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So what we will start out talking about tonight is how to, it's a continuation of how to operate

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in the spirit.

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This section is a bit of a segue between what we talked about in the last session of operating

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in the spirit and then what we'll be talking about in the second half of tonight, which

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is talking about how to govern creation from a place of rest, how to actually stand in

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kinship to the point where something actually, I'm liking this, where things can have a choice

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of responding.

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Hopefully that stops.

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And they have a choice of responding, but right now what I wanted to give some extra

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special attention to, and also in the second half of tonight, in the second session, we're

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going to be talking more about how to operate in spirit within relationships.

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Because I've noticed while we've been talking about it a little bit now, the majority of

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the relationship questions that people have about how to operate within rest is related

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to how to interact with something that they are struggling with.

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In other words, the person is being difficult or they're wanting to understand how to guide

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their children appropriately or how to interact with a spouse when they disagree with a spouse,

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that kind of thing.

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So because most of my relationship questions that I get come from that perspective, I usually

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put relationships under the governing creation from rest.

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Because you are standing in a position of government when we're interacting in those

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situations.

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So anyway, we're going to move that one to that section.

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But the majority of what we're going to focus on while we are going to talk in aspect of

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relationships, the majority of what we'll be talking about tonight is within the context

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of business and using a lot of business terminology.

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Because a lot of people here have businesses, a shocking amount have their own businesses

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or have a desire to start their own businesses.

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And understand that this principle, what we were talking about earlier, however we apply

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things in business, we apply it the same way in relationships and in finances.

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But I'm just going to be using business terminology when I'm talking about all of this.

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But understand that it can be applied, the exact things that we'll be talking about in

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this session can be applied in relationships and in finances as well.

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But like I said, we'll be using a lot of business terminology.

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And before, let's see, okay.

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So when we're trying to enter our world and we're trying to bring spirit into it, what

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we don't want to do is to think, okay, well, I want something to be accomplished in my

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business or in a relationship or in finances and then ask God to join you in your world

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so that y'all can fix it.

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You want to remember, God always wants to be chosen first.

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So you insert yourself into Christ first, in other words, choosing that you are who

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he says that you are, you shift into that position first.

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You join God.

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You enter God and then together you then enter your world.

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As opposed to, Lord, here I am, I'm starting from a position believing I'm abandoned and

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alone by you.

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This is my world.

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I want you to come help me.

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God says, no, no, no, no, it's all about your relationship with me, your union with me.

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So we're going to start here.

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So if you're struggling with your world and like, Lord, why is my business not being successful?

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Why does my marriage look like this?

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Why does my issues with my children look like this?

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Why does, whatever, I want you to come help me.

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Show me what to do.

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Show me how to partner with you.

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But we're starting from the position of being here asking God to come and God takes it so

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very seriously.

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He's like, uh-uh, I must always be chosen first.

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You must always choose your relationship with me first.

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So leave your problem, leave your world.

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Stop calling me to reconcile, to reconcile what's going on and the issue that's going

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on and bring my character in it to be inserted in the situation to change it.

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He said, no, no, no, you need to choose my character regardless of how it ends up manifesting.

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So we always start from this position.

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You insert yourself.

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into Christ and yourself and God, which you already are.

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My point is we're bringing our consciousness

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and our intention into that position

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that I am who God says that I am.

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God is who he says that he is

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to the extent that he says that he is that.

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And this is what God has declared his character should be

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and so therefore, that's what I'm gonna choose.

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And then together, the two of you then enter your world.

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Your world isn't yours that you own

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and you're giving God permission to come in.

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You and God operate together

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and then the whole purpose of our existence

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is that relationship and is that union

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and now you're bringing who it is

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that the two of you are together

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and you're making that thing visible.

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You're making it visible in your business.

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You're making who you and God are together

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visible in your marriage.

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You're making who you and God are together.

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You're making that visible in your finances.

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That's what you're doing.

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Your businesses and your finances and your relationships

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aren't supposed to look a particular way

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and so you need the magic of the character of God

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to make it happen.

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The whole point of what it is that you're doing

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is manifesting who it is that you are

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so you have to be the thing first.

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And then finally, your business, your finances

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and your relationship should stem from that.

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So don't invite God into your world.

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Enter God in union with him

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and then the two of you then enter your world.

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So in interactions with other people,

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again, specifically talking about business,

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when you are, I think I have,

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how do I, I'm trying to think of the order

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in which I want to explain this.

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Excuse me.

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Okay, so let's start off with talking about

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if you're creating a business.

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Same thing again, if it's relationships or finances

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but we're gonna use the terminology of business.

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So when you're creating a business,

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like say you have a particular dream

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of what you want your business to look like,

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maybe you already know the industry that it's going to be

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but you're wondering, yeah,

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but how do I want it to uniquely look

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and be different from all of the other things

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that are out there, all the other businesses

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that kind of can be described just like mine.

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What do I want mine to look like?

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What are the modalities, what are the services,

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what are the prices, what are the whatever?

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All of that needs to come from who it is that you are.

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And you can't make it that until you know who you are.

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You have to choose.

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Who does God say that I am in spirit,

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not what is it that I like and what's my personality

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because we already talked, we talked earlier

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about the fact that those are actually based

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on who it is that we believed that we were

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and a lot of that can come from lies

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that we're believing.

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So we can't trust that, so we're not going that.

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We're going all the way back

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to having to be so vulnerable with the Lord

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that we open ourselves up completely to him,

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fall into him, choose that our identity is found in him.

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That is that place of rest.

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Everything within you will go still.

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When you're in the place of rest,

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everything within you goes still.

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The whole world around you could be in chaos,

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but you're in complete stillness.

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A picture of this, very fascinatingly,

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is when Jesus was in the boat,

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you remember that the disciples were all in turmoil.

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Oh my goodness, the wind and the waves

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and it's knocking the boat about.

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It says in the Bible that the waves were splashing up

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over the side of the boat and that Jesus was asleep

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and I think it says in the stern.

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So in other words, Jesus was getting wet

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and he didn't find, not only did he not,

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and getting buffeted about by being in the boat

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as it's being tossed about by the wind and the waves.

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So his body, while he is so at rest,

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that he is asleep, being thrown around

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in the stern of the boat, in other words,

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what a thrown around means, it could just mean

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rolling and bumping up against something.

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But he's bumping up, he's getting splashed on

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and he doesn't find a need to even wake up.

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Let alone, as far as the disciples took it,

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of do you not care about us, we're all gonna die,

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what are we going to do?

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Jesus is so at rest, he doesn't even find it necessary

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to be alert.

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are not threatened by our circumstances.

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You can be completely at rest

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and everything around you can continue to storm.

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When they woke Jesus up, Jesus is like, okay, fine.

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So he goes and he tells it to be calm

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and then he gets onto them for not having the faith

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to know that they could have not only,

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not that they could have already done that themselves

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because they had the power and the authority to do so,

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but evidenced by the fact that he didn't even find

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the need to get up, he's like,

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you were never under threat in the first place.

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Do not let your environment dictate to you

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or tell you what is actually true

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and tell you that you're under threat

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or identify you or anything like that,

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let alone require that it have to be fixed.

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God does not always require that every situation

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that he was in had to be different

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than the chaotic way in which it presented itself.

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Now, he does intend for things to be in order.

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God doesn't, you know, things that are in absolute chaos

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are not reflecting the order of the Lord,

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but it doesn't mean that every time

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you see something chaotic and not in order

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that it has to be addressed.

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Jesus, the God of the universe,

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didn't even find the need to do so.

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So it's all okay, it's all okay.

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But I mentioned that, talking about the fact

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that I got there because I wanted to make a point

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about the fact that when we're at rest,

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there is this stillness within us,

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no matter what's going on, we're at peace.

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that we're thinking that the circumstances

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are bringing a certain impending doom,

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the impending doom may still happen.

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That's why we're at peace, because again,

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the doom that ends up coming,

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because it doesn't always come,

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but the doom that might sometimes end up coming,

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it doesn't matter if it comes or not,

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if it's not a threat to us.

