Hello, beautiful people. How are you? Welcome, welcome, welcome. I see so many of you just
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Hey, Dana, what's up? Hey. How's it going in India?
Ah, it's crazy pandemic here, man. The streets are, yeah, it's again, it's kind of,
there are a lot of cases, every people who test like one in two people actually having positive.
So the government said, you don't have to go and check it out, you know,
if you have some symptoms, you know, just stay at home, don't get out.
Everyone was like, contact tracing and all this stuff, stay home for two weeks. Now they're like
to stay home. We don't have enough tests. You've got some big deal. Like, oh, my word, Jesus,
help us all. It's crazy. But the symptoms are so much less. And so a lot of my friends are a lot
of my friends are quarantining. And yeah, yeah, most of them, a lot of them are actually tested
positive. Okay. And they're doing okay. Yeah, it's kind of a normal day. Yeah. We are so used to it.
Yeah, totally. Yeah. Oh, it's good. Well, hello, I see Matthew and Rosalina and Dorcas.
And we've got iPhone seven plus, I think your name is Wendy. So good to see you beautiful people.
Thank you for coming on. We're kind of probably just wait a few more minutes before we get started
just to see if some more people join us. But really good to see your faces. So glad that
you're here with us. Would this be helpful for writers? Absolutely. Yeah. So basically,
what we're wanting to do is foster just dialogue and connection and community for anybody with
artistic expression. So whether you're a writer, you're an architect, maybe you so you do fashion,
you do painting, you do music, you sing, you're in poetry, you do anything with your creative
expression, you're in architecture, you draw things for you're in digital design, you're
anything that would be expressive with creativity. We're just wanting to create connection community.
And we talk about different topics and themes each month that just help us kind of unlock our
heart a little bit more understand more of our identity, more of who God is giving different
tools, different things that we can embrace in our life practices, habits, really getting to know more
of who God's created us to be and really growing in our relationship with him. And then growing in
awareness of how to grow in our craft. That sounds really good. Yeah, that's lovely. So do you do
writing for I've self published, I've self published 70 books. Wow. Oh, my goodness. That's
amazing. What is God God supernaturally supplied me with finances, through doing prophecies for a
donation, and people donating money to my website. And I was writing one book a month for four years,
by publishing one book a month for four years. Wow, it's slowed down now. But I've published
about 50 books in four years. Wow. What are your books primarily on? What's your topic or theme?
Are they just on a whole bunch of different things? I've got about 20 books with interviews
with saints from heaven. Okay. So I interviewed Michael Jackson a couple of times and Princess
Diana a couple of times. And they're for non Christians, that they're really gospel centered.
So if non Christians find them, it's a witness to them. But a lot of biblical characters like
Mary Magdalene and
King David and Enoch and and different characters out of the Bible. I've got whole books on
interviews with them. Oh, cool. Okay. And they talk about their life and they talk about
their life in heaven and they talk about obeying Jesus, you know? Wow. Amazing. Powerful. Right
on. Okay. Well, I've got six books on the prophetic. Okay. Six, six different books on
different aspects of the prophetic. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So, it's kept me pretty busy.
Yeah. Well, good for you. I mean, to write that much, you've just had this creative flow
that you've tapped in. Yeah. It's really powerful. Just just each of them are inspired, you know?
I can't write a book without inspiration. Yeah, of course. Yeah. So, I can understand
musicians. They get inspired to write a song. They they they just hear it. They hear the
music and they hear the lyrics. Mm hmm. And they just hear it and it's possible for both
sides. The enemy to inspire music and and for for god to inspire music but so many musicians
that tapped into the Holy Spirit but they don't know that they are. Mm hmm. Yeah. Yeah.
Totally. That's awesome. Well, thanks, Matthew. So, I'll just let everyone know. Hi, I just see
different ones of you that are signing in and saying hello. Hi. Usually, kind of what we do
is we take the first five, ten minutes and just say hi to one another and just kind of welcome
and then we kind of go from there where Zylan, myself, and sometimes Fee, we will just kind of
share on different parts of the content and so we'll just kind of have everyone on mute
and we'll just kind of share a little bit and then we will open it up for some question and
answers and want to hear from you guys and dialogue what you guys are thinking and feeling
and we'll just kind of have an open discussion. So, I just see here.
Yeah. So, today, we were going to kind of like look at the topic of owning your identity
and your personal artistic expression and yeah, it's kind of a big subject. It's kind of a big
topic. I was kind of thinking in myself where where my journey has come from and where I've
kind of gone on and where I'm currently at right now and I think one of the things that I wanted
to speak to, I just took some notes. I'm just going to grab my little notes here, but I think
one of the things that we're constantly doing as people is we are coming home to the authentic
expression of who we are and I think in our journey, we all are born and we're all born
we all are born and we have nature and nurture. So, there's some things that God has created us
for and to do and he's given us different gifts and skills and things that are unique to us,
our dreams, our desires, our different makeup. So, some people might just from a little boy or
a little girl just love animals and they want to work with animals or other people love numbers or
other people. I want to be a policeman or I want to be a dancer. You know, we have these God-given
things that we're born with and there's things that are in our nature and then there's things
that are in our nurture based on the parents that you were born to, based on the culture,
the time of history, the environment, the atmosphere, the different conditions
that you were in actually nurtured who you were and sometimes what happens is we actually
have this combo of the nature and the nurture and as we grow, we're constantly on this discovery of
who really am I, who has God created me to be, who do I want to choose to be and how do I continue
to be the authentic version of myself because as I've learned throughout different years and decades
there has been almost letting go of the conditioned self, the conditioned self of who I thought I had
to be for these people, for this organization, for this church, for this family. I had to become this
person and so different aspects of my personality, you know, your personality is your personal
reality, you know, different aspects of my personality took shape because of needs, because of
things that were going on in my life, different expectations, requirements, who I thought I needed
to be and maybe different traumas, different events, different circumstances, different
relationships in my life and I think the beautiful thing about
as we grow in relationship with God and with the father
is the more we spend time with him
and we allow his voice to define who we are,
we actually continue to come home to our true authentic self
and all of the conditioned self, the ego,
the people that we think we need to be,
the different aspects of what I think I need to be
in order to fit in, in order to belong,
all the motivations of what is actually motivating me,
is it actually who God's created me to be
and coming from this beautiful place of self-acceptance
and love and identity in Christ
and awareness to who he's made me to be
or is it actually this thing of this need for acceptance
from society or fame or money
or to try to get an audience
or am I actually growing in confidence
to live before an audience of one
and I'm actually growing in more and more awareness
of who I've been made to be
and something too that they've done a lot of study on
is our conscious mind and our unconscious mind
and we all know that we have both of those realities
and they've done a lot of studies
that we actually only live out of 20% of our conscious mind
and 80% of our unconscious mind
and why does this matter at all?
Well, our unconscious mind actually is rooted in beliefs
and our behavior is actually determined by our beliefs
and so what we need to constantly do as individuals,
as humans, as sons and daughters, as men and women
is as we continue to grow in our relationship with God
and become aware of our consciousness
and our unconscious mind,
we look at our patterns and we look at our behavior
and we look at our lifestyle
because that is determined by our behavior
and our behavior is determined by our beliefs
and so what we want to continue to do
is grow in self-awareness
and they've also done a massive study
that 90% of people are actually living unaware,
they're not tuned into themselves, they're not self-aware,
they're not aware of why they do what they do
or why they think what they think,
they're not aware of how they affect people around them,
their behaviors, their attitudes, the energy, the vibe,
the frequency they carry, a lot of people are unaware
and so what we want to do as people
is we want to constantly grow in self-awareness,
what's happening on the inside of me,
what is going on in my internal world
because my internal world
radically affects everything in my external world,
my internal world governs every part of my life
so I want to become aware, what are the thought patterns,
what are the mindsets, what are the behaviors,
what are the different aspects of the things that move me,
my feelings, my emotions, my relationships,
how am I showing up, am I hiding
or am I being my true authentic self, am I connected,
is my mind and my heart and my soul connected to one another
or are they not?
These are really important questions to ask
and not that we get critical of ourselves
or we become too self-aware or like too self-conscious,
self-aware and self-consciousness are two different things,
we don't want to move into the insecure
and the negative spiral
but we do want to grow in self-consciousness
and so self-awareness, sorry, I keep getting my mind,
I woke up really early in the morning,
I didn't sleep so good so my brain is like.
So bringing it back to why does this matter
for owning our identity,
why does this matter in our personal artistic expression?
Well, it matters massively
because if you are living out of a false sense of self
and you are living out of a conditioned self
and you're living out of who you think you need to be,
you're not actually gonna be the true authentic self
to create, you're not actually gonna be in alignment
to your sound, to your flavor, to your personal genius,
to your gift that you are meant to be on the earth
as a personal revelation of who the father is.
Each one of us have unique fingerprints,
we have unique vocal cords that nobody sounds like us,
we have our features, our heart, our soul,
who you are is a personal revelation,
a personal reflection of who the father is,
you're unique, there is no one like you
and so if we are trying to be something
that we think we are,
think we need to be rather than who we truly are.
We're not gonna be living our true authentic self,
owning our identity who God's made us to be
because we're comparing and we're thinking we need to be
like, or sound like, or write like,
or live like someone else.
And we're not gonna be true to the authentic version of us.
And so then that anointing, that freshness,
that authenticity, that beauty that we might bring
to the earth that nobody's thought of,
nobody's brought that perspective or that writing
or that genius brilliance, but we sometimes get scared
because we're motivated by other things
or we want acceptance or we want love or celebration,
which are all good things.
