And good morning, good morning, or good afternoon, good evening, depending where you are.
Welcome, welcome.
This is, we are in the 12-week immersion from pressure to partnership.
And each one of those words is so important.
The idea with this is immersion.
We move from laying the biblical foundation, which we do Wednesdays, every Wednesday morning
at eight in the morning with the Prosper Power Hour.
That's where we lay the biblical foundation.
And then during from pressure to partnership, this is where we just really let this get
in us.
We embody it, we practice it, we go deeper with it.
And then, of course, at nine o'clock, we do office hours where we work technical on
our business.
So welcome, welcome.
I'm so glad that you are here.
And I am so excited about today.
We are working through the Prosper System, the, grab my book here, the P-R-O-S-P-E-R,
which is the framework.
And so last week we did P, which is partner with God.
Everything begins with the relationship, right?
Walking, abiding, trusting, connecting.
And then out of that connection, we begin, we're going to see today, we begin to see,
we begin to transform by the renewing of our mind.
And that's the R, R for renewing of the mind.
And so that's where we are today.
I'm super excited.
And so Lord, Holy Spirit, we just invite you to flood this atmosphere.
Just speak through my mouth, think through my mind.
Let your spirit just infuse our minds, our hearts.
Let your truth rise up, Lord, that we may be transformed into your image.
We just welcome you here, Holy Spirit.
Let the words of our mouth, the meditations of our heart be pleasing in your sight.
In Jesus name, amen, amen.
And welcome, Amanda.
I saw that you just joined us.
Thank you.
I'm sorry.
I was talking to my dad.
That's okay.
How's he doing?
He's doing better.
Praise the Lord real quick.
He had a breakthrough last night in the middle of the night.
So his pain relieved and he was able to breathe a little bit better.
So we're progressing.
Answered prayers.
Yes.
Beautiful.
So pressure begins to lose its power.
What we're talking about is beginning to release the grip of this contracted state
that we so often get in.
We're talking about how we're trying to build this expansive life, but often from a contracted
state, from this pressure cooker that so many of us live in, right?
And so today we're going to get to the thoughts underneath that.
And so here is an opening question because what we're beginning to do, it's about awareness.
It's about beginning to notice the thoughts, the beliefs, the inner agreements that create
that pressure.
Like under the pressure is thoughts.
So I'll just open with the question, what if the pressure that you are feeling is not
just coming from what's happening in the external world?
What if the pressure that you're feeling is coming from what you're believing inside of
you?
Let me say that again.
What if the pressure that you're feeling is not only coming from what's happening outside
of you, but what is happening inside of you?
So yesterday we did several scriptures and if any of you missed that, I'm going to just
review real quick and then you can go back.
We went in depth with a lot of the scriptures.
Okay.
We went in depth with a lot of the scriptures.
We started with Romans 12, 2, which says,
do not be conformed to the world, but be transformed.
So we've got a contrast.
You can be conformed.
The world shapes you.
You take on the mold of the world.
You can be conformed, or you can be transformed.
And the transformed, it says, be transformed
by the renewing of your mind.
Re, do again, new, make new.
We're new creations in Christ, right?
And what's so amazing that this being written thousands
of years ago, but now that we understand
neurology and psychoneuroimmunology
and all of that with the PET scans,
that's literally what happens.
Your brain rewires.
It becomes new.
And in the process, you're transformed.
So be transformed by the renewing of your mind, right?
And so transformation comes.
It lets you know two things.
Number one, transformation is possible.
Number two, transformation comes through renewal,
not striving, not effort, not information, not strategy.
And then what happens, what I want you to understand
is that the renewed mind changes the state that we experience,
the state that we're living from.
And so we're going to go through the process.
I talked yesterday about the mind-heart-mouth connection
all the way through scripture.
You think a thought, and then when you feel it,
and the neuropeptides, the molecules of emotion
that Candice Perk discovered, begins to change you
within and without.
Within the neuropeptides, it affects our health.
It goes to different organs.
It's shaping what's going on in our inner world, right?
And we know we are electromagnetic beings, right?
You know that just even from the medical equipment use, right?
We're magnetic, MRI.
Think about it.
We're electrical.
Your heart stops.
We use electricity.
We're electromagnetic beings.
And this is radiating out.
We know at least 8 to 12 feet.
So this is affecting what's going on in our body,
in our heart, and how we're feeling.
And it's affecting our state and the actions that we take.
