And, good morning, good morning, good morning, or good afternoon, good evening, depending
where you are listening to this from, welcome.
Of course, this is the From Pressure to Partnership.
From Pressure to Partnership, doing two duties here, trying to let people in, and hopefully
I caught everybody, as we are getting started.
So I'm super excited about this.
I think it's so significant, and as we dive in for the rest of the 12-week immersive that
we're doing, we're going to be working through, if you've read my book or you're familiar
with my book, Total Soul Prosperity, you know that in there not only is my story,
but is the PROSPER framework that God has given me.
And this framework is so tried and so true to walk you through the transformation, right?
And in this case, the transformation we're talking about is from pressure, which I want
to define that, that we get really clear what we're talking about.
I mean, I think you all know what pressure is, but what I mean as it relates to this,
and so from pressure, which is that place of, honestly, it's a place of self-reliance.
It's a place opposite of partnership, right?
It's a contrast from pressure to partnership.
So pressure is that place that you start to feel the tension of life, right?
And you move into a reactive mode.
There's the feeling, I got to fix this.
I got to do something.
It's up to me, and I better take action, and how do I solve this, or whatever way that
you deal with pressure, right?
And the contrast of moving from that, which is, we've talked about it, it's an internally
contracted state, right?
We're in contraction.
Fear contracts, okay?
Love, faith expands, right?
So it's a contracted, and this is a, when we say contracted, physically, your body contracts.
When you're in fear, like the blood flow goes to the core and not in the extremities.
Your brain is not in its creative state.
It shuts down.
So it affects you physiologically.
It's a contracted state, and so we're in this contracted state trying to build something
expansive.
And there's a breakdown there, and that's where we get stuck, right?
And so God has called us to something so much higher, so much better, which is partnership.
And so the idea is moving from that.
And so I'm super excited today.
I have so many notes because there's just so much God was downloading that I want to
share.
And then, of course, this morning as I'm looking at the notes and praying and highlighting,
God's given me even a whole different direction, right?
So there's just so much I want to share.
So Lord, help me let everything come out in a way that makes sense.
And so when we're in the pressure state, there's cortisol, right?
There's anxiety.
We're seeing life through the lens of, I must do something, okay?
We're in a reactive state, whereas partnership is a place of peace.
It's a place of faith.
And it's looking not, I have to do, but God and I, we're doing this together, okay?
And so we're moving from this self-reliance, this need to fix, right?
Into this beautiful partnership.
And honestly, part of what hit me in all of my training over the years, my graduate
work was in marriage and family counseling, so a lot of counseling psychology.
And then I worked with a brain function specialist for so long.
And so
For me, what's been really exciting is to see how all these things fit together.
Psychoneuroimmunology, understanding the body, the brain, the emotions, right?
And it's all in the Bible. It's like God put it in the word.
It was there first. Like yesterday, we were talking, he's the alpha and the omega.
And so what I started thinking about, really, originally, I think I heard a lot at that time,
back in, I don't know, the 80s. I was going to meetings with Tony Robbins when he was still
small. It was still in small Sacramento auditoriums that you could sit and meet Tony Robbins, right?
It's like going way back. And I was thinking about, you know, his big claim to fame really
has been helping people master their emotional state, right? And I thought, you know, this is
a biblical version of that. Like I started connecting the two. My brain just went there
this morning. So go with me on my little journey. Sometimes my brain goes on a little wild path,
sometimes. So, you know, Tony Robbins would talk about what you focus on you feed,
right? Emotionally. And I've always said what you focus on expands. It gets bigger.
What we're focusing on. And so I started going, Lord, is that biblical? Let's just put everything
through a biblical lens. Is that biblical? And all of a sudden, all the verses started coming to me,
you know, like Philippians, fix your mind, you know, on these things. Whatsoever is true,
whatsoever is lovely, if there be any good, you know. And Hebrews 12 too, fix your eyes
on Jesus. And we talked yesterday about him being the alpha and the omega.
So today we're going to do, we're going to look at that. We're going to look at what is our state?
