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All right, welcome, welcome, welcome.

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Power hour, here we are.

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It's one of my favorite times, getting together with you sisters and our time to grow, to

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discover the promises of God, the word of God, the principles of God, and pray together.

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And I don't know, every week that I get to see you on Wednesdays, I love you guys even

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more.

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And for those of you that couldn't make it, we are praying for you.

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Michelle is taking her mom into surgery, so pray for Michelle.

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And Elen is in physical therapy.

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And so for the ones that are not here, Linda said she was going to be here.

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We'll be praying for the ones that are not here.

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And for those of you that are here, just what a special blessing to gather together during

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this time.

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So we've been working through the PROSPER framework, P-R-O-S-P-E-R, here in Power Hour.

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And then we deepen it in the Pressure to Partnership, right?

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And then we apply it during office hours.

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So three chances.

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And so if you're following along where we are in the PROSPER system in the Total Soul

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Prosperity book, this is chapter four that is simplify, creating space for what really,

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really matters.

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And so that's what our promises are going to be based on.

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And I think this is such, you know, as everything tries to crowd in on us, it's understanding

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that often the enemy doesn't take us out by doing bad things.

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He takes us out by overcrowding our life with good things that we don't have enough time

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for the one thing, right?

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We don't have enough time.

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And so the relationship gets crowded.

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So this is S in the PROSPER system, which is simplify, creating space for what matters

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most.

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So our core promises, there's a few of them today and a few verses.

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Some of them I'm going to bring back that we've done because they really reinforce this.

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And I don't think we can hear the word too often.

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And it shows how the verses apply in so many conditions.

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So we're going to start in Luke 10 and verses 38 to 42.

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And there's just a principle, and you've heard this story, but I want to go a little deeper.

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Pretend you've never heard this story, right?

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It's the story of Martha and Mary.

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And so come with an empty cup and see what you see that is fresh today that you haven't

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seen.

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So who can read Luke 10, 38 to 42?

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And tell me what translation you are reading from.

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Friend, I have the NIV.

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Great.

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As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha,

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that would be transcribed to me, by the way, opened her home to him.

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She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet, listening to what he said.

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But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made.

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She came to him and asked, Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do the

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work by myself?

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Tell her to help me.

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Martha, Martha, the Lord answered, you're worried and upset about many things, but few

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things are needed, or indeed only one.

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Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.

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I used to always hear the Lord call me Martha, Martha.

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And I am more of a Mary now, just saying less, but yeah, I get this.

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Yay.

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Somebody want to read it in a different translation?

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Who's got a different translation?

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Anybody have a different?

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That was the NIV.

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Yeah, I can do a modern English version for this one.

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As they went, he entered a village and a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house.

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She had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus's feet and listened to his teaching.

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But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came to him and said,

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Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Then tell her to help me.

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Jesus answered her, Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things,

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but one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken from her.

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Thank you. Thank you.

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So, Martha, Martha, you're in trouble when he says your name twice, right?

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You're worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed, or indeed, only one.

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Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken from her.

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Let's just pause here for just a second.

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Martha was not doing something evil.

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She was not being a bad person.

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She was not doing something wrong.

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She's serving.

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She's working.

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She's trying to be responsible, right?

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She's trying to make things happen.

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And that's why this story is really important for us,

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because so many women are not distracted by obviously bad things.

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Same as Mary.

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You know, Martha was not corrected because she was working or because she was serving.

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He was bringing to her attention she was worried.

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She was upset.

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She was anxious.

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She was pulled from presence.

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She was pulled from the partnership that we're talking about.

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She was distracted, it said.

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So, the issue is not the activity.

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The issue is the anxiety.

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Yes, Colette says the parts that jumped out at me were the words distracted.

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Me too.

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That was the word I heard, distracted.

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And Jesus said, only a few things are needed.

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Even one.

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And that's really the promise that we glean from this,

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that when we choose the one thing, everything else will fall into place.

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Everything else.

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So, Mary, on the contrary, Mary chose presence.

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I love that word.

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I'm thinking so much about when it says that Mary chose the good thing

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and it will not be taken from her.

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What did Mary choose?

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She chose to be fully present.

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She chose to be fully present.

