Hello, beautiful people. How are you?
Hello.
Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening wherever you're tuning in from.
Oh, amazing.
Where's everyone else tuning in from
Canada, Vancouver.
Vancouver. Wait, where? Who said that?
I did. Chris.
Chris, hi. Fellow Vancouver. Love it. Hi.
Amazing. How about everyone else?
I'm in Wales.
Australia. Cleo, you're in Wales?
Yes.
And Carol, where in Australia are you from?
Sydney.
Awesome.
I'm from the United States.
Where about in the States are you from?
It's called Rising Sun, Maryland. It's near Baltimore.
Oh, my God. Rising Sun. I love that.
But it's on the Chesapeake Bay.
Okay, cool.
How about you, Sandra? I just saw that. I think you put in the chat.
You're from Farmington, Utah.
Love it.
I used to be from Maryland, from Annapolis, Maryland, but I moved to Utah.
In 2017.
Awesome.
So great.
How are you?
To all Americans, I was born and raised in New York City.
New York. Love that city.
Yeah.
I'd love to visit, but I don't want to live there anymore.
Yeah.
Yeah, there's a lot of places like that right now in the world.
Lots is going on. It's kind of crazy out there.
Zylan, how are you doing, bro?
I'm doing good. Thank you. How are you?
Good. Good, good.
Hi.
And we've got Wally. Hi, Wally.
It's okay if you don't want to come on the screen or say,
we just wanted to say hi.
I'm currently in my friends, my beautiful Kiwi friends office. I.
I haven't had hot water or heat in my.
I haven't had hot water or heat in my house.
So this morning I woke up and came on down to his office and tried to
get sorted. So.
We're just rolling with it. We're just having a great day.
It's going to be awesome.
Awesome.
Yeah.
It's going to be great. Well, we're so glad that you've all come.
This has been something that we've been really.
Excited about and wanting just to connect with you to say hello.
I'm so excited to be here.
I'm so excited to be a part of this.
I'm so excited to be able to connect with one another.
And yeah,
just explore what does kingdom creativity look like and how do we
grow in our craft? How do we grow in our expression?
Ultimately,
how do we just grow in a relationship with the Lord and allow his
presence, his life,
his abundant life come through everything that we do and be expressed
through creativity.
Yeah.
Well, it's great to get to know different ones of your stories and your
hearts and your journeys,
and just go on this kind of adventure together as we explore.
So I'm going to hand it over to.
The beautiful Zion.
We are teaming up together.
As well with fee.
Just to like have some collaboration and have some conversation.
We're going to ask questions,
but really we want to just get to know you guys and.
Yeah.
So I'm going to hand it over to Benji.
And I'm going to hand it over to Zion.
And I'm going to hand it over to Benji.
And I'm going to hand it over to Zion.
So Benji,
I'm going to hand it over to you.
You're definitely involved in with your life, your journey,
your expression of creativity.
And we'll kind of go from there, but I'll hand it over to Zion.
Hey, thank you.
I think she is not around yet.
So anyway, we'll, we'll just go for it.
Thing is Benji actually asked us to.
And so, yeah.
So this is like a first kind of live sessions.
Like just fun and fellowship.
Especially for the creative.
Creative people, you know, just to ask.
Diana mentioned, you know, just.
Yeah.
liberate and inspire and listen to each other, you know.
So yeah, it's really, really nice.
So, I mean, if like everyone can like, you know
just share where you from,
what kind of creative stuff that you do
in one minute, that'd be really nice to start with, you know.
I'll go first.
I'm Zylan, actually I live in India,
the South part of India.
I'm a musician, I'm a singer songwriter and yeah.
And I also travel around and minister to people
and lead worship and speak to young people and stuff.
So yeah, that's me.
And yeah, I'm so happy to be here.
So everybody can like share who you are
and what kind of creative stuff that you do
and where you're from, you know,
that'd be really nice to start off.
Diana, you can just jump in and, you know
because the thing is, I have no clue, you know, to.
We're partnering together.
Yeah, yeah.
So if everybody can just like, yeah, keep it to a minute
just so we can kind of like honor one another with space
just so that everybody can contribute.
So who wants to go next?
Who wants to kind of share a little bit
about your art and your story, creativity?
I can go.
Awesome.
My name is Scott Miller.
I live in Calgary, Alberta.
And years ago in 2016, I had a vision
of a painting I need to make and a book I need to write.
Basically when I had the vision
I suddenly knew all kinds of stuff.
It was supernatural.
I knew all kinds of things that I did not know before.
So when people talk about, well, I was dying or I died
and my life flew before my eyes, flashed before my eyes
I know what they can, I have some idea what that is
because all of a sudden I knew so much
that I could not have learned by studying.
And it happened in a fraction of a second.
But basically the painting I put on my background here
I'll kind of scoot to the side so you can see the painting.
Wow.
But the painting has multiple subliminal images
from scripture.
Everything is a symbol representing something
from the scriptures.
And there's a thousand teaching messages in the painting.
So that's it.
Also, I do graphics on the side.
I'm a fundraising salesman for my job
and I do graphics for my brother.
I do graphics for a car dealership.
That's about it.
Wow.
That's awesome Scott.
Thank you for that.
Thank you.
I love that.
That painting is incredible.
Like, wow.
So beautiful.
Also one second, the painting is almost finished
and the book, I'm writing a book based on the painting
giving the details of the symbolism of the paint.
The book has just begun.
I did the introduction.
It's about six pages long.
Okay.
And I'm still working on it, but it's been,
hell has come against me.
It seems to keep me from writing the book
and doing the painting.
Yeah.
That's great.
Yeah.
We just ask for heaven's peace and Shalom
to be released upon you that all of hell would be pushed back
and that every fiery dart of the enemy would just fall
and that you would know the fiery protection of the Lord
and the encouragement and just,
that you would just have angels on assignments
flooding your home and your space.
And every time you go to write and create
there would just be a new surge of the spirit of wisdom
and revelation and creativity would be released over you.
And that everything that the enemy has sought to steal,
kill and destroy,
you would have a hundred fold blessing in return
in Jesus name.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Bless you, Scott.
Thank you for sharing that.
Who wants to go next?
Come on, be brave.
I'll speak up.
Yeah, there you go.
I'm not afraid.
My name is Jim Sims or James, as my parents would call me.
My mother was a Christian.
I became a musician at a young age and I went.
other way into the other music of the rock and roll scene.
And I came to the Lord in, I think, the end of 1987.
But anyhow, early in January 1988, I was sleeping.
I began to sleep one evening, an hour or so after I went to sleep.
I was startled awake in a vision in which I saw a blinding light and I fell face down
on the floor in the vision, even though I was still lying on my back in the bed.
And when I fell face at the floor, I realized I was at the feet of the Lord and all shining
bronze kind of golden sandals.
But I also saw like a white dazzling presence and all I heard was a voice say, follow me.
And when that happened, I was like completely struck as a death.
As you see in the scripture, sometimes everything drained out of my life.
And I was like realizing that I had been walking in a lot of pride.
And so my heart was like, yes, sir, I'll never do it again.
It was almost like he was the commander of the army of the host and he was like the supreme
leader of all things.
And I had that revelation of the power of Jesus.
And I was like, I'm grease on the floor.
So I am absolutely repenting of all my selfishness and 100% in now, you know, because my question
was a few months before that, if you're really real God, prove it kind of arrogantly, like
if you're real, prove it, you know, well, that proved it and I was blown away.
So from that point forward, I just read the Bible, I believe the stuff in the Bible and
I walked up and down the streets where I lived and I prayed for people and they got healed
and various things happened and I was like, okay, and then I went to church and then they
taught me, you're not really, you know, supposed to do that stuff.
