Hey everyone! All right, so I have been talking all day about the fact that I
would get on live and address some of the questions and feedback that
y'all been giving. I've been... this is perfect. This is exactly what should... the
way that I was hoping that it would go is that you would listen to the
information, listen to the teachings and you bring up your questions and think
well, you know, such-and-such is hitting me this way or I don't understand how
that reconciles with whatever. I now don't understand this verse over here
and it's like raising some big, big, you know, concern or issue in your mind.
You know, we all have those a little bit, but, sorry, let me see if I can adjust this so you can actually see me a little bit better, but, you know, if
there's just something that is just really weighing on you, that is... you
feel is hindering you in making progress, you feel it is this roadblock, that's
exactly what we should be talking about. So, please feel free to continue to, you
know, comment or ask questions or whatever because that is what the
intensive is for. If it was just teachings, then I would just record the
teachings and not take my time, you know, to do things like this live and then I
would go off and do my own thing and you all could watch the teachings on your own
time, but rather what the Lord has put it on my heart to do and what I've done
with my one-on-one clients and what I'm now wanting to do in the group program
is to provide people with the opportunity to be able to walk this out
without being alone in it, without being alone in the journey. Actually having
somebody to ask the questions, being able to balance ideas or frustrations
or apparent, like, seeming contradictions that you're experiencing, you know,
off of because I, for the longest, didn't have anybody to walk this journey with
and, of course, the Lord is sufficient and the Lord's enough, but it developed in me
an understanding for and an acknowledgement and realization of a need
that's out there to have someone to walk with you through this type of a
transition because even having someone with you, it can feel a bit lonely in
traversing it and there's just something about having
someone to ask questions of. So, anyway, no question is off-limits, so please feel
free to continue to give me feedback based on the teachings and, hey, look, ran
into this today or I thought I understood it, but then I tried to apply it and it
didn't seem like it worked, you know. Trust me, been there, done that. All of the
questions that in the feedback that people are bringing up, same questions
that I've asked myself, you know, all of these things like, you know, if I don't
have to do anything, why is it that I have to believe? You know, if God's
love is unconditional, why am I always being presented with another
condition? Trust me, I've asked all of these questions. They're very normal and
another thing I wanted to clarify from last night, from my video last
night, is the fact that I did actually believe that God was as so-called, that
He was as good as He said, hey Steph, that God is as good as He said that He is. I
believed in Him, which is why I was willing to sacrifice everything. I was
willing to sacrifice my life, was willing to sacrifice my livelihood to the point
where I lived to be, you know, 30 some odd years old at the time and had an
identity crisis because that was December of 2018. I had an identity
crisis, a midlife crisis, because I thought, oh my word Lord, I believed You
and I waited for You. I endured and I did whatever it is that I had to sacrifice
because I knew You would come through for me and You didn't. So that, I got to
that point believing Him, where believing Him to the point where I did it in works.
I poured my, I sacrificed everything. I poured everything into of my life and my
desires and my dreams into this bottomless pit expecting that at the end
He would be there. Expecting at the end He would give me what it is that He
promises that as a good father He would give me.
I believe all of those things. So, even though, yes, I believe that he required
all of those things of me, it's mixed in with the belief that I did
believe that he would do what he said that he would do.
Oh, sorry about that. I think I might have must have some messenger
up. Let me see if I can cut that off so that it won't be... Here we go.
So, I can turn that off so it won't be beeping at us.
There we go. Okay. Otherwise, I might just have these dings periodically.
Hey, Cheryl. Okay. So, getting back to what we're talking about. Okay. Now,
why do I have to believe in order to get?
Or, why is belief required to offer the Lord in exchange for a
gift? It's not, actually.
Belief is not a currency with the Lord. God does not require belief in
exchange for him giving something. He gives it
to us regardless. Hey, Gary.
Regardless of whether or not we believe. Period. And that is
confirmed repeatedly in both the Old and the New
Testament, including Jesus. Jesus gave
even though he was confronted by people who did not believe.
So, belief is not required. So, if belief isn't required,
what on earth is this whole belief thing about that we keep hearing? You know, when
the disciples asked Jesus, what is it that we can do to please the Father? What
is it that we can do to do the works of the Father?
You know, how can we receive, you know, the gifts, etc.?
Well, belief is not required in order for God to give us something,
but it is required in order for us to receive
something. And that's because we have free will.
So, it's completely within our control. So,
God, if we ask the Lord for it, he will send it.
He will give it, but it will not manifest in our lives
if we do not choose to receive it. That is the difference. That's what that
whole belief thing is. Because if we believe God is as good as
he says that he is, we will naturally receive what it is
that he's sending. But he's already sent it.
We asked. He's a good Father. He sent it, but we just didn't receive it.
Let's see if you can see this. You can probably see all kinds of, like,
other chicken scraps on it.
So, you see what we were talking about the other day, where, you know, this is
your container. Now, this, I have it filled with, like, the
good things. But you remember that this is the
container. This is who you are. And God will effortlessly send you
things to effortlessly receive, but we can't
receive them if we have that container filled with
something else. If we don't believe that God is as good
as he says that he is, we're not a container prepared and
ready to be able to house and hold and receive
the thing that has already been sent. That's the issue. So, that's what the
whole believing thing is. And the whole, and the believing thing
is simply believing that God is as good as he says
that he is, period. So, let's walk through this because
right now it can probably hit you in the same way that hit me for so long,
which is that I just continue to see it as more self-condemnation.
This is my fault. You know, apparently, see, I just knew it. God is doing
everything, and he's wonderful, and he's good, and I'm the problem.
And no matter what I do, there's always something else I need to learn.
I apparently have been believing, but believing in the wrong way.
And now I've got to work harder and believe differently.
That's not what I'm saying, so let me, let me go through the rest of it. But I
did want to clarify the difference that God
is not limited by our, whether or not we believe. He even
gives good gifts to those who don't believe him.
And he gives, even those who don't believe that he's God.
Then he also gives gifts to people who do believe that he's God,
but don't believe that he's that good. He still gives people those gifts, and they
receive them, but those are typically people that are
very, very young in their faith. And just like we treat a two-year-old
differently than we treat a 15-year-old, you know,
as a, you know, child of ours. We treat the two-year-old very
differently than we treat the 15-year-old.
God does the same thing with us. So sometimes,
you know, if we're, when we're really, really young in the faith, like say for
instance, when we were all in college, I had, I had roommates that would just be,
that would just be randomly sent gifts of money in the mail.
