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Now I can share the screen, my goodness.

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All right, welcome to today's

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Prosper Member Leader Call.

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I'm super, super excited about what God

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has really been putting on my heart to share.

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And this is something that I believe

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is going to affect every aspect of your business

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and your personal life and your relationships.

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It's something that's been bubbling up and bubbling up.

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I was sharing earlier before we started this recording

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that I'm seeing it surface,

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as we're talking about wanting to increase our income

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and we're wanting to increase our impact.

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We started with the sales masterclasses, a couple of those.

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And that was the idea of, hey, without sales,

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then we don't have any income, we don't have any impact.

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And then we added the follow-up masterclass

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because without follow-up, most of the sales don't happen.

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And so that came together, but under all of that is you.

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And the mindset, where are you coming from?

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What are your beliefs about yourself,

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about your potential clients, about your business,

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about money, about giving, about receiving?

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And so I've been really led to bring back God, money and me.

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So I will be having that masterclass next month.

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And if you're listening to this in real time,

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and we're going to start laying the foundation

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for those of you as Prosper Leader members,

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you're gonna get a lot of extra.

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Just really laying the foundation for breakthrough

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and the foundation for really seeing transformation

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in your business, your income, but really in your impact.

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I know the heart of each one of you

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and how much you wanna make a difference.

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And this is going to be huge.

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I think there's gonna be a lot of things

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that are gonna challenge you,

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a lot of things that are gonna inspire you,

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but I believe this is gonna be a really powerful series

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that we're going into.

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So let's start with prayer

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and then we'll really dive into it step-by-step

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and then we'll have some community time afterwards.

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All right.

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Oh, Father, we just come before you

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and we ask that you open our spiritual senses,

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open our spiritual ears.

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You said when you were here on the planet

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that we had ears, but we didn't hear.

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I'm asking right now for a supernatural opening

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of our spiritual ears to hear what you, Holy Spirit,

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are saying.

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Speak through my mouth, Lord,

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just speak through my energy, speak through any way,

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my notes, any way that you wanna speak

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and open our ears to hear

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relevantly for where we are in this season.

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Open our spiritual eyes to see.

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May we never have eyes, but be blind.

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Open our spiritual eyes.

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Open our understanding.

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I ask for a spirit of revelation to flow.

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I ask for insights, sight on the inside.

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I ask like Paul prayed that you'll open the eyes

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of our heart, that we'll truly know how big,

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how great is your love for us.

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And so I ask that what you want to be said

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will come forth powerfully.

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I ask for a season of breakthrough

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wherever there have been strongholds from childhood,

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from experiences, wherever there's been strongholds

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that are keeping women in bondage.

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I ask in the mighty name of Jesus for that to be broken.

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I ask for the captives to be set free.

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I ask for the abundance that you have promised to us.

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You came that we might have life

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and have it to the overflow.

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And so I'm asking from this day forth

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for a spirit of overflow.

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I'm asking for increase.

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And so give us the wisdom, Lord,

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to steward the substance of the earth,

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to steward your resources.

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And I just ask that you speak clearly

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right here, right now, in Jesus' name, amen.

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Well, we're gonna start talking about giving

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and giving as a secret of increase,

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giving as a secret of increase.

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And Proverbs 11, 24 says,

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give freely and become more wealthy.

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Be stingy and lose everything.

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Now, this is so counterculture of what we think.

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We say, how can I give out of a,

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if I give, I'm going to lose it.

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If I have a cake and I give you a piece of the cake,

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that's gonna.

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be one less piece of the cake. That is only true in the world in this three dimensions. It is not

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true life in the kingdom. It is not one of the kingdom principles. And so you're going to begin

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to see almost an upside down kingdom that Jesus brought and have a deeper understanding around

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things. And so actually, if we're holding back, and I'm going to share more about this in a second,

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the whatever we're holding back, what we're not giving is what we're not receiving. It's a very

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fascinating, you know, paradox that you're going to see. And so this says, give freely,

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and become more wealthy, be stingy, and lose everything. Now, this is true in all areas.

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It's not just money. It's giving freely of our time. It's giving freely of our love. It's giving

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freely of our prayer. It's giving freely of our knowledge. It's giving freely, whatever it is,

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it applies to all areas. We're not just talking money. And as I get into teaching about money,

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I'm going to teach you the biblical concept of the original word, which is substance.