And so the mind-heart-mouth, then we speak it, right?
And so if you believe in your heart
and confess with your mouth, you'll be saved, right?
You see this pattern of mind-heart.
And so 2 Corinthians 10, 5 talks about we
are taking every thought and purpose captive
to the obedience of Christ.
So what this begins to tell you, if we're
taking every thought captive, it tells you
that God wants us to be conscious.
He wants us to think about our thinking.
You can't take a thought captive and see
if it lines up with truth, see if it lines up with the word,
see if it lines up with what God says about who you are
and who he is and what life is.
We can't take a thought captive if we don't have awareness.
When we're not aware, we believe our thinking.
We just buy into our story, and we act it out,
and we live it out, right?
So the beautiful thing about the way
God made us, right, in counseling or psychology,
metacognition.
I can be aware of my own thinking,
which is really an amazing thought if you think about it.
I can be aware of my own thinking.
And so yesterday, we said the first step to transformation
is awareness.
You can't change if you're not even aware of it.
So awareness is the first step to transformation.
And so yesterday, we talked about, open my eyes, Lord.
Help me to see.
Help me to see myself as you see.
Help me to see you.
Help me to see the lies I've been believing.
Help me to see, right?
Help me to see the truth.
And so 2 Corinthians 10, 5,
we're taking every thought captive
to the obedience of Christ.
This means we do not have to believe
every thought that enters our mind.
You see, a thought can feel so real and so true.
Our story can feel, our narrative can feel so accurate
and yet be completely out of alignment
with the word of God,
completely out of alignment about what God says.
And we do this all the time.
And today we're gonna talk
how to break agreement with that.
So how to have awareness
and how to have transformation, right?
And so you could really believe something,
but that doesn't make it true.
That's so important to understand.
A thought can feel true, but still not be.
And so we talked yesterday about open our eyes.
We talked about Genesis 21, 19,
when God opened Hagar's eyes and she saw the well.
The well was there all the time.
God didn't show up and dig a well right there.
The well was there, but she couldn't see it.
And that's so true for us.
The answers are all around us.
The opportunities are all around us, the truth.
When we're in this contracted state,
one of the first things that happens is we can't see.
Our perception is narrowed.
We just see the problem.
And in fact, we make the problem bigger than God very often.
So there's so many scriptures.
You can do your own search about awareness,
about God opening our eyes.
Psalms 119, God opened my eyes.
Ephesians 1, 18, when Paul prayed that the eyes
of our heart would be flooded with light,
that we could see, that we could know.
And then we also talked about Isaiah 26, 3,
which says that he'll keep in perfect peace
the one whose thoughts are fixed on God.
And so this shows you that peace is connected
to where the mind is fixed.
Whatever we're fixing our mind on is leading
to stress and chaos or leading to peace.
So when we're talking from pressure to partnership,
pressure is narrowing our vision.
Pressure is narrowing our ability to see and to perceive.
Partnership is opening our eyes.
And we begin to walk in revelation.
God wants to show.
I mean, he says, I'll show you great and mighty things.
Or it says, eye has not seen, ear has not heard
what God has prepared for you.
And yet God has revealed it to us, scripture says.
So there's this revelation knowledge that can rise
above what our eyes see.
And this is part of it too.
In your awareness, you understand,
I've got physical eyes, ears, mouth,
and I've got spiritual eyes, ears, mouth, right?
All five senses.
That's why Jesus could say you have eyes,
but you don't see.
You have ears, but you don't hear.
He's like, you can physically see, but you don't see.
So God is asking us to also awaken that.
And so what we are beginning to focus on
in this transformation is that pressure
is not just external conditions.
Pressure often has an internal script.
When you're feeling pressure, there's a tape running.
There's an internal script running.
Okay?
So the external issue might be money.
My bank account says there's not money, or time.
My schedule says that, or family.
My family's a mess, or health.
The doctor diagnosed me, or...
So there is an external stimulus,
but what I want you to understand
is that underneath the external,
there's usually a thought.
There's a belief system.
You can have two people,
and you can have one person that the bank account gets low,
and everything in their being freezes
because of the story.
belief around lack.
And you can have another person who's
developed a different belief.
I've seen this time again.
Oh, yeah, of course, money goes out.
There's more coming in right behind it.
There's no, I've seen it.
They already know there's endless money coming in,
endless opportunity.
That doesn't faze them.
Now, they may get attacked in a different link.
