WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.960 All right, welcome, welcome, welcome to the Power Hour. 2 00:00:06.960 --> 00:00:15.000 Of course, this is where we are every Wednesday morning, and this is our opportunity. 3 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:19.560 For me, it's starting my week because, you know, Mondays and Tuesdays are off for me, 4 00:00:19.560 --> 00:00:21.980 so it's like the first day of the week for me. 5 00:00:21.980 --> 00:00:30.540 So I like to say start my week, but with prayer, and it's been so awesome just seeing as we 6 00:00:30.540 --> 00:00:36.380 lift each other up with prayers right now for our parents, especially those that have 7 00:00:36.380 --> 00:00:44.500 living parents, and praise, celebrating just the God winks and what God is doing. 8 00:00:44.500 --> 00:00:47.340 And so every week we go through a promise. 9 00:00:47.340 --> 00:00:50.880 This is part of being a Prosper Leader member. 10 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:58.760 And so every week we go through a promise, and then we hit the principles behind it, 11 00:00:58.760 --> 00:01:00.440 and then we pray. 12 00:01:00.440 --> 00:01:09.800 So we are working over these next days, we're working through the Prosper System, the P-R-O-S-P-E-R. 13 00:01:09.800 --> 00:01:16.240 I wanted to go all the way through it, especially, you know, tomorrow when we're doing from pressure 14 00:01:16.240 --> 00:01:17.560 to partnership. 15 00:01:17.560 --> 00:01:24.480 I wanted to work through that because that is the format to experience this transformation. 16 00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:29.720 So today we are in the R, okay? 17 00:01:29.720 --> 00:01:33.120 And who knows what the R is in the Prosper System? 18 00:01:33.120 --> 00:01:35.600 Who knows what the R is? 19 00:01:35.600 --> 00:01:39.600 Anybody read the book, Total Soul Prosperity? 20 00:01:39.600 --> 00:01:40.600 What is the R? 21 00:01:40.600 --> 00:01:43.960 You can put it in the chat, or you could just say it. 22 00:01:43.960 --> 00:01:44.960 Renew? 23 00:01:44.960 --> 00:01:45.960 Yeah. 24 00:01:46.360 --> 00:01:47.360 Renew? 25 00:01:47.360 --> 00:01:48.360 Yeah. 26 00:01:48.360 --> 00:01:50.640 Renew our mind. 27 00:01:50.640 --> 00:01:52.320 Renew our mind. 28 00:01:52.320 --> 00:01:56.880 So the first step that we did last week, P is partner with God, okay? 29 00:01:56.880 --> 00:02:05.560 So the first step is coming into understanding that we're partners with God, and the R then 30 00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:09.720 is you can partner with God. 31 00:02:09.720 --> 00:02:15.640 And you know, I often think of the metaphor of, it's a historical, but also it's a metaphor 32 00:02:16.320 --> 00:02:25.960 when you think about it, when God took the Jewish, when they were slaves in Egypt, and 33 00:02:25.960 --> 00:02:34.560 God completely set them free, led them, you know, pillar of fire and a pillar of cloud 34 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:38.120 and their shoes didn't wear out and manna came down. 35 00:02:38.120 --> 00:02:43.400 Like God set them free, provided, protected, did everything that God does. 36 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:50.200 But there was one thing that God can't do that we have to do in partnership with God, 37 00:02:50.200 --> 00:02:53.800 and that is renew our mind. 38 00:02:53.800 --> 00:02:59.520 And so, you know, they kept experiencing things that caused, you know, what would have been 39 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:05.800 just a seven or 11 day journey to be like 40 years, right? 40 00:03:05.800 --> 00:03:13.320 And so today, as I talk about renewing the mind, I want to look at it from a really fresh 41 00:03:13.320 --> 00:03:16.000 perspective. 42 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:26.440 And the perspective I want to look at is praying that the Lord opens our eyes, that the Lord 43 00:03:26.440 --> 00:03:33.160 opens our eyes, that we walk in revelation knowledge. 44 00:03:33.160 --> 00:03:40.040 Have you ever been so focused on a problem that you couldn't see a solution that was 45 00:03:40.040 --> 00:03:44.000 actually right there? 46 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:49.840 We get so obsessed talking and thinking and looking and speaking about the problem that 47 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:58.840 we, it actually constricts our ability to see the solution that is right there. 48 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:09.160 So the prayer today is really going to be around open our eyes, because the first step, 49 00:04:09.160 --> 00:04:14.400 awareness is the first step to transformation. 50 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:23.760 Awareness is the first step to transformation, and I think this story always hits me when 51 00:04:23.760 --> 00:04:33.400 Abraham ended up casting Hagar and the son Ishmael out. 52 00:04:33.400 --> 00:04:36.920 And you could read that whole story in Genesis. 53 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:46.080 Here they were in the wilderness, Hagar and Ishmael, and they had no water. 54 00:04:46.080 --> 00:04:51.160 The container of water was running out and they had no water. 55 00:04:51.320 --> 00:04:58.000 And Hagar was so focused on that, that she really felt like she was going to die. 56 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:00.040 And so she gave the little water to the son. 57 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:06.400 son and just was planning to die. 58 00:05:06.400 --> 00:05:09.580 And scripture records something really interesting. 59 00:05:09.580 --> 00:05:12.240 It was in Ishmael's prayer. 60 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:17.800 It says that Ishmael prayed, and God opened Hagar's eyes. 61 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:23.840 And she saw that right in front of her was a well. 62 00:05:23.840 --> 00:05:26.000 Now, God didn't make that well. 63 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:28.000 He didn't dig that well right then. 64 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:31.960 The well was always there. 65 00:05:31.960 --> 00:05:35.280 But she was so blinded by her beliefs and the problems, 66 00:05:35.280 --> 00:05:38.960 she couldn't see the solution. 67 00:05:38.960 --> 00:05:41.880 And so this is what I want to talk about when 68 00:05:41.880 --> 00:05:44.960 we talk about renewing the mind. 69 00:05:44.960 --> 00:05:52.880 So the promise that we're going to focus on is Romans 12, 2. 70 00:05:52.880 --> 00:05:56.000 Romans 12, 2. 71 00:05:56.000 --> 00:05:57.360 And so you guys can look that up. 72 00:05:57.360 --> 00:06:00.040 We'll read it in different translations. 73 00:06:03.200 --> 00:06:08.560 Anybody have Romans 12, 2? 