WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:09.160 All right, welcome, welcome, welcome to this week's Power Hour. 2 00:00:09.160 --> 00:00:17.080 This is where we gather and we focus on God's Word, His promises and principles, and we 3 00:00:17.080 --> 00:00:20.760 pray together, and it's just a beautiful sisterhood. 4 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:27.080 As part of the Prosper Leader membership, and so excited to have you, we have for the 5 00:00:27.080 --> 00:00:34.320 past weeks been working through the Prosper System, the Prosper Framework, right? 6 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:41.920 And so we've gone through the P, the R, the O, the S, the P, and we are on the E today. 7 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:48.160 This is one of my favorite, favorite to teach emotional alignment. 8 00:00:48.160 --> 00:00:55.380 So I think you're going to love this and excited to see God's Word and to pray together. 9 00:00:55.380 --> 00:00:59.060 So Holy Spirit, we just invite you to have your way on this call. 10 00:00:59.060 --> 00:01:06.020 Just open our spiritual senses, Lord, to hear what you are saying in this season. 11 00:01:06.020 --> 00:01:09.460 Touch these beautiful women that I love so much. 12 00:01:09.460 --> 00:01:13.940 Let your spirit just flow mightily like a river in this place. 13 00:01:13.940 --> 00:01:18.220 In Jesus' name, amen, amen. 14 00:01:18.220 --> 00:01:27.900 Okay, so the promises we're going to go through as we talk about emotional alignment, the 15 00:01:27.900 --> 00:01:34.860 idea that we're talking about really is you don't have to be ruled by what you feel or 16 00:01:34.860 --> 00:01:39.220 pressured by what's happening around you. 17 00:01:39.220 --> 00:01:44.100 And so we're going to talk a lot, my favorite, about the mind, heart, mouth connection and 18 00:01:44.100 --> 00:01:52.580 as our thoughts and our feelings and our words and our actions come into agreement 19 00:01:52.580 --> 00:01:57.340 with God's truth, peace enters. 20 00:01:57.340 --> 00:02:03.980 Peace is the fruit and we can bring peace into the circumstances in the same way that 21 00:02:03.980 --> 00:02:06.820 Jesus brought peace into the storm. 22 00:02:06.820 --> 00:02:12.300 The circumstances that once controlled you or would just throw you off. 23 00:02:12.300 --> 00:02:20.220 So we've got a few scriptures today and one of them we've talked about before. 24 00:02:20.220 --> 00:02:24.220 It's actually one of the very first promises I ever learned in the Bible. 25 00:02:24.220 --> 00:02:32.460 I was like 17 years old, but it fits for this one and I keep bringing it back because part 26 00:02:32.460 --> 00:02:39.620 of the hope in starting Power Hour was that we would store his word, particularly we would 27 00:02:39.620 --> 00:02:42.940 store his promises in our heart. 28 00:02:42.940 --> 00:02:47.220 So you know, out of the heart, the mouth speaks. 29 00:02:47.220 --> 00:02:52.340 So if we're storing these things in our heart and then we begin to speak them and declare 30 00:02:52.340 --> 00:03:02.780 them, our words are just, you know, power packed missiles, honestly, for shifting things. 31 00:03:02.780 --> 00:03:08.300 And so that's part of the purpose that every week we're doing these promises and letting 32 00:03:08.300 --> 00:03:11.020 them get deep inside of us. 33 00:03:11.020 --> 00:03:21.140 And so the first promise I want to go through is Isaiah 26, 3, Isaiah 26, 3. 34 00:03:21.140 --> 00:03:23.380 And we've done this before. 35 00:03:23.380 --> 00:03:25.620 I know because it's just one of my favorite scriptures. 36 00:03:25.620 --> 00:03:28.100 I keep bringing it back every few months. 37 00:03:28.100 --> 00:03:36.460 So anybody have that in some different translations, read it and tell me what translation you're 38 00:03:36.500 --> 00:03:37.500 reading from. 39 00:03:48.500 --> 00:04:03.740 Isaiah 26, 3, I have it, it is the NIV and I have you will keep in perfect peace those 40 00:04:04.020 --> 00:04:09.940 whose minds are steadfast because they trust in you. 41 00:04:09.940 --> 00:04:10.940 Love that. 42 00:04:10.940 --> 00:04:11.940 Love that. 43 00:04:11.940 --> 00:04:18.180 Who's got a different translation? 44 00:04:18.180 --> 00:04:20.180 I have the NLT. 45 00:04:20.180 --> 00:04:21.180 Okay. 46 00:04:21.180 --> 00:04:22.540 Let's see. 47 00:04:22.540 --> 00:04:33.140 You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you. 48 00:04:33.540 --> 00:04:35.100 Love that. 49 00:04:35.100 --> 00:04:40.300 What jumpstarted that for you? 50 00:04:40.300 --> 00:04:48.420 I think the word fixed really, you know, I mean, yeah, yeah, that's going to be fixed 51 00:04:48.420 --> 00:04:49.420 on that. 52 00:04:49.420 --> 00:04:50.420 Is it going to be your thoughts? 53 00:04:50.420 --> 00:04:53.020 Or is it going to be your emotions leading you? 54 00:04:53.020 --> 00:04:56.260 Good, good, good, good. 55 00:04:56.260 --> 00:05:00.020 I'm going to read it from the Amplified. 56 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:00.960 That's what I was going to read. 57 00:05:00.960 --> 00:05:02.760 Oh, go, go, Natalie, read it. 58 00:05:02.760 --> 00:05:03.920 Oh, OK. 59 00:05:03.920 --> 00:05:07.800 You will keep in perfect and constant peace 60 00:05:07.800 --> 00:05:12.480 the one whose mind is steadfast that is committed and focused 61 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:16.960 on you in both inclination and character 62 00:05:16.960 --> 00:05:21.320 because he trusts and takes refuge in you with hope 63 00:05:21.320 --> 00:05:24.040 and confident expectation. 64 00:05:24.040 --> 00:05:25.840 Love it. 65 00:05:25.840 --> 00:05:29.840 What jumps out at you from that one, Natalie? 66 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:33.800 I like two parts. 67 00:05:33.800 --> 00:05:38.320 I like the first where it says, will keep you 68 00:05:38.320 --> 00:05:41.240 in perfect and constant peace. 69 00:05:41.240 --> 00:05:43.000 Perfect and constant peace. 70 00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:47.280 And then where it says, with hope and confident expectation. 71 00:05:47.280 --> 00:05:49.640 Oh, love that. 72 00:05:49.640 --> 00:05:50.960 Love that. 73 00:05:50.960 --> 00:05:52.040 You guys feel that? 74 00:05:52.040 --> 00:05:55.920 Just think about that for a moment. 75 00:05:55.920 --> 00:05:59.680 Perfect and constant peace. 76 00:06:02.360 --> 00:06:07.120 Who's ready for perfect and constant peace? 77 00:06:07.120 --> 00:06:08.640 Right? 78 00:06:08.640 --> 00:06:09.160 Let me see. 79 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:11.920 You guys are putting stuff in the chat. 80 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:13.280 His perfect ease. 81 00:06:13.280 --> 00:06:14.640 OK. 82 00:06:14.640 --> 00:06:17.560 Yeah, Christina, I'm so glad you're here. 83 00:06:17.560 --> 00:06:19.880 OK. 84 00:06:19.880 --> 00:06:21.000 Yeah, good. 85 00:06:21.000 --> 00:06:22.880 Looking at the chat. 86 00:06:22.880 --> 00:06:27.440 Yeah, so perfect and constant peace. 87 00:06:27.440 --> 00:06:28.240 Love that. 88 00:06:28.240 --> 00:06:31.280 Just think about what would life be 89 00:06:31.280 --> 00:06:38.600 like if more time was in perfect and constant peace than not? 90 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:43.360 Right? 91 00:06:43.360 --> 00:06:46.640 And the second one was that really jumped out at you, 92 00:06:46.640 --> 00:06:49.360 Natalie, was? 93 00:06:49.720 --> 00:06:55.040 The next one was, I just changed it really quickly. 94 00:06:55.040 --> 00:06:55.560 I'm sorry. 95 00:06:55.560 --> 00:06:56.640 Hold on. 96 00:06:56.640 --> 00:06:59.680 It was the confident expectation. 