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All right.

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I was talking to Lori on her break.

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I was like, Lori, this is so sad.

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There's so many things I wanted to say,

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and there's just not enough time to say everything.

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But I hope everything that I've been talking about

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has been very helpful in understanding how to actually

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apply it in your business.

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And in other words, I know that some of these things

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might sound very new, and there might be just so much newness

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that, depending on who it is, what

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it is that y'all's background is,

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and where it is that you are with the Lord right now,

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and what He's revealed to you, it might just

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feel very overwhelming.

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So I'm sorry.

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But you can re-watch the recording

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so you don't have to take it all in right now.

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You just watch recordings just like, OK, Lord,

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what can we implement right now?

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But these things, I'm serious.

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These are the really big things.

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These are the things that completely transform everything.

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And oh, good.

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I'm so glad you're here.

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These will transform everything.

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So it's just, oh, I can't explain it,

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because I lived so long not operating like this.

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And then when God began to teach me these things,

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it's very hard.

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It can be very hard to step into,

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especially because I had nobody else to teach me how to do it.

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So I'm thinking, am I even doing the right thing,

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or am I risking everything on something that's irresponsible?

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But God proved Himself, and it's like, OK.

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But anyway, there's a lot more.

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So in other words, there's a lot more.

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It's not more information, so to speak,

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that we have to think, oh my goodness, there's

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so much more to learn or know.

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It's things that I've already learned that if what God says

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is true, well then, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.

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And then without you having to discover all of these things,

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I've already seen all of that.

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I'm like, oh, well then, not all of it, but a lot of it.

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And then I can just tell you, oh, by the way,

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and then I can make all of these connections.

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Be like, oh my goodness, so because of Russ,

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then da-da-da-da-da-da-da.

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You can find all of these things out for yourself, and you will.

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But that's what all of the more is.

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It's just a further explanation and an articulation

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of if, then therefore.

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And it's just articulating the therefore before you even

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go through the process.

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But everything that I'm talking about

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is all of the, that I've already talked about,

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is all of the really big stuff of if you do this,

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and this is how you do it, then that's how you can,

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that's how we submit ourselves to being open to the Lord,

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open to finally receiving the inheritance that he says

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that he's already given us.

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He's already done all of this work,

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but why on earth has he already given us something

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and we're not seeing it manifest in our life?

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If we, well, Lord, I am submitting my will to you,

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and I am doing this, and I am doing that, why isn't it

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working?

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And he began to show me some things of why it's not working.

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By the way, rest, so I can put it

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in context of all kinds of other things

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that you learned from the Lord, that we

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learn when we go to other conferences

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by other teachers or whatever, everything

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that they talk about has to be done from rest.

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So this is like the part of the process

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that Yenny and I were talking about this the other day.

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This is a part of the process.

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In fact, the way that she worded it,

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which I thought was a really good picture,

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is she said it's like ethics.

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She said you apply ethics to everything.

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You apply it to, and you operate the same way in relationships,

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in relationships, in finances, and in business,

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in the exact same way.

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It's just ethics.

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It's like this foundation.

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It's like how you do it.

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It's in the manner in which you operate in all of these things.

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And that's what rest is.

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So rest is the way in which you will

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be able to follow and step into and experience

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the things that other spiritual teachers that you listen to

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are moving in in the spirit.

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And you're going, OK, I'm going to all the conferences.

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Why isn't it working for me?

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It has to be done in rest.

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You can't work for it.

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You can't get there.

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The way that they got where they got

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and the way that they're able to sustain

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that spiritual relationship with the Lord

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is as a gift that was accounted to them as righteousness

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because they rested and had faith.

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But they don't have time to talk about the rest part

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because they've got so many things to cover.

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moving in the spirit that way.

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They only have so much time.

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So they're going to talk to you about the other, but just FYI,

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the only way you can.

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can do that is through, is the only way that they did it,

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which is in rest.

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So that you understand what we're talking about here

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in context of the rest of the Bible,

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in context of everything else it talks about in the Bible,

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in listening to the Lord, relating to the Lord,

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doing things in spirit, doing things in the spirit,

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you know, all these other teachings that we talk about

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that we go to conferences to learn

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that other people have experienced.

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How can we have those same experiences?

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Everything has to be,

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God has to be approached from a place of rest.

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So anyway, it's a context in which we're meant to operate.

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we learn how we can operate and move

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in different areas of the spirit.

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So my turning point in business happened

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when I finally gave up my desire.

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This is really, really big.

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I gave up my desire for a particular lifestyle.

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And by that, I mean a spiritual lifestyle,

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a lifestyle of, I want to live a particular way.

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I want my business to operate a particular way.

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I want to have a particular business.

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I want to have a particular type of ministry

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or whatever it is.

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I had to give up my lifestyle

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and whatever it is that I wanted,

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what I wanted it to look like.

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And instead I had to choose that I wanted the care.

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I chose the character of God,

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regardless of how he interacted with me.

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I know that that might sound weird.

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I'm just choosing the character of God.

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Is that being the focal point of my existence?

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He has to reveal that to me over time.

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I know what he says, but what am I believing?

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That's new for me, right?

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So I just said, God, I choose your character.

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I choose that you are who you say that you are.

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but I'm choosing it now before I know what it is.

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I don't limit you to telling me what it is

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that you're gonna, that you are.

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And then I'll decide whether or not I want to choose it.

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God, no conditions.

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You are who you are.

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I unite myself completely to you, complete vulnerability.

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Will I feel safe with it?

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I don't know.

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It's that much submission.

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And then to choose that.

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And then I asked that he, that I choose,

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I told him, I choose your,

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I give it what it is I want my life to look like.

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And I choose your character.

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And I ask, all that I ask Lord

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is that you manifest that character in my life.

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You say that you're good and you say that you're loved,

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but I don't get to dictate what that manifestation

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looks like as love and goodness in my life.

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Jesus died a very horrible death because God loved him.

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So I don't get to choose the manifestation.

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I don't get to choose what my business looks like

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because God says he's loving goodness

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and he's manifesting it into my life.

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All I said is God, as long as it is your character

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that you are manifesting in my life,

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that is all I'm asking.

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My life can look like whatever you want.

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I'm focused on the fact that you are who you say that you are

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and I'm asking that you make that real into my life.

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All I'm asking.

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Everything changed.

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Not everything was easy

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because I was in a very low point in my life.

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Like everything was stretched from me.

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In a way, in manner of speaking, my relationships,

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especially my closest ones, my finances, I had no money.

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months, like a year, and just nothing.

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And I say a year, it can last much longer for people,

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but I was in a very highly pressurized,

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God was like taking multiple years

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and like squeezing me into a lot of things.

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It was a lot, it was extremely intense.

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But anyway, that's when everything changed for me.

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It's not that it was easy.

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It's not that it changed overnight.

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It's that, that was like, okay, that,

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God's like, that's the submission I wanted,

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where you give up everything.

