Hey ladies, I hope y'all are doing well. I had a client reach out to me this
morning and talk about some something that I've just been thinking on all day
and decided you know what I actually just need to jump in our group. They're
not in our group but I thought why is the same thing that I need just
felt on my spirit that I needed to express in our group. So I thought that
it might be helpful as y'all are on the journey ahead that you're on as we all
are. I'm expanding into new territory all the time as well and and for whatever
reason the Lord is just saying that tonight is the time. So here we go. I
found this to be extremely helpful and encouraging when I was transitioning
into things because it felt like okay I'm supposed to be moving into rest but
as but per usual what we feel in a transition is difficulty. We feel
struggle of some kind and it was very comforting when the Lord when I began to
learn this that I'm gonna share with y'all because it made the process feel
easier to me. That it wasn't as daunting, it wasn't as intimidating, it wasn't as
frustrating or overwhelming and it honestly has made it much less painful.
So anyway hey Amy how you doing? So I thought I would share it with y'all. So
this is hopefully y'all can see it okay. Here we go. So this is the process that
we're going to be talking about. Oh I'm so sorry. Let's see if I can back it up. There we go.
By the way this is this you can't tell I'm here but I had to write all of this
backwards so forgive the poor pimmonship but anyway I'm gonna have to
figure out how to flip these lives. I was trying to do send my client a video
and I had to do the same thing on there that I couldn't I couldn't flip the
camera because I was doing it on my computer but there was a way to flip the
the camera on these lives so that you can like mirror image and anyway then I
can actually write without having to write backwards but you've got it
backwards. Or I had to write backwards so this is this is all backwards to me but
anyway so the very first thing we have to do is or the very first thing that
we're that we have to realize that we're doing is we are resisting. We are
constantly in a state of resistance if we're not if we're not operating in rest.
Always resistance. See the way that we had and we move this out of the way for a
second the way that we had been raised or at least I had been raised and I'm
sure that and that the vast majority of the world at least in and Western
Christian beliefs has been raised is the is under the impression and idea
that sin is easy. That sin is natural for us and it is not. We were created to
represent and display the image of God and he is not sin. Remember that old man
has died and the new man has risen. Sin was a natural state and nature of the
old man. It is not a natural state of the new man. So sin for us is not natural
and therefore in order for us to continue to sin because it's old habit
it's an old mindset we still it's somewhere down in our DNA as a record of
what we've inherited from our ancestors and an old habit of our own mindsets
etc all of that I was very surprised to learn because it's not natural for me
I'm actually having to put forth an awful lot of effort in order to hold on
to it. Sin is not easy nor natural as the new man. So in order to so I actually
have to resist the naturalness of who I am I have to resist my own resist my own
nature in order to hold on to that old man that has died in order to hold on to
those old habits in order to in order to to sin etc so that is what that
resistance is so I'll explain all of this as we as we go along but I just
wanted to kind of mention that I'll explain this in further detail and why
you would actually refer to it as resistance. Let's see if I can move this
down okay so we're gonna move from resistance to releasing it we have got
to
finally release it. That's stopping the resistance. That's what we have to do
when we're moving towards rest. We need to stop resisting. We don't have to do
anything. This is the key to this whole, whole session here. We don't have to do
anything. So a lot of times we feel that if we are, that we're really struggling
in our lives and we might feel that all of our feelings make us feel like we're
just sitting in a cesspool. We're just sitting in a septic tank. I don't know if
any of y'all have felt like that. That is how I sometimes have described how I'm
feeling at a particular, at a particular time or a particular season of my life. I
feel like my feelings are just sitting in a septic tank. Hopefully y'all have
not experienced that recently, but everybody has experienced that at some
time. And when you were feeling like that, when you were feeling low, when you were
feeling demotivated, when you were just feeling frustrated, when you're feeling
just heartened, just heart sick, it can feel like you're already struggling
enough to keep your head above water. So what one of the frustrating things that
we can think of, especially as where we come to understand all of these new, new
ideas in the way that God actually wants us to just abide and rest, is that we
feel that we have to then work harder to overcome what it is that we're currently
struggling with. So we're already struggling, we're already trying as hard
as we can just to keep our head above water. And now we think, oh now I have to
work even harder to get myself out of this. It's actually the opposite. What God
is calling us to do is to just let go. All of what we're dealing with, that all
of that thing that feels so hard and that's just, we just feel this struggle
and whatever, that's that resistance. It's not natural to us anymore. And we just
need to let it go. So we actually have to go through a process where we release it.
