All right, I pray you had a great time those of you that are live you got to do some connecting
and that is always a very powerful part.
And now, I love every time we gather twice a month to share with you some thoughts.
And of course, we are entering a new quarter if you're listening to this live we're entering
a new quarter what an opportunity to set intentions to make this year powerful.
And so, I was getting a lot of downloads.
And I wanted to share some thoughts I know our first Tuesday calls are a little shorter
because everybody's got to get to work and so on.
But I want to share some thoughts with you because you guys have been having powerful
wins and I'm going to share some really amazing wisdom from Genesis to even up level those
wins and your ability to manifest to bring to life the desires of your heart.
So let's start with prayer and I'll jump right in and share father I just thank you.
I thank you for all the gifts you've placed in us, especially the gift of your spirit.
You said we are the temple of the Holy Spirit.
What an amazing, awesome, amazing privilege that we carry your spirit that you've said
our words have the power of life and death in our tongue that you've said that we have
the mind of Christ that you've said whatever we ask believing that we have received it
that it is ours.
Lord I thank you for this wisdom that comes from the creation story.
I ask that your spirit will just speak through me.
I ask that revelation knowledge will fly and that everyone on this will just flourish Lord
into the highest potential you created them.
I ask in Jesus name.
Amen.
So I have some noise.
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We can unmute again when we connect right after.
So I want to share some thoughts.
I'm going to share the first part now and then on our Thursday call.
I'm going to take it deeper with the rest of it.
But I'm going to give it to you in small chunks because I feel what I'm about to share
is more important than you apply it than that.
I give you tons of information and overwhelm you, which I know I can do.
So this is going to be very concise, but very, very deep.
And it's going to be something for you to really practice and take to the next level.
So what I want to know is someone give me a nod.
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All right.
Thank you for that.
Okay.
So then I'm going to close this up here for a second.
There we go.
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And I'm going to make sure this is okay.
Perfect.
Okay.
So this wisdom comes from the creation story.
And so what I want you to realize, as you look at the creation story found in Genesis,
is there's something very interesting right at the beginning, starting in the first verses.
And that is that before the sun was created, before the moon, before anything was created,
the book of Genesis tells us two things.
One, that the spirit, the Holy Spirit, Ruach, hovered.
So you've got the Holy Spirit's presence hovering, covering, being there.
And God says, let there be light.
Now you'll go down a few verses and he creates the sun and the moon.
This is not the sun and the moon.
You've got the spirit hovering and you've got light.
Let me read it to you.
Starting with verses one through three.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
The earth was formless and empty and darkness covered.
And the spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.
And God said, let there be light.
And there was light.
Now, if you remember our teaching from last month when we were talking about balance and
the divine feminine and the divine masculine, the feminine energies and the masculine energies,
you remember that the spirit Ruach is in the feminine in Hebrew, it's in the feminine.
And we said that the feminine always precedes the masculine.
So the feminine, if you remember, is the vision, right?
It's the intuitive, it's the heart, it's that substance, that spiritual substance that comes
first.
And then the masculine, which is the structure, which is the linear side of things, comes
and supports it.
And here, right in creation is the continuation of what we taught.
So you've got the spirit first, and then God says, let there be light.
Now, because this light is not the natural light from the sun and the moon, this light
follows the moving of spirit.
I believe that this is referring to the light of revelation or the light of inspiration.
It's not the natural light, the sun and moon come later, but this is the spirit is moving.
And then there is this light.
And throughout scripture, remember scripture says that Jesus was the light of the world.
Scripture says, you are the light of the world.
Scripture prays that our hearts will be filled with light in the book of Ephesians, right?
And so we know now with quantum physics, with getting into the deepest particle of the cell,
the ultimate, you go deeper, deeper past the cell into the past, the protons and the neutrons
and the electrons, and you go all the way and you get to light.
We are beings of light.
And of course, if you're looking any type of x-rays or spectro, spectro, I can't talk,
but you know what I'm saying?
Any of the things to scan disease is always a dark spot, right?
And so if there's a, whether it's a cavity and a tool in our tooth or a spot in our lung,
whenever there's an absence of light, it'll show up in the x-ray is darkness and that's
sickness.
Disease has come into that.
And it's the same with our mind.
You know, the Bible says our foolish minds became darkened.
And so Paul was praying in Ephesians that we would be filled with light.
So this is a very powerful beginning that everything begins with being aware of the
presence of the Holy Spirit and for speaking and praying and decreeing and asking for light.
And so I believe that this light that we see right here is inspiration.
And we know that all scripture is inspired.
God breathed in spiritual, in spiritual, as you're breathing in the Holy Spirit, you're
becoming filled with light.
And what comes from that is inspiration, revelation, understanding, and still needs you to mute.
I'm hearing some dogs and things.
