So what we will start out talking about tonight is how to, it's a continuation of how to operate
in the spirit.
This section is a bit of a segue between what we talked about in the last session of operating
in the spirit and then what we'll be talking about in the second half of tonight, which
is talking about how to govern creation from a place of rest, how to actually stand in
kinship to the point where something actually, I'm liking this, where things can have a choice
of responding.
Hopefully that stops.
And they have a choice of responding, but right now what I wanted to give some extra
special attention to, and also in the second half of tonight, in the second session, we're
going to be talking more about how to operate in spirit within relationships.
Because I've noticed while we've been talking about it a little bit now, the majority of
the relationship questions that people have about how to operate within rest is related
to how to interact with something that they are struggling with.
In other words, the person is being difficult or they're wanting to understand how to guide
their children appropriately or how to interact with a spouse when they disagree with a spouse,
that kind of thing.
So because most of my relationship questions that I get come from that perspective, I usually
put relationships under the governing creation from rest.
Because you are standing in a position of government when we're interacting in those
situations.
So anyway, we're going to move that one to that section.
But the majority of what we're going to focus on while we are going to talk in aspect of
relationships, the majority of what we'll be talking about tonight is within the context
of business and using a lot of business terminology.
Because a lot of people here have businesses, a shocking amount have their own businesses
or have a desire to start their own businesses.
And understand that this principle, what we were talking about earlier, however we apply
things in business, we apply it the same way in relationships and in finances.
But I'm just going to be using business terminology when I'm talking about all of this.
But understand that it can be applied, the exact things that we'll be talking about in
this session can be applied in relationships and in finances as well.
But like I said, we'll be using a lot of business terminology.
And before, let's see, okay.
So when we're trying to enter our world and we're trying to bring spirit into it, what
we don't want to do is to think, okay, well, I want something to be accomplished in my
business or in a relationship or in finances and then ask God to join you in your world
so that y'all can fix it.
You want to remember, God always wants to be chosen first.
So you insert yourself into Christ first, in other words, choosing that you are who
he says that you are, you shift into that position first.
You join God.
You enter God and then together you then enter your world.
As opposed to, Lord, here I am, I'm starting from a position believing I'm abandoned and
alone by you.
This is my world.
I want you to come help me.
God says, no, no, no, no, it's all about your relationship with me, your union with me.
So we're going to start here.
So if you're struggling with your world and like, Lord, why is my business not being successful?
Why does my marriage look like this?
Why does my issues with my children look like this?
Why does, whatever, I want you to come help me.
Show me what to do.
Show me how to partner with you.
But we're starting from the position of being here asking God to come and God takes it so
very seriously.
He's like, uh-uh, I must always be chosen first.
You must always choose your relationship with me first.
So leave your problem, leave your world.
Stop calling me to reconcile, to reconcile what's going on and the issue that's going
on and bring my character in it to be inserted in the situation to change it.
He said, no, no, no, you need to choose my character regardless of how it ends up manifesting.
So we always start from this position.
You insert yourself.
into Christ and yourself and God, which you already are.
My point is we're bringing our consciousness
and our intention into that position
that I am who God says that I am.
God is who he says that he is
to the extent that he says that he is that.
And this is what God has declared his character should be
and so therefore, that's what I'm gonna choose.
And then together, the two of you then enter your world.
Your world isn't yours that you own
and you're giving God permission to come in.
You and God operate together
and then the whole purpose of our existence
is that relationship and is that union
and now you're bringing who it is
that the two of you are together
and you're making that thing visible.
You're making it visible in your business.
You're making who you and God are together
visible in your marriage.
You're making who you and God are together.
You're making that visible in your finances.
That's what you're doing.
Your businesses and your finances and your relationships
aren't supposed to look a particular way
and so you need the magic of the character of God
to make it happen.
The whole point of what it is that you're doing
is manifesting who it is that you are
so you have to be the thing first.
And then finally, your business, your finances
and your relationship should stem from that.
So don't invite God into your world.
Enter God in union with him
and then the two of you then enter your world.
So in interactions with other people,
again, specifically talking about business,
when you are, I think I have,
how do I, I'm trying to think of the order
in which I want to explain this.
Excuse me.
Okay, so let's start off with talking about
if you're creating a business.
Same thing again, if it's relationships or finances
but we're gonna use the terminology of business.
So when you're creating a business,
like say you have a particular dream
of what you want your business to look like,
maybe you already know the industry that it's going to be
but you're wondering, yeah,
but how do I want it to uniquely look
and be different from all of the other things
that are out there, all the other businesses
that kind of can be described just like mine.
What do I want mine to look like?
What are the modalities, what are the services,
what are the prices, what are the whatever?
All of that needs to come from who it is that you are.
And you can't make it that until you know who you are.
You have to choose.
Who does God say that I am in spirit,
not what is it that I like and what's my personality
because we already talked, we talked earlier
about the fact that those are actually based
on who it is that we believed that we were
and a lot of that can come from lies
that we're believing.
So we can't trust that, so we're not going that.
We're going all the way back
to having to be so vulnerable with the Lord
that we open ourselves up completely to him,
fall into him, choose that our identity is found in him.
That is that place of rest.
Everything within you will go still.
When you're in the place of rest,
everything within you goes still.