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Go in the King James, go in any of the earlier translations, you'll see it doesn't call it

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money. It doesn't call it any of those things that calls it substance. And so understanding

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what is substance and how does that really play out? So I'm going to share a few principles

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tonight, and then we're going to start talking about it. We're going to start opening some real

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portals for increase to come through. This has really been, I'm really getting some downloads,

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how important this is. And so this started coming up when we were doing the sales master classes,

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and we were doing the follow-up and so on. And the idea was, where am I coming from?

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And so, for example, something really practical, like how many emails do I send? You can go back

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and listen to this in your portal. It was the office hours today. Am I sending too many emails?

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Well, that depends where you're coming from, you see, and how you're viewing yourself. So if you're

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coming from, I got to get the sale, I'm going to send more so I can get, so I can get, so I can get,

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then yeah, that energy is going to come across. But if you're coming from such a place of, you know,

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God has blessed me with so many tips and tools and strategies. God has given me so much wisdom.

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I have so much overflow that I can't wait to share more and more. And I'm coming from this place of

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how can I add value? Well, I promise if you're coming from that space, you can't send too many

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emails. You're not going to get unsubscribes. In fact, I find my list is more responsive and it

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grows the more that I email. But that's because I'm coming from the place of how can I add more

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value? How can I add in? Yes, sales is going to happen as a natural part of it, but I'm not looking

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at it as a spam machine. I'm not looking at it just sell, sell, sell. I'm coming not from the

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place that I'm a taker. I'm not coming from the place, you know, that I'm sleazy. I'm not coming

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from a place of any of that. And so I want you to begin to examine the big question in all of this is

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where am I coming from? And if you're coming from a place of overflow and abundance, I shared today

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in the call, I had a very spiritual woman, mighty woman of God. And we were in a restaurant and she

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put the glass on top of a saucer and she took the pitcher of water and she started just pouring into

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the cup. And pretty soon the cup was just overflowing and it was going into the saucer and

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even onto the table. And she says, this is what God wants for you. She wants you so open and so

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receiving. And as you're receiving, it's just, you're being filled up, you're being filled up

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and you're just overflowing and everywhere you go, you're going to have that fragrance. You're

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going to have that overflow. That's going to be spilling out everywhere. Now in any of that, do you

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sense lack? Is the cup going dry? No, there's this overflow that is happening. And so that's the kind

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of place we're coming from. We're coming from this place of abundance. So we're going to do a lot of

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exercises to shift our mindset because we're programmed around lack. We're absolutely programmed

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around lack. And so we're going to very much shift that. Okay. We're going to shift it so that

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everything that we're doing is coming from this overflow, this abundance, this place of abundance.

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give and give and I'm never going to feel depleted. Now, a lot of you are going no,

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I give and give and give and I feel really depleted. A lot of people will say I'm an

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over giver and it's not working well. Okay. Go back to that question again.

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Where are you coming from? What is driving you? What is flowing out of you? Okay. So are you

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giving out of obligation, out of religious duty? Are you giving out of lack? Because if you don't

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give, you might lose. Are you giving like, where are you giving? Are you giving from this place

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of I'm so abundant and I can't help but spill over and overflow? Once you do, that's going to

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be one of the key questions that as we go through is where are you coming from? Because if you're

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feeling depleted, you're not coming from the place of overflow and abundance. That picture

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needs to fill you. And so that means that you're spending enough time in the divine feminine.

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You're spending enough time open-hearted, willing to receive, willing to be filled up. And we're

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going to really talk about this tonight. Willing to be filled up if you're not doing that, if

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you're in the masculine. And so you're like, I got to give, I got to do, I got to do, I got to

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get a goal. I got to be linear. I got to make it happen. All of that masculine stuff as a woman

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who's then shutting down your divine feminine, you're going to be depleted. You're going to be

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depleted and you'll crash and burn, honestly. And so I'm going to teach you how to give,

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but you're giving out of your abundance because in order to do that, you have to, the divine

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feminine, you have to be open. You have to be receptive. You have to be willing to receive.

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Okay. So we're going to talk about all of that. So let's talk about some of the giving principles,

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and then we'll kind of dig in and have some real application and some real question and answers.

