WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.060 All right, welcome, welcome, welcome. 2 00:00:05.060 --> 00:00:16.860 Here we are already, gate four in the From Pressure to Partnership series. 3 00:00:16.860 --> 00:00:21.940 I'm super, super excited to be back. 4 00:00:21.940 --> 00:00:34.820 And the whole idea of this is a transformation of moving from an internally contracted, you 5 00:00:34.820 --> 00:00:39.980 know, we get an internal wedgie, right? 6 00:00:39.980 --> 00:00:48.940 You know, fear, doubt, worry, all of that stuff, and we get internally contracted. 7 00:00:48.940 --> 00:00:54.060 And yet we're trying to build an outwardly expansive, right? 8 00:00:54.060 --> 00:00:59.300 We want prosperous businesses and prosperous lives and prosperous relationships. 9 00:00:59.300 --> 00:01:06.100 So we're trying to build that from an internally contracted state. 10 00:01:06.100 --> 00:01:13.860 And so we have been working through, this is a gate by gate, a step by step. 11 00:01:13.860 --> 00:01:21.680 And these steps are extremely transformational, any one of them. 12 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:29.620 So I encourage you that you keep notes, maybe you keep your notes in one notebook for this. 13 00:01:29.620 --> 00:01:32.780 Of course, the replays are on the membership site. 14 00:01:32.780 --> 00:01:37.300 You've probably discovered that if you haven't, let me show you. 15 00:01:37.300 --> 00:01:49.220 And this is something that we're going to, Romans 12, right, be transformed by the renewing 16 00:01:49.220 --> 00:01:50.900 of our mind. 17 00:01:50.900 --> 00:01:56.500 That's both spiritual and scientific, neuroscience, okay? 18 00:01:56.500 --> 00:02:00.540 And so let's just review really quick. 19 00:02:00.540 --> 00:02:02.860 And let's just chat for a second. 20 00:02:02.860 --> 00:02:04.100 How are we doing? 21 00:02:04.100 --> 00:02:06.220 Do you have questions? 22 00:02:06.220 --> 00:02:10.479 This is not something like, oh, I got it, check the box. 23 00:02:10.479 --> 00:02:17.780 It's something that we're beginning to transform from this internally contracted to this outwardly 24 00:02:17.780 --> 00:02:22.860 expansive, right, place. 25 00:02:22.860 --> 00:02:30.500 And it is as we are just continuously implementing these steps. 26 00:02:30.500 --> 00:02:32.540 Welcome, Linda. 27 00:02:32.540 --> 00:02:35.620 This is how we are moving. 28 00:02:36.020 --> 00:02:41.300 We're talking about moving from the whole idea from pressure to partnership is moving 29 00:02:41.300 --> 00:02:51.860 from this internally contracted state, okay, fear, doubt, worry, all of that, anxiousness 30 00:02:51.860 --> 00:02:59.700 to completely surrendered, partnering with God, life expansive, open, okay? 31 00:02:59.700 --> 00:03:03.780 And we're doing it very step by step by step, okay? 32 00:03:03.780 --> 00:03:07.100 So let me pray that let's review, let's talk about it. 33 00:03:07.100 --> 00:03:15.660 So Father, I just ask that what we need to hear, what needs to be spoken, Father God, 34 00:03:15.660 --> 00:03:24.700 for total and complete breakthrough for every prosperous sister here live and listening 35 00:03:24.700 --> 00:03:29.060 to the replace. 36 00:03:29.060 --> 00:03:35.780 We just ask that your words will be rich in us. 37 00:03:35.780 --> 00:03:42.180 And that we will be transformed as Romans 12 says, by the renewing of our mind. 38 00:03:42.180 --> 00:03:47.320 So have your way, Holy Spirit, may the words of my mouth, the meditation of my heart be 39 00:03:47.320 --> 00:03:53.480 pleasing in your sight, open our spiritual senses to hear what you are saying for each 40 00:03:53.480 --> 00:03:59.560 one of us today, in Jesus name, amen. 41 00:03:59.560 --> 00:04:15.400 So we opened, if you remember, gate one was moving from reactivity, right, to partnership, 42 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:22.840 to starting our day with a morning spiritual practice. 43 00:04:22.840 --> 00:04:30.280 So that the circumstances and the busyness and the craziness doesn't consume us first 44 00:04:30.280 --> 00:04:35.200 thing in the morning, but we're beginning to train ourselves that even from the time 45 00:04:35.200 --> 00:04:40.960 we open our eyes, we begin to command the morning. 46 00:04:40.960 --> 00:04:44.840 We begin to direct the direction of the day. 47 00:04:44.840 --> 00:04:50.840 And so you can do that, just opening your eyes and even start with gratitude. 48 00:04:50.840 --> 00:04:53.460 You make that a habit, right? 49 00:04:53.460 --> 00:05:00.040 So much of what we do in our life is habits, and it just becomes an awareness, okay? 50 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:05.000 and knowing that how you set your thermostat, 51 00:05:05.400 --> 00:05:09.380 your internal mood thermostat first thing in the morning 52 00:05:09.380 --> 00:05:11.440 can shape your entire day. 53 00:05:11.440 --> 00:05:14.540 And that comes from the mind, heart, mouth. 54 00:05:14.540 --> 00:05:19.100 The Bible talks about the mind, heart, mouth connection. 55 00:05:19.100 --> 00:05:22.060 You see it in salvation. 56 00:05:22.060 --> 00:05:24.800 If you believe in your heart 57 00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:26.460 and you confess with your mouth, 58 00:05:26.460 --> 00:05:28.780 like it's all the way through scriptures 59 00:05:28.780 --> 00:05:33.060 that you think a thought and then you tap into the feeling 60 00:05:33.060 --> 00:05:36.300 because the issues come from the heart, okay? 61 00:05:36.300 --> 00:05:38.700 And then you speak it and you declare it. 62 00:05:38.700 --> 00:05:40.280 Our words have power. 63 00:05:41.300 --> 00:05:45.300 Our words have power externally and internally, right? 64 00:05:45.300 --> 00:05:49.440 So we start with the morning spiritual practice. 65 00:05:49.440 --> 00:05:50.660 And that's why, of course, 66 00:05:50.660 --> 00:05:53.500 that I created the Prosper Daily Planner. 67 00:05:53.500 --> 00:05:56.540 The morning routine is on the top part of the planner 68 00:05:56.540 --> 00:05:58.240 as you order the day. 69 00:05:58.240 --> 00:06:00.280 It doesn't matter how much time. 70 00:06:00.280 --> 00:06:01.820 We're not religious about it. 71 00:06:01.820 --> 00:06:03.840 It doesn't matter if you get them all done. 72 00:06:03.840 --> 00:06:06.040 We're not going for perfectionism. 73 00:06:06.040 --> 00:06:08.240 It just gives you a roadmap 74 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:10.000 and you could just kind of check off. 75 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:13.320 But for me, it reminds me, I open it. 76 00:06:13.320 --> 00:06:15.840 I live by it myself, okay? 77 00:06:15.840 --> 00:06:20.160 And it just reminds me the power of the I ams, 78 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:23.660 the power of the I will declarations, right? 79 00:06:23.660 --> 00:06:25.480 The reading, the journaling. 80 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:27.000 So we talked about opening. 81 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:31.840 Gate one is commanding our mornings. 82 00:06:31.840 --> 00:06:34.840 So before I talk about gate two, gate three and gate four, 83 00:06:34.840 --> 00:06:37.400 how are you doing with that? 84 00:06:37.400 --> 00:06:40.120 Are you starting to change your habits? 85 00:06:40.120 --> 00:06:43.600 Are you seeing, is there things that are working 86 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:45.080 you wanna share with everyone? 87 00:06:45.080 --> 00:06:47.160 Like this is really helping me. 88 00:06:48.400 --> 00:06:53.160 Like for example, I have found some amazing YouTube music. 89 00:06:54.040 --> 00:06:55.680 I think it's AI generated, 90 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:58.160 but it's beautiful gospel music. 91 00:06:58.160 --> 00:07:01.880 And it's all scripture and declarations. 92 00:07:01.880 --> 00:07:04.520 And it's like having that playing when I'm doing my makeup, 93 00:07:04.520 --> 00:07:09.520 having that playing when I'm taking my shower. 94 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:14.600 It's nice out here in California in the morning. 95 00:07:14.600 --> 00:07:17.800 I do what I say when I open my eyes. 96 00:07:17.800 --> 00:07:22.240 I actually go outside barefoot and stand in the grass, okay? 97 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:24.640 There's a whole science to grounding 98 00:07:24.640 --> 00:07:26.640 because we wear rubber on our shoes 99 00:07:26.640 --> 00:07:29.640 and we're not connected to the earth, whole nother subject. 100 00:07:29.640 --> 00:07:33.160 But I can then just declare and say, 101 00:07:33.160 --> 00:07:35.620 this is the day the Lord has made. 102 00:07:35.620 --> 00:07:37.440 I will rejoice in it. 103 00:07:37.440 --> 00:07:40.720 Like I can prime my mind, right? 