So, what did you, maybe Justin, because you've done it,
what was it like and maybe how would you describe
the 21 Day Hard Things Challenge to someone who's fresh
and just thinking, oh mate, I might give this thing a go.
So, I'm a real rhythm guy anyway,
but what I really loved about
21 Day Hard Things Challenge is that,
you know, it puts the big rhythms in your life,
which is going to set you up for fruitfulness
and success.
So, basically what happens is there's 12 things
that you do each day, not as a perfection,
not as, you want to do them as a response
to wanting to live a fruitful life.
You're not doing it out of a perfection
or workspace things, but it's actually liberating
to do all these things.
And I found over both the first 21 days,
the second 21 days, that even on your worst day,
it's still a pretty good day doing those 12 things, right?
So, it's pretty cool.
So, I highly recommend it.
Oh, cool, bud.
Very cool.
Tricia, good to have you jumping on board.
Angela, Cheryl, Cynthia, a few people jumping in here
on the go.
Alan, welcome.
Good to have you guys jumping in.
So, Justin, for you, I mean, like you said,
you're pretty big on rhythm already.
You've got good discipline.
You've got pretty good rhythms and structures in your life.
Is there anything you feel like,
hey, this actually just kind of helped me
refine this part of my life, or it helped me build,
or encouraged me to step out a bit in this area?
The grateful thing is good.
You know, coming up with 10 things every day
to be grateful for, like in the second one,
I don't know whether we're going to 100.
Please tell me we're not going to 100 in the third one.
But, you know, that's challenging.
Probably moving the body, even though I do sport,
I'll put in a stretching routine as soon as I wake up,
and that's been great, because I'm getting older.
And the three liters of water, just really nailing in that.
And intentionally loving someone,
just to have that focus and laser,
who is it today that I'm going to really intentionally bless?
And the triggers have been pretty cool as well.
So I sort of forgot a bit about those in my life.
So I've got a few triggers that I'm working on,
which is pretty cool.
Nice.
That is very, very cool.
Sweet.
Oh, we've got a couple more fun people jumping in here,
which is great.
And what I might do for anyone who's fresh
is I'll just pull up in a second.
Hi, guys.
Welcome.
Welcome, Eli.
Welcome.
Helen.
Welcome.
Good to have you guys jumping in.
And I, in a moment,
I'll just pull up the little list there for people,
so they can kind of see what the 21 day
hard things challenges is about.
But Eli, you've been having a blast.
You've done great on the hard things challenge,
and you've been doing it with your lovely lady.
Tell us a little bit about how the
hard things challenge has been for you guys lately.
How did you find that?
You there, Eli?
Can you hear us?
Can you guys hear me well?
My mute's working.
Yeah, we can hear you.
I think it, I wasn't sure if it was cutting in
and out a little bit, but we can definitely hear you.
Yes.
Sorry.
Hi.
Sorry.
Okay.
Sorry about that.
It went really well.
I really enjoyed it.
It was very transformational to me
because the Lord was teaching more about who I am.
Like when you're going through that,
you're finding mental blocks,
mental challenges as you're going through.
And then you're just learning so much
about how renewal of the mind is more than just,
it's just, you see how the body and the spiritual
and the mental all interconnect.
And then you just see, there's moments where I realized
that as soon as I got done with the first level one
and then starting into level two,
I just realized how they all melded in together.
And I just, one day, I don't know how to explain it.
Like I was dealing with a lot of depression
and mental battles and spiritual mental battles
at the same time.
And all of a sudden as I'm doing these.
like level one, level two, the first part I was doing was really tough for me because I was going
through all these depression and stuff and then all of a sudden I got to like level towards the
end of level one to level two it just I don't know how to explain it but I felt like training
like that training kicked in all of a sudden where when that depression and that oppression came
all of a sudden I felt like all of that training kicked in and I just felt like there's a reflex
when my body and my mental just all of a sudden realigned with my spirit you know and I was so
surprised when that happened one day and I was like whoa you know like normally I'd be depressed
but now I just like it's just like instead of being depressed more my body just like went
the opposite and I was like whoa so I was really surprised to see that yeah oh man that is great
news yeah so um and I think this is this kind of like it creates real synergy so let me just pull
this up so for anyone who's fresh and you're like hey what is this 21 day hard things challenge
how is it what does it look like I'll just do a screen share here for you guys
and pull this bad boy up all right so this is the like Justin was saying there's 12
there's 12 things on the on the list for the 21 day hard things challenge most of these things are
pretty basics basic things that a lot of people would incorporate in their life or at least it's
aspire to incorporate in their life on a daily basis so the first one is praying in the spirit
for five minutes so this is level one there's a level two and there's a level three and we'll kind
um chat about them and we'll highlight level three as well for people who are thinking oh man I'm
I've just done level one level two I'm be quite keen to jump into level three so first of all
level one and I want you guys just to think about this and say whether you think it's achievable or
not especially if it's the first time um for those who've done it before um let us know if you thought
there was any that you struggled with and feel just free just you know it's supposed to be a chat so
feel free just to jump in and say oh that one was really hard for me or I really liked that one so
praying in the spirit for five minutes a day any thoughts on that
achievable not achievable but feel free to get chatty okay guys don't don't worry about being
shy this is a great one to just be chatty on so can we speak yeah that's what chatty means yep
yeah well I'm used to being put on mute
here we go well if people hijack things but I'm not um I don't know anyway so just tell us what
you think um praying I'm just I have read this before but when I at that time I was getting
ready to go to work and I didn't finish it um and I'm now back with COVID so I've got plenty of time
um praying in the spirit uh like you're over a long period of time um five minutes I probably
come close to that most days reading a chapter of proverbs no probably not but reading and learning
from scripture regularly yes recording my favorite verse yesterday's was um it came in a song actually
but prophesy and sing so that's what I've been doing list three things you're grateful for
my family my husband my property um complete daily declarations I've been writing those
out on big sheets of paper so they can stick them on my wall move your body at least five minutes
well two days ago for two days I didn't because I was down and out um but yesterday I did today
I will yeah eat something awesome yes I can be I think everyone finds that pretty easy hey
yep that's something awesome I can be nearly dying and I can still eat so I yes and my
husband grows the most beautiful fruit I probably struggle with three liters of water maybe one and
a half to three two maybe intentionally love someone I'm consistently doing that because
that's just who I am um practice your trigger I don't understand what that is
that's right that's what this call's about sorry I said that's all right that's what this call is
about so make a genius financial move no post an accountability photo no so the last three I haven't
done um sweet genius financial move don't spend money while you're not making it um sweet sweet
so uh everyone at like what'd be cool I'm just gonna I'm gonna do that screen share again now
thanks for that Trisha I'm gonna do the screen share again now and just say um I want you guys
you can either chuck it in the chat or you can unmute
It can be a bit rowdy. It doesn't really matter.
You can make a bit of noise.
But I'm just going to go through there.
And I just wanted to say achievable or not achievable
as we go through there and just say like,
what do you think? Is this achievable?
Because I know there's a few people who haven't done it before
and there's a few people who are here who are like pros.
And there's a few people here who are thinking,
oh, what's this level 3? I'm just about to go in there.
And then we're going to chat just some of the generic ideas
around this hard things challenge as well.
So let me just hit screen share again.
Okay. Right.
So everyone, just give me achievable or not achievable
on number one, praying in the spirit for five minutes.
What do you think?
Achievable.
Yep. Sweet.
Yep. Achievable.
Okay. So this is for the level one.
Level one, what we do is we read through the book of Proverbs.
Level two, it changes to Ezra and Nehemiah.
And level three, it changes again.
So we just kind of read through different books of the Bible
as we go.
And then actually what happens is when people have kind of
finished level three, we actually have a just,
we're actually reading through the Bible together
for those who want to.
We're kind of like, okay, sweet.
At the moment, we're going through Matthew and Ecclesiastes.
And it's just.
Yeah. So for those who are keen,
we've basically got like a little bit of a scripture
reading thing that we're doing together.
So record your favorite verse.
Is that achievable?
Not achievable?
Yep. Achievable.
Achievable.
Absolutely.
What you're grateful for.
Yes.
Yep. Achievable.
Achievable.
And then like Justin mentioned in level two,
that goes from three things up to 10 things.
So, but it stays the same in level three.
It's just, it's just 10 things.
Complete daily declarations.
Now, what we, if you haven't seen,
if you haven't seen the videos,
like what we encourage,
I'd definitely encourage you to do is
check out the videos in the hard things challenge guide
that just talk you through like more of the details,
like going in depth on this,
but quickly like complete your daily declarations.
That's about you framing up some declarations
around what you want your future to look like.
We encourage people to go for seven,
but it really doesn't matter.
You can have as many as you like.
Let me just pause for a second here.
We've got someone just chatting randomly in the background.
That's always a good way to get yourself muted.
Random chats in the background.
Right. Here we go.
Pop back up again for me, my friend.
Move your body for at least five minutes.
Achievable, not achievable.
Achievable.
Eat something awesome.
Who likes that one?
Achievable.
Very achievable.
Drink three liters of water.
Sometimes people struggle on that.
We say two to three liters,
but you know, like we definitely want people
to be shooting for at least two liters.
And then, you know, like some days,
you might just be working out a bit more.
Go for that three liters.
Some people are in hotter climates
and it's like, man, three liters.
I die if I don't have three liters.
Does that include tea, coffee?
That's water.
The whole point is to help people
transition into drinking water.
For the power of it.
See, yeah.
Would you count like zero calorie flavor water stuff or?
The whole point is like a flavored water.
Like a zero calorie.
Yeah, it's got junk in it.
Rubbish.
They're lying to you.
They're lying through their teeth
and they're just marketing scum to you.
So while it feels good sometimes to drink,
then it tastes kind of nice.
Water.
You're going to kind of balance that out sometimes.
I don't know.
Depends on you if you've got like lead piping
and it's like, well, this is probably best.
But just in general, I recommend is the whole point
is just water for the value,
the massive physical benefits of just drinking water.
So the best water you can get, go for it.
That'll be a sacrifice.
What was that?
That will be a sacrifice for me
because I like lemon water and yeah.
Well, I mean, if you've got water
and you put some lemon in it.
Lemon.
Yep.
That's not a big deal.
That's fine.
That's not like.
That's yeah.
So if you want to.
Hold on to something I'm saying, isn't it?
Not sugar.
Yeah, don't put sugar and junk in it.
If you wanted to drop some lemon in there or something,
yeah, no worries.
Actually, I've got a water filter machine.
I've got one of these Enagic machines and it's great.
But if I'm not by my Enagic machine and I've got tap water,
it's so difficult to drink tap water for me.
The only way I can do tap water is lemon and ice,
and I've got to totally redesign that water
because it's like the tap water is not always great.
So you've got to make it not toxic or lemon, ice, whatever.
Figure it out.
But the idea is definitely water.
Intentionally love on someone, achievable or not achievable?
Achievable.
OK, practice your trigger.
That's one that is intentionally mysterious.
So people often like practice your trigger.
What does that mean?
