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bottoms up and then we're gonna get into this session for the rhythms of
divine life and how we can start actually laying some systems and putting
some things in place for setting ourselves up for exponential growth
which I know you guys are excited about so gonna pray and then we are gonna
launch right in all right pray with me Jesus Papa Holy Spirit we love you and
we welcome you and we welcome you right now Holy Spirit to unpack for us the
richness of your word Holy Spirit I thank you for coming right now and
unlocking the depths of the wisdom of the Word of God for us I thank you for
bringing it to life in and in a rain away Lord where your word lights up on
the inside of us like a flame Lord I thank you that as we share this session
today Lord I thank you that it will be more than just words but that your
presence will be here Lord that there this these will be words of spirit and
light and so Holy Spirit we welcome you we welcome you we welcome you to come
and rest on us we welcome the richness of your glory to flood right through us
body soul and spirit Jesus we honor you King of Kings and Lord of Lords we give
you all the glory and all the honor we say take your place and as we gather
together as we set this time aside Jesus I thank you for speaking into our
hearts and speaking into our lives I thank you for just all the words of all
the other sessions coming alive and I thank you for breathing on us I thank
you for awakening faith awakening hope awakening dreams in Jesus name Amen
fantastic man hey this is going to be a really good session and in this session
we're going to start unpacking what has really taken well over a decade in
ministry to discover and then to help people implement in their lives and it's
now seeing it's now achieving transformations at a rate that we
couldn't have we couldn't have achieved in the past now that we know this and
we've implemented it it is working exceptionally well to produce
exponential growth in people's lives all around the world so let's jump into
this session and it is called Rhythms of Divine Life. So there's five pillars
that we've been talking about in this series so far in the
Rite of Passage Challenge. The five pillars of what God is releasing in this
move where he's taking us. The pillars are the divine life, divine
relationships, divine health, divine abundance and divine assignments. So
those are the what. Those are the what. The what God is doing but there's
also the how. So there's two pillars of how God is actually accomplishing
and achieving this. It's really in this Rite of Passage Challenge we're really
talking about seven pillars. Five pillars are the what God is doing and then
there's two pillars which are the how God is doing it. So any guesses
in the comments of what the two pillars are of the how? How is God achieving this
massive transition? How is God achieving this? We've looked at
the four pieces to this process of Reformation, of moves of the
Spirit. Step one is that God releases revelation. It produces
the renewing of our minds. It leads to a reformation in how we how we act. And
then number four is it produces restoration of something. So the question
is how is God now starting to actually restore these five pillars of divine
life, divine relationships, divine health, divine abundance and divine assignments
back to us? That's our big question. So that's what we're looking at today is
how we're going to get really practical on how you can start actually
setting yourself up for fast-tracking the alignment process and the growth
process and setting yourself up to live perpetually in and outpouring of the
Spirit. So the two pillars of the how, get ready for them. The two
pillars of the how are number one, work ethic and number two, willpower.
Let me say that again. The hows. This is the how of how you're actually going to
step into a lifestyle of the rhythms of the divine life that will produce this
exponential growth in you. So the two pillars are work ethic and willpower.
And they're both so important that they are complete deal-breakers, right?
For any dream you have, for any goal that you have, for anything that you want to
achieve in life, without the adequate level of willpower and work ethic
your dream won't happen, your goal won't happen. So these are the most
foundational and most powerful attributes that you need in the process
of actually bringing dreams to life and aligning with God and experiencing
exponential growth. The key one though, I want to say that one that is just, of
all of these seven pillars, right, that we've been talking about, right, if you
could, if I could choose one of these to have mastered, right, if I could choose
okay to have divine life mastered or divine relationships or divine health or
divine abundance or divine assignments mastered or if I could choose to have
work ethic mastered or willpower mastered, the thing that I would choose
to have mastered above anything else is willpower. All right, so we're gonna, we're
gonna go deeper on willpower in this section now. I'm gonna cover work ethic
briefly and then we're gonna do a deep dive on willpower and why willpower is
so essential, how you develop it and have a really good look in the Word of God at
willpower and what the Word of God says to us about willpower. All right, so say
work ethic with me right now. Say work ethic, this is the first one that we're
hitting, work ethic. All right, work ethic, I think most people kind of understand
work ethic, it's pretty self-explanatory almost, you know, with work ethic and if
you've got good work ethic, you'll work hard and you'll be focused and you'll be
willing to do whatever it takes, you'll work smart as well, which is you'll
always be looking to improve the end result by improving the systems and
processes and you'll get great results and you'll get the job done and you'll
get it done well. All right, so that's work ethic, I think you guys understand
that and God really is looking to actually see us really develop work
ethic and I think that what God's gonna, what He's releasing to us more and more,
He's already...
done now but more and more these heavenly blueprints being released genius systems being
released that are increasing our capacity for work ethic. All right, so willpower.