All of those needs need to be met in us.
We need to be celebrated and loved, championed.
We need to feel like who we are is amazing and is a gift.
And we find that in the father's voice
when we are in his presence and we get those needs met
and by safe friends and family.
But when we have those needs met
and we're able to be confident sons and daughters
who know who we are, who are aligned to the spirit of God,
we get to like own who he's made us to be,
our gifts, skills, purpose, calling, destiny.
Then we walk in a measure of confidence and bravery
and courage to release our personal expression of art,
our personal expression of who God is in and through us
that brings something of beauty to the world
that nobody's seen before.
And it's vulnerable and it's scary, right?
Like it's way easier to be a copycat
if we find something that's working for someone else
and we just hop on that train and do what they're doing.
It takes a lot of vulnerability.
It takes a lot of courage to create something
and put it out there even to one friend
and be like, do you like this song?
Or do you like this book that I've written?
Or do you like this piece of clothing that I made?
Or I drew this and, or I organized the room
and I did interior design this way.
Or I created this digital thing.
Whatever it is that you're creating.
I wrote this poem.
It's vulnerable to put a piece of yourself out there.
And yet there's something so life-giving and creative
and wonderful and powerful in that place of vulnerability,
in the place of creating.
When we're able to confidently go,
my identity isn't defined by what I create.
It's actually just a product of creativity.
That I am a confident son and daughter
who knows who I am before God,
who Jesus has made me to be.
And I get to create from that place
and things might be really beautiful and successful
and thriving and other things might go,
oh yeah, I could work on that.
Or that wasn't so good,
but that's actually not a reflection of who I am.
You know, we have to like separate that
where we don't get our self-worth by that.
We actually already know who we are
and we can create from that beautiful place.
So I just wanted to highlight that,
the authentic self and the conditioned self,
the conscious mind, the subconscious mind,
and actually really growing in the gift of self-awareness
and the motivation of why do I create?
What is my motivation to create?
Why do I love this?
Well, a lot of it is because you've been created to do that.
Like God's wired you for that.
He's specifically made you for that.
And what we want as sons and daughters,
what the earth is longing for,
what creation's groaning for,
is sons and daughters to take their place,
to live as wild, abandoned, confident worshipers
that are expressing who they are
and the spirit of God that is on the inside of them,
expressing that to the world, releasing heaven on earth.
Because we all know when we've been impacted
by someone's creativity, we go, wow.
Like there is more substance and energy and spirit to that
than just that painting or just that book.
It's like the spirit of God touches us
or we see something beautiful and we're like, wow.
So we all have the opportunity, we have the gift,
we have the potential to do that.
And what will help us do that,
what will serve us in that is us growing
in awareness of who we truly are, what's motivating us,
growing in the courage and the bravery to own who we are,
to grow in our relationship with Jesus and the Father,
allowing his voice to define us,
letting go of the comparison,
letting go of all of the ego
and the things that we're trying to do for other things
and live before an audience of one
and then create from that place
and combine it with a spirit of excellence to go,
how can I create something that's beautiful and worthy
that will honor the Lord,
but that will bring beauty to the earth,
that will bring strength, that will bring vitality,
that will bring something of substance
that could change someone's life,
that will hold healing and transformation and bring.
through and inspiration in whatever artistic expression that is.
So I haven't looked at my notes, let me just see if there's anything else that I could
possibly add.
You know what I think I'm going to leave it there and if I think of anything else, I will
mention it later but wanted to pass it on to Zylan and see really want to hear from
him.
Zylan is this incredible digital designer, he is a songwriter, he is a musician, he is
an artist, he's got music videos out there, he's had artistic expression in so many different
ways and I learned so much from this beautiful friend and so I'm so looking forward to hearing
how he's owned his identity and how that's affected his personal artistic expression.
Thank you Dana and I think Dana covered all the major points and that's really incredible.
One of the things that really changed my life is I met this person, he's a prophetic worship
leader.
I was in this YWAM discipleship program like back in 2009 so I met this person, he actually
came to our school to teach us about worship for a week and this dude was like a James
Lupton type guy, you know, those times James Lupton just came to the worship scene, you
know, talking singing about fathers and intimacy and for me those kind of words was pretty
like new to me, like it was like a very fresh, very organic worship leading thing.
This guy put his keyboard on his friend and, you know, he was actually singing and teaching
and everything was very organic and, you know, it was like really amazing and this dude is
so much into presence, you know, all his songs and, you know, everything was very, very beautiful
and I got a chance to talk to him personally and I asked him, you know, what should I do,
you know, if I wanted to do something that you do and he said that for the last 37 years
I've been praying one thing, that is, Lord, I want to know you more.
So for me that was a big thing for me because it literally actually, you know, there are
some, what is that, some impartation or whatever, you know, it just happened, it was like a
very divine moment and this word actually came to me and actually rested in my spirit
that, you know, I want to know you more.
So I started to pray that thing, you know, since I started to sing about it, pray about
it and, you know, and the more that I've encountered God, you know, my image of God
and my idea of God, you know, when the moment it grew, first thing happened to me is it
actually gave me an understanding of myself, you know, and there's a scripture, you know,
when Isaiah had this majestic vision about, you know, God in Isaiah chapter 6, right?
Yeah.
And, you know, the first thing Isaiah realized that how bad he is, you know, when you are
in that moment of seeing the glory, the majesty of God, you know, just going to that light,
you know, it eliminate us, you know, it expose who we really are, you know, and it's a place
it of, in a way, kind of uncomfort because nobody wants to see themselves, you know,
what a bad person I am, right?
So I think that the more we go to God, the more we exposed.
So for me, owning my identity, and I'm not saying that, you know, I'm just reached like,
you know, a place where that, you know, I own my artist, I'm still growing.
I think for me, another thing that I believe is it's a journey.
It's a process never happens in one day, you know, and we all grew up with this biblical
characters like Moses, David, Joseph, you know, they all these people had a divine call in their
lives. And, and they had a journey, a process. And they had a moment.
a season of owning their purpose, their identity. I think it's a process, it's a journey. For me,
it's a journey because I grew up in a very artistic family. All my cousins and my parents,
everybody's got some sort of artistic skills. They sing and paint and all those kinds of stuff. So
I grew up with a natural talent towards music and painting and drawing and all those kind of stuff.
I realized that it takes conscious choice because I believe that internal growth is nothing to do
with age. Like Dana said, you need to consciously condition yourself. There are a lot of humility,
dying to yourself and surrendering to the truth of God, to the light of God. It's a process.
The moment we consciously come to a place of humility and surrender to the love of God,
everything changes as an artist, as a person, because each art actually defines the artist.
Literally, if you listen to a song, you can see what kind of man or woman who wrote that song,
a painting, anything. Each artist will define the person, the artist. So growing to be a good
human being and a son of God, it's a conscious choice. It takes so much humility and it's a
process. For me, I can easily say that my understanding of music or the way I
even edit a picture, because I remember how our personality changes the way we see colors and
textures and everything. It's actually really crazy. I used to be into this dark, more dark
tone kind of guy. Right now, I am more drawn to the warm colors and stuff, just because I think
it's the internal freedom that I have experienced over these years, because the light that actually
came into my heart and my internal being actually reflects in my thinking, in my art and all.
I think it takes so much humility and I thank God for all the people who actually
spend their time on me and the Spirit of God who guide me. It's a big algorithm,
right? Just to guide us to the right people, to the right YouTube videos, to the right songs,
to the right art, to the right talks and to the right places over these years. It's actually
literally, it's a beautiful journey. So I won't encourage everyone that if you're struggling,
if you're still thinking about what's my identity, I think they say that every people have
this thing called shadowing, right? Because the process is you have this raw talent and this is
where that you need to go and own your identity, being original, let's say. From here to here,
it's a long journey, actually. Some people, when they start, they might have some sort of unique
expressions and stuff, but still they need to imitate somebody. There's a musician here,
he's very big in India. Actually, the guy who actually did music for Slumdog Millionaire,
the Oscar movie. So his name is A.R. Rahman. He said that if you want to achieve a really
unique sound, for singers, he was actually saying that. Just imitate 90 singers.
just imitated, blindly imitated 90 or 100 singers
and eventually you will land in your own sound.
I found it's like, yeah, that's it.
Because originality, it actually comes
from your trying and literally imitating.
That's it, it's shadowing, you know?
Because that order is actually in the nature, you know?
Because when we born here,
we always actually follow our parents' footstep.
You know, we emitted them.
That's how actually the growth happens, you know?
And eventually every animal learn to hunt for themselves
and find their food and stuff, you know?
So it's an order in the nature that, you know,
sometimes we have to imitate our favorite artists
and then in a moment, in a season,
we will find out who we are
and we'll step down from that shadow of this thing
and we eventually own ourself as an artist
and it takes time, it takes time.
And yeah, it's a really beautiful journey.
If we consciously like have this kind of thing in mind,
we can just avoid a lot of disappointments
because or else like, you know, it's a process.
It's emotional rollercoaster.
There'll be dark seasons.
There'll be times and seasons you feel that you're nothing,
you're stupid, you don't know anything, you know?
And that's all good, you know?
It's a, what is that?
It's a circular motion, you know?
It's not a linear process.
Growth is not linear, by the way.
Growth is not linear.
It's always circular, you know?
Sometimes you will come down to the place that you,
like you will revisit all the place
that you think that you understood, you learned it.
