WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.280 So, welcome, this is number two of this new series, The Four Agreements, A Biblical Perspective. 2 00:00:10.280 --> 00:00:16.600 And I believe I've been thinking about doing this study for, I don't know, a year or more 3 00:00:16.600 --> 00:00:19.880 now, and just really excited to finally do it. 4 00:00:19.880 --> 00:00:24.480 I always said, boy, I want to do a biblical perspective on that because there's just so 5 00:00:24.480 --> 00:00:31.240 much wisdom in the original book that I'm getting these Four Agreements from, the book 6 00:00:31.240 --> 00:00:39.320 by that name, The Four Agreements, and Don Miguel Ruiz, and, you know, it just goes aligned 7 00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:45.820 so much with the Word of God, and so I thought, boy, I'd love to just kind of share that because 8 00:00:45.820 --> 00:00:51.720 these four agreements really have the potential to break fear-based thinking. 9 00:00:51.720 --> 00:00:55.400 If you remember the series before this one, those of you who've been around for a while 10 00:00:55.400 --> 00:01:01.440 in Bible-based spiritual equipping, I was talking about supernatural living, and the 11 00:01:01.440 --> 00:01:10.120 tagline to supernatural living was moving from fear-based thinking and living to love-based 12 00:01:10.120 --> 00:01:11.720 thinking and living. 13 00:01:11.720 --> 00:01:16.760 And this is the thing is that there is always a choice in our thoughts, in our words, in 14 00:01:16.760 --> 00:01:18.040 our actions. 15 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:23.400 They are one of two things, they're either fear-based or they're love-based. 16 00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:28.480 And a lot of these fear-based agreements, the fear-based living come from all these 17 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:31.840 agreements that we've made with ourself and with others. 18 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:35.560 There's just thousands of tiny, tiny little agreements that we've made from the time that 19 00:01:35.560 --> 00:01:41.080 we started soaking things in as children, and many of them are unconscious, we're not 20 00:01:41.080 --> 00:01:46.360 even aware until we start becoming conscious and thinking about what we think about and 21 00:01:46.360 --> 00:01:48.640 thinking about what we speak about. 22 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:57.880 And so this book, The Four Agreements, really has the huge potential for transformation 23 00:01:57.880 --> 00:02:05.120 because in focusing on these four agreements, it really...I'm reaching down and grabbing 24 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:08.680 my Prosper Oil, if you saw me distracted for a second here. 25 00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:14.720 If you guys have your Prosper Oil, this would be a good time to ground you in this lesson. 26 00:02:14.720 --> 00:02:22.360 So anyway, let's just start with prayer and excited to get into The Four Agreements. 27 00:02:22.360 --> 00:02:28.280 So Father, I just thank you for this day, this is the day that you've made, I will rejoice. 28 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:34.000 We come to this day with celebration, celebration for life, celebration for love, celebration 29 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:41.280 for the gift of being able to reverse fear-based agreements and walk in love for the gift of 30 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:42.740 love itself. 31 00:02:42.740 --> 00:02:47.060 So Holy Spirit, you've promised to guide us into all truth, you've promised to teach 32 00:02:47.060 --> 00:02:51.980 us all things, show us things to come, I ask that you open all of our spiritual senses, 33 00:02:51.980 --> 00:02:59.460 may we have ears to truly hear what you are saying, may we truly have eyes to see what 34 00:02:59.460 --> 00:03:01.140 it is you're trying to show us too. 35 00:03:01.140 --> 00:03:08.420 We just ask, open the eyes of our heart and that we can gain wisdom and that we can have 36 00:03:08.420 --> 00:03:13.180 this level of transformation that allows us to live the abundant life that you've called 37 00:03:13.180 --> 00:03:18.460 us to live, allows us to prosper in every area of our life, allows us to have that peace 38 00:03:18.460 --> 00:03:21.100 and that love and that joy and that hope. 39 00:03:21.100 --> 00:03:26.380 And so we thank you in Jesus' name, amen. 40 00:03:26.380 --> 00:03:30.700 So I heard somebody coughing, be sure you push mute so that doesn't go on the recording 41 00:03:30.700 --> 00:03:37.220 for people to listen to through all time, and just push mute on your phone or star six. 42 00:03:37.980 --> 00:03:46.700 So when we're talking about the four agreements, I subtitled this, Discovering the Secrets 43 00:03:46.700 --> 00:03:49.420 to Transformation. 44 00:03:49.420 --> 00:03:55.100 And I'm going to start with the same verse that I started last week, Romans 12, that 45 00:03:55.100 --> 00:03:57.500 whole chapter is very powerful. 46 00:03:57.500 --> 00:04:01.180 But if you have your Bible, and I encourage you to have it so you can read when we're 47 00:04:01.180 --> 00:04:05.460 reading together and can share in this call. 48 00:04:05.460 --> 00:04:13.940 And so Romans 12 and verse two, and typically I use the amplified version of the Bible, 49 00:04:13.940 --> 00:04:18.140 unless I tell you otherwise, I'll jump around and sometimes use the New Living Translation 50 00:04:18.140 --> 00:04:20.540 or the message just to give it a little clearer. 51 00:04:20.540 --> 00:04:29.540 But I use the amplified because the Greek language is so rich and the English language 52 00:04:29.540 --> 00:04:31.060 is limited. 53 00:04:31.060 --> 00:04:36.540 And what I mean is, for example, if I'm talking about the word love, the Greek language has 54 00:04:36.540 --> 00:04:39.740 five, six words for love, and they're very clear. 55 00:04:39.740 --> 00:04:49.340 We understand the difference between agape love, unconditional love, and phileo love. 56 00:04:49.340 --> 00:04:53.180 So anyway, they have a lot of different words, but in the English language, we say I love 57 00:04:53.180 --> 00:04:55.960 hot dogs, I love my dog, I love my wife. 58 00:04:55.960 --> 00:04:58.560 We use the word love, it doesn't have the depth of meaning. 59 00:04:58.560 --> 00:05:00.120 Is it talking about friendship love? 60 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:02.080 Is it talking about eros love, erotic love? 61 00:05:02.080 --> 00:05:04.880 Is it talking about agape love, unconditional love? 62 00:05:04.880 --> 00:05:08.400 So the amplified tends to put in parentheses 63 00:05:08.400 --> 00:05:11.040 what the original word means and gives a little more depth. 64 00:05:11.040 --> 00:05:13.040 So you'll often hear me and you'll say, 65 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:15.240 what translation is she reading from? 66 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:17.360 I'm reading from the amplified version. 67 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:20.960 So Romans 12, verse two from the amplified version 68 00:05:20.960 --> 00:05:25.960 says this, do not be conformed to this world or to this age. 69 00:05:26.320 --> 00:05:28.200 Or to this age. 70 00:05:28.200 --> 00:05:30.120 And then again, the amplified puts in 71 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:33.200 the original meaning there, fashioned after 72 00:05:33.200 --> 00:05:38.200 and adapted to its external superficial customs. 73 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:41.520 So basically the first part of this verse is saying, 74 00:05:41.520 --> 00:05:46.520 don't be conformed to the superficial customs around you, 75 00:05:48.880 --> 00:05:52.520 to the many, many agreements that are being presented 76 00:05:52.520 --> 00:05:55.040 to you from the time that you're a kid. 77 00:05:55.040 --> 00:05:57.400 And that word conformed is the same word 78 00:05:57.400 --> 00:05:59.000 we use like in a Jell-O mold. 79 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:03.640 If we pour the hot Jell-O in there and then it sets 80 00:06:03.640 --> 00:06:08.280 and we turn it over and it takes the form of that mold, 81 00:06:08.280 --> 00:06:10.160 whatever shape, if you're making a Christmas one 82 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:12.320 or an Easter one or whatever, it holds onto the shape 83 00:06:12.320 --> 00:06:13.400 that it was in there. 84 00:06:13.400 --> 00:06:15.820 That's the description of what this is saying. 85 00:06:15.820 --> 00:06:18.400 Don't let your life be shaped. 86 00:06:18.400 --> 00:06:22.040 Don't let that determine how you live and how you look 87 00:06:22.040 --> 00:06:24.700 and how you go about your life 88 00:06:24.700 --> 00:06:27.860 by external superficial customs. 89 00:06:27.860 --> 00:06:30.160 And it says, but be transformed. 90 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:31.960 And that's really, I'm all about, 91 00:06:31.960 --> 00:06:34.000 that's what Prosper and All Things About is. 92 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:37.120 It's just being transformed into, 93 00:06:37.120 --> 00:06:40.040 and really in a lot of ways, it's not even transformed. 94 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:42.880 It's just stepping into who you really are. 95 00:06:42.880 --> 00:06:45.880 It's being transformed away from all the things 96 00:06:45.880 --> 00:06:48.160 that we've taken on that aren't really us 97 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:51.440 and stepping into who God really made us to be. 98 00:06:51.880 --> 00:06:53.880 And so this verse says, be transformed, 99 00:06:53.880 --> 00:06:58.680 to be changed by the entire renewal of your mind. 100 00:06:58.680 --> 00:07:03.500 So transformation happens as we change our mind. 101 00:07:03.500 --> 00:07:08.280 Transformation happens as our mind is renewed, renewed. 102 00:07:08.280 --> 00:07:09.960 Re means to do again. 103 00:07:09.960 --> 00:07:12.040 New means to be made new. 104 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:13.860 In other words, it's a rebooting. 105 00:07:13.860 --> 00:07:16.600 It's a reprogramming of the mind 106 00:07:16.600 --> 00:07:20.180 because the mind has all kinds of stuff on it right now 107 00:07:20.180 --> 00:07:21.580 that you've just accepted. 108 00:07:21.580 --> 00:07:24.240 And I'm gonna tell you how those beliefs came about, 109 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:29.240 but your mind has all these things that you've accepted. 110 00:07:29.260 --> 00:07:33.500 And now it's time to go back and actually become conscious, 111 00:07:33.500 --> 00:07:37.720 begin to think about what you're thinking about. 112 00:07:37.720 --> 00:07:41.120 Why do you even do the things that you do? 113 00:07:41.120 --> 00:07:43.060 You know, there's the classic story 114 00:07:43.060 --> 00:07:46.540 of the woman that would make the roast 115 00:07:46.540 --> 00:07:49.260 for Thanksgiving every year. 116 00:07:49.260 --> 00:07:53.020 And she would, it was a ham, and she would cut off. 117 00:07:53.020 --> 00:07:55.060 She'd take a knife and she'd cut off a good chunk 118 00:07:55.060 --> 00:07:56.420 on both sides of the ham 119 00:07:56.420 --> 00:07:59.060 and then put it in the baking dish and bake it. 120 00:07:59.060 --> 00:08:03.340 And her daughter-in-law coming said, 121 00:08:03.340 --> 00:08:06.220 can you tell me, you know, this is such a strange thing. 122 00:08:06.220 --> 00:08:07.900 I never did this growing up. 123 00:08:07.900 --> 00:08:10.220 You know, why is it that you cut both sides of the ham 124 00:08:10.220 --> 00:08:12.420 before you stick it in the oven to bake it? 125 00:08:12.420 --> 00:08:15.820 And she says, well, I don't know, let me call my mom. 126 00:08:15.820 --> 00:08:17.900 That's what my mom always did. 127 00:08:17.900 --> 00:08:19.940 She says, mom, you know, I'm just curious. 128 00:08:19.940 --> 00:08:24.300 I cut the end of both sides of the ham each Thanksgiving. 129 00:08:24.300 --> 00:08:25.620 And, you know, our new daughter-in-law, 130 00:08:25.620 --> 00:08:27.420 she was asking why we do that. 131 00:08:27.420 --> 00:08:29.380 Why do we cut both sides of the ham 132 00:08:29.380 --> 00:08:30.740 before we put it in the oven? 133 00:08:30.740 --> 00:08:32.380 And the mom said, oh, silly, 134 00:08:32.380 --> 00:08:34.539 because my roasting pan was too small. 135 00:08:34.539 --> 00:08:37.179 That's the only way I could get it to fit. 136 00:08:37.179 --> 00:08:39.919 Isn't it funny that unconsciously, 137 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:44.640 we take on the belief systems, the habits, the attitudes, 138 00:08:44.640 --> 00:08:46.300 and we don't even think about it. 139 00:08:46.300 --> 00:08:48.700 We don't think about what we're thinking about. 140 00:08:48.700 --> 00:08:51.140 We don't think about what we're speaking. 