OK.
All right.
I was talking to Lori on her break.
I was like, Lori, this is so sad.
There's so many things I wanted to say,
and there's just not enough time to say everything.
But I hope everything that I've been talking about
has been very helpful in understanding how to actually
apply it in your business.
And in other words, I know that some of these things
might sound very new, and there might be just so much newness
that, depending on who it is, what
it is that y'all's background is,
and where it is that you are with the Lord right now,
and what He's revealed to you, it might just
feel very overwhelming.
So I'm sorry.
But you can re-watch the recording
so you don't have to take it all in right now.
You just watch recordings just like, OK, Lord,
what can we implement right now?
But these things, I'm serious.
These are the really big things.
These are the things that completely transform everything.
And oh, good.
I'm so glad you're here.
These will transform everything.
So it's just, oh, I can't explain it,
because I lived so long not operating like this.
And then when God began to teach me these things,
it's very hard.
It can be very hard to step into,
especially because I had nobody else to teach me how to do it.
So I'm thinking, am I even doing the right thing,
or am I risking everything on something that's irresponsible?
But God proved Himself, and it's like, OK.
But anyway, there's a lot more.
So in other words, there's a lot more.
It's not more information, so to speak,
that we have to think, oh my goodness, there's
so much more to learn or know.
It's things that I've already learned that if what God says
is true, well then, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
And then without you having to discover all of these things,
I've already seen all of that.
I'm like, oh, well then, not all of it, but a lot of it.
And then I can just tell you, oh, by the way,
and then I can make all of these connections.
Be like, oh my goodness, so because of Russ,
then da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
You can find all of these things out for yourself, and you will.
But that's what all of the more is.
It's just a further explanation and an articulation
of if, then therefore.
And it's just articulating the therefore before you even
go through the process.
But everything that I'm talking about
is all of the, that I've already talked about,
is all of the really big stuff of if you do this,
and this is how you do it, then that's how you can,
that's how we submit ourselves to being open to the Lord,
open to finally receiving the inheritance that he says
that he's already given us.
He's already done all of this work,
but why on earth has he already given us something
and we're not seeing it manifest in our life?
If we, well, Lord, I am submitting my will to you,
and I am doing this, and I am doing that, why isn't it
working?
And he began to show me some things of why it's not working.
By the way, rest, so I can put it
in context of all kinds of other things
that you learned from the Lord, that we
learn when we go to other conferences
by other teachers or whatever, everything
that they talk about has to be done from rest.
So this is like the part of the process
that Yenny and I were talking about this the other day.
This is a part of the process.
In fact, the way that she worded it,
which I thought was a really good picture,
is she said it's like ethics.
She said you apply ethics to everything.
You apply it to, and you operate the same way in relationships,
in relationships, in finances, and in business,
in the exact same way.
It's just ethics.
It's like this foundation.
It's like how you do it.
It's in the manner in which you operate in all of these things.
And that's what rest is.
So rest is the way in which you will
be able to follow and step into and experience
the things that other spiritual teachers that you listen to
are moving in in the spirit.
And you're going, OK, I'm going to all the conferences.
Why isn't it working for me?
It has to be done in rest.
You can't work for it.
You can't get there.
The way that they got where they got
and the way that they're able to sustain
that spiritual relationship with the Lord
is as a gift that was accounted to them as righteousness
because they rested and had faith.
But they don't have time to talk about the rest part
because they've got so many things to cover.
And OK, we're moving in the spirit in this way,
moving in the spirit that way.
They only have so much time.
So they're going to talk to you about the other, but just FYI,
the only way you can.
can do that is through, is the only way that they did it,
which is in rest.
So that you understand what we're talking about here
in context of the rest of the Bible,
in context of everything else it talks about in the Bible,
in listening to the Lord, relating to the Lord,
doing things in spirit, doing things in the spirit,
you know, all these other teachings that we talk about
that we go to conferences to learn
that other people have experienced.
How can we have those same experiences?
Everything has to be,
God has to be approached from a place of rest.
So anyway, it's a context in which we're meant to operate.
And then from others,
we learn how we can operate and move
in different areas of the spirit.
Okay.
All right.
So my turning point in business happened
when I finally gave up my desire.
This is really, really big.
I gave up my desire for a particular lifestyle.
And by that, I mean a spiritual lifestyle,
a lifestyle of, I want to live a particular way.
I want my business to operate a particular way.
I want to have a particular business.
I want to have a particular type of ministry
or whatever it is.
I had to give up my lifestyle
and whatever it is that I wanted,
what I wanted it to look like.
And instead I had to choose that I wanted the care.
I chose the character of God,
regardless of how he interacted with me.
I know that that might sound weird.
Cause it's like, well, then what am I choosing?
If unless I'm choosing an interaction,
I'm just choosing the character of God.
Is that being the focal point of my existence?
But I also don't know what his character is.
He has to reveal that to me over time.
I know what he says, but what am I believing?
What am I choosing?
What am I claiming?
That's new for me, right?
So I just said, God, I choose your character.
I choose that you are who you say that you are.
And you will teach me who that is,
but I'm choosing it now before I know what it is.
I don't limit you to telling me what it is
that you're gonna, that you are.
And then I'll decide whether or not I want to choose it.
God, no conditions.
You are who you are.
I unite myself completely to you, complete vulnerability.
And that's scary because I don't know who you are.
Will I feel safe with it?
Will I like it?
Will I not like it?
Will I like how it affects my life?
I don't know.
It's that much submission.
And then to choose that.
And then I asked that he, that I choose,
I told him, I choose your,
I give it what it is I want my life to look like.
And I choose your character.
And I ask, all that I ask Lord
is that you manifest that character in my life.
You say that you're good and you say that you're loved,
but I don't get to dictate what that manifestation
looks like as love and goodness in my life.
Jesus died a very horrible death because God loved him.
So I don't get to choose the manifestation.
I don't get to choose what my business looks like
because God says he's loving goodness
and he's manifesting it into my life.
All I said is God, as long as it is your character
that you are manifesting in my life,
that is all I'm asking.
My life can look like whatever you want.
I'm focused on the fact that you are who you say that you are
and I'm asking that you make that real into my life.
All I'm asking.
Everything changed.
Not everything was easy
because I was in a very low point in my life.
Like everything was stretched from me.
In a way, in manner of speaking, my relationships,
especially my closest ones, my finances, I had no money.
And my business ventures were not working for months,
months, like a year, and just nothing.
And I say a year, it can last much longer for people,
but I was in a very highly pressurized,
God was like taking multiple years
and like squeezing me into a lot of things.
It was a lot, it was extremely intense.
But anyway, that's when everything changed for me.
It's not that it was easy.
It's not that it changed overnight.
It's that, that was like, okay, that,
God's like, that's the submission I wanted,
where you give up everything.
So this would be a good time for me to talk about
how to actually submit our wills to the Lord.
It all sounds good
and we all think that we know how to do it.
I thought I'd been doing it for years
and I told God that when I went through,
I think all of you have probably heard my testimony.
If not, it's on my, is it on my website?
No, it's not on my website yet,
but it's on my Facebook page,
should you scroll down there's,
I have the testimony that I've written out
as well as.
video that I attached to that post when I was at the conference in March, and there's
my testimony in there.