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The reason why the whole doom coming and not coming

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and whatever is actually a valid point

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for us to even consider is we are eventually over time

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called to be, we're being matured so that

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if we see something out of order, we call it into order.

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That's the whole difference between,

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okay, doom coming or not coming.

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We're not under threat, that's not its meaning.

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That's not its significance in our lives.

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The significance in our lives is the fact

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that something is out of order in God's kingdom,

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God's kingdom, it is under God's kingdom,

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but in a sub kingdom underneath God's kingdom,

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the earth was given to man to have dominion over.

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it is not in alignment with who God is,

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and therefore I'm going to call it into alignment.

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But we're being matured into that until we get to that point

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and what he'll teach us how to practice that, et cetera,

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until we get to that point, it's very important

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that we not react the way that we've been reacting,

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which is seeing that the significance

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of those types of things is related to the fact that how,

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related to how it can affect me,

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and that's its significance, that it's saying something,

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it's saying I'm under threat, it is saying no such thing.

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It's just saying that it's out of alignment with God

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and it's frustrated, why?

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Because it's never been in the presence of a son of God.

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Because once it comes into the presence,

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once a son of God presents itself to him,

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it is, the son of God can present its freedom,

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can present its kingship, its lordship,

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and saying I'm here to protect and provide for you.

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I'm providing a protective and authoritative environment

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for you to function according to the way

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you were intended to function,

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and then it starts functioning like that.

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But we're not actually,

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but the significance is not that we're under threat.

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about if you wanted to start your business

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and, or maybe you've already started your business,

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like what we talked about earlier,

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and if something's going to have life in it,

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including your business, it's gonna have movement

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and therefore it's going to change,

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and therefore we're constantly presented with new decisions.

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Lord, I just got this figured out and you were happy,

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and now it's changing.

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and the reason why we're threatened by decisions

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is we think, is we believe that one,

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One of those decisions will condemn us and it's exhausting that we feel

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like we're constantly battling the potential of condemnation and trying to

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keep ourselves from it. But so if we realize that there is therefore now no

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condemnation then and we understand that when things change it's evidence of the

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fact that it's it's it's um has life in it then we won't feel threatened by by

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change and by the fact that oh my word there's one more decision to make in

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business and there is change and all of that. So regardless of what phase

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that you're in in your in your in your business this can also by the way go you

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can you can take this idea that I'm talking about and if you don't have your

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own business but you're an employee you can take it down to the employee level.

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In other words the you know the projects that are underneath your jurisdiction

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the staff that's underneath your jurisdiction you know think of it like

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that that that is your that's your kingdom so to speak even if you don't

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own it a whole company you are responsible for certain certain projects

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certain staff certain groups or whatever. And so you create your business not off

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of a really good idea that you think is going to sell. This is an ex-turnaround

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consultant that's telling you that. You don't do that because that's the tree of

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the knowledge of good and evil. It's not bad to do that. You can absolutely go

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with it with an idea that sells and God will tell you hey by the way this is

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gonna sell really well this is a really good idea do it. You know what that's

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called? It's called a good gift that God gave us which is called wisdom. Nothing

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wrong with any of these things. The problem is if we think that we need the

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market to tell us what will sell in order for a business that God has that

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and God has given us and put us on our hearts in order for it to be successful.

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That God has made a promise. The two of us today together are

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gonna execute something we're gonna see where it's gonna go but I need them to

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tell me how I can be successful. It's a major problem. So we can ask the market

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we can do market research you can figure out what we think might sell we can

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figure out what kind of services that people might like or how people might

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respond better to a certain to if the service came to them in a particular

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form versus another. Nothing wrong with that but if we think that we're

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dependent on it emotionally and evidence itself in emotions if if we run

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into a snag somewhere in the research and we get frustrated that means we

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relied on it. That's how we can we can know okay I thought that that could give

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me something and that my source was it and it's not giving me something and so

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I'm frustrated because it is threatening my ability to succeed with me and God.

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That's not true. So that so sometimes like like emotions like that will

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evidence the fact that we're actually that where it is that we think that our

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source is actually coming from. Instead what I recommend that you do you can do

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that is you can you can use market strategies you can do market research

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nothing wrong with that as long as you know you know what I'm fully and

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completely relying on the fact God is my source he's gonna make this thing

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successful but my God created the laws by which all of these things worked

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therefore everything is permissible for me to operate in and I can choose I'm a

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son of God which one do I want to use which business strategy which formula

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which which whatever God you and I together what do we want to do there's

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all this smorgasbord of ones which one do we want to do he said I think that

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you'd really go enjoy going to this business conference okay you get a

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business conference and you learn all kinds of strategies and he and then

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certain things just kind of like you know light your fire and you think

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that's a good one I feel I feel life coming to me coming within me when I

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when I think of implementing that particular idea that they came up with

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that that all of that's fine all of these things are very good things but

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God doesn't want us to rely on the gift and not the giver the whole point of the

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gift is to point us into it is to point us to realize how good the giver is so

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what I recommend another another way that you can what I recommend how I

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recommend approaching your business instead when you're making decisions

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about what kind of a business do I want to have or God's already told me the

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kind of business that I want to have that we're to have but what do I want it

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to look like how do I want it to stand how will it stand out and be different

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than how someone else runs this this same business for themselves you know

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what what is it that I want to do how do I how do I want it to work and one more

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thing I want to say

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Yeah, how it is that I want it to work or whatever, you instead of thinking, okay, I'm

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going to look outside of me, what has been proven to work?

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Instead of doing that, instead of relying on knowledge, rely on spirit.

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Who has God made you to be?

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And create a business off of who you are.

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Create a business off of what you have owned in your life.

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Create a business off of what you live.

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What you live and who you are.

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I don't mean the fact that, well, let's see, what do I do in life?

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I don't know.

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I use essential oils, so maybe I'm supposed to have an essential oil business.

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No, no, no.

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Who are you?

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Who are you?

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What gives you life?

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And it might be something that you're not currently exposed to, and so God says, I want

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you to learn this industry.

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And so when you learn that industry, you understand that in order to operate in that industry,

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it's pulling at your greatest, lack of a better phrase, your greatest strengths.

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It is allowing who it is that you actually are, which has never had an opportunity and

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a chance in your life thus far to have an expression.

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You never knew that this thing existed and that you could express yourself in this way,

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and finally, for the first time in your life, you feel more alive than ever.

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So I'm not saying that you have to look at what it is you already know about yourself

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or what it is that you're already experiencing.

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My point is that whatever it is that you choose, whether it's into a known, whether it's into

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an industry that you know or an industry that you don't, it all needs to be based off

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of the fact that the life source to keep that thing alive is coming from you.

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Who it is that you are that's expressing who you and God are and your relationship are

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together, how that looks when that invisible, priceless relationship is made visible.

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When it's made visible in the form of the business, that's what it looks like.

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When it's made visible in the form of relationships, this is what it looks like.

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When my relationship with God is made visible in the form of finances, this is what it looks

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like, at least in this season, right now, because my relationship with God, again, is

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ever-changing.

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It's ever-changing because it has life in it, it's constantly moving.

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Therefore, everything that comes out of it is also going to change and also going to move.

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I'm going to say some really big shockers here, especially to people who coach or consult.

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I have done business consulting, I have done life coaching, I do spiritual mentoring now,

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I've done all kinds of things, I've done all of them, and this is the same principle

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across everything.

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It's something that I was never told, and I just had to learn by experience.

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I highly recommend that when you are coaching, consulting, teaching, including—I'm a little

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concerned about saying this one because it might sound very confusing, but I'm going

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to say it anyway.

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When you are trying to interact with another human being about anything, it could be a

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parent, it could be a child, it could be a spouse, it could be a friend, it could be

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whatever, it could be your boss, an employer, it could be a staff, it could be whoever.

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It's the same, but I'll talk about it related to a client.

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When you are trying to serve others, meaning like you're interacting with them and you

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are giving something of yourself to them, giving of your spirit to them, what it is

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that I highly recommend is do not—when you're thinking of what motivation that you're coming

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from when you are interacting with your clients, I highly recommend do not build your business

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and all of the reasons for why you build your business the way that you do in order

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to try to help them.

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Do not build your business to try to help people.

