Hello, beautiful people.
Hello, hello, and welcome to the Kingdom creative chat.
I know a whole bunch of you are just hopping on.
So, so glad that you're here.
Welcome, welcome, welcome.
We're just going to give you a few minutes as everybody starts logging on and jumping in.
You beautiful people.
Hello, hello, welcome as you jump all in.
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Oh, it's so good to see all your faces.
This is so great.
Awesome.
Oh, Zylan and Phi, you're here.
Yay! Awesome.
Hi, hi, hi.
Oh, hi.
Yes.
We're doing it.
Awesome, man.
So good.
Oh.
Hey, Phi, what's up, bro?
Your mic is mute, bro.
Unmute the mic.
Hi, hi.
Hi, guys.
This is amazing.
So for all of you that are logging on, we're so glad that you're here.
We are going to be probably just letting the next few minutes people log in from around the world.
If you were here last time, we had probably a good 50 people join on the chat, which was amazing.
So who knows who's going to jump on today, but it is so good to see all of your faces.
We are so glad that you're here.
And we've got Phi and Zylan, our amazing, beautiful kingdom creative team, and our brilliant artists that are going to be speaking today and just sharing more of their heart on finding inspiration and how we can just continue to create this atmosphere,
environment, community within raising royalty of our kingdom creatives to champion you, to serve you, to support you in your journey of expression of art.
Your journey as an artist.
How do we bring light and color and inspiration to the world?
How do we release heaven through the art that we create?
And how do we do it as a family?
How do we do it as a community that's encouraging one another, that's releasing truth, releasing revelation, insight, wisdom, tools, different things that have changed our lives, all part of the process.
And so our heart in this chat is to create a really open dialogue, to be vulnerable, to be real, and for us, hopefully, just to be able to give you some gold, some wisdom, some input that's really going to serve you in your personal journey as an artist.
And also in your relationship with the Lord, because this is all integrated very much in our relationship with God.
So, so good to see you.
Look, people just keep popping on.
This is amazing.
Oh, this is so great.
So I'm just going to hand it over, like, Zylan and Phi, how are you guys doing today?
So we've got Zylan in India.
We've got Phi in Madagascar, which is just amazing.
And all you beautiful people from around the world.
Isn't technology such a gift?
Like, this is just crazy.
I know it's so normal in our day, but it never ceases to blow my mind.
Like, 50 years ago, this was not happening.
You know what I mean?
Imagine going through COVID without technology.
But yeah, Zylan and Phi, how are you guys doing?
Talk to us.
Hello, everyone.
This is Zylan.
And I'm actually checking out all the people, you know, how they're doing this video thingy.
Look at Jim.
What kind of camera are you using?
Are you using a DSLR?
I have a special diffuser in the background that is part of the Zoom app to blur out the background
and keep the close app looking good just for security purposes.
Oh, that's amazing.
For me, each time when I go live on Zoom, right now it's 1030 here in the night.
And there's no light.
I have to literally stay in a place where I have enough light and stuff.
It's 12 noon.
I'm near Washington, D.C., so this is like noon here.
Awesome, awesome.
Yeah.
Hello, everybody, again.
And I'm doing good, actually.
For the last couple of weeks, the state I'm staying here, it's called Kerala.
It's very south of India.
We were having, like, heavy rain.
Some part of my state was flooding.
So it's quite unusual to have this kind of weather during November, December and yeah, so it was a crazy week and yeah, so it was really so nice to be here and I'm so, so excited.
We've been having and crazy flooding to I'm in Vancouver, BC and our provinces under a state of emergency and we've had highways underwater and people like mudslides people being like hours away from their home people evacuated from cities being helicoptered out it's crazy like our whole city.
Underwater bridges have been completely wiped out from flooding. It's just wild. Isn't it like it's happening all over the world with just the crazy.
Yeah, I've lost power the last few weeks for four days, just like power outages everywhere. It's just, I mean it's happening all over the place, but I didn't know that was happening in India, and I'm sure many of you.
Yeah, a lot of a lot of natural calamities were happening here. Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah.
Talk to us, brother. How are you, you're a new dad. You've got a baby. Yes.
Are you alive. Yes, it is. Are you awake. Talk to us.
I'm gonna try to be very present today, tonight, because it's 8pm here, and my wife and my boy, they are almost sleeping I mean my boy is sleeping, praise God, because as a newborn baby is like waking up every two, two hours or three hours or so.
So yeah, it's a new season and it's beautiful but it's also challenging and it's testing your passions and you're sleeping.
My, everything is just changing you know and it's, it's a new season, but it's beautiful.
And I am so excited to be with you tonight or today I don't know but it's gonna be amazing. And, yeah, I'm glad to be with you all. How many are we.
I think we've got 17 so far.
So I know, I know last time we had probably about 2030 and and people just kept adding on it got to 4050 so depending where people are joining in from and people schedules.
Last time I believe we did it on a Saturday morning, so it was a little bit.
I know with different people they might be at work today, because it is a Friday, depending again what time. And so, yeah, well, um, I'm just going to kick it off just with a quick prayer just inviting the Holy Spirit to come with us he's already on the inside of us he's
already all around us so we don't actually have to invite him to come but we're just going to welcome his voice and his just leading in this because we, our hearts is that this wouldn't.
I mean yes we want to just chat and want to connect we want community we want your hearts to feel loved and seen and known and celebrated. And in addition to that, we really want to make room for the miraculous, we want to make room for the Holy Spirit to come
and do something in each of us just tuning our hearts to heaven, just saying Holy Spirit would you come and speak with you come give enlightenment, would you illuminate our, our understanding would you give us eyes to see ears to hear would you awaken
in every fiber of our being that would resonate the creativity of our Lord, you know, so I'm just going to quickly pray so father we just thank you for each person here God I look at each one of their beautiful faces and I see their names.
I thank you for these sons and these daughters I thank you for these ones that your hand is so richly upon I thank you for your presence and your love God.
Thank you that you are the ultimate creator you are the master craftsman, and we are your handiwork we are your sons and daughters we are made in your image we bear your name we bear your DNA and I just ask in this time father, that you would release so much grace
so much love so much wisdom that that our hearts that there would just be resurrection life, there would be abundant life that life flow. That is the creative life flow of Jesus of the Holy Spirit that pulses throughout our world.
Your breath, your name your voice your presence, everything you do is creative, everything you touch gives light and color and shape and form, and we just worship you we honor you King Jesus we honor you father we love you.
love you. We want everything that we do to be an expression of love and devotion and worship to
you. And so we just welcome you to come lead us in this time of conversation. I pray for personal
encounter for everyone here that you'd be speaking to them. You'd be awakening the creator inside of
them, the artist, you would be waking up dream and desire things that you've spoken to them.
We just welcome the prophetic spirit. We welcome you Jesus to come and walk into the room.
Holy spirit that you would just like literally be popping things awake, that they're just being an
awakening of your beauty, of your goodness, of your voice of possibility to him who is able
to do exceedingly abundantly more than we could think, hope, dream, or imagine.
Father, we ask God just for the miraculous to happen in our lives. We make room for that.
We yield to you. We surrender to you. And we just thank you that you are the most fun,
playful, joyful person in the universe. And we ask for joy, God, where there's been heaviness
in the season, weariness, tiredness, fatigue, depression, hopelessness, where we felt stuck.
God, I pray that there would just be a shift right now in Jesus name. I pray for new joy,
a new song, a new light that you would put a new countenance on our face, radiance of love and joy
in Jesus name. Amen. So beautiful people. I am going to, we're just going to be kind of like
dialogue. Zylan and Fi are going to just talk to us and share some really good tools,
things that have helped them in their creative process as artists, as songwriters, as creators.
These two men, if you don't know them are incredible songwriters, singers, artists,
digital design. There is so much gold that they have produced and not just produced,
but they have created, they have released in the world. So we have, I have so much to learn from
them and I'm so glad that they're here and just going to be talking to us about finding inspiration.
How do we find inspiration? How do we get tuned in? What are the things that are very simple
in our daily lives? What are things that we have to be intentional about and actually make time for?
What are things that are based on our personality that might not be for everyone, but for us and how
the father has made us, that's how we're wired. That's how we're tuned in. And that's how we
become kind of awakened to inspiration. The beautiful thing is that we are all individual
and the father's fingerprints are all over us. And it, it looks different. Creativity looks
different for each of us because it's a real intimate thing in our relationship with God and
who he's made us to be. And so I'm really looking forward to hearing how that looks and is expressed
through Zilan and Fi. So Zilan and Fi, I'm handing it over to you brothers. Love you guys so much.
And so looking forward to just seeing what you share. So as they share, they might share a little
bit of their life and inspiration. And then if you have a question or if you want to pop in maybe
with the reactions, I don't know if you can see at the bottom of the reactions, there's like
a raise a hand. If you just pop the little raise a hand, it'll put an emoticon in the, in the like
top box of raise a hand. And then we can go to you with your question or if you want to
share something. Sound good? Okay, Zilan and Fi, take it away, my friends.
Hey Fi, do you want to start bro? Or do you want me to start?
You, you can start.
All right. So thank you, Diana. Diana is working so hard for this Zoom meeting. We really appreciate
for your effort and work and putting things together. And yeah, and I know that, I mean,
there are a lot of artists here. Last time when we had Zoom and a lot of unexpected faces,
came and, you know, we just realized that they were like working as an artist for like 15,
30 years, you know, like making life out of it. And that was like, kind of like a big thing for
me, you know, from the last Zoom meeting. So I'm thinking that, I mean, we have all the creatives
here who have a different journey and different levels of, you know, some might be super pro,
or maybe amateur or beginners, intermediate, I don't know how to categorize. But I was actually
kind of looking for something to say, you know, in the language to articulate that everybody can
understand. And, and, yeah, I just wrote down a couple of points. And Phi, you can jump in and
You can, anytime you want to add stuff, please do it.
And if you want to talk something and just please say it,
I'll just start with, is that cool?
All right.
I was actually looking for this thing
called what is inspiration?
What is inspiration?
Inspiration is something that helps us to generate an idea
in a very simple way to put it together, you know,
just something that inspire us to generate an idea.
And an idea can come from everywhere, you know,
from everything, from mundane to extravagant stuff
and existing or imagination,
or it can come from anything, you know, anytime.
