It's a bit of a segue from what we were talking about just now is I wanted to mention, let
me get the chart again.
Is the fact that when we're releasing something and that, remember, we're if we're down here
if the balloon is down here, it means that we're in a state of resistance.
I wanted to explain why I keep calling it resistance so that we can think about this.
And this can help us like shift into rest in moments when, when we need to, we can acknowledge
what it is we're doing.
When I say we're in a state of resistance, it's because it is not natural.
If the, if the, if the balloon has dropped down here, it's not natural for a balloon
to be sinking.
So why is it sinking?
It's holding onto that way.
It's holding onto that lie, that accusation against God, it is not natural.
Therefore, therefore it, that means it is not natural for a son of God to sin.
It is very hard for a son of God to send.
It takes a lot of weight and it takes a lot of exertion, a lot of effort.
You have to apply work and effort.
You know, anything in the solar, the body worker effort strife in order where you're
trying to operate from this place.
There's nothing wrong with our solar body.
It's when we think our identity is down here and we're using something in, in earthly laws
or spiritual laws to, to help us try to stop sinking.
That is striving.
So it is not natural for a son of God to sin.
It's not natural for, it's not natural for a balloon to be sinking.
It's very hard.
Our, our, our flesh, sure.
Our flesh sins, but who are we?
We're spirit.
We're sons of God.
We're one with Christ.
It is not natural.
And that's very important so that we don't, so that we can stop thinking that that sin
is a natural state for us in which we constantly need to be vigilant against doing.
It's not natural for you to do that.
It's not natural for you to sin.
It is hard for you to sin.
The reason why it feels easy is because we believe we're the old man.
If we believe that we're the old man, then we're going to start acting like it.
And he thinks, and that's all that he knows to do until we overcome and, you know, and
bring the new man, you know, completely make, make everything reflect the fact that who
it is, that we are as the new man, it's, it's all, it's, it's all that he knows, but that's
not who you are.
Cause it says that the old man has died and that, and that the new man now lives.
So that's what I was talking about.
When I talk about resistance, how we're in this state of resistance, we're resisting
our real nature.
So if a balloon has grabbed a hold of a weight and it's thinking it's resisting itself because
the property of a balloon keeps wanting to float, it's still buoyant because it's evidenced
by the fact, as soon as you let go, it immediately floats back up.
So that's why I keep talking about resistance.
So when you're stressed, when you're anxious, that is not a natural state for you.
You're not trying to overcome a natural state.
You were trying, um, you are in a state that you don't have to be in.
God gave you a right as a son of God to not be in that state.
It's not natural for you just because it's habit, just because it's who you think that
you are and you've been doing it for so long.
Therefore it makes it easy because any habit that took a lot of work and exertion to go
towards it, once it's habit, it becomes easy.
So just because it's habit and just because it feels easy because it's habit doesn't mean
that it actually is easy and natural for who it is that you are.
You just been doing it for so long based on your belief.
So it can, you can get this, this, um, get in this rut.
So I wanted to mention that and so that means that you'll notice that anything that we talk
about in to be able to shift into rest is strictly removal of lies that we're believing.
It's not gaining something new.
And here's why I say that, yes, it's important for us to focus on the truth so we can think
that we're exchanging a lie for a truth.
And you can think like that.
Absolutely.
The problem with that, there's nothing wrong with that, with, with saying that because
it is true.
We, instead of a lie, we need to be believing the truth, but think about it in a different
way because that can feel like an exchange of work.
I need to not believe a lie.
So I need to believe a truth.
something we still have to do, and that can trigger that exertion and that strife and that effort.
Think instead, think of it this way, that you already do believe the truth, but the lie is,
but your belief of the lie, you're having to work really hard to believe a lie. Remember that,
that the fact that the balloon grabs a hold of that weight, you're having to work hard to believe
a lie. So because you naturally believe the truth, because you are the new man, you don't have to
exchange the lie for truth. It's already there, you just need to stop and let go of the lie,
and then the truth is already there. And so that it can, we can stop being triggered in our minds
that we need to stop doing one thing in order to just exchange it for doing something else.
Instead of, because it feels easy that I'm believing this lie. This doesn't feel like
this feels easy. So I feel that what God's telling me to do all throughout the Bible is
to stop believing this lie, meaning I'm finding that very hard to stop. And I'm finding it very
hard to believe the truth. So therefore that means that God is telling me to work really hard to do
something different than what I'm doing. And that's not true. It's not true. As soon as we
begin to realize and really, really take this into ourselves, that we really are the new man,
and that everything that he describes of Jesus can be described of us. And that we already do
believe him, we already do love him all the time. Not sometimes, we always do. And we already know
the truth, and we already believe the truth. If we realize that that's our natural state,
then it doesn't make it as hard to shift into it. But if we're believing,
that belief is creating that resistance. If we believe that it's not natural, and that the lie
is easy for us to believe, then it's always going to feel hard to believe God. And it's always going
to feel like work. It's always going to feel like work to have faith. It's going to feel like work
when you've got, when you're in a, I don't know, you've got a particular business venture,
and things aren't working right. And it looks like all of these obstacles are coming in place,
it'd be financial, you know, obstacles, whatever. And there's all of these hindrances,
and you're trying to have faith in the Lord. It can feel hard to believe him, if we don't
recognize and acknowledge and believe God when he says that it's actually natural for us to
believe him, and we already do. If we do that, it's easier for us to let go of the lie,
as opposed to, oh my goodness, I'm not believing God, it's something that already in this struggle,
which is really difficult, and I'm really already striving. Now I have to work harder
to believe something different. That makes it a lot harder for us to change, because when we're
in pain, and when we're suffering, it is harder, it's, we, part of what keeps us from believing
God is we feel that we have to, that it exerts, it causes more pain, and therefore we have to
move into it with more work and more effort to believe him, when we're already exhausted.