People weren't randomly sending gifts, money to me in the mail, but they were to them, right?
And sometimes God wasn't, they weren't even praying for it, or they didn't believe, or maybe
they were praying for it, but really they didn't believe that God was going to come through for
them. Well, God's a good father and he wants to kind of nudge us in the right direction. So when
we're young in the faith, when we're young in our spiritual walk, especially in a certain area,
then God is gonna, God's gonna do those kinds of things. He's gonna, you know, not even require
us to come through and believe him in order to kind of hit us over the head or something,
but as we mature, but what God desires us to, desires to do with us is to mature us in our
faith so that we understand that, hey, if you harness faith, really weird used, or harness
belief, really weird phrase to use, then we are able to step into greater and greater measures
of the gifts that he is sending our way because we are now, we've now been matured to the point
where we can handle that weight because it, because there's a responsibility that obviously
comes with the gifts, not a responsibility of duty. We always tend to think of responsibility
as like this very heavy, oppressive thing. Trust me, in the Lord, it is not heavy. Remember what
Jesus said, he said, come to me for my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Responsibility from
the Lord is not heavy. We, we unfortunately see a lot of those, those phrases in, in that old paradigm
if we're not careful. So, so let's see here. Okay. All right. Remember again that love is
unconditional. So God's, God shows up and reveals himself according to who we declare him to be.
So if we declare him to be this good, he appears in our life as that good. If we declare him to be
this good, he will limit himself and only appear to us to be that good. And by limiting himself,
it's not really him limiting himself so much. It is, but that's, that's a little, that's a little
complicated to get into. Trust me, it's not anything oppressive. And the Lord walks me into
that as well. In fact, the Lord continues to, I continue to want to see something newer and bigger
of how big the Lord is. And he keeps telling me, Ashley, I'm here, but you cannot see me. He said,
I am here that big, as big as you want to see me, but you can't see me because your eyes, you,
you still have accusation against me. You refuse to believe and truly accept the fact that I'm that
big. So I can't show you I'm that big yet because you don't have a grid to consume it.
I'm presenting myself, but you can't see me. And so he's, he's walking me into maturity and all of
that. Um, but I just, I just wanted to provide that caveat, but he does reveal himself to us
according to what we declare his character to be. So we can declare that he's as big as we want him
to be, and he will show up like that. We cannot out declare how big, how good God's character is.
Trust me, the creation cannot out declare the creator. We cannot think bigger than he is.
We can't declare him to be something in our imagination that is bigger than the imagination
of the, of the one who created us. So you honestly, you cannot out declare God. I promise you that.
So you don't have to worry about any of that. Um, uh, so yes, so we limit him. We limit the,
what we experience about God based on us. So with, with, even with declarations,
it'll come out in declarations that will make such as, you know, God, I have been doing what you asked
or I don't, I don't deserve, Amy mentioned this in her, in, in her post, which I thought was
wonderful because I'm so very grateful for y'all's honesty and transparency in these,
because the more honest and transparent that you are about your journey, the faster that you will
progress, the faster that you will move. And all of these things, I promise you, you cannot say
something that the rest of us haven't experienced or haven't thought. Trust me, we've all thought
them. We just all think that we haven't, that we're the only ones that have thought that.
And so we want to keep it to ourselves out of like, I don't know, again, that self-condemnation
or shame, trust me, you can't tell me something that I haven't thought myself. So, so the more
honest that you can be, even if you don't want to be in the group, be more honest and transparent
that you are with your own thoughts and your own feelings, the faster that you will progress and
the faster that you will grow in the Lord. I promise you. Um, one of the dangers that people,
people have, especially in certain denominations is when I was just talking to a client about this
and this afternoon, which is why my, my live was delayed really late tonight as I had a client
call. Um, and I was talking to them about this.
well I was saying whatever we do we cannot deny reality. If we are hurt or if
we think something or if we're worried about something or if we are if we think
that God might be evil. I've had that thought. The Lord had to work
with me on that and which I know sounds terrible for me to just kind of like
drop that bomb on you and so I might have to tell you that story because that
was very that was a very very interesting story. The Lord told me when
I was in that moment he said Ashley you have literally hit the lowest point that
a human can hit. Some people hit this point by having lost a spouse
other people lose it by having lost a child. He said you didn't do either one
of them and yet you still hit that pit. He said literally this is the lowest
that a human being can ever ever go. He also promised me when I was down there
he said I promise you you'll never be here again. So and he's right ever since
then as awful of things as I walked through I always remember it was never
that you know it has not yet ever been as bad as that moment. Anyway it was the
Lord walked me through that but we just remember that it's very important for us
to not deny reality. That if we really are hurt if we really are thinking
something about the Lord that we're honest about it. He knows that we have
accusations against him and believe things about him in our hearts that
we're not even conscious of because remember 95% of what it is that we act
on is in our subconscious and hasn't even come into our consciousness. So God
knows all of this 95% that drives us drives our decisions drives our thoughts
whatever that we can't even we're not even aware of let alone even have the
courage to face. God already knows we're there so trust me you can't say
anything to shock him. You do remember all the people in the in the Bible right
of the people that were murdered someone. David after all the goodness that he'd
seen in the Lord and he seeing the Lord save him from life and death situations
he goes and he grabs one of his best friends wives you know so so trust me
you know that it's very important that we face those things in us because as
soon as we as as we acknowledge those and bring this to the surface the Lord
can then deal with those faster and not in a bad way understand God is always
very loving but he'll walk us through it but he can't walk us through it if it's
hidden so allow it to come up a lot to come up when it that when and because
he'll he'll allow us to go through through situations that would trigger
those things to come up don't squelch them let them come up acknowledge them
God already knows they're there anyway don't be afraid of them there's nothing
to be afraid of they're there whether or not you knew that they were there and
whether or not you're conscious about it so just just present him before the Lord
and you will watch them disintegrate in the look of his love for you as he loves
you all of those things the fact that you thought he was evil the fact that
you thought he was this the fact that you're hurt the fact that you think no
matter how hard I work I'm just still not good enough you will walk and I know
I shouldn't believe that with that all of those things will disintegrate in his
love so don't ever be afraid of that so that's very important so very long
rabbit trail to say I'm very glad when y'all are and very y'all are willing to
be very transparent and open in walking this path and process because it doesn't
matter whether or not you tell other people it doesn't matter whether or not
you post it or tell me or tell each other that didn't matter at all it's
totally up to you what matters is that the fact that you actually put it down
tells me they're really they're really being honest with themselves they had to
actually think the thought and be willing to face it in order to actually
write it down so they brought it into their consciousness so whether or not
you show the rest of us the important thing is that you had brought it up out
of your consciousness to take care of it to be thinking about it so all of these
things understand you know I don't deserve him to be that good which is
something that I'm Amy brought up that she said that she was something that she
was battling I have I battle that one as well it's probably been one of the
biggest battles if not the biggest battle of my life or God I have been
doing what you asked all of those things we might be surprised to know are
actually accusations of his character against his character we think that we
are being self-condemning we believe that we are that that is us being humble
but really all of those things are accusing God's character because God is
saying I am this good and we're somehow saying that something about us affects
the goodness of God that it somehow changes it that he would change his
nature and how he would interact with us based on us that is an accusation about
the goodness of God it's not declaring something about us
It's saying that he would be affected, his goodness and his nature would be
limited or that there would be some kind of a condition placed on it by the fact
that I am this. And that is why everything that we say is actually or
believe is actually always an accusation against the character of God. Even if we
think that it's saying something, we're saying something about us. Well Lord, you
know, I have been doing what you asked. I don't deserve you Lord to be that
good. Therefore I've got a problem with how I view myself. No, you have a problem
with how you view God. That how you view yourself has form. Sorry, I'm trying to
figure out what it's doing. Huh, I've never seen it do that before.
