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It's a bit of a segue from what we were talking about just now is I wanted to mention, let

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me get the chart again.

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Is the fact that when we're releasing something and that, remember, we're if we're down here

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if the balloon is down here, it means that we're in a state of resistance.

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I wanted to explain why I keep calling it resistance so that we can think about this.

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And this can help us like shift into rest in moments when, when we need to, we can acknowledge

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what it is we're doing.

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When I say we're in a state of resistance, it's because it is not natural.

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If the, if the, if the balloon has dropped down here, it's not natural for a balloon

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to be sinking.

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So why is it sinking?

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It's holding onto that way.

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It's holding onto that lie, that accusation against God, it is not natural.

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Therefore, therefore it, that means it is not natural for a son of God to sin.

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It is very hard for a son of God to send.

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It takes a lot of weight and it takes a lot of exertion, a lot of effort.

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You have to apply work and effort.

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You know, anything in the solar, the body worker effort strife in order where you're

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trying to operate from this place.

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There's nothing wrong with our solar body.

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It's when we think our identity is down here and we're using something in, in earthly laws

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or spiritual laws to, to help us try to stop sinking.

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That is striving.

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So it is not natural for a son of God to sin.

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It's not natural for, it's not natural for a balloon to be sinking.

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It's very hard.

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Our, our, our flesh, sure.

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Our flesh sins, but who are we?

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We're spirit.

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We're sons of God.

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We're one with Christ.

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It is not natural.

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And that's very important so that we don't, so that we can stop thinking that that sin

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is a natural state for us in which we constantly need to be vigilant against doing.

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It's not natural for you to do that.

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It's not natural for you to sin.

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It is hard for you to sin.

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The reason why it feels easy is because we believe we're the old man.

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If we believe that we're the old man, then we're going to start acting like it.

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And he thinks, and that's all that he knows to do until we overcome and, you know, and

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bring the new man, you know, completely make, make everything reflect the fact that who

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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

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not who you are.

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Cause it says that the old man has died and that, and that the new man now lives.

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So that's what I was talking about.

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When I talk about resistance, how we're in this state of resistance, we're resisting

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our real nature.

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So if a balloon has grabbed a hold of a weight and it's thinking it's resisting itself because

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the property of a balloon keeps wanting to float, it's still buoyant because it's evidenced

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by the fact, as soon as you let go, it immediately floats back up.

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So that's why I keep talking about resistance.

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So when you're stressed, when you're anxious, that is not a natural state for you.

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You're not trying to overcome a natural state.

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You were trying, um, you are in a state that you don't have to be in.

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God gave you a right as a son of God to not be in that state.

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It's not natural for you just because it's habit, just because it's who you think that

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you are and you've been doing it for so long.

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Therefore it makes it easy because any habit that took a lot of work and exertion to go

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towards it, once it's habit, it becomes easy.

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So just because it's habit and just because it feels easy because it's habit doesn't mean

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that it actually is easy and natural for who it is that you are.

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You just been doing it for so long based on your belief.

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So it can, you can get this, this, um, get in this rut.

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So I wanted to mention that and so that means that you'll notice that anything that we talk

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about in to be able to shift into rest is strictly removal of lies that we're believing.

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It's not gaining something new.

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And here's why I say that, yes, it's important for us to focus on the truth so we can think

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that we're exchanging a lie for a truth.

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And you can think like that.

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Absolutely.

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The problem with that, there's nothing wrong with that, with, with saying that because

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it is true.

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We, instead of a lie, we need to be believing the truth, but think about it in a different

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way because that can feel like an exchange of work.

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I need to not believe a lie.

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So I need to believe a truth.

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something we still have to do, and that can trigger that exertion and that strife and that effort.

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Think instead, think of it this way, that you already do believe the truth, but the lie is,

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but your belief of the lie, you're having to work really hard to believe a lie. Remember that,

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that the fact that the balloon grabs a hold of that weight, you're having to work hard to believe

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a lie. So because you naturally believe the truth, because you are the new man, you don't have to

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exchange the lie for truth. It's already there, you just need to stop and let go of the lie,

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and then the truth is already there. And so that it can, we can stop being triggered in our minds

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that we need to stop doing one thing in order to just exchange it for doing something else.

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Instead of, because it feels easy that I'm believing this lie. This doesn't feel like

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this feels easy. So I feel that what God's telling me to do all throughout the Bible is

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to stop believing this lie, meaning I'm finding that very hard to stop. And I'm finding it very

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hard to believe the truth. So therefore that means that God is telling me to work really hard to do

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something different than what I'm doing. And that's not true. It's not true. As soon as we

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begin to realize and really, really take this into ourselves, that we really are the new man,

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and that everything that he describes of Jesus can be described of us. And that we already do

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believe him, we already do love him all the time. Not sometimes, we always do. And we already know

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the truth, and we already believe the truth. If we realize that that's our natural state,

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then it doesn't make it as hard to shift into it. But if we're believing,

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that belief is creating that resistance. If we believe that it's not natural, and that the lie

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is easy for us to believe, then it's always going to feel hard to believe God. And it's always going

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to feel like work. It's always going to feel like work to have faith. It's going to feel like work

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when you've got, when you're in a, I don't know, you've got a particular business venture,

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and things aren't working right. And it looks like all of these obstacles are coming in place,

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it'd be financial, you know, obstacles, whatever. And there's all of these hindrances,

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and you're trying to have faith in the Lord. It can feel hard to believe him, if we don't

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recognize and acknowledge and believe God when he says that it's actually natural for us to

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believe him, and we already do. If we do that, it's easier for us to let go of the lie,

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as opposed to, oh my goodness, I'm not believing God, it's something that already in this struggle,

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which is really difficult, and I'm really already striving. Now I have to work harder

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to believe something different. That makes it a lot harder for us to change, because when we're

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in pain, and when we're suffering, it is harder, it's, we, part of what keeps us from believing

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God is we feel that we have to, that it exerts, it causes more pain, and therefore we have to

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move into it with more work and more effort to believe him, when we're already exhausted.

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It's already hard enough to keep our head above water in the situation that we're in,

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and now we have to work harder in order to have the faith to believe him,

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and that keeps us out of it, and it makes it harder for us to believe, makes us harder to

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shift into it, because we're running on fumes already, we have no more strength to now believe

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him. We're spending all of our strength in the lie, we're spending all of our strength in the

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struggle, all of our strength in the pain, and the fear that God's abandoned us, and it hurts.

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So that's why this is very important for me to bring up. It's important for us to choose

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if God says that I already trust him, and that, that, and that I already know the truth,

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I just need to let go of the lie and stop working, stop striving, stop struggling.

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Then we land, then we, then, then that, that dissipates, and it goes away, and we discover

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we're already in the truth, we already believe the truth. It's very counter to what it is that

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we thought, but that's one of the reasons why my life was just so hard, you know, for decades,

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is I was, I, and, and why everything felt so hard, why I was, I was struggling, I was always

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striving, there was always so much pain, everything required so much work, because I was already

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struggling and working with the lies that I was holding on to, and now I thought, now I have to

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work harder in order to overcome them. Our overcoming doesn't require work.

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Overcoming is, is, um, because God, when God

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else's to overcome that is in overcome the flesh, that is us

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and bringing the soul and the body into agreement with who it

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is that we are in spirit. That's all that it is. It's, it's made

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it's so that what it is that we believe is truth and spirit

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already effortlessly, our soul comes, it begins to over time

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choose to come into agreement with and believe is also true.

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And then our body will follow and believe that whatever it is

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that our spirits is true. That's overcoming. It's that everything

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is aligned in alignment of always believing the Father, and

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that who it is that we are in spirit now takes on a visible

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form in the soul, and then eventually takes on a visible

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form in the body so that we see in a physical form, who it is

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that we are in the invisible realm. That's overcoming. So if

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we're talking about overcoming it, that's why it's that that's

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why all of this ties together as far as rest and overcoming not

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being hard. Are you just to overcome you let go, you let go

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we're make, we're, we're working and God says stop working. Stop

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in other words, stop striving put all it stop putting all this

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exertion didn't mean we don't have activity, we work and we

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have our businesses and all of that, but there's no striving in

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the work, there's no exertion, there's no burden, there's no

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weight. It's an enjoyment, just like the laws. Once we no longer

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need them, now we can enjoy them. Okay, so in how to shift

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into rest, I'm gonna go through these very fast. So if y'all

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have any questions about like how to, how to do this, in, like

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trying to understand it a bit more y'all can ask me, you know,

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in your in the private consultations that we'll set up.

