All right, welcome, welcome, welcome to this week's Power Hour.
This is where we gather and we focus on God's Word, His promises and principles, and we
pray together, and it's just a beautiful sisterhood.
As part of the Prosper Leader membership, and so excited to have you, we have for the
past weeks been working through the Prosper System, the Prosper Framework, right?
And so we've gone through the P, the R, the O, the S, the P, and we are on the E today.
This is one of my favorite, favorite to teach emotional alignment.
So I think you're going to love this and excited to see God's Word and to pray together.
So Holy Spirit, we just invite you to have your way on this call.
Just open our spiritual senses, Lord, to hear what you are saying in this season.
Touch these beautiful women that I love so much.
Let your spirit just flow mightily like a river in this place.
In Jesus' name, amen, amen.
Okay, so the promises we're going to go through as we talk about emotional alignment, the
idea that we're talking about really is you don't have to be ruled by what you feel or
pressured by what's happening around you.
And so we're going to talk a lot, my favorite, about the mind, heart, mouth connection and
as our thoughts and our feelings and our words and our actions come into agreement
with God's truth, peace enters.
Peace is the fruit and we can bring peace into the circumstances in the same way that
Jesus brought peace into the storm.
The circumstances that once controlled you or would just throw you off.
So we've got a few scriptures today and one of them we've talked about before.
It's actually one of the very first promises I ever learned in the Bible.
I was like 17 years old, but it fits for this one and I keep bringing it back because part
of the hope in starting Power Hour was that we would store his word, particularly we would
store his promises in our heart.
So you know, out of the heart, the mouth speaks.
So if we're storing these things in our heart and then we begin to speak them and declare
them, our words are just, you know, power packed missiles, honestly, for shifting things.
And so that's part of the purpose that every week we're doing these promises and letting
them get deep inside of us.
And so the first promise I want to go through is Isaiah 26, 3, Isaiah 26, 3.
And we've done this before.
I know because it's just one of my favorite scriptures.
I keep bringing it back every few months.
So anybody have that in some different translations, read it and tell me what translation you're
reading from.
Isaiah 26, 3, I have it, it is the NIV and I have you will keep in perfect peace those
whose minds are steadfast because they trust in you.
Love that.
Who's got a different translation?
I have the NLT.
Okay.
Let's see.
You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you.
Love that.
What jumpstarted that for you?
I think the word fixed really, you know, I mean, yeah, yeah, that's going to be fixed
on that.
Is it going to be your thoughts?
Or is it going to be your emotions leading you?
Good, good, good, good.
I'm going to read it from the Amplified.
That's what I was going to read.
Oh, go, go, Natalie, read it.
Oh, OK.
You will keep in perfect and constant peace
the one whose mind is steadfast that is committed and focused
on you in both inclination and character
because he trusts and takes refuge in you with hope
and confident expectation.
Love it.
What jumps out at you from that one, Natalie?
I like two parts.
I like the first where it says, will keep you
in perfect and constant peace.
Perfect and constant peace.
And then where it says, with hope and confident expectation.
Oh, love that.
Love that.
You guys feel that?
Just think about that for a moment.
Perfect and constant peace.
Who's ready for perfect and constant peace?
Right?
Let me see.
You guys are putting stuff in the chat.
His perfect ease.
OK.
Yeah, Christina, I'm so glad you're here.
OK.
Yeah, good.
Looking at the chat.
Yeah, so perfect and constant peace.
Love that.
Just think about what would life be
like if more time was in perfect and constant peace than not?
Right?
And the second one was that really jumped out at you,
Natalie, was?
The next one was, I just changed it really quickly.
I'm sorry.
Hold on.
It was the confident expectation.
Confident expectation.
Yeah, yeah.
I love that.
We've done that.
We've done that a lot in previous calls
here and in From Pressure to Partnership
about the weaving of the words faith and expectation.
Faith is having that confident expectation.
We expect results.
We don't expect to pray and not get results, which many people
do.
Prayer is like just a religious, OK, check, did that.
But they actually don't expect.
So do you expect when you pray that you're
going to have perfect peace?
Are you keeping your mind fixed on him?
And as you do that, is it with faith and expectation?
Love that.
Love, love, love that.
So I want you to notice that this verse does not
promise the absence of storms.
It didn't say your life is going to be rainbows and unicorns.