The whole world around you could be in chaos,
but you're in complete stillness.
A picture of this, very fascinatingly,
is when Jesus was in the boat,
you remember that the disciples were all in turmoil.
Oh my goodness, the wind and the waves
and it's knocking the boat about.
It says in the Bible that the waves were splashing up
over the side of the boat and that Jesus was asleep
and I think it says in the stern.
So in other words, Jesus was getting wet
and he didn't find, not only did he not,
and getting buffeted about by being in the boat
as it's being tossed about by the wind and the waves.
So his body, while he is so at rest,
that he is asleep, being thrown around
in the stern of the boat, in other words,
what a thrown around means, it could just mean
rolling and bumping up against something.
But he's bumping up, he's getting splashed on
and he doesn't find a need to even wake up.
Let alone, as far as the disciples took it,
of do you not care about us, we're all gonna die,
what are we going to do?
Jesus is so at rest, he doesn't even find it necessary
to be alert.
are not threatened by our circumstances.
You can be completely at rest
and everything around you can continue to storm.
When they woke Jesus up, Jesus is like, okay, fine.
So he goes and he tells it to be calm
and then he gets onto them for not having the faith
to know that they could have not only,
not that they could have already done that themselves
because they had the power and the authority to do so,
but evidenced by the fact that he didn't even find
the need to get up, he's like,
you were never under threat in the first place.
Do not let your environment dictate to you
or tell you what is actually true
and tell you that you're under threat
or identify you or anything like that,
let alone require that it have to be fixed.
God does not always require that every situation
that he was in had to be different
than the chaotic way in which it presented itself.
Now, he does intend for things to be in order.
God doesn't, you know, things that are in absolute chaos
are not reflecting the order of the Lord,
but it doesn't mean that every time
you see something chaotic and not in order
that it has to be addressed.
Jesus, the God of the universe,
didn't even find the need to do so.
So it's all okay, it's all okay.
But I mentioned that, talking about the fact
that I got there because I wanted to make a point
about the fact that when we're at rest,
there is this stillness within us,
no matter what's going on, we're at peace.
And the things that we don't want to happen,
that we're thinking that the circumstances
are bringing a certain impending doom,
the impending doom may still happen.
But it doesn't matter.
That's why we're at peace, because again,
the doom that ends up coming,
because it doesn't always come,
but the doom that might sometimes end up coming,
it doesn't matter if it comes or not,
if it's not a threat to us.
The reason why the whole doom coming and not coming
and whatever is actually a valid point
for us to even consider is we are eventually over time
called to be, we're being matured so that
if we see something out of order, we call it into order.
That's the whole difference between,
okay, doom coming or not coming.
We're not under threat, that's not its meaning.
That's not its significance in our lives.
The significance in our lives is the fact
that something is out of order in God's kingdom,
God's kingdom, it is under God's kingdom,
but in a sub kingdom underneath God's kingdom,
the earth was given to man to have dominion over.
And so therefore, in my domain,
it is not in alignment with who God is,
and therefore I'm going to call it into alignment.
But we're being matured into that until we get to that point
and what he'll teach us how to practice that, et cetera,
until we get to that point, it's very important
that we not react the way that we've been reacting,
which is seeing that the significance
of those types of things is related to the fact that how,
related to how it can affect me,
and that's its significance, that it's saying something,
it's saying I'm under threat, it is saying no such thing.
It's just saying that it's out of alignment with God
and it's frustrated, why?
Because it's never been in the presence of a son of God.
Because once it comes into the presence,
once a son of God presents itself to him,
it is, the son of God can present its freedom,
can present its kingship, its lordship,
and saying I'm here to protect and provide for you.
I'm providing a protective and authoritative environment
for you to function according to the way
you were intended to function,
and then it starts functioning like that.
But we're not actually,
but the significance is not that we're under threat.
So, excuse me, anyway, back to what it is
that we were talking about,
about if you wanted to start your business
and, or maybe you've already started your business,
like what we talked about earlier,
and if something's going to have life in it,
including your business, it's gonna have movement
and therefore it's going to change,
and therefore we're constantly presented with new decisions.
Lord, I just got this figured out and you were happy,
and now it's changing.
Now I have to make yet one more decision,
and the reason why we're threatened by decisions
is we think, is we believe that one,
One of those decisions will condemn us and it's exhausting that we feel
like we're constantly battling the potential of condemnation and trying to
keep ourselves from it. But so if we realize that there is therefore now no
condemnation then and we understand that when things change it's evidence of the
fact that it's it's it's um has life in it then we won't feel threatened by by
change and by the fact that oh my word there's one more decision to make in
business and there is change and all of that. So regardless of what phase
that you're in in your in your in your business this can also by the way go you
can you can take this idea that I'm talking about and if you don't have your
own business but you're an employee you can take it down to the employee level.
In other words the you know the projects that are underneath your jurisdiction
the staff that's underneath your jurisdiction you know think of it like
that that that is your that's your kingdom so to speak even if you don't
own it a whole company you are responsible for certain certain projects
certain staff certain groups or whatever. And so you create your business not off
of a really good idea that you think is going to sell. This is an ex-turnaround
consultant that's telling you that. You don't do that because that's the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil. It's not bad to do that. You can absolutely go
with it with an idea that sells and God will tell you hey by the way this is
gonna sell really well this is a really good idea do it. You know what that's
called? It's called a good gift that God gave us which is called wisdom. Nothing
wrong with any of these things. The problem is if we think that we need the
market to tell us what will sell in order for a business that God has that
and God has given us and put us on our hearts in order for it to be successful.