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So here's a few verses. I gave a lot more biblical verses than I normally do. And I could

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give so, so, so many more, and we're going to, we're going to really dig in, but it just so

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happens that probably the number one thing, two things that Jesus talked about the most,

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the kingdom of God and money. He just talked about it all the time. So the whole Bible is just full

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of stuff about substance and money and abundance. So Proverbs 3, 9 says, honor the Lord with your

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substance and with the first fruits of all of your increase. So giving first thing that it does

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when we give is we get very clear who or what is your source. Now it's easy to give lip service and

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say, well, God is my source, but you don't really believe that you believe your job is your source.

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You believe your disability income is your source. You believe your spouse is your source.

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How, how do I know that? Cause if that drives up, you're freaking out,

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which means you're not seeing God as your source. That's just lip service. You see? And so part of

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the changing of the mindset is we have to get so clear who or what is your source. And so there's

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one source, which is God, the creator of God. That was one source. There's many channels,

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many channels. It might be your husband. It might be your disability. It might be a stimulus. It,

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you know, in the Bible, it could be manna coming down from the sky. It could be water

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coming out of a rock. It could be a gold coin coming out of a fish. There's many,

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it could be someone donating their tomb. It could be the, we're going to see the women donating up

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their increase. Okay. So there's many channels. You don't have to get worried about which channel

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it's going to be. Because once you know that you have one source, you won't worry about the

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channels. There's many, many, many channels and they'll, and they'll open up. Okay. And so one

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of the ways of getting clear on that is a sense of honor. You know what? I have one source and

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it's God. And I speak that all the time. People will say, you know, as I went through things,

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I went through a divorce and I left with nothing. And as I came and empty on people,

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how are you going to survive? How are you going to pay your bill? I would always say the same

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thing. God is my source. Never have I seen the righteous forsaken nor begging for bread.

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You see? And so you've got to come from that place, right? The Lord is my shepherd. I shall

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not lack. It's the Lord, not my job, not my business, not my, not any single client, right?

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So you don't, you don't cling. We're going to talk a lot about, you know, clinging. So honor

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that honor of honoring the Lord with our substance gets in our mind really clear who

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or what is our source. Deuteronomy 8, 18 says the same.

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Same thing. You'll earnestly remember.

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You see, what we've got here is is a remembering.

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It's a re getting into our mind who or what is our source.

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So remember, join back together again.

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Remember the Lord, your God, for he gives you the power to get wealth.

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He's the source. OK, Deuteronomy.

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Oh, it looks like I gave you the same verse twice.

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Forgive me for that. OK.

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So number two is getting a spirit of generosity,

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giving generously and giving cheerfully.

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Now, here's here's here's what I know.

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OK, and here's my passion.

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Here's why we're going with this.

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I have such a passion.

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The vision, we just got done doing vision,

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the vision of prosper in all things.

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Right. Is to equip, to empower women

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to prosper, truly prosper in every area of their life,

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physically, financially, spiritually, relationally.

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That's what prosper in all things is about.

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It's third John to living.

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So I'm so passionate that you being a prosper leader member,

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you linking arms with each other, you coming as this community,

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that every single person in this community is rising and prospering

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because they're being transformed by the renewing of their mind,

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because they're getting the skill sets,

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because they're getting the action plans that we are truly prospering.

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And we're going to make a difference.

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And here's what I know.

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I have been up. I have been down.

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I have made millions. I have lost millions.

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I have seen all parts of the spectrum.

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I've believed in luck. I've gotten greedy.

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I really when it comes to money, I've spent a lifetime studying it

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and teaching it something I know very, very well. OK.

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And what I know is that the very first principle

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after understanding substance and your source

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is you have to activate the flow.

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you have to get in a place like the Dead Sea,

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where if it's only water coming in, it's a dead sea.

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It stagnates. Everything in there dies.

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I've swam in the Dead Sea. There's not a single fish.

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There's there is no abundance.

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There's death. There's nothing.

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and then it stops here like the Dead Sea.

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Everything dies. Everything dries up.

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It can't sustain life.

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The Sea of the Galilee, on the other hand, I've been there.

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I've been out there.

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I've seen the Jesus boat when you're on the Sea of Galilee.

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It's massive. It's like an ocean. OK.

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It's just teeming with fish.

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If you remember when Jesus told him, put the net on the other side

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and he brought in, it was like breaking the nets.

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They had to call in the other boats.

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I think I read that it was like three times or five times of fish

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that it was sinking the boats.

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OK, so it's abundance that kind of breaks the nets and sinks the boats.

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It's this is how God operates.

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It's abundance in the Sea of Galilee.