Stay with me, willpower. All right, your capacity in life, all right, your capacity to achieve
whatever it is you want to achieve, your capacity to live in the divine assignment in your life,
or your capacity to see growth in the divine life, or see growth in any of the five pillars
we've talked about, your capacity in life to do, to achieve, it is determined by your willpower.
All right, and willpower, here's a good way to measure willpower. All right, your willpower
can be measured by how much pressure you can handle before you give up. Now who's had a dream,
who's had a dream that they have, they've given up on, or who's had a challenge that has just
gotten too much, or a relationship that's just gotten too much, who's reached breaking point
out there on something. Maybe it was something that, who knows, but I think that most of us can
relate to this, can understand this concept, right, that your willpower, really what your willpower is,
your willpower is your capacity to achieve. And you can really tell our work, sorry, our willpower
at the end of the day is ultimately determined by how much pressure we can handle before we give up
on whatever it is, the task that we're doing. Oftentimes when God gives us an assignment,
divine assignment comes on your life, it's not easy. Let's talk about someone who had some pretty
exceptional willpower, a guy named Noah. All right, now Noah, the willpower that Noah had was just
phenomenal, right. He got asked by God to build a boat, no one knew what boats were, so the whole
concept of a boat was a blueprint from heaven. God told him, gave him the exact blueprints from
heaven, all the details of what he needed to build. So no one had heard of a boat before, it
wasn't a time, and Genesis says this really clearly, that they didn't have rain in those days that,
you know, water came up from the earth and watered everything. So it was before the days of rain,
before the days of boats, Noah got a blueprint from heaven for something that no one understood
and it took him a hundred years to build it, right. So how much pressure do you think would
have been on that assignment from heaven? How much pressure do you think is going to come on us
as we embrace this call right now to disciple nations? How much pressure do you think is going
to come on our children, right? You know, as our children grow, it depends what age your children
are. I've got one still in the womb, due in just a couple of months, and I've got a four-year-old
and a seven-year-old and a nine-year-old. So how much pressure do you think is going to come
on them in the process of them growing up and increasing levels of hostility towards Christianity
and the earth? How much pressure is going to come on them in the process of fulfilling the divine
assignments that is on their lives, the divine assignments to disciple nations? We are going to
experience a massive amount of pressure, and how much pressure are you going to experience just,
you know, sometimes it's not even accomplishing any more than actually just following Jesus in a
difficult context. Maybe it's a context of persecution, and it's going to require enormous
levels of willpower in the face of persecution just to hold fast unto Jesus. So your willpower,
okay, your willpower is your capacity to carry on despite pressure, and you can measure your
willpower by how much pressure you can handle before everything kind of falls going. You just
can't take it anymore. Right, so next thing, like, I mean, willpower, you know, it gives you great
resilience. It empowers your determination, and let me say this, like, desire, right? A desire or a
dream without willpower is like a bird with one wing, but if you couple desire with the adequate
willpower, nothing will be impossible, right? If you couple whatever it is that you're
wanting to achieve, if you achieve, if you attach that relevant level, the adequate level of willpower
to that desire or that dream, it will happen. The willpower will make it happen. So I've got
another question for you. This is a question a lot of you will have heard me ask before. It's
a question that my friend asks often in conferences that he's running, and the
Question is, is this, who would like to know the secret to getting whatever you want in life?
