Hello and welcome to this live reading of the science of dreams. My name is
Benji Alexander and I'm the author of the science of dreams. I'm from New
Zealand and it's a great honor to have you joining me as we read this book
together live. So let's jump right in and begin. Chapter one, the struggle is real.
Extreme ownership. At the age of 14 Marina collected a lethal dose of
mercury. This would be the day that she would die. She was on her way to finish a
job that she had already attempted twice before. She was about to drink her lethal
supply of mercury and end her life. She had done her research. There was no way
that she could fail this time. On her way to drink the mercury she was interrupted
by a girl from her school who invited her to come to church. Marina had never
been to church. She lived in Tajikistan, a Muslim country. Her family was not
religious. She had no concept of what God might be like and she wasn't
searching. She had other things on her mind. Specifically she did not want to
attempt suicide again. She wanted to do the job right. This would be the day that
she died. For some reason she said yes to the girl thinking that she could kill
herself after going to church. She doesn't remember very much of the service
that day. What she remembers is that she had a tangible supernatural encounter
with the love of God and experienced a love that she had never known before.
Marina was the oldest of three siblings. Their apartment had one bedroom and one
other room for everything else. She had a younger brother and a younger sister. Her
sister was a full sister. Her brother was a half-brother. Her older full sister
died as a baby. Her real dad had left them when she was very young. She barely
ever saw him. Her stepdad was not abusive. He was reasonably kind when he was
present, but that wasn't often. Between his addiction to alcohol and his regular
trips to prison, she only saw him occasionally before he left for good.
Her mother worked as a prostitute for the Russian mafia. Her home was a brothel.
Marina tried to look after her younger brother and sister and keep them feeling
safe when men were with their mum or other woman in the bedroom next to them.
It regularly got violent. There were often multiple men in the room. They
would beat and abuse her mother on a regular basis. Marina's mum turned to
alcohol as a coping mechanism. She would get very drunk and violent. She beat
Marina brutally. Marina still has physical scars from her childhood
beatings. When she left home, she was known as the daughter of a prostitute.
Her and her siblings were abused, attacked and mocked. She had to fight
constantly. She had to fight to protect herself. She had to fight to protect her
siblings. At home, she fought to survive. Out of home, she fought to survive.
Everywhere she went, there was abuse and chaos. But that day in church, a
supernatural, divine love, like nothing she had ever experienced or even
imagined, flooded her heart and launched her on her very first steps of a
beautiful transformational journey. She cancelled her planned suicide. Instead, she
slowly began to develop a relationship with this God who was the source of this
mysterious but wonderful divine love. Eventually, her mum's body gave out on
her. With no money to go to the hospital, they watched her deteriorate before
their own eyes. Marina held her own mother as blood flowed from every part
of her body and she died in her arms. Marina narrowly avoided being raped and
trafficked. Her brother was unjustly put in prison as a teenager. Traffickers took
her sister. Her sister eventually escaped, only to be trafficked again and escape
again. Her biological dad also died several years after her mum. Marina
battled poverty, doing everything she could to provide for her family.
Despite the chaos all around her, the hand of God was on Marina and a deep work was taking
place inside her.
A truly unexpected adventure with Jesus was about to begin that no one could have imagined.
The struggle is real.
Marina's struggles, my struggles, your struggles.
Some people say, that's just life for you, but that's not life at all.
That is destruction.
That is what happens when satanic assignments and the giants of darkness are ruling over
our lives.
Life, the divine life that God designed for us, is exceedingly, abundantly, above and
beyond what we have ever dared to ask, dream, pray, or even imagine.
The life God has promised us involves ruling and reigning in victory over every scheme
of Satan and every giant of darkness as we step deeper and deeper into the destiny that
God orchestrated for us before the foundation of the world.
What Marina went through, and often times what we go through, is not the life that God
designed for us.
Yes, we go through many struggles, trials, and tribulations caused by satanic assignments
against our lives that seek to rob, kill, and destroy us and our God-given destiny.
But the divine life that God designed for you and I is a life of victory over every
struggle.
In this book, The Science of Dreams, I am going to expose the four satanic assignments
and the four giants of darkness that brutally and systematically come after every single
one of us, and I'm going to reveal the four ancient weapons from heaven that will empower
us to slay these giants, live victoriously, and bring our wildest dreams to life.
These four weapons from heaven are the four non-negotiable elements in The Science of
Dreams.
Any person who masters The Science of Dreams unlocks a world where they not only live in
victory over the enemy, but they tap into a realm where they can consistently dream
with God and systematically and consistently bring those dreams to life.
This is a sacred realm, an ancient biblical way of living that is far higher, more beautiful,
more exhilarating, more glorious, more impacting, and more significant than most people have
ever dared to imagine for themselves.
It is the life that we are called to live in.
It is our birthright and our inheritance, but it seems these ancient pathways are seldom
walked in our generation.
But God is inviting us to travel these ancient pathways once again.
Jeremiah 6, 16,
I've got to say, there are a lot of buts in this process.
Marina had a lot of buts, a lot of excuses, and a lot of justifications that could have
turned her into a victim for the rest of her life.
She had every reason to become a person who was focused on what she couldn't control instead
of focusing on what she could control.
She did something extremely rare.
Marina did the most powerful thing that she could possibly have done.
She took extreme ownership of her own life.
She refused to play the blame game, blaming everyone in her life for her problems, her
mom, her dad, her stepdad, her circumstances, her trauma, her past, her...
She began to focus on any and every tiny thing that she could control.
Her attitudes, her mindsets, her skill sets, her work ethic, her faith, her health, her
relationships, her identity, her assignment, her vision, her systems, her finances.
She implemented the science of dreams.
And little by little, breakthrough by breakthrough, she redesigned herself.
and her life, and she has become a giant slayer, living victoriously, bringing massive dreams
to life and impacting people all over the world.
The struggle is real, the satanic assignments are real, the giants of darkness are real,
but what is infinitely more powerful than all of our adversaries and obstacles combined
is our power to choose.
To choose whether we will focus on what we can't control and become victims, or to focus
on what we can control and become giant slayers.
Practically, taking extreme ownership looks like assessing every area of our lives and
genuinely asking ourselves if we are truly happy with how things are.
And if there's anything that we want to see an upgrade on in our lives, we must forget
everyone else, forget our circumstances and ask ourselves, what can we possibly do to
begin to see change in this area of our lives?
Then, with all of our hearts, our strength, our capacity and tenacity, we must do whatever
it takes to make those changes.
It's not a popular thing to talk about, it's confronting, which is offensive to a culture
that has mastered the arts of avoiding pain, justifying bad habits, attitudes, lifestyles
and living in distraction, procrastination and apathy.
I started with Marina's story and the topic of extreme ownership because this book is
not a magic pill.
Yes, it has mind-blowing, life-changing content, but the content in this book is like a seed
that must be watered with extreme ownership, hard work, a relentless resolve and great
courage.
Regardless of how painful or hard that may be, there is no other road that will awaken
the giant slayer in you and set you on the ancient path of your destiny.
Even now, you must choose the wide road of the victim, where you can blame-shift, moan,
justify, avoid pain, avoid hard work and avoid sacrifice, but ultimately forfeit the wildly
exciting call of God on your life and live conquered by satanic assignments and giants
of darkness.
Or embrace the narrow road, where you take extreme ownership over every area of your
life, where you embrace the wildly exciting call of God on your life regardless of the
cost, where you embrace the sacrifice, the hard work, the vulnerable self-reflection,
the pain and the fire in the process, but where you ultimately emerge like steel forged
in the flames of heaven, a giant slayer victorious over all the schemes of the enemy and living
out your wildest dreams.
If you're not ready for the narrow road, you'll get good information from this book, but you'll
lack the fortitude to implement it, so you'll never walk in the power of the secrets I'm
about to reveal.
If you are ready for the narrow road, then brace yourself to be challenged to the core,
inspired into a world of the wonders of God and equipped to wield four ancient heavenly
weapons that are guaranteed to slay giants of darkness and empower you for a life of
victory and fulfilled dreams.
If you do not master the art of wielding all four of these heavenly weapons, then you will
never overcome the satanic assignments against your life and you will never taste the limitless
possibilities available for you in Christ Jesus.
This is not the only moment you must make this choice.
This choice of embracing the cost of the narrow road and the call of God must be made over
and over again, day after day.
Matthew 7, 13 to 14.
Enter through the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads
to destruction, and many enter through it.
But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
But it always starts with one decision.
So I ask you and I challenge you, just as God asks me and challenges me over and over
again, will you say yes to the narrow road?
Will you embrace
extreme ownership? Will you do whatever it takes to slay the giants of darkness that are coming
after you so that you can be victorious over the satanic assignments against your life and step
into the limitless possibilities available in Christ as you live out a calling more exciting
than your wildest dreams? I'm not talking about average Christianity that you've seen modeled.
I'm talking about stepping into a life and a world more glorious, wonderful, powerful,
and exhilarating than most people would ever dare to ask, dream, pray for, or even imagine.
If the narrow road is for you, then get ready for a journey that will give you ancient biblical
keys to a destiny that God saw before time when he unleashed his limitless power to dream the best
for you. I'll close this chapter with this thought. In over a decade of pastoring and running a
biblical training school, I've seen few people so completely and so beautifully transformed,
set ablaze, and unleashed on the world as Marina. Yes, our training, culture, relationship, and love
were a significant help in the process for her, but some people in the same environment
experienced little transformation because they were not ready to say yes to the narrow road
that Jesus was calling them to. What will you choose? If you are ready for the narrow road,
this next chapter will blow open the doors, gates, and windows into the limitless possibilities
available in Christ. I look forward to sharing this adventure together, my friend. Let's go.
Chapter two, the seedbed of dreams, the divine dance.
One of the most loved Psalms in the Bible is Psalm 37, specifically in verse four,
delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. Everyone likes the
promise, he will give you the desires of your heart, but there is also a hidden invitation
from God and the command that beckons us nearer, closer, and deeper into relationship with him.
Delight yourself in the Lord. Our delight in the Lord is the ceiling on our dreams. The deeper we
dive into the realms of delight, the more limitless our dreams become. To grasp the power of Psalm 37,
verse four, we must travel back in time to before time began, back to before the beginning. Before
time began, there was God. For centuries, church fathers and theologians have used the Greek word
perichoresis to describe a snapshot of this dynamic reality. Before time began, there was God,
the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Perichoresis is most simply translated
and described as the divine dance. Imagine with me if you can. All that exists is the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Spirit, dancing together in a seamless, harmonious union, infused perfectly
with the most dynamic, powerful, extravagant, wild, gentle, and exquisite expressions of love
that have ever and will ever exist. Culminating in the most abundant and glorious demonstrations
of delight that have ever and will ever be known. Imagine with me, if you will, the fullness of the
infinite power of God, concentrated into one giant laser cannon of pure, supernatural, divine love,
so wonderful that words could never hope to articulate even a single percentage of its
unspeakable, unfathomable goodness, warmth, kindness, wonders, ecstasy, bliss, euphoria, happiness, joy,
and delight. Now, imagine with me God the Father turning that giant laser cannon of divine love
on Jesus and blasting him absolutely with everything it had, holding nothing back,
completely unleashing the entirety of his divine love on his Son. Imagine Jesus being
hit with this laser cannon of love more powerful than a million bolts.
of lightning love, except these intense beams of love
are not actually coming from a cannon,
rather they are coming from the Father's eyes.
And every glance of His eyes is like a thousand waterfalls
of love, like lightning, like fire, like oil,
like being consumed in an ocean of divine love.
As Jesus is hit by the Father's gaze,
everything slows down.
The love that comes from His eyes
is softer than silk, but stronger than steel.
It's the most gentle love there has ever been,
yet it's the greatest force in existence.
It is calming and soothing, yet it
is a raging fire of love that consumes
every aspect of His entire being.
It is an intense encounter, yet it
is in perfect harmony with the most eloquent dance that
has ever been danced.
Then Jesus turns His gaze, which is just as intense
and powerful, on Holy Spirit.
Holy Spirit turns His equally intense gaze upon Jesus,
then on the Father, and they relentlessly
throughout eternity blast each other
with the purest, most extravagant, most
overwhelming measures of divine love
that have ever and will ever exist.
I am aiming to help you capture the wonder of the divine dance.
It's an indescribable, unbroken cycle
of the most flawless and spectacular masterpieces
of love in all creation and beyond.
It's perpetual expressions of divine love
that never flinch, never relent, and never
reduce in their intensity or consistency.
Each member of the Trinity receives this divine love
perfectly and gives perfect expression of this divine love
to the other members of the Trinity
in the most creative, the most outrageously abundant,
and the most excellent ways divinely conceivable.
The fellowship of the Trinity, perichoresis, the divine dance,
is an explosion of the most mind-bending expressions
of love divinely conceivable.
Each member of the Trinity pours out
the fullness of their power.
They hold absolutely nothing back,
but spend themselves entirely in their exuberant, extravagant,
heartfelt expressions of love that they
lavish on one another.
It was in this setting, in the context of this radical love
that the Trinity conceived one of the most powerful ideas
that they have ever had.
That idea was you.
The original idea that they had was
that they would create you to be a perfect dance partner.
Created with the capacity to participate equally
in the dance, they created you in their image
so that you would be fully capable of participating
perfectly in perichoresis.
I want you to imagine with me again.
This time, you are the object of the Trinity's affection.
The gaze of divine love is fixed on you.
And exactly, precisely the same moment,
all three of the Trinity unleash the fullness of their love
and utterly baptize you in the most glorious expression of love
that you have ever tasted in your life.
You can literally taste it.
Supernatural love has entirely consumed you.
You can see it wrapping around your body like flames
and arcing bolts of electrical current.
You can hear it pulsating and reverberating
through every cell in your being, body, soul, and spirit.
You can taste it with every cell in your body.
And the fragrance of divine love has permeated
the entire atmosphere.
Speechless, you collapse in the most blissful, gentle,
multidimensional, paradoxical state of your life.
You never felt so peaceful, yet you
feel like 1,000 waterfalls of pure love
are crashing over you every second.
You feel freedom like never before,
but you feel the vaults of a million bolts of lightning
love zinging through your entire being.
You feel like you're walking with God
in the cool of the day, except that you've never
been so ablaze with the fires of love.
You feel like you're walking on water,
but at the same time, you feel like you're swimming
in an ocean of divine love.
And liquid love is flowing right through you.
Everything is quiet, but the love of God
is like thunder in your heart.
You can't even walk, yet somehow you can dance.
And carried by the Spirit, you rise and take
your place that was prepared for you before time began.
Flowing effortlessly with the rhythms of the Trinity
as you receive and express divine love.
timeless realm of intimacy, oneness, ecstasy,
and unrelenting waves of pure divine love.
When Psalm 37 verse four talks about
delighting yourself in the Lord,
that's a tiny snapshot with plenty of poetic license
into what it looks like to delight yourself in the Lord.
Delight is the pinnacle expression of what love looks like.
The purest expression and definition of love
can only be beheld in the smiles
and in the eyes of the Trinity
as they radiate and blaze divine delight with every gaze
as they come face to face with each other
and face to face with us.
In that place of face to face, heart to heart,
spirit to spirit embrace,
a supernatural love is found that permeates
the very fabric of our being.
It is absolutely critical that we do not dilute
this definition of delight.
Regardless of our personal disappointments,
disconnection, or frustrations,
we must never allow our experiences
to pollute our definition of the timeless,
infinite beauty, intensity, holiness,
and extravagance of divine love.
We must not water down it's divinely over the top nature
or falsely define this loving delight
as anything less than the mind-blowingly glorious wonder
that it is because if we do,
we will shut down our capacity to dream with God.
Participating seamlessly and effortlessly
in perichoresis, the divine dance,
has always been the original design for your life.
Seamless union in the divine dance
is the greatest place of alignment
that you could ever find yourself in.
The ultimate calling on your life
far beyond doing things or working for God
has always been to be perfectly, radically,
extravagantly, outrageously, wildly,
crazily loved by the Trinity.
The ultimate call of God on your life
is to be loved by the Trinity
with the exact same intensity
with which they love each other.
Delight yourself in the Lord
looks like participating in the divine dance
as an equal dance partner.
That place right there,
that place of delighting yourself in the Lord
as you receive divine love perfectly
and give perfect expression to divine love,
that is the seedbed of dreams.
In the context of the divine dance,
the limitless possibilities available to us in Christ
are awakened.
The seeds of greatness and destiny germinate
and the potential to walk in the fullness
of God's divine design for our lives
is conceived and begins to sparkle, breathe, and exhale.
Jesus always had this longing
for seamless union and oneness with us.
He says it best in John 17, 20 to 24.
My prayer is not for them alone.
I pray also for those who will believe in me
through their message,
that all of them may be one.
Father, just as you are in me and I am in you,
may they also be in us
so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
I have given them the glory that you gave me
that they may be one as we are one.
I in them and you in me
so that they may be brought to complete unity.
Then the world will know that you sent me
and have loved them even as you have loved me.
Father, I want those you have given me
to be with me where I am and to see my glory,
the glory you have given me
because you love me before the creation of the world.
This scripture is priceless beyond words.
It reveals so much of the heart of the Father,
specifically that he loves us
with the exact same intensity of love
that he has for Jesus.
When it comes to love,
the Trinity only has one volume
and it is eternally stuck on maximum.
There was a long time in my life that I simply could not believe that was possible.
I had no concept at all of the divine dance.
Despite growing up in the church, a missionary kid, born on the mission field in the jungle
of Indonesia, my parents returned home to New Zealand when I was two and they became
pastors.
I grew up in the church, my first proper job was working for a church.
But I had no idea that it was possible to practically and supernaturally experience
the love of God.
In fact, I strongly believed that I was unworthy of any such love.
It was only through the beautiful journey of discovering Sonship that I was able to
awaken to and begin to participate in the priceless love found in the divine dance
for myself.
Sonship is a generic gender neutral term that speaks of our spiritual identity and it applies
equally to men and women.
I have extensive training available on Sonship and how to go on your own beautiful journey
into the bliss of Sonship.
It is one of the most significant and powerful journeys that any person can ever go on.
Although it is foundational to participating in the divine dance, it is not the focus of
this book.
I have a lot of free resources available for you that will help you go on your own beautiful
journey into the bliss of Sonship.
I do recommend the 3 day Royal Challenge as a great place to start.
That short course is completely free and it even includes a free gift of my $375 School
of Sonship which will be priceless in the process of discovering how to live in the
divine dance for yourself.
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This passage in Ephesians 3 captures the heart of God beautifully.
Pay special attention to verse 19.
In this passage Paul highlights that our whole Christian journey is to be founded and grounded
on a supernatural, tangible, practical experience of God's love that trumps a theory of God's
love any day.
Having lived on both sides of this promise, I know that nothing compares to living in
the fruition of what Paul is describing here.
Ephesians 3 17 to 21.
May Christ through your faith actually dwell, settle down, abide, make his permanent home
in your hearts.
May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love, that you may have the power
and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints, God's devoted people, the
experience of that love.
What is the breadth and length and height and depth of it?
This is verse 19.
That you may really come to know practically through experience for yourselves the love
of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge without experience.
That you may be filled through all your being unto all the fullness of God and may have
the richest measure of the divine presence and become a body wholly filled and flooded
with God himself.
Now to him who by and in consequence of the action of his power that is at work within
us is able to carry out his purpose and do super abundantly far over and above all that
we dare ask or think infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes
or dreams.
To him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations forever and
ever.
Amen.
So be it.
This place of intimacy in the divine dance, receiving and expressing divine love in all
its fullness, is the seedbed of dreams.
To the same degree that we dive into this limitless, limitless, limitless, limitless
world of love.
love, we will be empowered to dream limitless dreams with God. Our delight in
To the same degree that we dive into this limitless, limitless, limitless, limitless,
God is either the ceiling on our dreams or the supernatural key that will unlock
the capacity within us to step into a limitless realm of dreaming with God.
Matthew 17 5, the message. This is my Son, marked by my love, focus of my delight.
