All right, well, good morning, good morning for those of you who especially may be listening
to the recording.
For those of you that are live, you've already had some time to connect with your Prosper
Sisters and we had some time to connect.
And the reason that I structured our calls this way to have one on the first Tuesday
of the month that you could have a reminder each month, hey, God has given me a brand
new blank canvas.
The past is gone.
We talked about it earlier.
The past is gone other than gleaning the blessings.
What did I learn, right?
How did God move?
Need you guys to mute yourself, getting some background noise.
How did God move?
What can I glean?
How can I harvest?
And beyond that, we let go of the past and we step into the present.
And so here we are, first day of a brand new month.
Well, it's the second day actually, technically, but us getting together, here we are.
And so I'm going to start us with prayer and then I'm going to share two really big concepts.
If you were going to have keywords, they would be unhitch.
What do I need to unhitch from and activate?
What do I need to activate?
That's what we're going to talk about briefly here.
But let's start just absolutely with prayer.
Father God, I just thank you for these amazing women.
I know how much I love them and you love them so, so, so much more.
Lord, I speak blessings.
I speak blessings on their bodies and their health and their strength and their energy.
I pray you just renew them and refresh them and restore them, that whatever needs to be
brought into alignment, that you bring into alignment.
I pray for their businesses, Lord, that whatever they put their hand to prospers, that they
make a powerful impact, that they have tremendous influence and that they are blessed abundantly
with joy, with fulfillment and satisfaction and prosperity.
I pray, Lord, third John too, that they prosper in all things, every area of their life, physically,
financially, relationally, spiritually, and be in health, even as their soul prospers,
their mind, will, and emotions.
I ask that you renew their mind, that they are transformed by the renewing of their mind.
We give you all glory.
Bless this time.
Let your spirit infuse us.
Let your spirit infuse every word.
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight.
In Jesus' name, amen and amen.
So God's been speaking to me about not attaching my joy, my happiness, my energy to external conditions, right?
He's teaching me to act, to feel, to be, to do independent of what other people are doing,
independent of external conditions.
You see, we get so attached.
And so when I say unhitch, unhitch from external conditions and circumstances, your happiness,
your joy, your fulfillment, your power, your ability to influence is not attached to external
conditions.
And yet that's the programming of the world.
That's the programming that the conditions of life is what holds your happiness, holds your joy.
So God's been speaking to me about acting.
You know, I used to tell my kids, I'd often say...
Do the right thing, irregardless of what other people say or do.
That was a common thing I'd say to my kids.
Just do the right thing because it's right.
Because God is leading you.
Because that is goodness.
That is your best.
Irregardless of what other people say or do.
So, unhitching from external conditions.
You can prosper, no matter what the economy.
There's going to be all this talk and continuing talk, you know, around recession.
And what that does is make everyone operate in fear and constrict and pull back and stop spending.
And voila, we have a recession.
What is a recession?
It's when everybody stops spending.
Yeah?
And so, detaching from that.
Unhitching from that.
You know, the hugest millionaires.
I was reading somewhere, you know, how many millionaires were created during the depression.
Right?
So, same thing.
In the 2008, you know, real estate crash.
How much money people made.
So, do not attach your success to the economy.
That would be an external condition.
Right?
I remember when COVID, when it was first announced, the lockdown in March of 2020, and I remember God speaking clearly.
We are not those who shrink back in fear.
He told me, advance boldly.
And of course, during COVID, that's when Prosper TV was created.
That's when this membership.
You see, God was saying, hey, don't let external conditions.
So, unhitch from conditions.
I've talked to you about this before.
Unhitch from the opinions of others.
Opinions are a dime a dozen.
Having an opinion does not make it truth.
Does not make it something that you have to allow to influence you.
Just understand.
And in fact, be able to create an awareness.
It's another thing I used to teach my kids.
To be able to look as someone's reflecting, instead of just eating up what's being said, be able to distance a little bit and say, I appreciate your opinion.
And that allows you to know that it's an opinion.
I can understand.
Okay.
Interesting opinion.
Interesting point of view.
And so, you detach so that it doesn't become a truth that just comes in and swallows you up.
Right?
So, unhitching from conditions, unhitching from opinions, unhitching from negativity.
Negativity.
And fear mongling.