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That word presence, like we think about it like God's presence

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and I want God's presence so much.

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But you know, also the greatest gift we can give is our presence.

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To be aware of the gifts and the people in the room

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and give them our presence.

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To smile.

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For those of you that are married or have a partner,

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I talk to women who have husbands.

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How often do you ever just look at him and just smile?

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It's the greatest gift you can give a man.

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It's your presence.

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Your children.

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How often do you just give them your presence, right?

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We forget to be present.

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And Mary chose to be fully present.

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Mary was present. And she was soaking in the presence. Just

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think about that being fully in the moment being present and

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soaking in the presence. She was attentive, she was listening.

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She was focusing, she was giving her heart. You have that the

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King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, infinite love, infinite

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mercy in the room. It's a good time to stop thinking about

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sandwiches, and what needs to be done in the messy kitchen, and

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all the responsibilities and the long list. And take time for

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the one thing that matters. What matters more than God's presence?

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What matters more than capturing his heart? What

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matters more than tapping into the mind of Christ? What matters

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more? And yet we put everything above that. And so notice a

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supporting text. We've done it before, which is Matthew 633.

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Matthew 633 is a supporting text. We've done it already.

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Seek first, the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all

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these things will be added. Now, what are all these things? When

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you look at the verses before the context, they were worried

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about what are they going to eat? What are they going to

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drink? They were worried about their daily needs. They were

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worried how they were going to pay their bills. And Jesus also

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is talking about the one thing here, seek first, the kingdom of

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God, and all these things. So notice that there's a divine

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order. Notice that there's a divine order. Seek first. Seek

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first. I have to let Natalie in. I don't know how long I

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left her in the waiting room. So if you guys see someone in the

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waiting room, let me know. I'm sorry, Natalie. I get going and

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I didn't see you in there.

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I know. That's what I said. I said she she on a roll. She'll

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see me eventually.

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Thank you for your patience.

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I didn't I wasn't offended.

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Yeah, yeah, thank you. So, so, so, so Jesus is talking to

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Martha and Mary, and saying, you have need, you're anxious,

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you're distracted, you have need of one thing, Mary has chosen a

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better thing. And so Mary chose to be present and absorb the

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presence. And then in Matthew 633, same thing, you've got

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people worried and distracted. What are we going to eat? What

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are we going to drink? How are we going to pay the bills?

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There's, there's many things crowding the mind. And Jesus

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says, seek first the kingdom and his righteousness, and all

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these things will be added. So what you see there is a divine

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order. Seek first, not the inbox, not the emails, not the

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things that have to be done. Seek first, the kingdom of God

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and his righteousness, all these things will be added. So when

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we're talking about simplifying and, and making space, we're

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we're looking at a divine order. Another one we've done that

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really supports this is John 15. Right? John 15, we've been

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talking about remain in me, right? We've been talking about

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the branches and, and the vine and the branches and being

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vitally connected. You see, fruit, or flowers, my cactus

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bloomed, my mama cactus bloomed again yesterday, I'll probably

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post some pictures later, most stunning, huge purple flowers.

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And she's my mama, I've had her for, I don't know, probably 15

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years. She's she's a gift from a land actually. And she's old,

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she's tired, she's leaning over, she's lost a lot of color.

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She's had a lot of babies over all the years, you know, but

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she's still blooming, beautiful blossom. And

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You know, what I know about mama is she's not striving to bloom.

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Fruit doesn't strive to produce.

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It's a natural part of that connection.

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And so no matter how we're looking at it,

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it's about this connection.

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And so John 15, 4 and 5 says, remain in me.

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I'll remain in you.

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Apart from me, you can do nothing.

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So the promise for today, if we were going to summarize this,

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is that when I make room for the one thing,

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when I prioritize the one thing, God brings order, divine order.

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And so with the order comes peace, comes clarity,

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comes fruitfulness for the many things.

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It's not that the many things go away,

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but there's a divine order.

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There's a divine prioritization.

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And so simplifying isn't just about removing things

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from your schedule.

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Yes, there are those things that we need to look at.

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And in the book, I teach you the strategy

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that I've used all these years to do that.

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I teach the four Ds.

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But simplifying isn't just about removing things

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from your schedule.

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It's about divine order.