74 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:10.920 And tell us what translation you're reading from. 75 00:06:16.760 --> 00:06:19.640 Romans chapter 12, verse 2. 76 00:06:23.640 --> 00:06:24.880 Right after the Gospels. 77 00:06:24.880 --> 00:06:29.760 Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, and then Romans. 78 00:06:29.760 --> 00:06:32.600 OK, I have New King James Version. 79 00:06:32.600 --> 00:06:36.520 And it says, and do not be conformed to this world, 80 00:06:36.520 --> 00:06:39.480 but be transformed by the renewing of your mind 81 00:06:39.480 --> 00:06:44.400 that you may prove what is that good and acceptable 82 00:06:44.400 --> 00:06:46.960 and perfect will of God. 83 00:06:46.960 --> 00:06:48.320 Love that. 84 00:06:48.320 --> 00:06:49.560 Love that. 85 00:06:49.560 --> 00:06:56.560 Do not be conformed, but be transformed. 86 00:06:56.560 --> 00:06:57.960 Anybody else have a different one? 87 00:07:00.960 --> 00:07:01.720 I do. 88 00:07:01.720 --> 00:07:05.720 I have the New Living Translation, 89 00:07:05.720 --> 00:07:07.160 and I've had small print. 90 00:07:07.160 --> 00:07:07.800 Yeah. 91 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:13.640 And it says, do not copy the behavior and customs 92 00:07:13.640 --> 00:07:16.520 of this world, but let God transform you 93 00:07:16.520 --> 00:07:19.560 into a new person by changing the way you think. 94 00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:22.720 Then you will learn to know God's will for you, 95 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:25.360 which is good and pleasing and perfect. 96 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:26.800 Love that. 97 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:28.560 Love that. 98 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:34.880 Here it is in the Amplified Translation. 99 00:07:34.880 --> 00:07:39.200 And do not be conformed to this world 100 00:07:39.200 --> 00:07:44.920 any longer with its superficial values and customs, 101 00:07:44.920 --> 00:07:51.240 but be transformed and progressively changed 102 00:07:51.240 --> 00:07:58.120 as you mature spiritually by the renewing of your mind 103 00:07:58.120 --> 00:08:02.880 so you may prove for yourselves what the will of God 104 00:08:02.880 --> 00:08:08.600 is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect 105 00:08:08.600 --> 00:08:12.160 in his plan and purpose for you. 106 00:08:12.560 --> 00:08:16.480 What jumps out for you in this verse? 107 00:08:20.960 --> 00:08:24.640 I love that he has a perfect plan for us. 108 00:08:24.640 --> 00:08:25.440 Yeah. 109 00:08:25.440 --> 00:08:28.560 That I think we don't have to worry or be anxious 110 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:31.080 about anything, but just trusting that he 111 00:08:31.080 --> 00:08:33.120 has a perfect plan in our life. 112 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:34.559 I love that. 113 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:35.280 Yeah. 114 00:08:35.280 --> 00:08:39.520 This good, acceptable, perfect plan and purpose he has for you. 115 00:08:39.559 --> 00:08:42.600 But then it says, so that you can know it, 116 00:08:42.600 --> 00:08:43.760 so you can prove it. 117 00:08:43.760 --> 00:08:46.320 So there's something to live that perfect will that 118 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:48.080 has to happen, right? 119 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:48.680 Love that. 120 00:08:48.680 --> 00:08:49.440 Anybody else? 121 00:08:49.440 --> 00:08:52.320 What jumped out? 122 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:54.640 I also have it in the Passion Translation. 123 00:08:54.640 --> 00:08:55.920 Yeah. 124 00:08:55.920 --> 00:08:58.680 It says, stop imitating the ideas and opinions 125 00:08:58.680 --> 00:09:01.960 of the culture around you, but be inwardly transformed 126 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:05.240 by the Holy Spirit through a total reformation 127 00:09:05.240 --> 00:09:06.480 of how you think. 128 00:09:06.480 --> 00:09:09.000 This will empower you to discern God's will 129 00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:12.080 as you live a beautiful life, satisfying 130 00:09:12.080 --> 00:09:14.080 and perfect in his eyes. 131 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:15.480 So good. 132 00:09:15.480 --> 00:09:16.320 Yeah. 133 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:17.080 So good. 134 00:09:17.080 --> 00:09:18.840 So juicy. 135 00:09:18.840 --> 00:09:20.280 Yeah. 136 00:09:20.280 --> 00:09:23.040 It also reminds me, like he's saying, 137 00:09:23.040 --> 00:09:27.800 when you renew your mind, you have the ammunition 138 00:09:27.800 --> 00:09:31.720 to do everything that I have set for you to do. 139 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:32.560 Yes. 140 00:09:32.560 --> 00:09:34.840 But you have to renew your mind. 141 00:09:34.840 --> 00:09:36.000 Yes. 142 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:36.760 Yeah. 143 00:09:36.760 --> 00:09:38.280 So good. 144 00:09:38.360 --> 00:09:39.840 So good. 145 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:44.080 So there's some things, you know, I always, 146 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:46.680 I usually bring out the fact, the contrast. 147 00:09:46.680 --> 00:09:51.760 Do not be conformed, but be transformed. 148 00:09:51.760 --> 00:09:53.920 So first, you've got this contrast. 149 00:09:53.920 --> 00:09:55.360 Don't do this, do this. 150 00:09:55.360 --> 00:09:57.920 Don't be conformed. 151 00:09:57.920 --> 00:10:00.360 And that word conformed. 152 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:02.640 shaped by, okay? 153 00:10:02.640 --> 00:10:05.620 And it's the word like a jello mold. 154 00:10:05.620 --> 00:10:08.400 When you pour jello into a jello mold 155 00:10:08.400 --> 00:10:10.000 and then after it's in the refrigerator 156 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:13.120 and you take it out, it took on the shape of that mold. 157 00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:16.680 So this is saying, don't let the world shape you. 158 00:10:16.680 --> 00:10:18.160 Don't be shaped. 159 00:10:18.160 --> 00:10:20.320 And the different translations you read 160 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:24.200 by its external values, by its customs, 161 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:27.640 don't let the world shape you. 162 00:10:27.640 --> 00:10:29.760 And then there's but, there's the contrast. 163 00:10:29.760 --> 00:10:33.680 Instead, be transformed. 164 00:10:35.080 --> 00:10:39.720 And of course, the amplified progressively changed, okay? 165 00:10:39.720 --> 00:10:43.800 So what I want you to get out of this especially 166 00:10:43.800 --> 00:10:47.240 is that transformation is possible. 