That is so weird. Sorry, where it shows that the live popped up, it
then said that it was recording. I don't know. And it said it in like
this gold orange color and it replaced the live with, hey it's
recording. So I don't know if like my live stream broke up there for a
minute and it was still recording in the background. I don't know what was going
on there. Okay, so here's another interesting thing. Remember that the
reason I want to say this is my point in tonight is to relieve us of all of the
chains that in conditions that we believe that we are under and that we
believe is hindering God's character. Oh Cheryl, what does it say? It does that to
me when my connection is iffy. Okay, good to know. Thank you. I appreciate it. I
hope that it didn't affect my streaming and that y'all were able to still hear
everything. So apparently it was still recording it in the background kind of
like offline and then it's just gonna like piece it all together. So I
appreciate you letting me know. I've never seen it before. Okay, so the reason that I'm about to say
that what I am is I want again I want to break off these chains that we have
that the Lord and his love and his goodness and giving us gifts has any
condition whatsoever. Because what I'm about to say is a big one that we use as
a condition and we don't realize we're using it as a condition. We think we're
quoting it. We think that we're quoting the Bible and we think that it's very
holy and it's actually incorrect. So what we say sometimes is that God gives
good gifts to us and God is kind to us and God looks on us lovingly because of
Jesus. In other words, that he doesn't see us. He sees Jesus and because he looks at
us and he sees Jesus he's like okay well I don't see the worm that's underneath
you. I don't see the worm Jesus that you're protecting but I see you and
because it's you I'll give it to you. But if I'd seen the worm without you
protecting it then I wouldn't I wouldn't give it and that's actually incorrect
because that is believing that we're not restored back in right standing with the
Lord and we have been fully restored into right standing with the Lord. Yes we
are in Christ and yes it is because of Jesus's work on the cross that we will
be that we were have now been fully restored. So in that aspect it's because
of Jesus because of his work but what we have to be careful of is that we don't
say that well because Jesus God is looking at us and Jesus is the one
asking that it's only because it's Jesus that he's like okay well I'll give it to
you. No no no no he'd give it to Jesus he'd give it to me he'd give it to you
we're in full right under restoration with the Lord. I want to repeat yes it is
because of Jesus's finished work on the cross that we were able to be restored
but God looks at us fully knowing that we're in Christ and when he looks at
Christ he sees Christ and he sees us. He's not giving us a gift because he
sees Christ and doesn't see us. He is seeing both of us at the same time
because we're one. Remember that's very very very important and the reason I
wanted to bring that up is because otherwise we still use it as a condition
it's just a holier declaration of the condition.
He wouldn't give it to me, or maybe we wouldn't even say that,
but it's the fact that he can see Jesus that he'll give it to me
because Jesus asked him for it and therefore God would give it to Jesus
because he loves Jesus. Here's the important thing. Here's why God
gives gifts. God doesn't give gifts because he's looking at the one
he loves and decides whether or not the person deserves it, even if it's Jesus.
That is not why God gives gifts. God gives gifts because it's in God's
nature to love, period. God reigns on the good and the evil.
God's the one who said that. He said, I reign on the good and the evil. I give
gifts to everyone because it's in the nature of the giver. Remember that
gifts have everything to do with the giver and nothing whatsoever to
do with the object of the giver's love. Yes, the giver loves the
object of his love, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with the nature of the
person that the giver loves. It has everything whatsoever to do with the
nature of the giver, period. So that's why I say that it doesn't matter whether or
not we're saying, well, he's looking at me and he sees me and
therefore he would give it to me because he realizes that he's
forgiven my sin or that he doesn't see me and he only sees Jesus and therefore
he would forgive my sin. The only reason I want to bring that up is
strictly that we don't realize that we're using it as a condition. We think
that we're repeating the Bible and that's not what the Bible is saying.
It makes God so much more personal. Yes, I know. I know. He's really wonderful.
So the prodigal son got the party but not the older brother. So the
prodigal son, yes, it's because it's the nature. So remember, why did the
older son not get the party? Because the father said, you could have always had a
party. I gave you everything. You chose to not receive it. That's why. The father
gave both sons everything. The the prodigal actually received it. In a way,
he received it but he ran off with it. The older son didn't receive it. The
older son lived in the middle of the gifts, interacting with the gifts,
governing the gifts, and wouldn't receive it as his own. So that's why. The
father always gives gifts to both. He's already given the gifts. They don't even
have to ask for it, which is one of the reasons why the
fact that the prodigal son asked the father for his inheritance early,
why it hurt the father. I was like, why? Why do you need to take it and go
off somewhere? You can just live here like the older brother and have it all
the time. Why do you need to take it early? I haven't died yet. Why do you need
to take it, run off somewhere, and use it? You can stay here and it won't run out.