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knowledge of good and evil.

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It sounds godly, right?

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Well, we're supposed to help people.

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We're supposed to be loving.

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We're supposed to be there.

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We're supposed to be there.

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servants. You know, we use all of these godly terms and we've misunderstood them.

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You do not want helping, it's not that we don't want to help people, that's

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perfectly fine, but we don't, in our business, the point of our business

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should not be to try to help people and that be the point and that be the

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purpose because then we are, then we are making ourselves victim to how they

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respond and whether or not they choose to receive our help because we've

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already declared that the only way that our business is successful is if they're

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helped and you are in no control of that. They have to choose whether or not they

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receive what it is you have to say and what it is you have to give and whether

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or not they're helped. So you're leaving yourself vulnerable and open and you're

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in the very, the very purpose that you have declared for your business, you have

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left it in control of people who are, who are very fickle and are being

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buffeted about in their own lives, by their own circumstances, by their own

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backgrounds and with whatever baggage of trauma that they have come to

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you with. And so I can, I don't have a ministry that started as a business and

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the Lord evolved it into a ministry. That was a very interesting and difficult

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transition for the Lord to take me in for a variety of reasons. But it's not

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that I didn't, that I didn't love it. I had, I had traumas related to the word

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ministry just like business. And so it's, my hang-up, words are very

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important to me. I have a degree in English and words are very important to

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me and so there's so much wrapped up in words and the word business

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bothered me until the Lord began to heal me of that. And the Lord said, okay, now

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we're gonna evolve it into ministry. I'm like, Lord, I've had experience with that

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and I want nothing to do with that word. I want to help people, I want to, I want to

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serve people in the spiritual world, but I don't want to be associated with

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everything that I thought had to come with that word. So anyway, my point is

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that the Lord really had to, had to transition me and heal me in, in some

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areas because it's simply my traumas of how I've interpreted things. Nothing

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wrong with either, either word, but anyway, I did not, I didn't create my

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business nor do I, nor do I, do I have my current ministry, excuse me, in order to

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help people because you have to choose whether or not your life has changed. You

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have to choose whether or not you receive what it is that I say and

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whether or not it ends up affecting you. That can't be my reason in my

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relationship with the Lord of why I'm doing what it is that I'm doing. I am

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having a ministry, this ministry that I have, that as, that as enters Rest Ministries,

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is, is actually me being me. This is me choosing to live life with the, with

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the Lord and together he and I have talked about, okay, what is it that we

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want to do? How is it that we want to live? Who is it that we are together and

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let's make that visible? And all of a sudden this appeared. All of a sudden it

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morphed into this. And so if you are helped by it because you choose to

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receive it, that is wonderful, but that is up to you. But I am, I am doing this

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because this is who I am, this is how I live. I am making my relationship with

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God visible. My relationship with God is what you've been seeing this weekend. I

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know you haven't been seeing all me, I'm just, I'm just talking like general, very

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general terms. This is me living out loud. This is me and my relationship with

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God living out loud and putting it on display, expressing it. And you can choose

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whether or not your spirit resonates with my expression of who it is that I

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truly am. That is why I do what I do and I highly recommend that y'all do the

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same thing. It's the same thing, you know, back when I used to call it, when I used

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to, when it used to be formed a bit more as, as a business, I was doing the same

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thing. I just thought, who, who are the Lord and I together and, and how do, how

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do I want it to look? Well, I don't know, I think a Facebook group might be a good

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idea. I'll do a Facebook group. I've never done a Facebook group before. I'll do a

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Facebook group and I don't know, maybe it'll be a coaching program and maybe I'll

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throw this in and I don't know if this will work, but I'm gonna try it. And then,

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and then it just kind of morphed into what it's actually become, which is the

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Rest Intensive Coaching Program. But that was me just being me. That was me just

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living. And I would just get on private consultations with people, have no

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warning, warning as to their questions. I still don't, you know, when I'm in private

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consultations, I have no idea what someone's gonna throw at me. I don't know.

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I just have to, I have to just live it. I just have to be, I always have to talk

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out of my spirit. So that's what I'm doing now.

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I'm just talking out of my spirit.

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So if you were to ask me what it is that I said a few sentences ago, I don't remember.

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I heard it because it's me, but my soul isn't engaged.

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There's an aspect of it that it is, but it's not taking the wheel.

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It said, no, no, no, no, I'm the gateway and I'm allowing who it is that I am in spirit.

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I'm allowing that to dictate it to be the expression that all of us, soul and body end

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up manifesting and being made visible.

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And so when we speak out of our spirit, we answer things that we didn't know that we

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knew because our spirit knows all things.

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So when I speak, my soul learns things.

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I record all of my teachings so I can go back and watch them because I don't remember what

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I said.

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I'm not saying I'm in a trance.

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I'm not in a trance.

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I'm saying my spirit is saying things that my soul didn't know.

470
00:31:01.160 --> 00:31:03.840
My soul had never heard that thing before.

471
00:31:03.840 --> 00:31:11.800
So anyway, I have learned to live in every area of my life, not just in business, my

472
00:31:11.800 --> 00:31:16.600
personal relationships, my finances, you know, I don't know, just decisions that I make about

473
00:31:16.600 --> 00:31:19.640
my car, whatever.

474
00:31:19.640 --> 00:31:23.400
Who are God and I together?

475
00:31:23.400 --> 00:31:29.440
That new chemical reaction, you know, sodium and chloride, God and me, sodium and chlorine,

476
00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:34.880
God and me, when it becomes sodium chloride, when it becomes this new entity, if that is

477
00:31:34.880 --> 00:31:40.280
made visible so that everybody else can see it and so that that which is birthed from

478
00:31:40.280 --> 00:31:47.000
heaven enters the earth, the earth can then be transformed.

479
00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:52.600
That is why it is so important for me to be the expression of my spirit because that can

480
00:31:52.600 --> 00:31:55.520
change creation.

481
00:31:55.520 --> 00:31:58.840
Now my soul is involved, absolutely, because my soul is a very, very good thing.

482
00:31:58.840 --> 00:32:06.840
It's a very beautiful thing, but the direction and the kingship and the governorship and

483
00:32:06.840 --> 00:32:12.320
the state of my identity is in the spirit, and that needs to be the thing that the soul

484
00:32:12.320 --> 00:32:16.040
and the body choose to come into alignment with to express.

485
00:32:16.040 --> 00:32:25.840
So I highly recommend that you don't form your business with the intention of helping

486
00:32:25.840 --> 00:32:26.920
people.

487
00:32:26.920 --> 00:32:31.400
My clients don't always like what I have to say.

488
00:32:31.400 --> 00:32:36.360
I always try to provide a very safe environment, but if they're being currently triggered because

489
00:32:36.360 --> 00:32:39.240
of something that's going on in their life and that's why they're talking to me and they

490
00:32:39.240 --> 00:32:43.640
are asking me a question, I'm telling you what, I can say the sweetest, nicest thing

491
00:32:43.880 --> 00:32:48.520
and they will blow up because it's not about me.

492
00:32:48.520 --> 00:32:52.480
So I can't take any of those things personally, and why can I not take any of those things

493
00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:53.480
personally?

494
00:32:53.480 --> 00:33:01.680
I understand my success, what God thinks of me, my identity is not wrapped up in their

495
00:33:01.680 --> 00:33:08.320
response, but if I decided that my business was framed for the purpose of helping other

496
00:33:08.320 --> 00:33:14.880
people and they're not being helped, then I failed and then there's a problem, and that's

497
00:33:14.880 --> 00:33:15.880
not true.

498
00:33:15.880 --> 00:33:16.880
Why does God tell me to have a business?

499
00:33:16.880 --> 00:33:22.520
He said, Ashley, I want to be made visible who you and I actually are.

500
00:33:22.520 --> 00:33:27.640
Make it known, make it visible, and anybody else who likes the sound and that it resonates

501
00:33:27.640 --> 00:33:30.600
with can choose to come into your world.

502
00:33:30.600 --> 00:33:35.760
Anybody who likes hearing you live out loud can enter your world, and then they can receive

503
00:33:35.840 --> 00:33:43.600
an impartation of what it is that you have, what it is that you have overcome.