So yeah, it's a journey.
Just embrace it.
And yeah, I think for me,
these are the things like comes to my mind, you know?
And yeah, I'll just listen to Fee.
Fee is here.
Oh, he's here.
Great, Fee.
I just wanted to add to what you were saying.
I was really feeling, I was looking at my notes.
I was like, oh yeah, that's what I want to say.
You just said it.
It was feeling the permission to be bold
and take risks in your creative expression.
But so much of that comes through shadowing.
So much of that comes through,
the tension is that we actually learn by one another.
We go to the painting classes or we go to the schools
or we look at our favorite artists and we mimic them.
We love what they do.
And something about their artistic expression draws us in.
And then we begin to learn from them.
We begin to copy them.
But then in that, just as what you say,
like kind of have 90 different people that you learn from.
The beautiful thing is that once kind of all the greats,
they had the different expressions,
but then they kind of tried something new.
They were bold and brave enough to try something new.
And then that's where the genius came in.
That's where something like sparked.
And it was like, oh my gosh, yeah, I've been doing this.
And that's what so many people talk about,
even within the 10,000 hours,
to become good at anything, to become excellent at anything,
you study or you learn for 10,000 hours.
But they say, even with songwriting,
it's like learn the structure
of what does a really good song,
but then go off the page.
Then actually break the rules.
But in order to be a good artist,
it's like, you've got to know with your craft,
what are the rules?
What is the structure?
What creates a good paragraph and a good chapter in a book?
Or what are the key things within architecture?
Or what are the key things within making garments
or a song or poetry to learn the structure,
learn the craft, but then break the rules
and get outside of the box.
And that's one thing I really felt like
the Lord has constantly been saying to me
that I want to say over you guys is be permissioned.
Be permissioned to be bold and be creative
and to break the box.
Be permissioned to just give things a go.
And if it fails and if it's not good,
then you cry, you laugh, you like pick yourself up
and then you try it again.
Because every day is a gift from the Lord.
Every day holds endless possibilities.
And it's our mindsets that are really the thing
that holds us back.
But we are limitless.
We are limitless where our minds can go,
where our imagination can go, how God can inspire us.
And then how we can take responsibility
and go and find inspiration from one.
another. And just as you said, Zailin, to originality, it's like one of my mentors was
talking about a book and I can't remember the author, but it the phrase is steal like
an artist. And it's basically, I think that's actually a quotation from Picasso. I was going
to say he was Picasso. Yes. And that it was like his artistry was like he would be inspired
and he would paint like them. But then he took theirs and then he went to the next level
and made it his original, his personal flair on that. And nothing's original that we all
are taking from one another and putting our personal flair to it. And then you go.
Yeah, originality is a mirage. Yeah. That's what we call original, you know, all unique
combinations actually. Picasso said good artists copy, great artists steal. Yes. When you steal,
nobody knows. Yeah, totally. Totally. And then and then it just brings a humility because
of course, you're going to put your blood, sweat and tears into your craft and you want
to feel proud of what you've created. But you have millions of hours of things that
you've seen, heard, been taught, been cultivated by hundreds of people. And so it's not like,
oh, well, I just came up with this, you know, all by myself. I've never been inspired or
taught by anybody. I have literally countries and hundreds and thousands of people that
have inspired me that you get all these bits of pieces. But the beautiful thing is then
it's all this creative wonder. And then you birth something that is yours and it's personal
to you. And it is kind of something that you've birthed. It is a reflection or part of you.
And then the beautiful thing of humility is allowing that to inspire someone else. And
you've stolen like an artist and you've been inspired by other people. Other people can
be inspired what you do and then take that and then allow inspiration. And so there's
this humility, I think, as artists that we put our blood, sweat and tears into it, but
then we offer it as a gift to bless, to serve, to awaken, to inspire and for others in this
next generation to go, oh, I'm going to take that. I'm going to steal that and then do
something original from that, you know, and then the domino effect. Where is our beautiful
brother Fee? Is he here? I can't see. Oh, yeah, there he is. Fee, are you able to come
on video and unmute? We'd love to see you, brother. So Fee is our beautiful friend as
well. Our brother who if any of you were part of Raising Royalty last year, we know, you
know that we do a talent quest and we had hundreds of people come in and we do this
incredible talent quest of anything that's artistic expression. And Fee was our winner.
Fee was our incredible singer-songwriter winner. And so he's part of our Raising Royalty family.
He's an artist that is supported by Raising Royalty now. He's in Madagascar. He has a
beautiful wife and new baby. But Madagascar has actually gone under massive flooding this
last week or two. And so we were unsure if he was going to be able to join us just with
Wi-Fi issues. But he's here. We're just I'm just trying to find. I don't know if his.
Yeah, I think he'll come. I just want to add something with Diana. What you said that,
you know, it's really funny before you break any rules, learn the rules.
Yes. I mean, I think that's really good, you know, because once you know all the rules and
just just, you know, there are some some directors who say that, you know, just have a script. But
before the shoot, just yes, you know, totally. And there's another really great quote that Graham
Cook says. And he said, spontaneity is the reward of preparation. And he was saying that in regards
to worship and to singer songwriters that sometimes want this amazing, spontaneous
chorus or a moment where the Holy Spirit comes in this worship or as a writer or anything within
your craft, whatever it is that you're called to do and you put your hands to. But there is that
thing of preparation, doing the work, putting in the time and then having that moment of inspiration,
having that spontaneous moment. But if you're just hoping that that is going to come and you've not
done any foundational work to prepare whatever it is for your like, if we didn't prepare for the
zoom and we just showed up and we're like, oh, hopefully the Holy Spirit just inspires us and
fills our mouth with something to speak like that, those things happen. But the.
Beautiful thing I think in anything in life is when we're intentional, we put a foundation,
we put time and intentionality into what we're doing.
And then in the midst of that preparation, in the midst of that building towards something,
there are these moments of inspiration.
And so just like that too, when you do the work of learning the structure, learning the
rules, learning, you know, if you wanted to build this amazing new house that was going
to be mind-blowing, it's going to be design of the century, but you didn't actually like
hold to the baseline of a foundation for what needs to be in the structure of a home and
you wanted to do something that's totally out there and amazing for design, but it didn't
hold the structure of plumbing and foundation and with the storms and the weather, I mean,
it's not going to go well.
Or if you try to write something and you try to be so artistic, so different, so unique,
but you don't hold to the actual foundation.
It's just, it's going to be out there and nobody's, it's not going to be useful to anyone.
It won't serve anyone.
So yeah, maybe we can open this up for a time if anybody has any questions or thoughts,
if we just want to open it up, if you want to just kind of wave your hand or if you want
to unmute yourself and just say, Hey, I've got a question or I've got a thought that
I want to add to the table.
I want to add something to Zion.
He said to emulate 90 artists, I heard this musicians getting interviewed once, and they
said they did an album where they didn't, they made sure that they didn't have any of
their influences influencing them.
All musicians have influences, people that they listen to, and they made a concerted
effort to make an album where they weren't relying on any of the influences.
And they said the album was a total dud and no one bought it.
And it wasn't popular because all good art has influences and they proved it, they actually
made an album and it was a dud and no one liked it because they dropped their influences.
So we're just all micro expressions of someone else.
That's amazing.
That's awesome.
Thank you so much for sharing that, Matthew.
That's so great.
Does anyone else have any thoughts?
I see that Fee is here, so we would love to hear from Fee, but if anyone has any questions
before we hear from Fee, we'd love to hear from you.
Hi, my name is Angelique.
Hi, Angelique.
Good to see you.
Just a quick question.
I'm struggling to get my son into a normal academic school.
He is quite creative.
I didn't apply for him to go to high school last year because I was planning to move down,
but things changed and the only school available is a technical and creative school.
Is it advisable to send your child into a creative school at such a young age or should
he rather just follow an academic road where he can choose to become what he wants?
I'm just scared of sending him into a direction and at the end of the day, it might not be
for him.
He's very into music, very into art and stuff like that, but I don't want to make a mistake
with his future, so I'm just a bit skeptical.
Oh, you're so beautiful.
What a precious mom you are to be so thoughtful about his heart and his future.
Just as you speak, I was just like, Holy Spirit, just listening to what you were saying.
Because you're saying he is so artistic and he loves music and he loves design and art,
I think schools that have the ability to have that environment and atmosphere to foster
that is an incredible gift.
So from just what you're hearing, I can't tell you what to do, but just hearing what
you're saying, I think it would be actually a gift that could open him up to possibilities
It could open him up to tutors and teachers and classes.
that wouldn't be available just in a technical academic school.
If there's technical academic with creative,
that's not going to pressure him to become a certain artist.
It's actually going to open him up to,
oh mom, I'm in this class and I was learning about this
and this is so cool or I'm learning about this
and that's not my thing.
I don't want to be in photography
or I don't want to do painting,
but I really love music, mom.
And it will open him up to classes
and opportunities that he wouldn't get
in just a technical and academic school.
So from what I'm hearing,
I would kind of put on the table,
looking at what does this open up for my son?
What are the possibilities
that actually are afforded to him
that are given to him
that he wouldn't have in this other school?
So I don't know if that helps,
but I see it as an incredible gift
if he could be a part of that.
For me as a creative,
if I had that as a young girl,
like I love dancing, I love singing,
I love musical theater
and we did have a drama class
and I did have a choir class.
Those two opportunities carried me through
because I was terrible at academics,
terrible at science, math.