That is all that God is requiring. He's not requiring us to work harder than we
already are or we already feel that we're working in the middle of our
pain. Where we feel all this struggle, all of this effort, kind of like this death
grip on the thing. Well, we don't have to work hard to fight it and battle it and
make it go away. You can do that. Honestly, you can. It will work. We'll talk about
that at another time where there's actually different levels and systems
by which we can choose to operate. And it does work. It does work to work harder.
But I chose not to live like that anymore. Trust me, I was the queen of
being able to overcome in my very strong soul. And just no matter how bad I felt, I
would push a little bit harder in order to overcome it and step into what I
believed was a much more godly, more approved state of mind and state of
being and all of that. But this, when God showed me this, I realized how easy He
had made it for me to move from my current state of resistance into a state
of rest. So anyway, all I have to do is release. All I have to do is let go. I
need to stop trying. In order to act counter to my nature in my sin or my
struggle or whatever, I'm putting forth a lot of effort. I need to stop. When I
stop, that's what this releasing is. And when you release, finally you can move
into receiving from the Lord because you're now in a state of rest. Because
you're no longer struggling. You're no longer striving. So this is how this
works. So I just wanted to point that out. That, those three are the process, is
the process. And this is how you do it. Okay, so think of yourself or even
different elements of your life kind of like a container. I know that this may
not be the best drawing, but think of, think of, you might have like various,
you can think of it like you've got various containers in your life or you
can just think of yourself as one container regardless. Just think of it in
terms of like a container. You, and then think of it kind of like it having a
particular frequency. It's got a particular frequency and it was actually
made to receive all of these different things that are coming from the Lord. All
these different options. This container was made to be filled by one of
these options. You know, because God is sending us all kinds of options to
choose from. All kinds of things that are coming from his life source. We were
intended to be filled by one of these things. You see that they're both green.
They have the same frequency, if you will. They were made to complement
one another. However, what we did is we're going to talk about this in another video
in much more much greater detail and we're going to go back to the garden to talk about
how to operate from the tree of life as opposed to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
So what we've done though is instead of allowing our container to be filled by these things from
heaven by the Lord, we have worked really really hard to come up with something else in order to
fill our void. But here's the problem. Our container was not made to hold this. We were
actually made and prepared in order to facilitate the holding the receiving and the holding of these
things from the Lord. So in order to hold on to in order to draw in and then hold on to something
that's foreign to this thing, we actually have to put forth a lot of work. A lot of effort. It
takes a lot of work to hold on to that because it's not natural or normal for us. We tend to
think that sin is actually easy and effortless and normal. No, it's habit. It's actually very
counter to our nature. So anyway, that is very hard to do. So all you have to do
because what's going on here, that resistance that I was talking about, this is us in a state
of resistance. We have to grip hold on to this foreign thing with a death grip in order to make
sure that it doesn't leave the container. That is a lot of effort and work that we're having to put
into it in order to hang on to it. So all we have to do because it doesn't naturally want to stay
in the container and the container naturally wants to reject it. Think of like an organ being
put in somebody's body and then the body naturally rejects it. You know when you have an organ
transplant and sometimes a person's body will reject the organ. Think of it like that. The
container is naturally wanting to reject it because it's like, this is not what I was made for. This
thing does not belong here. I was prepared for something and this isn't it. This is poison and
death to me. I am resisting it and I am trying to get it out. So all you have to do is we have to
just release our death grip on it. It's our death grip that we have to have on it in
order to hold it down into the container. So we can just let it go and then as soon as we let it go,
well then it can be filled. Okay, so Amy, you asked about an example. So like say for instance,
let's see. I'm gonna need to think of an example here. Some kind of a sin that we do. I mean,
well, it's really anything. Say for instance, trying to think of a really good example that's
kind of across the board. Man, my mind is going blank here because I could really pick anything.