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God is not a God of confusion.

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1 Corinthians 14, 33 says, God is not a God of disorder,

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but of peace.

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And so when there's constant chaos,

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when there's overcommitment, when there's that confusion,

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that pressure that we've been talking about,

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we're talking about tomorrow, from pressure to partnership,

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when there's that constant sense of anxiety, which, by the way,

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becomes a physical thing that gets in our cells

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and becomes a memory pattern in our cells

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that stress and chaos become normal to us.

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And so we have to be aware of this

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and reverse and bring back this divine order

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and stop the scurrying and all of this.

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You see, the enemy doesn't have to destroy your calling.

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He can just overcrowd it.

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That'll keep you off.

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That'll keep it.

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He could just overcrowd it, filling every space

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with something urgent.

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There's urgent tasks and urgent emails and urgent needs

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and urgent opportunities and urgent emotions.

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And it's this urgency.

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If any of you, and you could go back and study it,

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it's one of the classic books, Stephen Covey, when he wrote.

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And when he did the chart, and that's

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such a powerful chart of the urgent and the important

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and being able to distinguish.

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It's just a really powerful thing

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to think about, how much of the important am I doing

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and how much am I driven by the urgent

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so that there's no room left for the quiet voice of God,

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right?

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And I often think about Jesus when he came to Earth,

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like invaded our atmosphere, infinite, infinite love,

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pure love, infinite wisdom, pure wisdom, infinite goodness,

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infinite mercy, like the best, the King of Kings,

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the Lord of Lords, descended and came to Earth

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with all his glory.

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And yet, there's such a powerful verse

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that says there was no room at the inn.

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There was no room at the inn.

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There was no room for his glory.

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And I always think about that.

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I think it's such a metaphor for life

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that we can live our life with no room for his word,

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no room for his presence, no room for his power,

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no room for his glory, no room.

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We're just like little ants.

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If you ever watch ants, and they're just like, go, go, go,

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go, go.

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And we're not ants.

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We're not grasshoppers.

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We're made in his image, and we're

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made for this partnership.

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We're made to sit in his presence.

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We're made to soak.

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Those that are led by the spirit are

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the sons and daughters of God.

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And so there was no room at the end,

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just like the world right now is too full

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to make room for his glory.

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And so we look at our life,

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where is my life too full for his glory?

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Where's my schedule too crowded

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that I can't sit at his feet?

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Where's my mind so noisy I can't hear his whisper?

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Where's my business so complicated

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I can't even figure out the next step?

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Where's my heart so full of obligation

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I don't have time for the joy of obedience?

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And so Mary or Martha, right?

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Martha was doing many things.

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Mary chose one thing.

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Martha was worried and upset, stressed out, anxious.

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And Mary was present, soaking, receiving.

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Martha's asking Jesus to correct Mary,

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to tell her to change.

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And Jesus corrected Martha's pressure.

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That's important, that's important.

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When we're operating under pressure,

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we often ask God to change everyone and everything else.

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Lord, make them help me.

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Lord, make them understand.

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Lord, make life easier.

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Lord, fix the circumstances.

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And sometimes Jesus just lovingly says,

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daughter, you're worried about many things,

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but you have need of one.

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Come back to the one thing.

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So like I said, in my book,

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I teach the four Ds, go over those,

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about deleting, delegating, delaying, doing.

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It doesn't need to be this.

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There is a way to make space and simplify for that,

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which is most important.

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Let's do a quiet reflection and prayer.

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But before we do, let's just talk real quick.

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Well, let's do a reflection,

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and then let's talk, and then let's pray.

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So just take a deep breath for a second

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and just put your feet on the floor.

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Close your eyes if that's comfortable.

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And just ask the Lord,

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Lord, what is crowding out the one thing?

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What's crowding out the one thing?

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In my schedule, what is taking space

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that's not producing fruit?

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You know, you can get in the Prosper Membership.

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You can do the time audit, the Prosper Time Audit.

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And that's one of the things we look at.

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What's in my schedule that's taking space

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that's not producing fruit?

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What is taking up space in your schedule

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that's not producing fruit?

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In my mind, in my mind,

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what thought or concern is taking up real estate?

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It's constantly occupying.