It promised that no matter what's happening,
and this is such a big distinction,
so many people are waiting for their circumstances
to change for them to feel happy, healthy, prosperous,
peaceful.
They're focusing on when are these circumstances going
to change.
But God is calling you to rise above.
He's calling you to speak to the storm,
to speak to the mountain.
He's calling you to rise above the conditions
so the conditions don't take you out.
There will always be conditions.
There'll always be circumstances.
The question, and what's so amazing,
is can we go through those conditions with perfect peace?
Can we go through those conditions,
believing Romans 828, that every single thing is
working together for my good?
So you know what?
This doesn't appear good.
I'm missing something.
God, you said everything's working together for good.
What's the good here that I'm not seeing?
And as that comes out, you start to see how perfectly woven,
how ordered your steps are, that even the things that
don't appear good, which is a label we put on it.
We're going to talk about that powerfully tomorrow
in From Pressure to Partnership.
And so it's not that the storms are going to go away.
And it's also not something that we're manufacturing
through willpower.
Oh, I'm going to have peace.
You know?
No, that's not what this is, right?
It's what happens as we focus our attention on God
and our hearts.
or trusting in him.
And when you understand the biblical definition of peace,
and one of those words is shalom,
I want you to understand that word peace,
what this promise really is.
Shalom means like wholeness.
It means soundness.
It means completeness.
It means wellbeing.
It means nothing missing, nothing broken.
That's what's in this promise.
And so God's not merely just saying,
hey, calm down, calm down there.
He's inviting us to return to a wholeness.
He's inviting to step into.
And so I want you to, as you think about this promise
and just in your own journaling and prayer,
you know, take a look,
where have you been waiting for the situation to change
before allowing yourself to experience peace?
Does there have to be a certain amount in your bank account
so that money is, like, it goes back to what is our source.
Is money is the source of your peace?
Many of our emotions go up and down
based on how much is in the bank account.
That's mammon.
That's putting money in the position
that God should be in, right?
And so what would change for you
if peace was no longer dependent on a person
or a sale or a bank balance or an outcome?
How would your life be
if you weren't driven by circumstances and conditions?
Good stuff, right?
Okay, the second promise, which I really love,
is Colossians 3.15.
I think we did this at the end of last year
when I first started the Power Hour.
It's Colossians 3.15.
Anybody have that?
Colossians 3.15.
By the way, those of you who are wondering,
Coco's at my feet.
I feel her, like, in my toes right now.
When you ask why she's not back there,
she's at my feet right now.
All right, Colossians 3.15.
Somebody wanna read that?
It's one of Paul's letters.
So after the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John,
Acts, Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians,
you're gonna go past all of that.
You're gonna get to Galatians, Ephesians, Colossians.
Colossians, anybody found that?
Small letter in the New Testament written by Paul.
I have it.
You said 3.15, right?
Yes.
Okay, sorry, I had it.
Okay, let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts
since as members of one body,
you were called to peace and be thankful.
Love it.
Okay, what jumps out for you as you read that?
Just reassuring that you can have peace,
that you were called to have peace.
Okay.
In your life.
Okay, good.
Someone else, different translation.
This is such a juicy one.
I have the Amplified.
I have the Passion translation.
Okay, good.
So read the Amplified, Lynn,
and then Jackie, read the Passion, good stuff.
Let the peace of Christ,
the inner calm of one who walks daily with him,
be the controlling factor in your hearts,
deciding and settling questions that arise.
To this peace, indeed,
you were called as members in one body of believers
and be thankful to God always.
Awesome.
What jumps out at you, Lynn?
Just in general,
to not ride the rollercoaster of emotions,
to keep the peace.
Okay, good.
I love that translation.
amplified. In particular, my favorite part of the amplified when it says,
let the peace of Christ act as umpire continually in your hearts.
So I want to come back and talk about that idea of peace being an umpire.
But first, Jackie, you have the passion translation. Let's see what that one says.
Let your heart, let your heart be always guided by the peace of the anointed one
who called you to peace has part of his one body and always be thankful.
Nice. What jumps out at you?
Just the word guided. Yeah. Like he's always going to guide me.
He's always going to rule me back into if I'm lingering off to where I shouldn't be.
So good. So good. So that's a similar word. Yours says guided. The amplified says umpire.
And so I want to come back to that. I want you to think about that.