504
00:33:43.600 --> 00:33:45.480
That is what you're giving.

505
00:33:45.480 --> 00:33:52.880
You are, you are being a life-giving spirit, so I recommend operating your businesses,

506
00:33:52.880 --> 00:33:57.480
you know, from that, from that perspective, and any new decisions, you know, for those

507
00:33:57.480 --> 00:34:00.600
of you that are already, you know, way in the middle of your businesses and maybe you're

508
00:34:00.600 --> 00:34:06.520
like decades in, you know, whenever you come up with, again, whenever you come to new decisions,

509
00:34:06.520 --> 00:34:11.560
whenever the father starts prompting, you know, and the winds of change start coming,

510
00:34:11.560 --> 00:34:17.199
you start kind of wondering, don't always think of a, don't always think of change coming

511
00:34:17.199 --> 00:34:22.280
as a potential threat that always has to be avoided or always has to be defended against.

512
00:34:22.280 --> 00:34:26.840
It's just like, okay, here's a change that's coming, all right, let's see how it affects

513
00:34:26.840 --> 00:34:27.840
it.

514
00:34:27.840 --> 00:34:40.520
Okay, our motivation, so people have asked then, well, then what is your motivation,

515
00:34:40.520 --> 00:34:45.639
you know, for what, actually, what should be my motivation for my business then?

516
00:34:45.639 --> 00:34:56.040
Because my motivation has been to help people, so if I shouldn't, if it's, if I'm more free,

517
00:34:56.040 --> 00:34:59.920
if I don't do that, where am I getting my motivation from?

518
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:09.160
God, once we discover God, once we shift into that place of rest, I know it's hard to describe

519
00:35:09.160 --> 00:35:15.040
on the outside, saying this in logical terms, but when you experience it, when you encounter

520
00:35:15.040 --> 00:35:18.120
God, He's enough.

521
00:35:18.120 --> 00:35:21.280
And you do because you enjoy.

522
00:35:21.280 --> 00:35:23.120
You do because you like.

523
00:35:23.120 --> 00:35:26.600
You do because it's who you are.

524
00:35:26.600 --> 00:35:33.000
God moves, and He doesn't need, and always is in constant motion, is in constant movement.

525
00:35:33.000 --> 00:35:35.680
He's His own motivation.

526
00:35:35.680 --> 00:35:41.000
He doesn't need something else to be happening outside in order to motivate Him to action.

527
00:35:41.000 --> 00:35:43.360
Why does, how does God continue to move forward?

528
00:35:43.360 --> 00:35:45.680
How do we continue to move forward?

529
00:35:45.680 --> 00:35:49.240
Because we're, because it's the essence of who it is that we are.

530
00:35:49.240 --> 00:35:53.840
In the very fiber of our DNA, there's life, so therefore there's movement, so therefore

531
00:35:53.840 --> 00:35:55.240
we move.

532
00:35:55.240 --> 00:35:59.480
Because that's who it is that I am, and that's my characteristic, and that's my personality.

533
00:35:59.480 --> 00:36:04.320
That's what, this is me, moving is me being me.

534
00:36:04.320 --> 00:36:05.680
That propels you forward.

535
00:36:05.680 --> 00:36:06.680
You enjoy it.

536
00:36:06.680 --> 00:36:09.320
It's like, Lord, you and I, I get to learn more about you.

537
00:36:09.320 --> 00:36:10.840
I get to discover more about you.

538
00:36:10.840 --> 00:36:15.120
You and I are developing a relationship, and while we're developing a relationship, how

539
00:36:15.120 --> 00:36:19.280
our relationship is developing is manifesting.

540
00:36:19.280 --> 00:36:25.440
But the focus is on this, and this is just, but then we send out intention that it might

541
00:36:25.440 --> 00:36:32.000
be made visible, but the point is the relationship with God, not God telling us something, and

542
00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:36.520
yes, sir, I'll make sure to make you pleased.

543
00:36:36.520 --> 00:36:40.360
God didn't send you to earth with an assignment.

544
00:36:40.360 --> 00:36:41.360
I don't know about you.

545
00:36:41.360 --> 00:36:42.800
I was told that my whole life.

546
00:36:42.800 --> 00:36:45.700
That is a big word that churches use.

547
00:36:45.700 --> 00:36:46.700
You have an assignment.

548
00:36:46.700 --> 00:36:48.560
No, you do not.

549
00:36:48.560 --> 00:36:54.400
You do not have an assignment of, you were supposed to go and do this, and that is your

550
00:36:54.400 --> 00:36:55.400
purpose.

551
00:36:55.400 --> 00:37:00.640
Now, yes, we may have an assignment, but what I mean is like, I should have clarified that,

552
00:37:00.640 --> 00:37:04.740
is all of the assumptions that we associate with the word assignment.

553
00:37:04.740 --> 00:37:07.800
We associate purpose with assignment.

554
00:37:07.800 --> 00:37:12.120
We associate, oh, well, that's the whole point.

555
00:37:12.120 --> 00:37:13.680
That's what I'm being directed towards.

556
00:37:13.680 --> 00:37:16.000
It's what I'm being commanded.

557
00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:23.280
There's always something outside of God and I, and he's always pointing to it, and therefore,

558
00:37:23.280 --> 00:37:31.200
no wonder we think it's a threat, and your assignment, your core assignment, your core

559
00:37:31.200 --> 00:37:37.440
purpose is relationship with God, and then working together with him, sending out together

560
00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:42.320
your collective and intentional will that that thing might be made visible.

561
00:37:42.320 --> 00:37:44.320
That is your assignment.

562
00:37:44.320 --> 00:37:48.320
Oh, I don't know if I can.

563
00:37:48.320 --> 00:37:55.080
Like I said, might just need to rewind the live stream, that, you know, well, I think

564
00:37:55.080 --> 00:38:01.280
this is what I said, that us together, us together with our conjoined will with God,

565
00:38:01.280 --> 00:38:02.280
is that that one?

566
00:38:02.280 --> 00:38:08.840
Us together with our conjoined will, our conjoined will with God, we are, our purpose is to develop,

567
00:38:08.840 --> 00:38:09.840
develop relationship.

568
00:38:09.840 --> 00:38:16.240
And in that relationship, it's our, we're supposed to join our wills together and in

569
00:38:16.240 --> 00:38:20.080
intention make our relationship visible.

570
00:38:20.080 --> 00:38:24.960
Is that, or was it something that I said after that?

571
00:38:24.960 --> 00:38:25.960
Something I said after that?

572
00:38:25.960 --> 00:38:26.960
I'm sorry.

573
00:38:26.960 --> 00:38:27.960
I said it in the spirit.

574
00:38:27.960 --> 00:38:28.960
I don't know.

575
00:38:28.960 --> 00:38:29.960
I don't know.

576
00:38:29.960 --> 00:38:30.960
Okay, okay, good.

577
00:38:30.960 --> 00:38:31.960
I'm sorry.

578
00:38:31.960 --> 00:38:36.320
You can go back on the live stream if you want to.

579
00:38:36.320 --> 00:38:41.000
I'm going to have to go back on the live stream and see what it is that I said.

580
00:38:41.000 --> 00:38:48.480
Because understand that when I say that, when I say that I speak things that I don't know,

581
00:38:48.480 --> 00:38:53.000
well, my spirit knows them, who it is that I am knows them and understand that what it

582
00:38:53.000 --> 00:38:56.400
is that I speak, I own and I live.

583
00:38:56.400 --> 00:39:00.480
But when I say I didn't know it, meaning like I've lived it, but I've never articulated

584
00:39:00.480 --> 00:39:01.480
it to myself before.

585
00:39:01.480 --> 00:39:05.600
So I've never realized that's what it is that I was doing, but I was still living it.

586
00:39:05.600 --> 00:39:11.440
That's what allows me to speak with a particular measure of what we refer to in the spirit,

587
00:39:11.440 --> 00:39:18.320
what is referred to by God in the spirit as a particular spiritual authority.