Because many people are feeling so much pressure right now. Economic pressure, relational pressure,
social pressure, health pressures. Like there's a pressure cooker that we're living in,
right? And never has it been more important to manage our state and do it biblically. And so
I just think that from pressure to partnership is really in divine timing. And if you feel that,
do you see the divine timing, why we need this right now more than ever? Any of you guys feeling
it? A little instapot. That's cute. That's cute. Okay. So let's just kind of just center in and
let's go through some experiences together. Let's deepen the concepts that we talked about yesterday
in the power hour when we talked about the promises and the prayers. So let's just start.
First of all, I like to just take a deep breath and just get present. So let's just breathe in
and let it go. One more time.
Can you feel that when you breathe in?
And that in itself is one of the most powerful tools. When we're moving from pressure to
partnership, if we can partner with each other, if we can work together, if we can work together,
we can pause and we can breathe and we can be present. God has been talking to me
about being present and about presence. Me having presence when I show up and being in
presence. This is where the gift is. This is where the power is. This is where the solution is.
And I don't know how many of you, but when we get in the pressure side of things, not the
partnership, but the pressure side of things, one of the things we do is project. We project
into the future. So we take whatever our thing is happening right here, right now,
and we play it out down the line. So I have a money crunch now. Oh my gosh, what's going to
and end of this week, what's going to happen next month, what's going to happen in a year?
And all of a sudden, we're carrying what's happening here all the way into the future.
And that increases the stress and increases the pressure. And so one of the first steps
of partnering with God, because God is not there. When we're busy projecting,
I mean, God is everywhere, but we're not going to feel because we're in that fight or flight state.
And we're not in a creative, listening, hear God, get instruction, feel his presence
when we're in that state. Does that make sense? I'm getting some dings. Let me shut something
down really quick here so I don't hear that anymore. There we go. Okay. And so I had someone
say something. Maybe this will help you. I had someone say something to me once,
probably 10 years ago, 20 years ago. It was so helpful. I've never forgotten.
Do y'all remember the film strips? Like, did you ever develop film or you've seen that there's
like frames? Do y'all remember kind of the film strips? Any of you old enough to remember what
I'm talking about? Or is it just me? Okay. And the thing about the film strips is you only,
there's like one frame at a time. And I remember someone when I was going through, this was back
like I was going through tough times in my marriage and finances and all kinds of things.
And someone said, remember, that's just right now. That's just this frame. You're not seeing
the next frame. We don't know. God can change everything in an instant. So don't carry what's
happening here into the next frame. And I've never forgotten that. Does that make sense?
So as we get present, I want you to first just to, let's just start at the beginning.
If you hear the phrase, we're working on the P, partner with God. If you hear the phrase partner
with God, what, what comes up for you? What comes up for you when you hear the phrase,
you could just pop it in the chat, hear the phrase partner with God. We're all at different levels.
There's no right answer. There's no wrong answer. And this will deepen and deepen and deepen as we
go through time. Right. And so what comes up for you? So Stacy said, relief. I love that.
That's a great answer. Jackie says, resting in him. Okay. I feel unworthy to be God's partner.
Okay. That's, that's honest. That's real. Sometimes that, that really hits us. Christine,
I'm not alone, right? We break that lie of feeling I'm alone and Amanda. Okay. Giving
full surrender. Love that. You see how it means different things and you see how it brings some
things up for us. And so that's the first, I have, I have said this for so long that awareness
is the first step to transformation. So what's really big is first of all, just to start being
aware, right? In, in psychology, it's called metacognition, you know, fancy word for thinking
about your thinking, which is really big because most people don't think about their thinking.
They think that their thoughts is just them, that their thoughts is what's true because they
think it, it must be true. And that's all there is. They don't, they don't examine their thoughts,
which scripture tells us that we need to. It's very clear that we're called to take every thought
captive to the obedience of Christ. So biblically we're called to think about our thinking. We're
called to renew our mind. And so metacognition is when we start to be aware even of how we're
thinking. And so I'd like to be aware of how we're truly thinking about partnering with God, because
you can't change something if you're not aware. The change happens when you become aware. And so
I want you to answer this question. There's no wrong answers. This is just awareness to kind of
warm us up. Finish this sentence.
God feels most like, for you, God feels most like,
and this could be any answer, a father, a boss, a judge,
a teacher, a coach, a distant observer, a partner,
a mystery, God feels most like.