I just was like, oh my gosh.
But knowing I had a class that I could be dramatic
and I could sing and knowing I had choir,
that brought so much life to me
and it helped me endure all the subjects
that I hated, that I was terrible at.
So I think if your son is able to be at a school
where there is creativity fostered
and there's classes or things that he could do
that spark his interest,
oh, what a gift, what an incredible gift.
So those are my thoughts.
I mean, thank you.
At the moment, the doors for academic is closed
because it's quite a small town.
So we've been waiting at home now for two weeks
to be accepted and nothing has happened.
So you said to me,
mommy will actually go to the school.
It sounds quite cool.
Oh yeah.
It sounds amazing, Angelique.
I feel so much joy in it.
I feel like, wow, God, you're in this.
There might not be the ability to do this
because God's actually leading you to this.
So follow your peace, follow the favor.
That's things that mentors and leaders and pastors
have always taught me is follow your peace.
Like, what does it feel like?
Is there a sense of peace on it
and excitement and opportunity and favor?
I just think follow that.
That's an incredible gift.
Amen, thank you so much.
No worries.
Okay, so Fi is here.
So we're gonna hear from him again.
The power might cut
just because of what's happening in Madagascar,
but we just wanna make space to hear
from our beautiful brother, Fi.
So hi, Fi.
Do you wanna say hi to us?
And we'd love to just hear any thoughts you have
on owning your personal identity,
expressing your personal artistic flavor
and yeah, unique expression.
Hi, everyone.
Yeah, sorry about me being in and out
because we have power cut all the time.
It's like eight hours a day.
So it's gonna cut soon again.
I hope it's not gonna cut, but you never know.
Anyway, I see you guys are on fire.
So good.
So sure, identity and all those stuff,
it's kind of a big topic, eh?
And most of us struggle with it
as an artist or not an artist.
I would say everybody's an artist,
but yeah, anyway, we all struggle about it.
Me personally, I struggle also as everyone,
but I guess part of my uniqueness
is also the story I have,
the story of my life,
the story, the life I've been through.
And I think everyone is unique in that way.
We may have similar stories,
but not exactly the same.
So those things shapes our identity also.
And we shouldn't never be ashamed of our past
or our lives because those things
brings glory to God when it's redeemed.
So, yeah, there are, sometimes we want to,
we are ashamed of our past
and we want to be someone else
or we want to pretend to be cooler, nicer.
We put masks and, you know.
try to be someone else but you know God is in relationship in the you now today
not in the you you want to what you want to be so he is in relationship with you
now your failures your struggle identity struggle is in relation he's okay with
that he's okay with whatever you may feel about your identity today and he is
in relationship with you that you today and you know the you you want to be is
this is how they said I would say doesn't exist what existence is you you
you exist today and and embrace it I know it's it might not fit the patterns
of whatever the standard of good or whatever but you know you are perfectly
loved and and no matter what you do can make God love you more or less because
you are loved with a perfect love and that nothing can change that that's a
yeah so I guess for me that helps me a lot to step out of my comfort zone and
to embrace myself more and to breast embrace the me today and I know that God
who starts the good work in me will finish but he started to see so faithful
and so yeah identity I write my story in my music I write my doubts my questions
my struggles my my joy my pain everything and that makes us unique
that makes you unique when you write about your story when you paint your story
when you sing your story and you know somebody will always be touched by because
we are somehow different but at the same time we are all the same also somewhere
so your struggle is not only yours it might be somebody else's struggle too so
don't don't try to be cool all the time or awesome all the time you can be you
you can be you can be you and embrace the you today that's I guess that's
that's part of what I want to say today yeah I don't know if that's
that is amazing I'm literally like oh my gosh just like hearing what you say it is so profound
and simple and it's like I think everybody can relate like it's like hitting the heart it is so
liberating what you are saying be the you today that God is with you in the midst of your pain
your struggle whatever it is that you're facing he's not trying to bless bless what you think
you should be for him he's actually wanting to be who you really are and we were talking about that
at the beginning being our authentic self not the conditioned self not who we think we have to be or
you know that's what religion does right we think well let me get all cleaned up and perfect and
offer this image of who I think I need to be for God and God's like I don't want all that
actually the real authentic you because that's the real you that's the real art creative expression
that's the real person underneath all the conditioned self of who we think we need to be
and I love how you just talked about owning your story we often want to think that we would be
like this or we get ashamed or feel guilt or pain about our story but our stories are so beautiful
and unique and that's the beauty of healing and redemption and restoration and that actually fuels
the beauty of artistic expression is when God's love comes and lights us that up and we actually
can own our humanity because everyone's human and everyone can relate to being a human and
it's when we like take off this polished perfect version of ourself but we're actually able to just
be us that was so profound fee like I'm like sitting here just like oh I'm getting set free all over again
Dorcas just has a question so would love to hear Dorcas and then Fee, Zylan if you want
to answer.
I just see that Dorcas says, I love to paint but I'm not a super great at it.
I see so many artists who are much better than me and I struggle with feeling guilty
for wasting my time.
Is it okay to paint even if I'm not that good?
I have so many thoughts on that but Fee, Zylan would love to hear from you first.
It's actually kind of let's fall into the same stuff that we are talking about.
Now one of the things that really kills us as an artist is comparing ourselves you know.
Most of the time when we start it takes so much hours of practice and you know doing
the same stuff over and over again for years.
That's how you get better at it you know.
When we started this is what one of the somebody said it.
It says that you know don't compare your seed with a tree you know.
You're just starting and they actually grow and you know they become a big tree and it
takes time for a seed to grow and become a tree like that.
So Dorcas I would say that please paint you know.
We actually do.
We paint, we sing and we do our artistic thing not to like you know show to somebody you
know.
We just do it because we have to do it you know.
There is no other way just what is that an expression you know of who you are and when
you keep doing it that thing and without comparing yourself it doesn't matter if there is so
many Michael you know great painters out there you know just do your thing and keep
doing it and you'll become better so keep painting.
That's my encouragement to you Dorcas.
Do you have anything that you want to add to that?
I would say you are awesome and you know art is art.
Art is art.
Your art is your art and it's beautiful and as much as it's authentic pure and wild and
you know it's your art and people will always be touched by it somewhere in the world.
You know you are not made for everyone.
You weren't made for somebody and just release yourself, paint, enjoy yourself, show your
painting to the people you love and you know just keep painting.
You'll get better as you keep doing it.
Yes, so good.
I just want to like high five that too.
I love to paint as well but I'm not a painter like it won't be something that I ever maybe
ascribed to do but I have always loved painting and I've always wanted to do abstract art
and put it up on my walls or things like that and I just have to like so I just want to
encourage you there is something that gets unlocked in me when I put some music on I
get a white canvas and I just paint and I'm like most people would probably look at it
and be like you know what I mean but the beautiful thing of what gets unlocked in me and I'm
like oh my gosh you know and like you know when you look at your children or your nieces
or nephews or your friends kids and they come home and they're three years old and they
show you the painting that they did at preschool or whatever and they're so excited because
they express themselves and they had color and texture and there was something that got
unlocked in them.
Allow that to be what happens in you and if there is something that you go oh I actually
want to grow in the art of painting and I want to learn the different structures and
rules that create good art awesome allow that to be something that you give time and attention
to but don't ever let your self-judgment or self-criticism crush the beauty and the child
likeness the wonder you know of who you've been created to be and that is for all of
us I know I have to daily repent from self-judgment and criticism and that thing and just go oh
I don't want that a part of me I actually want celebration and love and championing
and delight and I want the little girl the little Dana in me to feel celebrated to express
herself in whatever art form that is because it's your soul it's your heart it's your spirit
being able to communicate through this body this physical body that we've been given so
I just want to speak over you and all like all of you people allow
allow your hearts to come alive and be permissioned,
be permissioned to be childlike.
We come into the kingdom as little children
and we get celebrated by our father
and we don't judge what we create.
I mean, there is room as we grow in a craft
where we want to bring excellence to something
that we do bring some healthy critique,
but don't just say no to judgment
and say no to the criticism that shuts down
something in seed form.
Nobody ever looks at a child that's learning to walk
and be like, oh, you idiot, you took like two steps
and then you fell on your knees.
No, the way that they learn to walk is come on,
up you get, come to mommy, come to the,
it's celebration, it's affirmation.
And so be your biggest cheerleader,
affirm yourself, celebrate yourself,
allow yourself to get giddy as you would
over a small child and watch and see
what happens, the power of our words create our world
and our tongue either speaks life or death.
So speak life of yourself, encourage yourself,
strengthen yourself in the Lord,
be your biggest cheerleader, be your own soul's best friend,
speak to yourself like you would speak to your best friend.
And if they were to come and show you something
and be like, wow, you know?
So I see that Rosalina has her hand up,
would love to hear your question, beautiful Rosalina.
Hi, I don't have a question,
but we have a group in Canada here in Ottawa.
We just started, anyway, it's called Kingdom Arts
and we have about 12 people and can grow up to 20
and it's growing, but people have a chance
to express themselves in any kind of creative arts
for the kingdom.
So it's all about what is God saying to you today?
So it's really fun and we've, I've put out,
we just started last December
and we're having another event coming soon.
The theme is love, of course it's about God's love.
And we sent out, I sent out a scripture
for them to read the song of songs.
And that's my point here is the song of songs says,
the shepherd King says to us, the Shulamite,
yet you are so lovely,
like fine linen tapestry hanging in the holy place.