588
00:39:18.320 --> 00:39:23.400
And meaning that what it is that we speak, the truth came from God and therefore God

589
00:39:23.400 --> 00:39:30.240
allowed me to carry it and being authorized as the carrier, the message has weight.

590
00:39:30.240 --> 00:39:32.200
It's not authority of in like a hierarchy.

591
00:39:32.200 --> 00:39:37.800
It's authority of a responsibility that I'm held accountable to.

592
00:39:37.800 --> 00:39:45.680
But anyway, so, and with that, with whatever it is that you live and whatever it is that

593
00:39:45.680 --> 00:39:52.040
you have overcome, you then in that authority and in carrying a message, you're not carrying

594
00:39:52.040 --> 00:40:00.040
words, you're carrying what it is that you own, a word that came from the Lord that you

595
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:07.360
received that you then owned, and then if I've owned it and I've overcome in that way,

596
00:40:07.360 --> 00:40:15.120
I then have it to give to you. And what took me years to hack through the jungle with a

597
00:40:15.120 --> 00:40:21.920
butter knife for, I blazed a trail for you, and so it's easier for you to follow, but

598
00:40:21.920 --> 00:40:28.320
you still have to walk the trail. So that's what each of us is doing. I was talking to

599
00:40:28.320 --> 00:40:32.240
somebody else about this right before the break, and we'll be talking about this more

600
00:40:32.240 --> 00:40:41.920
in the next session, yeah, more in the next session, but is the fact that when, is that

601
00:40:41.920 --> 00:40:50.800
each of us is overcoming, is called to overcome in certain aspects of life, certain aspects

602
00:40:50.800 --> 00:40:55.600
of the flesh, certain aspects of creation, is called to overcome. In other words, what

603
00:40:55.600 --> 00:41:03.280
overcoming means is to bring it into alignment, replacing that which was flesh with spirit,

604
00:41:03.280 --> 00:41:08.080
because flesh can die and is corruptible, and God says, I don't want there to be anything

605
00:41:08.080 --> 00:41:12.960
that you have to deal with or anything that's part of you that can be removed and taken

606
00:41:12.960 --> 00:41:18.080
away and that can die. I'm going to replace all of it, he says, with that which can never

607
00:41:18.080 --> 00:41:26.480
die. So that's what overcoming is. When you are overcoming, then you are, you're overcoming

608
00:41:26.480 --> 00:41:31.600
the flesh in particular areas of your life. When all of these manifestations come up to

609
00:41:31.600 --> 00:41:36.480
you and declare to you that God isn't who he says that he is, you overcome by saying,

610
00:41:36.480 --> 00:41:42.160
no, God is who he says that he is, to such a degree that you own it, and then you, and

611
00:41:42.160 --> 00:41:48.880
you have settled into it so much that your intention then went, and your faith was real,

612
00:41:48.880 --> 00:41:55.840
so action was put to it, and intention was sent forth into creation, and it changed it.

613
00:41:55.840 --> 00:42:03.120
That is overcoming. And every time you overcome, I get to benefit, because your victory, being

614
00:42:03.120 --> 00:42:08.800
one in Christ with me, your victory is my victory. You died, you went through all of

615
00:42:08.800 --> 00:42:14.560
the pain that you did. You overcame the world and creation and so many aspects of all of

616
00:42:14.560 --> 00:42:19.840
these, all of these accusations that you had against the Lord, all of these difficult pains

617
00:42:19.840 --> 00:42:24.240
and struggles that you went through and lessons that you learned, that we like to refer to

618
00:42:24.240 --> 00:42:29.760
as lessons that we learned. You, when you overcame all of those things, you had victory

619
00:42:29.760 --> 00:42:34.960
for the body of Christ, and I got to receive the benefit as a third-party beneficiary,

620
00:42:35.520 --> 00:42:40.400
and the rest of the body of Christ does as well. We follow our Christ's example in the fact that

621
00:42:40.400 --> 00:42:46.880
each of us is called to die that the others might live. That is what it means to, what it means to

622
00:42:46.880 --> 00:42:56.720
overcome. He who has overcome and carries a particular, yeah, he who has overcome can then

623
00:42:56.720 --> 00:43:05.280
impart that to other people. And just like what it says in the Bible, it says,

624
00:43:05.280 --> 00:43:12.560
he who honors a prophet gets a prophet's reward. He didn't have to go through what the prophet

625
00:43:12.560 --> 00:43:19.120
went through, but by honoring what the prophet did and what the prophet went through and receiving

626
00:43:19.120 --> 00:43:29.520
that because it was of God and it was of the Lord, then they get to benefit from what the prophet

627
00:43:29.520 --> 00:43:34.400
overcame by honoring it. I'm sorry, did you have a question?

628
00:43:34.400 --> 00:43:37.600
He who overcomes will inherit all things.

629
00:43:37.600 --> 00:43:42.160
Yes, yes, and that one too, yes. He who overcomes will inherit all things.

630
00:43:43.120 --> 00:43:50.240
So collective, so we need each other. We're not enemies against one another. Each, and it's very

631
00:43:50.240 --> 00:43:55.760
important that no matter how much we dislike or get frustrated with certain members of society,

632
00:43:57.040 --> 00:44:04.320
they were put on earth to overcome a certain aspect of creation. They were called to die in

633
00:44:04.320 --> 00:44:09.680
some way that you might benefit by living, and you didn't have to go through what they went through

634
00:44:09.680 --> 00:44:14.560
for you. We're following Christ in that example, in the fact that each of us is dying that the

635
00:44:14.560 --> 00:44:25.680
others might live. So I feel like I just kind of like dropped that one in there. So let me finish

636
00:44:25.680 --> 00:44:36.000
with this really, really quick. So you don't want to try to help people and meaning like that doesn't,

637
00:44:36.000 --> 00:44:40.800
you don't want that to be the purpose. Oh, well, I want to create a business in order to help

638
00:44:40.800 --> 00:44:45.520
people, and that's my motivation. Then you're subject to, if they don't want to receive your

639
00:44:45.520 --> 00:44:50.560
help, then you don't feel that your business was successful because that was the reason that you

640
00:44:50.560 --> 00:44:54.640
attributed to your business. That's the motivation that keeps you going, getting up in the morning,

641
00:44:56.080 --> 00:44:59.840
and you don't want that to be the motivation. It's you getting to live and

642
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:05.280
Breathe who it is that you are, meaning that your business and how you flow in it is effortless.

643
00:45:05.280 --> 00:45:06.280
Very, very effortless.

644
00:45:06.280 --> 00:45:07.280
It does not mean everything is smooth.

645
00:45:07.280 --> 00:45:15.400
I know this from personal experience, but it does mean that everything is effortless.

646
00:45:15.400 --> 00:45:25.400
So the last thing that I want to say is don't teach what you want someone to have, meaning

647
00:45:25.400 --> 00:45:29.080
like don't make that your purpose, and this includes for your children.

648
00:45:29.080 --> 00:45:33.720
Oh my word, I want so badly for them to have this.

649
00:45:33.720 --> 00:45:37.760
What we need to understand is that our children, something that we see in our children, that

650
00:45:37.760 --> 00:45:44.080
we desire for our children, that is actually a mirror of what it is that they need is not

651
00:45:44.080 --> 00:45:46.000
something outside of us.

652
00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:51.400
God said he knew that they had a need, and so he gave them us.

653
00:45:51.400 --> 00:45:57.960
We, our spirits, are what they need, and if we are not shifted into our spirit in union

654
00:45:57.960 --> 00:46:02.840
with God because we're afraid of him, but we want our children to have God, well, for

655
00:46:02.840 --> 00:46:08.640
one thing, yes, it's very hypocritical, but for another, we don't have anything to help

656
00:46:08.640 --> 00:46:09.960
them on that journey.

657
00:46:09.960 --> 00:46:14.040
Whenever, remember what we were talking about earlier, is that when we want something for

658
00:46:14.040 --> 00:46:18.720
someone else, it requires our death, our sacrifice.

659
00:46:18.720 --> 00:46:23.320
It calls us to give something, and what is that death, that sacrifice?