Just take a minute and write that down, write that down.
God feels most like, and I think what I'm gonna do
just as a chance for sisterhood and just a chance
for exploring, I'm gonna put you in breakout rooms
just really quick, gonna be like five minutes,
gonna be really quick, and I want you each to share.
God feels most like, and let's see what kind of awareness
comes up, okay?
How's that sound?
Does that sound fun, to get together in breakout rooms?
Who's for that?
I want you guys to get to know each other as sisters
and support each other, kind of raise your hand
if that sounds fun, you wanna do that, okay, good.
All right, we're gonna be quick about it,
but I'm gonna put you in breakout rooms real quick
and let's explore that really quick.
So I think if I do three rooms, it's gonna work out.
If I stay out, it's gonna go automatically.
And perfect, it looks like you each have a partner.
Okay, happy connecting, ladies, just talk about it.
You know, for me right now, I'm realizing
and God feels like, just a fun conversation,
no right, no wrong answer, it's about awareness, okay?
All right, have fun.
Okay, and if you haven't switched partners, switch,
make sure you both shared, no coaching or anything,
just sharing, okay, but make sure both of you
have had a chance.
.
We're going to come back in one minute.
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Welcome back.
How was your breakout section?
It went by too fast.
I wasn't sure I wanted to not just have you hang in there,
but I wanted to give you enough time.
That's always hard, but it's fun to get to know each other that way.
Welcome back.
Good.
Welcome back.
Everybody smile.
I'm going to take a quick shot of all of you.
One, two, three.
There we go.
I've been having fun with these.
All right.
Did that bring some good awareness for you?
Did it create even more awareness about how you're doing this?
If we're going to talk about partnership,
the first thing is how do we even see this?
How do we see God?
Did something new, any awareness come up for you?
Did you realize something in talking with each other?
A lot of similarities.
Good.
You're not alone in thinking about it.
I think it's fascinating who God puts together in that process,
because nobody knows that that's totally random.
You just put in people and it just pairs them up.
And so it's a bit like the dating game,
like you're waiting to see comes on the other side.
So that was kind of fun to do that.
And just to kind of go.
I think so too, Linda.
We think alike, that was the first thing.
And I looked at who God put together because it's zoom does it random.
I don't have anything to do with it.
And I went, you know what, that's just about perfect.
Look what you did, God.
I just felt like it was perfect matches.
And so how fun, how fun is that?
So.
Part of that.
Can I just continue part of that?
Because I mean, I, I was paired with Dr.
Colette and, and I would, it was, we were mirroring each other.
And so it was like really good for us to go.
Oh, wow. Me too. Oh, wow. Me too.
Right.
Yeah.
And just see it face on and go, okay.
Then we can, then we can now deal with that.
Love that.
Anybody else? Did you get an awareness of, of doing that?
Was it helpful?
So, so here's, here's.
What I, what comes to me.
Is that.
Once we're aware.
things we can do is to take, it's really a perception,
right?
It's a point of view that we're holding.
It's an opinion, for lack of better words, right?
That's uniquely to you based on your experiences
and what has come up for you.
And the cool thing about that, about a point of view,
is that if we can back up, first of all,
and not be judgmental or anything.
In fact, I used to have a fun abbreviation.
It was Justin Aipov, like a Russian name, Justin Aipov,
which stood for just an interesting point of view.
Justin Aipov, just an interesting point of view.
Like if I can just back up and go, oh, interesting
that I have that point of view.
What's my point of view?
And interesting I have that point of view.
We can loosen the grip a little bit.
It's not law, it's not doctrine, it's not forever.
It's the point of view from our situation and teachings
and experiences that we've picked up.
But that point of view is shaping us on a daily basis,
right?
And so to partner with God, we have to first be aware,
what point of view, what perspective
am I even coming to this with in the first place?
And many of you are on different paths of journey,
of how long you've walked with God,
what kind of religious experiences you've had,
and it's all shaped it.
So the key is, if you understand and you can hold it lightly,
you can back up and say, oh, interesting point of view
that I have that point of view, is
that it opens the door to, what other point of view
could I have?