141 00:08:51.140 --> 00:08:55.420 And so this transformation of stepping into who we are 142 00:08:55.420 --> 00:08:59.180 comes from the entire renewal, renew, to make new, 143 00:08:59.180 --> 00:09:02.860 to go back and keeps the thinking and the thoughts 144 00:09:02.860 --> 00:09:05.220 that work, that serve you, 145 00:09:05.220 --> 00:09:07.940 but begin to eliminate the fear-based thoughts 146 00:09:07.940 --> 00:09:09.860 that no longer serve you. 147 00:09:09.860 --> 00:09:11.900 And so it says the renewing of your mind 148 00:09:11.900 --> 00:09:14.120 by new ideals, new attitude, 149 00:09:14.120 --> 00:09:16.360 so that you can prove for yourself 150 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:18.740 what is the perfect will of God. 151 00:09:18.740 --> 00:09:20.440 You know, so many people I meet say, 152 00:09:20.440 --> 00:09:23.320 I really wanna know the will of God for my life. 153 00:09:23.320 --> 00:09:26.160 And this is telling you the way to know the will of God 154 00:09:26.160 --> 00:09:28.520 for your life is through transformation, 155 00:09:28.520 --> 00:09:31.720 and that transformation comes from the renewing of your mind, 156 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:34.720 not just conforming and just going with the flow 157 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:37.140 of what's going on in the world around you. 158 00:09:37.140 --> 00:09:39.420 That's how you can know the will of God. 159 00:09:39.420 --> 00:09:41.720 And we're gonna see in some scriptures 160 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:43.600 that we're reading from today 161 00:09:43.680 --> 00:09:47.720 that there's many times in religion 162 00:09:48.640 --> 00:09:51.720 that we're doing things that are far from the will of God, 163 00:09:51.720 --> 00:09:54.800 but they're being passed on generation to generation 164 00:09:54.800 --> 00:09:57.380 in the church, their customs, their traditions, 165 00:09:57.380 --> 00:09:58.840 their traditions of men. 166 00:09:58.840 --> 00:10:00.540 And we're gonna see in scripture. 167 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:05.280 that many of these traditions actually make null the the word of God. So we can be in church, 168 00:10:05.280 --> 00:10:10.160 we can be in synagogue, we can we can be in religion, we can be doing things that are real 169 00:10:10.160 --> 00:10:16.000 religious that the religious leaders tell us to do, and we can be very far from the will of God. 170 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:20.400 So you want to know the true will of God for your life which is first of all 171 00:10:21.520 --> 00:10:27.040 is is removing the fear-based thinking and living and moving into the love-based because God 172 00:10:27.040 --> 00:10:34.080 is love there is no other thing if you want to know God it's it's based on on love and um and 173 00:10:34.080 --> 00:10:41.520 scripture says that perfect love casts out fear. So anywhere you've got fear going on it's because 174 00:10:41.520 --> 00:10:47.600 love has not perfected it yet and you can see the areas where you're lacking in love where fear is. 175 00:10:48.320 --> 00:10:55.760 Well studying these four agreements is a way of of you know moving from unconscious incompetence 176 00:10:55.760 --> 00:11:00.000 that means we don't we don't know what we don't know we're not thinking about what we think about 177 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:05.120 we're not thinking about what we speak that's unconscious incompetence to move into conscious 178 00:11:05.920 --> 00:11:12.240 incompetence where we start really paying attention and listening to our words and thinking about what 179 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:18.720 we think about and um beginning and that's the first step in mastery is is beginning to be even 180 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:23.600 conscious of it and the more conscious that we are and we begin to make these changes in these 181 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:29.440 agreements these four agreements are a simple way to break the thousands of many agreements that 182 00:11:29.440 --> 00:11:35.040 you've made and restore this abundant life to bring about this transformation and that's why 183 00:11:35.040 --> 00:11:39.840 I get really excited about this book a lot of times when there's wisdom that is so simple 184 00:11:40.720 --> 00:11:47.200 um that's that's the way for transformation and this wisdom is is simple but profound 185 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:54.640 and so here it is that we're choosing to not be conformed that is fashioned and adapted after those 186 00:11:54.640 --> 00:12:00.320 superficial customs but we're choosing to be transformed and we do that by the renewal of our 187 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:06.640 mind so we can prove for ourselves the good acceptable and perfect will of God and that 188 00:12:06.640 --> 00:12:14.480 which is good acceptable and perfect in his sight for you you want to know God's will for you so 189 00:12:14.480 --> 00:12:22.560 when we say do not be conformed uh last week I just had to stop and see how beliefs are formed 190 00:12:22.560 --> 00:12:27.440 in the first place how is it that you came to think what you think how is it that you came to 191 00:12:28.080 --> 00:12:36.480 believe what you believe and there's some great books on on beliefs um the biology of belief 192 00:12:36.480 --> 00:12:44.160 is is one example of a great book um but here in the four agreements um he breaks down how our 193 00:12:44.160 --> 00:12:51.040 beliefs are formed um by a process and the first process how your beliefs are formed has to do with 194 00:12:51.040 --> 00:12:58.480 attention and so when you are wanting to make change you're going the reverse pattern of this 195 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:05.520 your beliefs were formed by hooking your attention in other words he calls it domestication where 196 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:11.440 your parents hooked your attention and began to teach you how to think how to dream how to live 197 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:16.800 creating a belief system and domestication happened the same way that a dog is trained 198 00:13:16.800 --> 00:13:23.120 or a horse is trained there's a a series of rewards a series of punishment and um you know 199 00:13:23.120 --> 00:13:29.760 I I don't know in your family how that worked but in my family if I cross the line you know we were 200 00:13:29.760 --> 00:13:34.320 always told if we're a good girl or a bad girl when we do the things that are right we clean our room 201 00:13:34.320 --> 00:13:41.840 we eat our vegetables we're a good girl and uh you know if we don't or we you know do whatever we 202 00:13:41.840 --> 00:13:48.080 lie or we do something we're a bad girl and when we're a bad girl just to reinforce I mean in my 203 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:55.040 family you know my dad used the belt and uh we would get a whopping with his belt and so boy if 204 00:13:55.040 --> 00:13:59.840 you saw him start to reach to unbuckle his belt you knew you were in trouble and you would cross 205 00:13:59.840 --> 00:14:04.080 the line you were a bad girl and that was not something you should have done so we get this 206 00:14:04.080 --> 00:14:09.200 domestication and you know it only took one or two times when you're a little girl of that I was one 207 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:14.080 real sensitive my dad just start unbuckling his belt and I would change I would conform I was you 208 00:14:14.080 --> 00:14:19.040 know I didn't want any of that and so you know or I would see my brother or someone else getting it 209 00:14:19.040 --> 00:14:23.520 and I didn't want it and I would learn from from their mistakes and so we get this domestication 210 00:14:23.520 --> 00:14:29.920 where it no longer needs our parents we do this to ourselves the interesting thing about all of 211 00:14:29.920 --> 00:14:36.080 that that comes in the renewal of your mind and the and the becoming conscious part of it is that 212 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:43.120 these things that we learned how to think how to believe about money about life about relationships 213 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:49.680 about food about all of these thousands of things that we learn to live about about work and and 214 00:14:49.680 --> 00:14:55.840 about jobs and about education and all of these things about politics about race about gender 215 00:14:56.480 --> 00:14:59.760 they're not necessarily based on truth 216 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:03.920 See we just received them and assumed that they were true and many of you are 217 00:15:03.920 --> 00:15:07.080 still living as if they are true and you've never challenged your beliefs to 218 00:15:07.080 --> 00:15:14.200 even know if they're true. Beliefs that you've held about yourself and Katie 219 00:15:14.200 --> 00:15:19.800 Byron has a wonderful book about loving what is and the the gist of that book is 220 00:15:19.800 --> 00:15:23.840 there's a number of questions that you ask yourself and and part of those is to 221 00:15:23.840 --> 00:15:27.760 sort out and see if what you're believing is even true. So you might have 222 00:15:27.760 --> 00:15:33.680 a belief that you've held on to for a long time that says I'm so fat and the 223 00:15:33.680 --> 00:15:39.280 first thing that Katie would have you ask is is that true and or you know 224 00:15:39.280 --> 00:15:47.400 people say I'm so stupid. Is that true? How can you know it's true? And what 225 00:15:47.400 --> 00:15:51.560 begins to happen is you probably don't really know that it's true you just 226 00:15:51.560 --> 00:15:57.680 accepted it and a question begins to ask of is this still serving me? What 227 00:15:57.680 --> 00:16:00.680 would your life be? One of the questions she asked is what would your life be if 228 00:16:00.680 --> 00:16:05.120 you let go of this belief? What would your life be like if you no longer held 229 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:11.160 to the belief I'm so stupid? I'm just not I'm just not smart. And so what we find 230 00:16:11.160 --> 00:16:17.000 is that our parents, our church, our leaders, our education system hooked our 231 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:23.000 attention. They got us to pay attention to believe a certain thing and to 232 00:16:23.000 --> 00:16:26.480 associate it with good or bad and with rewards and punishment but it's not 233 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:30.520 necessarily based on truth. Now in Scripture we saw this last week when we 234 00:16:30.520 --> 00:16:35.520 looked at Mark 7 that we saw the Pharisees. Now these were the leaders of 235 00:16:35.520 --> 00:16:42.440 the law. I mean they and the Jewish these were the the educated and knowledgeable 236 00:16:42.440 --> 00:16:47.720 in the commandments of God. These were your religious leaders these Pharisees 237 00:16:47.720 --> 00:16:53.360 and they had a tradition that they never showed up unless they had washed. They 238 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:58.760 done a whole washing ceremony and and it was done in a very specific manner 239 00:16:58.760 --> 00:17:03.760 before they ever touched food and this tradition was hand you know passed down 240 00:17:03.760 --> 00:17:08.560 passed on that was a ceremonial purification ritual and it was passed 241 00:17:08.720 --> 00:17:13.680 down for generations and what happens when we get these belief systems 242 00:17:13.680 --> 00:17:19.040 conflict happens when we don't see other people living by the same agreements 243 00:17:19.040 --> 00:17:24.400 that we have. So if you had grown up in this culture and this religion religious 244 00:17:24.400 --> 00:17:28.200 tradition now you saw someone sit down at the table and they didn't go through 245 00:17:28.200 --> 00:17:32.600 the ceremonial purification you're gonna have a real issue with them and you're 246 00:17:32.600 --> 00:17:36.040 going to judge them because they are different from you and they are 247 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:41.640 different from the agreement that you have made and we do this all the time 248 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:47.080 we're judging ourselves and we're judging others and so we see this in in 249 00:17:47.080 --> 00:17:53.960 this verse in Mark chapter 7 in verse 5 the Pharisees start asking Jesus because 250 00:17:53.960 --> 00:17:58.680 they're not keeping this custom and Jesus is a rabbi he's a teacher he's 251 00:17:58.680 --> 00:18:03.240 respected and the Pharisees are real upset why do your disciples not order 252 00:18:03.240 --> 00:18:07.480 their way of living according to the tradition handed down by the forefathers 253 00:18:07.480 --> 00:18:12.120 to observe and eat with him why are they eating with hands that are unwashed and 254 00:18:12.120 --> 00:18:17.080 ceremonial not purified so they're challenging Jesus why are your disciples 255 00:18:17.080 --> 00:18:21.720 not sticking to the agreements these are the agreements that we have this is what 256 00:18:21.720 --> 00:18:28.040 makes you pure and this is part of our religion and Jesus answer is really 257 00:18:28.040 --> 00:18:34.360 interesting in verse 8 he says you disregard and you give up the 258 00:18:34.360 --> 00:18:39.320 commandments of God clinging to the traditions of men you're keeping 259 00:18:39.320 --> 00:18:43.480 carefully and faithfully the traditions of men and he said to them you have a 260 00:18:43.480 --> 00:18:49.920 fine way of rejecting and the Amplified says thus thwarting and nullifying and 261 00:18:49.920 --> 00:18:55.200 doing away with the commandments of God in order to keep your tradition your own 262 00:18:55.200 --> 00:19:00.800 human regulations so here you see Jesus bringing a level of consciousness to say 263 00:19:00.800 --> 00:19:05.760 look don't assume everything you're doing is God this is not God in fact 264 00:19:05.760 --> 00:19:10.040 it's just the opposite what you think is so religious and makes you look so good 265 00:19:10.040 --> 00:19:17.120 and so purified what you're thinking is so religious is actually in verse 13 he 266 00:19:17.120 --> 00:19:22.920 says you are nullifying and making void of no effect the Word of God through 267 00:19:22.920 --> 00:19:28.840 your tradition he actually began to separate what they were scholars in the 268 00:19:28.840 --> 00:19:33.600 Word of God and these traditions that had been passed on generation to 269 00:19:33.600 --> 00:19:39.280 generation these series of agreements of what it means to be religious when you 270 00:19:39.280 --> 00:19:45.120 pray you hold your hands this way or you stand in this posture in this church we 271 00:19:45.120 --> 00:19:49.760 raise our hands and worship in this church we don't show any bodily motion 272 00:19:49.760 --> 00:19:54.560 in this church we have a series of rituals that we read and repeat after in 273 00:19:54.560 --> 00:19:59.440 this church we're free and we speak out prophetically in this church and you 274 00:19:59.440 --> 00:20:00.040 begin to have 275 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:03.640 of all of the stuff that you're inheriting. 