Anyway, in December 2018, I was sitting right over there, here at the house, I was sitting
right over there, and I told God, I said, God, I've submitted everything to you.
I have literally lived as a martyr for you, and you haven't given me as much as a goat.
And what I didn't realize is I actually wasn't submitted to the Lord.
I really hadn't given everything, just because I was living like a martyr, and I was living
sacrificially, and I wasn't letting myself do whatever I wanted to do, and I was only
doing what I did that I thought that God wanted me to do, and I was always looking for what
God wanted, and completely forgetting about myself, or not allowing myself to think about
myself and all of that.
I thought that was submitting to God, and I've discovered it's not.
Actually, I've got to make sure I'm where I need to be in my notes.
So it's the submission of God, submission to God, is not telling God, okay, God, you're
holding on to something.
It's your business, it's your dream, it's your whatever, and it's not taking it before
the Lord, and holding it, and saying, okay, God, I'm giving you permission to come into
my life, and to do whatever it is you want to do, and to override whatever it is that
I'm doing, and to just take over.
That's actually not submitting our will, is giving God permission to come in and do whatever
He wants.
Submission of our will is taking what we have, and letting it go.
So just letting it go, and then that's giving it to God, as opposed to, God, you can come
and take it.
I'm giving you permission.
You can come and take it.
That's not submitting.
Submitting is being the one in control intentionally, which feels like abandonment of your own dream,
giving that over the Lord.
Imagine, I know this is a horrible example, but it'll give a picture, which would make
you feel worse?
It would just feel bad all the way around, but my point is to make this connection here.
If your child was taken from you outside of your control, or if you abandoned your child,
and the only reason I can say that is everybody in here would love their child, what would
make you feel worse?
Because you would feel that you had done something.
It was in my control, and I made an intentional decision, and I did it, as opposed to, it
was out of my control.
I mean, they're both bad.
They're both really bad, but I'm just trying to take a very extreme example and kind of
highlight it with a bit of shock value, that the agony it feels when we're being asked
to let go of our baby, of our dream, of our business, of the promise that God himself
gave us.
Remember, we can take things that God gave us, like God gave Eve to Adam, and we can
now use it as a weapon against him, an accusation.
This is what you gave me.
You aren't falling through on your end of the bargain.
It has caused a problem for me, or you're not helping it come to fruition, or whatever.
Anyway, everything changed for me when I finally submitted my will, and I let it go.
I didn't tell him he could come take it, because that wasn't working.
That's what I've been doing for 34 years.
It wasn't working, and so finally, I took everything that I was holding onto, and I
let go of everything that I had, everything I wanted, just wanting it, desiring it, all
of the bad things, and all of the good things, all the things that God had given me, all
the things that he promised me, everything.
I just let it all go, and the only thing that I held onto was him, him being him, and I
didn't know who that was.
I didn't know if he was good, I didn't know his love, I knew he said he was.
That is submission of your will.
If you're stuck in a place in your business, whether you've started it or haven't, or you're
in the middle of it, and you're stuck in it, and it's like, okay, God, I'm in a threshold
in this thing, and it's not moving, and you're getting frustrated, and you can feel some
accusation against God arising.
It's releasing complete ownership of it, and letting it go, not telling God, God, you can
come in at any moment, and you can take over, and I give you permission to do whatever you
want.
That's not submitting.
Submitting is letting go of the stranglehold we have on it, we're no longer touching it.
It doesn't mean that we're not active, that we're not active in it, and we walk away from
the business.
I don't mean that.
I mean the internal hold that we're having on it, and the ownership we're...
we let go of. That is death. That is because it's what Abraham did when he took Isaac,
and he took his own son. He put his son on the altar. God didn't take him. He said,
I'm asking you to present your son to me. Abraham's the one who had to go through all of the
steps to do the thing. He put Isaac on the altar, lifted the knife above his body.
It's death. We have to do that. And that's what I was having to do the other day,
that I was telling you about. And that actually brought about, and it actually died. I actually
brought it to the point of death. And so now it's going through burial, and eventually it'll
resurrect, and we'll see what form that it takes. But, and I don't know when that'll be.
The other thing, God didn't tell me the timeline. So anyway, I wanted to mention that because so
often, as an encouragement to us, and to give you something practical of, okay, we all know that God
wants us to submit our will. We always know that there's something special about that, that there's
something powerful about that. But how do we do it if we keep doing it, and it doesn't seem to be
good enough? It doesn't seem to be working, and nothing seems to be changing. It's because we,
so often, we actually haven't submitted it, because the submission is the letting go. The
submission is being the one to kill it. The submission is being the one to abandon it.
And it's awful. We don't want to be abandoned. So there's something in us that doesn't want to
abandon it. Partly, yes, there's a connection that we have towards it. But part of the reason why
we're holding on to it, this dream, this vision, this business, whatever, is we expect that it's
giving something to us. It's going to make us feel secure. It makes us feel protected, provided for.
Say, for instance, as a segue into the next thing we're going to talk about,
that sometimes people, often people choose businesses or ministries based off of what it
is that they want for themselves. Why do you think that I talk about rest?
What it is that they want for themselves. There's nothing wrong with them, except if it's coming
from an unhealthy place where we're not healed, and we think that by giving something to someone
else, that we're going to get it for ourselves, and that that's our motivation, then it's a very
unhealthy way. It's a very unhealthy perspective. Because we have an ownership of this business,
or an ownership of this ministry, because our idea is, I want to help people. And we can think
that that's very good. I advise that we don't have businesses to help people. I'll talk about
that in just a second. But that we don't try, that we don't use the motivation of, oh, I want
to help people as our reason for having the business. Because often that's coming from this
heart that we think is godly of, oh, I want to help. But what we don't know is we're using that,
thinking that if I help people, then I have a purpose. If I help people, then I matter. And if
I help people, God's pleased. If I help people, I'm righteous. Sometimes we're not honest with
ourselves enough to realize that that's what we think. But deep down it is. And here's how we can
know that that's actually what's going on, is when it's not going how we want it to.
Either people aren't being helped, or people aren't coming to us, or a business isn't being
financially successful or whatever. And then we get anxious. Then we get upset. Then we get
stressed. Because we've associated the fact that a business has to take on a particular form, like I
should be getting money, clients should be coming, or the clients that are here, they should be being
helped in order for what's supposed to be happening to be happening, like in order for
the business to be successful. And if it's not, it means that, and I'm getting anxious,
it means that I was using it to provide myself for something, provide myself with protection,
provide myself with protection or provision either, or making myself feel loved, or worthy
of being liked, or expect to be comforted by the Lord because I'm doing his work, or I don't know,
just whatever. That we were using it to mean, to tell ourselves something. And now God's not
letting, in our minds, God's not letting it be successful. And so therefore, therefore,
I can't get myself what it is that I needed the business to give me. That God's denial of them,
this is the way we think, God's denial of them being helped is God's denial.
of helping me when I'm asking him for it. And so anyway, that it and I don't mean to bring
accusation when I say all this thing, it's that if you're finding yourself stuck or you're finding
yourself in unrest, I'm highlighting that these are the types of things that can be going on.