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What thought or concern is holding way too much real estate?

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Taking up space.

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In my business or work,

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what am I doing from pressure instead of from partnership?

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Where did I leave Jesus' feet in my business

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and just think I've got to scurry around

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making sandwiches in my business?

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My job.

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And now write this sentence.

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This week, I sense God inviting me to make room by releasing blank.

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This week, I sense God inviting me to make room by releasing blank.

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I love that, Christine.

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Your mama cactus is delighting herself in the Lord.

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I just get so excited when flowers flower in my garden.

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I just get so excited.

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Okay, let's have a conversation and let's pray.

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What's God showing you?

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What's coming up for you?

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What's coming up for you?

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I can share, Brenda.

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Yeah.

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What's coming up with me is to let go of my own expectations, my own thoughts, my own ways.

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So good.

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Love that, Amanda.

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I love that.

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These self-made expectations.

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I talk about that in my book.

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The Slave Woman sets these unrealistic expectations, right?

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So good.

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Yeah.

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And those torture us.

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It's not even what God is asking.

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It's our own, right?

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You know, I talk about the Slave Woman in my book and coming out of the dysfunction

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that I came out of, I made these inner vows.

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And this is where I talk about the Slave Woman.

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And I made this decision.

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I wasn't going to have a family like this, right?

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Because the addictions and dysfunction and violence and all that.

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And so you don't even know.

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It's a little six, seven, eight-year-old mind.

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You don't even know you're making these vows.

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But already I was setting these expectations that I would not have a family like this.

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And I would be the perfect wife.

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And I would be the perfect mother, right?

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And then, of course, at 17, when I found the Lord, I added, I will be a perfect Christian,

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right?

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And then, you know, my passion for health.

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I will have the perfect body.

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And so, Amanda, this is just a recipe for, yeah, striving, separation, frustration, what

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Jesus was saying to Martha, right?

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You're worried.

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You're distracted by many things.

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And all those things are good things.

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And they will all come when we seek first the kingdom of God.

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All those things are added to us in the divine order.

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All those things come with peace.

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You can have a beautiful marriage.

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You can have a beautiful body.

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You can have financial freedom with peace.

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So it's such an amazing thing.

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You can get what it is that you desire, but from a totally different perspective.

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Who else?

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I'd love to see.

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Here, what else is coming up for you?

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What's the Lord showing you?

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Is there something new that just was fresh today?

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Is there some fresh manna for you today?

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I think for me, it's just being, just being in gratitude and peace during the wait.

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Because patience has always been not my virtue.

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Yeah.

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And I think we can all relate to that to some degree, but I think just waiting on him.

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Yeah.

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And just, and just centering that, the peace around that and, and, and really taking in.

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and Tory of what that looks like.

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It's funny that you say that Kim,

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cause the last two days I've been reflecting on patience

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and it's my growing virtue.

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It's still growing, right?

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And I was thinking of this morning

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as I was blowing out my hair

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and it just hit me about patience.

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So it's funny you say that.

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And I thought, wow, I wonder what kind of patients

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if I think about Moses, he had 40 years in the palace

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and then he had 40 years taking care of sheep with Jethro.

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And then he had 40 years of trying to lead these people

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through everything he had to have patience with.

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Like, I wonder like what he felt about patience.

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And then I started going through different Bible characters

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and thinking about, you know,

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it's like, we're such a microwave society

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and even the microwave's not fast enough, right?

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You know, old fashioned and letting a teapot boil

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is like forever, right?

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And so we've gotten so used to and it's only speeding.

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You know, we're gonna expect more and more of that.

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You know, we don't wait for a package in the mail for a week

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Amazon delivers same day

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and we don't wait for answers going to the library

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and searching them out.

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You know, AI delivers it instantaneously.

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And so we have that kind of expectation

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that our life will fix itself instantaneous

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like the push of, you know, an AI button, right?

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So, and yet we've talked so much about capacity

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and the beauty of capacity that comes in the waiting.

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Our ability to receive actually enlarges in that.

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You know, Brenda, I wanted to,

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you know, in your Prosper Daily Planner,

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how you chunk things in 20 minute segments.

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I was looking at an article on, you know,

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how to improve vision.

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And it's very interesting

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cause it's more than just about that.