What other perspective could I have?
And is this point of view really creating greater good for me?
Is it advancing me?
Is it in my best interest?
So if I can kind of back up and almost be a scientist
and observe and go, well, I have this point of view,
what would happen if, like, on a conveyor belt,
like that was one that you picked up,
what if you put that one back if you didn't like it
or it's not serving you?
And what if you pulled a different one off the conveyor
belt and play with that?
And huh, does the Bible say that?
And what if I picked up that one?
How would things change?
So it's loosening your grip on holding
some of the strongholds that have kept you stuck in a story
that you've held for a long time.
So for example, some of you that saw God more harshly,
I saw him as a judge.
I see him as an authority.
I see him as condemning.
I see him as, and there's a whole science to that as well.
It has a lot to do with your frequency
that maybe sometime I'll teach.
But for right now, if you're willing and open,
you could back up and say, well, maybe.
Maybe that's true.
But I wonder what else is true about God
and what would happen if I started
standing on that belief.
Right?
So in the Bible, we see examples of people
that thought God was very stingy and ones that thought
he was just generous and lavish.
We saw people in the Bible that thought he was very harsh
and others who thought he had so much mercy.
And you know what?
He's just God.
He's all.
He's all, right?
And so the fact of the matter is we could bring out,
and you could do this as a study, in the Bible,
there's people that believed everything about God.
It's all in the realm of possibilities
of what we can believe.
Does that make sense?
And so if we can loosen our grip a little bit
and start to now say, well, what's
true biblically about God?
And so yesterday in the Power Hour, if you remember,
I said that there's partnership requires four beliefs.
At least.
There's a lot more.
But partnership requires at least four beliefs.
And one of the beliefs is God is good.
Yesterday, we talked about our promise was David saying,
how would I have made it if I had not believed
that I would see the goodness of God
in the land of the living?
In other words, not after I die,
everybody puts everything off to heaven,
but how would I have really risen?
And when you think about David, who went through so much,
you think about David the shepherd in his younger years,
who it says that he was ruddy,
he had freckles and red hair,
and in the olive-complected brothers and sisters,
he was most likely a half-breed, he was looked down on.
When Saul came to anoint the next king,
I mean, they gave all the sons
and they didn't even think about David,
and he's like, do you have any more sons?
Well, I've got one, the shepherd boy, he's out there.
I mean, that's how disregarded he was,
how forgotten and looked down on and scorned,
and yet God was using that time
to just grow him with the sheep
and be with God in the stars,
and so much of the depth of David that we get
was spent in that time learning to be a shepherd,
because one day he would shepherd a people,
he would be a king, right?
And learning to who God is and when things don't work out.
Like, he did get anointed king,
but did he become king right away?
No, he was persecuted, right, by the current king,
and he was hiding in caves,
and he had a army that he raised up and poured into.
You ever poured into an army of people
and they rebel and they go against you?
He had even the people he poured into
had rebelled against him,
and yet he was able to have internal peace
based on what he had learned about God
as a shepherd from the stars in his meditations.
He built such a view of God
that he could hold so much peace inside
that when he did become a king,
he had the most peaceful reign,
the longest reign of peace in Israel's history
at that time, right?
And so this matters, like our perspective of God.
And so he could say,
how could I make it if I did not believe
in the goodness of God?
We could say the same thing.
How could I partner if I did not believe X, Y, Z about God?
If I did not believe he was faithful,
if I did not believe he was lavish,
if I did not believe that he was,
he wanted us to be in intimacy and walk in oneness.
Do you see that?
Like, this is so foundational.
And so partnership requires four beliefs, at least.
We said yesterday, one, that God is good,
that God is good.
And so if, as you're learning to partner,
that's your first step.
God, are you really good?
Can I trust that you're good
even when my circumstances aren't good,
even when bad things happen, right?
Like, could Joseph believe that God is good
when his brothers threw him into a pit,
his own brothers, and sold him to slavery?
Could he believe God is good?
When he served as a slave in Potiphar's kingdom
and he was unjustly accused,
and the wife tried to seduce him,
and he ran, left his coat behind,
and he was falsely accused and thrown in prison.