276 00:20:03.640 --> 00:20:06.960 In this church, we only wear suits and ties and dresses. 277 00:20:06.960 --> 00:20:10.200 In this church, we show up in jeans and T-shirts. 278 00:20:10.200 --> 00:20:11.180 And you know what? 279 00:20:11.180 --> 00:20:13.880 Which ones are really the heart of God? 280 00:20:13.880 --> 00:20:16.720 See, it's time to sort out all of this tradition 281 00:20:16.720 --> 00:20:19.200 from the truth because Jesus says, you know what? 282 00:20:19.200 --> 00:20:20.680 You're not even following God. 283 00:20:20.680 --> 00:20:24.200 In fact, so far, are you not following God? 284 00:20:24.200 --> 00:20:29.200 You're nullifying, you're making void God's word. 285 00:20:29.800 --> 00:20:33.960 So here they are, they're the experts in religion 286 00:20:33.960 --> 00:20:35.680 and they're teaching religion 287 00:20:35.680 --> 00:20:38.040 and they're judging people's religion 288 00:20:38.040 --> 00:20:42.040 and their spirituality by following these things. 289 00:20:42.040 --> 00:20:43.920 And in the middle of the church, 290 00:20:43.920 --> 00:20:45.480 in the middle of the synagogue, 291 00:20:45.480 --> 00:20:48.040 in the middle of the spiritual community, 292 00:20:48.040 --> 00:20:50.120 and Jesus comes in and says, guess what? 293 00:20:50.120 --> 00:20:52.780 You're far from the word of God. 294 00:20:52.780 --> 00:20:57.360 You see, I would propose that it's possible to be religious 295 00:20:57.360 --> 00:20:59.640 and people say to me, I'm not very religious. 296 00:20:59.640 --> 00:21:01.280 And I say, good, I'm not either. 297 00:21:01.280 --> 00:21:04.480 Because look up the word religion, re, back, 298 00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:07.160 legion, bondage, back to bondage. 299 00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:10.400 You see, Jesus wasn't about religion 300 00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:14.120 and we miss the relationship. 301 00:21:14.120 --> 00:21:16.280 And so Jesus would always turn 302 00:21:16.280 --> 00:21:18.060 from these superficial customs 303 00:21:18.060 --> 00:21:21.700 and have them look at the issues of the heart. 304 00:21:21.700 --> 00:21:25.200 So we see the same story in Matthew 15 305 00:21:25.200 --> 00:21:29.800 and we see Jesus saying, look, you cancel the word of God 306 00:21:29.800 --> 00:21:31.880 for the sake of your own tradition. 307 00:21:31.880 --> 00:21:34.440 And he goes on and he says, you hypocrites, 308 00:21:34.440 --> 00:21:38.160 in verse seven, Matthew 15, seven, you hypocrites. 309 00:21:38.160 --> 00:21:41.400 Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you, 310 00:21:41.400 --> 00:21:46.400 for he said, these people honor me with their lips 311 00:21:47.060 --> 00:21:51.760 but their hearts are far from me. 312 00:21:51.760 --> 00:21:54.060 Their worship is a farce. 313 00:21:54.060 --> 00:21:58.780 They teach man-made ideas as commands from God. 314 00:21:58.780 --> 00:22:01.980 That was Matthew 15 from the New Living Translation. 315 00:22:01.980 --> 00:22:03.300 So it's very interesting. 316 00:22:03.300 --> 00:22:07.020 Jesus had a way of getting to the heart. 317 00:22:07.020 --> 00:22:09.900 Well, because that's where the issues of life flow from. 318 00:22:09.900 --> 00:22:11.500 That's where we have to get to. 319 00:22:11.500 --> 00:22:14.360 We have to get to the heart of the matter. 320 00:22:14.360 --> 00:22:17.580 And it's saying that they had all the religious traditions. 321 00:22:17.580 --> 00:22:19.860 They looked real good on the outside. 322 00:22:19.860 --> 00:22:24.040 In fact, in another place, this is what's funny. 323 00:22:25.100 --> 00:22:30.100 Jesus had the most trouble with the religious people. 324 00:22:31.340 --> 00:22:32.940 Contrary to what people think, 325 00:22:32.940 --> 00:22:35.100 you won't see him judging the sinner. 326 00:22:35.100 --> 00:22:36.760 You see him having compassion. 327 00:22:36.760 --> 00:22:38.580 Someone that's stuck and struggling 328 00:22:38.580 --> 00:22:41.580 and having issues in their life. 329 00:22:41.580 --> 00:22:44.320 He had so much compassion and so much reach out to them 330 00:22:44.320 --> 00:22:47.100 and help them and heal wherever they needed. 331 00:22:47.100 --> 00:22:49.940 The ones he was always going head to head with 332 00:22:49.940 --> 00:22:51.420 were the religious ones. 333 00:22:51.420 --> 00:22:53.580 The ones who thought that they weren't sick 334 00:22:53.580 --> 00:22:55.140 and they didn't need to change. 335 00:22:55.140 --> 00:22:57.340 The ones who thought they had it all together 336 00:22:57.340 --> 00:23:00.180 and that spiritually they were all that in a bag of chips. 337 00:23:00.180 --> 00:23:02.180 Those are the ones that he had trouble with. 338 00:23:02.180 --> 00:23:04.560 And so you see him in another place in scripture 339 00:23:04.560 --> 00:23:08.900 where he calls them whitewashed tombs full of dead man bone. 340 00:23:08.900 --> 00:23:10.140 Dead man bones. 341 00:23:10.140 --> 00:23:14.040 So you see him where on the outside, they look real good. 342 00:23:14.040 --> 00:23:15.240 They're whitewashed. 343 00:23:15.240 --> 00:23:17.680 These people look spick and span clean. 344 00:23:17.680 --> 00:23:19.840 They've done their ceremonial purification. 345 00:23:19.840 --> 00:23:22.140 They got their religious hair, their religious face, 346 00:23:22.140 --> 00:23:23.700 their religious clothes. 347 00:23:23.700 --> 00:23:26.340 They are religious and everybody knows them 348 00:23:26.340 --> 00:23:27.940 for being religious. 349 00:23:27.940 --> 00:23:29.780 But Jesus gets to the heart of it. 350 00:23:29.780 --> 00:23:31.840 They're full of dead man bones. 351 00:23:31.840 --> 00:23:33.140 And here he gets to it. 352 00:23:33.140 --> 00:23:34.480 They're honoring me with their lips, 353 00:23:34.480 --> 00:23:36.260 but their hearts are far from me. 354 00:23:36.260 --> 00:23:39.780 Their worship, he actually goes on to say is a farce. 355 00:23:39.780 --> 00:23:41.540 So they look real good on the outside, 356 00:23:41.540 --> 00:23:43.740 but it's not even real. 357 00:23:43.740 --> 00:23:47.480 So these beliefs happen that our attention is hooked. 358 00:23:47.480 --> 00:23:48.560 We're domesticated. 359 00:23:48.560 --> 00:23:50.120 We're taught this is good. 360 00:23:50.120 --> 00:23:50.960 This is bad. 361 00:23:50.960 --> 00:23:51.880 This is religious. 362 00:23:51.880 --> 00:23:53.160 This is not. 363 00:23:53.160 --> 00:23:54.240 This is spiritual. 364 00:23:54.240 --> 00:23:55.320 This is not. 365 00:23:55.320 --> 00:23:57.040 This is a feminine. 366 00:23:57.040 --> 00:23:58.160 This is not. 367 00:23:58.160 --> 00:24:00.480 This is, you know, we're taught all these things. 368 00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:02.240 And so then what needs to happen, 369 00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:06.060 the second phase of forming your belief is agreement. 370 00:24:06.060 --> 00:24:09.800 And so nothing that anyone says to you matters 371 00:24:09.800 --> 00:24:12.200 until you come into agreement with it. 372 00:24:12.200 --> 00:24:14.100 Everything begins with agreement. 373 00:24:14.100 --> 00:24:17.700 And so this is where for you, as you become conscious, 374 00:24:17.700 --> 00:24:19.020 it's beginning to look and say, 375 00:24:19.020 --> 00:24:21.380 who or what am I agreeing with? 376 00:24:21.380 --> 00:24:24.340 What belief systems did I agree with about money? 377 00:24:24.340 --> 00:24:27.220 What belief systems did I agree with about myself? 378 00:24:27.220 --> 00:24:29.760 What belief systems did I agree with about health, 379 00:24:29.760 --> 00:24:33.340 about life, about love, about relationships, 380 00:24:33.340 --> 00:24:34.860 about money, all these things. 381 00:24:34.860 --> 00:24:37.260 And so as soon as you agree, 382 00:24:37.260 --> 00:24:39.380 it becomes part of your belief system. 383 00:24:39.380 --> 00:24:40.860 And the stronger you agree, 384 00:24:40.880 --> 00:24:43.520 it moves from belief to even faith. 385 00:24:43.520 --> 00:24:44.760 And of course, faith is where 386 00:24:44.760 --> 00:24:46.880 you're believing unconditionally. 387 00:24:46.880 --> 00:24:50.360 And so we make all of these agreements. 388 00:24:50.360 --> 00:24:55.120 And Jesus in Matthew 18 talked about the power 389 00:24:55.120 --> 00:24:59.440 of what we agree, what we permit, what we declare. 390 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:04.600 Because we're made in the image of God, Genesis, the book of Genesis says we're 391 00:25:04.600 --> 00:25:11.840 made in the image and the likeness of God. We create in the same way that God 392 00:25:11.840 --> 00:25:18.120 created. We have a thought, we begin to imagine that thought and create in our 393 00:25:18.120 --> 00:25:22.320 mind, we begin to speak that thought and we begin to manifest it. And so we have 394 00:25:22.320 --> 00:25:28.160 that God-like quality in the way that he made us, that what's happening in your 395 00:25:28.160 --> 00:25:31.360 life is a reflection of the thoughts that you've thought, the feelings that 396 00:25:31.360 --> 00:25:35.280 you felt, and the words that you're speaking. It's the mind-heart-mouth 397 00:25:35.280 --> 00:25:40.520 connection. And when I do the workshop, Think, Feel, Speak, it gives you the 398 00:25:40.520 --> 00:25:44.400 secrets for manifesting what you want in your life, understanding those three 399 00:25:44.400 --> 00:25:49.800 components. And Jesus wanted them to know in Matthew 18 just how powerful 400 00:25:49.800 --> 00:25:55.040 that we are. And so he makes it clear. He says, look, I tell you, whatever you forbid 401 00:25:55.040 --> 00:26:00.000 and declare to be improper on earth should be what's already forbidden in 402 00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:04.400 heaven. Whatever you permit and declare proper and lawful on earth should be 403 00:26:04.400 --> 00:26:08.040 what's already permitted in heaven. In other words, bring your thinking into 404 00:26:08.040 --> 00:26:13.160 alignment with the way things are in the kingdom of God. In other words, there's no 405 00:26:13.160 --> 00:26:16.680 sickness in the kingdom of God. So when we buy into the idea of sickness, we're 406 00:26:16.680 --> 00:26:21.040 out of alignment with God. There's no poverty in the kingdom of God. So when we 407 00:26:21.040 --> 00:26:25.520 buy into a concept of lack, there's no lack in the kingdom of God. We're out of 408 00:26:25.520 --> 00:26:30.280 agreement, so we're declaring lack. But when we're declaring that, it's out of 409 00:26:30.280 --> 00:26:35.400 agreement with what is already declared in the kingdom of God. And so he begins 410 00:26:35.400 --> 00:26:40.360 to talk in verse 19 that when two of us agree, whenever you come into agreement 411 00:26:40.360 --> 00:26:46.400 with someone about anything, then you can come to a place in agreement that you 412 00:26:46.400 --> 00:26:50.200 can ask and it'll be done for you. Whenever two or three are gathered, 413 00:26:50.200 --> 00:26:55.720 that's where God is present. And so as you come to understand that you giving 414 00:26:55.720 --> 00:27:01.480 your agreement is bringing it to pass in your life. So for example, if a doctor 415 00:27:01.480 --> 00:27:06.520 gives you diagnosis, do you come into agreement with it? Do you accept that 416 00:27:06.520 --> 00:27:12.980 that's your diagnosis? And I meet a lot of people that do. And I mean, the doctors 417 00:27:12.980 --> 00:27:16.000 even tell them how many weeks they have to live and they get on the doctor's 418 00:27:16.000 --> 00:27:21.440 schedule of life. I've seen the opposite. I tell the story about Walter in 419 00:27:21.440 --> 00:27:25.240 Missouri and his doctor said, hey, look, see that wheelchair, that's where you're 420 00:27:25.240 --> 00:27:28.800 going and began to tell him, put down your paintbrush, you're gonna have 421 00:27:28.800 --> 00:27:32.760 arthritis that's gonna be crippling, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Walter walked out the 422 00:27:32.760 --> 00:27:39.400 door and said, I've heard the doctor's report, now what do you say, God? You see, 423 00:27:39.400 --> 00:27:42.920 Walter understood the power of agreement and he was not going to 424 00:27:42.960 --> 00:27:47.680 come into agreement with what the doctor said without first coming into agreement 425 00:27:47.680 --> 00:27:52.400 with what God had to say. And the fact of the matter, God would go on to lead him 426 00:27:52.400 --> 00:27:57.760 to get healing and he's not in a wheelchair to this day. So who or what 427 00:27:57.760 --> 00:28:01.880 you're coming into agreement. So the way the belief is formed is your attention 428 00:28:01.880 --> 00:28:04.880 is hooked, whatever you give your attention, nothing can happen until you 429 00:28:04.880 --> 00:28:09.240 give it your attention. Once you give it your attention, then you have to come 430 00:28:09.240 --> 00:28:13.320 into agreement with it. Once you come into agreement with it, it becomes your 431 00:28:13.320 --> 00:28:18.080 belief and out of that belief now you begin to judge. You begin to judge 432 00:28:18.080 --> 00:28:22.640 yourself, you have an internal judge that's always judging you and you begin 433 00:28:22.640 --> 00:28:26.920 to judge others. And the way that you judge others, you begin to judge yourself. 