So all scripture is God breathed, it says, but given by divine inspiration in spiritual
breathing in of God and is profitable for instruction.
And so I believe that God is still the same yesterday, today, forever.
He's still breathing inspiration into our lives.
If we're open, remember that's the feminine, you know, the masculine is go, go, go set
goals, be in action, keep moving.
That's the masculine.
The feminine is be still and know, right?
And so that openness, that receptiveness.
And so the very first step of manifesting of truly living your goals, dreams, and desires,
seeing them come to reality, believe it or not, begins with that being still being in
that receptive posture and asking.
And so we ask this prayer, let there be light.
So this month, I want you to think about these three stages that I'm going to share with
you.
And so the first stage is, are you allowing time to be still and allow God's spirit to
hover in your life, allow God to, to move and then ask, decree and expect.
light. So begin to pray this, Lord, let there be light in this
situation. In the course of miracles, it just so happened
that I was reading this in scripture at the same time that
it came in, I got a devotional from the course of miracles that
says, I will there be light. In other words, using our will and
asking for light. And so we ask we decree we expect and then we
wait. So wherever you are in your life, if you're if there's
a what you feel is a problem or a situation that you desire to
be resolved, or you're just ready to create something new in
your life. This first step is learning to be still and ask for
the light, just get in the habit of saying, let there be
light. You know, this past week, I had to go to the dentist, and
I've had some dental things that I'm praying miracles into, and
all the way into the situation, Lord, let there be light in this
situation, Lord speak through the dentist, let there be
light. This could be in relationship issues, Lord, let
there be light in this, it could be finances, Lord, let there be
light. In other words, let the Spirit of God illuminate the
situation so you can truly see, because in darkness, we cannot
see the Bible says in darkness, we stumble around. And if we do
not stop and ask for this light, then that's what we're doing.
We're just hitting this wall and hitting this wall and hitting,
you know, learning from the school of hard knocks. We're
just busy, busy, busy, and we're bouncing around. And we're not
walking in the light. So much of Scripture is about the light
about being enlightened about walking in the light. And so the
very first step that I want to leave with you as we go into
this new quarter is to practice being still, and practice saying
let there be light. And just be still don't do anything. Until
you start getting that idea, that inspiration, that intuitive
leading, this is a great time to journal. You know, almost every
great author, poet, artist, creator, says they received
their work by divine inspiration, they made it a
practice of receiving this inspiration. One of my favorite
books is called The Artist's Way, A Spiritual Path to Higher
Creativity by Julia Cameron. If you are desiring, you see
creativity is a result of really walking of this in spiro, right
in this, this inspiration of God, this divine creativity
coming to you and coming through you. And so all great works, be
they science or art or music or poetry, you know, theater, all
these great works come through this light, this inspiration, I
put a few examples in there. Madame Butterfly, right, the
music of this opera was dictated to me by God. And I was merely
instrumental in putting it on paper and communicating it to
the public, Puccini, right? Or Brahms says, straight away, the
ideas flow in upon me directly from God. Or Louis Armstrong,
right? What we play is life. And so remember, we've talked about
Lord, let just right through me, let me be an instrument right
through me, coach through me, heal through me, teach through
me, right? It's this, it's this open, that's the feminine, the
divine feminine, it's this open, Lord, I'm open, Lord, I'm
receptive, Lord, move upon me, move through me, speak through
me, teach through me, touch through me. So this is the first
step is we pause and we say, let there be light. And then we
wait, we listen, we respond, we journal, okay. And then as we go
into the next verse in Genesis, verse six, we see that, let
there be firmament. Verse six, it says, and God said, let there
be firmament in the midst of the water, let it divide the water
from the water. Now in the book, Prosperity Secrets, Catherine
Ponder really brings to light these scriptures. And it's an
interesting perspective.
that I have found true in my experience, when I read this, I went, yes, that's exactly how it
happens. So she says this, she says, the word waters here symbolizes any situation you're trying
to master. So I want you to think about it, right? Like the floods come, like you're just, you feel
like you're drowning, right? Don't we use that metaphor? I'm just, I'm just drowning, right? I
can't breathe, there's just water everywhere, right? And so these waters symbolize whatever
it is that you're trying to master. And in order to master that situation, what you want, what you
desire is a firmament in the mist. So I like the word firmament, pick up the word firm, firm,
firmament. In other words, what you need now, you've prayed for light, now what you need is
that firm feeling about it. And so the word firmament really denounce faith. If you go to
Hebrews chapter 11, verse one, it says that faith is the substance. It's this firmament, faith,
which is a heart stance, right? Faith is a belief, a total belief and trust, right? Scripture says
in Hebrews 11, that faith is a substance. It's not just a thought, it's a literal substance.
Faith is a substance of what? Of things hoped for, of things not seen. In fact, Hebrews 11 says,
faith is the evidence, it's the substance, it's the evidence. The amplified translation says,
it's the title deed. And that's what this is talking about here. Faith is that firmament.