And so understanding that, we then realize, oh, we haven't submitted it to the Lord.
We think that it's supposed to provide, we're still using it to provide for protect us,
give us purpose, whatever. And God says that he wants me to get that completely from him.
And he doesn't even give me the business as a means by which he's giving it to me.
He gives it to me regardless. It just might come through the business, but he's the one giving it
to me. And the business has nothing whatsoever to do with it whatsoever. It's just like this
structure through which God's provision that he has is flowing. Anyway, so if we have that stress
and anxiety and all of that, it means that we haven't submitted something to the Lord. We
haven't, we, in other words, that we're holding on to something that God's saying, let go.
These things aren't hard to do is in. They're not, they're not,
they're not complicated, but their heart is in their heart is that I don't want to let go
because that's my security. That's my safety. If I let it go again, you know, there's going to be
a lack on the other side because there's this death and there's going to be a lack on the other
side. But God's like, no, when you let it go and it dies, there's life on the other side,
life on the other side could mean anything. It could mean that as soon as you let it go
in two hours, God brings everything miraculously to fruition. Death could mean it really does look
like a death and it's buried for multiple days or months or whatever. And then God resurrects
in a different part. I don't know. I go through both of those. I go through things where God does
things in the 11th hour. And I do things where God, where it's like, no, God deadline was,
was weeks ago, you know? So anyway, it can take on various forms, but see what I chose is I didn't
choose my life to look a particular way. I didn't choose it to look comfortable. I didn't choose it
to look responsible or like a, like a, I don't know, like I was a good, I was a good business
person or a good ministry person or a good, a good daughter or a good woman or whatever I chose
because that's all good. You hear that word, good, truth, knowledge, good and evil, and choose
that my life looked a particular way that things were easy or that they, that or whatever. I chose
that God be his character and that he showed me who that is. So I'd get to know him. And I chose
that he manifests that character into my life. So I just wanted to highlight those things, not
to make anybody feel like depressed or, oh my goodness, I wonder if I hang on to it and God,
I'm so sorry. I don't mean any of that. It's like, if you're struggling and if you're,
there's God, God's trying to highlight to you, you don't have to live like that.
You, you can be free. And he's just asking you, do you want to be free? Do you want more love? And
do you want more freedom? There's no condemnation for staying where you are.
You can keep it. You can stay where you are and he's not going to condemn you for it.
He's like, okay, but I'm highlighting something to you. So if you don't like that, you could,
you could choose more love and freedom. And the way that we choose love and freedom,
meaning like shifting into press is letting go of the ownership of whatever it is that we're
holding on to. So anyway, that's, that's all the, the only reason I mentioned that.
Okay. But that's a very, very, very, very, very, very big one is the submission of our will and
how to actually do that. And I had to learn that because I, I couldn't find people. I had to learn
how to learn what it meant to do it because I couldn't. And the only way I did it is I had to
go before God, trying to let something go. And he had to articulate for me how I wasn't doing it
and how to do it different. And, and, and that was big because otherwise it's very discouraging
and frustrating when, when the Bible or church, you know, pastors or whatever, keep telling us
or each other, you know, keep telling us, you just need to submit your will to God. I have,
I've been doing it and nothing's coming of it. We don't understand. We're not being,
I don't make y'all, but I wasn't told what it actually meant to submit myself to the Lord and
why, what I was doing wasn't submission. So I just felt that I was fighting, losing battle.
It's like, I'm trying to do it, but I don't understand how I'm not doing it. It's very
frustrating. So, so for what it helped, whatever help that is, because it's a really big one in
business is letting all that, letting all of that go. Cause business is one of those things
that are administered or whatever, especially why we're getting.
into it, you know, why we're getting into a particular business or ministry, why it's important
to us, that there's, it has a very strong pull on us, especially if we're finding our identity in it
or we're using it as our means of healing from something. So speaking of that,
about using it as a means of healing, I recommend to people that they do not try to
have a particular business or ministry trying to help people. I mean, like with the motivation of
helping people, if you help people, that's wonderful. I mean, what I'm doing here is,
is like hopefully helping people, but I, that can't be my motivation because I don't get to
choose whether or not you're helped. That's not within my control. And so therefore, if people
choose that this doesn't change their lives, then, then I, then that can, if my motivation is to help
people and they're choosing to not be helped, well, then my, my, what it is that I'm doing
in operating, interacting with people and having ministry or in whatever else is, I would see that
as a, as a failure and that I'm not, that I'm not good enough. And I would see that as an indication
of something about my, my identity. And the, the business in the minute or business,
ministry, whatever is actually just supposed to be an expression of the, a visible expression of
how the relationship with God has developed this far. If you were to take the, what our relationship
with God has developed this far, which we talked about earlier and put it into a physical form,
what would it look like? It'll look like that business and it'll look, you know, it'll look
like that ministry or whatever. So therefore we need to operate out of who it is that we are,
not what it is that we know and whether, and, and what we're trying to, and trying to actually get
a particular result. I want them to be helped. You see, God's like, no, I'm in charge of the results.
The results are, are mine. You don't have to be responsible for the results anymore.
So release your stranglehold on the results. I determine whether or not they're helped. I help
them, you know, work through, you know, whatever that they need to analyze or whatever. And now
that frees you of the burden, weight, and responsibility of, oh my goodness, are they
going to be helped? Because that determines whether or not I did a good, a good job, a good
job or not. I was like, no, no, no, no. I will do that. I'm in charge of the results. So now that
you're free of that, let's have fun. Let's what, what do we want to do? Actually, you and I together
in our relationship and how it is that we interact, how do we want to live out loud and then live that
way? Actually, what kind of a business do we want to have? What kind of a, what kind of a ministry
do we want to have? Then that allows me, if I'm operating out of who it is that I am in the Lord,
which is spirit, and that's united with God's spirit. If God and I together are operating
together out of who it is that we are and just living out loud, then everything is effortless.
Everything is from rest because I'm just being the balloon. I'm just being who it is that I am.
I'm not trying to become something different in order to get a particular result, just to operate
out of who it is that I am. That's important for multiple reasons. One of which your business needs
you. So if your business is struggling, your ministry is struggling, it needs you because
your spirit and spirit is life. Business has no life in it outside of someone giving it spirit.
It just doesn't. Now, anything that it's doing as far as like movement and all that,
what can create movement? Law. But law as a source will bring nothing but death.
If we use, if we put life into a business and just use laws, but we're not using the law as
the life source, then the business thrives because the business is existing and being
fueled by the life, not by the law. Meaning like whatever systems, formulas, business
strategies that we're using. We're not using it as a life source. We're using it as a structure of,
okay, if this business is living and breathing, what kind of structure do we want to give it?
Well, let's use these business strategies and let's use, let's use these formulas because
we'll give it that kind of a structure. So that looks this way as opposed to looking this way,
but they're both successful and they could be both successful because they're successful based on the
fact that they're living. And I'm giving them because I'm giving them life. I'm giving them
spirit. I'm giving them me, but we can only get them ourselves if we are, if we choose that we,
that our identity is who God declared it to be, which is unified with him.