104 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:42.300 These are things that we can do 105 00:07:42.300 --> 00:07:45.800 that can become a really simple habit that take minutes, 106 00:07:45.800 --> 00:07:48.760 but they shift the atmosphere. 107 00:07:48.760 --> 00:07:51.240 Any of you have some morning routines, 108 00:07:51.240 --> 00:07:53.840 some things that's really helping you? 109 00:07:53.840 --> 00:07:55.760 Or I know some of you said you're starting 110 00:07:55.760 --> 00:07:58.760 to do the journaling and the two color. 111 00:07:58.760 --> 00:08:00.320 Share with each other real quick. 112 00:08:00.320 --> 00:08:03.000 How are you doing with gate one? 113 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:08.000 Gate one, which is commanding the morning. 114 00:08:08.960 --> 00:08:12.200 Anything that you do that helps you? 115 00:08:12.200 --> 00:08:15.520 Anything that moving from reactivity 116 00:08:15.520 --> 00:08:17.220 to partnership in the morning? 117 00:08:18.220 --> 00:08:21.100 Brenda, the thing that helps me, 118 00:08:21.100 --> 00:08:22.500 I've been doing it for a long time. 119 00:08:22.500 --> 00:08:27.060 It's been my habit is I make sure that I get up 15 minutes 120 00:08:27.060 --> 00:08:30.540 or half an hour before everybody else does in my house. 121 00:08:31.740 --> 00:08:34.220 And that way I have the quiet moments. 122 00:08:34.220 --> 00:08:36.020 I have peaceful moments. 123 00:08:36.020 --> 00:08:39.179 And I make sure before I open my phone, 124 00:08:39.179 --> 00:08:43.340 before I do anything that I am just focused. 125 00:08:43.340 --> 00:08:46.140 The first thing I do is I play worship music 126 00:08:46.140 --> 00:08:48.060 because it gets my body moving 127 00:08:48.060 --> 00:08:50.180 and just my mind and everything. 128 00:08:50.180 --> 00:08:53.780 And then I just sit in the presence with God. 129 00:08:53.780 --> 00:08:58.780 I'll get my water and my lemon and stuff like that. 130 00:09:00.020 --> 00:09:05.020 And then I just either pray or I start journaling. 131 00:09:06.940 --> 00:09:10.060 But journaling has really helped me a lot 132 00:09:10.060 --> 00:09:15.060 just to really reflect on all of my thoughts. 133 00:09:15.740 --> 00:09:19.780 And sometimes I get a half an hour, 134 00:09:19.780 --> 00:09:21.940 sometimes I get an hour. 135 00:09:21.940 --> 00:09:24.900 Now it's a lot hotter here. 136 00:09:24.900 --> 00:09:27.940 So I have to take my morning walks very early. 137 00:09:27.940 --> 00:09:30.380 So I kind of spread it out 138 00:09:30.380 --> 00:09:32.420 where if I don't have time for journaling, 139 00:09:32.420 --> 00:09:36.420 then I'll come back in the morning time or something 140 00:09:36.420 --> 00:09:37.420 and do that journaling. 141 00:09:37.420 --> 00:09:39.620 But I used to do it all in one, 142 00:09:39.620 --> 00:09:40.980 but now I'm like, you know what? 143 00:09:40.980 --> 00:09:42.180 There's different seasons. 144 00:09:42.180 --> 00:09:44.940 So I'm learning to prioritize it. 145 00:09:45.820 --> 00:09:48.100 Love that you're staying flexible. 146 00:09:48.100 --> 00:09:52.340 And yeah, and especially, there was a time 147 00:09:53.620 --> 00:09:55.620 when I had little ones in the house. 148 00:09:55.620 --> 00:09:56.460 I don't anymore. 149 00:09:56.460 --> 00:09:57.900 My kids are grown. 150 00:09:57.900 --> 00:10:00.140 But when I had little ones in the house. 151 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:05.160 And I had, in my case, I had in-laws that lived with us, too. 152 00:10:05.160 --> 00:10:08.400 And all the demands of life just start pressing in. 153 00:10:08.400 --> 00:10:11.040 Everybody needs and wants something. 154 00:10:11.040 --> 00:10:13.720 And so setting your alarm early. 155 00:10:13.720 --> 00:10:16.400 And to this day, I still do that. 156 00:10:16.400 --> 00:10:19.800 I, you know, I know I've got these calls at eight. 157 00:10:19.800 --> 00:10:28.160 For me, I back it up a couple of hours early so that I know that this is gold, that what 158 00:10:28.160 --> 00:10:30.120 I do in that time. 159 00:10:30.120 --> 00:10:34.480 And when I started, you know, if I could just carve out, and I tell new people, even 10 160 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:35.480 minutes, cool. 161 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:38.680 You know, but what's happening, you're going to love it, and it becomes 15. 162 00:10:38.680 --> 00:10:40.480 And you love it, and it becomes 30. 163 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:44.680 Because it's so nourishing when you do this, and you know that, right? 164 00:10:44.680 --> 00:10:48.400 And of course, it's different on nights that I dance late and all of that. 165 00:10:48.400 --> 00:10:50.400 But I love that. 166 00:10:50.400 --> 00:10:55.040 So for you, journaling has been something that is improving. 167 00:10:55.040 --> 00:10:56.040 I love that. 168 00:10:56.040 --> 00:11:02.640 And as you do your walks, Amanda, um, do you do any type of prayer walk or declarations 169 00:11:02.640 --> 00:11:06.800 or like turn your walk into a spiritual practice at all? 170 00:11:06.800 --> 00:11:09.160 Yes, I'll. 171 00:11:09.160 --> 00:11:11.360 That's when I listened to a lot of my music. 172 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:12.360 Okay. 173 00:11:12.360 --> 00:11:15.160 This, you know, I like that, too. 174 00:11:15.160 --> 00:11:18.320 But you know, I'll pray as well. 175 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:20.760 Yeah, just a little bit. 176 00:11:20.760 --> 00:11:23.120 I do have to work on my declarations. 177 00:11:23.120 --> 00:11:27.040 That's one thing I do need to implement a little bit more. 178 00:11:27.040 --> 00:11:31.960 I am starting to do it, but I need to start making it more of a habit. 179 00:11:31.960 --> 00:11:37.760 Because it really does reinforce that positivity that I need. 180 00:11:37.760 --> 00:11:43.480 It replaces instead of the negativity, you know, like the lack that you said, that's 181 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:44.680 really helping me. 182 00:11:44.680 --> 00:11:46.840 So I love that. 183 00:11:46.840 --> 00:12:00.000 And you know, my journal here, too, is I love the declarations also is declaring scripture 184 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:03.400 over your life when you're walking. 185 00:12:03.400 --> 00:12:09.920 And you know, my favorite verse that I've been I've been declaring lately, and it's 186 00:12:09.920 --> 00:12:15.000 a second Corinthians nine, eight. 187 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:22.520 And so I've just been speaking this, just listen to these words, God is able to make 188 00:12:22.520 --> 00:12:34.440 all grace abound toward me, that I always having all sufficiency in all things may have 189 00:12:34.440 --> 00:12:37.680 an abundance for every good work. 190 00:12:37.680 --> 00:12:41.000 And I'll probably do that during one of our power hours. 191 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:48.000 But I'm just like, as I'm walking, I'm just like, thank you that you make all grace abound. 192 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:53.800 And that I always have all sufficiency when you think about when you have Christ in you, 193 00:12:53.800 --> 00:12:59.320 you have all sufficiency of all sufficiency in all things. 194 00:12:59.320 --> 00:13:06.160 And so a lot of the declaration can be, you know, this is the day that the Lord has made, 195 00:13:06.160 --> 00:13:08.800 that I will rejoice and be glad in it. 196 00:13:08.800 --> 00:13:14.240 Thank you, God, for this day, I choose to rejoice and be glad in it today, I'm going 197 00:13:14.240 --> 00:13:19.760 to rejoice, rejoice, bring back the joy, rejoice, right? 198 00:13:19.760 --> 00:13:26.720 You supply all my needs, thank you, God, that I have more than enough today, you supply 199 00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:27.720 all my needs. 200 00:13:27.720 --> 00:13:32.480 And so like, you're like declaring, so you're getting the word in you, you're speaking the 201 00:13:32.480 --> 00:13:33.480 word. 202 00:13:33.480 --> 00:13:36.200 And so I'll do a lot of that walking too. 203 00:13:36.200 --> 00:13:37.200 Well, thank you. 204 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:38.680 Thank you for sharing. 205 00:13:38.680 --> 00:13:39.680 Love that. 206 00:13:39.680 --> 00:13:43.320 Okay, so that was gate one. 207 00:13:43.320 --> 00:13:47.680 And then gate two is really big. 208 00:13:47.680 --> 00:13:50.960 It's a it's a complete mind shift. 209 00:13:50.960 --> 00:14:00.080 It's a complete perspective of our, the way that we view life and the world. 