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But you've got to first and foremost, you have to have circulation.

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And what happens with the first thing that I brought up is if you don't look

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at your as God is your source, the circulation gets clogged

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because it comes in and you go, I got to hold on.

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I can't tithe. I can't give. I can barely pay my rent.

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If I paid tithe this month, I would not be able to pay my rent.

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Counterintuitive. I get it.

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But you've blocked the flow.

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And so tithing, by the way, is not just biblical.

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It goes all the way back to the Babylonians.

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It was a well-known secret to wealth and abundance.

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Giving 10 percent.

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Why? Because it activates the flow

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and it changes your mind away from a sense of lack.

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So here's some principles.

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Second Corinthians nine, five, nine, six and seven says, remember this.

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A farmer who plants only a few seeds will get a small crop,

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but the one who plants generously will get a generous crop.

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You must each decide in your heart how much to give

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and don't give reluctantly or in response to pressure.

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Now, all of you are coming from different backgrounds.

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because you've been manipulated and you.

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been told all kinds of things.

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we're going to grow through this together.

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And we're going to seek truth more than anything

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to absolutely know the truth here.

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And truth is that God has built a world, a universe that

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is principle-based.

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It's based on laws.

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The law of gravity is one law, but there are lots of laws.

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is one of these laws.

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And it applies to every area of your life, sowing and reaping.

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I'm going to get a very small crop.

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Basic law, sowing, reaping.

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We talked about it today.

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Am I sowing generously with my knowledge?

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Some people, when they give emails,

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when they do a master class, when they do a challenge,

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they give only a little bit because they're really afraid

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someone's going to steal their secrets as

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if it's original to them.

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won't come to their course because they'll just

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get everything and just run away with it.

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They get one or two or three people in the challenge

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and joining and so on.

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or this actually uses the word decision,

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which is stronger than choice, you

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are choosing in your heart how much to give.

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You're not being coerced.

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How much to give of your time, your treasure, of your talents?

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You're not being coerced, but you have to choose.

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for God loves a person who gives cheerfully.

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And here it is in the Passion Translation, and I love it.

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It really brings out the air make

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and the original language.

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Love the Passion Translation.

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It'll just refresh your biblical reading.

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A stingy sower will reap a meager harvest,

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but the one who sows from a generous spirit.

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Now remember, I opened with, where am I coming from?

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Am I coming from, I got to do this,

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or I'm not going to have a money?

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Am I coming from a masculine lack, or am I coming from,

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you know what, the God, my source,

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owns the cattle on 1,000 hills.

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He owns the gold and the silver.

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If he can pull gold out of a fish's mouth

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and manna out of the sky, he can meet all of my needs.

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I trust him.

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And in response to his lavish love on me,

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I am developing, I'm growing, which by the way,

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this is a habit.

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Generosity is a habit.

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Do you know in Buddhism that the very first thing a Buddhist

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is trained in is generosity?

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Did you know that?

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And did you know that it's for a lot of reasons?

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It breaks the spirit of lack and lust

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and clinging and stinginess?

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Because guess what?

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Lack and lust and stinginess and holding on and clenching

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our fists makes us very, very unhappy.

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We know all the studies, and we'll

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get into this in God, Money, and Me,

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we know all the studies that your health improves

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with generosity.

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Of course, your income improves.

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Your mental health improves.

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I mean, everything changes.

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Your happiness scale improves.

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is a generous spirit, which is a habit that you develop,

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will reap an abundant harvest.

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Let giving flow from your heart, not

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from a sense of religious duty.

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Some of you that are tithing because you've been programmed

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and you think you're going to go to hell

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or you're going to lose everything if you don't tithe,

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stop, because it's the wrong reason, the wrong heart.

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It's doing nothing but making you miserable.

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from an honoring spirit, honoring

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the Lord who gives you all your substance,

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from a place of absolute excitement,

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then start it back up again.

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Instead, let it spring up freely from the joy of giving.

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Have you developed, like if the giving is not joyful,

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you're not doing it right.

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It should be so much fun.

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It should spark so much joy.

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It should be like, wow, who do I get to give today?

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Like creating, and my coach challenged me in this

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in years ago, it changed my life to have a daily give plan

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and to out give yourself and figure out new ways to give

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and keep track of it.

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And it just becomes so much fun.

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fun. And so the joy of giving and then it just becomes amazing. Oh, wow, the homeless

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women needed Bibles. And can you donate a Bible? No, I'll donate a whole box of Bibles.