It's already hard enough to keep our head above water in the situation that we're in,
and now we have to work harder in order to have the faith to believe him,
and that keeps us out of it, and it makes it harder for us to believe, makes us harder to
shift into it, because we're running on fumes already, we have no more strength to now believe
him. We're spending all of our strength in the lie, we're spending all of our strength in the
struggle, all of our strength in the pain, and the fear that God's abandoned us, and it hurts.
So that's why this is very important for me to bring up. It's important for us to choose
if God says that I already trust him, and that, that, and that I already know the truth,
I just need to let go of the lie and stop working, stop striving, stop struggling.
Then we land, then we, then, then that, that dissipates, and it goes away, and we discover
we're already in the truth, we already believe the truth. It's very counter to what it is that
we thought, but that's one of the reasons why my life was just so hard, you know, for decades,
is I was, I, and, and why everything felt so hard, why I was, I was struggling, I was always
striving, there was always so much pain, everything required so much work, because I was already
struggling and working with the lies that I was holding on to, and now I thought, now I have to
work harder in order to overcome them. Our overcoming doesn't require work.
Overcoming is, is, um, because God, when God
else's to overcome that is in overcome the flesh, that is us
and bringing the soul and the body into agreement with who it
is that we are in spirit. That's all that it is. It's, it's made
it's so that what it is that we believe is truth and spirit
already effortlessly, our soul comes, it begins to over time
choose to come into agreement with and believe is also true.
And then our body will follow and believe that whatever it is
that our spirits is true. That's overcoming. It's that everything
is aligned in alignment of always believing the Father, and
that who it is that we are in spirit now takes on a visible
form in the soul, and then eventually takes on a visible
form in the body so that we see in a physical form, who it is
that we are in the invisible realm. That's overcoming. So if
we're talking about overcoming it, that's why it's that that's
why all of this ties together as far as rest and overcoming not
being hard. Are you just to overcome you let go, you let go
we're make, we're, we're working and God says stop working. Stop
in other words, stop striving put all it stop putting all this
exertion didn't mean we don't have activity, we work and we
have our businesses and all of that, but there's no striving in
the work, there's no exertion, there's no burden, there's no
weight. It's an enjoyment, just like the laws. Once we no longer
need them, now we can enjoy them. Okay, so in how to shift
into rest, I'm gonna go through these very fast. So if y'all
have any questions about like how to, how to do this, in, like
trying to understand it a bit more y'all can ask me, you know,
in your in the private consultations that we'll set up.
But this is these are the practical shifting tools. So,
um, the, these are things they're not magical. These are
just things that worked for me, and helped me be able to like
practical things that I could actually do that helped me walk
my mind through and release things in my soul so that my
soul would start being in rest. So that's all that these things
are, you might have different things that work for you. These
work for me and my clients, these things work for them, as
well. But some, you would be surprised at how many times you
know, they, you know, that they're, they're shifting into
rest in all kinds of ways. And they forget about the practical
tools. I was surprised. So these aren't magical, these just
worked for me. And so maybe they'll trigger some ideas for
you, what works for you, I will tell you a biblical one that's
very important. And that is, first of all, if you find
yourself in a position in a situation in which you're
feeling highly anxious, highly stressed, or the bills are due
tomorrow, and I have no money, you know, or, or, you know, I'm
being threatened with a lawsuit or whatever, I have been through
a lawsuit, by the way. So all of the stuff that I talked to you
about how to operate and rest, I did have to apply to real life
circumstances. And it was it was a business lawsuit as well. I
was accused, me and some others were accused of doing something
that we didn't do. And so I mean, any any type of
accusation is hard, but especially when you haven't done
anything. And, and we went through a very, very long time,
just like all of these attacks, and we just had to operate, you
know, and rest as much as we, you know, we're understanding
people were to do because we're like, God, this just doesn't
make any sense. And then God fought our battle for us. It was
really fascinating how it all worked. And it was ugly. I mean,
it was so ugly that I had friends who were involved in
that now see different lawsuits. And they're just like, actually,
that was nothing compared to that that other one that we went
through is nothing that was that was was corrupt, and evil,
all of the stuff that was going on behind the scenes. So anyway,
it was just, it's really bad. So I just want to let you know, I
do apply these really, really serious situations in your work.
So first of all, no shame and no condemnation. So when you find
yourself in a very highly anxious, highly stressful
situation, and a very fearful one, the first thing to do, it
means you're not in rest, to shift yourself into rest, and to
choose to shift yourself from the tree that from operating
from the tree of knowledge of being able to operating in the
out of the tree of life. First of all, God says, to remember, no
shame, no condemnation. He says, there's no shame and no
condemnation, even if you've already even if you've just
intentionally sinned. Because remember, that your flesh sins,
but not who you are in spirit. So it's important that we always
choose who it is that we are, and that we work together with
the Lord to help our flesh come into alignment, but you are not
your flesh. Yes, you it's part of you. So you are unified, but
your identity, the seat of which part of you in that that your
identity sits in is the part that's unified with Christ in
crisis.
any of the things that we want to accuse ourselves of. Christ has no, and deserves no shame and no
condemnation. Now a biblical story of this where Jesus himself walked us through this is one I
mentioned a while ago, which is the story of the adulterous woman where Jesus, you know, he was
riding in the sand and, you know, we all know the story. So I'll just fast forward to the part at
the very end where he said, where are your accusers? Because we accuse ourselves. That's
where we get all this, no shame. And that's where we get shame and condemnation. We're accusing
ourselves or the accused or the enemy comes and he accuses us, whatever there's accusation. And
he said, where are your accusers? And she said, well, they're all gone. They're not here. He says,
then neither do I condemn you. If anybody could have condemned her because she'd done something,
she really had done it. She'd been caught in the act. This wasn't theory. This wasn't hearsay.