210 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:10.960 You remember, we were moving from external control to internal stability, right? 211 00:14:10.960 --> 00:14:16.160 Because pressure increases when we're dependent on conditions. 212 00:14:16.160 --> 00:14:22.800 We're waiting for someone or something to change so we could be happy, healthy, prosperous. 213 00:14:23.240 --> 00:14:26.360 So this is scriptural. 214 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:29.680 Everything happens on the inside, biblically. 215 00:14:29.680 --> 00:14:34.200 Out of the heart flow the issues of life, right? 216 00:14:34.200 --> 00:14:36.960 We are the temple of the Holy Spirit. 217 00:14:36.960 --> 00:14:44.920 We have the mind of Christ, Christ in me, the hope of glory, biblically, biblical reasoning 218 00:14:44.920 --> 00:14:50.600 is that you start on the inside and that works outward to our conditions out of the heart 219 00:14:50.760 --> 00:14:52.680 flow the issues of life out of the heart. 220 00:14:52.680 --> 00:14:55.440 The mouth speaks. 221 00:14:55.440 --> 00:14:59.760 Guard your heart with all diligence, says Solomon, the wisest king. 222 00:14:59.760 --> 00:15:00.760 So 223 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:08.000 We stop looking at conditions and waiting for conditions to change in order to be happy, healthy, prosperous. 224 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:13.000 This is a big mindset shift that takes back your power. 225 00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:20.000 In other words, I will choose to walk in joy today. I will choose to rejoice. 226 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:26.000 I will choose to stand on the promises of God. I will choose to walk by faith and not by sight. 227 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:30.000 We're activating our God-given ability to choose. 228 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:38.000 Alright, then last week we did vision beyond circumstances. 229 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:42.000 Vision beyond circumstances. 230 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:46.000 And so we really talked about Habakkuk 2.2. 231 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:53.000 The power of knowing and writing our vision and how vision fuels everything. 232 00:15:53.000 --> 00:15:59.000 Well, today we pick up and even deepen that. 233 00:15:59.000 --> 00:16:06.000 I did a one-day retreat. We led a one-day retreat here in our area. 234 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:09.000 Linda was there. It was beautiful. 235 00:16:09.000 --> 00:16:12.000 We had like 25 women gather. 236 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:16.000 Linda and I have a non-profit called His View. 237 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:19.000 If you ever went to hisview.org. 238 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:24.000 It's not this Linda. Linda Brown. She's shaking her head. 239 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:27.000 Linda's everything but not in this particular one. 240 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:30.000 I have two beautiful Lindas in my life. 241 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:34.000 So I have to say Linda with a Y who makes everything beautiful. 242 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:36.000 You see all my graphics. You see everything. 243 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:40.000 That's Linda with a Y and she's just my sister and I adore her. 244 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:46.000 Linda with an I. Together we co-founded hisview.org, our non-profit. 245 00:16:47.000 --> 00:16:49.000 So anyway, you can check that out. 246 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:58.000 But anyway, we did this retreat and God had put on my heart two words. 247 00:16:58.000 --> 00:17:01.000 Return and remember. 248 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:04.000 And that's what I spoke on. That's what I did. 249 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:08.000 The breakout rooms and I got that talking about a morning routine. 250 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:10.000 I got that on my morning walk. 251 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:15.000 I was like, Lord, what do you have for the women at this retreat? 252 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:18.000 And he said, I want you to talk about return. 253 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:22.000 And I'm like, oh, I mean, the retreat is called Whispers of the Heart. 254 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:25.000 How does this tie in, Lord? And it just felt it felt off. 255 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:29.000 It didn't make sense, but it just kept staying with me. 256 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:32.000 And I journaled and I prayed and I stayed with it. 257 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:35.000 Wow. It was so spot on. 258 00:17:35.000 --> 00:17:38.000 Women like Linda shaking her hand. 259 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:43.000 Women were just in tears and moved and deeply touched. 260 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:47.000 And so I want to bring a little of that here. 261 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:52.000 I desire to bring a little of that here today for gate four. 262 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:56.000 Gate four is about reclaiming. 263 00:17:56.000 --> 00:17:59.000 Holy desire. 264 00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:04.000 I put the word holy in front of desire. 265 00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:11.000 Because so often we've been conditioned to see desires negative, 266 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:18.000 like the lust of the flesh and the heart is desperately wicked and we can't trust the heart. 267 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:22.000 That's the unrenewed heart. 268 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:27.000 When your heart has been dedicated to God and your heart, 269 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:32.000 he's replaced your heart of stone with the heart of flesh and it's been regenerated. 270 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:38.000 There's something fresh that happens in your heart and there's something beautiful that happens. 271 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:43.000 And we're going to talk about desires. 272 00:18:43.000 --> 00:18:49.000 And how God uses them and how important they are. 273 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:56.000 In us moving from this contracted state to this expansive state, they play an incredible role. 274 00:18:57.000 --> 00:19:02.000 And so we have to reclaim because we have stopped. 275 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:11.000 It's not that God has stopped speaking, but a lot of times we've stopped listening to the desires that God has placed in us. 276 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:14.000 They get buried, right? 277 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:23.000 Under responsibility or under disappointment or pressure or performance or survival or striving or all those things. 278 00:19:23.000 --> 00:19:31.000 And so the invitation today is to remember to return. 279 00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:48.000 So I want to ask you, when was the last time you stopped and asked the question, 280 00:19:49.000 --> 00:19:53.000 What do I desire? 281 00:19:53.000 --> 00:20:00.000 What comes up when I say that? Do you feel like an ick like I'm not supposed to or a long time? 282 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:05.200 Or, oh yeah, every day. Like, where are you guys at? You know, touch in here. 283 00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:11.280 When it comes to desire, when's the last time you've asked that question? What do I desire? 284 00:20:13.680 --> 00:20:16.960 And I'm going to tie it with the Lord, trust me. I'm not saying that you're 285 00:20:16.960 --> 00:20:20.400 being selfish and all of that. Don't go off on a rabbit trail. 286 00:20:23.600 --> 00:20:27.200 Anybody? What comes up for you when I ask that question? 287 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:36.800 Have you asked that question? 