And I'm like, well, why, why don't you?
And then so they sort of got me coming back to a less intimate place and it wasn't their
fault.
It was just that I got distracted.
And then I lived kind of a cooling down period for three or four years and then for a while.
And recently in the last, well, from that point forward, I did a lot of stuff in churches.
As Benji would say, I went up the tree of the knowledge of good and did a lot of church
work and played a lot of worship and I write poetry and sing songs.
And so I did a lot of that and it was really partially blessed a lot.
And you know, the Lord led me to meet my wife and get married and we both sing and praise
God together.
And we do worship.
It's really blessed, but it's, you know, there's a cap on that blessing.
And then in the last like three or four years, I felt like the book of, I guess it's Exodus
where they talk about Moses in the Red Sea.
And I felt like the Lord would thank, let my people go that they can come out and work.
So I resigned from work a little early and they were like, why are you leaving?
You're doing really well at this job.
So I'm like, well, I feel like the Lord wants me to get a part with him.
So actually pulled away in summer of 2018 to spend time with the Lord, which prepared
me for 2019.
So when 2019 came, I was already in that quiet kind of space with God and I've been really
pursuing God and I've been learning all father's heart.
So from that point forward, when I, when I connected with Benji and his sonship stuff
and then Nancy Cohen, and then all of a sudden I was like, wow, I really need to get with
the Lord.
And then I heard these amazing poems by Chloe and stuff.
And I was just decided to get into this all the way and really get to know you guys.
So God bless you all.
Here I am.
So good to hear your story, Jim.
Thank you for sharing.
Yeah.
Thank you.
I've had a lot of other things since then, but I can't go into all those in a minute.
So that's the three minute, one minute version.
Awesome.
So good.
So who else wants to share just, yeah, where you're from, what you're currently doing creatively,
what kind of season you're walking in right now?
Yeah.
You go for it.
I'm from Cape Town, and I've always had both art and literature, but was in 20 years of
writing and editing, and did a fiction course, and I want to write a children's book, and
I want to paint, and I want to help people make things, and I'm just starting all of
that now.
Wow.
Amazing.
That's incredible.
So, you're starting kind of all of that now?
Sorry, it was kind of cutting in and out a little bit.
Would so love to just hear from you.
Yeah, I always had to tell myself that I can do more than one thing.
Sorry about the internet.
That's okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
Beautiful.
So, okay, so there's painting, you wanted to write a book.
What was the other thing?
I'm so sorry, I was trying to hear.
I want to make things out of, I want to do textile art, and I want to make things out
of, like, use innovation to make things out of, like, even unrecyclable plastics to create
products that people can make in order to make, to earn a living.
Love it.
Wow.
Amazing.
That's amazing.
Wow.
May the Lord just continue to release so much creativity and like inspiration and like blueprints
of just how to do that, how to bring innovation and creativity and wealth from that and to
produce beautiful things that you can bless people with.
Love it.
Who wants to go next, you beautiful people?
I think everybody's actually waiting for someone else.
Okay.
I'll go.
Okay.
My name is Sandra Scott, I'm in Farmington, Utah, I spent most of all of my years on the
East Coast in Maryland around the water, and the Lord sovereignly moved us out to Utah
in 2017.
And it's been a journey, quite a journey.
But the Lord, I came from a, my sister was a very gifted, is a very gifted artist, and
six years older, and I was always the one that was analytical, mathematical, not, I
was creative, but not, I didn't think it was creative like she was.
And so the Lord has been in this season of my life, helping me to connect with that part
of my identity.
I had a really beautiful encounter recently.
I love to write.
I do.
I love to write.
I've been told I have a gift with words and have had a prophetic word to write a devotional.
So that's in my heart to do.
But recently, I had an encounter with this place with the Lord where this just this cry
came out of me, literally like this.
He calls it my sacred cry, and he entitled it the sacred cry of me.
And it was quite, and it was quite deep and quite beautiful.
And right after that deep weeping came this flow of words.
And it was a, it was a beautiful poem.
And that had never happened to me before, the creative flow.
It was more from this aspect, you know, the, the, and, and the writing and whatnot that
comes out of that place of loving to read and, and just wanting the Lord.
He said, well, Sandra, I am the word.
And so it's just been that connection with him at a deeper place of a creative flow and
that experience with the poetry.
So I believe that this season of my life is helping me get more in touch with, is it the
right side of the brain?
It's the creative side.
I think so.
Yeah.
So, and I'm also, I'm also do dance where he'll just come on me and this expression
will come out with flags and, and expressions.
with music and it's definitely an anointing that he gives me
because these movements will come
and it's like it's bypassing your natural ability
and just flows.
And so he's helping me understand the difference
between those two facets of expression.
And, but the poem was in a way.
So I'm just starting out on my journey,
wanting to really get in touch with,
I love creativity coming out of my father was a architect.
And again, my sister, an artist
and I never saw myself as a creative.
So he's helped me kind of moving that out of the way
and saying, no, this flow is in you
because you tapped into that in me.
So I'm excited.
I'm very excited.
I love that.
Do you know, I remember hearing something years ago
and it was so liberating
and it's something that I always love to tell everyone
is that we have this wrestle.
I think, am I creative enough?
Is my creativity worth something?
Is it good enough?
Is it going to be celebrated?
And the reality is, is that all children are born creative.
All humans are born creative.
When you put them in preschool,
when you put music on, they all dance.
When you put them with paints and colors,
they're all creative and somewhere along the line,
the enemy knows the power of creativity
and he goes to work on trying to shut our creativity down
with comparison, whether it's siblings or friends
or the world.
And we think, is who I am enough?
Is the beauty of who I am, what I can create enough?
And is it worthy of celebration?
And there are some people that are just so brilliant
and their creativity is outrageous
and their gift is next level.
And so sometimes we can think,
is my little one talent gift or two talent gift
or whatever we put value on, we can wrestle with that.
And so the beauty and the redemption of the father's voice
in our life is to say who we are is perfect
and who we are made in his image
and what we've been given to do
and the expression of that in our humanity is worthy
and it's beautiful.
And I love hearing your story
of just how the Lord's voice has been unlocking that
and uncapping that.
In all of us, we're constantly on the journey
of feeling the father's affirmation, his celebration,
his voice to give identity to us
and confidence and authority rather than trying
to get validation from the world or other people,
even though we need affirmation, celebration
and validation from people, it first and foremost
really has to come from that place from the father.
And that's also the beautiful thing of the prophetic
is when you have people who see you, see the gold in you,
see the gift that may be dormant in you,
see the gift that maybe got shut down,
be the gift that from whatever happened, trauma, pain,
illness, or just life circumstances,
maybe you never were given an avenue or an on-ramp
or the resource or the ability to explore the creativity
that you wanted to.
And then the father comes after you
because the father is so committed to his sons
and daughters being fully released in the glory
of who he's created them to be in their dream,
in their desire, in the way that he made them to be.
And so his passion, his word, his presence is like,
I'm gonna pursue you because I wanna see all of you
fully expressed.
I wanna see abundant life.
So whether it's through writing or cooking or sewing
or dancing or music or singing or whatever expression,
poetry, making things, creating things,
whatever it looks like,
it's never underestimate the power of your creativity
because maybe it's not for the masses,
but maybe it's for one, or maybe it's for a smaller group,
but the power of it is so beautiful
because it's an expression of who you are.
So thank you for sharing that, Sandra.
It was so amazing to hear just.
One more thing too,
I feel like I need to share for everyone's benefit is,
my daughter is artistic, she paints
and she would go out into, I made her a studio
and she would go out into her studio.