434 00:28:26.920 --> 00:28:34.560 Romans 2.2, Romans 2.2 says that whenever you judge or condemn another, when you 435 00:28:34.560 --> 00:28:41.320 pose as judge and pass sentence on another, you condemn yourself. So in 436 00:28:41.320 --> 00:28:45.040 judging others, you're judging yourself and so there's these thousands of 437 00:28:45.040 --> 00:28:48.560 agreements that you've made with yourself, with the people in your life, 438 00:28:48.560 --> 00:28:53.120 with society, with your parents, all of these agreements that are now have 439 00:28:53.120 --> 00:28:59.600 become your personality. And when you say this is just who I am, really, how did you 440 00:28:59.600 --> 00:29:06.280 come to be who you are? And is it in line with who you really are? Is it in 441 00:29:06.280 --> 00:29:12.600 line with the high calling that God has on your life? Is it love-based? Is it 442 00:29:12.600 --> 00:29:19.280 filled with compassion and grace? Is it filled with the abundance that God has 443 00:29:19.280 --> 00:29:23.200 promised us? Or did you come into agreement that is far less than the 444 00:29:23.200 --> 00:29:27.040 image of God that you're made in? And so when you say this is just who I am or 445 00:29:27.040 --> 00:29:32.120 this is my personality, this is what I can do, this is what I can't do, this is 446 00:29:32.120 --> 00:29:35.800 based on the agreements that you've set. And I encourage you that this 447 00:29:35.800 --> 00:29:39.520 series is the time to begin to reevaluate that and to break all those 448 00:29:39.520 --> 00:29:44.760 teeny tiny agreements that have been holding you hostage, holding you in 449 00:29:44.760 --> 00:29:50.360 fear, holding you in lack, holding you in dis-ease, holding you in strife, holding 450 00:29:50.360 --> 00:29:55.840 you without the relationships that you desire, the life that you desire. And I 451 00:29:55.840 --> 00:30:01.800 think that this series is one that can totally transform you. 452 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:06.800 set you free in moving forward. You need to understand the concept of energy 453 00:30:06.800 --> 00:30:12.800 leaks and you have a certain amount of energy, you have a certain amount of 454 00:30:12.800 --> 00:30:20.240 personal power that is given to you in your life and each day and what ends up 455 00:30:20.240 --> 00:30:25.000 happening is these agreements begin to leak our energy. Keeping all these 456 00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:29.920 agreements especially the fear-based agreements require a tremendous amount of 457 00:30:29.920 --> 00:30:34.600 energy and so what happens is we have all of these energy leaks and all of a 458 00:30:34.600 --> 00:30:40.400 sudden we wonder why we're so tired and we wonder why we just can't even make it 459 00:30:40.400 --> 00:30:46.240 through the day and why our life is one of struggle and survival and not one of 460 00:30:46.240 --> 00:30:53.000 joy and not the higher frequency vibrations. So the four agreements that 461 00:30:53.000 --> 00:30:58.560 have potential to break all of these teeny tiny agreements are this number 462 00:30:58.560 --> 00:31:02.800 one be impeccable with your word and that's what we're going to talk about 463 00:31:02.800 --> 00:31:10.360 today be impeccable with your word. Secondly don't take anything personally 464 00:31:10.360 --> 00:31:16.120 that's the second agreement don't take anything personally this is a powerful 465 00:31:16.120 --> 00:31:22.080 freeing freeing agreement. Don't make assumptions oh this is heavy duty most 466 00:31:22.080 --> 00:31:26.760 of the strife most of the trouble you're having in your life has come as a result 467 00:31:26.760 --> 00:31:31.640 of making assumptions. Man I've been busted so bad on this one I've made so 468 00:31:31.640 --> 00:31:36.160 many assumptions only to find out I was so far off base and caused so much 469 00:31:36.160 --> 00:31:41.520 unnecessary suffering and I have to literally go back and make it right with 470 00:31:41.520 --> 00:31:46.160 myself and with the other person and say you know what I made an assumption and 471 00:31:46.160 --> 00:31:50.920 the assumption was far from the truth these assumptions are not truth-based we 472 00:31:50.920 --> 00:31:54.960 just jump to them we make these movies in our head we're the director of the 473 00:31:54.960 --> 00:31:59.680 movies in our head and we just assume all of these things and so don't make 474 00:31:59.680 --> 00:32:06.320 assumptions is the third and finally always do your best and this is a 475 00:32:06.320 --> 00:32:11.480 profound truth the fourth agreement always do your best and boy it just 476 00:32:11.480 --> 00:32:16.320 really begins to change everything I'll talk more about that when we get to the 477 00:32:16.320 --> 00:32:20.200 end of the study but I can tell you one of the things that I've implemented just 478 00:32:20.200 --> 00:32:26.680 even on that is I've started breaking my day into four-hour segments and so 479 00:32:26.680 --> 00:32:30.320 the morning four-hour in the afternoon four-hour in the early evening four-hour 480 00:32:30.320 --> 00:32:37.480 and before I sleep four-hour so I have four you know awake conscious segments 481 00:32:37.480 --> 00:32:43.840 of four and with each hour four I'm learning to just live in the present and 482 00:32:43.840 --> 00:32:49.600 get the most out of it I set an intention for those four hours what I 483 00:32:49.600 --> 00:32:52.720 want to accomplish during those next four hours what those four hours are 484 00:32:52.720 --> 00:32:58.080 going to be dedicated to and I imagine it and I actually log it I see how I end 485 00:32:58.080 --> 00:33:02.800 up spending that four hours and it's very powerful but what's overriding each 486 00:33:02.800 --> 00:33:09.560 one of those four hours is this agreement of always do your best so for 487 00:33:09.560 --> 00:33:13.720 example in the morning the first four hours I wake up early and those first 488 00:33:13.720 --> 00:33:19.000 four hours include my reading time my meditation my journaling my affirmations 489 00:33:19.000 --> 00:33:24.040 my visualization my exercise you know my eating breakfast all the things kind 490 00:33:24.040 --> 00:33:29.200 of gearing up for that day my setting intention for the day setting the order 491 00:33:29.200 --> 00:33:32.800 of what I'm going to be doing that day and so during that four hours I keep 492 00:33:32.800 --> 00:33:36.040 thinking about it when I'm exercising and I'm wanting to quit I think about 493 00:33:36.040 --> 00:33:41.120 this agreement that I do my best always do my best and I push through when I go 494 00:33:41.120 --> 00:33:47.040 to eat you know am I loving my body am I am I doing my best for my body am I doing 495 00:33:47.040 --> 00:33:52.400 and when I go and I hit the work four hours you know am I doing my best and so 496 00:33:52.400 --> 00:33:56.960 as you begin to be very intentional and very conscious you'll see that this has 497 00:33:56.960 --> 00:34:00.600 a very practical approach in your finances in your health and your 498 00:34:00.600 --> 00:34:06.920 business and everything so the first agreement that we're talking about is to 499 00:34:06.920 --> 00:34:15.440 be impeccable with your word to be impeccable with your word and this 500 00:34:15.440 --> 00:34:21.239 originally is a theological word if you go back to the origins of it it's a it's 501 00:34:21.239 --> 00:34:27.679 kind of a rare theological word and impeccable comes from two words and 502 00:34:27.679 --> 00:34:37.120 that's im which means not and peccare which means to sin so the word 503 00:34:37.120 --> 00:34:47.760 impeccable means not to sin and so it means not to sin with your words so this 504 00:34:47.760 --> 00:34:54.840 is really interesting what does it mean to sin with our words how do we know if 505 00:34:54.840 --> 00:34:59.320 we're sinning with our words and that's what we want to break down when we're 506 00:34:59.320 --> 00:35:01.960 talking about 507 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:05.920 being impeccable with our words, we're talking about not sinning, and I love that he starts 508 00:35:05.920 --> 00:35:12.120 with words because I believe that we're creating our whole world with our words, and the more 509 00:35:12.120 --> 00:35:16.560 that we understand that, we're going to be very careful to guard our tongue. 510 00:35:16.560 --> 00:35:22.020 I believe that it's our creative force, it's how we create, it's how we manifest. 511 00:35:22.020 --> 00:35:25.460 You see, it's the thoughts that you think that begin to birth it. 512 00:35:25.460 --> 00:35:31.380 It's the emotions that you feel around those thoughts that will create the electromagnetic 513 00:35:31.380 --> 00:35:37.180 frequencies eight to 12 feet from your heart that is going to propose, bring about the 514 00:35:37.180 --> 00:35:39.540 law of attraction. 515 00:35:39.540 --> 00:35:43.380 It releases the neuropeptides that's going to talk to every cell in your body, which 516 00:35:43.380 --> 00:35:46.380 is going to have to do with your health. 517 00:35:46.380 --> 00:35:51.540 Our thoughts and our emotions are putting into motion this, but then I look at our tongue, 518 00:35:51.540 --> 00:35:56.900 I look at our words like the sickle, like the harvesting mechanism. 519 00:35:56.900 --> 00:36:02.700 In other words, the fruit is grown with our thoughts and it's watered and nourished with 520 00:36:02.700 --> 00:36:08.740 our emotions, and then it's our words that go and harvest it and actually manifest it, 521 00:36:08.740 --> 00:36:11.020 actually bring it into being. 522 00:36:11.020 --> 00:36:16.580 When you understand the power of your words and the power to create with them, you understand 523 00:36:16.580 --> 00:36:21.980 why being impeccable with your word is so powerful, because you're either creating heaven 524 00:36:21.980 --> 00:36:24.780 or hell with your words in your own life. 525 00:36:24.780 --> 00:36:26.980 Your words are either love-based or fear-based. 526 00:36:26.980 --> 00:36:31.060 They're either edifying, they're building up, or they're tearing down. 527 00:36:31.060 --> 00:36:35.260 They're edifying you and building you up, or they're destroying you. 528 00:36:35.260 --> 00:36:39.780 So let's look at a few verses in the Bible about words as we're talking about it, and 529 00:36:39.780 --> 00:36:45.060 then let's unpack it and see what does it mean to sin with your words, and how can we 530 00:36:45.060 --> 00:36:51.380 be impeccable, that is, sinless, in our words, and what can be the effects in our life by 531 00:36:51.380 --> 00:36:52.620 doing that. 532 00:36:52.620 --> 00:36:57.780 So if you could open your Bible, I'd like some of you to read some of these, and if 533 00:36:57.780 --> 00:37:06.920 you could find Proverbs 18, Proverbs 18 and verse 20. 534 00:37:06.920 --> 00:37:13.460 Go ahead and read that, Proverbs 18 and verse 20, please. 535 00:37:14.460 --> 00:37:20.460 Proverbs 18, 20. 536 00:37:20.460 --> 00:37:24.460 Fruit of his mouth, a man's stomach is filled. 537 00:37:24.460 --> 00:37:28.460 With a harvest from his lips, he is satisfied. 538 00:37:28.460 --> 00:37:31.460 Okay, thank you. 539 00:37:31.460 --> 00:37:41.460 So, what's really interesting is, in the Amplified, it says, a man's filled with the fruit of his mouth. 