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So this would be a good time for me to talk about

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how to actually submit our wills to the Lord.

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It all sounds good

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and we all think that we know how to do it.

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I thought I'd been doing it for years

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and I told God that when I went through,

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I think all of you have probably heard my testimony.

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If not, it's on my, is it on my website?

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No, it's not on my website yet,

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but it's on my Facebook page,

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should you scroll down there's,

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I have the testimony that I've written out

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as well as.

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video that I attached to that post when I was at the conference in March, and there's

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my testimony in there.

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Anyway, in December 2018, I was sitting right over there, here at the house, I was sitting

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right over there, and I told God, I said, God, I've submitted everything to you.

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I have literally lived as a martyr for you, and you haven't given me as much as a goat.

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And what I didn't realize is I actually wasn't submitted to the Lord.

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I really hadn't given everything, just because I was living like a martyr, and I was living

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sacrificially, and I wasn't letting myself do whatever I wanted to do, and I was only

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doing what I did that I thought that God wanted me to do, and I was always looking for what

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God wanted, and completely forgetting about myself, or not allowing myself to think about

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myself and all of that.

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I thought that was submitting to God, and I've discovered it's not.

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Actually, I've got to make sure I'm where I need to be in my notes.

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So it's the submission of God, submission to God, is not telling God, okay, God, you're

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holding on to something.

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It's your business, it's your dream, it's your whatever, and it's not taking it before

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the Lord, and holding it, and saying, okay, God, I'm giving you permission to come into

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my life, and to do whatever it is you want to do, and to override whatever it is that

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I'm doing, and to just take over.

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That's actually not submitting our will, is giving God permission to come in and do whatever

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Submission of our will is taking what we have, and letting it go.

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So just letting it go, and then that's giving it to God, as opposed to, God, you can come

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and take it.

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I'm giving you permission.

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You can come and take it.

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giving that over the Lord.

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and the only reason I can say that is everybody in here would love their child, what would

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make you feel worse?

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Because you would feel that you had done something.

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It was in my control, and I made an intentional decision, and I did it, as opposed to, it

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highlight it with a bit of shock value, that the agony it feels when we're being asked

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to let go of our baby, of our dream, of our business, of the promise that God himself

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gave us.

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now use it as a weapon against him, an accusation.

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This is what you gave me.

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It has caused a problem for me, or you're not helping it come to fruition, or whatever.

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I didn't tell him he could come take it, because that wasn't working.

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It wasn't working, and so finally, I took everything that I was holding onto, and I

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let go of everything that I had, everything I wanted, just wanting it, desiring it, all

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of the bad things, and all of the good things, all the things that God had given me, all

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the things that he promised me, everything.

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I just let it all go, and the only thing that I held onto was him, him being him, and I

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didn't know who that was.

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I didn't know if he was good, I didn't know his love, I knew he said he was.

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That is submission of your will.

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If you're stuck in a place in your business, whether you've started it or haven't, or you're

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in the middle of it, and you're stuck in it, and it's like, okay, God, I'm in a threshold

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in this thing, and it's not moving, and you're getting frustrated, and you can feel some

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accusation against God arising.

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It's releasing complete ownership of it, and letting it go, not telling God, God, you can

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come in at any moment, and you can take over, and I give you permission to do whatever you

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Submitting is letting go of the stranglehold we have on it, we're no longer touching it.

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I mean the internal hold that we're having on it, and the ownership we're...

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we let go of. That is death. That is because it's what Abraham did when he took Isaac,

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and he took his own son. He put his son on the altar. God didn't take him. He said,

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I'm asking you to present your son to me. Abraham's the one who had to go through all of the

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steps to do the thing. He put Isaac on the altar, lifted the knife above his body.

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It's death. We have to do that. And that's what I was having to do the other day,

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that I was telling you about. And that actually brought about, and it actually died. I actually

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brought it to the point of death. And so now it's going through burial, and eventually it'll

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resurrect, and we'll see what form that it takes. But, and I don't know when that'll be.

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often, as an encouragement to us, and to give you something practical of, okay, we all know that God

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wants us to submit our will. We always know that there's something special about that, that there's

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something powerful about that. But how do we do it if we keep doing it, and it doesn't seem to be

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good enough? It doesn't seem to be working, and nothing seems to be changing. It's because we,

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so often, we actually haven't submitted it, because the submission is the letting go. The

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submission is being the one to kill it. The submission is being the one to abandon it.

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And it's awful. We don't want to be abandoned. So there's something in us that doesn't want to

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abandon it. Partly, yes, there's a connection that we have towards it. But part of the reason why

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we're holding on to it, this dream, this vision, this business, whatever, is we expect that it's

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giving something to us. It's going to make us feel secure. It makes us feel protected, provided for.

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that sometimes people, often people choose businesses or ministries based off of what it

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is that they want for themselves. Why do you think that I talk about rest?

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What it is that they want for themselves. There's nothing wrong with them, except if it's coming

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from an unhealthy place where we're not healed, and we think that by giving something to someone

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else, that we're going to get it for ourselves, and that that's our motivation, then it's a very

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unhealthy way. It's a very unhealthy perspective. Because we have an ownership of this business,

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or an ownership of this ministry, because our idea is, I want to help people. And we can think

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that that's very good. I advise that we don't have businesses to help people. I'll talk about

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that in just a second. But that we don't try, that we don't use the motivation of, oh, I want

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to help people as our reason for having the business. Because often that's coming from this

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heart that we think is godly of, oh, I want to help. But what we don't know is we're using that,

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thinking that if I help people, then I have a purpose. If I help people, then I matter. And if

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I help people, God's pleased. If I help people, I'm righteous. Sometimes we're not honest with

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ourselves enough to realize that that's what we think. But deep down it is. And here's how we can

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know that that's actually what's going on, is when it's not going how we want it to.

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Either people aren't being helped, or people aren't coming to us, or a business isn't being

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financially successful or whatever. And then we get anxious. Then we get upset. Then we get

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stressed. Because we've associated the fact that a business has to take on a particular form, like I

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should be getting money, clients should be coming, or the clients that are here, they should be being

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helped in order for what's supposed to be happening to be happening, like in order for

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the business to be successful. And if it's not, it means that, and I'm getting anxious,

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it means that I was using it to provide myself for something, provide myself with protection,

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provide myself with protection or provision either, or making myself feel loved, or worthy

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of being liked, or expect to be comforted by the Lord because I'm doing his work, or I don't know,

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just whatever. That we were using it to mean, to tell ourselves something. And now God's not

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letting, in our minds, God's not letting it be successful. And so therefore, therefore,

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I can't get myself what it is that I needed the business to give me. That God's denial of them,

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this is the way we think, God's denial of them being helped is God's denial.

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of helping me when I'm asking him for it. And so anyway, that it and I don't mean to bring

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accusation when I say all this thing, it's that if you're finding yourself stuck or you're finding

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yourself in unrest, I'm highlighting that these are the types of things that can be going on.