And if I came out there while she was in that place
of connection to the expression, she was very upset.
And so she explained to me, she said,
she said, mom, she said, it's an intimate place
when you're there and you're connecting
to that depth of expression that's in you.
And it would comes out
and it makes itself present before you.
If someone comes up
and doesn't understand the intimacy of that.
And so I believe that the Lord wants us as his sons and daughters to begin to really
value that in one another and honor that because it's holy and it's intimate. And when it comes
out of that flow, when it comes out of that place of connection with him, it is intimate and
beautiful. And that there's not enough honor, I think, that is given to that, you know, that
it's kind of a little more, and I'm not saying everybody, but I just think in general,
not understanding the depth where you go when that is untapped. It's very intimate.
Yeah, it's very vulnerable. Creativity is vulnerable because it's personal. It's an
expression of you, which is why you need to be kind of guarded and protected in those early
stages of expression of, because it's kind of in that infant stage, you know, it's in seed form
growing. And so there's kind of guarding your heart and going, not everybody is going to jump
in and celebrate and go, wow, that's a great idea. Or, wow, that was amazing. You know,
some people are, so you need to be around those safe people that understand vulnerability and
what's emerging. And because sometimes I know, even in my life of creating or writing something,
you want to share that song or that idea with someone that is going to be a cheerleader.
And then you also want people that are able to give honest feedback because sometimes it really
wasn't a good song and they love you. And they're like, you are created to write music that's going
to change the world. That's going to bless people. That's going to release heaven. I love that. And
they can celebrate the good in it, but go, Oh, maybe, maybe you could just look at that chorus
or maybe, and that's where skill and gifting comes in when people can actually work on your craft or
whatever it is, but you are totally right in that stage of actually awakening and actually having
the courage and the bravery to release and to be intimate with the Lord. And then to,
to actually create, it's incredibly vulnerable. It's really vulnerable. So that's why we all
need safe people in our life that love us, that see us for who we are and we can express our need
and we can actually be powerful in our communication of, Hey, this is really vulnerable
for me. I want to share something with you. Can you let me know what you think? And I also really
need your encouragement. You know what I mean? I maybe let people know, I don't necessarily need
your critique on that. It's like a 10 out of 10 or an eight out of 10. I just need, what did you
feel when I shared this with you or what did you experience or what do you see? Cause in those
infant stages of growing in that our confidence is just, it's needing that celebration, you know,
like a toddler learning to walk. You're like, you know, you're not like, well, you, your knees
buckled a little bit and you're taking a larger step there. You really should have grabbed the
handle of the couch so you didn't fall, but you know, you did okay, kiddo. You know, like, that's
not what you do with a toddler. You celebrate their, their beginning and their emergence. So
love that. So good. How about any other of you? We want to hear your hearts. We want to hear.
Yeah. Carol, go for it. Well, first off, thank you so much. What, what a blast to hear all the
stories are absolutely amazing. It's a real privilege to hear people share their heart
and the struggles and, and the giftings, you know, it's just amazing. So, um,
I've been a business person for the last 35 years, owning businesses, running businesses,
big multimillion businesses. And, um, I just retired, um, last year, end of last year,
and all of a sudden raising royalty appeared on my iPhone and I thought, wow, what's this? So I've,
I've just been on a journey, if you like, with the Lord. And, um, and then last night up on my
phone, Benji sends this message, hi, artist Carol. And I'm, how does he know? Anyway, um, it's three
o'clock in the morning over here, but I thought I've got to get onto this. I've got to see this
because this is part of the journey, but yes, I do write and, um, and it's a gift I've had, um,
Lord's given that to me right from the word go. And it's just a lovely thing to do. But what you
said about, um, it being so precious that other people sometimes don't appreciate it,
you kind of tend to hide it away. It's not.
something that you bring out it's kind of um I don't know it's a weird thing to
have people critique it but they say oh that's nice that's and you're in that painting part of
you's in there and um yeah so it tends to make you pull back a little bit so um anyway yeah so
thank you so much everybody it's just a blast to hear what you have to say it's wonderful
that's so good and so carol do you paint or do you or yes oh you paint awesome paint
do you do acrylics watercolor what do you do uh my favorite medium is acrylics but i do watercolor
and um oils and i do portraits i've i've entered competitions and that sort of thing through the
years but very very quietly and under wraps sort of thing i don't tell anybody if i'm doing it i
just quietly do it and yeah yeah you know i think it's about time i think it's about time i took it
i mean um this gathering is actually all about you know just hearing each other celebrating
each other you know you're not in the right place you know uh we can all relate to each other
especially um uh you know as a creative people uh sometimes it's really hard for us to express
and articulate in words that's why we paint or dance or do other thing you know just to express
our soul you know and um so our heart in this um kingdom creative is to you know just to cheer you
up and pray for you and listening to you and celebrating your craft you know and uh and thank
you so much for sharing i mean even uh you know that's that's really really really nice i mean
this is a a safe place you can be vulnerable you can ask questions you know if you want um
ask uh any help and you know just to they're all really really open and uh yeah i think it's
we are getting into that group this is our first zoom meeting and we are still uh trying to figure
out our group uh groove actually you know trying to um you know how we do it you know because uh
so many creative expressions and so many personalities that you know and so many uh
evolvement as an artist you know some are super pro some are just starting up and you know so find
a balance um a sweet spot is kind of hard you know so that's why i mean we yeah so i think it's
actually um it's getting into uh that zone actually and thank you carol and please diana
yeah that's so good that's so good xylan yeah carol i was just thinking too i remember being
i was at bethel church for about three or four years and i was at one of their worship schools
and they were talking about songwriting and crafting music and all that and they were
talking about how um this this tension between your art is an expression of who you are and yet
in different it's this thing when there's certain so this won't apply to everyone this i'm just
going to say this just because it sparked it in me when you were sharing this of that when you paint
something or when you create something that's a part of you that's in that and it's this beautiful
tension because it is it's like and it's expression of who you are and then you've like given your
heart and soul and you've been vulnerable and you've taken a risk and you've gone i've never
painted this before i've never written like this before this poetry or this whatever and there's
this interesting thing too when our creativity is partnered with serving people so sometimes
there's art that is just for our creative expression and it is just to put on our walls
or to have music that we would share in our home with people or we cook a beautiful meal or we
sew some clothing or we you know whatever the creativity is i mean creativity is a thousand
different ways but it's interesting creativity is partnered with actually serving people
so whether it's graphic design and you're serving a company or a business or whether it's
a song that is serving a church or a movement or whether it's writing that you're writing a
book to serve people or you're writing a manual or you're doing something and they were talking
about so they were talking about it regarding songwriting but i want to say it in creativity
that is to serve anything that gets critique on it there's this dance on the inside that we have
to allow ourselves to express ourselves into this form of creativity but then we have to
let it go because then it comes under scrutiny.
So it might be like, yeah, that song, that hook is terrible.
The chord progression is not good.
I love the theme, but that's just not going to work.
And then they throw out the song and you're like, I literally had an
encounter with the Lord, had a dream.
I wrote that whole thing.
That is like everything is a part of it, you know?
And they're just like, no, it's not going to work.
But they said like how many times they go through that process in the writing.
And so many people you get married to know that the Lord told me that
was the chord for that chorus.
And they're like, no, that's a terrible chord.
That does not work at all for that.
And so they were just talking and I love it because Bethel music is phenomenal.
And they're a fruit of their music and church.
And, and they were just being very real in their songwriting process.
But you can, you can put that to anything, whether it's you're writing a
book and it goes to the editor and they come back and it's like the fifth
time they've given you another draft and like, sorry, that chapter is not
working or, Hey, that graphic design that you did mate, this is the 15th time.