So to find an inspiration,
first thing we had to do is to look for,
to look for, you know,
to live in a place of expectation, you know,
a complete awareness.
There are a lot of people we're talking about
like finding inspiration, you know,
there are two schools of thoughts actually.
And one sets say that, you know,
that creativity is not productivity,
is not, is equal to productivity.
You know, most of the time we live in a modern age
and, you know, we frame everything
in this very industrialist way
because we always look for product, you know,
because what we want is the end product.
It's a very, you know, sometimes it's really hard
to apply the same template on a creative mind
because all the, most of the great artists
who actually created great, great art stuff,
a creator, you know, in our human civilization
for this years, you know,
they did, most of them,
they don't care about end product actually, you know,
and they just enjoy the process of creating, you know,
just they fully immerse themselves to create.
They actually, you know,
most of them actually destroyed their final products,
you know, if you go and find out
because nobody, most of them were not satisfied
with their final products.
You know, I read Da Vinci said about Mona Lisa
that, you know, he actually took around four years
or something like that to create that stuff.
And somebody asked him and like, you know,
and he was saying that, I mean, I could have done better.
The thing is never being satisfied, you know,
it's just like being in that moment of creating something
that that's what they enjoy.
In other side, other school of thought is somebody,
you know, who wants to leave as an artist
who works in an agency or do something, you know,
what we need to do, what we have to do is we have to,
you know, put a structure and create something
because we'll be having clients and, you know,
and we have to make a living out of it.
So in that scenario, you know,
that we care so much about the end product.
Yeah, so basically you,
inspiration is in this two scenario,
inspiration is needed, you know,
whether if you're looking for an end product
or looking for an experience of creating something.
And just as I said that, you know, generating an idea,
you know, I actually did a live session
on Kingdom Creative about a book called
The Techniques to Produce an Idea.
So, you know, because an idea is,
let me put it this way, you know, just idea is,
because most of the time when we think about idea,
we think about this, you know, just being original,
you know, being unique and all those kinds of stuff.
But actually they say that originality is a mirage.
There is nothing called original idea, you know,
because every new idea is a combination of existing ideas.
You know?
all the existing ideas, we put it together,
put our twist in it, put our personality,
flavor and perspective into it
and make it authentic and personal and new.
It's not original, but it's new.
You know what I'm saying?
So creating, so that's what actually,
you know, people define idea, you know,
and to find idea, you know,
it's, there are a lot of ways you can do it.
There are a lot of ways people do it
and there is no right way or wrong way, you know?
Like even when Diana started,
she said that, you know, we are all individual.
We have our own personality, you know,
and as an artist, we have our own journey,
our own, like the way we evolve
is quite different from each other.
So this is not the right way or wrong way.
This is, there are a couple of ways that people do it.
One of the things people say that, you know,
if you want to create inspiration,
you have to stay away from distraction.
You know, what distracting you that you have to define?
You know, you have to define your distraction
and it might be internet, online, smartphone, job,
and whatever it is, you know, like, you know,
once you define your distraction,
it's easy for you to, you know,
create an ambience, atmosphere, you know,
because that's what, it's more like, you know,
just creating an atmosphere so that, you know,
an idea can happen, an inspiration can happen, you know,
can happen anytime from anywhere.
Yafi, you want to add something, bro?
Yeah.
Yo, my friend, that's deep.
Whatever you shared.
Yo, I guess I'll just jump in how I find my inspiration,
because you've already explained a lot of stuff
about inspiration already.
But I guess as a, I'm a songwriter
and I'm a professional artist in my country,
just for a little bit of information.
So you may know a little bit about me also.
So for me, I have a, as a Christian,
I have a goal in what I do.
And if you, if we have goals,
we have to set some disciplines also
so that we can reach the goal.
And as an artist, one of my first discipline
is just to be in touch with God.
It's just to be always,
try to always be present in his presence.
And be, how would I say it?
Pay attention to details, to small things
and all those things.
I don't know.
I might go in totally, you know,
we might go in many direction in this discussion,
but that's, we are artists.
We go to many directions.
It's mostly that much.
Just kidding.
Anyway, but yeah, like for me, I'm like,
if we want to release heaven on earth,
like we must be in touch with whatever God wants to do.
If, because how can we release what we don't know
or what we are not in touch with or what we,
if we don't even know what he wanted to do,
how can we release it here?
And that's why it's very important to have that,
to be present in his presence for me.
So that's how I find inspiration.
I keep being open to whatever is coming to my life also
and try to put words in everything.
Try to write down, journal, all those things.
So there's no, not.
a low, I guess, as Zailin explained, like there's no like a low, this is the low to
find inspiration, because, yeah, but we just keep being open to whatever is coming and
we write down and we allow ourselves to feel, we allow ourselves to, you know, and then
we pray, help us to see more clearly, to feel, yeah, to feel more sincerely, to feel more
sincerely and so that we can write pure and simple but maybe meaningful and powerful thing
also. Yeah.
That is so good, Phi. I just want to hop on what you're talking about, because Zailin
and Phi, you've just like laid the foundation of some of like, just the technique and the
reality of the building blocks of finding inspiration, but then also understanding kind
of how we do that and getting in touch with God and our own relationship with him. And
I just want to add in a few things that we can maybe open up for the dialogue and we
can kind of like, yes, a little bit more. One thing that you were talking about is if
we want to produce art that actually releases heaven, then we need to be in touch with heaven.
And the reality is, is even in the natural, what we eat, is what we digest is what we
poop out, right? So in the natural, as is in the spirit, what we are looking on what
we are listening to, what we are engaging in the hours of our day, in the internal realm
of our heart, is going to absolutely color and taint and texture what it is that we produce.
So our relationship with God, walking in purity and integrity, having the Lord be an active
presence in our life, not just I'm a Christian, I love God, I go to church, but actually having
a personal connection with him, actually getting to know his nature and character,
hearing his voice, being aligned to his word, doesn't mean we have to be perfect. Lord knows
we are not perfect. Lord knows that we have our own process and our journey and struggles
and weakness and sin that we overcome. We're not defined by any of that. We're not defined
by unhealthy behavior or mistakes or guilt or shame, none of that. In Jesus, there's
no condemnation, no guilt, no shame, no blame. There is so much love. There is so much healing
and forgiveness and renewal and rebirth. And so out of that, we've been given a new nature.
We are sons and daughters of the light. We, and I think as artists and creatives, that
is a world that we really get affected by because we are very sensory. We're very visual.
We're very sensitive because the realm of creativity is all about our senses. And so
as we are walking out our humanity, what we are engaging with in our lives and our relationships
and our work and what we look on and what we eat and what we do in our life, it all
has a massive effect on what we produce because what we behold, we become. And so I think
it's so good what Fia and Zion were talking about within goals that we have as artists
or within just dreams or desires, whether creativity is something that we want to do
just because we want to be creative or whether we feel called to it or whether we actually
want it to be part of our calling and purpose that we make a living from, whatever place
you find yourself in that journey, I think the bedrock of that is we are all creative.
It doesn't even matter. Every human is born a creator. Every human is creative. When you're
a kid, you hear music, you start dancing, you finger paint, you sing, you, we want to,
we are born to create. Now we get into our adult years or our teenage years and the enemy
comes in and culture and society comes in and begins to bring judgment to our creativity,
whether that's good or bad, whether it's worthy of celebration or whether it's worthy of
attention. And then we get all in the mixture and we can find ourselves in an identity struggle,
but we are all born creative. And that creativity comes from the breath of God,
Yahweh, it comes from the very nature. So what Fia was saying is if we want to produce art that
releases heaven, we have to be in touch with heaven, not in a striving performance way,
but in a way of that. We need water every day. We need
food every day to nourish us.
We need breath, we need sleep.
There are things that we need that actually nourish
and nurture our humanity.
And we need the breath and the voice
and the presence of God and the word of God.
Amen.
Can I get like a little hands raised?
Like, yeah, you know.
And so part of the journey of that is like,
okay, so what does that mean?
What does that look like?
Because we all come from different cultures.
We all come from different backgrounds, different churches.
We all come from very different experiences
of what our relationship with God looks like,
what being a Christian looks like,
what following Jesus looks like.
And yet it's very simple.
It's to love the Lord your God
with all of your heart, soul, mind, and strength.
And it is to follow Jesus.
And it is to have the word of God
as a roadmap to his heart
that shows us what his nature and character is like.
And then we do that in community so there's accountability.
So we're not lone rangers just doing our own thing.
We're actually in this living, breathing community
of lovers of Jesus that go, hey, we want to do this.
So I want to just say a few things
that helped me with finding inspiration.
And maybe, I see Anita, your hand up.
I'm going to go to you right after this, baby.
One thing that is really helpful for me is solitude.
I don't know if this is something
that you've practiced in your life.
I think we all have had a lot of isolation this year
because of COVID and lockdown.
Everyone's like, listen, I've done solitude, get me out.
I know that's how I feel.
I'm like, I've been in this state 24 seven,
living alone, working alone for 18 or a year.
Get me out.
So I know the feeling of isolation
is actually not the same as solitude though.
I just want to make that differencing.
Solitude is actually a practice and a discipline
of bringing stillness and quiet
to tune into your own heart and to God
and finding a rest and a presence
and abiding rest and a presence
and actually becoming self-aware
to what is happening on the inside of you
and tuning into the spirit of God, the voice of God,
turning your attention and affection towards him.
It's actually creating time and space in your day
to have solitude where just as Zilin said,
you have to be aware of your distractions.
Zilin's distractions are going to be different than mine,
going to be different than Alexander's,
than Jim's, than Janice's, than Fee's, than Jodit.
I'm sorry if I said your name wrong, you beautiful woman.
Zoe, Diana, Helen, all of our distractions
are going to be different
because we all are different in our personality,
in our strengths and our weaknesses.
So solitude, I want to just give that as an encouragement
in finding inspiration.
Solitude is really good because what do we do?
We drown out the noise,
we just like settle everything down, our busy mind.
We actually are like tuning into like,
sometimes putting a hand on your chest,
quieting down your thoughts, closing your eyes,
maybe being in silence,
maybe having some like quiet instrumental music
and actually just doing some deep breathing,
actually calming your nervous system
and actually getting into a place of rest.
Deep breathing is really, really an incredible tool.