167 00:10:47.240 --> 00:10:49.320 That's the first thing. 168 00:10:49.320 --> 00:10:54.320 Transformation is possible, right? 169 00:10:55.320 --> 00:10:58.320 Transformation is possible. 170 00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:02.800 So what that means is you're not stuck 171 00:11:02.800 --> 00:11:05.200 with the same thought patterns. 172 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:09.800 You don't have to be stuck with the same fear cycle. 173 00:11:09.800 --> 00:11:14.280 You don't have to be stuck with the same emotional reactions. 174 00:11:14.280 --> 00:11:16.260 Like yesterday, Linda and I were talking about, 175 00:11:16.260 --> 00:11:20.840 we're just learning different ways to handle difficulties 176 00:11:20.840 --> 00:11:22.880 and difficult people. 177 00:11:22.920 --> 00:11:26.200 We don't have to keep on being stuck in patterns. 178 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:27.920 We can be transformed. 179 00:11:27.920 --> 00:11:30.120 We can rise above it. 180 00:11:30.120 --> 00:11:33.720 You're not stuck with the same way of building. 181 00:11:34.640 --> 00:11:39.640 And transformation doesn't begin with pressure. 182 00:11:40.520 --> 00:11:42.760 It begins with renewal. 183 00:11:42.760 --> 00:11:47.760 So we're transformed by renewing, right? 184 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:52.040 We're transformed. 185 00:11:52.040 --> 00:11:57.040 So the world wants you to conform and it uses pressure. 186 00:11:58.520 --> 00:12:00.680 Hurry, catch up, get it done. 187 00:12:00.680 --> 00:12:02.480 You're not enough. 188 00:12:02.480 --> 00:12:06.920 It's a pressure, pressure, pressure, right? 189 00:12:06.920 --> 00:12:11.920 And being transformed by the renewing of our mind 190 00:12:12.640 --> 00:12:14.680 is about partnership. 191 00:12:14.680 --> 00:12:19.640 It's God saying, come to me, all you that are heavy laden. 192 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:25.480 Partner with me, co-labor with me, abide in me. 193 00:12:28.280 --> 00:12:30.720 Let me lead you, be trust. 194 00:12:30.720 --> 00:12:35.720 It's this relational transformation that happens, right? 195 00:12:39.720 --> 00:12:44.720 And so when I think about the different examples, 196 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:50.240 I think about Hagar and the well. 197 00:12:51.640 --> 00:12:56.640 I think that one of the greatest parts of transformation, 198 00:12:59.000 --> 00:13:00.680 wish I could find where that's coming from 199 00:13:00.680 --> 00:13:02.480 so I could get it to stop beeping. 200 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:06.280 One of the greatest things of transformation 201 00:13:07.160 --> 00:13:12.160 is that sometimes we don't need to create something new. 202 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:18.840 We need God to open our eyes 203 00:13:18.840 --> 00:13:22.440 to what already exists right in front of us. 204 00:13:22.440 --> 00:13:25.680 The renewing that I wanna talk about today, 205 00:13:25.680 --> 00:13:28.280 there's so many aspects to renewing the mind 206 00:13:28.280 --> 00:13:32.240 that's so powerful, but the one today 207 00:13:32.240 --> 00:13:35.640 that affects every area of our life 208 00:13:35.640 --> 00:13:39.520 is to walk in revelation knowledge, 209 00:13:39.520 --> 00:13:44.520 to ask God to open our eyes that we can see. 210 00:13:45.720 --> 00:13:48.880 And there's so many examples, you know, 211 00:13:48.880 --> 00:13:50.240 I just gave you Hagar. 212 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:55.240 Another example is when Elijah and his servant comes 213 00:13:58.440 --> 00:14:02.880 and says, we're in trouble boss, basically. 214 00:14:03.800 --> 00:14:06.320 We're completely surrounded. 215 00:14:06.320 --> 00:14:09.080 The armies had completely surrounded them. 216 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:10.240 There was no way out. 217 00:14:10.240 --> 00:14:12.520 And sometimes problems look like that. 218 00:14:12.560 --> 00:14:13.520 It's too big. 219 00:14:13.520 --> 00:14:15.400 And no matter where I look, 220 00:14:15.400 --> 00:14:18.560 there's absolutely no way out of this problem. 221 00:14:20.600 --> 00:14:25.600 And Elijah prayed and said, God, open my servant's eyes. 222 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:30.480 And God answered that prayer. 223 00:14:31.320 --> 00:14:34.920 And suddenly the servant could see legions 224 00:14:34.920 --> 00:14:37.080 of angels all around. 225 00:14:38.800 --> 00:14:41.480 And I think how true is that for us? 226 00:14:43.320 --> 00:14:48.320 Do we see all that God has placed around us, 227 00:14:48.440 --> 00:14:51.160 the hedge of protection, the angels? 228 00:14:51.160 --> 00:14:53.680 Do we see the solutions? 229 00:14:53.680 --> 00:14:58.600 Do we see the opportunities in every challenge? 230 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:04.400 And so, the idea of renewing the mind today, 231 00:15:04.400 --> 00:15:07.840 I want the prayer to be, God, open my eyes, 232 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:11.720 and open my eyes to the lies that I've believed. 233 00:15:11.720 --> 00:15:15.760 Open my eyes to the things that I haven't seen 234 00:15:15.760 --> 00:15:17.140 that you're showing. 235 00:15:17.140 --> 00:15:21.160 Open my eyes to what you're doing in this season. 236 00:15:21.160 --> 00:15:23.460 Help me to see, Lord. 237 00:15:24.400 --> 00:15:26.040 And there's so much in scripture 238 00:15:26.040 --> 00:15:28.700 about God opening eyes, right? 239 00:15:29.660 --> 00:15:32.740 Even Paul, I mean, Paul really felt 240 00:15:32.740 --> 00:15:35.140 like he was just doing the right thing, 241 00:15:35.140 --> 00:15:38.740 persecuting Christians, dragging women, babies, everything, 242 00:15:38.740 --> 00:15:40.740 you know, having them stoned. 243 00:15:40.740 --> 00:15:43.740 And he's riding on the road to Damascus, 244 00:15:43.740 --> 00:15:48.740 and the light of God was so bright that it blinded him. 245 00:15:49.260 --> 00:15:52.860 And of course, then when Cornelius laid hands on him 246 00:15:52.860 --> 00:15:55.780 and the scales fell off of his eyes, 247 00:15:56.780 --> 00:16:00.700 but he could hear the voice of Jesus. 248 00:16:00.700 --> 00:16:04.140 Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? 249 00:16:04.140 --> 00:16:06.020 He says, who are you, Lord? 250 00:16:07.900 --> 00:16:10.100 I'm Jesus, I'm the one that you persecuted. 251 00:16:10.100 --> 00:16:12.940 Look that Paul went and wrote most of the Bible. 252 00:16:12.940 --> 00:16:16.460 What we're reading right now, this verse in Romans, 253 00:16:16.460 --> 00:16:20.820 started when the scales fell off of his eyes. 254 00:16:20.820 --> 00:16:23.380 We literally have scales on our eyes 255 00:16:23.380 --> 00:16:26.940 to not see what God is trying to show us. 256 00:16:28.740 --> 00:16:33.140 I like to say also in Romans, Romans 8, 28, 257 00:16:33.140 --> 00:16:37.300 that God works all things together for our good, right? 