She'd been caught in the act. Jesus said, neither do I condemn you. That was the first thing he
addressed. He didn't address with her that she needed to feel sorry. He didn't address with her
that she needed to repent. He didn't address that she needed to create restitution, that she needed
to understand that what it is that she'd done was wrong, that she even needed to agree that what it
is that she'd done wrong. He said, what you need to trust is my perspective of you. And I'm declaring,
so he didn't make this about her. The first thing he said is himself. I don't condemn you. And what
he's inviting her to do is receive what it is that I'm saying. This is my word. I'm giving you my
word. I'm calling you to receive my word. And my word is no condemnation. That's the first thing
he had her deal with. Then after that, he says, go and sin no more. Didn't tell her to repent.
Didn't tell me not repent, but that is repentance is going to sin no more, but he didn't tell her
to say sorry. Didn't tell her to apologize to him. Didn't tell her to go explain it to the Pharisees,
go to apologize to her husband or the guy that she was having an adulterous
relationship with or apologize to his family or make restitution. He didn't tell her any of that.
He said, don't do it anymore. Why? Because it's destructive.
And it's destructive behavior. It was hurting her and it was causing destruction. And so he said,
just go and sin no more. That's it. No condemnation. And then, and then turn to 180. Don't, um,
as opposed to making payment with shame and condemnation for what it is that we've done before
we feel we have a right to move forward. And that's not believing God. Whenever we do that,
that's accusation against God. So the next thing, if that doesn't work or if it works,
but it doesn't like work all the way, like, well, I feel more at rest, but I don't feel completely
at rest. Now that I've chosen, God says, no shame, no condemnation. I receive that. I am choosing that
that is true. Sometimes it won't help at all. Sometimes it'll help to a certain extent depends
on the situation. Sometimes it will help completely, but if it doesn't, the next thing you can go to
is what I do is I tell myself, I talked to my soul and my body and I'll say, like, I don't know why
you're upset. I don't know why you're, you're stressed and anxious. I just walked into this
party and I'm stressed and anxious. I have no idea why, you know, what's going on, or maybe you do
exactly know why, but you don't know why your soul or your body can't come into alignment and
agreement with what it is that you know, to be true in the spirit. So you just say, Hey, look,
I don't know why you're at that, but I'm talking to you and you have to be very intentional about
it. Is it like, see them as actual beings in order to make this work? Because you have to be
intentional about it and you have to talk to creation. That's an aspect of creation. And so
you talk to it and you just say, okay, you know, I don't I don't know why you're anxious and upset,
but you don't need to be. I'm here. I'm your King. I'm spirit. And just like Jesus is King over me.
I want to look and act like my father. So he made me a King over you and looking and acting like my
father and seeing how he lovingly provides and protects for me. He calls me to do that for you.
I'm here to provide for and protect you and give you a stand in authority over you. And I'm here to
tell you that you don't need to be afraid, whatever it is that you're doing to be stressed, to feel
stressed, stressed, and anxious. Stop. Basically you're saying whatever weight you're letting,
whatever weight you've grabbed ahold of. And I don't even know what it is, whatever that is
stop and just let it go. I am shocked at how well this one works. It doesn't work all the time,
but I am shocked at how often that works. My soul, my body, when I'm very intentional to talk to it,
it'll be like, okay, it's almost like a parent, a child feeling safe because a parent has finally
come into the room and they feel like, okay, everything's okay now. It's so interesting.
Okay. So the other one is no judgment. This is a really big one. And that is thinking that whatever
situation that you're in, say this again, that business venture or whatever that you're thinking,
oh my goodness, it's terrible. It's not just, it looks like it's not working out, and that was
going to provide me this money, or it's going to put me in this really bad position, or am I going
I could sue me, I don't know, whatever, whatever threatening result, you know, and consequence
that, that, that we're fearful is going to come up or that we think that we're in, and we think
it's going to continue to cause certain problems in our life. We think it shouldn't be like this.
It should be different. And we think that we're making a, we're making a judgment about it.
We're saying it shouldn't be like this and it should be different.
They shouldn't have yelled at me. They shouldn't have treated me like that.
It's a judgment. Here's the problem. Well, I don't have the, I don't have the chart right now,
but here's the problem with that is that if we are struggling, and if we're in unrest,
we're believing our identity is in our soul or our body. That is not where that is not a position
of power and authority in Christ, which is a position of King, which is a position of judge.
And only judges can make judgments in order for us to be able to make a judgment and a righteous
judgment about this situation is we have to be in the seat of righteous judgment, which is in
our spirit, because that is one with Christ and he's sitting in that seat of judgment.
So if we're in unrest, we're in our soul or in our body, and we're trying to make a judgment
about the situation that we're not in a position to be able to make a righteous judgment about.
Now, what it is that we're declaring might very well be true. They shouldn't have yelled at us.