It might be for them, their health,
they're great with the finances, or it
might be the relationship.
So this awareness is that we don't just
focus on the external.
I've got a money problem.
Once the outside is fixed, then everything will be better.
Scripturally, out of the heart flows the issues of life.
Scripturally, everything is coming from the inside.
So when you understand, yes, there's this outer issue,
and what do I need to do to be in alignment?
I'm not saying be lazy and do nothing, or don't work,
or whatever, and just go, hmm, I'm going to have money.
I'm not saying that, OK?
But there is a thought that is creating a state that
is creating an action in you that
is creating the reality that you're living.
And we're going to walk through that process today.
We're going to walk so you see that.
So there's this external thing.
Then there's this internal thought, right?
So external condition, internal thought.
I'm behind.
Things never work out for me.
In my family, I'm not enough.
Things are always going to be like, and this is a big one,
right?
That I'm judging my tomorrow by today.
So the level of expectancy, what I'm even expecting,
of things are always going to be like this, right?
So there's this internal thinking process.
And we're going to see where the external condition,
and it's triggering, and there's an internal belief
system, which is then leading to internal values and an action
that we take based on that, OK?
So understand the thoughts create a state.
And that state then determines how we breathe.
Are we just, ah, God is so good.
Are we going to handle this?
Changes our state, how we speak, all is well.
God is so good.
I know everything's working out together for me.
I don't know what I'm going to do.
This stuff keeps happening.
And if I run out of the money, and I don't have anyone
to cover the account, and my kids are not
going to be able to go to school, and we may lose this house,
changes our state.
And this changes how we sell in business.
I've got to get that deal.
If I don't get that, I've got to get a job, too.
There's no clients coming in.
How we follow up, how we price, yeah, don't worry.
No, I could discount that.
No, you know what?
If you really want, we could do half of that.
How we think, how we think, how we could, how we rest,
how we hear God, how we see and relate to people.
Am I talking to anyone?
Put in the chat.
Are you picking up what I'm putting down right here?
When we start to understand this, oh, yeah,
what am I thinking?
Take every thought captive.
Does this line up with the word?
What am I feeling?
What am I speaking?
What actions am I taking?
We start to see the connection of all of this.
We start operating from that aware place.
And that's why so many women that come to me,
they're trying to take right action.
I don't understand.
I'm posting three times a day, and I'm
posting three times a day, and I'm calling 15 million people,
and I'm like, and nobody's buying.
And I don't understand.
They're trying to take the right action from the wrong state.
It's like the desperate peace.
I've asked 15 women out, and none of them want to marry me.
And I don't understand.
I took them to nice dinners, and I bought them rings,
and none of them want to marry me.
Because it's coming from the wrong.
So we're trying to build peace from.
pressure. We're, we're trying to create overflow from
contraction. We're trying to hear God while we're striving
and fear is shouting so loud. Okay, so awareness. So right
now, just let's just take a breath. Everybody just breathe
in. Your feet are on the ground. This is the first, very first
resource. Everything started with breath. We breathe in. We
let the exhale be longer than the in breath. This is why we
sigh, the body knows to sigh when you're in stress, the body
knows. And so right now, just ask yourself, where are you
feeling the most pressure right now? Is it money? Is it clients?
Is it health, family, time, sales, a decision you have to
make a relationship, your next step? Where are you feeling the
most pressure right now? And now, what is the thought
underneath that pressure? The thought, I don't have enough.
I'm going to disappoint people. It's too late. I don't know how
if I slow down, I'll lose momentum. I have to carry this.