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But this is these are the practical shifting tools. So,

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um, the, these are things they're not magical. These are

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just things that worked for me, and helped me be able to like

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practical things that I could actually do that helped me walk

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my mind through and release things in my soul so that my

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soul would start being in rest. So that's all that these things

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are, you might have different things that work for you. These

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work for me and my clients, these things work for them, as

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well. But some, you would be surprised at how many times you

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know, they, you know, that they're, they're shifting into

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rest in all kinds of ways. And they forget about the practical

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tools. I was surprised. So these aren't magical, these just

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worked for me. And so maybe they'll trigger some ideas for

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you, what works for you, I will tell you a biblical one that's

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very important. And that is, first of all, if you find

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yourself in a position in a situation in which you're

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feeling highly anxious, highly stressed, or the bills are due

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tomorrow, and I have no money, you know, or, or, you know, I'm

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being threatened with a lawsuit or whatever, I have been through

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a lawsuit, by the way. So all of the stuff that I talked to you

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about how to operate and rest, I did have to apply to real life

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circumstances. And it was it was a business lawsuit as well. I

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was accused, me and some others were accused of doing something

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that we didn't do. And so I mean, any any type of

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accusation is hard, but especially when you haven't done

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anything. And, and we went through a very, very long time,

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just like all of these attacks, and we just had to operate, you

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know, and rest as much as we, you know, we're understanding

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people were to do because we're like, God, this just doesn't

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make any sense. And then God fought our battle for us. It was

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really fascinating how it all worked. And it was ugly. I mean,

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it was so ugly that I had friends who were involved in

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that now see different lawsuits. And they're just like, actually,

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that was nothing compared to that that other one that we went

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through is nothing that was that was was corrupt, and evil,

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all of the stuff that was going on behind the scenes. So anyway,

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it was just, it's really bad. So I just want to let you know, I

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do apply these really, really serious situations in your work.

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So first of all, no shame and no condemnation. So when you find

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yourself in a very highly anxious, highly stressful

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situation, and a very fearful one, the first thing to do, it

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means you're not in rest, to shift yourself into rest, and to

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choose to shift yourself from the tree that from operating

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from the tree of knowledge of being able to operating in the

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out of the tree of life. First of all, God says, to remember, no

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shame, no condemnation. He says, there's no shame and no

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condemnation, even if you've already even if you've just

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intentionally sinned. Because remember, that your flesh sins,

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but not who you are in spirit. So it's important that we always

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choose who it is that we are, and that we work together with

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the Lord to help our flesh come into alignment, but you are not

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your flesh. Yes, you it's part of you. So you are unified, but

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your identity, the seat of which part of you in that that your

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identity sits in is the part that's unified with Christ in

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crisis.

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any of the things that we want to accuse ourselves of. Christ has no, and deserves no shame and no

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condemnation. Now a biblical story of this where Jesus himself walked us through this is one I

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mentioned a while ago, which is the story of the adulterous woman where Jesus, you know, he was

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riding in the sand and, you know, we all know the story. So I'll just fast forward to the part at

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the very end where he said, where are your accusers? Because we accuse ourselves. That's

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where we get all this, no shame. And that's where we get shame and condemnation. We're accusing

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ourselves or the accused or the enemy comes and he accuses us, whatever there's accusation. And

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he said, where are your accusers? And she said, well, they're all gone. They're not here. He says,

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then neither do I condemn you. If anybody could have condemned her because she'd done something,

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she really had done it. She'd been caught in the act. This wasn't theory. This wasn't hearsay.

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She'd been caught in the act. Jesus said, neither do I condemn you. That was the first thing he

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addressed. He didn't address with her that she needed to feel sorry. He didn't address with her

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that she needed to repent. He didn't address that she needed to create restitution, that she needed

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to understand that what it is that she'd done was wrong, that she even needed to agree that what it

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is that she'd done wrong. He said, what you need to trust is my perspective of you. And I'm declaring,

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so he didn't make this about her. The first thing he said is himself. I don't condemn you. And what

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he's inviting her to do is receive what it is that I'm saying. This is my word. I'm giving you my

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word. I'm calling you to receive my word. And my word is no condemnation. That's the first thing

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he had her deal with. Then after that, he says, go and sin no more. Didn't tell her to repent.

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Didn't tell me not repent, but that is repentance is going to sin no more, but he didn't tell her

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to say sorry. Didn't tell her to apologize to him. Didn't tell her to go explain it to the Pharisees,

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go to apologize to her husband or the guy that she was having an adulterous

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relationship with or apologize to his family or make restitution. He didn't tell her any of that.

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He said, don't do it anymore. Why? Because it's destructive.

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just go and sin no more. That's it. No condemnation. And then, and then turn to 180. Don't, um,

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as opposed to making payment with shame and condemnation for what it is that we've done before

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we feel we have a right to move forward. And that's not believing God. Whenever we do that,

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that's accusation against God. So the next thing, if that doesn't work or if it works,

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but it doesn't like work all the way, like, well, I feel more at rest, but I don't feel completely

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at rest. Now that I've chosen, God says, no shame, no condemnation. I receive that. I am choosing that

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that is true. Sometimes it won't help at all. Sometimes it'll help to a certain extent depends

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on the situation. Sometimes it will help completely, but if it doesn't, the next thing you can go to

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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

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you're upset. I don't know why you're, you're stressed and anxious. I just walked into this

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party and I'm stressed and anxious. I have no idea why, you know, what's going on, or maybe you do

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exactly know why, but you don't know why your soul or your body can't come into alignment and

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agreement with what it is that you know, to be true in the spirit. So you just say, Hey, look,

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I don't know why you're at that, but I'm talking to you and you have to be very intentional about

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it. Is it like, see them as actual beings in order to make this work? Because you have to be

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intentional about it and you have to talk to creation. That's an aspect of creation. And so

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you talk to it and you just say, okay, you know, I don't I don't know why you're anxious and upset,

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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.

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I want to look and act like my father. So he made me a King over you and looking and acting like my

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father and seeing how he lovingly provides and protects for me. He calls me to do that for you.

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I'm here to provide for and protect you and give you a stand in authority over you. And I'm here to

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tell you that you don't need to be afraid, whatever it is that you're doing to be stressed, to feel

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stressed, stressed, and anxious. Stop. Basically you're saying whatever weight you're letting,

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whatever weight you've grabbed ahold of. And I don't even know what it is, whatever that is

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stop and just let it go. I am shocked at how well this one works. It doesn't work all the time,

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but I am shocked at how often that works. My soul, my body, when I'm very intentional to talk to it,

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it'll be like, okay, it's almost like a parent, a child feeling safe because a parent has finally

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come into the room and they feel like, okay, everything's okay now. It's so interesting.

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Okay. So the other one is no judgment. This is a really big one. And that is thinking that whatever

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situation that you're in, say this again, that business venture or whatever that you're thinking,

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oh my goodness, it's terrible. It's not just, it looks like it's not working out, and that was

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going to provide me this money, or it's going to put me in this really bad position, or am I going

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I could sue me, I don't know, whatever, whatever threatening result, you know, and consequence

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that, that, that we're fearful is going to come up or that we think that we're in, and we think

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it's going to continue to cause certain problems in our life. We think it shouldn't be like this.

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It should be different. And we think that we're making a, we're making a judgment about it.

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They shouldn't have yelled at me. They shouldn't have treated me like that.

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It's a judgment. Here's the problem. Well, I don't have the, I don't have the chart right now,

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but here's the problem with that is that if we are struggling, and if we're in unrest,

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we're believing our identity is in our soul or our body. That is not where that is not a position

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of power and authority in Christ, which is a position of King, which is a position of judge.

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judgment about this situation is we have to be in the seat of righteous judgment, which is in

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our spirit, because that is one with Christ and he's sitting in that seat of judgment.

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So if we're in unrest, we're in our soul or in our body, and we're trying to make a judgment

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about the situation that we're not in a position to be able to make a righteous judgment about.

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Now, what it is that we're declaring might very well be true. They shouldn't have yelled at us.

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I didn't deserve that. But the problem is if we're in a state of, uh, if we're anxious or if

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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

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or our body. And we need to shift out of that into the spirit first, before we can then make a

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righteous judgment about the situation. And the fascinating thing is that when we let it go,

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when we stop saying it shouldn't be this way, and it should be different. And we let go of

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our ownership that it has to be anything different than what it is. We shift into rest. And now we

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see it from Christ's eyes. Now we realize we're not under threat. And then we can, and then now

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that we're in rest, we can hear the father's heart more. We can hear his will more, and we can now

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know what to do. We can now know what to say, because that's part of our issue here is how do

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I fix this? We're in our soul and our body, and we're in unrest. We don't know how to righteously

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fix it. We have to let go of our right to fix it first, in order to shift into rest,

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where we'll finally hear from the spirit of the Lord how to righteously fix it. But we have to

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let go of our ownership first. In order to have something like that, that God says that we need

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to exert on the earth with things like judgment, we have to let go of our ownership of it first,

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before we can have it. We have to lose everything and sacrifice everything and give everything to

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him first, before we can have the thing. We have to submit our will first. Anyway,

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so hopefully that makes sense. So the next one is, if any of those, or you're struggling with,

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or whatever, or if you just want to jump to this one, you don't even want to go through all these

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steps, you can do that too. But if you don't know which one you need, I always recommend starting

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here. And then if you need to keep going, because that wasn't, that didn't fully shift you into rest,

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just go to the next one. And if that doesn't fully shift you into rest, then go to the next

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one. So you can either use this as a progression, or you can just pick one. This is the best one to

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pick right here. But anyway, this one is, choose that whatever God says is true about himself,

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and go where your spirit finds peace. Meaning that you believe something in your spirit,

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not in your soul, but in your spirit. My spirit, the part of me that is one,

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the seed of my identity that is one with Christ, I believe my father there. I'm the new man,

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and I can feel that. And I'm going to choose that whatever God says is true, and I'm going to

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act on where my spirit finds peace. Remember, faith without works is dead. So if we're,

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this is like the height of faith right here, where we choose something because God said it,

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and we act on it without proof. That's what this is. Choose and go where our spirit, our new man,

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knows that already believes our father, and is able to step into. If however, your faith is not

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to the point that you can do that, or if it is to a particular extent, do it to what extent that you

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do have faith. Then the rest of it, if you still have an element of unrest, then declare that

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whatever God says is true, because you're struggling to choose it. Declare that, okay God,

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if you say that that's true, then I declare it's true. If you say that you're loved to that degree,

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if you say that you protect me to that degree, if you say that you provide for me to that degree,

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I'm declaring that it is true, and I'm choosing it to the extent that I can.