An umpire, if you think about an umpire in sports, it determines like what's in, what's out,
right? That's one of the things that an umpire does in, out, right? Outside, right?
And if you could think about that way, like Paul is telling us, allow the peace,
the peace of God to govern or like what you read, Jackie, guide our decisions.
In other words, peace. I, I make that when I'm making a decision, do I have peace?
Now that doesn't mean that you might not fear, feel fear and trepidation because every time you
expand your border, I think Sarah and I talked about that, you know, because like, like expanding
borders, you're going to feel stuff, right? You're going to feel uncomfortable. It's,
it's literally, as you expand your border, you're expanding your comfort zone, right? So
not saying that you're going to feel comfortable, it's going to be scary to pick up and make that
call. It's going to be scary to give that to whatever it is when you're stretching.
That's not what we're talking about here. You can have that and you can have peace. Do you
understand what I'm saying? Can you feel that with me? And, and so Paul's telling us, let peace
help govern our decision-making. If you don't have a peace, then sort through and, and the Holy
Spirit, is that peace that I'm just nervous because I've never done this before and I'm out
of my comfort zone or is, you know, if I'm not feeling peace, right? Or am I not feeling peace
because there's a check in my spirit? Like it's the kind that there's something not right about
this. I can't explain it, but there's something not right about this. Y'all know what I'm talking
about. You've experienced that. And a lot of times, you know, in the feminine and masculine,
the feminine will feel that intuition very often. And the man will be looking at logic and go, why,
why? I, you know, on paper, it looks perfect. Why, why are you saying? I don't know. I used to do
this a lot with my husband. I don't know. I can't explain it, but there's just something not right.
And then it would come out after. So this is saying, let peace govern your decisions.
So, but many times something else becomes the umpire, right?
Something else like fear, fear, you know, might be speaking and fear may say, do it now,
or we're going to run out of money. We're not going to pay the bills or, you know, we're going
to be home. Like, that's not what we're talking about here. That's a different umpire. That's
fear being the umpire or shame can be the umpire in it. And all these things have a voice. Everything
has a voice, right? Shame is saying, hide, play small, shrink yourself. Pressure says, work harder,
strive, grind, hustle. Rejection says, protect yourself.
Scarcity says, hold on, don't let go to what you have, right? No, I can't hide. I don't have enough.
No, I can't. I can't invest in my business. No, right? That's, that's fear and scarcity.
So again, as you go deep with this lesson, what's been making decisions in your life lately?
Is it peace? Is it fear? Is it pressure? Is it anger? Is it rejection?
What's having the largest, the biggest voice in your life?
Let's do one more promise because this is so juicy. I want you to get this.
John 14 27. So we're doing a few promises this week. John 14 27. John 14 27. Someone want to read that?
John 14 27.
I have it if anybody else doesn't. Go ahead. Okay. Peace I leave with you. My peace I give you.
I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
Love that. What jumps out at you, Amanda?
That God gives us peace that's different than the world ways.
Yeah. So just, you know, again, not be conformed by the world ways. Yeah. So good. It's the spiritual.
So good. So in this, Jesus says, peace I give you.
This is part of our birthright. There's things that God has promised. He's promised us
abundant life. He's promised us peace different than the world gives.
The world gives peace. It's temporary and it's based on conditions.
God's peace is based on his presence, his power. It's not as the world gives
and you can have it at all times. And so peace is a gift from God.
And so you can call on that. You can call on that.
You can receive that. You can walk in that no matter the conditions.
Remember, we've talked about and we're going to talk about the mind, heart, mouth. You can
speak that. God, you promised me peace. I'm open and I receive that peace right now,
no matter what my eyes see, no matter what the conditions, I'm going to judge
righteously, judge right useless, usely, right? Righteously. I'm going to judge based on your
word. I'm going to judge based on truth. I'm going to judge not what my eyes see,
not based on conditions. So I love that. This is our inheritance in Christ.
So I want to share this. This is in my book on the chapter on E in Total Soul Prosperity. It's
a long chapter. It's a great chapter to supplement this with. And in there, God gave me what I call
the snowman effect. So understand that we are triune beings. Just like God is Father,
Son, Holy Spirit. We are triune beings. We are body, soul and spirit. So I want you to picture
a snowman so that there's three balls. They could be put together in any order. So when we talk
about emotional alignment, we're talking about these three parts of ourselves being in proper
alignment with God. So if the proper alignment, it'll look like a snowman. And so the top,
which is our spirit and our spirit is little s, is designed to connect with his spirit,
big S. His spirit, big S, is communicating to our spirit. Then the middle is our soul.