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It was talking about the 20, 20, 20 rule.

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And I don't know, maybe some of you have seen that

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but talking about every 20 minutes,

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just like when you, every 20 minutes look afar.

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So look past everything you're doing for, you know,

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for at least 20 feet, for at least 20 seconds.

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And I thought of you first about that because I'm like,

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oh, Brenda's always talking about that 20 minute rule,

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you know, too, that sometimes we get very intent

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on the thing that we're doing.

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And I think that can also be a distraction too,

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even though it may be a good thing, if that makes sense.

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And it really hit home with me yesterday.

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I'm like, gosh, I have to share this today

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because I think that when we look past our circumstance

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and we're so intent on that and it can be good

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or it can be distracting.

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But when we look past that, we can see the far vision,

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like, you know, and just being able to take

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that little bit of time, it, you know, reactivates,

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it resets our reactivating, you know, system, right?

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So I just had to share that.

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Yeah, I'm glad that you're sharing that, that's beautiful.

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And it's that incredible contrast that you're sharing.

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So without vision, the people perish.

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So we look out, I'd like to think of 20 years from now,

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right, and so I look at that,

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like if everything just is fulfilled 20 years,

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this is what it looks like, right?

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And then what can I do in this 20 minutes

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to boldly advance in the direction of those goals,

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dreams and desires?

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What's the tangible thing I can do right here?

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Because either one can become a trap.

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We can be so lost in the vision that it feels so far away

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and so overwhelming that we can't even imagine it

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and we give up because it's just seems so far away

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or we can get so in the minutiae, right?

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Yes, Kim's mentioning The Gap and The Gain,

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a really great book by Dr. Benjamin Hardy,

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The Gap and The Gain.

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And that's also a really good perspective

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that we're talking about here

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because one way of looking at life

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is that there's this huge gap,

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like it just feels so far away to get to that vision

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and the gap just feels too hard,

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too expensive, too time-consuming,

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too, there's just this huge gap.

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And if we look at it from where we're trying to get,

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it can feel overwhelming.

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The gain is if we look at how far we've come,

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how much has changed in the last 20 years.

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last year and the last five years.

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And that's really encouraging.

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And those of us, like Amanda was mentioning,

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those of us that just set these high, high expectations,

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it's like you accomplish something

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and you don't even give yourself credit.

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It's not even important.

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And what's next?

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I got it.

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And what else?

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And it feels like it was like nothing.

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And you pause.

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I will have a day where I'll just go, what a wasted day.

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Like, I didn't accomplish anything today.

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Literally, I'll be beating myself up.

506
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This is a real true story, right?

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And I'll just be like, I didn't accomplish anything today.

508
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And then I'll be like, did you spend time with the Lord?

509
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Yeah.

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Did you go for a walk and take your dog for a walk

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and just enjoy the fresh air?

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And did you talk to God on the walk?

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Yeah.

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Did you?

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And I'll start going through.

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And it's like, this wasn't a waste of a day.

517
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You did a lot.

518
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But it didn't feel like all your expectations set, right?

519
00:36:00.560 --> 00:36:02.080
That's where I relate to you, Amanda.

520
00:36:02.080 --> 00:36:04.200
So it didn't feel like I was doing anything, right?

521
00:36:04.200 --> 00:36:07.080
So yeah, the gap and the gain.

522
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And in the gap and the gain, some of the stories

523
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that they share is exactly that, where

524
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people of considerable wealth that he interviewed,

525
00:36:17.560 --> 00:36:21.280
that they had met all these expectations one

526
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level after another, but they still

527
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felt that it wasn't enough.

528
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Because they were continuing to live in the gap.

529
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Yes.

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And they weren't seeing the gain in their life.

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Yes.

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I mean, that is so instrumental to me

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that you have to go back to seeing the things

534
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that you've done today.

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Because most of the time, we do way more than we even

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give ourselves credit.

537
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Exactly.

538
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You're not taking on the wins.

539
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Exactly.

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And I love that that was one of the additions

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to your Prosper book.

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At the end of the day, to count our blessings,

543
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to count our wins, because that really, we sleep better.

544
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It changes the circadian rhythm.

545
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Like all these great things come into play.