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taught me those things, and you've shown me how I can use them to provide for and protect,

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to get provision and protection. So go where your soul finds you.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I'm going to receive that Lord is a good gift that you created.

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And you gave to me, and I'm going to receive Tylenol is your gift.

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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

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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

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you gave me. And this is the provision of protection that I asked you for, and you gave it to me in this form.

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That's what that's what that what this one is.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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By the way, it's not creepy to talk to your spirit solar body.

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Jesus talked to people's souls and people's bodies, but for instance Lazarus was dead.

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Who do we think he was talking to when he told Lazarus to rise from the dead.

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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.

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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.

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David in the psalm says, Oh my soul, you know, you know, praise the Lord Oh my soul and whatever.

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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.

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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

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how do I do this thing. How do I have rest. How do I have faith.

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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

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time, I do it and it works.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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You thought that God had abandoned you and because I'm one with God you thought that I had abandoned you.

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and that you had to provide for and protect yourself.

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and you no longer have to do all this work

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that you were not created to do.

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You weren't created to provide for and to protect yourself

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and to do it all on your own.

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I'm your spirit, I'm in heaven with God and I can do that.

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supernatural position.

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and all of this stuff in heaven.

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And therefore I know what's wrong

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and I know how to heal it.

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I know your traumas and I know how to heal it.

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and you're all scared.

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vulnerably to me and let me come in and do it.

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you don't have to be afraid.

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Choose to believe me.

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Choose to believe me that you won't have to be afraid.

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of what it is that I'm doing

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I'll let the spirit come in and heal you.

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It knows what it's doing and don't be afraid

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hey, by the way, the soul has been giving you instruction

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all of this time in a particular direction.

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I'm submitting itself more to the spirit

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to disregard the old instruction and to receive the new,

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because you've been working hard

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to do something you weren't created to do.

404
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And you can now be relieved of the burden

405
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of having to do that.

406
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Now that you're relieved of the burden of having to do that,

407
00:32:04.640 --> 00:32:06.160
you can spend all of your energy

408
00:32:06.160 --> 00:32:08.360
doing what you were created to do.

409
00:32:08.360 --> 00:32:10.360
All of the things that you love doing and being

410
00:32:10.360 --> 00:32:11.800
because that's what the body is

411
00:32:11.800 --> 00:32:13.280
and it's how it's made to work.

412
00:32:13.280 --> 00:32:15.680
You didn't get to have the energy to pour into that

413
00:32:15.680 --> 00:32:17.560
because you were too busy doing something

414
00:32:17.560 --> 00:32:19.960
that was a responsibility of someone else.

415
00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:22.080
You thought had abandoned you

416
00:32:22.080 --> 00:32:25.000
and that being has not abandoned you.

417
00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:27.200
And you can now choose to sit there

418
00:32:27.200 --> 00:32:29.240
and you can let go of all that responsibility

419
00:32:29.240 --> 00:32:31.600
and now you can just be who you are

420
00:32:31.600 --> 00:32:35.000
and do all the fun things that come naturally to you.

421
00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:36.360
So I do that.

422
00:32:36.360 --> 00:32:38.480
And it can be different things.

423
00:32:38.480 --> 00:32:40.720
It could be, again, regarding business mentor.

424
00:32:40.720 --> 00:32:44.800
It could be the fact that God has given you a business,

425
00:32:44.800 --> 00:32:47.160
has given you a vision for a business or a ministry

426
00:32:47.200 --> 00:32:50.120
and he's given it to you like it's decades old

427
00:32:50.120 --> 00:32:51.960
and either you can't quite capture

428
00:32:51.960 --> 00:32:54.000
what it is he's trying to say.

429
00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:55.080
And that's frustrating.

430
00:32:55.080 --> 00:32:58.600
Or you think you know what it's supposed to look like

431
00:32:58.600 --> 00:33:00.960
but it won't come to fruition.

432
00:33:00.960 --> 00:33:01.960
It's frustrating.

433
00:33:01.960 --> 00:33:03.920
Like, Lord, this is decades old.

434
00:33:05.280 --> 00:33:06.320
Or you're in the middle of it

435
00:33:06.320 --> 00:33:08.200
and you can't figure out how it's supposed to work

436
00:33:08.200 --> 00:33:11.280
or I don't know, it feels just completely out of your control

437
00:33:11.280 --> 00:33:13.600
or that there's all these obstacles and hindrances

438
00:33:13.600 --> 00:33:15.120
that are being thrown in your way.

439
00:33:15.120 --> 00:33:16.240
Whatever it is.

440
00:33:16.280 --> 00:33:18.000
Or it can be about healing.

441
00:33:18.000 --> 00:33:19.720
Or it can be a physical, spiritual work

442
00:33:19.720 --> 00:33:22.360
or whatever the turmoil is coming from.

443
00:33:23.800 --> 00:33:26.160
That this is one of the things that you can do.

444
00:33:27.840 --> 00:33:30.160
And anyway, and it works because your soul,

445
00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:32.040
just like what we talked about at the beginning

446
00:33:32.040 --> 00:33:34.080
and this morning about the notes,

447
00:33:34.920 --> 00:33:36.680
your soul and your body know what to do

448
00:33:36.680 --> 00:33:40.440
without you micromanaging them with your consciousness

449
00:33:40.440 --> 00:33:42.440
and giving them instruction.

450
00:33:42.440 --> 00:33:45.360
They know how to do it better than you do.

451
00:33:45.360 --> 00:33:46.840
They know how to shift you into rest.

452
00:33:46.840 --> 00:33:48.160
They know how to believe their father.

453
00:33:48.160 --> 00:33:49.200
They know all of these things

454
00:33:49.200 --> 00:33:51.360
without you constantly having to teach them

455
00:33:52.200 --> 00:33:53.640
all of the ins and outs of how to do it.

456
00:33:53.640 --> 00:33:55.320
They were created as good things

457
00:33:55.320 --> 00:33:57.120
and God creates things to function

458
00:33:57.120 --> 00:34:00.000
in a very healthy way.

459
00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:02.680
They know how they're supposed to operate.

460
00:34:02.680 --> 00:34:05.320
So let them be themselves.

461
00:34:05.320 --> 00:34:07.760
And so let them shift themselves

462
00:34:07.760 --> 00:34:10.760
without you micromanaging and instructing them

463
00:34:10.760 --> 00:34:12.280
of how to do it.

464
00:34:12.280 --> 00:34:13.960
So it doesn't, my point is it doesn't,

465
00:34:13.960 --> 00:34:15.760
and not everything in order for us to shift

466
00:34:15.760 --> 00:34:18.080
has to go through our consciousness and our brain.

467
00:34:18.080 --> 00:34:19.520
We can give instruction to our soul,

468
00:34:19.520 --> 00:34:22.520
our spirit and our body and it can change on its own.

469
00:34:23.480 --> 00:34:26.280
And I have not only my own testimonies of that,

470
00:34:26.280 --> 00:34:30.960
but so many testimonies from my clients

471
00:34:30.960 --> 00:34:34.760
talking about how this is amazing, how this works.

472
00:34:34.760 --> 00:34:37.760
Now they have to make intentional choices that,

473
00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:40.800
hey, I'm following my father and I'm moving and all of that.

474
00:34:40.800 --> 00:34:41.920
But behind the scenes,

475
00:34:41.960 --> 00:34:46.560
because remember 5% versus 95% of it is subconscious.

476
00:34:46.560 --> 00:34:49.040
So much is going on behind the scenes

477
00:34:49.040 --> 00:34:52.400
while they are continuing to choose the Lord

478
00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:53.920
in faith consciously and all of that.

479
00:34:53.920 --> 00:34:55.360
There's an element of that.

480
00:34:55.360 --> 00:34:58.040
But know that there's also, it's like an iceberg.

481
00:34:58.040 --> 00:35:00.040
The majority of the work is being done.