That's how God sees us.
You know, the Shulamite, us,
we talk about all this stuff that we go through,
yet our shepherd King, our bridegroom King
says we are so lovely and we're to continue.
So I've encouraged our group to read the song of songs,
especially in the passion translation.
Yeah, it is.
I love it.
It is of his passion and his love for us, the church,
the church, the bride.
So enjoy yourselves in that.
And I think as we read this,
I mean, this is my bedtime story at night
to get rid of all the stuff on my mind
and just think about what he thinks about me.
And then he gives me nice thoughts as I sleep.
You know, I wake up in nice thoughts.
So to know who we really are with him
and also with the arts,
what we've asked them to do is give a title to your art,
give what prophetic message you wanna share
in that art piece and also add a scripture to it
because then the focus remains on God
as they're doing their work.
And you wouldn't believe some people,
they're so excited like kids.
You know, I have these people,
they're 75 years old, 80 some years old,
and they're emailing me and they're contacting me.
I've just written some poetry
and they can't wait to read it to me over the phone.
They're so excited before an event happens.
So it just creative, creativity,
just, you know, God created the earth.
Of course we are creative people, right?
We're creative beings.
So in each one of us, like this gentleman said,
you know, he said, you know, we each have our own journeys
but we're touching people,
even if they come to my home and they're not believers.
I have a lot of people, Remy, they're not believers
but they're wondering what I'm doing, you know?
And I will take that time and I connect with God first
but I take the time to explain to him
why I painted something
because something can touch their heart
and it can be a seed,
even if they don't get it right away, right?
It builds, we build and that's what our journey is.
So a friend of mine encouraged me to log on and she said,
to I don't know if you know her name is Jill. She might have been on in the past. But she's
also from Canada, of course. And I was really impressed with this whole thing you've got
going here. I don't know how long it's been here. But it's really interesting and inspiring.
And I've encouraged everybody to come and see you. So maybe they'll be on next time.
Yeah, great. Thank you. Thank you for the invite. Yeah, thank you so much for sharing
and amazing to hear what you're doing and just cultivating that freedom and exclusion
and celebration within your group. Like amazing. That is so beautiful. And just I just so wholeheartedly
agree with the passion translation being just yeah, poetic, and the song of song of just
allowing that that romance of the lover of our soul being King Jesus with his people
and allow that because there's something that unlocks our heart with love, right? Love unlocks
the heart like nothing else. So yeah, thank you for sharing that Rosalina. Yeah, we really
hope you keep coming. We do this once a month. And so we mail out within our raising royalty
community. And so if you're part of the raising royalty community, you just or you can email
us after I can put my email in the chat. And if any of you aren't getting the emails
or you were just sent this link by someone else, you can get on our our kind of daily
weekly emails. And we do this once a month. So this is our fourth kingdom creative chat.
And so we just go through different theme or topic every month just to kind of foster
this dialogue together. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Thank you very much. Don't worry. Thank you.
Is there anyone else that has a question? Oh, yeah. I see. Is it real? And Christine?
I'm just gonna get you to unmute my love.
Hi, I'm from Canada, close to Ottawa as well. So this is really fun. Hearing the lady speak.
But I missed the last four. So do you know where we could listen to the other ones that
you had? Yes. So on our Facebook page, also on our raising royalty platform, we're actually
creating that just this weekend. And next, probably by Monday, just putting all of the
zoom. So we record the zooms. And then they go on. But I'll put the link in. Did you get
the email for this? Yes. Yes, I did. If you go back to the email, you'll see at the bottom
and it says if you can't watch this live, and want to watch the replay, click this link.
So there's a link to the Facebook creative page. So I I download this zoom recording
and I upload it to that Facebook page. So you can see all of the different ones that
we've done each, each month. Yeah. So and then they are a new platform, they'll be easier
to find. They'll actually just be like the kingdom creative zooms. And then it'll be
like, boop, boop, boop, boop, kind of like all of them right there. So yeah, we'll email
that out. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, but glad you're here. I'm loving all the fellow Canadians.
I'm in Vancouver. So it's amazing. It's so great. And yeah, just amazing to see you guys
here. So thank you for for being here. Does anybody else have any questions? Or anything
that they'd like to share? Add to the conversation. So good to see all you beautiful people.
Dana. Yes. I would love to see it's so exciting to see, you know, silent, I guess is his name.
He's from India. Yeah, yeah. He's from Madagascar. I would love to see when they put in their
name, they put where they're from, because it's so exciting. You know, that God can connect
us throughout the whole world. Yeah, you know, and this may grow, right? Yeah, things
grow. So in the kingdom, and it's just, it's our way of connecting with God together. It's
the unity thing, right? Totally. It's very powerful. It's very, God's glory will pour
into this and pour into each one of us as we connect, right? I would love to see, you
know, Matthew, where are you from? You know, Karen, where are you from? Yeah, yeah. And
again, if you don't feel like you want to share that personal information, there's no
pressure, but if you would like to, so you add your location, basically, if you go, you
can do it through your
name, either you can just, you can just put in the chat. Oh, this is where I'm from, or if you ever want it with your name, you can go up to the settings. And you can actually, I think it is just looking at if you go to zoom dot us like up at the top.
I'm, I believe you go through preferences and then you can change your name.
I yeah we'll figure it out, or you can just put in put in the chat where you're from that might be easier than renaming on the zoom yeah yeah but yeah it is so great to hear from everyone where everyone's at in different chats sometimes we've had 50 people sometimes we've had 30 people in the chat this one's a little bit smaller, I know, with the different times that we do it sometimes people are all at work, and so they can live and they'll watch later, sometimes we do it on the weekend, sometimes it's been just on a Friday.
So, it's really great to see so many people from around the world, come and just be part of this community that it is such a gift.
Very nice.
So does anybody else have any thoughts or anything that they want to add.
Just so good to see you Janice and Helen and Jamie.
Surely so good to see these familiar faces and names, all the rest of you, Heidi, Karen Casey Deborah Joe dare all the ones.
So amazing to see you all.
Hi, I'll just introduce myself. Yeah, Joe from New Zealand. Hello everyone.
This is my first going on the, you know, your creative creatives lives. Yeah, I do get the, the kingdom emails so this is yeah this is the first one I just woke up and check my emails and saw a creative one so here I am.
I'm an artist, and I'm also part of running workshops at my local church.
Yeah, so we were around all sorts of different creative workshops around, you know, painting different types of painting that type of thing.
Sometimes, you know, jewelry and painting and all sorts. So yeah, it's just, I'm just in a small town in New Zealand and, and that's part of what we do for the community.
Yeah, so I thought I'd just introduce myself and I love what Rosalina had to say about, you know, you know your workshops and, you know, having a scripture and, you know, that that's really good.
So, yeah, it was really good to hear that and good to hear.
So, yeah, awesome what you said. So yeah, I just want to share that.
Hello everyone.
Hi, I'm so glad that you came on and said hi it's so good to see you here with us it just love it I love New Zealand I lived in New Zealand for probably eight or 10 years, I lived there just before the global lockdown so I have much love for.
I have so much fun out there and I just, oh, I love the accent I just love New Zealand so much so it's so good to see you and hear you.
I don't have a pure New Zealand accent because I lived in Australia a long time so there's a bit of Aussie in there. Yeah, I can actually hear the intonation I can hear but I lived in Australia for four years as well so I just South Pacific I just love that whole region
was like my second home like New Zealand truly actually I've got like 90% of my belongings that are still in New Zealand.
Because when I came back in the global lockdown I had to leave everything and just take a bag of clothes. So I left my guitars, everything.
I love New Zealand so so good to see you and hear your voice thanks for saying hi.
Thank you.
Anyone else that would like to say a word or two or share something that inspired you that you've heard.
I just want to say, just one more thing we do with what we've done with the art and poetry is we the church allowed us to hang these things up on the walls.
So the church decorated with the art. And what I've also done is interviewed each of the artists and put a little explanation of what the art means, because not everybody in the church attends the events, but we feel that there's messages in the art
pieces that God has given us to help other people. So that's what we've also done I just wanted to share that.
Oh, the church is very old. Yeah.
Oh, that's so good. Um, I also just had just a private message,
just wanting to explain a little bit more about raising royalty
and what we're doing. So for those of you that might not be
totally familiar with raising royalty, just to give a quick 30
second kind of cap on what it is raising royalties, this
incredible movement led by our beautiful friend and leader
Benji Alexander. And it's a movement of seeing sons and
daughters awaken to who they really are and fulfilling the
Great Commission through fulfilled dreams. How do we
change the world through walking and dreams fulfilled and, and
really becoming awakened to who we are sons and daughters
growing in the revelation of who the father is, what it means to
walk in our identity, and then to change the world through
living out our fulfilled dreams and desires. We want to outdream
darkness, we actually want to train and equip and empower the
body of Christ to live radically empowered in the grace of God,
anointing and teaching. And so we have so many masterclasses
and summits and coaching and mentoring and theological
training. We've got so many different staff members that are
around the world that are, that's where we've got Fi, we've
got Zion, we've got myself, we're in different places in the
world that are kind of bringing different things to our
movement. And within the kingdom creatives, what our heart is to
do is to foster connection and community. But the beautiful
thing about what the pandemic has actually kind of highlighted
to a whole greater degree is the ability to connect over
technology. Now we were doing that before Zoom was happening,
FaceTimes, WhatsApp, all the social media, but it went
through the roof, because all of a sudden we were isolated, and
we weren't able to travel, we weren't able to gather. And so
how do we cultivate belonging and family and tribe and a
movement? How do we go, hey, you are seen, you're known, you're
loved, hey, come be part of this. We're a movement of sons
and daughters that are walking in the fullness of who we are
and discovering who are we, who really is God, what really is
the kingdom of heaven? How do we express that on the earth? How
do we find, bye Dorcas, bye everyone that's messaging
goodbye, hope you have a great day. And so again, cultivating
these places where there's connection, where you can come
and feel part of the tribe, part of the family, there's content,
there's encouragement, there's championing, there's tools,
there's equipping happening to, we really want to serve you, our
whole heart is to go, how do we love you? How do we serve you?