Whether you are aware of it or not, you were marked by God's love when he
conceived the idea of you in his imagination before the foundation of the
world. You have always been and you will always be the immovable focus of his
delight. His invitation to you is to take your place and join the Trinity in the
everlasting divine dance. This has always been their desire and their plan and it
will always remain God's steadfast longing to share with us the greatest
expressions of love and intimacy possible. Ephesians 1 4 to 6, and he
chose us to be his very own, joining us to himself even before he laid the
foundation of the universe. Because of his great love, he ordained us so that we
would be seen as holy in his eyes with an unstained innocence. For it was always
in his perfect plan to adopt us as his delightful children through our union
with Jesus, the Anointed One, so that his tremendous love that cascades over us
would glorify his grace for the same love he has for his beloved one Jesus he
has for us. And this unfolding plan brings him great pleasure. Regardless of
how this chapter has impacted you, you must now make a decision. Whether it
frustrated you, brought up painful thoughts, inspired you, or completely set
you ablaze with exhilarating excitement, or whether it bored you, you must make a
decision that will shape the rest of your life. Will you dance or not? Maybe
you have no idea how to dance with the Trinity and that language sounds too
mysterious for you. Maybe, like me, you grew up with religion and didn't even
know it was possible to experience the supernatural love of God. Maybe that was
one of the most beautiful things you've ever heard in your life and you are in
full swing dancing with the Trinity right now. Maybe you are in your own
unique space right now. Wherever you are at, you must still decide. Will you dance
or not? For some that will be effortless, for others it will take the journey of a
lifetime to get back to what God designed for you before time began. For
everyone that will be dynamic and as unique as our own fingerprints. If your
answer is no, you don't want that, then I pray that one day you will reconsider
because the consequence is that you have just cut yourself off from the
fullness of your own destiny. The Trinity will be waiting for you with an open
invitation to dance when the time comes, but don't take too long. As Leonard
Ravenhill says, the opportunity of a lifetime must be seized within the
lifetime of the opportunity. Some people reading this will, or hearing this, will
doubt this type of life is even possible. Some will believe it is actually
possible for some people, just not for them. If that's you, that's okay, but I
want to ask you to ask yourself this. Hypothetically speaking, if it was
possible to experience that type of seamless union and extravagant love in
your relationship with God, would you want it? Because if there's even a thin
slice of desire in you for any dream in your future, then this book will be
absolutely priceless for you as we break the silence on the science of dreams. Get
ready to discover how to master the four ancient...
weapons from heaven that will empower you to live victoriously over the four
satanic assignments against your life so that you can truly start to dream with
God and start living out your wildest dreams. Chapter 3, Dreaming with God. The
Enemy in the Shadows. On the 4th of August 1987, Joy White and Carl Tyson
took their 19 day old daughter, Carlina White, to the Harlem Hospital Center in
Manhattan with a fever. They were not aware that for the previous three weeks
a lady named Anne Petway had been disguising herself as a nurse at the
hospital and looking for an opportunity to meet a desperate need. Several
miscarriages had deeply scarred Anne Petway and traumatized her with the
belief that she may never have her own child. This fear produced a desperate
need that drew her to the Harlem Hospital Center with a dark agenda. On
the very same night that Joy, Carlina and Carl arrived, Anne was also watching and
waiting. Sometime between 2.30 a.m. and 3.55 a.m. Anne Petway removed Carlina's
IV line and abducted her. From that moment the mysterious lady in the
nurse's uniform and Carlina White simply vanished. There were no clues, there was
no trail to follow, Carlina was gone and all that was left for Joy and Carl was
the emotional debris left by the tornado of pain that had just crashed
through their world. Like Joy and Carl, most of us are unaware that in
the shadows of our lives, watching our every move, there are evil forces
commissioned with a satanic assignment designed to abort, abduct and through any
necessary means possible, destroy the call of God and the divine destiny upon
our lives. There are four satanic assignments commissioned against every
person's destiny and calling and four giants of darkness mobilized to enforce
those satanic assignments. In this book, The Science of Dreams, I will uncover the
non-negotiable elements to The Science of Dreams, which are in fact four ancient
weapons from heaven that will enable any person to live victoriously, to dream
with God and to begin walking in the fruition of their wildest dreams. These
are not simply good ideas, they are weapons from heaven that have proven
themselves for millennia. The Science of Dreams is not a scientific theory, it is
a combination of dynamic, biblical, spiritual, divine facts, principles and
promises that have shaped the destiny of humanity since before the beginning. In
fact, whether you are aware of it or not, your understanding and implementation of
or lack of understanding and implementation of The Science of Dreams
is exactly what has shaped every detail of the reality that you are living in
right now. There are absolutely no shortcuts or free passes into the fullness
of the divine design for your life and to the same degree that you master The
Science of Dreams, you will walk in the infinite possibilities available in
Christ Jesus. Any person who discovers, implements and masters these four
weapons from heaven that combine to form The Science of Dreams will go far beyond
simply defeating the giants of darkness mobilized against them. They will be
empowered to live a life where they dream limitless dreams with God and
consistently redefine normal, reality and possibility as they walk into the
fruition of dreams that were once beyond their wildest imagination. Just as Joy
and Carl were blindsided and all their dreams of a life with Carlina were
ruthlessly stolen, we all face an enemy that wants to abort our capacity to
dream with God or abduct and destroy any and every dream that we have ever carried.
enemy is motivated by pure fear. Darkness can't rest for the terror that plagues it
and causes it to relentlessly harass and abuse you in every way possible. The thought that
haunts darkness itself is the thought of something infinitely powerful. Something that threatens
the very existence of the giants of darkness themselves. It's the thought of you. It's
the thought of you living in the fullness of your destiny. Nothing strikes a greater
sense of terror into the heart of evil than imagining you living in everything that God
has promised you. That word destiny is like the word delight and in order to fully understand
it we must again go back to before the beginning. We already have a picture in our mind now
of the wonder of the fellowship of the trinity and the divine dance but it's time to see
something else. Something sacred that is burned in the heart of God since before time
began. It was in the context of the divine dance that the trinity first conceived the
idea of you. The ultimate calling on your life was always to be perfectly loved by God
but it was never intended to just stop there. God always had more in mind for you. In fact
that was just the beginning of a destiny more phenomenal than any person will ever have
the capacity to imagine. Before time began in the context of the divine dance motivated
by the purest love of all, the trinity summoned all their creativity, all their goodness,
all their love and all their power to complete one of the most sacred and extravagant acts
that they have ever performed. God unleashed his limitless power to dream the best for
you and it was in that sacred moment that your destiny was conceived. Yes, your destiny
is what God saw when he unleashed his limitless power to dream the best for you. There is
absolutely nothing average or normal about the call of God and the destiny on your life.
You have a five-star calling, a royal and a sacred destiny that is truly more magnificent
than you have the power to imagine. No matter how hard you try to imagine the greatest,
most exceptional, most mind-blowing future that you possibly can, God has already infinitely
outdreamed you in every way and marked you for a measure of greatness that no eye has
seen, that no ear has heard, and that no mind has ever dared to imagine. 1 Corinthians 2
verse 9. This is why the scriptures say, things never discovered or heard of before, things
beyond our ability to imagine. These are the many things God has in store for all his
lovers. Now pay close attention again to verse 20 in this passage from Ephesians 3. Ephesians
3, 17 to 21. May Christ through your faith actually dwell, settle down, abide, make his
permanent home in your hearts. May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love, that
you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints, God's devoted
people, the experience of that love. What is the breadth and length and height and depth of it,
that you may really come to know practically through experience for yourselves the love of
Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge without experience, that you may be filled
through all your being unto all the fullness of God, and may have the richest measure of
the divine presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God himself. Verse 20, now to him.
By and in consequence of the action of His power that is at work within us, is able to
carry out His purpose and do super abundantly far over and above all that we dare ask or
think infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams, to Him
be glory in the Church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever.
Amen. So be it.
Now let's check out verse 20 again in the Passion Translation. That was the Amplified
Version. Ephesians 3.20 in the Passion Translation.
Without a doubt, God's mighty power to work in you and accomplish all this. He will achieve
infinitely more than your greatest request, your most unbelievable dream, and exceed your
wildest imagination. He will outdo them all for His miraculous power constantly energizes
you. Our enemies, the giants of darkness who are commissioned to destroy us, are often
more aware of the significance of our destinies than we are, and it floods them with terror.
Your greatness fuels their rage and your very existence threatens theirs. Part of the mark
of greatness that God has placed upon you is that within you is the power to outdream
darkness. It is the nature of love and the nature of God to outdream darkness. There
is no expression of evil that love is okay with. There is no expression of abuse, oppression,
tyranny, or evil that is compatible with love. A vision is the solution to a problem, and
when God dreams, He outdreams the darkness. He has placed this power inside your imagination.
You are the light of the world, and darkness cannot withstand you. When you learn to master
the four ancient weapons from heaven, you will become evil's kryptonite. Whether you
realized it or not, you are center stage in a cosmic battle of destiny, and truly
the stakes could not be higher. Will you overcome every satanic assignment against your life?
Will you live victoriously over the giants of darkness that threaten your existence?
Will you master the four ancient weapons from heaven and tread sacred pathways where few
others have gone before you, as you truly step into the sacred calling and the divine
destiny upon your life? I am not just being dramatic. I hope you are having a faith awakening
to the greatness that marked your life before the foundations of the earth were laid. I
hope you are ready to step up and take hold of some giant slaying weapons and begin to
walk in victory and destiny like never before. Ready or not, those giants of darkness are
coming for you, and as you read, you may come to realize just how close to home this battle
is already raging. In fact, most people lose this battle because they don't even realize
that they are under attack. One of your enemies greatest advantages is stealth, which requires
invisibility and sabotage. So let's completely expose the first giant of darkness. The first
giant of darkness that we must face is assigned against us specifically to ensure that we
never in any way dream with God. If we have dared to dream with God, this giant is already
planning the abduction and destruction of all of our dreams. This giant of darkness
is the giant of lack. Its greatest fear is that you learn the art of dreaming with God.
To cut off your capacity to dream with God, the giant of lack attacks your greatest asset
in the process of dreaming with God, your imagination. Do not underestimate the power
of your imagination, nor the lethal side effects of a damaged, defiled, or damaged
buying imagination. Your imagination is the first ancient heavenly weapon given to you
to empower you to fulfill a destiny so great that it exceeds your capacity to even imagine.
Let's take a moment here to appreciate the true power of your imagination and its truly
sacred origins. Your imagination is not the result of evolution. Your imagination is a
supernatural communication system designed by God to enable you to experience effortless,
seamless, moment-by-moment intimacy and telepathic communication with the Spirit of God. It's
a supernatural prophetic window allowing you to see into multiple dimensions of time and
space at the same moment. It's the command center that bridges the gap between the natural
and spiritual realm, rooted and intertwined as much with your physical brain as it is
with your spirit. And perhaps most significantly, it is the only communication system in the
cosmos that has the bandwidth and the download capacity that is powerful enough to perform
one of the rarest functions in all creation, and that is to dream with God.
Through your imagination, you can receive supernatural downloads of limitless amounts
of information without a second of time ever passing. A person who learns to harness the
power of their imagination and to wield it as a weapon rather than to play with it as
a worthless toy or abuse it, will uncover a power from God that has the capacity to
redefine reality and write the future of humanity. In the Old Testament, the Hebrew word, Yetzer,
and in the New Testament, the Greek word, Dianoia, relate to our imagination. There
are over 90 scriptures relating to the topic of the imagination. However, not every translation
translates the word directly as imagination. Sometimes it is translated as mind or understanding
or imagination. Here are just four of the many biblical ways we can use our imagination.
Number 1. In Matthew 22.37, Mark 12.30, and Luke 1.51, when Jesus instructs us to love
God with all our heart, all our soul, all our mind, and all our strength, He used the
word, Dianoia, for imagination or imagination. Number 1. We love God with all of our imagination.
Number 2. In Ephesians 1.18, the Passion translation, Paul writes, I pray that the light of God
will illuminate the eyes of your imagination, flooding you with light until you experience
the full revelation of the hope of His calling that is the wealth of God's glorious inheritances
that He finds in us, His holy ones. Number 2. We receive revelation through our imagination.
Number 3. In 1 John 5.20, John uses the word, Dianoia, and it translates here as understanding
or imagination, insight. Verse 20. And we have seen and know positively that the Son
of God has actually come to this world and has given us understanding and insight or
imagination to progressively perceive, recognize, and come to know better and more clearly Him
who is true, and we are in Him who is true, in His Son, Jesus Christ, the Messiah. Number
3. We know God through our imagination. And number 4. The word, Dianoia, is translated
as mind in Hebrews 8.12.8, verse 10. This is the covenant I will establish with the
people of Israel. After that time, declares the Lord, I will put my laws in their minds
and write them on their hearts. Number 4. We know the will of God through our imagination.
This is exactly why Satan has placed a bounty on your imagination and commissioned the giant
of Lach to destroy it completely at any cost. Our imagination is the first weapon from heaven
that God has given us to be able to redefine reality, defy impossibility, and bring our
sacred destiny to fruition. Our imagination is the key to unlocking a world where we dream
supernatural, limitless dreams with God. Our imagination is the only key that can unlock
one of the most powerful forces in all creation. It is this force from heaven unlocking our
by your imagination that the Giant of Lack fears most and it is this force
that the Giant of Lack will do anything within its power to suppress and
destroy. How to tell you are under attack. As I mentioned the Giants of Darkness
prefer to operate through invisibility and sabotage. That way you don't even
realize you are in a battle. The favorite type of victory for the Giant of Lack is
when a person doesn't even realize that they have been conquered. The Giant of
Lack is in full celebration when their victims come to believe that their life
of defeat and submission is actually the good life. If you are in this place it's
often very difficult to tell because the systematic conditioning and attack on
your life has been at work since before you were even born. The Giants of Darkness
don't just operate through isolated random solo search and destroy missions.
They have vast networks of satanic entities operating simultaneously
through multiple generations in order to create deep-rooted cultural mindsets and
normals that enslave millions of people at a time and the masses often don't
even realize they are caught under a demonic matrix that has been
systematically manipulating entire family lines, cultures, regions or even
nations for generations. P.S. this might be about to get a wee bit confronting so
you'll need to ask yourself if your destiny is worth fighting for because
right now we're going to expose some Giants and it might get nasty before it
gets better. Hold on for the ride though. To say it will be worth it is an
enormous understatement. Let's start by exposing the evidence that you are
under attack by the Giant of Lack. The first sign that you are under attack by
the Giant of Lack is poverty. I'm not just talking about being a little short
on cash. A lack attack goes deep into your psychology, your spirituality, your
relationships, emotions, state of being, health, economy, worldview, mindsets,
attitudes, culture and behaviors. Absolutely all the areas of your life
are impacted. The Giant of Lack is ruthless and relentless aiming to tear
down every expression of the divine life promised to you. It brings disappointment
like a plague. It fosters discouragement, depression and despair. Sometimes the
approach is more subtle and it tries to seduce you with the treasures of this
world but it always takes more than it gives. This systematic attack can be so
stealthy, so long-term and so pervasive that you may still be thinking even as
you are reading this that it's really not impacting you all that much. Let's go a
little deeper. Remember the target of the Giant of Lack is actually your
imagination with the focus of shutting down every trace of the unstoppable
force from heaven that your imagination has the power to unlock. The Giant of
Darkness lays out the most subtle siege attack in the world that is so long-term
and so covert that we don't even realize that the Giant already has the
victory. I'll have to use a more dramatic test to expose the true impact that the
Giant of Lack is having on our lives so we'll come at it from a slightly
different angle. How often do you wake up and before your head has even left the
pillow your heart is completely ablaze with an inferno of passion to launch
into your day and do absolutely whatever it takes to bring your wildest dreams to
life. No challenge is too great, no sacrifice too costly, no mountain is too
high, no distance is too far, no dream is too impossible, no discipline is too
demanding, no wake-up time is too early, no Giant is invincible. When you live
with that type of passion this starts becoming your new normal. You wake up on
fire and unstoppable every day. The very fact that you have received the gift of
life for more for one more day and the opportunity to pursue your wildest
dreams sparks an explosion of delight. Even the tiniest breakthrough and even
seemingly bad news sends you into a heart and to a flow of heartfelt
gratitude.
feet hit the ground, you are undone and overwhelmed by the mind-blowing
supernatural wonders of the divine dance. Divine love has completely consumed you,
marinated you, and blasted you with a million bolts of lightning love. You are
so gripped with passion for the divine assignment on your life that you are
ready to lay your life down for your cause in a heartbeat. But your consuming
desire is to live your life for maximum impact and to give the greatest
expression of divine love possible to the world with every breath that you are
blessed to breathe. All around you, you are surrounded by the fulfillment of
your wildest dreams. You are carried by the momentum of heaven. Every day you are
able to dream with God for greater and more extravagant ways to express divine
love to both individuals and to multitudes. You have caught the most
serious case of paranoia in the world. Paranoia is the opposite of paranoia.
Extreme paranoia believes that everything is conspiring against you for
evil. Extreme paranoia believes that absolutely everything is conspiring for
you to bring about the fullness of the divine calling and destiny on your life,
which is exceedingly, super abundantly above and beyond what you have ever dared
to ask, dream, pray, or think infinitely beyond your wildest imagining. When you
dream with God and He speaks to you from a higher dimension and reveals the
impossible, improbable, and impractical assignments that He has for you, your
heart leaps with joy knowing He has a plan and that His power that is at work in
you is able to fulfill every promise that He will ever make you. This is what
life starts looking like when you start living in victory over the giant of lack.
Your world will be saturated in divine abundance of every kind. It's a divine
abundance that flows primarily from the inside out. I'm not speaking about money.
I'm talking about the divine life that Jesus promised us that will flood every cell in your
being and permeate everything that surrounds you. John 10.10
The thief only comes in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life
and enjoy life and have it in abundance to the full till it overflows. The Greek word for life
here is the word Zoe. It is the divine life. Jesus Himself defined that word when He said,
I am the way, the truth, and the life in John 14.6. Zoe is the divine life. Zoe is the exact
same state of being that the Trinity shared together in the divine dance. The Greek word
translated as abundance is the word perissos and it means without measure. The giant of lack
systematically launches a coordinated attack, a multi-generational strategic assault on your
imagination, hoping to completely crush it through every expression of poverty possible because it
knows that your imagination is the highway into a limitless overflow of the divine life in your
life that will enable you to dream with God so beautifully and powerfully that you will be
empowered to outdream darkness and step into a world where you are living in the fulfillment of
Ephesians 3.20. A world where you are literally watching the manifestation of dreams on a daily
basis that were once far beyond your ability to ask, dream, think, or pray. Dreams that used to
be infinitely beyond your wildest imagination, but now they are your reality. Here's the
confronting part that is going to require an attitude of extreme ownership. Anything less in
our lives than the fullness of what God has promised us is evidence that the giant of lack
already has a measure of victory over our lives. Anything less than the divine life without measure,
anything less than infinitely beyond our wildest imagination, anything less than the birthright
and inheritance promised to us is evidence of the giant of lack exerting a degree of victory
over our lives. We need to be very, very careful here that we don't slip into a victim mindset.
You see, a victim mindset will start to justify
and make excuses for why we are not living in the fullness of the promises of God.
A victim mindset will get us lying to ourselves and get us to convince ourselves that this
is unrealistic, unreasonable, unattainable.
The list of excuses and justifications go on and on, but the danger is the giant of
lack whispers a quiet amen to every excuse, to every justification.
And after enough excuses and justifications, we'll entrench ourselves in a world of lack.
A world where every pessimistic thought will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The danger is that we justify our current normal when the reality is that God has infinitely
more for us.
Without taking extreme ownership of this and going all in to do whatever it takes to create
change, we will blind ourselves to the forever diminishing normal designed for us by the
giant of lack.
Without taking extreme ownership of this, we will live conquered by the giant of lack.
No, what we need here, what we need right now, is an attitude of extreme ownership.
An attitude that accurately takes stock of exactly where we are at in our lives right now.
An attitude that assesses the full weight of what God has promised us.
An attitude that owns up to everything that we are thinking and doing that is fueling
the fires of lack in our lives.
And an attitude that weighs it all up honestly and says, I'm going to do whatever it takes
to slay the giant of lack that is attacking my life.
And I am going to step into the fullness of my birthright, my inheritance and the promises
of God for my life.
So the big question, how do you slay the giant of lack?
Well, lack produces fear.
The antidote to fear is always love.
Perfect love casts out all fear because the nature of love is to supply.
Love produces a level of abundance that drowns out the influence of the giant of lack and
that love is found in perisos without measure when we are swallowed up in the divine dance.
The beautiful journey from lack and a love deficit into the limitlessness of divine love
is the journey of a lifetime.
And for me, it was the only made possible by discovering my sonship.
If you are serious about doing whatever it takes to slay the giant of lack in your life,
the beautiful journey into the bliss of sonship is not just your next best step.
It is an absolute non-negotiable part of the process of stepping into your destiny.
The rest of this book is about to give you some enormous keys.
But if you want to journey into the bliss of sonship, I have a huge amount of free resources
available that I would highly recommend you check out.
The ultimate taster resource is the 3 day royal challenge, so keep an eye out for it.
Do not think for a moment that defeating the giant of lack is a simple task, it definitely
is not.
It will demand everything that you have.
It will demand that you go all in.
It will demand that you forsake a casual attitude about your destiny and the sacred call of
God on your life.
It will demand that you forsake the status quo.
Even in Christian circles, this will demand more than most Christians are willing to give.
But God is not inviting you to live a normal Christian life.
He has something so much greater in store for you.
Once again, you are going to have to embrace extreme ownership and ask yourself if you
are willing to do whatever it takes to walk into your destiny.
Are you willing to do whatever it takes?
If so, you are going to have to embark on the adventure of a lifetime that leads you
into the fires of the divine dance.
You will face innumerable obstacles and battles.
But if you refuse to give up, if you embrace the beautiful journey into sonship, you will
discover a state of being so radically infused with and saturated in divine love that the
giant of lack will lose all influence in your life.
This book, The Science of Dreams, is going to cover some of the most vital content required
to slay the four giants of darkness assigned against your life, but we will not be covering
how to step into your sonship.
If you truly are all in, if you are taking extreme ownership of stepping into your sacred
destiny,
Then you must also study and master sonship because it is the key that will enable you to take your place in the divine
dance
Once you have found your place in the divine dance
You will be able to partner with the power of the science of dreams with the power of the divine dance
And you will truly become
unstoppable for now
Let us continue with the science of dreams
But once you have finished this book do whatever it takes to discover and walk in your sonship
Dreaming with God the process of
Dreaming with God is an overflow of the divine dance
It's a process of both hearing the whispers and desires of God and also searching out discovering and engaging with the deepest and most
Wonderful authentic desires of your own heart. One of the most powerful questions that you can ask yourself to kick start
This process is what do I want?
