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All right, and for those of you that are watching this later after the fact, I'm recording this

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part for you.

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We had some time to gather together in small groups, and now is the time that I love to

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just share some downloads and things that God has given me for inspiration and growth.

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We're going to do that over the next few minutes, but I'm going to start with prayer,

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and then, of course, we'll come back again to community time.

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Father, I give so much thanks for this day that you chose to give us life today,

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that our heart is beating, our lungs are breathing, and most of all, that your spirit lives in us.

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Father, may we be more and more and more conscious that we are the temple of the Holy Spirit,

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that we have the mind of Christ, that you've anointed us, you've appointed us, you've equipped

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us, you've poured love into our heart, you've given us power, you've given us authority.

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Lord, may we realize, like Jesus prayed in his last prayers, to be aware that we are

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one, as Jesus prayed, that he is in us, we are in him, he is in the Father.

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May we become more and more and more connected, Father, aware of our oneness with you and

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with each other.

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During this short time, I ask that you speak through my mouth, Father God, think through

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my mind, and let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart bring glory and

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honor to you, I ask in Jesus' name, amen and amen.

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All right, let me share the screen and let me go on over to what we're going to be talking

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about here tonight.

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So let me come back over here.

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There we go.

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All right, so this is a continuation of the conversation that we've been having as we

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wrap up 2022 and we get ready to step into 2023.

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I've been talking about powerful habits of releasing, that we can let go of those things

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that no longer serve us, and receiving.

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And so we've done a lot talking about that, ideas and ways that we can start fresh.

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I shared with you the different ways.

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So if you missed that, go back and listen to those.

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I also put some in the newsletter on Sunday.

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And so things we can do in our environment, things we can do in our internal environment.

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And so today is a continuation of that process of evaluation.

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And I often think about, oh, now I forgot her name, the organizational, you guys could

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maybe put it in the chat.

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What is her name that is really good at organizing?

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The Japanese woman.

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Anyway, she has something that I've never forgotten.

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And that is, she takes like, for example, she pulls all of the clothes out of scattered

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all over the house.

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So like all the similar items, like all the coats from all the closets and spare bedrooms

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or whatever, she puts them all on the bed.

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And then with each one, taking those up and holding them and feeling like, does this really

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give me bliss?

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Does it spark joy?

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Do I love this?

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Or we could ask, does it serve a purpose?

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And so the continuation of that kind of thought of sorting and sifting and decluttering is

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to look on the other side of it.

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So we've been covering a lot of the releasing, right?

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Do I need to release clutter in my mind, clutter in my environment?

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Where do I need to create space for that which I desire?

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And now I want to come on the other side of that as we prepare to go into the new year.

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And that is to examine what we're creating, what we are building.

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And so I put a title there that you see, Masterpiece or Mediocrity.

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So let that sink in for a second.

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Masterpiece or Mediocrity.

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You see, scripture tells us to, in 1 Thessalonians 5.

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521, it tells us to examine everything.

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And that's what we've really been doing.

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We've been examining everything.

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Is this fear-based?

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Is this love-based?

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Does this serve me?

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Or is this just clutter?

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Is this light?

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Or is this heavy?

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Is this sparking joy?

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Or we're just in this place of sifting and sorting,

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which is really the highest level of awareness

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and conscious, you know?

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So many times, we're not even thinking.

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We're just going through the motions, right?

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And so scripture tells us, examine everything

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and hold fast to that which is good.

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And so the idea is that every day, every action,

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as we're co-creators with God, we're

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either living and creating masterpieces.

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And maybe you don't think of what

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you're doing as a masterpiece.

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I'm going to define that in a minute.

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But we're either creating masterpieces of greatness,

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or we're settling into comfortable, the known,

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the familiar mediocrity.

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And so this is an opportunity to step back for a second.

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And like scripture says, let's examine everything.