Breathe in for four seconds,
hold for seven and release for eight.
Do that 16 times in your central nervous system,
just kind of like, ooh.
And I think with stress, with anxiety, with worry,
sometimes like thoughts,
sometimes just taking five minutes,
doing some deep breathing, quieting yourself,
having some soaking music, whether there's lyrics to it,
whether it's instrumental and just dialing down,
having a journal, as they said, journaling some thoughts.
Another thing that's really good is getting out in nature.
Go for a walk.
There is, creation speaks 24 seven.
The amount of inspiration that I get from going to the beach,
I live right on a river, on like a forest.
I'm looking out right now at the forest
and like the trees speak to me every day.
The grass, the sun, the cloud.
I live in Vancouver, it rains like nine months of the year.
The rain, the clouds, like just going for walks,
being in a grocery store, taking notice of people,
being observatory of what's happening,
hearing a lyric from a song in the grocery store
that just caught my attention,
seeing the way like someone just interacted
with someone on the street.
Literally, just as they said,
you can find inspiration everywhere,
but nature is always speaking.
Creation is always speaking.
In the Psalms, it says, the trees clap their hands,
the winds, the waves, you know what I mean?
Finding inspiration while you're cooking,
finding inspiration in a smell,
like washing my hair and like smelling something,
like that smell took me back to like coconuts
and took me back to.
a beach somewhere and that it took like thoughts go on a trail, you know, um,
finding inspiration in like the things that you love.
One of the things that's been a game changer for me in my spiritual life is
actually knowing that God delights in the things that I like.
I thought I had to be so spiritual and so hardworking and that God
like permitted me to like some of the things,
but to know that God actually radically enjoys and
loves it. When I do the things that make me come alive, he's right there in it,
beckoning me to do it.
And it's actually worship for me to do the things that make me come alive.
That I want to say to you in finding inspiration is a game changer
because God, Jesus came that there would be life and life abundant.
He came that there would be abundant life and joy.
And so many of us get caught up in striving and performance.
We don't even realize there's legalism and religion.
We don't even realize that we think that he he's not playful and the most
joyful person in the universe, but God is the most joyful, beautiful,
loving, attentive. Like I want to connect with you,
enjoy and love and delight person in the universe. He made us,
we actually do things when we make a meal that we love.
I find so much inspiration in the color and the texture of food and the smell of
it. And I put some music on and I light a candle and I have a glass of wine and
I'm just like dancing in my little kitchen. And I'm like, Woo. Yay. Hey,
you know, I'm just vibing by myself or with a friend on the phone.
And there's inspiration.
And I might get inspired with something or I might be out for a walk,
feeling super bummed out, alone,
frustrated with some of the things that are going in my life.
And I see something and it inspires me.
And I just begin to speak poetry and song to the Lord, like whatever emotion,
whatever circumstance, wherever you're at,
finding, inspiring, allowing life,
allowing his voice to come but doing things that make you come alive,
playing a card game with people that you love dancing, eating, seeing a movie,
whatever it is, the activity.
I really want to encourage you be intentional to create space for
solitude and create space for nature and create space for
joy, create space in your day.
Even if you're tired or you're married kids,
work things take five minutes a day and go,
I'm going to be intentional about doing something that makes me come alive.
Because when you are feeling alive, when you are feeling joy,
the life force in that carries so much power.
It carries so much empowering grace for something to spark on the inside
of you. That is buoyant. That's like a fountain of life.
That is bringing up like, Oh my gosh.
It's like your batteries just get recharged. You're like, you know,
like those heart things in a hospital that you put on the heart and it's like,
someone's in heart failure and it's like, and it's like a, like,
you know, revives it. Joy revives the heart. It refreshes,
it renews, it nourishes, it comes to bring life.
And so yes, finding inspiration in solitude,
finding inspiration in nature, getting outside,
being observatory of the everyday mundane,
normal things of life.
You could be crossing a street and you could see a sign and something just
speaks to you. The spirit of God speaks to you.
I always ask every day, like God speak to me,
speak to me in a, in a billboard, in a sign, in a song,
I hear in an interaction that I see in a car that drives by in like my
everyday mundane life, just here, speak to me, open up my eyes.
Like God, you're in everything. And you're always speaking.
He is always speaking.
So tune my attention to be aware of how you're speaking to me.
You know, so many times I'm on Instagram and like a post speaks to me,
a picture, a word. And it's like a timely word, prophetic word for me.
They're not even Christian or being prophetic.
It's just a timely thing that God like goes speaking to that.
Or I'm just like, wow, I'm watching other people's creativity.
I was watching Zylan's music video. When we were doing the talent quest,
I literally got so lit up with joy. He's dancing on a beach,
all these amazing indie kids. I was here in my living room and be like,
like I was fully getting lit up. I watched Fee was like, yeah,
last night it just got inspired with a song. And I just wrote the song.
So today I'm just singing it to you. And I'm like, Fee,
you like literally got inspired last night by this scripture and you wrote a
song and then you just made a music video and you put it on Facebook.
I'm like, Holy spirit do that to me.
I want to just like get inspired and write a song and be like, Hey everyone.
You know? So let other people's art,
even if it's not in your.
sphere of art, if it's painting, poetry, dance, sculpture, architecture, digital design, whatever
it is, let other people's art inspire you. Look at it as the great museum, as if you're going
to a museum every day. Every day is a museum, and we are all his handiwork. There is so much
art that we get to gaze on. Statues, paintings, humanity. Humanity is this walking museum of art.
I'm going to stop talking, because I could just keep talking for a long time.
I'm going to stop, but I'm going to just wrap it up again of seeing the solitude,
the nature, other people's creativity, and then finding joy, being deliberate and intentional to
do the things that make you come alive, because that is a life force that actually creates a
cadence. It connects you to the rhythm and the heartbeat of the father, because the more that
we're in joy, the more we're alive, and the more we are alive, the more we will create life,
and the more we are alive, we crave the light. We crave good things that cause us to be alive.
The more we feel disconnected, hopeless, depressed, isolated, we return to things that give us,
that meet our needs in an unhealthy way, and then we get in these shame spirals.
We actually go to things that aren't life-giving. Then we feel the effects of the disconnect of sin.
We feel frustrated. We feel like, oh, this isn't who I am, and we get in those things.
I've been there. We've all been there, and so there's no shame and no blame. It's just going,
hey, every day is a new start. Every day is a reset. There's new mercy every day,
and we get to go, hey, what are the things that are affecting my life that I'm aligning to?
Maybe what are the behaviors, the things that I'm looking on, engaging with, feeding with,
even good things sometimes that just aren't timely for us anymore, even relationships,
good things that were good for a time that, hey, that's not feeding me, or things that we're giving
our time and attention to that are no longer appropriate for the season that are actually
becoming a distraction. It doesn't just have to be wrong things or sin. It could just be things
that go, that's not a life-giving thing anymore, so I'm going to bring some rearranging to where
I'm giving my time and attention and my focus. Holy Spirit, help me rearrange some things so
that I can be in alignment with the life-giving power, because we live and we move and we have
our being in Jesus, in the Holy Spirit, in God the Father. Holy Spirit, what are the things that
are life-giving that are going to continue to allow that life flow, and what are the things
that maybe cause me to be a bit anxious or fearful or feel shame or not the best version
of myself? What are the things that aren't producing the best version of myself that I just need to go,
yeah, no more of that, shifting focus, reset, woo, here we go. So I want to go to Anita,
and I also want to just open it up just to say what's maybe one thing, just because we have a
lot of people on here, so we just want to be mindful just to take maybe one minute or two
minutes so that we create space for everyone, but maybe what's one thing that brings inspiration to
you in your life? And Zylan and Phi, always chime in at any time. Before we get into this
question-answer thing, can I say a few points? Absolutely. All right, so I just wanted to add
what Diana said. Diana actually covered a lot of things, so I'm trying to like structure it,
because Diana told me that, hey, put down some notes, so actually I did it,
and you actually covered most of the stuff, so I just wanted to like add that thing,
especially the thing that first get rid of, define your distraction and create a mood,
so the inspiration can pop up. Once it comes, it can come in unexpected times,
you just need to record it, just journal it, write it down, voice note, take a picture,
just record it, because the next moment you will miss it, because many times I'm a
songwriter, I write like almost every day, and most of the time, in early my days, I mean,
I didn't like record it and stuff, and sometimes there are really beautiful melodies, and words
come, and after two days, it's gone, I can't remember and stuff, so always journal it, and
other thing is, also Diana shared, just get inspired by other artists, so this is one of
the things that I always actually look for.
I mean, I just wanted to like create a circle
because it can be virtual or like a physical thing,
you know, you can create,
because we live in a really, really blessed time
of information, you know, we got a lot of technology,
lot of resource, you know, even though if you are in a room,
you know, in a pandemic situation,
you can still connect with the entire world.
You know, it's a crazy, crazy opportunity to grow,
you know, you can create a circle of artists
who inspire you, you know,
and maybe, you know, you can go to the museum
or read books, watch movies and, you know,
and just always, you know, try to build a circle
of artists or people who you can look up to,
who you can get inspired to.
Another thing is always put yourself into a new experience
because new experience bring new knowledge
and new knowledge often bring new ideas.
So that's other thing, you know,
whatever Dana said, if you are a nature person,
I am not a very good nature person,
I love chaos, I love cities, you know,
I love a lot of chaos and stuff.
I mean, I love solitude and stuff for sure.
And just being aware, just quieting yourself down
because all the great artists, scientists, theologians,
all the big people, the great minds always did that thing,
you know, just silencing yourself down,
just being in that quiet place,
just in solitude and bringing the idea
because idea comes from within, you know,
it doesn't come from up above, you know,
because that's what the Bible says, you know,
the river actually comes from inside out.
So if you wanna hear that thing,
if you wanna tap into that source, you need to quiet down.
And other thing is,
so already Dana, Dana, you covered everything.
The other thing is just being aware
because most of the people, you know,
all the artists, you know,
what we actually do is, you know, just being aware.
All the artists, we actually have deeper perception,
you know, we see things in multi-layer
and we just, you know,
and if you can cultivate a deep sense of awareness,
you're set and, you know,
that's what we have to do with our lives.