Isn't that weird? How when you really could pick anything, your mind goes blank. What is the thing?
Let's see. I don't know why I'm going blank. I guess I've been thinking about all kinds of
things today and I think I need to kind of empty my mind of all of those things.
But it would be like some maybe some anger that we have. Well, or the thing that the
anger would stem from. Let's say something that you desire to provide for or
protect yourself in some way. That actually is not natural to want to do that. It's not
our natural state. Our natural state is to know that we're worth being taken care of.
So that's why we find it so hard to provide for and to protect ourselves
because it's not natural for us. We have to work extra hard to do it and we have to actually in
that feeling that comes up of us desiring to protect ourselves. Say for instance, someone
has hurt us. So we're in a meeting. Someone has said something that's hurt our feelings.
They've actually attacked us in front of everybody else and that natural feeling that we feel
when that happens, that desire to protect our reputation, the desire to fight for ourselves,
etc. All of that is a lot of work. That's not our natural state. That is not our natural state at
all. And what we've done is it's evidence of the fact that we have filled a particular board in
our life that is filled with something foreign and it is...
creating that kind of a resistance to the situation. I'm gonna... I don't like
that example though. I'm gonna... because it's a lot more clear than the way that
I am explaining it. I'm going to have to... I'm gonna... I'll get back to you about
that, Amy. Let's... let me see if maybe I can add something either in the comments
or I'll add it on the live. Because a lot of times what I do is I talk so much
in... in concepts because I see... I see the details of things and then I see the
big picture. So then when I start... then I can start talking this very, very big
broad picture. And then when someone asks me for a detail, for me it takes a very,
very long time to travel from here down to a tiny detail. Because I've seen the
detail and then I see literally a thousand things in between. And so my
brain will kind of shut off. It's so funny. But I just have... I have a... I know that it
might sound really weird but it's finally came to that understanding many
years ago to realize that's why it would take me a long time to kind of... when
somebody would ask me a question for me to kind of get down to a detail is
because my mind is filled with like a thousand things. And then it's like it
kind of like short circuits. But anyway. Oh, okay. Well, you said that you got it.
So that's good. I still don't like that example that I gave. Just... I mean it was
true but I'm like... I'm not sure if everyone's gonna get it. So I have to be
a little more... a little more specific about it. Oh, good. You can relate. It's
because you're smart. So all I had to do is say a few words and you're like, oh, I got the rest of it.
But anyway. So this you... like I said, we're gonna naturally have to hold on to
this. We're going to hold on to it with a death grip. Note what I said.
Death grip. That... that is... I know it sounds like a pun but it's actually true.
It's a death grip. Remember anything that's foreign in here that are... is
poison to this container. And we want to resist it. But I mean the container wants
to resist it. But if we're holding on to it and we've got this death grip on it
because... and the funny thing about it is that actually does cause death. That's
what's so interesting about it. But if we let go of it, the container is naturally
going to resist it. It's like, finally, I can let go of this thing because I've been
resisting it this whole time. And then this is like, hey, we didn't want to be
here in the first place because we weren't made for this. And according to
the principles that God created, it's naturally going to float out. It's
naturally just going to float up and out. As soon as we let go of it, as soon as we
release it, the natural principles by which God intended... by which
everything runs, it will naturally go away of its own accord. You do not have
to fight it. You do not have to battle it. That is a lot of work. That is
everything that we have been taught in the church, isn't it? That Christianity
is nothing but a big battle. And that is false. That is absolutely false. God
already won the battle. We can rest in it. All we are doing is constantly reminding
and declaring that we've already won the battle. But we don't have to
constantly fight it. Everything that God created in the universe, not just
creatures, but also spiritual principles were created to serve the
sons of God, not the other way around. The Sabbath, for instance. The Sabbath was
made for man, not man for the Sabbath, including rest. Because you remember that
that is what... sorry, I'm getting messages... you remember that that was the
whole point that the Pharisees were trying to make when they got on to...