97 00:06:59.680 --> 00:07:02.400 Confident expectation. 98 00:07:02.400 --> 00:07:03.080 Yeah, yeah. 99 00:07:03.080 --> 00:07:04.880 I love that. 100 00:07:04.880 --> 00:07:05.800 We've done that. 101 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:08.680 We've done that a lot in previous calls 102 00:07:08.680 --> 00:07:11.840 here and in From Pressure to Partnership 103 00:07:11.840 --> 00:07:16.640 about the weaving of the words faith and expectation. 104 00:07:16.640 --> 00:07:19.640 Faith is having that confident expectation. 105 00:07:19.640 --> 00:07:21.200 We expect results. 106 00:07:21.200 --> 00:07:24.760 We don't expect to pray and not get results, which many people 107 00:07:24.760 --> 00:07:25.560 do. 108 00:07:25.560 --> 00:07:29.440 Prayer is like just a religious, OK, check, did that. 109 00:07:29.440 --> 00:07:33.080 But they actually don't expect. 110 00:07:33.080 --> 00:07:36.240 So do you expect when you pray that you're 111 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:39.320 going to have perfect peace? 112 00:07:39.320 --> 00:07:42.560 Are you keeping your mind fixed on him? 113 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:49.000 And as you do that, is it with faith and expectation? 114 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:49.800 Love that. 115 00:07:49.800 --> 00:07:51.480 Love, love, love that. 116 00:07:51.480 --> 00:07:55.840 So I want you to notice that this verse does not 117 00:07:55.840 --> 00:07:58.680 promise the absence of storms. 118 00:07:58.680 --> 00:08:03.720 It didn't say your life is going to be rainbows and unicorns. 119 00:08:03.720 --> 00:08:06.360 It promised that no matter what's happening, 120 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:10.440 and this is such a big distinction, 121 00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:16.640 so many people are waiting for their circumstances 122 00:08:16.640 --> 00:08:21.000 to change for them to feel happy, healthy, prosperous, 123 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:22.240 peaceful. 124 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:26.880 They're focusing on when are these circumstances going 125 00:08:26.880 --> 00:08:28.760 to change. 126 00:08:28.760 --> 00:08:32.720 But God is calling you to rise above. 127 00:08:32.720 --> 00:08:34.840 He's calling you to speak to the storm, 128 00:08:34.840 --> 00:08:36.919 to speak to the mountain. 129 00:08:36.919 --> 00:08:40.280 He's calling you to rise above the conditions 130 00:08:40.280 --> 00:08:43.919 so the conditions don't take you out. 131 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:47.240 There will always be conditions. 132 00:08:47.240 --> 00:08:50.720 There'll always be circumstances. 133 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:53.880 The question, and what's so amazing, 134 00:08:53.880 --> 00:09:00.040 is can we go through those conditions with perfect peace? 135 00:09:00.040 --> 00:09:02.840 Can we go through those conditions, 136 00:09:02.840 --> 00:09:06.240 believing Romans 828, that every single thing is 137 00:09:06.240 --> 00:09:08.360 working together for my good? 138 00:09:08.360 --> 00:09:09.120 So you know what? 139 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:10.600 This doesn't appear good. 140 00:09:10.600 --> 00:09:11.680 I'm missing something. 141 00:09:11.680 --> 00:09:14.280 God, you said everything's working together for good. 142 00:09:14.280 --> 00:09:17.760 What's the good here that I'm not seeing? 143 00:09:17.760 --> 00:09:23.600 And as that comes out, you start to see how perfectly woven, 144 00:09:23.600 --> 00:09:27.600 how ordered your steps are, that even the things that 145 00:09:27.600 --> 00:09:31.120 don't appear good, which is a label we put on it. 146 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:33.760 We're going to talk about that powerfully tomorrow 147 00:09:33.760 --> 00:09:36.720 in From Pressure to Partnership. 148 00:09:36.760 --> 00:09:42.440 And so it's not that the storms are going to go away. 149 00:09:42.440 --> 00:09:45.800 And it's also not something that we're manufacturing 150 00:09:45.800 --> 00:09:46.720 through willpower. 151 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:49.840 Oh, I'm going to have peace. 152 00:09:49.840 --> 00:09:50.800 You know? 153 00:09:50.800 --> 00:09:54.760 No, that's not what this is, right? 154 00:09:54.760 --> 00:09:58.840 It's what happens as we focus our attention on God 155 00:09:58.840 --> 00:10:01.080 and our hearts. 156 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:02.280 or trusting in him. 157 00:10:02.280 --> 00:10:06.840 And when you understand the biblical definition of peace, 158 00:10:06.840 --> 00:10:09.360 and one of those words is shalom, 159 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:11.640 I want you to understand that word peace, 160 00:10:11.640 --> 00:10:13.420 what this promise really is. 161 00:10:13.420 --> 00:10:16.040 Shalom means like wholeness. 162 00:10:16.040 --> 00:10:17.600 It means soundness. 163 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:19.200 It means completeness. 164 00:10:19.200 --> 00:10:20.840 It means wellbeing. 165 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:24.600 It means nothing missing, nothing broken. 166 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:26.480 That's what's in this promise. 167 00:10:26.520 --> 00:10:28.800 And so God's not merely just saying, 168 00:10:28.800 --> 00:10:32.760 hey, calm down, calm down there. 169 00:10:32.760 --> 00:10:37.080 He's inviting us to return to a wholeness. 170 00:10:37.080 --> 00:10:39.160 He's inviting to step into. 171 00:10:39.160 --> 00:10:42.520 And so I want you to, as you think about this promise 172 00:10:42.520 --> 00:10:45.600 and just in your own journaling and prayer, 173 00:10:45.600 --> 00:10:46.680 you know, take a look, 174 00:10:46.680 --> 00:10:51.680 where have you been waiting for the situation to change 175 00:10:52.520 --> 00:10:55.200 before allowing yourself to experience peace? 176 00:10:56.200 --> 00:11:00.600 Does there have to be a certain amount in your bank account 177 00:11:00.600 --> 00:11:03.760 so that money is, like, it goes back to what is our source. 178 00:11:03.760 --> 00:11:06.720 Is money is the source of your peace? 179 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:08.880 Many of our emotions go up and down 180 00:11:08.880 --> 00:11:10.760 based on how much is in the bank account. 181 00:11:10.760 --> 00:11:12.160 That's mammon. 182 00:11:12.160 --> 00:11:15.200 That's putting money in the position 183 00:11:15.200 --> 00:11:18.280 that God should be in, right? 184 00:11:18.280 --> 00:11:23.280 And so what would change for you 185 00:11:23.400 --> 00:11:28.400 if peace was no longer dependent on a person 186 00:11:29.400 --> 00:11:34.400 or a sale or a bank balance or an outcome? 187 00:11:34.640 --> 00:11:36.200 How would your life be 188 00:11:36.200 --> 00:11:40.420 if you weren't driven by circumstances and conditions? 189 00:11:43.160 --> 00:11:44.700 Good stuff, right? 190 00:11:45.780 --> 00:11:50.780 Okay, the second promise, which I really love, 191 00:11:51.420 --> 00:11:53.980 is Colossians 3.15. 192 00:11:53.980 --> 00:11:56.000 I think we did this at the end of last year 193 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:58.120 when I first started the Power Hour. 194 00:11:59.340 --> 00:12:03.100 It's Colossians 3.15. 195 00:12:05.100 --> 00:12:07.060 Anybody have that? 196 00:12:07.060 --> 00:12:11.200 Colossians 3.15. 