You know, that's what I always trying to do with my life,
just try to be aware of what's going on, you know,
like Dana said that, you know,
just having a childlike mindset, you know,
because if you see it, this phone and your brain tells you
what it is, how it is, you know,
lot of information comes out,
if you really spend observing it, you know, to anything.
The thing is, we live in a very busy age and time,
we don't look, we don't observe, you know,
because we are always chasing after the next big thing,
you know, so if you can slow down,
pause and observe and solitude,
always lot of ideas that the spirit of God
can speak to you, you know,
and yeah, and look for inspiration anytime, you know,
every day it can come to you and like they said,
personally for me, I use my social media,
always I actually edit, I unfollow stuff,
I always make sure that my algorithm is something
that every day when I wake up,
I wanna see the things that inspire me, you know,
if any reels that not my thing,
I unfollow it immediately,
so I always edit my algorithm and try to make sure
that all my feeds are pretty inspiring
and, you know, I love little funny stuff,
but still most of my social media thing
is a great percentage is to inspire me and build me,
give me positive vibe, you know, something like that,
I mean, that actually really helps me
and always look for, as a musician,
I always look for new music
and if I listen to some people talk about,
the first thing when I meet an artist,
I ask them, you know, what you listen to
and who is your favorite?
every artist, you know, I just wanted to know that
how these people are doing this stuff,
where this thing comes from, you know?
And then you can just go and dig deeper into it
and, you know, just find your own inspiration and stuff,
you know, and always other thing is just create,
create, create.
And sometimes, you know, it's easy.
I mean, it's okay to take rest.
It's okay to not create anything, you know,
just take break.
That's also a really good point, you know,
if you want to find inspiration.
So, yeah, I'm done.
That was brilliant.
I'm so sorry.
I didn't mean to take away your notes, beautiful man.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, that's really nice.
I mean, you put it in a really nice, nice way.
So it's easy for me to just add it.
Thank you.
Well, I'm so glad you did because even,
I was just writing a whole bunch of notes
of what you were saying in the chat,
just so that this is being recorded.
So for you that want to re-watch this,
or for people that are going to be watching this later
because they can't join us live,
I was trying to just,
I'm going to keep taking notes and just fill it in the chat
just for key points and reference things
for what you and Fi have shared.
But I love that you even just brought that thing of,
Dana might like to get out in nature,
but I like to get out in the city.
And I'm like, oh, this is the beautiful thing
about a collective of people speaking into this,
because yes, I love that.
I'm a city girl.
I'm like, get me out in the city, big,
like just to see the life force of all of these people,
the statues, the buildings,
the life that is happening in the city.
Because I live on a little forest right now,
it takes me a bit to get into the city,
but I'm like a city girl at heart.
But I love that he said that,
because I'm like, yes,
depending where you live is going to drastically affect
what your landscape looks like.
You know what I mean?
If you live in a high rise, if you live in a big house,
if you live in the country, if you live in the forest,
if you live in a high rise in a tiny little apartment
or wherever you live, the climate you live,
the atmosphere you live, the culture you live in,
dramatically affects what is your normal
and what actually gives you life.
You know what I mean?
Someone that is raised in the desert
is not gonna be like, yeah, I just wanna go to the beach.
No, they're in the desert.
So the desert is gonna be their landscape
of what inspires them compared to,
or someone's in like weather that's like summer,
90% of the year.
And I'm like in winter, 90% of the year.
It's gonna be different of what the culture
and like, and the landscape.
So what you shared, Zylan, was absolutely brilliant.
I'm gonna just continue to take note
of the share of what you said.
So good.
And Fi, love you so much, brother.
Please chime in anytime.
I just wanted to go to Anita
because she put her hand up about 20 minutes ago.
Thank you for being so patient, Anita.
Are you still there?
And do you want to say something beautiful?
Well, I actually raised my hand
because you said, raise your hand.
And I'm actually in bed
because I didn't feel that great.
Had no intention of being on a Zoom,
but I felt Holy Spirit when it popped up in my,
you know, this is on.
I don't usually just pop on things.
And so I popped on and lo and behold,
I'm a songwriter.
No idea what this was.
I have my own children's musical theater company
and I just left BC just in time.
I did not know that it was coming.
So I hope you're okay.
Yes.
But very, it was everything you guys have said.
I really appreciate because sometimes I thought I was crazy
because I would write all these musicals
and all these things for my kids.
And I'd be like, who do I think I am?
But God gave me this and God gave me that.
And I wasn't around a lot of spirit-filled type people.
So I didn't get confirmation so much.
People liked what I did, but I called it cheating.
When Holy Spirit would give me music,
I'm like, I'm cheating again because he gave it to me.
And so I just, thank you.
I accidentally came to this, so thanks.
Amazing.
I love that you accidentally came to this.
I'm so glad you're here.
Like, welcome.
And I just wanna be like, wow, you write musicals?
You genius, beautiful woman.
I grew up as a kid, my greatest dream was to be on Broadway.
And that's what I did all throughout high school
was musicals.
And I actually got a performing arts scholarship
and I thought that's what I was gonna do,
but my life took a turn and I went a different way
into ministry and missions.
But you write musicals, you beautiful, amazing woman.
And you just feel the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
Like that is exactly what we were created for,
is that we have the divine advantage
that God has literally created us.
uniquely with the gifts and the skills and the talents
and the abilities he's given us.
And then we have the divine advantage
that we have the Holy Spirit on the inside of us
inspiring us to do the very thing that he created us to do.
So you're like, I'm cheating.
I'm getting Holy Spirit to like give me these songs.
I'm like, girlfriend, you are not cheating.
You are living the divine kingdom life.
You are doing what you were born to do.
And the Holy Spirit's like, hey, what about this melody?
What about this scene?
What about this orchestra?
What about this moment?
What about this idea you could write into that?
Like, I'm just losing my mind right now.
You're doing what you're created to do.
Literally, like I failed music theory back 100 years ago
when I was in college,
but it was during the Olympics in Vancouver
and I was walking my dog
and I heard a complete orchestration.
And I went home and I wrote it
and I don't know how to do that.
I mean, I read music and I can write, you know what I mean?
But I'm not like,
some of you guys are probably grand musicians,
but literally I could hear the cell.
I heard all the parts and I wrote it best as I could.
Then I took it to my friend who is a good,
like can literally,
and I had a mini orchestra play it.
And I'm like, who am I?
I don't know how to do this.
And I'm doing it.
And so now I'm in Texas now.
We left BC and we're in Texas.
And so, yeah, sometimes God,
like I'm in bed, not feeling that great,
but it's the way he can get me to be quiet.
So he can, I wouldn't have watched your thing
if I wasn't feeling well,
I'd be busy working on music like I needed to,
but I needed to connect with you guys, so.
Wow, Anita, thank you so much for raising your hand.
Thank you so much for sharing that.
I'm buzzing right now.
I'm just like, ah,
like this is what we love to hear and see.
So good, so good.
Yeah, I just bless you, Anita.
Wow, father, thank you for Anita.
Thank you for your hand in our life.
We just say, increase the melodies, the songs,
the orchestras, the inspiration of everything
that you've created her to do with musicals,
with songs, with sets, with everything.
God, increase that revelation, that inspiration.
Let her hear from the throne room.
Let her hear from the father's heart.
Just increase that inspiration,
release more beauty, more strength, more fruit.
I just declare fruitfulness all over you, Anita,
in Jesus' name.
And I'm so glad that you're in Texas.
You escaped Canada.
I mean, I love my city and I love my country,
but it's a little crazy right now.
So you're living the dream in Texas.
So it's so good to see you, bless you.
Yeah, bless you.
Helen, you've got your hand raised.
We wanna go to you, lovely one.
What is your question, my dear?
Hi, I'm Helen.
And I'm so glad, like Anita, randomly hopped on this call.
And I was like, taking notes crazily.
I was like, oh, this is so good, this is so good,
this is so good.
And I think it's more like what you guys were sharing
gave me the value, what God has been taking me through,
especially in the last five years.
I was like, I don't like this, I like to be busy, you know?
And I was like, I don't have anything to do.
I'm like, oh, wait on God.
So like the things that you guys were sharing,
I think I took notes about,
especially about write things down,
like to process feeling deeply and put words on it.
And, you know, a little bit of my background
is I grew up super goal oriented,
performance oriented, result oriented.
But it wasn't really my God-given makeup.
So God had to kind of take me
completely out of the false identity.
And then he started to speak to me about my desire.
So, you know, I was like, what, you know,
I don't know how to write, you know, write songs,
like what, album, write books.
You know, I don't know how to do it.
I'm like freaking out, like, you know,
and I was like, how do I even start with this thing?
So I think hearing all you guys talking about things,
I made me understand all God is already doing in my life.
So I just need to pulling more with a practice.
And I think the question would be, you know,
Dana shared about, you know, going to the natures,
you know, the breathing, the solitude,
and also paying attention to the detail.
My question is like, how to cultivate it,
it becomes a life?
style so that you know because I think when it becomes a habit you know we just do it in a rhythm
we we don't go out of rhythm. My question is how can I cultivate that kind of you know like
rhythm to a point that I create something that is you know that would speak to other people.