482
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:05.040
outside of your consciousness, that you be a king and the authority and give it direction.

483
00:35:07.120 --> 00:35:12.800
So it, so it knows what, what you want it to do. And then it's just like, okay, you want me to do

484
00:35:12.800 --> 00:35:16.480
that? Okay, well, I know how to do that. I don't need to be market managed and have you teach me

485
00:35:16.480 --> 00:35:22.240
how to do that. Good managers don't know their, the ins and outs of their employees job. They just

486
00:35:22.240 --> 00:35:26.480
trust their employees to be the expert in their field. And they leave the employees to do it.

487
00:35:26.480 --> 00:35:33.120
They give the employees guidance, but, but they don't micromanage their, their employees because

488
00:35:33.120 --> 00:35:39.920
their employee, they, they trust their employees to make the, the best decisions in certain areas

489
00:35:39.920 --> 00:35:43.760
and all of that. You know, they give their, their employees license and they don't have

490
00:35:43.760 --> 00:35:49.600
to micromanage, you know, this is how I need to do it. Same thing with that soul in the body,

491
00:35:49.600 --> 00:35:55.040
they're the better experts on how, and how they need to function and how they need to,

492
00:35:55.440 --> 00:36:00.320
all the steps that they need to take in order to shift and to come into alignment with the spirit

493
00:36:00.320 --> 00:36:07.120
without you having to know how it all works. Again, we don't know. I keep wanting to point

494
00:36:07.120 --> 00:36:13.520
to the point, to the chart again, we're not relying on our knowledge, knowledge of what

495
00:36:13.520 --> 00:36:21.920
it is that we know and don't know in order to, in order to claim that, that we can,

496
00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:24.960
in order to claim God's inheritance for us that we can shift.

497
00:36:26.880 --> 00:36:35.280
Okay. So that is very fast, right? To go through all of those practical tools. Oh my word. If you

498
00:36:35.280 --> 00:36:42.640
knew, I think I have like multiple pages here of, of information on this. So, okay.

499
00:36:46.080 --> 00:36:50.560
Yeah. Yeah. I have something, but I think that, I think that we're going to talk about that one

500
00:36:50.560 --> 00:36:56.000
in just a second. Okay. So operating in spirit. So operating in your business in spirit.

501
00:36:58.640 --> 00:37:03.360
God actually taught me this concept, which is a concept about operating in spirit. He talked to

502
00:37:03.360 --> 00:37:10.320
me about it and taught me when I was learning, when I was asking him about business because of

503
00:37:10.320 --> 00:37:17.440
what it is that I went through in, in business as in how I approached it. I was so beyond burnout.

504
00:37:17.440 --> 00:37:22.880
I mean, I burned out multiple times and I was beyond, beyond, beyond, I mean, it, it,

505
00:37:22.880 --> 00:37:27.920
it drove me to, I didn't know, some kind of a point in death. It was really bad. It was to the

506
00:37:27.920 --> 00:37:34.240
point where I literally physically two years, or was it only a year ago? It was, Oh, it was a year

507
00:37:34.240 --> 00:37:39.360
and a half ago. I was still at the point where to hear the word business. If somebody else said the

508
00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:44.160
word business, I physically became nauseated and I don't get nauseated even with the flu.

509
00:37:44.720 --> 00:37:49.600
I have a very strong stomach. I don't, I, you know, I eat all kinds of things. I've

510
00:37:49.600 --> 00:37:54.640
traveled around the world. I lived overseas. I eat all kinds of things. I do not get nauseated

511
00:37:54.640 --> 00:37:59.600
easily. And I would get nauseated. If someone just said the word business, there was that much

512
00:37:59.600 --> 00:38:03.760
trauma associated with it. So I had to go to the Lord and ask him, I wanted to get as far away from

513
00:38:03.760 --> 00:38:09.520
it as I could, but he said, no, Ashley, I created good things in business is a good thing. And I

514
00:38:09.520 --> 00:38:17.680
want to redeem it for you. And then I want you to begin to, uh, overcome certain areas, uh, uh,

515
00:38:17.680 --> 00:38:25.280
and begin to redeem business in the earth. And, and I'm going to use you who has gone through

516
00:38:25.280 --> 00:38:30.080
tremendous trauma. I'm going to have to redeem it for you first and then have you act on it

517
00:38:30.080 --> 00:38:34.880
and bring a new aspect of redemption, speak a new aspect of redemption into business.

518
00:38:34.880 --> 00:38:40.160
The way that I always intended it to be. He said, I was like, okay, anyway, I really wasn't happy

519
00:38:40.160 --> 00:38:46.000
when I heard that. I was like, I just want to get as far away from it as I can. Uh, but anyway,

520
00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:50.720
so I thought, okay, all right. So I would go to him and I would ask him questions. Okay. God,

521
00:38:50.720 --> 00:38:55.840
then what is business? Um, I've been in business for, I don't know. I don't know how many years

522
00:38:55.840 --> 00:39:00.720
it had been by that point. Um, many, many, many years. And, um, but very intense business

523
00:39:00.720 --> 00:39:04.720
situations that most, most people in business had never found themselves. And I was in these

524
00:39:04.720 --> 00:39:09.760
very intense situations because I was a consultant for people that were going through, you know,

525
00:39:09.760 --> 00:39:14.000
having to, we were needing to save them from having to file bankruptcy and whatever.

526
00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:19.200
And it's just like do or die type situations. And it's all just very intense. It's like, okay,

527
00:39:19.200 --> 00:39:22.960
God. So now that I've been through all that now, like on the other side, can you tell me,

528
00:39:23.840 --> 00:39:29.120
tell me the basics or teach me the basics? What is business? Why did you create that?

529
00:39:29.760 --> 00:39:35.360
And he, and, um, I was talking to him and he said, actually people think businesses is about money.

530
00:39:36.080 --> 00:39:41.840
He said, it's not, business is not about money. He said it. And then he, he kind of like took me

531
00:39:41.840 --> 00:39:48.320
through a couple of steps here and to, to, uh, progression first, he said, business is not about

532
00:39:48.320 --> 00:39:55.760
money. Business is about the movement of money. It's about facilitating the movement of money.

533
00:39:55.760 --> 00:39:59.840
And then later he went on to explain, actually, actually, now that you get them.

534
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:06.560
He said, business is actually about facilitating movement in the earth.

535
00:40:06.560 --> 00:40:11.280
And then that's when he began to, and so from that, he would then, you know, took me into

536
00:40:11.280 --> 00:40:14.360
deeper levels saying, actually, that's what spirit is.

537
00:40:14.360 --> 00:40:18.640
That's when we operate in anything in life, relationships or finances, you know, or like

538
00:40:18.640 --> 00:40:19.640
I said, business.

539
00:40:19.640 --> 00:40:25.440
He said, it's the facilitation of movement within, within the world.

540
00:40:25.440 --> 00:40:29.200
He said, because spirit is always moving.

541
00:40:29.200 --> 00:40:30.200
Always.

542
00:40:30.200 --> 00:40:34.880
It's like the balloon, that being the nature of the balloon or whatever, you know, the

543
00:40:34.880 --> 00:40:39.880
balloon just having a nature, the nature of spirit is moving always.

544
00:40:39.880 --> 00:40:45.960
And combined with, with that, there is life, spirit, movement, life, all the same thing.

545
00:40:45.960 --> 00:40:49.320
They all have, they all coexist.

546
00:40:49.320 --> 00:40:53.760
And if any one of them is missing, well, then it's not the other, I mean, then it's not

547
00:40:53.760 --> 00:40:54.760
itself.

548
00:40:54.760 --> 00:40:56.900
It has to always be moving.

549
00:40:56.900 --> 00:41:02.120
So if there's any, and in fact, scientists have defined death as, you know, death, like

550
00:41:02.120 --> 00:41:05.440
in the universe, like not like death of a person, but death in the universe, if you

551
00:41:05.440 --> 00:41:10.320
were to describe it as a concept, they thought, well, how would you describe death?

552
00:41:10.320 --> 00:41:13.120
And they said, it's complete lack of movement.

553
00:41:13.120 --> 00:41:18.800
Like you know how, like even at a, at a level like quarks and you know, or whatever it things

554
00:41:18.800 --> 00:41:25.560
moving in, in, in, in waves of energy, that's still movement.

555
00:41:25.560 --> 00:41:34.040
And science says that, that death from a scientific definition is complete lack of movement, which

556
00:41:34.040 --> 00:41:40.120
is fascinating because that's also the spiritual principle that, and that death is complete

557
00:41:40.120 --> 00:41:41.120
lack of movement.

558
00:41:41.120 --> 00:41:48.120
And the opposite of that is life is, is movement, which is, and in spirit, so spirit is constantly

559
00:41:48.440 --> 00:41:49.440
moving.

560
00:41:49.440 --> 00:41:54.840
That means that when we're operating in business, the whole point of business is to facilitate

561
00:41:54.840 --> 00:42:00.760
a movement, is to take something that's in the invisible, which is spirit and movement

562
00:42:00.760 --> 00:42:03.360
and life, and put that into a visible form.