Those colors aren't going to work.
I don't like how this is there or whatever it is.
And so there's this thing that we have to have tough skin, but a tender
heart that we are able to receive.
Constructive criticism or feedback or input on what we create, especially
when it is there to serve people that we can't get to personally, that it
crushes us, but to know that there will be times where we'll feel really
offended, feel like, Oh my gosh, like really like that, I think it's awesome.
And someone else doesn't.
And so then you can take that and still have it as your expression.
But maybe if it's not serving someone else or something else for the greater
good, then you go, okay, Holy spirit, help me relook at this.
Give me eyes to see.
Give me wisdom and revelation, how I can craft this because it is not just about
me, it is about serving the greater good.
So that was just a little something that was on my mind.
I thought, yeah, I want to add something onto it.
I think I've heard somebody said that, you know, if someone rejecting you, I
mean, rejecting your idea doesn't mean that they are rejecting you as a person.
You know, I think as an artist, it's, it's very, very important.
You know, as Diana mentioned that, you know, we, we tend to get really
attached in a very deep personal level to our craft and, and some people come
and say that, and it's not that great.
I mean, literally, might crush you, but, you know, just to, that, to be in
that place and grow as a mature person, it's their perspective.
And, and, and if they don't like it, that that's okay.
That they didn't say that they didn't like you, you know, as a person, it's
just that craft and that's the piece of work that you did.
I mean, that's, I mean, if you can develop and cultivate that kind of
mindset and really help you, you know, as, as a person, otherwise, I mean, I
mean, you feel too much and, you know, get depressed and, you know, I've been
into that, I've been into that place.
What I would do is like, I have a couple of selective people
that I really look up to.
Uh, I mean, there are a lot of people come and say different stuff.
I'm more interested in those people, you know, what they are
going to say about my, my thing.
I mean, that, that will also really help.
Sorry, I just wanted to add that.
Yeah.
Yes.
Thank you.
And Christine.
Can I add more comment to that?
Yeah, please.
When I was, when I was younger, I was working as an engineer in a major company
and, um, three or four of us guys were working in an office as assistants to
the plant manager and we were, we were project specialists and he gave me the
job of, um, drawing his ideas out as to where he would like renovate the
building and change people's work areas and desks and things.
And so for three or four days and then a week, and then maybe six or seven days,
I would, I would draw all these layouts of where the offices would move and how
the walls would move and everything.
I would take them back to the plant manager and he would be like, this is cool.
This is cool.
This is neat.
I don't like any of this, go back and do this.
And so after about seven days, I felt like, does this guy not like me?
Am I being rejected?
What am I doing wrong?
And so I went finally on like eighth day and I asked him, it seems
like everything I do, you don't like it.
And he goes, no, I love it all.
He says, I, I need ideas and I don't have time to think of many ideas.
And you're giving.
me like six, seven options. He goes, I like everything you gave me. This is super valuable.
And I was like, really? Because I thought you hated me. He's like, no, I love it.
Sometimes when we think we're not making progress, we actually are, but we don't know it because
maybe the person didn't actually share with us the value of what happened to them when they
experienced working with us or being around us or whatever. I just wanted to open that up as
a possibility. Most of the messages in my book are related to what we're talking about.
Just from the first five words of the Bible, in the beginning, God created, and then he created
man in his image. I think the main aspect of us being in God's image is that we're creative beings.
He created the earth and the universe, and in that, he made man and said, you're in my image.
This is the type of thing that you're to be doing. You see the stars and all of this,
I made that, and you're to do stuff like that, whether maybe not making stars,
but creating something as part of the essence of your being as a human is a creator.
That's most of the messages, whether it's the sky or the ocean in the painting, the house,
the stones, the house being founded on a rock. It's all based on the revelation is all of this
represents an aspect of you being able to create something and your individual calling.
Yeah, that's really good. This is so good, you guys. It's so good. Let's keep going with the
introductions of just where people are from, what creativity they're a part of. Who's next?
I guess I'll talk.
Yay.
Hi, everybody. Can you hear me okay?
Yes.
Thank you.
I think I know who I am, but I'm not sure how I got here.
Like Carol, this morning, this email came in. I don't know Benji. I don't know your group.
And yet, the spirit so intrigued me. So here I am. Who are you? How did I get here?
Amen.
Great. Is Benji even in this group or?
Okay. Yeah, I'd love to share about that. Okay. So, well, welcome. We're so glad that you're here.
Your name's Bet or Betty?
Betty.
Betty. Beautiful. So Raising Royalty is a global movement that is here to serve Christians,
sons and daughters to be awakened to who they are being created to be, to walk in sonship,
to understand the dreams and desires that God has created in them and for them so that they
can be fully empowered to walk in abundant life and to thrive and to basically be the gifts of
who they are on the on the earth and to release the kingdom of heaven. And so we want to do that
in all different areas. So Raising Royalty has a business side to it, but it is focused on equipping,
empowering, teaching, raising up in every different sphere of life. So parenting, marriage,
creativity, business, thriving, home life, farming, like happening around the world, worship,
prayer, basically just going, how do we awaken? How do we partner with the spirit of God that he
is awakening sons and daughters to understand who they truly are as sons and daughters of the
father in her sonship, to walk in authority and to walk in communion, intimacy with God,
and to be empowered to thrive so that they can be all that God's called them to be. So Kingdom
Creatives is one aspect where we are just wanting to celebrate creatives, champion, serve, encourage,
create a safe place for people to be seen and known on their journey. Because as we know, too,
in this global world, we're all trying to find our tribe and we're trying to go, who are voices
that we want to align to? What are communities that we go, yeah, that resonates within me,
I want to be a part of that. And the beautiful thing of technology is that it opens up for us
to find our tribe.
and voices and communities that we align to that might not be in our country.
And we go, oh, I'm loving that.
I want to kind of be a part of that.
So so that's so lovely that you got an email.
I'm wondering if maybe you saw an ad or maybe you bought in something
or if there's something that you've clicked that gave your email
or maybe you got an e-book from them from the science of dreams or something.
Maybe that's how your email address was given.
And so that email came through.
But however it is, we're glad that you're here.
Thank you. I am as well.
You sound like a really amazing Holy Spirit driven group.
And that's what I like to be sure that it's edifying our Lord.
And I like crystal centric things.
So I have to be a little cautious once in a while
because I came from a different background.
We all do. Right.
I came from Jewish background and my parents were
pretty darn secular.
But my grandfather was Orthodox and from Israel.
I can't. My maiden name was Singer.
So I love singing, but I'm not a professional.
But I had my own journey
and it ended at 12 with the Lord for a while.
And yet my agnostic father said, well, see, can't find it.
And when you find your truth, I'll honor that.
And probably about 14 years later, I was just on the beach
and had a profound experience.
And the Lord opened his cosmos and told me this is it.
I created it. The stars, the planets.
And I was floating there and just.
So that was the beginning of my reopening to the Lord.
And it took a while.
You know, our paths take time and I got sucked into new age for a while.
And that's why I'm cautious.
The spiritual realm is real.
And I just didn't realize how real and how serious
and how potentially dangerous.
And so that's why I ask who you are and what you hope to accomplish.
So thank you. Absolutely.
Yeah. Our whole mandate is to
basically fulfill the Great Commission,
preach the gospel, glorify the father,
worship Jesus and be empowered by the Holy Spirit, by grace
that would enable us to do everything that we can do
in this world, that we would live to our full potential.
We would live to the full expression of the Holy Spirit on the inside of us
and that we would be worshipers in spirit and in truth.
So absolutely understand the journey of just wanting to make sure
you're in a safe place and understand who you're who you're listening to
and who you're a part of. I think it's so wise.