I didn't deserve that. But the problem is if we're in a state of, uh, if we're anxious or if
we're upset, or if we're, if I don't know, if we're in unrest, it means that we're in our soul
or our body. And we need to shift out of that into the spirit first, before we can then make a
righteous judgment about the situation. And the fascinating thing is that when we let it go,
when we stop saying it shouldn't be this way, and it should be different. And we let go of
our ownership that it has to be anything different than what it is. We shift into rest. And now we
see it from Christ's eyes. Now we realize we're not under threat. And then we can, and then now
that we're in rest, we can hear the father's heart more. We can hear his will more, and we can now
know what to do. We can now know what to say, because that's part of our issue here is how do
I fix this? We're in our soul and our body, and we're in unrest. We don't know how to righteously
fix it. We have to let go of our right to fix it first, in order to shift into rest,
where we'll finally hear from the spirit of the Lord how to righteously fix it. But we have to
let go of our ownership first. In order to have something like that, that God says that we need
to exert on the earth with things like judgment, we have to let go of our ownership of it first,
before we can have it. We have to lose everything and sacrifice everything and give everything to
him first, before we can have the thing. We have to submit our will first. Anyway,
so hopefully that makes sense. So the next one is, if any of those, or you're struggling with,
or whatever, or if you just want to jump to this one, you don't even want to go through all these
steps, you can do that too. But if you don't know which one you need, I always recommend starting
here. And then if you need to keep going, because that wasn't, that didn't fully shift you into rest,
just go to the next one. And if that doesn't fully shift you into rest, then go to the next
one. So you can either use this as a progression, or you can just pick one. This is the best one to
pick right here. But anyway, this one is, choose that whatever God says is true about himself,
and go where your spirit finds peace. Meaning that you believe something in your spirit,
not in your soul, but in your spirit. My spirit, the part of me that is one,
the seed of my identity that is one with Christ, I believe my father there. I'm the new man,
and I can feel that. And I'm going to choose that whatever God says is true, and I'm going to
act on where my spirit finds peace. Remember, faith without works is dead. So if we're,
this is like the height of faith right here, where we choose something because God said it,
and we act on it without proof. That's what this is. Choose and go where our spirit, our new man,
knows that already believes our father, and is able to step into. If however, your faith is not
to the point that you can do that, or if it is to a particular extent, do it to what extent that you
do have faith. Then the rest of it, if you still have an element of unrest, then declare that
whatever God says is true, because you're struggling to choose it. Declare that, okay God,
if you say that that's true, then I declare it's true. If you say that you're loved to that degree,
if you say that you protect me to that degree, if you say that you provide for me to that degree,
I'm declaring that it is true, and I'm choosing it to the extent that I can.
And Lord, I thank you that you have given me earthly and spiritual laws, and that you've
taught me those things, and you've shown me how I can use them to provide for and protect,
to get provision and protection. So go where your soul finds you.
It's peace, which again, you know, if you think spirit, some body go where your soul is finding peace of where it can feel like if it gets this thing, it'll feel protected.
Like, oh, if I if I do spiritual worker from this place I'll get protected, which is you know what I sometimes need to choose to do in certain areas of my life.
You know, I'll use this or I have a headache and, and I feel that you know Lord, I know that you say that I'm healed but I'm just, I just don't have the faith right now to believe that I really am healed in this, this headache would just won't go away so I'm going to take Tylenol.
I'm going to receive that Lord is a good gift that you created.
And you gave to me, and I'm going to receive Tylenol is your gift.
I asked you for protection and provision, I declared that you say you provide for and protect me I'm declaring that that's true and declaring that that's true my soul feels peace, if I take Tylenol so I'm going to take this Tylenol as you being a good
God, and you providing for and protecting me so you created this knowledge that I could to be able to create this thing called Tylenol that I'm going to take advantage of in order to help me get rid of my headache, I'm going to receive this gift from you is something
you gave me. And this is the provision of protection that I asked you for, and you gave it to me in this form.
That's what that's what that what this one is.
And then the last thing.
The last thing, and again just know about how to how to stop. How would you put that and stop struggling and understand that this truly is rest so everything it is that we receive shifting into rest and anything else is a gift.
It's a gift from God, we can't earn it. So, if you are really really struggling in a particular area of your life and other thing that has worked for me and my clients, sometimes overnight.
They pray this before they go to bed and they wake up, completely changed, and then others will take a week others will take a few minutes you know whatever, but it depends on the level of accusation and hold against the Lord and everybody's different depends on
But, and that is talking to your soul and your body and you can do and sometimes your spirit and you can do this at any time at any time of day.
By the way, it's not creepy to talk to your spirit solar body.
Jesus talked to people's souls and people's bodies, but for instance Lazarus was dead.
Who do we think he was talking to when he told Lazarus to rise from the dead.
Lazarus wasn't alive and then Jesus said rise from the dead. He was dead, and he said rise from the dead. Who do we think he was talking to.
Same thing with David, and now Lazarus the spirit was still alive, but it but it's he was alive the soul and the body, the body needed to rise from the dead.
David in the psalm says, Oh my soul, you know, you know, praise the Lord Oh my soul and whatever.
There's nothing wrong with how do it is, it's you, it's your being there's nothing wrong with talking to that it's not creepy it's not weird.
So, I just wanted to mention that.
And, and this stuff isn't magical to talk to your soul your body. It's something that if, if we've got these concepts that are so ethereal they're so that are just so esoterical that we have a difficult time grabbing a hold of it and understanding
how do I do this thing. How do I have rest. How do I have faith.
If we kind of like try to bring certain things down to materialize them and grab ahold of them, it's easier for us to like grab it as a tool to leverage ourselves forward and so that's why I talk sometimes to my soul and body I very rarely do it actually, but in desperate
time, I do it and it works.
So I just use it, you know, as a tool like anything it's not magical that if it's helpful to you like it is to me, use it.
So sometimes I talked to my solar body and at any time of day but sometimes at at night, and I'll especially about a specific situation and I'll say you know you know so there's no reason for you to be afraid.
I'll shift into your identity and your spirit choose that that's who you are and talk is the authority in the authority of a king over your soul and your body, like a very loving father that it can finally feel safe with not an authoritarian that you better get in line.
Well that scares, that's going to scare the soul even more I mean, you know, it's a, it's a loving thing that will make it feel safe as if we come to it in a loving way.
So we come to it in a loving way. And we say, you know, so I'm coming to a spirit I'm presenting myself to you as spirit. You have worked to provide for and protect yourself and to tell the body and teach the body had to provide for and protect yourself
thinking that I'd abandoned you thinking that me and the God that I'm completely one with, and that I completely agree with, and completely believe and love and all of that and reflect only his truth and only speak his truth.
You thought that God had abandoned you and because I'm one with God you thought that I had abandoned you.
and that you had to provide for and protect yourself.
And that's creating all this anxiety and unrest.
And I wanted you to know, I'm here.
You were thinking you were alone
and I'm presenting myself and I'm telling you I'm here
and you no longer have to do all this work
that you were not created to do.
You weren't created to provide for and to protect yourself
and to do it all on your own.
I'm your spirit, I'm in heaven with God and I can do that.