197 00:12:14.000 --> 00:12:15.660 By the way, those of you who are wondering, 198 00:12:15.660 --> 00:12:17.460 Coco's at my feet. 199 00:12:17.460 --> 00:12:20.260 I feel her, like, in my toes right now. 200 00:12:20.660 --> 00:12:22.660 When you ask why she's not back there, 201 00:12:22.660 --> 00:12:24.820 she's at my feet right now. 202 00:12:24.820 --> 00:12:29.020 All right, Colossians 3.15. 203 00:12:31.220 --> 00:12:32.580 Somebody wanna read that? 204 00:12:34.340 --> 00:12:36.540 It's one of Paul's letters. 205 00:12:36.540 --> 00:12:39.820 So after the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, 206 00:12:39.820 --> 00:12:42.700 Acts, Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, 207 00:12:42.700 --> 00:12:44.420 you're gonna go past all of that. 208 00:12:44.420 --> 00:12:49.300 You're gonna get to Galatians, Ephesians, Colossians. 209 00:12:51.260 --> 00:12:53.820 Colossians, anybody found that? 210 00:12:53.820 --> 00:12:56.880 Small letter in the New Testament written by Paul. 211 00:13:00.300 --> 00:13:01.700 I have it. 212 00:13:01.700 --> 00:13:03.380 You said 3.15, right? 213 00:13:03.380 --> 00:13:04.420 Yes. 214 00:13:04.420 --> 00:13:06.900 Okay, sorry, I had it. 215 00:13:06.900 --> 00:13:11.700 Okay, let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts 216 00:13:11.700 --> 00:13:14.900 since as members of one body, 217 00:13:14.900 --> 00:13:19.900 you were called to peace and be thankful. 218 00:13:20.060 --> 00:13:20.900 Love it. 219 00:13:20.900 --> 00:13:25.380 Okay, what jumps out for you as you read that? 220 00:13:40.060 --> 00:13:43.020 Just reassuring that you can have peace, 221 00:13:43.020 --> 00:13:45.740 that you were called to have peace. 222 00:13:46.580 --> 00:13:47.420 Okay. 223 00:13:47.420 --> 00:13:48.500 In your life. 224 00:13:48.500 --> 00:13:49.940 Okay, good. 225 00:13:51.100 --> 00:13:53.220 Someone else, different translation. 226 00:13:53.220 --> 00:13:55.200 This is such a juicy one. 227 00:14:05.340 --> 00:14:07.140 I have the Amplified. 228 00:14:07.140 --> 00:14:09.500 I have the Passion translation. 229 00:14:09.500 --> 00:14:11.340 Okay, good. 230 00:14:11.340 --> 00:14:13.260 So read the Amplified, Lynn, 231 00:14:13.260 --> 00:14:16.860 and then Jackie, read the Passion, good stuff. 232 00:14:17.860 --> 00:14:19.740 Let the peace of Christ, 233 00:14:19.740 --> 00:14:24.300 the inner calm of one who walks daily with him, 234 00:14:24.300 --> 00:14:27.820 be the controlling factor in your hearts, 235 00:14:27.820 --> 00:14:32.180 deciding and settling questions that arise. 236 00:14:32.180 --> 00:14:34.380 To this peace, indeed, 237 00:14:34.380 --> 00:14:39.380 you were called as members in one body of believers 238 00:14:39.500 --> 00:14:42.660 and be thankful to God always. 239 00:14:43.540 --> 00:14:44.420 Awesome. 240 00:14:44.420 --> 00:14:45.980 What jumps out at you, Lynn? 241 00:14:47.860 --> 00:14:50.140 Just in general, 242 00:14:50.140 --> 00:14:54.620 to not ride the rollercoaster of emotions, 243 00:14:54.620 --> 00:14:56.180 to keep the peace. 244 00:14:56.180 --> 00:14:57.940 Okay, good. 245 00:14:57.940 --> 00:14:59.700 I love that translation. 246 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:05.680 amplified. In particular, my favorite part of the amplified when it says, 247 00:15:05.680 --> 00:15:13.920 let the peace of Christ act as umpire continually in your hearts. 248 00:15:14.480 --> 00:15:20.240 So I want to come back and talk about that idea of peace being an umpire. 249 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:24.480 But first, Jackie, you have the passion translation. Let's see what that one says. 250 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:34.720 Let your heart, let your heart be always guided by the peace of the anointed one 251 00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:40.960 who called you to peace has part of his one body and always be thankful. 252 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:43.680 Nice. What jumps out at you? 253 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:49.920 Just the word guided. Yeah. Like he's always going to guide me. 254 00:15:50.480 --> 00:15:54.640 He's always going to rule me back into if I'm lingering off to where I shouldn't be. 255 00:15:55.200 --> 00:16:03.280 So good. So good. So that's a similar word. Yours says guided. The amplified says umpire. 256 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:07.040 And so I want to come back to that. I want you to think about that. 257 00:16:07.920 --> 00:16:15.840 An umpire, if you think about an umpire in sports, it determines like what's in, what's out, 258 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:22.000 right? That's one of the things that an umpire does in, out, right? Outside, right? 259 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:29.920 And if you could think about that way, like Paul is telling us, allow the peace, 260 00:16:30.640 --> 00:16:37.440 the peace of God to govern or like what you read, Jackie, guide our decisions. 261 00:16:37.520 --> 00:16:46.400 In other words, peace. I, I make that when I'm making a decision, do I have peace? 262 00:16:46.400 --> 00:16:53.040 Now that doesn't mean that you might not fear, feel fear and trepidation because every time you 263 00:16:53.040 --> 00:16:59.360 expand your border, I think Sarah and I talked about that, you know, because like, like expanding 264 00:16:59.360 --> 00:17:03.280 borders, you're going to feel stuff, right? You're going to feel uncomfortable. It's, 265 00:17:03.280 --> 00:17:09.359 it's literally, as you expand your border, you're expanding your comfort zone, right? So 266 00:17:09.359 --> 00:17:14.720 not saying that you're going to feel comfortable, it's going to be scary to pick up and make that 267 00:17:14.720 --> 00:17:20.160 call. It's going to be scary to give that to whatever it is when you're stretching. 268 00:17:20.960 --> 00:17:26.240 That's not what we're talking about here. You can have that and you can have peace. Do you 269 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:33.840 understand what I'm saying? Can you feel that with me? And, and so Paul's telling us, let peace 270 00:17:34.880 --> 00:17:43.200 help govern our decision-making. If you don't have a peace, then sort through and, and the Holy 271 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:49.600 Spirit, is that peace that I'm just nervous because I've never done this before and I'm out 272 00:17:49.600 --> 00:17:57.200 of my comfort zone or is, you know, if I'm not feeling peace, right? Or am I not feeling peace 273 00:17:57.200 --> 00:18:02.240 because there's a check in my spirit? Like it's the kind that there's something not right about 274 00:18:02.240 --> 00:18:07.680 this. I can't explain it, but there's something not right about this. Y'all know what I'm talking 275 00:18:07.680 --> 00:18:15.520 about. You've experienced that. And a lot of times, you know, in the feminine and masculine, 276 00:18:15.520 --> 00:18:23.120 the feminine will feel that intuition very often. And the man will be looking at logic and go, why, 277 00:18:23.120 --> 00:18:28.400 why? I, you know, on paper, it looks perfect. Why, why are you saying? I don't know. I used to do 278 00:18:28.400 --> 00:18:33.440 this a lot with my husband. I don't know. I can't explain it, but there's just something not right. 279 00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:39.280 And then it would come out after. So this is saying, let peace govern your decisions. 280 00:18:40.240 --> 00:18:45.200 So, but many times something else becomes the umpire, right? 