No one's coming. I can't trust myself. I'm not ready. Like
what's right one sentence. What is the thought underneath that
pressure? Write it down. So if you feel comfortable, put one
pressure thought in the chat, put one pressure thought in the
chat. Put one pressure thought, the thought underneath the
pressure. Okay, so the external is money, finances, what's the
thought underneath that? What's the pressure? What's the thought
that leads to pressure around money or finances? Because the
interesting thing about money finances, I've watched it time
again, I lived it. I remember when I in the early 30s, and we
founded a network marketing company. And like, okay, if we
could just get to the six figures, if we can just get to
the seventh, like, and the interesting thing is that if
that underlying thought, it actually doesn't even matter how
much you make it so that pressure still tends to be
lived it, I've watched it. Okay, so, so the pressure, okay, so
the, the external is the chronic insomnia. I'm not sleeping. The
thought is there an answer that will resolve this issue? Okay,
so that thought could be very empowering or disempowering. So
empowering, huh? There's got to be an answer. I wonder what
answer that God has for this. There's an answer for for I like
to think for every problem, there was already an answer
because God is the answer. And the answer comes before the
problem, right? So that could be a very empowering thought. I
wonder, a place of curiosity, I wonder how God's going to solve
this? I wonder what the answer is? What's the answer that I'm
not seeing? Or it could be a disempowering. There just isn't
an answer. I've tried everything. I've gone to
everything. There just isn't an answer. So there isn't an answer
to this problem creates pressure. The belief that you
know what, there's got to be an answer, relieves that pressure
and puts us back in a place of creativity. Does that make
sense? So Amanda, under the money and finances, what's the
underlying thought that creates pressure? Because it's not just
money. Money is just piece of paper. You could use it for
toilet paper, wipe your butt with it. It's just a piece of
paper, right? Just to be graphic. I mean, it's nothing.
We put this energy into money, because we believe about
any certain thoughts.
Money's just a piece of paper, it's nothing.
If you think about the history of money,
it was a form of trading.
We started with like beads, right?
And then we went into coins
and then we went into paper money.
It's just a way of doing trade,
like instead of trading how many sheep equals one cow
or how many cows equal getting your eggs or whatever,
it became a way of trading.
So when you can move the thoughts and emotions out of money,
you can begin to create it.
But when there's an underlying money,
if I run out, my life ends,
without it, I'm not secure or without it, it's my story.
So what do you think would be the underlying thought?
Because it's not the circumstances.
When we have a belief in luck,
it'll stay with you no matter how much.
But what is the thought underneath it about money?
Anybody else wanna put a thought underneath?
Are you guys picking up what I'm putting down here on this?
Because this is like the first step is the awareness.
Okay, I think I have a money problem,
but I actually have a thinking problem under the money.
What am I believing about money?
Am I believing that money will solve my problem?
Am I believing money is my source?
Am I believing my identity?
What are people gonna think?
Depends how much money I have.
Am I believing like credibility and authority?
Like, what am I attaching to the money?
For some people, for the wealthiest people that I know,
money is actually a game.
It's a scorecard.
It's like playing Monopoly.
It's like actually fun because it's a game
and they're not attached to it.
So it's kind of fun.
Okay, so it's around time.
Okay, so there's a root is stability, okay?
Because what I want you to notice in these thoughts
is they've got some kind of core categories
that they fall under.
It's usually around identity or safety
or provision or trust.
Like these thoughts have some categories
that are common to man.
It's not just you.
This is so common.
But that awareness creates change.
So now I want you just to go a little deeper.
This is immersive.
We're experiencing this.
So close your eyes if you're comfortable.
Take a slow breath again.
And get in touch with the pressure thought
in your mind gently.
Feel that thought, that pressure thought, that belief.
And now when you believe that thought,
what happens in your body?
Get in touch with your body now for a second.
When you believe that thought, what happens in your body?
Do your shoulders tighten?
Does your chest contract?
Does your stomach drop?
Does your jaw clench?
Does your breathing get shallow?
Do you feel heavy?
Do you feel frozen?
Do you feel shaky?
Do you feel small?
What happens?
So you've got a circumstance.
You've got a pressure thought that you're believing.
Now get in touch with that pressure thought.
When I believe that, what do you feel in your body?
What do you feel?
Can you tap into that?
Can you touch into that?
Everybody getting it?
Like does your heart just sink?
We have words for this, right?
We say I have a pit, you know,
I have something in the pit of my stomach
or my heart just sank or dropped or like,
we've got words for this
because it's a physiological thing.
What happens?
happens. Now, when you believe that thought, what do you then
desire to do? What do you what do you use the word want? But
what I mean is desire? What do you want to do? Right? Do you?
Do you want to hide? Do you want to push and overwork? Do you
want to avoid? You want to control? Do you just want to
collapse? You want to get lost? You want to get in a scroll? You
want to just lose yourself in the Netflix? Do you want to
chase you want to go silent? Do you want to start writing
desperate messages? You want to call people you want to stop
showing up? You want to just disappear? So what do you feel
in your body? And then when you believe this? What? What are you
led to do? What do you feel like doing? Like for me? Honestly?
Okay, good, Amanda. Um, you get more tense. Good. You're in
touch with that. And then you want to control and you want to
overthink? Yeah. Jackie, I want to, I want to process out loud
with God. Yes, you've been spending a lot of time with God.