288 00:20:38.960 --> 00:20:40.480 Yes, I have because of you. 289 00:20:43.680 --> 00:20:47.360 And I will tell you that a lot of times I don't know. 290 00:20:48.400 --> 00:20:49.680 Okay. I don't know. 291 00:20:50.640 --> 00:20:57.600 Okay. I feel like sometimes I have been on a path to make sure other people are happy, 292 00:20:58.560 --> 00:21:04.240 but I haven't actually paused long enough to assess what I desire. 293 00:21:05.280 --> 00:21:11.200 And I think that other key point that you keep bringing up is I look around at my circumstances 294 00:21:11.200 --> 00:21:18.640 and I go, I shrink it. Yeah. What's possible in this little box instead of what's possible 295 00:21:18.640 --> 00:21:24.320 in God's big box. You know what I mean? I love that. 296 00:21:24.800 --> 00:21:30.400 I love that you have because, because awareness, that's a cute hat, by the way, 297 00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:35.760 awareness is the first step to transformation. 298 00:21:37.200 --> 00:21:39.280 So the first step is we become aware. 299 00:21:41.120 --> 00:21:48.080 And your awareness is the awareness that I don't even know what I desire. 300 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:55.040 What I desire. And that's not uncommon as we saw even at the retreat. 301 00:21:56.880 --> 00:22:03.600 And so we're going to talk about opening that back up today, but you have the awareness that, 302 00:22:04.160 --> 00:22:12.320 oh, I shrink, I shrink what's possible because I let my conditions and that's like when they 303 00:22:12.320 --> 00:22:19.600 arrived at the promised land, right? The giants, it says that they saw giants in the land. 304 00:22:19.600 --> 00:22:25.920 Let me tell you, every time you enter into a promised land that God has for you and he does 305 00:22:25.920 --> 00:22:34.960 have it, you're going to face giants. And you have a choice to make the giants bigger, which it says 306 00:22:35.040 --> 00:22:41.760 in scripture that, you know, eight of the 10 spies did. And they said we were like grasshoppers 307 00:22:42.640 --> 00:22:52.560 in our own sight. Right? So we can become grasshoppers or we can make God bigger like David. 308 00:22:53.120 --> 00:23:02.000 Oh, you're a giant easier to hit. Boom. Right? Like how we can view my God's way too big. 309 00:23:02.960 --> 00:23:08.240 And yes, Stacy, that these giants are our own making. Thank you for sharing that a hundred 310 00:23:08.240 --> 00:23:14.960 percent. So yeah, Linda, thank you for sharing. That's like, it's awareness that I don't always 311 00:23:14.960 --> 00:23:26.160 know and it's okay. Stay with it. Stay with it. Keep asking the question. Keep asking the question. 312 00:23:27.120 --> 00:23:30.160 You know, I'm going to give you some scriptural foundation, 313 00:23:32.720 --> 00:23:40.000 but I'm going to tell you that sometimes the answer you get often, 314 00:23:41.680 --> 00:23:47.520 it's the answer you'll get asking that question is not always logical. 315 00:23:47.520 --> 00:23:58.640 I remember after my divorce in 2012, and if you've read my book, you know, my story, you know, 316 00:23:58.640 --> 00:24:04.160 I walked away from everything. I moved into an empty rental house. I walked away from large 317 00:24:04.160 --> 00:24:11.680 companies and large houses and large lifestyle. And so I was sitting there and all the roles 318 00:24:11.920 --> 00:24:19.520 that had defined me didn't exist. I, I wasn't a corporate founder. I, I wasn't a homeschool mom. 319 00:24:20.080 --> 00:24:27.360 I wasn't like all, I wasn't a Bible teacher at that moment. I, I wasn't like all the roles that 320 00:24:27.360 --> 00:24:34.160 I would put after I am instead of who God says I am. We often put a role. I am a teacher. I am a 321 00:24:34.640 --> 00:24:40.240 mother. That's not who you are, your identity. That's a role. All those roles were stripped 322 00:24:40.240 --> 00:24:46.800 away. And I remember looking out the yard and the rental I moved into, there was none. It was just 323 00:24:46.800 --> 00:24:54.000 weeds out there. And I had a cheap bed that I sat on. Literally, I started from nothing and sitting 324 00:24:54.000 --> 00:25:00.560 on this bed. It didn't even have a bed. It was just, it was just, it was just, it was just a bed. 325 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:01.200 didn't even have a frame. 326 00:25:01.200 --> 00:25:03.360 I mean, it just had what held the mattress, 327 00:25:03.360 --> 00:25:06.240 no headboard, nothing, looking out the window. 328 00:25:06.240 --> 00:25:08.840 But I knew this. 329 00:25:08.840 --> 00:25:11.000 I knew enough to ask this. 330 00:25:11.000 --> 00:25:14.400 And God was rising up in me. 331 00:25:14.400 --> 00:25:18.200 And I said, what do I desire? 332 00:25:19.760 --> 00:25:20.640 And I took it further. 333 00:25:20.640 --> 00:25:22.540 I just go, what would I love? 334 00:25:23.680 --> 00:25:25.680 What would give me bliss? 335 00:25:26.680 --> 00:25:30.680 And the little quiet answer that came up, 336 00:25:30.680 --> 00:25:31.960 I could have shoved it down. 337 00:25:31.960 --> 00:25:34.200 I could have shoved it as trivial. 338 00:25:34.200 --> 00:25:37.800 I could have really logicked it out, I promise. 339 00:25:37.800 --> 00:25:42.800 Because what popped up is I would love to learn to dance. 340 00:25:43.960 --> 00:25:45.900 There'd been no music or dance in my life 341 00:25:45.900 --> 00:25:47.620 since I was 17 years old. 342 00:25:49.980 --> 00:25:54.700 I could have really just squashed that. 343 00:25:56.680 --> 00:25:58.320 That's not practical. 344 00:25:58.320 --> 00:26:00.800 You got to build a life, you got to build a business. 345 00:26:00.800 --> 00:26:02.960 You got to like, learning to dance 346 00:26:02.960 --> 00:26:05.220 does not fit here right now. 347 00:26:07.440 --> 00:26:08.700 But I didn't. 348 00:26:10.200 --> 00:26:15.200 I said, okay, it's just a little quiet thing. 349 00:26:15.320 --> 00:26:20.320 I looked up, I found a dance class at a local health club. 350 00:26:22.140 --> 00:26:24.600 And I said, I'm going to learn to dance. 351 00:26:25.880 --> 00:26:30.880 And if you read my book, you know that God used dance. 352 00:26:32.840 --> 00:26:36.680 And I didn't even understand the power of movement, 353 00:26:36.680 --> 00:26:39.240 the way he, I was living from the neck up, 354 00:26:39.240 --> 00:26:43.160 the way he reconnected me to my heart, to my body, 355 00:26:43.160 --> 00:26:47.760 but most of all, how he taught me about God, 356 00:26:47.760 --> 00:26:50.000 what I learned about God in dancing, 357 00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:53.760 what I learned about following and being led by the spirit. 358 00:26:53.760 --> 00:26:57.400 So sometimes what you get, it seems so trivial, 359 00:26:57.400 --> 00:26:59.880 like how can I entertain a desire 360 00:26:59.880 --> 00:27:02.240 when circumstances are like this? 361 00:27:02.240 --> 00:27:05.160 You're here, you have no money, you have no future, 362 00:27:05.160 --> 00:27:08.880 you have nothing, like dance, that does not fit. 363 00:27:10.080 --> 00:27:14.140 So it's that little small voice to listen to that. 364 00:27:15.840 --> 00:27:18.920 And so you may actually know what it is, 365 00:27:18.920 --> 00:27:22.440 but it seems too small or too trivial or too crazy. 366 00:27:24.560 --> 00:27:25.880 Listen for that. 367 00:27:25.880 --> 00:27:28.040 Let me give you a little scriptural foundation 368 00:27:28.040 --> 00:27:30.700 and then let's do some exercises together. 369 00:27:30.700 --> 00:27:33.080 You guys can study this out. 370 00:27:33.080 --> 00:27:38.080 Psalms 37, four, Psalms 37, four says, 371 00:27:40.760 --> 00:27:44.360 delight yourself in the Lord 372 00:27:44.360 --> 00:27:49.360 and he will give you the desires of your heart. 373 00:27:50.040 --> 00:27:52.400 There's so much in that verse. 374 00:27:53.320 --> 00:27:57.160 David, the psalmist, was a worshiper. 375 00:27:57.160 --> 00:28:02.160 So his delight was in God, his heart was in the right place. 376 00:28:02.680 --> 00:28:05.000 You can tell this wasn't about selfishness, 377 00:28:05.000 --> 00:28:07.480 he delights himself in the Lord. 378 00:28:07.480 --> 00:28:09.400 He was in the right place. 379 00:28:09.400 --> 00:28:11.880 He was in God's heart. 380 00:28:11.880 --> 00:28:13.800 He was in God's heart. 381 00:28:13.800 --> 00:28:15.720 He was in God's heart. 382 00:28:15.720 --> 00:28:17.920 You can tell this wasn't about selfishness, 383 00:28:17.920 --> 00:28:20.240 he delights himself in the Lord. 384 00:28:22.120 --> 00:28:27.120 And he, God, will give you the desires of your heart. 385 00:28:28.640 --> 00:28:32.360 Nowhere here are you shamed for having desires. 386 00:28:32.360 --> 00:28:35.520 God will give you the desires of your heart. 387 00:28:36.920 --> 00:28:41.000 You know, Jesus said it a little different in Matthew. 