That God has made a promise. The two of us today together are
gonna execute something we're gonna see where it's gonna go but I need them to
tell me how I can be successful. It's a major problem. So we can ask the market
we can do market research you can figure out what we think might sell we can
figure out what kind of services that people might like or how people might
respond better to a certain to if the service came to them in a particular
form versus another. Nothing wrong with that but if we think that we're
dependent on it emotionally and evidence itself in emotions if if we run
into a snag somewhere in the research and we get frustrated that means we
relied on it. That's how we can we can know okay I thought that that could give
me something and that my source was it and it's not giving me something and so
I'm frustrated because it is threatening my ability to succeed with me and God.
That's not true. So that so sometimes like like emotions like that will
evidence the fact that we're actually that where it is that we think that our
source is actually coming from. Instead what I recommend that you do you can do
that is you can you can use market strategies you can do market research
nothing wrong with that as long as you know you know what I'm fully and
completely relying on the fact God is my source he's gonna make this thing
successful but my God created the laws by which all of these things worked
therefore everything is permissible for me to operate in and I can choose I'm a
son of God which one do I want to use which business strategy which formula
which which whatever God you and I together what do we want to do there's
all this smorgasbord of ones which one do we want to do he said I think that
you'd really go enjoy going to this business conference okay you get a
business conference and you learn all kinds of strategies and he and then
certain things just kind of like you know light your fire and you think
that's a good one I feel I feel life coming to me coming within me when I
when I think of implementing that particular idea that they came up with
that that all of that's fine all of these things are very good things but
God doesn't want us to rely on the gift and not the giver the whole point of the
gift is to point us into it is to point us to realize how good the giver is so
what I recommend another another way that you can what I recommend how I
recommend approaching your business instead when you're making decisions
about what kind of a business do I want to have or God's already told me the
kind of business that I want to have that we're to have but what do I want it
to look like how do I want it to stand how will it stand out and be different
than how someone else runs this this same business for themselves you know
what what is it that I want to do how do I how do I want it to work and one more
thing I want to say
Yeah, how it is that I want it to work or whatever, you instead of thinking, okay, I'm
going to look outside of me, what has been proven to work?
Instead of doing that, instead of relying on knowledge, rely on spirit.
Who has God made you to be?
And create a business off of who you are.
Create a business off of what you have owned in your life.
Create a business off of what you live.
What you live and who you are.
I don't mean the fact that, well, let's see, what do I do in life?
I don't know.
I use essential oils, so maybe I'm supposed to have an essential oil business.
No, no, no.
Who are you?
What gives you life?
And it might be something that you're not currently exposed to, and so God says, I want
you to learn this industry.
And so when you learn that industry, you understand that in order to operate in that industry,
it's pulling at your greatest, lack of a better phrase, your greatest strengths.
It is allowing who it is that you actually are, which has never had an opportunity and
a chance in your life thus far to have an expression.
You never knew that this thing existed and that you could express yourself in this way,
and finally, for the first time in your life, you feel more alive than ever.
So I'm not saying that you have to look at what it is you already know about yourself
or what it is that you're already experiencing.
My point is that whatever it is that you choose, whether it's into a known, whether it's into
an industry that you know or an industry that you don't, it all needs to be based off
of the fact that the life source to keep that thing alive is coming from you.
Who it is that you are that's expressing who you and God are and your relationship are
together, how that looks when that invisible, priceless relationship is made visible.
When it's made visible in the form of the business, that's what it looks like.
When it's made visible in the form of relationships, this is what it looks like.
When my relationship with God is made visible in the form of finances, this is what it looks
like, at least in this season, right now, because my relationship with God, again, is
ever-changing.
It's ever-changing because it has life in it, it's constantly moving.
Therefore, everything that comes out of it is also going to change and also going to move.
I'm going to say some really big shockers here, especially to people who coach or consult.
I have done business consulting, I have done life coaching, I do spiritual mentoring now,
I've done all kinds of things, I've done all of them, and this is the same principle
across everything.
It's something that I was never told, and I just had to learn by experience.
I highly recommend that when you are coaching, consulting, teaching, including—I'm a little
concerned about saying this one because it might sound very confusing, but I'm going
to say it anyway.
When you are trying to interact with another human being about anything, it could be a
parent, it could be a child, it could be a spouse, it could be a friend, it could be
whatever, it could be your boss, an employer, it could be a staff, it could be whoever.
It's the same, but I'll talk about it related to a client.
When you are trying to serve others, meaning like you're interacting with them and you
are giving something of yourself to them, giving of your spirit to them, what it is
that I highly recommend is do not—when you're thinking of what motivation that you're coming
from when you are interacting with your clients, I highly recommend do not build your business
and all of the reasons for why you build your business the way that you do in order
to try to help them.
Do not build your business to try to help people.
And the reason I say that is you are—it's again, acting according to the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil.
It sounds godly, right?
Well, we're supposed to help people.