And I can do it from a much more powerful
supernatural position.
And I know wisdom and I know understanding
and all of this stuff in heaven.
And therefore I know what's wrong
and I know how to heal it.
I know your traumas and I know how to heal it.
And you don't know and you're all confused
and you're all scared.
So trust me, stop trying to provide for
and protect yourself and open yourself up
vulnerably to me and let me come in and do it.
And so I talked to my soul about that.
I tell it, whatever it is that you're afraid of,
I'm just letting you know in encouragement,
you don't have to be afraid.
Choose to believe me.
Choose to believe me that you won't have to be afraid.
And let me come in, let the spirit come in.
Sometimes I talk like as if I'm outside of all three of them
because I don't know, it just helps me mentally.
You know, to kind of like grab a hold of the concept
of what it is that I'm doing
and do what I call like directing my intention.
But I'll say, you know,
I'll let the spirit come in and heal you.
It knows what it's doing and don't be afraid
and don't resist the spirit.
Let it come in.
And then I'll talk to the body and tell the body,
hey, by the way, the soul has been giving you instruction
all of this time in a particular direction.
But now the soul is going to be,
I'm submitting itself more to the spirit
and it's going to be giving you different instruction.
And I'm giving you permission
to disregard the old instruction and to receive the new,
because you've been working hard
to do something you weren't created to do.
And you can now be relieved of the burden
of having to do that.
Now that you're relieved of the burden of having to do that,
you can spend all of your energy
doing what you were created to do.
All of the things that you love doing and being
because that's what the body is
and it's how it's made to work.
You didn't get to have the energy to pour into that
because you were too busy doing something
that was a responsibility of someone else.
You thought had abandoned you
and that being has not abandoned you.
And you can now choose to sit there
and you can let go of all that responsibility
and now you can just be who you are
and do all the fun things that come naturally to you.
So I do that.
And it can be different things.
It could be, again, regarding business mentor.
It could be the fact that God has given you a business,
has given you a vision for a business or a ministry
and he's given it to you like it's decades old
and either you can't quite capture
what it is he's trying to say.
And that's frustrating.
Or you think you know what it's supposed to look like
but it won't come to fruition.
It's frustrating.
Like, Lord, this is decades old.
Or you're in the middle of it
and you can't figure out how it's supposed to work
or I don't know, it feels just completely out of your control
or that there's all these obstacles and hindrances
that are being thrown in your way.
Whatever it is.
Or it can be about healing.
Or it can be a physical, spiritual work
or whatever the turmoil is coming from.
That this is one of the things that you can do.
And anyway, and it works because your soul,
just like what we talked about at the beginning
and this morning about the notes,
your soul and your body know what to do
without you micromanaging them with your consciousness
and giving them instruction.
They know how to do it better than you do.
They know how to shift you into rest.
They know how to believe their father.
They know all of these things
without you constantly having to teach them
all of the ins and outs of how to do it.
They were created as good things
and God creates things to function
in a very healthy way.
They know how they're supposed to operate.
So let them be themselves.
And so let them shift themselves
without you micromanaging and instructing them
of how to do it.
So it doesn't, my point is it doesn't,
and not everything in order for us to shift
has to go through our consciousness and our brain.
We can give instruction to our soul,
our spirit and our body and it can change on its own.
And I have not only my own testimonies of that,
but so many testimonies from my clients
talking about how this is amazing, how this works.
Now they have to make intentional choices that,
hey, I'm following my father and I'm moving and all of that.
But behind the scenes,
because remember 5% versus 95% of it is subconscious.
So much is going on behind the scenes
while they are continuing to choose the Lord
in faith consciously and all of that.
There's an element of that.
But know that there's also, it's like an iceberg.
The majority of the work is being done.
outside of your consciousness, that you be a king and the authority and give it direction.
So it, so it knows what, what you want it to do. And then it's just like, okay, you want me to do
that? Okay, well, I know how to do that. I don't need to be market managed and have you teach me
how to do that. Good managers don't know their, the ins and outs of their employees job. They just
trust their employees to be the expert in their field. And they leave the employees to do it.
They give the employees guidance, but, but they don't micromanage their, their employees because
their employee, they, they trust their employees to make the, the best decisions in certain areas
and all of that. You know, they give their, their employees license and they don't have
to micromanage, you know, this is how I need to do it. Same thing with that soul in the body,
they're the better experts on how, and how they need to function and how they need to,
all the steps that they need to take in order to shift and to come into alignment with the spirit
without you having to know how it all works. Again, we don't know. I keep wanting to point
to the point, to the chart again, we're not relying on our knowledge, knowledge of what
it is that we know and don't know in order to, in order to claim that, that we can,
in order to claim God's inheritance for us that we can shift.
Okay. So that is very fast, right? To go through all of those practical tools. Oh my word. If you
knew, I think I have like multiple pages here of, of information on this. So, okay.
Yeah. Yeah. I have something, but I think that, I think that we're going to talk about that one
in just a second. Okay. So operating in spirit. So operating in your business in spirit.
God actually taught me this concept, which is a concept about operating in spirit. He talked to
me about it and taught me when I was learning, when I was asking him about business because of
what it is that I went through in, in business as in how I approached it. I was so beyond burnout.
I mean, I burned out multiple times and I was beyond, beyond, beyond, I mean, it, it,
it drove me to, I didn't know, some kind of a point in death. It was really bad. It was to the
point where I literally physically two years, or was it only a year ago? It was, Oh, it was a year
and a half ago. I was still at the point where to hear the word business. If somebody else said the
word business, I physically became nauseated and I don't get nauseated even with the flu.