388 00:28:41.000 --> 00:28:44.920 Seek first the kingdom of God and its righteousness 389 00:28:44.920 --> 00:28:48.320 and all these things will be added. 390 00:28:49.800 --> 00:28:53.600 Also, Psalms 20, verse four says, 391 00:28:53.600 --> 00:28:56.360 may he grant you your heart's desires. 392 00:28:56.360 --> 00:28:57.680 There it is again. 393 00:28:59.600 --> 00:29:01.920 But this is a big one. 394 00:29:01.920 --> 00:29:04.320 Proverbs 13, 12. 395 00:29:05.440 --> 00:29:07.760 This is what I saw played out in the retreat. 396 00:29:07.760 --> 00:29:10.480 This is what I see played out in women's lives. 397 00:29:11.480 --> 00:29:13.400 This is huge. 398 00:29:14.960 --> 00:29:19.960 Hope deferred makes the heart sick. 399 00:29:23.040 --> 00:29:28.040 But desires fulfilled are the tree of life. 400 00:29:28.720 --> 00:29:29.880 There's a contrast. 401 00:29:29.880 --> 00:29:32.760 In Proverbs, there's often a contrast. 402 00:29:34.400 --> 00:29:36.200 On one side, you've got hope. 403 00:29:36.200 --> 00:29:39.560 So you've got a desire, you've got a hope, right? 404 00:29:39.560 --> 00:29:42.800 And it's delayed. 405 00:29:42.800 --> 00:29:44.200 You just keep putting it off. 406 00:29:44.240 --> 00:29:46.000 I'll do that after the kids grow up. 407 00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:47.760 I'll do that after we retire. 408 00:29:47.760 --> 00:29:49.800 I'll do that after I solve this. 409 00:29:49.800 --> 00:29:51.520 I'll do that after my business. 410 00:29:51.520 --> 00:29:56.520 Like hope deferred actually makes the heart sick. 411 00:29:58.160 --> 00:30:00.280 We now know this psychoneurophobia. 412 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:05.000 Immunology, we know all about this, okay? 413 00:30:05.000 --> 00:30:11.000 The contrast, a desire fulfilled is a tree of life. 414 00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:15.000 It actually breathes life into you. 415 00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:20.000 So this thing we're talking about with desires is not just some little thing. 416 00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:25.000 This is going to breathe new life, and we're going to see that, 417 00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:28.000 how it affects your vision, how it affects your motivation, 418 00:30:28.000 --> 00:30:33.000 how it affects your drive, how it affects it. 419 00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:35.000 Beautiful. 420 00:30:35.000 --> 00:30:44.000 You also will notice that the question is often asked before a miracle. 421 00:30:44.000 --> 00:30:50.000 Before God does something, he'll often ask, what do you desire? 422 00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:54.000 What do you desire me to do for you? 423 00:30:54.000 --> 00:30:59.000 Now, some of our modern translations use the word want. 424 00:30:59.000 --> 00:31:03.000 In our language, we've replaced the word desire with want. 425 00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:07.000 I recommend getting rid of the word want. 426 00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:12.000 If you look up the origins of the word want, it means extreme lack. 427 00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:17.000 That's why Psalms 23 says, the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. 428 00:31:17.000 --> 00:31:19.000 Want is not meant to be desire. 429 00:31:19.000 --> 00:31:21.000 Want means extreme lack. 430 00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:23.000 That's what the root word. 431 00:31:23.000 --> 00:31:28.000 So I've learned to replace the word want with the word desire. 432 00:31:28.000 --> 00:31:30.000 Two parts. 433 00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:35.000 Desire, de, de, of, the sire, of the father. 434 00:31:35.000 --> 00:31:42.000 What we're going to see here today is that desires from the father, 435 00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:45.000 and they are a clue to your divine purpose. 436 00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:50.000 They are a clue to your divine vision, your divine call. 437 00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:55.000 So Luke 12, 32, fear not, little flock, 438 00:31:55.000 --> 00:31:58.000 it's your father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 439 00:31:58.000 --> 00:32:01.000 Like any father, he loves to give, he loves to bless. 440 00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:08.000 Mark 10, 51, Jesus asked, what do you desire me to do for you? 441 00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:13.000 Notice, Jesus would often begin with that question before miracles, 442 00:32:13.000 --> 00:32:17.000 before healing, before provision, he would ask, what do you desire? 443 00:32:18.000 --> 00:32:20.000 You have to know these. 444 00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:23.000 We have to be aware of these. 445 00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:28.000 We've been taught, many women have been taught desire is selfish. 446 00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:30.000 Have any of you thought that? 447 00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:32.000 It's selfish to desire. 448 00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:36.000 Didn't your parents say, how can you ask for that when your sister needs that? 449 00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:39.000 How can you think about that when we don't have like, 450 00:32:39.000 --> 00:32:43.000 how many of you got like squashed when you had a desire? 451 00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:49.000 And so you learned, oh, that's selfish to desire. 452 00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:55.000 And so this is part of the healing as we go from internally contracted to expanded. 453 00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:57.000 We're healing from this. 454 00:32:57.000 --> 00:33:02.000 We think that it's dangerous or worldly or something we need to suppress, 455 00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:08.000 and yet scripture talks about it as life-giving, even a tree of life. 456 00:33:09.000 --> 00:33:17.000 So could it be that desires are actually whispers from God? 457 00:33:17.000 --> 00:33:19.000 Could it be? 458 00:33:19.000 --> 00:33:26.000 Not all desires, but holy desires, kingdom desires, purpose-filled desires. 459 00:33:26.000 --> 00:33:29.000 And like I said, little did I know, 460 00:33:29.000 --> 00:33:33.000 all that God would do in the last 10 years of dance, 461 00:33:33.000 --> 00:33:36.000 how he would heal my body, how he would heal my heart, 462 00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:39.000 how he would heal my body, how he would heal my emotions. 463 00:33:39.000 --> 00:33:43.000 I didn't understand back then that trauma is stored in the cells 464 00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:46.000 and that dance is a way of that moving out. 465 00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:49.000 I didn't understand what dance did for the brain 466 00:33:49.000 --> 00:33:53.000 and salsa dancing, one of the top things to prevent dementia. 467 00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:59.000 I didn't understand that he would teach me what it means to be led and how to follow. 468 00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:03.000 It sounded so superficial, learn to dance in a time like this. 469 00:34:03.000 --> 00:34:05.000 How could I learn to dance right now? 470 00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:08.000 There's no time for trivial stuff like dancing. 471 00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:10.000 God would use that. 472 00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:13.000 You see, we have to be so careful. 473 00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:18.000 We think it has to look one way and God's wanting it to look a different way. 474 00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:27.000 And so this desire to create, this desire to serve, write, lead, build, teach, heal, impact lives, 475 00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:32.000 these can be invitations from God. 476 00:34:32.000 --> 00:34:34.000 Right? 477 00:34:34.000 --> 00:34:43.000 And so when I had suppressed all of that back in that room, 478 00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:48.000 I had forgotten, this is where the return and the remember, 479 00:34:48.000 --> 00:34:54.000 I had forgotten who I was. 480 00:34:54.000 --> 00:35:00.000 I had forgotten who I was, his dearly beloved. 