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You know, and over here, you know, someone's husband died and they can't bury him. Can

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you donate? Yes, you know, and over here can like it becomes the most joyous, like amazing

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thing. Okay, as you break free from lack and you activate and this is what I really feel

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in my heart where we are going as prosper sisters as prosper leaders. Okay, this is

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where God's taking us so much abundance, so much prosperity. But first, we have to activate

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the flow, we have to create circulation. We see this everywhere in Scripture. Okay, and

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you'll see this in God, money and me, I don't care if she has to go borrow the the jars

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and the little bit of oil that she has, she's got to activate the flow. I don't care if

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she has to make her last rice cake and give it to the prophet. She's got to activate the

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flow. You know, I don't care if he has to bring his lunch of five fish, we've got to

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activate the flow. Okay. And so let it spring up from the joy of giving because God loves

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hilarious generosity. Hilarity, that's the word use that generous giving is that it's

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so good that it's hilarious. It like makes you like smile, it makes you want to dance.

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It's so much fun. This will break the spirit of lack and it will take away this heaviness

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and this sorrow and this sense of not enoughness and we're going to do this together. We're

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going to go deeper. So for now, I'm just kind of opening the subject and I'm going to encourage

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you to have a giving plan and to start challenging yourself to set goals of how much you're going

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to give and to each month like out give yourself and so powerful. Second Corinthians 8-7 says

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since you excel in so many ways in your in your faith, your gifted speaking, your knowledge,

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your enthusiasm, your love. So here it's saying, wow, you just excel. Maybe you're a great

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teacher. Maybe you're a great prophet. Maybe you're a great prayer warrior. Maybe you're

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great. Whatever. I'm glad you excel in all those things. Paul says because he understood

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this. He says, I want you to excel also in the gracious act of giving because everything

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will change if you can break this stronghold. Of course, you all know Malachi 310. It's

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probably the only place that God says test me in this or prove me in this and he says,

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bring all the tithes into the storehouse and prove me now says the Lord of hosts. If you

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don't do this, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour out a blessing

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that there shall not be room enough to receive. This is our God. He's so lavish. He's so generous.

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Every time you cannot out give God. Every time you give, if you're giving from this place

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of graciousness and honor and generosity and hilarity, I promise you, you're going to get

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all these. I get it all the time. Surprise checks in the mail, surprise things coming that I never

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expected, surprise clients, surprise money. It just comes from all over and you're just like,

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oh, that's right. Three days ago or last month. I gave this exactly one week ago. I gave the,

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oh, there it is. Can never out give God. It just came back tenfold. It just came back fivefold.

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And so you're going to start seeing this and we're going to celebrate together. We're going to share

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these stories. We're going to become one of the most generous sisterhoods. We're going to do this

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together. We're going to see so much abundance start to flow. I like to call it the boomerang

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effect. Everything in scripture is a giant boomerang because we're all one. So you see it

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everywhere. Judge not, lest you'll be judged. Give and it'll be given unto you. On and on and

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on, there's the boomerang effect. And so there it is. Give and the gifts will be given to you.

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Good measure, press down, shaken together, running over. Will they pour into the pouch formed by the

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bosom of your robe and used as a bag for with the measure you deal out with the measure you use when

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you confer benefits on others, it'll be measured back to you. So in this particular worksheet,

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I gave you lots of things to just start contemplating, start easing into this and

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really journal, really meditate, really think about it. So the first thing I really love my

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coach says to me all the time, life is not withholding from us. That's a capital L that's

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God. That's Jesus. That's life itself. Okay. Life.

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is not withholding, nothing's being held back.

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When you get this concept,

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nothing is being held back from you.

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Life is not withholding from us.

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We are withholding from life.

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This will rock your world.

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So I want you to,

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I desire for you to take an honest assessment

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what we're talking about here.

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What are some of your feelings around giving?

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Oh, I've tried that, it never works.

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I can't possibly pay my bills, how can I give?

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Or, you know, am I jaded?

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Oh, here we go again.

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Are you excited?

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Are you challenged?

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Are you resistant?

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Are you afraid?

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You know, this is going to start,

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kind of start tuning into how you're feeling.

460
00:30:52.220 --> 00:30:55.580
It's gonna tell a lot about those areas

461
00:30:55.580 --> 00:30:56.760
that we wanna have breakthrough.