You can just govern it and have it. But the older brother who stayed and
didn't run off with it, he still even chose not to receive it. So you see how
it's all about him. It's all about the receiving. It has nothing to do with the
father. The father never changed in the entire story. The father never changed. The
only difference was how the sons interacted with them and how good they
declared their father to be. The prodigal son didn't
believe that his father was good enough to give it to him, but he
didn't believe that his father was good enough to bless him and provide him
a better life with him staying there and him receiving the gifts. He thought he
had to run off somewhere and use them because he wouldn't be allowed to use
them in a particular way under his father's jurisdiction. He went off to
provide for and to protect himself. The older brother thought, no, you know, this
is the right place to be, but I don't deserve him to be
that good. So he chose to not receive it, even though he stayed and chose to
govern everything the Lord gave him. So it's not necessarily directly what we
believe, but what we're willing to and open to receive. Yes, okay, so the whole
believing thing, the believing thing is believing that God's as good as he says
that he is. That is what makes us open to receive. That's what belief is.
Belief is strictly like, if God says that he's that, okay, then he's that. It's not
trying, and this is what we're going to get into later, it's not trying to believe.
that he's that good. That's a problem and so again we're going to talk about that
later. That's that old mindset that we're trying to bring into the new mindset.
Okay, all I have to do is believe. I don't have to do all this other stuff but
what we bring into with it that what we bring of the old mindset into this is
the fact that we think we have to try to believe. That belief does not come
naturally and that is false. Believing is believing in your father is your nature.
We have been acting contrary to our nature. Remember that old man died and a
new man rose again. We are now that new man. That new man has never sinned ever.
The old man sinned. We are not sinners saved by grace because we literally have
never been sinners. The part of us that had been the sinner, he died. We have
literally never been a sinner. So I beg of you to save yourselves and don't
ever call yourself a sinner saved by grace again ever because that person
died. Stop trying to resurrect him. So you're the new man. The new man
has never sinned. So yes it's and the new man doesn't have to try. The new
man is born of God. It is the new man is of the very nature and essence of God. He
doesn't have to try to believe his father. That is in his nature to believe
his father. What we have done is we keep thinking that it's not our nature and we
keep thinking our nature is that old man that we were in the habit of
living in and therefore we keep acting like that. We keep thinking that's our
old nature and Paul keeps saying why on earth you keep acting like the old man
who said that's not you. It's in your nature to believe your father. The old
man it wasn't in your nature but you still think you're the old man so you
keep trying to believe. He's like stop trying to believe. You don't have to try
anymore. It is who you are. It is in your DNA. Just FYI, total side note. Good thing
I have notes here because otherwise I might have a hard time getting back from
this rabbit trail. I was thinking about that the article where I read
this. This is really fascinating and I think it was it was a Jew. It was a
Jewish scientist who discovered this. I think it wasn't that long ago
either. He discovered that our DNA actually spells Yahweh. Did you know that?
That our DNA, it spells in Hebrew, it spells Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh which is Yahweh.
It's a long explanation. I'll see if I can find the article but I thought
that was really cool. That our actual DNA, we were meant to
house God. We were meant to make the invisible God visible. If we live on
earth and that's what God is trying to do. He's like I want you to stop being
like the old man so that you can be the very essence of the nature in which the
new man exists and then you will effortlessly put on display what Jesus
did which is to make the invisible father actually visible. Philip asked
Jesus how can we can you show us the father and Jesus said if you've seen me
you've seen the father. That was an example of how we're supposed to live.
When people look at us, when you look at me, you're supposed to be able to see the
father and how I act and what I say etc. Now you can't fully see that yet
because I haven't released enough of the old man to look fully like the new man
that I really am and it's the same thing with all of you. It's our
very nature. So now back from that rabbit trail.
Let's see.
Okay so I already said all of that. Okay so talking about what I mentioned
before that so I'll show you in Scripture this it says remember that we
don't need you don't need to be even be in Jesus for God to bless you. You don't
even need to be a Christian for God to bless you. In fact that was it's one of
the things that we're all very frustrated with right? That Lord you know
why did the wicked prosper? Was that in Ecclesiastes? It was either in Proverbs
or Ecclesiastes or maybe it was Lamentations. You know one of those
written written by Solomon where he says you know why do the wicked prosper? It's
frustrating right? Because God reigns on the just and the unjust. We do not have
to be believers. We do not have to be following the Lord. We do not have to be
honoring and obeying him in order for him to believe it in order for him to
bless us.
God Himself declared that He reigns on the just and the unjust. Jesus healed
Gentiles and Jews. And by Gentiles, some of these were Gentiles that didn't seem
to even believe that He was God. Very interesting, which we'll talk about in a
second. But yeah, non-Christians are getting the same blessings that you've
asked God for. Okay, is that frustrating for anybody or has it just been
frustrating for me? Things that you just cry out to the Lord for and you watch
all the non-believers get them. So what the Lord showed me this passage, really
really fascinating, in the Old Testament. So because God talks about in the
Old Testament and in the New Testament. So here's in the Old Testament. It is a
long, a bit of a long passage, but please hang with me because it's really, really,
really good. This is in Deuteronomy. Don't go to sleep. It's in Deuteronomy 2.
Okay, so remember that in Deuteronomy, this is the context, was
going to go into the Promised Land. And they decided that even though God had
promised them the Promised Land, then they were afraid. They went in and
they saw the Antiquites. They were giants. They saw there were grasshoppers in their
sight, you know, and they were afraid. Even though God's just like, hey look, I
promised this to you and therefore you can claim it. Let's see. I feel
selfish and guilty. Yes. Yeah, sometimes they're frustrating. I know. Yeah, so that
whole selfish and guilty thing. Yes, no more
condemnation. There is therefore now no more condemnation. So yes, we do. I
fully admit, I have felt it's very important to admit reality, right? Do not
deny reality. This is how we feel. It is frustrating. But see, if we present it
before the Lord and we present it before His love, He shows us and
reveals to us how it's not true without us having to convince ourselves, well, I
shouldn't believe like this. And trying to find in Scripture some way to prove
to ourselves that that's not possibly right. All we have to do is admit, Lord,
this is how I feel. And I'm asking that you transform me with your light and
your love and your knowledge so that I won't feel like this anymore. So that is
how we transition between these thoughts, which we need to fully acknowledge are
there, and then how the Lord will just come in and completely change it.
Remember, we don't have to try to stop thinking a particular way. All we have to
do is just let go of it. Not fight it, battle it, and be like, oh, I shouldn't, I
shouldn't. I need to convince myself otherwise. Just let go of it.
When you let go of it, it'll naturally float away because its natural state is
to not exist in you and your natural nature is not to hold things like that.