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So Colossians 3.23 in the Passion Translation

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says, put your heart and soul into every activity

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that you do as though you're doing it for the Lord himself

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and not merely for others.

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Now, if you go back, if any of you've ever

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read Practicing the Presence with Brother Lawrence,

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a Catholic priest, I think it's like the 1400s,

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going way, way, way back.

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And he was doing the menial things assigned to him,

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like doing the dishes or cooking or preparing

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the food that felt menial, right?

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And practicing every single moment,

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doing every single thing with God, like partnering with God.

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And I think that's what this verse is really

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So often in our life, we have lost that sense of mindfulness,

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and we've been very mindless.

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We are often in just habit and autopilot, right?

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It's not being directed.

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We lose sight of the presence of God.

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We're not in this idea of communion and working together.

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And so this verse is saying, hey, let's be mindful.

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Let's put our heart.

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Let's put our soul, which is our mind, will, and emotions

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into every activity.

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There's nothing meaningless that we're doing.

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And as if we're just doing it like the Lord himself

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is right there, because he is.

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And everything we're doing is for him.

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And so it gets us thinking that idea.

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Romans 10, 11 says, each one's work

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will be clearly shown for what it is.

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Fire will test the quality and character and worth

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of each person's work.

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Now, as a coach, I get concerned here

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for you perfectionists who are so afraid of doing it wrong,

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so bound up in fear that then you go, yeah, that's why.

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I haven't worked on my book for the last 10 years.

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That's why I'm not releasing my courses,

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because it's not ready.

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That's not what I'm talking about.

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So it's not perfectionism here, but what

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the Bible calls perfect love.

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Now, this is a big difference.

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You see, perfectionism is based on the ego.

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It's all about what other people are going to think.

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And am I going to be wrong?

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And am I good enough?

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And so it's ego.

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It's fear-based.

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That's not what we're talking about here.

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Perfect love, 1 John 4, 18 says, perfect love casts out fear.

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So when we're in love, when we're operating in love,

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when love is motivating us, there's

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no room for all of that stuff, because it's love-based.

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And remember, there's only two tracks.

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Every single thing, every word, every thought, every action

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is either fear-based or love-based.

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There's nothing else.

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There's fear-based or love-based.

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And so everything that is lasting and lovely and beautiful

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and worthy of praise, as mentioned in Philippians,

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is based on love.

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And this is the very essence.

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If you were going to boil down those of us that are Christ

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followers or Christianity, what is Christianity?

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What does it mean to be a Christian?

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Christ follower. And ultimately, it's about love. It's about love. And you know, John 1335 says

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this very specifically, we'll be known by our love. It says that God is love. It says that he's

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poured love into our hearts. And so really, only love is real. Everything else is a miscreation

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and a misuse, right? It's the opposite of love. Although love doesn't have any opposites, because

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if God is love, and God is omnipotent, omnipresent, you know, all sufficient,

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then that means love truly is truth. It's all there is. But here's a new way of looking at

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this. Maybe a fresh approach as you gear up and you're creating content, and you're coaching,

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and you're creating programs, and you're showing up, and you're speaking, and you're serving,

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you're ministering, whatever it is that you're doing. Here is a fascinating concept, okay?

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Love is given to be re-given. You see, so his love has been poured in our hearts

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so that we can pour out love to those who come, so they can pour out love, right? And so

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Christ came to demonstrate this love so that we could know this love, so we could demonstrate

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this love. And so there's always this idea of giving in order to re-give, in order to re-give.

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Same with inspiration. We inspire so that they'll be elevated and inspired to be able to give of

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their finest and then inspire. So as you begin to think about the way that God has set up the body

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and life, this love is given to be re-given. So I have been reading a really powerful book by

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Walter and Lau Russell. And so this is written like in the early 1900s. And when you look at

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Walter's premise, it was this very thing of consciously, knowingly partnering with God

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in every single thing. And as he did that, he created masterpieces in many, many, many fields.