Let me know, let me know that. Would you like to know the secret to getting whatever you want in
life? All right, think about that for a moment. Would you like to know the secret to getting
whatever you want from life? And when my friend asks that at the start of conferences, you'll
find that people are on the edge of their seat. They're like, oh yes, of course, like I want to
know the secret to getting whatever I want. So they're leaning in, they're engaged. He teases
them a little bit. They're kind of like frothing at the mouth a little bit with like, okay, what's
the secret? And then he says, the secret to getting whatever you want in life is to do whatever it
takes. And what I've watched and what I've noticed multiple times in these events when he's done
that is it's almost like this sigh enters the room and people go, oh, because what secretly I
believe is happening for people in that moment is they were all excited that they were going to get
this pill or some magical potion that was going to give them their wildest dreams, right? They're
all like, yes, give me the quick fix. Yes, give me the potion. Yes, give me the magic recipe to
fulfilling my wildest dreams. And then he said, the secret to getting whatever you want in life
is to do whatever it takes. And at that moment, a lot of people almost, it's kind of like this
disappointing sigh or this sense of disappointment enters the room because a lot of people realize
in that moment that they don't have what it takes to do whatever it takes to bring their wildest
dreams to life. In other words, there's a realization there that they can't, they don't
have enough willpower to afford their wildest dreams. And let me ask you that question. Do you
have enough willpower, right? It's only those who have adequate willpower that can afford
their wildest dreams. It doesn't matter what else it is, right? For example, in all of these five
pillars that we've talked about, you know, divine health, sorry, divine life, divine relationships,
divine health, divine abundance, divine assignments, those five pillars, and then the
two pillars as well of work ethic and willpower. If I had to choose one to have mastered, I would
choose willpower, right? Because if you've got adequate willpower, you can, and you attach your
desire and your willpower together, you can afford anything you like. And you can afford what no one
else can afford if you've got willpower, because willpower will actually enable you to go out and
accomplish everything that your heart desires. Oh, right. So whatever you want in life, you can have
it. But the price tag is that you must be willing to do whatever it takes to get it. And only someone
with willpower can afford their wildest dreams. Let's have a deep dive now into some scriptures
that talk about willpower. And let's see a little bit more about what the Bible is talking about in
the area of willpower. All right. Proverbs 25, verse 28. This is a massive proverb in the
area of willpower. Now, willpower in the Bible, it's often called self-control. So it's the same
thing. Willpower, self-control, self-discipline. People use different words to describe the same
thing. Tenacity, determination, chutzpah. It's all pretty similar meaning. So Proverbs 25, verse 28
says this. Like a city whose walls are broken down is a person who lacks self-control. Like a city,
I'll say it again. Like a city whose walls are broken down is a person who lacks self-control.
Almost needs no explanation, really. But you get the picture, right? That without willpower,
you are setting yourself up to be desolate. But through willpower, you're going to thrive. You're
going to come alive. You can fulfill your divine assignment. Let's keep going on some of these
verses on willpower. 2 Timothy 1, 7 says, For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of love,
power, and self-control. Remember, self-control, self-discipline, willpower, they're all the same
thing. Galatians 5, 22 to 23. But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control or willpower. So it's a fruit of the
spirit as well. Against such things, there is no law.
Proverbs 16 verse 32 says better a patient person than a warrior, one with
self-control than one who takes a city. Titus 1.8 says rather, and this is
talking about you know a list of qualifications for elders, he must be
hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy and
disciplined. So the Bible puts this massive value on willpower and
basically says that if you don't have willpower you're going to self-destruct
your own life. That's another way of interpreting Proverbs 25.28. Like a
city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control or lacks
willpower. There's a, in a sense you become your own worst enemy without
willpower. What you have you will lose and you won't ever be able to go out and
get that which God has for you without willpower. It's a secret ingredient. So
question for you, question for you is okay Bible emphasizes willpower. It's
pretty obvious that we need willpower but how do you actually go out and get
willpower? You can't buy willpower. How does it, how does it work? So let me go
back and just tell a bit of a story. So I set up, I founded a school in New Zealand
called Revival School Aotearoa New Zealand and it ran for over a decade
until God said hey time to transition and we we started this new journey which
led us to setting up Raising Royalty. After over a decade of leading that
school and seeing lots of different fruit in people's lives right so we'd
see some people who would come and they'd grow really fast and then they'd
stop growing. You see some people who just wouldn't grow at all and you see
some people who just continually, continually growing in this place of
continual growth and exponential growth always. And so I really spent a bunch of
time analyzing that and also analyzing myself because I noticed for myself that
out of anyone in the school who had, who had growth I grew more than anyone. So I
was like okay God what's the secret? What's, how, how is it that one person can
be in a room where you're doing something you know they can be in the
midst of an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. There's amazing miracles
happening all around. We've even had plenty of testimonies of the Shekinah
glory of God turning up. So you've got glory, you've got miracles, you've got
testimonies of angels turning up. There's so much stuff happening in this space
right here God and what determines whether one person grows or one person
doesn't grow at all or one person just sets themselves up for massive
exponential growth. I was like God what's really going on? What's the secret here
to, to seeing growth? And I spent a lot of time psychoanalyzing my students and
psychoanalyzing myself all the way back to my childhood. I had the benefit of
being able to do that on myself and so one of the things that I realized is
that through, that set me up to have a higher level of willpower than most of
my peers even in the terms, in the context of following Jesus. A lot of my
peers they fell away from following Jesus but I was able to keep on going
and keep on growing and, and actually not just in survival mode but, but year
after year being a space of exponential growth and consistently hitting exciting
growth curves and feeling like wow we're just living constantly in a move of the
spirit. I was like God what is the key that's actually enabled this? And he, and
so he took me back, he started really unpacking this for me. It started in my
childhood. So if you don't know I grew up on an organic market garden. My, my
parents were pastors, they'd been missionaries but they also ran a farm,
an analyst's farm. It was an organic market garden. Now I don't know if you know much
about organic market gardens but even a regular farm that's a conventional farm
that uses lots of chemicals there's still a ton of work to be done. On the
farm the work never ends but on an organic market garden the level of work
goes to a whole, just goes to a whole new level. You've got to plant everything and
we planted pretty much everything by hand. We weeded everything by hand, we
harvested everything by hand and it was just a constant amount of work and work
had to be done right. It didn't matter what the temperature was, was like and it
didn't matter if, if it was late at night. It didn't matter if it was early in the
morning. If there were jobs to be done you just had to do them. So what I was
actually raised on was I was raised on a diet of constantly having to do hard
things. I want you to say this with me, say we do hard things right. We do hard
things. That's like an anthem with raising royalty.