Yeah oh that's so good Helen I love you beautiful girl thank you so much for being here you
beautiful woman and your heart and your journey is incredible. All of you people like this is no
but this is the beautiful thing right of our humanity like like just seeing you Helen you're
so radiant and joyful and beautiful in your spirit and here in your heart like we're all this divine
reflection of the father so unique so I think it's brilliant I think developing the rhythms
and the routines look different for all of us because depending on what our lives look like
whether you're single you're married you have kids what does your work schedule look like are
you a morning person are you an evening person what does your free time look like I think being
aware of your responsibilities and the rhythms of your life and then going when do I feel most
inspired or creative or when what are the things that are life-giving to me and making sure that
something isn't too lofty like okay I need to do an hour every morning or an hour every night
on top of all the other things you're juggling and and doing depending on your season right it really
has to be unique to your season right now with fee I can imagine not only is he working he's a
husband he's got a newborn baby his rhythm and routine of creativity is going to look different
in the season that it has the last year because he's in a new season so really knowing your season
knowing what are the things in life that I'm responsible to do as an adult adulting is real
hallelujah and then going so it is the creativity can I can I take 15 minutes a day can I take
five minutes in the morning for solitude getting quiet and 10 minutes maybe you read something for
five minutes and then you journal about it maybe you just put on some music in the morning for 10
or 15 minutes and you just do five things you just journal five things how am I feeling this morning
what am I grateful for what's one thought that I want to carry into my day what's one
attitude what's one focus what is what's something that I want to bring my attention to or maybe
once a week let's say on a Sunday afternoon or a Sunday night you take 30 minutes and you get
quiet and you get still maybe you've been inspired by something and you set an intention for the week
you just set a theme this week maybe it's one scripture maybe it's a song maybe it's a picture
maybe it's a goal maybe it's an intention of your heart that you go god I really want to
experience this or this is in my creativity or in my creativity I actually just want to get more in
tune with my heart what does my heart feel where am I at emotionally and maybe I want to go god I
want to experience your joy every day this week like the joy of the lord is my strength so joy is
going to be my focus for this week and so maybe every day you take five minutes and you tune
yourself into the resonance of joy you take five minutes and you're like it's like a tuning fork
right it's an internal tuning fork it doesn't have to be this I have to do an hour quiet time
and then an hour of creative focus and then like all of that can come for people that actually have
the time and the space for hours to be dedicated to their craft and their creativity songwriting
or poetry or writing or doing musicals they might take four to six hours a day to devote that
but depending on your season depending on your responsibilities your work your life
I would say start small baby steps I don't know if you've ever heard of the atomic habits by James
Clear a brilliant book but he talks about it's always the small incremental changes so it's the
one percent change that you make today and those one percent changes by the end of the year result
in a 37 percent change which is massive but often what we do is we're an all or nothing person
that's who I am I'm like you know what I'm gonna get healthy I'm gonna do this I'm gonna change my
life I'm gonna write a whole album I'm gonna write two books I'm gonna ace this and I literally put
all of these goals and these expectations on myself and what ends up happening I don't know
Because I put way too much on my plate.
So as I bring it back down, do something that is very beautiful, a very small intention.
Start five minutes a day.
Let that five minutes, if you do that for a week, let that five minutes grow to 10 minutes.
Let it just develop over days and weeks.
And as you do that, you strengthen a muscle internally that actually creates hunger for
more rather than a discipline and a goal that you have to produce.
Allow it to come from the place of hunger and desire and delight.
Allow it to come from a place of you're feeling the longing, the love.
You're feeling that life giving pull.
Because when it comes from that place, when discipline comes from delight, it's sustainable.
When discipline comes from, I have to produce, it becomes striving and performance.
Wow.
Let it be something that actually pulls you into, oh, like, I love spending time with
God, not because I have to do it.
I love, Sophie and Zylan, I'm going to speak in just 30 seconds.
But that came from learning the disciplines.
But the more I experienced his pleasure and his delight at night, I just put on smoking
music and I'm like, father, what are you, what are you feeling over me?
He might come and speak something.
I just burst into tears because I'm experiencing his heart rather than have to fast and pray
and have to read this much scripture.
And I have to journal this much.
Like I go into striving and performance in two seconds.
Every day.
It's an intentional thing for me to say, Dana, this is relationship with your father.
You're not having to prove your love.
You're not having to produce anything for a heart connect.
And the more I connect my heart, the more I go, oh, I'm giving you four hours tonight.
Not because I'm a good, wow, look at what I'm doing for you.
I'm like, you're my lover.
You're my best friend.
You're my father.
You are my everything.
And I am craving you.
I am looking to you.
I want your presence more than anything.
So when it comes to creativity, allow it to be a desire that brings you into discipline.
Fee, talk to me, brother.
Yes.
Thank you, Diana.
What I shared was amazing.
And it's like, it's so true.
Like for me, like right now, I don't have like time to like a simple time to do to,
you know, to sit and create stuff.
But like what I do is I just keep being awake, try to be awake, try to be present, you know,
try to be present all the time.
And then I always walk around with a little pencil and the paper or, you know, a notebook.
When I talk to someone and he's saying something interesting or something true, I write it
down.
And, you know, I just go with the flow.
I don't really like, you know, and then and then when I have free time, I just put them
together, like read my notes and like, wow.
And then and then put put like a theme and then join the notes together or what suits
those theme in the notes I took.
And then it brings something and it's, you know, and wow, actually, it's beautiful.
And then I play, I start playing with the words and then start create something.
I don't do that.
Like I don't do like five minutes a day or two hours a week or whatever it is.
For me, it just goes with the flow and I just take time in the evening and sometimes I take
time, sometimes I don't.
You know, I know the pressure behind it because I'm a professional musician and I, you know,
the pressure of like always having to bring songs on the table as a songwriter for you
for a band, right?
Because it's kind of the heartbeat of a band also, the song as a musician.
And then if you don't bring songs, put songs on the table, it's like, oh, failure.
But like for me, I just like God, you are divine.
I am the branch and I can do anything if I'm separated from you.
So I may not have time to do stuff, but even if I have a lot of time, I can still do anything
if I am not one with you.
So for me, the key is just, you know, trying to be present all the time.
I know it's hard, but like try to be present in God's presence all the time.
Like, what happened?
to me also is that when I sleep at night I receive songs and I my wife is like oh what
are you doing and I just wake up in the middle of the night and write down stuff on my phone
or whatever I can grab on my bed or something to write on like that's how I just go super
flow because I lean on him I don't lean on like my capacity to create or like you know
on my capacity to put things together in my head or my imagination or whatever I just
go with the flow and I say God if you have songs just you know I don't have so I'm open
I'm open to whatever you bring so I open up my heart and then I just write down and as
Dylan said if you I sometimes I have melodies and I just record it on my phone and then
put the songs together put the notes together I took the theme that I that I found and then
a song you know so yeah just relax as Diana says like if you put too much pressure on
yourself also it's like you do things you give what you don't have anymore you do things
for because you have to do it not because it's really what's what you're supposed to
do right and also like your shadow will always represent what overshadows you wow so it's
like wow it's so you have to be you know just be with God just know that he is with you
trust what he puts inside you trust whatever he speaks to you and it's it's gonna be beautiful
at the end and one thing also is your emotions what you feel what you when when when stuff
happens what you feel is real what you feel is important and write them down and people
may need it at some point and you know we we we are all different but at the same time
we are all the same also so you know right somehow it will speak to people it will speak
to them and your doubt your questions your freedom your your anger your frustration your
you know your freedom whatever comes whatever you feel write them down be sincere about
it and let it out it's gonna heal people it's gonna touch people wow yeah so beautiful thank
you because I just hear the way that you share you just your desire is to connect with God
and everything flows from that and you don't worry about you know what comes out you just
focus on connect with the source and it's so beautiful to hear your quiet trust it's
just like wow I can't help just let's say wow I'm glad you're blessed by it yeah just
sharing your heart sharing your journey it's just so beautiful thank you so much
thank you thank you Aylan that was so good that was so so good thank you so much and
Zylan you've got your hand up you go for it yeah I think I had similar doubt and insecurities and
you know confusion just like Helen and sometimes I often get this writer's block
and I feel really stupid you know I mean I feel very useless and you know when you can't produce
and come up with a good songs or something something like that and one of the workshops
that I've attended long years back they set a concept called you know it's something related
self-awareness you know like just being aware of yourself and this they call it you know every
artist creative people have this creative cycle you know we have a creative cycle it's a cyclical
thing going on going on you know for example you know some people produce good art when they are in
certain moods you know for me when I am depressed and sad and I'm super creative I can write like
five songs a day you know and I didn't know this kind of thing and when I realized
yeah when I realized this thing I started
to like less worry about my conditions, you know, sometimes you don't, you know, even if you are
Paul McCartney, you know, you don't write songs every day, you know, sometimes,
you know, you just be normal and, you know, just do your thing, you know, and for me,
that really helped, you know, when I realized that, you know, that there's a season coming that
I'm going to write a great song, I'm going to, you know, improve my musicianship or whatever,
you know, it's all about just being aware of that creative cycle of yourself, you know,
so right now when I'm not afraid of sadness anymore, because I'm thinking that if I'm a
little sad, it's going to be something good coming out. That's super helpful, like what do you share?
How can I make you sad? How can I make you sad? Now basically a lot of psychologists and all
these like big minds are thinking about, you know, how to get into that space, you know,
how to hack ourselves, you know, they are actually producing different techniques and talking about,
you know, a lot of TED talks are there, you know, just getting into the flow, you know, just basically
hacking our psychic and just being in that place of, you know, more potential of our
creativity, you know, our thing, you know, basically it's a really crazy thing, you know, we
literally spend time with ourselves, who we are and, you know, just getting to know ourselves,
self-awareness, it brings a lot of answers, you know, so that really helps me, so yeah.
Yeah, very insightful, I think what do you share and what teachers shared about how we feel is
important, like not to discount, you know, the moment feeling angry, feeling frustrated, like I
tend to just run away, it's like, oh that's not healthy and I need to be happy and joyful and
positive and you just run away or it's like and what do you guys were sharing like, wow, I may
just miss the moment that I actually need to tune into Holy Spirit and to process it and
have words with it and it will be actually helpful, it's not just for me to process but
as I put into words, I might help someone else to process their deep feeling, that's just super
valuable, so thank you guys for sharing that. Oh, Helen, thank you so much for coming online,
and Phi and Zylan, thank you so much for that gold and that wisdom, I love just what you said,
Zylan, like I actually want to get sad and hopeless and depressed, I actually create more,
I was like, it's amazing, like the power and the key of self-awareness is so important in our life
with activity but in all things, we need to understand what our subconscious is driving, do
you know that 80 to 90 percent of your life is driven by your subconscious, it's not
living your life by your conscious mind, we all think, I know what I'm doing and why I'm doing it
and it's consciously I'm making all these decisions, so many of your patterns of communication,
of behavior, of activity, your life is driven by your subconscious, which is also why it's so
important, what are you feeding yourself, what are you observing, because everything that we're
digesting is actually feeding into our conscious and our subconsciousness and our life is constantly
picking up data, information, but emotional health is really important, I want to highlight a book,
I'll put it in the chat, I think it's called emotional spirituality, it's by Peter Levine,
understanding our hearts and our emotional world is one of the most critical things we can do as
humans because we are driven, we live by emotions and there's so many things, you know, 80 percent
of 90 percent of people actually aren't self-aware, a lot of humans are not self-aware, they don't know
why they do what they do and they live and they express and they get into these patterns
and ways of thinking and believing and when actually you sit down and you go, okay, so what's
happening here, can you help me understand why is it that you're behaving this way, they're not even
aware of some of their behaviors, which is the beautiful thing about marriage and family and
community and friendships, is because we actually have other people that say, hey, you're acting,
behaving, communicating in this way, it's like, no, I'm not, I'm doing this, it's like, actually.