So you've developed a, a mechanism to be able to try to
work through this. You've, you've taught yourself how to
get out of the pressure cooker, right? Which is why that's so
much part of your ministry. Right? I often say the reason I
hear from God and have such intimacy and spend so much time
with God, because I was in the pressure cooker as a child. And
even in my marriage, and there was no one I could turn to. And
so I had to turn even from a young age to God, God had to be
there, he had to show up. So I believe that's been the case for
you, Jackie, we've talked about right, so you're processing that
way. I just, I just want to get it out. I want to talk it out
with God. And Job was like that, wasn't he? Job was like, really
asking God questions. And then God turns around, like, let me
ask you some questions. Right? Okay. So I want you to
understand the implications of this. From a health standpoint.
This was when I first really began to understand this. And
there was a book that first unlocked it for me, it was by
Carol Truman, and it's called feelings buried alive, never
die. And I later I have some big PhD versions of the idea of how
our thoughts affect. And and then I found someone that does
saliva testing. Now, a lot of it can be done through again,
through through the energy released in your body with
computers. And you find that this goes to certain parts of
your body. So I begin to see like, wow, these thoughts are
not neutral, they're creating my health or my lack of health. And
then I began to see, wow, this is creating my state and how I
act. And this is then beginning to design my life. And so if, as
we understand that this is creating a state, we have to
learn how to shift the state. Now, of course, this was Tony
Robbins, big body of work, he understood state, I like
understanding it from a biblical standpoint. And even though
Tony Robbins, you know, is a Christian and believes in God,
or he says, but I, um, I had to go deep to make sure it lined up
with the word, because I was trained in that in my in my
youth, because Tony Robbins is like, the first thing you got to
do is change your state. And there's true when you're stuck,
like this stuff gets stuck in your cells, shake it out, get on
a rebound, or dance, move, like strut, like there's true, like
if you can move your body, if you can change your posture, you
can begin to change your state. So there is, there is some
truth. I wanted to see what scripture said, and how God did
this, and are there examples, and there is. Okay, so let's go
through a practice real quick that you can do over and over
for yourself. Some of you are doing part
Or all of this, let's go through the steps that the state shift where we move from pressure to partnership, focusing on the renewing of the mind.
Okay, so the 1st step is always breathe, so learn how to pause and breathe.
Learn how to take one slow breath in, open your chest, breathe in, and I like to just believe I'm breathing in like the breath of God, right? I love visualizing that way.
Okay, and then when we exhale, I like to see that I'm just releasing it all and I kind of just let my whole body go, like I can unclench and this is where the sigh like, so try that 1st step one that we can do so easily anywhere.
You can be in a car, you can go in a bathroom for a second, you could be in a heated debate or argument or whatever, and just go and do this 1st, just breathe or this is getting to you the anxiety around the money or the health and it's getting to you.
Step 1, learn to go to the breath and so try it right now, just breathe in, hold it at the top, and then let everything go with a big sigh, let your shoulders go down, let your jaw unclench, try it with me.
I want you to experience this, we're going to go through all the steps, okay, try it with me, so breathe in the breath of God, hold, now let it go, let everything jaw unclench, body release, everything, a lot of times you can do this, put your hand on your heart.
Okay, step 1, breathe. Step 2, now pray and the prayer is around awareness, the prayer is, Lord, open my eyes, Lord, show me what I'm believing.
Some of my favorite prayers are, what am I not seeing?
So, I begin when I'm in this, and it might be just like morning meditations and everything is fine and I just want to grow and I want to hear from God, or it might be in the thick of it when I'm feeling the pressure and I'm believing the thoughts and I'm contracting, the 1st thing I've trained myself to do is breathe.
And I understand that the exhale, that the body designed it, when you're stressed, you naturally sigh, so I know to do a long exhale and it's like, let, I just visualize just letting all of it go, and then I know the transformation starts with awareness, and so I begin to ask God, Lord, open my eyes.
I say, Lord, Romans 8, 28 says, everything is working together for my good.
For those that love God, everything's working together for God, so Lord, I stand on your word that everything's working for my good, but this doesn't feel good right now.
So, what is the good here that I'm not seeing?
What's the good here that I'm not seeing?
I will often, you know, my two-pen journaling, where I'll write my question in my pink gel pen, God, what do you want me to see here?
What do you want me to, what do you desire me to know about this?