And yeah, and there's even after this chat, you can if you're on Facebook,
you can go on and look at the Raising Royalty page,
the Raising Royalty Masterclass page. I can put that in the chat.
And you can just kind of understand a little bit more.
And you can see Benji.
He is a dear friend of me and Zilan. We work with him. We love him.
He's an absolute powerhouse.
And he is just there's few people that I know that are like Benji.
He is just next level.
And he is an incredible husband and father and leader.
And he walks in sonship in such a profound way
and is just his connection with the Holy Spirit is so beautiful
and how he is creating and innovating
and his heart to serve and his generosity is just unbelievable.
And so, yeah, he's I can honor
who he is with 100 percent integrity of of the kind of man and leader that he is.
So, but yeah, you can check out more about Raising Royalty after and kind of get
to know us a little bit more as a movement and an organization.
But thank you so much for sharing your heart.
We're glad you're here.
Anybody else?
Yeah, I'll go.
Yeah. Can you get can you guys hear me?
Yeah. Hi, Jimmy.
Hi, I like Benny.
I don't I'm not exactly sure.
Like I, I know that I purchased something from.
You know, from a book or something along the way,
but I don't know how I got here either.
So, Betty, you're in good company here because I'm not really sure.
All lost together.
I'm actually kind of thrilled to
find like more of the creative things going on about
for creatives, because my life is.
been all of that. You know, I, the Lord got a hold of me when I was nine at a VPS. And
so I have known, well, let's see, I was introduced to him at nine, but I didn't really come to
know him until I was 35. Life took an abrupt turn. And it's been a roller coaster ride
ever since then. I was always too scared to put my work out for many years. So it hid
under the guise of like floral design or retouching photography or something that was not like
really art or really creative, although every job I ever had turned into that anyway, because
it's a part of who I am. And it's the way that I think. So I would either like, annoy
people a lot. Because, because I don't think the same, I know some of you guys must have
that same quality, because you have a tendency to think outside of the box. And it's like,
you know, they, they don't understand. So they either think you're crazy, or mostly
it's you're crazy. And years later, when what you said actually happens, like the designs
and stuff that you wrote out, the pictures that you did, actually happened, and it looks
just like the picture, right? So at 35, the Lord really came and got me out of my pit.
And I went through years and years of healing. Because I too, I was raised in a family that
was pretty new agey. And I had a great aunt who had gone to which college and stuff like
that. So that filtered down through my family. And I have a great respect and honor for those
people who have been there and come back out. Yeah, because it's it's a difficult if
it's a difficult one to shake all the way because it's so seductive. But I'll tell you
what, I look back at my time in that area of my life. And I think you know, it was I
there was such benefit out of out of having been in it only because I understood the spiritual
side of life. And when the Lord came in and showed me the real thing, it was a lot easier
to say, I'm all in because this is a road I can't find the end to. So Jesus, I'm all
yours. So it let the switch in me that was like, Oh, I'm running down this road as far
as I can, because every other road I tried, always came up with a dead end. Always. So
I don't know what I want to what I really want to say about me other than it's it's
been some years I was first married, then Mary actually married a divorced and then
married a sculptor who taught me to sculpt and we did a lot of like, like, like monumental
pieces. And it was it was an interesting time in my life being married to him. We fought
like cats and dogs, but I knew that the Lord had done it. And a lot of it was about gaining
the courage to stand up for yourself, me, you know, he used to say to me, I'll feel
like I've done my job if you will ever stand up for yourself. And when I started to he
didn't like it because I was standing up against him. Right? So you can't have that. It's gonna
come out when it does it comes out all the way and it's okay. It was it was really it
was beneficial. I lost him about five years ago. No, I guess it's six years now. Got remarried
in March to the man. I didn't know God made men like that. It's like, really, really a
surprise, but it's opened up. I don't know if you guys can see this. I'm standing in
my studio right now. Opened up a whole new life for me, because my art and I, my husband
had worked together in this space, but he was very prolific. And so his art was always
here. And it was like, I couldn't get rid of him. Once he died, he was still alive in
the studio. So it was very oppressive. So when Beryl came into my life, I there was
at one point that he had done so many busts so much sculpture that I had kind of a cathartic
moment and picked up a piece of not just his work, but my work too and threw it on the
ground. And I remember looking
and said, Lord, if this is the wrong thing to do, you better stop me because that felt awful good.
And I ended up tossing about 40 pieces of mostly just busts of people that I didn't know and had
no place to put them. So in the midst of all of that, the Lord started giving me
like pictures of things that he wanted painted. And I had gone through like a severe grief,
not only over my husband's death, but because my church family, I'd been the children's pastor for
10 years, kind of abandoned me. Everybody abandoned me when Art died. And I sat out here in the
country in my studio for four and a half years alone. And during that period of time,
I, you know, it was like, Lord, I, it was the worst. I can honestly say it's the worst thing
I have ever been through in my life. And it culminated in a trip, he sent me to Bulgaria, of all places.
And that after living in Egypt for three years, and surviving on the economy over there, I thought,
well, that won't be a problem. They, you know, they speak real, they, well, no, they don't speak
English, but they are Christians. So it'll be easier than dealing with the whole Muslim thing.
But it wasn't, I, it really took me the end of my own power and my own self, like I couldn't,
I shook for six months after coming back from that particular experience, because I felt so
abandoned. And in that country, I couldn't understand a lick of a Cyrillic language, there
was just no way at it, it kind of undid me. But in the process of all of that, I, I was like, Lord,
what the heck? What was that all about? And he said, I needed to take you to the end of yourself.
And I was like, okay, well, that's great. But why couldn't we have done it in like Las Vegas or New
York or something like that? And he said, if you had been anyplace else on the face of the earth,
you would have been able to communicate. And I was like, oh, it was business related. I was doing
doing some commission work for some dancers, stuff like that. So there was actually a reason for it.
But boy, it was a miserable trip. And in the midst of it, I got to see like what happens in a
communist country under communist rule and the oppression that happened out of it, you could feel
it in the air. So I kept thinking, Lord, why did I go there? And yet now I look at what's going on
in our country. And I understand, because I, I under I have better understanding about what that
all means spiritually. I know, I'm just rambling. And I don't, I don't really know what I want to
say as far as the creative outlook is concerned, other than it's not an easy road to be a creative,
because we do think differently than mainstream. And I don't know how many times I've been told that,
like, I just didn't fit in the church, because I like refuse to play by the rules.
Because they're not they're not my rules.
You're laughing. But it's the truth. It's like, they're not my rules. Those are your rules that
you came up with, you know, the Lord didn't tell me that. So why should I have to do that? Right?
So I used to tell people that I have a very special annoying anointing because
I can see you guys are late.
Just because we are on mute. That's why I mean, you can't hear us. I mean, I'm laughing like crazy.
The truth for me is like everything, it's paramount. So when I'm painting, or when I'm
sculpting, or whatever it is I'm doing, it's like, if that's not there, I'm not doing it.
Sorry, I can't lie for somebody else. And now the Lord's been giving me like messages through paintings.
Oh, gosh. I've got one on the easel right now. You guys want to see it? This is kind of, yeah,
it's weird. But this is this is the message.
Let's see if I can get it in the frame. Oops, which way do you do this? Wow, okay, okay. So,
when this first I thought back up or there, okay, there it is. If I first got this image
in my head in a vision, and I was like, Lord, what am I looking at? Because what I saw was
his hand on a hammer and the spike going down through the rotunda of the Capitol Building.
And I was like, okay, well, that sort of fits with what's going on in the world. And, you know,
and he says to me, he says that spike is the spirit of truth. And those were her his arms,
you know, holding on to it and pounding it. And I thought, okay, what am I doing with that?