The whole idea of having a trigger,
oftentimes people go a trigger, isn't that a bad thing
where someone's about to have like a major emotional outburst?
Practicing your trigger is about creating something
that's going to trigger you to remember to actually do the practice.
So I've got this little thing here that says trigger.
It just hangs out right by my desk.
It's been here for months.
And what the trigger is, is basically means practice.
It's about practicing the presence of God.
So it's just about putting your attention on the presence of God.
So it doesn't have to be for a long time.
It can be for a moment.
But the whole idea is to get in this rhythm
of inviting God into the little moments.
So it could be that you decide, hey, I'm going to set my alarm
for a few times a day.
I'm just going to practice the presence.
Or it could be, you know, like some people have it,
you know, have their drink bottle and they're going to have a drink.
They're practicing the presence.
So the whole idea is just to kind of create a trigger, like something
that's going to help you remember to practice the presence of God,
because a practice becomes a habit.
A habit becomes a reflex.
Reflex becomes a lifestyle.
A lifestyle becomes a state of being.
So the whole idea is to start that process of shifting
into living in the conscious awareness of the presence of God.
Well, when you explain it like that, that's fairly easy.
Cool. Cool. Achievable, not achievable.
Achievable. Achievable.
Yeah, Benji, I got a little bit out of it.
Yeah, you go for it.
So I'm just speaking on that
because when we talk about practicing the church, like the presence of the Lord,
I've been practicing that.
But I guess my question for that, and this is just for my own
benefit of acknowledging that is when we say practice the presence of the Lord,
it's more of a just like you said, like a conscious awareness of the Lord.
It's not always a feeling of that right off the bat. Right.
And I'm just doing that just from.
Yeah, just because I want to know, because I'm
and I'm not speaking this because I told you a lot of things that I dealt with was
and the Lord's been helping deliver this from me.
A lot of things I dealt with was like kind of like an obsessive,
compulsive disorder, like what they call a religious OCD.
I don't know if you ever heard of that.
Yeah. So I've been like the Lord's been helping me
walk through this journey.
I'm telling you this two years ago, three years ago, when I hear the presence of God,
like I've read the book called Practicing the Presence of God
and I would get very obsessed about that, you know, so I just want to like
from my own clarity with that, like when we say
practicing the presence of God and it's always being aware of him,
it's not always like a feeling per se.
I mean, yes, totally.
So I'll speak to that and then we'll come back to the other two.
There's some really powerful
elements that play in this
and in practicing the presence of God that actually have
application in our whole spiritual journey.
So Isaiah six, it says, holy, holy, holy is the Lord God almighty.
The whole earth is filled with his glory.
So thousands of years ago, from heaven's perspective,
the whole earth is filled with the glory of God.
Every breath that you breathe is filled with the glory of God.
Now, you can take a breath
without placing any faith on that breath, that the glory of God is in that breath.
And without faith, it won't empower the reality
that the presence of God infuses every molecule in existence.
So every breath you breathe, you breathe in the glory of God. Now.
Without faith, that doesn't
that present power doesn't get activated. Right.
But so there's a lot of things that are like this which you would just say they are present reality
and a present reality gets activated by faith. But if you aren't aware of a present reality,
or if you don't attach any faith to a present reality, you won't activate the power of that
present reality. For example, Paul said in Acts 17 27, in him we live and move and have our being.
John 17 22, Jesus said, I've given them the same glory that the Father gave me,
that they may be one as we are one. So there's this present reality of oneness,
that you are as one as one can be with the Trinity, that in them you live and move and
have your being, and that their glory infuses every molecule in existence.
Now that's a present reality that a lot of people aren't consciously aware of.
They're not aware of it, or they have no agreement with it, they don't believe it. But
your faith or your agreement with that reality will activate the power of that reality.
So when you practice the presence, you can just do it by faith, right? It doesn't have to have
a feeling. It doesn't have to have a feeling to qualify the reality, right? It doesn't have to
have a feeling to qualify the promise. It doesn't have to have a feeling to qualify reality. If the
Word of God says that in him we live and move and have our being, it doesn't matter how distant you
feel, how disconnected you feel. It doesn't matter if you feel like, you know, like it doesn't matter
what your feelings are doing. Practicing the presence can be as simple as telling your feelings
the truth. You know, it's like it's shifting your attention onto a reality and placing your
agreement with that. Now, you may not necessarily feel anything in that moment. But what,
interestingly in my life, I never even knew that there was such a thing for most of, like,
it was probably not until I was in my 20s that I even discovered, and it's even after years
of pressing in prayer, that I even discovered there was such a thing as the manifest presence
of God. I didn't even know that you could actually have a, you know, I had such a religious background,
I didn't know you could have a tangible experience with the presence of God or with the
glory of God. I mean, holy moly, I was missing out on all the best stuff. But I didn't know.
So you might not experience it. You might be like me, where for years you don't even know there's a,
there's the opportunity to experience the presence of God, or you just don't know it's there. But once
you become aware of it, and maybe you're not experiencing it, but you want to, what I would
say is that the best way to get hit by a train is to hang out on the train tracks.
So if you want to get hit by the manifest presence of God, the, you know, the equivalent of that
analogy would be place all your agreement with those few verses that I've just shared with you,
that you're as one as one can be, John 17 22, in him you live and move and have your being,
at 1727. And then Isaiah six, holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, the whole earth is
filled with his glory. So there's this concept of present reality, which is activated by faith.
And even if you're not experiencing it right away, that's the great, that's the best way to shift
your entire reality, shift your entire state of being is just by practicing the presence of God.
So I went from not knowing that the presence of God even exists to now, I can pretty much at will,
I'm it would be extremely rare if I didn't experience it, like I can feel the manifest
presence of God, like wrapping around my body right now, just speaking of it, you know, I can
feel the tangible supernatural glory of God wrapping around my body vibrating around the
outside of my body vibrating on the inside of my body. And I know that if I want to right now,
I could just lean into that, even as I'm speaking, I mean, I don't have to say a thing, I don't have
to ship like doing, I can just lean in, I can feel that the the glory of God even right now,
just speaking about it, placing attention on it, the weightiness is increasing, the intensity is
increasing, I'm starting like, whoa, so I can just lean in there as much as I want to in that moment.
But it comes from practicing the presence after all of practicing the presence, all of a sudden,
you start realizing, wow, actually, let me bring up this really cool line from a Psalm, it's just
amazing. It's called The Highways to Zion. I think, let me pull
some up. Psalm 84, and you only find this in the amplified
version, Psalm 84, verse 5, in the amplified version, it says,
blessed are those, blessed are those in whose heart are the
highways to Zion. Let me, I'll just pull up, it'll be the
amplified classic as well. It won't just be the necessary,
just the amplified, but in the amplified classic, I'll bring it
up for you. So I can read it exactly. Psalm 84, the amplified
classic, they've got the amplified version and then the
amplified classic and the amplified classic is where the
real juices. So verse 4, blessed, happy, fortunate to be
envied are those who dwell in your house and your presence.
Oh, that's funny. Let me just double check that. 84 verse 5,
that's why. 84 verse 5, blessed, happy, fortunate to be
envied is the man whose strength is in you in whose heart are the
highways to Zion. That's what I wanted to touch on there. In
whose heart are the highways to Zion. That's what the practice
of the presence actually creates is a highway to Zion. So you
might be like, I occasionally experience the presence of God.
Well, you want to shift from there by practicing it, you're
going to build a highway, which will mean at any moment, you can
get completely undone in the glory of God. I would say like,
I'm at any point in time, all I am is just the, there's no time
involved. It's just the shifting of attention, a choice away, is
it? Yes, it's simply the shifting of attention away from
the highways to Zion. So you can go from chatting to someone to
all of a sudden undone, and overwhelmed by the glory of God.
You know what, what have you built into your life? Have you
built like a, you know, a little path through the jungle? Or have
you built the highways into the glory?
Yeah, I have that scripture in the Passion Translation saved on
my phone. Because I was like I said, a lot of the struggles
that I went through in that what really helped me with the 21
daily habits was, because sometimes when you go through,
like I said, a lot of things that I dealt with religious OCD.
So like this perfectionism, and there was like depression, all
that stuff. And so when I was going through this, sometimes
one of the hardest things you're very hard on yourself, you know,
and then the Lord was showing me that scripture, he says, that's
who you are, you actually desire my heart, your heart, you you
have this heart inside you that does that creates that pathway
into you know, and he was saying as an encouragement to me, but
he was also saying as encouragement to us as a body
that when we practice that, like, I was just amazing. So I
just I just I'm blessed because I felt like tonight was a divine
appointment. So amen.
That's cool. Well, that's a great, great verse. Dorcas, good
to see you there as well. And Sharon, and Sandy and Steven and
Sylvia and Christina and Robert and Andy and Nina. I see a few
of you extra guys jumping in. Great to have you. And so let
me let me just go a little bit deeper on this of where this
become where this becomes even more powerful as applying the
concept of present reality across the board in your
spiritual life. This is not something that Christians have
done. Well, Christians have substituted faith for
performance, we haven't even realized that we've done it. And
you know, like, if you don't realize that you've created an
issue, you know, if you don't realize you have a problem, it's
very difficult to come up with a solution, right? Because there
you are thinking there's no problem. But this is one of the
things that's a major issue in in Christianity all around the
world, is that we've substituted present reality for performance
based acceptance. And so what I was talking to you about there
with the with practicing the presence, it's simply putting
your attention on the present reality that you're as one as
one can be. Now, the present reality concept, you know, is
that as a grace based concept, which the grace element of it is
that you have nothing to do with the fact that in him you live
and move and have your being. That's not that's not based on
your performance.
not based on your righteousness, that's not based on your achievement, that's based on grace, that
He included us in Him. I think it's 1 Corinthians 1, I think. It is because of Christ that we are
in Him, right? It's not our doing that we are in Him. It's also, so these are actually really
interesting things to consider. What is not of your doing? What are the things that God claims
exclusive credit for? Because where there's things that God claims exclusive credit for,
then you don't have to do anything to make those things real. You just have to apply the power of
faith to activate that present reality in your life. So one thing that you don't have anything
to do with is your identity, right? You were made in the image of God.
He did that. He did that all by Himself and He didn't ask for your help.
That's a present reality that you were made in the image of God and it happened before you were
born. You've got absolutely nothing to do with this dynamic that you were made in the image of God.
So that's a by grace thing, right? That's the gift of God is that He made you in His image
and did He do a good job, average job, poor or perfect job? Perfect job. So if God did a perfect job
of making you in His image, I would say that's a pretty special identity that you're made
perfectly in the image of God and it's got absolutely nothing to do with you.
I mean, I don't know if you have a picture of what it means to be made in the image of God
or what it means to be made perfectly in the image of God but that's a pretty high standard
of your identity. There is no higher level of identity. There's no higher level of perfection
that you could ever hope to attain for and you've got nothing to do with that present reality.
That was all exclusively done by God and you've got nothing to do with it.
The only thing that you can influence in that present reality is whether or not you experience
the power of it. And this is where practicing the presence is about actually practicing faith.