I have a very strong stomach. I don't, I, you know, I eat all kinds of things. I've
traveled around the world. I lived overseas. I eat all kinds of things. I do not get nauseated
easily. And I would get nauseated. If someone just said the word business, there was that much
trauma associated with it. So I had to go to the Lord and ask him, I wanted to get as far away from
it as I could, but he said, no, Ashley, I created good things in business is a good thing. And I
want to redeem it for you. And then I want you to begin to, uh, overcome certain areas, uh, uh,
and begin to redeem business in the earth. And, and I'm going to use you who has gone through
tremendous trauma. I'm going to have to redeem it for you first and then have you act on it
and bring a new aspect of redemption, speak a new aspect of redemption into business.
The way that I always intended it to be. He said, I was like, okay, anyway, I really wasn't happy
when I heard that. I was like, I just want to get as far away from it as I can. Uh, but anyway,
so I thought, okay, all right. So I would go to him and I would ask him questions. Okay. God,
then what is business? Um, I've been in business for, I don't know. I don't know how many years
it had been by that point. Um, many, many, many years. And, um, but very intense business
situations that most, most people in business had never found themselves. And I was in these
very intense situations because I was a consultant for people that were going through, you know,
having to, we were needing to save them from having to file bankruptcy and whatever.
And it's just like do or die type situations. And it's all just very intense. It's like, okay,
God. So now that I've been through all that now, like on the other side, can you tell me,
tell me the basics or teach me the basics? What is business? Why did you create that?
And he, and, um, I was talking to him and he said, actually people think businesses is about money.
He said, it's not, business is not about money. He said it. And then he, he kind of like took me
through a couple of steps here and to, to, uh, progression first, he said, business is not about
money. Business is about the movement of money. It's about facilitating the movement of money.
And then later he went on to explain, actually, actually, now that you get them.
He said, business is actually about facilitating movement in the earth.
And then that's when he began to, and so from that, he would then, you know, took me into
deeper levels saying, actually, that's what spirit is.
That's when we operate in anything in life, relationships or finances, you know, or like
I said, business.
He said, it's the facilitation of movement within, within the world.
He said, because spirit is always moving.
Always.
It's like the balloon, that being the nature of the balloon or whatever, you know, the
balloon just having a nature, the nature of spirit is moving always.
And combined with, with that, there is life, spirit, movement, life, all the same thing.
They all have, they all coexist.
And if any one of them is missing, well, then it's not the other, I mean, then it's not
itself.
It has to always be moving.
So if there's any, and in fact, scientists have defined death as, you know, death, like
in the universe, like not like death of a person, but death in the universe, if you
were to describe it as a concept, they thought, well, how would you describe death?
And they said, it's complete lack of movement.
Like you know how, like even at a, at a level like quarks and you know, or whatever it things
moving in, in, in, in waves of energy, that's still movement.
And science says that, that death from a scientific definition is complete lack of movement, which
is fascinating because that's also the spiritual principle that, and that death is complete
lack of movement.
And the opposite of that is life is, is movement, which is, and in spirit, so spirit is constantly
moving.
That means that when we're operating in business, the whole point of business is to facilitate
a movement, is to take something that's in the invisible, which is spirit and movement
and life, and put that into a visible form.
It's to facilitate a movement of things on the earth.
And in, in business, there's movement of more than just money, there's business of, I mean,
there's a movement of relationships and, and, you know, systems, and there's all kinds
of movement that it helps facilitate.
And so that's what God was, was telling me that it, that it was, it was just kind of
like adding this very enriching understanding to, to what business is, is at its core, said
it is the facilitation of movement.
So we use business and interact with business in order to, as sense of God, create movement
on earth.
And very often, one of the things that is moving in, in, in business is money, that
you expand this idea into the economy and the, and economists say that the healthiest,
the healthiest economies are those that where money is, where there's a lot of movement
of money.
Let me, let me phrase it like that.
They could probably phrase it better than me, but where there is, there's healthy and
high movement of money.
It the, the healthy being economy does not depend on the volume of money that the, that
the country or the economy has.
It is, it's actually, the health is actually determined by how much the money is moving.
So that was very fascinating.
So, I mean, it's like this principle that the Lord has created in the kingdom and there's
all these fractals, these, these fractal expressions that we see in all kinds of principles.
So anyway, that business is about, is about the movement.
And it's important that it, and why this is, and why this is important to operating in
rest is that in, if ever it means, okay, let me, let me start it by giving you this picture.
So think of spirit is like a river.
God's doing stuff in your business.
God's doing stuff in you, everything's going, and things are just moving.
And so it's like this river, this river of spirit.
So what God wants to do when we're interacting with him in business or about a particular
vision or dream that we have about something it is that we want to do, we're speaking the
Lord about it and whatever.
It's like putting our hands into the river and we were able to experience so much of
the river and touch so much more water by keeping our hands open while the river flows
through it.
Cause as soon as those water molecules leave, then more water molecules come, right.
And that they're going, you know, above our hand, lower hand, you know, around our fingers,
everything we're experiencing so much of the river, so much of the spirit.
But if we think, oh my goodness, this is such a good and beautiful thing that I want to
keep it.
Cause I'm concerned that this is, I'm feeling protected.
I'm seeing the, I'm seeing the provision.
I'm seeing the protection.
I'm seeing all of these great things.
but I want to make sure that I'm never without it.
What if the river were to dry up?
What if, you know,
I like this aspect of the river that I'm feeling right now.
How do I keep it?
And how do I keep it from changing?
The nature of spirit is movement.
The nature of spirit is life.
The nature of spirit is change.
But we're like, how do I keep it from changing?
Well, it means that we're denying
the very essence of what it is that it is,
which is constant change.
And we think, I want to stop it
because I want to protect and provide for myself.
So we try to grab a hold of the river.
And if we try to grab a hold of the water,
we realize we can't, it just pours out.
And then any water droplets that are left,
if we open our hands, well, they just evaporate.
We can't hold onto it.
We can't grab it.
And whenever we try to grab a hold of something,
we actually stifle it and bring it death.
We think that we're trying to keep a good thing.
So in other words, keeping things from changing,
keeping things from moving,
keeping things from being the very essence
of what God says it is, which is life and spirit.