We're supposed to be loving.
We're supposed to be there.
servants. You know, we use all of these godly terms and we've misunderstood them.
You do not want helping, it's not that we don't want to help people, that's
perfectly fine, but we don't, in our business, the point of our business
should not be to try to help people and that be the point and that be the
purpose because then we are, then we are making ourselves victim to how they
respond and whether or not they choose to receive our help because we've
already declared that the only way that our business is successful is if they're
helped and you are in no control of that. They have to choose whether or not they
receive what it is you have to say and what it is you have to give and whether
or not they're helped. So you're leaving yourself vulnerable and open and you're
in the very, the very purpose that you have declared for your business, you have
left it in control of people who are, who are very fickle and are being
buffeted about in their own lives, by their own circumstances, by their own
backgrounds and with whatever baggage of trauma that they have come to
you with. And so I can, I don't have a ministry that started as a business and
the Lord evolved it into a ministry. That was a very interesting and difficult
transition for the Lord to take me in for a variety of reasons. But it's not
that I didn't, that I didn't love it. I had, I had traumas related to the word
ministry just like business. And so it's, my hang-up, words are very
important to me. I have a degree in English and words are very important to
me and so there's so much wrapped up in words and the word business
bothered me until the Lord began to heal me of that. And the Lord said, okay, now
we're gonna evolve it into ministry. I'm like, Lord, I've had experience with that
and I want nothing to do with that word. I want to help people, I want to, I want to
serve people in the spiritual world, but I don't want to be associated with
everything that I thought had to come with that word. So anyway, my point is
that the Lord really had to, had to transition me and heal me in, in some
areas because it's simply my traumas of how I've interpreted things. Nothing
wrong with either, either word, but anyway, I did not, I didn't create my
business nor do I, nor do I, do I have my current ministry, excuse me, in order to
help people because you have to choose whether or not your life has changed. You
have to choose whether or not you receive what it is that I say and
whether or not it ends up affecting you. That can't be my reason in my
relationship with the Lord of why I'm doing what it is that I'm doing. I am
having a ministry, this ministry that I have, that as, that as enters Rest Ministries,
is, is actually me being me. This is me choosing to live life with the, with
the Lord and together he and I have talked about, okay, what is it that we
want to do? How is it that we want to live? Who is it that we are together and
let's make that visible? And all of a sudden this appeared. All of a sudden it
morphed into this. And so if you are helped by it because you choose to
receive it, that is wonderful, but that is up to you. But I am, I am doing this
because this is who I am, this is how I live. I am making my relationship with
God visible. My relationship with God is what you've been seeing this weekend. I
know you haven't been seeing all me, I'm just, I'm just talking like general, very
general terms. This is me living out loud. This is me and my relationship with
God living out loud and putting it on display, expressing it. And you can choose
whether or not your spirit resonates with my expression of who it is that I
truly am. That is why I do what I do and I highly recommend that y'all do the
same thing. It's the same thing, you know, back when I used to call it, when I used
to, when it used to be formed a bit more as, as a business, I was doing the same
thing. I just thought, who, who are the Lord and I together and, and how do, how
do I want it to look? Well, I don't know, I think a Facebook group might be a good
idea. I'll do a Facebook group. I've never done a Facebook group before. I'll do a
Facebook group and I don't know, maybe it'll be a coaching program and maybe I'll
throw this in and I don't know if this will work, but I'm gonna try it. And then,
and then it just kind of morphed into what it's actually become, which is the
Rest Intensive Coaching Program. But that was me just being me. That was me just
living. And I would just get on private consultations with people, have no
warning, warning as to their questions. I still don't, you know, when I'm in private
consultations, I have no idea what someone's gonna throw at me. I don't know.
I just have to, I have to just live it. I just have to be, I always have to talk
out of my spirit. So that's what I'm doing now.
I'm just talking out of my spirit.
So if you were to ask me what it is that I said a few sentences ago, I don't remember.
I heard it because it's me, but my soul isn't engaged.
There's an aspect of it that it is, but it's not taking the wheel.
It said, no, no, no, no, I'm the gateway and I'm allowing who it is that I am in spirit.
I'm allowing that to dictate it to be the expression that all of us, soul and body end
up manifesting and being made visible.
And so when we speak out of our spirit, we answer things that we didn't know that we
knew because our spirit knows all things.
So when I speak, my soul learns things.
I record all of my teachings so I can go back and watch them because I don't remember what
I said.
I'm not saying I'm in a trance.
I'm not in a trance.
I'm saying my spirit is saying things that my soul didn't know.
My soul had never heard that thing before.
So anyway, I have learned to live in every area of my life, not just in business, my
personal relationships, my finances, you know, I don't know, just decisions that I make about
my car, whatever.
Who are God and I together?
That new chemical reaction, you know, sodium and chloride, God and me, sodium and chlorine,
God and me, when it becomes sodium chloride, when it becomes this new entity, if that is
made visible so that everybody else can see it and so that that which is birthed from
heaven enters the earth, the earth can then be transformed.
That is why it is so important for me to be the expression of my spirit because that can
change creation.
Now my soul is involved, absolutely, because my soul is a very, very good thing.
