:41.400 --> 00:26:44.400 And it's a beautiful way to live. 281 00:26:44.400 --> 00:26:47.880 And there's a pray without ceasing. 282 00:26:47.880 --> 00:26:49.840 There's just an endless conversation. 283 00:26:49.840 --> 00:26:53.080 Some of you, your prayers are still 284 00:26:53.080 --> 00:26:55.600 very what you've been taught. 285 00:26:55.600 --> 00:26:58.080 You pray the Lord's Prayer or whatever. 286 00:26:58.080 --> 00:27:00.680 You pray from a devotional. 287 00:27:00.680 --> 00:27:05.440 And you have not really engaged this 288 00:27:05.440 --> 00:27:08.360 and hearing the voice of God. 289 00:27:08.360 --> 00:27:13.040 Scripture says that my sheep hear my voice 290 00:27:13.040 --> 00:27:16.520 and the voice of another they will not follow. 291 00:27:16.520 --> 00:27:20.040 And if this is new to you, I want 292 00:27:20.040 --> 00:27:22.080 to show you some of your resources 293 00:27:22.080 --> 00:27:24.800 that you have in this program that you could 294 00:27:24.800 --> 00:27:26.960 go in and go deeper with this. 295 00:27:26.960 --> 00:27:28.800 And then we're going to do a practice. 296 00:27:28.800 --> 00:27:32.200 But let me share the screen really quick just so you know. 297 00:27:32.200 --> 00:27:36.040 If this is new to you, I don't want you just left 298 00:27:36.040 --> 00:27:40.200 without hearing. 299 00:27:40.200 --> 00:27:45.000 So in the Prosper Leader membership, 300 00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:47.680 which is the membership.prosperandallthings.com, 301 00:27:47.680 --> 00:27:50.080 you should have gotten instructions how to log in, 302 00:27:50.080 --> 00:27:52.040 that you have full access pass. 303 00:27:52.040 --> 00:27:54.320 I'll send it again today. 304 00:27:54.320 --> 00:27:57.880 And there's lots of stuff, starting at the top. 305 00:27:57.880 --> 00:27:59.720 It looks like this. 306 00:27:59.720 --> 00:28:06.720 And when you scroll down, you will get to a Bible study 307 00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:07.520 that I did. 308 00:28:07.520 --> 00:28:09.960 I think it's six or eight weeks. 309 00:28:09.960 --> 00:28:11.440 You'll see it. 310 00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:15.720 And it looks, under Bible studies, under faith, 311 00:28:15.720 --> 00:28:18.760 it is right here. 312 00:28:18.760 --> 00:28:23.840 And it's called How to Hear God's Voice. 313 00:28:23.840 --> 00:28:26.560 And when I went in and looked at it today, 314 00:28:26.560 --> 00:28:29.920 I filmed this many years ago, I noticed it starts with six. 315 00:28:29.920 --> 00:28:31.920 So just click the right arrow. 316 00:28:31.920 --> 00:28:33.760 Start over here in one. 317 00:28:33.760 --> 00:28:36.800 And then after that, you'll be able to work your way 318 00:28:36.800 --> 00:28:39.200 through all of them in order. 319 00:28:39.200 --> 00:28:43.600 So if hearing the voice of God is new to you, 320 00:28:43.600 --> 00:28:50.480 part of moving from this pressure to partnership 321 00:28:50.480 --> 00:28:53.920 is really being able to hear the voice of God. 322 00:28:53.920 --> 00:28:57.920 This is all the way through scripture. 323 00:28:57.920 --> 00:29:00.960 So all right. 324 00:29:00.960 --> 00:29:04.160 Let's do a little exercise now. 325 00:29:04.160 --> 00:29:07.280 If you've got, does everybody have your journal 326 00:29:07.280 --> 00:29:11.280 and your two pens, say me, in the chat? 327 00:29:11.280 --> 00:29:14.280 Actually, let me ask in the chat, how many of you, 328 00:29:14.280 --> 00:29:15.680 is this a little bit new? 329 00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:17.920 And how many of you are just, say, pro? 330 00:29:17.920 --> 00:29:19.880 I already do this. 331 00:29:19.880 --> 00:29:21.240 Pop in the chat. 332 00:29:21.240 --> 00:29:23.080 Let me just see where you guys are at 333 00:29:23.080 --> 00:29:26.720 so my teaching is best for where you are at. 334 00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:27.440 OK, good. 335 00:29:27.440 --> 00:29:28.160 I'm so glad. 336 00:29:28.160 --> 00:29:28.880 It's new. 337 00:29:28.880 --> 00:29:30.040 I'm glad you're here. 338 00:29:30.040 --> 00:29:31.640 OK. 339 00:29:31.640 --> 00:29:32.760 Somewhat new. 340 00:29:32.760 --> 00:29:34.040 Fantastic. 