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So he made his first living in music, although he had never had music lessons. And he became

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a very accomplished musician and teacher. He then became a very accomplished sculptor.

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He did some of the finest sculptures in that era of Mark Twain and all of his characters of

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Einstein. He really did amazing. He was commissioned to do a lot of amazing sculptures.

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He went into architecture after that and created and designed amazing buildings and

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millions and millions of dollars back then in those. And then he went into science and miraculous

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breakthroughs around hydrogen. And so, I mean, he tamed stallions. He became an ice skater,

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a award winning top in his class ice skater at like 60. And he simply kept applying this principle.

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So I want to read this to you as a way of kind of letting this settle in and you can read it with me.

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He says, the nature of God is to give out his love for re-giving. The nature of the master

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must be, and that's us creating masterpieces. The nature of the master must be to give out love,

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to inspire others, to re-give love. Masterliness in anything is the fruit of love.

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And it goes on to say that the soul alone cannot give out love. The body can render a perfect

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technical reproduction. So you could memorize scales on a piano, or you could memorize how to

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paint certain lines or whatever. But if the love nature of God is not in it, it's not art. For the

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art of anything is not in the skill of rendering a visible or audible thing, but in the beauty

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and love, which only the stillness of the light of your soul can give to it.

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is the difference between the genius of the master and

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soulless mediocrity that really just sent like shivers I had to

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just pause there at those two words soulless mediocrity like

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in what ways have we just cranked out something or done

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something that we know we settled done something that we

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know, we didn't consult with God, we weren't operating from

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the Spirit, we weren't operating from love. And he goes on to

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say that is why your constant communion with God is necessary

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for every moment of life and every stage of your creation. He

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talks about working knowingly with God. Like I said, Brother

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Lawrence practicing the presence or Paul talks about praying

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without ceasing. It's this constant awareness that we're

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not doing things in our own strength. But as Scripture says

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we're co laboring with God. We're co heirs, we're co

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laborers, we're co workers, right? There's so many co's in

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the Bible. So I made a little chart right there. Just what we

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just saw masterpiece versus mediocrity. So a masterpiece is

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very presence driven. You feel God's presence, you're inviting

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God's presence, you're saying God paint through me, God coach

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through me, God, right through me, God, speak through me, God

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teach through me, whereas mediocrity is very ego driven. I

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need to create this, I need to pay the bills this month, I you

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know, I need to be liked, I need to be credible, I need people to

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respect what I'm doing, you know, so the masterpiece is love

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based, right? It's based on giving love to be re given,

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whereas mediocrity is fear based. And so the masterpiece

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is coming out of your being you're creating from a place of

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abundance that if Christ indeed is living in me, and I have the

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mind of Christ, then I have living in me all sufficiency, I

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lack nothing. This is cover to cover in the Bible, the cattle

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on 1000 hills, the gold, like everything belongs, you know,

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like, like the Father said, you know, to the brother of the

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prodigal son, everything that is mine is yours. It's a father's

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good pleasure to give you the kingdom, God so loved that he

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gave his son, right. And so, so we're not coming from a place of

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lack, we're not coming from a place of despair or

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hopelessness. But instead, we're moving from being into doing

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from a place of abundance. Wow, if I have Christ working with

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me, and I have access to all knowledge, all wisdom, all

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creativity, I have a direct line, a direct connection to

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God, what can I create, as opposed to mediocrity, which is

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driven from a place of doing this, I just need to get I just

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need to do I just need more, I just, and it's this place of

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striving and and stress. And so he goes on, Walter goes on to

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say, that is why your constant communion with God is necessary

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for every moment of life. And every stage of your creation,

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God must sit with you on your piano stool or workbench, your

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hands must be his hands, your thinking must be his thinking,

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love must be interwoven in every stitch of whatever pattern

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you're weaving, every word that you are writing for all of you

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that are writing curriculum and courses and books, think about

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this, every word being united with God filled infused with the

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Spirit of God, coming from a place of love and abundance, and

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every interchange between yourself and your fellow men,

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when you inspire others, you are manifesting the love nature of

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God and the fulfillment of his law by giving love. You cannot

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re inspire others. However, if you leave God out of your

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technical rendition, that is why meditation is necessarily

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continuous. Like I said, Paul said, pray.