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give us purpose, whatever. And God says that he wants me to get that completely from him.

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And he doesn't even give me the business as a means by which he's giving it to me.

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He gives it to me regardless. It just might come through the business, but he's the one giving it

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to me. And the business has nothing whatsoever to do with it whatsoever. It's just like this

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structure through which God's provision that he has is flowing. Anyway, so if we have that stress

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and anxiety and all of that, it means that we haven't submitted something to the Lord. We

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haven't, we, in other words, that we're holding on to something that God's saying, let go.

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These things aren't hard to do is in. They're not, they're not,

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they're not complicated, but their heart is in their heart is that I don't want to let go

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because that's my security. That's my safety. If I let it go again, you know, there's going to be

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a lack on the other side because there's this death and there's going to be a lack on the other

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side. But God's like, no, when you let it go and it dies, there's life on the other side,

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life on the other side could mean anything. It could mean that as soon as you let it go

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in two hours, God brings everything miraculously to fruition. Death could mean it really does look

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like a death and it's buried for multiple days or months or whatever. And then God resurrects

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in a different part. I don't know. I go through both of those. I go through things where God does

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things in the 11th hour. And I do things where God, where it's like, no, God deadline was,

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was weeks ago, you know? So anyway, it can take on various forms, but see what I chose is I didn't

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choose my life to look a particular way. I didn't choose it to look comfortable. I didn't choose it

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to look responsible or like a, like a, I don't know, like I was a good, I was a good business

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person or a good ministry person or a good, a good daughter or a good woman or whatever I chose

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because that's all good. You hear that word, good, truth, knowledge, good and evil, and choose

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that my life looked a particular way that things were easy or that they, that or whatever. I chose

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that God be his character and that he showed me who that is. So I'd get to know him. And I chose

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that he manifests that character into my life. So I just wanted to highlight those things, not

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to make anybody feel like depressed or, oh my goodness, I wonder if I hang on to it and God,

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I'm so sorry. I don't mean any of that. It's like, if you're struggling and if you're,

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there's God, God's trying to highlight to you, you don't have to live like that.

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You, you can be free. And he's just asking you, do you want to be free? Do you want more love? And

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do you want more freedom? There's no condemnation for staying where you are.

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You can keep it. You can stay where you are and he's not going to condemn you for it.

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He's like, okay, but I'm highlighting something to you. So if you don't like that, you could,

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you could choose more love and freedom. And the way that we choose love and freedom,

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meaning like shifting into press is letting go of the ownership of whatever it is that we're

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holding on to. So anyway, that's, that's all the, the only reason I mentioned that.

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Okay. But that's a very, very, very, very, very, very big one is the submission of our will and

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how to actually do that. And I had to learn that because I, I couldn't find people. I had to learn

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how to learn what it meant to do it because I couldn't. And the only way I did it is I had to

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go before God, trying to let something go. And he had to articulate for me how I wasn't doing it

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and how to do it different. And, and, and that was big because otherwise it's very discouraging

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and frustrating when, when the Bible or church, you know, pastors or whatever, keep telling us

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or each other, you know, keep telling us, you just need to submit your will to God. I have,

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I've been doing it and nothing's coming of it. We don't understand. We're not being,

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I don't make y'all, but I wasn't told what it actually meant to submit myself to the Lord and

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why, what I was doing wasn't submission. So I just felt that I was fighting, losing battle.

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It's like, I'm trying to do it, but I don't understand how I'm not doing it. It's very

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frustrating. So, so for what it helped, whatever help that is, because it's a really big one in

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business is letting all that, letting all of that go. Cause business is one of those things

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that are administered or whatever, especially why we're getting.

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into it, you know, why we're getting into a particular business or ministry, why it's important

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to us, that there's, it has a very strong pull on us, especially if we're finding our identity in it

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or we're using it as our means of healing from something. So speaking of that,

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about using it as a means of healing, I recommend to people that they do not try to

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have a particular business or ministry trying to help people. I mean, like with the motivation of

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helping people, if you help people, that's wonderful. I mean, what I'm doing here is,

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is like hopefully helping people, but I, that can't be my motivation because I don't get to

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choose whether or not you're helped. That's not within my control. And so therefore, if people

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choose that this doesn't change their lives, then, then I, then that can, if my motivation is to help

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people and they're choosing to not be helped, well, then my, my, what it is that I'm doing

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in operating, interacting with people and having ministry or in whatever else is, I would see that

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as a, as a failure and that I'm not, that I'm not good enough. And I would see that as an indication

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of something about my, my identity. And the, the business in the minute or business,

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ministry, whatever is actually just supposed to be an expression of the, a visible expression of

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how the relationship with God has developed this far. If you were to take the, what our relationship

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with God has developed this far, which we talked about earlier and put it into a physical form,

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what would it look like? It'll look like that business and it'll look, you know, it'll look

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like that ministry or whatever. So therefore we need to operate out of who it is that we are,

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not what it is that we know and whether, and, and what we're trying to, and trying to actually get

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a particular result. I want them to be helped. You see, God's like, no, I'm in charge of the results.

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The results are, are mine. You don't have to be responsible for the results anymore.

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So release your stranglehold on the results. I determine whether or not they're helped. I help

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them, you know, work through, you know, whatever that they need to analyze or whatever. And now

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that frees you of the burden, weight, and responsibility of, oh my goodness, are they

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going to be helped? Because that determines whether or not I did a good, a good job, a good

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job or not. I was like, no, no, no, no. I will do that. I'm in charge of the results. So now that

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you're free of that, let's have fun. Let's what, what do we want to do? Actually, you and I together

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in our relationship and how it is that we interact, how do we want to live out loud and then live that

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way? Actually, what kind of a business do we want to have? What kind of a, what kind of a ministry

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do we want to have? Then that allows me, if I'm operating out of who it is that I am in the Lord,

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which is spirit, and that's united with God's spirit. If God and I together are operating

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together out of who it is that we are and just living out loud, then everything is effortless.

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Everything is from rest because I'm just being the balloon. I'm just being who it is that I am.

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I'm not trying to become something different in order to get a particular result, just to operate

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out of who it is that I am. That's important for multiple reasons. One of which your business needs

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you. So if your business is struggling, your ministry is struggling, it needs you because

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your spirit and spirit is life. Business has no life in it outside of someone giving it spirit.

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It just doesn't. Now, anything that it's doing as far as like movement and all that,

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what can create movement? Law. But law as a source will bring nothing but death.

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If we use, if we put life into a business and just use laws, but we're not using the law as

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the life source, then the business thrives because the business is existing and being

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fueled by the life, not by the law. Meaning like whatever systems, formulas, business

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strategies that we're using. We're not using it as a life source. We're using it as a structure of,

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okay, if this business is living and breathing, what kind of structure do we want to give it?