So it will float away of its own accord and you won't have to fight it out,
to remove it. And then what you are naturally supposed to be filled
with, the truth that those beliefs are supposed to be
replaced with, will naturally come in and fill us and we'll naturally believe like
we're supposed to. We don't have to work for it. We don't have to convince
ourselves. We don't have to go find all of the logic and scripture and all of
that. God might show us in scripture where all those things are, but we don't
have to fight it out. This isn't a battle that we have to convince ourselves of.
Okay, so in Dunhuang, like I said, so they rejected it. They left. God
said, okay, you didn't believe, so you've got to go. You're gonna wander around in
the wilderness. And there's more to that story, which is very fascinating, about
how, why the Lord led them into the wilderness after they didn't believe.
They didn't believe that they could claim the land. So they're wandering
around. And so the next generation comes up and that's what Deuteronomy, that's
where Deuteronomy picks up. Deuteronomy picks up when the new
generation, you know, the younger generation, everybody who was younger
than 20 years old, is still alive. And now they've come to the edge of the
promised land. Now they've come to the, I don't remember where they are at this
point. I don't remember if they're at Jordan, the command to leave Horeb. I don't remember now.
Anyway, but they're just right there, you know, about to enter Canaan. And so
Moses is talking to this new generation and he's recounting, hey, by
the way, when y'all were really young, this is what happened the last time that
your parents were here. Your parents and grandparents and great-grandparents,
because all of those generations were here. And this is what they
experienced. This is what they rejected. And now you have the same opportunity
that they did. What are you going to do? So this is really, really, really
fascinating. Okay, so in Deuteronomy 2, where am I going to start? I'm just going to start
1st one. So we're gonna go 1 through 23. So this is Moses talking. He says,
when we turned back and set... This is Moses talking to the Israelites. He's
not talking to the reader. He's talking to the Israelites. He's up there, you know,
he's making a big speech. So he's telling the generation,
when we turned back... He's recounting the story of their forefathers. When we
turned back and set out... Oh no, I'm sorry. He's recounting that generation,
what that generation had just been going through the past... I think it's been the
past two years, if I recall correctly. The last two years that they had been going
through. It says, then we turned back and set out towards the desert along the
route to the Red Sea, as the Lord had directed me. For a long time we made our
way around the hill country of Seir. Then the Lord said to me, you have made
your way around this hill country long enough. Now turn north and give the
people these orders. So give this younger generation these orders. You are about to
pass through the territory of your brothers, the descendants of Esau, who
live in Seir. They will be afraid of you, but be very careful. Do not provoke them
to war, for I will not give you any of their land. So the whole point of this is
we're talking about how Esau and their descendants, and then later on
Moab and his descendants, and Ammon and his descendants. So three. Esau's
descendants, because remember Esau was a counterpart to Jacob, and then
Ammon and Moab. Ammon and Moab were brothers. Ammon and Moab were the sons of
Lot. Remember when Lot lost his wife, when she became a pillar of salt, when
they fled Sodom and Gomorrah? And he went up into the mountains with his two
daughters, and his two daughters bore sons out of incest with their father
Lot. That was Moab and Ammon. So we have
counterparts to Abraham, because the counterpart to Abraham is Lot, and so Lot's
two descendants are Moab and Ammon. And then we have the counterpart to Jacob,
which is Esau. We're totally missing a generation in there, you know, Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob. I'm getting a little bit of detail. We're missing
the counterpart to Isaac, which is Ishmael, because we all know what Ishmael is often
doing. The Lord blessed Ishmael, you know, on behalf of Abraham, and he said, okay,
well, he can't take any part in the covenant, but I will bless him and I'll
make him many people. So he's out in the Arab desert somewhere, you know, building
all of his warrior descendants. So anyway, that's why he's not mentioned, but
the other two generations are the counterpart to Abraham, the two sons
there, and then the counterpart to Jacob, Esau. So that's important, because
remember that none of these people are heirs of the promise. None of these
people were chosen as God's chosen nation, but watch what God did to them.
So again, picking up, for I will not give you any of the Edomites, the
descendants of Esau. I won't give you any of their land, not even enough to put
your foot on. So he's talking to the Israelites, who are his beloved, and he
says, I will give you all the land of Canaan. I'm doing this for you, and I'm
doing this for you, and I'm doing this for you. However, I will not allow you to
trespass on the land that the Edomites have. Well, he's already proven that
the Israelites are more beloved, but he's refusing to even allow them to step on
the Edomite land. He said, I have given Esau the hill country of Seir as his
own, and you are to pay them in silver for the food you eat and the water you
drink. Sorry, I'm trying to get some of this so we can go through it faster. So
verse 8, so we went on past our brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in
Seir. We turned from the Arab road, which okay, verse 9, then the Lord said to me,
do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any
of their land. I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession. Okay,
so here's what's really fascinating. Here's where Moses, it's not driving a
knife in, but remember, the Israelites were promised Canaan, and they were like, no,
they're too scary. You know, there's the giants. So Moses is now saying, okay, you
didn't believe God. What about these other people who were not God's chosen
that God
never gives us any indication in here
that they believed God, that they followed God,
that God promised them the land,
and yet watch them all claim it
and fight the exact same giants
that the Israelites refused to fight.
That's the whole point of this.
So it said in verse 10, the Emites used to live there,
a people strong and numerous,
as tall as the Anakites.
So a people as strong and numerous and tall
as the people that the Israelites were afraid of
are the very people that the Moabites conquered
and took their land,
because the Moabites believed that they could do it,
and so they did.
The Edomites believed that they could do it, and they did.
The Israelites believed they couldn't do it
even though God told them so, and they didn't.
So Moses, it reminds you of Moses driving in a knife,
but he's not, he's not driving a knife.
He's not bringing in shame.
He's not bringing in condemnations.
He's saying, hey, look, these other people believed.
So let's see, like the Anakites,
they too were considered Raphaites,
but the Moabites called them Emites.
So in other words, he's saying, hey, look,
the people that you were afraid of in Canaan,
the exact same people are the ones
that the Moabites conquered.
The Horites used to live in Seir,
but the descendants of Esau drove them out.
So both Moabites and Esau drove out these people
that were as big as the Anakites.
They destroyed the Horites from before them,
settled in their place, just as Israel did,
in the land God gave them as their possession.
Let's get down to 16.
Now when the last of the, no, no, no.
Okay, yeah, now when the last of these fighting men
of the old generation of the Israelites,
among the people had died, the Lord said to me,
today you are to pass by the region of Moabitar.
When you come to the Ammonites,
here's the third group now,
the Ammonites, do not harass them or provoke them to war,
for I will not give you possession of any land
where it belonged to the Ammonites.