Wherever you are in the world, whatever life looks like, for
you, how do we just create a space where you can be part of
the family and you can grow in the authentic truest version of
you, you can grow in your relationship with God, you can
grow in your understanding of the nature and character of God,
you can become awakened and liberated and free in your
personal expression, knowing that as you grow in that,
you're going to change the world around you, you're actually
going to shift, you're going to release light, you're going to
release truth, you're going to release anointing, you're going
to release your personal revelation of who the Father is
in and through you. And just like Fi was saying, you get to
own your story, you get to be true to who you are right now,
not trying to be something you're not, you just get to be
loved right where you're at. And so we want to have that place of
safety that this is a non judgment zone, this is free and
safe to be you, wherever you're at in your journey, that you're
loved, you're seen, you're known, you're championed. And
we're just wanting to come in with as much content and
personal development and mentoring and coaching to the
degree that we can to create inspiration for you in your
journey. So that is who we are. If you're interested to learn
more about raising royalty, we have a free Facebook page where
we've got heaps of coaching and masterclasses and a really
encouraging community of like 50 60,000 people that are posting
and sharing different things. Benji has amazing content on
there. We've got different group settings. So you've got stuff
that Zylan I mean, what Zylan is doing with the creative kingdom
creatives is amazing, the content, the information, the
inspiration that he's posting, you've got stuff that Fi's doing
on there you we have so many different leaders and people
bringing free amazing content on our Facebook page. We also have
a new platform we've created that you can have free basic
access to it's a Christian library of videos, content
curation, all of the masterclasses, the content, the
training.
theology that Benji has created, it's mind-blowing.
And then we're also content curating,
pulling in different YouTube videos and free things,
but curating it in subjects and themes
that are gonna serve you.
So our goal is to have the largest Christian online library.
So you can have free access to that,
but then there's also an option to spend $37,
one-time lifetime access fee, and you get premium access.
You get all of these different abilities
to even host your own groups, to communicate.
So again, if you want more information,
I can put that link in the chat,
but just wanted to give a little update on raising royalty.
Zylan and Fi, are there any thoughts, final thoughts
that you wanna share, my beautiful brothers?
Just wanna say that you're awesome, Diana.
Thank you for, yeah, thank you for facilitating this.
You're awesome.
Thanks, brother.
Yes.
It's such a joy to do it together
because we're family and we're crew.
We're in this whole beautiful thing together.
So I'm just so grateful to be partnering with you guys.
Just love you guys heaps, so love it.
Yes.
Is there a Facebook page on the bottom of that email
that we got this link from?
Yes, I will just open it up right now and I'll click,
I'll copy the link just for those of you
that maybe didn't get the email.
I'll do that right now as we talk.
Zylan, I wanna hear another gold nugget from you
because you're brilliant and genius and I just love,
oh, I'm so sorry, I just saw Janice.
Do you have your hand up?
Yes, yes.
Okay.
I was just gonna, I just,
I'm sorry for hopping on so late.
I had a surprise, my sister stepped over,
surprised me unexpectedly,
but I did want to share another resource
that I am associated with for musicians and songwriters
and it's called Full Circle Music.
And we have a, they have a group called Song Chasers
where I've been co-writing songs
with people now all over the world.
I just had a co-write yesterday
with a brother in South Africa
and just everywhere, it's the same.
It's all focused on some artists on there.
A live event actually in March in Nashville, Tennessee
in the home of Making Music
and that's called Music Makers Bootcamp.
So if anybody is interested in that,
you can, I can send you more information about it.
Awesome, that's great.
Yeah, maybe you can just put in the chat
the Music Makers Bootcamp and then if it's in the chat,
then when people watch the replay, they can know it.
So maybe you can put that in the chat.
That would be great.
Excellent, love that.
I've just put the link in
for the Raising Royalty Facebook page
for the Kingdom Creatives.
If you go to Raising Royalty Masterclasses,
I'll also put the link in there just for the main page
just so you can know that as well.
It says the content isn't available right now.
Okay, so maybe Matthew,
are you part of the Raising Royalty page yet?
Are you part of that group?
So what-
No, I don't think so.
Okay, so what I'll do is I'll just copy and paste the,
or like I'll put the title of what the group is
because it's free to join, but you do need to be accepted.
So our support team evaluates every person and goes,
okay, this isn't some kind of crazy robot
or this isn't some person that isn't wanting to be part.
We just have a process of just accepting people,
but it's free and we would love to accept you.
So I will do that now.
Maybe if there's any final thoughts,
Phi and Zylin,
that you wanna just kind of recap different things,
maybe one final thought while I put the Facebook link in,
and then I'll kind of finish it up and we can pray.
Yeah, I think today we actually spoke about a lot of things
and it was actually on sync.
We were discussing about owning
our creative identity and expression.
And Dana was actually talking about the conscious,
the conditional self and all the conscious.
mind, unconscious mind, a little bit technical. And, and Phi was actually talking about the
heart thing, you know, wherever you are in the journey, just own yourself, you know,
so that's really beautiful. And God love, I mean, that's a profound thing that Phi shared.
And I was actually talking about, you know, just it's a, it's a, it's a journey, you know,
and this thing is nothing to do with age, you know, we, we are keep on evolving and our growth
is a, it's a circular motion, you know, so we, we are actually evolving just to, just to be wherever
you are and believe that God is with you and he's in that process. And whatever that you are doing
as a creative person, just keep creating, you know, keep creating, keep creating. And that's
the beautiful thing. And yeah, and there are a lot of things that we are planning to do. This is
basically, we are actually building a, a tribe, a group of creative people from all around the world,
you know, just to have fellowship and this Zoom thing, we actually do it every month. And we just
basic idea of this Zoom call is to just to hang out and connect with similar
creative people like you guys. And it's so beautiful to see a lot of people actually,
I mean, every day, every time that we do this call, I mean, we see new phases, you know, and
it's, it's, it's really amazing. So yeah, we are actually planning our new talent,
talent awards, raising royalty talent awards. The first one, Phi was the winner. And we are
actually planning a lot of, I think twice this year. So the official announcement will be
there in our Facebook group. So please connect with our Facebook group and our new platform
for our, for our updates. And there are great things that are coming. We are just starting
up just building in a creative, kinder creatives, this, this tribe. So yeah, we are so excited.
Yes, Dana. Yes, thank you. Thank you, Dana. You're awesome.
Thank you, Dana. Guys, keep creating. Keep being yourself.
Hey, Phi, how's the, how is Madagascar now, Phi?
Yo, guys, it's, it is crazy. We've been floated. It was a cycle. And it was crazy because
it actually, one of our source of power here exploded, was exploding. So
it's actually a blessing that I can be here with you guys. It's a miracle.
Because normally, normally the power would be, there'd be power cut. We have power cuts like
eight hours a day, at least. And they say that it will take them like six to eight
months to fix it. So sure, it's crazy. And yeah, there will be another cyclone next week.
So please keep us in your prayer. Because people are, you know, most like a lot of people
lost their home. And yeah, many people are on the street. So we're trying to help one another. But
you know, yeah, please keep us in your prayer. We are safe, me and my family for now.
And I hope we will stay safe like this. But other people are safe. So our heart goes to them also.
Yeah. So that's, that's, that's, that's something we can pray about Madagascar.
But in all that, keep being creative. Enjoy yourself. Enjoy the, the, the, the actual self,
your actual self. And yeah, I actually
Thank you, Janice. Actually, like in this season, we are, God really inspires me with
like songs and all those things. And, you know, that is one of our sound as well as
Christian as sons and daughters, you know, like in season, whatever season we are at,
we are God's messenger. And we just need to be open. We just need to open up our hearts
and allow God to speak to people through us in every season and enjoy every season. Enjoy
every season. For us, this is a season difficult to enjoy, but we can still enjoy. So there's
always something to celebrate. Love your attitude, Faheem. Await, thank you. Yes, the attitude
of gratitude. It changes everything, living thankful. It actually, you know, they've done
neurological studies that say that when you are grateful, you cannot be grateful and anxious
at the same time. And so the power of shifting out of fear, anxiety, worry, spiral, depression,
negativity is actually just to practice gratitude, to practice, to put thanksgiving on your lips.
Even if it's just like, God, thank you for clean water today. Thank you for this clothing
that I have on. Thank you for the food. Thank you for the sunshine, whatever it is, just
then going bigger, but actually just shifting the energy, shifting the perspective, allowing
that thankfulness and that gratitude, even in the midst of difficulty. So Faheem, we're
going to be praying for you and your family and your friends and for Madagascar. We're
going to just take time now to pray for that as well. I'm going to pray for Helen and pray
for all of you. She was just asking that there would be more courage from God to try out
more creativity, that we would have an empowering and an enabling within us to take the steps
just to be courageous. Like it takes a lot of courage to be human. It takes a lot of
courage and bravery to step out of what we've known into something new, into new territory.