That's what our identity is, is the point at which.
we're unified. So if we try to separate ourselves from that,
we've lost, we've, we've lost the source of life.
So operating according to the fact that we're unified with God, we,
we can just be who it is that we are.
Our new man already knows everything our new man already has everything that it
needs. And it is, it's plugged in for lack of a better phrase.
It's united with the source of life itself.
So it is life and it's just living.
And in living,
it's creating a very unique environment in that business because your spirit is
unique. Your spirit is uniquely different than mine.
So when you're going to give life to a business, it's going to look your light,
the life that you give it, it's going to be a unique,
it's going to be a unique form of life.
It's different than if I had that same business. So mine would look different.
It would operate a little differently and all that,
because the life of my spirit looks different than the life of your spirit
connected with the Lord. It, your business needs you.
It doesn't need a new formula. It doesn't need new knowledge.
It doesn't need something that you lack that you need to get from somewhere
outside of you, like a business guru. It doesn't, you can use this.
Sure. After you choose that you, after you, you,
you choose in faith that God is providing for the result and you don't need it.
Now, having said that, I'm going to throw in this caveat here.
Like I said earlier, if we're only five, we can be five.
So I'm five in so many areas of my life. It's embarrassing.
If we're five and we just step out in the measure of faith and the measure of
being able to operate in spirit and our business,
according to the degree that we can, the rest of it, if we don't,
if we're trying to learn how to rely on God in spirit and give our business
spirit and not rely on business principles or strategies,
we do it to the degree that we can. And then the rest of it, we're like, okay,
God, you gave,
you created amazing gifts and business strategies and formulas and I'm giving
you as much faith as I have.
I'm having as much faith in your character as I,
as I can and I'm trying to operate out of who it is that I am and out of my
spirit and out of my identity as much as possible.
And then the rest of it, Lord, you know,
until you teach me until you grow me and mature me until I'm 15,
20, 25, 35, whatever, then,
then I'm going to go to the degree of maturity that I have been developed
this far.
And I'm going to seek a business strategy and formula because I think I need
it.
And that's okay because there's no condemnation.
I do the same thing. There's no condemnation.
It's important that whatever decision that you make,
that you do not see it as, as, oh, I'm off.
I'm in lack and God's just enduring me until.
It's very important that you own the decision.
That you own it as a good gift from God,
that whatever it is that you decide on that you,
that you are claiming God's character.
And I don't mean that you choose whatever it is that you want to choose.
And then you put God's a label of God's character on it.
Slap, slap, slap, slap.
You know, just like, okay, well, you know, here's, here's the label.
Yeah. I'm going to label this as God's character, whatever.
We're not getting to, to it.
That's not what I mean.
I'm talking about you knowing God in your spirit being.
And you trying to decide, okay, Lord, what decision are we supposed to make?
You know, and I'm not hearing a clear word from you, what I'm supposed to do.
So how do I make a decision?
Look for where it is.
If you, you, you know,
obviously we all know how to hear the Lord's spirit and his will as much as possible.
But what about where we don't know what he's saying?
Where we can't hear or we think we can't or whatever.
What do we do then?
Then we look for wherever, for one thing, you know, you choose that.
God is who he says that he is.
Go where your spirit finds peace.
Where does your spirit think that he is?
And, and then to what extent you can do that.
And then to the rest of it, where does your soul find peace?
But in going where your soul finds peace, choose, choose,
make your decision on,
on what it is you decide to do based on where it is that you think you see his
character.
God, that looks like you, or that over here looks like you,
not the you that I've read about in scripture.
No, no, no.
His being, you know, you're getting to know him, you know,
that what he does, he's taught you.
What is, I don't know.
There's just this,
this, this knowing in our spirit that sometimes we can't articulate into
English of what it is we know about God.
We don't even know what word to use.
We don't even know if it's the word love or it's the word good,
or if it's the word righteous, or if it's the, I don't know.
Omniscient.
We don't know what the word is.
We were like, I, I know him.
I don't fully understand what it means.
I don't fully know how to articulate in English, but I know him.
And then we take that thing that we know,
and we look for all of the options of the decisions that we can make.
And we say, God, I think from what,
from what you've revealed to me.
so far, or what I think you're saying you are,
I think that looks like you,
and that's why I'm gonna choose that one.
I recommend that as we're trying to mature in this,
that that's how we make our decisions,
as opposed to, as opposed to,
well, God's just forgotten me,
and so I'm just going to pick whichever one I think
is going to save me, is gonna help me save myself.
Like a golden calf, we make a golden calf out of it.
Oh, it's the thing that saved me out of Egypt.
You can do that if needed.
If that is where your soul is,
again, you go wherever you're able to,
and then the rest of it, if you're only five,
you can be five, you know, it's okay.
You won't be five forever.
Tomorrow you'll be six, you know, it's okay.
But what I'm talking about is like,
I wanted to give you all an encouragement of,
okay, well, there's the way
that we've been operating so much,
and then there's this thing
that can sometimes feel so far out of our reach,
is seeing and knowing that that's God's character,
or whatever.
What if we don't really know,
and there's just all this unknown.
I think that that's who he says that he is.
I think that that looks like who he's been telling he is,
but I don't even know if that's who he's been telling he is.
There's so much unknown.
This is like a middle choice that you can make,
to start stair-stepping your way,
and maturing, and allowing God to mature you
into like something that just feels
to like too big of a leap to make.
There's like this middle place.
And there you can think,
okay, God, I am choosing that decision because I,
and I'm doing it not to save myself,
but I'm doing it because I think that's you.
And I want you more than I want the result
that I think that thing can give me.
And it might match up.
You might think it can get you a tremendous, you know,
you might know and not even have to have a lot of faith
that it'll give you a tremendous result.
You might be like, well, I don't know,
all the gurus say that, and it looks like you, Lord.
And I mean, all of that might match up.
So I'm not saying that it has to be something
that you think there's no way that that's gonna work out.
And that God is, it would only be in some place
that you can't see how it could possibly be true.
They might actually line up.
But my point is, why are you choosing it?
You're not choosing it because you think
that you're not choosing it out of the heart
that I know that that's how, that it will,
that I'm trying to use it to provide for and protect myself.
God, I'm choosing it because I think that that's who you are
and that in operating in that,
you're maturing me to the point to understand
that your character will manifest in the particular result
that you desire it to manifest in
by me making that decision.
So you make decisions based on where it is you see God is
and who it is you, where God,
where you think that you see God to be
and who it is you think God is.
And so here's why I belabor that point.
For one thing, we all struggle with like trying to figure out
or at least I do, maybe it's just me,
struggle with making a decision,
especially if we haven't heard point blank
what God wants us to do.
It's just this unknown.
Okay, what do I do in an unknown?
What do I do if I not hear the voice of God?
What do I do?
And this has helped me shift and mature
and learn who God is.
So I've learned that I can make choices faster
than when I didn't make choices like this
and wasn't open to risking, making mistakes.
What if that wasn't God?
So the reason I say all that is what if you choose it
and it was a quote unquote mistake?
What if you discover that God says,
actually, that's not exactly what I look like.
I love that that's why you chose that though.
And for that, I honor that.
You didn't choose it to save your own skin.
You did it because you thought that that's where I was.