462
00:30:56.760 --> 00:30:59.560
So be honest as you do this.

463
00:30:59.560 --> 00:31:02.360
And then I wanna talk about this idea

464
00:31:02.360 --> 00:31:04.600
of giving versus overgiving.

465
00:31:04.600 --> 00:31:07.760
So women that say, but I have a history of overgiving

466
00:31:07.760 --> 00:31:09.160
and I burned myself out.

467
00:31:09.160 --> 00:31:12.520
Again, where are you coming from?

468
00:31:12.520 --> 00:31:15.960
Take an honest look of why were you given?

469
00:31:15.960 --> 00:31:19.040
Was it a place of obligation?

470
00:31:19.040 --> 00:31:20.480
Was it force?

471
00:31:20.480 --> 00:31:21.960
Was it manipulation?

472
00:31:21.960 --> 00:31:23.720
Was it fear?

473
00:31:23.720 --> 00:31:25.860
Was it you feeling not good enough?

474
00:31:25.860 --> 00:31:29.020
So you were trying to prove that you were good enough.

475
00:31:29.020 --> 00:31:30.620
Was it to be accepted?

476
00:31:30.620 --> 00:31:32.380
You hope that if you just gave enough,

477
00:31:32.380 --> 00:31:34.260
someone would finally give to you.

478
00:31:34.260 --> 00:31:37.020
Someone would finally love you.

479
00:31:37.020 --> 00:31:39.020
That was my case.

480
00:31:39.020 --> 00:31:41.980
I thought that somehow the way the rules were written

481
00:31:41.980 --> 00:31:44.880
in the universe, that if I just gave and gave

482
00:31:44.880 --> 00:31:47.980
and gave and gave, that someday somehow magically

483
00:31:47.980 --> 00:31:49.580
it would be my turn.

484
00:31:49.580 --> 00:31:51.140
That's not how it works.

485
00:31:51.140 --> 00:31:52.560
We're gonna talk about that.

486
00:31:52.600 --> 00:31:56.080
So again, are you giving from any of those things

487
00:31:56.080 --> 00:31:57.240
or a place of overflow?

488
00:31:57.240 --> 00:32:01.280
I want you to do some deep introspection on that.

489
00:32:01.280 --> 00:32:03.080
So life is not withholding from us.

490
00:32:03.080 --> 00:32:05.160
We're withholding from life.

491
00:32:05.160 --> 00:32:10.160
Whatever you feel you're missing is what you're not giving.

492
00:32:10.760 --> 00:32:13.400
Whatever you feel you're missing is what you're not giving.

493
00:32:13.400 --> 00:32:16.660
So I want you to honestly be real with yourself.

494
00:32:16.660 --> 00:32:19.000
This is time to have a heart to heart

495
00:32:19.000 --> 00:32:20.400
because to get the most out of this,

496
00:32:20.400 --> 00:32:23.720
you gotta be so real, so transparent, so vulnerable.

497
00:32:23.720 --> 00:32:27.440
In what ways have you been withholding from life?

498
00:32:27.440 --> 00:32:30.840
How are you not showing up fully?

499
00:32:30.840 --> 00:32:32.480
How are you not fully giving?

500
00:32:32.480 --> 00:32:37.480
How are you holding back of yourself out of fear?

501
00:32:37.840 --> 00:32:39.960
I'm not good enough, so I don't show up.

502
00:32:39.960 --> 00:32:42.480
I can't give to someone because they're gonna see,

503
00:32:42.480 --> 00:32:44.200
they're gonna think I'm a fraud.

504
00:32:44.200 --> 00:32:46.560
I'm holding back until I get more education,

505
00:32:46.560 --> 00:32:50.120
more certificates, more this until I have more money.

506
00:32:50.800 --> 00:32:53.880
I'm holding back just until my husband lets me start.

507
00:32:53.880 --> 00:32:55.160
I'm holding back.

508
00:32:55.160 --> 00:32:57.520
Like, where have you been?

509
00:32:57.520 --> 00:33:00.600
Because those areas, as you uncover them

510
00:33:00.600 --> 00:33:04.220
and you unleash them, you open the flow there,

511
00:33:04.220 --> 00:33:06.760
all kinds of amazing things are gonna happen.

512
00:33:06.760 --> 00:33:09.760
So whatever you feel you're missing,

513
00:33:09.760 --> 00:33:12.040
I just am not getting love.