do hard things. And one of the beauties of doing hard things is that that's the secret to developing
willpower. So probably one of my greatest discipleship methods, secrets, tools,
life hacks that I could give to you, and it's not just for discipleship, it's just for success in
general, for bringing any dream to life, for achieving anything that you want, is build
willpower into your life. Build that into your life. And the way that you build willpower
is you build it by doing hard things. So how many hard things should you do? You should do as many
hard things as possible, as often as possible. And what you will find is that in the process
of doing hard things, it builds resilience, it builds willpower, it builds determination
in you. But you don't want to just go around randomly doing hard things, okay? If you just
go around randomly doing hard things without having work ethic, right? Now, this is where
work ethic comes in really as a key ingredient, a key component of our system, is that you want
to ensure that you're doing, you're working really hard, you're doing hard things, but you have a
genius level system that is ensuring that you're working hard and working smart, and that your
effort is going to produce an exponential return. And you want to ensure that the way that you're
doing and what you're doing is going to produce the results that you want it to produce. And this
is where the pillar of work ethic really comes into the rite of passage system. So I'm going to
talk to you now about a little bit of a change tack here, okay? And then after I tell you this
story about the parable of the soul, which most of you will know very well, after I've told you
that story, we're going to bring it back and talk a little bit more about work ethic. All right,
jump with me. If you've got your Bibles, come with me to Matthew chapter 13, and this is the parable
of the sower. Verse one. That same day, Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake.
Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it,
while all the people stood on the shore. Then he told them many things in parable, saying,
a farmer went out to sow his seed, and as he scattered the seeds, some fell along the path,
and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil.
It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow, but when the sun came up, the plants
were scorched, and they withered, because they had no root. Other seed fell among the thorns,
which grew up and choked the plants. Still, other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop
a hundred, sixty, or thirty times that what was sown. Whoever has ears, let them hear.
Okay, I love this parable, and I want to take a moment to look at this parable. Jesus is going
out sowing the seed, all right, and yeah, it's important to understand what that seed is. That
seed is the divine life, right? That seed is the word of God. He explains it later. That seed is
the word of God. It's the gospel. If you connect that with John 8, 32, Jesus said, you will know
the truth, which is the word, the gospel. You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free,
and that freedom looks like something. That freedom looks like the divine life, all right.
How can you tell that? You look at John 8, 12. Jesus said, I am the light of the world. Whoever
follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. That's Jesus' promise to
us. So, the seed, it's really important to understand that the seed that Jesus is throwing
out in this parable is the seed that produces the divine life. Now, there's never anything wrong with
the seed. That's something that's really important to see with this parable, okay. There's never
anything wrong with the seed. The issue is always with the soil, okay. The issue is never with the
seed. That's important, okay. The seed is just doing fine, okay. It's important to say that.
There's no problem with the seed. Just say that with me. There's no problem with the seed, okay,
but there is often a problem with the soil. Jesus had stony soil that the seed couldn't even
penetrate, and birds came and ate it up. Jesus had soil that was rocky ground. Jesus had soil that
had all sorts of weeds in it, and then Jesus found one patch of soil where the seed could
grow exponentially and produce the fruit that it was designed to produce.
And so I want to say this off the back of that. I want to say this right the this the soil
Represents your heart and if you take care of the soil the seed will take care of itself
Let me say that again. If you take care of the soil the seed will take care of itself and
Just like Jesus said you're in John 8 32
You will know the truth and the truth will set you free. You can tell if you don't that gives us a really good indication
Okay, right if I'm living in freedom, right?
My heart is full of truth
If I'm not living in freedom, then I'm believing a line you need to trace face and replace to get that freedom. So
When it comes to
The soil this soil represents the soil of your heart and you can tell if you're doing a good job
Of stewarding the soil because you will have the fruit of the divine line
All right. Now I want to talk a little bit more about
I
Want to talk a little bit more about work ethic here
Okay, because it's not enough just to have lots of willpower and to go out randomly
Doing stuff you need to attach willpower and work ethic together so that you're really really systematic and you've got a genius
Strategy on how you're actually going to go out and apply all your hard work
And it's at this point, right?