So you pray for light and you wait for that inspiration, for that illumination. And then
you get that firm feeling. It's that knowing, it's that assurance, it's that conviction. Yep,
yep, yep, yep. God's got this. That's what you want to wait for. That's step two,
where you just come to that place, you go, yep, God's got this. And so after you affirm light
for a situation, often the first thing you notice is you begin to get this firm feeling of
assurance, this conviction, this inner knowing that things are going to work out. And I want
you to know that that is super significant. Don't brush over it. Recognize that that assured feeling
is the indication that things are going to work out. That sense of peace is the proof. God heard
your prayer. You got the light. The answer is coming. You may not see it yet. The answer,
it may not all be resolved in that moment, but you, you are aware of the Holy spirit.
You pray for light. You're still, and you wait. And that firmament, that firm place of knowing
comes. And for me, that's often in journaling and it means so much to me. So I was praying about
this dental situation. I was praying, praying, and I was just asking for light, Lord, give me
light in this situation. And I was just waiting. And I just said, Lord, what do you say? Which is
my favorite way of journaling. Lord, what do you say? Lord, what do you want me to know? What do
you want me to understand? My favorite way to journal. And you just allow your hand to start
writing. And I got this. God told me it was okay. God told me it was done. God told me it was
settled. God told me it was resolved. I could stand on that. That's the firmament. That's the
second stage. So stage one, be still say, let there be light. I will there be light stage two.
You wait, you wait until you get that firm feeling, that knowing whether you're journaling,
whatever it is that helps you just, and you get that sense of peace, right? Scripture says,
let, let peace be your umpire. So that is the knowing you get that knowing and you go, okay.
And then step three, which comes from verse nine, that says, let the dry land appear. And so,
and God said, let the waters under the heaven be gathered together into one place and let the dry
land appear. And it was so, so the next step is there's this gathering. Okay. And so I'm going
to share what Catherine Ponder said, because she said it so well, she says, after you have,
forget my typos, I'll go in and fix them. After you have decreed light as step number one,
and after you've gotten an inner conviction, a firm feeling, the firmament that things are going
to work out and then wait to see something happen. You want.
the ideas to be gathered together in one place in your thinking.
You want the dry land, the results to appear.
So gathering of these thoughts, gathering of these ideas.
OK, this is the third step, gathering them all so that it becomes solid land.
Right. You got all these floating ideas,
gather them into a clear picture.
And so step three,
this is where creative imagining, I put it right there, image,
imagining that your God given image maker is so powerful.
If there's anything I've learned over the last 30 years is the power
of dedicating our imagination to God, using our imagination for good.
We usually let our imagination run wild.
We let it imagine all the worst case scenarios.
What if I run out of money?
What if I get sick? What if he leaves me?
What if he doesn't love me?
What if I never find we use our imagination for terrible things?
And the imagination is a terrible thing to waste.
And so, you know, scripture says we're transformed,
our change, our transformation, we're transformed by the renewing of our mind.
You see, the biggest problem is an undisciplined mind.
We think that our thoughts just happen to us.
We don't understand the scripture says, take every thought captive.
We think our imagination can just go wherever it wants.
No, this step three is gathering all the thoughts and and coagulating them,
bringing them to solid form, and that happens by creative
visualization, creative imagination, using your God given image maker.
There's so many examples in scripture
where God knew that until we wrap our mind around it, until we wrap our
imagination around it, it's it's not going to happen.
There's so many examples. Right.
So if you think about Moses, you know, in Jordan, he took him up to Mount Nebo so
that he could see as far as he could see the land.
And he said, Moses, do you see all of this land?
This will be yours.
He knew Moses had to get it on the inside of him.
Same thing with Abraham.
When he called Abraham out of the tent,
he says, Abraham, look up at the stars, count the stars.
And he made them sit there and count and count and count and count until he
couldn't count anymore. And he said, that's how many children
you're going to have. God knew that Abraham had to get this
picture inside of him. It couldn't just be a word out there.
It couldn't be a wishful thinking.
He had to decree light.
He had to get that firm feeling and he had to have it in his God given image maker.
God knows we have to see it.
We have to see it and then we have to believe it in order to have it.
This is why having a vision board is so powerful.
Having it everywhere.
You can make the first page of your journal
a vision board where you put some key pictures that help you.
I used to for years and years on the inside of my journal, I had a picture
of a woman you guys might have seen it in magazines.
She was a woman with long,
beautiful hair and she was laying in the water like on a beautiful island.
And her hair was kind of flowing in the water as a beautiful island.
And sometimes all I needed was one picture.
I would have that and I'd look at that picture and I'd go, oh,
this denotes travel and it's a warm place and there's water.
And I know if I'm traveling, I'm not alone.