You actually have to practice faith. Faith doesn't just happen out of nowhere. Faith is
something that you build. Faith is something you actually practice. Faith is a muscle. And so
by practicing the presence in the 21-Day Hard Things Challenge, what you're actually doing
is you're predisposing yourself for success in every other area of your spiritual life
where faith is relevant, which is every part of your life. So present reality, let me just
touch on this for a moment, like your identity. When you start getting this, it gets very, very,
like, not very, very, change that. It gets completely revolutionary for your entire existence.
It redefines reality for you because imagine if you stopped being defined by your past experiences
and imagine if you became exclusively defined by the present reality that you're as perfect as God
and it's got nothing to do with you. But if you would place your agreement with God's perspective
that he made you perfectly in his image, if you would place your agreement with that and if you
would practice placing your agreement with that, you would experience the power of that reality
beginning to manifest in your life. Fun, right? Yes. Laura, good to see you. Wally, good to see you.
I think I saw Opal jump in there for a moment. Cool. Any thoughts on that, guys?
Is that good? That is good, Benji. That was good. Yeah. I'll add one more thing on this
because that's so revolutionary. It's crazy because Christianity has made,
has created lines that never existed between Christian and non-Christian.
Right, this might seem crazy to some of you.
you. But sonship is not something that if you want to
understand sonship, if you want to understand adoption, you
know, because because Christians have made up made up a lot of
interesting ideas that that, you know, Jesus didn't actually
teach. One of them is, is this concept of being adopted as
though you at one point, you were never a son, and as though
at one point, God was never your father.
And that's not true.
So the way that a great way to understand it, and this is why I
actually wrote that book called The Good Father is because the
best articulation of the entire gospel is in the parable of what
we call the lost son. Now the Greek word for lost there is
Apollyon, which you know, which we use for perishing lost or
like inhale, like it's a big word. So the Apollyon son, you
know, like in Luke 14, there's the lost coin, the lost sheep
and the lost son. Right. So they're all the same word Apollyon.
He's trying to actually define that word Apollyon, which was
used as perishing. It's the word that's used for like as far
away from God as you can imagine. Right. It's disconnected.
It's lost. It's perishing. Then that's the type of word we would
say, you know, this is real far from God. Right. So Jesus is
defining that word lost here. And he uses that he uses that
word in the context of the story because it's so beautiful.
And every time he refers to the lost son, every time in that
story, he refers to him as a son. It doesn't matter how lost
he gets. He's always referred to as a son, the entire story.
And it doesn't matter how lost he gets. The father is always
referred to as a father, the entire story. So it's not that
it's not like at any point in time, God has stopped being your
father. God has never disowned humanity. There wasn't a time
where God disowned humanity said, right, that's it. I'm done
on being a father. Now, a lot of people perceive God like that.
And that's why you have so many Christians do what I think is
one of the worst things you could ever do is they they see
their kids commit some type of sin and they go, right, you've
crossed the line. You are no longer part of this family. I
disown you as a father. The moment you see someone do that,
you've seen someone who completely has no idea of the
nature of God. They've completely lost touch with the
nature of God. Absolutely. What did the father do? He ran to
the lost son. The son hadn't fixed anything up. The son
still smelled like a pigsty the whole way through. He's
referred to as a son. The point of the story is to help you
understand that your identity is unconditional. You never get
unmade in the image of God. No, you know, there's not a point in
your life and there's not a point in any person in all of
humanity that they get unmade in the image of God. What they
don't what they do is they come out of agreement with the
present reality that they may have made an image of God. So
yes, they're in a place of unbelief. What does unbelief
look like? It looks like the pigsty. That's what Jesus is
painting a picture. He's like, look, this is what unbelief
will look like for you. This is what, you know, like it'll look
like the pigsty. It'll look like dysfunction. It'll look like
chaos. But the present reality is that you're still as one as
one can be. You're still as son as son can be. You're still as
innocent can be. You're still as loved as love can be. But when
you practice faith, you activate the power of present
reality. And so that's the same thing. And we say, oh, OK, well,
it's you know, when I make a decision for Jesus, that's the
point in time that I become a son. That's absolute rubbish.
One of the reasons why that mindset comes up is because
people don't understand the party at the end of the story.
The party where he kills the fattened calf and has a party
there is not a bar mitzvah, but it's basically as close to a
bar mitzvah as you could get. So a bar mitzvah is recognizing
the present reality of a son's sonship. It's endorsing the
full rights, responsibilities and privileges of sonship. And
so what we have articulated and created is this concept of
adoption that is a Greek mindset of adoption as though that you
never were a son, as opposed to a Hebraic mindset towards a
bar mitzvah, which is more accurate in terms of like,
especially the story that Jesus is telling here is that there
comes a point where you have to come home. And when you come
home, you don't become a son. You already this was already
your home. You were already a son. But when you come home,
the father.
will celebrate you, he will honor you, there's a place for you at the table and he will recognize
and validate and endorse the full legal rights, privileges and responsibilities of a son.
Because Benji, in the Bible it says, I have started to get this idea, I've always been
taught that if you don't know God, you don't belong to God and all this kind of talk, whereas
the Bible clearly says, all God is the God of all flesh.
People that have entered into faith, which means a connection through relationships so
they can experience the power of God that you're talking about, or they haven't, but
it does because they haven't and they don't know and they're not aware of it and they
don't want it, does not stop them from being his children.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Your faith or your lack of faith doesn't change present reality.
Just our own experience of it.
Exactly.
It's like practicing the presence, you're probably unlikely, not impossible, but it's
probably going to be very unlikely for you to experience a life of seamless union and
the ecstasy and the bliss of oneness if you refuse to agree that God exists.
Or if you're a Christian and you refuse to agree that God is close to you, if you think
that sin separates you, if you come up with these ideas that endorse separation and you
place agreement with ideas that endorse separation, then you're probably going to create the illusion
of separation and live from that, as opposed to practicing the presence and placing your
agreement with the present reality that you're as one as one can be, you're as innocent can
be, you're as loved as love can be, and you're a son as a son can be, and enjoying that and
living from that.
It's like, even if you're not feeling anything, when you practice that and you put your agreement
there, it's like hanging out at the train track, sooner or later, you're going to get
hit by the glory of God.
So I just wanted to add a little bit on to that.
I haven't touched on that for a little while, but Eli, I just thought I'd jump on that for you.
Thank you.
Helps out so much.
Cool, man.
No worries.
Right.
Well, we've got two more to touch on here.
Let me do a screen share again.
Here we go.
Screen share.
Remember, guys, let's see.
I want you to just let me know if you think they're achievable, not achievable.
Last two.
Eleven, make a genius financial move.
Sometimes people get confused by that one.
Achievable.
So kind of the idea here is that we all live, we all have an economy, right?
There's an economy operating around our lives.
It costs to eat, it costs to live.
Accommodation usually has a cost.
There's an economy revolving around our lives.
A lot of you will have heard the teaching on the five jars.
We won't do that right now, but it could be saving something, it could be investing, it
could be buying something that was a really good buy.
It could be making some money.
I've never heard of the story of the jars.
Never heard of the story of the jars.
Pretty quickly, in like 20 seconds, it's a Jewish principle, the five jars, which is
you tithe 10%, you put 10% into offerings, you put 10% into savings, you put 20% into
investing and you live off 50%.
Now if you don't invest 20% your whole life, it's probably going to get real difficult
to live off 50%.
But if you invested 20% your whole life, living off 50% will be very, very easy.
I've learned the Jewish idea of 10% tithing to the family, 10% tithing to the church.
And I think it's a 40th, first fruits, and you live on the rest.
But what you're teaching is different, slightly different.
Well, yeah, I mean, it's usually...
10% tithe, 10% what?
The five jars principle taught by Jewish, hey Greg, is 10% into tithing, 10% into offering,
10% into saving, 20% into investing and living off 50%.
Now, when we first heard that, it became quite clear that it's very difficult to live off
50% of nothing.
And it's very easy to live off 50% of a million dollars a month.
Anyone agree with that?
Yep.
Is it easy to live off 50% of a million dollars a month?
Anyone think it'd be difficult to live off 50% of nothing?
Absolutely.
Now that to me is very, very good.
You know why?
Because I've been challenged with this idea of giving away
because the Bible says
you should love others more than yourself.
So financially speaking,
that means you should be giving
at least 50.1% of your income away.
Well, no, that's not what I've said at all.
No, I didn't say that's what you said.
I've just been saying, how do I do that, God?
If I'm supposed to financially love people more than myself,
how would I possibly do that?
But you see this here,
what you've shown me here in his plan,
this is a Jewish teaching, is it?
Yeah.
I'd love it if you could send me some links
to expand on that.
I'm not going to.
No?
No, if you want,
you might be able to find a couple of things
on YouTube for it,
but I want to jump on.
That's okay, I'll look at it myself.
Yeah, I've taught heaps on it
and all of our other economic stuff and things like that.
But the point is that with investing,
this is just one thing that I kind of want to really
integrate into church mindsets,
is that if churches don't teach investing
twice as much as they teach tithing,
they'll never break free from poverty.
No.
So that's why we've been, you know,
really like emphasizing,
you could even say overemphasizing Ecclesiastes 11.2,
invest in seven ventures, yes, and eight,
because you do not know what disaster
may come upon the land.
We're doing that for the point of helping bring balance
back to a mindset that has not been balanced
because churches have building programs
and it's better to save up the bandwidth
of the pulpit time to preach into a big offering
than it is to preach into people investing
into their own lives.
But it's real short-term thinking
because if churches taught investing long-term,
there'd be so much abundance
that they probably wouldn't even need
to do the offering check
because people will be like,
oh man, let me just buy the buildings, no big deal.
Yep, good, thank you for that.
Sweet, all right.
Right, we've got one more thing to do on here.
Let me go for the screen share again.
The last one on the 21 Day Hard Things Challenge
of the 12 things is post an accountability photo.
And the whole idea of that
is that it makes it a real community event.
You know, like we actually share the journey together
and we get to check out each other's stories and journeys.
So I'll show you guys where we do that in a second,
but what do you guys reckon,
achievable or not achievable?
Achievable.
Yes.
Achievable.
Achievable, sweet.
So this is the structure
of the 21 Day Hard Things Challenge.
It is slightly, it varies slightly
between level one, level two, and level three,
but it basically maintains that structure.
Praying in the spirit, reading your Bible,
recording a favorite verse,
gratitudes, daily declarations,
moving our body, eating something awesome,
drinking three liters of water,
intentionally loving on someone,
practicing your trigger,
making a genius financial move,
and posting an accountability photo.
And I'll show you where we do that,
but a little bit like what Eli was talking about before,
he's like, man, normally I would be getting depressed
right now, but all of a sudden,
I'm feeling exactly the opposite.
And what is happening,
there's so much science going on
to those 12 simple actions,
but even the concept of moving your body,
I've got, you know, a friend who's a really,
you know, really well-regarded,
you know, what's the,
they're a therapist, counselor person,
but oftentimes, well, they'll say to a person is,
hey, you're like, you know what,
your prescription is, I'm not giving you a drug,
you just need to go out for a walk,
because if you get out and go for a walk,
you're gonna shift all the chemicals around in your body.