258 00:16:37.300 --> 00:16:42.260 And so when things are really hard to ask the question, 259 00:16:42.260 --> 00:16:44.860 God, you're working everything together for good, 260 00:16:44.860 --> 00:16:49.860 what's the good here that I'm not seeing, right? 261 00:16:50.460 --> 00:16:52.940 So I love that. 262 00:16:52.940 --> 00:16:57.940 And I also have shared with many of you, Isaiah 26, 3. 263 00:16:58.660 --> 00:17:03.220 So just as backup to our promise, Genesis 21, 19, 264 00:17:03.220 --> 00:17:04.740 that's the Hagar story, 265 00:17:04.740 --> 00:17:07.500 if you wanna go read it for yourself. 266 00:17:07.500 --> 00:17:09.859 And with that one, we can say, 267 00:17:09.859 --> 00:17:12.980 you know what, what provision is already here, 268 00:17:12.980 --> 00:17:17.980 but pressure has made it hard for me to see, right? 269 00:17:18.700 --> 00:17:22.339 What pressure is already here? 270 00:17:22.339 --> 00:17:26.220 What provision is here that pressure has made it hard 271 00:17:26.220 --> 00:17:27.980 for me to see? 272 00:17:31.500 --> 00:17:33.260 Because we're so focused on the problem, 273 00:17:33.260 --> 00:17:38.140 we can't see the solution, okay? 274 00:17:38.140 --> 00:17:40.340 And then Isaiah 26, 3, 275 00:17:40.340 --> 00:17:44.820 it's one of the first Bible verses that I ever, ever learned 276 00:17:45.740 --> 00:17:50.740 and it's that you will keep in perfect peace 277 00:17:52.500 --> 00:17:57.500 all those who trust you and whose thoughts are fixed on you. 278 00:17:58.340 --> 00:18:00.060 And so what I want you to get from this 279 00:18:00.060 --> 00:18:04.380 is that peace doesn't come from your circumstances changing, 280 00:18:06.460 --> 00:18:09.820 peace doesn't come from your circumstances changing, 281 00:18:09.820 --> 00:18:14.460 peace is connecting to what you're fixing your thoughts on. 282 00:18:15.100 --> 00:18:17.140 Are you fixing your thoughts on fear 283 00:18:17.140 --> 00:18:22.140 or are you fixing your thoughts on pressure? 284 00:18:22.180 --> 00:18:26.260 So here's the principle that goes with this promise 285 00:18:26.260 --> 00:18:29.820 before we go into prayer, here's the principle. 286 00:18:31.580 --> 00:18:36.420 Who or what are you agreeing with? 287 00:18:36.420 --> 00:18:39.420 The principle is the power of agreement. 288 00:18:40.420 --> 00:18:45.420 So which thoughts have you come into agreement with 289 00:18:47.700 --> 00:18:51.380 that have even begun to become part of your identity? 290 00:18:54.620 --> 00:18:58.580 Which thoughts have you so believed 291 00:18:58.580 --> 00:19:02.620 that it's actually shaping your circumstances? 292 00:19:03.060 --> 00:19:08.060 So in, oh, I think it's 2 Corinthians, 293 00:19:12.140 --> 00:19:17.140 2 Corinthians 10, 5 says, 294 00:19:17.780 --> 00:19:21.780 we're destroying sophisticated arguments 295 00:19:21.780 --> 00:19:24.740 and every exalted and proud thing 296 00:19:24.740 --> 00:19:29.140 that sets itself up against the true knowledge of God 297 00:19:30.100 --> 00:19:35.100 and we're taking every thought and purpose captive 298 00:19:36.740 --> 00:19:41.100 to the obedience of Christ. 299 00:19:41.100 --> 00:19:46.100 So the idea of this is taking every thought captive. 300 00:19:47.740 --> 00:19:50.900 And so what I like to think about like horses, 301 00:19:50.900 --> 00:19:53.980 like a horse is like putting them in a corral, okay? 302 00:19:53.980 --> 00:19:57.500 Our thoughts can be just like wild horses. 303 00:19:57.500 --> 00:19:59.980 And if your thoughts have. 304 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:05.000 not been trained, if you have not trained your thoughts, 305 00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:11.920 trained yourself, if you have not trained yourself, 306 00:20:11.920 --> 00:20:16.920 that just because you think something doesn't make it true. 307 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:22.880 So the unrenewed mind believes its own thoughts. 308 00:20:22.880 --> 00:20:25.760 If you think something, it must be, it's a fact. 309 00:20:26.760 --> 00:20:31.760 The renewed mind knows to take every thought captive 310 00:20:32.480 --> 00:20:34.640 to the obedience of Christ, 311 00:20:34.640 --> 00:20:38.740 knows to take every thought and say, is this true? 312 00:20:40.240 --> 00:20:42.960 Does this line up with the truth of God? 313 00:20:42.960 --> 00:20:46.520 Does this, so the renewing of the mind 314 00:20:46.520 --> 00:20:50.560 is beginning to really look at every thought, 315 00:20:50.560 --> 00:20:55.560 examine every thought, is this true? 316 00:20:56.760 --> 00:21:01.760 So what thoughts have you come into agreement with? 317 00:21:03.880 --> 00:21:06.280 You've accepted them as truth. 318 00:21:08.280 --> 00:21:11.280 You've actually believed your narrative. 319 00:21:11.280 --> 00:21:13.960 You've believed your story. 320 00:21:13.960 --> 00:21:17.360 And by believing that story, 321 00:21:17.360 --> 00:21:20.100 it's shaping all the rest of your life. 322 00:21:21.060 --> 00:21:24.440 Did you believe a lie? 323 00:21:24.440 --> 00:21:26.960 Did you believe a lie? 324 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:28.180 I'm stupid. 325 00:21:29.600 --> 00:21:32.060 I can never do or be. 326 00:21:32.920 --> 00:21:35.640 I don't have enough. 327 00:21:35.640 --> 00:21:37.800 I'm too old. 328 00:21:37.800 --> 00:21:39.440 I'm too much. 329 00:21:40.760 --> 00:21:44.320 You believe these lies 330 00:21:44.320 --> 00:21:49.320 and they actually begin to shape your very existence. 331 00:21:49.640 --> 00:21:54.640 And so you cannot renew what you refuse to notice. 332 00:21:56.680 --> 00:22:01.680 So the very first step of transformation is awareness. 333 00:22:05.720 --> 00:22:09.320 Brenda, I, you know, it's, you know, 334 00:22:09.320 --> 00:22:14.120 in the Passion Translation in Romans 12, two, 335 00:22:14.120 --> 00:22:17.240 and this is something that the Lord's been working with me. 336 00:22:17.240 --> 00:22:21.000 The very first thing that it says is stop imitating 337 00:22:21.000 --> 00:22:24.180 the ideals and opinions of the culture around you. 338 00:22:25.640 --> 00:22:29.660 And the thing that he has been sharing with me 339 00:22:29.660 --> 00:22:32.960 is that we are his children. 340 00:22:32.960 --> 00:22:37.960 And when we do not stop, we're being double-minded, right? 341 00:22:38.880 --> 00:22:41.920 So in order for the transformation to take place, 342 00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:46.720 that we have to be either cold or hot, right? 343 00:22:47.160 --> 00:22:48.640 We can't be lukewarm. 