660
00:46:23.800 --> 00:46:33.040
In order for them to have it, in order for me to be able to give that to them, I have

661
00:46:33.040 --> 00:46:38.920
to have it myself, and the only way that I can have it is that I sacrifice everything

662
00:46:38.920 --> 00:46:41.520
that I haven't wanted to sacrifice this far.

663
00:46:41.520 --> 00:46:48.560
I make myself vulnerable to a God that I have felt very unsafe with, and I have to unite

664
00:46:48.560 --> 00:46:51.920
myself with him.

665
00:46:51.920 --> 00:46:59.000
You don't want to, so you don't want your purpose in interacting with another person

666
00:46:59.000 --> 00:47:05.840
to teach them something, well, like with the business, let's stay with the business terminology

667
00:47:05.840 --> 00:47:08.880
because otherwise, like I said, it can get confusing.

668
00:47:08.880 --> 00:47:15.120
If you're a coach, consultant, if you're, I don't know, you provide some kind of a service,

669
00:47:15.120 --> 00:47:20.680
do not, and you're looking for a subject matter.

670
00:47:20.680 --> 00:47:22.320
How to interact with your client.

671
00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:23.320
What do I give them?

672
00:47:23.320 --> 00:47:24.320
What do I teach them?

673
00:47:24.320 --> 00:47:26.760
What knowledge do I impart to them, you know, whatever.

674
00:47:26.760 --> 00:47:33.800
I highly recommend that you don't teach what you want someone to have because it's an unhealthy

675
00:47:33.800 --> 00:47:41.880
way to help someone is by teaching because you want them to have something.

676
00:47:41.880 --> 00:47:49.880
The way that you impart that to someone else is you live it, you be it, and you give the

677
00:47:49.880 --> 00:47:55.080
earth who it is that you are, so your friends, your spouse, your children, your business,

678
00:47:55.080 --> 00:48:01.120
whoever will naturally receive, will naturally be able to have, be able to receive it because

679
00:48:01.120 --> 00:48:03.120
that's what you're giving.

680
00:48:03.120 --> 00:48:08.760
So don't teach by, of course, you know, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, of,

681
00:48:08.760 --> 00:48:12.400
you know, just like, oh, well, this is what you, this is what you should know.

682
00:48:12.400 --> 00:48:15.120
I want you, I want your life to be changed by this.

683
00:48:15.120 --> 00:48:19.680
Wouldn't this be wonderful if you had this, and da, da, da, da, and kind of, what I'm

684
00:48:19.680 --> 00:48:23.360
talking about, I'm not saying that we can't have conversations with people and we can't,

685
00:48:23.360 --> 00:48:24.360
and we can't teach.

686
00:48:24.360 --> 00:48:26.960
I mean, I'm teaching right now, right?

687
00:48:26.960 --> 00:48:31.880
It's not that we don't teach, I'm, I'm really, I've, I apologize if I haven't worded it in

688
00:48:31.880 --> 00:48:38.280
such a way that makes sense easy, but the problem is that we have, I'm using a phrase

689
00:48:38.280 --> 00:48:44.840
that we often, that people often use as, as a motivation of why it is that they're, they're

690
00:48:44.840 --> 00:48:50.920
doing what it is that they're doing, especially for, for instance, interacting with children.

691
00:48:50.920 --> 00:48:55.400
They, they, they want them to have this, or I want my client to have this.

692
00:48:55.400 --> 00:48:58.760
I know that they could have so much freedom if they had this.

693
00:48:58.760 --> 00:49:00.640
No, no, no.

694
00:49:00.640 --> 00:49:06.120
In order to give them that, don't teach what you know and what you want them to have.

695
00:49:06.120 --> 00:49:10.240
You be you, and they're going to naturally receive what it is that is going to be the

696
00:49:10.240 --> 00:49:13.640
most powerful and transformative force in their life.

697
00:49:13.640 --> 00:49:17.000
As opposed to you determining according to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,

698
00:49:17.000 --> 00:49:22.600
I know the godly things that, that, that they need and that I want them to have.

699
00:49:22.600 --> 00:49:24.440
It's from a wrong perspective.

700
00:49:24.440 --> 00:49:29.480
It's not that, I mean, you do, you do want other people to have things.

701
00:49:29.480 --> 00:49:30.480
That's a good thing.

702
00:49:30.480 --> 00:49:31.880
There's nothing wrong with that.

703
00:49:31.880 --> 00:49:36.600
I'm talking about the place from which you're doing all of these things.

704
00:49:36.600 --> 00:49:38.920
I'm talking about the source.

705
00:49:38.920 --> 00:49:47.520
So I, in ministry, what it is that I teach, I don't teach you what I want you to have.

706
00:49:47.520 --> 00:49:50.280
I teach you, I teach you what I live.

707
00:49:50.280 --> 00:49:54.240
I teach you the most important principles that God has put on my heart right now that

708
00:49:54.240 --> 00:49:59.960
I literally live out and put my life, my money, and literally every single relationship I

709
00:49:59.960 --> 00:49:59.960


710
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:05.680
I have every single one, and I've even put God in this category before as well, and then

711
00:50:05.680 --> 00:50:11.360
he and I moved through that, and it's all okay, but even he had to go through that fire.

712
00:50:11.360 --> 00:50:15.960
He required me to put my idea of him through that fire, not himself through that fire,

713
00:50:15.960 --> 00:50:18.680
but my idea of who it is that I thought he was through that fire.

714
00:50:18.680 --> 00:50:22.080
I put everything on the line for all of these things that I teach.

715
00:50:22.080 --> 00:50:29.980
I teach the things that bring me alive, and that I get excited about, and would you know

716
00:50:29.980 --> 00:50:36.020
that when I did that, that it actually created what it is that you've heard here at the

717
00:50:36.020 --> 00:50:37.240
conference.

718
00:50:37.240 --> 00:50:40.540
It flows together, it connects, and it makes sense.

719
00:50:40.540 --> 00:50:43.580
I did not plan that.

720
00:50:43.580 --> 00:50:50.100
I lived this, and as I began to teach it, I realized that I have hardly had to change

721
00:50:50.100 --> 00:50:57.220
a thing from jumping on a Facebook Live, hardly having prepared at all, and started to teach

722
00:50:57.220 --> 00:50:58.640
something.

723
00:50:58.640 --> 00:51:02.960
And then I did the next Facebook Live, hardly preparing at all, and had to teach something,

724
00:51:02.960 --> 00:51:07.800
but I taught from what it is that I had owned and lived, and would you know that I ended

725
00:51:07.800 --> 00:51:12.360
up, because I live it, and because I own it, I ended up teaching it in the order that it

726
00:51:12.360 --> 00:51:13.360
should be taught.

727
00:51:13.360 --> 00:51:16.160
In other words, the order in which it makes sense.

728
00:51:16.160 --> 00:51:22.200
I didn't try that, but my spirit knew that the spirit operates within order.

729
00:51:22.200 --> 00:51:25.640
I've had to change a few things, so I'm not trying to make it sound like something that

730
00:51:25.640 --> 00:51:26.640
it's not.

731
00:51:26.640 --> 00:51:31.040
I'm just trying to give you a very general idea, is that the power of the spirit is very,

732
00:51:31.040 --> 00:51:35.560
very strong, and we're relying too much on our head knowledge, and what it is that we

733
00:51:35.560 --> 00:51:43.840
know or that we don't know, to determine our success in, have I been a good wife, have

734
00:51:43.840 --> 00:51:49.760
I had a good marriage, am I a good parent, have I built a successful business, is God

735
00:51:49.760 --> 00:51:50.760
pleased with me?

736
00:51:51.480 --> 00:51:59.400
We've put it too much, put the emphasis and our reliance too much on what it is that we

737
00:51:59.400 --> 00:52:05.640
thought that we had to know, what it is that we thought we had to know, as opposed to knowing,

738
00:52:05.640 --> 00:52:09.560
as opposed to realizing, no, it just comes out of who it is that we are.

739
00:52:09.560 --> 00:52:15.480
There's nothing wrong with you that has to be overridden by something you learn.

740
00:52:15.480 --> 00:52:16.640
You're not broken.

741
00:52:16.640 --> 00:52:17.640
You're not wrong.

742
00:52:17.640 --> 00:52:19.360
You do not have bad ideas.