281 00:18:47.440 --> 00:18:55.760 Something else like fear, fear, you know, might be speaking and fear may say, do it now, 282 00:18:57.280 --> 00:19:01.840 or we're going to run out of money. We're not going to pay the bills or, you know, we're going 283 00:19:01.840 --> 00:19:06.400 to be home. Like, that's not what we're talking about here. That's a different umpire. That's 284 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:14.000 fear being the umpire or shame can be the umpire in it. And all these things have a voice. Everything 285 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:24.960 has a voice, right? Shame is saying, hide, play small, shrink yourself. Pressure says, work harder, 286 00:19:24.960 --> 00:19:31.920 strive, grind, hustle. Rejection says, protect yourself. 287 00:19:34.080 --> 00:19:44.160 Scarcity says, hold on, don't let go to what you have, right? No, I can't hide. I don't have enough. 288 00:19:44.160 --> 00:19:51.120 No, I can't. I can't invest in my business. No, right? That's, that's fear and scarcity. 289 00:19:51.120 --> 00:19:59.360 So again, as you go deep with this lesson, what's been making decisions in your life lately? 290 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:04.880 Is it peace? Is it fear? Is it pressure? Is it anger? Is it rejection? 291 00:20:04.880 --> 00:20:11.600 What's having the largest, the biggest voice in your life? 292 00:20:18.800 --> 00:20:22.880 Let's do one more promise because this is so juicy. I want you to get this. 293 00:20:23.840 --> 00:20:38.400 John 14 27. So we're doing a few promises this week. John 14 27. John 14 27. Someone want to read that? 294 00:20:46.400 --> 00:20:50.320 John 14 27. 295 00:20:53.440 --> 00:21:01.520 I have it if anybody else doesn't. Go ahead. Okay. Peace I leave with you. My peace I give you. 296 00:21:02.240 --> 00:21:10.720 I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. 297 00:21:11.200 --> 00:21:14.960 Love that. What jumps out at you, Amanda? 298 00:21:18.080 --> 00:21:31.840 That God gives us peace that's different than the world ways. 299 00:21:31.920 --> 00:21:43.360 Yeah. So just, you know, again, not be conformed by the world ways. Yeah. So good. It's the spiritual. 300 00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:53.440 So good. So in this, Jesus says, peace I give you. 301 00:21:56.000 --> 00:22:01.680 This is part of our birthright. There's things that God has promised. He's promised us 302 00:22:02.400 --> 00:22:09.600 abundant life. He's promised us peace different than the world gives. 303 00:22:11.040 --> 00:22:15.840 The world gives peace. It's temporary and it's based on conditions. 304 00:22:17.760 --> 00:22:23.680 God's peace is based on his presence, his power. It's not as the world gives 305 00:22:24.240 --> 00:22:32.400 and you can have it at all times. And so peace is a gift from God. 306 00:22:34.640 --> 00:22:37.760 And so you can call on that. You can call on that. 307 00:22:39.360 --> 00:22:43.680 You can receive that. You can walk in that no matter the conditions. 308 00:22:45.680 --> 00:22:49.520 Remember, we've talked about and we're going to talk about the mind, heart, mouth. You can 309 00:22:49.520 --> 00:22:57.840 speak that. God, you promised me peace. I'm open and I receive that peace right now, 310 00:22:57.840 --> 00:23:02.480 no matter what my eyes see, no matter what the conditions, I'm going to judge 311 00:23:03.200 --> 00:23:12.160 righteously, judge right useless, usely, right? Righteously. I'm going to judge based on your 312 00:23:12.160 --> 00:23:18.720 word. I'm going to judge based on truth. I'm going to judge not what my eyes see, 313 00:23:19.440 --> 00:23:27.680 not based on conditions. So I love that. This is our inheritance in Christ. 314 00:23:28.400 --> 00:23:37.200 So I want to share this. This is in my book on the chapter on E in Total Soul Prosperity. It's 315 00:23:38.080 --> 00:23:45.840 a long chapter. It's a great chapter to supplement this with. And in there, God gave me what I call 316 00:23:45.840 --> 00:23:57.200 the snowman effect. So understand that we are triune beings. Just like God is Father, 317 00:23:57.200 --> 00:24:04.080 Son, Holy Spirit. We are triune beings. We are body, soul and spirit. So I want you to picture 318 00:24:04.160 --> 00:24:14.400 a snowman so that there's three balls. They could be put together in any order. So when we talk 319 00:24:14.400 --> 00:24:21.600 about emotional alignment, we're talking about these three parts of ourselves being in proper 320 00:24:21.600 --> 00:24:31.920 alignment with God. So if the proper alignment, it'll look like a snowman. And so the top, 321 00:24:31.920 --> 00:24:40.320 which is our spirit and our spirit is little s, is designed to connect with his spirit, 322 00:24:40.320 --> 00:24:50.800 big S. His spirit, big S, is communicating to our spirit. Then the middle is our soul. 323 00:24:51.520 --> 00:24:59.840 And biblically, our soul is our mind, will and emotions. Our mind, will and emotions. 324 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:10.000 And then the third part is the body, or the Bible often calls it, the flesh, right? 325 00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:17.000 So when we are in alignment, God's spirit leads our spirit. 326 00:25:17.000 --> 00:25:24.000 And our spirit leads our soul. 327 00:25:24.000 --> 00:25:32.000 And our soul directs our body and our actions. 328 00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:41.000 Now, if we get out of alignment, one way to be out of alignment, many people are here, our body moves to the top. 329 00:25:41.000 --> 00:25:52.000 Our flesh. So now stress or exhaustion or tension or cravings or adrenaline begins leading us. 330 00:25:53.000 --> 00:26:01.000 Or our emotions move to the top. So fear or anger or disappointment or urgency begins interpreting everything. 331 00:26:01.000 --> 00:26:10.000 If the flesh is leading, this is how it happens. Or if the soul, the emotions, are leading. 332 00:26:10.000 --> 00:26:17.000 And then we'll say, well, I just can't hear God. 333 00:26:17.000 --> 00:26:23.000 Or we say something like, I feel just completely overwhelmed. 334 00:26:23.000 --> 00:26:28.000 And the issue is not that God has stopped speaking. He's always speaking. 335 00:26:28.000 --> 00:26:32.000 He longs to communicate with us. 336 00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:43.000 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. 337 00:26:43.000 --> 00:26:50.000 So if the flesh is driving, you ever see someone driven by the flesh, I just have to have a cigarette. 338 00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:55.000 That's the loudest voice. I just need a drink. I just need to calm down. 339 00:26:55.000 --> 00:27:00.000 That's a voice. You see? 340 00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:11.000 And so understanding, and we're going to go deep on Thursday in this, but understand that emotions are signals. 341 00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:21.000 If we can get this, emotions, you might want to write this down. Emotions are signals, not sovereigns. 342 00:27:21.000 --> 00:27:29.000 Sovereign, like king, like ruler. Emotions are signals, not sovereigns. 343 00:27:29.000 --> 00:27:35.000 Emotions carry information. They're signals. They carry information. 344 00:27:35.000 --> 00:27:40.000 Fear might reveal that you feel unsafe. 345 00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:43.000 Okay, thank you for the information. 346 00:27:43.000 --> 00:27:51.000 Anger may reveal that like a value or a boundary or an expectation has been crossed. 347 00:27:51.000 --> 00:27:55.000 When someone crosses a boundary with you, you're going to feel anger. 348 00:27:55.000 --> 00:28:00.000 It's a signal. Something's been violated. 