344 00:22:48.640 --> 00:22:51.760 And he has been speaking to me in my journaling 345 00:22:51.760 --> 00:22:53.600 and saying, let go of your wicked ways. 346 00:22:53.600 --> 00:22:56.040 And I'm like, wow, that's pretty tough, Lord. 347 00:22:56.040 --> 00:22:58.640 I never thought of myself as being wicked. 348 00:22:58.640 --> 00:23:01.080 But I see, because he keeps speaking 349 00:23:01.080 --> 00:23:03.920 about my spiritual eyes, right? 350 00:23:03.920 --> 00:23:07.360 So I'm like, ooh, so that really, as you're speaking, 351 00:23:07.360 --> 00:23:11.480 I'm going, wow, that transformation really cannot take place 352 00:23:11.480 --> 00:23:15.400 until we've decided that we will no longer be double-minded. 353 00:23:15.400 --> 00:23:18.720 Like you were saying about the culture of the world. 354 00:23:18.720 --> 00:23:22.440 So I had to share that, because it's heavy on my heart. 355 00:23:22.440 --> 00:23:24.120 So good, Kim, thank you. 356 00:23:24.120 --> 00:23:27.040 In the wicked ways, I'm like, wicked? 357 00:23:27.040 --> 00:23:30.160 Gosh, man, you must really love me, 358 00:23:30.160 --> 00:23:33.960 because you're telling me how it is from the center. 359 00:23:33.960 --> 00:23:36.720 Yeah, it's funny. 360 00:23:36.720 --> 00:23:41.720 It's those thoughts that are so contrary to the truth, right? 361 00:23:42.120 --> 00:23:46.120 So what immediately hit me when you said that 362 00:23:46.120 --> 00:23:49.440 is the parable of the talents, right? 363 00:23:49.440 --> 00:23:52.520 And God gave all of them talents. 364 00:23:52.520 --> 00:23:56.040 And the first one multiplied, the second one multiplied it. 365 00:23:56.040 --> 00:24:01.040 The third one said, I knew you were a harsh 366 00:24:03.120 --> 00:24:06.520 and like ruthless God, right? 367 00:24:06.640 --> 00:24:11.640 And so I hid it, I was afraid, and I hid it. 368 00:24:12.680 --> 00:24:16.080 And that was the only one that, you know, 369 00:24:16.080 --> 00:24:20.560 in the parable, the manager, which represented God, 370 00:24:20.560 --> 00:24:23.640 said, you wicked and slothful. 371 00:24:23.640 --> 00:24:26.480 It was all around thinking. 372 00:24:26.480 --> 00:24:29.560 It was thinking in terms of fear 373 00:24:29.560 --> 00:24:31.600 and coming into agreement with fear. 374 00:24:31.600 --> 00:24:33.280 And it was thinking about, 375 00:24:33.640 --> 00:24:36.640 why thinking matters so much? 376 00:24:36.640 --> 00:24:40.360 Because what happens is we have a thought, 377 00:24:40.360 --> 00:24:42.720 but it doesn't just stop there. 378 00:24:42.720 --> 00:24:47.200 We apply that thinking even to how we view God, 379 00:24:47.200 --> 00:24:51.160 how we view life, how we view the world, right? 380 00:24:51.160 --> 00:24:56.160 So he said, I knew you were a harsh and ruthless God, 381 00:24:56.200 --> 00:24:59.200 and I hid it, I was afraid, and I hid it. 382 00:24:59.200 --> 00:25:02.200 And then he said, I knew you were a harsh and ruthless God, 383 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:02.840 said, I was afraid. 384 00:25:02.840 --> 00:25:06.480 And on that fear, he didn't take action, 385 00:25:06.480 --> 00:25:08.040 so it shaped his actions. 386 00:25:08.040 --> 00:25:09.040 He hid the money. 387 00:25:09.040 --> 00:25:12.440 We're going to talk about how our thoughts shape our action. 388 00:25:12.440 --> 00:25:15.880 It shaped his actions, but it shaped his worldview, 389 00:25:15.880 --> 00:25:18.880 and it shaped his God view. 390 00:25:18.880 --> 00:25:23.560 I knew you were a harsh God, a demanding God, 391 00:25:23.560 --> 00:25:26.000 depending what translation you look at, right? 392 00:25:26.000 --> 00:25:28.640 So it actually shaped even how we viewed God. 393 00:25:28.640 --> 00:25:32.240 So this is why our thoughts are either 394 00:25:32.240 --> 00:25:34.760 creating beautiful things when they're 395 00:25:34.760 --> 00:25:37.120 aligned with truth and God's truth, 396 00:25:37.120 --> 00:25:41.600 or they're actually destroying us by the thoughts 397 00:25:41.600 --> 00:25:43.280 that we come into agreement with. 398 00:25:43.280 --> 00:25:46.400 So I'm so glad that you said that, Kim. 399 00:25:46.400 --> 00:25:48.760 It's so beautiful. 400 00:25:48.760 --> 00:25:52.720 And so you notice in this scripture in Corinthians 401 00:25:52.720 --> 00:25:56.400 that Paul says sophisticated arguments. 402 00:25:56.400 --> 00:25:59.880 And so some lies are not so obvious, 403 00:25:59.880 --> 00:26:02.440 like what you were just saying, Kim. 404 00:26:02.440 --> 00:26:07.120 Some lies actually sound responsible. 405 00:26:07.120 --> 00:26:09.480 I have to do everything myself. 406 00:26:09.480 --> 00:26:13.360 Some lies sound realistic. 407 00:26:13.360 --> 00:26:14.720 There'll never be enough. 408 00:26:14.720 --> 00:26:17.240 Some lies sound humble. 409 00:26:17.240 --> 00:26:19.360 I'm just not ready. 410 00:26:19.360 --> 00:26:21.440 Some lies sound really spiritual. 411 00:26:21.440 --> 00:26:22.600 I love this one. 412 00:26:22.600 --> 00:26:25.280 I'm just waiting on God. 413 00:26:25.840 --> 00:26:30.360 That's one of the biggest guys for I'm scared to take action. 414 00:26:30.360 --> 00:26:32.120 That's a spiritual definition. 415 00:26:32.120 --> 00:26:35.200 Sometimes are they truly waiting on God sometimes, 416 00:26:35.200 --> 00:26:39.840 but most of the time it's like God's waiting on you, right? 417 00:26:39.840 --> 00:26:41.600 I have a question about that real quick, 418 00:26:41.600 --> 00:26:46.040 because I have ran into a lot of people 419 00:26:46.040 --> 00:26:48.040 that say that, Brenda, that are saying, 420 00:26:48.040 --> 00:26:50.880 I'm just waiting for God to answer. 421 00:26:50.880 --> 00:26:52.840 And it is so true. 422 00:26:52.840 --> 00:26:54.560 And I'm sitting here going, OK, it's 423 00:26:54.560 --> 00:26:57.360 not that I don't believe that he won't answer. 424 00:26:57.360 --> 00:26:59.240 I believe even greater that he is 425 00:26:59.240 --> 00:27:02.520 waiting to see what kind of step we're going to take for him. 426 00:27:02.520 --> 00:27:03.800 Is that what? 427 00:27:03.800 --> 00:27:07.200 I mean, I'm asking for clarification, 428 00:27:07.200 --> 00:27:08.880 because I hear that way too often. 429 00:27:08.880 --> 00:27:13.040 And I'm like, man, is that an excuse for us to play small? 430 00:27:13.040 --> 00:27:13.800 I have done that. 431 00:27:13.800 --> 00:27:15.840 Most of the time it is. 432 00:27:15.840 --> 00:27:17.600 I can't judge the hearts of men. 433 00:27:17.600 --> 00:27:19.880 We can only judge ourselves. 434 00:27:19.880 --> 00:27:26.000 Most of the time, that's fear guised in spirituality. 435 00:27:26.000 --> 00:27:30.440 Because I don't want to go down a rabbit trail, 436 00:27:30.440 --> 00:27:33.240 but faith without works is dead. 437 00:27:33.240 --> 00:27:38.520 So there's never a case where God says, just believe, 438 00:27:38.520 --> 00:27:40.240 but don't take any action. 