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without ceasing. So a little bit of a biblical foundation of this idea of co-laboring, of

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partnering with God, of creating with God. So we're removing those things that maybe we gathered

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around us that really aren't serving us. They represent an old season, they were built in fear,

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they represent clutter, they're keeping us from our purpose, they're not the highest version,

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right? And so we're looking at things and we're asking questions like, you know, am I settling?

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would I say that or do that or create that or show up that way? If I really loved myself,

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would I show up that way? Would I speak that way? Would I dress that way? If I really loved myself,

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if I really loved whoever, the next person right here, my spouse, my child, my client,

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if I really loved my client, would I? And so you ask these questions to just run it through the

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love filter, right? You can also say, if I was really successful, would I show up like this?

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Would I act like this? Would I think like this? Would I read this? Would I speak this? Would I

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watch this? It's a way of running everything through this filter so that as you build,

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you're not just rebuilding what you've already done. You know, you've heard it said that we don't

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live 70 years. We often live the same year 70 times. So if we're not doing this deliberately,

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prayerfully, consciously, then we're coming from a place of memory because that's all that our

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brain is. If we're not meditating, we're not getting fresh revelation, we're not in conscious

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co-laboring, then instead we're operating out of memory, out of the known, out of the familiar.

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And so everything you see around you is simply a reflection of your thoughts and your beliefs

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and your attitudes in the previous season. So if you want something different, you want a

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different financial situation, a different relationship, a different business, a different

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ministry, a different body, we can't just keep reprogramming the old stuff because the old stuff

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got you what you've got right now. So we're needing to be, you know, renewing our mind.

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We're needing to be transformed by the renewing of our mind. And so, you know, scripture clearly

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teaches us we're called to be fruitful and we can't bear fruit apart from him. And yet, if

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we're really honest, how often do we stress and strive and attempt to create in our own strength?

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And so I put some verses here about that for you to really take time and meditate. Read this slowly,

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write it out, pray into it, this idea of remain in me and I will remain in you. Just this idea,

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I'm hidden in Christ, Christ lives in me, Christ in me, the hope of glory. I'm hidden in Christ,

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right? It's this, I'm in you, you're in me, Jesus's last prayer, right? And just like a branch can't

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bear fruit all by itself, if you take a branch and you pull it off the vine, you got it just sitting

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there, it's dead wood, right? It's meant to be chopped up, put in the fire. Same thing for us,

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when we're disconnected, when we're operating on our own strength, we're going to burn out,

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we're going to not create masterpieces. And so this says, neither can you bear fruit

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unless you remain in me. And so he really makes it very clear, I'm the vine, you're the branches,

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the one who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit. Apart from me, that is cut off from vital

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union with me, you can do nothing. So if anyone does not remain in me, he's thrown out,

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it's a broken off branch, it dies, it's lifeless, it's useless, it's no longer fruitful.

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But if you remain in me and my words remain in you, that is if we're vitally, I love that word,

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vitality, vitally, you want vitality in your body, vitality in your mind, vitality in your work. If

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you're vitally united and my message lives in your heart, well now we can ask whatever we wish

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and it'll be done. And the father is glorified by this and you bear a lot of fruit. And so Jesus

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modeled that, he said, the son can't do anything.

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of himself. So if Jesus couldn't do it of himself, who do we think we are, right?