It's a very beautiful thing, but the direction and the kingship and the governorship and
the state of my identity is in the spirit, and that needs to be the thing that the soul
and the body choose to come into alignment with to express.
So I highly recommend that you don't form your business with the intention of helping
people.
My clients don't always like what I have to say.
I always try to provide a very safe environment, but if they're being currently triggered because
of something that's going on in their life and that's why they're talking to me and they
are asking me a question, I'm telling you what, I can say the sweetest, nicest thing
and they will blow up because it's not about me.
So I can't take any of those things personally, and why can I not take any of those things
personally?
I understand my success, what God thinks of me, my identity is not wrapped up in their
response, but if I decided that my business was framed for the purpose of helping other
people and they're not being helped, then I failed and then there's a problem, and that's
not true.
Why does God tell me to have a business?
He said, Ashley, I want to be made visible who you and I actually are.
Make it known, make it visible, and anybody else who likes the sound and that it resonates
with can choose to come into your world.
Anybody who likes hearing you live out loud can enter your world, and then they can receive
an impartation of what it is that you have, what it is that you have overcome.
That is what you're giving.
You are, you are being a life-giving spirit, so I recommend operating your businesses,
you know, from that, from that perspective, and any new decisions, you know, for those
of you that are already, you know, way in the middle of your businesses and maybe you're
like decades in, you know, whenever you come up with, again, whenever you come to new decisions,
whenever the father starts prompting, you know, and the winds of change start coming,
you start kind of wondering, don't always think of a, don't always think of change coming
as a potential threat that always has to be avoided or always has to be defended against.
It's just like, okay, here's a change that's coming, all right, let's see how it affects
it.
Okay, our motivation, so people have asked then, well, then what is your motivation,
you know, for what, actually, what should be my motivation for my business then?
Because my motivation has been to help people, so if I shouldn't, if it's, if I'm more free,
if I don't do that, where am I getting my motivation from?
God, once we discover God, once we shift into that place of rest, I know it's hard to describe
on the outside, saying this in logical terms, but when you experience it, when you encounter
God, He's enough.
And you do because you enjoy.
You do because you like.
You do because it's who you are.
God moves, and He doesn't need, and always is in constant motion, is in constant movement.
He's His own motivation.
He doesn't need something else to be happening outside in order to motivate Him to action.
Why does, how does God continue to move forward?
How do we continue to move forward?
Because we're, because it's the essence of who it is that we are.
In the very fiber of our DNA, there's life, so therefore there's movement, so therefore
we move.
Because that's who it is that I am, and that's my characteristic, and that's my personality.
That's what, this is me, moving is me being me.
That propels you forward.
You enjoy it.
It's like, Lord, you and I, I get to learn more about you.
I get to discover more about you.
You and I are developing a relationship, and while we're developing a relationship, how
our relationship is developing is manifesting.
But the focus is on this, and this is just, but then we send out intention that it might
be made visible, but the point is the relationship with God, not God telling us something, and
yes, sir, I'll make sure to make you pleased.
God didn't send you to earth with an assignment.
I don't know about you.
I was told that my whole life.
That is a big word that churches use.
You have an assignment.
No, you do not.
You do not have an assignment of, you were supposed to go and do this, and that is your
purpose.
Now, yes, we may have an assignment, but what I mean is like, I should have clarified that,
is all of the assumptions that we associate with the word assignment.
We associate purpose with assignment.
We associate, oh, well, that's the whole point.
That's what I'm being directed towards.
It's what I'm being commanded.
There's always something outside of God and I, and he's always pointing to it, and therefore,
no wonder we think it's a threat, and your assignment, your core assignment, your core
purpose is relationship with God, and then working together with him, sending out together
your collective and intentional will that that thing might be made visible.
That is your assignment.
Oh, I don't know if I can.
Like I said, might just need to rewind the live stream, that, you know, well, I think
this is what I said, that us together, us together with our conjoined will with God,
is that that one?
Us together with our conjoined will, our conjoined will with God, we are, our purpose is to develop,
develop relationship.
And in that relationship, it's our, we're supposed to join our wills together and in
intention make our relationship visible.
Is that, or was it something that I said after that?
Something I said after that?
I'm sorry.
I said it in the spirit.
I don't know.
Okay, okay, good.
I'm sorry.
You can go back on the live stream if you want to.
I'm going to have to go back on the live stream and see what it is that I said.
Because understand that when I say that, when I say that I speak things that I don't know,
well, my spirit knows them, who it is that I am knows them and understand that what it
is that I speak, I own and I live.
But when I say I didn't know it, meaning like I've lived it, but I've never articulated
it to myself before.
So I've never realized that's what it is that I was doing, but I was still living it.
That's what allows me to speak with a particular measure of what we refer to in the spirit,
what is referred to by God in the spirit as a particular spiritual authority.
And meaning that what it is that we speak, the truth came from God and therefore God
allowed me to carry it and being authorized as the carrier, the message has weight.
It's not authority of in like a hierarchy.
It's authority of a responsibility that I'm held accountable to.