Unhitching from negative apparent negativity.
You do not have to absorb that.
You do not have to make it your truth.
I'll sometimes, you know, I have a brother with good intention and so he constantly calls me and tells me all the things that are wrong to try to protect me all the terrible things that are going to happen all the things that are ahead and all the things
you know, and I know his heart is love.
I have kind of a joke I'll listen for a few minutes and then I'll say you know bro that's about as much good news as I can handle at one at one dose.
So, now let's talk about and I'll, I'll change right the conversation. Remember you can do that you can direct the conversation that's taking back your power.
So unhitching from conditions unhitching from opinions unhitching from, you know, apparent negativity unhitching from judgment, yourself, yours, and others unhitching from judgment and and its sister, which is criticism unhitching.
So these are external.
And part of I'm unhitching from from external is that often when we tie our happiness or prosperity our health or something into outer conditions, then we tend to wait or put off or settle.
And so you can tell if you're attached to external conditions if you say things like when XYZ, then that's, that's an external condition.
right? When the economy changes, then I'll move forward and invest, or then I'll start
that training, or then, right? Or, you know, we put off our life, right? When I get married,
or after my divorce, or when the kids grow up, or when the kids leave home, or when,
you know, the economy, whatever, we put this external conditions when, then. And so we're
not being driven by a place of internal power, a place of the Holy Spirit driving us, a place
of the voice of God and the direction for our life. We're allowing outside things to
move us, to control us. And so we tend to put off. So we're unhitching from external circumstances.
And then, instead of focusing on external circumstances, we activate internal,
internal power. We activate. And so the first thing that we activate to take back our power,
and I've talked to you guys about this, you know, in the past, is we activate our God-given ability
to choose. You just, you must recall that constantly. I can choose. I choose. And I can choose
differently. If that last choice wasn't ideal, if I chose not to exercise last month,
I can choose again. And I can choose this month to exercise. If I chose to not follow up
or not show up, it's okay. The past is gone. I can choose again. I can choose to show up.
I can choose to make those calls. I can choose to read that book. I can choose to write those pages.
I can choose. Right? And so we take back our God-given ability to choose and understand
that every moment you have choice and you can choose again. And secondly, and this is really big,
is to really remember who we are. Now, I've talked to you guys about this so much in the past.
And so there's several components of this, right? First, we get back into alignment and remember who
or what is our source. So God, of course, for those of us that are here as Christ followers,
as spirit-filled believers, there's only one source, which is God. There's many channels.
He can flow and bless through many ways, but our business or our job or our career
is not our source. Never has been. It can be a channel. Our spouse is not our source.
Our president is not our source. The economy is not our source. Money is not our source.
Right? So there's many channels. God can flow to you. He can make water flow from a rock. He can
make manna fall from the sky. He can put a gold coin in it. I mean, there's infinite, literally
unlimited, infinite. You cannot count all the ways that God can provide and meet all of your needs.
You can't even imagine all the ways they can come. You could start making a list right now,
and you could write forever of all the ways that God could provide. And so it is remembering that
God is your source. And this also teaches you to reason from cause to effect or from cause to form.
You see, we get attached to form. Again, that's the external, right? We get attached to form.
So money is an effect. Money is a result, right? You added value. You provided service.
You were blessed. God multiplied. It's an effect. It's not the cause.
And so you must come back to that so that you don't get attached to external circumstances,
including the money in your bank account, how much you have. It's not your source.
Okay? And so the first
thing is, is, is that is, is, and I remind you all the time
you step back and you remember, wait a minute. Scripture says,
I'm the temple of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is in
me. Scripture says, Christ is in me. Paul said, I won't rest
until Christ is fully formed in you. So I got Christ in me the
hope of glory. I have the mind of Christ. That means I always
have full access to all wisdom, all creativity, all resources,
all understanding, all knowledge, all I have to do. It
says we have not because we asked not. I have to be still.
And I have to know God and know that I have access to this. And
so if I have access to the Godhead, the Father, the Son,
the Holy Spirit, however you want to look at it, if I have
access to that, then I have access to all sufficiency. I
lack nothing. Truly, I can say like David, the Lord is my
shepherd, I shall not lack. I have access to all resources,
the cattle on the thousand hills, the gold, all, all
resources, I've lacked nothing. Scripture says never have the
righteous been forsaken, nor begging for bread. So we must
not allow lack to come out of our mind, we must remember who
our source is, we must remember who we are, who and what we are.