I have given it as a possession to the descendants of Lot.
That too was considered a land of the Raphaites,
those big giants who used to live there,
but the Ammonites called them Zamzamites.
They were a people strong and numerous
and as tall as the Anakites.
The Lord destroyed them from before the Anamites
and drove them out and settled in their place.
The Lord had done the same for the descendants of Esau,
who lived in Seir,
when he destroyed the Horites from before them.
Okay, so basically what God was saying here
was he's saying, hey, look,
these are three groups of people,
three nations that believed that they could conquer
the same giants that the Israelites were afraid to,
even though the Israelites were the ones
that God promised to them that he'd given them that land.
They couldn't even believe God's promise
when God himself said that he would go before them,
while other nations who were not chosen by God,
so like non-believers,
they went out and conquered the same giants
and God gave them the land and wouldn't allow,
as a blessing, and would not allow,
because of their faith,
and wouldn't allow his firstborn, his treasured sons,
to set foot on their land.
That is, so we do not,
so even non-believers can receive God's tremendous blessing
and it's considered sacred to the Lord.
It's like, you know, sons of God,
you're not allowed to touch this,
not allowed to touch this.
So that was huge when I read that,
absolutely huge when the Lord showed me that.
I was really shocked.
I was like, oh my goodness, see?
If non-believers can conquer it, why can't I?
All right, so then the centurion,
so in the New Testament,
so do you remember the centurion came to Jesus
and he said, hey look, my armor bearer is sick
and I know that all you have to do
is just say the word and he'll be healed.
You don't even have to come.
See, the Israelites were always coming to Jesus
and saying, hey look, we've got somebody who's sick,
can you come heal them?
We want a gift from you, can you come and come do it?
The centurion said, no,
all you have to do is speak the word
and Jesus turned to the Israelites and he said,
I haven't seen faith like this in all of Israel.
The centurion, remember, he's Roman.
He's not under the Hebrew law.
So.
Without the law, you don't have condemnation. You don't have any reason
why God wouldn't do that for you. But Christians, along with the
Jews, have all kinds of laws and rules and traditions and reasons why we think
that God wouldn't do something for us. So we're creating all of this limitation
because we're using ourselves as the standard and as a reason
and a condition upon that would limit God's goodness. That's the problem. It's
the fact that we believe that it limits God's goodness. It's not that it limits
His goodness. It's the fact that we believe that it limits God's goodness.
That is how powerful our belief is. Going back to the
importance of belief, that's how powerful our belief is. If we're one with Christ,
we have tremendous power, position, and authority, including to
declare what will and will not be manifested as the character of God onto
the earth because we've limited Him because we don't believe that it's true.
So therefore, we refuse to receive it. It says in the Bible that
the heavens are the Lord and that He gave earth to the sons of man. So if God
wants to send something down but we refuse to receive it, to receive it on
behalf of the earth, if we refuse to receive it and then pass it on to the
earth, the earth can't have it because we're the gatekeepers. That's the problem.
We were sent to have dominion. We were sent to be a bridge between heaven and
earth because spirit is in heaven and body is on earth. We bridge the
two and we're meant to bring heaven into earth. That's the power of our
belief. It's not an exchange program. God isn't limited by it. We are. We're
limited by our own belief. So anyway, the centurion had no law. He didn't
understand why God wouldn't do it for him because he was strictly relying on
God's character. He's saying, Jesus, you're that good. You would do that. You have
this kind of authority and I know that because I had that kind of authority for
my people. All I have to do is say this and they're gonna do it. So I know that
that's all that's required and for you to do it. He was calling on Jesus's
character and Jesus said, you believe that that's who I am? Very well done. That
is who I am. Now these people out here, they don't believe that that's who I am
but you believe that that's who I am so therefore that's how I will come through
for you. All those other people, you know, Jesus would go with them to the place
and whatever. This Roman came up, the Roman pig that they would call them.
The pig came up and Jesus is like, sure, according to your faith so be it.
Now that's not where Jesus, I don't think that that's where Jesus quoted that.
He quoted that for someone else but it's the same principle. It's the exact
same principle. According to your faith so be it. That's who you declare that I am
and that's who I will be for you because God's always the same. He's the same
yesterday and today and forever. The difference is what it is that we choose
to receive and the centurion said this is what I'm willing to receive and God
said, great, you can receive so much more of me, so much more of my character that
I am expressing than these people can receive. They can only receive the
part of it that they're willing to. So just remember that what we're doing is
we are relying on who God is without any regard to who you are. That's the key.
That's what it is that we need to do. Rely only on who God is and take
yourself out of the equation. Period. That's what we have to do. No more
trying. No more believing. Well, I know that sounds a little
confusing so let me know if you need me to explain that a little bit more. I can
go into more detail. I'll get to that in just a second. So we
struggle with self-condemnation even when hearing freedom. So if someone says
something and they're talking in tremendous freedom and they're like, oh my
goodness, there could be this and you know life can be like this and God is
like this or whatever, but we only hear according to what we own. What
we hear is based off what filter that we send the information through. So if we
send them information through a filter that just believes that we are, that
through a self-condemning filter, then
then that's all that we heard and then that's what we can hear in a message from a pastor or
that's what we can hear in the Bible because it's the filter through which we're seeing it.
What is it that I need to do? Whatever we look for, we're going to find. That's something even
non-believers believe. It's a universal principle. Whatever you look for, you will find. So that is
the filter through which you look is what is it that I need to do? You'll always find something
that you need to do but if you look at life in the Lord through the filter that there's nothing
else I need to do, then you will discover and see how beautiful and big that God is.
You will find whatever it is you're looking for and God will present himself to you
according to however you declare that he is. However big, however small, however good,
however, I don't want to say evil, but restrictive, strict, wrathful that you declare that he is.
He will show up like that because that's what you're looking for. So it's not that God will
present himself like that, it's that that's the only way you can see him. So say for instance
that God is shining all of these colors but you have a red filter through which you're looking,
all that you're going to see is red. You're not going to see all the other colors of the
rainbow that he is, you're only going to see through the filter that you're looking through.
So that's where we get these questions of things like, so there's something else I have to do now
or so this whole time it's been me. I mean I could have had all of these gifts but this whole
time it's been me. We receive, if we're not careful, we're receiving messages like this
is self-condemning. We're looking back, we're trying to reconcile, we're trying to balance
the scales, we're trying to end and that is the opposite of what we need to do. Trust me,
I'm the queen of doing that. I promise, I promise you I could outperform all of you, probably
combined. It was terrible. I haven't even begun to tell you how bad, how difficult that my life
has been. I tried to give you a picture but trust me that was one little snapshot yet last night
or was it last night or the night before, whenever that was. It was just one snapshot.