What do you desire me to understand?
Open my eyes, Lord, like you opened Hagar's eyes to see the well, open my eyes to see the situation through your eyes.
Lord, how do you see this person?
Lord, how do you see me?
Do you see this situation?
I'm fortunate, I have a very good friend,
he's like a big brother to me,
who drives me to San Francisco.
I hate driving, it's a two hour drive.
He drives me to San Francisco.
He's a counselor to men, and especially tough.
The vets, he's a vet, Desert Storm, all of that,
and he loves God.
He's just so trained in the scriptures and stuff.
So we get two people that love God, that love the word,
and it makes for an amazing, deep, rich conversation
for two hours, right?
And one of the things I saw,
because he's getting ready to move to Colombia,
his fiance is over there, he's starting a whole life,
she's Colombian, and circumstances have delayed this trip,
and as frustrating that is, like a house foreclosure,
not going through, the stress of that.
He's already sent all of his stuff to Texas,
his car's in Texas, he's sitting in an empty house,
and the whole thing falls through.
And then the second one that comes,
and like dirty pool happened,
like changing numbers, all kinds of stuff.
And it's like the VA got involved,
and it's like start all over again.
And each time it means like another month stuck here.
Your love is here, you're not working,
your money hasn't come through,
like stress, the house is not selling,
and like what, all over again,
and like frustration that could come in,
and anxiety that could come in,
and like so much could come in.
And I said, do you realize,
because what it's forced is,
they have to have long phone
or see each other phone conversations every day
for month after month,
and the depth of the things that they've covered,
and understanding, I said,
do you realize you would not have had
the kind of relationship as far as I'm concerned,
if you had just gone there,
and things were hot and heavy,
and you're married, and you're busy,
and you're starting life,
I don't believe all of this depth would have happened.
And he's like, you're absolutely right.
That's an example of what's the good here
that I'm not seeing when there's a delay,
when it looks like nothing's working,
but God, you said everything's working together
for my good.
What's the good here that I'm not seeing, right?
So step one, breathe.
Step two, pray.
And that prayer is around awareness.
What am I not seeing, right?
And so then you go into step three,
which is one of the things
you're asking to be revealed in step two
is what's the lie that I'm believing?
What am I believing that's not lining up with truth?
That's not lining up with who you are, God.
That's not lining up with what you've promised for my life.
That's not lining up with what I'm believing about myself.
You see, that awareness lets you see the gap,
the discrepancy.
And so I've prayed, I'm asking for revelation,
and I'm asking to start discerning the stories,
the narratives, the things I picked up generationally
or experientially that I'm believing
that don't line up with the word.
Because now comes your God-given ability to choose.
After awareness,
awareness is the first step to transformation.
After awareness comes your God-given ability to choose.
And one of the things, again, mind, heart, mouth,
I can begin now as I'm renewing my mind,
checking my body and my feelings and changing my state,
I can change my words,
of course, affirmations, declarations,
but part of those that has been so powerful for me
is learning how to come out of agreement.
So when you bought into a story,
you agreed to its truth in your life.
So if you bought into the story of lack,
that we've been conditioned to believe,
we've been trained in lack,
there's not enough, okay?
And I've bought into the idea of lack,
which I did because I was trained in it,
it was spoken so much.
Money doesn't grow on trees,
how are you going to afford that?
Where's that going to come from?
We can't do that.
I bought into the belief in lack.
The sky is falling.
I had a father that even though was a millionaire,
the sky was always falling,
and I married into someone that came out.
of poverty who had that built in that the sky was always falling. Okay? And so I had that in me. It
was in my cells. I had to get in the habit of breaking agreement. I would literally say I break
agreement with the belief in lack. There is abundance. I look at God and I look at the stars.
I look at the heavens. I look at the blades of grass. I look at the number of trees. I look at
the number of lemons on my lemon trees and how one seed can create an orchard. I look at the
endless of what God has created. I break association with the belief in lack and I
come into alignment that God, you are an abundant God. You are a God of overflow.
My life will line up with overflow. Okay? So we come out of agreement. I come out of
agreement with pressure. I come out of agreement with fear. I come out of agreement with lack.
I come out of agreement. This is another one I had to come out of agreement with.
I came up with the story and I believed it and I lived it because I had two unavailable parents,
both of them drugs and alcohol. One of them workaholism. I was left to my own devices.