Just letting you know,
I actually look a bit different than that.
And we could have made this choice over here,
but I'll mature you into that.
But I feel loved because you chose it
because you thought that's where I was.
And that's why you were pursuing it
because you were trying to find me.
You chose it trying to increase your intimacy with me.
So I love that.
So therefore, I will provide you a protected environment
in which to have made that mistake.
And you will not have to bear the real world consequences
that you would have had to bear
if you hadn't made that choice trying to find me.
Kind of like we provide a protective environment
for our children to learn things and to play and whatever.
Well, if they get hurt,
well, we make it better for them, right?
We don't force them to bear all of the consequences
of all of their pain.
We do whatever we can to relieve them from having to.
having to muddle through it and figure it out and get themselves out of it. We fix the problem for
them. And God will do that in particular, in particular measures, providing us a safe
environment in which to make a mistake because of why we chose it. We chose it because we thought
that was Him according to what we thought He'd been telling us He was to this extent.
It's very, very big because remember the expression, us doing business is the expression
of the development of our relationship with Him so far. It's making it visible. And that's
therefore how we make decisions as well. And as a loving father, He provides a protective
environment in order for us to make mistakes. It doesn't mean that we don't bear consequences
of having taken a risk that we thought that that was God. And then God's like, well, I don't fully
look like that. It doesn't mean that there aren't some consequences to it, but He will provide a
protective environment for us making those mistakes because of why we did it. And also,
there's no condemnation anymore. So there's no more fear of making those mistakes
because it's not what you do or don't do that's getting your results anyway.
You're going to be provided for and protected regardless. The form might just look a little
different. Yeah. Okay. Let's see here. So many things. Okay. So this is how we partner with
the Lord in business. So think of it as like a man and a woman, same thing, just like God and
the bride of Christ. So when God, because we're kind of wondering, okay, so this whole result
thing came, if we could have a picture of what this whole result thing looks like,
how is God responsible for the result that He wants us to partner with Him? And why do I see
a difference in the results sometimes based on which decision I made and whether or not I made
a mistake and whether I, you know, and all of that, like how does this thing work? Is God doing
the results or am I? I mean, cause I seem to affect them, right? So what really is going on?
So think of it kind of like a man and woman coming together in physical intimacy,
that the masculine initiates, right? Masculine initiates the woman effortlessly receives.
However, just because a man, just because of the man's will, cause remember how, which
is it John? I think it's in John that refers to children being born from a man's will. So even,
even God talks about it from that perspective is in the fact of he's trying to draw a connection
between how God interacts with his bride is in God has a particular will, but the thing is,
and so he always initiate, for instance, when God loves us, he always initiates. All we have
to do is receive it. We don't have to love God first and hope he accepts us. You know,
he's the one who made himself vulnerable to us. So God will initiate something with us.
And he'll give us word. That's, that's what the, that's what the seed is. That's the seed,
that seed of the man, that's the seed of God towards his bride is word capital W because
remember the invisible God is invisible. So if he's, if he doesn't have form and he wants to
give us something of himself, what does he give? He gets word. So we received his word,
meaning that we're receiving him. That's the seed. So that's all well and good,
but how does actually, how does the result come? So he initiates, God initiates with us,
but in order for a baby to be born, in order for a baby to actually be created from the seed,
the woman had to also contribute a seed. Just because man contributes a seed does not create
a baby. A woman has to contribute a seed too. And so that's what we do. We are, aren't just,
we're not just receiving the word we're in that receiving, we're coming into agreement
and, and, and a willful intention to receive it and to partner with him in it.
Heaven was given to the earth, heaven is the Lord's and the earth was given to man. There's
an aspect of an authority that we're allowed to have as to what enters earth from heaven.
There's an element of that authority and yes, God, God's sovereign and he can override things.
Absolutely. He does, but he wants, he's maturing us to partner with him more and more.
So that we have a greater and greater weight at the table when we come with our own contribution
and ideas. So anyway, so the woman has to provide a seed and then, and then that's,
and then is there two, there are two seeds conjoined that actually make something in creation.
So when God and his bride, when God gives word and the bride receives the word comes
into agreement, willfully and intentionally that together is what manifests something into the
earth. So do we see how we.
had all of this backwards where we're like, okay, God, I'll only
receive your word. If I see the manifestation, if I see proof
that what you say is true, God's like, no, no, you don't
understand. It's you agreeing with me and receiving my word
that creates the manifestation. We keep waiting for, you know,
playing the horse before the cart. It's like, no, no, no, no,
it's you're receiving that creates the manifestation.
That's why we can't wait for the manifestation in order for us
before we'll believe God. Anyway, and this is the mature
phase. So this is what we're doing in business. We have a
contribution, we have ideas that we can present to the Lord. What
we want and what we desire matters, but shift into rest
first, because a lot of all that I've been talking about for a
while is how to operate in rest, not that after we're in rest,
being in rest, how do we operate from that place? This is an
operating in business, in ministry from a place of rest.
Being in rest, you know, how do we interact in the world? We're
receiving a word that God gives, we're partnering with the Lord.
And then in agreement, we come with ideas, we come with
decisions, we try things, we decide what business strategy,
what business model, what business formula, which
business, you know, what are we going to do, Lord? We decide
together, because we're in rest, not with our hands off of
the outcome, with not thinking that we're protected, that we
have to protect or provide for ourselves by our decision. Now
that we're free of that burden, that weight and that
responsibility, now, we can come to the Lord and create and give
Him a contribution that God is, that looks like the heart of
God. Remember how God was going to make a particular, what was
he going to do? Oh, he was going to wipe out Israel. He was going
to wipe out Israel, and he told Moses, stand back and wipe them
all out. And Moses begged him not to. He said, please, please
don't Lord, you know, what would people say, etc, etc. And so God
changed his mind. Why? Because Moses looks like God, as in like
he looks like the character of God, he was exemplifying the
character, God's like, that is what I would do, that is the
decision that I would make, I would have mercy, that is like
my character. Now, yes, him, him wanting to operate, you know, in
that wrath, and in that judgment was his character as well. But
he was also, Moses was presenting another aspect of
God's character. And Moses was acting, asking him to act on
that. God can, what about this one? I'm asking, you know,
because it says that God talked to Moses, like a man talks to a
friend. So Moses had been matured with the Lord in
relationship to the point where his contribution, his idea, held
more weight at the table for a discussion between him and God,
because Moses now looked like God, as opposed to God has his
opinions. Now you come with a different one that doesn't look
like anything like the heart of God. That that's not that that
does not bear that is not a maturity that has any weight to
bear in that conversation. So anyway, just FYI, we have in
order to to be reflecting that heart of God, where our
contribute that we need to learn to come to the Lord with the
desires of our heart, the desires of our heart are very
good. But access the desires of your heart, once you've shifted
into rest, and you've let it go, you've let go of the ownership,
you've let go of having to have it. And let go of having to have
what you thought it was going to give you. Because we think that
some so often what we think are the desires of our heart are our
means of trying to provide for protect ourself or give
ourselves healing. So once we all let all of that go, now we
can access the true desires of our heart, which are amazing.