And biblically, our soul is our mind, will and emotions. Our mind, will and emotions.
And then the third part is the body, or the Bible often calls it, the flesh, right?
So when we are in alignment, God's spirit leads our spirit.
And our spirit leads our soul.
And our soul directs our body and our actions.
Now, if we get out of alignment, one way to be out of alignment, many people are here, our body moves to the top.
Our flesh. So now stress or exhaustion or tension or cravings or adrenaline begins leading us.
Or our emotions move to the top. So fear or anger or disappointment or urgency begins interpreting everything.
If the flesh is leading, this is how it happens. Or if the soul, the emotions, are leading.
And then we'll say, well, I just can't hear God.
Or we say something like, I feel just completely overwhelmed.
And the issue is not that God has stopped speaking. He's always speaking.
He longs to communicate with us.
So the issue may not be that God has stopped speaking. The issue may be that our emotions or our physical stress have become louder than his voice.
So if the flesh is driving, you ever see someone driven by the flesh, I just have to have a cigarette.
That's the loudest voice. I just need a drink. I just need to calm down.
That's a voice. You see?
And so understanding, and we're going to go deep on Thursday in this, but understand that emotions are signals.
If we can get this, emotions, you might want to write this down. Emotions are signals, not sovereigns.
Sovereign, like king, like ruler. Emotions are signals, not sovereigns.
Emotions carry information. They're signals. They carry information.
Fear might reveal that you feel unsafe.
Okay, thank you for the information.
Anger may reveal that like a value or a boundary or an expectation has been crossed.
When someone crosses a boundary with you, you're going to feel anger.
It's a signal. Something's been violated.
Sadness, you know, might reveal loss.
Losing the way things used to be. Losing health, losing a relationship or a loved one.
Shame may reveal that you're in agreement with a false identity.
You're believing something about yourself.
Pressure may reveal the belief that everything depends on me.
Depends on us.
But emotion is not always accurate information.
So it's a signal. It's a clue.
But it's not always accurate.
So emotions are signals, not sovereigns.
And they can tell us things. They can reveal things.
But they're not always accurate.
You guys picking up what I'm putting down?
Is this helpful?
So what do I mean?
You can feel abandoned.
But not actually be abandoned.
I get this all the time. You can feel like you're behind.
I can feel it. I'm just so behind. I need to catch up. I feel it. The feeling is real.
I feel behind.
But it's not accurate. It's not based on truth. I'm not necessarily behind.
I'm not necessarily abandoned.
Right?
So you can feel behind without being outside of God's timing.
You can feel incapable.
exactly what you need to do. So a really helpful truth, a really helpful truth for today is
that what I feel is real, feels real to you, but it doesn't automatically determine what's
true. It's real, but in the scope of God's things, it's not necessarily true. So you
can use this as a processing tool. Instead of asking, how do I stop feeling this because
I don't like feeling this. A lot of times we don't like the way we feel. That's where
addictions come from. They mask the way we feel. But instead of stopping the feeling,
we can say, what is this emotion revealing? Then what belief or interpretation is feeding
it? What belief or what interpretation? And then ultimately where we've got to go, what
does God say is true? What does God say is true? So I want to talk about the mind, heart,
mouth connection. This is how God works. This is all throughout scripture. If you
want to write down Luke 645, Luke 645 in the NLT, and this is also in the Old Testament.
It's in both the Old Testament and the New Testament. But in Luke, it says, what you
say, what comes out of your mouth, what you say flows from what's in your heart or out
of the heart, the mouth speaks. So our words reveal what's been stored and rehearsed inside
of us. You remember last week when we did the prodigal son, he rehearsed in his heart
a long time before he actually said it. So you could be mentally rehearsing and then
it comes out of your mouth. And sometimes people say, oh, I didn't mean that. Something
comes out of their mouth and they say, I didn't mean that. You go, yeah, actually you did
because out of the heart, the mouth speaks. It's revealing what's in your heart. Your
mouth won't speak apart from your heart. You know, years ago when I was married and
my husband had an idea to buy one of these fancy, expensive conversion vans. And I tell
the whole story in my book. I mean, this thing was just fancy schmancy. I didn't love it.