341 00:29:34.040 --> 00:29:35.720 Great. 342 00:29:35.720 --> 00:29:36.720 Anyone else? 343 00:29:36.720 --> 00:29:37.240 Keep going. 344 00:29:37.240 --> 00:29:38.360 There's no wrong answer. 345 00:29:38.360 --> 00:29:40.080 Just let me know where you're at. 346 00:29:40.080 --> 00:29:41.160 No wrong answer. 347 00:29:41.160 --> 00:29:42.480 We're family here. 348 00:29:42.480 --> 00:29:43.280 OK. 349 00:29:43.280 --> 00:29:44.680 Beth already do this. 350 00:29:44.680 --> 00:29:45.160 Wonderful. 351 00:29:45.160 --> 00:29:46.440 Two-color journaling? 352 00:29:46.440 --> 00:29:47.280 I love that. 353 00:29:47.280 --> 00:29:48.200 OK. 354 00:29:48.200 --> 00:29:50.080 Wonderful. 355 00:29:50.080 --> 00:29:50.840 Who else? 356 00:29:50.840 --> 00:29:52.800 Let me hear from you guys. 357 00:29:52.800 --> 00:29:53.600 OK. 358 00:29:53.600 --> 00:29:54.120 New. 359 00:29:54.120 --> 00:29:54.840 Wonderful. 360 00:29:54.840 --> 00:29:57.800 Oh, I can't wait to hear the results of this, Stacey, 361 00:29:57.800 --> 00:29:59.200 with your brilliant mind. 362 00:29:59.200 --> 00:29:59.840 Love this. 363 00:29:59.840 --> 00:30:01.400 OK. 364 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:02.000 OK. 365 00:30:02.000 --> 00:30:02.760 OK. 366 00:30:02.760 --> 00:30:04.040 Jackie, a little different. 367 00:30:04.040 --> 00:30:04.680 Good. 368 00:30:04.680 --> 00:30:05.640 OK. 369 00:30:05.640 --> 00:30:07.080 Love this. 370 00:30:07.080 --> 00:30:08.720 Anybody else? 371 00:30:08.720 --> 00:30:10.200 Love to hear from you guys. 372 00:30:10.200 --> 00:30:11.200 OK. 373 00:30:11.200 --> 00:30:15.600 So what we're going to do, we're going to breathe and get 374 00:30:15.600 --> 00:30:16.880 centered again. 375 00:30:16.880 --> 00:30:19.280 I'm going to put on some music. 376 00:30:19.280 --> 00:30:22.600 So let's do this first. 377 00:30:22.600 --> 00:30:27.920 With the pink pen, which is you speaking, 378 00:30:27.920 --> 00:30:32.280 I want you to write down the question, 379 00:30:32.280 --> 00:30:38.400 what pressure have I been carrying? 380 00:30:38.400 --> 00:30:42.120 Write that in your journal, in whatever color 381 00:30:42.120 --> 00:30:43.280 you're choosing for you. 382 00:30:43.280 --> 00:30:45.400 I use pink. 383 00:30:45.400 --> 00:30:50.280 What pressure have I been carrying? 384 00:30:50.280 --> 00:31:03.240 And when you've written that, you're 385 00:31:03.240 --> 00:31:10.240 going to secondly say, God, what do you 386 00:31:10.240 --> 00:31:15.480 want me to know right now? 387 00:31:15.480 --> 00:31:16.440 That's the second. 388 00:31:16.440 --> 00:31:19.240 What pressure have I been carrying? 389 00:31:19.240 --> 00:31:29.960 And God, what do you want me to know right now? 390 00:31:29.960 --> 00:31:31.800 OK. 391 00:31:31.800 --> 00:31:34.520 Let's do our breathing again. 392 00:31:34.520 --> 00:31:36.680 I'm going to do a little different breathing, 393 00:31:36.680 --> 00:31:42.560 and then you're going to just allow God to speak through you. 394 00:31:42.560 --> 00:31:46.960 So we're going to breathe in, knowing the scripture says, 395 00:31:46.960 --> 00:31:48.360 God is in me. 396 00:31:48.360 --> 00:31:51.880 So you're in me. 397 00:31:51.880 --> 00:31:54.840 Breathe out. 398 00:31:54.840 --> 00:31:57.960 I'm in you. 399 00:31:57.960 --> 00:31:59.320 We are one. 400 00:31:59.320 --> 00:32:02.040 Breathe in. 401 00:32:02.040 --> 00:32:03.160 Oh, you're in me. 402 00:32:03.160 --> 00:32:03.800 Holy Spirit. 403 00:32:07.160 --> 00:32:08.160 Lean in. 404 00:32:08.160 --> 00:32:08.920 I'm in you. 405 00:32:08.920 --> 00:32:11.600 I'm in you. 406 00:32:11.600 --> 00:32:14.240 We are one. 407 00:32:14.240 --> 00:32:15.320 Thank you, Holy Spirit. 408 00:32:15.320 --> 00:32:18.600 Speak in this season. 