563
00:42:03.360 --> 00:42:08.360
It's to facilitate a movement of things on the earth.

564
00:42:08.360 --> 00:42:13.680
And in, in business, there's movement of more than just money, there's business of, I mean,

565
00:42:13.680 --> 00:42:18.560
there's a movement of relationships and, and, you know, systems, and there's all kinds

566
00:42:18.560 --> 00:42:21.520
of movement that it helps facilitate.

567
00:42:21.520 --> 00:42:26.360
And so that's what God was, was telling me that it, that it was, it was just kind of

568
00:42:26.360 --> 00:42:33.240
like adding this very enriching understanding to, to what business is, is at its core, said

569
00:42:33.240 --> 00:42:35.840
it is the facilitation of movement.

570
00:42:35.840 --> 00:42:43.600
So we use business and interact with business in order to, as sense of God, create movement

571
00:42:43.600 --> 00:42:44.600
on earth.

572
00:42:44.600 --> 00:42:51.640
And very often, one of the things that is moving in, in, in business is money, that

573
00:42:51.640 --> 00:42:59.120
you expand this idea into the economy and the, and economists say that the healthiest,

574
00:42:59.120 --> 00:43:05.080
the healthiest economies are those that where money is, where there's a lot of movement

575
00:43:05.080 --> 00:43:06.080
of money.

576
00:43:06.080 --> 00:43:07.080
Let me, let me phrase it like that.

577
00:43:07.080 --> 00:43:10.960
They could probably phrase it better than me, but where there is, there's healthy and

578
00:43:10.960 --> 00:43:15.280
high movement of money.

579
00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:21.240
It the, the healthy being economy does not depend on the volume of money that the, that

580
00:43:21.240 --> 00:43:24.160
the country or the economy has.

581
00:43:24.160 --> 00:43:29.760
It is, it's actually, the health is actually determined by how much the money is moving.

582
00:43:29.760 --> 00:43:32.120
So that was very fascinating.

583
00:43:32.120 --> 00:43:35.680
So, I mean, it's like this principle that the Lord has created in the kingdom and there's

584
00:43:35.680 --> 00:43:41.520
all these fractals, these, these fractal expressions that we see in all kinds of principles.

585
00:43:41.520 --> 00:43:46.680
So anyway, that business is about, is about the movement.

586
00:43:46.680 --> 00:43:54.840
And it's important that it, and why this is, and why this is important to operating in

587
00:43:54.840 --> 00:44:04.160
rest is that in, if ever it means, okay, let me, let me start it by giving you this picture.

588
00:44:04.160 --> 00:44:06.880
So think of spirit is like a river.

589
00:44:06.880 --> 00:44:08.600
God's doing stuff in your business.

590
00:44:08.600 --> 00:44:12.360
God's doing stuff in you, everything's going, and things are just moving.

591
00:44:12.360 --> 00:44:14.560
And so it's like this river, this river of spirit.

592
00:44:14.560 --> 00:44:18.120
So what God wants to do when we're interacting with him in business or about a particular

593
00:44:18.120 --> 00:44:22.440
vision or dream that we have about something it is that we want to do, we're speaking the

594
00:44:22.440 --> 00:44:24.240
Lord about it and whatever.

595
00:44:24.240 --> 00:44:29.040
It's like putting our hands into the river and we were able to experience so much of

596
00:44:29.040 --> 00:44:34.160
the river and touch so much more water by keeping our hands open while the river flows

597
00:44:34.160 --> 00:44:35.160
through it.

598
00:44:35.160 --> 00:44:40.160
Cause as soon as those water molecules leave, then more water molecules come, right.

599
00:44:40.160 --> 00:44:43.560
And that they're going, you know, above our hand, lower hand, you know, around our fingers,

600
00:44:43.560 --> 00:44:47.600
everything we're experiencing so much of the river, so much of the spirit.

601
00:44:47.600 --> 00:44:51.400
But if we think, oh my goodness, this is such a good and beautiful thing that I want to

602
00:44:51.400 --> 00:44:52.400
keep it.

603
00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:55.280
Cause I'm concerned that this is, I'm feeling protected.

604
00:44:55.280 --> 00:44:56.840
I'm seeing the, I'm seeing the provision.

605
00:44:56.840 --> 00:44:57.840
I'm seeing the protection.

606
00:44:57.840 --> 00:44:59.240
I'm seeing all of these great things.

607
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:02.880
but I want to make sure that I'm never without it.

608
00:45:02.880 --> 00:45:05.480
What if the river were to dry up?

609
00:45:05.480 --> 00:45:06.640
What if, you know,

610
00:45:06.640 --> 00:45:09.520
I like this aspect of the river that I'm feeling right now.

611
00:45:09.520 --> 00:45:10.920
How do I keep it?

612
00:45:10.920 --> 00:45:13.360
And how do I keep it from changing?

613
00:45:13.360 --> 00:45:15.140
The nature of spirit is movement.

614
00:45:15.140 --> 00:45:16.560
The nature of spirit is life.

615
00:45:16.560 --> 00:45:18.560
The nature of spirit is change.

616
00:45:18.560 --> 00:45:21.700
But we're like, how do I keep it from changing?

617
00:45:21.700 --> 00:45:23.520
Well, it means that we're denying

618
00:45:23.520 --> 00:45:25.720
the very essence of what it is that it is,

619
00:45:25.720 --> 00:45:27.020
which is constant change.

620
00:45:27.020 --> 00:45:28.340
And we think, I want to stop it

621
00:45:28.340 --> 00:45:31.600
because I want to protect and provide for myself.

622
00:45:31.600 --> 00:45:33.880
So we try to grab a hold of the river.

623
00:45:33.880 --> 00:45:36.000
And if we try to grab a hold of the water,

624
00:45:36.000 --> 00:45:37.920
we realize we can't, it just pours out.

625
00:45:37.920 --> 00:45:40.000
And then any water droplets that are left,

626
00:45:40.000 --> 00:45:42.360
if we open our hands, well, they just evaporate.

627
00:45:42.360 --> 00:45:43.740
We can't hold onto it.

628
00:45:43.740 --> 00:45:45.080
We can't grab it.

629
00:45:45.080 --> 00:45:48.120
And whenever we try to grab a hold of something,

630
00:45:48.120 --> 00:45:50.440
we actually stifle it and bring it death.

631
00:45:51.480 --> 00:45:56.480
We think that we're trying to keep a good thing.

632
00:45:57.480 --> 00:45:59.540
So in other words, keeping things from changing,

633
00:45:59.540 --> 00:46:01.460
keeping things from moving,

634
00:46:01.460 --> 00:46:03.660
keeping things from being the very essence

635
00:46:03.660 --> 00:46:06.060
of what God says it is, which is life and spirit.

636
00:46:06.060 --> 00:46:08.540
And he said, this is what's enabling a business

637
00:46:08.540 --> 00:46:10.580
to be healthy and the ministry to be healthy

638
00:46:10.580 --> 00:46:11.780
and my relationship with you

639
00:46:11.780 --> 00:46:14.220
and what it is we're doing on the earth to be healthy.

640
00:46:14.220 --> 00:46:15.820
It's movement.

641
00:46:15.820 --> 00:46:18.900
So if ever we want to stop the movement, like, okay, God,

642
00:46:18.900 --> 00:46:20.580
I'm trying to be obedient to you.

643
00:46:20.580 --> 00:46:22.140
And I'm seeing that everything is working

644
00:46:22.140 --> 00:46:23.380
just the way that it is.

645
00:46:23.400 --> 00:46:25.640
So perfectly, and you see,

646
00:46:25.640 --> 00:46:27.880
I feel that you're happy with me right now.

647
00:46:27.880 --> 00:46:30.040
Again, we think that there's separation

648
00:46:30.040 --> 00:46:31.640
and we think that there's abandonment.

649
00:46:31.640 --> 00:46:33.760
We're trying to be pleasing to the Lord

650
00:46:33.760 --> 00:46:36.800
and we're trying to continue to put ourselves

651
00:46:36.800 --> 00:46:38.200
in a position where we're receiving

652
00:46:38.200 --> 00:46:39.720
as abundance and all of that.

653
00:46:39.720 --> 00:46:42.600
So we think, how do I lock this down

654
00:46:42.600 --> 00:46:44.680
so it doesn't ever change?

655
00:46:44.680 --> 00:46:49.680
And I'm not ever threatened with it leaving or being gone.

656
00:46:50.620 --> 00:46:54.500
As soon as we start to stop it,

657
00:46:54.500 --> 00:46:57.220
to hold onto what we have, we've stopped it.

658
00:46:58.140 --> 00:47:01.140
And when you stop movement, it brings death.

659
00:47:01.140 --> 00:47:04.480
So by actually, that's why it's important for us

660
00:47:04.480 --> 00:47:09.480
to allow the Lord to continue to bring movement

661
00:47:10.260 --> 00:47:13.260
and to partner with him in that movement.