So first and foremost, who we are, we're made in the image of
God, made in his likeness, the container of him, when I walk in
a room, God walks in a room. And so we become that vessel. When
you write, you say, Lord, right through me, when you speak, you
say, Lord, speak through me, when you teach, you say, Lord,
teach through me, when you coach, you say, Lord, coach
through me. Now, infinite wisdom is flowing through you because
you've made yourself available. So that's the first thing is
remembering who you are. Now, there's a second part of that
that has really come up in coaching this week that I really
want to bring up. And that is this idea where I see so many
women shrinking and forgetting who they are, in addition to who
they are in Christ, forgetting their gifts, forgetting their
education, forgetting their experience, forgetting the
knowledge, the work that they've done the lessons that they've
experienced. And so I had two or three stories in this past
couple weeks. I wrote about one in the newsletter. So you all
probably got that a woman with 25 years of executive
leadership experience, a master's in leadership, wrote
her thesis on leadership, left the corporate world, stepped
into coaching. As a coach, she began to look around and other
coaches had more titles, more certificates, more years, more
clients, more money, whatever, right? The comparison game. And
so she began to shrink. It's the not enough shadow. I'm not good
enough shadow. I don't have enough shadow. I lack shadow,
right. And so, um, it was it was an amazing experience. I was
able as as a coach to kind of hold the space. We've talked
about this, I talked about it in the sales conference about
how we view others, and our clients, and not shrinking down
to their smaller beliefs at that moment, that may be very
limited. But as a coach, our job is to hold the space, the
container, to see them as what they can be with infinite
potentiality, instead of shrinking down and agreeing with
their smallness, right. And it just hit me and you know me, I
can be very direct. And it was like, wait, wait, wait, let me
just make sure I get this. Because you're a coach. Now you
left corporate world, did everything that you learned
about leadership in your master's degree, did that just
like evaporate? Is it like poof, it just went down the toilet
because you're a coach now. And she kind of looked at me like,
No, I actually wrote my thesis on leadership. And I said, Oh,
so you still know all of that? Yeah, you can still teach all of
that. Yeah. You can still help other people understand
something and get unlocked in their leadership. Yeah. Okay.
And 25 years experience. Did that count for anything? Yeah,
I guess it did.
she just she just lit up. She just lit up. Right. And so I
said, Okay, now stepping into that, you're a container of God,
the power of God is in you, the Spirit is in you, you got 25
years of experience, you learned a lot of lessons in those 25
years, you've got education. Now, coming from that place,
what would you charge? How would you show up? Who would you be?
Because she was like, ready to charge minimum wage. Well, I'm
just a nobody coach. I'm just starting. Right. So one of you
guys needs to mute yourself, please. Please, please. Okay. Um,
I had a I had another one. Okay. I mean, she's amazing. You guys
might have met her. She's she was an engineer and then she
became a medical doctor. And now she's working in the legal.
And I'm like, wow, you're an engineer, doctor and lawyer all
at once. How cool is that? But again, as I don't know, as a
coach, if I can, maybe I'm not sure. You see, we shrink, we
shrink into our story of lack and limitation, which is only a
story. It's not the truth. The truth. It's a it's a limited
perception. So I'm asking you right now, where you sister, my
precious sister, where have you been shrinking? Where have you
been forgetting who you are? Where have you been forgetting?
I have experience. I know this stuff. I've traveled this road.
I have gifts to bring I have, I have these, these abilities. I
have these talents, I have these, these experiences, this
wisdom, this understanding this education, sister, where have
you been shrinking? Because you allow voices in the external
circumstances to shrink you others opinion to shrink you?
Your limited perception to shrink you? Comparison to shrink
you? Where have you been playing small? And are you willing to
say no more? I unhitch from the opinions of others. I unhitch
from control, external conditions, they do not hold my
happiness, my prosperity, my joy, my power, they are not my
source. External conditions do not influence me. I choose to
influence external conditions. Today, right here, right now.
That's, that's the message that God's really been putting on my
heart. And I pray it blesses you. I'm going to stop the
recording and let's talk about it. Let's get together here for
a few minutes. All right.