349 00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:06.000 Sadness, you know, might reveal loss. 350 00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:14.000 Losing the way things used to be. Losing health, losing a relationship or a loved one. 351 00:28:14.000 --> 00:28:20.000 Shame may reveal that you're in agreement with a false identity. 352 00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:24.000 You're believing something about yourself. 353 00:28:24.000 --> 00:28:32.000 Pressure may reveal the belief that everything depends on me. 354 00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:35.000 Depends on us. 355 00:28:35.000 --> 00:28:42.000 But emotion is not always accurate information. 356 00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:46.000 So it's a signal. It's a clue. 357 00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:54.000 But it's not always accurate. 358 00:28:54.000 --> 00:28:59.000 So emotions are signals, not sovereigns. 359 00:28:59.000 --> 00:29:03.000 And they can tell us things. They can reveal things. 360 00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:07.000 But they're not always accurate. 361 00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:11.000 You guys picking up what I'm putting down? 362 00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:15.000 Is this helpful? 363 00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:17.000 So what do I mean? 364 00:29:17.000 --> 00:29:21.000 You can feel abandoned. 365 00:29:21.000 --> 00:29:26.000 But not actually be abandoned. 366 00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:31.000 I get this all the time. You can feel like you're behind. 367 00:29:31.000 --> 00:29:38.000 I can feel it. I'm just so behind. I need to catch up. I feel it. The feeling is real. 368 00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:40.000 I feel behind. 369 00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:45.000 But it's not accurate. It's not based on truth. I'm not necessarily behind. 370 00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:48.000 I'm not necessarily abandoned. 371 00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:50.000 Right? 372 00:29:51.000 --> 00:29:56.000 So you can feel behind without being outside of God's timing. 373 00:29:56.000 --> 00:30:00.000 You can feel incapable. 374 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:10.960 exactly what you need to do. So a really helpful truth, a really helpful truth for today is 375 00:30:10.960 --> 00:30:17.160 that what I feel is real, feels real to you, but it doesn't automatically determine what's 376 00:30:17.160 --> 00:30:28.640 true. It's real, but in the scope of God's things, it's not necessarily true. So you 377 00:30:28.640 --> 00:30:36.680 can use this as a processing tool. Instead of asking, how do I stop feeling this because 378 00:30:36.680 --> 00:30:42.480 I don't like feeling this. A lot of times we don't like the way we feel. That's where 379 00:30:42.480 --> 00:30:50.880 addictions come from. They mask the way we feel. But instead of stopping the feeling, 380 00:30:50.880 --> 00:31:00.960 we can say, what is this emotion revealing? Then what belief or interpretation is feeding 381 00:31:00.960 --> 00:31:09.520 it? What belief or what interpretation? And then ultimately where we've got to go, what 382 00:31:09.520 --> 00:31:19.720 does God say is true? What does God say is true? So I want to talk about the mind, heart, 383 00:31:19.720 --> 00:31:27.760 mouth connection. This is how God works. This is all throughout scripture. If you 384 00:31:27.760 --> 00:31:38.400 want to write down Luke 645, Luke 645 in the NLT, and this is also in the Old Testament. 385 00:31:38.400 --> 00:31:43.720 It's in both the Old Testament and the New Testament. But in Luke, it says, what you 386 00:31:43.720 --> 00:31:50.760 say, what comes out of your mouth, what you say flows from what's in your heart or out 387 00:31:50.760 --> 00:32:00.200 of the heart, the mouth speaks. So our words reveal what's been stored and rehearsed inside 388 00:32:00.200 --> 00:32:06.320 of us. You remember last week when we did the prodigal son, he rehearsed in his heart 389 00:32:06.320 --> 00:32:15.040 a long time before he actually said it. So you could be mentally rehearsing and then 390 00:32:15.040 --> 00:32:18.920 it comes out of your mouth. And sometimes people say, oh, I didn't mean that. Something 391 00:32:18.920 --> 00:32:23.680 comes out of their mouth and they say, I didn't mean that. You go, yeah, actually you did 392 00:32:23.680 --> 00:32:27.120 because out of the heart, the mouth speaks. It's revealing what's in your heart. Your 393 00:32:27.120 --> 00:32:36.400 mouth won't speak apart from your heart. You know, years ago when I was married and 394 00:32:36.400 --> 00:32:43.240 my husband had an idea to buy one of these fancy, expensive conversion vans. And I tell 395 00:32:43.240 --> 00:32:50.820 the whole story in my book. I mean, this thing was just fancy schmancy. I didn't love it. 396 00:32:50.820 --> 00:32:56.320 I didn't love driving it, even though it had the, you know, captain and the leather chairs 397 00:32:56.320 --> 00:33:00.480 that swiveled around. I mean, it had the whole thing. It had the TV, the back couch 398 00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:07.720 went into a bed. It had lights up along. I mean, it was just fancy, right? And from the 399 00:33:07.720 --> 00:33:14.400 moment I got it, I was constantly saying, because I couldn't see well out of it. This 400 00:33:14.400 --> 00:33:20.840 thing is an accident waiting to happen. Before I really understood guarding my mouth and 401 00:33:20.840 --> 00:33:25.920 understanding what I'm teaching you, man, this, this thing is just an accident waiting 402 00:33:25.920 --> 00:33:36.880 to happen. Well, long story short, we ended up in a multi-car pileup. It was completely 403 00:33:36.880 --> 00:33:48.240 totaled, but I've really learned to check my mouth with experiences. And I hear it now. 404 00:33:48.240 --> 00:33:51.480 Someone will say, oh man, you ever hear like the saying, everybody go like, they'll say 405 00:33:51.480 --> 00:33:55.400 something. You go, oh man, you're killing me. You ever hear people say that? It's very 406 00:33:55.400 --> 00:34:04.400 popular these days. You're killing me. And I go, no, no, I'm not. Don't, don't speak 407 00:34:04.400 --> 00:34:15.719 that. Okay. Prayerfully, I'm giving life from the, from the Holy spirit. And, um, you know, 408 00:34:15.719 --> 00:34:22.719 praise God. No. Um, I had, it was me and my two young children in car seats and it 409 00:34:22.719 --> 00:34:30.920 was the scariest. Um, so yeah, we just, we just say these, these things and we don't 410 00:34:30.920 --> 00:34:36.400 think about what we're saying. And so it's so important. Scripture says, stand guard 411 00:34:36.400 --> 00:34:43.280 at the door of your mouth. And so as we practice this piece, we don't want to violate or ruin 412 00:34:43.280 --> 00:34:52.040 or destroy the piece because of our words. Okay. But on the opposite, it can be so beautiful 413 00:34:52.040 --> 00:34:57.600 that we can think a thought and we want to put great thoughts as we renew our mind and 414 00:34:57.600 --> 00:34:59.720 then we can tap into the feeling of that. 415 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:07.140 Like, we already imagine as if there's so much scripture on that, and then we speak 416 00:35:07.140 --> 00:35:08.620 it and we declare it. 417 00:35:08.620 --> 00:35:15.760 When I walk, I'm constantly declaring out loud because our words, you know, the Bible 418 00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:20.680 says, say to the mountain, be thou removed and it will be removed. 