It was very, very, very impressive. So I would also think things like, okay so now
I need to remove my limiting beliefs. So that's good. So I've got limiting beliefs and all I have
to do is remove them but oh my word now I have to do it. You know there's something, see I knew it,
there's always something more for me to do. Do you see how that's the filter that I'm looking
through? That's all I'm able to see but you don't have to remove your limiting beliefs
and there's nothing else you need to do, period. So we'll talk about that in a second. So what
else do I need to do with it to engage with it or to agree with it to allow it to manifest?
Nothing, nothing. You don't need to agree with it anymore. You don't need to engage with it,
none of it. We'll talk about what it is you do need to do. So remember that the whole process
of this April Intensive is to remove beliefs that we've believed. It's not, we're not adding new
ones. It's nothing new because it's your nature. We're removing anything that we have taken from
the old man and we're trying to operate out of the new man with those old methods and they're
not working and there's those old lies and we need to remove them. And so the key is to, is not
to try to stop limiting God. The key is to stop doing anything. Stop trying and I'll qualify this
in a minute but stop believing, stop trusting, stop being willing to stop. That's all you have
to do. Release. Stop it. There is nothing else you need to do. The problem is we're doing too much.
The problem is we're doing period. That's the problem. Just stop doing. So just believe that
he loves you and you will naturally stop limiting God without trying to focus on it,
without trying or focusing on it because remember this right here. So just, if you just believe that
he loves you, if you just release what you, what you're holding on to, just release it. It'll flow
away. You didn't even have to fight for it to leave. It'll naturally leave if it's in accord
and then you'll naturally believe that he loves you and you will naturally stop limiting God
and you don't even have to try because it's your nature. Problem is we're acting contrary to our
nature and that's what we need to stop doing. If we stop acting according to our nature,
or if we stop acting contrary to our nature, we'll naturally start acting according to our nature.
Those of you who...
So essential oils, you're very familiar with this
because y'all talk about this.
Essential oils do not heal.
Essential oils and all kinds of other things
simply remove the hindrances that the body is experiencing
that won't allow it to naturally heal itself.
So essential oils simply allow the body
to do what it's supposed to do and heal itself.
But essential oils do not heal the body.
And then other things, but I just mentioned essential oils
because I know a couple of you are with Young Living
and I love essential oils.
So it's just something that came to mind as an example.
So just wanted to kind of draw that parallel
because you will naturally do what you were made to do.
You don't have to try to be you, you're you naturally.
Okay, so we are almost done here.
So just remember that what you did to get here
to this point in your life,
to this part of the process won't get you out.
It won't get you further.
That's an old system we're bringing in
and we can't use that old system
to try to get us some of the new systems.
So the way that we've made decisions,
the way that we have filtered information,
old foundations on which we had believed God,
that we had believed that the Bible said certain things,
those things will not serve us.
And they will not allow us to step into the new system.
So it's hanging onto these things
that is hindering us from moving forward.
We have to release these things.
We have to release anything that is alive.
So that's why this whole April Intensive
is all about releasing.
It's all about releasing stuff.
I don't need to add anything to any of this
and give us any more new information or knowledge
because we already have it all.
The problem is that we don't know that we have it all
and what we've done is we've added in
all of these other things that aren't natural
and we just need to get rid of it.
And if we get rid of it,
we'll naturally start doing what we're supposed to do
because we're of the very essence of God.
So the secret is not to try harder
or to wait longer for what it is that you want.
It's not the secret.
We're not gonna try harder and we're not waiting longer.
The whole secret is to stop trying all together.
So then you will effortlessly step into it
because your nature is to believe your father.
So last thing, last section here.
So here's what you do do.
So I've told you all of these things.
Let's not do this, let's not do this, let's not do this.
So here's what you can do.
Okay, so don't be shocked, right?
I can walk each of you through this or a private session
or if you have, if you want to add a post or do a live,
you know, and ask me this, you know, just feel free.
If there's something that you're wondering,
okay, okay, Ashley, here's an exact example.
How does it work out in this case?
Because I'm trying and I'm struggling.
Or I tried to apply it, not try,
but I applied it and it didn't work
or I'm not sure if I did it correctly.
Sorry, just one second.
Hmm, so the thing that we need to do, stop believing.
And the reason that I mentioned that
is that seems to be our hang up right now.
Well, I'm trying to believe, I'm trying to believe.
All of these new things, Ashley, I'm trying to believe.
Stop believing, stop, just stop trying to believe.
Just stop.
Sorry, that's my dog, apparently she's thirsty.
Just let it go.
Stop trying to believe, just let it all go.
Is it because, here's the thing.
If anything feels hard,
if anything feels hard, stop doing it.
If you're trying to trust and it feels hard,
stop doing it.
If you're trying to believe and it feels hard,
stop doing it.
If you're trying to be willing,
if you're trying to do something good, stop, stop.
We need to first learn how to release
because we're not in a healthy place
to be able to understand how to naturally
do all of these things.
All of those things that I mentioned, those are all good.
Being willing, believing, trusting,
all of those things are very good
and they're of the nature of God and they're of your nature.
The problem is we're currently only understanding them
according to our old system and our old nature
and the old man who has died.
And we're trying to believe.
We're trying to act in the new man
according to the way that the old man understood
believing and trying and being willing
and hoping and all of those things.
So that's why I'm saying,
before we can actually move forward,
we have to stop whatever it is that we're doing
because we're not,
it's the old man and it's unhealthy.
Just stop. Stop believing. So if all of those things, you know, trusting, being willing,
believing, faith, all of those things, all of those are effortless because they're of your
nature because you are of God. They're effortless and they're of your nature. So if they're hard,
there's something wrong. It's not the things that are in you that are natural,
it's something out of the old man we're trying to resurrect. So if we're trying for them,
it's not the real thing. If we're trying to believe, if we're trying to be willing,
if we're trying to be hopeful, it's not the real thing. So just let them go.