But this is where we can be confident. We can be strong and courageous and to say no
to fear and yes to love because perfect love casts out all fear. And sometimes it's good
to note, okay, what is coming up in me? What is the resistance? What are the fears that
are coming up and then taking those and putting them before the father? And again, I've said
this, I think on every one of our Zooms, but something that changes my life and has changed
my life and something I try to practice every day, if not every day, every other day is
asking the father, God, who is it that you want to be for me today? Because God is always
wanting to be something for you. In every circumstance, in every situation, we feel
like we've got to muster up and we've got to be independent and strong and we've got
to take it on. But God is our everything. And God knows exactly the situation that you
find yourself in. So father, who is it that you want to be for me today? And what is it
that you want to give to me today? Who is it that you want to be for me in this circumstance
in this situation? And whether it's creativity, God, I give you this fear. I give you this
blockage or this opposition or this mindset. God, what is the new mindset that you want
to give me? Give me lenses of love, lenses of freedom, lenses of creativity, lenses of
boldness, give shift, shift something on the inside. Again, what I was saying at the beginning
is our behavior is an echo of our belief. So if there's fearful things, if there's anxieties,
if there's these things, okay, it's coming from a belief. What is that belief? Is there
a lie that I'm believing that I need to exchange that lie for the truth? Because when you know
the truth, the truth will set you free. So God, what do you say about this? Who do you
say I am? What do you say about this situation? You know, the other day I'm in the shower.
When I'm in the shower, I'm like singing to God. I'm talking to him and I'm washing my
hair and I'm saying, father, who do you want to be for me today? And he just said, you're
a deliverer. And I was like, awesome. What do you want to deliver me from? And he said,
fear. And I said, what fear are you wanting to deliver me from? The fear of not being
enough. And I was like, oh wow, that's still in me. That old, dumb, stupid lie of the fear
of not being enough. And it's a universal thing. It is one of the biggest universal
lies and struggles of humanity is I'm too much or I'm not enough in whatever.
for that looks like for in your life.
And so again, that is just a daily practice.
God, who do you want to be for me today?
And he's like your champion.
What do you want to champion in me today?
Like, I want to be your victory.
I want to be your triumph.
I want to be your comfort.
I want to be your lover.
I want to be your best friend.
I want to be your father, your shepherd, your Lord.
He's going to speak to your unique moment
in the story that you find yourself in today.
Not like my conditioned self of look,
God, I've got it all together
and I'm going to perform my way to you.
No, right where I'm at, with my anxieties and fears,
with my mindsets, with my circumstances,
who do you want to be for me today?
So we're going to pray for that over you,
that there would be bravery, there would be courage,
there would be the intimate voice of the Lord
that would speak to you right now, today,
that the Holy Spirit would fill wherever you are,
your car, your bedroom, your living room,
wherever you find yourself,
we're going to ask for the tangible manifest presence of God
for him to come, for him to speak to you,
for him to fill you up with grace
that empowers you to be everything he sees
when he looks at you, to release all the blockages,
to split the Red Sea so you can cross it,
you can enter into breakthrough,
you can enter into freedom,
you can enter into the fullness
of who you've been created to be.
We're going to pray protection and provision,
divine alignment, divine assignment,
divine networking, connections, dreams and visions,
downloads, prophetic understanding, new lenses of love.
We're going to pray for all of this now.
So is there anything else that we can pray for?
If you want to put in the chat
that we can be specific about,
we would love to pray for anything else specifically.
Beat, do you have anything to say or Zylan,
do you have anything else
that we can pray for specifically?
If there's anybody that has a specific prayer request,
we'd love to pray for that
and then we'll end our time together.
Yeah, I just want to talk to Ellen.
Ellen?
Yeah.
You there, yeah.
So one thing that I do before, you know,
before the prayer, sorry, Ellen,
but like one thing that I did and I keep doing
is that I speak to myself in the mirror
and keep telling the truth.
Yes.
Speaking truth over myself,
reminding myself of who I am, who I am in God.
I do that before I leave my house
or before, you know, when I feel low,
when I'm feeling low or when I'm feeling discouraged,
I keep reminding myself, I look to myself in my own eyes
and I speak truth over myself.
And you know, the truth is God is already pleased with you.
And what else do you need?
What else, what more do you need?
He's pleased with you.
And, you know, you are loved
and all I want to say is that just release,
release what is in you
and refuse to listen to the lies of the enemy
and keep speaking truth over yourself.
I don't know if that might help you.
If you can do that, it sounds weird
and it feels weird in the beginning
when I started to do it back then,
but then it helps a lot.
It helped me a lot.
And, you know, we all have our moments
of feeling low and insecurities,
but, you know, when we face the truth,
as God said, it sets us free.
You know, when we speak truth over ourselves
and yeah, anyway, that's all I want to say.
Thank you so much,
because I really feel Holy Spirit when you're sharing
and Dana was sharing, I was just receiving.
So thank you guys so much
for sharing from your victory experience.
And I actually practiced something
because I read it from the book,
like speak yourself and look into your eyes.
And it was really powerful.
But as you were talking,
I was like, oh, I just did it once
and I experienced like really good,
but I didn't continue to do it.
And I need to do it.
I actually received a list of my God-given traits
from a Christian workshop.
And I was amazed about some traits
God was telling me about who I am.
So yes, I need to do it more.
Thank you so much for sharing.
right? Helen, you're just such a delight. We just love you. Oh,
I'm just so glad you're part of this. And it's so good to meet
you. I think it was two times ago. And then you've been part
of it. Or just one last time. Yeah, I was here. And I hear you
guys talking. I was like,
Oh, good. This is why we love this is what we love to do is
connect with beautiful people all around the world and be
like, we're in this together. And we get to be vulnerable and
real and transparent in our process and be like, we're not
alone. Or you're not crazy for feeling insecure or confused. Or
like, how do I do this? Or I'm feeling vulnerable or tender. Or
this is where we want to celebrate each other's wins to
like when Matthew came on was like, I've self published 70
books. It's like, go brother. That's freaking awesome. Like,
you know, Rosalina sharing about her community that she's
pioneered and champion on these people. Janice is talking about
the workshop she just did. I mean, we just want to champion
and celebrate you in your journey and in your process
because we need that we need belonging community that we need
that especially in this season, man, we have never been more
isolated with a stupid COVID thing. So we're just like COVID
go back to hell where you came from a be gone. And it's just
like, it's real. And so we just, you know, we want to create the
safety of being seen and known and celebrated. And just to be
real, like, it's so empowering to me when I look at my heroes,
and they're vulnerable and real with their stories. I'm like, Oh
my god, I think you're superhuman. Why do we do that?
Why do we put people on a pedestal thinking that they are
Superman or superwoman, or they just don't struggle with that
anymore. And then they can be really real and vulnerable. And
then you see their greatness. And then you see their real
humanity. And you're like, right, we're all in this
together. And just like the was saying mirror declarations have
changed my life. I speak to myself morning, noon and night
in the mirror, brushing my teeth, getting out of the
shower, going to the bathroom. And I'm like, Hey, girl, what's
up? I love you. I believe in you. Oh, you're looking good
today. Yes, today's gonna be a good day. We're gonna crush it.
We're gonna kill it. And I could be feeling like, I just slept
three hours. I am so tired. I can barely open my eyes. I'm
puffy face. I'm feeling insecure. I'm feeling swirly.
I'm feeling like 1000 emotions. And I'm like, hey, buttercup
right here. Hey, baby, right here. This is who we are. And I
speak to the destiny. I speak to the divine design. I call myself
everything that God has called me to be. You are a queen you
are fill in the blanks. And it shifts something on the inside.
And then I walk out of that bathroom. I'm like, yes, come
into this little room. And I'm like, girl, we're owning today.
We are owning it. You shift the energy and we need to do it
every day. And David, that's so cool. David talks about
strengthening yourself in the Lord, we need to strengthen
ourself in the Lord, we get into the scriptures and into the
secret place. But it doesn't have to be over spiritualized.
Like there are real spiritual disciplines and practices of
soaking of prayer of worship of journaling of meditation. But
there can also be strengthening yourself in the Lord of doing
things that just bring life to your soul. And like looking in
the mirror and declaring that or yesterday, I had to get up off
this couch, I was working and I was like, I got to put on some
music and I got to start dancing around this living room. I got
to strengthen myself. I'm alone all the time. And as a creative
who is introverted, but also very extroverted. It stunts my
creative process when I'm just alone 24 seven. It literally I'm
like, I'm dying. I need human connection. And I'm dying. I'm a
dancer. And I'm like, I can't go to dance classes. I can't go to
the gym. There's so many restrictions with COVID vaccine
passwords, all this stuff. And I'm like, okay, I want to shift
the energy. I'm going to get up off this couch. I'm going to
play some music. I'm like, hey, hey, and just start dancing by
myself. To what to release creative energy, strengthen
myself in the Lord. So whatever that looks like for you to do
the things that spark energy in you. So we're going to land this
we're going to come into pray. Janice, I saw you quickly lift
your hand. Do you have something quickly to say before we pray?
I just wanted to say amen to what you were saying, because it
made me think of when we eat three times a day, you know, or
we're throughout the day, or we take medicine, take three, take
it three times a day or whatever. So that is like the
perfect medicine and food for our souls of that looking in the
mirror three times a day, like you were talking about, it just
made me think of that. Those little things, Benji talks about
this, which is just brilliant. Steps to transformation, five
steps to transformation, anything that you begin as a
practice becomes a habit, anything that you have as a
habit, then becomes a reflex, it becomes second nature, then what
becomes a reflex.