Can you believe God is good
when your circumstances don't appear good at that moment?
But the truth is, was God good?
What we can, you know, hindsight is better than foresight,
right, so was God good when he was thrown into the pit?
Did God know that he had a destiny
and he needed to work for Potiphar
and learn what it's like to be in royalty
and understand the systems and grow his skills?
And then he got thrown in jail.
Was God good?
Was God still good when he was in jail?
And he got forgotten by the people he served in the jail,
but God was developing his prophetic anointing,
his ability to dream dreams and interpret dreams.
Was God good when ultimately he got raised
to see the goodness of God?
He couldn't have seen that except walking by faith
and not by sight until the end,
when he was raised to be second in command of Pharaoh.
God's got that for you.
He's got this high level,
but can you believe?
God is good even when the circumstances don't feel good.
This is a choice.
This is a decision.
This is where we stand on the word.
And what does the word say about God?
And can I just choose to change my opinion?
Can I choose to unlock basing my beliefs
on my circumstances and lock them on the word?
The second one, after God is good, that he speaks.
If we don't believe he speaks,
then we think it's only for special people.
That was only for the Bible.
That's a history.
That's only for prophets.
That's only for super-duper spectacular religious people,
not little old me.
If we don't believe he speaks,
then we're not saying, open my ears, I wanna hear you.
We're not being still and going, God, what are you saying?
And practicing the craft of hearing from God.
It's a practice.
And if we don't believe that God provides,
then when we're in lack and we don't believe God provides,
then of course we get back into pressure
and making this happen for ourself.
And if we don't believe that God is leading us,
then we think we have to figure it all out.
Do y'all see the contrast of these?
So of those four beliefs that God is good,
God speaks, God provides, and God leads,
which of these is easiest for you to believe?
Which is the easiest for you to believe of those four?
You go, yeah, I believe that.
That's easy to believe.
Which one's easiest of the four?
That God is good, okay.
God is good, okay.
So this is the one that is coming easiest.
Look at how many of you guys are the same.
So the easiest is believing that God is good.
Which one?
Oh, okay, God provides, God speaks.
Good, good.
Which is the hardest to believe?
Which is the hardest?
Which is the hardest to believe?
Okay, God provides, God leads.
Okay, which is the hardest?
God provides, God leads.
Which do you find the hardest?
Awareness is the first step to transformation.
God provides, even though I know he does
and he's my provider.
Okay, so you still struggle to believe,
but your faith is there on that, okay.
God speaks, good, good.
So what this is beginning to do is almost show,
I don't wanna make it like a negative,
like your weak link, but the area that you can grow in.
This is the area that you can team up with God,
that God, if we're going to really partner together,
I need you to help me increase my capacity,
increase my belief.
I need you to show me, to teach me
that you really do speak, that you really do provide,
that you really do lead.
And you start creating the space for God to show you
and to teach you so that that's the place
that you can grow your capacity.
So you don't have to stay stuck there
as you're partnering with God.
So part of partnering with God is finding the leak,
finding the leak.
Where is your faith leaking, right?
Where do we need to put a patch, a hole on it, right?
We got a leak in a certain area of our partnership walk.
Where's the leak that we need to reinforce
and get even stronger to go forward in the new season, right?
So which of these areas do you struggle most to trust God?
Is it money?
Is it business?
Is it health?
Is it with your children?
Is it your marriage or relationship?
or believing that you have a great future or provision or purpose, like, where's the area?
I love that, Jackie. Sometimes,
I can't read that, a something with him, a complaining with him, is that what that's?
Sometimes a complaining with him, since he doesn't want me, I'm learning, like, I can
take my thoughts to him as a father. Yeah. And he's pleased with that. Yes.
Because before it would just, I got to call somebody, I got to let it out.
And he's like, No, you bring it to me, I can handle it. Well, I know you can.
Yeah. Good. Good. That's like, that's a great thing. And that's, yeah, that's,
that's so good. Let me see my purpose and direction. Okay. Good. So write those down.