You know, what's that for? And then I saw the interior of the Capitol. And he said to me,
I want you to pull it in, like pull it into existence through the painting. And there's
something about prayers becoming solid, as you create the form of it in the earth, like if you're
does that make sense to you guys? Yeah. Like when it's out there, it's vague. But when you can put
it down either on paper, or in a painting or a sculpture, it becomes solid and it comes into
this realm. So it's kind of like pulling it in. But I did some research on it about the hammer and
the spike and all of that stuff. And the only place that I that I found in the Bible where both
of those things are mentioned, was when JL actually pounded the Cicero's head to the ground,
staked his head to the ground, as Cicero was trying to take over.
So I was like, okay, so that's an interesting concept. We're gonna nail the enemy heads to the
ground. That's great. But then I started seeing this tree growing up through the middle of it.
And I thought, Lord, what is that? And he said, that's the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
So he was talking to me about the judgment within our own hearts that each one is not just
It's not just about our country, but about who we are as human beings.
Walking the face of the earth, that the judgment seat in our own hearts has to come in alignment
with him and not the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, so that we stay out of the devil's
playground, and the politics and everything like you don't have to agree with everything
that's going on, because God knows, we don't. But it's not about the people. It's about the
spirits behind that that's going on. So yeah, that's been my journey with
Jenny. Thank you so much. Thanks so much for sharing. It's so good to hear just your story.
And yeah, all that's been going on. We'd love to hear more. I'm just aware that there's some people
that are going to have to go and we really just want to know. No, no, that's okay. We love you
dearly. And we're so glad to hear your story. It's so amazing. So amazing to hear your story,
Jenny. Thank you so much for sharing. Thank you. Thank you. It's amazing to hear what's happened
in your life. The gold, the gems, the journey, it is so beautiful and amazing to see your artwork.
Amazing to hear of like where the Lord is taking you, what he's downloaded to you, how he's healed
you, what he's done in and through you. You are such a sign and a wonder. You are so beautiful.
We're so glad that you're here. So thank you for sharing. Like thank you for just sharing your
wisdom, your revelation, your creativity. Love it. Like love it. Love it. I just want to just make
the room because there's just some people in the chat saying they have to go and we just want to
give space for them to be able to. I totally get it. Totally get it. Sorry for taking so long.
That's OK. No, we love hearing your story. So thank you. So, Cleo, can you just come and say
hi to us, babe? Yes. Hi. I actually really don't know what I have to say to you, but I'll just say hi.
Let us know kind of like creatively what you love,
a little bit of your story for everyone that doesn't know who you are.
I love, well, I love a lot of different things. I just haven't done much, much yet.
Like I love dancing. I love cooking. I love painting, singing and writing. The most like
common, I guess.
creative expression that happens is poetry for me at the moment, so yeah but I'm just
really wanting to like just practice basically effortless living of just like I'm just being
do you know I mean like my purpose in life is to be an artist or anything my purpose
in life is just to hang out with Jesus and just like his friend and like if he gives
me poems then I'll write poems if he gives me songs then I'll make songs I'm just kind
of like that's why I kind of felt like I don't know how much I have to say today because
I just don't know I don't even know how to put anything into words right now but I'm
just like um that's beautiful no it's it's amazing Cleo was part of our talent quest
we did a talent quest of raising royalty and it was incredible just to hear her story and
her spoken word and her poetry and just the journey that the Lord's taken her on the awakening
the healing the transformation the beauty that she is and um you know I think all of
us as creatives um can identify with there is so much that goes on in our lives that
we are constantly just trying to navigate and um and and so when we feel liberated and
when we feel seen and known um it is the most empowering thing ever and it is the
most um yeah I think that's that's the beauty of what I love what Cleo's saying is that
I'm not just living to produce or to be an artist I'm actually living to be loved I'm
actually living to be embraced I'm actually living to be connected to the father and to
to love Jesus and whatever comes from that that's going to be beautiful and that's going
to be life-giving and that's going to be transformative and that's going to be abundant
life you know because we're just striving to produce or achieve it gets all wrapped
up with stuff but when we're actually allowing the healing and the transformation of our
own identity and our sonship as sons and daughters that is the most precious thing to go on the
journey because from there comes the most life-giving thing so thank you for sharing
Cleo hi I want to hear from you as well Heidi was also part of our incredible talent quest
she's a harpist she's this incredible musician so Heidi would you say hi to everyone hi everyone
I was getting ready to introduce Cleo for herself and tell everyone how adorable she
is if she didn't come up with that because I loved getting to know her we've been messaging
on here hi um I missed you guys so much it's been three months and since we were all in
the middle of doing that and I forgot how much I love hearing all the accents from all
over the world and um the heart here Dana you really said some beautiful things that
I really needed to hear um today and so I'm so grateful for how the Lord pours out on
his people and for Betty and Jenny you're like what is this place um this is a family
you found a family of people who are doing of people who love well love God well and
love each other well so it's a striking place it's difficult to find especially if you've
come from a hard family life or past um but it's the sweetest thing so yeah I play the
harp and I'm so grateful for what the Lord taught me through the summer I can identify
with Scott because after that beautiful wonderful experience with you guys boy it was just a
smack down and the enemy just came hard against my heart to just shut shut it down shut it
down and I kind of kept thinking what's the big deal with my heart I can still play and
so it's fine I'll just let my heart lie dormant and so Dana when you said you know God wants
all of you fully expressed I realized he won't let us function he won't let us be
his tool without also being his heart and so um yeah I'm excited to see what he does
as you all know wherever you're living it's really a fight right now um to kind of like
it's kind of chaos out there but I'm so grateful for the way that the Lord is drawing our hearts
and drawing us closer to him and keeping us really plugged into him and and connected
with each other I think that's a huge part of the gift so I don't know if any of that
made any sense but yeah I'm so thankful for today yeah so beautiful thank you Heidi we're
so glad you're here and your music and your heart is just radiant and shiny and so beautiful
and so I just pray that wherever the enemy is trying to shut that down or bring like
this that there would just be this like wide opening just like light liberation
celebration that your heart would just feel like, oh, empowered, just free, you know,
like, yeah, almost like Ariel in the Little Mermaid who gets her voice back, you know,
like, where the end, you know, where Ursula is trying to get her voice in that seashell.
Yeah, no, it's like, you've got your voice back and you're liberated and you get to fully
be you and in the full expression of your creativity is so good. Thank you for sharing.
We're going to be wrapping up just in the next 10 to 15 minutes. So I know there's a
few of you, Christine, we'd love to say hi from you. And if there's any others of you
that just want to say hi, and just let us know where you're tuning in from, and what
kind of expression of creativity you have just within about a minute, that would be
great just to give time for everyone. We'd love to love to say hi and hear from you.
Anybody want to just say hi, where you're from? There's no I'm Laurel from Arizona.
Hi, Laurel. And ever since I was six, I guess I've been creative. I've done every arts and
crafts thing you can think of. So creativity has always been part of what I do. Yeah. And
I in different expressions and stuff. But for many years, I do card making. Oh, wow. But in
the last year or so, I have a lot of percolating in me to express in different ways. Like writing
or I bought a keyboard because I want to play music. I have visions that I want to be able
to share. So I've been trying to electronic art. And I'm a technical writer in my traditional job,
but I want to write in a creatively what the Lord has been showing me and stuff. And Jenny,
your sharing absolutely blessed me. And I love because when I saw your picture, it's like, oh,
yeah, I can totally relate to having seen that type of vision and then being able to express it.