Now we can see those and feel those. And now we can present
what we want to God, what we really do want, not Oh, God, I'm
sacrificing everything I want, whatever you what do you want?
God said, No, no, you have a contribution. Now that all your
fear is out of the way. Now you can see what your real desires
of your heart are. Tell me what do you want? Ask, and it will be
given into you. That's why Jesus was able to say that. And he
said, What father, if a son asked for bread would give him
a stone? God, God says, Come to me with the desires of your
heart, but do not come with desires of your heart that are
actually not real, they're, they're born out of fear. No,
get find the real ones. And you can find those if you shift
interest, release and submit your will and all of that.
Submit those ideas to the Lord about business, or about, you
know, and you know, about a vision that you have for your
ministry or anything. God wants your contribution. It's not just
okay, God, this is your business. What do you
want to do. No, it's y'all's business. It's y'all's, you're
conjoined. You're one spirit, according to first Corinthians
617. One spirit, one seed, according to Galatians three, I
think it's Galatians 325. I don't remember. Anyway, you're
one seed. And so anyway, you're, you have a, I say all of this
and belabor this to say you have a right. And it's not just a
right, like, well, God, I have a right. And I'm coming here to
demand it. God's like, No, I'm the one who told you that. And
I'm telling you to stand in it because you're not standing in
it. And then you need to believe me when I say you have
permission. So anyway, that's what all of that is. And let me
say if there's any last thing that I wanted to, that I needed
to just really say before we move on, that there was. Okay,
this, trust yourself, shift into rest. And once you shifted into
rest, once you, you know, you give things to the Lord, and
you're gonna have to do this continually, by the way, this is
not a one and done. Oh, I've shifted into rest. Now that's
where I live. We're constantly coming up to new things that we
realize, oh, my word, I have a deeper level of accusation
against God. Now I have to release that one. And we'll go
along and also we're confronted with a different, deeper
accusation we have against God and God's like, see, I'm better
than that. I'm better than what you're believing like, oh,
okay, well, then I'm going to choose that. And we shift into
rest. And then we come up against a different one. And
God's like, you believe I'm worse than I am. You have
permission to believe I'm better than that. Okay, it we're
constantly moving into integrated levels of rest. So
this is not a one and done thing. This is the new way of
living. This is how I live. This is not something I've done.
This is how we live, we choose that we continually choose that
God is better than we've been believing him to be. And, okay,
so, you know, operating out of who it is that you are, make
decisions, knowing that you make good decisions, operate, you
know, asking the Lord, you know, living, living in spirit,
operating in spirit, and, you know, operating out of rest, and
then from that place, where you release, you know, release your
fear, you release your judgment, all of that, then go through
those, those six practical tools, especially the ones like,
you know, choose that what God says is true, and go where your
spirit finds peace, or, or if you, you know, to whatever
measure you can, and to whatever measure you can't declare that
what God says is true, go where your soul finds peace, choosing
that whatever your soul chooses is a gift that God created, for
you to get to take advantage of and receive it as his character,
as his character of love or whatever. As opposed to I'm
going to grab it because God abandoned me. No, God, I'm
claiming this, that you created this for me to take advantage of
and this is you loving me, this is you, this is you providing
for me. And so when you make, when you make decisions, know
that they, in operating from rest, know that you have good
desires of your heart, because God only creates good things. And
I believe that you and God created those desires together.
And so, trust yourself, trust that you have good ideas, that
trust that, that whatever God says about you is true, that you
have good intentions, that you have a good heart, that you're
loving, that you're good, that you're everything that he says
you are. And know that you have what your business needs and know
that you have what your clients need. If, and I'm just throwing
this out here for whatever way that you, for whatever way it
might be helpful, because all of y'all, you know, have different
types of businesses. But I use this a lot when I talk to people
such as like network marketers or whatever. I recommend to
people that you don't, when you talk to people, whether it be a
vendor, a client, business partner, whatever, any type of
relationship, that you don't go into it with an agenda. Because
an agenda is determining that you're trying to create a result
for yourself, as opposed to releasing the results of the
Lord. And just like Jesus told the disciples, he said, when you
are called before the court, he said, do not prepare. He said,
because this Holy Spirit will tell you what you need to know.
So I'm not saying that it's not good to have knowledge and
prepare and all that God was saying, you don't need it. So
release yourself from needing it. Know that I'm going to take
care of you in this situation. I don't, it may not work out the
way you want, but I'm going to provide for and protect you. So
now that I'm going to do that, now, now prepare just because
you're, you're, you're, you're just moving in your business.
This is just what you're doing today, you're researching,
you're learning, you're, you're helping your soul learn things
it didn't know, you know, that you're
not relying on it to get you something that you're trying to manipulate the situation to get you.
So release an agenda. I recommend to network marketers, for instance, is just an example,
that they don't use scripts. So don't use scripts when you get on your Facebook lives or whatever.
And you can tell the people who haven't, and this is what I want to finish with,
you can operate your business out of who it is that you are, what it is you live,
and what it is you've owned, not what it is you've learned and know. People can smell
hypocrisy a mile away. They know that it's not from a very genuine place. There are people
that I watch in business, that I watch continually, almost on a daily basis,
they'll pop up and I can watch them and going, you don't believe what you're saying.
And you can tell by how they're talking that they sound very knowledgeable and people flock to them.
But I'm like, you're speaking out of what it is you've learned, but you don't own it. You can tell
by how they're talking about it. So it's just really fascinating. And the reason that people
rely on their knowledge and learning, you know, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
more than what it is, you know, why they rely on that, is because they're not believing that they
are who God says that they are, that they already have everything, that they already know everything,
and that who it is that they are operating from their identity, their conjoined spirit with God,
is powerful enough that, and is powerful enough to, through which God impacts and transforms
creation. Because you just present yourself as you are, instead of trying to look smart or act
smart or, or whatever. And so that is in the way that I kind of drive at home with network marketers
is I tell them, do not, do not use script. Talk out of what it is that you own and what it is you
know. I do very little, little preparation, by the way, before I do coaching sessions,
very little. And with the preparation that I do is just simply to remind myself of how I've
articulated things in the past that help people finally understand what I'm talking about.
Because otherwise, because otherwise I just like, okay, well, I know what I'm doing, but how do I
say that in English, you know? And so that's what I do, but I'm not trying to, trying to like create
any like, you know, like, like tricks or, or ways that, oh, if I explain it like this,
that'll convince people that, that it really is true. No, I'm just telling you what it is that
I believe and how I've been able to articulate what it is that I believe into English. And so
I do that, but I do very, very, very little preparation because I can live it. If I live
this way and I own it and I stake and risk my entire life, all of my relationships, including
my relationship with God, my business, my finances, et cetera, on these truths, then
that'll be that I can speak from that place. I can speak out of my spirit without sitting over
here, you know, having to look at notes all the time. I use my notes to kind of like give me,
because I have 22 pages of notes and we couldn't go through them all today. So I had to like skip
around like, okay, which one do I want? But, but anyway, it's the, the reason I wanted to say that
is again, for us to see how things that we've just taken for granted of, well, this is how you just
operate your business. You prepare and you, I mean, like preparing this degree and you, you know,
you have to have gone to college and you have to have learned these things and other, you know,
all of this stuff. No, God's like, Hey, since you don't need it, which one of those do you want to
do? But to enjoy me, to enjoy an aspect of what it is I put into creation and knowledge that I've,
that I want to expose you to, Oh, now that you don't need it, isn't it? Isn't that interesting?