And he said, this is what's enabling a business
to be healthy and the ministry to be healthy
and my relationship with you
and what it is we're doing on the earth to be healthy.
It's movement.
So if ever we want to stop the movement, like, okay, God,
I'm trying to be obedient to you.
And I'm seeing that everything is working
just the way that it is.
So perfectly, and you see,
I feel that you're happy with me right now.
Again, we think that there's separation
and we think that there's abandonment.
We're trying to be pleasing to the Lord
and we're trying to continue to put ourselves
in a position where we're receiving
as abundance and all of that.
So we think, how do I lock this down
so it doesn't ever change?
And I'm not ever threatened with it leaving or being gone.
As soon as we start to stop it,
to hold onto what we have, we've stopped it.
And when you stop movement, it brings death.
So by actually, that's why it's important for us
to allow the Lord to continue to bring movement
and to partner with him in that movement.
And because that is where the life of the business is,
meaning that the business is gonna change
and it could change from day to day,
the way that you interact with your clients
and whether your clients are happy with you
or not happy with you or whatever,
all of these ups and downs that we think,
well, these things are good.
And I can see how God would make all kinds of changes
that are good and that those are healthy,
but look, oh my word,
I'm experiencing some bad changes.
We're going up and then we're going down.
Yeah, that's ebb and flow.
That's part of the change that God is saying,
don't stop resisting it because resisting the change
and starting to lock down will bring death.
What we see is we're like, oh no,
because I'm not grabbing a hold of it, it's bringing death.
I was like, that's not death, that's just change.
And then whenever he does bring something,
I hope this doesn't muddy the waters
by me inserting this here.
Whenever God does bring some kind of a change
that looks like death,
remember that God promises that whenever that death has come
and well, how do I read this?
Whenever that death has come,
because of change that God is doing,
or whenever we present that death to God in Christ,
it means that because of Christ's death,
nothing that we, no death,
there's never lack on the other side of death.
There's always life on the other side of death.
So even if something dies,
there's resurrection coming after.
There might be a burial time,
Jesus was dead for three days, and he was the son of God.
I mean, that was the most amazing thing
that's ever happened on earth,
was the fact that Jesus died and rose again.
And he stayed dead for three days,
not just died, stayed dead.
So if Jesus, the son of God,
in the most phenomenal event
that's ever happened in world history, stayed dead,
then something that happens in our business,
or in a vision, or just for a day,
or something that leads to a lawsuit,
or I don't know, whatever,
something that looks like death,
cannot just die, but look buried for a while.
I'm honestly going through a very, very serious time
in a certain area of my life.
And I'm currently going through a burial time.
It's dead.
And I'm grieving it.
I'm truly grieving it beyond what I can tell you.
Because you're grieving,
that there's no greater grief, obviously, than a death.
I mean, that's what grief is, right?
And so I'm telling you this
from a place I'm currently living,
and I'm currently having to have faith in God in,
and now I gave it to God.
I was like Abraham with Isaac, I killed it.
Now Abraham didn't kill Isaac, but I took mine to the Lord and it took me four
hours to go through everything.
And I literally died to it.
I literally did.
And it, um, it, uh, it changed within me.
I'm telling you what I felt that there, it was all gone within me and it's still gone.
There was something inside me that was so precious and it's gone.
I don't like living with it gone.
I don't like feeling that beautiful thing in me missing.
So I'm telling you this so that, you know, I'm not telling you theory about all of
the difficult circumstances that you might be finding yourself in business or in
something that's just truly important to you in vision or in relationship or
something that a promise that God's made to you, because some of these things
related to promises that he made.
Um, and, uh, hopefully I'll be able to get to that in just a second to let y'all
know if, if not, somebody remind me and to tell you this, uh, about, uh, you know,
what to do to submit something back to God when he's the one who gave you the
promise, um, cause otherwise it can be very confusing.
Like, well, am I dying to the promise?
But I'm supposed to hold on to the promise.
I'm not supposed to like not forget the promise and you know, all of that, but I
wanted you to know that, uh, that all of this stuff is so serious that I'm walking
it out and I'm, and it, and I'm speaking from a place of, of experiencing that it
really is true.
It's not theoretical.
And wouldn't it be nice if it was, if what Ashley's talking about is powerful
enough to work in my specific situation, because oh my goodness, mine's that I'm
telling you, it really is that powerful.
And I'm not telling you that after it's resurrected.
I'm telling you that while it's currently dead.
And I don't see hope.
I do not see, I mean, meaning like I can't see where, what, uh, like a form of it.
Um, I can't see what the form of hope would look like.
I'm like, Laura, I don't know how this, how you're going to resurrect this thing.
It just looks like, I don't know.
And, um, but I have faith because he's proven himself faithful so many other
times where he created life after death.
So I just say that anything that we give to the Lord or anything that, that we
see that dies in a vision and a belief and a dream and a, um, that, that a dream
that we have about business, a dream that we have about ministry or whatever.
Um, something that we're currently experiencing or, you know, I don't know.
Business venture or whatever, anything that looks like, um, like it really has
died, remember that when it's given to the Lord and interacted with the Lord, he
promises that there's life on the other side.
We don't get to determine what that life looks like.
We don't get to say, oh, well, it's going to look exactly like that.
It's going to look exactly like it used to look.
And therefore that's what life looks like.
No.
It might look completely different, but God does promise that it's life on the
other side and it's life and abundance.
And it's greater than it was before it died.
That's why it had to die is because it could not contain the abundance that God
wanted it to be.
And it had to change form kind of like a Phoenix.
Now I know that Phoenix is a Phoenix is a, um, is a mythical bird, but that's
actually what my name means.
I mean, my name means to rise.
Ashley means to rise from the ashes, like a Phoenix it's continual rebirth after,
after death.
Um, so I just mentioned that because there are so many things that we
experienced in business, not just where they're hard, but where it looks like we
had faith in God and he didn't come through.