It's at this point that I want to introduce you to the raising royalty right of passage
Okay, the raising royalty right of passage. It has there's quite a few components to a few phases to it
I'm going to share more on those with you tomorrow
But what we're going to start with today is we're going to start with phase one
I'm going to unpack phase one for you of the raising royalty right of passage in phase one is the
It is the daily hard things challenge, okay now get ready because I'm gonna unpack to you the
Simplicity of it and the genius dynamic of it and how it actually works to produce exponential growth
First of all, the daily hard things challenge is a
21 day challenge now we looked before let me hit screen share over here and
Let me pull this fella up
Oh
Here we go. I'll make it big for you
We looked in our last session at this the science of transformation. Okay, we looked at the science of
Transformation. Okay. We looked at this little whiteboard kind of moment
I just drew this up for you guys earlier and we looked at the brain
all right, and we looked at how the brain has a huge part to play in the process of
Renewing our mind so the brain has a part to play here the rhythm of your life has a part to play here
This dynamic of a practice creates a habit creates a reflex creates a lifestyle
Creates a state of being that is at play here your belief systems are at play here and then you're a and
Revelation is at play here revelation is you know, it's one of the sources that's going to change your belief systems up
There's so many other things going on here, right? There's feelings in these the neuroplasticity of your brain chemical reactions emotions
There's a lot going on here
The rhythm of your life is really important and we're going to explore now how the rhythm of life that we have
Right that we can actually implement a rhythm that produces the divine life. We can create a rhythm in our life that
Enhances the neuroplasticity of our brain we can create a rhythm in our life that accelerates revelation
We can create a rhythm in our life. That is specifically
Creating a practice
Practices and habits and reflexes and lifestyles that are ultimately shifting our state of being into the divine light
All right, it's in that screen share for now
Okay, so the
This concept right of a
Practice creates a habit creates a lifestyle
Creates a practice habit reflex lifestyle state of being that's really important. Think about that for a minute practice
There could be anything that you really want to change or grow. Let me think it
Let me talk about one that we incorporate in there. What about the practice of the presence of God?
Let me know chuck your hands up or you just say yes
that's me if you would like to experience a greater level of
awareness of the presence of God in your life if you would be if you'd like to be more aware of
of the presence of God constantly with you, or if you would like to have a greater experience,
so whatever your current experience is, you would like to increase that experience, increase
your participation of intimacy with God, your experience of the tangible presence of God.
You'd like to see that increased on a daily basis.
All right.
So one thing that you can do to increase that level of experience with the tangible presence
of God is to practice the presence.
All right.
I'm going to bring this in and tie this into your brain, neuroplasticity, and the renewed
mind all in a moment.
A practice creates a habit, a habit creates a reflex, a reflex creates a lifestyle, and
a lifestyle creates a state of being.
Now you might notice this, that when you're actually trying to grow and you're implementing
some practices, you're, oh yeah, I should do that.
I should go and practice the presence.
I should stop and I should put my attention on the presence of God and I should enjoy
that.
Well, here's a little element to, you know, the brain function, how your brain function
actually is involved in this process.
It takes 21 days to create a new neurological pathway in your brain.
All right.
So that 21 days, it takes 21 days to create a new neurological pathway in your brain.
So if you want to increase the presence of God, if you want to practice something, if
you want to shift something, you should practice it for 21 days, okay, because that's going
to create a brand new neurological pathway.
If you do a brain scan on someone at day one and then a brain scan at day 21, you will
find that, listen, a physical neurological pathway will be created in your brain after
practicing something for 21 days.
It's been proven over and over and over again with brain scans and brain scientists.
They love that stuff.
Now 21 days is great, but the ultimate consolidation is three sets of 21 days, right?
If you want to deeply embed something into your brain, create a really deeply entrenched
neurological pathway rather than one that's just going to kind of flitter away or wither
away.
You want to create a deeply entrenched neurological pathway by practicing something for 21 days
three times.
So three sets of 21 days.
So as I'm introducing to you the daily hard things challenge, this is the first phase
of the rite of passage program.
All right.
Say that with me.
Say hard things.
All right.
It's the 21 day hard things challenge.
And we repeat this challenge three times.
All right.
So there's a level one, level two, level three.
They're all really, really similar.
We just increase them incrementally, ever so slightly, we increase the intensity at
each stage.
Let me add a couple of other things in here.
When you're going after transformation, it's really important to consider a couple of things.