439 00:27:40.240 --> 00:27:42.240 Faith and action always go together. 440 00:27:42.240 --> 00:27:45.280 Read the book of James, really goes into that. 441 00:27:45.280 --> 00:27:49.280 And so we also have to take steps forward, 442 00:27:49.280 --> 00:27:52.640 and then scripture says a voice will say, walk this way, 443 00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:53.920 walk that way. 444 00:27:53.920 --> 00:27:56.160 But we have to take the steps forward. 445 00:27:56.160 --> 00:27:59.360 And you don't see in scripture where 446 00:27:59.360 --> 00:28:03.440 God told his people, other than maybe like the book of Acts, 447 00:28:03.440 --> 00:28:06.000 when the action was prayer, where he said, 448 00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:09.360 gather together and pray and fast and wait on me. 449 00:28:09.360 --> 00:28:12.080 So there's a time for something like that. 450 00:28:12.080 --> 00:28:15.320 But when it goes through weeks and months and years of not 451 00:28:15.320 --> 00:28:17.960 doing anything, and I'm just waiting on God, like what? 452 00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:19.760 God's going to just fall out of the sky 453 00:28:19.760 --> 00:28:23.760 and hand you a Mercedes Benz and do everything for you 454 00:28:23.760 --> 00:28:25.960 that you're not taking any action? 455 00:28:25.960 --> 00:28:27.400 That's not scriptural. 456 00:28:27.400 --> 00:28:31.040 And so that's where I say, it says here, 457 00:28:31.040 --> 00:28:33.080 these are very sophisticated arguments. 458 00:28:33.080 --> 00:28:37.120 Our thoughts are very sophisticated, right? 459 00:28:37.120 --> 00:28:38.400 Yeah, I love that, Christine. 460 00:28:38.400 --> 00:28:42.480 It's called stepping out in faith for a reason, right? 461 00:28:42.480 --> 00:28:45.720 And so it's a partnership. 462 00:28:45.720 --> 00:28:47.640 It's a divine dance. 463 00:28:47.640 --> 00:28:51.240 And that's why I use dance as such a beautiful metaphor. 464 00:28:51.240 --> 00:28:54.560 I can't dance and run way ahead of my partner. 465 00:28:54.560 --> 00:28:56.640 I can't, you know, that's not going to work 466 00:28:56.640 --> 00:28:58.080 or wrestle with my partner. 467 00:28:58.080 --> 00:29:01.440 But I also can't just stand there and say, OK, partner, 468 00:29:01.440 --> 00:29:02.920 dance me. 469 00:29:02.920 --> 00:29:04.680 Like, that's not going to work either. 470 00:29:04.680 --> 00:29:06.000 Drag me around the floor. 471 00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:08.400 It's going to be a beautiful dance. 472 00:29:08.400 --> 00:29:09.120 Here I am. 473 00:29:09.120 --> 00:29:11.080 Just drag me, right? 474 00:29:11.080 --> 00:29:13.440 I did my part. 475 00:29:13.440 --> 00:29:15.040 I learned the movements. 476 00:29:15.040 --> 00:29:16.880 I got my body in shape. 477 00:29:16.880 --> 00:29:17.760 I studied. 478 00:29:17.760 --> 00:29:22.240 I did my part so that together it's a partnership. 479 00:29:22.240 --> 00:29:26.240 We're both moving and those that are led by the spirit. 480 00:29:26.240 --> 00:29:30.240 So Kim, but most of the time in my experience, 481 00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:32.240 when people say, I'm just waiting on God, 482 00:29:32.240 --> 00:29:34.800 and I'll usually kind of say, well, 483 00:29:34.800 --> 00:29:37.520 I think God's waiting on you. 484 00:29:37.520 --> 00:29:39.800 What action steps are you taking? 485 00:29:39.800 --> 00:29:43.440 Yeah, you said that to me. 486 00:29:43.440 --> 00:29:44.520 I know it well. 487 00:29:44.520 --> 00:29:46.280 I'm just speaking from the truth 488 00:29:46.280 --> 00:29:47.760 because I can say that. 489 00:29:47.760 --> 00:29:49.560 You know what's very interesting, too, 490 00:29:49.560 --> 00:29:51.640 is because I keep hearing, well, you know, 491 00:29:51.640 --> 00:29:53.640 because Amanda agreed to that. 492 00:29:53.640 --> 00:29:55.600 We've probably all done that, right? 493 00:29:55.600 --> 00:29:56.480 And so did Christine. 494 00:29:56.480 --> 00:29:59.560 But I'm thinking, you know, it's that childlike wonder, too. 495 00:29:59.560 --> 00:30:01.120 Yeah. 496 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:04.400 Like he wants us to be in childlike wonder and just say, you know what, Lord, I'm going 497 00:30:04.400 --> 00:30:06.120 to go out there. 498 00:30:06.120 --> 00:30:08.440 I feel that what I'm doing is correct. 499 00:30:08.440 --> 00:30:09.440 Yeah. 500 00:30:09.440 --> 00:30:11.920 Correct me if it's not, you'll leave. 501 00:30:11.920 --> 00:30:14.120 And it's that partnership you're talking about. 502 00:30:14.120 --> 00:30:17.520 So that's, this is so profound, I think, for all of us here. 503 00:30:17.520 --> 00:30:23.840 For me, I'm just feeling such a, you know, such a blessing because I hear it so much 504 00:30:23.840 --> 00:30:28.640 and I'm kind of like, gosh, Kim, am I that out of alignment with the Lord? 505 00:30:28.640 --> 00:30:33.600 Am I that out of alignment with obedient, you know, that thing being obedient, right? 506 00:30:33.600 --> 00:30:38.400 Okay, I'm just going to hear and then I don't hear and I don't hear and that's a year later 507 00:30:38.400 --> 00:30:43.600 and I don't hear and it's, he's like, I gave you the power to do this. 508 00:30:43.600 --> 00:30:44.600 Yes. 509 00:30:44.600 --> 00:30:47.040 You need to, you need to show me that you really want it. 510 00:30:47.040 --> 00:30:48.040 Yes. 511 00:30:48.040 --> 00:30:53.240 You know, that that's truly your desire and then all, I will direct your paths. 512 00:30:53.240 --> 00:30:54.240 Yes. 513 00:30:54.240 --> 00:30:55.240 Yes. 514 00:30:55.240 --> 00:31:03.320 So, um, Proverbs three, five is exactly what, what you're saying, right? 515 00:31:03.320 --> 00:31:12.080 Um, and so as, as we acknowledge him in all our ways, so it's about our heart being in 516 00:31:12.080 --> 00:31:13.080 the right position. 517 00:31:13.080 --> 00:31:14.720 God, I'm yours. 518 00:31:14.720 --> 00:31:15.720 I'm surrendered. 519 00:31:15.720 --> 00:31:18.000 I desire to please you. 520 00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:22.880 Our hearts in the right place, acknowledge him in all your ways, right? 521 00:31:22.920 --> 00:31:25.640 And he will direct your paths. 522 00:31:25.640 --> 00:31:32.200 And so you take steps and Lord, you know, open doors, closed doors, but I think this 523 00:31:32.200 --> 00:31:39.240 really ties in, um, to what we're talking about in this particular aspect of renewing 524 00:31:39.240 --> 00:31:40.960 the mind, which is awareness. 525 00:31:40.960 --> 00:31:47.520 God, make me aware, open my eyes, help me to see my blind spots, help me to see the 526 00:31:47.520 --> 00:31:49.800 opportunities I'm missing. 527 00:31:49.800 --> 00:31:53.840 Help me to see the good in that person that I'm not seeing. 