Okay. discern his purpose for me. Okay. So this awareness is so beautiful,
that we come to God with what we know. God, I know you are good. I know you're faithful. I
know you provide like start with the things that you know, you say, and Lord, this is the area I'm
struggling. Teach me about this. Show me about this. Increase, increase my wisdom about this
increase my capacity about this increase my understanding about this. And Jackie, you bring
up such a beautiful point. As a side note, we haven't gotten to words yet. And we're going to
pick up next week on this when we get to the R and renewing the mind is going to continue what
we're doing here, right in the prosperous system. The one of the most dangerous things, and most
dangerous habits, that the greatest shift will come for you. If you make the God given choice,
that I will absolutely no longer complain. I will no longer allow my mouth to speak negativity.
Because words are like spiritual technology. I mean, we could get scientific, we could get brain,
we could get spiritual. The fact of the matter is words are like packets of energy
with creative power. And so they actually reinforce and create what you don't want.
Praise, like is giving praise to God. Complaining is like inside out praise. It's like inside out
faith. It's like the opposite. Like you're bringing you're bringing life to that which you don't
desire. And so there's biblical about standing guard at the door of your mouth, about the
power of life being in the tongue, and we eat the fruit thereof. So if you're not liking the fruit,
you got to make sure what's the tongue putting out. You're putting out spiritual packets of
energy that are shifting your environment. And so this is why we make a practice of affirmations,
of I am's, which is stepping into my identity, who God says I am. I am who God says that I am.
And declarations of faith as to what God says. And actually letting his word leave your mouth
instead of the complaint. We're replacing the complaints with the word. Because scripture
says that his word never returns void. So if I send out praise as to who I know and what the bible
says, I'm reinforcing, I'm changing my state, and I'm reinforcing my beliefs, and I'm blocking,
like creating what I don't desire. So I'm glad that you brought that up. Really good point.
So this awareness of going, okay, I'm ready to go to the next level partnering with you, God,
and I know that you're good, and I believe that whatever the things that you do believe,
and now I want you to grow me. I want to practice hearing you. Please, you've said that I have...
Both an outer ear and an inner ear and outer eye and an inner eye and I don't want to be like who Jesus said they have ears, but they don't hear or they have eyes that they don't see Lord. I desire to see I desire to hear. Please open my ears. I desire to learn to hear your voice.
I desire and you start walking in that or provision.
Where you're just declaring that Lord, my weak link is that as soon as the money is low, my emotions go low. My state goes low. I get into a panic. I get back into pressure and out of partnership. I need to learn to partner with you in that area.
And you know, I've just seen so many miracles. I could tell stories for hours and hours and hours about that. So we find the leak and that can become where we study and we find a verse and that can become our prayer that can become our journaling that can become our declaration.
So changing our state begins with what we focus on Tony Robbins teaches that in the Bible teaches that the second thing is that one of the ways that you can change your state is by changing your body change your physiology change your body.
Okay. So have you ever noticed if someone's down like their shoulders are humped they're looking down they talk different right when you physically force yourself to change your body and you move because the stuck energy gets stuck in your body and you move and you change your physiology, which is this is also biblical.
Like what does it say raise your hands to praise like what happens when we do this or like bow before your God right or dance before the king like the Bible talks about using movement and using physiology to begin to create change.
Right and so when you can tell who I'm not over like you now have like a little gauge. Oh, I really am in the partnership gauge today. I'm loving this right? Oh, I'm in the self-reliance. I'm in the pressure gauge today. What are the tools? How can I begin to change? Okay, and what am I focusing on? I need to change my focus. I need to focus on you. This is why quiet time.
What am I believing? Okay, and I need to this is where the I am like statements, right? And what am I believing about myself? What am I believing about you? Right and you begin to change.
I still have to do this. I've walked with the Lord for a long time. I have to I can wake up in fear. I can wake up with wrong thinking. I can wake up with a heavy heart. I can wake up scared. I really can and but I because I know this I'm sharing the gifts that has helped me so much and I'll tell you what.
I go I go after it first thing in the morning. I go after it like I'm going against an enemy invader that got into my home trying to get into my head. I go after it because I recognize it.
So I like I open my eyes before I even get out of bed. I start praising our start thinking right now. The weather is really nice in California. The cool breeze. It just feeds my soul. I open up the windows and the doors. I actually go out on the grass barefoot and ground. We don't ground. We wear shoes with plastic got never designed that and so we're not a full circuit.