Barbara, good to have you with us,
Chris, Elisa,
oh, Isla, sorry, Isla,
good to have you guys jumping on.
Thanks, Benji.
What was that, is it Alison?
No.
Isla.
No.
Isla.
It's.
Sorry, my bad. My bad on my reading. Ailsa, very nice to be with us Ailsa.
Thank you.
Sweet. So the beauty is like on the balance of this thing is that everything starts building momentum.
So someone who's done this, maybe Angela, you've been doing this for a while.
How do you think that after a while of being in the rhythm of this, that each thing starts adding momentum to each year of your life?
Gosh, how do I actually explain it?
In level one, I was astounded at the effect of just practicing the presence and how that just infused every area of my life in terms of the joy, the joy of the Lord, it just grew.
And then with all the other practicing all of the different steps, because they cover holistically the entire your whole life, basically, it just changed your whole mindset.
And it's changed my mindset. I'm not sure how long we've been doing it for now, but there's no way I'd let it go.
It's no way I would stop because it's just so I don't want to lose what I've gained. And for me, because I have a serious chronic illness that really limits me with so many different facets of some of the 12 tasks.
And for a while there, particularly in level one, I avoided one of them exercise because it actually can make me sick.
And so I didn't do the exercise bit. But as time went on and we went to level two and level three, I thought, well, give it a go, see what I can do and overcame the fear and it's an understandable fear for my situation.
But now I'm actually doing so much more in every area of my life because I overcame that fear by practicing those steps every day and they are so simple, but they're so profound.
And then it goes on into areas that aren't actually listed in the tasks like work. It's transformed my attitude to work and that I want to give it my best and I'm actually more organized.
And that for me is a miracle. I normally wing things. So it's just organized me in every single area of my life and it's hard to articulate the profound effect it's had on me and the way I approach life now.
And even to the extent that for this last weekend, I had somebody staying with me and that's just not, it's a no-no for me with my health issues. I just thought, no, I'm not missing out anymore.
I'm going to take that step, which was a hard thing for me. And I thought it was great. I mean, I'm paying the price for it a little bit at the moment and I knew that would be the case physically, but it's just so worth the investment.
So yeah, it's just incredible. I'm waxing lyrical here, but I'm running out of words to describe how wonderful it's been.
Awesome.
I hope that's what you wanted.
Yeah, no, I appreciate it.
Angela, I had this line go through my mind this morning when I was at the gym early, which is refining rhythm redefines reality.
Not that often that you get to do much alliteration with an R, but today we do. Refining rhythm redefines reality.
I think that's actually what discipleship is about, is about helping people redesign reality.
But I think one of the places that we've gotten really stuck in the church is teaching people, but not getting anyone to do anything that's actually implementing.
So there's a teaching mindset. So we know all about what to do, but there's so often there's a missing step of actually shifting from teaching to training where it's like, okay, guys, you know, where gym looks more like church looks more like a gym.
We're actually like, okay, let's get it. You know, like let's actually implement as opposed to everyone coming back in and each six months we're going to do the same things because no one's implementing it.
We're going to go and reteach that because no one's actually implemented it. So every year we do the same, like all the same kind of rhythms in church because it's like, yeah, we really need to get this. But yeah. So open mic now, questions, anyone got questions?
Yes, I do have a question, Benji. Yeah, yeah.
So I just want to share a little bit of my journey on the 21 days.
So when I first began this, like I said, I was very perfectionistic about it.
about it, okay?
And so I'm finding out it's been a journey
with the Lord during this 21 days journey.
Like the first time I did it was,
I was very militant with it,
trying to get it as a checklist, you know?
And then like the Lord just totally swept me off my feet
and I would be like super relaxed.
He was just trying to teach me like,
okay, you don't be so militant,
be more graceful with it, you know?
And then I guess like, I kind of felt like
I was learning the balance of the extremes of doing this,
you know?
And I guess like, as I progressed, I learned,
like, you know, sometimes it's hard to be part of the,
kind of like in terms of like the postings and the videos
and being in charge of the chat,
because I've been busy with,
we just started ministry school too,
so it's been like so much going on,
but I'm trying to do,
still trying to keep up with this every single day.
But I guess like now that we got to level two,
I wanted to ask you on some of the things
that I felt like as I walk in this,
I felt like the Lord was leading me
and I just want to confirm with you
some of the things that I've been going through.
So as I progressed in these level two,
like towards the level two,
I kind of like not followed the formatting of this 21 days,
not because I didn't want to,
but I felt like I'm learning how to establish my own rhythm
and learning how to walk with the Holy Spirit in this.
So like, instead of reading the chapters, you know,
of like Proverbs,
I felt like the Lord was telling me to do,
like read my own readings of the word,
like that he was trying to help me to focus on, you know?
And so I wouldn't go with like a chapter
or a specific type reading,
I would go with where the Lord
was trying to help me to establish.
So instead of like reading a chapter,
I would be like, I'm reading,
I'm going through the word that he's wanting me to read,
you know?
And then, and then instead of like, you know,
like my own workouts,
I would start doing like,
instead of like a, you know, moving your five tendons,
I'm doing my own workouts.
And I guess like, I'm kind of going,
I'm having my own rhythm of the 21 days,
you know, 12 daily habits.
I don't always go with the full 12,
but I'm like really taking stuff
that will really work out with me throughout the 24 hours.
And I guess like, one,
I guess I'll kind of want to run through that with you.
Like, how, how is that in terms of,
I guess like, am I having the right mindset of that?
And two, just two also, like, how do you stay,
what are some suggestions that if this is what I feel like
the Lord's leading me, how do you help?
How do I, I guess, learn how to keep yourself accountable
with your own, like, kind of like routine and rhythm,
but still learning how to make sure that you're,
you're establishing the same concept
or results of what we're doing here.
Does that kind of make sense?
Yeah, yeah, I hear what you're saying.
Yeah.
Let me answer like with a story.
So,
what, it's really good to build a habit of discipline.
So for me, for example,
I had this practice of discipline
where I would read at least five chapters
of the Bible every day.
And I did that for years and years and years.
So it was at least five chapters,
often more, most days more.
And that was, that was my set in stone minimum.
Now that was great because it meant
that I read the Bible multiple times over.
I developed that habit of discipline.
It was really good.
Then I just came into this space, right?
Where, you know, in 2009,
the glory of God just started falling on me
like crazy in my prayer times.
And the presence of God would be on me so strong.
I'd never experienced anything like it.
But then I'd be in this middle of my time with the Lord,
just absolutely undone, often in a beanbag.
And then I'd roll out of the beanbag,
like the presence of God on me so strong,
crawl across the floor to my Bible
and like try really hard to focus on reading the Bible,
which was quite difficult
because the glory was pretty overwhelming
and I wasn't super cognitive,
but I, you know, like I was trying real hard.
And interesting, what I noticed in that time
is that I was trying to fight off what God was doing
in order to tick my religious boxes.
Yep.
So there's that on one side,
and then there's another thing
which Joseph Wilson calls your baseline for success.
So there's, here's the balance, right,
of it.
And this is why it's called the hard things.
It's called the hard things challenge,
not because each of those elements are actually difficult,
because very few of those
are actually difficult on their own.
Now, most of them are actually
really easily achievable on their own.
The reason it's called the hard things.
challenge is because it's the consistency of ticking off each of the 12 things that
actually that's where the hard that's where the challenges is in the daily consistency
of ticking all 12 and that's where the so that's where the hard thing the hard thing
is isn't maintaining a consistency but that the flip side of it is that that's also where
the gains are right that's where the that's where the real big gains are in your personal
life is in the consistency of doing those 12 hard things each day so what I'm suggesting
to you is that the 21 day hard things challenge is giving you a framework for a baseline of
success like if you if you want to thrive in life in my perspective what I've brought
together there in the 12 you know in the 12 daily practices are non-negotiables now those
are those to me are if anyone so if anyone was like Benji I want you to help me become
a giant slayer I want you to help me to step into my destiny I'll be like start here and
they'll be like oh is any of these like I just don't want to do two of them I'll be like see
you later don't bother off you go because to me those are non-negotiables and it's because
of the synergy that they all pack in together so in terms of like the reason I would say
you know for now like with the say you're doing level two right and level two is read
Esther and Nehemiah I would I would like if God's saying hey I want you to read these as well
I'll do both like during the challenge I'll be like hey if God's got you some extra reading
sweet but do both two chapters is not a like a like excruciating demand it's going to maybe
take you 15 minutes maybe 20 if you really want to go real real slow some people last only like
less than 10 minutes so to me that's not like a deal breaker if God's got you say hey I want you
to read these I would do both end especially during the during the challenge right you get
to the end like you go through level three you kind of get and remember all right level one is
21 days level two is 21 days level three is 21 days and those are really significant time
allocations because each 21 day you know builds a neuro pathway in your brain after 63 days
it really establishes and entrenches the new neurological pathway in your mind so
the timing is significant like every element of the 21 day hard things challenge has a lot of
depth to it a lot of psychology a lot of spirituality like a lot of neurology like
there's so much to each element that when you bring it together it really starts lighting up
so my thought would be while you're doing the challenge make it a baseline for success
if you want to like do extra bible reading I'll do the extra bible reading not like cut these two
chapters out or um if you but then when you know things like your exercise do whatever things like
declarations would I cut declarations out one day no way you know I wouldn't there isn't one
thing there that in my daily rhythm I would be like oh yeah I can let this slide to me all of
them are non-negotiables on a daily basis it might be the occasional day that's very very rare that I
might miss one of those mainly because I don't know maybe I was going to like do my declarations
and then I fell asleep and I was like oh flip I was going to do my declarations as I went to bed
but it's very rare that one of those things gets left off but the benefit is that
what it creates in your life is this synergy we've actually did a teaching on it's the science
of transformation it sets you up for expedited growth it maximizes the favor it creates supernatural
breakthrough again it's refining rhythm redefines reality so what I'm finding with it is that
my dreams that my wildest dreams are coming to life like I couldn't imagine
reality is like being redefined all around me the breakthrough that I'm living and now I couldn't
have imagined and so is it worth it you know doing the hard things I'll be like oh my gosh
for me I would never trade these these things have like become a sacred rhythm that's a
non-negotiable in my life not out of obligation but out of ownership and out of tasting and seeing
that they're good and tasting and seeing the power of them and tasting and seeing
what happens when you consistently implement them it has been the greatest
fast track to breakthrough that I've ever seen.
So I hope that kind of helps with the question.
So Benji, do you do them in order?
No.
I would have to agree that even my insight
into people that have been into mental institutions
or you go into the hospital,
they make things very, very consistent.
We do this now, we do that now, nothing changes.
It's just consistent and it stays that way
and it gives those people a baseline,
like you say, of security.
So I want to, if you don't mind jumping in.
Yeah, go for it, bro.
Because I'm like, okay, so I'm learning.
This is like all new to me.