This is one of the most significant and most empowering questions that we can ask in our lives
But if you only ask yourself the question, it will not benefit for you
It is the answering of this question, which has the capacity to dramatically upgrade your life
Remember Psalm 37 verse 4 says delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart
the process of dreaming with God is a
Collaborative wonder filled dance that will awaken your yes. I said your wildest dreams
Vaguely or casually answering this question. What do I want is not enough to empower you to see your dreams fulfilled
Most people never answer this question with authenticity and precision
most people never actually engage in the beauty of the process of
Dreaming with God the end result is millions of people going to their graves without ever seeing their dreams fulfilled
People are always asking why God allows so much evil and chaos in this world. The answer is because God's
Solution is to place dreams in our hearts that have the power to fix this world's problems
And we keep taking those solutions and dreams to the grave
By the millions if you ever want to walk in the ecstasy of seeing your wildest dreams fulfilled
then you have to abandon casual immediately a casual attitude is a dreams death sentence a
Casual attitude is one of the greatest causes of death for dreams in our generation
It's time to abandon lethal casual attitudes and get passionate about
Dreaming with God the first step in dreaming with God is to ask yourself
What do I want?
And then go on the rollercoaster ride of letting your heart speak freely about your genuine
desires
This question needs to be answered
Diligently and in-depth with precision detail for every area of your life
answering this question with vulnerability authenticity courage and
Detailed precision will position you to start the process of bringing your wildest dreams to life
A lot of people are too afraid to admit to themselves what they really want because they are so afraid
that what they really want in life is
not
Possible a lot of dreams get aborted
Before they ever had the chance to come alive grow and flourish because some part of us
Believes that those dreams are not possible
That is the giant of lack speaking words of death with that will abort our dreams
We need to change our internal dialogue. Nothing is impossible
Impossible impossible are dictated by our minds and the minds of those around us to change
What is possible? We simply have to change our minds. You need to ask yourself
What do you really want from life?
You only have one life
No one else can answer this question for you. What do you want from the smallest desire to the greatest?
Remember that the question is not what do you think is possible in the context of your current circumstances?
The question is much deeper than that. What do you really want?
What are the secret desires of your heart that you really long for if you had limitless resources at your disposal?
What would you want to do to be to see or to create? This is the only way to dream with God
without
limits
One of the most beautiful things about dreaming with God is that there are no limits
dreaming with God takes place in your
imagination where everything and anything is possible in an instant. The
only way to allow yourself to dream authentically is to allow yourself to
dream without limits, without restriction, and without listening to the giant of
lack relentlessly whispering that your dreams are impossible. You have dreams
and desires inside you that will leave a legacy of blessing for generations to
come. Will you dare to dream without the illusion of impossibility? I want to give
you permission to rebel against every thought, every voice, every circumstance,
and every experience that has ever told you that your dreams are impossible. Now
is your time to dream authentic and limitless dreams. I challenge you to
honestly, courageously, and diligently answer this question. What do you want?
In the process of dreaming with God, reality is not important. What is
important is desire. If you are distracted by limits and possibilities,
circumstances, or even your present reality, you will not be able to focus on
the true burning desires of your own heart. Forget everything to do with
logistics in the process of dreaming with God. Logistics and details are
essential, but it is essential that they come at the right time. The dreaming
phase is the wrong time for logistics and details. If introduced at the wrong
time, details and logistics will kill your dreams instead of bringing them to
life. In the dream phase, forget logistics, details, possibility, and reality, and
focus exclusively on the wild authentic desires of your own heart. The dreaming
phase is the time to engage with the secret desires of your own heart that
are so big, so revolutionary, and so radical that they terrify you, evade
your conscious awareness, and defy both possibility and reality. The dream phase
is not the time to be rational, practical, or realistic. Countless dreams have been
aborted before they ever had the chance to see the light of day, because people
have been trained to be practical at the wrong time. I am all about being
practical at the right time, but during the dreaming phase, being practical is
inappropriate and counterproductive. Being practical at the wrong time will
limit you to the restrictions of your present circumstances. Being practical at
the wrong time will turn you into a liar by causing you to suppress
the genuine desires of your heart, because our dreams are often impractical.
If you allow yourself only to embrace what is practical, then you will suppress
your heart's desires and you will abort your own dreams. Intentionally allowing
yourself to dream impractical and unrealistic dreams allows you to be
completely honest with yourself about the desires in your heart. It also
empowers your imagination to be free to see new possibilities, new ideas, new
creative solutions, and new perspectives that you may never have even considered
before. This is the purpose of dreaming with God, engaging both your imagination
and your conversation with God to see a better, brighter future. The majority of
the process of bringing your dreams to life is about logistics, strategies, and
working out how to take precision actions with precision timing in order
to transition your impossible, practical, and improbable dreams into reality. But
the dreaming phase is all about discovering the authentic desires of
your own heart and allowing God to inspire you with possibilities beyond
your wildest imagination. When you dream with God, you have to be intentional
about being courageous. Your heart's authentic desires and the destiny that
God has in store for you will be so good that they scare you. Your destiny is so
phenomenal that it may cause you to be concerned about what other people will
think. You may think that some people won't like your dream. That this is the
giant of lack speaking again. Insecurity caused by what others think will turn
you into a liar by causing you to reduce your dreams, or avoid your dreams, or
present false dreams that you think are more acceptable in your context. The
dreaming phase is all about desire and having the courage to admit first to
yourself and then to the world what you really want and what you know God has
created you for. In every sphere of human advancement, dreamers have redefined what
is possible. In 1895, Lord Calvin declared the
to the world, heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
On December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright did the impossible when they flew the first
successful powered aircraft.
In 1934, Albert Einstein said, there is not the least slightest indication that nuclear
energy will ever be obtainable.
Just before Christmas in 1950, on December 20, in Idaho, USA, four light bulbs were lit
by nuclear-powered electricity.
Einstein's own equation is now at the heart of over 400 nuclear power plants.
Even the concept of light without fire was a huge development for humanity.
Dreamers had already brought humanity a long way before nuclear power came along.
Dreamers brought humanity to the place where we had discovered how to harness electricity.
And dreamers were responsible for inventing light bulbs to power in the first place.
Impossible dreams are constantly becoming tomorrow's brand new normal.
Scientists and doctors had declared that running a mile in under four minutes was impossible.
It was not believed just to be difficult or dangerous.
It was believed by scientists and doctors to be humanly impossible.
Roger Bannister dreamed outside the confines of possibility.
He dreamed of running a mile in under four minutes.
As a part of Roger Bannister's training, he would visualize, he would imagine himself
doing the impossible.
He would imagine himself making history, defying reality, probability, and impossibility as
he imagined himself running a mile in under four minutes.
On May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister redefined reality, possibility, and normal when he ran
the first mile in under four minutes with a time of three minutes and 59.4 seconds.
He beat the barrier of impossibility by less than a second, but he did it.
He did the impossible, redefined reality, and created a brave new normal for humanity.
The current world record for the fastest mile is now three minutes, 43.13 seconds held
by Hikam al-Guruj.
You must choose to be courageous.
You must choose to be powerful.
You must choose to dream authentic dreams with God.
You can be honest about what you really want.
You can dream without limits.
You can see a better, brighter future.
You can guarantee opposition, regardless of what your dream is, how big it is, how small
it is, or even how brilliant it is.
You can guarantee that someone will stand in opposition to your dream and your destiny.
The giant of lack will make sure of that.
You must choose to dream anyway.
Don't let haters turn you into a liar who never admits, who never truly admits to the
greatness of your own dreams.
Your dreams have the capacity to influence nations and write history, but only you can
dream them.
Stay away from negative people.
They have a problem for every solution.
Albert Einstein.
Many dreams defy what is rational, realistic, normal, achievable, and possible.
At the same time, it is impossible dreams fulfilled which redefine normal, possible,
achievable, realistic, and rational.
The future will be a totally different reality from the reality that we are experiencing
right now, because some individuals have dared to be courageous enough to dream beyond what
is real, possible, achievable, rational, or normal.
It is fulfilled dreams that make the difference between the present and the future.
It is fulfilled dreams that redefine normal, possible, rational, achievable, practical,
and reality itself.
The future belongs to those who dare to dream.
So let your heart speak.
Set your heart free to dream with God.
Do not let your heart's voice be bound and gagged by impossibility, circumstances, reality,
logistics, or details.
Let your heart speak honestly without fear or interruption.
Allow your heart the position of honor that it was designed to have.
Do not treat your heart like a prisoner or a slave which must beg for an opportunity to have a voice.
Give your heart a position of honor and allow it to express its authentic desires whenever it pleases.
By doing so, you will cultivate your capacity to dream with God.
Unlocking the unstoppable force, I believe that if we can learn to dream with God,
we can outdream the darkness in our world and redesign our world in the image of heaven.
That might seem impossible, improbable, or impractical to you,
but it is impossible, improbable, and impractical dreams that have gripped the hearts of humanity since the dawn of time.
Throughout history, it has been the impossible, improbable, and impractical dreams of revolutionaries
that have captured the hearts and hopes of people all over the world,
causing dreamers to arise from ashes and oppression and forge from the future a brave new normal,
a brave new normal that only the most courageous hearts could once imagine.
We see the impossible, improbable, and impractical dreams of technology, sport, architecture, and business come to fruition every day.
Our normal today would have been absolutely unbelievable to the average person 60 years ago,
but we have dreamed, imagined, redesigned, and built a whole new world.
Fulfilled dreams have redefined impossible, normal, and reality itself.
Yesterday's unbelievable dreams have become today's brand new normal.
I believe that all of our dreams have the capacity to forge a brave new normal,
the capacity to redesign our world in the image of heaven.
I believe that there are dreams inside of you that are more wonderful, more revolutionary, and more powerful than you have yet dared to imagine.
I believe that inside of you are the type of dreams that are so inspiring, so compelling, and so captivating
that they have the potential to give a whole new level of hope to our generation.
These are the types of dreams that I want to inspire, to empower, and to see come alive.
Dreams that have the capacity to grip a generation by the heart.
Dreams that evoke the type of passion that writes history, shakes nations, and redefines normal on the face of the earth forever.
In the movie Braveheart, Mel Gibson's character, William Wallace, said,
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
It's only once we have discovered something that we desire so intensely, that we are willing to die for, that we truly come alive.
The type of desire that will do whatever it takes to see a dream fulfilled is the very same type of exhilarating passion that causes us to truly come alive.
This is one of the most powerful secrets of our imagination. Lean in close right now to hear this.
When we engage our imagination to see the fruition of our wildest dreams before they ever come alive,
we unlock one of the most world-changing forces in the entire cosmos.
It's definitely not a force that the giant of lack ever wants you to possess.
The substance, the force, is raw passion.
Many people are so intimidated by seemingly impossible dreams that have been conceived in their hearts that they abort their own dreams before they ever give them a chance to live.
That is the best case scenario for the giant of darkness.
If you abort your own dreams, then you've done his job for him.
It is this process of dreaming the impossible and meditating deeply on the better, brighter future that you desire,
which will actually awaken within you the raw passion, which is the very substance that can make the impossible possible.
By aborting impossible dreams, we simultaneously abort the embryonic passion, which brings impossible dreams to life.
By allowing ourselves to fully invest in dreams, the impossible dreams that our hearts genuinely long for,
we awaken and steward a fiery passion inside of ourselves that can accomplish the impossible, write history, and shape nations.
Pure passion is one of the most valuable substances that we can ever possess.
It has more value than wealth or power because pure passion and desire can literally redefine reality itself.
Evidence that you have mastered the first weapon from heaven, your imagination,
is that you consistently live with such a force of raw passion burning in your chest every day
that you do not just
awk about doing whatever it takes to bring your dreams to life, you actually do it.
And you don't just go through the motions.
You do whatever it takes and you pour your whole heart into the process.
Every moment and every action are infused with the blazing fires of desire and raw passion.
Like William Wallace, you have found a cause worth dying for.
Your heart and mind have become a blazing furnace of unquenchable desire for the reality
that you have seen in your imagination to be manifest on the earth.
There is a secret to unlocking that dimension of passion.
It goes beyond a surface level imagination.
It is the realm of Yadah.
Yadah is the Hebrew word for intimate experiential knowledge.
It is the greatest form of intimacy possible, so sometimes it is also used in the Bible
as a word for sex, Genesis 4.1, and Adam knew slash Yadah Eve, his wife, and she conceived.
Yadah literally means to see, to hear, to smell, to touch, and to taste.
Not only is it possible to Yadah our wildest dreams in our imagination, to see, to hear,
to smell, to touch, and to taste them, it is one of the most critical disciplines in
the process of bringing dreams to life.
When you take time and create space to go deeper in dreaming with God than just a surface
level glance at your dreams, when you step into the realm of Yadah and consistently allow
yourself to see, to hear, to smell, to touch, and to taste your wildest dreams as though
they were a present reality, you unlock the most priceless vault in the cosmos.
You unlock the vault of raw passion and burning desire.
Let me walk you through an activation to help you see what this can practically look like,
but get ready for an adventure because we are about to dive into the art of dreaming
with God in your imagination, and anything is possible.
Now let's slow this right down.
Don't rush this, something powerful is about to happen.
I want you to imagine that you are in the future.
You are walking in the fulfillment of one of your wildest dreams.
Make sure that the dream that you choose for this activation is one that is deeply significant
to you.
This is crucial because insignificant dreams cannot unlock the vaults of passion.
Only dreams worth dying for have the power to unlock the vaults of passion and burning
desire.
Focus now on this dream that you truly desire and long to see fulfilled.
This dream holds deep significance to you because you know how many lives it will impact,
you know how desperate the world is for the solution you are dreaming of.
Imagine now that you just stepped into the future.
You can see it.
You can see this dream fully fulfilled.
The dream is not just alive, it is happening and lives are being changed forever.
Now I want to go deeper again, so allow yourself to step into a place of your da and begin
to imagine what does this fulfilled dream look like?
What does this fulfilled dream sound like?
What does this fulfilled dream smell like?
What does this fulfilled dream feel like?
What does this fulfilled dream taste like?
Whose lives are going to be impacted by the fulfillment of this dream?
How is the world a better, brighter place?
How does the fruition of this dream improve your life?
How does this fulfilled dream impact the relationships in your life?
What is the legacy of this dream?
What do you love about this dream?
Why is this dream worth fighting for?
Okay now I want you to ask yourself, on a scale of 1 to 10, how much joy will you feel
when this dream is fulfilled?
in the earth in all its glory.
Also, I want you to ask yourself, how painful will it be for you on a 1 to 10 scale if this
dream never comes true?
Now I want you to ask yourself, what are you willing to do to bring this dream to life?
What is your next best step in bringing this dream to fruition?
What small step can you take today to add momentum to this dream?
What time today will you action that small step?
What words of life will you declare over this dream right now?
A lifestyle infused with raw passion and blazing desire to live in the sacred destiny that
God saw when he unleashed his limitless power to dream the best for you is the evidence
that you are no longer a victim of the giant of lack, but you have become a giant slayer.
This is the process of developing intimate experiential knowledge of your dream.
Not only does it unlock the vaults of raw passion and burning desire that will enable
you to slay the giant of lack, it begins the process of building in the spirit, which we're
going to unpack in the next chapter.
Wherever you are at on your spiritual journey right now, your battle against the giant of
lack, there is always hope.
You were created to be part of a movement of giant slayers.
Giants of darkness are being toppled all over the earth right now.
Destinies are being redeemed, restored, and revived right now.
Aborted, abducted, and long dead dreams are being restored to life right now.
As I'm writing this, I'm having a vision of a homecoming celebration of the body of Christ
coming home into the divine destiny that God prepared for us before the foundation
of the world.
I believe that there's a promise for you.
I believe that is a promise for you.
God is calling you home to live in your destiny the way he designed you to live in your destiny,
victorious over the giant of lack, and set ablaze with the unstoppable force of raw passion,
wielding the heavenly weapon of your imagination like a warrior.
It actually reminds me of Carlina White's story, abducted at 19 days old and gone without
a trace.
In some ways, she was taken like many of our dreams.
She was stolen and placed into a world of deception as Anne Petway weaved a world of
illusions for her to live inside.
This world of illusions, tailor-made by Anne's deception, protected them from an alternate
reality where Joy and Carl searched passionately for their missing daughter who was just 45
miles away.
Anne renamed Carlina Nedra, and as the years passed, Nedra became known as Nettie.
But something inside this young woman was still not at peace.
Two realities were colliding for her, the reality that she had been told to believe
her whole life, and an emerging belief that her whole world was a lie.
She began to have a sense that the narratives she had been told about her origins and her
identity were, in fact, an illusion.
As she began to challenge the legitimacy of the fabricated world that Anne had invented,
Anne's answers became more and more unbelievable.
The more Anne lied to her, the more convinced she became that the entire story she had believed
about her origins and her destiny were completely false.
Hunger for the truth grew inside her until it became a consuming desire.
Eventually, the years of confusion and suspicion came to an end as Nettie came face-to-face
with a picture of herself as a baby on a missing person's website.
In January 2011, at age 23, DNA testing confirmed that Nettie Nance was, in fact, Carlina White.
For Joy, Tyson, and Nettie, the truth, the news, and the reunion were overwhelming.
Joy White was an explosion of tears, delight, and gratitude to God that her daughter had
been found.
Just as Joy White had the dream of her daughter restored to her, get ready for a wave of dreams
being restored to you as I reveal how to expose and conquer the three remaining satanic assignments
that are holding your dreams captive.
Get ready.
Get ready to take that fresh, raw passion and blood.
blazing desire of yours, and use it as a key to unlock
and unleash the second heavenly weapon that you need
in your giant slaying arsenal.
Here we go.
Chapter four, building in the spirit.
Six years of struggle.
Here we stand, hearts ablaze with desire,
fueled by raw passion, glistening with hope,
and our imaginations focused on the significance
and wonder of our wildest dreams and divine destiny.
We are poised to unleash a viral outbreak of dreams
that will shift normal on the face of the earth forever.
Then, out from the shadows,
emerges another satanic assignment against our lives
and another giant of darkness.
The sinister agenda of this giant
is to crush every promise that God has ever made you
and remove every trace of the power of God
from operating in your life.
This giant wants to utterly destroy
the second ancient weapon from heaven
that unleashes the supernatural power of God in your life
to bring the promises of God to fruition.
This second weapon from heaven
carries the power to birth the wildest dreams
that you've seen in your imagination
from the spiritual realm into the natural realm.
Those who master this weapon master the impossible
and carry the capacity to redefine reality.
This giant of darkness and this weapon from heaven
have been engaged in cosmic warfare for time immemorial.
The giant of darkness is the giant of unbelief.
The weapon from heaven is the weapon of faith.
The giant of unbelief wants to convince you
that nothing God has ever said is true.
God is dead.
Therefore, there are no promises from God.
There is no power of God.
There is no reason for hope.
Faith wants to show you God's system
for building in the spirit
so that you can live in the fullness
of everything God has ever promised you,
ruling over the impossible
and redefining reality in the image of heaven.
The giant of unbelief has two main lies
that it uses as its two main strategies
to eliminate faith from your life.
It uses the same two lies over and over again,
challenging every promise that God has ever made.
The lies are, number one,
the promises of God are not real.
The giant of unbelief will do whatever it can
to discredit God and his word
so that they never develop any hope,
so that you never develop any hope
of living in the promises of God for your life.
If you don't believe that the promises of God exist,
you will never awaken the faith needed
to bring the promises of God to life.
If the giant of unbelief fails to convince you
that God and his promises are dead,
then it has a backup lie
that takes out millions of Christians
from living in the promises of God.
The second lie goes like this.
Oh, yeah, oh, okay, so that promise is actually real
and it is actually possible for some people to live in.
It is possible for some people to live in the promises
of God and for people to live in that promise.
And that might be the case for some people,
but it is definitely 100% not possible for you.
The object of the giant of unbelief
is to extinguish every trace of faith
and every promise of God that God has ever made you.
If the giant of unbelief can't discredit God in your eyes,
then it will do everything it can to discredit you.
Wow, did I suck on these lies for way too long.
Do not underestimate the vast influence
of the giant of unbelief.
Hundreds of millions of Christians
are robbed and destroyed on a moment-by-moment basis
because of the giant of unbelief.
This is not a friendly giant.
It is an insidious, satanic entity
that wants to bind your family line to a lifeless.
existence, void of every good thing God has for you, void of hope, and void of God himself.
This giant will leave you powerless to access your inheritance and your destiny,
and it will most definitely crush your capacity to participate
in seamless union with the Trinity and the delight of the divine dance.
This giant will corner you in an abusive relationship and give you such a verbal
battering that you will never see yourself worthy of anything ever again, unless you rise up as the
giant slayer that you were born to be. Growing up in churches where there were next to no
expressions of supernatural power, I found that the giant of unbelief had a huge stronghold in
my mind that shut down nearly every trace of the supernatural power of God in my life.
It was in this process of breaking free from the powerless mindsets imposed by the giant
of unbelief that I began to discover a whole new way of living that is infused
with supernatural power that we need to bring our wildest dreams to life.
I spent six years battling the giant of unbelief just to bring one promise from God to fruition
in my life. For a season of about six years, I prayed, read my Bible, read books, listened to
tapes, CDs, watched videos, DVDs, fasted, and cried out to God consistently just to see this one
promise fulfilled. At every moment, it was the giant of unbelief that held back my destiny and
starved me of the promises of God for my life. The promise from God that I was going after was
Mark 16 verse 18, they will lay their hands on the sick and they will be healed. After around
six years of struggle with next to no results, I was out praying yet again. It was late at night.
I was outside praying in the dark. Then in that moment, God got right up in my face and exposed
in my own thinking where I had come into agreement with lies from the giant of unbelief. For the
first time in my life, I could see how filled my own mind was with the strongholds of the giant
of unbelief. But now that I could finally see what the problem was, I could fix it. I began to
aggressively repent and reject every lie that unbelief had sold me. I aggressively took hold
of the truth and began to declare it over my life. About a week later, the power of God began to flow
undeniably through my hands for the first time. I was speaking at a youth meeting and among other
things I talked about praying in tongues. There was an altar call and one young lady came forward
wanting prayer to receive tongues and also wanting healing. She had a badly injured knee and could
barely stand on it. She also had bronchitis and was struggling to breathe and was coughing a lot.