No, I need to bring a mirror to you and allow you to see how you're affecting me and our emotions
are data. They are not directives. So emotions tell you what's going on inside of you. Emotions
aren't meant to direct you in what you do. But when we look at emotions as information of what
is happening on the internal world, then we can tune in and go, okay, let's be an investigator.
Let's be a direct detective here. Why am I feeling this? Did something trigger that?
Is this a childhood wound? Did something happen in my conversation today at work with a loved one?
Did I just see something, smell something, experience something? Am I just tired? Do I
need water, sleep, food? What is happening? And we begin to ask questions. And the other thing is
to not be afraid of our emotions. A lot of times in the church, we're told don't feel, don't live
by your emotions, just live by the spirit. And we're like, what the flip is that even about? We
are meant to be very in tune. Emotions are a gift. God is the most emotional person on the earth.
So what Xylan just said was pure gold. Actually, when I get sad and depressed, and a lot of
artists actually are very melancholic, melancholy, because I'm a very deep feeler.
I feel so deeply. It is a beautiful thing. I'm very intuitive. I am an observer. I can look at someone.
I can be in a room in an atmosphere, and I just am very intuitive, can read people, read myself.
But also I'm very human. And sometimes I'm not very discerning. And sometimes I make really dumb
decisions. Hello, we're human. Sometimes I don't pick up on things. Sometimes I think I'm really
intuitive and wise. And I've just deceived myself or I've missed something, which is why we need
one another, why we need to journal, which is why we need God, and which is why we need healthy
environments and safe, trusted people in our life to say, hey, this is what's going on in my world
right now. This is what I'm feeling. Can I dialogue this with you? Can you pray for me? Or
I'm really feeling God say this or this, or I've just written this song, or I've written this out,
or I've produced this. What do you think? It's really, really important. But the whole realm
of our emotions, I just really want to encourage you. I don't know where all of you are at in your
emotional journey, but I used to look at emotions as weakness because I had an internal core belief
that was an ungodly belief that said that I always had to be strong and I always had to be okay.
And I always had to be the one that had it all together. So everybody else could feel emotions
and not be doing well, but I had to be the sister, the daughter, the friend, the pastor, the leader
that always was okay. And that is just such a fallacy. And it was an ungodly belief that didn't
allow me to truly feel human. It didn't allow me to truly feel the depth of my humanity and what I
was going on. So the last 10 years, I have gone on the most deep inner healing journey with the
Lord. And it has set me free. I'm constantly daily being set free just by the love of God,
validating what is happening on the inside of me and allowing emotions to be data,
information, and not directives. And then emotions can be portals, can literally be like, do you know
the Chronicles of Narnia? C.S. Lewis, the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. And they go into the
wardrobe and it literally brings them into Narnia. Emotions actually can be a gateway that can be
very healthy, that open us up to experiencing God and inspiration. So much of art, so much of art
comes from pain. Someone says that emotions is emotion, energy in motion. Yes, yes, I love that
quote. Yes, me too. It's energy. Basically, it's emotion. That's how you create stuff, you know?
Yeah. And when you think of it, even when you create, I mean, I don't want to get too
descriptive or graphic, but when you create life, that is coming from a very emotional,
passionate exchange of life. When we create art, there is passion, there is an exchange, there is,
our whole being is involved. It's not just one aspect. Our mind, our heart, our soul, our spirit,
our body is involved. We are holistic beings. So to create life, to create art, to create
beauty, to create, actually let your emotions lead you. It doesn't have to spiral you. It can
actually go, wow, I am feeling super sad and hopeless and depressed, or I am feeling anxious.
Okay, God, I tune in right now. I
into what's happening in my heart.
I want to be healthy with this.
I want to invite you into this space,
but let it be a portal.
Let it be a gateway.
Let it be a highway into me writing, producing, painting,
making clothing, writing a book, architecting something,
making some food or hospitality.
Let it be a creative expression to something.
I even wanted to say this,
our sexuality is a very powerful creative force in our life.
And our sexuality doesn't have to just lead
to actual sexual activity.
The sexual energy as male and female,
as the masculine and the feminine
actually has such a creative force in us
that allows us to express that part of our humanity
in creating art, in creating work, in our purpose,
in our passion, in our calling, in our destiny.
It can be an incredible life creative force in what we do.
And so I just want to encourage you to,
don't let that be something that ever shuts you down
or something that makes you feel like,
I think again, the church hasn't always known
how to speak into this thing.
It's like sexuality can be a very black and white thing
and it's not always understood.
It's either like this.
It's a creative energy.
Yeah, it's a creative energy in our humanity.
And there are so many beautiful, holy, pure,
God honoring ways to allow that creative life force
in your humanity to create business, to make money, to,
like really our sexuality is all about creating connection
with humans in a beautiful God honoring way.
So friendship, family, community,
getting out in church, the workplace,
it's all about connection and creating life and experience.
And so in all of your process of your humanity,
allowing the whole experience of what you experience
in life to be something that constantly flows you
into love, honor, beauty, life.
I wanna add something onto like emotions things, emotions.
I think we, it's true.
We shouldn't be afraid of our emotions or like,
you know, if you read the Psalms,
it's all about like ups and downs and honesty.
It's all, and you know what,
what the good thing about it is that I'm not saying
that David always have the right attitude in every season,
but if we read the Psalms,
we can see that God used his attitude somehow
to teach us something.
So even our mistakes, maybe,
or our small thinking or whatever is not, God can use it.
God can use it to touch other people.
So even we might explode or whatever,
but at the end of the day,
God can use it for something beautiful
and to teach others, to heal others or to touch others.
We shouldn't be afraid of our emotions.
Should let it go.
Wow.
So good.
And I, even with what you saying with David,
I think in our humanity and our emotions,
one of the things that the enemy uses to shut us down
is shame.
Every human deals with shame in some aspect of their life
of overcoming that.
It could be related to anything.
It could be just related to something that you grew up with.
Maybe you never felt worthy enough.
Maybe you didn't feel much or enough.
Maybe you grew up with a lie in your family.
Maybe there's pain or trauma or wounding.
Maybe there's just a struggle in your life.
Maybe there's feels like there's obstacles.
Maybe you just are like intimidated
or you feel insecure, whatever it is.
Maybe you've made a big mistake
and now you're feeling hostage by the guilt of your past
or maybe you've done something.
The Lord, like, I just want to say this.
There is no shame in Jesus and he never shames you.
And he actually comes to liberate you from shame.
He comes, he wants to, I want to say this so clearly
that you are not defined by a mistake
or by a pattern of thinking or by feeling overwhelmed
or depressed or hopeless
or chained to an old version of yourself
or felt that you're in hostage or you're imprisoned.
You're held hostage to an old version of yourself.
or something that you did that haunts you
or that makes you actually feel stuck
in your creative process.
I know in my own life,
sometimes the lies of the enemy that come to say,
this is what you did, this is who you are,
or you're not enough,
or all the lies that are just BS.
But sometimes that really feels
like it blocks my creativity.
Like the lie of the enemy of like,
oh, you have this dream and desire,
but it's actually not gonna be fruitful.
It's actually not gonna come to pass or whatever.
And each of us will have different lies
or different things that we have to overcome
and that we have to just surrender.
But I just really wanna say,
the only remedy for shame is love.
And I really wanna encourage you
that in your process of creatives
is allowing love into every part of your life
and allowing the voice and the presence of Jesus
to speak to every part of your core heart
to liberate you from any lie, any mistake.
Because the beautiful thing is that God sees the heart
and God sees who you are
and God gets to define who you are.
And so insecurity or a lie
or anything that is blocking your creative process,
one of the best things you can do
is talk about it with a safe, trusted person.
So that you can have life come and speak into that thing
that can unblock you
so that you get into the creative life flow
and nothing holds you back.
Because whom the sun sets free is free indeed.
You know what I'm saying?
Wow, wow.
I was actually speaking that thing all of myself
the last two, three weeks.
The God was actually speaking to me about freedom, freedom.
And I was singing that Newsboys song.
I am free to dance.
Me too.
Oh, wow.
Not that song,
but I've been on this whole freedom journey myself.
I was saying the Kim Walker,
the dance, like the weight has been lifted.
Grace is waiting for you.
Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
That Jesus culture song.
I've been like dancing that like,
just because sometimes
when you're actually entering into new territory,
the enemy is actually trying to hold you back.
And sometimes we stumble and fall,
but the righteous may fall seven times, but they get up.
So if there's nothing that you stumble,
you make a wrong decision.
You're like, oh, I crossed the line or a boundary,
or that isn't in alignment with who I am,
or I violated my conscience,
or I wasn't, you know, or God.
We just reset every day.
We have an internal reset.
Every moment we turn,
we receive the grace and mercy of Jesus.
And we step back into the life flow
and we step into freedom
because who sets free is free indeed.
That is who we are.
And I'm so passionate.
I'm actually going to put another link of Abby Stumball.
I was watching this.
She was talking to the worship university
at Bethel church on shame and performance.
And the reason I wanted to bring up shame
is because with creatives, gosh,
the enemy is so crafty
at trying to shut down your creativity
by telling you who you're not.
Because the enemy will come and try to define you
by what you did.
Religion says what you've done is who you are.
It's your identity.
But relationship in Jesus is you are pure, holy, thriving,
beautiful, perfect, flawless in my son.
You are righteous and holy.
Who you are as a son and daughter, this is who you are.
You are not defined by any mistake, any choice.
There is no condemnation in Christ Jesus.
There is nothing that can hold you back.
God does not define you.
Any mistake, anything you've done, there's no fault.
There's no shame.
There's no blame.
There's no condemnation.
It literally is lifted.
There's so much freedom.
And I'm so passionate about this too
because the amount of people that I've dialogued,
especially in this last year or two, it's been hard.
And sometimes we haven't made the best decisions,
but God looks at the heart
and he sees the heart of David in each one of you.
He sees the heart after God.