419 00:35:20.680 --> 00:35:27.840 There is a say that is so, so important. 420 00:35:27.840 --> 00:35:35.280 So the cycle often looks like this, there'll be a circumstance, and then we interpret 421 00:35:35.280 --> 00:35:43.660 the circumstance to mean something, and then we feel the emotion, then we speak the words 422 00:35:43.660 --> 00:35:50.580 and take the action, which leads to a reinforced belief and usually leads to a result. 423 00:35:50.580 --> 00:35:53.540 So for example, and I'm going to talk about this a lot tomorrow, I'm not going to get 424 00:35:53.540 --> 00:36:00.980 into it as much today, but you could have a prospective client that doesn't respond. 425 00:36:00.980 --> 00:36:04.180 You get a client that just doesn't respond to you. 426 00:36:04.180 --> 00:36:05.660 So the circumstance is silent. 427 00:36:05.660 --> 00:36:09.020 I get that by the way. 428 00:36:09.020 --> 00:36:12.020 Even people that tell me, oh yeah, I'm going to work with you. 429 00:36:12.020 --> 00:36:18.460 And then they ghost, and they tell me how much they need me and then they ghost. 430 00:36:18.460 --> 00:36:21.500 So the circumstance is silent. 431 00:36:21.500 --> 00:36:25.500 Now comes adding the meaning because we're meaning making machines. 432 00:36:25.500 --> 00:36:29.460 Now comes the interpretation. 433 00:36:29.460 --> 00:36:34.140 So I could say, man, my offer's too expensive. 434 00:36:34.140 --> 00:36:35.740 Nobody wants my offer. 435 00:36:35.740 --> 00:36:38.260 Nobody can afford my offer. 436 00:36:38.260 --> 00:36:39.580 Nobody wants what I offer. 437 00:36:39.580 --> 00:36:46.380 Now that begins to create the feeling of discouragement and fear. 438 00:36:46.380 --> 00:36:52.700 Now I begin to say, you know, my business is just not working. 439 00:36:52.700 --> 00:36:58.420 And I withdraw from following up, or I go back to the drawing board and change my offer 440 00:36:58.420 --> 00:37:01.580 once again. 441 00:37:01.580 --> 00:37:07.380 And so the resulting lack of conversations appears to confirm the original belief. 442 00:37:07.380 --> 00:37:09.220 Nobody's interested in my business. 443 00:37:09.220 --> 00:37:12.620 I just can't do this. 444 00:37:12.620 --> 00:37:16.180 And ladies, there's been many times in my life, each time I've stretched where I thought 445 00:37:16.980 --> 00:37:17.980 oh, I just can't do this. 446 00:37:17.980 --> 00:37:18.980 I'm not cut out for it. 447 00:37:18.980 --> 00:37:21.460 I don't have what it takes. 448 00:37:21.460 --> 00:37:23.980 Don't think that I'm immune from that. 449 00:37:23.980 --> 00:37:27.740 Those of you in direct selling and network marketing, I remember the first time I got 450 00:37:27.740 --> 00:37:29.940 in network marketing. 451 00:37:29.940 --> 00:37:35.620 And I happened to work in an agency where there was a lot of Vietnamese. 452 00:37:35.620 --> 00:37:41.540 And I love all your graphics, Christina says, oh my goodness. 453 00:37:41.540 --> 00:37:43.540 Yeah. 454 00:37:43.540 --> 00:37:50.020 So it sounds like you're getting some awareness, Christine. 455 00:37:50.020 --> 00:37:59.540 And so anyway, I had, I got to write that down, that's so good, Christine. 456 00:37:59.540 --> 00:38:01.740 I often quote you guys. 457 00:38:01.740 --> 00:38:06.900 Anyway, so all these Vietnamese jumped in, they bought the product, and then they had 458 00:38:06.900 --> 00:38:12.380 some kind of like head spiritual leader in their community who said, no, no, we people, 459 00:38:12.380 --> 00:38:14.140 we don't take this. 460 00:38:14.140 --> 00:38:20.260 And my business went from, I had jumped up to immediate like a couple thousand dollars, 461 00:38:20.260 --> 00:38:23.740 and I jumped back down to zero. 462 00:38:23.740 --> 00:38:29.500 And I can remember being in the one bedroom, unfurnished apartment where we had found an 463 00:38:29.500 --> 00:38:30.960 old couch. 464 00:38:30.960 --> 00:38:35.300 This thing was the old threaded, I mean, it might be back in style now, but it was so 465 00:38:35.300 --> 00:38:39.780 dang old and tattered, and it was like the rust and the golds, you remember when that 466 00:38:39.780 --> 00:38:41.580 was all in style back then. 467 00:38:41.980 --> 00:38:49.620 I remember plopping on that couch and crying my eyes out and saying, I, and we'd get, we 468 00:38:49.620 --> 00:38:51.540 used to get videos from the company. 469 00:38:51.540 --> 00:38:56.780 This is back when you tell how old this is, like VH, you know, big A-track kind of videos, 470 00:38:56.780 --> 00:38:57.780 right? 471 00:38:57.780 --> 00:39:04.180 And plug it in and it'd be testimonies, and we made $100,000 and we had $20,000 our first 472 00:39:04.180 --> 00:39:09.780 month and we just added 50,000 people, kind of like social media today, wasn't any social 473 00:39:09.780 --> 00:39:10.780 media back then. 474 00:39:10.780 --> 00:39:13.420 It was in the, you know, a VHS that came. 475 00:39:13.420 --> 00:39:16.540 And I remember just crying my eyes out and just going, you know what, I don't have what 476 00:39:16.540 --> 00:39:18.100 it takes. 477 00:39:18.100 --> 00:39:20.900 I'm not cut out for this. 478 00:39:20.900 --> 00:39:26.380 So again, our feelings are not always true, because the truth is God would equip me. 479 00:39:26.380 --> 00:39:30.660 And I went to the very top position of that company, and I was one of the top earners 480 00:39:30.660 --> 00:39:31.660 in that company. 481 00:39:31.660 --> 00:39:34.140 I earned the highest level, okay? 482 00:39:34.140 --> 00:39:39.340 So I did have the potential, but at that moment, my feelings, laying on that couch 483 00:39:39.340 --> 00:39:43.060 and crying, I said, I don't have it. 484 00:39:43.060 --> 00:39:48.980 And so this is why it's so important that changing, not only changing our words, but 485 00:39:48.980 --> 00:39:54.180 healing the underlying belief is how we create lasting change. 486 00:39:54.180 --> 00:39:59.860 So I like to say, to change the fruit, we have to heal the root. 487 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:02.980 to change their fruit, okay? 488 00:40:02.980 --> 00:40:07.980 So, understand peace does not mean passivity, 489 00:40:08.780 --> 00:40:12.480 it means aligned action. 490 00:40:12.480 --> 00:40:17.420 When Jesus woke up in the storm and he spoke to the storm, 491 00:40:18.620 --> 00:40:23.620 okay, so peace doesn't replace strategy, 492 00:40:23.640 --> 00:40:26.420 it's very important you've got the right strategies, 493 00:40:26.420 --> 00:40:30.640 but peace changes the place that that strategy comes from. 494 00:40:32.220 --> 00:40:35.200 So this week, just begin to take a look, 495 00:40:35.200 --> 00:40:37.280 and I wanna go into prayer, 496 00:40:37.280 --> 00:40:40.560 but I'd love just any comments, what's coming up for you? 497 00:40:40.560 --> 00:40:42.920 What's really hitting home for you? 498 00:40:42.920 --> 00:40:45.640 What's the aha, what's the takeaway 499 00:40:45.640 --> 00:40:49.240 that you are realizing as you read these verses 500 00:40:49.240 --> 00:40:51.400 and you hear this conversation? 501 00:40:51.400 --> 00:40:53.080 What is your aha? 502 00:40:53.080 --> 00:40:54.480 It's important that you share it. 503 00:40:54.480 --> 00:40:56.440 Again, we're using our mouth to reinforce 504 00:40:56.440 --> 00:40:57.840 on a good direction. 505 00:40:57.840 --> 00:41:01.760 Or if you realize like, oh, like Christine did, 506 00:41:01.760 --> 00:41:04.360 oh my goodness, right? 507 00:41:04.360 --> 00:41:06.840 Maybe you were not yet aware. 508 00:41:06.840 --> 00:41:07.680 Remember I say, 509 00:41:07.680 --> 00:41:10.260 awareness is the first step to transformation. 