I prayed for her for healing and was not expecting her to get healed.
I wasn't used to people getting healed. I was preparing to pray for her for a second time for
healing when she interrupted the unbelief racing through my own mind. I'm healed, she said. From
what, I asked? From everything, she replied. Her knee was instantly healed, her bronchitis left,
she went from serious bronchitis systems to just light flu symptoms instantly. Her coughing stopped,
her airways cleared, her face lit up, then she began praying in tongues for the first time.
After that, miracles began to flow everywhere I went. The streets, shopping malls, meetings,
restaurants, jungles, buses, nations, hotels, red light districts, mansions, conferences, villages,
people's homes, kids' camps, churches, and more. Hundreds and hundreds of miracles. My whole life,
my calling to walk in the footsteps of Jesus had been locked down by the giant of unbelief.
Now, I was experiencing a supernatural outpouring beyond what I had imagined. Blind eyes, broken
bones, paralysis, deafness, creative miracles, cancer, tumors, health challenges of all kinds
were being healed. I then began to apply a similar process of faith to other promises and desires
that I was burning to see fulfilled in my life. One after the other, promises from God
that I had previously believed could never happen for me began happening.
dreams, desires, and destiny beyond what I had imagined broke out around my life.
Through this whole process, I have discovered that there's a simple four-step blueprint
from heaven for how to use faith to build in the spirit in order to defeat the giant
of unbelief and to bring our wildest dreams to life.
Phase one, a burning desire.
It all starts where we ended our last chapter, having raw passion and a burning desire.
We just uncovered that when we intimately and intentionally yada our wildest dreams
in our imagination, we open up the vaults of raw passion and unleash the type of burning
desire that can literally redefine impossible and reality itself.
Unlocking this burning desire is the first of four phases in the process of building
in the spirit.
Those who master the process of building in the spirit, master the process of birthing
the promises of God into their lives.
If you master the process of building in the spirit, you can basically walk into the kitchen
in heaven and help yourself to the limitless inheritance that God has prepared for you.
Ephesians 1, 18 to 20, the Passion Translation, I pray that the light of God will illuminate
the eyes of your imagination, flooding you with light until you experience the full revelation
of the hope of his calling.
That is the wealth of God's glorious inheritances that he finds in us, his Holy One.
I pray that you will continually experience the immeasurable greatness of God's power
made available to you through faith.
Then your lives will be an advertisement of this immense power as it works through you.
This is the mighty power that was released when God raised Christ from the dead and exalted
him to the place of highest honor and supreme authority in the heavenly realm.
Phase two, assurance of faith.
After you have unlocked a burning desire, you must seek God for an assurance of faith.
An assurance of faith is important for two really significant reasons.
Reason number one, you need to know that this burning desire really is in alignment with
God's will for your life.
Even Jesus sought his father for an assurance of faith in the Garden of Gethsemane.
Luke 22, 42, Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me, yet not my will, but
yours be done.
The father said no to this desire and Jesus was fine with that and walked his road to
the cross for us.
Reason number two, second reason that you want and need an assurance of faith is that
if God is saying yes to go after this burning desire, it is extremely powerful to have a
confirmation from God that you are moving in the right direction.
An assurance of faith will give us great confidence as the storms of unbelief attack God's promises
for our lives.
Years ago, as a single man, I sought God for an assurance of faith that he had me covered
for a wife and a family.
In response, God gave me a vision of a little girl in a dress running through a grassy field.
It was just what I needed as an assurance of faith that God would provide for my dream
of a wife and family.
Quite a few years passed before I got married, but I was content that whole time simply because
of one assurance of faith.
I now have two beautiful daughters.
Genesis 15, 1-5.
After this, the word of the Lord came to Abraham in a vision.
Do not be afraid, Abraham.
I am your shield, your very great reward.
But Abraham said, Sovereign Lord, what can you give me since I remain childless and the
one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?
And Abraham said, You have given me no children, so a servant in my household will be my heir.
The word of the Lord came to him,
this man will not be your heir,
but a son who is your own flesh and blood
will be your heir.
He took him outside and said,
look up at the sky and count the stars,
if indeed you can count them.
Then he said to him, so shall your offspring be.
God gave Abraham both his word as a promise
and also the stars as an assurance of the promise
so that every time Abraham looked at the stars,
a picture of his descendants would flood his imagination
and light him up with a raw passion
and a burning desire for the promise of God over his life.
Verse six also says, Abraham believed the Lord
and he credited it to him as righteousness.
Once you have received an assurance of faith from God
that this burning desire is fully sanctioned from heaven,
then you really get to put your faith to work.
At this point, it's like your dream
has been conceived in the spirit.
It's no longer a possibility, it's a spiritual reality.
This requires a real mindset shift.
From now on, you must perceive your dream
as a living reality.
Like any living reality, it requires nurture.
If you forget about it for a few months,
there's a good chance it will die.
This happens all the time.
People get excited about their destiny,
they start going all in,
then they get distracted and their dream dies.
This sacred aspect of your destiny
cannot be treated as a pet or a hobby.
It has much greater value than a pet or a hobby.
It must be honored and treated as sacred.
Pets and hobbies get daily attention,
but it is a rare thing to meet a person
who gives more attention to their dreams
that they are building in the spirit
than they give to their pets or hobbies.
Once you have an assurance of faith
for this burning desire
and God has given it his seal of approval,
then you become responsible for a living, sacred dream
that is as real in the spiritual realm
as you are in the natural realm.
Don't think that the giant of unbelief will just give up.
The giant of unbelief will stalk
all of your dreams ruthlessly,
especially when they are in this vulnerable embryonic state.
The giant of unbelief will mobilize a death squad
against your vulnerable dream.
Watch out for verbal attacks on yourself and your dream.
Expect that your enemy will be launching a death squad.
Don't just sit and wait for it to come.
Set up spiritual defenses with your declarations
over your life, your destiny, and your dreams.
This is one of my favorite scriptures to declare
in the midst of an enemy attack, Isaiah 54, 17.
But in that day, no weapon turned against you will succeed.
You will silence every voice raised up to accuse you.
These benefits are enjoyed by the servants of the Lord.
Their vindication will come from me.
I, the Lord, have spoken.
But my favorite defense is offense
and that's what phase three is all about.
I absolutely love the third phase of building in the spirit.
Phase three, framing your future.
In the third phase of building in the spirit,
major changes and developments unfold
in our relationship with our dream.
Once God gives us an assurance of faith
that now is the time to pursue this dream
and our burning desire is fused with God's stamp of approval,
everything is different.
Everything is different.
This is a significant coming of age moment
when our dream transitions from merely being an idea
in our imagination to being conceived
as a living spiritual reality.
We too must change in how we relate to our dream.
We must go through a transition from seeing our dream
merely through the eyes of our imagination
to seeing our dream through the eyes of faith.
2 Corinthians 5 verse seven,
for we live by faith, not by sight.
Faith perceives spiritual realities
as present tense fact.
Faith sees differently to our everyday imaginings
and we must transition to seeing our dream
through a lens of faith.
This is also a process.
Building in the spirit first builds up our faith,
and then our dream matures as our faith matures.
Matthew 9, 29.
Then he touched their eyes, saying,
"'It shall be done to you according to your faith.'"
In this process, our faith solidifies and grows
as we begin to embrace the transition.
How we think about the dream changes.
How we talk about it changes.
How we see the dream changes.
Even our responsibility to the dream changes.
An idea that used to just once bounce around our heads
is now alive.
God now entrusts us with this dream
as though it were a beloved child
that he was giving us to raise for him.
There's nothing casual about this.
It is a sacred calling
with significant responsibility attached to it.
How you steward this dream will significantly impact
the favor of God on your life.
If you steward this dream
as a precious and sacred gift from God,
you will experience an increase
in the favor of God on your life.
Just as the faithful servants in the parables
of the talents and the minors,
your faithfulness will be rewarded with increase.
The spiritual momentum on your destiny will increase.
Our dream from God,
our cause worth dying for,
our burning heart's desire
has received an assurance of faith from God
and it is now alive in the spiritual realm.
It is as alive in the spiritual realm
as we are in the natural realm.
We continue leaning into God for deeper insights
into the significance of this dream
and he continues to reveal deeper layers
of the significance and the destiny of this dream.
As the picture of destiny of this dream gets even clearer,
we are able to increase the level of precision
with which we frame our future.
With preciously chosen declarations,
blessings, and words of life,
we speak life over our dreams
and we call out our dream
that does not yet have any natural substance
as though it is a present tense reality.
This is faith at work,
calling out unseen promises as present tense realities.
Faith is not faking it,
but in its infancy, it's hard to tell the difference.
At first, faith may be as tiny as a mustard seed.
Building in the spirit will turn that tiny mustard seed
level of faith into something huge.
Faith in action does not look like a few words
casually mumbled in a half-hearted prayer.
We daily declare the richest, most powerful,
most limitless, most abundant, most life-giving,
nurturing, and wildly exciting words
that we are able to as we frame the future
of this dream.
You may wish to write these declarations down
in a very serious and official way.
I have 12 royal daily declarations
that I take very seriously,
that I use to frame my future for my life,
my family, my destiny, my dream team,
and my wildest dreams.
This is not the limit of my declarations of faith.
It is the foundation of my daily process
of building in the spirit and stewarding my sacred destiny.
Proverbs 18, 21.
The tongue has the power of life and death,
and those who love it will eat its fruits.
Building in the spirit is a process.
Through this process, our convictions of faith grow.
The spiritual substance, the reality,
and the momentum of the dream itself grows.
Over time, our relationship starts to change again
as we become even more pregnant
with the imminent expectation
that this dream is about to be birthed
into the natural realm.
Hebrews 11, 1.
Now, faith is the assurance,
the title deed confirmation of things hoped for,
divinely guaranteed,
and the evidence of things not seen,
the conviction of their reality.
Faith comprehends as fact what cannot be experienced
by the physical senses.
As the sense that this dream really is about to happen
and our expectation quietly builds, we start nesting.
We start doing absolutely everything possible.
possible in the natural and in the spiritual
to prepare for the day of its arrival.
For Abraham, this process of building in the spirit
and framing his future took 40 years.
The process of birthing dreams and promises from God
is a true adventure, whereby we partner with God
and with faith to call into being impossible dreams,
birthing them into the natural through faith.
Fortunately for Abraham, during this 40 years
of the birthing process, he had an assurance of faith.
Every time he looked up into the stars,
he was reminded of God's assurance of faith
that he would have a son and his descendants
would outnumber the stars.
Romans 4, 17 to 19, that's what the scripture means
when it says, I have made you the father of many nations.
He is our example and father.
For in God's presence, he believed that God
can raise the dead and call into being
things that don't even exist yet.
Against all odds, when it looked hopeless,
Abraham believed the promise
and expected God to fulfill it.
He took God at his word and as a result,
he became the father of many nations.
God's declaration over him came to pass.
Your descendants will be so many
that they will be impossible to count.
At this point in the process of building in the spirit,
our faith has now matured to the point
that we are fully persuaded that this dream
is about to come crashing out of the spiritual realm
at any moment because we have taken the time
to frame the future of this dream and to nurture it.
It has grown strong and healthy.
We can see by faith that this dream
has already exceeded our wildest imaginings.
There's one more absolutely vital aspect
to building in the spirit that we must now focus on
to ensure that we remain in a constant state
of victory and faith, regardless of the attacks of the enemy.
Phase four, extreme gratitude.
One day I was walking along in the sun
and God whispered to me,
live every day like all your wildest dreams
have already come true.
That is exactly how we live when we have faith
that our God-given dreams already exist
as spiritual realities.
This is the final key to building in the spirit.
As you meditate on the dreams that God has promised you,
as you see those dreams fulfilled in all their glory
by faith in the present tense,
practice allowing the greatest, most extreme expressions
of gratitude to God that you've ever expressed
flood your heart and rise up as incense
before the throne of God.
Through your faith, you are able to express
extreme gratitude right now for spiritual realities
that you know will one day be established in the natural.
This is one of the most powerful expressions of faith
and spiritual practices that we can ever engage in.
Extreme gratitude is always in perfect harmony
with the divine dance.
As you practice extreme gratitude,
there's a good chance that you will find yourself
being pulled into the divine dance
and becoming so overwhelmed by the love of God
that you and your faith become as invincible as Abraham.
Abraham was such a master of faith
that even when all the facts did their best
to defy the promises of God for his life,
his faith did not flinch.
Instead of reacting in unbelief,
Abraham's faith only grew stronger.
The more impossible the promise looked,
the more Abraham rejoiced and the more his faith grew.
Until at last, the son that Abraham had seen by faith
for 40 years in the spiritual realm
was conceived in Sarah's long dead womb.
Wow, pause on that for a moment.
Wow, what Abraham saw in the spirit for 40 years
finally came crashing out of heaven into Sarah's womb.
Can you imagine the joy, the laughter,
and the delight that they experienced
as they finally held their son in their arms?
Tears of extreme gratitude rolling down their cheeks,
absolutely speechless in wonder,
overwhelmed with the faithfulness and the goodness of God
and completely undone with bliss.
No wonder they named him Isaac, which means laughter.
He laughs and he will laugh,
which is exactly what.
they did over and over again as they held Isaac, their long-awaited son, and their promise
from God.
Well, that is what extreme gratitude looks like.
And by faith, that's what our prayer life can look like as we behold spiritual realities
as present tense realities.
By faith, we perceive our dreams not as maybes, but as facts.
As we yadaa those dreams by faith, we can experience the joy of that final day of breakthrough
a thousand times or more before the day comes that it actually comes to pass in the natural.
Romans 4, 19-21.
Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead.
Since he was about a hundred years old, and that Sarah's womb was also dead, yet he did
not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith
and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised.
To have faith is to be fully persuaded.
When you are fully persuaded that promises, like Ephesians 3, 20, are a fact for you,
a certainty and a done deal, then a lifestyle of extreme gratitude is the only way to live.
Ephesians 3, 20.
Never doubt God's mighty power to work in you and accomplish all this.
He will achieve infinitely more than your greatest request, your most unbelievable dream,
and exceed your wildest imagination.
He will outdo them all, for his miraculous power constantly energizes you.
As you know, there are many other spiritual disciplines that will build your faith, and
I encourage you to pursue them all, especially reading your Bible, but there are few disciplines
as powerful as the practice of extreme gratitude.
Extreme gratitude really is the pinnacle of building in the spirit.
Extreme gratitude is one of the highest and most powerful spiritual disciplines.
Extreme gratitude for the things that you perceive by faith is evidence that you are
beginning to master the ancient heavenly weapon of faith, and it is evidence that you have
slain the giant of unbelief.
The sound of extreme gratitude for the things that you perceive by faith will produce supernatural
momentum in the spiritual realm that releases two mind-blowing side effects, one for you
and one for your dream.
Extreme gratitude will position you to joyfully rule and reign in power and love over every
challenge that comes your way.
Philippians 3, 1.
The conclusion of your faith is extreme gladness in the Lord.
He is your constant reference to bliss.
I'm not just saying this to be repetitive.
Joy is your fortress.
There is no safer place to be but to be ecstatically happy.
When you practice extreme gratitude, your attention is set on God.
The sound of extreme gratitude is filling the atmosphere.
Delight is flooding your heart and flooding the atmosphere all around you.
There are few ways to position yourself more effectively to be overwhelmed by the bliss
and the ecstasy of the presence of God than to regularly practice extreme gratitude.
Philippians 4, 4.
Joy is not a luxury option.
Joy is your constant.
Your union in the Lord is your permanent source of delight.
So I might as well say it again, rejoice in the Lord always.
We were designed by God to live overwhelmed by His presence and love.
When we are overwhelmed by God's glory, nothing else in this world can overwhelm us.
We can live above every circumstance and rule over every situation regardless of the chaos
unfolding around us.
When we are overwhelmed by the love and glory of God, we are positioned to rule and reign
in power and love over every challenge that comes our way.
The regular practice of extreme gratitude, especially for things that we perceive by
faith, has always been one of the most effective ways to create an atmosphere where we find
ourselves consistently overwhelmed by the glory of God and invincible in the face of
our enemies.
Psalm 27, verse 1 to 3.
The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life.
Life of whom shall I be afraid?
When the wicked advance against me to devour me,
it is my enemies and my foes who will stumble and fall.
Though an army besiege me, my heart will not fear.
Though war break out against me,
even then I will be confident.
The place of extreme gratitude
unlocks deep intimacy with the Trinity,
and intimacy with God always releases amazing dreams,
insight, creativity, ideas, strategies, and vision.
This will position you to refine
your declarations over your dream.
It will fuel your faith.
It will set you up for victory
over the third satanic assignment and giant of darkness
that have been commissioned against your life and destiny.
When it comes to how your dream will be blessed
by the sound of extreme gratitude,
you need to imagine that extreme gratitude
is like a heat-seeking missile.
When you pour yourself out in extreme delight,
God mobilizes heaven on your behalf
to release victory over your enemies,
to set up divine appointments and divine timing,
to literally rearrange reality on your behalf,
constructing the circumstances and sequences of events
that will divinely orchestrate the fruition of your dreams
and the desires of your heart.
Wow, extreme gratitude is a form of delight.
We know that as we release the sound of delight,
God fulfills the desires of our hearts,
but he also does that by mobilizing heaven on our behalf
as we worship and give thanks.
Psalm 37 verse four,
delight yourself in the Lord
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
This is exactly what King Jehoshaphat experienced
when he was surrounded by three great armies
that were coming to completely destroy his kingdom.
He made his focus extreme gratitude
for a salvation that he had perceived by faith.
Despite the fact that the enemy armies
were already marching to the battle lines,
King Jehoshaphat's strategy
was to place the worship team in front of the army
to delight in God, to be bold and to have faith.
Two Chronicles chapter 20, verse 20 to 25.
Early in the morning, they left for the desert of Tekoa.
As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood and said,
listen to me, Judah and people of Israel,
have faith in the Lord your God and you will be upheld.
Have faith in his prophets and you will be successful.
After consulting the people,
Jehoshaphat appointed men to sing praises of God
and to sing to the Lord and praise him
for the splendor of his holiness
as they went out at the head of the army saying,
give thanks to the Lord, his love endures forever.
As they began to sing and praise,
the Lord set ambushes against the men of Ammon and Moab
and Mount Seir who were invading Judah.
Then they were defeated.
The Ammonites and the Moabites
rose up against the men from Mount Seir
to destroy and annihilate them.
After they finished slaughtering the men from Seir,
they helped to destroy one another.
When the men of Judah came to the place
that overlooks the desert and looked toward the vast army,
they saw only dead bodies lying on the ground.
No one had escaped.
So Jehoshaphat and his men went to carry off their plunder
and they found among them a great amount of equipment
and clothing and also articles of value
more than they could take away.
There was so much plunder
that it took three days to collect it.
An insight that I received from the Lord
through this passage is that
there is always a blessing in the blind side.
Every time the enemy blindsides us,
if we position ourselves in faith,
the light and extreme attitude,
even while the enemy is marching to the battle lines,
believing that there is a blessing in the blind side,
we can experience what Jehoshaphat experienced
and what Joseph experienced.
One Genesis 5.20, Joseph said,
you intended to harm me,
but God intended it for good
to accomplish what is now being done,
the saving of many lives.
Here's a quick recap on how to master
the four phases of building in the spirit.
One, you must have a burning desire.
Two, you must seek God for an assurance of faith.
Three, you must frame your future with declarations.
This phase includes solidifying your faith,
taking ownership of your dream,
and holding fast as you birth your dream
into the natural realm through faith.
Number four, you must live.
Live in a place of extreme gratitude for the dreams that you perceive by faith, giving
thanks for future realities like Abraham and Sarah as they held Isaac in their arms.
Living by faith and not by sight looks like living from another dimension.
Everyone around you is looking at your facts, but you are living by faith and the facts
are irrelevant in your decision-making process.
Living by faith and not by sight happens when your faith in God's promise eclipses the
facts that defy that God is able to fulfill His word to you.
The impossibilities that were once giants in your eyes become as grasshoppers.
When this happens, everything changes, but it often happens little by little.
Through this process of building in the Spirit, it's literally like taking possession of
spiritual real estate and building your wildest dreams in the spiritual realm.
As you steward your burning desire and your assurance of faith and begin to declare the
promises of God over your life, calling what is unseen as seen and practicing extreme gratitude
as though all your wildest dreams have already come true, something priceless happens.
The spiritual bare land that you acquired through an assurance of faith starts to have
a building appearing on it, perhaps just a tent to begin with.
But as you build in the Spirit, your wildest dreams become masterpieces and mansions like
the fathers of the faith, you too move in and take up residence and you start to live
from the conviction that the promise of God is a present reality.
It just hasn't been revealed to the eyes of those around you yet.
Michelangelo once said,
I saw an angel in the marble and I carved until I set him free.
From 1494 to 1495, Michelangelo transformed a block of granite into one of the greatest
sculptures and most magnificent artistic masterpieces ever created.
He said,
In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped
and perfect in attitude and action.
I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it
to the other eyes as mine see it.
Living by faith is similar.
Just as Michelangelo carved his angel out with every action of his hammer and chisel,
so too we carve out our destiny, our wildest dreams, our promises from God with every faith-based
action and declaration.
As we build in the Spirit, we are literally framing our future.
Everything that we yada in our imagination, the burning desires of our heart, the unyielding
declarations that we stand firmly on and the extreme gratitude that we are expressing for
future realities, all works together to literally frame our future and redesign our world.