The Lord's teaching me discipline to this.
He's teaching me who I am through this.
Because like I said, when I first began,
I was very militant with it,
where I was like, I have to do this right,
this right, this right.
And then I realized it got me very drained,
because like, for example, if I read,
even though it's one to two chapters,
like I would read, like I would go very, very slow,
but there's nothing wrong with going slow,
but it would be like,
I would take a long time going through that chapter
because I guess I wanted to read it right.
And so I'm learning this whole balance
and then all of a sudden, one week I would get like,
and I'm doing, like I said,
we just started a school for missions for evangelism.
So I've been helping out a lot with that too,
trying to get all that tasks done
and trying to get my own rhythm within it.
And sometimes during that,
I was very kind of like militant at first,
and then the Lord kind of like swept me off my feet.
And because he was trying to tell me like,
nah, I don't want you to be too militant.
I want you to kind of like see it as a grace factor,
where you do your best with it,
do the best you can, but be very intentional.
And so along that process, I felt like I'm like,
we call it like you're practicing the extreme
of not making it too like obligation,
but also not being too loose and relaxed with it.
I'm kind of learning how to balance that part, that portion.
And I guess one I share is on this journey,
I've learned to establish my own rhythm
in a sense of like,
I know what time I want to do certain things.
I need more time, like I need to get my own work done,
how to take care of my own things in life, you know?
But I also,
I guess one thing I ask is like, even on those days,
like for example, my experience is when I read a chapter two
and I don't get really into it,
or I feel like I didn't glean from it,
I kind of get very obsessed about it, you know?
And that's kind of where I get my mind spinning.
And then I feel like, oh, now I'm on my,
and I use more time on that.
I guess like, just cause like I said,
this is a new journey.
I'm relearning, reframing, re-understanding,
and I'm learning, and I'm being learning
how to not be so hard on myself during this whole process.
I just want to run that through with you.
Cause there's days when you don't feel like you're reading,
you don't feel like you're gleaning
from all of these things.
You just feel like you're doing it.
Not like you, not like an obligation,
but like, it's just like, I'm just doing it
because I know my heart, you know,
I want to do what's right.
But sometimes when you're doing that,
you feel like, oh, I'm not doing that best.
You know what I mean?
Like-
That's right.
Let me chuck a couple of thoughts on that.
One of the things that we've been really strong
on consistently through the whole journey with everyone is,
it's about transformation, not perfection.
Yes.
And that's a real key theme for us,
is this is a journey of transformation, not perfection.
So if you focus on perfection,
you always, you know, if you're like,
oh man, I didn't do perfect, right?
Perfectionism always leads to comparison
and comparison is the thief of joy.
Whereas when you focus on transformation,
it leads to celebration, which multiplies your joy.
So the focus is transformation, not perfection.
You know, you're not, we're not anticipating that,
that we're necessarily going to get them all
every single day.
And if you fail on one, it doesn't really,
it's not a big deal.
You know, like that's not the, that's not the goal.
The goal is transformation.
So on that sense, I'll be like, yeah,
but I hear what you're saying as well.
There's this dynamic where you could go real easy
on yourself and be like, oh, I'll take it easy.
It's not that big a deal.
I just missed a couple.
And then you can be like, you know, like fully militant
and you've got that other, you know,
you could slide into obligation as well,
where you're just doing this out of some.
disobligation which is probably not going to produce anything except resentment you know so
there's lots of different ways you can actually end up doing this but my hope is that you would
start you know like your journey starts out of ownership of like hey i want to redesign reality
and i want to start bringing my wildest dreams to life like this should be the goal is that by
implementing this you know like taking this journey i'm i'm going on a journey that's going
to enable me to actually completely redesign reality and bring my wildest dreams to life
that's really the hope can i add something can i add something there uh so eli i can um
uh what's the word i can
empathize empathize with you because probably for about 20 years i really struggled with
religion and performance orientation so i think i know a bit about that monkey that's
on on the back um and it's not pleasant is it but you know someone who's come through it
in a significant way if i can would you like me to give you a couple of thoughts and reflections
uh i love to um no matter what you can always you can always learn so i guess
so i would say you know do as benji said by doing this stuff
you will actually go through the transformation process with god and you will deal with a lot
of that stuff the second thing is a lot of the identity stuff and sonship so what set me free was
um having breakthrough in sonship and identity and benji's got a whole heap of stuff on
identity and sonship and then the third element someone's someone's uh there's a bit of noise
in the background i don't know whose it is but um the third thing i would say is you know the
inner healing journey so i'm not sure what what your inner healing journey's been so far but
um you know getting healed of the unhealed hurts unmet needs unresolved issues
was just so critical to me like the healed heart plus doing all this stuff they both come together
so i just encourage you to to do do some inner healing work if you haven't already and i've
seen it because i do some of this stuff with people people who've been in bondage for 20 or
30 years when god comes and sets them free it's like bang what what prevented me from being able
to experience god is taken away when that inner healing work's done so i just offer that out
as a reflection it's not one thing it's going to be a multi-dimensional journey for all of us
and your role is just to say yes our role is just to say yes to god expose our heart
do the stuff and give him stuff to work with yeah cool stuff man um one thing i'll one thing i'll
add in there which is something we've talked about a bunch of times throughout the the journey on
the hard things is that um if you take care of the soil the seed will take care of itself yeah
so if you look at the parable of the sower you know you've got some seed goes on the path and
the birds come and eat it up some seed goes on the rocky ground springs up real quick but then
withers when the sun comes out some um some falls on seed where on ground where there's lots of
other weeds that grow up and and block it out and some seed falls on good soil and produces 30 60
hundred fold return uh one thing that we should notice from that is that the seed is always good
there was never an issue there was never a seed issue and that's the issue that seed represents
the divine life which is uh you know john 8 12 jesus said uh i am the light of the world whoever
follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life that light of life that's
the divine life he's talking about the exact same state of being as god that seems like a worthy
prize anyone think that's a worthy prize to have the divine life incarnated in you the fullness
of the life of the trinity fully fleshed out and manifest in you it's like look at that again i am
the light of the world whoever follows me will never walk in darkness now that's a great line
right there that blows a lot of christian
rubbish teaching right out of the water. You'll never walk in darkness. You have no association
with sin whatsoever. You'll be oppressed in no way. You'll be depressed in no way. You won't
have any spiritual, you know, you won't have any turmoil of struggling with sin. You will never
walk in darkness. That's a great promise there. Like who thinks that's worthy of actually going
after? I think that's the type of thing that is like, that's a lifetime achievement of like,
oh cool, man, I learned to walk in this place that Jesus promised where I never walk in darkness
and I have the light of life, which means the fullness of the divine light is incarnate.
It's manifest fully. It's fully on display in me. And even that Greek word have, right? That
Greek word have, you think, oh yeah, have is not a very important word, but it's the word echo.
They will have, or they will echo, right? So the word echo, I mean, we can probably guess what that
means, but one of the meanings is it's like to be clothed like a garment. You know, you will wear
the divine life like a garment. You will be an echo from heaven in the earth. You will be
an echo, an exact representation of the divine life in the earth. And that to me is worthwhile.
And that's what the parable of the sower is about, is that if you take care of the soil,
the seed will take care of itself. And how do you take care of the soil? The daily hard things
challenge takes care of the soil. That's what the daily hard things is doing. And so like,
because I've been in this process, and like you said, you know, Justin, about inner healing and
all of those things and seeing so much transformation with so many people and a bunch of
like how I came to creating the hard things challenge was doing a lot of reverse
engineering on what was setting people free and what wasn't.
You know, why is it that you can have 100 people in a school and five people get set free
really, really quickly? You know, a few people experience, you know, a good
measure of transformation, some experience a moderate, some experience absolutely nothing
at all, and don't even think that God was at the school. You know, it's like, what is it that's
actually the difference? And it's always, it's never the seed, you know, like, it's the soil
that is the difference. It's like, how is a person's heart being stewarded? So that's the
purpose of the hard things challenge is to prepare our hearts, set up our hearts,
so that the divine life can actually thrive and become incarnate and manifest in us.
Carolyn, were you about to ask something? Did you have a question?
No, I was just agreeing. It's just so mind boggling on one side of it, because you've
just got so much other religious baggage that you've just got to undo. So I'm just sitting
there going, oh, yeah, oh, yeah. So yeah, great. Yeah, Benji, just maybe it mightn't be for this
time, but say, how does the rites of passage stuff? Does it mesh in with this? Or is it a
separate thing? What's the story there? Yeah, the rite of passage, we did an entire like,
um, challenge on that earlier in the year. So the rite of passage is an optional extra if you want
to take that on to level three. So if you wanted to really understand, I think you did the rite
of passage challenge with us. Like that, that challenge, I think you were with us in January,
we did it. But let me, let me share my screen and show you guys a couple of things here
about posting about the rite of passage and about next steps, depending on where you're,
where you're at in the journey. So here we go. This is not what I've got multiple tabs open,
but let's just go here. Welcome to Facebook, everybody. Let's go to we're going to so I'm
going to take you now to the Raising Royalty Facebook group. And in there, I'm going to take
you into the guide section. And I'm going to show you two guides in there. So there we go.
So hopefully you guys are a little bit familiar with the guide side of things. So if you come up
here, this is the group. This is guide. So if you click in here to guides, it'll bring up all the
teachings now you can actually see all the stuff on the platform as well as on the events and
challenges. So if you click in here, you can see, you know, all the things that we do on the
So this is the Kingdom Business Summit,
which we just had, the Divine Health Summit,
platform. So if you click in here, you can see all the things that we do on the platform. So
the Rite of Passage Challenge.
Now, this was really powerful.
And we talk a lot about the spirituality, the psychology,
the science of transformation,
all of that that's really connected in
with the 21 Day Hard Things is in this challenge here.
So if you want to check out that,
and if you want to see exactly
how the Rite of Passage works,
this is the guide here which just unpacks every piece of it.
So I think session six is the one,
I see five and six, I think,
are the ones that actually, blow by blow,
break down how the Rite of Passage works.
Then this is the 21 Day Hard Things Challenge here.
So if you want more info on the Rite of Passage,
these two videos here, just break it down exactly
so you can see precisely, okay,
this is exactly what's involved in the Rite of Passage
if you want to do that.
And then, yep.
Do you advise that we do these sequentially?
Well, level one, level two, level three, yeah, 100%.
Right, I'll have to go back to the start then.
Yeah, so when you're doing your posting,
if you come to this guide here,
the Daily Hard Things Challenge,
we've got a bunch of like,
I will put the replay for this up in here as well.
So you have a bunch of different videos that are here.
You have this list here.
I'll share, if there's anyone wanting to do it
right from the start, I'll share the link with you.
I'll put it in the description.
There was a lady asking that a while ago, I saw.
Sorry, say that again?
There was a lady that come up on my screen
that says, what is this?
I want to do this.
How do I do this?
Oh, yeah.
Well, here's the easy thing.
Let me just see, I think.
How do you start the 21 Day Hard Things Challenge?
This video here, guide two, right?