528 00:31:53.840 --> 00:31:58.420 Help me to see, you know, opportunities that I'm not seeing. 529 00:31:58.420 --> 00:32:06.600 Help me like, like asking God to open our eyes is, is what I really want to, to get 530 00:32:06.600 --> 00:32:08.080 from this. 531 00:32:08.080 --> 00:32:14.400 And so, um, what I want to share really quick is two things and then we need to pray. 532 00:32:14.400 --> 00:32:18.000 We're going to run out of time and we'll pick up on this in from pressure to partnership 533 00:32:18.000 --> 00:32:19.280 more deep. 534 00:32:19.280 --> 00:32:26.800 But understand the heart, the heart, the mind, heart, mouth connection. 535 00:32:26.800 --> 00:32:30.520 Understand that this is all the way through scripture, right? 536 00:32:30.520 --> 00:32:38.000 So we think a thought and then as we feel it in our heart, it really becomes part of 537 00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:39.000 us. 538 00:32:39.000 --> 00:32:41.120 And then as we speak it, we really manifest it. 539 00:32:41.120 --> 00:32:47.080 So first understand that, that renewing of the mind and the awareness, what am I thinking? 540 00:32:47.080 --> 00:32:50.280 And even tap in and we'll go deeper in this tomorrow. 541 00:32:50.280 --> 00:32:54.280 What am I feeling and what am I speaking, right? 542 00:32:54.280 --> 00:32:59.840 And so, um, what happens is we, we become it and we, we live from it. 543 00:32:59.840 --> 00:33:07.680 So for example, if I say I'm, if I, if I have the thought I'm behind, I'm behind. 544 00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:14.960 And so then the feeling is like pressure or anxiety or shame that goes with that idea. 545 00:33:14.960 --> 00:33:19.120 So I'm behind moves into a feeling, right? 546 00:33:19.120 --> 00:33:24.360 There's this shame, there's this anxiety, there's this pressure, and then we speak it. 547 00:33:24.360 --> 00:33:25.760 I'm so overwhelmed. 548 00:33:25.760 --> 00:33:27.280 I just can't catch up. 549 00:33:27.280 --> 00:33:28.800 There's just not enough time in the day. 550 00:33:28.800 --> 00:33:30.240 I just can't do it. 551 00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:31.240 There's not enough. 552 00:33:31.240 --> 00:33:40.080 I mean, we start speaking it and then our identity starts to step into, I'm behind. 553 00:33:40.080 --> 00:33:48.920 And from that identity, we then move into actions and the actions we, we rush, we avoid, 554 00:33:48.920 --> 00:33:55.120 we overwork, we collapse, we make decisions from pressure. 555 00:33:55.120 --> 00:34:00.640 So you see how this works and that's why tomorrow is so important from, from pressure to partnership 556 00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:07.640 because we can't consistently build from partnership while we're agreeing with pressure. 557 00:34:07.640 --> 00:34:09.639 You see how that works? 558 00:34:09.639 --> 00:34:12.920 And so the shift starts with awareness. 559 00:34:12.920 --> 00:34:17.000 I, you've seen it a million times in anything I've written, awareness is the first step 560 00:34:17.000 --> 00:34:18.719 to transformation. 561 00:34:18.719 --> 00:34:22.120 So be aware, Lord, open my eyes. 562 00:34:22.120 --> 00:34:23.199 What am I thinking? 563 00:34:23.199 --> 00:34:24.239 What am I feeling? 564 00:34:24.239 --> 00:34:27.560 What am I agreeing with? 565 00:34:27.560 --> 00:34:30.120 What am I, what if I just accept it as truth? 566 00:34:30.120 --> 00:34:34.159 That's probably not true. 567 00:34:34.159 --> 00:34:36.679 What am I agreeing with? 568 00:34:36.719 --> 00:34:39.920 And then identification. 569 00:34:39.920 --> 00:34:46.239 So what fear-based or lie-based thought have I been holding onto so much? 570 00:34:46.239 --> 00:34:49.280 So you start looking at the fruit. 571 00:34:49.280 --> 00:34:50.360 You look at the fruit of it. 572 00:34:50.360 --> 00:34:55.360 Is this thought producing peace or pressure, right? 573 00:34:55.360 --> 00:34:59.040 There's a scripture, let peace be your umpire. 574 00:34:59.040 --> 00:35:00.040 Is it producing? 575 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:10.540 right? Faith or fear? Clarity or confusion? Partnership or striving? So we look at awareness 576 00:35:10.540 --> 00:35:17.060 and we look at identification. What am I holding on to? And then we compare it to truth. This 577 00:35:17.060 --> 00:35:23.000 is taking every thought captive. What does God say instead? What's the truth here? What's 578 00:35:23.000 --> 00:35:29.680 the truth that I'm not seeing? Okay, so that's going to be our practice for the week. But 579 00:35:29.680 --> 00:35:36.080 let's take some time right now to just pray and let's let the prayer, let's lift up the 580 00:35:36.080 --> 00:35:43.880 prayers that have been requested, right? For our loved ones, for parents, prayers that 581 00:35:43.880 --> 00:35:52.280 we've prayed before for healing and all of that. But also, let's really pray that as 582 00:35:52.280 --> 00:36:01.400 we're going into the season, that God renews our mind and pray that he opens our eyes. 583 00:36:01.400 --> 00:36:06.360 God help me see what I'm not seeing. What's the truth here I'm not seeing? What's the 584 00:36:06.360 --> 00:36:16.200 good here I'm not seeing? Even in difficult people, what's the truth about that? How do 585 00:36:16.200 --> 00:36:23.760 you see? How do you see me, God? The truth about how we see ourselves, our loved ones. 586 00:36:23.760 --> 00:36:28.040 How do you see this person that's being so difficult, Lord? Let me see them through the 587 00:36:28.040 --> 00:36:33.160 eyes of love. I've been doing that a lot this week. Just difficult people and just going, 588 00:36:33.160 --> 00:36:38.440 you know what? That's a son of God. You know what? That's a daughter of God. Let's just 589 00:36:38.440 --> 00:36:46.400 leave it at that. Okay? So asking this week as God renew my mind, teach me to take thoughts 590 00:36:46.400 --> 00:36:53.160 captive. And as the process of that, which starts with awareness, open my eyes, Lord, 591 00:36:53.160 --> 00:37:01.880 help me to see. Transformation begins. And can you imagine how different your life when 592 00:37:01.880 --> 00:37:07.920 you're not living by lies, but you're living in revelation knowledge? You're seeing things 593 00:37:07.920 --> 00:37:19.240 as God sees them. How powerful. How beautiful. Okay, let's pray. Go ahead. Anybody start 594 00:37:19.240 --> 00:37:34.560 and I'll finish this. Heavenly Father, thank you again for this opportunity to come before 595 00:37:34.560 --> 00:37:42.440 your throne with my sisters. Thank you for all of the revelations in today's teaching. 