they criticized Jesus. They're like, you're letting your disciples pick
corn or grain or whatever from the fields as they walk by. That's
not resting. That is counter to what the Bible teaches about the
Sabbath. And then Christ was saying, okay, look, you're saying that the Sabbath
is a good thing because God says that he provided it to man for
rest. But now, according to all of your laws, you're saying that instead of man
having dominion over even spiritual principles and anything that has been
created, which again includes spiritual principles, instead of man having
dominion, you're saying that they actually have to serve the Sabbath. They
have to squelch and stifle themselves and what it is that they want and what
it is that they've decided in order to serve a spiritual principle. And it's the
opposite. The principles, including rest, were meant to serve man. So with this...
so anyway, all of this stuff with these various options, which we'll talk about
in another point, but God actually gives us choices. We don't... we're not... he doesn't
just give us one choice and we're forced, like a servant, to have to take that one
up. He actually allows us to...
co-labor with him and make decisions. But anyway, you see that we were actually
made to receive this. This then will naturally come in and fill us up without
us having to work for it. All we had to do was release our death grip of that
foreign thing. It naturally floated away. We didn't even have to work for that. And
then what is naturally coming from the life source of God was is it was sent
forth from God with the words, serve the sons of God, serve my sons, serve the
extension of me. Because we're of his of his essence. Serve me,
including anything that has been born of me. And with that dictation, these
various frequencies, if you will, these various life
principles, rest or anything that eventually bears the knowledge of
the fruit of the Spirit. All of those things are encapsulated in
these commands that God sent out from his very life source. And they were made
to purposefully fill the containers. So they will find the
containers and they will fill them. They will fill you. They will come to you
because they were sent out meant to serve you. That is their whole purpose. So
you don't have to work for it. You just have to make yourself available and you
have to stop resisting, which is holding on to something foreign. Release it and
then it will naturally float away. And because you stopped
resisting, you're now naturally returned to your natural state, which is rest. And
being in a place of rest, you can now receive. So do you see how the transition
between learning, between giving up old ideas and habits and mindsets, and
transitioning to rest is not hard. Those old mindsets, yes, they're exhausting. And
it can feel like a whole lot of effort to hold on to those. Well, meaning
like it can feel very oppressive to stay in those states of mind. And
then it can feel very burdensome. You can feel very depressed. You can just feel
very overwhelmed. You can just feel very weighted. And now you think, oh my word,
depending on how maybe depressed that you might be, you know, you can just be
weighted by it all. And now, at least if you're like me, especially when I
would get extremely depressed, I battled with a tremendous depression, very
severe clinical depression, anxiety, PTSD, all of that. And in those low moments,
there were times like literally, I remember one time, I'm a very strong
person by the way, I remember one time I was standing in the kitchen and I
literally hit the counter, the cabinets, and I slid down the
cabinets to the floor because I had no more will in me to even stand on
my legs. I mean, there was nothing I had to do at the moment. I wasn't
doing anything and like, oh I'm tired and what's the point of all this anyway? I
was just being and I could not handle the weight, the spiritual weight
that I was under. Spiritualism, like it was evil spiritual, not good spiritual. I
could not handle the weight and so I just slid down the counter, down the
cabinets and I sat on the floor. I had no more will to even stand, let alone, you
know, live, you know. And when you're in a place like that, it feels like, oh my
goodness, how much harder do I have to work to overcome this in order to be
joyful or to overcome this in order to believe or to overcome this and all of
it. In other words, you feel like we have to work in order to rest. That is wrong.