I'm probably speaking and leaving that place better.
I'm doing retreats or something.
And I also know that I've got my family and loved ones with me.
And so I could in one picture, I could just get an image.
Sometimes it's a collage, right?
I have I have vision boards everywhere in my bedroom.
I have one in my office.
I'm looking up at one right now as I talk.
And there's something so powerful about
registering that in your mind, about writing in your journal,
about creating a mind movie, whatever it is that needs to discipline
your mind to see what it is that that you desire to create.
Because you remember in previous lessons, we learned the feminine,
that heart, that feeling, that vision, that intuition,
that creative visualization always precedes the structure, the masculine.
So that's where you start.
So to activate that feminine, then you allow time to really nurture
this creativity by being still, by meditating, by walking in nature,
by journaling, by painting, by music.
by song, by dance. And so my question for you as you start a new quarter is, have you put time
in your daily schedule to be open and receptive, to tap into your divine creativity and inspiration?
You have infinite creativity in you, infinite, because you have God's spirit in you.
You lack nothing. You have infinite creativity. And so if you're not doing it every day,
at least consider adding one time every week, like Sunday mornings, not just church, but you,
you being still, either at a specific time every day for developing this feminine part,
your creative side, your spiritual side, your intuitive side. This is the deepest part of you.
This is the real you. And so anything that doesn't get calendared doesn't happen.
So when will you do this? Write your intentions down. I'm going to send you this worksheet
and make a conscious decision. What creative activity will I begin to incorporate?
Now, I went to some girlfriends' houses a couple of days ago. We call it God's Girls.
We get together and we pray and we play and we eat. And, and we decided to do worship flags and
just to play worship music and just to let the flags fly. Anything that is stirring up this
creative side of you, if you've been locked in the rigid, the go, go, do, do, achieve goals,
have to make it happen, which is super important. I've got you on goals all this year. We're talking
about goals, but remember what precedes that. It's the open, it's the receptive, it's the,
God, I know you're in me. You are, you are infinite creativity. You are my source of all creativity,
of all wisdom, of all understanding, of all creation. So whether you're wanting to write
that book or paint that picture or create that course or build that business or, you know, design
that home, it applies to every aspect of your life. And so let there be light, let there be firmament,
that faith, that knowing, right? And let the, everything be gathered together
into that solid form that happens by using your God-given image maker. This has been proven by
the way mental rehearsals are one of the most powerful things you can do. I want you to think
about this last thought as I, as I close this teaching part. And that is, I was reading someone
and he said, I literally rehearse my future. So can you imagine you have your desired, your vision,
vision means your, your desired future, your optimum future. So you've got this desire and
you spend time rehearsing it. You spend time rehearsing it. Guys, 30 years, I can tell you,
this always works. This, this is the way God wired you when he created the world. And then he created
man, woman in his image. He created you and I in his image. And he said, let them have dominion,
let them have dominion. We forget this. We live like we don't have dominion. We buy into the
illusion. We believe in lack. We believe in limitation. We tell stories about ourselves
that are not true, that we're not enough, that we're not strong enough, that we don't have enough,
that we're too old, that we're too whatever, all these stories. Remember you were created in God's
image. Remember you are the temple of the Holy spirit. Remember he said, the power of life and
death is in your tongue. What did he do with Adam? He took him over to the animals to show the
dominion. He said, what do you want to call them? Well, I'll call this one, a giraffe. What about
this one? I'll call this one, a bird. I'll call this one. And you know what God said? And so it
shall be. I'm going to ask you, what are you calling your life? What are you calling things?
What are you calling your circumstances? What are you calling your finances? What are you calling
your relationships? Because God said, you have power of life and death in your tongue. What you
call it, the scripture says, decree.
Be a thing, decree it, decree it, and it is established.
OK, I'm getting all excited doing a little preaching here.
Decree a thing and it shall be established.
The first thing, decree, let there be light.
The second thing, decree, let there be firmament.
Give me a firm standing.
Give me a knowing.
The third thing is bring all my eyes together.
Let me see this.
Show me this.
Let me see it.
And then I rehearse it day in and day out.
That's the picture.
I rehearse my future.
Everything that you see was first created in imagination.
The chair you're sitting on, before it was ever a chair,
before it took on form and became structure,
it was in someone's imagination.
Wow, if I put these legs, I put it up high,
we can sit comfortably.
I can support the back this way.
I can make ergonomic ones.
I can add a place for my arms on the armrest.
Everything began in the imagination.
The computer, the idea of Zoom, the glasses I'm wearing,
everything, the design of your clothes,
everything started in imagination.
You understand?
It all starts in your imagination.
So as you go into this powerful, powerful month,
resurrection month, remember the God gift of your imagination.
And these first three parts of creation
will cover the rest at the next time that we get together.
So I pray this blessed you.
Let me figure out how to stop the recording.