But anyway, so, and with that, with whatever it is that you live and whatever it is that
you have overcome, you then in that authority and in carrying a message, you're not carrying
words, you're carrying what it is that you own, a word that came from the Lord that you
received that you then owned, and then if I've owned it and I've overcome in that way,
I then have it to give to you. And what took me years to hack through the jungle with a
butter knife for, I blazed a trail for you, and so it's easier for you to follow, but
you still have to walk the trail. So that's what each of us is doing. I was talking to
somebody else about this right before the break, and we'll be talking about this more
in the next session, yeah, more in the next session, but is the fact that when, is that
each of us is overcoming, is called to overcome in certain aspects of life, certain aspects
of the flesh, certain aspects of creation, is called to overcome. In other words, what
overcoming means is to bring it into alignment, replacing that which was flesh with spirit,
because flesh can die and is corruptible, and God says, I don't want there to be anything
that you have to deal with or anything that's part of you that can be removed and taken
away and that can die. I'm going to replace all of it, he says, with that which can never
die. So that's what overcoming is. When you are overcoming, then you are, you're overcoming
the flesh in particular areas of your life. When all of these manifestations come up to
you and declare to you that God isn't who he says that he is, you overcome by saying,
no, God is who he says that he is, to such a degree that you own it, and then you, and
you have settled into it so much that your intention then went, and your faith was real,
so action was put to it, and intention was sent forth into creation, and it changed it.
That is overcoming. And every time you overcome, I get to benefit, because your victory, being
one in Christ with me, your victory is my victory. You died, you went through all of
the pain that you did. You overcame the world and creation and so many aspects of all of
these, all of these accusations that you had against the Lord, all of these difficult pains
and struggles that you went through and lessons that you learned, that we like to refer to
as lessons that we learned. You, when you overcame all of those things, you had victory
for the body of Christ, and I got to receive the benefit as a third-party beneficiary,
and the rest of the body of Christ does as well. We follow our Christ's example in the fact that
each of us is called to die that the others might live. That is what it means to, what it means to
overcome. He who has overcome and carries a particular, yeah, he who has overcome can then
impart that to other people. And just like what it says in the Bible, it says,
he who honors a prophet gets a prophet's reward. He didn't have to go through what the prophet
went through, but by honoring what the prophet did and what the prophet went through and receiving
that because it was of God and it was of the Lord, then they get to benefit from what the prophet
overcame by honoring it. I'm sorry, did you have a question?
He who overcomes will inherit all things.
Yes, yes, and that one too, yes. He who overcomes will inherit all things.
So collective, so we need each other. We're not enemies against one another. Each, and it's very
important that no matter how much we dislike or get frustrated with certain members of society,
they were put on earth to overcome a certain aspect of creation. They were called to die in
some way that you might benefit by living, and you didn't have to go through what they went through
for you. We're following Christ in that example, in the fact that each of us is dying that the
others might live. So I feel like I just kind of like dropped that one in there. So let me finish
with this really, really quick. So you don't want to try to help people and meaning like that doesn't,
you don't want that to be the purpose. Oh, well, I want to create a business in order to help
people, and that's my motivation. Then you're subject to, if they don't want to receive your
help, then you don't feel that your business was successful because that was the reason that you
attributed to your business. That's the motivation that keeps you going, getting up in the morning,
and you don't want that to be the motivation. It's you getting to live and
Breathe who it is that you are, meaning that your business and how you flow in it is effortless.
Very, very effortless.
It does not mean everything is smooth.
I know this from personal experience, but it does mean that everything is effortless.
So the last thing that I want to say is don't teach what you want someone to have, meaning
like don't make that your purpose, and this includes for your children.
Oh my word, I want so badly for them to have this.
What we need to understand is that our children, something that we see in our children, that
we desire for our children, that is actually a mirror of what it is that they need is not
something outside of us.
God said he knew that they had a need, and so he gave them us.
We, our spirits, are what they need, and if we are not shifted into our spirit in union
with God because we're afraid of him, but we want our children to have God, well, for
one thing, yes, it's very hypocritical, but for another, we don't have anything to help
them on that journey.
Whenever, remember what we were talking about earlier, is that when we want something for
someone else, it requires our death, our sacrifice.
It calls us to give something, and what is that death, that sacrifice?
In order for them to have it, in order for me to be able to give that to them, I have
to have it myself, and the only way that I can have it is that I sacrifice everything
that I haven't wanted to sacrifice this far.
I make myself vulnerable to a God that I have felt very unsafe with, and I have to unite
myself with him.
You don't want to, so you don't want your purpose in interacting with another person
to teach them something, well, like with the business, let's stay with the business terminology
because otherwise, like I said, it can get confusing.
If you're a coach, consultant, if you're, I don't know, you provide some kind of a service,
do not, and you're looking for a subject matter.
How to interact with your client.
What do I give them?
What do I teach them?
What knowledge do I impart to them, you know, whatever.
I highly recommend that you don't teach what you want someone to have because it's an unhealthy
way to help someone is by teaching because you want them to have something.
The way that you impart that to someone else is you live it, you be it, and you give the
earth who it is that you are, so your friends, your spouse, your children, your business,
whoever will naturally receive, will naturally be able to have, be able to receive it because
that's what you're giving.
So don't teach by, of course, you know, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, of,
you know, just like, oh, well, this is what you, this is what you should know.
I want you, I want your life to be changed by this.
Wouldn't this be wonderful if you had this, and da, da, da, da, and kind of, what I'm
talking about, I'm not saying that we can't have conversations with people and we can't,
and we can't teach.