481 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:14.800 daughter of the most high God, heir, co-heir with Christ, the bride. I had 482 00:35:14.800 --> 00:35:21.240 forgotten and that's why when you read chapter 1 of Total Soul Prosperity and I 483 00:35:21.240 --> 00:35:28.800 I shared the story in that church when the Holy Spirit spoke words that forever 484 00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:38.440 changed my life. Cast out the slave woman. I knew, I knew he was talking to me, that 485 00:35:38.440 --> 00:35:44.080 inner slave woman of striving and perfectionism and performance and 486 00:35:44.080 --> 00:35:51.440 sacrificing. Desire? There was no room for desire with the slave woman. The slave 487 00:35:51.440 --> 00:35:59.000 woman consumes it, always giving you something to do, someone to please, some 488 00:35:59.000 --> 00:36:05.240 performance, some striving, some next step, some perfectionism. That's the inner 489 00:36:05.240 --> 00:36:16.720 slave woman. This is what's changing here and now. This is what moves us. So let's 490 00:36:16.720 --> 00:36:28.560 do some some exercises, right? First of all, y'all know, like if I ask you, what 491 00:36:28.560 --> 00:36:35.080 what buries desire? What do you think it is? What have you found in your life as 492 00:36:35.080 --> 00:36:44.240 maybe quieted desire, buried desire, suppressed desire? Any of you? 493 00:36:44.280 --> 00:36:55.520 Let me see, you're putting stuff in the chat. Fear? Rejection? Okay, okay. If I desire, 494 00:36:55.520 --> 00:37:03.840 it could be dangerous, I'm afraid. I might get rejected. Okay, who else? I 495 00:37:03.840 --> 00:37:08.920 appreciated, I appreciated what Linda said a while ago about she didn't know 496 00:37:08.920 --> 00:37:12.760 what came up when she asked that question. I have the same thing. I feel 497 00:37:12.760 --> 00:37:17.400 like I'm stuck or frozen when that comes up, but it's probably because of 498 00:37:17.400 --> 00:37:22.560 unworthiness. There is a scripture that says to be content in any situation that 499 00:37:22.560 --> 00:37:26.640 you're in. So maybe I feel like it's going against the Bible to want 500 00:37:26.640 --> 00:37:31.920 something and will not want but to desire something, because the scripture 501 00:37:31.920 --> 00:37:36.600 says be content in every situation. And that was, of course, Paul talking when he 502 00:37:36.600 --> 00:37:41.480 was in some bad things. What do you think about that? How do you get over that? 503 00:37:41.640 --> 00:37:49.640 I think there's this divine tension that God has us in that I love. And it, 504 00:37:49.640 --> 00:37:55.840 first of all, it's realizing that when we have Christ, we just read it, we open with 505 00:37:55.840 --> 00:38:01.520 all sufficiency. We have everything. When I have Christ, I have everything, right? 506 00:38:01.520 --> 00:38:10.800 And also, God is calling us to dream big dreams, and we can do a whole study on 507 00:38:10.840 --> 00:38:19.400 that. He's called us to, like Jabez, enlarge my territory, right? And so 508 00:38:19.400 --> 00:38:27.480 there's this divine tension, and this is how I like to say it. I have all, because 509 00:38:27.480 --> 00:38:34.240 I have Christ. I have all. That's my contentness. I have all. I'm not 510 00:38:34.240 --> 00:38:39.280 coming from a place of grumbling or lack or discontent. That's 511 00:38:39.320 --> 00:38:45.240 where that comes in. We're not content when we're focusing on lack, right? So I 512 00:38:45.240 --> 00:38:55.280 have all, and I desire all. God, I want it all. What do you have for me? What's a 513 00:38:55.280 --> 00:39:03.400 divine adventure that we can? I want to ride on the Holy Spirit. I'm using magic 514 00:39:03.400 --> 00:39:08.520 loosely, not sorcery, but Holy Spirit magic carpet. Like, I want to go on a wild 515 00:39:08.840 --> 00:39:12.920 ride. God, I want to see the things you want me to see. I want to, you know, I 516 00:39:12.920 --> 00:39:18.040 desire, I desire to travel to the places you have me. I desire to do the things 517 00:39:18.040 --> 00:39:22.680 you want me to do. I desire to meet the people I want to try. Like, I don't 518 00:39:22.680 --> 00:39:27.920 believe God made creation so amazing so that we can stay in our little bedroom, 519 00:39:27.920 --> 00:39:32.920 in our little neighborhood, and never leave it and say, I'm content. I was born 520 00:39:32.920 --> 00:39:37.880 here. I'll die here. I don't believe God made this whole huge world. I think he 521 00:39:37.880 --> 00:39:42.360 wants us to float on the oceans. I love floating. Like, I take my raft out there 522 00:39:42.360 --> 00:39:46.280 in the ocean. And I think he wants us to run our feet through the sand. And I 523 00:39:46.280 --> 00:39:51.360 think he wants us to watch the sunrises and the sunsets and gaze at the stars 524 00:39:51.360 --> 00:39:56.640 and see his wonder. And I think he wants us to experience joy and try all the 525 00:39:56.640 --> 00:39:59.960 different foods. I don't believe he made all these cultures and all these 526 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:03.440 foods that were supposed to stick to just, you know, meat and potatoes. 527 00:40:03.640 --> 00:40:09.120 I think he desires us to like live, like truly live. 528 00:40:09.320 --> 00:40:12.000 And why is it? 529 00:40:12.200 --> 00:40:14.080 And I have relatives that have gotten 530 00:40:14.280 --> 00:40:20.040 cancer diagnosis and you know what happened, they go, OK, that's it, I'm dying. 531 00:40:20.240 --> 00:40:21.400 I'm going to live. 532 00:40:21.600 --> 00:40:26.720 And they finally they went and they just like, you know, he bought a motorcycle 533 00:40:26.720 --> 00:40:30.480 and traveled the world and went to all the places and fell in love. 534 00:40:30.680 --> 00:40:32.840 And guess what? The cancer like is going away. 535 00:40:32.840 --> 00:40:36.760 Right. It's like it's like, do you see? 536 00:40:36.960 --> 00:40:40.400 So I have all I walk in gratitude. 537 00:40:40.600 --> 00:40:42.400 I wake up, I say, I thank you. 538 00:40:42.600 --> 00:40:44.480 I have a bed. I have a roof. 539 00:40:44.680 --> 00:40:46.480 I have health. I have a sound mind. 540 00:40:46.680 --> 00:40:48.520 I have all I have you, Jesus. 541 00:40:48.720 --> 00:40:54.480 I have all and I desire all Lord, the dreams, the ideas, 542 00:40:54.480 --> 00:40:57.040 the things you placed in my heart. 543 00:40:57.240 --> 00:41:03.040 And so this is where, Colette, I believe God wants to set you free. 544 00:41:03.240 --> 00:41:07.840 He didn't make you a caterpillar, you were transformed to a butterfly. 545 00:41:08.040 --> 00:41:10.960 You were meant to fly. 546 00:41:11.160 --> 00:41:12.520 Where could you fly? 547 00:41:12.720 --> 00:41:18.640 What and this is where the whole idea of this from pressure to partnership is it's 548 00:41:18.840 --> 00:41:21.800 this divine partnership with God, right? 549 00:41:21.960 --> 00:41:24.840 And so when you understand Christ in me, 550 00:41:25.040 --> 00:41:29.560 it's like God live through me, right through me now, 551 00:41:29.760 --> 00:41:34.040 create through me, serve through me, heal through me. 552 00:41:34.240 --> 00:41:37.360 I don't think anything about laying hands 553 00:41:37.560 --> 00:41:41.400 on someone and them getting healed and they get healed all the time. 554 00:41:41.600 --> 00:41:47.160 I had a person I looked over not long ago, a very successful author, 555 00:41:47.360 --> 00:41:49.560 a very successful woman in the kingdom of God. 556 00:41:49.560 --> 00:41:51.360 And her knee was swollen. 557 00:41:51.560 --> 00:41:55.080 And I noticed that as we were talking, she kept rubbing her knees. 558 00:41:55.280 --> 00:41:57.640 And Holy Spirit said, go pray over her knee. 559 00:41:57.840 --> 00:41:59.200 And I barely knew this woman. 560 00:41:59.400 --> 00:42:04.560 And I kind of little scared, you know, like you say, fear, rejection. 561 00:42:04.760 --> 00:42:06.360 I said, can I pray over your knee? 562 00:42:06.560 --> 00:42:09.600 And she said, sure, took her in another room. 563 00:42:09.800 --> 00:42:13.040 And I laid hands and I expected God to move. 564 00:42:13.240 --> 00:42:15.560 It's not me. I can't heal an ant. 565 00:42:15.720 --> 00:42:20.440 But I I have Christ in me, the one who heals. 566 00:42:20.640 --> 00:42:26.200 And so I expectation faith and I expect healing to happen. 567 00:42:26.400 --> 00:42:30.760 Laid hands on the knees and the swelling went away and she 568 00:42:30.960 --> 00:42:36.680 could move the knee for the first time and it didn't hurt for the first time in months. 569 00:42:36.880 --> 00:42:39.400 And she wrote me the next day to tell that. 570 00:42:39.600 --> 00:42:42.240 I remember the woman that had been 571 00:42:42.240 --> 00:42:46.680 mangled in a bike accident and had come to my Bible study. 