I would recommend consistency over intensity.
If you're a person who loves going to conferences, fantastic.
I love going to conferences too.
But some people, that's their only growth strategy.
So they go to these conferences, have a massive blowout, but then they go back home and they
haven't got any type of rhythm that's actually producing the divine life in there.
And then they have to just kind of wait till the next conference and then boom, they hit
the next conference like, yeah, they had a new conference and they have a spike in
growth.
But then the next day, Monday comes, whatever, they're back home and then they slump because
they don't have a rhythm.
Whereas it's a little bit like the tortoise and the hare in this sense of growth is that
it's better to embrace consistency over intensity.
Now there's nothing wrong with doing both, but I want to encourage you with consistency
is going to be the key for your personal transformation.
It's going to be the key to taking care of the soil.
It's going to be the key to producing the divine life, consistency over intensity.
And one of the reasons why we start this, and I'm going to show you and share an image
with you in a moment that actually is a breakdown of the 21 day hard things.
We're going to check that image out in a moment.
So with the 21 day hard things, we usually start at something that's really, really achievable,
right?
So it doesn't, well, even though it's called the 21 day hard things challenge, it doesn't
seem like it's actually that difficult, but it's very, very scientific.
It's very, very precise.
It's based on the science of transformation.
And I'm going to pull that up for you now.
So get ready, drum roll, please, ladies and gentlemen.
Okay, that was my own drum roll for you.
I just thought I'd add that little treat in there for you.
And let me pull up.
for you. We've got, this is the, you can see that one, that's the one that we've been looking
at. So the brain, belief systems, the rhythm of life, neuroplasticity, chemicals, access
to revelation, all these things, very, very critical. But let me pull up this bad boy.
This is the 21 Day Hard Things Daily Challenge. I'm going to, I'm going to break this down
for you over two sessions. So I'm going to do a few of these now. We'll see, we might
get five done now. We might just get four. I think we'll probably just go for four of
these today and then we'll cover the rest in our first session tomorrow. Okay. So the
first, but I'm going to, what I'm going to do is I will run through these 12 Daily Hard
Things and I want you to tell me if you think they are achievable or not. And then I'm going
to, what I'm going to do is after I've run through these quickly, I'll stop the screen
share and we'll come back and we'll bring it back to how these all implement with the
science of transformation. So I'm going to ask you right now, do you think this is achievable
or not achievable? Okay. Because I'm, what I'm wanting to do is I'm wanting you to join
me in participating in this Hard Things Challenge for 21 days. What I'm actually going to, what
I'm actually inviting you into is a 63 days of challenging, of challenging yourself to
do these on a daily basis. So we have a level one, level two, level three, and each level
it has a slight change, but they're all designed to, you know, like not to be too hard to help
you actually create some momentum and to, by making it incremental, not too big, not
too hard, not too intense. It makes it more sustainable. So here we go. Is, do you think
this is possible? Number one, praying for five minutes in the spirit. Yes. Achievable
or not achievable? You let me know. That's number one. Number two, and this is the level
one, right? Each level is slightly different. Level number two is reading one chapter of
Proverbs from the book of Proverbs. Do you think that's achievable or not achievable?
Challenge number three is to record your favorite verse from that proverb that you read that
day. So your favorite verse from the chapter, just write that down somewhere, record it.
If you're doing it on your phone, just copy and paste it onto some list somewhere. Number,
so achievable or not achievable? You let me know. Number four, list three things that
you are grateful for. Is that achievable or not achievable? Number five is complete
your daily declarations. Now I'm going to unpack that tomorrow in more depth and share
with you what that means, what that looks like, how you do it. But very quickly, the
overview of it is, is that your daily declarations are connected to your dreams. I have got a
whole stack. This, this is what they look like on paper. I've got on paper here, but I mainly
use my phone for that. And so when I make my daily declarations, I'm also adding to them
all the time because my daily declarations are connected to my wildest dreams. So it's up here
because I'm going through this on a daily basis. I don't know how well you'll be able to see that,
but let me just flick through it. Anyway, it grew so much and I still love adding to it,
but I also want to really not do it superficially. So I really love to really get in there and,
and really declare these things and really meditate on them because they're connected
to my wildest dreams. Because they're growing so much, I split it into two. It was 12 daily
declarations initially, but now there's so many declarations in there. It's heaps. So I split it
into two and I just go through each day. I do half and then just kind of in that type of rhythm. So
I'm going to talk through tomorrow, what your daily declarations are, how you can frame them
up. It could be just as simple as one sentence for each of the seven pillars that we're talking
about. You might want to make one, a one sentence declaration around what your dream is for the
future of divine life, divine relationships, divine health, divine abundance, divine assignments,
your work ethic, and your willpower. There's no limit to it, but those are just some good
starting points. We'll cover that more tomorrow. So what do you think? Achievable or not achievable?