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Paul did the same thing. Here's Walter Russell again. Never start your day's

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work by yourself alone. Do you just get a running start and you just jump in and

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you're not prayed up, prepped up? You're not just filled with the Spirit. You're

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not filled with inspiration. You're not filled with love. You're just going

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through the motions. It says never start the day's work by yourself alone. Be sure

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you feel God's presence within you. Continuous meditation means continuous

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God-awareness and that continuity of awareness is

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forever leading you higher and, by the way, insulating your body from physical

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ills because physical ills is the body out of balance because we're not in

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union. So that awareness and that alone leads us to masterliness of

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achievement, peace, prosperity, happiness, and the love of all mankind which is

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forever enduring. And so we've seen in Scripture that everything has a heavenly

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pattern and an earthly pattern. We saw that many times in Scripture. You get the

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download of the heavenly pattern. We're called to bring heaven to earth. So I've

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placed some ideas for you. I encourage you in the season to do some reflection.

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Really treat this thing seriously. Where have you been striving?

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Where have you been stressing? Where are you burning out? Where have you been

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trying to sustain yourself, provide for yourself, create or build in your own

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strength? Have an honest look at that and invite the Holy Spirit, invite

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the Father, invite the Son to co-labor with you. Take a look at what

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you're doing on a daily basis. How much of this is love-based and how much is

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fear-based? How much are you doing out of abundance and how much are you doing

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out of a fear of lack? And begin to... None of this matters if you

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don't apply it, right? And so once you've thought about that, what are you going

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to do differently so that this is not a repetition of last year? How are you

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going to apply this truth? What's going to change in your schedule? How about in

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your habits? What habits do you need to create to better partner with God,

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consciously co-create with God, right? So these are a little bit of, you know, food

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for thought for you and I pray that this goes along with what we've been

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talking about, about clearing the clutter and that we begin, that we really... My

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prayer for Prosper Women is that we really live this. We spur each other

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on to greatness, to see in each other that we're wonderfully, fearfully,

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masterfully made and we build each other up, we edify each other, we hold

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each other accountable for that, we pray for each other, we encourage, we

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support. This is the vision I believe God has shown me for this season for us

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and so this is a time to really examine ourselves and to set some new

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standards where maybe, you know how it works, you press up against a

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threshold, right? So your comfort zone has like a fence, an imaginary, you know,

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barbed wire fence, right? And so, you know, that which is familiar and you're

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comfortable is all cool but you decide you're going to break out of that, you're

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going to really show up, let God show out, you're going to do something different

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and you're going to press up against a threshold and that threshold is going to

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show up differently based on your experience in your character. You may say

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I'm just overwhelmed, that might be your threshold, I'm overwhelmed, I can't do

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this and you just like go back, right? So we have these different

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thresholds, I'm confused, I'm, you know, so we must prayerfully and carefully

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press through this, partnering with God, uniting with each other so that we can

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be, you know, like the verse, right? Expand my territory. We can have that

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same kind of prayer of expand my territory that God is ever expanding and

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I believe he's calling us to be ever expanding and I believe he's calling our

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businesses to be ever expanding and our, our creativity to be

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ever expanding and our finances. This is the nature of God. I

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mean, even the whole universe that's been around for how long

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is still expanding. We don't know the ends of the universe.

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This is the nature of God. And he's calling us to be ever

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expanding. And so this, this happens, when we are awake, when

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we start being conscious, when we start being mindful, when we

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start operating in a place of awareness, right? And, and this,

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this union with God and with each other, is where the power

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lies. I mean, I just get in such awe of what I believe God's

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going to do in each one of your lives, as we truly link arms and

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carry each other. We pray each other, we encourage each other,

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we challenge each other, we inspire each other to, to cross

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the finish line. So it's this concept of I inspire you to love

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and create inspiration and others to inspire others. And so

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you've got this ever expansion of God's kingdom, bringing

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heaven on earth, of God's love, within and, and without. So

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we're going to have some community time, I'm going to

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stop the recording. And for those of you who are live, we're

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going to have some community