So it's the second video in the guide.
How do you do, this is it right here.
How do you do the 21 Day Hard Things Challenge?
You click on this link here,
raisingroyalty.com slash 21 Day Challenge.
Easy.
Okay, that's it there.
I will send this,
like I'll put this in the description of this video as well
when we finish it.
But this is it, raisingroyalty.com slash 21 Day Challenge,
21-Day-Challenge.
So that's the one there.
That's what you want to look.
I'll copy and paste this now into the chat as well.
So if you want to start it,
then you can just click on here and you can start it.
And what it also does is it gives you,
for this first one,
it gives you emails each day,
kind of coaching you through as well.
And here's the other thing is when you click on here,
I'll just go back.
So this is just the easy way
to find the accountability posts for each day.
So if you come in here and you click on
21 Day Hard Things Challenge in the guide,
and then click, okay, day one.
And then day one,
this is where you post your accountability picks.
If you're in the, if you're getting the emails,
the emails will actually send you day one, et cetera.
So this is day one.
You just put your comment here,
just put your perk up and you can just say something.
And then as you go through, like they're all here.
So you can just put all your accountability posts up.
Same in the Online School of Sunship,
if you're doing level two,
you can do the same thing there.
You can jump into the guide and you can do that.
And then if you're gonna do the level three,
right of passage,
you can kind of choose this.
So the right of passage is more like,
you might wanna take like a year or something,
or six months to do the full right of passage.
It's got a required reading list.
It's got some cool adventures.
There's a whole range of,
we call them the acts of valor.
So there's 10 acts of valor there
that you have to achieve.
There's a required reading list that you have to complete.
And then there's the level three
hard things challenge there.
So what we do say,
I think that's someone here
got some cool background music playing.
Where is that?
Oh, that was Justin.
It was Justin's background music.
So level three,
where it changes, there's not many changes
between level two and level three, it's pretty similar.
We upgrade, so when you go level one to level two,
you go from five minutes praying in the spirit a day to 10,
level three is 15 minutes praying in the spirit a day.
And what we say for people, if they wanna do level three,
now, if you're in a circle,
the rite of passage program is free, it's included in that.
If you're not and you're like,
hey, I just wanna do the rite of passage program,
you do level one, that's free.
If you really wanna do level two,
you join the online school of sonship
or the basic access on the platform,
it's only $37 to do that for the level two.
If you're in the, like I said,
and if you're in a circle, you get everything for free,
but if you wanna do level two, it's just $37.
If you wanna do level three and you have to do,
you have to join the full rite of passage program
to do level three, and that's like three, nine, seven
to jump on board for the full rite of passage.
But like I said, if you're in a circle,
you get everything for free, no extras there.
So what we say about level three though,
is level one, level two,
it's kind of about just kind of practicing,
like, hey, let's kind of get, start creating a rhythm.
You might've come from a family that had no rhythm, right?
The rhythm in your family might've been drugs, alcohol
and bashing mum around the kitchen, you know?
So to start this new rhythm is quite a significant thing
and we wanna focus on transformation, not perfection.
But when it comes to level three, we step it up a bit
in the sense that when it comes to level three,
we really wanna help people achieve,
like this is like giant slayer status, okay?
If you really wanna start stepping up into, okay, right,
hey, let's really get you ready for your destiny.
Let's really get you ready
to really start reshaping reality around your life.
Let's really help you build some serious momentum.
So the main difference with level three is we say to people,
hey, this is, you've gotta be personally accountable,
but if you miss something one day, start again.
So that's on you as an individual
just to be personally accountable to that.
But that's what we say to people is like,
hey, with level one, level two, no worries,
but level three, personally take real ownership for it
and take it really seriously
because that's how you're gonna get the real gains from it.
And you're not gonna taste the power of it
if you don't actually really implement.
So the key is not like making it exclusive.
The key is making sure people take it seriously
to implement it because you can't get the value out of it
if you don't implement.
So yeah, I think it's at this point
that we should definitely hear from Barbara
because I'm really interested to hear how you're doing.
Well, I'm doing great.
This is fantastic.
I love learning new things.
I feel like this is like a real growth opportunity.
So I'm really enjoying it.
Thank you.
Cool, well, tell us something about where you are
and what's happening in your world.
I live in Curtis, Ontario,
which is outside of Toronto, Canada.
And I'm a teacher in the daytime for part of the day.
And I love working with special education students
and changing people's lives,
speaking to kids and changing their life,
their destiny, their vision,
creating vision for students.
That's what I'm about.
Oh, that is very exciting.
Very cool.
Well, thank you for sharing.
Laura, how are you doing?
Are you there?
I mean, I can see that you're there.
Can you speak up?
Oh, you're muted now.
You were unmuted.
Now you're, but I can't hear you for some reason.
Can you hear me?
No, somebody else, sorry.
Oh, I can hear, that was Joelle.
I could hear Joelle.
I'm just trying to get, Laura, what are you doing?
I'm trying to get you to speak up.
Can you hear me?
Laura, why have we got no audio for you?
Oh, I see Cheryl.
Cheryl had to go.
Joelle, why don't you jump on board for a second?
Laura, have a little play there.
See what's going on.
We'd love to hear from you.
Joelle, how are you doing?
You finished dinner?
Yes, sorry, I did.
Very good.
Yeah.
How's it going for you?
Did you have any questions?
Not really.
I mean, just the accountability photo,
is it just something that you've done throughout the day
or what is it?
Yeah, usually what we do is just take a pic,
could be a photo of a tree.
bottle if you look through all the other pics you'll see all sorts of different pics there so
it could just be as simple as a photo of a drink bottle or it could be you know you're sweaty from
going for a run or it could be anything you're doing something nice for someone or just any type
of photo at all that kind of is connected to what you've been doing for the day okay thank you yeah
no worries um wait evan how have you been doing my man you've been doing great with the challenge
um okay yeah um i think i probably need to go uh repeat level two you know like i i get
most things done every day but not everything um and so uh to go to that level three i think
i need to uh i need to i need to really get a few things i need to get to get level two
completed where i do everything basically or most almost everything here so um
yeah but i'm really getting huge value out of this you know i hear different people talking
about the the well i hear you saying about the rhythm and the structure and that's really big
for me i've never been able to stick it during declarations for much longer than a week or so
for the year i am at 40 odd days you know um and that's been i've done i think i might have
missed that once in 40 days the declarations you know so oh come on that's amazing yeah that's
that's been huge um yeah so i'm i'm stoked and i really want to i really want to get this right
because i see such value in it i was aware of caroline leaf's teachings before um that i started
on this in uh in terms of the 21 day neural pathways and so uh so yeah i was on board
straight away yeah very cool yeah very cool we've got laura reconnecting again so
let's try that laura let's see if your audio is gonna go
oh no audio from you um you can hear us though obviously i mean you haven't been sitting there
not hearing us this whole time
how rude um wow we'd really love to hear from you but for some weird reason we can't hear we've got
no audio i don't know if you want to check your speaker input or you i'm not sure what's
turning that off but it'd be cool to hear from you but any questions we just want to make this
real open mic space anyone who wants to know more i see diane there i see cindy we haven't heard from
and chris and uh isa and stephen but yeah caroline jump on board there um with i did the 21 day the
first one the first challenge and i've sort of continued it on but i haven't managed to finish
doing all of them like probably the last three or four i've struggled with but the biggest
breakthrough for me has been the um doing the declarations and the trigger and you know now
just when i do that it's like my favorite time because it's it's the anointing of the lord that
comes on and it's like oh man i haven't felt this for ages and it's fantastic so yeah i'm gonna keep
going obviously i've been still doing it i'm on to day 49 but of course i haven't done all 12 and so
yeah yeah i definitely encourage you you know to like branch out on those 12 you're definitely
going to feel benefit from them and if you hadn't recognized or felt the benefit from them right away
then it's still definitely worth pressing on because it's only a matter of time before you
really feel that synergy kick in you definitely will feel the synergy from it kick in sooner or
later you'll be like wow that's that was worth it um but on the declarations point oh i see um
dorcas is keen to jump in here as well so dorcas why don't you jump in um but i will say on the
declaration side of things that i wish someone had taught on the power of declarations and a
structured process of declarations when i was younger absolutely doing declarations
you know for over a year pretty much every day i don't think i've seen anything more powerful to
reframe reality than that yeah my world that i live in now which is completely unbelievable
to the world that i used to live in is a mirror reflection of my declarations that i've been making
wow
Laura is trying again on a different device.
Let's see how we go.
Hey, sorry about that.
Yay!
So Dorcas, you jump in after Laura.
We finally got some audio.
What's been happening, Laura?
Y'all, I love being on here.
Thank you.
I've just gotten a lot from just listening to everybody.
I'm kind of new to everything.
I've joined the Inner Circle,
but the Hard Things Challenge
is something that I'm learning about.
And honestly, I would love to start at level three.
I know that sounds silly,
but I've been kind of listening to the content.
And one of the things I did in college
was I made myself pray eight hours a day in the spirit
and fast every other day.
Because of Dr. Cho, which I heard you talk about.
Oh, Yungi Cho, the man.
Yeah, so that was like,
I found the person doing the most praying
and I decided I would try to meet that.
So anyway, I love it.
I think this is great.
And I'm kind of one of those people
who has done the religious path
and then been healed from that.
So God's really taken me back
into some of the old disciplines
and just encouraging me to reignite.
I mean, I wouldn't say I ever stopped being disciplined.
I think it was something I've tried to continue,
but definitely opening my heart to learning
and to growing and to just see what God wants to do
through these things.
You know, I'm just open and excited.
So yeah, I'm looking forward to it.
It's good.
That's so cool.
I'm very excited, very excited for you.
So what I would encourage is like,
start with level one and go.
Level one, just because you start at level one,
you know, it didn't mean that I was like,
oh, flip, I can only pray five minutes in the spirit a day.
But start at level one
because you'll appreciate the rhythm of it.
And it's also because we want to get those full 63 days
and you'll appreciate the fact
that we go through the book of Proverbs in level one
and level two is Nehemiah and Esther.
Let me pull up for those
who are just about to go into level three.
Just the level three.
The hard things in level three, it's pretty similar.
The praying in the spirit goes up to 15 minutes a day.
What have we got here?
I'm just trying to find the image.
For some reason, it's disappeared on me.
Is it this one?
It is 15 minutes.
Yeah, in level three,
it's praying in the spirit 15 minutes a day.
I was just trying to find,
Angela, can you remember off the top of the head,
what did we read in level three?
Angela's gone.
Anyway, it's there once you get started.
I just can't remember off the top of my head what-
Can you say that we pray together in level three?
No, I didn't say that.
Okay.
Yeah, that's all right, that's a good question.
But what I said is,
so in level three,
I just can't remember off the top of my head
which book we read through.
But once you've finished reading that
and you've actually completed the full 63 days,
if you want to, you can just jump on board
with the crew who's in that level three group.
And a bunch of us are just reading
through the same passages together.
So that's why I can't remember what book it was,
because we've like read all the minor prophets
and a bunch of the prophets and New Testament,
Old Testament, we're kind of going through all sorts.