Making seven sentences into declarations and making them on a daily
basis? You let me know. Achievable or not achievable? Number six, move your body for at least five
minutes. Is that achievable or not achievable? It could be a work, it could be just a nice walk
somewhere, or you might want to do some stretching, or you might go into
do a full-on two hours in the gym whatever it's it's just simply move your
body for at least five minutes and you can make up what that looks like
achievable or not achievable drop that in the comments
all right number seven most people like this eat something awesome is that
achievable or not achievable I think it's achievable today I haven't really
come maybe I've had some vitamins today but today I'm doing a cleanse day and
that's actually quite an awesome thing in itself because how it really helps
my body on a whole bunch of different levels next thing is drink three so
achieve something awesome is that achievable or not achievable to eat
something awesome each day I think it is I think you'll love that one number eight
is drink three liters of water now some people struggle with doing the full
three liters of water so we can we kind of say hey if it's two liters no
worries but be aiming for two to three liters of water a day you will love it
your body will love it and so you think that's achievable or not achievable some
people I've talked to barely ever drank water when they started this challenge
it was a real challenge for them the concept of actually drinking water but
they started drinking water and started seeing all sorts of things shift in their
body which is fantastic number nine here's a good one do you think this is
achievable intentionally love on one person achievable or not achievable let
me know and then number ten practice your trigger people always like what does
that mean what is practice your trigger and it's people often think oh is that
like a negative thing you mean like having like wow like freaking out no we
kind of use that language just to make it stand out but practicing your trigger
is actually about creating a trigger of some sort now the trigger could be that
you set an alarm or the trigger could be I've got I've got one just here under
my computer let me grab it without knocking anything over this just as a
little piece of paper that says trigger and I used to have that on my drink
bottle the idea with the trigger is that you put a post-it note somewhere or you
set an alarm somewhere and maybe somewhere that you're gonna see it
several times a day or it's gonna go off several times a day and you just in that
one moment what you do is in that one moment you put your attention on the
presence of God and it might be as simple and as short as that is just
putting your attention on the presence of God just for a moment or so and just
inviting the presence of God into your daily space all right let me know if you
think that's achievable or not achievable right number 11 is make a
genius financial move we'll talk about that more again in the next session of
what what do we mean by make a genius financial move but in general all of us
are attached to an economy right we have expenses every day maybe you have income
every day but you have an economy that revolves around your life every day and
this part is about you know it's connected to the whole idea of divine
abundance all of these 12 daily challenges are about being amazing
stewards of what God has given us so make a genius financial move that could
look like you know maybe it looks like making some money that day or maybe it
looks like saving some money that day or maybe it looks like being really
generous and blessing someone that day maybe it looks like buying something
that's a little bit higher quality because you know it's gonna last longer
and ultimately because it's not gonna break down it's gonna actually save you
money might be shopping around or it might be investing into something that
day so that your money's gonna make money for you it could be anything it
could be something really simple it could be something really big but each
day we want everyone just to be conscious of being a great steward with
the economy that revolves around right so let me know is that achievable or not
achievable you know it could be as simple as going hey I'm gonna skip the
coffee today I've had I normally have two I'll just have one and I'm gonna do
something brilliant with that other you know five bucks or whatever it is that
you spend on your coffee or your drinks or your treats number 12 post an
accountability photo that this part's pretty fun we will have a group where
we're all in for everyone who's doing the 21 day hard things we'll have a
group and you can post an accountability photo from that day in that group it
could be anything you might just you know I took a photo this morning I might
use this one I might not but when I was out and doing my prayer walk this
morning I took this lovely photo of a boat in the sunset sunrise here you go
give you a little look so I took that photo just while I was out having a
prayer walk in the morning maybe you're going to take a photo of something maybe
you're going to take a photo of your food or something
Like that and you just post an accountability photo and let everyone know. Hey guys, I just got my stuff done for today
Right. So what do you think is that achievable or not achievable? There's our 12
There's the 12 challenges in the 21 day daily hard things challenge escape there and I'm gonna end this screen share
Sweet. Okay
Let me know what you thought about those with a achievable or not achievable
Now
Let me connect
these two
Players together. I might actually do a quick screen share for you again here
Now
How we looking we need to get rid of that fella
Okay, so I'll just hold this up here for a moment not for too long
But what you can see if you actually look at these and I've got the links to both of these image in the description of
This video and also being sent out in the email so you can have a look at them in your own time
but each of these elements of the 12
These 12 daily challenges are connected in with this process of the science of transformation
Even you know from 11. Oh, how's that in there?