Flex becomes a lifestyle and what becomes a lifestyle becomes a state of being.
So in your journey of, I want to be patient or creative, or, I mean, this
could be your emotional life, your spiritual life, your physical life,
your finances, your relationship, anything that you want to see part of
your life, part of your being part of your lifestyle, it needs to start
small and incremental for anything to be sustained for anything
to actually take root in you.
So what's something small you can do one small practice.
Okay.
Every time you wash your hands after going to the bathroom, look at yourself
for 10 seconds and tell yourself one thing, remind yourself one thing of your
identity, and then just that one small practice then becomes a habit that every
time you're in the bathroom, you're like speaking to the mirror and then it
becomes a reflex every time you see your, your reflection, you're like, Hey girl.
Hey dude, what's up?
Hey, you know, or you do that.
And then it becomes part of your lifestyle.
You just are like, Oh yeah, I'm totally speaking truth and identity over myself.
This is just who I am.
Then it's a state of being.
You actually are so convinced you are so deeply rooted in your identity
and you know who you are.
That's just who you've become.
So anything that starts as a practice can become a habit, can become a
reflex, can become a lifestyle that becomes a state of being so that can be
applied to every area of your life.
And it's a game changer.
So we are going to pray my beautiful friends.
Um, we're going to pray for bravery and courage.
We're going to pray for creative expression.
We're going to pray that we would grow in our relationship with the
Lord, that we'd have fresh encounter.
We're going to pray for Janice's trip.
Um, we are going to pray, just trying to look here in the
chat, if there's anything else.
We're going to pray for Joe dare when praying for open doors, for
creative connections between the churches and our local communities.
Um, yeah.
So, um, B and silent, do you want to just take one minute and pray for
something different and then I'll, I'll pray and kind of wrap it up.
And if any of you want to just take 30 seconds, um, we want to
not make this go too long.
So if there's something that you want to prepare 30 seconds, you can chime in
after silent and I'll end it.
Yes.
God, let's pray.
Thank you for the, thank you for this amazing time we had show it's so, so
good to be with our brothers and sisters.
So today I just want to pray that you'll keep speaking to us or spirit
about who we truly are in you and that we will learn to enjoy every moment.
To enjoy every moment with you, every step of our journey that we will learn
to enjoy it with you, Lord, and that you are with us, you are in relationship
with the us now, and, um, I pray that, that you will empower us always spirit.
Also, as we grow every day, as we get closer to you, I pray that your light
will shine and will heal our wounds, our insecurity or whatever it is in us.
And yeah, I know you started a good work inside of all of us and you are so
faithful that you will finish it till the end.
And one day we will be with you and we will talk about all this.
We'll see you face to face and we will draw and paint and laugh and
sing and yeah, but I pray that as we are here on earth, that everything we
are will be an expression of, of, of who you are, of your goodness.
Also your beauty, your glory.
I pray that when they see us, they will see you.
They will see your beauty.
They will see your, your mercy, your joy, your, your peace as people hangs out with
us, if we are the church, I pray that they will meet with you when they meet with us.
Amen.
Father, we thank you for this beautiful time and, um, yes, Lord, we are so blessed
and encouraged by each of our lives.
And, um, father, God, we, uh, uh, pray that God, let the spirit of God help us to, to
see things as it is and, uh, um, help us to evolve Lord and surrender ourselves.
I don't know which part of, um.
which phase of the life we are in, but I know that Lord, you are in control of everything,
Father God, and I pray for each people who are present here, Father God, and I pray for your
shalom, your grace, and your guidance to come upon their lives, Father God. Every spirit of confusion
be removed by the blood of Yeshua. We speak clarity. We speak grace in Jesus' mighty name.
Oh, hallelujah. Father, we pray for your spirit of wisdom to guide us, Father God,
a spirit of wisdom to guide us, Father God. Every spirit of fear, we break it in Jesus' name.
Let us not fall into superiority complex or inferiority complex. Father God, help us to own
our identity, our creative expression, Father God. Is there anything that is not aligning with
your will, with your love, with your truth, Father God? Help us to surrender ourselves, to have
a posture of humility, Father God, and evolve ourselves, and through this journey,
through this process, help us to love ourselves the way you love ourselves, Father God, and
the way you love us, Father God. Help us to see things in clarity, Father God. I pray for divine
vision, divine skills, and divine sensibility in Jesus' mighty name, Father God, and I pray for,
especially for Fi and all the people in Madagascar, Father God, we pray for your grace and your
comfort, Father God, and there are people who are struggling there and lost their homes and families,
and Father, we pray for your grace to come and visit that nation, heal that nation, and restore
that nation, Father God. Thank you for protecting Fi and his family and friends, Father God. We pray
for your grace to come upon Madagascar, Father God, and all the people from all over the world,
Father, wherever they are, we speak shalom, we speak grace upon their lives, Father God, and
help us, help us to grow in you, Father God, in your love and your light and your
life. We give all the glory and honor to you, Jesus. Amen.
Yeah, Father, we just, we just take a breath now. I just want to invite you guys just to take a
breath in, just take a few deep breaths in. We just breathe you in, Father.
We acknowledge your presence, Holy Spirit, that lives on the inside of us. We acknowledge you,
Jesus. We want to live from a place of rest. We want to live from a place of abiding in you.
John 15, we abide in you.
Apart from you, we can do nothing. So we want to find our rest and our connection and our abiding
in the Father, in Jesus. And I just ask that that nutrients, that nurture from your voice,
from your presence, from your love, would fill us and it would bear fruit in us. It would release
flourishing and blossoming and confidence and bravery and courage. Father, right now, in the
name of Jesus, I ask that you would release your voice and your presence and your manifest
goodness, your tangible presence in each one of us right now. You see us, you know us, you know
our stories, you know our journeys, you know what we're wrestling through, you know our process.
You know what we're wrestling through, you know our process. And I ask for every spiritual
blessing in Christ to be released to every man and woman who is watching live and who is watching on
the replay. Father, would you release your glory, your goodness, your healing, your deliverance,
your empowering presence, your grace, your mercy, your creativity, your prospering, your resources,
your strengthening. God, would you come upon us, would you, like a fountain of joy on the inside,
would you bubble up within us fresh joy, the joy that renews us, that strengthens us,
that gives us new clarity. God, we just thank you for each person. I ask for divine connections
in this season, amazing strategic friends, connections online, offline, and new inspiration,
dreams and visions, fresh download, prophetic awakening. God, would you do something supernatural,
something sweet and spiritual in our lives. God, powerful. Would you continue to awaken us from our
Conditioned self and lead us into our true authentic version of ourself lead us into our promised land lead us into flourishing
God, I I ask for there to be such a shift that we would be brought from death into life from darkness into light
With where there's confusion where there's been spiraling where there's been depression and anxiety and fear where there's been mental
And emotional spiritual battles. We just declare the battle belongs to the lord
I ask that you would release spirits and ministering spirits angels god release angels to ascend and descend
God with fresh impartation. We just say yes to a fresh impartation from the lord
We receive from you. We open up to you god. We receive you we come like little children and we run to our father
We run to our father
Come and be everything that we need you to be
Yeah, come and cover us thinking that love covers that there's
Perfect love that casts out of fear that there's nothing we could do that would make you love us more or less
And the one who knows us best is the one who loves us the most
The one who knows us best is the one who loves us the most so we just say
Would you pour out your love? Would you give us awareness?
Of your love of your presence with us in the mundane in every moment in every detail
Would we feel the favor of god the favor of man increase in our life?
Would we feel you awaken something beautiful in us today?
Every good and perfect gift comes from the father of light
So we just say father of lights come release gifts and surprises come release. Um
Gifts to us god today set your children up for success lead us into our promised land lead us into awakening
Yeah, and I just want to pray over you janice we just say uh father would you
Bless her as she goes on this. Um
I think it's a trip that you're going on right? Yeah your trip to nashville in in march father
Would you go before her? Would you prepare the way would you bring alignment, uh to this divine assignment and joe?
We just we just declare over you connections open doors
Um between the churches and your local communities that there would be friendship there would be family there would be tribe there would be an openness
Um, there would be open hearts to receive from one another to connect with one another
Yeah
And we just say yes to being courageous and brave in every part of our life and god
Thank you for fresh anointing to own our personal identity
And to walk out our personal artistic expression. Would you release fresh creativity in jesus name?
Yeah liberation awakening and freedom to every part of our being
We just say yes to love in jesus name. Amen. Wow. Amen
Yeah, thank you guys so much
Oh, we love you so much
We love you. We love you. We love you. We're so glad you're here such a gift to do this together
Yay
Yeah, so bless you
Much love to you. We'll be emailing you and letting you know when our next chat is in february. Um
Yeah
We just hope and pray you have an amazing weekend wherever you are in the world
And to you to continue to dance with the lord even you're living
So crazy
Um, bye guys, love you, bye guys
Bye darling. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye everyone. Have a great day. Bye
Bye, bro. Take care
Bye
Hi janice
There are a lot of
New people are here. We just want to say yes
Yeah, bye. Bye everyone. Yes, all the people that have joined us. We love you
Yeah, i'm glad to be here
Come join us
Bye bye
Bye. Bye everyone. Bye. Bye. Bye
everyone
Again bye. Bye