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Well, let's use these business strategies and let's use, let's use these formulas because

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00:29:31.600 --> 00:29:35.280
we'll give it that kind of a structure. So that looks this way as opposed to looking this way,

450
00:29:35.920 --> 00:29:41.680
but they're both successful and they could be both successful because they're successful based on the

451
00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:46.400
fact that they're living. And I'm giving them because I'm giving them life. I'm giving them

452
00:29:46.400 --> 00:29:53.040
spirit. I'm giving them me, but we can only get them ourselves if we are, if we choose that we,

453
00:29:53.040 --> 00:29:57.040
that our identity is who God declared it to be, which is unified with him.

454
00:29:58.160 --> 00:29:59.840
That's what our identity is, is the point at which.

455
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:03.160
we're unified. So if we try to separate ourselves from that,

456
00:30:03.160 --> 00:30:05.480
we've lost, we've, we've lost the source of life.

457
00:30:06.160 --> 00:30:09.600
So operating according to the fact that we're unified with God, we,

458
00:30:09.720 --> 00:30:11.720
we can just be who it is that we are.

459
00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:16.600
Our new man already knows everything our new man already has everything that it

460
00:30:16.600 --> 00:30:19.640
needs. And it is, it's plugged in for lack of a better phrase.

461
00:30:19.680 --> 00:30:22.520
It's united with the source of life itself.

462
00:30:22.520 --> 00:30:25.160
So it is life and it's just living.

463
00:30:26.120 --> 00:30:26.960
And in living,

464
00:30:27.160 --> 00:30:31.040
it's creating a very unique environment in that business because your spirit is

465
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unique. Your spirit is uniquely different than mine.

466
00:30:33.280 --> 00:30:37.160
So when you're going to give life to a business, it's going to look your light,

467
00:30:37.160 --> 00:30:39.280
the life that you give it, it's going to be a unique,

468
00:30:39.840 --> 00:30:41.680
it's going to be a unique form of life.

469
00:30:41.680 --> 00:30:45.520
It's different than if I had that same business. So mine would look different.

470
00:30:45.520 --> 00:30:47.280
It would operate a little differently and all that,

471
00:30:47.280 --> 00:30:51.880
because the life of my spirit looks different than the life of your spirit

472
00:30:51.880 --> 00:30:54.960
connected with the Lord. It, your business needs you.

473
00:30:55.920 --> 00:30:58.520
It doesn't need a new formula. It doesn't need new knowledge.

474
00:30:58.520 --> 00:31:02.760
It doesn't need something that you lack that you need to get from somewhere

475
00:31:02.760 --> 00:31:07.040
outside of you, like a business guru. It doesn't, you can use this.

476
00:31:07.160 --> 00:31:11.320
Sure. After you choose that you, after you, you,

477
00:31:11.400 --> 00:31:16.400
you choose in faith that God is providing for the result and you don't need it.

478
00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:21.400
Now, having said that, I'm going to throw in this caveat here.

479
00:31:21.880 --> 00:31:24.600
Like I said earlier, if we're only five, we can be five.

480
00:31:25.160 --> 00:31:27.640
So I'm five in so many areas of my life. It's embarrassing.

481
00:31:29.880 --> 00:31:34.240
If we're five and we just step out in the measure of faith and the measure of

482
00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:36.080
being able to operate in spirit and our business,

483
00:31:36.080 --> 00:31:41.000
according to the degree that we can, the rest of it, if we don't,

484
00:31:41.000 --> 00:31:45.880
if we're trying to learn how to rely on God in spirit and give our business

485
00:31:45.880 --> 00:31:49.000
spirit and not rely on business principles or strategies,

486
00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:54.400
we do it to the degree that we can. And then the rest of it, we're like, okay,

487
00:31:54.400 --> 00:31:55.400
God, you gave,

488
00:31:55.400 --> 00:32:00.400
you created amazing gifts and business strategies and formulas and I'm giving

489
00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:02.400
you as much faith as I have.

490
00:32:02.400 --> 00:32:05.400
I'm having as much faith in your character as I,

491
00:32:05.400 --> 00:32:09.400
as I can and I'm trying to operate out of who it is that I am and out of my

492
00:32:09.400 --> 00:32:11.400
spirit and out of my identity as much as possible.

493
00:32:11.400 --> 00:32:14.400
And then the rest of it, Lord, you know,

494
00:32:14.400 --> 00:32:18.400
until you teach me until you grow me and mature me until I'm 15,

495
00:32:18.400 --> 00:32:21.800
20, 25, 35, whatever, then,

496
00:32:21.800 --> 00:32:26.800
then I'm going to go to the degree of maturity that I have been developed

497
00:32:26.800 --> 00:32:27.800
this far.

498
00:32:27.800 --> 00:32:31.800
And I'm going to seek a business strategy and formula because I think I need

499
00:32:31.800 --> 00:32:32.800
it.

500
00:32:32.800 --> 00:32:35.800
And that's okay because there's no condemnation.

501
00:32:35.800 --> 00:32:38.800
I do the same thing. There's no condemnation.

502
00:32:38.800 --> 00:32:41.800
It's important that whatever decision that you make,

503
00:32:41.800 --> 00:32:44.800
that you do not see it as, as, oh, I'm off.

504
00:32:44.800 --> 00:32:47.800
I'm in lack and God's just enduring me until.

505
00:32:48.200 --> 00:32:50.200
It's very important that you own the decision.

506
00:32:51.200 --> 00:32:53.200
That you own it as a good gift from God,

507
00:32:54.200 --> 00:32:57.200
that whatever it is that you decide on that you,

508
00:32:57.200 --> 00:32:59.200
that you are claiming God's character.

509
00:32:59.200 --> 00:33:02.200
And I don't mean that you choose whatever it is that you want to choose.

510
00:33:02.200 --> 00:33:05.200
And then you put God's a label of God's character on it.

511
00:33:05.200 --> 00:33:06.200
Slap, slap, slap, slap.

512
00:33:06.200 --> 00:33:08.200
You know, just like, okay, well, you know, here's, here's the label.

513
00:33:09.200 --> 00:33:11.200
Yeah. I'm going to label this as God's character, whatever.

514
00:33:11.200 --> 00:33:13.200
We're not getting to, to it.

515
00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:14.200
That's not what I mean.

516
00:33:14.600 --> 00:33:18.600
I'm talking about you knowing God in your spirit being.

517
00:33:19.600 --> 00:33:23.600
And you trying to decide, okay, Lord, what decision are we supposed to make?

518
00:33:23.600 --> 00:33:26.600
You know, and I'm not hearing a clear word from you, what I'm supposed to do.

519
00:33:26.600 --> 00:33:28.600
So how do I make a decision?

520
00:33:29.600 --> 00:33:31.600
Look for where it is.

521
00:33:31.600 --> 00:33:32.600
If you, you, you know,

522
00:33:32.600 --> 00:33:36.600
obviously we all know how to hear the Lord's spirit and his will as much as possible.

523
00:33:36.600 --> 00:33:40.600
But what about where we don't know what he's saying?