I mean, I'm teaching right now, right?
It's not that we don't teach, I'm, I'm really, I've, I apologize if I haven't worded it in
such a way that makes sense easy, but the problem is that we have, I'm using a phrase
that we often, that people often use as, as a motivation of why it is that they're, they're
doing what it is that they're doing, especially for, for instance, interacting with children.
They, they, they want them to have this, or I want my client to have this.
I know that they could have so much freedom if they had this.
No, no, no.
In order to give them that, don't teach what you know and what you want them to have.
You be you, and they're going to naturally receive what it is that is going to be the
most powerful and transformative force in their life.
As opposed to you determining according to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
I know the godly things that, that, that they need and that I want them to have.
It's from a wrong perspective.
It's not that, I mean, you do, you do want other people to have things.
That's a good thing.
There's nothing wrong with that.
I'm talking about the place from which you're doing all of these things.
I'm talking about the source.
So I, in ministry, what it is that I teach, I don't teach you what I want you to have.
I teach you, I teach you what I live.
I teach you the most important principles that God has put on my heart right now that
I literally live out and put my life, my money, and literally every single relationship I
I have every single one, and I've even put God in this category before as well, and then
he and I moved through that, and it's all okay, but even he had to go through that fire.
He required me to put my idea of him through that fire, not himself through that fire,
but my idea of who it is that I thought he was through that fire.
I put everything on the line for all of these things that I teach.
I teach the things that bring me alive, and that I get excited about, and would you know
that when I did that, that it actually created what it is that you've heard here at the
conference.
It flows together, it connects, and it makes sense.
I did not plan that.
I lived this, and as I began to teach it, I realized that I have hardly had to change
a thing from jumping on a Facebook Live, hardly having prepared at all, and started to teach
something.
And then I did the next Facebook Live, hardly preparing at all, and had to teach something,
but I taught from what it is that I had owned and lived, and would you know that I ended
up, because I live it, and because I own it, I ended up teaching it in the order that it
should be taught.
In other words, the order in which it makes sense.
I didn't try that, but my spirit knew that the spirit operates within order.
I've had to change a few things, so I'm not trying to make it sound like something that
it's not.
I'm just trying to give you a very general idea, is that the power of the spirit is very,
very strong, and we're relying too much on our head knowledge, and what it is that we
know or that we don't know, to determine our success in, have I been a good wife, have
I had a good marriage, am I a good parent, have I built a successful business, is God
pleased with me?
We've put it too much, put the emphasis and our reliance too much on what it is that we
thought that we had to know, what it is that we thought we had to know, as opposed to knowing,
as opposed to realizing, no, it just comes out of who it is that we are.
There's nothing wrong with you that has to be overridden by something you learn.
You're not broken.
You're not wrong.
You do not have bad ideas.
You do not make bad decisions, that someone smarter than you can tell you why that won't
work, but we've been trained, when we came up with all kinds of creative ideas as children,
you know, that parents or pastors or school teachers or whatever corrected us on, and
so we thought, and they would say, no, no, no, that's not how you do that, no, no, that's
a dumb idea, don't you understand, that will never work, and we'd say, we got to this point
where we think, I don't come up with good ideas, I don't make good decisions, and that's
false, but we do need to make sure that every place that we're getting all of our decisions
and our ideas from is from the spirit.
If we're trying to rely on the soul, the only thing that the soul has to rely on is knowledge,
and that's just going to fail us, which is why, when we were stamped out and our spirits
felt squashed and stifled, the only fallback was the soul, and the only fuel for the soul,
if it's going to squelch the spirit, is knowledge, so we pursued knowledge because it was our
only savior, because we had dictated that it would be so, we put ourselves in that position.
My point is, all of this is very, very freeing.
You're not limited by that, you're in Christ, you have access to know all things, to have
all wisdom, you intrinsically, who it is that you actually are, is very wise, makes very
good business decisions, very good relationship decisions, you know what to do.
Your hindrance is if you think you don't.
That is what causes the hangup, because again, remember what we were talking about manipulation,
you want to take it, in order to manipulate someone, which is what we're tempted with,
you know, that Satan or circumstances or whatever tempts us with, is to decide that what it
is that we have is a bad thing, and we use it to destroy it, to turn it on ourselves
and to destroy ourselves, that these decisions that I have and these decisions that I make,
these things are bad, they create destruction in myself and others, and it's absolutely
not true, you can know that intrinsically, deep within you, you are actually good, because
you're the new man who's perfect, you are not a sinner saved by grace, you are no longer
a sinner, you are good, you make good decisions, you make wise decisions, but do it all out
of who it is that you are in the seed of your identity in the spirit, not the soul.
Okay, I think that I've already mentioned everything.
One more thing that I, maybe it'll help.
Yeah, and then, yeah, I don't think we have, yeah,
the song is done for the next session.
It's just the fact that, again, motivation.
I just, I thought, I wondered the same thing.
Okay, God, what is my motivation then in having a business
or in having a ministry or in getting up in the morning?
And he said, enjoy me and enjoy me being you.
Exemplified, again, by marriage.
In intimacy and marriage, it's beyond, and we're talking
like a particularly physical intimacy.
Yes, there is value in both the male and the female.