And I loved how you shared about when we have when when Holy Spirit, he'll just percolate
something inside me and I figure out how to express it either in a card or some other way.
But I loved how you shared them that when we do that, that brings it into it's like manifesting
Yeah. Oh, cool. Thank you for sharing.
Love that Laurel. Thank you. Laurel, where are you in Arizona?
Chandler. Okay, I'm in Litchfield Park. So I'm on the other side of Phoenix from you.
Oh, well, we're in the same valley. That's super cool. We're in the same valley.
Yeah, that's only about that's only an hour's road trip.
I have a cousin. I have I have family who lives over on that side. Awesome.
Anybody else want to say hi and just let us know where you're from and just what
creativity you love to express.
Hey, Dana, can you hear me? Yeah, where? Hello? Who's talking?
Christine. Christine. Oh, yes. Yes, there you are. Sorry. I was looking at all the faces. I'm like,
where are you? Yeah.
I'm from Quebec, Cazabaza, Quebec, in Canada.
Beautiful.
And we love your worship. We really enjoyed listening to you and what you guys are doing.
I used to be a fashion designer 20 years ago. But then I got sick. And I ended up doing
massage therapy for the last 25 years. And being creative through whatever I could. I
really love it. And my wish has been to be creative for the Lord. I don't really know
what that looks like. But I think he's working on me.
I love that fashion design. That's so incredible. Oh, textures and colors and fabrics and beautiful
textures. I love it.
Thank you so much.
things that people wear and just adorning them.
That is so beautiful.
And massage therapy, that's so creative too,
because you're releasing creativity
and healing into people's bodies.
And wow, love it.
And you're in Quebec, amazing.
Love Quebec.
I was there once as a teenager years ago, so beautiful.
I wish I could speak French, but I can't.
About an hour from Ottawa.
Okay, amazing.
Awesome.
Does anybody else want to say hello,
just before we wrap up?
Annette, it's good to see your beautiful face.
Just want to say hi.
No worries if you don't want to say hi,
but if you want to say hi,
we'd love to know where you're from.
Hi, I'm from Quebec, and I got tuned in last night
to actually listen to your massage.
I'm so sorry, there's like a thumping.
Can other people hear that?
Is-
Yes, I hear it.
Is someone tapping?
Our voice is cutting in and out also.
Yeah.
I won't say much, but working with children all along,
so I guess there's quite a bit of creativity in that.
So yes, I'm excited to meet all of you.
Yeah, oh, that's beautiful.
Thank you.
So love it.
Oh, and Ginny, we love you.
We absolutely love you,
and we love that you expressed your heart.
There is no shame, and there is no embarrassment,
no, any of that.
We love you, and we love that you are sharing
your heart with us, and we love, this is a safe place.
There was no shame at all in that.
I was just wanting to create some spaces for other people
just before we wrapped up the call,
but please, I was going to actually private message you
after and say, I don't want,
I could almost feel like there was this thing,
and I was like, no, no, don't feel that way.
We love you.
We love hearing your voice.
We love hearing your story and your journey.
And I'm so glad you showed your picture of the Capitol,
because all of us here in the U.S. are like, yes,
come on, Lord, drive that spike of truth.
Like, we're all, that's what we're praying for.
So amen, sister, and we're glad you shared.
I agree.
Yeah.
Ginny, can you show it again, please?
Can you show the picture again, please?
Sure.
Oh, wow.
So incredible.
That's profound.
Amazing.
It's got a lot more layers to go yet.
I know that it's not anywhere near done yet,
but thanks, you guys.
It's awesome.
I hit this a lot about sit down and shut up,
but I also realized that it's a weakness inside of me.
So it doesn't,
hmm, no, no, no.
I think I really enjoy the way you were sharing.
It really actually moved me.
And I just want to say that I can easily relate to you.
You know, when you said that you never felt
that you fit into the church scenario,
I mean, I can easily relate that to you.
I think most of the people,
the thing is not,
because of the church is still actually growing
and evolving to understand and accommodate
and minister to creative people, you know?
The thing is, we are wired in a different way altogether.
Yeah.
And I mean, the church actually is still learning
to learn our language, you know?
To try to communicate to us, to our soul, the way we,
the thing is, I mean, we naturally try to perceive things
in a all different way, you know?
Right.
And so there'll be a lot of questions comes to our mind.
And most of the time we are really opinionated.
We ask questions and most of the time,
church don't know how to answer that kind of scene,
you know, personally for me.
So I really, really like, you know, relate with you.
And thank you so much for sharing.
There's no worry that, I mean,
I mean, this is why we are doing this, you know?
We just wanted to hear from people like you, you know?
And thank you so much for sharing.
So don't worry about it.
I really love you.
I feel like that mom who's been stuck at home
with a toddler for four years, you know?
finally gets to talk. You're in the right place. My life home with four kids. So I get you Jenny.
Give me an adult to talk to somebody who might understand. Yeah. Anybody. Yeah.
One quick thing. If I may. Yeah. I've worked with dreams a lot over the years. And this what we're
talking about and what we're unveiling here reminds me of one particular dream that was
very powerful. And it was just, I'll just give a snippet. It was, you know, dreams have almost
like cartoon characters in them. And the dream had the wicked, the chrome with the apple, you know,
kind of hunched over and it was chasing me. And in the dream was chasing, but I was working so
much for dreams. I realized this is a shadow and I need to look at it because shadows are 90% gold,
even though they're scary. So I turned and I touched the cloak. It was a brown cloak and off
it came and underneath was this golden angel. I mean, huge. And it represented myself because
that's what dreams are. So I'm just feeling like to express that to us all, because we are kind of,
you know, sometimes running away from the best part of ourselves and until something unveils us
and the Holy spirit comes within, that's when the power comes through. So I just had to share that.
Yeah, that's beautiful. I love that quote too from Carl Young, that 90% of the shadow is pure gold.
It's so good. I love the whole realm of psychology and understanding that and
leaning into the shadow and the things that we feel shamed about or darkness or different things
that we struggle in our humanity, because all of us as humans have things that we struggle
with in our humanity or our past or decisions or just our makeup or how we're wired. But when
we embrace that shadow and we give light to it, yeah, 90% of it is gold. Sure, there's some
things that might be unhealthy or dysfunctional, but for the most part, what is underneath
that trying to be expressed is pure gold. And so as creatives, it's so powerful for us to get
in tune with that because we're such a feely, intuitive, gut, creative, expressive being.
So that was really good, buddy. Thank you so much for sharing. Really powerful, really, really
powerful. Well, we're going to wrap up in just a few minutes. Is there anybody else that wants
to say hello just before we kind of finish? There's no pressure to. We just want to say
hello, Josh, Susan, and Bindu. We're so glad that you're here. I'm glad that you're part of
our community. Yeah, hi everyone. Bindu here. I'm from Bangalore, India. I joined very late,
so I missed most of it. But, yeah, nice to see you all. That's so great. We're so glad you're
here. Yeah, we're just introducing our name, where we're from, and kind of the different
aspect of creativity that we express or that we're involved in. Is there something creatively
that you love to do? So nothing like I would say, but I do keep on getting ideas to do something
business-wise, not like a painting or anything. Like I should start this, I should start that,
and all that business ideas keep on coming. Yeah, I love it. May the ideas keep flowing,
and may the resources and the grace and the wisdom to know how to walk it out come as well.
Yes, so I'm on that journey. Yes, love it. Yeah, good. Well, we will be...