He sees the heart to do the best that you can,
to love him with all of your heart, soul, mind, and strength.
And so in our journey, we're not perfect,
but God's not looking for perfection.
He's looking for the heart.
So Zylan, back to you, bro.
Wow, that's amazing, man.
That's really, really amazing.
So whatever you said that, you know,
one of the stuff that really the spirit of God
is leading me to do is just radical acceptance of myself,
you know, just radically, you know,
because the enemy comes to condemn you, right?
And-
you accept that, okay, I have this flows,
I have this thing, you know,
and then he doesn't have anything to claim,
you know what I'm saying?
You know, and it's not like I'm just saying that,
you know, we have to, you know,
you know, just stay in that place, you know,
because when we give,
accept our brokenness and our imperfection,
you know, Rumi said that your wound is your glory,
you know, so, yeah,
so, and even Leonardo Cohen wrote this song,
it's that, this one of my favorite lines,
you know, ring the bell that still can ring,
forget the perfect offering,
there's a crack in everything,
and that's how life gets in, you know,
it's in that imperfection thing
that makes us who we are, you know,
eventually that's the place where
God is gonna use you more, heal you more,
and the moment, you know, sometimes as a creative,
we feel useless and weary and tired and, you know,
confused and, you know, the moment you accept it,
and, you know, there are so much freedom in it
and God, the spirit of God will come and minister to you,
it may take some time, but, you know, just,
you know, it's not a race, you know, it's a journey,
it's a process and everybody have their own way of evolving
and, you know, patterns and, you know,
just accept it and acknowledge it
and don't be, don't freak out actually,
you know, and don't condemn yourself,
when you accept that love and love,
you know, self-love is a really great thing
that I'm learning, you know, not in a selfish love,
you know, but self-love because if I love myself
in a right way, I can easily, I mean, love others,
you know, that's a biblical pattern as well, you know,
you love yourself, love your neighbor as yourself,
you know, first you have to love yourself in the right way,
so you can love others, so that's beautiful,
I think, it's so, so good.
Oh, I'm just loving this because I love openness
and transparency and vulnerability
and getting really real with people
because we're all human, we're all on the journey
and we all have a different path to walk,
sorry, my voice is getting a bit croaky, but that's it,
our humanity is in process, healing is a journey,
it's not a destination and the thing is,
is that it is all about our heart to just continue
to walk in the light, to walk in freedom,
to walk in humility, to own our process,
you know, if you make a mess, if you say something,
do something wrong, the biggest thing you can do
is take ownership, take responsibility,
clean up your mess and then say no to the lies
that failure doesn't define you,
the Lord's voice and his love defines you,
nothing you've done ever is what defines you,
now, what defines you is how you recover,
what defines you is how you move forward in life
and so humility and grace and mercy,
like love covers a multitude, love empowers,
the grace, the empowering presence of Jesus to,
I love what Graham Cooke says,
we're gonna wrap up in just a few minutes,
but Graham Cooke says something powerful,
he says, grace is the empowering presence of Jesus
for you to become everything that he has called you to be,
grace is the empowering presence for you to be the person
that God sees when he looks at you,
so when God looks at you, he sees you in the fullness
of who he's created you to be,
now, we're not the fullness yet,
but when he looks at us, he sees Jesus on the inside of us
and he sees the fullness of who he's created us to be
and so grace is the empowering presence
for us to come into agreement with who he says that we are
and for us to live that out in the fullness,
be holy as I am holy,
now, that is a journey that we are gonna walk on daily,
he doesn't expect perfection,
but there is a real journey that we go on,
actually, I wanna quickly read something
and then we can have some final thoughts,
but the agape love of God,
I was in this online workshop with this brilliant therapist
who was speaking to a bunch of us
and he said, agape love,
is a radical acceptance of who you are and where you are at any given moment or time in your life
balanced by an invitational expectation that you become all that you're meant to be.
Agape love. I'm going to type it into the chat as well, but agape love. So sometimes we're like
God's love is unconditional. It's unconditional. Yes, it is unconditional, but there is an
expectation and an invitation to it. So agape love is a radical acceptance of who you are
and where you are at any given moment or time in your life balanced by an invitational expectation
that you become all that you're meant to be. So the grace of the Lord Jesus, the mercy of Jesus
to cover you, to meet you right where you're at, to just be like I see you, I know you, I love you,
I lift off guilt, shame, like you are not defined by any of that. You're actually defined by my
love. You're defined by my voice and my presence. That is who you are. You're covered. You're not
defined by your humanity. You're defined by who I say you are, but there's also an invitation for
you not to stay there. We're not going to stay in those cycles, those thought patterns, those
behaviors, that lifestyle. We're not going to stay there. It's balanced by you are fully accepted.
So there's nothing you could say or do that will ever make God love you more or less,
but it's balanced by an invitation that you go on the journey of becoming everything that you've
been called to be, everything that you're meant to be in Jesus. And that is the journey of
sanctification. That's the process of discipleship. That is the process of us becoming Christ-like.
And the more we yield and surrender to love, the more that love transforms us. And so that is
initiated by our heart because it's all free will. We're not robots. God does not control us.
God has no control over us. We are free spirits and beings. God is in charge of the cosmos. God
is in charge of the universe, but he does not control humans. He intervenes. We pray. He has
his sovereign purposes in our life. He speaks to us. There is a loving relationship, but it is a
two-way street and how we yield and surrender and invite and engage in that relationship
changes everything. God also, his reckless love is pursuing you like he is daily coming after you.
Psalm 139 says, where can I go from your spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I make my
bed in the depths below, if I go to the highest of Heights, wherever I am, he is, if I'm in hell,
if I'm in utter torment, Jesus is there. If I'm in heaven, you know, wherever I am, wherever you
are, he is there. You cannot escape the love or the voice of God. You can't, he is everywhere.
But the more we just say in our humanity, God come, I yield to you. I surrender to you. I don't
know what it fully looks like, but you have my yes. He's like, and he just invades that space.
So yeah, perfect. Love casts out fear. Amen. We get so, there was something that I was just going
through this last season that I was terrified to talk to anybody about. And I recently just
got the courage to talk to a few people and the shame and the brokenness that came off my life.
Like literally fear was just like, so intimidating me. And then I just talked about a few people and
it totally lifted. And I was like, yeah, that wasn't so hard. Why didn't you just talk about
that? Perfect. Love casts out fear, but fear is real guys. And we don't want any room for that.
We don't want any room for fear or anxiety, crazy stuff because it just holds us hostage and we
blocks our life. It blocks the abundant life of God. There's no shame. There's just love.
So Helen, you've got one more question. Then we're going to wrap it up.
Oh, I can't hear you. Love, you're muted, Helen, my darling. Oh, sorry.
That's okay. Yeah. And I think it's so good that you talked about God doesn't really control us.
In a sense, it reminds me the fruit of Holy Spirit is self-control. So He gives us strength
to somehow regulate our internal life or our life as a whole to come in alignment with Him,
but He doesn't control us. And I don't know. I feel like there's a lot of responsibility
that, you know, it has a freedom, but it also carries a responsibility for us to grow.
Absolutely. Oh, my gosh. Yes, like the responsibility is huge.
Like I've been actually getting so sobered because for a while my
co-workers were not in the safe zone and now it's all completely different,
really was like, well, whatever God wants to do in my life, he'll just do.
Yes and no.
There's actually so much responsibility on my life to steward my life.
They call it being intentional, right?
Yes. And when you look at the parable of the talents.
Right. What they did with each of the talents.
Then Jesus, like you lazy, wicked servant.
Like I sometimes get really like, Oh Jesus.
Like there are some things that God has spoken to me for years
about that I've still not done.
Not because I'm trying to be disobedient, but because I was like, I felt
disqualified. I felt like, you know, so many pathetic words about writing songs
and albums and I wrote all these songs and do things, but then I'd get
busy and I was so busy and serving and ministry and all these things.
And I'd always, I have like thousands of voice notes, thousands of songs
that are started, but they're not finished.
And there's not been a creative, like, yes, this is my 10 songs.
This is my album.
Because I sometimes felt like, I don't know if I have enough.
I don't know if I'm good enough.
And I was leading worship and touring with other bands and other worship
expressions.
And I was so involved in doing my thing, but actually crafting my own songs
from start to finish, putting that before the father.
And I'm like, God, I do not want to end my life feeling I was in disobedience.
And I actually, it doesn't matter what comes of it.
No one could ever hear it.
It could never, like, I could share it with 10 of my friends.
They could be like, wow, great.
The issue is obedience.
The issue is what's inside of my heart.
Am I actually being faithful to steward it?
We're just called to be faithful to steward with what's in our heart and
what's been given to us and what he's invited us to do.
Rest up to God, what he does with creativity, who it reaches is not up to
us.
What fruit is not up to us.
What harvest is not up to us.
The lives changes.
Not up to us that we predict it's not up to us.
Our responsibility is to be faithful, a good steward to take responsibility
with what's been entrusted to our lives.
Dreams and the desires that are in our heart are not there by mistake.
Like we each have different dreams and desires that I wouldn't have the same as
you guys, but the dreams and desires that are in me are very personal because God
is the author of dream and desire.
Wow.
When God is on it, then I have to go, okay, God, I actually have to get real.
And I have to defeat the giants on the inside that are keeping me from, from
being people that are keeping me distracted, that are keeping me in a
place of insecurity that are keeping me in a place of compromise.
And I have to call it for what it is.
I can't just, well, I've been busy and this and this, you know what?
Yeah, you have been busy.
You've also been a little bit lazy, unmotivated.
You've also felt, you've also felt intimidated.
I just got to own it.
When I take ownership and I can take responsibility and then I can move in
obedience, not out of shame and performance, but out of like, God, this
feels big and I don't, I don't always know what to do or I won't make time for
it.
Like, but I want to give you an offering.
I want to love you in this.
I want to create space in this.
I actually want it to be worship.
And worship is costly.
There's sacrifice in worship.
It doesn't always feel good.
It's not always convenient.
Love is rarely convenient.
Love is a choice in marriage.
I can't wait to be married and love my husband with all my heart and soul.
There's going to be a lot of times it's not convenient.
It's going to be a lot of times that I might not feel it, but I choose it
because I go, I chose you.
I love you.
And I might be tired.