But anyway, by relying on that, we're creating separate, we're acknowledging separation between
us and God, as opposed to union and union and speaking out of our identity, speaking out of
what, who it is that we are. And that's what I mean, when I say that we've owned something,
who it is that we are and what it is, we truly believe because we act on it. That's how we act
in our life. And we act according to what it is. We really do believe not, not what it is.
We think we should believe in what it is that we know. Again, that hypocrisy will come across
very easily, but and I don't mean to like, make it sound horrible by saying hypocrisy. I couldn't
think of another word. The contradiction will be very obvious that that's a much nicer word.
because I don't mean it as harshly as hypocrisy sound is the contradiction will be very obvious
to people to be like, wait a minute, there's something that's not right here. And it will,
oh, here's a huge one. It will not transform people's lives. This is giving them nothing
but death. And we think that it's powerful because, oh, well, if I word it like this,
then that phrasing will really like help, help the light bulb come off, you know, you know,
come on in their life in their, in their minds. No, no, sure. The light bulb might come on,
but it won't transform their lives. It can bring nothing but death, but operating out of your
spirit, speaking out of your spirit, speaking out of what it is that you and the Lord have
owned together. In other words, who it is that you are in heaven. You're trying to bring heaven
down into earth. This over here starts in earth and ends in earth. It can't transform the life
because there's no spirit in it. You want to figure out how do I bring spirit in heaven,
down into earth. It comes through me. We are the ladder on which everything is moving.
Remember that Jacob's ladder, how Jesus compared himself to Jacob's ladder. He said, you will see
the angels ascending and descending on the son of man. We're in Christ. We're the ladder that
things between heaven and earth are moving from. We have to be inserted. That is what is going to
transform people's lives is giving them access to a spirit that from heaven, a supernatural spirit
that gives their spirit something to respond to because the spirit will respond to spirit.
The spirit won't respond to law, but a spirit will respond to spirit. They have a choice as
to how they want to respond to it positively or negatively. If they want to receive it,
if they want to be helped, if they don't, you know, whatever that they get to choose that,
whether they believe it or not, you know, that's up to them and their relationship with the Lord,
but they don't even have the choice. If we only give them knowledge,
get, we can speak knowledge, but the knowledge needs that the power is needs to be spoken from
the, from the spirit. So anyway, hopefully that's helpful. I guess that is it.
Cause oh my word, there's so many more things, but that is just going to have to be it. I bet.
I hope that there is, well, I do know that there is that I know everything I didn't say. So I'm
like, Oh, I hope that that's enough, but I'm realizing that's probably very overwhelming
because I aware I'm very aware that all of these things that I said today, I didn't learn in one
day. I did not learn them in four and a half hours. I learned them over years, years and years
and years. And it's only been recently that God gave me the words to articulate it to myself,
what he'd been telling me, let alone now to other people. That's what's been recent. Um,
and, and also that he would tell me that I was free of condemnation and all of that,
but the stuff about rest, he's been teaching me about rest for, I don't know, I don't know
how long years and years and years, but I didn't know that that's what he was teaching me. And I
wasn't living in rest. I was still living, thinking I had to earn his favor and earn
success in business and earn, you know, to make him happy or to, or to make the business work or
to make the client happy or whatever. And, um, anyway, it was that, that God had to teach me,
how to operate in rest out of my identity, as opposed to just receiving his gifts of rest
that I have been receiving and operating into a measure for years. Um, so, uh, that the things
that I'm telling you, those are all of the, those are the, are the really the biggest nuggets.
There's so many things I could say, but they're just extensions of the big stuff that I've already
been saying, which is how to submit ourselves in our, in our will truly to the Lord, how to
actually how, when we're struggling and we feel stuck, what it is that we're needing to do is to
let go of something instead of trying to do something different than what we've been doing.
It won't work. It's stopping whatever it is that you're doing because you already are the thing.
We're just in resistance against it because we're, we're trying to stop trying. That's a good word
for you. Um, uh, possibly that might be a good word for you to, um, that highlights to you,
whether or not you're operating in rest or not is, are you, when you talk about it to yourself,
are you using the word try? Well, Lord, I'm trying to understand. I'm like, Oh, there we go. Okay.
Sorry. You know, um, just like, okay, just let it go. Let go. Oh, one more thing I want to mention.
I keep thinking of all these things I think might help y'all don't just release what it is you're
going through release the process of it. Um, don't think, uh, okay, well, you know what I'm trying to
shift into rest and, and switching all of our trying from all the activity onto now trying to
shift into rest at won't work either. You have to, you have to understand, you have to choose that
you already are at rest and you can only shift into rest. If you finally let go, if you finally
stop. So that even means the processing of it, don't get stressed, anxious, and up.
tight about the process of you trying to shift into rest and being aggravated with yourself if
you can't figure it out or you're not knowing how to do it right now. You will actually, it will,
it will take longer to shift into rest like that. You will shift faster if you let it go.
If you give yourself grace, if you release yourself of the shame and condemnation that
you haven't figured it out or that you're not doing it right now and that God's giving you
the opportunity and you don't know how you're not choosing it and you're all confused,
release yourself from all the shame and all the condemnation that's coming with the confusion
and how you're handling it or not handling it or whatever. So it's more than just releasing,
letting go of our ownership of the result. It's also letting go of how we're going through the
process of this. That is vital to understand. Absolutely vital. Because otherwise, I was
noticing that people, because I've, I've coached dozens of people through this and I was noticing
that people were shifting their trying from one thing onto now rest. It's the same principle
across everything, including the process of all of this. So if you get nothing else from this,
from this whole time, know that you're free. Hear that you are released, hear that you are relieved.
I was talking to, um, to, I went to God about someone the other day and I was asking him,
God, what do you want to say to them? And that they had all these questions for him. Oh Lord,
what about this? And what about this? And I didn't know that. And God said, tell them,
I want them to be relieved. So he was just telling they, they had, they were all,
they were trying so hard to please him. And he said, tell him, I want them to just be relieved.
And he wouldn't let off that. He said, that's what we're going to deal with first. He kept
trying to save them, kept trying to save them, kept trying to relieve them. And they kept wanting
to try to try to get him to reconcile for them, whether or not they'd been pleasing him so far,
whether or not they'd made the right decisions, whether they were making the right decisions now
and what it is that he wanted, they wanted him. He expected at them now and in the future,
God, I'm just here. I just wanted to, but you want me to do. And he's like,
okay, I want you to let that go for a minute. Stop trying to please me. Stop trying to think
what it is that I want from you. I want you to be relieved. I want you to choose no condemnation.
I want you to choose no shame. I want you to choose freedom. I want you to choose relief.
I want you to choose release. I want you to choose relief, relieve yourself. It's just fascinating.