409 00:32:18.600 --> 00:32:21.080 Now, just take your purple pen. 410 00:32:21.080 --> 00:32:24.520 Just quietly just write whatever comes to you. 411 00:32:24.520 --> 00:32:25.240 Don't read it. 412 00:32:25.240 --> 00:32:26.080 Don't judge it. 413 00:32:26.080 --> 00:32:27.960 Just start writing. 414 00:32:27.960 --> 00:32:30.120 Just write whatever comes to you. 415 00:32:30.120 --> 00:32:32.920 When I first started, all I heard was my name. 416 00:32:32.920 --> 00:32:34.520 I wrote that first. 417 00:32:34.520 --> 00:32:38.200 Just let Papa speak to you right now. 418 00:32:38.200 --> 00:32:40.960 I'm going to put a little music on while you're 419 00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:41.760 working on that. 420 00:33:08.200 --> 00:33:12.200 I'm going to put a little music on while you're working on that. 421 00:34:38.280 --> 00:34:42.800 I'm going to put a little music on while you're working 422 00:34:42.800 --> 00:34:43.360 on that. 423 00:34:43.360 --> 00:34:45.639 I'm going to put a little music on while you're 424 00:34:45.639 --> 00:34:46.480 working on that. 425 00:34:46.480 --> 00:34:55.159 I'm going to put a little music on while you're 426 00:34:55.159 --> 00:34:56.080 working on that. 427 00:34:56.080 --> 00:35:00.040 I'm going to put a little music on while you're 428 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.060 you 429 00:35:00.040 --> 00:35:07.680 working on that. 430 00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:32.060 you 431 00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:02.060 you 432 00:36:02.060 --> 00:36:04.060 you 433 00:36:04.060 --> 00:36:06.060 you 434 00:36:06.060 --> 00:36:08.060 you 435 00:36:08.060 --> 00:36:10.080 you 436 00:36:10.080 --> 00:36:12.040 you 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What I want to tell you, as we do this, this 551 00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:02.960 you 552 00:40:02.960 --> 00:40:04.960 you 553 00:40:04.960 --> 00:40:06.960 you 554 00:40:06.660 --> 00:40:10.400 will become one of the most meaningful things that you do 555 00:40:06.960 --> 00:40:08.960 you 556 00:40:08.960 --> 00:40:10.960 you 557 00:40:10.400 --> 00:40:17.940 going forward. I actually, now, if you notice, I'll go back a 558 00:40:10.960 --> 00:40:12.960 you 559 00:40:12.960 --> 00:40:14.960 you 560 00:40:14.960 --> 00:40:16.960 you 561 00:40:17.940 --> 00:40:22.680 week later, I'll go back two weeks a month, three months at 562 00:40:22.680 --> 00:40:28.080 the end of the year with my highlighter. Because this is the 563 00:40:28.080 --> 00:40:31.440 word of the Lord. And I'm treasuring it. I'm storing it 564 00:40:31.440 --> 00:40:35.560 in my heart. So I actually go, wow, God, that's what you were 565 00:40:35.560 --> 00:40:42.400 talking about. And I'm reminded what the Lord is saying. So 566 00:40:42.440 --> 00:40:48.240 because these are such specific, you know, there is the Rhema 567 00:40:48.240 --> 00:40:53.640 word, and there's the Logos word. Okay, Logos word is the 568 00:40:53.640 --> 00:40:57.160 written word, what's in the scriptures, okay, the Rhema 569 00:40:57.160 --> 00:41:03.920 word is the revealed word. And so this is still the word of 570 00:41:03.920 --> 00:41:10.320 God. And so we treasure it. And we we store it in our heart. 571 00:41:11.040 --> 00:41:17.200 Okay. I love that. Okay. Oh, is this I see, Christine, you 572 00:41:17.200 --> 00:41:20.160 wrote down and shared because you can't turn your camera on. 573 00:41:20.440 --> 00:41:24.720 Okay, I'll speak it for you. If you want, Christine. Christine 574 00:41:24.720 --> 00:41:28.600 said, Wow, exclamation point. And this is the word that she 575 00:41:28.600 --> 00:41:35.720 got. You need to slow down. Instead of rushing, command 576 00:41:35.720 --> 00:41:43.560 your day. Instead of your day, commanding you stick to the 577 00:41:43.560 --> 00:41:52.880 plan. Rest. Trust. I love you. So beautiful. Do you see how 578 00:41:52.880 --> 00:41:55.880 this can change? When you command your morning and you 579 00:41:55.880 --> 00:42:00.440 start? Sometimes