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Yes.

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So if you don't know, Kim is referring to the Prosper Daily

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Planner.

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You can get this on Amazon.

550
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And so there is the morning routine.

551
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There's breaking down to the 20-minute chunks.

552
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And there's even the evening routine.

553
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And even down to writing down what you wore, it's all in.

554
00:37:27.000 --> 00:37:30.760
These two pages, a Prosper Daily Planner

555
00:37:30.760 --> 00:37:32.680
day keeps the squirrels away.

556
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This is a way of focusing on the one thing.

557
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Because you're deciding that one thing in advance.

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And you're making sure that's the one thing that you do.

559
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And of course, you're starting with the morning

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spiritual practice.

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Awesome.

562
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Thank you for the feedback.

563
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And let's make sure we have plenty of time to pray.

564
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So let's go into prayer right now,

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remembering the prayer requests that people have asked for.

566
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And just asking God to bring us back to the one thing.

567
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So everybody can pray, and I'll bring us to a close.

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Amen.

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Dear Heavenly Father, we just thank you, Lord,

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for this gathering of these beautiful women, Lord,

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that we are learning more about you, that we are growing,

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and that we are enduring your wisdom, Lord.

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And we just ask you, Lord, to remember, God,

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that you are our main source, Lord,

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and that the enemy is trying to keep us distracted, Lord,

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and just let us just really come back and reflect on you,

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God, and be in your presence, Lord.

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Let us seek you first, Heavenly Father.

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Let us soak in your presence, Heavenly Father,

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and to really come back to what matters the most, Lord.

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We just ask you, Lord, to continue to pray

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over all of our sisters, Lord,

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and their healing, Heavenly Father.

584
00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:32.480
We just ask you, Lord, to be with my dad

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in this situation that he's going through, God,

586
00:39:36.440 --> 00:39:37.560
in the hospital, Lord.

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And we just ask you, Lord, to give us guidance

588
00:39:41.200 --> 00:39:45.920
and the best wise decision, Lord,

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of what is best for him, God.

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Just give us that comfort and that peace, Lord,

591
00:39:53.680 --> 00:39:55.400
in this situation, God.

592
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If it's meant to be to have a nurse, Lord,

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to be able to come to his house.

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00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:07.760
daily, Lord, and have that 24-hour care. Let that insurance be able to cover it, Lord. If it isn't,

595
00:40:07.760 --> 00:40:13.600
Lord, then let us find a way. Let me be able to go there and to help out Heavenly Father

596
00:40:14.320 --> 00:40:21.200
and just give him the strength that he needs, Lord, to be able to conquer this surgery that

597
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he has coming up, Lord. We just ask you, Lord, to be with Kim's mom in this time, Lord, and

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just really just keep on giving her the strength that she needs to endure daily, Lord,

599
00:40:36.640 --> 00:40:43.600
and the comfort and the strength for Kim, Lord, too, in this season that she is going through,

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00:40:43.600 --> 00:40:52.960
Lord. We just ask you, Lord, to be with Christine's friend, Christina, and her friend

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00:40:52.960 --> 00:40:59.280
that for her loss, Lord, and just her comfort that she is going through right now, and just

602
00:40:59.280 --> 00:41:08.640
give her peace, Lord, through this situation. We ask you, Lord, to lift your healing hands, too,

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00:41:08.640 --> 00:41:17.120
to Helene and continue to heal her in her physical therapy, Lord. And we just

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to ask you, God, to continue to surround us with your love and with your presence. In Jesus' name,

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amen.

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Lord, thank you for this opportunity once again to be with my sisters in your presence.

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00:41:52.640 --> 00:41:59.840
Thank you for all the Holy Spirit nuggets that have touched every one of us today through the

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teaching, and let us implement more Mary versus Martha and be with every single one of the ladies

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00:42:10.880 --> 00:42:17.600
here and on the replay. Fill them with that peace that surpasses all understanding that only

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you can give us. There's no other greater comfort in this world than that peace that you give us,

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and please shine your face upon every single one of us in our circumstances.

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Let us reorganize our days around your priorities, because we are here to be the hands and feet of

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00:42:45.600 --> 00:42:58.400
Jesus and to be used for your kingdom work. Lord, let your priorities become our priorities,

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00:42:58.400 --> 00:43:10.080
and that we may be able to make the moves that further your agenda versus our own.