524
00:33:40.600 --> 00:33:43.600
Where we can't hear or we think we can't or whatever.

525
00:33:44.000 --> 00:33:45.000
What do we do then?

526
00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:50.000
Then we look for wherever, for one thing, you know, you choose that.

527
00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:51.000
God is who he says that he is.

528
00:33:51.000 --> 00:33:52.000
Go where your spirit finds peace.

529
00:33:52.000 --> 00:33:54.000
Where does your spirit think that he is?

530
00:33:55.000 --> 00:33:57.000
And, and then to what extent you can do that.

531
00:33:57.000 --> 00:34:00.000
And then to the rest of it, where does your soul find peace?

532
00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:05.000
But in going where your soul finds peace, choose, choose,

533
00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:06.000
make your decision on,

534
00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:10.000
on what it is you decide to do based on where it is that you think you see his

535
00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:11.000
character.

536
00:34:11.400 --> 00:34:15.400
God, that looks like you, or that over here looks like you,

537
00:34:15.400 --> 00:34:17.400
not the you that I've read about in scripture.

538
00:34:17.400 --> 00:34:18.400
No, no, no.

539
00:34:18.400 --> 00:34:21.400
His being, you know, you're getting to know him, you know,

540
00:34:21.400 --> 00:34:23.400
that what he does, he's taught you.

541
00:34:24.400 --> 00:34:25.400
What is, I don't know.

542
00:34:26.400 --> 00:34:27.400
There's just this,

543
00:34:27.400 --> 00:34:30.400
this, this knowing in our spirit that sometimes we can't articulate into

544
00:34:30.400 --> 00:34:33.400
English of what it is we know about God.

545
00:34:33.400 --> 00:34:34.400
We don't even know what word to use.

546
00:34:34.400 --> 00:34:37.400
We don't even know if it's the word love or it's the word good,

547
00:34:37.400 --> 00:34:40.400
or if it's the word righteous, or if it's the, I don't know.

548
00:34:40.800 --> 00:34:41.800
Omniscient.

549
00:34:41.800 --> 00:34:42.800
We don't know what the word is.

550
00:34:42.800 --> 00:34:44.800
We were like, I, I know him.

551
00:34:44.800 --> 00:34:46.800
I don't fully understand what it means.

552
00:34:46.800 --> 00:34:48.800
I don't fully know how to articulate in English, but I know him.

553
00:34:48.800 --> 00:34:50.800
And then we take that thing that we know,

554
00:34:50.800 --> 00:34:54.800
and we look for all of the options of the decisions that we can make.

555
00:34:54.800 --> 00:34:57.800
And we say, God, I think from what,

556
00:34:57.800 --> 00:34:59.800
from what you've revealed to me.

557
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:03.240
so far, or what I think you're saying you are,

558
00:35:03.240 --> 00:35:04.720
I think that looks like you,

559
00:35:04.720 --> 00:35:06.760
and that's why I'm gonna choose that one.

560
00:35:07.920 --> 00:35:10.420
I recommend that as we're trying to mature in this,

561
00:35:10.420 --> 00:35:12.520
that that's how we make our decisions,

562
00:35:12.520 --> 00:35:16.020
as opposed to, as opposed to,

563
00:35:16.020 --> 00:35:18.120
well, God's just forgotten me,

564
00:35:18.120 --> 00:35:21.060
and so I'm just going to pick whichever one I think

565
00:35:21.060 --> 00:35:24.140
is going to save me, is gonna help me save myself.

566
00:35:24.140 --> 00:35:26.560
Like a golden calf, we make a golden calf out of it.

567
00:35:26.560 --> 00:35:28.920
Oh, it's the thing that saved me out of Egypt.

568
00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:32.800
You can do that if needed.

569
00:35:32.800 --> 00:35:34.720
If that is where your soul is,

570
00:35:34.720 --> 00:35:36.600
again, you go wherever you're able to,

571
00:35:36.600 --> 00:35:39.000
and then the rest of it, if you're only five,

572
00:35:39.000 --> 00:35:40.640
you can be five, you know, it's okay.

573
00:35:40.640 --> 00:35:41.800
You won't be five forever.

574
00:35:41.800 --> 00:35:44.280
Tomorrow you'll be six, you know, it's okay.

575
00:35:44.280 --> 00:35:46.800
But what I'm talking about is like,

576
00:35:46.800 --> 00:35:49.360
I wanted to give you all an encouragement of,

577
00:35:49.360 --> 00:35:50.760
okay, well, there's the way

578
00:35:50.760 --> 00:35:52.640
that we've been operating so much,

579
00:35:52.640 --> 00:35:54.120
and then there's this thing

580
00:35:54.120 --> 00:35:57.080
that can sometimes feel so far out of our reach,

581
00:35:57.480 --> 00:36:00.640
is seeing and knowing that that's God's character,

582
00:36:00.640 --> 00:36:01.480
or whatever.

583
00:36:01.480 --> 00:36:03.320
What if we don't really know,

584
00:36:03.320 --> 00:36:04.760
and there's just all this unknown.

585
00:36:04.760 --> 00:36:07.440
I think that that's who he says that he is.

586
00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:11.920
I think that that looks like who he's been telling he is,

587
00:36:11.920 --> 00:36:14.680
but I don't even know if that's who he's been telling he is.

588
00:36:14.680 --> 00:36:17.080
There's so much unknown.

589
00:36:17.080 --> 00:36:21.080
This is like a middle choice that you can make,

590
00:36:21.080 --> 00:36:23.360
to start stair-stepping your way,

591
00:36:23.360 --> 00:36:26.840
and maturing, and allowing God to mature you

592
00:36:27.680 --> 00:36:29.280
into like something that just feels

593
00:36:29.280 --> 00:36:31.200
to like too big of a leap to make.

594
00:36:31.200 --> 00:36:33.240
There's like this middle place.

595
00:36:33.240 --> 00:36:34.080
And there you can think,

596
00:36:34.080 --> 00:36:37.640
okay, God, I am choosing that decision because I,

597
00:36:37.640 --> 00:36:41.160
and I'm doing it not to save myself,

598
00:36:41.160 --> 00:36:44.200
but I'm doing it because I think that's you.

599
00:36:44.200 --> 00:36:47.040
And I want you more than I want the result

600
00:36:47.040 --> 00:36:49.080
that I think that thing can give me.

601
00:36:49.080 --> 00:36:50.160
And it might match up.

602
00:36:50.160 --> 00:36:52.160
You might think it can get you a tremendous, you know,

603
00:36:52.160 --> 00:36:54.600
you might know and not even have to have a lot of faith

604
00:36:54.600 --> 00:36:55.960
that it'll give you a tremendous result.

605
00:36:55.960 --> 00:36:57.400
You might be like, well, I don't know,

606
00:36:57.400 --> 00:37:00.560
all the gurus say that, and it looks like you, Lord.

607
00:37:00.560 --> 00:37:02.280
And I mean, all of that might match up.