662
00:47:13.260 --> 00:47:16.920
And because that is where the life of the business is,

663
00:47:16.920 --> 00:47:19.440
meaning that the business is gonna change

664
00:47:20.180 --> 00:47:22.020
and it could change from day to day,

665
00:47:22.020 --> 00:47:23.700
the way that you interact with your clients

666
00:47:23.700 --> 00:47:25.020
and whether your clients are happy with you

667
00:47:25.020 --> 00:47:26.900
or not happy with you or whatever,

668
00:47:26.900 --> 00:47:28.740
all of these ups and downs that we think,

669
00:47:28.740 --> 00:47:29.700
well, these things are good.

670
00:47:29.700 --> 00:47:31.820
And I can see how God would make all kinds of changes

671
00:47:31.820 --> 00:47:33.180
that are good and that those are healthy,

672
00:47:33.180 --> 00:47:34.980
but look, oh my word,

673
00:47:34.980 --> 00:47:36.780
I'm experiencing some bad changes.

674
00:47:36.780 --> 00:47:39.540
We're going up and then we're going down.

675
00:47:39.540 --> 00:47:41.700
Yeah, that's ebb and flow.

676
00:47:41.700 --> 00:47:44.540
That's part of the change that God is saying,

677
00:47:44.540 --> 00:47:47.660
don't stop resisting it because resisting the change

678
00:47:47.680 --> 00:47:50.000
and starting to lock down will bring death.

679
00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:51.440
What we see is we're like, oh no,

680
00:47:51.440 --> 00:47:54.600
because I'm not grabbing a hold of it, it's bringing death.

681
00:47:54.600 --> 00:47:57.100
I was like, that's not death, that's just change.

682
00:47:58.240 --> 00:48:01.240
And then whenever he does bring something,

683
00:48:01.240 --> 00:48:02.460
I hope this doesn't muddy the waters

684
00:48:02.460 --> 00:48:03.640
by me inserting this here.

685
00:48:03.640 --> 00:48:06.640
Whenever God does bring some kind of a change

686
00:48:08.400 --> 00:48:09.560
that looks like death,

687
00:48:09.560 --> 00:48:13.880
remember that God promises that whenever that death has come

688
00:48:13.880 --> 00:48:15.800
and well, how do I read this?

689
00:48:15.800 --> 00:48:17.360
Whenever that death has come,

690
00:48:18.260 --> 00:48:19.900
because of change that God is doing,

691
00:48:19.900 --> 00:48:24.900
or whenever we present that death to God in Christ,

692
00:48:27.620 --> 00:48:31.020
it means that because of Christ's death,

693
00:48:31.020 --> 00:48:34.060
nothing that we, no death,

694
00:48:34.060 --> 00:48:37.220
there's never lack on the other side of death.

695
00:48:37.220 --> 00:48:39.100
There's always life on the other side of death.

696
00:48:39.100 --> 00:48:41.320
So even if something dies,

697
00:48:41.320 --> 00:48:43.340
there's resurrection coming after.

698
00:48:44.180 --> 00:48:45.920
There might be a burial time,

699
00:48:47.360 --> 00:48:51.100
Jesus was dead for three days, and he was the son of God.

700
00:48:51.100 --> 00:48:52.260
I mean, that was the most amazing thing

701
00:48:52.260 --> 00:48:53.500
that's ever happened on earth,

702
00:48:53.500 --> 00:48:56.260
was the fact that Jesus died and rose again.

703
00:48:56.260 --> 00:48:59.860
And he stayed dead for three days,

704
00:48:59.860 --> 00:49:03.460
not just died, stayed dead.

705
00:49:03.460 --> 00:49:06.100
So if Jesus, the son of God,

706
00:49:06.100 --> 00:49:08.620
in the most phenomenal event

707
00:49:08.620 --> 00:49:11.180
that's ever happened in world history, stayed dead,

708
00:49:12.660 --> 00:49:14.860
then something that happens in our business,

709
00:49:14.880 --> 00:49:17.560
or in a vision, or just for a day,

710
00:49:17.560 --> 00:49:19.760
or something that leads to a lawsuit,

711
00:49:19.760 --> 00:49:20.640
or I don't know, whatever,

712
00:49:20.640 --> 00:49:22.360
something that looks like death,

713
00:49:22.360 --> 00:49:25.640
cannot just die, but look buried for a while.

714
00:49:25.640 --> 00:49:28.720
I'm honestly going through a very, very serious time

715
00:49:28.720 --> 00:49:31.000
in a certain area of my life.

716
00:49:31.000 --> 00:49:33.280
And I'm currently going through a burial time.

717
00:49:33.280 --> 00:49:34.500
It's dead.

718
00:49:35.840 --> 00:49:36.940
And I'm grieving it.

719
00:49:38.280 --> 00:49:41.360
I'm truly grieving it beyond what I can tell you.

720
00:49:42.360 --> 00:49:44.760
Because you're grieving,

721
00:49:44.760 --> 00:49:47.620
that there's no greater grief, obviously, than a death.

722
00:49:47.620 --> 00:49:49.700
I mean, that's what grief is, right?

723
00:49:49.700 --> 00:49:51.220
And so I'm telling you this

724
00:49:51.220 --> 00:49:52.860
from a place I'm currently living,

725
00:49:52.860 --> 00:49:55.220
and I'm currently having to have faith in God in,

726
00:49:55.220 --> 00:49:56.900
and now I gave it to God.

727
00:49:56.900 --> 00:50:00.020
I was like Abraham with Isaac, I killed it.

728
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:04.920
Now Abraham didn't kill Isaac, but I took mine to the Lord and it took me four

729
00:50:04.920 --> 00:50:06.920
hours to go through everything.

730
00:50:07.040 --> 00:50:08.360
And I literally died to it.

731
00:50:08.600 --> 00:50:09.480
I literally did.

732
00:50:10.360 --> 00:50:13.440
And it, um, it, uh, it changed within me.

733
00:50:13.440 --> 00:50:17.840
I'm telling you what I felt that there, it was all gone within me and it's still gone.

734
00:50:18.480 --> 00:50:23.160
There was something inside me that was so precious and it's gone.

735
00:50:23.800 --> 00:50:27.120
I don't like living with it gone.

736
00:50:27.800 --> 00:50:32.000
I don't like feeling that beautiful thing in me missing.

737
00:50:33.120 --> 00:50:39.000
So I'm telling you this so that, you know, I'm not telling you theory about all of

738
00:50:39.000 --> 00:50:42.720
the difficult circumstances that you might be finding yourself in business or in

739
00:50:42.720 --> 00:50:46.360
something that's just truly important to you in vision or in relationship or

740
00:50:46.560 --> 00:50:50.320
something that a promise that God's made to you, because some of these things

741
00:50:50.320 --> 00:50:51.800
related to promises that he made.

742
00:50:52.800 --> 00:50:56.840
Um, and, uh, hopefully I'll be able to get to that in just a second to let y'all

743
00:50:56.840 --> 00:51:01.520
know if, if not, somebody remind me and to tell you this, uh, about, uh, you know,

744
00:51:01.760 --> 00:51:06.400
what to do to submit something back to God when he's the one who gave you the

745
00:51:06.400 --> 00:51:09.680
promise, um, cause otherwise it can be very confusing.

746
00:51:09.680 --> 00:51:10.920
Like, well, am I dying to the promise?

747
00:51:10.920 --> 00:51:12.320
But I'm supposed to hold on to the promise.

748
00:51:12.320 --> 00:51:16.920
I'm not supposed to like not forget the promise and you know, all of that, but I

749
00:51:16.920 --> 00:51:21.160
wanted you to know that, uh, that all of this stuff is so serious that I'm walking

750
00:51:21.600 --> 00:51:29.080
it out and I'm, and it, and I'm speaking from a place of, of experiencing that it

751
00:51:29.080 --> 00:51:30.040
really is true.

752
00:51:30.280 --> 00:51:31.560
It's not theoretical.

753
00:51:31.560 --> 00:51:36.120
And wouldn't it be nice if it was, if what Ashley's talking about is powerful

754
00:51:36.120 --> 00:51:40.400
enough to work in my specific situation, because oh my goodness, mine's that I'm

755
00:51:40.400 --> 00:51:42.880
telling you, it really is that powerful.

756
00:51:43.040 --> 00:51:46.080
And I'm not telling you that after it's resurrected.

757
00:51:46.120 --> 00:51:48.000
I'm telling you that while it's currently dead.

758
00:51:48.480 --> 00:51:50.640
And I don't see hope.

759
00:51:50.920 --> 00:51:55.440
I do not see, I mean, meaning like I can't see where, what, uh, like a form of it.

760
00:51:55.800 --> 00:51:58.240
Um, I can't see what the form of hope would look like.

761
00:51:58.240 --> 00:52:02.400
I'm like, Laura, I don't know how this, how you're going to resurrect this thing.

762
00:52:02.520 --> 00:52:05.200
It just looks like, I don't know.