572 00:42:46.880 --> 00:42:51.760 And she was she was on a scooter and she was not going to be able to walk anymore. 573 00:42:51.960 --> 00:42:58.800 And the Lord told me and I took some very on fire kids from Bethel. 574 00:42:58.800 --> 00:43:00.760 My daughter was going to Bethel at that time. 575 00:43:00.760 --> 00:43:02.560 And they love laying hands and praying. 576 00:43:02.560 --> 00:43:03.400 And I took a handful. 577 00:43:03.600 --> 00:43:04.720 I said, can we come to your house? 578 00:43:04.920 --> 00:43:06.160 And we laid hands. 579 00:43:06.360 --> 00:43:09.280 And I'll never forget the day that I was holding this ankle. 580 00:43:09.480 --> 00:43:10.840 It was purple. It was mangled. 581 00:43:10.840 --> 00:43:13.160 It was swollen. It was ugly. 582 00:43:13.360 --> 00:43:17.880 And we all prayed and worship and laid hands and expected healing. 583 00:43:18.080 --> 00:43:22.960 I'll never forget watching in my hands the purple going away, the swelling going away. 584 00:43:23.160 --> 00:43:25.600 I'll never forget the text I got that night. 585 00:43:25.800 --> 00:43:27.280 Guess what I'm doing? What? 586 00:43:27.480 --> 00:43:29.520 I'm walking in the grocery store. 587 00:43:29.720 --> 00:43:30.800 I'm grocery shopping. 588 00:43:31.000 --> 00:43:33.240 Haven't been able to do that in months. 589 00:43:33.440 --> 00:43:36.400 You see, this is like God live through me, 590 00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:40.800 speak through me, heal through me, love through me. 591 00:43:41.000 --> 00:43:44.720 You see, this is the divine adventure. 592 00:43:44.920 --> 00:43:49.640 This is not a stale, boring, sit in a corner of a church life. 593 00:43:49.840 --> 00:43:54.680 Do you all understand what God is calling you to with these desires? 594 00:43:54.880 --> 00:43:56.240 We're called to live. 595 00:43:56.440 --> 00:43:59.560 We're given a life, the breath in our lungs. 596 00:43:59.760 --> 00:44:03.760 And so this, you know, disappointment, 597 00:44:03.960 --> 00:44:08.960 disappointment, pressure, responsibility, performance. 598 00:44:09.160 --> 00:44:15.480 It brings up the fear, the rejection that it brings up the slave woman. 599 00:44:15.680 --> 00:44:19.640 And I want to mention neuroscience and then I want to do some exercises. 600 00:44:19.840 --> 00:44:23.200 OK, first of all, understand our brain. 601 00:44:23.400 --> 00:44:26.040 You've got something called the RAS. 602 00:44:26.240 --> 00:44:31.480 If you want to appear real smart, say reticular activating system, 603 00:44:31.680 --> 00:44:37.480 reticular activating system, you'll sound like a real nerd, OK? 604 00:44:37.680 --> 00:44:42.720 It determines what gets our attention, it decides what are you going to focus on? 605 00:44:42.920 --> 00:44:44.800 What gets your attention? 606 00:44:45.000 --> 00:44:49.200 The RAS, reticular activating system. 607 00:44:49.400 --> 00:44:53.600 When your desire becomes clear, you've spent time on this, 608 00:44:53.800 --> 00:44:56.640 you've journaled it, you've spoken it, you've thought about it, 609 00:44:56.640 --> 00:44:59.640 you've put it on your vision board, you've thought about this. 610 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:05.000 Brain starts noticing things in line with that. 611 00:45:05.880 --> 00:45:06.900 And guess what? 612 00:45:07.880 --> 00:45:09.840 It'll see opportunities. 613 00:45:11.440 --> 00:45:13.140 It'll see resources. 614 00:45:14.440 --> 00:45:15.680 It'll see people. 615 00:45:15.680 --> 00:45:17.000 It'll see ideas. 616 00:45:17.000 --> 00:45:19.200 It'll see solutions. 617 00:45:21.320 --> 00:45:23.720 They were already there. 618 00:45:23.720 --> 00:45:26.260 But without desire, 619 00:45:27.260 --> 00:45:30.240 the brain has no clear destination. 620 00:45:33.860 --> 00:45:38.860 Opens your eyes to what's already there, honestly. 621 00:45:41.940 --> 00:45:46.460 I think about Hagar, 622 00:45:46.460 --> 00:45:50.820 when Abraham sent Ishmael and Hagar out 623 00:45:50.820 --> 00:45:54.500 and she gave her son the last of the water 624 00:45:55.500 --> 00:45:59.940 and she's thinking she's gonna die. 625 00:45:59.940 --> 00:46:02.620 And God, it says God opens her eyes 626 00:46:02.620 --> 00:46:05.580 and there's a well right in front of her. 627 00:46:05.580 --> 00:46:08.020 Now that well didn't get dug right then. 628 00:46:08.020 --> 00:46:09.780 It's been there all along. 629 00:46:09.780 --> 00:46:12.420 There's so many wells in your life. 630 00:46:12.420 --> 00:46:16.500 There's so much water just wanting to gush up. 631 00:46:16.500 --> 00:46:21.300 And when we become aware, the floodgates start opening. 632 00:46:21.300 --> 00:46:23.900 We started the call and Stacy got on first 633 00:46:24.300 --> 00:46:27.540 and Stacy said, yeah, I had this opportunity open up 634 00:46:27.540 --> 00:46:30.460 and this person called me and this happened. 635 00:46:30.460 --> 00:46:34.380 Like when you start activating the flow 636 00:46:34.380 --> 00:46:35.780 and I snap my fingers 637 00:46:35.780 --> 00:46:39.820 because I'm like, yes, flow is opening, right? 638 00:46:39.820 --> 00:46:41.240 I understand that. 639 00:46:41.240 --> 00:46:43.620 So now your brain starts being open. 640 00:46:43.620 --> 00:46:45.580 It's not focusing on lack 641 00:46:45.580 --> 00:46:47.980 and it's not focusing on the slave woman 642 00:46:47.980 --> 00:46:50.620 and it's not internally contracted. 643 00:46:50.620 --> 00:46:53.260 You're opening up to the idea of God, 644 00:46:53.620 --> 00:46:54.660 what can we do today? 645 00:46:54.660 --> 00:46:57.500 And all of a sudden partnerships open up 646 00:46:57.500 --> 00:47:00.220 and opportunities open up and people approach you 647 00:47:00.220 --> 00:47:03.160 and ideas and everything just opens. 648 00:47:03.160 --> 00:47:06.540 But without desire, there's no destination for your brain. 649 00:47:06.540 --> 00:47:10.220 You haven't, it's like you have in your car 650 00:47:10.220 --> 00:47:13.540 the GPS system, right? 651 00:47:13.540 --> 00:47:16.900 I have a Tesla, love my Tesla, God bless me. 652 00:47:16.900 --> 00:47:19.420 It was on my vision board and it was a red one 653 00:47:19.420 --> 00:47:21.900 and that's what God gave me was a red Tesla. 654 00:47:21.900 --> 00:47:23.860 He gives us the desires of our heart. 655 00:47:23.860 --> 00:47:26.700 I looked at that on my vision board for years. 656 00:47:26.700 --> 00:47:28.780 God gave me the exact car. 657 00:47:28.780 --> 00:47:31.300 But on that Tesla, there's a huge screen as you know, 658 00:47:31.300 --> 00:47:33.820 it's like a giant laptop in the car. 659 00:47:33.820 --> 00:47:36.460 And so there's a GPS 660 00:47:36.460 --> 00:47:39.300 and it's always ready to take me somewhere 661 00:47:39.300 --> 00:47:41.620 and give me direction how to get there. 662 00:47:41.620 --> 00:47:45.720 But I have to click on the destination. 663 00:47:45.720 --> 00:47:49.380 If I don't put something in, that screen stays empty. 664 00:47:49.380 --> 00:47:52.380 I just see the roads, but it's not. 665 00:47:52.380 --> 00:47:54.380 Your reticular activating system 666 00:47:54.380 --> 00:47:56.540 is the same thing you've plugged in. 667 00:47:56.540 --> 00:47:58.660 It starts giving you the ideas. 668 00:47:58.660 --> 00:48:00.420 You start having dreams at night. 669 00:48:00.420 --> 00:48:01.580 You start waking up. 670 00:48:01.580 --> 00:48:05.160 You start having divine appointments and meeting people 671 00:48:05.160 --> 00:48:09.660 because that desire provides direction like the GPS. 672 00:48:11.140 --> 00:48:13.420 You've got a direction to go. 673 00:48:13.420 --> 00:48:16.520 You've got focus. 674 00:48:16.520 --> 00:48:18.980 You've got motivation. 675 00:48:20.380 --> 00:48:23.660 You know, dopamine isn't just primarily pleasure. 676 00:48:23.660 --> 00:48:26.860 We think about dopamine as the pleasure hormone, 677 00:48:26.860 --> 00:48:29.780 but it's actually anticipation. 678 00:48:29.780 --> 00:48:31.660 It's excitement. 679 00:48:31.660 --> 00:48:35.480 It's movement toward a future possibility. 680 00:48:35.480 --> 00:48:36.940 And so, you know, 681 00:48:36.940 --> 00:48:40.500 when it says a desire fulfilled is the tree of life, 682 00:48:40.500 --> 00:48:43.900 I think there's just a life that floods in our soul 683 00:48:43.900 --> 00:48:46.620 when we get clear on our desires. 684 00:48:46.620 --> 00:48:47.460 Okay? 685 00:48:47.460 --> 00:48:51.120 So let's do some exercises, okay? 686 00:48:52.700 --> 00:48:56.700 And so, you know, let me just summarize 687 00:48:56.700 --> 00:49:01.560 that when desire's buried, energy drops. 688 00:49:01.560 --> 00:49:04.260 If your energy's really low, you haven't tapped into, 689 00:49:04.260 --> 00:49:06.180 there's nothing stirring your juices. 