I'll actually take that word and put it on a 580 00:42:00.440 --> 00:42:05.440 card and have it on my desk when it's an important word, just to 581 00:42:05.440 --> 00:42:11.040 remind me and keep looking at it. Right? Okay, who else? I'd 582 00:42:11.040 --> 00:42:15.320 love to hear let's let's have some sharing time. Who else got 583 00:42:15.320 --> 00:42:16.720 something doing this? 584 00:42:20.960 --> 00:42:26.560 I can share a little bit. Thank you. So it was interesting how 585 00:42:26.560 --> 00:42:30.640 this is all coming together. As I woke up this morning, I heard 586 00:42:30.640 --> 00:42:35.120 the word render very loudly in my spirit. So I knew he was 587 00:42:35.120 --> 00:42:39.840 saying render to the Holy Spirit. So that was just a part 588 00:42:39.840 --> 00:42:44.120 of my morning. And that just got me. I don't know, giddy, I 589 00:42:44.120 --> 00:42:48.880 guess. But for me, though, when we were asking the question 590 00:42:48.880 --> 00:42:52.080 about the pressure that I've been carrying, as soon as we 591 00:42:52.080 --> 00:42:56.240 went into that time with him, I heard the word book in my book 592 00:42:56.240 --> 00:43:02.280 writing. And I've been carrying it. Like, I'll give it back or 593 00:43:02.280 --> 00:43:06.200 I'll carry it. And I think for me, it's that in, like, I'm 594 00:43:06.200 --> 00:43:09.000 such a feeler in the spirit, like, I just know, like, it's 595 00:43:09.000 --> 00:43:13.520 getting so much closer. But he said, you know, you need to 596 00:43:13.520 --> 00:43:17.160 trust me with that. And so that's we're getting closer, but 597 00:43:17.160 --> 00:43:20.360 I'm just so ready to, it's almost like be done with it. But 598 00:43:20.360 --> 00:43:24.440 then I don't if that makes sense. Yeah. So he just said, 599 00:43:24.840 --> 00:43:27.200 you know, trust me with that. So 600 00:43:28.440 --> 00:43:34.040 yeah, I love that. I get that word so often. Just yeah, just 601 00:43:34.040 --> 00:43:39.880 man, I've got you. Right. So thank you. I love that. I love 602 00:43:39.880 --> 00:43:45.840 that. Thank you for, you know, having it in this form, in in 603 00:43:45.840 --> 00:43:51.360 writing is, I often think like in scripture, like when the 604 00:43:51.360 --> 00:43:55.680 angel would give the word to Mary or to Elizabeth, and it 605 00:43:55.680 --> 00:43:59.480 says that they, they, they stored the word in their heart, 606 00:43:59.600 --> 00:44:06.240 right? For me, it's easy for me to forget what God said. But 607 00:44:06.240 --> 00:44:09.840 when I have it this way, and then I go back and I look at it 608 00:44:09.840 --> 00:44:13.000 at the end of the week, the end of the month and the quarter, 609 00:44:13.000 --> 00:44:15.600 especially at the end of the year, I go through the whole 610 00:44:15.600 --> 00:44:21.120 journal. I go, wow, I forgot that God kept saying that. And, 611 00:44:21.200 --> 00:44:24.560 and I'll actually start numbering it because he often 612 00:44:24.560 --> 00:44:28.080 says the same thing a dozen times. And it's like, wow, 613 00:44:28.680 --> 00:44:31.920 that's why he kept repeating that. So it's like when you're 614 00:44:31.920 --> 00:44:36.440 really treasuring when we're talking about partnership, 615 00:44:36.440 --> 00:44:40.320 partnership is about communication. Partnership is 616 00:44:40.320 --> 00:44:44.760 about knowing the heart, in this case, the heart of God, the mind 617 00:44:44.760 --> 00:44:49.520 of God, what the Spirit is saying for the season, what 618 00:44:49.520 --> 00:44:56.880 matters to God, right? And so this is such a powerful way to 619 00:44:56.880 --> 00:44:59.920 do that. Okay, who else? Please share. 