510 00:41:10.260 --> 00:41:12.540 So today may just be about awareness for you. 511 00:41:12.540 --> 00:41:16.120 For others, it might be a reminder, right? 512 00:41:16.120 --> 00:41:18.320 For others, it might be incredibly encouraging 513 00:41:18.320 --> 00:41:19.360 and empowering. 514 00:41:19.360 --> 00:41:20.360 What is it for you? 515 00:41:20.360 --> 00:41:23.340 What is God speaking to you through this today? 516 00:41:25.400 --> 00:41:26.860 Encourage each other. 517 00:41:27.960 --> 00:41:29.020 And thank you. 518 00:41:29.020 --> 00:41:29.940 Oh, go ahead. 519 00:41:29.940 --> 00:41:32.080 Sorry, you can go ahead. 520 00:41:32.080 --> 00:41:32.920 Just real quick. 521 00:41:32.920 --> 00:41:35.480 I think for me, it's just, 522 00:41:36.960 --> 00:41:40.820 it is honestly, just a confirmation 523 00:41:40.820 --> 00:41:43.240 to the pivoting that I've done in my life, 524 00:41:43.240 --> 00:41:45.500 especially over the last year. 525 00:41:45.500 --> 00:41:49.960 And just the way that I work and approach 526 00:41:49.960 --> 00:41:52.200 with relationships and business, 527 00:41:52.200 --> 00:41:57.200 that I see the opportunity that I am given at all times. 528 00:41:57.840 --> 00:42:01.640 And that I'm able just to reach out 529 00:42:01.640 --> 00:42:04.240 and impact the way Jesus would want me to. 530 00:42:04.240 --> 00:42:05.080 Love it. 531 00:42:05.080 --> 00:42:06.920 So beautiful. 532 00:42:06.920 --> 00:42:08.760 Amanda, what's coming up for you? 533 00:42:13.600 --> 00:42:14.440 Can you hear me now? 534 00:42:14.440 --> 00:42:15.280 Yeah. 535 00:42:15.280 --> 00:42:16.100 Okay. 536 00:42:16.100 --> 00:42:18.280 So what's coming up for me is just, 537 00:42:18.280 --> 00:42:19.960 I'm gonna go ahead and say it. 538 00:42:20.080 --> 00:42:23.480 So what's coming up for me is just, like you said, 539 00:42:23.480 --> 00:42:25.440 we all have our feelings and emotions 540 00:42:25.440 --> 00:42:28.280 and I mean, we're human and we're gonna feel that. 541 00:42:28.280 --> 00:42:32.920 But I think that for me, 542 00:42:32.920 --> 00:42:36.840 I need to take it to God and say, 543 00:42:36.840 --> 00:42:39.200 God, what do you say about this truth? 544 00:42:39.200 --> 00:42:40.720 That's awesome. 545 00:42:40.720 --> 00:42:45.340 And that really stood out to me. 546 00:42:45.340 --> 00:42:48.300 So I don't do that enough. 547 00:42:49.300 --> 00:42:53.020 I include him in my decisions and things like that, 548 00:42:53.020 --> 00:42:56.060 but really don't include him too much 549 00:42:56.060 --> 00:42:58.380 in about my beliefs and my truths. 550 00:42:58.380 --> 00:43:00.540 Ooh, I love that. 551 00:43:00.540 --> 00:43:01.740 You'll include him. 552 00:43:01.740 --> 00:43:04.860 So we think that we just bring God for the big decisions, 553 00:43:04.860 --> 00:43:05.860 you'll include it. 554 00:43:05.860 --> 00:43:10.860 But we don't include informing our beliefs and our truths. 555 00:43:12.900 --> 00:43:13.860 That's juicy. 556 00:43:15.300 --> 00:43:16.180 That's really juicy. 557 00:43:16.180 --> 00:43:17.660 Thank you for sharing that. 558 00:43:17.660 --> 00:43:18.500 Who else? 559 00:43:23.780 --> 00:43:25.500 Yeah, go ahead. 560 00:43:25.500 --> 00:43:27.660 What was big for me was a little while back 561 00:43:27.660 --> 00:43:29.700 when you were talking about emotions or signals 562 00:43:29.700 --> 00:43:32.420 are not sovereign, they're not always accurate, 563 00:43:32.420 --> 00:43:34.380 but they may reveal something. 564 00:43:34.380 --> 00:43:37.280 I think about how many times I feel an emotion 565 00:43:37.280 --> 00:43:39.180 and I ride with it, you know? 566 00:43:39.180 --> 00:43:40.740 Instead of stopping and say, wait a minute, 567 00:43:40.740 --> 00:43:43.500 what's the underlying issue here? 568 00:43:43.500 --> 00:43:46.000 The concern or maybe a caution? 569 00:43:46.280 --> 00:43:47.280 Yeah. 570 00:43:47.280 --> 00:43:48.480 Not looking at it that way, 571 00:43:48.480 --> 00:43:50.480 so I appreciated that very much. 572 00:43:50.480 --> 00:43:53.240 Love it, love it. 573 00:43:53.240 --> 00:43:54.120 Who else? 574 00:44:01.520 --> 00:44:04.880 I think for me, it's really a lot of confirmation here. 575 00:44:04.880 --> 00:44:08.220 A lot of healing has taken place in my life. 576 00:44:08.220 --> 00:44:11.060 And it's almost lately, 577 00:44:11.660 --> 00:44:16.660 like I am really aware of my thoughts and what I speak, 578 00:44:18.660 --> 00:44:19.900 but it's almost like, you know, 579 00:44:19.900 --> 00:44:21.700 there's like a fear of the Lord on me 580 00:44:21.700 --> 00:44:23.500 in a good way when I speak. 581 00:44:23.500 --> 00:44:26.140 And it's almost like, he's reminding me gently, 582 00:44:26.140 --> 00:44:28.860 just don't say anything about this today. 583 00:44:28.860 --> 00:44:29.700 Yeah. 584 00:44:29.700 --> 00:44:32.540 Take it to me still, but don't even look at it 585 00:44:32.540 --> 00:44:34.540 the way you're looking at it through the lens, 586 00:44:34.540 --> 00:44:36.260 through your humanness. 587 00:44:36.260 --> 00:44:37.100 Yes. 588 00:44:37.100 --> 00:44:39.940 Just bring it to me and let's work it out. 589 00:44:39.940 --> 00:44:43.660 So there's almost just like that stop and pause. 590 00:44:43.660 --> 00:44:45.980 And I'm really becoming aware of that 591 00:44:45.980 --> 00:44:49.260 because you keep bringing up the word awareness 592 00:44:49.260 --> 00:44:51.660 and he keeps bringing that to my mind. 593 00:44:51.660 --> 00:44:53.860 So it's good. 594 00:44:53.860 --> 00:44:55.060 Thank you. 595 00:44:55.060 --> 00:44:56.300 Thank you, yeah. 596 00:44:56.300 --> 00:45:00.100 I had, I made, 597 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:06.240 some assumptions about someone that were not correct and I was speaking those and the Lord 598 00:45:06.240 --> 00:45:14.160 just checked me and said, don't be speaking that about my son. If you want to think about my son, 599 00:45:14.160 --> 00:45:19.920 just pray for him. And it's like, so we just thought that could be just talking about another 600 00:45:19.920 --> 00:45:28.480 person, not necessarily like gossip or slander, but it's still not edifying. It's not believing 601 00:45:28.560 --> 00:45:38.560 the best. And, um, so I love it. Okay. Oh, go ahead. What? No, I was just going to say when 602 00:45:38.560 --> 00:45:44.960 you said that, like the word it, it's like a sticky, icky kind of a feeling that comes over 603 00:45:44.960 --> 00:45:50.400 us. Like when you said it's not like gossip or slander, I just heard the word, it just becomes 604 00:45:50.400 --> 00:45:56.000 sticky. Yeah. If that makes sense. I don't know. There's something about that. It's just not 605 00:45:56.000 --> 00:46:04.960 edifying. We're called to use our words always to edify always. Absolutely. And so it may not 606 00:46:04.960 --> 00:46:10.720 be slander or gossip or negative, but it's not edifying that it's still not doing what words 607 00:46:10.720 --> 00:46:14.800 are supposed to do. Your words are supposed to edify. They're supposed to build up. They're 608 00:46:14.800 --> 00:46:22.000 supposed to encourage, encourage one another. Scripture says, right? Yes. Yes, definitely. 