743
00:52:19.360 --> 00:52:24.560
You do not make bad decisions, that someone smarter than you can tell you why that won't

744
00:52:24.560 --> 00:52:29.760
work, but we've been trained, when we came up with all kinds of creative ideas as children,

745
00:52:29.760 --> 00:52:36.680
you know, that parents or pastors or school teachers or whatever corrected us on, and

746
00:52:36.680 --> 00:52:41.360
so we thought, and they would say, no, no, no, that's not how you do that, no, no, that's

747
00:52:41.360 --> 00:52:45.560
a dumb idea, don't you understand, that will never work, and we'd say, we got to this point

748
00:52:45.560 --> 00:52:50.440
where we think, I don't come up with good ideas, I don't make good decisions, and that's

749
00:52:50.440 --> 00:52:55.200
false, but we do need to make sure that every place that we're getting all of our decisions

750
00:52:55.200 --> 00:52:58.640
and our ideas from is from the spirit.

751
00:52:58.640 --> 00:53:02.840
If we're trying to rely on the soul, the only thing that the soul has to rely on is knowledge,

752
00:53:02.840 --> 00:53:10.800
and that's just going to fail us, which is why, when we were stamped out and our spirits

753
00:53:10.800 --> 00:53:17.680
felt squashed and stifled, the only fallback was the soul, and the only fuel for the soul,

754
00:53:17.680 --> 00:53:23.440
if it's going to squelch the spirit, is knowledge, so we pursued knowledge because it was our

755
00:53:23.440 --> 00:53:29.240
only savior, because we had dictated that it would be so, we put ourselves in that position.

756
00:53:29.240 --> 00:53:33.880
My point is, all of this is very, very freeing.

757
00:53:33.880 --> 00:53:41.600
You're not limited by that, you're in Christ, you have access to know all things, to have

758
00:53:41.600 --> 00:53:49.440
all wisdom, you intrinsically, who it is that you actually are, is very wise, makes very

759
00:53:49.440 --> 00:53:56.280
good business decisions, very good relationship decisions, you know what to do.

760
00:53:56.280 --> 00:54:00.920
Your hindrance is if you think you don't.

761
00:54:00.920 --> 00:54:07.320
That is what causes the hangup, because again, remember what we were talking about manipulation,

762
00:54:07.320 --> 00:54:13.120
you want to take it, in order to manipulate someone, which is what we're tempted with,

763
00:54:13.120 --> 00:54:18.920
you know, that Satan or circumstances or whatever tempts us with, is to decide that what it

764
00:54:18.920 --> 00:54:23.760
is that we have is a bad thing, and we use it to destroy it, to turn it on ourselves

765
00:54:23.760 --> 00:54:29.320
and to destroy ourselves, that these decisions that I have and these decisions that I make,

766
00:54:29.320 --> 00:54:36.120
these things are bad, they create destruction in myself and others, and it's absolutely

767
00:54:36.120 --> 00:54:41.880
not true, you can know that intrinsically, deep within you, you are actually good, because

768
00:54:41.880 --> 00:54:46.600
you're the new man who's perfect, you are not a sinner saved by grace, you are no longer

769
00:54:46.600 --> 00:54:52.880
a sinner, you are good, you make good decisions, you make wise decisions, but do it all out

770
00:54:52.880 --> 00:54:59.920
of who it is that you are in the seed of your identity in the spirit, not the soul.

771
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:07.940
Okay, I think that I've already mentioned everything.

772
00:55:08.180 --> 00:55:10.860
One more thing that I, maybe it'll help.

773
00:55:10.860 --> 00:55:15.420
Yeah, and then, yeah, I don't think we have, yeah,

774
00:55:15.420 --> 00:55:17.340
the song is done for the next session.

775
00:55:17.340 --> 00:55:22.360
It's just the fact that, again, motivation.

776
00:55:23.220 --> 00:55:25.160
I just, I thought, I wondered the same thing.

777
00:55:25.160 --> 00:55:29.300
Okay, God, what is my motivation then in having a business

778
00:55:29.660 --> 00:55:32.140
or in having a ministry or in getting up in the morning?

779
00:55:32.140 --> 00:55:38.180
And he said, enjoy me and enjoy me being you.

780
00:55:39.760 --> 00:55:43.900
Exemplified, again, by marriage.

781
00:55:44.580 --> 00:55:48.200
In intimacy and marriage, it's beyond, and we're talking

782
00:55:48.200 --> 00:55:50.980
like a particularly physical intimacy.

783
00:55:51.340 --> 00:55:54.100
Yes, there is value in both the male and the female.

784
00:55:54.100 --> 00:55:57.300
However, the way that it actually works is

785
00:55:57.420 --> 00:56:00.980
that in intimacy, there is, and in the engagement,

786
00:56:00.980 --> 00:56:04.280
let's see if I can figure out how to say this in a way

787
00:56:04.280 --> 00:56:05.080
that'll make sense.

788
00:56:06.120 --> 00:56:09.720
Not only is the man enjoying the woman, but the two

789
00:56:09.720 --> 00:56:11.540
of them together are enjoying the woman.

790
00:56:12.440 --> 00:56:13.740
That's not perverted.

791
00:56:13.740 --> 00:56:14.540
That's not what I'm talking about.

792
00:56:14.860 --> 00:56:20.340
I'm talking about the fact that that is part of the enjoyment

793
00:56:20.340 --> 00:56:24.180
of the experience is celebrating an aspect of a beauty

794
00:56:24.200 --> 00:56:27.460
that she most strongly exemplifies.

795
00:56:28.140 --> 00:56:31.660
The reason I wanted to point that out is, and so people,

796
00:56:31.660 --> 00:56:35.480
you know, you listen to, you know, marriage counselors

797
00:56:35.480 --> 00:56:38.220
and especially people who help, especially counselors

798
00:56:38.220 --> 00:56:40.400
who help people in this particular intimate area.

799
00:56:40.940 --> 00:56:42.020
This is what they say.

800
00:56:42.320 --> 00:56:44.180
This is what they say is actually going on.

801
00:56:44.420 --> 00:56:46.820
The reason I wanted to point that out is that's going

802
00:56:46.820 --> 00:56:48.040
on with us in God.

803
00:56:48.420 --> 00:56:53.060
It is, God says, when you and I are unified together,

804
00:56:53.520 --> 00:56:58.140
what it is that we're enjoying is not just simply you enjoying

805
00:56:58.140 --> 00:57:03.120
me and me, or, you know, God saying you enjoying me

806
00:57:03.380 --> 00:57:04.720
and me enjoying you.

807
00:57:04.980 --> 00:57:09.400
It's also the two of us in our union enjoying how amazing

808
00:57:09.400 --> 00:57:09.880
that you are.

809
00:57:11.020 --> 00:57:13.520
I know that that sounds weird, but I'm not the one

810
00:57:13.520 --> 00:57:14.520
who created that idea.

811
00:57:15.260 --> 00:57:17.920
I'm not the, it's, you know, it's created by the Lord

812
00:57:17.920 --> 00:57:21.260
and to the point where he always puts types and shadows

813
00:57:21.320 --> 00:57:26.580
of the truth of principles out in creation, and he created

814
00:57:26.580 --> 00:57:29.120
that in men and women, and I think

815
00:57:29.400 --> 00:57:32.140
that it was actually non-Christians

816
00:57:32.140 --> 00:57:35.820
who discovered that in their research and in their trying

817
00:57:35.820 --> 00:57:37.940
to understand, okay, what really is going on?

818
00:57:38.260 --> 00:57:44.140
Why do, you know, why do people enjoy the physical intimacy

819
00:57:44.140 --> 00:57:45.040
in marriage so much?

820
00:57:45.040 --> 00:57:46.260
Where's the enjoyment coming from?

821
00:57:46.260 --> 00:57:47.560
Where it's really going on in the whole,

822
00:57:47.560 --> 00:57:49.000
in the whole interchange?

823
00:57:49.720 --> 00:57:50.800
They discovered this,

824
00:57:51.520 --> 00:57:55.480
but we know what it's actually a type and a shadow of.