I was saying this meeting has definitely been blessed for me. My question is, how frequently
are we going to do this? Yeah, I say the more the better. Yeah, for sure. I was just going to
let you guys know. So we will be reposting this Zoom to our Facebook group, and we would
really love to do this about once a month. And so we would love if you can be a part of the
Facebook group and communicate, kind of basically interact with us on the Facebook space, because
then we can communicate more. We'll be sending out emails and letting you know when we'll be
doing our next one. But we would really love to do this once a month and just have a place to
connect. And different times we'll have different themes of communication or topics that we'll be
discussing. Might have some different people join us and see.
speak into this whole realm of kingdom creativity.
So Xylan and myself and Phi will be kind of communicating
and dreaming and yeah, we'd love to hear from you as well,
what you'd love to talk about
and what you'd love to explore.
But this was just our introductory hello,
just wanting to say hello to people,
wanting just to connect with you
and just see how you're doing
and kind of start this journey together.
So yeah, Scott, I'm so glad that it's been a blessing
and yeah, we'd love to do this once a month.
Just a reminder,
you said you were gonna put the Facebook group in the chat,
it's not there yet.
No, no, sorry.
Oh yeah, yeah, I'll do that as well.
Yeah, you bet.
So I'll just go do that now,
just go find Facebook and then basically,
if you look up raising royalty,
I'll just put it here,
raising royalty masterclasses,
just type it.
I think it's raising royalty masterclasses, mentoring.
Training events.
Training events, there we go.
Dana, if you're gonna-
Sorry, Scott.
I just searched on YouTube as you were speaking.
Yeah, thank you.
Perfect.
Are you gonna have this group in the new platform
and transition over or just be in Facebook?
I will definitely talk to Benji,
we'll just try to figure that out.
I'm sure that we will have this on our new platform
because everything that we are doing on Facebook,
we want on our new platform
just because we're gonna be transitioning there.
So I would find the fit, yeah.
So we're just still kind of getting everything figured out
on the new platform,
but yeah, we will definitely be working on that.
Lots to still be developed.
Just getting the group link here for you, one second.
Hi, I just wanted to introduce myself.
I'm Sue, I'm Susan.
Hello.
I'm from Cape Town.
Hi.
South Africa.
I miss actually most of it.
I got the timing wrong, so I only joined at seven.
Well, for us, it's seven at night now.
So, but I love drawing and sketching and poetry.
I love drawing and sketching and poetry.
And I think my favorite is when I'm doing a drawing
or a sketch and I come up with something
that I wasn't expecting.
And then I feel like God talks to me
through what I've created that I love.
Yeah, and I'm an architectural person.
Amazing.
I don't enjoy that much at the moment.
Okay.
Thank you.
I'm sorry I missed so much.
No, that's okay, Susan.
We're so glad you're here.
Thanks for saying hi.
It's so good to hear your voice.
And amazing that you're able to catch
just a little bit of this.
Again, we will be posting this Zoom chat
in our Facebook group.
And Zylan just let me know,
we will be posting this in our guide 26.
So that's where Kingdom Creatives is.
So if you go to the link that I posted with Facebook
and you go, there's a, at the top,
there'll be like about discussion and guides.
If you hit that guide and you go down to guide 26,
that's the Kingdom Creative way.
And so we will be posting that Zoom chat there in that area.
And we'd love to hear from you.
Please like come and connect with us.
Yeah.
Come and dialogue with us.
We'd love to connect with you.
Yeah.
And we will send out an email again,
just like you got this email,
we'll send another email out in three weeks time,
letting you know when our next chat is.
Yeah.
So thank you.
Thank you all so much for coming.
It is so good to see your faces, to hear your voices,
to know your stories and your, yeah, just your journeys.
And thank you for coming and being a part of this.
It's, yeah, it's really amazing to connect with you all.
Zylan, do you have anything that you want to say?
I think we are good.
I mean, it's an amazing time.
It's so great.
I mean, there are a lot of writers and sculptors
and fashion designers, you know,
a lot of beautiful, excellent people.
questions here and it'll be really nice you know when we post our uh our video it'll be really nice
because uh Raising Royalty got like 55k people you know and uh to find all the creative people
in that like no 50k is it's it's a it's a huge task so it'll be really really great if you guys
can come and communicate that's why we actually created that guide 26. If you can come I mean
all the people who are here in this chat if you can come share I mean some of the pictures and
you know of the of your work or your craft so it'll be really easy for us to just start a
conversation we are trying to build this uh this community of creative people inside that group and
um so it'll be easy for you guys to come and talk to us because it's really hard for us
to find you that's why you know please communicate and we'll be having like
different kind of topics discussions every month like Diana said but please interact
with this video and um yeah it's it's amazing I'm really blessed by all of you
thanks amazing well we're just gonna pray and then we're gonna say goodbye to you all so I'm
holding this laptop because my laptop's about to die so that's why I'm moving quite a lot I'm gonna
unplug it and come back over here so I don't have to hold it so we're gonna pray and then we're
gonna say goodbye to you beautiful people and you can go to sleep or you can go have breakfast or
go have lunch or dinner whatever time zone that you are in um but father I just want to say thank
you so much for every man and woman that is a part of this zoom today and I want to thank you
for all of the creatives that are part of our Raising Loyalty family father I thank you for
each story each heart that you have created that you're journeying with each one of them and father
we just ask for your right now your tangible presence holy spirit would you come and just
kiss their hearts with your tangible presence would you fill them with your liquid love would
your goodness and your mercy and your grace and your voice and your presence come and awaken them
god would you bring just fresh creative flow I just pray a protection over each one of their minds
god would you bring peace and shalom to every mind
where there's been battles where there's been oppression where there's been fiery darts where
there's been just pushing back darkness and pushing back the internal wrestle and the wars
god we just speak peace to the storm father I just released your shalom in Jesus name
your shalom in Jesus name that peace that comes to confront the darkness that peace that comes
to release prosperity and safety and provision and yeah and prosperity to every aspect of their being
father we just breathe you in why don't you just in this moment now just take a really deep breath
in we just breathe you in lord we just say thank you for your goodness thank you for your
faithfulness thank you for your love thank you for your salvation and your freedom and your
deliverance thank you for your goodness thank you that you are the master craftsman you are the
greatest artist the greatest architect the one who is the original design of color and texture and
sound and beauty and wonder father I ask for dreams and visions I ask for continual downloads and
sovereign encounters with the lord in the day and in the night god I pray for just the spirit of
wisdom and revelation to be released that we would be enlightened and awakened to see you and
to know you to experience you I just ask for your healing your healing over people's lives their
hearts their bodies their minds their souls their relationships father would you just continue to
release your redemption your restoration your liberation your freedom father come and liberate
us to the core that we would feel abundant life resurrection life flowing in us to create with you
to release your light your voice your presence and to release heaven on the earth and so father I pray
for each one of them in their journey god would you just release your resources your finances
your encouragement safe people community friends on the journey to create with to do life with god
in the season of covid with all the different dynamics coming at us I speak the blessing of
the lord over each one the freedom the joy of the lord is our strength god would you give us
a greater capacity to wait on you
you. As we wait on you, our joy would just be exploding on the
inside, a fountain of joy, a fountain of love. God, would
you come and let your presence just minister so deeply to us?
Father, we just say thank you. Thank you for your goodness.
Thank you for your faithfulness to us. Thank you for your love.
We bless you, Jesus. We bless you, Father. We bless you, Holy
Spirit. We honor you. There is none like you. In Jesus name.
Amen. So bless you, beautiful people. We love you. The whole
tribe at Raising Royalty, just our heart is to love you, to
support you, to bless you, to champion you, to encourage you
on your journey. So we look forward to seeing you again next
month. Again, just like Zylan said, please, please be
commenting. Please be letting us know how you're doing. And this
will be posted in guide 26 of the Facebook group. So bless
you all. Much love.
Bye-bye.
Thank you.