608
00:37:02.280 --> 00:37:05.320
So I'm not saying that it has to be something

609
00:37:05.320 --> 00:37:08.640
that you think there's no way that that's gonna work out.

610
00:37:08.640 --> 00:37:11.800
And that God is, it would only be in some place

611
00:37:11.800 --> 00:37:14.280
that you can't see how it could possibly be true.

612
00:37:14.280 --> 00:37:15.760
They might actually line up.

613
00:37:16.880 --> 00:37:19.000
But my point is, why are you choosing it?

614
00:37:19.000 --> 00:37:20.840
You're not choosing it because you think

615
00:37:20.840 --> 00:37:23.280
that you're not choosing it out of the heart

616
00:37:23.280 --> 00:37:28.160
that I know that that's how, that it will,

617
00:37:28.160 --> 00:37:31.560
that I'm trying to use it to provide for and protect myself.

618
00:37:31.560 --> 00:37:34.560
God, I'm choosing it because I think that that's who you are

619
00:37:35.720 --> 00:37:38.520
and that in operating in that,

620
00:37:38.520 --> 00:37:42.040
you're maturing me to the point to understand

621
00:37:42.040 --> 00:37:45.640
that your character will manifest in the particular result

622
00:37:45.640 --> 00:37:47.360
that you desire it to manifest in

623
00:37:47.360 --> 00:37:49.200
by me making that decision.

624
00:37:49.200 --> 00:37:51.720
So you make decisions based on where it is you see God is

625
00:37:51.720 --> 00:37:53.240
and who it is you, where God,

626
00:37:53.240 --> 00:37:55.760
where you think that you see God to be

627
00:37:55.760 --> 00:37:58.320
and who it is you think God is.

628
00:37:58.320 --> 00:38:01.120
And so here's why I belabor that point.

629
00:38:01.120 --> 00:38:03.760
For one thing, we all struggle with like trying to figure out

630
00:38:03.760 --> 00:38:05.800
or at least I do, maybe it's just me,

631
00:38:05.800 --> 00:38:07.080
struggle with making a decision,

632
00:38:07.080 --> 00:38:09.480
especially if we haven't heard point blank

633
00:38:09.480 --> 00:38:10.880
what God wants us to do.

634
00:38:10.880 --> 00:38:11.760
It's just this unknown.

635
00:38:11.760 --> 00:38:12.960
Okay, what do I do in an unknown?

636
00:38:12.960 --> 00:38:15.120
What do I do if I not hear the voice of God?

637
00:38:15.120 --> 00:38:15.960
What do I do?

638
00:38:17.200 --> 00:38:19.760
And this has helped me shift and mature

639
00:38:19.760 --> 00:38:21.520
and learn who God is.

640
00:38:22.240 --> 00:38:25.080
So I've learned that I can make choices faster

641
00:38:25.920 --> 00:38:29.880
than when I didn't make choices like this

642
00:38:29.880 --> 00:38:32.400
and wasn't open to risking, making mistakes.

643
00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:34.000
What if that wasn't God?

644
00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:36.840
So the reason I say all that is what if you choose it

645
00:38:36.840 --> 00:38:38.560
and it was a quote unquote mistake?

646
00:38:38.560 --> 00:38:42.320
What if you discover that God says,

647
00:38:42.320 --> 00:38:45.320
actually, that's not exactly what I look like.

648
00:38:46.760 --> 00:38:49.600
I love that that's why you chose that though.

649
00:38:49.600 --> 00:38:51.480
And for that, I honor that.

650
00:38:52.360 --> 00:38:53.840
You didn't choose it to save your own skin.

651
00:38:53.840 --> 00:38:58.360
You did it because you thought that that's where I was.

652
00:38:59.320 --> 00:39:00.680
Just letting you know,

653
00:39:00.680 --> 00:39:02.280
I actually look a bit different than that.

654
00:39:02.280 --> 00:39:04.280
And we could have made this choice over here,

655
00:39:04.280 --> 00:39:06.600
but I'll mature you into that.

656
00:39:06.600 --> 00:39:09.680
But I feel loved because you chose it

657
00:39:09.680 --> 00:39:11.240
because you thought that's where I was.

658
00:39:11.240 --> 00:39:12.640
And that's why you were pursuing it

659
00:39:12.640 --> 00:39:14.280
because you were trying to find me.

660
00:39:14.280 --> 00:39:18.640
You chose it trying to increase your intimacy with me.

661
00:39:19.480 --> 00:39:20.320
So I love that.

662
00:39:20.320 --> 00:39:23.800
So therefore, I will provide you a protected environment

663
00:39:23.800 --> 00:39:25.640
in which to have made that mistake.

664
00:39:25.640 --> 00:39:28.440
And you will not have to bear the real world consequences

665
00:39:28.440 --> 00:39:30.440
that you would have had to bear

666
00:39:30.440 --> 00:39:35.440
if you hadn't made that choice trying to find me.

667
00:39:41.240 --> 00:39:43.000
Kind of like we provide a protective environment

668
00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:48.000
for our children to learn things and to play and whatever.

669
00:39:48.160 --> 00:39:50.400
Well, if they get hurt,

670
00:39:50.400 --> 00:39:52.360
well, we make it better for them, right?

671
00:39:52.360 --> 00:39:54.720
We don't force them to bear all of the consequences

672
00:39:54.720 --> 00:39:56.080
of all of their pain.

673
00:39:56.080 --> 00:39:59.720
We do whatever we can to relieve them from having to.

674
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:05.440
having to muddle through it and figure it out and get themselves out of it. We fix the problem for

675
00:40:05.440 --> 00:40:11.360
them. And God will do that in particular, in particular measures, providing us a safe

676
00:40:11.360 --> 00:40:16.480
environment in which to make a mistake because of why we chose it. We chose it because we thought

677
00:40:16.480 --> 00:40:20.960
that was Him according to what we thought He'd been telling us He was to this extent.

678
00:40:21.840 --> 00:40:26.880
It's very, very big because remember the expression, us doing business is the expression

679
00:40:26.880 --> 00:40:30.320
of the development of our relationship with Him so far. It's making it visible. And that's

680
00:40:30.320 --> 00:40:36.000
therefore how we make decisions as well. And as a loving father, He provides a protective

681
00:40:36.000 --> 00:40:40.320
environment in order for us to make mistakes. It doesn't mean that we don't bear consequences

682
00:40:40.320 --> 00:40:45.280
of having taken a risk that we thought that that was God. And then God's like, well, I don't fully

683
00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:52.720
look like that. It doesn't mean that there aren't some consequences to it, but He will provide a

684
00:40:52.720 --> 00:41:00.800
protective environment for us making those mistakes because of why we did it. And also,

685
00:41:02.560 --> 00:41:07.200
there's no condemnation anymore. So there's no more fear of making those mistakes

686
00:41:08.240 --> 00:41:12.000
because it's not what you do or don't do that's getting your results anyway.