540 00:37:41.460 --> 00:37:47.260 So, what you're eating, what you're getting full on, actually originated with your mouth. 541 00:37:47.260 --> 00:37:53.140 The Amplified goes on to say, with the consequences of his words, he must be satisfied, whether 542 00:37:53.140 --> 00:37:54.900 good or evil. 543 00:37:54.900 --> 00:38:01.300 The consequences of his words, see, part of wisdom, a new way of thinking, which we were 544 00:38:01.300 --> 00:38:05.980 not taught in the school system, and that we've really lost the ability to do, is to 545 00:38:05.980 --> 00:38:08.860 reason from cause to effect. 546 00:38:08.860 --> 00:38:14.580 In other words, every effect that you're experiencing has a cause, and if we'll learn to get back 547 00:38:14.580 --> 00:38:20.660 to the root cause, and not just the effect, not just the symptom. 548 00:38:20.660 --> 00:38:27.980 So in other words, when you have a headache, the cause is not a Tylenol deficiency, right? 549 00:38:27.980 --> 00:38:33.740 When you have a headache, there's a root cause, and we don't stop to think, am I dehydrated? 550 00:38:33.740 --> 00:38:35.900 Is a vertebrae out in my neck? 551 00:38:36.180 --> 00:38:39.340 Do I have tension, pinching, and nerve? 552 00:38:39.340 --> 00:38:41.820 Have I not eaten, and my blood sugar's low? 553 00:38:41.820 --> 00:38:43.140 There's a reason why I have a headache. 554 00:38:43.140 --> 00:38:44.260 We don't think about that anymore. 555 00:38:44.260 --> 00:38:48.780 We just want to get rid of the effect, and so we take a Tylenol, and we do that in all 556 00:38:48.780 --> 00:38:49.780 areas of our life. 557 00:38:49.780 --> 00:38:55.980 We deal with symptoms, and we don't get to the root causes, and most of the drug industry 558 00:38:55.980 --> 00:39:00.700 is that way, and so this one is making it aware your words have consequences. 559 00:39:00.700 --> 00:39:05.860 It says that you need to be satisfied with the consequences of your words, whether good 560 00:39:05.860 --> 00:39:06.860 or evil. 561 00:39:06.860 --> 00:39:10.700 So if you're not liking the consequences, if you're not liking the fruit, you need to 562 00:39:10.700 --> 00:39:17.620 go back and really evaluate what you have been saying to yourself and to others. 563 00:39:17.620 --> 00:39:30.020 And in verse 21, can you read that next verse there, Cindy? 564 00:39:30.020 --> 00:39:31.940 It's Proverbs 18, 21. 565 00:39:31.940 --> 00:39:33.940 That's just the next verse after what you just read. 566 00:39:41.940 --> 00:39:48.940 The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit. 567 00:39:48.940 --> 00:39:58.940 Okay, so death and life are in the power of the tongue, and you're eating that fruit. 568 00:39:58.940 --> 00:39:59.940 Again, it's explained. 569 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:02.120 Explaining that words have consequences. 570 00:40:02.120 --> 00:40:06.160 Words produce a fruit, the fruit that you're eating. 571 00:40:06.160 --> 00:40:08.400 If you're not liking your financial fruit, 572 00:40:08.400 --> 00:40:11.000 your relational fruit, your health fruit, 573 00:40:11.000 --> 00:40:12.400 if you're not liking the fruit, 574 00:40:12.400 --> 00:40:15.400 the first place to go back is understand consequences 575 00:40:15.400 --> 00:40:16.440 of your words and say, 576 00:40:16.440 --> 00:40:18.640 what have I been speaking over my body? 577 00:40:18.640 --> 00:40:21.060 What have I been speaking over my health? 578 00:40:21.060 --> 00:40:24.520 What have I been speaking over my relationships? 579 00:40:24.520 --> 00:40:26.640 What have I been speaking over my kids? 580 00:40:26.640 --> 00:40:29.680 What have I been speaking over my finances? 581 00:40:29.680 --> 00:40:32.320 And so you begin to see. 582 00:40:32.320 --> 00:40:35.680 In Proverbs 12, 18, 583 00:40:35.680 --> 00:40:39.400 it says the tongue of the wise is health. 584 00:40:39.400 --> 00:40:42.000 If you're wise and you're loving your body 585 00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:45.640 and you're speaking to your body, health, 586 00:40:45.640 --> 00:40:50.400 then you are going to be experiencing health. 587 00:40:51.240 --> 00:40:54.920 In Proverbs 10, 19 and 20, 588 00:40:54.920 --> 00:40:56.800 it says in the multitude of words, 589 00:40:56.800 --> 00:40:58.920 transgression is not lacking. 590 00:40:58.920 --> 00:41:00.120 When there's a lot of words, 591 00:41:00.120 --> 00:41:01.720 there's a good chance you're gonna mess up. 592 00:41:01.720 --> 00:41:05.600 So it says, he who restrains his lips is prudent. 593 00:41:05.600 --> 00:41:08.440 You know, I think we need to just kind of stop 594 00:41:08.440 --> 00:41:09.560 the flapping of the mouth 595 00:41:09.560 --> 00:41:12.420 and just talking without the brain engaged. 596 00:41:12.420 --> 00:41:15.000 We gotta stop just mouthing off about everything 597 00:41:15.000 --> 00:41:18.160 and begin to think about what we say 598 00:41:18.160 --> 00:41:20.560 and be a little bit, have more wisdom 599 00:41:20.560 --> 00:41:22.420 and be a little bit more restrained. 600 00:41:22.420 --> 00:41:23.920 And I'm learning this. 601 00:41:23.920 --> 00:41:25.040 This is a hard one. 602 00:41:25.040 --> 00:41:26.880 I'm a verbal processor. 603 00:41:26.880 --> 00:41:29.200 I like to talk through things to solve them. 604 00:41:29.200 --> 00:41:31.580 And I'm learning to just restrain 605 00:41:31.580 --> 00:41:34.200 and not say everything that comes to my mind. 606 00:41:34.200 --> 00:41:36.580 Not even say everything that God shows me. 607 00:41:36.580 --> 00:41:38.440 It doesn't mean that because God shows me 608 00:41:38.440 --> 00:41:40.780 that I'm supposed to be speaking it right now. 609 00:41:40.780 --> 00:41:43.080 And so learning to have this restraint 610 00:41:43.080 --> 00:41:45.040 because it says in the multitude of words, 611 00:41:45.040 --> 00:41:46.720 transgression is not lacking. 612 00:41:46.720 --> 00:41:48.440 Transgression is another word for sin. 613 00:41:48.440 --> 00:41:50.880 If it's talking about being impeccable with your word, 614 00:41:50.880 --> 00:41:53.780 well, the odds are the more you're just mouthing off 615 00:41:53.780 --> 00:41:55.460 and your mouth is just going, going, going, 616 00:41:55.460 --> 00:41:57.420 the more chance that you're gonna sin 617 00:41:57.420 --> 00:42:01.100 and you are not gonna be impeccable with your words. 618 00:42:01.100 --> 00:42:04.660 Okay, could someone read Colossians 4.6 for me? 619 00:42:04.660 --> 00:42:06.780 In the New Testament, Colossians, 620 00:42:07.700 --> 00:42:10.240 Paul's letter to the Colossians. 621 00:42:10.240 --> 00:42:12.420 So it's after the gospel in the New Testament, 622 00:42:12.420 --> 00:42:14.500 after Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, 623 00:42:14.500 --> 00:42:18.180 you'll come to Colossians 4.6. 624 00:42:18.180 --> 00:42:19.540 Could somebody read that? 625 00:42:19.540 --> 00:42:23.660 And then someone else could be looking up Ephesians 4.29 626 00:42:23.660 --> 00:42:24.620 because we're gonna go there. 627 00:42:24.620 --> 00:42:27.740 So we're gonna read Colossians 4.6, someone find that. 628 00:42:27.740 --> 00:42:30.620 And then we're gonna read Ephesians 4.29, 629 00:42:30.620 --> 00:42:32.340 someone find that please. 630 00:42:37.420 --> 00:42:39.940 Somebody have Colossians 4.6? 631 00:42:45.500 --> 00:42:47.180 Colossians 4.6. 632 00:42:55.620 --> 00:42:56.940 Come on, guys. 633 00:42:56.940 --> 00:43:01.020 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, 634 00:43:01.020 --> 00:43:04.300 that you may know how you ought to answer every man. 635 00:43:04.300 --> 00:43:05.580 Okay, awesome. 636 00:43:05.580 --> 00:43:06.980 Who was that that just read? 637 00:43:07.820 --> 00:43:08.660 Candace. 638 00:43:08.660 --> 00:43:09.800 Oh, Candace, thank you. 639 00:43:09.800 --> 00:43:14.800 So let your speech be always with grace. 640 00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:18.640 Have you thought about your words having grace, 641 00:43:18.640 --> 00:43:19.840 seasoned with salt, 642 00:43:19.840 --> 00:43:23.060 that you know how you should answer every man? 643 00:43:23.060 --> 00:43:27.040 What if all of our answers were seasoned with grace? 644 00:43:28.660 --> 00:43:32.380 Would we talk different if our words always included grace, 645 00:43:32.380 --> 00:43:36.820 unmerited favor, believing the best in the other person, 646 00:43:36.820 --> 00:43:39.740 believing the best of life, believing the best of God, 647 00:43:39.740 --> 00:43:41.940 believing the best of ourselves? 648 00:43:43.060 --> 00:43:46.100 Okay, someone else has Ephesians 4.29? 649 00:43:46.100 --> 00:43:51.100 Ephesians 4.29. 650 00:44:05.300 --> 00:44:09.820 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, 651 00:44:09.820 --> 00:44:14.060 but that which is good to the use of edifying, 652 00:44:14.140 --> 00:44:18.020 that it may minister grace unto the hearers. 653 00:44:18.020 --> 00:44:19.740 That's awesome. 654 00:44:19.740 --> 00:44:21.120 Thank you, Judy. 655 00:44:21.120 --> 00:44:25.900 So let no, none, zero, zippo, 656 00:44:25.900 --> 00:44:30.900 let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth. 657 00:44:31.480 --> 00:44:34.660 Did you know your communication can be corrupted? 658 00:44:34.660 --> 00:44:37.020 Have you ever had on the computer a document 659 00:44:37.020 --> 00:44:41.300 that got corrupted by a virus or by something, 660 00:44:41.300 --> 00:44:44.260 and so the document no longer is any good, 661 00:44:44.260 --> 00:44:45.940 it's corrupted, right? 662 00:44:45.940 --> 00:44:47.940 Our words, it says, can be corrupted. 663 00:44:47.940 --> 00:44:51.180 Let no corrupt communication come out of your mouth. 664 00:44:51.180 --> 00:44:52.740 Only that which is good. 665 00:44:52.740 --> 00:44:54.020 Well, how do we know what is good? 666 00:44:54.020 --> 00:44:56.520 How do we know what's good communication? 667 00:44:56.520 --> 00:44:58.120 Well, it goes on and describes. 668 00:44:58.120 --> 00:45:00.220 What does it mean by good communication? 669 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:07.560 to the use of edifying edifying we get the root word edifice from edifying it 670 00:45:07.560 --> 00:45:13.800 means to build up to support to strengthen so your words should be like 671 00:45:13.800 --> 00:45:17.760 an edifice have you ever seen a building that is being built or painted and 672 00:45:17.760 --> 00:45:21.480 there's the whole scaffolding around the edifice is there supporting it all the 673 00:45:21.480 --> 00:45:27.120 way up this is what our words should do when we speak our words they should 674 00:45:27.120 --> 00:45:34.840 build up support strengthen edify minister grace it says to the hearer so 675 00:45:34.840 --> 00:45:39.640 your words are designed not to hear yourself talk not to just get it off 676 00:45:39.640 --> 00:45:43.880 your chest as we often say tell give them a piece of my mind tell them what 677 00:45:43.880 --> 00:45:49.160 I'm feeling it's not supposed to be about you it says that it may minister 678 00:45:49.160 --> 00:45:54.440 grace to the hearer our communication is supposed to be based on love instead of 679 00:45:54.440 --> 00:45:58.640 fear if it's based on ourselves and it's going to be fear-based very often 680 00:45:58.640 --> 00:46:03.520 but when it's based on ministering grace to the hearer now it's going to be 681 00:46:03.520 --> 00:46:08.920 love-based and I'm thinking how will my words help this person be a better 682 00:46:08.920 --> 00:46:14.440 version of who they are how will my words strengthen this person edify this 683 00:46:14.440 --> 00:46:20.520 person uplift this person support this person challenge this person encourage 684 00:46:20.560 --> 00:46:27.320 this person call this person into their high calling into who they are and so 685 00:46:27.320 --> 00:46:32.960 we're allowing our words to minister grace to the hearer so we're keeping in 686 00:46:32.960 --> 00:46:36.640 mind the here we're conscious of the here and the effect that our words have 687 00:46:36.640 --> 00:46:42.800 on them in the book the four agreements he tells a story that is unfortunately 688 00:46:42.800 --> 00:46:48.000 all too common and maybe you grew up with something like this I know I did it 689 00:46:48.000 --> 00:46:52.000 talks about a mom that came home stressful day at work she was exhausted 690 00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:56.600 and she had the worst headache and she was just pounding throbbing headache 691 00:46:56.600 --> 00:47:00.920 trying to survive and she had a little girl and the little girl was just free 692 00:47:00.920 --> 00:47:06.760 and dancing and singing and twirling and going about being the little girl and as 693 00:47:06.760 --> 00:47:13.000 she's just singing her little heart content out happy just in the moment the 694 00:47:13.040 --> 00:47:20.640 mother says would you shut up you have a terrible voice stop singing do you know 695 00:47:20.640 --> 00:47:27.280 that little girl from that point on because the mom hooked her attention she 696 00:47:27.280 --> 00:47:31.160 went into agreement with the mom she didn't think to question the mom she 697 00:47:31.160 --> 00:47:35.400 went into agreement it became part of her belief system and her belief system 698 00:47:35.400 --> 00:47:41.440 is that she cannot