I could disappear. Now, when I was young, you could. You could just be gone all day till dark
and nobody would notice and nobody cared. We don't do that now, right? Everybody's glued to a
phone and we know exactly where they're going. It wasn't like that growing up, if any of you remember.
But as a child, that's good. I could disappear and play and be in the woods or on my horse or
in the barn or whatever. Okay, that's good. But it was also a belief system that got
seeded very young and maybe some of you have it. I'm all alone. There's no one to help me.
Okay, if it's to be, it's up to me. And this translated into overworking, overthinking,
overachieving, and coming from a place of lack. So, breaking the agreement with lack and breaking
the agreement with the belief that I'm all alone. So again, I had to replace the lies with truth.
And I've taught some of you, you can even write out the lie, take a record of it,
take a red pen because we're very visual. Jesus God always used visual things to help them get it,
right? So, you could draw a line through what you're breaking, a red line through what you're
breaking. I write down the word lack or I lack and put a red line through it and then write the truth
and speak the truth and begin to declare the truth and begin to visualize the truth. And so,
I had to come into the truth, wait a minute, I have to be like David, I'm never alone. Where can
I go if I go to the ends of the earth, even if I make my bed in hell, there you are. If the kingdom
is within me, if Jesus is within me, it's not even possible to be alone. Besides what we know from
quantum physics that we're all connected and none of us are alone, that that's an illusion, right?
So, you see how we begin to break agreement with these things and so that step four is come
into agreement. So, we breathe, we have awareness and in that awareness of opening our eyes,
we discover the lie and then we break agreement with that lie. And you may have to do this more
than once and just until it just gets in you that that is not true. It will come out of my mouth now.
I remember one time I was sharing this with Linda, my daughter was just spewing things about me and
they're just, they're hurtful and hateful and they're not based on truth and I was just there
like kind of praying at that moment and I didn't respond and she's like, are you not going to
respond? And it just came out of my mouth. I just said, that's not my reality. That's not
my story. I'm sorry that you see it that way and you feel that way but that's not how I see it.
So, I've come to the place where I can say, that's not my truth. That's not my reality and so then
the next step is you come into agreement with truth and this is why you have the word and what
God has spoken to you and the prophecy and like the Bible says, stir up the gift of prophecy
in you and stir up the words that were spoken when the hands were laid on you and and stir up what
the word says.
The word is a lamp unto my feet, right?
And so now you come into agreement with truth and the truth says that by your stripes, I
have been healed.
Let's say I'm dealing with health thing and I've had to do this.
By your stripes, I am healed.
I come out of agreement with sickness and I stand on the truth.
You know, Psalms, whatever it is, 105, you know, remember his benefits.
He heals all your diseases.
And I start going through all the scriptures and I speak them and I believe them and I
will declare I am the healed of the Lord in Jesus name, right?
And so we come into agreement.
This could be about money, around relationships.
I've seen marriages transform.
I've seen health transform that when we come out of agreement, especially when an authority
has spoken that lie to you.
So you got from someone that you really respect, a medical authority, an educational authority,
a church authority, a parental authority, and you just bought into that as truth because
an authority, they had an official uniform or code or whatever, and you, you bought into
it.
Okay.
Is that, are you guys picking up what I'm putting down?
And so now you choose a truth statement.
God is with me.
God is my source.
That's one I use all the time there.
I come out of association with God.
You are my source.
You supply all my needs according to your riches, right?
The Lord is my shepherd.
I shall not lack.
I'm using the word as a sword, which it is.
God is opening my eyes.
I have the mind of Christ.
I hear God's voice.
Okay.
I do not have to build from pressure.
Okay.
God has not given me fear, but power and love and a sound mind.
So then step five, the final five of this, okay, is God, what's the next right action
from peace?
So now we've gone through all these steps.
We breathe.
We've gotten ourself in alignment.
We've asked God to open our eyes.
We've discovered the lies or the untruths or the things we've been believing.
And we've come out of agreement with those lies.
We have now declared and stand on the truth and we're speaking the truth, the mind, heart,
mouth connection.
We're speaking the truth, right?
And we're going to now walk it out.
Action.
So God, based on the truth that you've revealed, that you supply all my needs, that I'm co-heir
to the kingdom, that you never leave me or forsake me.
What action do you want me to take next?
What's the next right action?
Now do you see that that action now is coming from connection and partnership?
That action is coming from abundance.
It's coming from truth.
It's coming from love.