687
00:41:12.000 --> 00:41:15.600
You're going to be provided for and protected regardless. The form might just look a little

688
00:41:15.680 --> 00:41:31.760
different. Yeah. Okay. Let's see here. So many things. Okay. So this is how we partner with

689
00:41:31.760 --> 00:41:38.320
the Lord in business. So think of it as like a man and a woman, same thing, just like God and

690
00:41:39.200 --> 00:41:44.160
the bride of Christ. So when God, because we're kind of wondering, okay, so this whole result

691
00:41:44.160 --> 00:41:48.080
thing came, if we could have a picture of what this whole result thing looks like,

692
00:41:48.880 --> 00:41:55.120
how is God responsible for the result that He wants us to partner with Him? And why do I see

693
00:41:55.120 --> 00:42:00.800
a difference in the results sometimes based on which decision I made and whether or not I made

694
00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:05.840
a mistake and whether I, you know, and all of that, like how does this thing work? Is God doing

695
00:42:05.840 --> 00:42:10.000
the results or am I? I mean, cause I seem to affect them, right? So what really is going on?

696
00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:13.520
So think of it kind of like a man and woman coming together in physical intimacy,

697
00:42:13.520 --> 00:42:20.960
that the masculine initiates, right? Masculine initiates the woman effortlessly receives.

698
00:42:20.960 --> 00:42:25.760
However, just because a man, just because of the man's will, cause remember how, which

699
00:42:26.560 --> 00:42:33.840
is it John? I think it's in John that refers to children being born from a man's will. So even,

700
00:42:33.840 --> 00:42:38.480
even God talks about it from that perspective is in the fact of he's trying to draw a connection

701
00:42:38.480 --> 00:42:44.480
between how God interacts with his bride is in God has a particular will, but the thing is,

702
00:42:44.480 --> 00:42:48.960
and so he always initiate, for instance, when God loves us, he always initiates. All we have

703
00:42:48.960 --> 00:42:53.120
to do is receive it. We don't have to love God first and hope he accepts us. You know,

704
00:42:53.120 --> 00:42:58.640
he's the one who made himself vulnerable to us. So God will initiate something with us.

705
00:42:59.760 --> 00:43:04.880
And he'll give us word. That's, that's what the, that's what the seed is. That's the seed,

706
00:43:04.880 --> 00:43:10.720
that seed of the man, that's the seed of God towards his bride is word capital W because

707
00:43:10.720 --> 00:43:15.120
remember the invisible God is invisible. So if he's, if he doesn't have form and he wants to

708
00:43:15.120 --> 00:43:19.440
give us something of himself, what does he give? He gets word. So we received his word,

709
00:43:19.440 --> 00:43:24.560
meaning that we're receiving him. That's the seed. So that's all well and good,

710
00:43:25.600 --> 00:43:32.320
but how does actually, how does the result come? So he initiates, God initiates with us,

711
00:43:32.320 --> 00:43:38.320
but in order for a baby to be born, in order for a baby to actually be created from the seed,

712
00:43:38.320 --> 00:43:44.000
the woman had to also contribute a seed. Just because man contributes a seed does not create

713
00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:50.480
a baby. A woman has to contribute a seed too. And so that's what we do. We are, aren't just,

714
00:43:50.480 --> 00:43:55.520
we're not just receiving the word we're in that receiving, we're coming into agreement

715
00:43:55.520 --> 00:44:01.520
and, and, and a willful intention to receive it and to partner with him in it.

716
00:44:02.480 --> 00:44:06.960
Heaven was given to the earth, heaven is the Lord's and the earth was given to man. There's

717
00:44:06.960 --> 00:44:12.240
an aspect of an authority that we're allowed to have as to what enters earth from heaven.

718
00:44:13.440 --> 00:44:17.440
There's an element of that authority and yes, God, God's sovereign and he can override things.

719
00:44:17.440 --> 00:44:24.560
Absolutely. He does, but he wants, he's maturing us to partner with him more and more.

720
00:44:25.760 --> 00:44:32.400
So that we have a greater and greater weight at the table when we come with our own contribution

721
00:44:32.400 --> 00:44:38.080
and ideas. So anyway, so the woman has to provide a seed and then, and then that's,

722
00:44:38.080 --> 00:44:45.280
and then is there two, there are two seeds conjoined that actually make something in creation.

723
00:44:46.640 --> 00:44:51.600
So when God and his bride, when God gives word and the bride receives the word comes

724
00:44:51.600 --> 00:44:57.840
into agreement, willfully and intentionally that together is what manifests something into the

725
00:44:57.840 --> 00:44:59.840
earth. So do we see how we.

726
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:02.840
had all of this backwards where we're like, okay, God, I'll only

727
00:45:02.840 --> 00:45:06.800
receive your word. If I see the manifestation, if I see proof

728
00:45:06.800 --> 00:45:09.480
that what you say is true, God's like, no, no, you don't

729
00:45:09.480 --> 00:45:13.200
understand. It's you agreeing with me and receiving my word

730
00:45:13.200 --> 00:45:19.520
that creates the manifestation. We keep waiting for, you know,

731
00:45:19.560 --> 00:45:22.440
playing the horse before the cart. It's like, no, no, no, no,

732
00:45:22.440 --> 00:45:25.080
it's you're receiving that creates the manifestation.

733
00:45:25.080 --> 00:45:27.800
That's why we can't wait for the manifestation in order for us

734
00:45:28.360 --> 00:45:33.040
before we'll believe God. Anyway, and this is the mature

735
00:45:33.040 --> 00:45:35.760
phase. So this is what we're doing in business. We have a

736
00:45:35.760 --> 00:45:40.160
contribution, we have ideas that we can present to the Lord. What

737
00:45:40.160 --> 00:45:44.600
we want and what we desire matters, but shift into rest

738
00:45:44.640 --> 00:45:47.560
first, because a lot of all that I've been talking about for a

739
00:45:47.560 --> 00:45:51.920
while is how to operate in rest, not that after we're in rest,

740
00:45:52.040 --> 00:45:54.760
being in rest, how do we operate from that place? This is an

741
00:45:54.760 --> 00:45:59.200
operating in business, in ministry from a place of rest.

742
00:45:59.520 --> 00:46:05.280
Being in rest, you know, how do we interact in the world? We're

743
00:46:05.280 --> 00:46:09.920
receiving a word that God gives, we're partnering with the Lord.