sing and you will not find that little girl who's now a grown 699 00:47:41.440 --> 00:47:48.320 woman singing in public you see I'm one of those I was always made fun of my 700 00:47:48.320 --> 00:47:53.560 voice and my singing I heard that growing up so you'll see me by myself 701 00:47:53.560 --> 00:47:58.840 and the shower around the house I'm just singing away but anybody comes around I'm 702 00:47:58.840 --> 00:48:02.960 mouthing it or not singing at all I won't sing in front of people we've 703 00:48:02.960 --> 00:48:07.600 taken on these belief systems and they're still holding us captive they're 704 00:48:07.600 --> 00:48:13.440 still holding us bondage and so to be impeccable with our words was that 705 00:48:13.440 --> 00:48:16.920 mother impeccable did it really have anything to do with the little girl's 706 00:48:16.920 --> 00:48:21.920 voice of course not any noise would have gotten to that woman who had the headache 707 00:48:21.920 --> 00:48:26.360 it had nothing to do with the little girl and yet those words become our 708 00:48:26.360 --> 00:48:33.440 agreements so the word impeccability means without sin and in the book the 709 00:48:33.440 --> 00:48:39.560 four agreements this is what he says he says religions talk about sin and 710 00:48:39.560 --> 00:48:44.280 sinners but let's understand what it really means to sin and he gives a very 711 00:48:44.280 --> 00:48:50.160 interesting definition of sin that I think is very deep and very 712 00:48:50.160 --> 00:48:54.960 comprehensive and something to really think about he says a sin is anything 713 00:48:54.960 --> 00:49:04.440 you do which goes against yourself a sin is anything you do which goes 714 00:49:04.440 --> 00:49:10.800 against yourself now scripturally I could back that up and say yeah that 715 00:49:10.800 --> 00:49:15.080 agrees with the Word of God James chapter 4 says anyone who knows to do 716 00:49:15.080 --> 00:49:19.960 good and doesn't do it is sinning so if you knew something was good and you 717 00:49:19.960 --> 00:49:28.880 didn't do it Paul talks about when when we're being casual I don't lack of 718 00:49:28.880 --> 00:49:31.760 better words or whatever and and and he's talking about being with a 719 00:49:31.760 --> 00:49:36.000 prostitute that you're not just sinning against God but you're sinning against 720 00:49:36.000 --> 00:49:41.200 your own body you're sinning against yourself so we do know that what we do 721 00:49:41.200 --> 00:49:47.840 is is sinning against ourself and so he goes on to say a Don Don Miguel right 722 00:49:47.840 --> 00:49:51.360 here says the sin is anything you do which goes against yourself now think 723 00:49:51.360 --> 00:49:56.760 about this everything you feel or believe or say that goes against 724 00:49:56.760 --> 00:50:01.880 yourself is a sin how many times 725 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:05.300 Did you do something because it was expected of you, but you did not feel it was right for you 726 00:50:05.400 --> 00:50:09.040 How many times did you do something that you went against yourself? 727 00:50:09.360 --> 00:50:15.280 He says you go against yourself when you judge or you blame yourself for anything 728 00:50:16.240 --> 00:50:21.640 Being without sin is exactly the opposite being impeccable is not going against yourself 729 00:50:22.160 --> 00:50:25.800 In other words, I like how he puts this when you're impeccable 730 00:50:26.320 --> 00:50:31.200 You take responsibility for your actions, so this is not about not taking responsibilities 731 00:50:31.200 --> 00:50:37.040 Did you take responsibility for your actions, but you do not judge or blame yourself? 732 00:50:40.360 --> 00:50:42.360 There's a big difference and 733 00:50:42.840 --> 00:50:43.840 in this book 734 00:50:43.840 --> 00:50:47.120 he talks about the three people that are inside of yourself and 735 00:50:47.640 --> 00:50:54.640 One is the judge and you're always always always judging yourself. And then the other is the victim 736 00:50:55.320 --> 00:50:57.080 inside of yourself and 737 00:50:57.080 --> 00:51:00.800 So in order to be able to judge yourself, you have to be the victim 738 00:51:00.800 --> 00:51:06.120 And so you judge yourself and you know, that was such a stupid move and the victim. Yeah, I'm stupid. I agree 739 00:51:06.120 --> 00:51:13.000 I shouldn't have done that. And so you've got this conversation going on inside of yourself. And so he says 740 00:51:13.840 --> 00:51:19.160 You take responsibility for your actions, but you do not judge or blame yourself 741 00:51:19.760 --> 00:51:26.760 And so by the way is judge and victim and critic is the third the third one of those three and we'll talk about those 742 00:51:26.760 --> 00:51:31.400 As we go along so he says being without sin is exactly the opposite 743 00:51:31.400 --> 00:51:35.080 It means that you take responsibility, but you don't judge or blame yourself 744 00:51:35.760 --> 00:51:37.320 something common-sense 745 00:51:37.320 --> 00:51:39.800 you see sin begins with 746 00:51:40.520 --> 00:51:42.520 rejection of 747 00:51:42.520 --> 00:51:47.160 Yourself. I want you to really think about this sin begins with 748 00:51:48.160 --> 00:51:50.160 Rejection of yourself 749 00:51:52.560 --> 00:51:55.800 Self-rejection is the biggest sin you commit in 750 00:51:56.840 --> 00:51:58.600 religious terms 751 00:51:58.600 --> 00:52:01.640 Self-rejection is a mortal sin that leads to death 752 00:52:03.440 --> 00:52:10.400 Impeccability on the other hand leads to life being impeccable with your words is not using your words 753 00:52:10.960 --> 00:52:16.000 Against yourself. This is a powerful concept this idea of self 754 00:52:16.800 --> 00:52:18.480 Self-rejection 755 00:52:18.480 --> 00:52:21.120 We do this so much. Do you know the rise? 756 00:52:21.920 --> 00:52:29.760 You see I I believe that the dis-eases that we face are all a reflection of what's going on with 757 00:52:30.800 --> 00:52:33.360 Psychoneuroimmunology we understand that each of those diseases 758 00:52:34.000 --> 00:52:38.840 Has to do with a predominant emotional state and that a predominant emotional state 759 00:52:39.120 --> 00:52:45.240 Lands in a certain organ of the body and will manifest itself in a particular dis-ease 760 00:52:46.040 --> 00:52:48.280 well, it's interesting one of the 761 00:52:48.840 --> 00:52:52.080 Top things that we're facing in health is 762 00:52:53.080 --> 00:52:55.080 autoimmune disorders 763 00:52:55.960 --> 00:53:02.120 Autoimmune disorders auto means self immune it means the immune system begins to attack itself 764 00:53:02.360 --> 00:53:05.280 The body begins to attack itself 765 00:53:05.720 --> 00:53:11.640 You see very literally we see in the body what is going on in the emotional state? 766 00:53:11.960 --> 00:53:14.360 Which body do you think would? 767 00:53:14.880 --> 00:53:17.240 Continuously attack itself 768 00:53:19.600 --> 00:53:21.600 Right 769 00:53:22.600 --> 00:53:29.800 Which body is going to attack itself the emotions that have attacked themselves 770 00:53:31.840 --> 00:53:36.280 So if you're dealing with this self rejection and 771 00:53:37.000 --> 00:53:42.520 By the way in the church it is called humility 772 00:53:42.520 --> 00:53:44.880 It's called false humility is what it is 773 00:53:45.520 --> 00:53:46.800 so 774 00:53:46.800 --> 00:53:52.720 You sing beautifully and someone comes up and says that was amazing song. Well, we're taught in church to say 775 00:53:52.720 --> 00:53:54.720 Oh, it wasn't me. It was God. Oh 776 00:53:54.800 --> 00:53:56.920 I didn't do that. God did it now? 777 00:53:57.840 --> 00:54:02.040 Everything that we do the source and origin is God and humility 778 00:54:03.040 --> 00:54:05.040 understands that but 779 00:54:05.080 --> 00:54:07.080 false humility is 780 00:54:07.480 --> 00:54:15.160 Constantly self-degrading yourself in order to look humble and it's not it's not based on truth and self 781 00:54:15.480 --> 00:54:17.480 Rejection is far from 782 00:54:17.800 --> 00:54:19.320 humility 783 00:54:19.320 --> 00:54:26.760 Self-rejection is what we do all the time and you understand that the reason that words are so powerful is that words? 784 00:54:27.400 --> 00:54:32.520 Tell you if you want to know what's going on in your heart if you want to know what's going on in your spirit 785 00:54:32.520 --> 00:54:34.520 If you want to know what's going on in your subconscious 786 00:54:34.560 --> 00:54:36.560 Conscious 787 00:54:36.800 --> 00:54:42.840 You can listen to your own words and it'll allow you to start cluing in if you say I'm not really sure what the 788 00:54:42.960 --> 00:54:45.760 Predominant emotional state that I'm walking in most the time 789 00:54:46.200 --> 00:54:53.040 begin to become conscious of your words hear yourself speaking step outside of yourself and begin to hear yourself speaking and 790 00:54:53.760 --> 00:54:58.780 In that process you'll begin to understand what's going on in your mind and your heart and your spirit 791 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:02.000 Matthew 12 34 792 00:55:02.760 --> 00:55:05.440 Says that out of the heart the mouth speaks 793 00:55:06.000 --> 00:55:10.720 Matthew 12 34 says this if you grow a healthy tree 794 00:55:11.460 --> 00:55:15.800 You'll pick healthy fruit if you grow a diseased tree 795 00:55:16.040 --> 00:55:23.080 You'll pick worm-eaten fruit the fruit tells you about the tree and so 796 00:55:24.080 --> 00:55:31.160 Looking at the fruit and the fruit with our words and our and the results of our words tells us about how healthy the 797 00:55:31.160 --> 00:55:32.560 tree is 798 00:55:32.560 --> 00:55:37.840 In the message it goes on and says this it says you have minds like a snake pit 799 00:55:38.360 --> 00:55:40.720 Very is talking to the religious leaders again 800 00:55:41.200 --> 00:55:45.720 How do you suppose that what you say is worth anything when you're so foul-minded? 801 00:55:46.880 --> 00:55:48.880 It's your heart 802 00:55:48.920 --> 00:55:53.240 Not the dictionary that gives meaning to your words, did you catch that? 803 00:55:54.120 --> 00:55:56.120 It's your heart 804 00:55:56.320 --> 00:55:59.040 Not the dictionary that gives meaning to your words 805 00:55:59.040 --> 00:56:04.560 and it goes on to say a good person produces good deeds and words season after season an 806 00:56:04.680 --> 00:56:10.840 Evil person is a blight on the orchard. Let me tell you someone is something he goes on to say in the message 807 00:56:10.840 --> 00:56:14.160 This is still Matthew 12 34 through 37 in the message 808 00:56:14.200 --> 00:56:20.840 He says let me tell you something every one of these careless words is gonna come back to haunt you did you catch that 809 00:56:22.680 --> 00:56:28.920 Every one of those careless words, how many careless words are we speaking? 810 00:56:29.400 --> 00:56:36.080 It's gonna come back to haunt you. There'll be a time of reckoning words are powerful. Take them 811 00:56:36.960 --> 00:56:38.280 seriously 812 00:56:38.280 --> 00:56:41.400 Here it is words can be your salvation 813 00:56:41.880 --> 00:56:45.680 Words can be your damnation 814 00:56:46.880 --> 00:56:52.200 So what are some of the ways that we can be impeccable with our words? I'd love to hear from you 815 00:56:52.200 --> 00:56:59.920 What are some examples of how you could be impeccable with your words? Let's have a little conversation and then I'll share some more scripture 816 00:57:02.840 --> 00:57:07.160 Let's make this practical let's make it real life just apply it to where you are 817 00:57:07.160 --> 00:57:10.200 What are some things you could do to be impeccable with your word? 818 00:57:12.400 --> 00:57:13.840 I 819 00:57:13.840 --> 00:57:17.720 Know this is Candace. I think and in my practice 820 00:57:18.880 --> 00:57:22.960 One of the things that I find is a true indicator is we keep our agreements 821 00:57:23.680 --> 00:57:29.480 Everyone around us as a family our business everything else. The first place that we tend to 822 00:57:30.200 --> 00:57:35.360 Let it go is our agreements with ourselves at the time for the reception and the time for daily exercise 823 00:57:35.360 --> 00:57:39.880 I think with that it's usually the first indicator for me as a coach that 824 00:57:40.720 --> 00:57:42.720 It's happening and we think 825 00:57:48.120 --> 00:57:51.320 That's good Candace, thank you. Thank you for sharing that 826 00:57:52.240 --> 00:57:59.400 Okay. So part of being impeccable with our words is keeping the agreements that we we desire to keep with ourselves 827 00:57:59.400 --> 00:58:03.880 and so again that has to do with love based or fear based and so 828 00:58:04.240 --> 00:58:08.480 when you love your body when you truly love your body and 829 00:58:08.840 --> 00:58:13.320 I'm becoming more and more conscious of that of truly loving my body 830 00:58:13.320 --> 00:58:18.000 So because this this body, you know is kind of our tent 831 00:58:18.000 --> 00:58:22.440 It's what has to get us through life and it's going to be an enjoyable life that has you know 832 00:58:22.440 --> 00:58:28.720 Strength and ease of motion and health and and all of that or it's not based on how we treat this, you know 833 00:58:28.920 --> 00:58:32.000 Scripture says do you not know that your body is the temple of God? 834 00:58:32.000 --> 00:58:33.880 It's it's housing the very Spirit of God 835 00:58:33.880 --> 00:58:39.400 so I got to get real serious about this temple and how I treat it and so I've begun to 836 00:58:40.240 --> 00:58:44.840 be conscious in my agreements of loving every part of my body and 837 00:58:45.480 --> 00:58:49.400 So, you know, I'll love my feet. I'll get a pedicure 838 00:58:49.400 --> 00:58:53.680 I'll put lotion on my feet and I'll thank God for my feet and I'll think about how 839 00:58:54.080 --> 00:58:59.400 Because of those feet I'm able to walk I'm able to move forward in my dreams. I'm able to stand 840 00:58:59.400 --> 00:59:03.120 I'm able to speak and do the things that I love and so I begin to have a 841 00:59:03.280 --> 00:59:10.040 Gratitude and a love and I nurture my feet and and you can do that with each area of your body and you begin to 842 00:59:11.000 --> 00:59:13.800 Be loving your body. Well when you love your body 843 00:59:14.640 --> 00:59:20.000 You won't make those decisions that are are hurting your body 844 00:59:20.880 --> 00:59:27.640 Those are based out of lack of love. And so that's really good. Candice will begin to keep those agreements somebody else 845 00:59:27.640 --> 00:59:30.600 What does it mean to be impeccable with your words? 