620 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:15.360 is so so precious and so special. Someone else got anything? This might be a little different, 621 00:45:16.080 --> 00:45:21.840 but I'm an honest person, and sometimes when I ask questions like that, I don't get an 622 00:45:21.840 --> 00:45:28.800 immediate response. I might get an impression, and I get an impression, maybe because that's what's 623 00:45:28.800 --> 00:45:36.320 been on my mind a lot, is that one of the things that I feel pressure from carrying are finances, 624 00:45:36.320 --> 00:45:43.200 and then this came to me that I hadn't thought about before much, and that was not just mine. 625 00:45:43.200 --> 00:45:49.920 I carry other people's financial problems too. A family, you know, I'm always concerned about, 626 00:45:49.920 --> 00:45:53.360 you know, as a mother, I have two children, and they're grown. They're doing fine, 627 00:45:53.920 --> 00:45:59.360 but I carry their financial burdens. I'm concerned about what they're doing and how they're doing, 628 00:45:59.920 --> 00:46:06.240 and always feeling like if I got a few thousand ahead, maybe I could share to take pressure off 629 00:46:06.240 --> 00:46:12.960 them, and maybe I shouldn't be doing that, and the other thing is the spiritual condition of 630 00:46:12.960 --> 00:46:19.920 the other families, you know. I try to be a good example. I try to drop little hints about, you know, 631 00:46:19.920 --> 00:46:24.560 sooner is better than later, getting saved, and that you don't know what tomorrow is going to bring, 632 00:46:24.560 --> 00:46:29.040 and you might want to, if you haven't already, started talking to the Lord and just see, 633 00:46:29.600 --> 00:46:33.840 you know, where you need to be. Start reading the Word, because that's not a denomination if you're 634 00:46:33.840 --> 00:46:38.800 confused or not sure what you want to do in your spiritual life. Start with the Word, because that's 635 00:46:38.800 --> 00:46:44.800 not going to change. It's the same for everybody, so that's another thing I feel like I hold is I 636 00:46:44.800 --> 00:46:50.080 feel responsible for other people's finances and their spiritual conditions. I don't think that's 637 00:46:50.080 --> 00:46:56.400 correct, but I think as a human being that I am feeling that way, and another thing is household 638 00:46:56.400 --> 00:47:04.000 duties and chores. I work myself to pieces every day. I don't lose weight from it, but I started 639 00:47:04.000 --> 00:47:10.160 about 8 30 in the morning, and I don't stop about 8 30 at night just running around. Oh, I got to go 640 00:47:10.160 --> 00:47:15.440 feed the dog. Oh, a storm is coming. I got to go get the dogs. Oh, it's always me. Every little thing 641 00:47:15.440 --> 00:47:22.080 that comes up, and I feel like, why am I working myself 12 hours running? It's okay to sit down. 642 00:47:22.640 --> 00:47:28.880 I don't do it, so I think that's the other thing. I feel like I have high cortisol from stress from 643 00:47:28.880 --> 00:47:35.680 my living situation, but I don't help it any, because I won't take the time to rest. I don't 644 00:47:35.680 --> 00:47:40.720 know if anybody can relate. Please say if you can. People are commenting that can relate, so 645 00:47:40.720 --> 00:47:46.960 Christine said, I have often gone through my days being tossed to and fro, doing damage control, 646 00:47:46.960 --> 00:47:56.640 being the fixer, taking on all the burdens of those around us, so again, what we saw modeled today, 647 00:47:57.280 --> 00:48:05.040 Jesus was led by the Spirit, not by urgency. Certainly, his love for them wants to fix 648 00:48:05.040 --> 00:48:12.720 things. Go raise Lazarus. Go, man, go, but they had time to actually cry and weep and process for 649 00:48:12.720 --> 00:48:24.560 like four days. This whole thing, he allowed people to have their experience, and those that 650 00:48:24.640 --> 00:48:31.360 have hung with me any length of time. There's a couple things that you said, and Collette, 651 00:48:31.360 --> 00:48:38.880 I love that you said, I didn't necessarily hear, but actually you did, because you went to tell us 652 00:48:38.880 --> 00:48:44.800 all that you heard. You heard in your inner man, in your spirit, it came as a thought, 653 00:48:44.800 --> 00:48:49.760 and this is often like just, it's just recognizing, get that thought, write it down, 