How we frame our future, how we are building in the Spirit, literally frames up and determines
the potential of the life and dreams that we will live in the natural.
Living by faith and not by sight requires us to actually move in and take up residence
in another dimension.
Our attention becomes fixed on the higher realm of faith that has the power to redefine
the natural facts and impossibilities.
How crazy must Noah have looked, building the ark in a paddock at a time in history
before the earth even experienced rain?
He was living by faith and not by sight.
Abraham must have looked crazy, believing his descendants would outnumber the stars
in the sky when he and his wife were barren.
He was living by faith and not by sight.
Living from a higher dimension that has the capacity to redefine natural realities.
Living in the Spirit is being like Michelangelo in carving out your angel, your promises,
your destiny, your wildest dreams in the spiritual realm by faith.
order to eventually reveal it in the natural.
What's the angel that you will carve that will be appreciated by generations to come?
What's your angel, your cause, your wildest dream that's worth dying for, that's worth
building in the spirit, and that's worth investing years of carving out by faith
just as Michelangelo carved his angel?
Our next chapter exposes a giant of darkness that has never besieged any generation with
a greater onslaught than this generation is experiencing right now.
I guarantee you can relate, and you've almost certainly faced off with this giant
multiple times already today.
James Hudson Taylor said,
Then it is difficult, then it is done.
Throughout history, war has been one of the most dramatic contexts to highlight the extreme
significance of strategy.
Entire nations and empires have fallen as a direct result of strategy.
One example is the Battle of Galgamela, which saw the rising of one empire and the falling
of another.
The Battle of Galgamela was one of the most epic battles in world history.
It took place on the 1st of October, 331 BC in present-day Iraq.
Darius, the emperor of Persia and the commander of the largest army on earth, came head-to-head
with Alexander, the commander of the army of Greece, in a battle that would set the
course of history.
The fate of two kingdoms would be determined by this single battle.
Alexander was risking everything to bring the fight to Darius.
If Alexander was conquered, Greece stood open for a Persian invasion.
If Alexander could conquer Darius in this battle, the entire Persian empire would be
his.
Sources vary regarding the exact size of the Persian army that day, but to quote Colonel
Lance Petros, military history instructor, USMA West Point, Darius's army was between
200,000 to 250,000 veteran soldiers.
It was one of the largest armies assembled in history up to that time.
In contrast, Alexander had approximately 40,000 infantry and 7,000 cavalry.
These seem to be impossible odds.
Alexander was outnumbered by 150,000 to 200,000 veteran soldiers.
Darius chose the battlefield and prepared it for his advantage.
He had parts of it flattened and placed traps throughout it for Alexander and his men.
He created the perfect conditions for his army.
However, Alexander was secretly observing Darius's preparations and managed to capture
some of Darius's men and find out important information, including where Darius had
positioned the traps.
Darius expected Alexander to attack by night.
He ordered his men to stay up all night in preparation for an attack that never came.
While the Persian army stood at the ready for battle the entire night, it was rumored
that Alexander slept in on the morning of battle.
His troops were well-rested, well-fed, and ready for war.
The Persian army's front line stretched out for over four kilometers.
They outnumbered the Greeks by 150,000 to 200,000 battle-hardened warriors.
Defeat seemed inevitable.
Victory seemed impossible.
If Alexander had attacked with a regular strategy on that day, it is likely that none of us
would even know his name.
The Persian army were battle-hardened veterans who had just successfully created one of the
greatest empires in world history.
But Alexander was set apart by the wisdom of his strategies.
Alexander's understanding and value of strategy caused him to consider every option and every
before the battle. He worked harder than anyone else on mastering the wisdom of
strategy before his battles so that his battles could be easy. It was this
intense focus and attention to detail that enabled him to come up with the
type of wisdom and strategies that could effortlessly neutralize an army's
greatest weapon in minutes, as he did with the feared scythe chariots.
Alexander had been thinking about every strength, weakness, opportunity and threat
of the enemy in order to know how he could exploit them. Then he trained his
men how to defeat the enemy well in advance of the battle day. One of the
Persians most feared weapons of war were their infamous scythe chariots. Darius
had 200 scythe chariots which had large blades sticking out from the hubs of the
chariot wheels. These chariots were notorious for massive destruction as
they rode through the enemy cutting people down with the blades. During the
battle Darius released his 200 scythe chariots. What he didn't see coming was
Alexander's superior strategy. Some of Alexander's infantry units were
assembled in what was called a phalanx. A phalanx was a unit of men positioned
16 men wide and 16 men deep. These soldiers carried spears that were 16 to
18 feet long and small shields. When the chariots charged at the phalanx hoping
to cut the men to pieces, the soldiers moved to create a long and wide path
for the chariots to run into. The blades did not touch anyone and the horses
stopped their charge when faced with a wall of spears. Then the spearmen, either
side of the chariots, took out the drivers. Within minutes the 200 notorious
scythe chariots of the Persian army were completely eliminated without having any
impact on Alexander's troops. Nearly everything that Darius tried that day
failed as he came face to face with the superior wisdom and strategies of
Alexander. Alexander had a precision strategy. Every detail had been considered.
Every possible scenario that could kill his dream of conquering the greatest
kingdom on earth had been meticulously analyzed and counter strategies had been
developed. It was Alexander's wisdom, focus, planning and his ability to
develop strategy that empowered him to conquer the greatest empire on the
planet with an army of approximately 47,000 men. When faced with the
impossible, Alexander did not just win, he absolutely crushed the Persians. He
dominated them completely. He made the impossible look easy because he took the
time to focus and he did the hard work of planning and developing strategy
well in advance of the battle. In a single battle Alexander's men against
the Persian Empire killed approximately 50,000 Persians while losing only a
thousand of their own troops. Being outnumbered by a hundred and fifty
thousand to two hundred thousand veteran soldiers facing an army up to five times
their size and facing some of the most notorious weapons of the day on the
enemy's home turf was no match for superior wisdom, focus, planning and
strategy. Even when faced with the impossible, Alexander demonstrated that a
great strategy can empower an impossible dream to come to fruition. It was
after the Battle of Galgamela that Alexander received the title Alexander
the Great. Another exceptional point to note is that Alexander was only 26 years
old when he led Greece to victory at Galgamela over the greatest empire on
earth. Alexander died at age 32 and in that time he had conquered the whole
known world. Alexander the Great never lost a single battle. He was victorious
in every campaign. In fact he won the most impossible battles like Galgamela
in style. He made the impossible look easy because he understood the value of
taking precision actions with precision timing for precision results. One of
Alexander's great keys to victory was having the wisdom to focus, focus, focus.
He focused meticulously on creating superior strategies to his enemy before every battle.
Once he had mastered a superior strategy, everything else fell into place.
His superior strategy gave him precision clarity so that at every point he could take precision
actions with precision timing for precision results.
Such confidence in his strategies allowed him and his army to implement the strategies
with surgical precision and ferocious boldness.
A less obvious key that positioned Alexander the Great to be victorious in every battle
was that he was fully persuaded that absolutely nothing was impossible.
He had such conviction that nothing was impossible that fear never clouded or restricted his
creativity in the process of creating strategy.
Fear will shut you down, especially your creative capacity.
Alexander the Great never once backed down from a battle.
Regardless of the odds, he was fully persuaded that he would be victorious, but he knew the
only way to ensure that victory was to focus, focus, focus.
He understood that any battle could be won with the right strategy, so he made certain
before every single battle that he had done absolutely everything possible to focus and
to prepare a superior strategy that would guarantee their victory.
There are a lot of thoughts on the cause of Alexander's death.
Some say he was poisoned, others say he died of a fever.
Colonel Lance Betros said that if he had to arrange a list of the top 10 commanders of
all time, the undefeated master of strategy, Alexander the Great, would be his number one
commander of all time.
The secret poison.
You can be more spiritual than an angel and have greater faith in Abraham and still be
completely taken out by the third giant of darkness that is brazen enough to hunt you
down anywhere and at any time, day or night.
This giant may appear as an angel of light.
It may even seem completely innocent.
This particular satanic assignment against your life is cunning, deceptive, and tailor-made.
It has a poison crafted to be administered in small doses that are seldom lethal in the
moment.
It often tastes delicious, so you never suspect it was designed to kill you.
This poison is administered directly to you, openly, in broad daylight, and often times
you welcome it and drink it with a smile, not realising that long term it is absolutely
lethal to your destiny and calling.
You drink down the poison, not realising that with every sip you are tricked into becoming
your own enemy and betraying your own dreams.
Meanwhile, this giant of darkness goes undetected, sneaking around your house, your workplace,
shadowing your every move, waiting to administer more tiny doses of its poison as many times
a day as possible.
This giant is the giant of distraction.
The satanic assignment that it has been commissioned to carry out against your life is to ensure
that you are busy doing anything, nothing, and everything except focusing on the most
strategic thing.
The third ancient heavenly weapon given to you to defeat the giants of darkness is wisdom.
In our current digital world, surrounded by notifications, updates, downloads, cool videos,
global news, lockdowns and pop-ups, we are being assaulted by the giant of distraction
like never before as it relentlessly pursues one of our most precious commodities, our
attention.
Wisdom and distraction both aggressively compete for our attention with two completely different
agendas.
The giant of darkness is focused on smothering the life out of you in every way.
It wants to smother your connection with God, smother your daily schedule with busyness,
smother your rest time, smother your work time, smother your relationships, smother
your down time, smother your day time, smother your night time.
The giant of distraction is trying to get you so busy and so distracted, so engaged
with anything, nothing, and everything.
and everything that you are run, ragged, stretched too thin, burning the candle at both ends,
overworked, burnt out, run down and jacked up to the point that you never do the most strategic
things. The worst thing that the giant of distraction can imagine is you stopping,
listening and hearing the voice of wisdom. Wisdom.
Let me take a little poetic license once again. Wisdom is like a beautiful headmistress
of heaven's royal academy of giant slayers. She is stunning. She effortlessly captivates
every space that she enters. Her perfume is an ever-changing symphony of the finest fragrances
of every season. She radiates warmth, kindness, strength, gentleness, boldness and an atmosphere
of invincibility. Literal waves of translucent light seem to shimmer off her and dance almost
invisibly in her wake. Intrigue, honor, awe, power and reverence encircle her and silently
herald her approach as they permeate a room before she enters. Her full-sleeved, full-length
dress is breathtaking. She made it herself, as she does with all her garments. It took over
a hundred years of Tuesday evening dressmaking. It is as much a piece of jewelry as it is a dress.
It is a one-of-a-kind, light silver and white dress embedded with an ocean of dazzling precious
stones. Her hair is so blonde it could be white or it could be blonde with pulses of light
occasionally passing through it. It is tied up elegantly. Long diamond earrings match her
diamond necklace and the jewels themselves sing heavenly melodies as quietly as the sound of
breathing, harmonizing with every jewel on her dress. Thousands of barely audible heavenly voices
release the sound of delight and rise as an incense of worship. As they sing, their colors
morph almost unnoticeably in a slow motion dance, softly sparkling and swirling in a cadence with
glory. Nothing about her is more entrancing than her aqua blue eyes that carry the very heartbeat
of heaven in every glance. Her eyes are like a double-edged sword because as you look into them,
they capture you entirely and an invisible force pulls your focus nearer. You feel as if you could
swim in them and discover all the mysteries of eternity, but when wisdom engages you with full
eye contact, nothing you've experienced has ever been more penetrating. When wisdom looks
into your eyes, she reads your entire story. Nothing is hidden to her. You are fully exposed
and simultaneously fully embraced. With a single silent glance, she has become perfectly acquainted
with every moment of your journey. The silence deepens. Even her acapella jewelry and the dancing
beams of light around her still themselves. The silence is perfect stillness. Not even your
thoughts can move as everything holds its breath with intrigue. Now that wisdom knows your entire
destiny, your past, your present, your strengths, weaknesses, and every detail of your story,
what will wisdom say? Proverbs 8 1 to 5 verse 12 and verses 32 to 36.
Does not wisdom call out? Does not understanding raise her voice? At the highest point along the
way where the paths meet, she takes her stand. Beside the gate leading into the city, at the
entrance, she cries aloud. To you, O people, I call out. I raise my voice to all mankind.
I, wisdom, dwell together with prudence. I possess knowledge and discretion.
Now then, my children, listen to me.
Blessed are those who keep my ways, listen to my instruction and be wise, do not disregard it.
Blessed are those who listen to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at my doorway.
For those who find me, find life and receive favour from the Lord.
But those who fail to find me, harm themselves. All who hate me, love death.
What would wisdom say to you? If you broke free from the distractions,
what would wisdom say to you? Here's a few ideas.
Wisdom assesses all the information, past, present and future.
Before wisdom looks into the future, to the moment where you give account for your life,
wisdom looks back to the beginning and considers the full extravagance of the
sacred destiny and calling that the Trinity has entrusted to you.
Then wisdom pierces the deepest recesses of your heart and captures your most authentic,
extravagant and precious desires. Specifically, wisdom considers what you want the most on the
most important moment of your existence to look like. The moment that you have to give account to God.
That moment that you stand face to face with your maker and give account for every breath you breathed,
every action that you took or didn't take, for every word you spoke, for every resource that
you stewarded for the life that you lived, and most significantly, how you stewarded the
limitless and sacred destiny that was entrusted to you. Psalm 139 verse 16.
Your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be. In a moment, wisdom weighs on a balance, the sacred destiny
that was entrusted to you, the current trajectory of your life, your deepest hopes and desires for
the moment that you must give account of your life to your maker and then sits you down for
some real talk. There's no small talk with wisdom, no excuses, no justifications, no waste, no mucking
around. She tolerates no fools. There's in-your-face reality, brutal honesty, extreme ownership, crystal
clear clarity, and high stakes consequences and rewards. Her focus is to raise up royal giant
slayers who will do whatever it takes to walk the narrow path, the ancient highways, and to walk
into the infinite possibilities available in Christ. Wisdom will test your heart to determine
whether or not you are good company for her. If you are, she will challenge you like you've never
been challenged before in order to equip and empower you for your sacred destiny. If you are
not good company for her, she will quietly move on and leave you to your own self-destructive
dysfunction. Wisdom's role is not to be a rescuer. If wisdom deems you as good company, she will
communicate with you clearly, captivating your focus and attention completely. This is what she
will reveal. Number one, here's the limitless sacred destiny that God has entrusted to you.
Number two, here's how you are stewarding it. Number three, here's where that will lead if you continue
on your current trajectory. Number four, if you want to change the destination that you
are heading for, then this is exactly what you must do. If you responded well to that feedback
at a heart level, because wisdom would see right through your words and thoughts and into your heart,
then wisdom might take you a little deeper. Before she revealed even another word to you,
she would demand a commitment from you of the highest levels of focus and extreme ownership
that you have ever summoned. Her price tag is not silver and gold. She's already rich beyond measure.
Her currency is the highest levels of focus and extreme ownership that you have ever summoned.
Her price tag is not silver and gold. She already has
riches beyond measure, her currency is the highest level, let me say it again, of focus
and extreme ownership.
She will demand all that you have and more.
Once you have given her a solemn oath, vowing to supply the highest quality of focus and
extreme ownership that you have ever attained, she will then, and only then, take you deeper.
If wisdom was convinced by your vows, she would begin.
She would begin by demanding her first payment of your focus immediately.
She would then begin to work with you to create a tailor-made precision vision plan, detailing
exactly how to steward your sacred destiny and dreams into complete fruition.
The precision vision plan would show you how to dream with God and how to set yourself
on fire with passion for the types of dreams worth dying for.
She would caution you not to touch any dream that does not set you ablaze with desire.
She would walk you through the process of building in the spirit.
Wisdom would teach you how to partner with God to create a personalized precision vision
plan that will provide you with the infrastructure you need to steward your sacred destiny and
dreams on a daily basis.
She would uncover every detail of how to mature the dreams that you have birthed through faith
into the fullness of the world-changing, history-making, planet-shaking dreams that God saw when He
unleashed His limitless power to dream the best for you before the foundation of the world.
She would break it all down for you into achievable bite-sized goals that revealed how you could
systematically bring your wildest dreams to life.
She would highlight the power of knowing and achieving each day's priority tasks.
She would show you the massive, consistent, and strategic actions that your sacred destiny
required on a daily basis.
Then, she would get really intense.
She would demand from you the second part of her payment, extreme ownership.
At this point, she would get through to you on the deepest, most soul-trembling level
that anyone has ever spoken to you on and bring a reality check of where you are right
now and the changes you need to make in order to get where you want to go.
She would then line up for you the high-stakes consequences and rewards attached to your
calling and reveal how your success or failure will influence multitudes for generations
to come.
Once she has your focus and your motivation at a record high, she will confront you with
the cost and require an immediate commitment from you.
The cost will be great.
It will cost you every thought, every behavior, every distraction that is causing you to betray
your own destiny and dreams.
You may love some of these things that cause you to betray your own dreams, but for the
sake of your sacred calling, wisdom will ask you to surrender them.
Luke 9, 23-25, Jesus said to all his followers, if you truly desire to be my disciple, you
must disown your life completely, embrace my cross as your own and surrender to my ways.
For if you choose self-sacrifice, giving up your lives for my glory, you will embark on
a discovery of more and more true life.
But if you choose to keep your lives for yourselves, you will lose what you try to keep.
Even if you gained all the wealth and power of the world, everything it could offer you,
yet lost your own soul in the process, what good is that?
Wisdom does not require a vow of poverty, but she does require a vow of loyalty.
A vow that you will no longer betray your own dreams by drinking the poisons of lack,
unbelief, distraction and apathy.
A vow that you will not be a victim and focus on what you cannot control.
Wisdom requires that you vow loyalty to your own dreams by vowing to take extreme ownership
of your sacred destiny and focusing only on yourself.
on what you can control. Vowing to dream with God, vowing to build in the spirit,
vowing to maintain your focus on your sacred destiny and dreams, vowing to take massive,
consistent and strategic action on a daily basis. If wisdom is convinced that your vows are sincere
and you maintain your vows, she will walk with you all the days of your life. Finally,
wisdom would give you a gift. This gift is the key to revolutionizing your personal world
and the world that you live in. It is a key to overcoming every impossible barrier and to
redesigning earth in the image of heaven. The single key that wisdom would give you as her
parting gift would be knowing that you are about to enter a battle, knowing that the giant of
distraction is stalking you every minute of every day, knowing the significance of your sacred
destiny on the future of humanity. The key that wisdom would give you is focus. Without intentional
focus it is impossible to steward the sacred destiny upon your life. Focus is one of the
rarest but most powerful forces in the world. It is a force so powerful that it can unleash
divine destiny and set such a fire on one person that multitudes and nations and history itself
will be marked forever through the power of focus operating through the life of a single person.
The power of focus is what set Alexander the Great apart from every other military commander
in world history as the single greatest commander the world has ever seen.
Alexander the Great was convinced that no dream wasn't possible if you gave it the focus that it
required. His focus gave him wisdom and strategies that shaped history time and time again. At the
age of 26 he conquered the greatest empire in the world. By the age of 32 he had conquered the whole
known world. If you master the third heavenly weapon of wisdom truly nothing will be impossible
for you. Proverbs chapter 21 verse 22. One who is wise can go up against the city of the mighty
and pull down the stronghold in which they trust. Wielding the weapon of wisdom makes all things
possible but you will have to count the cost and decide for yourself if you are willing to pay the
price required to walk in the fruition of your wildest dreams. If the answer is yes you must
begin by embracing wisdom's gift of focus. What could focus produce in your life? Is it possible
that the single most important ingredient to bringing your wildest dreams to life is focus?
What if your level of focus was the most important thing that you needed to do right now
in order to make Ephesians 3 20 your daily reality? Ephesians 3 20. Never doubt God's
mighty power to work in you and accomplish all this. He will achieve infinitely more than your
greatest request, your most unbelievable dream and exceed your wildest imagination. He will
outdo them all for his miraculous power constantly energizes you.
Three things you can do to immediately help upgrade your focus.
Don't be distracted by the giant of distraction. Forget about that guy. Nothing drives the giant
of distraction more crazy than being ignored. Instead give your attention to wisdom's gift,
focus. When you focus on your sacred destiny all the other facets of wisdom will naturally
follow along. The critical question is how can you increase your focus when the giant of
distraction is stalking you day and night? Here's three things that you can do to immediately
upgrade your focus. Number one create a personalized precision vision plan. You need
to write down your vision. It's very difficult to focus on a vision that you have not written down.
Habakkuk 2.2 Then the Lord answered me write down this vision.
and clearly inscribe it on tablets so that a herald may run with it.
For over a decade, I have travelled throughout New Zealand and internationally, teaching
on vision.
When I ask audiences who has actually taken the time to write down their vision and create
a strategic plan for how they are going to bring their wildest dreams to life and steward
their sacred destiny, almost no one in the audience has ever done it.
Sometimes you get some people who have written down some goals, but creating a comprehensive,
personalised precision vision plan is extremely rare.
I think if people realised how much it was costing them not to have a precision vision
plan, they would create one immediately.
One of the big prices you will pay for not having a precision vision plan is that you
are extremely vulnerable to the giant of distraction.
A precision vision plan gives you a massive, crystal clear, YES!
Without a massive YES, you are vulnerable to a massive distraction.
Most people are easily conquered for the giant of distraction.
To completely knock you off track from your destiny, the giant of distraction doesn't
even have to convince you to do anything bad.
Perhaps all the giant of distraction needs to do is convince you to take on another little
hobby, or serve and help out in another ministry, or start another project, or, or, or, and,
and, and, plus, plus, plus, all of a sudden you find yourself doing something, nothing
and everything apart from the one thing that you were truly born for.