846 00:59:32.520 --> 00:59:34.360 How can you apply this in your life 847 00:59:34.360 --> 00:59:36.200 Let's be really practical in this study 848 00:59:36.200 --> 00:59:41.560 And so think about in your life how you're going to begin to apply this idea of being impeccable with your words 849 00:59:47.400 --> 00:59:49.640 Here's another example to put in the mix 850 00:59:50.240 --> 00:59:55.800 Not using your word against yourself. What do you say to yourself when you look in the mirror? 851 00:59:55.800 --> 00:59:59.560 What do you say to yourself when you look 852 01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:06.680 the mirror. In the book the four agreements Don says you can measure the 853 01:00:06.680 --> 01:00:12.440 impeccability of your word by your level of self-love. How much you love yourself 854 01:00:12.440 --> 01:00:18.680 and how how you feel about yourself are directly proportional to the quality and 855 01:00:18.680 --> 01:00:23.240 integrity of your word. When you are impeccable with your word you feel good 856 01:00:23.240 --> 01:00:27.840 and you feel happy and you feel at peace. So the quality of your words and the 857 01:00:27.840 --> 01:00:34.240 impeccability of your word is directly tied with self-love. So speaking 858 01:00:34.240 --> 01:00:38.680 against yourself when you look in the mirror, what are you saying to yourself 859 01:00:38.680 --> 01:00:43.320 in the mirror? Another example is speaking against yourself with your 860 01:00:43.320 --> 01:00:49.560 health. What do you say about your body? I call these self-fulfilling prophecies. 861 01:00:49.560 --> 01:00:55.640 You know in quantum healing Dr. Chopra says, Deepak Chopra says, you may not 862 01:00:55.640 --> 01:01:00.600 think you can talk to your DNA but in fact you do continuously. We now know 863 01:01:00.600 --> 01:01:05.160 that our DNA responds to our words. We see a coiling and uncoiling. We see a 864 01:01:05.160 --> 01:01:12.200 change. Our DNA responds to our words and so he goes on to say for instance if a 865 01:01:12.200 --> 01:01:17.720 person is always saying I'm sick and tired of, they shouldn't be surprised if 866 01:01:18.040 --> 01:01:27.200 they're tired a lot or they become sick. I know that in Korea a particular Korean 867 01:01:27.200 --> 01:01:36.120 saying is Chuketa and and so you might say Pego Paso Chuketa. I'm so hungry 868 01:01:36.120 --> 01:01:44.200 I'm dying. You know Pico Neso Chuketa. I'm so tired I'm dying right and so 869 01:01:44.200 --> 01:01:50.120 they're constantly speaking death over themselves in every word and it's 870 01:01:50.120 --> 01:01:55.000 interesting that Korea has experienced probably the highest level of death in 871 01:01:55.000 --> 01:02:00.880 terms of wars percentage wise, population wise. Constant, constant death and 872 01:02:00.880 --> 01:02:03.960 destruction and it's interesting that it's part of their language. They're 873 01:02:03.960 --> 01:02:08.160 saying it about everything. I'm so tired I could die. I'm so hungry I could die. 874 01:02:08.160 --> 01:02:11.800 I'm so this I'm dying and they're constantly speaking I'm dying I'm dying 875 01:02:11.960 --> 01:02:19.160 I'm dying and we do the same thing in in this country in English. Carol Truman 876 01:02:19.160 --> 01:02:23.200 talks about in feelings buried alive never die to be careful what you claim. 877 01:02:23.200 --> 01:02:28.360 If you're always calling the health condition of your body as yours, you're 878 01:02:28.360 --> 01:02:32.720 faithfully claiming it. So if you're walking around saying my cancer, my 879 01:02:32.720 --> 01:02:40.280 varicose veins, my diabetes, my bad eyes, my allergies, you know instead of 880 01:02:40.280 --> 01:02:45.960 separating it from yourself and saying the cancer or the whatever, we take 881 01:02:45.960 --> 01:02:50.280 ownership of it and again remember we're talking about the power of agreement. How 882 01:02:50.280 --> 01:02:55.200 how do all of these agreements happen? We come in agreement with the disease and 883 01:02:55.200 --> 01:03:03.960 we call it mine, my MS, my disease and so thinking about that, thinking about being 884 01:03:03.960 --> 01:03:07.440 impeccable with your word in terms of what you're speaking over your body, what 885 01:03:07.440 --> 01:03:11.840 you're speaking over your health, what you're speaking over your finances. What 886 01:03:11.840 --> 01:03:18.520 do you say? Do you tell your kids I'm broke? We're broke. What a thing to say. 887 01:03:18.520 --> 01:03:24.240 You know when you pay your bills, do you have incredible gratitude when you 888 01:03:24.240 --> 01:03:28.640 communicate with others? I have shared with some of you if you notice my 889 01:03:28.640 --> 01:03:32.880 signature wherever I'm Facebooking or writing or sending you a letter, my 890 01:03:32.880 --> 01:03:39.760 signature is praying that you prosper in all things. Comes from 3rd John 2. So 891 01:03:39.760 --> 01:03:43.160 I'm always speaking that blessing whenever I'm communicating, wherever I'm 892 01:03:43.160 --> 01:03:46.240 communicating, that's my signature tagline, praying you prosper in all 893 01:03:46.240 --> 01:03:51.280 things. Of course it's the name of my company but if you notice then my name 894 01:03:51.280 --> 01:03:57.120 comes. So what does my eyes see every time I bless someone? Praying you 895 01:03:57.120 --> 01:04:04.200 prosper in all things, Brenda. So in blessing them I'm blessing myself every 896 01:04:04.200 --> 01:04:08.520 day. Understanding the concept of blessing your spirit, using your words to 897 01:04:08.520 --> 01:04:14.920 bless and not to curse and learning to bless your spirit and so what do you say 898 01:04:14.920 --> 01:04:20.240 when when you pay your bills? Do you praise God and thank God that you have 899 01:04:20.240 --> 01:04:23.280 electricity that keeps you warm and keeps you cool and that you can pay for 900 01:04:23.280 --> 01:04:27.080 right now? Do you thank God every time you write a check for every bill that 901 01:04:27.080 --> 01:04:30.320 you're able to do that? Watch it multiply. Whatever you're focusing on 902 01:04:30.320 --> 01:04:36.880 expands. So being impeccable with your words. Let's have some more examples how 903 01:04:36.880 --> 01:04:40.600 you could apply this in your life. Think about some ways that you could be 904 01:04:40.600 --> 01:04:43.240 applying this. 905 01:04:48.520 --> 01:04:53.760 What are some ways that you could incorporate this being impeccable with 906 01:04:53.760 --> 01:04:57.960 your word, not sinning with your word, not sinning against yourself with your 907 01:04:57.960 --> 01:05:02.000 words. Think about some applications. 908 01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:03.200 patient strategies here of when you leave this call, 909 01:05:03.200 --> 01:05:06.200 how can you apply this, that it totally changes your life? 910 01:05:18.280 --> 01:05:19.720 This is Janice again. 911 01:05:19.720 --> 01:05:21.320 I think one of the things that you said today 912 01:05:21.320 --> 01:05:25.280 that was interesting is that I do have intuition 913 01:05:25.280 --> 01:05:29.720 and I do see things, but not always having to share them. 914 01:05:30.000 --> 01:05:34.440 I'm being more careful about the insight 915 01:05:34.440 --> 01:05:37.960 that I seek in allowing other people 916 01:05:37.960 --> 01:05:42.200 to have their own experience rather than listening to me 917 01:05:42.200 --> 01:05:45.320 to show them the way, empowering them 918 01:05:45.320 --> 01:05:48.360 to reach those conclusions on their own. 919 01:05:48.360 --> 01:05:50.360 That's really good. 920 01:05:50.360 --> 01:05:51.200 That's really good. 921 01:05:51.200 --> 01:05:53.480 And good or bad, being really careful 922 01:05:53.480 --> 01:05:56.640 when you put out there, because it may not be the time. 923 01:05:56.640 --> 01:05:57.880 And that's the key. 924 01:05:57.880 --> 01:05:59.440 It's a timing issue. 925 01:05:59.480 --> 01:06:02.640 So a lot of times God will show me something, 926 01:06:02.640 --> 01:06:05.800 you get this intuition, you get this prophetic download 927 01:06:05.800 --> 01:06:07.920 or whatever, and then what you do 928 01:06:07.920 --> 01:06:09.520 is you have a double conversation 929 01:06:09.520 --> 01:06:11.400 before you're saying to that person, 930 01:06:11.400 --> 01:06:15.000 you're taking what you got and you're purifying it with God. 931 01:06:15.000 --> 01:06:17.640 So you're actually, I learned this 932 01:06:17.640 --> 01:06:19.320 from just a mighty, mighty prophet. 933 01:06:19.320 --> 01:06:21.040 And he'll always say, God, is this, 934 01:06:21.040 --> 01:06:22.720 I'm hearing you say this. 935 01:06:22.720 --> 01:06:25.000 Did I hear it correctly, first of all? 936 01:06:25.000 --> 01:06:28.080 And secondly, and it'll just build up inside of you 937 01:06:28.080 --> 01:06:30.120 and that's the case, it'll just get stronger. 938 01:06:30.120 --> 01:06:32.240 And then you say, is this the right time? 939 01:06:32.240 --> 01:06:34.800 Is this the right place for me to share this? 940 01:06:34.800 --> 01:06:36.080 And if you're really listening, 941 01:06:36.080 --> 01:06:37.720 there'll be a lot of times where God says, no, 942 01:06:37.720 --> 01:06:39.680 that person is not ready for that yet. 943 01:06:39.680 --> 01:06:43.240 And the very nature when you study scripture 944 01:06:43.240 --> 01:06:45.600 of prophecy or intuition is, 945 01:06:45.600 --> 01:06:47.840 it's very often way ahead of its time. 946 01:06:47.840 --> 01:06:51.160 You'll get a word that isn't actually gonna be fulfilled 947 01:06:51.160 --> 01:06:54.480 for six months, a year, a couple years. 948 01:06:54.480 --> 01:06:56.240 I've had things that God has shown me 949 01:06:56.240 --> 01:06:57.960 that it's only manifesting now 950 01:06:57.960 --> 01:07:00.080 and he showed me two years ago. 951 01:07:00.080 --> 01:07:01.760 And what happens when God shows me, 952 01:07:01.760 --> 01:07:06.280 I get all impatient and I'm all excited to act on it 953 01:07:06.280 --> 01:07:08.680 and bring it to pass and all of that. 954 01:07:08.680 --> 01:07:11.480 And God, I had a dream one time 955 01:07:11.480 --> 01:07:15.680 and it was about eating a banana that was not ripe. 956 01:07:15.680 --> 01:07:18.360 And it was like a banana that you can barely peel 957 01:07:18.360 --> 01:07:19.240 and you put it in your mouth 958 01:07:19.240 --> 01:07:21.640 and it like is all sticky and furry 959 01:07:21.640 --> 01:07:23.440 or if you've had a persimmon that's not ripe 960 01:07:23.440 --> 01:07:25.760 right in your mouth, it's just nasty, right? 961 01:07:26.680 --> 01:07:28.520 A banana that's ripe is just smooth 962 01:07:28.520 --> 01:07:29.720 and sweet and delicious. 963 01:07:29.720 --> 01:07:32.280 A banana that's not ripe is just nasty. 964 01:07:32.280 --> 01:07:36.320 And he talked to me about trying to eat fruit 965 01:07:36.320 --> 01:07:39.760 before it's ripe and prophetic words, 966 01:07:39.760 --> 01:07:42.080 the visions that God has given you in your heart, 967 01:07:42.080 --> 01:07:44.560 the things he's given you to share with other people. 968 01:07:44.560 --> 01:07:49.040 If it's premature, it's eating fruit that's not ripe. 969 01:07:49.040 --> 01:07:50.840 And so it doesn't have that. 970 01:07:50.840 --> 01:07:52.920 So that's really good insight. 971 01:07:52.920 --> 01:07:55.120 Thank you for sharing that. 972 01:07:55.120 --> 01:07:56.680 That's really good. 973 01:07:56.680 --> 01:07:59.320 Somebody else, being impeccable with your word. 974 01:07:59.320 --> 01:08:01.320 This is where we can mastermind 975 01:08:01.320 --> 01:08:03.640 and there's a value for everybody sharing with each other. 976 01:08:03.640 --> 01:08:07.440 So please share the things that God's putting on your spirit. 977 01:08:07.440 --> 01:08:09.400 It's important, that blesses everybody. 978 01:08:19.800 --> 01:08:23.560 Not to tell yourself you can't do something, 979 01:08:23.560 --> 01:08:27.000 I can't do that, or... 980 01:08:27.000 --> 01:08:28.080 That's great. 