615
00:43:10.080 --> 00:43:16.080
You have put these desires in our heart, and we know that they will come into fruition,

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00:43:16.640 --> 00:43:24.320
but there's an order to it all, and we want to get away from the chaos

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00:43:25.280 --> 00:43:34.560
and step into the peace. Thank you. We love you so much. We praise and worship your name on high. Amen.

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you

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Father, we thank you for your word today.

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I pray you just cover us,

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00:44:21.120 --> 00:44:25.280
blanket us with your love,

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00:44:27.680 --> 00:44:28.480
with your word,

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00:44:28.480 --> 00:44:39.680
with this truth that you'll be continually on our mind, continually in our mouth, continually in our heart,

624
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that we will seek you first.

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00:44:43.680 --> 00:44:46.880
We will seek you first.

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You've told us that the first fruit

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Belongs to you

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So Lord, let us just start

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by making sure

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that the first fruit

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The first fruit of our morning

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You've been teaching me from the moment I open my eyes before I get out of bed

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That my mind is fixed on you

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You've been teaching me to go outside barefoot in the grass and

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00:45:36.200 --> 00:45:41.520
Talk to you first thing in the morning move my body first thing in the morning

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00:45:43.400 --> 00:45:47.680
You've been teaching me to redeem the time

637
00:45:50.080 --> 00:45:55.200
You've said redeem the time because the days are evil you've been teaching me to redeem the time

638
00:45:56.200 --> 00:46:02.480
That when I'm getting ready, I'm listening to your word I'm listening to your music

639
00:46:03.320 --> 00:46:10.040
When I'm doing things in the kitchen, I'm bringing your word with me into the kitchen

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00:46:11.000 --> 00:46:17.080
I'm just to to continuously give you first place

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00:46:21.080 --> 00:46:24.000
In our mind and in our heart and

642
00:46:24.680 --> 00:46:26.680
First place

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To hear your word and to receive divine direction

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00:46:38.400 --> 00:46:40.960
Lord I pray that will be a people

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That they'll know you that they'll know we're followers of you

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00:46:49.720 --> 00:46:51.720
By our love

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By our joy by our peace by our light

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00:46:59.800 --> 00:47:01.800
Help us Lord

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00:47:02.880 --> 00:47:09.400
To learn to be both present and to soak up your presence

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We just invite your presence even right now Lord to minister to every single person

651
00:47:19.200 --> 00:47:23.240
Listening to this live and to the recording

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00:47:24.320 --> 00:47:27.040
We just invite your sweet presence right now

653
00:47:28.520 --> 00:47:32.920
Your healing presence you are the healer of the broken-hearted

654
00:47:34.200 --> 00:47:40.400
So for people like Christina and and all the ones that have lost or are losing

655
00:47:41.160 --> 00:47:43.160
loved ones be it through

656
00:47:44.040 --> 00:47:47.600
Alzheimer's or through cancer or through all this stuff that's going on

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00:47:49.080 --> 00:47:51.080
Father God you are

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00:47:51.440 --> 00:47:53.440
perfect peace

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00:47:53.600 --> 00:47:56.920
You are the healer. Let your presence flood

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00:47:58.800 --> 00:48:05.560
Let your presence be first and foremost guard our heart guard our mind

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00:48:07.240 --> 00:48:13.720
You've said and I say at 26 3 that if we keep our mind fixed on you you give us perfect peace

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00:48:14.120 --> 00:48:17.200
Lord, I ask for perfect peace for everyone listening. I

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Asked that we use our God-given ability to choose

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To choose you first and foremost moment by moment in every decision

665
00:48:32.640 --> 00:48:38.960
We honor you we worship you we love you

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Thank you

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Thank you Lord in Jesus name

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00:48:49.360 --> 00:48:51.360
Amen

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So good to

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to gather

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Together with you sisters. We're gonna go deep tomorrow in

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From pressure to partnership, so we'll see you there and of course in office hours

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00:49:09.240 --> 00:49:12.880
We're gonna apply it to your business. So we'll see you there

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Lots and lots of love appreciate you so much

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God bless