If you have said a massive YES to your dreams and taken the time to clearly write down your
vision, your strategic plan, your goals, plus the precise priority actions that you
need to take to make those goals happen, it becomes so much easier and clearer to recognize
when you need to say a massive NO.
Without a personalized precision vision plan, you could be distracted until the day you
die and then have the most terrible experience of regret.
As you face your maker and discover just how much of your limitless destiny you wasted.
Nehemiah had such a massive YES to the assignment on his life that it was easy to recognize
when he needed to say a massive NO.
Nehemiah chapter 6 verse 3, and I sent messengers to them saying, I am doing a great work and
I cannot come down.
Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?
I think one of the main reasons why people don't create a personalized precision vision
plan is because we often don't know where to start.
I totally get that.
Even as someone who has taught and written about vision for years, and even as a life
coach, I could get lost if you told me just to grab a pen and paper and write down my
vision and create a personalized precision vision plan.
It really is quite a complicated process if you want to do it well and it's very easy
to get lost in.
Because this process is so difficult for most people, I invested a colossal amount of time
and energy into creating a series of simplified, systematic templates and training videos called
the 40 Day Focus Package.
In the 40 Day Focus Package, I walk people through an in-depth, step-by-step process
that provides all the templates and coaching a person needs to create their very own personalized
precision vision plan.
I recommend it as a 40 day process, but it's entirely self-paced.
The feedback I'm receiving is truly life-changing for people and there's few things more gratifying
for me than to watch people walk into their long-standing dreams quickly once they get
focused.
I'm not trying to do a hard sales pitch here at all, but I am fully persuaded that this
resource will add enormous value to your life.
Normally, the 40 Day Focus Package is a $997 life coaching package, but I really want to
make this available to people.
So right now, I'm doing something pretty crazy and basically giving it away for just $37
New Zealand dollars.
Also, if you buy it, I'm happy for you to share access with your whole family for no
extra charge.
There's absolutely no pressure to take me up on this offer, but I honestly don't know
where else people could get a priceless resource like this.
It is the culmination of over a decade of training condensed down into a seven-step
process that covers my seven sacred systems for success, which either work for us or against
us in life, and they will make or break our wildest dreams.
Imagine there's seven handbrakes holding up the fruition of your dreams.
In the Focus Package, we systematically remove each handbrake in order to release unprecedented
momentum for your dreams.
You get lifetime access to an entire online platform dedicated to the 40-day Focus Package,
plus all the templates you need for every step of the process of bringing your wildest
dreams to life.
If you have access already to another systematic approach to developing a personalized precision
vision plan already, that's great!
I created this resource for people that need help with that process, and you can access
the 40-day Focus Package by clicking on this link.
So here's the link, www.thescienceofdreams.com forward slash focus.
That's www.thescienceofdreams.com forward slash focus.
I don't want people to have to keep on struggling with the process of creating a personalized
precision vision plan, so I hope this resource can be as helpful to you and your family as
it has been to so many others.
My aim is not to sell a package.
My aim is to see you take extreme ownership for the level of focus in your life.
I don't believe that a person can honestly say to themselves that they have taken extreme
ownership for their wildest dreams and the sacred call of God on their lives if they
haven't even created a personalized precision vision plan.
The opportunity at hand here is huge.
By creating a personalized precision vision plan, slaying the giant of distraction becomes
incomparably easier than ever before, and you will find that lost dreams, dead dreams,
stuck dreams, and new dreams start coming to life one after the other as soon as you
master wisdom's gift, focus.
Okay, so to recap that, the first way to immediately upgrade your focus levels is to write down
your vision and create an in-depth personalized precision vision plan.
Benjamin Franklin said, if you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.
Number two, create a priority to-do list.
Once you have written down your vision and you have created a strategic plan, the next
step will always be to take massive, consistent, strategic action.
Having a priority to-do list is a great way to keep you focused on your priority tasks
for the day, week, or month.
It's also a fantastic way to eliminate time-wasting and build a strong sense of momentum every
time you tick off a job from the list.
In 1906, an Italian man named Vilfredo Pareto recognized and coined the 80-20 principle.
He realized that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by about 20% of the population.
He began to discover other places that the 80-20 principle also applied.
One area that the 80-20 principle often applies is in our daily to-do lists.
20% of our activity often produces 80% of our returns.
Pareto referred to the 20% as the vital few and the 80% as the trivial many.
Will you engage in the 20%, the vital few activities that will bring you success?
Or will you be distracted by the 80%, the trivial many, which will ultimately rob you
of your dreams?
If you have 10 tasks on your to-do list for the day, it is often true that two of those
tasks will bring you the greatest reward for your effort.
Keto refers to those tasks as the vital few.
One of the keys to bringing your dreams to life is being able to identify the vital few
tasks that you need to accomplish on a daily basis if your vision, strategy and goals are
out of focus, your priorities will be too.
P.S.
I have templates, videos and step-by-step training in the 40-day focus package that
walks you through the entire process of putting all these things in place as a part of your
own personalised precision vision plan.
If you are creating your own personalised precision vision plan, make sure to include
these elements in the process.
People with vague goals end up with vague to-do lists.
A vague to-do list will betray your dreams by causing you to engage with the trivial
many at the expense of the vital few.
Over time, this can kill any dream.
A person with vague goals might get 8 of the lowest priority jobs done each day and feel
like they've really achieved something.
Unfortunately, engaging with the trivial many at the expense of the vital few results in
a lifestyle of maximum effort for minimal reward.
In contrast, a person who is focused on their personalised precision vision plan will have
a clear understanding of which vital few tasks they need to accomplish each day.
They might spend 80% of their time on the vital few tasks for the day and only get 2,
3 or 4 things on their list done.
However, engaging with the vital few rather than the trivial many is a system for success
which produces a lifestyle of maximum reward for maximum effort.
Because they consistently choose the highest priority objectives, their productivity will
be far greater than the person with vague goals who is busy all day long accomplishing
low value objectives.
Over a week, this makes a big difference.
Over a month, it makes a huge difference.
Over a period of years, it is the difference between the life or death of our wildest dreams.
Setting specific and measurable goals consistently over a lifetime can literally be the difference
between the life or death of your wildest dreams.
So when you make your priority to-do list, identify the vital few tasks which will give
you the highest return.
Often, the highest reward tasks are the hardest, so people avoid them not realising how much
it will cost them in the long term in more ways than one.
One of the first things you can put on your to-do list is fast distraction feast on focus.
Where are the really easy opportunities for you to substitute a distraction for focus?
Having tasks of all sizes on your to-do list will mean that if you only have a few minutes
between tasks, you can grab a really small job off your to-do list instead of wasting
that time on a distraction.
Just the fact that you have a priority to-do list causes you to refocus on your vision
every time you look at the list.
Another simple option is post-it notes.
Put post-it notes in strategic spots that are going to help you refocus on your wildest
dreams and your sacred destiny multiple times a day.
God would have given the Israelites the same idea if they had post-it notes back then.
Check out what he said in Deuteronomy 11, 18-21.
so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land the Lord swore to
give your ancestors, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.
Number three, create community.
Like-minded people on the same journey are always priceless.
Here's a few ideas for how you can create community to help you upgrade your focus.
levels. Share this free book with a friend and use it as a conversation
starter to talk about your sacred destiny and your wildest dreams
together. People can get quite chatty when you ask them what their wildest
dreams are and these deep conversations can spark a very powerful and fresh
momentum on your dreams. Do the 40-day focus package with a few friends or
your home group or your church. I don't even mind if you buy it once and share
access with your whole crew or do something vision related with your crew.
Now not everyone is fortunate enough to have a group of people around them who
want to increase their focus levels. You could join a group online. If you
haven't got many ideas or options we do have the online School of Sonship where
hundreds of like-minded people are gathered together. We pray, do training
and chase after our dreams together. This does have a cost to it as well. It's
normally $1,497 New Zealand dollars for lifetime access and we're
actually still charging the regular fees but for people reading my book I'm
basically giving it away right now. So it's only a $197 New Zealand dollars and
the value of what you get is absolutely wild even at full price. Again I'm not
trying to be all salesy but I am trying to give you some ideas, options and a
crazy good offer to help you out if you need them. So if that sounds like a good
fit and you love ridiculous deals where you get to save $1,300 then the online
School of Sonship could be just what you need to really start launching some big
dreams. Here's the link to get $1,300 off right now www.thescienceofdreams.com
forward slash sonship hyphen online that's www.thescienceofdreams.com
forward slash sonship hyphen online. What would wisdom say to you? Let's bring it
in tight as we wrap up this chapter. Proverbs 8 10 to 11. Choose my
instruction instead of silver knowledge rather than choice gold for wisdom is
more precious than rubies and nothing you desire can compare with her. If
wisdom's vibrant aqua blue eyes pierced your soul completely exposing you and
embracing you to the core of your being while she searched out your sacred
destiny your deepest desires the trajectory of your life and then weighed
them all in the balance if she held you silently face to face in her timeless
gaze when she eventually broke the silence what priority actions would
wisdom say you need to take right now chapter 6 the distance between dreams a
final giant to slay you've been dreaming with God and your heart is ablaze with a
vision worth dying for you've been building in the spirit and by faith you
are birthing your wildest dreams into the natural realm you have embraced
wisdom's call to focus focus focus and you have created a phenomenal
personalized precision vision plan and you are supremely confident in your next
best steps you have been slaying the giants of lack unbelief and distraction
as you train with the ancient heavenly weapons of imagination faith and wisdom
only one brutish giant of darkness stands between you and becoming a master
of the science of dreams this is the ugliest dumbest rudest laziest scabbiest
nastiest most bad-mannered most selfish self-absorbed most foolish most
unhealthy most casual messiest trashiest sweatiest graceiest greasiest dirtiest
most ignorant deplorable slobbish disgusting slime-covered stench-infected
giant of all let me say that again this is the ugliest dumbest rudest laziest
scabbiest nastiest most bad-mannered most selfish and self-absorbed most
foolish most unhealthy most casual messiest trashiest sweatiest greasiest
dirtiest most ignorant deplorable slobbish disgusting slime-covered
stench-infected giant of all this giant is absolutely horrible it has the worst
attitude, the worst temper, the worst language, the worst smell, the worst hygiene, the worst
punctuality, the worst everything and absolutely nobody, not even the other giants of darkness
want to be anywhere near this vile creature.
The only thing this giant of darkness does well is oppress, suppress, depress and repress
any person, any atmosphere and anything that it comes close to.
It's like an enormous cloud of sludge that oozes its way into a room and releases its
misty putrid essence onto everything in its proximity.
This giant of darkness has crawled out of the darkest, most filthy, scum infested pits
of hell and has been commissioned to fulfill the fourth and the grossest satanic assignment
against your life, which is to give you and your whole world an extreme makeover in its
own disgusting image.
This giant is the giant of apathy and it has been commissioned to make you weak willed,
lazy and stupid.
The ancient heavenly weapon designed to slay this giant is the weapon of boldness.
The giant of apathy wants to come upon your life and make you weak willed, lazy and stupid,
but boldness will make you mighty to take massive, consistent and strategic actions
that redesign your world in the image of heaven and bring your wildest dreams to life.
The only way that the giant of apathy has any chance at influencing anyone to become
as gross as it is, is by applying a very deceptive, very long term, very long range strategy and
coding its specialised slow release poison with all sorts of sugary delicacies and false
promises.
No one in a healthy mental, physical or spiritual state of being would ever choose or desire
or agree to become like the giant of apathy, even the thought of it is so repulsive it
could make you sick.
Therefore the giant of apathy attacks people's mental, physical and spiritual state of being
with a maniacally twisted scheme that it hatched in one of hell's darkest corners.
A plot so evil but so genius that it has created one of the biggest cult followings
in our modern world.
The dark strategy of the giant of apathy relies entirely on bringing its victims into the
most broken state of degradation, despair and desperation imaginable, until ultimately
its victims even give up on life itself.
The giant of apathy has developed its hideous craft slowly over thousands of years, refining
every aspect of its traps, poison, weapons, bait, false promises and every kind of trauma,
dysfunction, chaos and perversion it can lay its hands on.
At this point we need a brave volunteer, someone strong, young and full of life and
hope.
We need to use their name for the sake of the illustration, thanks I see that hand,
we will take the name Chelsea as our volunteer.
Thanks for being our imaginary volunteer today Chelsea.
The pretend audience gives a little clap.
One of the leading and foundational lies that the giant of apathy starts out with is the
idea that truth is not absolute, truth is relative, my truth is true for me and your
truth can be true for you.
It wasn't too difficult for the giant of apathy to get the lovely Chelsea to believe that,
but unbeknown to the beautiful Chelsea, the moment that she came into agreement with that
lie she took on a major aspect of the giant of apathy's stomach churning image.
After Chelsea came to believe that truth is relative, the awful sluggish beast, the giant
of apathy convinced her that her feelings defined truth, so she began to let her feelings
lead her in her life decisions.
At this moment.
The Giant of Apathy knew he had his victim right where he wanted her.
As long as Chelsea let her feelings define her reality, she would be the Giant of Apathy's
slave.
Chelsea's only hope was to tell her feelings the truth.
But the Giant of Apathy would ensure that never happened.
He would seduce her with poisonous lies and supply a thousand voices to echo a twisted
amen to her delusion.
As far as the Giant of Apathy was concerned, Chelsea was another run on the board.
When really hard challenges started coming up with friendships, at work, in family and
with money, the Giant of Apathy suggested that it would feel better if she avoided dealing
with those hard situations.
That felt like a good and a better option than the really hard choice of dealing with
some big issues.
Then some painful circumstances from her past came up and apathy encouraged her to avoid
that too.
The Giant of Apathy promised her that life would be better if she went for instant gratification
a little more often, because that would definitely make her feel a lot happier.
She thought that seemed like a good idea too.
After a few years of avoiding hardship and pain and embracing instant gratification,
she was so weak-willed that it was almost impossible for her to commit to anything.
Facing anything that was difficult, challenging, painful or uncomfortable became an unbearable
feeling.
Quitting and avoiding painful and hard things became her status quo.
She started avoiding disappointment by not getting her hopes up too much.
Discipline was definitely too much hard work.
Another thing that she also mastered was avoiding correction.
Wow, that was a nasty feeling.
As Chelsea looked at herself in the mirror, it was impossible for her to see anything
that reminded her of the strong, young, vibrant, full of life and hope young lady that she
had been just a few short years ago.
She didn't know when, but at some point in the last couple of years, her feelings that
had been leading her life decisions had now turned against her.
She constantly felt like something was intrinsically wrong with her.
Her sense of loneliness was growing deeper and more constant.
She finally acknowledged that she was starting to hate being herself and the first waves
of depression were beginning to lap at her feet.
That's when the giant of apathy came to her rescue again.
He offered her just a small amount of something special, a drug that he knew was perfect for
her that would just take the edge off that pain.
The chemicals exploded through her bloodstream and from that very first taste, she knew she
was hooked.
At last, she was happy again, for a moment anyway.
Her happiness was expensive, she was broke, her growing depression began to be eclipsed
by her desperation.
The giant of apathy had waited years for this moment.
She was nearly where he wanted her.
She still had a few dregs of hope and self-respect remaining, but he knew there was no way that
she could survive what he had coming up next.
It was like Chelsea no longer existed.
It seemed like there was nothing left of who she had been.
As everything about her was now eclipsed by a raging addiction and no way to fund her
cravings, the giant of apathy came to her rescue again.
He ran a few ideas past her of how to raise some quick cash.
It would be a secret and just a one-off to help her get back on her feet.
For the first time, she disagreed with this voice that seemed to appear in her mind every
time things got hard or painful.
She wasn't interested this time, but it was too late for Chelsea.
She was now so weak-willed and had so little self-respect left, that there was no way she
could resist the storm of abuse that the giant of apathy had brought upon her.
of apathy rained down on her for rejecting his well-intentioned ideas.
Chelsea was now a world of chaos. Psychologically she crossed a line when
she reluctantly said yes to the quick cash idea. Her depression evolved to
despair and she knew that she could not live any longer with this unending pain
that was gnawing at her soul from the inside out. With the cash in hand, walking
down the busy street, with nightlife buzzing around her, she hit rock bottom.
She raced to get her fix. On the way she saw something that haunted her. A young
lady caught her eye. She was strong, vibrant and full of life and hope. For
the first time in a long time she remembered what hope felt like and it
seemed for a fleeting moment like a beautiful dream. But as soon as she felt
the cash in her pocket, her overbearingly painful reality crashed
over her again. Against all the odds somehow a tiny seed of hope remained
like a lone star on a cloudless night. The giant of apathy was always watching
from the shadows and he saw the glint of hope appear in her eye. His jaw dropped
in amazement. He had not seen hope like that in her for years and this was
supposed to be the worst and possibly the last night of her life. He looked
again and there it was, plain as day, something wasn't right and he wouldn't
stand for it. He began to craft something special for Chelsea. Right then, Chelsea
heard a sound that seemed to jump right inside her heart and instantly pull her
into a cafe music gig. Her feet started walking before her brain had even
realized what was happening. It was warm inside, she was immediately offered a
free coffee and as she sat in a comfy couch with a warm mug in her hands, the
music seemed to wash her cleaner than she had ever felt in her whole life. She
was so captivated by this music that she wasn't even aware that her craving had
vanished. Almost in a trance, she closed her eyes and let the music wash right
through her. Silent tears streamed beautifully down her face. She had no
words for what was happening but it was the most wonderful experience of her
life. After a long time, the music transitioned and someone began to speak
about a God who loved her. Every word was absorbed straight into her spirit
like water on thirsty ground. As they spoke, she listened with her eyes closed
and this loving Father in heaven that they spoke about made himself and his
love more real to her than anything she had ever known. Chelsea knew there was no
going back. For the first time in her life, she had come home and she would
never turn back. Her beautiful journey into the bliss of sonship had begun in
the most spectacular way. When she opened her eyes to see who was speaking, she saw
something that surprised everyone. The speaker was you. There you were, walking
in your sacred destiny. You were a pure explosion of love. The presence of God
rested on you so powerfully that you seemed to radiate like wisdom herself.
There wasn't a dry eye in the room as the tangible love of God had baptized every
heart in heaven's finest love. You flowed so effortlessly as you spoke that you
seemed to be carried along by the divine dance.
He wasn't the only person who unexpectedly walked themselves into the cafe that night.
Miracles, signs and wonders were a regular occurrence around your life. Dozens of people
had walked in off the streets and the encounters that they had with the love of God in that moment
marked them for the rest of their lives. Miracles flowed all through the room without a prayer being
prayed. Heaven's weighty atmosphere of love, peace and joy filled every corner of the room.
The presence of God that rested on your life turned up like this everywhere God sent you.
You were a walking revival. Thousands of lives had been set ablaze with the love of God
as people chatted with you, hung out with you, bumped into you in the street,
shared a conversation at a dinner table or heard you speak somewhere. As you left the cafe that
night you wept silently too. You cried the same tears of extreme gratitude that Abraham and Sarah
had cried thousands of years ago. You wept for joy because of every life that God had touched that
night. You wept for joy because at one point you did not believe that your wildest dreams really
could come true but as you surveyed your life in that moment you were living in a world overflowing
with fulfilled dreams that you could previously never have imagined. The impact of the fruition
of your dreams on your life, your family and the lives of those close to you meant more to you all
than you could ever put in words. The tears of joy continued sliding down your face. Beyond that
your fulfilled dreams were impacting lives all over the world every single day. It was now
impossible to quantify the impact of all your fulfilled dreams. At every stage in the process
God expanded your capacity to outdream darkness and the dreams you are now dreaming for truly were
infinitely more than your greatest request, your most unbelievable dream and exceeded your wildest
imagination. The tears of joy mixed with a gentle laughter and your lips curled up into a smile
as another wave of extreme gratitude flared up like a bonfire in your heart. The distance
the distance between dreams. The distance between where you are right now and the fulfillment of
your wildest dreams is measured in action. Take the wrong actions right now
and you could become your worst enemy and never walk in the dreams and calling you were born for.
Take the right actions right now and you can step into the infinite possibilities available
in Christ Jesus. Right now is the time to take extreme ownership of every single action that
you are taking or failing to take because your sacred destiny literally hangs in the balance.
Four satanic assignments have been commissioned against your life.
Four ruthless calculated giants of darkness are scheming and plotting lethal attacks against you
at every turn. The cosmic struggle over your destiny is real.
Your success or your failure will impact more lives than you can imagine.
All of hell is terrified of you walking into your destiny and they are raging against you. All of
heaven knows the limitless power that burns inside you and they champion you towards victory. The
time to decide if you will front up with whatever it takes to bring your wildest dreams to life
is now. The time to decide if you will devote yourself wholeheartedly to mastering the four
ancient heavenly weapons is now. You were born for this moment. You are on the verge of your
greatest breakthrough. Now is your time to arise. You are now only one weapon away from completing
the science of dreams, the weapon of boldness. You have grasped the weapon of imagination that
enables you to dream with God. You have stepped into a faith that enables you to build in the
spirit. You have embraced wisdom's call to focus, focus, focus and create a personalized precision
vision plan. You are now ready to wield the weapon of boldness and to take massive consistent
and strategic actions that build in the natural what you've birthed.
from the spiritual. As you learn the art of mastering boldness and taking massive consistent
strategic actions, you will eliminate every trace of the influence of the giant of apathy
in your life. This giant is so low and so despicable that victory over all its schemes
in your life tastes extra sweet.