825
00:57:55.580 --> 00:57:58.160
We understand that it is a fractal principle

826
00:57:58.380 --> 00:58:02.380
that can be traced all the way back to the micro principle

827
00:58:02.660 --> 00:58:05.860
of the fact that God says, no, I want you

828
00:58:05.860 --> 00:58:07.260
and me when we're together.

829
00:58:07.460 --> 00:58:09.080
You're enjoying me for me.

830
00:58:09.080 --> 00:58:12.120
I'm enjoying you for you, but then to the two of us together,

831
00:58:12.120 --> 00:58:16.480
I want us to, part of the celebration is how amazing it is

832
00:58:16.800 --> 00:58:19.540
that you are, and we're celebrating that thing together.

833
00:58:19.920 --> 00:58:22.280
God created something that he desired.

834
00:58:23.860 --> 00:58:25.240
We're not more powerful than God.

835
00:58:25.240 --> 00:58:26.800
We're not saying that we're just more special

836
00:58:26.800 --> 00:58:27.980
or more desirable than God.

837
00:58:28.240 --> 00:58:31.460
We're saying that he said that in the interchange and in our

838
00:58:31.460 --> 00:58:37.220
union with him that we are so special that part of the,

839
00:58:37.220 --> 00:58:42.940
part of the highest pleasure of that union with him is

840
00:58:42.940 --> 00:58:45.860
in the enjoyment of the bride.

841
00:58:47.100 --> 00:58:54.080
You have permission to be enjoyed by God.

842
00:58:54.760 --> 00:58:58.640
So when you're going through life, be enjoyed.

843
00:58:58.960 --> 00:59:01.720
Don't just accept the fact that God, that God and, you know,

844
00:59:01.780 --> 00:59:03.360
okay, well, God says that he enjoys me,

845
00:59:03.360 --> 00:59:04.260
so I'm going to take him in his word.

846
00:59:04.260 --> 00:59:06.900
So I'm going to spend all of my effort, energy, and time

847
00:59:07.340 --> 00:59:09.860
on the fact that I believe that, and, you know,

848
00:59:09.860 --> 00:59:11.300
that I actually enjoy God.

849
00:59:11.960 --> 00:59:13.100
Well, it's more than that.

850
00:59:13.240 --> 00:59:15.860
God's like, no, no, no, enjoy you.

851
00:59:16.640 --> 00:59:17.380
Because I enjoy you.

852
00:59:18.580 --> 00:59:21.600
So together, invite me to do it together.

853
00:59:21.680 --> 00:59:22.940
Don't enjoy yourself by yourself.

854
00:59:23.500 --> 00:59:26.240
It's in union, because that's a perversion, right?

855
00:59:26.760 --> 00:59:29.680
Even, even all the way back to the spiritual principle.

856
00:59:30.720 --> 00:59:32.840
We're not ever supposed to be in isolation.

857
00:59:33.120 --> 00:59:38.360
God says, in me, with me, we together are celebrating you.

858
00:59:39.180 --> 00:59:43.000
So when I go through my life, that is part of my motivation

859
00:59:43.000 --> 00:59:44.040
when I wake up in the morning.

860
00:59:44.560 --> 00:59:46.480
I receive the fact that I'm enjoyed.

861
00:59:47.200 --> 00:59:49.280
I don't just accept and acknowledge the fact

862
00:59:49.280 --> 00:59:50.840
that I enjoyed, that I'm enjoyed.

863
00:59:51.340 --> 00:59:54.580
I receive it, because I'm choosing to receive God's word.

864
00:59:54.580 --> 00:59:57.780
I'm choosing, God says, I want to give myself to you, Ashley.

865
00:59:57.780 --> 00:59:59.420
This is how I'm giving myself to you.

866
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:04.320
And so I'm like, okay, this is what you give of yourself to me, you're giving yourself

867
01:00:04.320 --> 01:00:08.480
to me as word, your word says that I am enjoyed.

868
01:00:08.480 --> 01:00:12.200
And so I received that, and I'm going to act on it.

869
01:00:12.200 --> 01:00:21.120
So I wake up every morning, and I had and I had to I had to choose this, that, that

870
01:00:21.120 --> 01:00:27.160
I in that I enjoy God, and that he's enjoying me.

871
01:00:27.360 --> 01:00:30.200
And I allow myself to be enjoyed.

872
01:00:30.200 --> 01:00:37.440
That's part of the and what's what's the what's the word, I wish I could think of the word.

873
01:00:37.440 --> 01:00:42.200
And it's, um, I don't know, I can't think of the term, unfortunately, at the moment,

874
01:00:42.200 --> 01:00:43.600
because it's a really good word.

875
01:00:43.600 --> 01:00:53.880
But it's a very special aspect of the feminine to enjoy being enjoyed.

876
01:00:53.880 --> 01:00:58.600
Men are attracted to women who enjoy themselves.

877
01:00:58.600 --> 01:01:03.960
They like a woman knowing who it is that she are that she is.

878
01:01:03.960 --> 01:01:10.640
And the fact that she enjoys being that they love it, I don't know why, don't ask me, but

879
01:01:10.640 --> 01:01:12.120
that's what they've told me.

880
01:01:12.120 --> 01:01:19.960
So and, but it makes sense, because that's a type of shadow of our God.

881
01:01:19.960 --> 01:01:23.520
And that's the whole point of the conversation is not necessarily hopefully y'all are getting

882
01:01:23.560 --> 01:01:27.200
help, you know, in the in the physical with all kinds of things that we're talking about.

883
01:01:27.200 --> 01:01:30.480
But the point is, of what is what is that?

884
01:01:30.480 --> 01:01:34.120
And it was only supposed to it was supposed to be a picture to point us to something that

885
01:01:34.120 --> 01:01:38.800
we can't see, and to choose that that's what's going on, and to choose to live our lives

886
01:01:38.800 --> 01:01:39.800
like that.

887
01:01:39.800 --> 01:01:40.880
That's our motivation.

888
01:01:40.880 --> 01:01:44.920
So I, I really, really, really enjoy myself.

889
01:01:44.920 --> 01:01:50.080
When I discovered who God made me to be, I thought, Oh, I like this person, I'm glad

890
01:01:50.080 --> 01:01:56.320
out of all the people in the world, that I get to be with this aspect of God expressing

891
01:01:56.320 --> 01:01:59.440
itself on the earth 24 seven.

892
01:01:59.440 --> 01:02:02.840
And I wouldn't want to do or be anyone else.

893
01:02:02.840 --> 01:02:08.520
But I could only like that when he identified me first.

894
01:02:08.520 --> 01:02:11.800
It's not that I went around and picked all of these personalities and characteristics

895
01:02:11.800 --> 01:02:12.800
that I liked.

896
01:02:12.800 --> 01:02:16.880
And I thought, okay, well, you know, if I kind of collect all of those, when that's

897
01:02:16.880 --> 01:02:19.160
going to create the type of person that I want to be.

898
01:02:19.240 --> 01:02:26.440
No, I let my God define me and when I and I found God in me, and I thought, I like that

899
01:02:26.440 --> 01:02:31.600
I like how he expresses this particular aspect of himself in a particular way.

900
01:02:31.600 --> 01:02:35.840
When I make these particular gestures, when I talk in when I talk in a particular way,

901
01:02:35.840 --> 01:02:44.120
the fact that I am so analytical, and the fact that I am very intense, very expressive.

902
01:02:44.120 --> 01:02:51.400
I had to, when I realized I was enjoyed that those things brought my God pleasure, then

903
01:02:51.400 --> 01:02:54.440
I found pleasure in me.

904
01:02:54.440 --> 01:02:59.160
So it's very important that you receive the fact that you're enjoyed, and that you take

905
01:02:59.160 --> 01:03:07.960
part in act in the actively take part in enjoying that is taking God at his word.

906
01:03:07.960 --> 01:03:11.080
So best you didn't think that you were gonna hear that tonight, but there you go.

907
01:03:11.080 --> 01:03:18.160
Okay, so we're gonna break for 10 minutes, and then we'll get back to governing creation

908
01:03:18.160 --> 01:03:20.360
in business and relationship through leadership.