763
00:52:05.440 --> 00:52:10.280
And, um, but I have faith because he's proven himself faithful so many other

764
00:52:10.280 --> 00:52:12.600
times where he created life after death.

765
00:52:12.600 --> 00:52:17.160
So I just say that anything that we give to the Lord or anything that, that we

766
00:52:17.200 --> 00:52:22.040
see that dies in a vision and a belief and a dream and a, um, that, that a dream

767
00:52:22.040 --> 00:52:24.960
that we have about business, a dream that we have about ministry or whatever.

768
00:52:25.320 --> 00:52:29.120
Um, something that we're currently experiencing or, you know, I don't know.

769
00:52:29.520 --> 00:52:34.520
Business venture or whatever, anything that looks like, um, like it really has

770
00:52:34.520 --> 00:52:38.720
died, remember that when it's given to the Lord and interacted with the Lord, he

771
00:52:38.720 --> 00:52:40.560
promises that there's life on the other side.

772
00:52:41.200 --> 00:52:43.400
We don't get to determine what that life looks like.

773
00:52:44.200 --> 00:52:46.680
We don't get to say, oh, well, it's going to look exactly like that.

774
00:52:46.680 --> 00:52:48.360
It's going to look exactly like it used to look.

775
00:52:48.360 --> 00:52:49.800
And therefore that's what life looks like.

776
00:52:49.800 --> 00:52:50.320
No.

777
00:52:51.000 --> 00:52:54.080
It might look completely different, but God does promise that it's life on the

778
00:52:54.080 --> 00:52:56.440
other side and it's life and abundance.

779
00:52:56.440 --> 00:52:58.520
And it's greater than it was before it died.

780
00:52:58.800 --> 00:53:03.280
That's why it had to die is because it could not contain the abundance that God

781
00:53:03.280 --> 00:53:04.240
wanted it to be.

782
00:53:04.520 --> 00:53:07.040
And it had to change form kind of like a Phoenix.

783
00:53:07.080 --> 00:53:10.720
Now I know that Phoenix is a Phoenix is a, um, is a mythical bird, but that's

784
00:53:10.720 --> 00:53:12.000
actually what my name means.

785
00:53:12.280 --> 00:53:14.120
I mean, my name means to rise.

786
00:53:14.320 --> 00:53:19.200
Ashley means to rise from the ashes, like a Phoenix it's continual rebirth after,

787
00:53:19.240 --> 00:53:19.800
after death.

788
00:53:20.600 --> 00:53:24.280
Um, so I just mentioned that because there are so many things that we

789
00:53:24.280 --> 00:53:28.200
experienced in business, not just where they're hard, but where it looks like we

790
00:53:28.200 --> 00:53:30.240
had faith in God and he didn't come through.

791
00:53:31.960 --> 00:53:35.560
So all this sounds great, but what about in this situation is where it looks like

792
00:53:35.560 --> 00:53:40.240
you didn't come through it's a death and there will be a burial time while it

793
00:53:40.280 --> 00:53:43.800
looks dead, but God promises that.

794
00:53:43.800 --> 00:53:45.080
And that's what we have faith in.

795
00:53:45.240 --> 00:53:47.320
God promises that there will be resurrection.

796
00:53:48.400 --> 00:53:52.760
Um, so does I, I don't even remember how on earth I got into that.

797
00:53:52.760 --> 00:53:53.320
Oh, now I do.

798
00:53:53.320 --> 00:53:53.560
Okay.

799
00:53:53.560 --> 00:53:53.720
Okay.

800
00:53:53.720 --> 00:53:55.480
So I was talking about the difference between life and death.

801
00:53:56.440 --> 00:53:59.440
Um, so there's always life on the other side of death.

802
00:53:59.760 --> 00:54:03.560
Um, but the important thing is that whatever has died, we need to give to him.

803
00:54:03.560 --> 00:54:04.760
We need to submit to him.

804
00:54:04.760 --> 00:54:07.120
And it's like planting the seed into the ground.

805
00:54:07.120 --> 00:54:08.360
Cause remember what Jesus said?

806
00:54:08.360 --> 00:54:13.880
He said, unless the seed is put into the ground and dies, it can't grow and it

807
00:54:13.880 --> 00:54:15.640
can't, and it can't have life.

808
00:54:16.400 --> 00:54:24.160
Um, so I want us to go ahead and have a, have a bit of a break, but let me see if.

809
00:54:26.000 --> 00:54:27.240
Uh, okay.

810
00:54:27.800 --> 00:54:33.920
Let me, um, talk about this though, before we do, um, when your spirit, so

811
00:54:33.920 --> 00:54:37.600
talking about interacting with, with businesses in, you know, we were talking

812
00:54:37.600 --> 00:54:42.120
before about being a good steward and that unfortunately can trigger all kinds

813
00:54:42.120 --> 00:54:46.280
of things for us of, um, thinking that we're, there's nothing wrong with being

814
00:54:46.280 --> 00:54:46.800
a good steward.

815
00:54:46.800 --> 00:54:48.880
I mean, Jesus talks about being a good steward and all of that, but the

816
00:54:48.880 --> 00:54:54.040
steward is not us being abandoned and abandoned by God, where God's like,

817
00:54:54.040 --> 00:54:58.600
okay, I, I, you know, look, I, I've done the best I can with you.

818
00:54:58.600 --> 00:55:00.080
I, I helped you go to college.

819
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:01.920
So you can learn a whole bunch of stuff.

820
00:55:01.920 --> 00:55:03.800
I gave you all kinds of opportunities

821
00:55:03.800 --> 00:55:05.320
to go to business conferences.

822
00:55:05.320 --> 00:55:08.960
I gave you all kinds of people

823
00:55:08.960 --> 00:55:10.520
that you can learn things from.

824
00:55:10.520 --> 00:55:12.120
And I need you to be a good steward

825
00:55:12.120 --> 00:55:14.840
with the money that I've given you, the time, the talent.

826
00:55:14.840 --> 00:55:16.240
Do you know how much talent I've given you?

827
00:55:16.240 --> 00:55:18.800
And everybody else sees it and you're not using it.

828
00:55:19.720 --> 00:55:21.800
And doing all of those things,

829
00:55:21.800 --> 00:55:23.400
taking advantage of all of those things

830
00:55:23.400 --> 00:55:25.120
that we feel condemned by.

831
00:55:25.120 --> 00:55:26.480
We feel that God is condemning us

832
00:55:26.480 --> 00:55:29.160
if we don't realize what he's given us.

833
00:55:29.160 --> 00:55:30.640
Be very grateful for it

834
00:55:30.640 --> 00:55:32.880
and use it to the strongest of our ability.

835
00:55:32.880 --> 00:55:35.400
We, that's coming from this perspective

836
00:55:35.400 --> 00:55:37.920
that we think that if we don't,

837
00:55:37.920 --> 00:55:40.720
that God has accusation against us.

838
00:55:40.720 --> 00:55:42.280
And they saying, well, you aren't a good steward.

839
00:55:42.280 --> 00:55:43.920
So I'm gonna take away the one talent

840
00:55:43.920 --> 00:55:45.520
that I gave you that you buried.

841
00:55:46.440 --> 00:55:48.920
It's very different than,

842
00:55:50.200 --> 00:55:52.960
it's a very different thing than what it is

843
00:55:52.960 --> 00:55:56.600
that we have taken it all to mean of,

844
00:55:56.600 --> 00:55:59.000
well, God wants me to be a good,

845
00:56:00.080 --> 00:56:02.160
what God actually means by being a good steward.

846
00:56:02.160 --> 00:56:05.320
That idea that I just all described

847
00:56:05.320 --> 00:56:07.320
is this feeling that I'm abandoned and alone

848
00:56:07.320 --> 00:56:10.920
and I'm being left to prove

849
00:56:10.920 --> 00:56:12.360
that I really have learned all the lessons

850
00:56:12.360 --> 00:56:14.120
that God has taught me thus far.

851
00:56:14.120 --> 00:56:17.080
He's prepared me for this time

852
00:56:17.080 --> 00:56:18.760
and he's already taught me everything it is

853
00:56:18.760 --> 00:56:19.600
that I need to know,

854
00:56:19.600 --> 00:56:21.480
or he's currently teaching me whatever,

855
00:56:21.480 --> 00:56:23.080
but he's taught me everything I need to know.

856
00:56:23.080 --> 00:56:25.800
And this is that I'm gonna test.

857
00:56:25.800 --> 00:56:29.920
This is a lesson to see if I'm going to perform.

858
00:56:31.520 --> 00:56:34.360
And based on my performance,

859
00:56:34.360 --> 00:56:39.360
he will interact with me and give me certain blessings

860
00:56:39.440 --> 00:56:42.240
or not give me certain blessings.

861
00:56:42.240 --> 00:56:43.680
Or he'll tell me the next step to take

862
00:56:43.680 --> 00:56:45.840
or he won't tell me the next step to take

863
00:56:45.840 --> 00:56:49.280
because I wasn't a good steward, et cetera, et cetera.