We're stopping working. We're working, which is the problem, meaning
like striving. We're striving and the whole point is stop striving, not strive
harder and now we can rest. Strive harder to stop striving. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Stop striving, period. And everything will naturally happen as it should and you'll
naturally transition into a place of rest because everything was meant to
serve you as a son of God. So, yes, so Amy, yes, so you've noticed, you felt notice to
the resistance. Yes, yes, exactly. We're not used to thinking of it as
resistance. We're used to thinking of it, this is easy and I actually have to work
in order to get out of it, but if we stop and become very spirit, if we, if we
shift our mind to that and we become aware that and we start thinking of it
in terms of resistance, it's much that all of a sudden our spirits can
recognize that is resistance. That is actually not natural, but until we're
told it's not natural, we think it's natural and then all of the church
teachings and whatever that we've been taught over the years tells us sin is
easy. You've got to learn to take the hard path. No, no, the easy path, the path
towards rest, the path towards God.
That is the easy path because that is the path that you were naturally created that
For that is actually reflective of your nature
There's nothing more effortless than operating according your nature
But we've been lied to I mean the all those people were lied to too, you know
So, you know, let's have compassion for for each other, right? You know, we're all in this together
We're all one body, but the point is that we've just been lied to
By ourselves by others by Satan whoever and we've taken on those ideas and we now need to transition into new beliefs
And we need to now understand. No, that is not natural. I am somebody else
I am I am a son of God and I am one with Christ and therefore
Everything that since that is my nature. That is what's natural and God always exists in a state of rest
so
I love it. Maybe repeat after me no more working for rest. That's right
That's right
So when you so I just wanted to encourage everybody in that because a client of mine was talking about Ashley
You know, I I was doing so well
and you know operate trying to operate from rest and then and and operate according to the Spirit and
then and then I
I
Got into a difficult situation
And and I tried and I tried and I tried to get into rest and I just couldn't do it and I thought okay
No, no, no
This is all backwards. We don't try anymore
You stop trying and you will naturally be in rest so we can talk more about all of that all of this
Yes, I know Amy exactly
This is that we all need to just shift our mindset to understand so you understand that our identity
Is the foundation of everything we have to know this is who we is who we are. This is this is our nature
You know, it's not something cool that we were given. No, it is our nature and there is nothing more effortless and easy
so I just wanted to encourage everybody as we as we travel on this on this road take this journey that
this is what this is how to
Transition from old mindsets into new and as you're actually
Walking it out as you're walking it out in your marriages as you're walking it out in your and in your relationship with your parents
You're walking it out in your relationship with your children
You're walking it out with them. I don't know struggles and feelings of I don't know loneliness and isolation or desire
you know these visions and ideas that you have of what you want your business to be whether you're currently in it or you're wanting to
Start it because some of you are currently in it and others of you you have visions of what it is. You want to start?
And others of you you're going you know what I'm in it and I just feel it needs to change so whatever it is
Just just know make sure that that you're always aware that this is how it how it works
It's not hard. It is not hard at all
This is your nature and claim it that that is your nature and that that is easy
So, oh that's right only receive that's all you have to do because
Everything in the universe including spiritual principles not just because that's creation as well
Everything in creation was created to serve God and if you're one with God he intended for it to serve you as well
So again, including spiritual principles including spiritual laws, you are not subject to have to serve spiritual laws
They are set up to serve you. So anyway, I hope you all have a good night and I will talk to you later
Feel free to comment below if you have any questions and I can be answering this because I'm gonna be answering
You know questions and in between like our group sessions and our private session
So feel free to reach out to me if it's very private
You're more than welcome to reach out via and Facebook Messenger
If it is something that everybody else might be able to benefit from you know
please post it in the group so that when I answer it other people get the benefit of
I've seen the the answer as well because they probably either had the question or
Didn't know to even ask that question because your mind thinks differently than everybody else's and so they thought oh my goodness
I'm so glad somebody asked that question because that question didn't come to mind now, but I know it would have later. So
anyway, I
Will exactly creation serves you at every single level
Not just objects not just dog not just dishes
even spiritual principles like rest
So anyway, I will talk to y'all later. Bye