I didn't love driving it, even though it had the, you know, captain and the leather chairs
that swiveled around. I mean, it had the whole thing. It had the TV, the back couch
went into a bed. It had lights up along. I mean, it was just fancy, right? And from the
moment I got it, I was constantly saying, because I couldn't see well out of it. This
thing is an accident waiting to happen. Before I really understood guarding my mouth and
understanding what I'm teaching you, man, this, this thing is just an accident waiting
to happen. Well, long story short, we ended up in a multi-car pileup. It was completely
totaled, but I've really learned to check my mouth with experiences. And I hear it now.
Someone will say, oh man, you ever hear like the saying, everybody go like, they'll say
something. You go, oh man, you're killing me. You ever hear people say that? It's very
popular these days. You're killing me. And I go, no, no, I'm not. Don't, don't speak
that. Okay. Prayerfully, I'm giving life from the, from the Holy spirit. And, um, you know,
praise God. No. Um, I had, it was me and my two young children in car seats and it
was the scariest. Um, so yeah, we just, we just say these, these things and we don't
think about what we're saying. And so it's so important. Scripture says, stand guard
at the door of your mouth. And so as we practice this piece, we don't want to violate or ruin
or destroy the piece because of our words. Okay. But on the opposite, it can be so beautiful
that we can think a thought and we want to put great thoughts as we renew our mind and
then we can tap into the feeling of that.
Like, we already imagine as if there's so much scripture on that, and then we speak
it and we declare it.
When I walk, I'm constantly declaring out loud because our words, you know, the Bible
says, say to the mountain, be thou removed and it will be removed.
There is a say that is so, so important.
So the cycle often looks like this, there'll be a circumstance, and then we interpret
the circumstance to mean something, and then we feel the emotion, then we speak the words
and take the action, which leads to a reinforced belief and usually leads to a result.
So for example, and I'm going to talk about this a lot tomorrow, I'm not going to get
into it as much today, but you could have a prospective client that doesn't respond.
You get a client that just doesn't respond to you.
So the circumstance is silent.
I get that by the way.
Even people that tell me, oh yeah, I'm going to work with you.
And then they ghost, and they tell me how much they need me and then they ghost.
So the circumstance is silent.
Now comes adding the meaning because we're meaning making machines.
Now comes the interpretation.
So I could say, man, my offer's too expensive.
Nobody wants my offer.
Nobody can afford my offer.
Nobody wants what I offer.
Now that begins to create the feeling of discouragement and fear.
Now I begin to say, you know, my business is just not working.
And I withdraw from following up, or I go back to the drawing board and change my offer
once again.
And so the resulting lack of conversations appears to confirm the original belief.
Nobody's interested in my business.
I just can't do this.
And ladies, there's been many times in my life, each time I've stretched where I thought
oh, I just can't do this.
I'm not cut out for it.
I don't have what it takes.
Don't think that I'm immune from that.
Those of you in direct selling and network marketing, I remember the first time I got
in network marketing.
And I happened to work in an agency where there was a lot of Vietnamese.
And I love all your graphics, Christina says, oh my goodness.
Yeah.
So it sounds like you're getting some awareness, Christine.
And so anyway, I had, I got to write that down, that's so good, Christine.
I often quote you guys.
Anyway, so all these Vietnamese jumped in, they bought the product, and then they had
some kind of like head spiritual leader in their community who said, no, no, we people,
we don't take this.
And my business went from, I had jumped up to immediate like a couple thousand dollars,
and I jumped back down to zero.
And I can remember being in the one bedroom, unfurnished apartment where we had found an
old couch.
This thing was the old threaded, I mean, it might be back in style now, but it was so
dang old and tattered, and it was like the rust and the golds, you remember when that
was all in style back then.
I remember plopping on that couch and crying my eyes out and saying, I, and we'd get, we
used to get videos from the company.
This is back when you tell how old this is, like VH, you know, big A-track kind of videos,
right?
And plug it in and it'd be testimonies, and we made $100,000 and we had $20,000 our first
month and we just added 50,000 people, kind of like social media today, wasn't any social
media back then.
It was in the, you know, a VHS that came.
And I remember just crying my eyes out and just going, you know what, I don't have what
it takes.