514
00:33:12.040 --> 00:33:14.760
Well, where are you coming from?

515
00:33:14.760 --> 00:33:17.920
Are you giving love, including to yourself?

516
00:33:18.360 --> 00:33:20.680
Okay, so this applies to everything.

517
00:33:22.240 --> 00:33:24.840
And then as we get going,

518
00:33:24.840 --> 00:33:27.560
we're going to talk about a lot.

519
00:33:27.560 --> 00:33:31.520
Derek Rydell, I took his course, Awakened Wealth,

520
00:33:31.520 --> 00:33:35.080
and we're gonna go into the seven ways of giving.

521
00:33:35.080 --> 00:33:37.040
So we're gonna dig into what it means

522
00:33:37.040 --> 00:33:39.440
to give out or give forth our time,

523
00:33:39.440 --> 00:33:41.000
our treasure, our talents.

524
00:33:41.000 --> 00:33:43.400
We're gonna talk about giving away.

525
00:33:43.400 --> 00:33:45.640
This is gonna release the stuck energy,

526
00:33:45.680 --> 00:33:48.160
the clutter, where we're pruning.

527
00:33:48.160 --> 00:33:51.440
Jesus said everything that is not producing,

528
00:33:51.440 --> 00:33:53.040
those branches need to be cut off.

529
00:33:53.040 --> 00:33:54.680
They need to be thrown in the fire.

530
00:33:54.680 --> 00:33:57.480
So what's in your life that is not producing,

531
00:33:57.480 --> 00:34:01.880
not being used, and is taking up space?

532
00:34:01.880 --> 00:34:06.040
And so we're gonna begin to create space for the flow.

533
00:34:06.040 --> 00:34:08.560
We're gonna create space for now.

534
00:34:08.560 --> 00:34:12.260
Too many people, because they're not giving away,

535
00:34:12.260 --> 00:34:14.980
and their hoarding or their home

536
00:34:14.980 --> 00:34:19.500
has literally become a museum of artifacts of the past.

537
00:34:19.500 --> 00:34:21.300
They're so stuck in the past

538
00:34:21.300 --> 00:34:24.380
that there's no room for the now or the future, okay?

539
00:34:24.380 --> 00:34:26.659
And so we're gonna talk about giving away.

540
00:34:26.659 --> 00:34:28.620
We're gonna talk about giving thanks.

541
00:34:28.620 --> 00:34:31.940
We're gonna talk about giving up, giving in,

542
00:34:31.940 --> 00:34:33.860
giving to myself, that's a big one

543
00:34:33.860 --> 00:34:36.820
that we're gonna cover, forgiving.

544
00:34:36.820 --> 00:34:39.420
That's a type of giving, forgiving.

545
00:34:39.420 --> 00:34:42.340
And so you could just think about it right now

546
00:34:42.340 --> 00:34:45.739
and start to see what type of giving.

547
00:34:45.739 --> 00:34:48.780
You know, the number one thing I teach all the time

548
00:34:48.780 --> 00:34:51.300
is how can I add value?

549
00:34:51.300 --> 00:34:54.020
So I want you to start thinking about that.

550
00:34:54.020 --> 00:34:57.280
This should be a big list of all the possible ways

551
00:34:57.280 --> 00:35:00.180
you can activate giving by adding value.

552
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:03.640
Well, I can start sending inspirational social media.

553
00:35:03.640 --> 00:35:06.640
Well, I could send some emails that really add value.

554
00:35:06.640 --> 00:35:08.640
Well, I could teach a masterclass.

555
00:35:08.920 --> 00:35:11.520
Well, I could do some Facebook lives.

556
00:35:11.520 --> 00:35:13.800
Well, I could write letters to people.

557
00:35:13.800 --> 00:35:15.840
I could send out cards.

558
00:35:15.840 --> 00:35:17.280
I could go and visit.

559
00:35:17.280 --> 00:35:19.080
I could do a live event.

560
00:35:19.080 --> 00:35:24.880
I could hold a home church or a home dinner, or I could create a group

561
00:35:24.880 --> 00:35:28.160
or I could put my materials and make them available.

562
00:35:28.200 --> 00:35:29.680
I could create a membership.

563
00:35:29.680 --> 00:35:32.720
Just brainstorm right now.