And so that action is going to produce a very different fruit than an action is I'm all
alone and I'm running out of money and what am I going to do?
And I'm going to work.
I'm going to get up earlier.
I'm going to work from five in the morning by George.
I'm going to work till 10 at night.
I'm going to make this.
That's an action that's coming from fear, not love, lack, not abundance, lies, not truth,
pressure, not partnership.
Do you see that?
Okay, so these are the steps.
So what's the next action that's coming from a place of peace?
Maybe you'll just get, Oh, that's right.
I'm supposed to follow up.
I'm going to call.
I'm going to send that message.
I'm going to rest.
A lot of times I'll just go out in my hammock.
That's one of my happy places.
And I'll just be out in the sun in the hammock and just, God, I just want to be with you
right now.
I just want to be still, right?
A walk.
I'll do that a lot.
A decision, a conversation, a boundary, a simple act of obedience.
So I want you to go through each of these steps and write it down, including like when
you leave here, the next right action.
So let's have a little bit of time of sharing as we wrap this up real quick.
What is landing for you?
What is God speaking to you?
to you, what are you going to take from this?
That is not information, it's transformation
because you're going to apply it.
What's going to be different as a result of what we're sharing?
I want to hear from each one of you.
By the way, some of you joined quietly.
I didn't say hello to you.
Hello, Bev.
I didn't see you sneak in there.
Great to see you.
OK.
All these brilliant therapists and counselors in the room,
right?
Love this.
OK.
Coaches.
What's going on?
What are you getting from this?
So when you're speaking, my spirit
is just rising up because I'm becoming more aware lately
because you're sharing it more and more with us.
And it's really starting to take effect in me.
For me, I'm really noticing my breathing and my pausing.
And I've been declaring, God, you
are healing my nervous system.
I may go to the chiropractor because of my back,
but you're doing that ultimate healing within me.
So I mean, it's becoming more an awareness and a way of life.
Nice.
It's there's something definitely going on in me.
And I'm just aware.
I was just in the bathroom this morning.
And I started to complain just a tad.
And I just felt I just spoke out loud.
OK, I'm becoming like the Israelites.
I'm complaining and bickering.
Please shut my mouth, Lord.
And it was a total mindset shift.
And I actually just felt it.
I was like, OK, we're just going to go on to the next thing.
Nice.
Thank you for sharing that.
I love that.
Who else?
Mine is more kind of like how Jackie said,
is just being more aware.
My prayer every single morning is, God, open my eyes.
Let me see what I am not seeing.
What are you showing me today?
And then also, the one thing that I
do believe that God needs to work with me on
is just releasing the agreement with the beliefs
that I have told myself.
So I love the idea of writing it down and then crossing it.
Because I'm a visual person.
And to actually see it, I think, will really help.
So I'm going to work on that.
I love it.
It makes me so happy that both of you have already shared.
You're experiencing awareness.
And you're seeing change.
That's beautiful.
I also love that you're picking something specific
you're going to do to take away from this.
So I love that.
Amanda, you're going to write.
And you're going to draw lines through it.
I didn't ask you that, Jackie, not to put you on the spot.
But if you're willing, what are you
going to do different as a result of today's call?
Well, I do tend to write down some things.
But the red pen idea really struck me
as you were sharing that.
And I put that down.
So I would really like to be aware of that, especially
with lack.
Growing up with the lack, I've shared some stories
with you about my father.
So I've just been breaking that junk off.
So, yeah.
OK, good.
All right, love to hear.
Bev, Linda, Stacey, what are you going to do?
OK.
When you were talking, it reminded me
that I have a resource in my website that's
very similar to what you just said.
And God is reminding me.
Because sometimes I feel like I'm the airplane stalling.
And you don't know which way is up and where you are.
And you're a little whatever.
I don't know what that thing is that's you level out.
And God is reminding me when I'm feeling
like I'm in the midst of the swirling storm, which
I have lately, to stop and just have him settle me
and tell me which way is up, what's real.
And part of that is that breathing, moving,
focusing on what am I feeling right now
and releasing that or journaling through it,
and then shifting my perspective, shifting that.
So good.
All right.
Real quick, Bev, I don't want to leave you out.
Give me some feedback real quick.
You have to unmute yourself, though.
What stood out for you?
She may already be at work. Okay.
All right, ladies, let's jump on over to office hours.
I pray this blessed you, and I'm honored to come alongside.
And we'll see you over in office hours.