981 01:08:29.439 --> 01:08:32.920 Yep, that's good. 982 01:08:32.920 --> 01:08:36.319 That's really good because that's focusing 983 01:08:36.319 --> 01:08:39.359 on the lack and on the limitation. 984 01:08:39.359 --> 01:08:42.840 And scripture says all things are possible 985 01:08:42.840 --> 01:08:43.680 to them who believe. 986 01:08:43.680 --> 01:08:45.960 So there really isn't anything that you can't do. 987 01:08:45.960 --> 01:08:48.800 And part of this being impeccable with your words 988 01:08:48.800 --> 01:08:51.720 is learning to ask yourself the right questions. 989 01:08:52.680 --> 01:08:55.760 And in learning to ask the right questions, 990 01:08:55.760 --> 01:09:00.399 instead of saying, I can't pay for this, 991 01:09:00.399 --> 01:09:04.640 a better question that gets the brain engaged is, 992 01:09:04.640 --> 01:09:06.040 what could I do today? 993 01:09:06.040 --> 01:09:08.840 What's the single most important thing I could do today 994 01:09:08.840 --> 01:09:11.160 to bring in an extra thousand dollars? 995 01:09:11.160 --> 01:09:12.720 Well, that's an empowering question 996 01:09:12.720 --> 01:09:14.040 that the brain can go to work. 997 01:09:14.040 --> 01:09:16.720 If I say, I can't afford it, that's the can't word, 998 01:09:16.720 --> 01:09:19.720 I can't afford it, I've just shut down everything. 999 01:09:19.720 --> 01:09:22.359 Creativity is shut down, possibility is shut down, 1000 01:09:22.359 --> 01:09:23.880 prayers are shut down. 1001 01:09:23.880 --> 01:09:25.640 We've just shut down everything with our words, 1002 01:09:25.640 --> 01:09:27.240 I can't afford it. 1003 01:09:27.240 --> 01:09:31.000 And I have people, I'll invite them to my events. 1004 01:09:31.000 --> 01:09:33.479 Before they've even asked how much they are, 1005 01:09:33.479 --> 01:09:36.040 they'll say, I can't afford it. 1006 01:09:36.040 --> 01:09:40.479 And I have often felt led to go back and challenge them 1007 01:09:40.479 --> 01:09:44.240 and say, before you make that decision, 1008 01:09:44.240 --> 01:09:45.840 I mean, really ask God, first of all, 1009 01:09:45.840 --> 01:09:46.880 is this event for you? 1010 01:09:46.880 --> 01:09:48.120 Are you supposed to be there? 1011 01:09:48.120 --> 01:09:51.240 Because he always makes a way if you truly desired it. 1012 01:09:51.240 --> 01:09:53.720 But we just shut things down instantly and say, 1013 01:09:53.720 --> 01:09:55.520 I have people, no matter what I say to them, 1014 01:09:55.520 --> 01:09:57.400 whatever I bring up, they go, I can't afford it. 1015 01:09:57.400 --> 01:09:59.280 I can't afford it, I can't afford it, I can't afford it. 1016 01:09:59.280 --> 01:10:00.120 Just shut down. 1017 01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:05.400 with lack I can't afford it instead of asking the question what could I do to 1018 01:10:05.400 --> 01:10:09.000 increase my income by an extra thousand dollars what are all the things that I 1019 01:10:09.000 --> 01:10:13.560 could do all of a sudden the brain gets creative wow I could I could put on 1020 01:10:13.560 --> 01:10:18.000 eBay all that stuff sitting in my garage I could do this I could do that I could 1021 01:10:18.000 --> 01:10:22.360 you know create an e-book I could like your brain just comes up with thousands 1022 01:10:22.360 --> 01:10:28.480 of ideas instead of just shutting it down with the word can't so that's 1023 01:10:28.480 --> 01:10:34.280 really good thank you for bringing that up anybody else ways you can be 1024 01:10:34.280 --> 01:10:37.440 impeccable with your words 1025 01:10:47.080 --> 01:10:51.840 what did God bring to your attention where you haven't been impeccable with 1026 01:10:51.840 --> 01:10:54.920 your word what did God bring to your attention about the way you're talking 1027 01:10:54.920 --> 01:10:58.320 about your health or the way you're talking about your body or another one 1028 01:10:58.320 --> 01:11:05.560 is gossip Proverbs 18 8 says the words of a whisperer or a tale bearer are 1029 01:11:05.560 --> 01:11:11.120 dainty morsels they go down into the innermost part of the body so much is 1030 01:11:11.120 --> 01:11:17.080 destroyed because of gossip one person says well did you know that this person 1031 01:11:17.080 --> 01:11:20.480 this and now the next person every time they see that person they wouldn't have 1032 01:11:20.480 --> 01:11:24.720 thought about it before but now that these words go down like dainty morsels 1033 01:11:24.720 --> 01:11:27.640 in the innermost part of the body they're now part of them they're now 1034 01:11:27.640 --> 01:11:32.280 judging and watching for that word and may not have been based on on that and 1035 01:11:32.280 --> 01:11:38.000 gossip spreads across and destroys it destroys people it destroys lives in so 1036 01:11:38.000 --> 01:11:44.080 many ways this is another way of not gossiping not being impeccable with our 1037 01:11:44.080 --> 01:11:50.320 words so think about ways that you haven't been impeccable or that you 1038 01:11:50.320 --> 01:11:55.600 really want to begin to implement how can you apply this lesson what would be 1039 01:11:55.600 --> 01:12:00.960 the way that you look at this and say I'm making a commitment to be impeccable 1040 01:12:00.960 --> 01:12:10.640 with my word this is the application portion 1041 01:12:10.640 --> 01:12:21.360 I think one of the things is to be aware and so I'm actually gonna sit down and 1042 01:12:21.360 --> 01:12:29.000 record conversations that I have and actually see if I know what I'm saying 1043 01:12:29.000 --> 01:12:34.920 or what I think I'm saying is actually true hmm that's an awesome exercise 1044 01:12:34.920 --> 01:12:41.680 that's powerful that's powerful one of the things too is like you're saying 1045 01:12:41.680 --> 01:12:48.440 it's just becoming aware so part of being aware is being aware of what words 1046 01:12:48.440 --> 01:12:53.520 mean so for example I've shared with you often one of the words that I'm working 1047 01:12:53.520 --> 01:12:58.520 to eliminate from my vocabulary is the word want we say I want this I want that 1048 01:12:58.520 --> 01:13:04.040 I want to do this want means extreme lack so you're declaring extreme lack 1049 01:13:04.040 --> 01:13:09.000 every time you say the word want well it's a habit and so each time I say I 1050 01:13:09.000 --> 01:13:15.080 want then I change it real quick and say I desire and I just working to work that 1051 01:13:15.080 --> 01:13:19.360 out and so what happens is you begin to hear yourself and as you're saying it 1052 01:13:19.360 --> 01:13:22.360 because you're conscious you're beginning to go oh well I just said it 1053 01:13:22.360 --> 01:13:28.320 again and oh I didn't really mean that you know at the at the last God health 1054 01:13:28.320 --> 01:13:36.160 and me then I talked about using words for manipulation and often as women 1055 01:13:36.160 --> 01:13:41.320 especially will say things that we don't really mean because we want a different 1056 01:13:41.320 --> 01:13:46.800 response and we say something like oh I look so fat in this don't I and you are 1057 01:13:46.800 --> 01:13:50.160 not saying that because you want someone to agree and say yeah you look fat in it 1058 01:13:50.160 --> 01:13:55.320 you're saying that because you want someone to validate you and speak life 1059 01:13:55.320 --> 01:13:59.160 to you and say oh no you don't look fat at all you couldn't look fat if you 1060 01:13:59.160 --> 01:14:03.960 tried you look fantastic you know so you didn't really mean what you said you 1061 01:14:03.960 --> 01:14:07.960 weren't impeccable with your words you were using it as a form of manipulation 1062 01:14:07.960 --> 01:14:13.400 to get people's attention so these are ways that we're not being impeccable with 1063 01:14:13.400 --> 01:14:19.160 our words and you know in this book he talks about white magic and black magic 1064 01:14:19.160 --> 01:14:24.920 and white magic is where you're using your words for good and you're casting a 1065 01:14:24.920 --> 01:14:30.160 spell of love and life and so on with your words black magic is where you're 1066 01:14:30.160 --> 01:14:37.920 you're injecting this poison into others lives and into the environment and it 1067 01:14:37.920 --> 01:14:44.520 just stays and stays and stays and and when we use it that way you know it 1068 01:14:44.520 --> 01:14:52.600 really causes a lot of suffering it causes a lot of pain and so this is this 1069 01:14:52.640 --> 01:14:56.520 is the powerful thing that you can begin to understand that you know just one 1070 01:14:56.520 --> 01:14:59.920 piece of this misinformation can break down communication between 1071 01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:04.500 people and it just becomes contagious and like we saw with the Pharisees it 1072 01:15:04.500 --> 01:15:08.760 gets handed down these traditions get handed down handed down handed down 1073 01:15:08.760 --> 01:15:14.200 handed down and so like in gossip and you hook someone's attention and you 1074 01:15:14.200 --> 01:15:20.200 spread the poison about someone in your life and it's your opinion it's not even 1075 01:15:20.200 --> 01:15:26.520 necessarily based on truth but that opinion gets projected as being truth 1076 01:15:26.520 --> 01:15:31.160 and this poison gets spread and it goes from person to person and influences how 1077 01:15:31.160 --> 01:15:35.680 that person views the person and the person that they tell and you end up 1078 01:15:35.680 --> 01:15:40.400 putting this this negative spell if you will and he literally calls it black 1079 01:15:40.400 --> 01:15:49.480 magic that gets infested into our entire culture so that concludes this study I 1080 01:15:49.480 --> 01:15:53.880 pray is just really blessed you as you begin to analyze the agreements that 1081 01:15:53.880 --> 01:15:59.000 you've made and the way of breaking these four agreements is or breaking the 1082 01:15:59.000 --> 01:16:04.160 thousands of agreements that we have is now beginning to implement these four 1083 01:16:04.160 --> 01:16:09.280 agreements and they move us from fear-based thinking to love-based 1084 01:16:09.280 --> 01:16:14.080 thinking and from fear-based words and consequences to love-based words and 1085 01:16:14.080 --> 01:16:19.840 consequences and the first step of that is is awareness it's being conscious of 1086 01:16:20.000 --> 01:16:24.800 what you bought into what your belief system is and what your words which are 1087 01:16:24.800 --> 01:16:30.200 telling you what those are by listening to our words and we can then begin this 1088 01:16:30.200 --> 01:16:34.840 transformation process by making a commitment to be impeccable with our 1089 01:16:34.840 --> 01:16:41.880 words and letting our words that we've analyzed them with God before we speak 1090 01:16:41.880 --> 01:16:45.200 them and we make sure that they're not just coming from our ego or they're not 1091 01:16:45.200 --> 01:16:50.720 coming from a place of manipulation or control or a place of fear or just a 1092 01:16:50.720 --> 01:16:54.440 lack of knowledge or just repeating something that was said that we just 1093 01:16:54.440 --> 01:16:59.520 hooked our attention and we went into agreement with but we're now beginning 1094 01:16:59.520 --> 01:17:03.760 to look at words and in the process of looking at our words it allows us to 1095 01:17:03.760 --> 01:17:07.920 look deep into our own heart and find out what things are deep-seated in our 1096 01:17:07.920 --> 01:17:12.680 heart which are being reflected in our life so I pray that this study has been 1097 01:17:12.680 --> 01:17:16.640 a blessing for you I'm looking forward to continuing it same place same time 1098 01:17:16.640 --> 01:17:21.400 next week as we work our way through these four agreements and the biblical 1099 01:17:21.400 --> 01:17:28.240 perspective and understanding that in this case the power of life and death is 1100 01:17:28.240 --> 01:17:32.880 in your tongue so go forward and and spread life speak life speak life to 1101 01:17:32.880 --> 01:17:38.760 yourself speak life to your children your loved ones begin to speak life to 1102 01:17:38.760 --> 01:17:42.840 the people that God brings in your life speak life to your clients just begin to 1103 01:17:42.840 --> 01:17:47.040 speak life to your finances speak life to your body speak life to your health 1104 01:17:47.040 --> 01:17:52.960 speak life to your home speak life to your business just begin to use that 1105 01:17:52.960 --> 01:17:57.640 God-given power you're made in the image of God begin to use that amazing power 1106 01:17:57.640 --> 01:18:02.960 of speaking life into yourself and into others and watch the tremendous change 1107 01:18:02.960 --> 01:18:08.240 and transformation that happens and the removal of so much that's negative just 1108 01:18:08.240 --> 01:18:12.840 by speaking life so I bless you all I pray that everything you put your hand 1109 01:18:12.840 --> 01:18:17.720 to this week prospers I pray that your words will become impeccable and as a 1110 01:18:17.720 --> 01:18:23.360 result your life will be filled with just joy and peace and abundance and I 1111 01:18:23.360 --> 01:18:27.520 just ask that everything you put your hand to prospers and I thank you for 1112 01:18:27.520 --> 01:18:30.760 joining and being part of this Bible based spiritual equipping on the four 1113 01:18:30.760 --> 01:18:35.800 agreements and we will see you next week