However, the way that it actually works is
that in intimacy, there is, and in the engagement,
let's see if I can figure out how to say this in a way
that'll make sense.
Not only is the man enjoying the woman, but the two
of them together are enjoying the woman.
That's not perverted.
That's not what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about the fact that that is part of the enjoyment
of the experience is celebrating an aspect of a beauty
that she most strongly exemplifies.
The reason I wanted to point that out is, and so people,
you know, you listen to, you know, marriage counselors
and especially people who help, especially counselors
who help people in this particular intimate area.
This is what they say.
This is what they say is actually going on.
The reason I wanted to point that out is that's going
on with us in God.
It is, God says, when you and I are unified together,
what it is that we're enjoying is not just simply you enjoying
me and me, or, you know, God saying you enjoying me
and me enjoying you.
It's also the two of us in our union enjoying how amazing
that you are.
I know that that sounds weird, but I'm not the one
who created that idea.
I'm not the, it's, you know, it's created by the Lord
and to the point where he always puts types and shadows
of the truth of principles out in creation, and he created
that in men and women, and I think
that it was actually non-Christians
who discovered that in their research and in their trying
to understand, okay, what really is going on?
Why do, you know, why do people enjoy the physical intimacy
in marriage so much?
Where's the enjoyment coming from?
Where it's really going on in the whole,
in the whole interchange?
They discovered this,
but we know what it's actually a type and a shadow of.
We understand that it is a fractal principle
that can be traced all the way back to the micro principle
of the fact that God says, no, I want you
and me when we're together.
You're enjoying me for me.
I'm enjoying you for you, but then to the two of us together,
I want us to, part of the celebration is how amazing it is
that you are, and we're celebrating that thing together.
God created something that he desired.
We're not more powerful than God.
We're not saying that we're just more special
or more desirable than God.
We're saying that he said that in the interchange and in our
union with him that we are so special that part of the,
part of the highest pleasure of that union with him is
in the enjoyment of the bride.
You have permission to be enjoyed by God.
So when you're going through life, be enjoyed.
Don't just accept the fact that God, that God and, you know,
okay, well, God says that he enjoys me,
so I'm going to take him in his word.
So I'm going to spend all of my effort, energy, and time
on the fact that I believe that, and, you know,
that I actually enjoy God.
Well, it's more than that.
God's like, no, no, no, enjoy you.
Because I enjoy you.
So together, invite me to do it together.
Don't enjoy yourself by yourself.
It's in union, because that's a perversion, right?
Even, even all the way back to the spiritual principle.
We're not ever supposed to be in isolation.
God says, in me, with me, we together are celebrating you.
So when I go through my life, that is part of my motivation
when I wake up in the morning.
I receive the fact that I'm enjoyed.
I don't just accept and acknowledge the fact
that I enjoyed, that I'm enjoyed.
I receive it, because I'm choosing to receive God's word.
I'm choosing, God says, I want to give myself to you, Ashley.
This is how I'm giving myself to you.
And so I'm like, okay, this is what you give of yourself to me, you're giving yourself
to me as word, your word says that I am enjoyed.
And so I received that, and I'm going to act on it.
So I wake up every morning, and I had and I had to I had to choose this, that, that
I in that I enjoy God, and that he's enjoying me.
And I allow myself to be enjoyed.
That's part of the and what's what's the what's the word, I wish I could think of the word.
And it's, um, I don't know, I can't think of the term, unfortunately, at the moment,
because it's a really good word.
But it's a very special aspect of the feminine to enjoy being enjoyed.
Men are attracted to women who enjoy themselves.
They like a woman knowing who it is that she are that she is.
And the fact that she enjoys being that they love it, I don't know why, don't ask me, but
that's what they've told me.
So and, but it makes sense, because that's a type of shadow of our God.
And that's the whole point of the conversation is not necessarily hopefully y'all are getting
help, you know, in the in the physical with all kinds of things that we're talking about.
But the point is, of what is what is that?
And it was only supposed to it was supposed to be a picture to point us to something that
we can't see, and to choose that that's what's going on, and to choose to live our lives
like that.
That's our motivation.
So I, I really, really, really enjoy myself.
When I discovered who God made me to be, I thought, Oh, I like this person, I'm glad
out of all the people in the world, that I get to be with this aspect of God expressing
itself on the earth 24 seven.
And I wouldn't want to do or be anyone else.
But I could only like that when he identified me first.
It's not that I went around and picked all of these personalities and characteristics
that I liked.
And I thought, okay, well, you know, if I kind of collect all of those, when that's
going to create the type of person that I want to be.
No, I let my God define me and when I and I found God in me, and I thought, I like that
I like how he expresses this particular aspect of himself in a particular way.
When I make these particular gestures, when I talk in when I talk in a particular way,
the fact that I am so analytical, and the fact that I am very intense, very expressive.
I had to, when I realized I was enjoyed that those things brought my God pleasure, then
I found pleasure in me.
So it's very important that you receive the fact that you're enjoyed, and that you take
part in act in the actively take part in enjoying that is taking God at his word.
So best you didn't think that you were gonna hear that tonight, but there you go.
Okay, so we're gonna break for 10 minutes, and then we'll get back to governing creation
in business and relationship through leadership.