So at the moment we're reading Ecclesiastes and Matthew,
but it just kind of bounces around.
And it's just,
if people want to read through that together, they can.
It's kind of fun,
kind of having a crew that you're reading with.
Yeah, Laura, that's really exciting.
I'm really stoked to have you on board with us.
We've got to hear from Sharon and Cindy in a minute,
but let's hear from Dorcas.
How are you doing Dorcas?
And we've got Helen,
we've got a bunch of others who
we're more than happy to hear from, Diane.
Yeah, so if you guys want to chat,
then just raise your hand or say, hey,
just we're keen to hear from you.
So Dorcas, what's happening?
You've been doing so well in the hard things.
Hi, it's been going real good.
I do have a question because
in the level one hard things challenge,
it was absolutely amazing.
And I had like this big turnaround.
in my life in just so many areas where things just, it's like, uh, so many things that I felt
God had told me were going to happen in my life started, like, didn't fully, didn't fully happen,
but started, you know, and then into level two, the first half was great, but then about the last
half, I just felt like I lost my enthusiasm and like, I just got really robotic and like, it was
just get this done. I didn't like it. I didn't feel like it. It was no, you know, it was just
like, I have to get this done just so I can say I did it. And so by the time level two got done,
like I did it all except, um, I really have a hard time with genius financial move every day.
So I missed, you know, probably five days in the 21 days, I probably missed at least five days
and loving on someone intentionally. If I can count my kids and my husband,
then that's no problem. But if I have to, if it has to go like every day to someone else,
then that's really challenging for me. So what I, what my question is, is should I go back and
do level two just because I missed some of those things on some days, or is it okay to keep going
and go into level three? Yeah, totally. It's totally your choice. It's no pressure. We, um,
we, it's only level three that we say to people, okay, Hey, like level three is the time to like,
really dig deep. So level two, no, no pressure there. And level three is when we say to people,
Hey, like dig real deep here. And if you, you know, if you miss something on one of the days,
then go back and start again, because it's not about anything other than helping people to
experience the full value of the process. That's, that's the reason why we say, Hey, go back,
because it's like cutting corners. You know, if you want to, you know, if you're out running and
you cut corners and you know, you've got a plan to do it, you know, like 10 K run, but you cut
the corners, you only do a 4k run. You're only going to get a 4k benefit. So that's the whole,
that's why it's like, Hey, we want to ensure that people get the full benefit of the process.
Yeah. And then the other, the other stuff of just ticking through the boxes, that's really becomes
a, like, that's really just like a focus side of things or, Hey, what's really motivating you right
now, shift, you know, if you've shifted out of, Hey, actually, this is the process of me bringing
my wildest dreams to life to, you know, just getting distracted from that and thinking,
Oh, this has become obligation. It's never good to act out of obligation.
So what I would do is I would work on my focus. Here's, here's one of the things like, for example,
you can milk passion. Here's how I milk passion. I imagine my dream and I imagine what I will feel
like when my dream comes true. And imagine how much you want that on a scale of one to 10,
how much do you want that dream to come true? And then I imagine what happens if that dream
never happens. It just never, it just dies. How much pain do I experience in that moment?
When I imagine that versus how much joy do I experience when I imagine the dream coming to
fruition, a simple exercise like that will help you refocus on actually, Whoa, hang on a minute.
I'm a person who values the fruition of my wildest dreams, and it's worth doing this right now to
set myself up in a rhythm that has the power to redefine reality and change everything around me.
So it's really just like that heart focus, motivation, and just making some of those
slight recalibrations. And you'll find it will totally shift the balance out of obligation
back into ownership. Okay. That makes a lot of sense. And that helps a lot. Thank you.
Oh, go after it. You've been doing great. And I've loved all your testimonies coming through.
Can I go off of that, Benji? Yeah, man. So like you said, there's times where you feel like,
and I'm saying definitely have improving a lot in this and learning how to reframe.
But when you get to those modes of like you feeling like it's an obligation,
how would you feel that, like, for example, a lot of times the hardest moments for me would be at
nighttime. You know, like I said, we are I'm part of like a ministry or school that we're starting
and some days like you're learning how to follow these disciplines and you're learning how to fit
this into your rhythm of life. And you get to the end of the night. And some days you're just like
tired or you're like, I don't know what to do. Like, how would you push through that without
feeling like being an obligation? And, and, you know, yeah, I guess that's what I would I would
kind of
maybe like here's a here's something that's important as well as like reframing obligation
versus responsibility as well yeah i i have uh i have some obligations that you know are named
isra zoe alia tobias alana you know and those are but i i don't label them as obligations
you know i will lay them label them as responsibilities yeah this is a thing that
this is a balance for us as well as i actually do i want to be responsible for stewarding every
area of my life like a boss for example if you have an encounter with the spirit of wisdom
she doesn't care about your excuses like wisdom doesn't care about your excuses wisdom's like bro
you got 24 hours a day
what's up with you um so
wisdom wisdom would come to you and say hey take extreme ownership for every single area of your
life like wisdom would be like hey have you got the fruit in your life that you want wisdom will
ask you hey you living the fruition of your wildest dreams right now wisdom will challenge
you with like what do you really want and wisdom will highlight the gap between what you really
want and where you are and the answer to that gap the thing that solves that gap every single time
is a rhythm so you could you this is the this is about taking responsibility for your destiny
now you want to take responsibility for your destiny you could say this is all i feel
obligated right now i feel obligated but you could you could reframe that to actually
i feel a sense of obligation but really what that obligation is there's something in my soul
awakening me to the fact that i need to take responsibility for my own destiny and maybe
just maybe that that voice that we're hearing is obligation is wisdom speaking to us saying
who's going to take responsibility for your destiny if you don't
whoa and if for for example i i know that if you came face to face with wisdom
and you're having an encounter with wisdom and wisdom's like hey here's the life of your dreams
um how does that compare to your current experience of reality
and everywhere there's a gap wisdom will first start with extreme ownership
as the starting point won't take any excuses as valid and will only like
will will point you always to a place of extreme ownership and and that extreme ownership will
always come back to a place of a sacred rhythm in your life and wherever there's dysfunction
wisdom will point out a place where the where the sacred rhythm is out of balance in your life
so what we might sometimes be hearing is obligation could actually be connected to
responsibility calling us up to live in that space of the fruition of our wildest dreams
hi benji it's chris from mandra chris how you doing man man i've been following your stuff
for a while the fact i found out about you through nancy cohen who i found out about
through a friend of mine i felt so prompted by the spirit of god to join in this morning i'm
so glad that i did because he's been speaking to me about how consistency is the key to where you
want to go with it's i've been getting challenged on that all week and i am responsible for my own
destiny thank you i want to join i'm going to join in i've been i've been putting off joining
in your stuff for weeks enough where did you say you were from mandarin western australia oh come
on awesome i've actually got um a media ministry i do a podcast i've been doing one for a while
my wife and i just started doing one together and the lord's been really speaking to me about
consistency and uh but i really felt i really felt like i really felt challenged that that
consistency is so important i never thought about it framing it the way you did the sacred rhythm
but it's and i love what you said the soil is the thing the soil is the sea well because i was
actually asking the lord why is it i've got something in me that's been in me since i was
20 years old and i've never seen the fullness of it and i was talking about some big promises
and big dreams i even preached
on Joseph on Saturday.
And here's my answer.
The soil.
I have to take care of my own soil.
Thank you, my brother.
I'm taking that on board and I'm going to join in.
That's exciting, man.
That's exciting.
I would have to say the same thing, Benjamin.
I have been very creative and I really,
I hate to even admit this.
I actually hate being told what to do, when to do it
and what to eat, when to eat.
I find self-discipline very difficult.
It seems to go against my free spirit.
And yet I know that even if I start your level one,
I would be shocked if I can actually get through that.
And I may even put myself on the same level
as the level three, that if I miss one day,
I'll start again.
But it's almost like a hatred in me for that.
That self-discipline.
Like Gestapo, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
And it's the first time I've ever actually told anybody
this about me.
Maybe it's the first time I've really faced it in myself.
But the reason I didn't,
part of the reason I didn't join you first up
was because I looked at all the things
and I thought I will do,
I do 10 times what most of those things are.
But that's when you talked about the consistency today,
it's not why the Holy Spirit brought it to me
in the first place,
the fact that I could do most of it.
And I do most of it.
Spend hours with God a day.
The thing is my problem is,
and I've been a teacher for years
and I've never been given a full-time job.
And this is why I have no rhythm in my life.
How on earth would I expect God to give me
a classroom of kids to take through rhythm
and teach them consistency and rhythm
when I haven't even got it myself?
Yes.
So thank you.
And I did miss one thing that you said earlier
about perfectionism creates competition
and competition creates this.
And I missed it.
Yeah.
Come off your tongue quickly
so you may remember it.
Perfection leads to comparison
and comparison is the thief of joy.
The thief of joy, the stealer of joy.
It's the thief of joy.
Comparison is the thief of joy.
Whereas transformation leads to gratitude
and gratitude multiplies joy.
I'm going to make myself a plaque,
a wall plaque on that.
That is brilliant.
It's really powerful.
And I'm going to stop recording you now
because I've got it.
Because I wouldn't remember that anyway.
Cool.
Thank you.
Well, I'm really keen to hear
from a couple of other guys before we sign off.
I might have to go.
Yeah, all good.
But Cindy, Diane, if you're keen,
some of the other guys.
But Cindy, how are you doing?
What's happening?
Where are you?
Can you hear me?
Yeah, we got you.
Have to change rooms.
Sorry.
There we go.
My husband's in the other room watching TV
so I had to get out of that room
so I don't bother him.
I just popped in kind of towards the end.
So I'm sort of just catching
whatever you guys were talking about.
Yeah, I don't know what the list is
for the level one or level two or level three,
but just kind of those things
that you guys were just talking about
seems to be, you know,
tapping on my heart.
So I just, I was thinking,
oh, I'll jump in on the level three
because that's kind of me.
I thought, oh no, no, slow it down, girl.
Take a one step at a time.
Yeah, we just,
we get everyone to start at level one
because it's about, each level is 21 days
and it's about a 63 day.
A big part of it is about this,
each 21 days lays a neurological pathway
and three sets of 21 days
embeds really deeply a new,
a whole new neurological pathway.
So it's like, kind of like a 63 day journey.
Yeah.
And so I follow whatever,
and so I follow whatever list that is on the level one?
Yeah, so we, I'll,
if you watch your emails as well,
I'll send it out via the emails as well.
Tomorrow, I'll send a list like,
hey, who wants to start level one,
click here if you want to start,
if you want to carry on to level two, et cetera.
I'll send an email out tomorrow
for people just on how that works.
Okay, yeah.
And I joined the inner circle this mid part of this week.
So yeah, I'm excited about the bots.
Yeah.
That's what really got me hooked
was just hearing about those bots.
I'm like, ooh.
Yeah.
They're fun.
Yeah.
I'm excited about that, the HyperVase.