654 00:48:49.760 --> 00:48:57.040 get the next thought, because these are the Holy Spirit speaking to you, and so, you know, 655 00:48:57.040 --> 00:49:04.320 you opened with, is this actually mine to carry? That's a question when people are going through 656 00:49:04.320 --> 00:49:19.120 stuff. Is this mine? Like, our relatives make, you know, irresponsible decisions. Is it mine to 657 00:49:19.120 --> 00:49:27.200 carry the stress of it? Is it mine to fix that, and am I doing more damage by carrying and fixing 658 00:49:27.200 --> 00:49:35.520 it? Because if you've hung with me at any length of time, you know I talk about capacity, and the 659 00:49:35.520 --> 00:49:42.320 way that God increases our capacity is by us learning how to go through things like this with 660 00:49:42.320 --> 00:49:53.120 God, increase our capacity. So, and then, you know, to ask yourself, why do I need to keep running? 661 00:49:53.120 --> 00:49:59.520 Right? Because God says, be still and know that I am God. He says, 662 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:08.280 enter my rest. I encourage you to read Hebrews chapter four all about there's a 663 00:50:08.280 --> 00:50:15.160 rest for us enter my rest and read it in a few translations to really get the 664 00:50:15.160 --> 00:50:23.840 feel. I particularly and it's it's not a translation you want to build doctrine 665 00:50:23.840 --> 00:50:30.640 on I look at it more like a love letter but the passion translation that chapter 666 00:50:30.640 --> 00:50:36.920 where it talks about the faith rest life I love the way that that's phrased that 667 00:50:36.920 --> 00:50:44.560 phrase just resonated entering into the faith rest life I did I did a whole 668 00:50:44.560 --> 00:50:53.680 chapter in my book on the faith rest life so so yeah I think he spoke 669 00:50:53.680 --> 00:50:59.400 beautifully and thank you for sharing that Colette dr. Colette thank you so 670 00:50:59.400 --> 00:51:04.600 much for sharing that that's beautiful he did speak and so don't judge yourself 671 00:51:04.600 --> 00:51:10.480 it's gonna be different God speaks to us differently we learn differently all of 672 00:51:10.480 --> 00:51:15.840 us don't judge yourself but the beauty of this is you're creating enough space 673 00:51:15.840 --> 00:51:23.040 be still and know that I am God we're creating enough space to hear the voice 674 00:51:23.040 --> 00:51:27.920 of God and then if we treasure the Word of God we go back and we highlight we 675 00:51:27.920 --> 00:51:34.080 think we live it it creates great change is there anyone else that wants to share 676 00:51:34.240 --> 00:51:43.120 anyone else how was this experience for you to be able to do this pop in the 677 00:51:43.120 --> 00:51:49.920 chat was that a was that a valuable experience for you for this first moving 678 00:51:49.920 --> 00:51:54.160 you know today we said was about eye-opening wonderful Christine thank 679 00:51:54.160 --> 00:52:03.400 you it was about moving from this reactivity right to true partnership and 680 00:52:03.400 --> 00:52:08.080 partnership is communication and communing communication means communing 681 00:52:08.080 --> 00:52:13.360 right and so I'd like to share just real quick 682 00:52:13.360 --> 00:52:21.920 mine's really short but for the ladies I am building an MLM business and so as I 683 00:52:21.920 --> 00:52:26.880 was talking to Brenda yesterday I often don't feel like I fit the pattern of 684 00:52:26.880 --> 00:52:33.600 what you see out there and so when I and I have felt a lot of pressure around 685 00:52:33.600 --> 00:52:40.240 it and so when I was in my time here the Lord told me what I'm carrying that I 686 00:52:40.240 --> 00:52:45.240 don't need to his performance because I feel like when I try to fit into that 687 00:52:45.240 --> 00:52:51.280 pattern that I'm performing I'm not being my authentic self and so the word 688 00:52:51.280 --> 00:52:58.040 he spoke to me was I'm not designed with that same blueprint nice and he 689 00:52:58.040 --> 00:53:02.560 speaks the word