Time to slay a nasty giant. Before we go forwards from here, we must go back and check the foundations
of focus. Because if they aren't right, you risk betraying your own destiny. Random actions
betray your dreams. They build momentum in the wrong direction. Engaging in random actions
is like playing Russian roulette with your own dreams. Random actions are the opposite
of precision actions. Precision actions breathe life into your dreams and build momentum towards
the better brighter future that you have been dreaming of.
Most people live counterproductive lifestyles. They have dreams, which they are working hard
for, but at the same time, they betray their own dreams as they are distracted by random
activity. Random action is a betrayal of your own dream. Random action is taking a step
in the opposite direction of your own destiny. For most people, random action is their default
setting. How do I know this? Because random action comes from random planning, and precision
action comes from precision planning. Do a survey of all the people in your world, family
members, people you went to school with, friends in your sports team or from social contexts,
and ask them if they have ever taken the time to sit down and spend hours investing themselves
in developing a personalised precision vision plan detailing exactly how they plan to bring
their wildest dreams to life. You will find that even a lot of people who you consider
are very successful have never done this. But, imagine if they had. What could have
been possible if their lives have been lived with precision planning that produced precision
actions with precision timing producing precision results day after day, month after month,
year after year? I guarantee you the world could have been a better, brighter place.
Every dream that dies has collateral damage. Let me say that again. Every dream that dies
has collateral damage. There are always people like our imaginary friend Chelsea or my good
friend Marina in desperate need at the other end of our God-given dreams. The reason there
are so many people like Chelsea in desperate need in this world is because so few people
have developed the focus required to create a personalised precision vision plan. As a
result, they are easily distracted by anything, nothing and everything except the one thing
most vital to bringing their dreams to life. People don't engage in strategic planning
because they can survive without it. You could survive without strategic planning too. But
the world has waited too long already for a generation of Christians to step out of
survival and step into their sacred destiny and calling. Of all the hundreds of millions
of Christians in the world, if we had 10,000 truly walking in their destiny, we would set
the world on fire and turn it upside down for Jesus in next to no time at all. This
is not a book about how to survive and live an average life without ever tasting your
destiny written by everyone ever who settled for average. The science of dreams is about
conquering every satanic assignment against your life. It's about mastering heavenly weapons
of warfare and completely dominating every giant of darkness that is coming at you seeking
your destruction. It's about going way beyond what anyone has ever said is possible and
unleashing the limitless possibilities available in Christ as you walk in the sacred destiny
that God saw when he unleashed his limitless power to dream the best for you. In the words
of Paul, Philippians 3, 12-14,
Not that I have now attained this ideal, or have already been made perfect, but I press
on to lay hold of, grasp, and make my own that for which Christ Jesus the Messiah has
laid hold.
of me and made me his own. I do not consider, brethren, that I have captured and made it my own
yet, but one thing I do, it is my one aspiration. Forgetting what lies behind and straining toward
what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the supreme and heavenly prize to which God
and Christ Jesus is calling us upward. The Chinese bamboo tree germinates from a seed
and then requires a great level of nurture in order for it to become what it was created to
be. It must have a constant supply of food and water. After a whole year of watering and
fertilizing, it would appear that the Chinese bamboo tree is doing nothing but consuming
resources. After a second year of devoted cultivation,
the bamboo tree still does not even break the surface of the soil. A third year passes,
and it still appears that this bamboo is simply a colossal source of resource consumption.
Yet another year of attentive watering and nurturing passes, and this plant still
has not even broken through the soil. For five years, the Chinese bamboo tree
invests itself in developing the infrastructure for massive exponential growth. For five years,
the Chinese bamboo tree develops its root system and builds its energy reserves in preparation
of massive action. After five years of hidden development, the bamboo tree finally breaks
through the surface of the soil, and within six weeks it grows 90 feet or 27.4 meters.
On average, that is over two feet of growth a day. But did it grow 90 feet, 27.4 meters in
six weeks, or five years? Realistically, it took five years, but the five years of preparation
allowed for exceptional exponential growth. Like the Chinese bamboo tree,
you will first have to engage in developing a secret system for success. Initially, it may
look like you are not getting much done, as you invest yourself in a season of strategic planning
and preparation. But this season of developing your own personalized precision vision plan
is preparing you for massive exponential growth. You will have to take great care
in this time of hidden development to nurture the strategic planning process. That will need
water and nutrients every day. You will have to be relentless and extremely attentive
to the details involved in the strategic planning process. But it is worth it.
Every moment of preparation is worth it for the Chinese bamboo tree. When all of a sudden,
out of nowhere, this giant bamboo tree explodes onto the scene and almost instantaneously becomes
a giant on the landscape. It will be worth it when your strategic planning empowers you to step into
your wildest dreams. It will be worth it when you start to see your dreams coming to life
at an exponential rate. The Chinese bamboo tree prepares itself for five years so that everything
is ready for its moment of massive action. When it finally takes action, that action
is precision action. There is absolutely nothing random about it. This is its moment. Every detail
is taken care of. The root system to sustain 90 foot, 27.4 meters of growth is in place.
The energy reserves and all the resources required are in place. The plan is in place.
The objective is clear. The focus is precise. The moment that it is time for action, that action is
passionate, precise, powerful and massive. Within six weeks of breaking through the soil, the Chinese
bamboo tree stands as a giant on the horizon. Investing yourself into the fine details of
developing your personalized precision vision plan prepares you to master the weapon of boldness
as you launch into massive, consistent and strategic action. Your strategic action plan
will clarify your priorities. It will focus your attention. It will unlock
your passion. It will help you avoid significant hazards and setbacks. It will help you critically
analyze your plans and results and it will direct your focused energy into the highest priority
tasks at hand. Developing a precision vision plan will fast track you on your journey towards the
fulfillment of your dreams by empowering you to take precision actions with precision timing
for precision results on a daily basis. Whatever you have to do to create a personalized precision
vision plan, do it. You cannot honestly say to yourself that you are taking extreme ownership
for your destiny if you don't even have a plan. I know that it's not normal to have a personalized
precision vision plan but it's also not normal to live out your wildest dreams. It's time for
a brave new normal that produces a viral outbreak of fulfilled dreams that redesign earth in the
image of heaven. You know that I have all the templates and training available to walk you step
by step through an in-depth process of creating a personalized precision vision plan in the 40-day
focus package. It's available at our website www.thescienceofdreams.com. I don't know
where else you can get a resource like the 40-day focus package but it doesn't matter where or how,
what matters is actually investing some serious time, effort and resources into creating a
personalized precision vision plan so that you are perfectly set up for success when the moment comes
for you to be like the Chinese bamboo tree and explode into action. The difference between life
with a brilliant strategic plan and life without a strategic plan is the life or death of your
wildest dreams. Developing a strategic plan is hard work so if you only want to do what is easy
in life then there's no option but to give up on your destiny. Hard work is the air that your
destiny breathes. If you want your life to be hard then just do what is easy. A life full of regrets,
full of average, full of normal, full of more of the same old status quo, full of unfulfilled dreams,
disappointment, addictions, broken relationships, wasted talent and potential is easy to accomplish.
Just do what is easy and you can shack up with the giant of apathy and have all of those things
in abundance. But if you know you are truly ready to draw a line in the sand and end your days of
oppression under the influence of the giant of apathy, it's time to make a personalized precision
vision plan. It is hard work to develop a strategic plan. It will take you hours and hours of soul
searching, invulnerability, planning, research, resources and straight hard work. But putting in
the hard work to develop a strategic plan is a system for success that can empower you to see
your wildest dreams come alive. Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and
your life will become easy. Les Brown. Once you have a plan, it's time for massive, consistent,
strategic action. A personalized precision vision plan is required to activate the full power of the
fourth ancient heavenly weapon, boldness. Once you have that in place, it is game on. You have
eliminated every influence of the giant of distraction and the pathway into the call of God
now stands clearly open before you. You are ready to take your next best steps into the call of God
with precision and with an unstoppable boldness. Proverbs 28.1. The wicked flee though no one
pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion. Taking massive action.
The road to your destiny is fraught with enemies, challenge, hard work, pain, disappointment,
betrayal, frustration, risk and battle after battle. The only chance you have of bringing
your wildest dreams to fruition is to boldly, wholeheartedly go all in with the type of passion
all in with the type of passion sparked by someone who has discovered a cause worth dying for. This
is the narrow path and it is not for the faint-hearted. Those who have only a casual
value or a casual approach.
to their calling will be completely destroyed by the force of their enemies.
A casual attitude doesn't stand a chance before the giants of lack, unbelief, distraction
and apathy.
For the giants of darkness, a casual person is their favourite victim.
They can effortlessly ruin the dreams of a casual person to the point that they end up
living under so much deception that they don't even realise they are completely conquered
by the enemy and missing out on the purpose that they were born for.
The only hope of slaying these giants is to unleash the fire.
When God forged you before the foundation of the world, He placed seeds of greatness
in you that would empower you to overcome every obstacle and enemy that would ever stand
before you.
But those seeds of greatness can only be germinated and activated to their full potential by a
certain type of fire.
That is the fire that comes when you cross a threshold in your own mind and become fully
persuaded that you are ready and willing to do absolutely whatever it takes to follow
Jesus into the fruition of your destiny.
At that point, a fire begins to burn in the deepest part of your soul and it awakens the
power of the seeds of greatness within you, causing an unstoppable force of boldness to
explode to life within you.
You become the storm.
No longer will it be you running from the giants of darkness, but such a furious momentum
will infuse everything that you do that the giants of darkness will scatter before you.
The lifestyle, the world, and the powerlessness of a casual attitude will become a distant
memory.
The oppressive influence of the giant of apathy will become completely shattered off your
life and out of the ashes of casual will arise a warrior baptized in fire, weaponized with
the four ancient heavenly weapons of imagination, faith, wisdom, and boldness.
As you step back onto the battleground of destiny, with furious boldness ready and willing
to do whatever it takes, pay any price, slay any giant, move any mountain, and overcome
any adversity, heaven and earth will shake, giants will fall, captives and prisoners will
be set free, darkness will be decimated, heaven will come.
This is the realm of boldness.
Matthew 16, 24, then Jesus said to his disciples, if any of you wants to be my follower, you
must give up your own way, take up your cross, and follow me.
Being a follower of Jesus is not about avoiding pain, avoiding hard work, avoiding risk, or
avoiding persecution.
Being a follower of Jesus is about following him into our destiny, into the fight, into
the pain, into the hard work, the risk, the persecution, into the midst of every impossibility
and every giant of darkness that rages against us and defies the promises of God, and boldly
taking our stand on the word of God, and in faith, decreeing and declaring that every
possibility and every enemy will bow the knee to the name of Jesus.
Following Jesus is about taking a stand in a world where chaos is running rampant.
It's about dreaming with God for a better, brighter future.
It's about being like Abraham and looking beyond the facts and impossibilities and believing
the promises of God above the contradictions and holding fast to our faith as we birth
spiritual realities into the natural realm.
It's about rising above the noise of distraction, embracing wisdom and putting all our focus
on the assignment, the purpose, and the call of God on our lives so that we can prepare
ourselves to boldly take massive, consistent, and strategic action.
It's about slaying giants of darkness and tearing down whole armies of impossibility.
Romans 8, 37, Yet even in the midst of all these things, we triumph over them all.
For God has made us to be more than conquerors, and his demonstrated love is our glorious
victory over everything.
The way of Christ is the way of the warriors, the way of the giant slayers, the way of heroes,
of faith, the way of those who partner with God to outdream darkness, the way of those
who rule and reign over the impossible.
Joshua 1, 5-7 No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life.
As I was with Moses, so I will be with you.
I will never leave you nor forsake you.
Be strong and courageous because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore
to their ancestors to give them.
Be strong.
and very courageous.
You are destined for greatness, for victory,
to be mighty in faith, to be pure in heart,
to be of great courage,
but none of these things can be attained without struggle.
There can be no giant slayers without giants to slay.
There can be no heroes of faith
without great resistance to God's promises.
There can be no miracles without impossibilities.
We were purpose-built to be victorious over the struggle,
Matthew 19, 26.
Jesus looked at them and said,
with man this is impossible,
but with God all things are possible.
There is divine purpose in the struggle.
Your sacred destiny is not just about achieving something,
it is also about becoming something.
This is the highway of the cross.
It's the highway of becoming love,
and nothing is more beautiful, more priceless,
or more painful because the full force of love
can only ever be revealed in the face
of pure hatred and evil.
Jesus revealed the fullness of the Father's love
for humanity on the cross and gave us the purest example
of what love looks like that humanity has ever seen.
Through every stage of the journey to the grave and back,
Jesus demonstrated the full force of love.
When he was betrayed, he kept his love on.
When he was mocked, he kept his love on.
When he was tortured, he kept his love on.
When he was crucified, he kept his love on.
Through it all, Jesus never avoided hard things or pain.
He did whatever it would take
to reveal the Father's love to us,
and the only way to reveal such a pure, unconditional,
and wildly extravagant love
that could not be compromised or conquered
was to go to hell and back.
Through it all, his love never flinched.
1 John 3, 16.
This is how we know what love is.
Jesus Christ laid down his life for us,
and we ought to lay down our lives
for our brothers and sisters.
I call betrayal the beauty of betrayal
because it is a mandatory part of the process
of becoming a perfect expression of love.
You must be betrayed, persecuted, hated,
and rejected to have the opportunity to love your enemies.
It is only in this space that the scene is set
to demonstrate to the world
the true nature of the love of God.
This means that carrying our cross
will demand that we do hard things, painful things,
in order to achieve what we were created to achieve,
but also in order to become who we were created to become.
Jesus said, Matthew 16, 24,
if anyone of you wants to be my follower,
you must give up your own way,
take up your cross, and follow me.
This requires a mindset that is committed
to doing whatever it takes.
If we follow in Jesus' footsteps,
it could literally mean a journey to hell and back.
One thing is certain,
the standard for biblical Christianity
is a 100% all-in commitment to do whatever it takes
to follow Christ.
When God unleashed His limitless power
to dream the best for you before you were even born,
He included the struggle.
He knew the struggle was necessary to reveal the greatness,
the courage, the love, the faith, the light,
and the power that He placed in you
before the foundation of the world.
The call of God on our lives
was not just designed to be hard, challenging, painful,
fought with danger,
demanding, and surrounded by the giants of darkness.
It was designed by God to be absolutely impossible.
It was designed to bring us to a place
of complete surrender and dependence on God.
Just like Abraham and Sarah,
their destiny was completely impossible,
and they could only step into the impossibility
of their destiny and the promises of God
for their lives by going all-in.
They were plunged into an impossible calling,
but every time they looked at the stars,
they were surrounded by promises
from the God of the impossible.
2 Corinthians 1.20,
for no matter how many promises God has made,
they are yes in Christ.
And so.
Through Him, the Amen is spoken by us to the glory of God.
Casual action is certain defeat.
Massive actions inspired by a heart ablaze
with a cause worth dying for
and a resolution to do whatever it takes
unleashes an unstoppable boldness
that produces the type of massive action
that will bring your wildest dreams to life.
Romans 8, 31.
So what does all this mean?
If God has determined to stand with us,
tell me, who then could ever stand against us?
Taking massive, consistent action.
It can't just be a one-off short burst of intensity.
The giants of darkness are used to that.
They'll just step aside for a moment,
watch you burn yourself out, and then finish you off.
It's easier for them to deal with a victim of burnout
than it is to deal with a casual attitude.
Your massive actions must be calculated
to allow for long-term consistency.
By ensuring that your actions are long-term and consistent,
you will receive two major benefits.
Benefit number one, willpower.
Massive action embraces every difficult task,
every discipline, every early morning,
every sacrifice, and it never avoids pain.
It confronts disappointments
and runs into every challenging circumstance
with a resolute will to do whatever it takes.
Over a long period of time,
this develops a strength of will
that can be produced no other way.
This willpower or tenacity,
character, testicular fortitude, or endurance
grows in the trenches of relentlessly turning up
day after day to do whatever it takes
to make your dreams happen.
It's not glamorous,
but it's one of the most powerful attributes
that anyone can ever develop,
and it will benefit you in every way,
in every area of your life,
and especially in the area of the science of dreams
and mastering the four ancient weapons from heaven.
Having been deeply involved
in the process of personal transformation,
pastoring, life coaching, and vision training,
I have observed many different people's journeys,
their struggles and failures.
Through a desire to understand how to help people
to get the change they are looking for,
I've done a huge amount of research
and also self-reflection.
One question I've had for years has been,
why does so many people in our generation
fail so consistently to perform tasks,
disciplines, and actions that I personally found
almost effortless to achieve?
After a long time of journeying with people,
I made a surprising discovery.
As a child and through my teenage years,
I grew up on an organic market garden.
My parents were pastors,
but the farm was the family business.
Being organic, we didn't use chemical sprays on weeds.
That meant that on top of all the other jobs
involved in running the farm,
we had about seven acres of crops
that had to be continuously weeded all year round.
That's a lot of weeds,
especially when you are doing everything you can
to create optimum growth conditions
and everything is flourishing.
That meant that my entire childhood,
I was never short of having the opportunity
to do hard things.
From the time I was six years old,
I was spending hours at a time
weeding and working on the farm.
Rain or shine, burning hot or freezing cold,
early morning or late at night on the farm,
we just had to do whatever it took to get jobs done
all year round, year after year.
Sometimes I regretted it.
I didn't always enjoy it.
It was definitely hard and often painful
doing everything by hand,
bending over for hours at a time,
washing vegetables at dawn
and finger numbing near freezing water.
The list of jobs were endless,
but now I couldn't possibly be more grateful
because I realize now that developing a great work ethic
and doing hard things repeatedly as a child and teenager
helped me to overcome the giant of apathy as an adult.
Now, when counseling or training people
on how to bring their dreams to life,
one of the most crucial recommendations
that I have for people is do hard things.
Do hard things as hard as possible
and as often as possible.
Embrace hard things, embrace pain, and in the process you will develop the power of
an unshakable will.
The giant of apathy is ruining a generation right now by constantly leading people to
avoid hard things and to avoid pain, knowing that if they live like that, they will become
easy victims with weak willpower and no self-control.
2 Timothy 1.7 For the spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love,
and self-discipline.
I see this so much in this generation.
As they face addictions to drugs, porn, eating disorders, self-harm, the list of self-destructive
behaviours goes on and because our culture and specifically the giant of apathy encourages
people to avoid hard things and avoid pain, people often have very little willpower or
self-discipline when they need it the most.
I see it in Christian couples trying to protect their purity and values before marriage.
Those with willpower achieve this easily.
Those without willpower fail continuously.
As a parent, now I understand the value of getting my kids to do hard things as often
as possible.
As an adult, I now appreciate all the countless opportunities to do hard things that I received
as a child.
One of the best ways to train yourself as a giant slayer is to get out there and embrace
doing hard things.
If you fail in this one area of willpower alone, the giant of apathy can destroy your
entire destiny.
Millions, more like billions of dreams in this generation are heading straight for the
grave right now because people have underestimated the vital necessity of developing an unshakable
will.
If all you had was an unshakable will, that would be enough to make all the other changes
required in your life to start bringing your wildest dreams to life.
But if an unshakable will is the only thing you are missing, you don't stand a chance
against the giants of darkness.
If you truly are all in on bringing your wildest dreams to life and running in your
sacred destiny, then you must fight with everything you've got to develop an unshakable will.
It starts now.
It starts with embracing pain.
It starts with embracing hard things.
It starts with you deciding that you are going to do whatever it takes.
Step number two, sustainability.
Massive action must be consistent action to ensure that your success is sustainable.
The objective of your massive action is always to produce change of some sort.
When you are planning your massive actions, you need to consider sustainability.
If your actions are not consistent, the change will not be sustainable.
Break your massive actions down into an army of incremental, sustainable changes to ensure
that your gains are long term.
Think big and think long term.
By thinking incremental and sustainable, for example, like many good wives, my wife got
busy changing our family's diet around.
She especially wanted to reduce our sugar consumption.
I'm thankful she didn't just throw all the sugar out in an instant because it wouldn't
have lasted and I would have gone on a sugar binge.
But little by little, we have embraced a reduced sugar diet.
It's been incremental, little baby steps, but we have been able to consistently and
majorly reduce our sugar intake over the last 10 years, little by little.
As you go out and smash tiny goals, it will eventually produce dramatic changes.
Exodus 23, 29 to 30, but I will not drive them out in a single year because the land
would become desolate and the wild animals too numerous for you.
Little by little, I will drive them out before you until you have increased enough to take
possession of the land.
Something that really helped me when embracing incremental change is micro commitments.
That often looks like starting with just five minutes a day and expanding from there.
What new disciplines or habits do you need slash want to form?
Could you make a micro commitment of five minutes a day to this discipline that has
the power to redesign your entire reality?
A practice becomes a habit.
habit, a habit becomes a reflex, a reflex becomes a lifestyle, a lifestyle becomes a
state of being.
This is an area where we must take extreme ownership of our own mindsets, behaviours,
results and lifestyles.
I have one empowering question for you to consider.
What action that you know will take you closer to your dreams are you unwilling to initiate?
A victim mindset will justify all the reasons why you aren't, can't and shan't take action.
Extreme ownership, like Nike says, will just do it.
An anonymous quote says, imagine with all your mind, believe with all your heart, achieve
with all your mind.
An example of how a victim mindset responds to being confronted about not doing what it
takes to bring their wildest dreams to life is, I'm too busy.
This is just lying to yourself that leads to procrastination and no progress.
An example of how extreme ownership responds to being confronted about not doing what it
takes to bring their wildest dreams to life is, I haven't made that a priority in my life
yet.
Then extreme ownership follows through by making a commitment to change, even if it's
a micro commitment.
Extreme ownership takes action.
Advances conditions permit, if conditions do not permit, create those conditions.