690 00:49:06.180 --> 00:49:07.020 You're not excited. 691 00:49:07.020 --> 00:49:08.860 You ever notice when you start a new project 692 00:49:08.860 --> 00:49:12.740 or you get an idea and you actually start moving on it, 693 00:49:12.740 --> 00:49:17.380 you ever notice that new life starts coming in, right? 694 00:49:18.220 --> 00:49:20.900 And without it, your creativity drops, 695 00:49:20.900 --> 00:49:23.300 your motivation drops, your vision fades. 696 00:49:23.300 --> 00:49:25.020 Like, this is not just spiritual. 697 00:49:25.020 --> 00:49:29.580 This is neurological in our brain, okay? 698 00:49:29.580 --> 00:49:33.100 God desired, designed desire to help us. 699 00:49:33.100 --> 00:49:37.060 So this is why desire, this is why Gate 4 desire matters. 700 00:49:37.060 --> 00:49:38.540 This really, really matters. 701 00:49:38.540 --> 00:49:40.320 This is not a trivial thing. 702 00:49:40.320 --> 00:49:41.460 I've taught this. 703 00:49:41.460 --> 00:49:44.020 Linda's been around me since, I don't know, 2000, 704 00:49:44.020 --> 00:49:45.780 whatever, 12, 13, 14, 705 00:49:45.780 --> 00:49:48.140 whenever it was that we've been working together. 706 00:49:48.140 --> 00:49:51.660 And she's heard me talk about this 707 00:49:51.660 --> 00:49:53.540 and she's seen how it brings life. 708 00:49:53.540 --> 00:49:56.220 When people start tapping into their desires, 709 00:49:56.220 --> 00:49:57.820 it brings life. 710 00:49:57.820 --> 00:50:00.060 So without desire, there's no... 711 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:06.720 vision. We talked about vision last week. And there's no clarity. What direction are 712 00:50:06.720 --> 00:50:14.160 we going? And there's no consistent action. Again, many people think purpose is coming 713 00:50:14.160 --> 00:50:26.480 from the outside. No, it often appears first as a desire. Often purpose like appears as 714 00:50:26.720 --> 00:50:34.480 just a little subtle longing, a dream, just a little holy dissatisfaction. 715 00:50:36.320 --> 00:50:43.840 I've heard that in you, Colette. I've heard your desires. I desire to do this, to do that. 716 00:50:43.840 --> 00:50:48.720 Yeah, you've got it. You told me you don't, but you've told me your desires. So I know you have 717 00:50:48.720 --> 00:50:56.080 them. It's just being willing to stand on them. It's often a whisper. It's just a holy, and it 718 00:50:56.080 --> 00:51:05.200 often points towards your divine assignment. Okay. I'm going to give you a reflection exercise, 719 00:51:05.200 --> 00:51:08.720 just so we know, because we're going to run out of time. And then we're going to do one 720 00:51:08.720 --> 00:51:16.880 guided thing together right now. Okay. And I'll send this to you afterwards as well. But 721 00:51:16.880 --> 00:51:23.440 here's for your journaling, for your morning journal, okay? Ask some questions like, 722 00:51:23.440 --> 00:51:33.920 what desire have I stopped expecting? Faith and expectation. What desire have I stopped expecting? 723 00:51:36.400 --> 00:51:40.320 What desire have I buried beneath responsibility? 724 00:51:41.280 --> 00:51:47.680 Also, what desire, it might be ever so small, but it keeps returning to my heart. 725 00:51:50.400 --> 00:52:00.000 You know, little did I know, I come from such a troubled background, and at 16, I started dancing. 726 00:52:01.920 --> 00:52:08.960 And I got the desire to enter in Placerville, California, in the fairgrounds, enter a dance 727 00:52:09.600 --> 00:52:17.920 contest. And I choreographed. I grabbed someone that I knew, and I choreographed, and we entered 728 00:52:17.920 --> 00:52:28.240 the dance contest. And we won. Now, this was before I was a Christian, 16 years old. Watch 729 00:52:28.240 --> 00:52:34.560 what God does. Isn't God funny? I won the dance contest at the Placerville fairgrounds. 730 00:52:34.640 --> 00:52:43.200 Guess what the prize was for winning the dance contest? I got an album, 731 00:52:44.880 --> 00:52:50.960 a record album. And guess what? It was by a man named Chuck Gerard. Never heard of him. 732 00:52:51.680 --> 00:52:58.320 He was a Christian recording artist. Guess what? I love that record, and played that record, 733 00:52:58.320 --> 00:53:04.160 and God started speaking the gospel to me straight out of a dance contest. Huh. 734 00:53:05.120 --> 00:53:11.920 What can happen when we follow our desires? Where does it lead? Where does it lead? So, 735 00:53:12.640 --> 00:53:18.880 you know, Stacy, you mentioned fear. This journalist, if fear were removed, what would I pursue? 736 00:53:19.440 --> 00:53:25.840 If fear were removed, what would I pursue? If disappointment were removed, what would I pursue? 737 00:53:28.400 --> 00:53:37.360 If I fully trusted God, what would I desire? So, I want you to close your eyes right now. Put your 738 00:53:37.840 --> 00:53:48.160 feet on the ground. Close your eyes. Take a breath. Close your eyes and just breathe. 739 00:53:49.600 --> 00:53:52.480 Let's do our Yahweh breathing we learned in gate one. 740 00:54:07.840 --> 00:54:14.720 And I want you to imagine for just a moment you're sitting in a grassy field. You're on a comfy 741 00:54:14.720 --> 00:54:25.440 blanket. The sun is shining. The cool breeze is on your skin. The flowers around you are so beautiful. 742 00:54:27.600 --> 00:54:31.040 And you're sitting with Jesus. 743 00:54:31.360 --> 00:54:41.440 No pressure. No performance. You're just hanging out with Jesus. 744 00:54:44.320 --> 00:54:57.360 And I want you to ask right now, Jesus, Yeshua, what do you want to do? 745 00:54:57.360 --> 00:54:59.680 What do you want to do? 746 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:05.320 What desire have you placed in my heart that I've forgotten?" 747 00:55:05.320 --> 00:55:09.920 Just be still right now and ask that question. 748 00:55:09.920 --> 00:55:28.920 Yeshua, what desire have you placed in my heart that I've buried, suppressed, forgotten? 749 00:55:28.920 --> 00:55:48.840 I want you to open your journal and write whatever comes to you. 750 00:55:48.840 --> 00:55:50.400 Take a minute. 751 00:55:50.400 --> 00:55:55.480 What sprung up when you asked that question? 752 00:55:55.480 --> 00:56:09.080 What desire have you placed in my heart that I've buried, I've forgotten? 753 00:56:09.080 --> 00:56:10.080 Write it down. 754 00:56:10.080 --> 00:56:11.080 No editing. 755 00:56:11.080 --> 00:56:12.080 No judging. 756 00:56:12.080 --> 00:56:13.080 Just listen. 757 00:56:43.080 --> 00:57:06.920 What desire have you placed in my heart that I've forgotten? 758 00:57:06.920 --> 00:57:09.360 Okay. 759 00:57:09.360 --> 00:57:14.760 You can take some more time in your morning spiritual practices to go deeper with this. 760 00:57:14.760 --> 00:57:21.920 Right now, I want you to complete these sentences together. 761 00:57:21.920 --> 00:57:29.280 I give myself permission to desire blank. 762 00:57:29.280 --> 00:57:34.360 Whatever's coming up for you again. 763 00:57:34.360 --> 00:57:35.760 Just say it out loud right now. 764 00:57:35.760 --> 00:57:42.960 I give myself permission to desire joy again. 765 00:57:42.960 --> 00:57:54.120 I give myself permission to desire whatever it is again. 766 00:57:54.120 --> 00:58:14.880 The desire I'm reclaiming is ... And lastly, one small step toward that desire I can take 767 00:58:14.880 --> 00:58:20.120 this week is ... Let's move in the direction of our goals, dreams, and desires. 768 00:58:20.120 --> 00:58:29.740 One small step I can take toward that desire this week, preferably today. 769 00:58:29.740 --> 00:58:40.800 One small step toward that desire this week is ... So Father, I just pray that you seal 770 00:58:40.800 --> 00:58:42.040 this word. 771 00:58:42.040 --> 00:58:45.440 I pray that you stir up the desires of their heart. 772 00:58:45.440 --> 00:58:50.200 I pray that you give them courage to dream with you again, Lord. 773 00:58:50.200 --> 00:58:55.280 Just stir up the desires that you've placed inside of them. 774 00:58:55.280 --> 00:58:57.960 Bring them to recollection. 775 00:58:57.960 --> 00:58:58.960 Remind them. 776 00:58:58.960 --> 00:59:01.600 Help them return to their first love. 777 00:59:01.600 --> 00:59:04.400 Help them return to their childlike faith. 778 00:59:04.400 --> 00:59:08.320 Help them return to their childlike joy. 779 00:59:08.320 --> 00:59:12.080 Help them return to the joy of the Lord. 780 00:59:12.080 --> 00:59:19.800 Help them return, Father, to living life full on, full on, full on with you as we partner 781 00:59:19.800 --> 00:59:20.800 with you. 782 00:59:20.800 --> 00:59:26.000 I ask in Jesus' name, the mighty name of Jesus, amen. 783 00:59:26.000 --> 00:59:32.640 All right, ladies, I'm going to sign off and sign back on for office hours. 784 00:59:32.640 --> 00:59:33.600 I'll see you in a minute.