I'm not cut out for this.
So again, our feelings are not always true, because the truth is God would equip me.
And I went to the very top position of that company, and I was one of the top earners
in that company.
I earned the highest level, okay?
So I did have the potential, but at that moment, my feelings, laying on that couch
and crying, I said, I don't have it.
And so this is why it's so important that changing, not only changing our words, but
healing the underlying belief is how we create lasting change.
So I like to say, to change the fruit, we have to heal the root.
to change their fruit, okay?
So, understand peace does not mean passivity,
it means aligned action.
When Jesus woke up in the storm and he spoke to the storm,
okay, so peace doesn't replace strategy,
it's very important you've got the right strategies,
but peace changes the place that that strategy comes from.
So this week, just begin to take a look,
and I wanna go into prayer,
but I'd love just any comments, what's coming up for you?
What's really hitting home for you?
What's the aha, what's the takeaway
that you are realizing as you read these verses
and you hear this conversation?
What is your aha?
It's important that you share it.
Again, we're using our mouth to reinforce
on a good direction.
Or if you realize like, oh, like Christine did,
oh my goodness, right?
Maybe you were not yet aware.
Remember I say,
awareness is the first step to transformation.
So today may just be about awareness for you.
For others, it might be a reminder, right?
For others, it might be incredibly encouraging
and empowering.
What is it for you?
What is God speaking to you through this today?
Encourage each other.
And thank you.
Oh, go ahead.
Sorry, you can go ahead.
Just real quick.
I think for me, it's just,
it is honestly, just a confirmation
to the pivoting that I've done in my life,
especially over the last year.
And just the way that I work and approach
with relationships and business,
that I see the opportunity that I am given at all times.
And that I'm able just to reach out
and impact the way Jesus would want me to.
Love it.
So beautiful.
Amanda, what's coming up for you?
Can you hear me now?
Yeah.
Okay.
So what's coming up for me is just,
I'm gonna go ahead and say it.
So what's coming up for me is just, like you said,
we all have our feelings and emotions
and I mean, we're human and we're gonna feel that.
But I think that for me,
I need to take it to God and say,
God, what do you say about this truth?
That's awesome.
And that really stood out to me.
So I don't do that enough.
I include him in my decisions and things like that,
but really don't include him too much
in about my beliefs and my truths.
Ooh, I love that.
You'll include him.
So we think that we just bring God for the big decisions,
you'll include it.
But we don't include informing our beliefs and our truths.
That's juicy.
That's really juicy.
Thank you for sharing that.
Who else?
Yeah, go ahead.
What was big for me was a little while back
when you were talking about emotions or signals
are not sovereign, they're not always accurate,
but they may reveal something.
I think about how many times I feel an emotion
and I ride with it, you know?
Instead of stopping and say, wait a minute,
what's the underlying issue here?
The concern or maybe a caution?
Yeah.
Not looking at it that way,
so I appreciated that very much.
Love it, love it.
Who else?
I think for me, it's really a lot of confirmation here.
A lot of healing has taken place in my life.
And it's almost lately,
like I am really aware of my thoughts and what I speak,
but it's almost like, you know,
there's like a fear of the Lord on me
in a good way when I speak.
And it's almost like, he's reminding me gently,
just don't say anything about this today.
Yeah.
Take it to me still, but don't even look at it
the way you're looking at it through the lens,
through your humanness.
Yes.
Just bring it to me and let's work it out.
So there's almost just like that stop and pause.
And I'm really becoming aware of that
because you keep bringing up the word awareness
and he keeps bringing that to my mind.
So it's good.
Thank you.
Thank you, yeah.
I had, I made,
some assumptions about someone that were not correct and I was speaking those and the Lord
just checked me and said, don't be speaking that about my son. If you want to think about my son,
just pray for him. And it's like, so we just thought that could be just talking about another
person, not necessarily like gossip or slander, but it's still not edifying. It's not believing
the best. And, um, so I love it. Okay. Oh, go ahead. What? No, I was just going to say when
you said that, like the word it, it's like a sticky, icky kind of a feeling that comes over
us. Like when you said it's not like gossip or slander, I just heard the word, it just becomes
sticky. Yeah. If that makes sense. I don't know. There's something about that. It's just not
edifying. We're called to use our words always to edify always. Absolutely. And so it may not
be slander or gossip or negative, but it's not edifying that it's still not doing what words
are supposed to do. Your words are supposed to edify. They're supposed to build up. They're
supposed to encourage, encourage one another. Scripture says, right? Yes. Yes, definitely.