Well, it's practice crates a habit crates a reflex crates a lifestyle crates a state of being. All right, so practicing a genius financial move
Praying in the spirit. Where's that helpful? Well praying in the spirits gonna produce it's gonna unlock revelation
Now when you pray in the spirit, it will unlock revelation
So here in your belief systems what it's going to do is it's going to start bubbling up
The Holy Spirit is going to start bubbling up and releasing
Revelation on the inside of you
another thing is that people have done brain scans on people who pray in the spirit a whole bunch and
What do you know is it increases the neuroplasticity of the brain?
It lights the brain up it releases great chemicals as well. All right, so really we praying in the spirit releases great chemicals
It helps your brain function and releases revelation into your spirit
So it's really setting you up for fast tracking the renewing of your mind
Reading a chapter of Proverbs. Well, it's a good mental stimulus stimulus for your brain as well
But you're also putting truth into your belief system, which is extremely powerful
Next one number three record your favorite verse. Okay, you record your favorite verse
What's that? It's a that's just another spiritual practice over here. Well, you've recorded your favorite verse
It's just a deeper level of meditation that is coming into the process
And then number three, sorry number four lists three things that you were grateful for now gratitude is one of the
Most powerful practices. All right, you can call it a spiritual practice if you want
But gratitude is one of the most powerful practices available for actually increasing the neuroplasticity of your brain
There's a gratitude really is one of the single most beneficial
exercises that you can do for your brain health and
Like we've like we've been talking about right the more
Neuroplasticity your brain has the easier it is
To learn the easier it is to actually renew your mind because you can learn better
the easier it is for you to create a practice that leads to a habit a reflex a lifestyle a state of being because
Your brain matter is actually softer and more malleable more pliable creating neurological pathways is easier
When you have higher levels of neuroplasticity
Higher levels of neuroplasticity, which basically means your brain is healthy. It's it's
Malleable it's easy for those things to grow in a sense
You're tending the garden of your brain when you steward it with
Gratitude cool. I will end that screen share there and
Bring this in for a landing. Oh don't need that one. Need this one
Okay, stop in that screen share
Sweet fam. Well, that is the gist of our session for today. That's session four
So that brings us to the end of day two day three is going to be fantastic. We're gonna finish off going through
The list tomorrow. I've got a bunch of really cool stuff in there
We're gonna be talking about the government of God. We're gonna be talking about a whole bunch more of
The science of transformations, so we're gonna break that down for you tomorrow finish that off and
You'll understand the 21 day hard things challenge really well by the end of tomorrow and then our last session
I've got clear who's coming in gonna be great having clear Harris with us for part of our last session and
Really? What we'll do is we'll unpack the whole rite of passage
Process what it looks like and how you can jump on board and how we can
go for an adventure over an extended period of time that will produce accelerated transformation.
One testimony that I received just before Christmas, it's great to get testimonies like
this back, but they just said, hey, I just wanted to thank you for the Rider Passage program. I've
grown more in the last six months than I have in over a decade in church. And it's really,
really cool hearing those testimonies and those transformations. So I'm excited about going on a
journey together on that, but tomorrow we'll talk more. We'll finish off that list and then we will
get into actually looking more at the full Rider Passage program and what's involved in that. So
thank you for joining me today and lots and lots of love, whether you're live now or whether you're
one of the beautiful people going to be joining us in the future for a replay. Thanks for joining
and I look forward to sharing a beautiful adventure together going forward. Lots of
love to you. Actually, let me pray for you. Let me pray for you as we wrap up. Jesus, Holy Spirit,
Papa, I thank you for John 14.12 that says anyone who has faith in me
will do what I have been doing and they will do even greater things than these.
Holy Spirit, I thank you that this process of daily hard things, this process of renewing our
mind is the process of building faith that produces the fruit of the greater things in our lives.
Holy Spirit, I thank you for every person that's here and I thank you for every person that
will hear this in the future. Holy Spirit, I thank you for
putting a faith in us, a belief in us that yes, it is possible for us to step into the greater
works and it is possible for us to step into the fullness of the divine life, the fullness of
divine relationships, the fullness of divine health, the fullness of divine abundance and
the fullness of divine assignments. Lord, I thank you for a release on us of wisdom and strategies
and encouragement and motivation and impartation from heaven and the fruits of the Spirit,
especially willpower. I thank you for releasing that as a fruit. I thank you, Lord, for taking
us on this journey of alignment into all that you have for us in this great coming move of the
Spirit in your beautiful name. Amen. All right, fam, bless you and I'll see you tomorrow for
session five and six and that will be the end of the challenge. Day two is done, one day to go
and then it's going to be a great adventure together. See you. Bye-bye.