And you're under no obligation. Remember, you're not even under any obligation to love God
and he's not worried that you're gonna not love him. Okay, you're gonna love him,
you're gonna grow in hope, you're gonna grow in willingness, you're gonna grow in love,
you're gonna grow in belief, you're gonna grow in faith, you're gonna grow in all of these
wonderful godly things. God is not worried that you're not going to reflect him. You are. You're
gonna reflect his character. But right now, we're just doing all those things because they're godly
words that we have learned and tried to understand and looked up in the dictionary
and asked pastors what they really meant and tried to follow them. And we're trying to follow
them like a list of do's and don'ts, but we're not relying on them as the essence of our nature.
So remember that if you're trying for them, it's not the real thing and you're under no
obligation to do any of them in order to be accepted and loved by the Lord. So the way that
we can start moving into freedom is to let all of that go. And then it'll be replaced with the
effortlessly, what we're talking about, with the real belief, with the real nature of who you are,
which is the effortless belief, the effortless faith, the effortless hope, the effortless
willingness. It's gonna naturally come in because you got rid of that old stuff
and that was so hard to maintain. You gotta hang on to it all the time.
So I promise you that your beliefs and your relationship with God, if you let all this
stuff go, I promise you it won't fall apart because I did it. I let it all go. I finally
got desperate enough. I let it all go and I didn't even have someone to tell me that it was going to
be okay on the other side. I was willing to risk it. If you have somebody who's walked through it
already, who can confirm to you, I promise you won't lose your salvation because you can't lose
your salvation, but you won't lose it. You won't lose your relationship with the Lord. The wrath
of God won't come down. You won't lose yourself. One of the things that I was worried about is I
would lose myself in the nothingness of it, that I wouldn't be able to find my way back.
You don't have to worry about any of that. Those are the things that are holding you back.
You got to let them go. Got to jump in with both feet. It's the new system. You don't leave off all
of these old things. So basically stop believing and just choose it. So if you want something to
do, if it makes you feel better, if it gives you an anchor for your soul, what do I do Ashley?
Choose it. Choose that that's your reality. You don't have to try it. Trust me. I've chosen a lot
of things. It's not hard. What's hard is the letting go of the other. It is effortless to
choose that God is as good as I want to believe he is. That God is as loving as I want to believe
he is. That God is as good and as loving, as freedom, as whatever that I want to believe
that he is and I need to declare that he is. And I just choose it. It's very different than my old
idea of drumming up faith and belief for it. I just chose it. I'm just going to choose that it's
my reality and I'm going to go about my day. So in short, just remember let go of responsibility.
Be a child. Let God be your parent. Let him take care of all of this for you. Don't carry any more
responsibility. Just be a child before God. Enjoy your father and then go play.
And you will effortlessly by doing that, what you're doing is you're releasing. You're choosing
to release and when you choose to release all of this other will naturally come down and you don't
even know it's happening. You don't know how it's happening. You're just allowing yourself to
just bask in the love of God. Just allowing yourself to be and for it to be enough.
Not thinking I should have done more work today.
wonder why I didn't do this. I should probably do this better tomorrow. All of
those old thoughts, stop thinking about them. Stop thinking about, oh, I
should do better tomorrow. I wish I hadn't done this. Release all of those
things. There will be a time and a place where you can approach them in
a much more healthy way, much more healthy perspective where those things
won't burden you. But right now, I would venture a pretty strong guess, if
you're anything like I was, that it brings on... that you can't hear
those things without being self-condemning, without thinking, I must
be better tomorrow. I must do better next time. I need to analyze the past, figure
out what I did wrong, and not do it again. No, none of that. Just allow
everything to be without asking the Lord for forgiveness, and watch
that he's just as good there as he is when you've asked him for forgiveness.
Just allow the Lord to love you, and for it to be enough, and then he will
heal you, and he will restore you, and then we will build from here. We're
not leaving us here like this, like what I'm describing, where you just stop all
of this stuff, and you don't believe, and you don't be willing. We're not going to stay
here for the rest of our lives. What I'm talking about is we're
trying to transition from the old man into the new, from the habit of that old
perspective that isn't serving us anymore, and so I'm talking about we've
got to let go of what we think that the new man is. We're having to
just scrap the whole thing, so we have to scrap everything in order to start over.
It's like taking off training wheels off of the bike. We knew very well how to
operate in life with training wheels, very well. Now let's take off the training
wheels and just ride the bike, so you're gonna look worse at living life for a
while wobbly on this bike. You're like, look, if I just have my training wheels, I
know how to do this thing. I was pro with this, and God's like, I know, but you
can't do all the things. You're not really riding the bike, and you can't do
all of the things that you can do riding a bike. You can't do those just with if
you still have training wheels, so allow yourself to wobble for a while for it to
be scary where you don't have all of your bumpers that you're used to. You
don't have all of the self-protection that you're used to. God's very aware
that it's gonna look like that for a while, and he doesn't condemn you for it.
He's the one who created the world to work like that, where to go from
training wheels to a bike looked like that. God didn't expect you to get off
the training wheels onto a bike and be perfect at it. He didn't create the human
body. He didn't expect it to work like that. He didn't create it to work like
that, and therefore he won't condemn you that you're following his creative
process. It's okay. It's okay. So we're not going to stay here forever, but we need to
release ourselves. We need to give ourselves freedom and space. So to let
go of responsibility, be a child, enjoy your father, and just go play. That's a
choice. That is rest. This is what our businesses need. Our businesses
need us, and if we're not in a healthy place, then our business can't be healthy.
So we're going to talk more specifically later about where to go from here into
actual business situations, like how to be a leader in business, how to make
decisions in business, what business is from God's perspective.
All kinds of stuff, but this is why we're laying this foundation.
A business is just an extension of life. It's nothing particularly special.
Well, it is very special, but it's not anything that you can separate
from who the leader is and who the person is that's breathing life into it
with their spirit. So anyway, I hope this is encouraging. Remember that you will
naturally look like your father because you naturally are like your father. We're
just getting rid of all of this other stuff in order to allow our nature to
finally be able to come forth, just like the essential oils that I talked about.
So I hope that y'all all have a good night, and this was a bit of a longer
one, but I really wanted to cover it well. I feel that this is, especially based on
the feedback I was getting, this is very, very, very foundational and felt that it
just needed to really be driven home. This is, and it is true, this is the
foundation.
of so much of our understanding of rest because we're having to release that old
paradigm and we struggle sometimes understanding how to release that old paradigm.
Anyway, I love each and every one of you and I will see you tomorrow. We will be
doing the our Q&A. I mean our Zoom group session,
remember, is going to be all Q&A, no teaching. So, I look
forward to getting to see y'all tomorrow. Okay, talk to you later. Bye.