596 00:37:42.440 --> 00:37:49.040 And thank you for allowing us to be together to support one another. We lift up all of 597 00:37:49.040 --> 00:37:56.720 the petitions from today's call and from previous our previous calls. If there's anything that 598 00:37:56.720 --> 00:38:04.840 is unresolved, Lord, do your will. We want to be in your will at all times because we 599 00:38:04.840 --> 00:38:13.040 know that you only want what is best for us. You mean no harm to us. And you can see the 600 00:38:13.040 --> 00:38:21.680 big picture. Why you're doing what you're doing. And we we submit ourselves to your 601 00:38:21.680 --> 00:38:32.000 will. Thank you. Thank you. Holy Spirit, we just come before you today, Lord. And we just thank 602 00:38:32.000 --> 00:38:37.920 you, Lord, for this gathering of these beautiful sisters together, Lord, and the support and 603 00:38:37.920 --> 00:38:44.240 uplift one in another. And just to keep on learning more of your wisdom, God in your truth, 604 00:38:44.240 --> 00:38:49.840 Lord, not what the world has to say your truth, Heavenly Father. And God, we just ask you, Lord, 605 00:38:49.840 --> 00:38:57.760 to renew our minds, Lord, and just open our eyes, God, and just reveal what we have not been 606 00:38:58.480 --> 00:39:06.720 seeing, Lord. God, reveal our blind spots, Lord. And just let us really 607 00:39:09.600 --> 00:39:16.640 just see, Lord, what you are showing us every single day, Lord. And we just ask you, Lord, to 608 00:39:16.960 --> 00:39:26.480 uplift people that are going through seasons right now, Lord, with their parents, Heavenly 609 00:39:26.480 --> 00:39:33.520 Father, with their elderly parents, Lord, and their health issues that they're having, God. 610 00:39:33.520 --> 00:39:39.200 And we know you, Jesus, are the ultimate healer, Lord. You are the doctor. You are the one with 611 00:39:39.200 --> 00:39:48.880 the last say. And we just ask you, Lord, to continue to comfort Kim's mom, Lord, and just 612 00:39:48.880 --> 00:39:58.080 heal her body, Heavenly Father, and just keep on continuously to give Kim the strength through this 613 00:39:58.080 --> 00:39:59.840 season that she 614 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:02.440 is walking through with her mom, Lord. 615 00:40:02.440 --> 00:40:04.880 And we just ask you, Lord, to uplift Linda 616 00:40:04.880 --> 00:40:07.600 with her mom too, Heavenly Father, 617 00:40:07.600 --> 00:40:10.160 and just comfort them and give them strength 618 00:40:10.160 --> 00:40:11.640 in the season as well. 619 00:40:11.640 --> 00:40:15.600 We ask you, Lord, to uplift my dad and be with him, Lord, 620 00:40:16.480 --> 00:40:18.960 as he is in the hospital, Heavenly Father. 621 00:40:18.960 --> 00:40:22.560 And we just ask you, Lord, to heal him, 622 00:40:22.560 --> 00:40:26.360 to take away his pain, Heavenly Father, 623 00:40:26.360 --> 00:40:29.520 and just get the answers, Lord, that we need, Lord. 624 00:40:29.520 --> 00:40:33.200 Just have the right people in the room 625 00:40:33.200 --> 00:40:35.400 operating on him, Heavenly Father, 626 00:40:35.400 --> 00:40:38.600 and just heal him, Heavenly Father. 627 00:40:38.600 --> 00:40:41.100 We ask you, Lord, to be with Christine, 628 00:40:41.100 --> 00:40:45.160 with her mom and her son as they are traveling to Florida 629 00:40:45.160 --> 00:40:47.640 to protect them and keep them safe. 630 00:40:47.640 --> 00:40:50.240 And we just thank you, in Jesus' name, amen. 631 00:40:59.520 --> 00:41:04.520 Lord, we just thank you for your word this morning. 632 00:41:18.400 --> 00:41:23.400 Lord, we just ask that you renew our minds, 633 00:41:23.760 --> 00:41:28.760 renew our hearts, and open our eyes, Lord. 634 00:41:30.520 --> 00:41:34.800 Open our eyes to see you, 635 00:41:36.480 --> 00:41:41.480 to see the truth and the beauty and the love 636 00:41:41.520 --> 00:41:44.720 and the opportunity that maybe we haven't been seeing, 637 00:41:46.520 --> 00:41:49.960 to see solutions where before we saw problems. 638 00:41:51.160 --> 00:41:55.600 Open our eyes to see lies that we've been believing 639 00:41:55.640 --> 00:41:59.360 about ourselves, about life, about you, about others. 640 00:42:00.280 --> 00:42:01.800 We wanna see clearly. 641 00:42:02.800 --> 00:42:07.040 Like with Paul, when you just remove the scales 642 00:42:07.040 --> 00:42:10.560 from his eyes, Lord God, remove the scales from our eyes. 643 00:42:10.560 --> 00:42:13.480 We desire to see, Lord. 644 00:42:13.480 --> 00:42:17.400 We desire to see you in your beauty, 645 00:42:17.400 --> 00:42:20.400 in your holiness, in your glory. 646 00:42:20.400 --> 00:42:25.200 We desire to see and experience and feel your presence, 647 00:42:25.840 --> 00:42:27.880 your miracles, Lord God. 648 00:42:27.880 --> 00:42:32.640 I pray that you just touch this week, 649 00:42:32.640 --> 00:42:37.200 every Prosperous Sister, both live here in the room 650 00:42:37.200 --> 00:42:39.680 and all those that are traveling. 651 00:42:39.680 --> 00:42:41.880 We pray traveling mercies. 652 00:42:41.880 --> 00:42:46.120 And all those listening to the recording, 653 00:42:46.120 --> 00:42:50.280 we continue to lift them up, Lord God. 654 00:42:50.280 --> 00:42:54.200 Bring healing to their body, bring safe travels, 655 00:42:54.200 --> 00:42:55.600 help them through the things 656 00:42:55.600 --> 00:42:57.440 they're going through, Lord God. 657 00:42:57.440 --> 00:43:02.440 But I pray your touch on our mind, renew our mind, 658 00:43:05.280 --> 00:43:10.280 on our bodies, heal our bodies, heal our hearts, Lord. 659 00:43:10.360 --> 00:43:14.000 Change our hearts of stone to hearts of flesh. 660 00:43:16.680 --> 00:43:19.160 We say like the person who said, 661 00:43:19.160 --> 00:43:21.920 Lord, I believe, help my unbelief. 662 00:43:22.920 --> 00:43:25.120 God, where we have believed, 663 00:43:25.120 --> 00:43:27.480 strengthen that faith and belief. 664 00:43:28.360 --> 00:43:30.920 And where we have walked in unbelief 665 00:43:30.920 --> 00:43:34.920 that we thought it was too big, too hard, couldn't be done, 666 00:43:34.920 --> 00:43:38.600 God, strengthen our faith in this season. 667 00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:45.000 Let each of these sisters just be light in a dark world, 668 00:43:45.160 --> 00:43:48.840 Lord God, let them just shine, like scripture says, 669 00:43:48.840 --> 00:43:51.520 as stars against the dark sky. 670 00:43:52.480 --> 00:43:54.200 We love you, Lord. 671 00:43:54.200 --> 00:43:59.200 We just thank you, in Jesus' name, amen. 672 00:44:03.520 --> 00:44:08.520 Well, I love you sisters, and just be blessed this week. 673 00:44:10.280 --> 00:44:13.400 Remember to pause, to pray. 674 00:44:13.400 --> 00:44:18.400 God, open my eyes, identify, what have I been agreeing with? 675 00:44:19.240 --> 00:44:24.000 Test the fruit, replace it with truth, 676 00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:25.760 and take one right action. 677 00:44:26.760 --> 00:44:28.480 Okay, we'll see you tomorrow, 678 00:44:28.480 --> 00:44:30.400 and we'll see you here next week. 679 00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:31.240 Blessings.