Beautiful. Oh, I so love that. Okay. Um, let's, um, we have not prayed and it's time for office
hours, but all you guys are on office hours. So I'm going to make office hours late and we're
going to take time to pray right now. So let's just, let's just take at least five minutes to
just really bring this before the Lord and just seal this in the Holy spirit. So everybody take
time, pray out loud, and then I'll close it. Okay.
God, heavenly father, thank you for bringing us together with our sisters and in Christ and the
leadership from Brenda and thank you for the message that our hearts can always be moved by
you and from our hearts, our words and actions can flow. Please plant your seeds in all of our
hearts and transform us the way that only you can, that we might see the fruits that you would
have us bear and remind us that it's always through you and it's not our own power for
your power is made perfect in our weakness. Amen.
Father, I just lift up each and every one of us here today, Lord, that we would be so aware of
your peace and that we would speak it over our lives and over our hearts and over our minds
today and over any situation, Lord, because you give us the peace, Lord. And so father, I just
pray that peace be still over us today, father, and that we only hear through the Holy spirit
of when to speak and when not to speak, that you would set a guard over my mouth and the
others here as well today, father, that you are so loving and so, um, always on time for us,
Lord, today. And that there's just that peace that surpasses all understanding. Um, and I just
really needed to hear this today with some new things that are going on in my life today, father,
and that you have just been giving me your peace and I've just been laying it down more and more
at your feet, father. So I thank you, Lord, that I am becoming more of aware of that through Holy
spirit. And I do not take that lightly, father. So I thank you for that. Thank you, Lord, I just
thank you this time. I thank you for my sisters. I thank you for your goodness. I thank you for
your word. I thank you for your promises, Lord. And I pray that these promises will be seed that
goes in deep soil, Lord God, that these promises are continuously on our mind that, that we fix
our thoughts on you, Lord God, and that we speak your word. Lord, I
I just thank you for the gift and the promise
and the inheritance of peace
that you've called us to walk in peace,
that we have the ability to walk in peace
no matter the circumstances.
What a gift it is.
I think the world just hungers for peace
and they try to find it in all the wrong places.
You Lord, you are our peace.
You're the prince of peace.
You're the king of peace.
You are peace in us.
You live in us and you are peace.
And so God, I pray for every woman listening to this live
and listening to recordings in the future.
That you'll guard their heart
and you'll guard their mind, Lord, with peace.
That your perfect peace that passes all understanding
will guard our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
I thank you for Isaiah 26, three,
that you will keep us in perfect peace
when we keep our mind state on you.
Teach us, Lord, to keep our mind state on you.
Teach us, Lord, to understand emotional alignment,
to have our spirit be so in communion with your spirit.
And to have our soul, our mind, will, and emotions
governed by our spirit.
And to have our soul, our mind, will, and emotions
rule over our flesh.
That we walk in emotional alignment.
That the joy of the Lord is our strength.
Lord, open our spiritual senses to hear in this season
what you're saying.
And let nothing leave our words
except that which is pure and lovely and of good rapport,
that which is in alignment with your word.
May we speak truth.
May we speak to the storms in our life
and the lives of people around us.
May our words be healing waters for your glory.
Bless every prosperous sister, Lord God.
Just let your peace rest on them today
and until we gather again.
Just let your joy, fill them,
your love be a banner over them.
Bless the work of their hands.
May they prosper and give glory to you.
I love what David said.
That you have pulled us out of the mud and the mire
and you have set our feet on a rock.
You are the rock.
And you put a new song in our hearts, in our mouth,
a song of praise that many will see and wonder.
Be glorified, Lord.
Be glorified with our words.
Be glorified with our thoughts.
Be glorified with our actions.
Let us be the salt and light you've called us to be.
We love you.
And we pray all this in Jesus' name, amen.
All right, ladies, I realize I'm off a day.
Office hours is tomorrow.
So go forth and I'll see you in
from Pressure to Partnership tomorrow.
And office hours tomorrow, we will go deep, deep, deep
with what we started today.
So can't wait to see you.
Lots of love.
May you prosper in all things.
Thank you.
Thank you, Brenda.