864
00:56:49.280 --> 00:56:53.200
No, God is a good God and God is a good father all the time,

865
00:56:53.200 --> 00:56:54.600
regardless of our behavior.

866
00:56:55.800 --> 00:56:58.440
So saying that,

867
00:56:58.440 --> 00:57:01.640
wanted to mention that we're not abandoned by God

868
00:57:01.640 --> 00:57:03.160
to have to do business on our own.

869
00:57:03.160 --> 00:57:04.680
Oh, I wanna mention this real quick

870
00:57:04.680 --> 00:57:06.960
about tests and lessons.

871
00:57:06.960 --> 00:57:08.640
I'm just hoping that this will bring freedom

872
00:57:08.640 --> 00:57:10.200
to any of you.

873
00:57:11.360 --> 00:57:13.480
It's your pain and your struggles

874
00:57:13.480 --> 00:57:15.480
that you come up against these thresholds.

875
00:57:15.480 --> 00:57:19.200
It's not about you learning a particular lesson

876
00:57:19.200 --> 00:57:20.720
and you're being tested like,

877
00:57:20.720 --> 00:57:23.720
okay, well, here's your piece of paper,

878
00:57:24.040 --> 00:57:28.280
you know, struggle alone to try to remember everything

879
00:57:28.280 --> 00:57:29.400
that I've taught you.

880
00:57:29.400 --> 00:57:30.360
And then when I'm back,

881
00:57:30.360 --> 00:57:32.440
I'll grade you and I'll see how well you did

882
00:57:32.440 --> 00:57:33.760
and you better have done it well

883
00:57:33.760 --> 00:57:36.400
because you should have done, you should have known.

884
00:57:36.400 --> 00:57:38.560
Yeah, how many times we've heard, you know,

885
00:57:38.560 --> 00:57:39.840
hey, you knew better.

886
00:57:41.400 --> 00:57:43.560
That's not what is happening

887
00:57:43.560 --> 00:57:44.880
when we're going through pain and struggle.

888
00:57:44.880 --> 00:57:46.440
All that pain and struggle is,

889
00:57:46.440 --> 00:57:48.960
is we are coming up against accusations

890
00:57:48.960 --> 00:57:50.040
that we have against God

891
00:57:50.040 --> 00:57:51.520
and God wants to show them to us,

892
00:57:52.040 --> 00:57:53.640
not in condemnation like,

893
00:57:53.640 --> 00:57:56.440
look, do you see what you believe about me?

894
00:57:56.440 --> 00:57:57.680
That isn't true.

895
00:57:57.680 --> 00:57:59.200
You know, you shouldn't, you know,

896
00:57:59.200 --> 00:58:01.000
I'm calling you to believe better about me than that.

897
00:58:01.000 --> 00:58:02.480
Why aren't you believing like that?

898
00:58:02.480 --> 00:58:04.880
It's not, there are always invitations like,

899
00:58:04.880 --> 00:58:06.200
do you see what you believe?

900
00:58:06.200 --> 00:58:09.280
Do you know that I'm actually better than that?

901
00:58:09.280 --> 00:58:11.680
Do you know that you can choose more love

902
00:58:11.680 --> 00:58:13.240
and more freedom than where it is

903
00:58:13.240 --> 00:58:15.560
that you're currently in bondage of?

904
00:58:15.560 --> 00:58:17.240
That's all that the pain and the struggle

905
00:58:17.240 --> 00:58:18.520
is highlighting to us,

906
00:58:18.520 --> 00:58:21.320
is it's highlighting to us a bondage that we're in.

907
00:58:22.000 --> 00:58:22.880
So God can say, hey, by the way,

908
00:58:22.880 --> 00:58:24.920
you don't have to be there.

909
00:58:24.920 --> 00:58:28.480
As opposed to us not knowing we're in bondage

910
00:58:28.480 --> 00:58:30.520
and then we just keep living in it,

911
00:58:30.520 --> 00:58:33.880
not realizing that life can be different or better.

912
00:58:33.880 --> 00:58:36.600
And God wants to us to know

913
00:58:36.600 --> 00:58:38.080
in all of these pain and struggles,

914
00:58:38.080 --> 00:58:40.800
all it is is through invitations.

915
00:58:40.800 --> 00:58:41.840
They're just invitations like,

916
00:58:41.840 --> 00:58:43.560
hey, do you want to move into more love and freedom?

917
00:58:43.560 --> 00:58:45.840
Because this time you can make a different choice.

918
00:58:45.840 --> 00:58:47.040
Last time you believed,

919
00:58:47.040 --> 00:58:49.280
last time you came up against this pain and struggle,

920
00:58:49.280 --> 00:58:51.000
you had accusation against me.

921
00:58:51.880 --> 00:58:54.000
And you chose that I wasn't a good God.

922
00:58:54.000 --> 00:58:55.960
You chose that I wasn't loving to you

923
00:58:55.960 --> 00:59:00.960
and you acted out and you tried to reach,

924
00:59:01.480 --> 00:59:02.720
to provide for yourself,

925
00:59:02.720 --> 00:59:04.080
you did all of this stuff.

926
00:59:05.640 --> 00:59:08.280
And so he just says,

927
00:59:08.280 --> 00:59:10.520
did you know that you don't have to,

928
00:59:11.840 --> 00:59:15.280
do you know that I'm actually better than that?

929
00:59:15.280 --> 00:59:17.880
That I'm more loving than you even want me to be?

930
00:59:17.880 --> 00:59:19.320
I'm as loving as you want me to be

931
00:59:19.320 --> 00:59:21.000
and you wish that I were,

932
00:59:21.000 --> 00:59:22.600
but I'm actually even more than that.

933
00:59:22.600 --> 00:59:25.520
And I'm more free than that and you can choose that.

934
00:59:25.520 --> 00:59:27.840
So do you want to stay where you are

935
00:59:27.840 --> 00:59:30.640
or do you want to have more love and freedom?

936
00:59:30.640 --> 00:59:33.040
It's not in condemnation of having learned a lesson

937
00:59:33.040 --> 00:59:34.760
and hey, let's try to spiritually mature you

938
00:59:34.760 --> 00:59:36.680
and make you better than what you are.

939
00:59:36.680 --> 00:59:40.120
It's, hey, do you have an opportunity?

940
00:59:40.120 --> 00:59:41.960
Would you like to move into more love and freedom?

941
00:59:41.960 --> 00:59:43.560
You can stay where you are

942
00:59:43.560 --> 00:59:47.200
and I will love you and accept you just as much as I would.

943
00:59:47.560 --> 00:59:52.040
If you choose to believe me.

944
00:59:52.040 --> 00:59:54.720
But the difference is by choosing me,

945
00:59:54.720 --> 00:59:57.200
you actually get to experience more of the love

946
00:59:57.200 --> 00:59:59.400
and freedom that I've already given you.

947
00:59:59.400 --> 01:00:00.240
God doesn't.

948
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:01.300
Give us more love and freedom.

949
01:00:01.300 --> 01:00:02.780
We've been given all of it,

950
01:00:02.780 --> 01:00:04.460
but we only get to experience

951
01:00:04.460 --> 01:00:06.300
what it is that we choose to receive.

952
01:00:08.220 --> 01:00:09.060
That's the, you know,

953
01:00:09.060 --> 01:00:11.420
kind of like that mantle talking about,

954
01:00:11.420 --> 01:00:14.980
you know, that it's only the amount

955
01:00:14.980 --> 01:00:19.140
that we're carrying, so to speak,

956
01:00:19.140 --> 01:00:20.980
that we actually get to benefit from,

957
01:00:20.980 --> 01:00:22.740
that we actually get to experience.

958
01:00:22.740 --> 01:00:25.620
You don't get to experience the rest of it that's down there.

959
01:00:25.620 --> 01:00:27.700
And I was just like, hey, it's all yours.

960
01:00:27.700 --> 01:00:29.700
How much more do you want to,

961
01:00:29.700 --> 01:00:32.780
and every time he takes us to like a growth spurt.

962
01:00:32.780 --> 01:00:34.380
Like, hey, you have the opportunity.

963
01:00:34.380 --> 01:00:35.780
You're strengthening yourself.

964
01:00:35.780 --> 01:00:38.060
You're going through growing pains,

965
01:00:38.060 --> 01:00:38.900
all kinds of things.

966
01:00:38.900 --> 01:00:39.780
This is an invitation.

967
01:00:39.780 --> 01:00:42.060
Do you want to operate more love and freedom?

968
01:00:44.100 --> 01:00:45.640
Okay.

969
01:00:49.100 --> 01:00:51.660
All right, so we will break for five minutes

970
01:00:51.660 --> 01:00:53.260
and then we'll get back to the last session,

971
01:00:53.260 --> 01:00:56.420
which is getting into some much deeper stuff

972
01:00:56.420 --> 01:01:00.740
about business and then we will be done for the day.

973
01:01:00.740 --> 01:01:02.940
So we'll just do a little five minute break

974
01:01:02.940 --> 01:01:05.940
for everyone to either use the restroom or drink something.