Hey everybody so it is day two of the rest intensive and I've loved getting to
see those of you who popped in to do intro videos or update videos or
whatever. These are great I always love seeing lots of interaction in the group
where people are you know choosing to be more involved etc because the more
involved that you are then the more it'll help you. I know some of you may be
like me and you don't like to be involved you might be introverts and so
I'm telling you this actually having watched and experienced it not only for
myself but with other people watching that the more that someone is involved
and the more that they're actually giving of themselves and being
intentional that's really what I'm trying to say the more that they get out
of it and it's not really the involvement that's like magical it's
that the is that people have to be intentional in being in in being
involved and then a lot of times the more that you're involved the more
intentional that you are and that you take that you take the what it is that
you're learning about rest or or learning more about having to have faith
in the Lord etc and the more intentional you are the more it will
increase your faith and the more that it'll help you actually learn these
things and step into these things with the Lord in the spirit realm because
you're finding it easier because you're doing it in the physical realm and it's
just kind of one of those things that just when we do things in the physical
realm it just helps us translate into the translate how to actually accomplish
or shift into some area in the spiritual realm where if we don't have the
physical connection sometimes it's hard to understand how to do what it is that
God is urging us to do in the spirit realm because it's it's unseen right we
have a very meaning like we have a difficult time seeing it sometimes and
it's not as it's obvious so doing things in the physical will just help you
understand and then be able to do it in the spiritual and that's and when you do
it in spiritual that's when everything happens so don't take me wrong I'm not
saying that all of this stuff that you do in the physical and if you hey the
more you're involved in the in the group and the more you interact then it's just
magical and that's that's what God wants and then it's gonna happen in the
spiritual no there's no there's no connection it's just that being more
involved and being more interactive in the group is a tool that psychologically
has an effect on us that tends to help people exponentially more to be able to
accomplish certain things in the spiritual and it's just because of how
God made us we are made to be very and we have a tendency to be very affected
by what happens in the physical so it's just a tool in which we're just helping
helping ourselves based on what we know about ourselves which is you know the
more that we do things in physical the more things will or we're able to do it
in spiritual as well so so that's great but what I wanted to talk about really
quick is about overwhelm and it was just something that came to me the other day
I actually had someone here locally that came by and and they were just we're
having a very difficult time and I and I was just you know you know just kind of
reaching into the spirit and trying to figure out so what really is going on
overwhelm and so what is the the root of overwhelm and and so I just thought maybe
it was just something on my heart to be able to talk to you all about today and
hopefully it'll be helpful to those of you that this resonates with maybe with
what it is that you've got going on right now so overwhelm I know that that
for most of you you have a basis to be able to to hear what I'm saying and for
those of you you know that don't have much foundation yet in what rest is and
what I mean by it don't worry we're gonna get to it remember our very first
our very first teaching is on is on Tuesday but I just wanted to to the
majority of you have a have a basis and a foundation to be able to understand
what I'm saying when I say this and that is that remember that what what rest
actually is is that rest is when we are abiding in that place of union with the
Lord and because he is the all-sufficient one meaning that in him
we already have everything it means that he is creating the outcome we're not
we're just able to rest in him and just to be able to enjoy what it is that
we're doing be able to enjoy being a part of things and then he actually
creates the results so overwhelm is where we
bearing the the just the overwhelming weight in other words the very
oppressive stifling and and hindering and slowing down weight of bearing the
responsibility of the outcome of our actions. So if we have things that like
say for instance you have a lot of things going on in your life and a lot
of balls that you're trying to keep in the air you're that you're just juggling
if you're feeling responsible for each one of those or feeling only partly
responsible for all of them but the volume of them has added up the volume
of them of which you feel just partly responsible for because you know that
God's actually responsible for them. If you feel even partly responsible for all
of them and you have a volume of them that you can start to feel oppressed and
pressurized by the by the weight of the amount of responsibility that you're
carrying and remember God doesn't intend for us to carry that responsibility he
wants us to rely on him to generate create fuel and energize and cause the
actions and the results and not the actions the outcomes and the results of
what happens in our life. So what happens as a result of a business decision that
you make what happens as a result of how you how you approach and treat and
interact with a relationship what happens you know as a result of the
actions that you do around your house and you know how quote-unquote clean it
is or how you know how it looks right now or you know just whatever if we're
God says that we're actually not responsible for the result we're
responsible see but it says that my broadcast is having a very difficult
time let's see if I can oh it's not gonna let me hmm I thought I was gonna
try to see if I could switch to cellular because it keeps says it keeps pausing
so hopefully we're still going okay but anyway what he wants us to do is to rely
on him to create the result and he just wants us to be able to enjoy the journey
of the relationship with him so you're actually not responsible for the results
and the outcomes in your life if you let him be responsible for them if you're
not letting him be responsible for them and you yourself are deciding no I'm
responsible for them well then you're the one who's gonna have to carry all
that weight so the Lord says you have the opportunity to not have to do that
and he says we can give it to him and then he'll bear the weight and the
responsibility of it and then we don't have to be and feel overwhelmed by
everything it is that we have going on even if those things don't change even
if our circumstances and situations don't change and so experiencing life
like that experiencing the same volume of activity and the same numb the same
quote-unquote pressures meaning like things trying to come against you and
all kinds of stuff you can be in all of that and that just and that may not
change and yet you don't feel overwhelmed because you're allowing God
to bear the weight the responsibility of the outcome and you're just enjoying the
journey with him remember that you are not responsible for the outcome you're
not responsible for the response of creation so you just give it life we'll
be talking more about this and possibly later and some of this might be a bit
more advanced and we may not be able to get to it all just simply because and
there's just only so much time but so I'll just drop it you know here for now
and hopefully we'll be able to have a moment where we can pick it up later but
remember that you that you're not responsible for how creation responds to
what you give it all that God holds us accountable to is to make sure that
whatever we give our business our relationships our finances whatever it
is or that all that we give to it is spirit that's what God holds us
responsible for he doesn't hold us responsible for how the thing the
situation the business the relationship the finances the relationship with him
anything how that responds to us giving it life God just holds us responsible
for giving it life and not death in other words giving it spirit and not
flesh that's it but we're not responsible for how it responds so if
it's not responding according to some standard that we think of as well you
know as oh well this is a good response or this is a positive response or this
is a successful response you know
it may not respond like that and God doesn't hold us responsible for that. In
fact, he holds himself responsible for it and you will see him
come through as your provider and your protector because you are holding him
responsible for the result and the outcome and he's not holding you
responsible for it. So therefore, he will be responsible for it and he'll bear the
weight and responsibility of any of any of the quote-unquote consequences or how
it responds and he'll make sure to protect and provide for you in it. So I
just wanted to encourage everybody just in case anybody was feeling overwhelmed
and just thought I'd pop in with that really quick. So I hope you're all having
a really good Sunday and I'll talk to you later.