That's where everything starts. If you start doing that, you find yourself in rest and easier to
shift into it. So anyway, because if you don't, you're going to take all these principles that
I talked about, letting go, and you're going to apply it down. You're up here. You're applying
it down here, but you're not applying it here. Well, then this is where you've created your own
resistance to be able to, you can't get to the, to the lower level, to the deeper root level of
some things because you've now shifted it from putting it here. And you're now creating your
own resistance here. I'm trying here, Lord, I'm working here. I'm working through the process of
getting to the point where I don't have to work. Cause like, no, you can't work anymore because
everything in the kingdom has to be freely given and freely received, or you can't have it.
You cannot work for it or you can't have it. Anything that you work for will only be in the
tree of the knowledge of an evil and you will earn it, but you can't earn spirit.
You can earn certain results, but you can't earn spirit. Anything that you want of spirit,
which is rest and all the other aspects of our inheritance can only be freely received with open
hands where we haven't, where we don't deserve it. We haven't worked for it. We haven't worked for it
by obedience. We haven't done anything. We just choose that if he says that that's who he is,
that's why we get it. We get it because that's who God is. We don't get it because he loves us.
I mean, I mean, in other words, we don't get it because we're a loved, we're a loved thing.
He gives it to us because it's who he is. Now he gives it to us because he loves us,
but that's saying something about him. And, um, so it doesn't have anything to do with us
because God reigns on the good and the evil. And God is, what does it say? God, um, pours
out his mercy or something like that on the grateful and the ungrateful. So anyway, I wanted
to mention all of that because it's very important. I'm glad I remembered that you have to release the
process as well, and just choose that you're free and you will find yourself shifting faster.
And I know this from personal experience and walking dozens of people, you know, through
this process, those that have shifted into rest are the ones that, and it shifted the rest of the
fastest release themselves, even in the process. So I, that's another thing that I began to learn.
Oh, I need to learn to articulate that. So, okay. Now that we are a little bit over time, um, uh,
I think, I guess that is it.
And I hope that this has been helpful, that you've all enjoyed it. And oh, one more thing,
I'm so glad the Lord reminded me about this. You do not have to do this, but I will confess
something to you. So hopefully this will help y'all and help you maybe even in your own business to
know, well, this is Ashley and she struggles with this as well. I have learned how to articulate
the process of shifting into rest, but I have a difficult time describing the before, before,
you know, in the unrest, what it feels like, all the turmoil and all of that. And then what it,
what life is like in rest. If you think about what life is like in rest, the best way that I've come
to describe it is just like in chosen, in the chosen where Mary Magdalene says, what does she
say? She said, um, I, I used to be one way and now I'm completely different. And the thing that
happened, you know, in between was him. That is the only way that she could figure out how to
describe what her life was like. And she was possessed with demons. And so she went from
being possessed by demons to, you know, now living, now living, you know, uh, uh, being
saved by the Lord. And the only way that she could think of to describe it now, yes, it's
just a, it's just a fictional rendition. It's not in scripture, but, but you know, what they kind of
picture here is, is the fact that when God transforms us, how it is so soul deep in the
very core of our identity, how on earth do you describe that? So I, I know that there are ways
to articulate it. The Lord thankfully has given me ways to articulate the middle part. I know I go
very deep. So I may have said things in a way you're like, Ashley, I, you articulated it. You're
claiming you articulated, but I didn't understand. I do go very deep and I try to come at it from
multiple angles so that people will, I don't know, grab different bits of it that will hopefully make
sense. But just generally speaking, um, I know, and I know because clients have been transformed
by hearing the articulation. So I know that there's help in there somewhere. I have learned
that, but it's the parts on either side that I don't understand yet that I've really struggled
with knowing how to articulate. So people have, so therefore a lot of people don't know what it is
and don't understand what it is that I talk about in rest. They don't understand. So what is this
thing about rest? Why would it, why would it be important to me? And I think this is an amazing
freeing message, but people on the outside who've never heard it other than sometimes reading my
posts, they've never been to a conference. They don't understand what I'm inviting them to when I
have a coaching program or when I have those teachings available online, you would be surprised
at how very, very, very few people have signed up on the website to go through the teachings.
I'm so surprised. Um, but because I'm like, Oh my goodness, it's so transformative. It's spring.
You can have this, but I don't know how to articulate to other people what that is to
highlight, to talk to them in a way that they can, that they hear themselves in the story of unrest
and they can hear on the, on the, what life is like in rest. And they think I want that
so that they know that their father is offering that to them. Cause all the, I just keep talking
about the word rest. I'm like, that's great. What does that mean? How does that mean for my life?
So point and telling you all of that is that is something that, that, um, that I'm asking the Lord
to increase me in my, um, uh, what do you call it in my, uh, abilities to be able to,
and he began to help me articulate those things. So in the, so while he's doing that,
I'm asking for help from other people who are also spirit beings and we all rely on each other
as one spirit. And people had told me repeatedly that it was the testimonies of other people that
helped them finally understand and want to finally find out more about, about rest. And, um, because
they thought, Oh, this is something that I've been looking for because the way I've been describing
it hasn't, um, they, they couldn't, they couldn't hear it, but they could hear it when other people
were doing their testimony. So for anybody that has it, you know, that would like to use on your
heart, um, uh, I, uh, I would just invite you to, if you would like, you're welcome to post something,
either a video people, you know, the videos are very powerful, whether you do it live or you do
it on your own page and share it to mine, or you do it live on my page or you record it. And when
you've got your perfect recording that you want, you know, you know, cause you had to practice
both of us, whatever, everybody has their own, our own kind of securities. Sounds like me. How
do you think that I know these things? Um, then, um, and then post it to my page, or if you want
to just write something, um, uh, you know, uh, to give people an idea of, uh, it may be articulate
for people in a way that I've been struggling. What, what I talk about in the inner, in the
inner is rest program and, and, um, and how, how, um, you've been at unrest in certain areas.
areas of your life, and having walked through certain things,
you're now experiencing rest, and this is what it's like.
This is how you would describe it in your own language,
in your own words, in your own world.
This is what it looks like to you,
and there are certain people that will resonate with that.
So if for any of you who would like to,
that would be wonderful because it would help other people.
You do not have to if you don't want to,
but in fact, I think most people that I've asked haven't,
but it's just something that I just wanted
to let everybody know is very helpful,
and people have told me that that was one
of the biggest reasons why they actually joined
was other people's testaments,
and they thought that's what I want for me
when I was saying it, they didn't get it,
but when somebody else said it and they got it,
they're like, oh, I want it.
So anyway, I guess it's finally good.
I can't, I can't, it's like a pastor, right?
You know, just like, this is the end, this is the end.
Yes, it's unfortunately a thing.
So I love all of you, and it was very special
to get to spend time with y'all.
Thank y'all so much for being online
so that we could have the connection
and just the personal connection
because the personal connection always means so much to me.
Those of you who know me, you know I love video.
If I have a chance to talk to somebody on video
instead of by audio, I'm going to do it.
So anyway, I love you all, and it's good to see y'all.
May your lives be transformed,
and I will be sending out a link for y'all
to sign up for a private consultation session
for next week.
It'll be Monday through Thursday of next week,
and y'all can grab a time that's convenient for y'all.
And anyway, I will look forward to it.
I'll talk to y'all later.
Y'all have a good Saturday.