609 00:46:22.560 --> 00:46:31.360 Beautiful. Oh, I so love that. Okay. Um, let's, um, we have not prayed and it's time for office 610 00:46:31.360 --> 00:46:35.600 hours, but all you guys are on office hours. So I'm going to make office hours late and we're 611 00:46:35.600 --> 00:46:41.760 going to take time to pray right now. So let's just, let's just take at least five minutes to 612 00:46:41.760 --> 00:46:47.920 just really bring this before the Lord and just seal this in the Holy spirit. So everybody take 613 00:46:47.920 --> 00:46:52.000 time, pray out loud, and then I'll close it. Okay. 614 00:47:05.760 --> 00:47:12.400 God, heavenly father, thank you for bringing us together with our sisters and in Christ and the 615 00:47:12.400 --> 00:47:20.240 leadership from Brenda and thank you for the message that our hearts can always be moved by 616 00:47:20.240 --> 00:47:29.200 you and from our hearts, our words and actions can flow. Please plant your seeds in all of our 617 00:47:29.200 --> 00:47:34.240 hearts and transform us the way that only you can, that we might see the fruits that you would 618 00:47:34.240 --> 00:47:40.800 have us bear and remind us that it's always through you and it's not our own power for 619 00:47:40.800 --> 00:47:45.040 your power is made perfect in our weakness. Amen. 620 00:47:59.120 --> 00:48:04.560 Father, I just lift up each and every one of us here today, Lord, that we would be so aware of 621 00:48:04.560 --> 00:48:10.240 your peace and that we would speak it over our lives and over our hearts and over our minds 622 00:48:10.240 --> 00:48:18.240 today and over any situation, Lord, because you give us the peace, Lord. And so father, I just 623 00:48:18.240 --> 00:48:24.400 pray that peace be still over us today, father, and that we only hear through the Holy spirit 624 00:48:24.400 --> 00:48:29.600 of when to speak and when not to speak, that you would set a guard over my mouth and the 625 00:48:29.600 --> 00:48:37.120 others here as well today, father, that you are so loving and so, um, always on time for us, 626 00:48:37.120 --> 00:48:45.680 Lord, today. And that there's just that peace that surpasses all understanding. Um, and I just 627 00:48:45.680 --> 00:48:50.640 really needed to hear this today with some new things that are going on in my life today, father, 628 00:48:51.280 --> 00:48:57.360 and that you have just been giving me your peace and I've just been laying it down more and more 629 00:48:57.360 --> 00:49:02.480 at your feet, father. So I thank you, Lord, that I am becoming more of aware of that through Holy 630 00:49:02.480 --> 00:49:29.520 spirit. And I do not take that lightly, father. So I thank you for that. Thank you, Lord, I just 631 00:49:29.520 --> 00:49:36.640 thank you this time. I thank you for my sisters. I thank you for your goodness. I thank you for 632 00:49:36.640 --> 00:49:44.560 your word. I thank you for your promises, Lord. And I pray that these promises will be seed that 633 00:49:44.560 --> 00:49:53.120 goes in deep soil, Lord God, that these promises are continuously on our mind that, that we fix 634 00:49:53.120 --> 00:49:59.920 our thoughts on you, Lord God, and that we speak your word. Lord, I 635 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:05.000 I just thank you for the gift and the promise 636 00:50:05.920 --> 00:50:08.800 and the inheritance of peace 637 00:50:08.800 --> 00:50:11.900 that you've called us to walk in peace, 638 00:50:11.900 --> 00:50:15.300 that we have the ability to walk in peace 639 00:50:15.300 --> 00:50:18.960 no matter the circumstances. 640 00:50:18.960 --> 00:50:22.040 What a gift it is. 641 00:50:22.040 --> 00:50:26.680 I think the world just hungers for peace 642 00:50:26.760 --> 00:50:31.760 and they try to find it in all the wrong places. 643 00:50:32.680 --> 00:50:36.720 You Lord, you are our peace. 644 00:50:36.720 --> 00:50:39.280 You're the prince of peace. 645 00:50:39.280 --> 00:50:42.320 You're the king of peace. 646 00:50:42.320 --> 00:50:45.460 You are peace in us. 647 00:50:45.460 --> 00:50:48.920 You live in us and you are peace. 648 00:50:48.920 --> 00:50:53.040 And so God, I pray for every woman listening to this live 649 00:50:53.040 --> 00:50:56.560 and listening to recordings in the future. 650 00:50:56.560 --> 00:50:58.360 That you'll guard their heart 651 00:50:58.360 --> 00:51:03.360 and you'll guard their mind, Lord, with peace. 652 00:51:05.400 --> 00:51:08.280 That your perfect peace that passes all understanding 653 00:51:08.280 --> 00:51:12.440 will guard our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. 654 00:51:12.440 --> 00:51:16.480 I thank you for Isaiah 26, three, 655 00:51:16.480 --> 00:51:19.580 that you will keep us in perfect peace 656 00:51:19.580 --> 00:51:22.080 when we keep our mind state on you. 657 00:51:22.080 --> 00:51:25.920 Teach us, Lord, to keep our mind state on you. 658 00:51:26.680 --> 00:51:31.680 Teach us, Lord, to understand emotional alignment, 659 00:51:32.040 --> 00:51:37.040 to have our spirit be so in communion with your spirit. 660 00:51:39.800 --> 00:51:44.280 And to have our soul, our mind, will, and emotions 661 00:51:44.280 --> 00:51:46.740 governed by our spirit. 662 00:51:48.200 --> 00:51:52.460 And to have our soul, our mind, will, and emotions 663 00:51:52.460 --> 00:51:55.160 rule over our flesh. 664 00:51:56.160 --> 00:52:00.280 That we walk in emotional alignment. 665 00:52:00.280 --> 00:52:05.020 That the joy of the Lord is our strength. 666 00:52:06.000 --> 00:52:10.480 Lord, open our spiritual senses to hear in this season 667 00:52:10.480 --> 00:52:11.640 what you're saying. 668 00:52:12.600 --> 00:52:16.280 And let nothing leave our words 669 00:52:16.280 --> 00:52:20.120 except that which is pure and lovely and of good rapport, 670 00:52:20.120 --> 00:52:22.720 that which is in alignment with your word. 671 00:52:22.720 --> 00:52:25.320 May we speak truth. 672 00:52:25.320 --> 00:52:28.320 May we speak to the storms in our life 673 00:52:28.320 --> 00:52:30.800 and the lives of people around us. 674 00:52:30.800 --> 00:52:35.800 May our words be healing waters for your glory. 675 00:52:38.400 --> 00:52:41.840 Bless every prosperous sister, Lord God. 676 00:52:42.920 --> 00:52:46.760 Just let your peace rest on them today 677 00:52:46.760 --> 00:52:49.080 and until we gather again. 678 00:52:50.040 --> 00:52:54.040 Just let your joy, fill them, 679 00:52:54.040 --> 00:52:56.720 your love be a banner over them. 680 00:52:58.120 --> 00:53:00.400 Bless the work of their hands. 681 00:53:00.400 --> 00:53:03.860 May they prosper and give glory to you. 682 00:53:06.000 --> 00:53:08.280 I love what David said. 683 00:53:09.940 --> 00:53:14.940 That you have pulled us out of the mud and the mire 684 00:53:15.940 --> 00:53:18.860 and you have set our feet on a rock. 685 00:53:20.020 --> 00:53:21.460 You are the rock. 686 00:53:21.460 --> 00:53:26.460 And you put a new song in our hearts, in our mouth, 687 00:53:27.620 --> 00:53:31.660 a song of praise that many will see and wonder. 688 00:53:33.020 --> 00:53:34.380 Be glorified, Lord. 689 00:53:35.380 --> 00:53:36.820 Be glorified with our words. 690 00:53:36.820 --> 00:53:38.260 Be glorified with our thoughts. 691 00:53:38.260 --> 00:53:41.420 Be glorified with our actions. 692 00:53:41.420 --> 00:53:44.160 Let us be the salt and light you've called us to be. 693 00:53:45.060 --> 00:53:47.100 We love you. 694 00:53:47.100 --> 00:53:51.900 And we pray all this in Jesus' name, amen. 695 00:53:53.340 --> 00:53:55.460 All right, ladies, I realize I'm off a day. 696 00:53:55.460 --> 00:53:57.000 Office hours is tomorrow. 697 00:53:57.000 --> 00:53:59.580 So go forth and I'll see you in 698 00:53:59.580 --> 00:54:02.060 from Pressure to Partnership tomorrow. 699 00:54:02.060 --> 00:54:05.660 And office hours tomorrow, we will go deep, deep, deep 700 00:54:05.660 --> 00:54:07.740 with what we started today. 701 00:54:07.740 --> 00:54:10.000 So can't wait to see you. 702 00:54:10.000 --> 00:54:11.420 Lots of love. 703 00:54:11.420 --> 00:54:13.740 May you prosper in all things. 704 00:54:13.740 --> 00:54:14.580 Thank you. 705 00:54:14.580 --> 00:54:15.420 Thank you, Brenda.