blueprint to me a lot so for me that you know it makes a lot of 690 00:53:02.560 --> 00:53:08.720 sense I'm just not designed that way I'm designed for his purpose but it can be 691 00:53:08.720 --> 00:53:14.160 accomplished in his way and not just what I see out there so he didn't make 692 00:53:14.160 --> 00:53:18.960 you to be a carbon copy you've got a unique fingerprint you've got a unique 693 00:53:18.960 --> 00:53:25.920 eye print he knows the hairs on your head and you know in this age of guru 694 00:53:25.920 --> 00:53:33.080 where we just think we have to do the way that people say what if this is as 695 00:53:33.080 --> 00:53:38.960 we move from pressure to partnership what if we're building from this place 696 00:53:38.960 --> 00:53:44.520 of being led those that are led by the Spirit are the sons and daughters of God 697 00:53:44.520 --> 00:53:52.080 what if we're opening from this place of peace and that's why when you said 698 00:53:52.080 --> 00:53:56.080 all of that I said oh Beth you're in the right place so I pray you really feel 699 00:53:56.080 --> 00:54:00.140 that you're in the right you're in the right place so thank you thank you so 700 00:54:00.140 --> 00:54:04.600 much for for sharing that I appreciate all of you sharing and I believe it's 701 00:54:04.600 --> 00:54:12.120 gonna be such a beautiful 12 weeks together so as we wrap up this and then 702 00:54:12.120 --> 00:54:16.320 of course we go into office hours those that want to work on your businesses but 703 00:54:16.320 --> 00:54:23.760 as we wrap up this I want to make the invitation for this week until we gather 704 00:54:23.760 --> 00:54:32.640 again next week what would change if you stop beginning your day from pressure 705 00:54:32.640 --> 00:54:40.800 and started partnering with God before the world reached you how would your 706 00:54:40.800 --> 00:54:45.600 life be different how would your health be different how would your relationships 707 00:54:45.600 --> 00:54:49.760 be different how would your emotional health be different how would your 708 00:54:49.760 --> 00:54:57.400 business be different if you stop beginning your day from a place of lack 709 00:54:57.400 --> 00:55:02.120 and fear and pressure and you 710 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:10.720 start partnering with God. You command your mourning. And so for these seven days, 711 00:55:10.720 --> 00:55:17.360 even if it's for five minutes, if it's for one minute, can you practice this gate one, 712 00:55:17.360 --> 00:55:23.040 this mourning gate? And we come back and we talk about it next week. 713 00:55:23.040 --> 00:55:31.600 I want you to understand that the transformation we're talking about here, you know, 714 00:55:32.320 --> 00:55:41.440 this is a powerful, powerful organizing tool, but the transformation is not learning a planner. 715 00:55:42.320 --> 00:55:49.760 It's not adding something else. It's not productivity. The transformation is realizing 716 00:55:49.760 --> 00:55:56.400 that we've been unknowingly living from this internal pressure and reactivity. Awareness 717 00:55:56.400 --> 00:56:02.080 is the first step of transformation. So this week being aware, am I coming from pressure? 718 00:56:02.080 --> 00:56:07.680 Am I coming from partnership? Am I commanding my mourning or like Christine, I think said, 719 00:56:07.680 --> 00:56:17.360 or is my mourning commanding me and start to experience partnership? What does that feel like 720 00:56:18.240 --> 00:56:26.560 to experience partnership? So glad you were here. I just love this morning and sharing, 721 00:56:26.560 --> 00:56:34.000 commanding our mourning together. Can't wait to hear your feedback. I'm going to go ahead and 722 00:56:34.000 --> 00:56:39.360 stop the recording. I'm going to take a quick one minute break and we'll come back for office hours, 723 00:56:39.360 --> 00:56:45.440 same place. So even though I disconnect, just log into the same for office hours, 724 00:56:45.440 --> 00:56:48.400 but I, for recording sense, I'm going to stop here.