So being able to get yourself barefoot on the earth. This is why you feel so good in a beach. Why you feel so good in the sand because you're grounded, right? So I understand the science of these things. And so I go outside barefoot in the grass first thing and I start doing some stretches.
I will jump on my rebounder for a minute to get the circulation going right and and so and then when I go in the house, I turn on music. I think I sent most of you music yesterday as an example.
If you didn't get it, ask me, text me. I'll send it. But every morning I'm listening to the strong scriptural declaration praise music. So when I'm taking a shower, I'm still meditating and praising when I'm in my quiet time. I'm still meditating and praising.
OK, my dad did that when he was sick, a beautiful reminder.
It's huge. It's huge.
OK, so so changing our our physiology.
So whenever you move into pressure,
into urgency, into striving, into control, the first step is awareness.
And you're like, oh, OK, this is what this is what we talked about.
I'm not in partnership right now.
I'm over in the pressure side.
And I'm going to choose to change that.
I'm going to use my God given ability to change, to change that.
Does that make sense?
And we can be journaling and asking God about it and always being aware,
like when you get alone with God and you close your eyes and whatever that
pressure is, like you feel it and you go, what is it?
It's around business or money, around a relationship, a health care, whatever.
And then just start, God, Father.
What part of this am I carrying?
That was never meant mine to carry.
Where am I usurping from God, what God wants to be doing, and I'm carrying it.
This is great journaling questions in the morning.
And then you ask the other side, because this is a partnership.
What is mine to do?
And if God has told you like for for years, he kept telling me, right,
I would ask God, what do you want me to focus on?
What do you want me to do right now?
And he would say, right.
And did I do it? No.
I go, yeah, I wrote a post and God would say, right.
And you know what he had to do finally?
Like he cleared my plate, like he shut down my LinkedIn.
I didn't have clients.
I didn't like it was like, boom.
Right.
And and so, OK, God, I'm going to do what you told me to do.
So what is mine to do?
What is yours?
Like we're partnering.
That's what partnership looks like.
Partner is not like, God, you go do this.
And partnership is not I got it handled.
Partnership is we do this together.
So this week, as you study and you
meditate and you start being aware of your weak link and transforming it.
I want you to think about Matthew 11.
Twenty nine to 30, which is about taking on Jesus yoke.
And if you've ever seen a picture of two oxen
with a yoke and they keep in step, actually, they'll have a stronger one
and a weaker one together, and the stronger one actually carries most
of the load, but the weaker one has to keep in step.
So Jesus said, take my yoke upon you.
Right, my burden is is easy and light.
And also Corinthians three, nine,
where God said we are his fellow workers.
And then begin the practice of partnership in everything that you're doing.
If you go to write a post, God, does this glorify you?
Is there something you want to say?
What do you want to write through me right now?
Like you're partnering.
If you're having a conversation before you get on, Lord, show up,
partner with me in this conversation, if you're like a family situation,
you know, father, how are we going to handle this?
Papa, whatever you call him, daddy, Abba, right?
And and write about this and listen and and journal.
So just be mindful this week.
I want to talk about it as we come together.
What are we doing here now, God, in this season?
What are we doing?
Like, teach me, increase my capacity.
What is this divine adventure of partnering really, really look like?
Let's do this, God.
I want to feel this.
I want to know what it really is like to 100 percent.
Yes, surrender, trust, believe, stand on the word.
But I want to do this together.
I want to feel your life flowing through me.
I want to see that the supernatural becomes natural.
I want to see miracles overflow.
I desire this, Lord.
I'm opening myself, Lord, to this kind of partnership.
Teach me a new level of being, Lord.
teach me a new level of partnering.
That's my prayer for all of you.
I pray this has blessed you.
I pray that this is really just taking up another notch
in your walk with God.
And I'm so excited.
I'm believing that there's gonna be a lot of testimonies
as we go together in these 12 weeks.
There's gonna be miracles.
There's gonna be breakthroughs.
There's gonna be new understanding.
And so I can't wait to share this journey,
the rest of this journey with you.
Lots of love.
We're gonna go on over to office hours.
See you there.