564
00:35:32.720 --> 00:35:37.680
Because once you get focused on adding value, everything's going to change

565
00:35:37.680 --> 00:35:40.280
because money is an exchange, right, for value.

566
00:35:40.720 --> 00:35:43.160
And I'm going to close with this thought.

567
00:35:43.160 --> 00:35:46.000
I read this this morning as I was reading my Bible this morning,

568
00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:50.400
and I want you just to think about possibilities and what is possible.

569
00:35:51.120 --> 00:35:53.240
So Luke chapter eight, one to three.

570
00:35:53.240 --> 00:35:56.400
I read this today in the Passion Translation,

571
00:35:56.640 --> 00:36:01.760
and it says his 12 disciples traveled with him as he did,

572
00:36:02.200 --> 00:36:06.520
as did a number of women who had been healed of many illnesses

573
00:36:06.520 --> 00:36:09.400
and set free from demonic power.

574
00:36:09.680 --> 00:36:12.160
So he mentions 12 disciples.

575
00:36:12.160 --> 00:36:15.120
And then besides the 12 disciples, there was a lot of women.

576
00:36:15.760 --> 00:36:18.160
And I feel that this is the season.

577
00:36:18.480 --> 00:36:22.200
We know that women are the most generous.

578
00:36:22.200 --> 00:36:24.480
They're most involved in their community.

579
00:36:24.480 --> 00:36:26.800
They're most willing to support families.

580
00:36:26.800 --> 00:36:28.160
They're most willing.

581
00:36:28.160 --> 00:36:32.440
So I believe God is doing a really big thing right now, right here

582
00:36:32.520 --> 00:36:37.000
in Prosper, as we develop this radical generosity,

583
00:36:37.000 --> 00:36:38.240
which, by the way, is a great book.

584
00:36:38.240 --> 00:36:40.400
You could read the book Radical Generosity.

585
00:36:41.480 --> 00:36:44.960
And so it says one of those women was Mary,

586
00:36:45.440 --> 00:36:48.080
who was from the village of Magdala.

587
00:36:48.080 --> 00:36:52.520
That's Mary Magdalene, which, by the way, if you've ever read the gospel

588
00:36:52.520 --> 00:36:56.320
of Mary Magdalene, extra biblical gospel written,

589
00:36:56.600 --> 00:36:58.400
she was the first apostle.

590
00:36:58.400 --> 00:37:00.520
She was the apostle to the apostles.

591
00:37:01.120 --> 00:37:03.960
So interesting, the role that women can play,

592
00:37:03.960 --> 00:37:07.920
that that's been subdued for a while, but that's just a little side note.

593
00:37:08.280 --> 00:37:12.080
So it says there was Mary that Jesus had cast out seven demons.

594
00:37:12.080 --> 00:37:14.080
In other words, he had perfectly cleansed her.

595
00:37:14.480 --> 00:37:19.200
Among the women were Susanna and Joanna, the wife of Chusa,

596
00:37:19.560 --> 00:37:22.440
who managed King Herod's household.

597
00:37:22.840 --> 00:37:28.400
Many other women who supported Jesus ministry

598
00:37:28.600 --> 00:37:31.800
from their own personal finances

599
00:37:32.240 --> 00:37:34.880
also traveled with him.

600
00:37:36.200 --> 00:37:39.760
I'm going to leave that thought with you, what would be possible

601
00:37:39.760 --> 00:37:43.080
if you had such an increase

602
00:37:43.600 --> 00:37:47.600
that you took your business to six figures, seven figures, eight figures?

603
00:37:47.600 --> 00:37:51.720
You had so much abundance and you had this hilarious,

604
00:37:52.040 --> 00:37:56.560
generous, radical generosity coming from your heart.

605
00:37:57.080 --> 00:38:01.560
What could be done in this world in this season?

606
00:38:01.720 --> 00:38:04.400
Here we see some radical women.

607
00:38:04.640 --> 00:38:10.400
Jesus was actually supported by all of these women.

608
00:38:11.280 --> 00:38:15.080
How powerful, how powerful.

609
00:38:15.560 --> 00:38:19.000
So this is just a little kind of eye opening,

610
00:38:19.000 --> 00:38:22.720
little taster for you to experience this.

611
00:38:22.720 --> 00:38:25.240
We're going to go deeper and deeper.

612
00:38:25.440 --> 00:38:29.400
So let's spend some time right now in community time and really talk about this.

613
00:38:29.440 --> 00:38:30.000
OK.