I might have a whole bunch of things, but I'm going to intentionally tune
my heart to you every day to know how I can love you, bless you,
serve you, and bring life to you.
Now with the Lord, that's what we do.
We yield ourselves.
Father, what can I do to bless you today?
What, how can I love you?
How can I take with what you've entrusted in my life and bear fruit?
How can I steward it?
Well, how can I bless your name, glorify you, love you, and create
something of worth that releases heaven on the earth?
Wow.
Yeah.
Fee and Zion, do you have any more thoughts, you beautiful men?
I think, um, it's on a perfect note, actually.
I don't have, I don't have anything to add.
It's so beautiful.
It is so good.
It's so good.
We've got an hour and 15 minutes. So thanks for doing the long haul. I think last time we almost
did two and a half hours. So we won't go past two hours today. But yeah, I just wanted to
Can I add one last thing?
Yes, final thoughts.
I think comparison also can really block you from being creative.
Because you shouldn't compare yourself to others when it comes to creating something.
Because otherwise you're gonna create something just to please others or just to
yeah, you know, reach a certain
I don't know how to explain it. But like, you know, the purity of whatever we create,
depends a lot on that also, that we don't compare to others. And then we just go
as ourselves. And God is the one who is defining the good and the bad.
At the end of the day, he is the one, you know, our good is not his good. And he is the one who
is defining what is good. You know, in Apocalypse, it shows like, it tells a lot of like, the
images of divine creatures, like we have a lot of eyes and all those stuff. If we define what is
good and what is beautiful, we would say, oh, those are not beautiful, because they're not
good. It's scary. But it's not us. It is God who is defining what is beautiful and what you know,
our beautiful is so our point of view of what is beautiful is so little,
though, that that's why we need to trust him to realign our perspective with his perspective.
And, and, you know, cast comparison out of our creation, creating process.
So yeah, I just wanted to add that also, because it can block us a lot.
Wow. That's awesome. Amazing. Yeah.
That is really good. So I was just looking at, I just wanted to put a few links in that was
really good. Comparison is the thief of joy. We've heard it sometimes, right? And it's just,
it's a waste of our time and attention. Because we're all such a unique expression of the Father
and just think about like, if Xylan and fee weren't the incredible artists and singers and
songwriters and musicians they are, and they actually shut down their gifts, because they
thought it wasn't as good as whoever, and we miss out on the unique expression and the beauty and
the sound of the resonance of who they are. And that's the thing. The enemy uses comparison to
shut down the beauty of who you are, that who you are is going to touch and heal and release the
Father like nobody else. You are a revelation of the Father that has never been on the earth
before. Never. And when we actually, Bill Johnson says something, I'll put this in the chat too. And
yes, Alexander, I was just looking for that, that book link to put in, but then I just needed to
come back on the chat. So I'll put that in there. But Bill Johnson says, when you know who God's
made you to be, you'll never want to be anyone else. When you get a revelation of the beauty of
who God has created you to be, your unique identity, you'll never want to be anyone else.
And that has been something that has been an invitation for me my whole life, to actually
fully fall in love with who I am. Body, soul, mind, and spirit. To be like, D, you are unreal. You are
unlike anybody else. And the beauty of that sets me free to then radically celebrate every other
person in my life. And one of the things that really breaks comparison is if you live a life
of celebration, live a life of constantly celebrating the gold in other people, live a life
of constantly looking at the beauty, the delight of who they are, who the Father's made them to be
in their humanity, their masculinity, their femininity, their creativity, their personality,
what they've been called to do, how their mind works, what their soul loves. Just be a radical
celebrator. Because there's no competition in the kingdom. There's room for everyone.
to shine. There's room for everyone to have abundance. There's room for everyone to fully
come alive and be the powerful force that they're called to be in the world. In the world, there's
only so much room. Not everybody's shine. There's only so much money. There's only so much room for
whatever prestige or leadership or position or power. And it's just awful. So people are cutting
each other, fighting each other, rumors, gossip, pushing people down in order to try to lift
themselves up. And it's so dark and it's so not necessary. In the kingdom, there's room for
everyone to shine, fully come alive, be empowered, be celebrated, and to literally set the world
ablaze with love and light and glory. So every time you feel that nagging thing of comparison,
say, God, I say yes to the grace of celebration. I say yes to the gift of calling out the golden
people and literally lay your hands on yourself and just say, I bless the gold, the beauty,
the creativity, the wonder, the fingerprints of God, who you've made me to be body, soul,
mind, and spirit. I am unique. I'm a unique revelation of the father, and I'm here to
release heaven. So anytime you feel that move in the opposite spirit, begin to declare,
and it will shift what you feel. It will shift the thoughts, the cycles, you know?
So, oh, just love you guys so much. I'm going to quickly, Zailin, if you want to say anything
more, I'm going to quickly just link that other book. So it's just going to take me a minute
to do that. I think this all stuff, whether you are a creative or non-creative or whatever
stuff that you do, you know, that inner works is very essential. Like, you know,
work on your identity because it's actually grow from that place. You know, if your identity is not
fixed, you know, if you don't know who you are in Christ and how much you're loved and
celebrated by father, you always actually feel that often, you know, you compare yourself,
you know, the moment you realize who you are, you're the unique masterpiece of his.
And it's easy for you to do whatever you want to do, you know,
with full conviction and celebration. I think that's really beautiful.
Yeah, man. One of my friends, actually, he's a music producer. He told me that,
you know, if somebody plays a music, we can literally, if you observe and listen to it
carefully, we know what kind of person who played it. Literally. And I was like, yeah,
it's really, really good, you know. So like, the way somebody plays an instrument,
whatever it is, I mean, we can understand who that person is, what kind of person he is,
you know, the moment we actually try to work on our identity, our thing, you know,
most of the time, you know, we don't spend much time to self improvement. You know, like
Dana said in the beginning, you know, if you spend time with us, I mean, with ourselves,
and, you know, just be kind to ourselves, love ourselves, and discipline ourselves,
and teach ourselves, train ourselves, you know, it's a journey, you know,
then whatever comes out of us will be, you know, a byproduct of that thing, you know.
Yeah, man. Yes. It's so good. Yeah. So good. I think we've come to like, around two hours now.
Yes, to our mark. So we're gonna, we're gonna say goodbye. The other person I want to encourage you
so the book is called Emotionally Healthy Spirituality by Peter. So I'm sorry, I said
Peter Levine. Peter Levine is also someone I think that speaks into trauma and emotional health. But
this book that I was meaning was emotional, emotionally healthy spirituality by Peter
Scazzaro. So I've put the link. And then I've also written the title of the book. Another person
that I want to encourage you to listen to who's brilliant is Paul Scanlon. He's an Englishman.
He's actually one of my mentors. I'm part of his mentorship tribe. He has a lot of brilliant stuff
on creativity. If you go to his Instagram page. He's Paul Scanlon, but he also now has like an
online platform. It's free to join. You can be part of his mentorship tribe. It's totally free.
Um, but he has some incredible, if you look at him on YouTube, put Paul
Scanlon in YouTube and even creativity, he's got so many online courses and all
this stuff, but he has so many sermons, so many incredible tools and stuff on
creativity.
I will try to find some of those and I'll link them in the kingdom creatives
guides of the raising royalty Facebook page, just cause he's, he's brilliant.
Um, I'll just put that.
Uh, yeah, I just put it there.
Paul Scanlon.
So you can, um, right now you can find him on YouTube, Instagram.
Also, he has a private, cause I say a personal platform, basically just look
them up.
Um, he also has a website.
I think it's Paul Scanlon.com.
So beautiful people, we have come to the two hour mark.
Thank you for giving your time and attention to this.
Thank you for joining us.
Thank you for being with us.
Be Xylan.
Thank you so much for everything that you've shared with us today.
Thank you for your time.
Thank you for your brilliance.
Thank you for your, um, just the way that you have shared so much from your lives
as being professional artists and the wisdom and the grace and the tools that
you've had and the things that you have, um, done in your life that have
actually borne a lot of fruit.
You two are very fruitful men that have so much to say in this space.
And I learned so much from you both.
So thank you.
And thank you, Fee, in the middle of you being so exhausted with a newborn baby.
Thank you for joining us and thank you Xylan for being up late.
It's so late for you.
Thank you so much.
I know it's like, you're so tired.
So much.
It's almost tomorrow where you are, right?
Yeah, I started another day, basically, um, yeah, Dana, thank you.
Thank you.
You're amazing.
Thank you, Diana.
Yeah, you actually, thank you for facilitating beautiful things.
Yeah.
You put it, everything together so well, such a joy.
I just love this.
I love, I love the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the,
the, the two people I'm sharing the joy with.
I love just doing life with people and creating conversation.
For people to be seen, and known, and heard and empowered and encouraged.
That's awesome.
Beautiful.
It's like my deepest place.
Thank you all for joining us.
Thank you.
Everyone.
Thank you everyone.
Thank you, Alexander.
Yes.
All you beautiful people.
So we're going to wave goodbye.
Um, have an amazing night, morning, afternoon, whatever it is for you.
Um, but yeah, thank you so much.
Thank you everyone.
God bless you.
Well, yeah.
God bless you guys.
Bye bye everyone.
God bless you.
Oh, we got from New Zealand.
Amazing.
Kyoto from New Zealand.
Love you all.
Beautiful.
Amazing people.
Bye.
So we will be doing, we will be doing this stuff, uh, twice a month, Diana.
Right.
Are we doing it twice a month now?
Okay.
Not just once in a month, right?
Yeah.
Once a month.
Okay.
Are we doing it twice?
You're being creative now.
You're being creative.
I'm like, we can do it twice a month.
Yeah.
Um, but yeah, um, be and silent and me will be praying and dialoguing and just
going, Holy spirit, what's the next thing that we can, um, dialogue in this space
and how we can serve you and how we can help, um, yeah, we will be posting this
video on, on our page, right?
Yes.
That, that was in the email to everyone too.
So, um, I put the link to the Facebook group of the, the kingdom guides.
So to go, it'll go right there.
So it'll take a little bit of time for this to download to my laptop to Facebook
and we'll be all good.
So awesome.
Yeah.
Very nice.
So fun.
So
wish they could just give you all a big hug.
Oh, yeah.
Love you all.
And I love you guys.
Take care.
Okay.
Bye.