Quote from an anonymous general.
Taking massive strategic action.
American President Dwight Eisenhower once said, plans are worthless, but planning is
everything.
This saying has everything to do with timing and the unexpected dynamic nature of life.
The value of planning is priceless and critical, but goals, strategies and plans need to work
for you and not against you.
When your circumstances change unexpectedly, you may find that your original plan is ineffective
or even counterproductive at this time.
What was a brilliant strategy yesterday could be a recipe for disaster today.
This does not mean that you should forget about planning.
If you forget about planning, then the giants of distraction and apathy will take you out
of the game in no time.
When circumstances change, significant pieces of your vision, strategy, goals and action
plans may have to change in a single moment.
I set my vision in jelly, not concrete, because your vision is there to serve you, not oppress
you, and if the world changes, you may have to change with it in a hurry.
I'm writing this in December 2020.
This year the world has shifted like never before with global lockdowns, border closures
and more changes than anyone could have imagined possible.
Nearly every person, business and organisation in the world has had to pivot in some way
in order to survive in the context of dramatic global changes.
Those who can't adapt may not survive.
Mike Tyson, a world champion boxer, said it like this,
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
When that happens, you must collect yourself, take stock of the situation you are in and
immediately pivot your strategy to ensure that you are not engaging in random actions
that will take you even further away from your dreams.
Jesus had a simple, powerful system for doing this on a moment by moment basis.
John 5, 19, Jesus gave them this answer,
Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself, he can do only what he sees his
Father doing, because whatever the Father does, the Son also does.
When we participate in the divine dance, like Jesus, we can receive moment by moment strategy
updates from the Trinity.
My whole life revolves around this dynamic of doing only what I see the Father doing.
I take my vision, my goals, my strategy, my action plans, my priority to do list from
the Trinity on a moment by moment basis.
The wonderful thing about that is that they give me prophetic strategy updates.
And around June 2019 the Trinity said to me, clear the decks or I'll clear them for you.
They were specifically speaking about
all ministry conferences and missions trips that we had planned for this year
2020. We cancelled everything. Things we'd been running for years, everything for
2020 got cancelled in 2019. All mission trips, all schools, all conferences, we
cancelled events and programs that had been in motion for well over a decade
based off a whisper from the Trinity. Then they even told us to leave the
church we had helped to plant, the ministry we had been building for over a
decade, the town we lived in to sell our property and just like Abraham our
family was sent out with no specific directions as to where he was sending us.
Nothing in our world made sense except that we knew we were walking in
obedience. He also led us to transition everything online, ministry, business, it
all went online before the end of 2019. Because we had no idea where we were
going we homeschooled our two oldest kids. It wasn't until the lockdown hit
that our world finally made sense and we were perfectly positioned to thrive in
the midst of it all. When we participate in the beauty of the divine dance then
just like Jesus we have the capacity to receive moment-by-moment strategy reports
from heaven that can lead us through every storm, every blindside, every
tragedy and every unexpected circumstance that we face in life. During
the World Series baseball game between Oakland Athletics and the San Francisco
Giants at Candlestick Park in San Francisco in 1989, an earthquake with a
magnitude of 6.9 on the Richter scale struck the city. Because of the media
coverage around the city for the baseball game it was the first earthquake
to be caught on live TV. The Loma Prieta earthquake also known as the World
Series quake struck at 5.04 p.m. on October the 17th. It caused 63 deaths,
3,757 injuries, over 8,000 people became homeless and US 5.6 to 6 billion
dollars worth of damages were caused. It was a total disaster and it immediately
changed everyone's priorities to survival for themselves and others. If
your plan was keeping your shop or your restaurant open and doing some great
business after the game then what was initially a great plan is now
a life-threatening activity. Buildings had collapsed, fires were breaking out,
many fires were being fueled by gas leaks, road infrastructure had collapsed
and if you were there you had quite possibly just lost your home. If your
priorities, your plans, your strategies and your actions don't shift with your
changing life experiences your excellent plan could become the source of your own
demise. Instead of a great weekend of business for people it was time to shut
up what was left of the business, it was time to start making a new plan
regarding immediate safety, getting water and finding somewhere to sleep if you
or your family were among the 8,000 people who had instantly become homeless.
If you didn't adapt your plans to the situation then your survival was in
great danger. Many people's dreams die for this very reason. They develop a
great vision with a great strategy, great goals and excellent planning before they
launch into massive action but all your plans become worthless if your
circumstances change. Your planning however remains priceless. When your
circumstances change it is time to adapt your plan. You may only need to
make a slight adjustment to the plan but the plan and the value of the plan is
determined by how effectively it serves your dream. The Loma Prieta earthquake
caused US 5.5 to 6 billion dollars worth of damages. Is it possible for anyone to
use the momentum of an earthquake that devastating to their own advantage? Yes
absolutely. Get into construction or supplying materials for the rebuild.
Sometimes a circumstance which we think will destroy us may actually only
destroy our plan in its current form. A slight adjustment to your plan at the
right time can turn a tragedy into a triumph. When we make a plan we set key
priority tasks but these priority tasks must remain flexible because we have to
balance our priority tasks with the circumstances around us. If our priority
tasks are not flexible it can be to our disadvantage.
Our priorities must revolve around our changing circumstances because the timing of our actions
dictates their success.
Having said that, maintaining flexible priorities is not an encouragement to neglect the vital
few priorities at hand.
Mastering strategy requires us to master the ability to evaluate all of our dreams, goals,
strategies and tasks at hand, while simultaneously closely monitoring our changing circumstances.
By doing this we are able to accurately assess which are the genuine priorities of the day,
and then boldly launch into massive strategic action and complete those tasks.
Mastering strategy is not just about avoiding disaster, but also making the most of opportunities
presented in the midst of change, chaos and blindsides.
Every strategy must revolve around precision timing.
It's possible for the timing of your actions to have more influence on your success than
the actions themselves.
One area that this is clearly showcased is financial investments.
Timing is the biggest influence in any investment.
I want to share a historical story about timing that is surrounded by mystery.
As I have researched this story, I have found seemingly reputable sources claiming facts
which are in direct contradiction to one another.
I have found some claims which are obviously not true regarding possibly the shrewdest
investment in history.
I'll share some of the perspectives and let you make up your own mind, or do further research
if the story interests you.
We will start with some of the undisputed facts of this story, which began in a Jewish
ghetto in 1744 Frankfurt, Germany with the birth of Meyer Amschel Rothschild.
Meyer became a banker with a vision to expand his banking empire, which he accomplished
through his five sons, whom he stationed in five of the most influential financial centres
in Europe.
His sons were Amschel, stationed in Frankfurt, Salomon, stationed in Vienna, Nathan, stationed
in London, Kalman, stationed in Naples, and the youngest, Jacob, stationed in Paris.
Between them, they developed the most advanced postal and transport system in Europe.
Through this system of couriers, they were able to transport goods, information, and
gold across the continent with great efficiency.
Nathan moved to London in 1798.
Not long after this, in 1802, the Napoleonic Wars broke out, which lasted intermittently
until November 20, 1815.
The Rothschilds were heavily invested in the Napoleonic Wars.
They provided finance to nations to fund war campaigns.
Nathan financed Britain, while simultaneously Jacob, who was based in Paris, was discreetly
funding Napoleon.
Nathan was contracted by the British government to take gold to the British troops under the
control of the Duke of Wellington.
Exporting gold during war was a great risk, but they received generous commissions for
the work and their courier system worked very efficiently.
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815 near Waterloo in present Belgium.
Napoleon versus Britain and the Prussian army.
In a closely contended battle, Britain and Prussia defeated Napoleon.
Here is the part of the story surrounded by some mystery.
Some people claim that Nathan Rothschilds was at the battle watching, and once he saw
that Napoleon was defeated, raced back to London.
This version is almost certainly a fabrication.
A more likely version of events is that one of Nathan's couriers, named Rothworth, was
stationed at the battle to see the outcome and then report back to London as quickly
as possible.
Some people claim that Rothworth made it back to London a full 48 hours before Wellington's
courier.
Others claim it was 24 hours.
Either way, the majority of sources that I can find claim that Nathan's courier was at
least 24 hours ahead of Wellington's courier.
Here's where the story gets even more mysterious.
Multiple places claiming to be reputable historical sources completely contradict each
other.
On aspects of this part of the story, some claim that with the news of Wellington's victory,
Nathan began to sell all his bonds on the stock exchange.
These bonds were fixed loan contracts with the British government, with contractual returns.
They were worth astronomical fortunes and whoever controlled the majority of these bonds
or government debt would have enormous control in the government itself.
If Napoleon conquered London, he would not honour any of these contracts and they would
not be worth the paper they were printed on. When people realised that Nathan was selling
his priceless bonds, they assumed that his networks had supplied him with information
from the battle and the aristocracy of England began to sell their bonds in the fear that
Napoleon was about to march on London and they were about to lose generations worth of family
fortunes. Once the price of bonds hit rock bottom, Nathan bought all the bonds that he could,
entire family fortunes at a fraction of their original value. Other sources claim that Nathan
didn't cause a crash in the market. What is certain is that at this time, Nathan spent a
fortune on bonds at rock bottom prices and later sold them for an enormous profit.
This quote from Nathan Rothschilds in 1810, five years before Waterloo,
Buy on the sound of cannons, sell on the sound of trumpets, highlights his investment philosophy.
For Nathan Rothschilds, the most influential factor for investing was timing. Having researched a range
of conflicting perspectives, it is hard to be certain of exactly what happened in the 48 hours
after the battle of Waterloo in 1815. Every source that I viewed claimed a monopoly on the
truth of the subject. I want to highlight that Nathan Rothschild went to London with 20,000
pounds of investment capital in 1798. By the mid-1800s, the Rothschilds were the wealthiest
family in the world and some sources claim that at that point in time they controlled up to half
of the wealth of the world through their international banks and other portfolios.
They were happy to fund both sides of wars and made immense profit from war.
I don't endorse what seems to be shady methods but a principle that Nathan Rothschild understood
well is the timing of your actions can often have more influence than the actions themselves.
Once you are convinced of your strategy, it is time to go all in to do whatever it takes
to boldly take massive action. Operation Thunderbolt. Please note a range of sources,
all claiming to be legitimate, give slightly varied numbers and information on some of the
details mentioned below. I have attempted to find the most trusted accounts
where multiple sources provide slightly conflicting numbers and details.
On Sunday, the 27th of June, 1976, Air France Flight 139 departed Tel Aviv for Paris via Athens
with 188 passengers on board and 12 crew. At Athens, a further 58 passengers boarded
the A300B Airbus. Shortly after takeoff, four armed hijackers who boarded the flight in Athens
took control of the plane and 254 hostages, they forced the plane to change its course
and head for Africa. While refueling in Benghazi, Libya, the passengers faced extreme heat
in the plane on the tarmac. A young lady named Patricia Martel pretended to be pregnant and
pleaded with the hijackers to let her go as she feared a miscarriage. They agreed and released
her in Libya. They continued on and landed in the middle of the night at Entebbe Airport,
Uganda. At that time, Uganda was under the control of military dictator and notorious
mass murderer and tyrant, President Edie Amin. The hostages were moved to the old
out-of-use airport terminal building kept under armed guard. The hijackers made their demand,
$5 million and the release of over 50 Palestinian militants held around the world. If their demands
were not met, the hostages would receive severe and immediate repercussions. The deadline for
their demands was 2pm on Thursday, the 1st of July. People all around the world feared for
their survival. On Monday, the
The 28th of June international efforts to negotiate appeared to be failing.
On Tuesday the 29th of June all the hostages with Israeli citizenship or dual citizenship
were separated from the other passengers.
The French captain and crew chose to remain with the Israelis.
On Wednesday the 30th of June the hijackers released 47 non-Israeli hostages.
They were immediately flown to France and were interviewed by Mossad, the Israeli secret
service.
In Israel anxious relatives of the hostages invaded Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's private
residence to urge him to negotiate.
On the deadline of Thursday the 1st of July Israel entered into negotiations and received
an extension until Sunday the 4th of July and 101 non-Israeli hostages were released.
105 hostages remained under armed guard.
The families were terrified and the whole world was watching the unfolding emergency.
From the moment the news of the hijacking was received the Israeli Defence Force, the
IDF, began planning possible military options.
With the extremely short timeline and the huge logistical challenges involved in a precision
military action was not an option.
In Tebe airport in Uganda was approximately 2,500 miles or 4,000 kilometers from Israel
and to get there they would have to fly through large areas of enemy airspace.
Considering the time frame, the formulation and execution of a precision military option,
it just was not realistic.
However, the moment that the time extension was granted an extremely high risk military
action became an option.
The IDF had developed a rescue plan.
It seemed impossible, irresponsible and reckless but they believed it was the best course of
action available.
It was to be led by Lieutenant Colonel Yonatan or Yoni Netanyahu.
The IDF shared their plan with the government and waited for the verdict.
The nation's leaders began to discuss, debate and deliberate on the best course of action.
This was not just considered a military decision but a moral decision.
Finally on Saturday, the 3rd of July, the cabinet approved Operation Thunderbolt.
Within a few hours, planes were in the air.
The IDF dispatched four Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport vehicles, transporters carrying
vehicles, soldiers and a large medical team.
They flew at an average of 30 metres above the ground to avoid radar detection as they
passed through enemy airspace.
At 2300 hours, on Saturday, July 3rd, under the cover of darkness, the first Hercules
approached Entebbe Airport like a regular commercial aircraft.
It landed without raising any suspicions.
As it moved down the runway, troops discreetly leapt out with beacons to light the runway
for remaining planes in case the runway lights were turned off.
The Hercules continued to drive down the old runway before turning around.
Once the Hercules had turned around and opened its rear door, two Land Rovers and a Mercedes-Benz
drove out of the plane.
They were exact replicas of the Ugandan presidential motorcade.
Inside the three vehicles were 29 commandos from the Sayeret Matkal Division.
The Sayeret Matkal Division is the equivalent of the US Delta Force or the British Special
Air Service.
As they approached the old terminal building where the hostages were held, two armed Ugandan
guards challenged the motorcade.
They were immediately shot with silenced pistols.
However, one of them got up, an order was given and he was shot again with a machine
gun.
As the sound of the machine gun rang out across the airport, the element of surprise
was gone, but the Sayeret Matkal commandos proceeded to storm the terminal building under
heavy gunfire from the Ugandan army.
One unit assigned to the rescue of the hostages burst into the building where the hostages
were held.
The gunfight with the terrorists lasted only minutes.
Seven of the terrorists were killed.
Three others escaped.
Three of the hostages were caught in the crossfire and died during the assault.
Lieutenant Colonel Yoni Netanyahu was also shot and killed.
One hundred and one hostages were set free.
One other hostage, Dora Block, aged 74, fell sick during the hostage situation and was
taken to a hospital.
She was left behind.
When President Idi Amin heard of the rescue, he ordered her execution.
Years later, her family returned to Uganda and took her body home to be buried beside her husband.
Only seven minutes after the Hercules landed and the raid had begun, two more of the Hercules planes landed.
As they anticipated, the runway had been shut down.
They activated their beacons and guided the planes in.
Once they landed, each Hercules opened its back door and out drove two armored personnel carriers.
The four armored personnel carriers positioned themselves to prevent further Ugandan troops arriving.
Once the area was secure, some of these units proceeded to another part of the airport where the Ugandan MiG fighter jets were parked.
I saw several different reports on the actual number of MiG fighter jets that were stationed at Entebbe.
It seemed that there were approximately 11.
To prevent an aerial counter-attack, they destroyed them all.
The Israeli soldiers eventually overcame the Ugandan forces.
Then the fourth Hercules landed and pulled up outside the old airport terminal building.
The hostages were rushed onto the plane.
The other three planes were waiting at the end of the tarmac, engines running and ready to take off.
They began to refuel for the flight home, but they were running out of time to escape.
Ugandan reinforcements were on their way.
At the very last moment, the Kenyan government gave permission for the Israeli planes to refuel in Nairobi, so they departed Entebbe immediately.
All the hostages and all the vehicles loaded up and took to the skies.
57 minutes from the time the first plane landed, they were all airborne and on their way home.
They refueled in Nairobi, Kenya, where a number of the wounded were treated by the medical team before departing for Israel.
They all arrived safely back in Tel Aviv just after midday on Sunday, the 14th of July.
Spontaneous celebrations erupted all over Israel.
The IDF had successfully conducted the most logistically challenging and daring hostage rescue in history.
Operation Thunderbolt was renamed Operation Yonatan in honor of Yoni Netanyahu, their commander who died during the rescue.
Yoni was the older brother of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Operation Yonatan is an extreme example of taking massive strategic action which empowers a seemingly impossible dream to become reality.
The massive strategic actions of the IDF saved the lives of 101 hostages who many believed were going to be executed.
Only two years beforehand, a similar hostage situation in Ma'alot in Israel, terrorists killed 25 hostages,
including 22 children with guns and grenades, and injured another 68 people.
Many feared that the hostages taken to Entebbe would never survive.
The seemingly impossible dream was that mothers and fathers would see their children again.
That husbands and wives would be reunited.
The dream was that loved ones would return home safely.
But simply dreaming would not save these lives, reunite these loved ones, or bring this seemingly impossible dream to pass.
What they needed was massive strategic action.
The life of your wildest dreams is also at stake right now, hanging precariously in the balance.
All of heaven is on the edge of their seats watching with great anticipation their only chance at survival.
What they desperately need right now, what your dreams depend on, is for you to master the science of dreams and take massive, consistent, strategic action.
The distance between your dreams and reality is action.
An anonymous quote.
Conclusion. Choose this day.
God gave me this poem when I was 19.
In the same way that he gave me this book, it was just in me and I had to get it out.
I wrote this poem in about half an hour because it was in me.
I wrote the first draft of this book in five days because it was in me.
But I want to share this poem with you because it has been a source of courage to me all these years.
I have found that every single season of my life has demanded great courage.
And often times the demand for courage has been greater than the level of courage I seek.
themed to possess. This poem has helped bridge that gap for me. I pray that it does the same
for you as you step into a season that is demanding intense courage, bold enough to
lead them.
As from a fetus seed I grow, my mystery unwinds, in caverns of the soul one seeks but seldom
finds. Burning coals and ashes to kindle to a blaze, a brightness bold enough to lead
them through the maze. In caverns of the soul I sought and now have found. Tongue of fire
in the deep is with heart and limb entwined, aloft the torch to carry, shedding light upon
the blind. Forging from the future, a road since light from man concealed, although the
journey's never ending, it has come. The blaze must be revealed.
Right now I'm thinking of all the lives like our pretend friend Chelsea. The people like
Marina at 14 years old who haven't yet discovered that they are as loved as love can be and
whose lives are under full-scale assault. I'm thinking of the people that haven't had
the opportunity to experience the love of God, whose lives and families and destinies
are being robbed, killed and destroyed by satanic assignments and by relentless attacks
from the giants of darkness, the giants of lack, unbelief, distraction and apathy.
I'm also thinking of you. I'm thinking of your calling to be swallowed up in the most
wonderful love of the divine dance. I'm thinking of your calling to dream with God and to outdream
the darkness in this world. I'm wondering what will you do with the science of dreams?
I'm wondering what will you do with the four ancient heavenly weapons of imagination, faith,
wisdom and boldness? I'm wondering if you'll be one of the many that God is raising up
in our generation to redesign their lives and our world in the image of heaven.
I'm wondering how many people just like Marina will never be the same because you choose
the narrow path of extreme ownership. I'm wondering how future generations will be impacted
by the legacy you leave as you begin to unlock the infinite possibilities available in Christ
Jesus as you step into your wildest dreams and the sacred destiny upon your life.
I'm wondering how you will respond to the challenge to embrace hard things, to embrace
pain, to carry your cross and to do whatever it takes, because it all rests on a choice.
And most of all, I'm wondering what choice you will make, Joshua 24, 15. But if serving
the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve,
whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates or the gods of the Amorites
in whose land you are now living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.
My prayer is that you will discover the love of God in a deeper, wider, more beautifully
consuming way than ever before. My prayer is that you will have the courage to take
extreme ownership over every area of your life. My prayer is that you will be empowered
to dream with God and yada your dreams that are worth dying for in a way that awakens
an unstoppable force of passion that will burn in your heart night and day. My prayer
is that your faith will grow beyond measure as you conquer impossibilities, just like
Abraham and Sarah, by building your wildest dreams in the spirit. My prayer is that wisdom
will walk with you all the days of your life and that as you focus on your personalized
precision vision plan, you will have unprecedented clarity that enables you to complete the vital
few tasks every day that are guaranteed to unleash your sacred destiny. My prayer is
that you will become such a force of boldness, taking such massive, consistent and strategic
action that the giants of darkness will fall before you as you advance relentlessly into
the life that God saw when he unleashed his limitless power to dream the best for you.
It has been an honor to share this journey with you.
with you and I look forward to seeing the impact you will have on generations to come.
Deep love and Shalom to you my friend, from myself Benji Alexander.
Philippians 3, 12-14 Not that I have now attained this ideal or
have already been made perfect, but I press on to lay hold of, to grasp and make my own,
that for which Christ Jesus the Messiah has laid hold of me and made me his own.
I do not consider, brethren, that I have captured and made it my own yet, but one thing I do,
it is my one aspiration, forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies
ahead.
I press on toward the goal to win the supreme and heavenly prize to which God in Christ
Jesus is calling us upward.
One last thing.
Here's some resources to help you on your beautiful journey.
Here's a summary of the resources I have to help you going forward.
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Thanks for joining me on this wonderful adventure, lots and lots of love to you and I look forward
to connecting with you really, really soon.
Bless you.