So all this sounds great, but what about in this situation is where it looks like
you didn't come through it's a death and there will be a burial time while it
looks dead, but God promises that.
And that's what we have faith in.
God promises that there will be resurrection.
Um, so does I, I don't even remember how on earth I got into that.
Oh, now I do.
Okay.
So I was talking about the difference between life and death.
Um, so there's always life on the other side of death.
Um, but the important thing is that whatever has died, we need to give to him.
We need to submit to him.
And it's like planting the seed into the ground.
Cause remember what Jesus said?
He said, unless the seed is put into the ground and dies, it can't grow and it
can't, and it can't have life.
Um, so I want us to go ahead and have a, have a bit of a break, but let me see if.
Uh, okay.
Let me, um, talk about this though, before we do, um, when your spirit, so
talking about interacting with, with businesses in, you know, we were talking
before about being a good steward and that unfortunately can trigger all kinds
of things for us of, um, thinking that we're, there's nothing wrong with being
a good steward.
I mean, Jesus talks about being a good steward and all of that, but the
steward is not us being abandoned and abandoned by God, where God's like,
okay, I, I, you know, look, I, I've done the best I can with you.
I, I helped you go to college.
So you can learn a whole bunch of stuff.
I gave you all kinds of opportunities
to go to business conferences.
I gave you all kinds of people
that you can learn things from.
And I need you to be a good steward
with the money that I've given you, the time, the talent.
Do you know how much talent I've given you?
And everybody else sees it and you're not using it.
And doing all of those things,
taking advantage of all of those things
that we feel condemned by.
We feel that God is condemning us
if we don't realize what he's given us.
Be very grateful for it
and use it to the strongest of our ability.
We, that's coming from this perspective
that we think that if we don't,
that God has accusation against us.
And they saying, well, you aren't a good steward.
So I'm gonna take away the one talent
that I gave you that you buried.
It's very different than,
it's a very different thing than what it is
that we have taken it all to mean of,
well, God wants me to be a good,
what God actually means by being a good steward.
That idea that I just all described
is this feeling that I'm abandoned and alone
and I'm being left to prove
that I really have learned all the lessons
that God has taught me thus far.
He's prepared me for this time
and he's already taught me everything it is
that I need to know,
or he's currently teaching me whatever,
but he's taught me everything I need to know.
And this is that I'm gonna test.
This is a lesson to see if I'm going to perform.
And based on my performance,
he will interact with me and give me certain blessings
or not give me certain blessings.
Or he'll tell me the next step to take
or he won't tell me the next step to take
because I wasn't a good steward, et cetera, et cetera.
No, God is a good God and God is a good father all the time,
regardless of our behavior.
So saying that,
wanted to mention that we're not abandoned by God
to have to do business on our own.
Oh, I wanna mention this real quick
about tests and lessons.
I'm just hoping that this will bring freedom
to any of you.
It's your pain and your struggles
that you come up against these thresholds.
It's not about you learning a particular lesson
and you're being tested like,
okay, well, here's your piece of paper,
you know, struggle alone to try to remember everything
that I've taught you.
And then when I'm back,
I'll grade you and I'll see how well you did
and you better have done it well
because you should have done, you should have known.
Yeah, how many times we've heard, you know,
hey, you knew better.
That's not what is happening
when we're going through pain and struggle.
All that pain and struggle is,
is we are coming up against accusations
that we have against God
and God wants to show them to us,
not in condemnation like,
look, do you see what you believe about me?
That isn't true.
You know, you shouldn't, you know,
I'm calling you to believe better about me than that.
Why aren't you believing like that?
It's not, there are always invitations like,
do you see what you believe?
Do you know that I'm actually better than that?
Do you know that you can choose more love
and more freedom than where it is
that you're currently in bondage of?
That's all that the pain and the struggle
is highlighting to us,
is it's highlighting to us a bondage that we're in.
So God can say, hey, by the way,
you don't have to be there.
As opposed to us not knowing we're in bondage
and then we just keep living in it,
not realizing that life can be different or better.
And God wants to us to know
in all of these pain and struggles,
all it is is through invitations.
They're just invitations like,
hey, do you want to move into more love and freedom?
Because this time you can make a different choice.
Last time you believed,
last time you came up against this pain and struggle,
you had accusation against me.
And you chose that I wasn't a good God.
You chose that I wasn't loving to you
and you acted out and you tried to reach,
to provide for yourself,
you did all of this stuff.
And so he just says,
did you know that you don't have to,
do you know that I'm actually better than that?
That I'm more loving than you even want me to be?
I'm as loving as you want me to be
and you wish that I were,
but I'm actually even more than that.
And I'm more free than that and you can choose that.
So do you want to stay where you are
or do you want to have more love and freedom?
It's not in condemnation of having learned a lesson
and hey, let's try to spiritually mature you
and make you better than what you are.
It's, hey, do you have an opportunity?
Would you like to move into more love and freedom?
You can stay where you are
and I will love you and accept you just as much as I would.
If you choose to believe me.
But the difference is by choosing me,
you actually get to experience more of the love
and freedom that I've already given you.
God doesn't.
Give us more love and freedom.
We've been given all of it,
but we only get to experience
what it is that we choose to receive.
That's the, you know,
kind of like that mantle talking about,
you know, that it's only the amount
that we're carrying, so to speak,
that we actually get to benefit from,
that we actually get to experience.
You don't get to experience the rest of it that's down there.
And I was just like, hey, it's all yours.
How much more do you want to,
and every time he takes us to like a growth spurt.
Like, hey, you have the opportunity.
You're strengthening yourself.
You're going through growing pains,
all kinds of things.
This is an invitation.
Do you want to operate more love and freedom?
Okay.
All right, so we will break for five minutes
and then we'll get back to the last session,
which is getting into some much deeper stuff
about business and then we will be done for the day.
So we'll just do a little five minute break
for everyone to either use the restroom or drink something.