I already have a Kegan water machine.
Oh, come on.
Yeah, and my daughter-in-law, she sells them.
Yeah.
So I didn't actually buy it from her.
I bought it like, I don't know,
a good seven, eight, nine years ago.
Oh, here's my Kegan water.
Doing this thing every day.
Yeah, yeah, you're right.
It does make your water snob.
I don't like anything else but Kegan water.
Yeah, there's a few people on this call
that will resonate with that.
Yeah.
Oh, so I'm from California.
I'm Southern California.
And I'm in Diamond Bar, if anybody knows where that's at.
I'm northwest of your friend, Seb.
Cool.
He's in San Diego.
Yeah.
So San Diego's further south than me,
but I'm a little more inland, so I'm northwest of him.
So anyway.
That's cool.
Yeah.
Love it.
Well, wonderful to meet you, Cindy,
and welcome to the Innisfree call.
Very excited about that.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's cool.
So yeah, I have to do my onboarding
and figure all that junk out.
There's so much material to go through.
It's kind of overwhelming.
We-
But I'll get through it.
Yeah, totally.
We just kind of recommend people on that journey
is that just take your time.
You know, just take your time.
Just little steps.
But I actually do recommend for everyone,
like the 21-Day Hard Things Challenge
is the place to start.
Oh.
Oh, on there you do?
Well, in general, that's where I recommend people.
Hey, if you want to,
like when you're starting a journey with raising royalty,
like the 21-Day Hard Things-
So am I in raising royalty?
That's the part I'm confused about that.
Yeah, like everything comes under the umbrella
of raising royalty that we do.
That's our company, or our ministry, or our movement.
So everything's under the umbrella of raising royalty.
So when you join the inner circle,
it's the raising royalty inner circle.
But we always recommend people,
hey, when you start out with us,
if you really want to catch the value of what God's doing,
start with the 21-Day Hard Things Challenge.
It was a big, it was a real,
like it took like 15 years of teaching to learn,
to realize that I have to shift from teaching to training.
You know, like I have to shift people's rhythm
in order to shift the soil so that the seed can grow,
because actually it's more about helping people
prepare the soil of their own heart,
because the seed of the divine life will flourish.
And it's actually less about the teaching
and more about people implementing a sacred rhythm.
You know, like if people can implement a sacred rhythm,
then like,
they don't need as much teaching
because the divine life is going to explode out of them.
So what is the soil supposed to be?
The soil is just connected to-
Like your mind, your thoughts or something?
Well, the soil is connected to the parable of the sower,
where Jesus goes out and he's sowing seed.
And, you know, the sower's sowing seed
and some lands on the rocky ground and birds take it.
Some land on the path,
the birds take that, some lands on the rocky soil.
The seed springs up,
but the sun comes out and scorches it.
Some lands where there's other weeds
and the weeds spring up and, you know, and crowd it out.
So it's going to be your thoughts,
but the soil means your thoughts maybe, is that?
Well, the soil is representative of your heart, of your life.
And when your life comes into order with sacred rhythms,
that's what the good soil is.
The good soil represents a life
that is in alignment with sacred rhythm.
And when a life is in alignment with sacred rhythm,
the divine life just happens.
It's like John 15,
abide in the vine and fruit happens.
Like if you take care of the soil,
the seed takes care of itself.
So the hard ground, the rocky ground,
the ground with weeds in it,
that all represents like a life out of alignment
with sacred rhythm.
It represents a life of dysfunction,
whereas the good soil represents shalom,
where everything's functioning according to divine design.
And you don't just get there by learning,
you get there through a sacred rhythm.
So that's what I'm saying,
is like the 21 Day Hard Things Challenge
is about helping people to actually come into alignment
with sacred rhythms in their life,
that when they start making these,
aligning with sacred rhythms,
it's like, oh sweet, I've got all this,
like the divine life just starts flourishing.
and thriving and the seed of the word of God and the seed of the divine life just start popping up.
Okay yeah if I can say something Benji. Yes please. I'll show my face I haven't had a
shower today but that's okay I look all right. I haven't showered for weeks. But over five years
ago just really quickly I had a vision of a mountain why I call it a maunga in our language
and I sense the Lord was asking his people to come up higher and I wasn't at the bottom of
the maunga although in other aspects of my life was I was in the middle of it because he showed
me these three levels but long story short I find with the with the 21 challenge what it did is that
it helped me to build such a rhythm that I was able to push higher and higher in a way that I've
always wanted to before but couldn't and even though as I'm tracking along
whether I go away for a weekend or skip a day or three or four here mainly that I'm noticing it's
happening more so because God is shifting me so fast that I have to keep readjusting.
That's what the challenge does is you have to keep readjusting because where you start in the
challenge and as you track along it's like you go into these multi-dimensional realms it's really
out of it and I can say training is a key word that you mentioned because I've had a lot of
teaching all my life all my Christian life but training pushes you it pushes you higher in a
way that you probably wouldn't if you didn't have that that training so I was just going to add
over the last I think it was two weeks ago I have been networking more I have been I have been
going out to fellowship more than what I have I feel like I'm on a mission as a result of the 21
challenge so I said to God Eli I don't know if you can hear me but there's a verse in the bible
that says early will I seek thee and David of course and I realized if I don't do at least
half of my declarations challenges in the morning which is the readings the recording verses
the declarations and praying in the spirit if I don't do those four things in the morning it's
easier for me to get behind that's before I get up that's before I do anything and so I decided I was
meant to start it today but I'll start tomorrow again but honestly guys there's a pinnacle
that God wants us to reach and I'm the happiest like the past since I joined raising
wheels here I started free and I paid a $37 membership then I taught my cousin into paying
the premium membership and my life is it's changing all the time so much so that sometimes I drop off
the 21 challenge not because I can't be bothered more than my life is just changing at such a speed
and taking me into places I never even imagined I mean you know that that's what God wants but
it isn't actually a reality and so I just encourage you some you might I thought oh how can these
little things make a difference that ain't gonna do much but actually it's done heaps and that's
all I wanted to say I'm starting again tomorrow Benji great stuff that's beautiful love it Sharon
how you doing I'm good I'm just smiling here because that's my favorite hashtag little things
make a difference little things that make a difference I just want to check with you Benji
with the declarations I mainly read them sometimes I rewrite them so is this are we meant to be
rewriting them every day no no no no good I find well I actually had my my original list
but I keep adding to it all the time as I start dreaming new dreams and I've been adding to it so
much that I had to split it in half because my seven declarations became like 120 50 you know
that's like oh my gosh there's so many it was just like ah so I was like I split it in half you know
but I love it so even though I split it in half because there's so much I'm seeing those things
just come to fruition at such rapid speed it's crazy and I think that there's as well like a
tipping point after a while like you can be like making these declarations and not actually seeing
anything and then boom stuff just starts explosively happening so yeah yeah yeah that's great I have
been adding to mine I think you said something in the early stages about it didn't matter
or if it was just a sentence or whatever.
And so before, when I've done declarations,
I've found it really difficult to get precise.
But as I've been going, I go, no, that doesn't capture it.
And so it's easier to add to it.
But yeah, I don't feel so, well, I didn't feel guilty,
but yeah, I want to start level three,
make sure I'm doing it better if I'm meant to be writing it.
So great.
It is written out, just not repeated.
What I like about the declarations,
and this is one of the things that's like
the most juicy thing about the declarations is,
you have different moments where a dream
really comes to life for you.
And what I do is I take those moments
where a dream just fully comes alive,
and I'm like, whoa, I really see something
that's actually beyond what I've imagined before.
I'm like, whoa, imagine that.
And honestly, oftentimes,
I don't even believe it's possible at the time.
And it's like, this dream idea comes alive,
and I'm like, wow.
And then I grab it in that moment,
and I turn it into a declaration.
And I'll put it down as a declaration,
even if I don't even believe it's possible yet.
Because what happens is that's the very beginning place
that faith starts and activates.
And then what surprises me so much
is how quickly something that I didn't even believe
was possible starts coming alive around me.
And I'm like, whoa, are you serious?
This is actually happening.
And I'm like, huh, God, you're gonna have to,
I feel like one of the things God's now starting
to speak to me about is how to steward success.
Because I'm like, sometimes I find myself like shaking.
I'm like, whoa, this is happening.
I'm like, whoa, so yeah.
It's amazing, yeah.
From little things, big things grow too.
Awesome, thank you.
Welcome.
Cool, Finn.
Anyone else keen to share?
Helen, Ruggie, I see all of you, 20.
I'm not sure what your actual name is.
Stephen, anyone who's keen,
if anyone would like to share, add anything.
Otherwise, if no one's keen, we will wrap it up.
Yeah, thanks, Ella-Maine, it's been cool.
Yeah, Carolyn, jump in.
So can we just start again and just add on to like,
if I wanna do the phase two,
we're in the inner circle as well,
but we're not getting the paperwork through
for some reason at the moment.
But if I'm doing phase two, I can just start at any point.
Is that right?
Can I just start tomorrow or today?
Yeah, totally, totally.
You can do level one at any time,
you can do level two at any time.
It's just, I mean, yeah, so absolutely.
Okay, and then we just posted in that post
where you told us, and it doesn't matter
that it's running live.
So level two happens in the online
School of Sonship Facebook group.
So not in the Raising Royalty Facebook group.
Level two is in the Raising Royalty Facebook group,
and level three is in the Rite of Passage Facebook group.
So you should, you're in the inner circle,
you should have access
into the online School of Sonship as well.
So-
That's what I started with.
So I go and have a look on the online.
Jump in there, go to the guide section
and look at the Hard Things Challenge level two.
You'll find it all.
Perfect, thank you, Benji.
No worries.
Yeah, you're right though.
There is, you know, like you've got the platform,
we've got all these different Facebook groups
with the whole world to navigate, you know?
Especially for someone like Cindy,
like jumping into the inner circle, it's like,
okay, what have I just gotten into, got myself into?
Well, it is actually like a whole world.
There's so many different training series,
fun things, like you go onto the platform,
there's a whole bunch of just, you know,
like entertainment stuff, or there's the news,
or there's like all the coaching training,
there's the giant slayers,
there's the warrior activist course, you know?
Just like, oh my gosh, where to go?
There's so much.
But I always recommend 21 Day Hard Things
as the place to start.
Okay, thank you.
Welcome.
Sweet, then if there's, if that's it,
then we should get Ella-Mang to pray for us, to wrap it up.
Done.
Oh, kia ora, Benji.
Yes, I will pray for us,
and for those who have already gone.
Father, I just thank you so much
that we've been able to join together
and find some community within you,
and within your people.
And I just pray that those of us
who are about to embark on level one, two, or three,
that Father, we know you're leading,
we hear your spirit, and we walk in you.
unison with you, for we know that you delight to give us good
things. And here you are, you are that good thing as we are
also together with you. So thank you for your continued blessing
upon us all, as we go forth. And what you have called us to.
Amen.
Fantastic. Thanks, guys. Well, bless you all. Thanks. Really
cool. And we'll connect in again soon.
Thanks. Bye everyone. Hi.