744
00:46:10.240 --> 00:46:13.800
And then in agreement, we come with ideas, we come with

745
00:46:13.800 --> 00:46:18.320
decisions, we try things, we decide what business strategy,

746
00:46:18.320 --> 00:46:20.600
what business model, what business formula, which

747
00:46:20.600 --> 00:46:23.360
business, you know, what are we going to do, Lord? We decide

748
00:46:23.360 --> 00:46:29.120
together, because we're in rest, not with our hands off of

749
00:46:29.120 --> 00:46:32.840
the outcome, with not thinking that we're protected, that we

750
00:46:32.840 --> 00:46:36.520
have to protect or provide for ourselves by our decision. Now

751
00:46:36.520 --> 00:46:38.080
that we're free of that burden, that weight and that

752
00:46:38.080 --> 00:46:44.160
responsibility, now, we can come to the Lord and create and give

753
00:46:44.160 --> 00:46:50.640
Him a contribution that God is, that looks like the heart of

754
00:46:50.640 --> 00:46:55.080
God. Remember how God was going to make a particular, what was

755
00:46:55.080 --> 00:46:58.200
he going to do? Oh, he was going to wipe out Israel. He was going

756
00:46:58.200 --> 00:47:01.240
to wipe out Israel, and he told Moses, stand back and wipe them

757
00:47:01.240 --> 00:47:04.520
all out. And Moses begged him not to. He said, please, please

758
00:47:04.520 --> 00:47:09.440
don't Lord, you know, what would people say, etc, etc. And so God

759
00:47:09.440 --> 00:47:16.480
changed his mind. Why? Because Moses looks like God, as in like

760
00:47:16.520 --> 00:47:19.280
he looks like the character of God, he was exemplifying the

761
00:47:19.280 --> 00:47:22.160
character, God's like, that is what I would do, that is the

762
00:47:22.160 --> 00:47:24.840
decision that I would make, I would have mercy, that is like

763
00:47:24.840 --> 00:47:29.360
my character. Now, yes, him, him wanting to operate, you know, in

764
00:47:29.360 --> 00:47:32.560
that wrath, and in that judgment was his character as well. But

765
00:47:32.560 --> 00:47:36.320
he was also, Moses was presenting another aspect of

766
00:47:36.320 --> 00:47:39.520
God's character. And Moses was acting, asking him to act on

767
00:47:39.520 --> 00:47:44.560
that. God can, what about this one? I'm asking, you know,

768
00:47:44.560 --> 00:47:47.800
because it says that God talked to Moses, like a man talks to a

769
00:47:47.800 --> 00:47:52.480
friend. So Moses had been matured with the Lord in

770
00:47:52.480 --> 00:47:56.840
relationship to the point where his contribution, his idea, held

771
00:47:56.840 --> 00:47:59.960
more weight at the table for a discussion between him and God,

772
00:47:59.960 --> 00:48:04.160
because Moses now looked like God, as opposed to God has his

773
00:48:04.160 --> 00:48:06.520
opinions. Now you come with a different one that doesn't look

774
00:48:06.520 --> 00:48:11.080
like anything like the heart of God. That that's not that that

775
00:48:11.080 --> 00:48:15.360
does not bear that is not a maturity that has any weight to

776
00:48:15.360 --> 00:48:18.600
bear in that conversation. So anyway, just FYI, we have in

777
00:48:18.600 --> 00:48:22.720
order to to be reflecting that heart of God, where our

778
00:48:22.760 --> 00:48:25.800
contribute that we need to learn to come to the Lord with the

779
00:48:25.800 --> 00:48:28.480
desires of our heart, the desires of our heart are very

780
00:48:28.480 --> 00:48:32.720
good. But access the desires of your heart, once you've shifted

781
00:48:32.720 --> 00:48:36.200
into rest, and you've let it go, you've let go of the ownership,

782
00:48:36.200 --> 00:48:40.600
you've let go of having to have it. And let go of having to have

783
00:48:40.600 --> 00:48:43.560
what you thought it was going to give you. Because we think that

784
00:48:43.640 --> 00:48:47.400
some so often what we think are the desires of our heart are our

785
00:48:47.400 --> 00:48:49.600
means of trying to provide for protect ourself or give

786
00:48:49.600 --> 00:48:52.880
ourselves healing. So once we all let all of that go, now we

787
00:48:52.880 --> 00:48:56.920
can access the true desires of our heart, which are amazing.

788
00:48:57.320 --> 00:49:00.040
Now we can see those and feel those. And now we can present

789
00:49:00.040 --> 00:49:04.040
what we want to God, what we really do want, not Oh, God, I'm

790
00:49:04.040 --> 00:49:06.800
sacrificing everything I want, whatever you what do you want?

791
00:49:07.320 --> 00:49:10.760
God said, No, no, you have a contribution. Now that all your

792
00:49:10.760 --> 00:49:14.680
fear is out of the way. Now you can see what your real desires

793
00:49:14.680 --> 00:49:19.280
of your heart are. Tell me what do you want? Ask, and it will be

794
00:49:19.280 --> 00:49:23.640
given into you. That's why Jesus was able to say that. And he

795
00:49:23.640 --> 00:49:27.160
said, What father, if a son asked for bread would give him

796
00:49:27.160 --> 00:49:32.640
a stone? God, God says, Come to me with the desires of your

797
00:49:32.640 --> 00:49:36.360
heart, but do not come with desires of your heart that are

798
00:49:36.400 --> 00:49:40.600
actually not real, they're, they're born out of fear. No,

799
00:49:40.640 --> 00:49:44.640
get find the real ones. And you can find those if you shift

800
00:49:44.640 --> 00:49:47.080
interest, release and submit your will and all of that.

801
00:49:47.600 --> 00:49:52.200
Submit those ideas to the Lord about business, or about, you

802
00:49:52.200 --> 00:49:54.600
know, and you know, about a vision that you have for your

803
00:49:54.600 --> 00:49:58.560
ministry or anything. God wants your contribution. It's not just

804
00:49:58.560 --> 00:50:00.000
okay, God, this is your business. What do you

805
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:04.300
want to do. No, it's y'all's business. It's y'all's, you're

806
00:50:04.300 --> 00:50:08.800
conjoined. You're one spirit, according to first Corinthians

807
00:50:08.800 --> 00:50:15.160
617. One spirit, one seed, according to Galatians three, I

808
00:50:15.160 --> 00:50:17.840
think it's Galatians 325. I don't remember. Anyway, you're

809
00:50:17.840 --> 00:50:25.920
one seed. And so anyway, you're, you have a, I say all of this

810
00:50:25.920 --> 00:50:29.080
and belabor this to say you have a right. And it's not just a

811
00:50:29.080 --> 00:50:31.520
right, like, well, God, I have a right. And I'm coming here to

812
00:50:31.520 --> 00:50:34.680
demand it. God's like, No, I'm the one who told you that. And

813
00:50:34.680 --> 00:50:37.160
I'm telling you to stand in it because you're not standing in

814
00:50:37.160 --> 00:50:39.600
it. And then you need to believe me when I say you have

815
00:50:39.600 --> 00:50:45.040
permission. So anyway, that's what all of that is. And let me

816
00:50:45.040 --> 00:50:48.440
say if there's any last thing that I wanted to, that I needed

817
00:50:48.440 --> 00:50:58.560
to just really say before we move on, that there was. Okay,

818
00:50:58.880 --> 00:51:04.920
this, trust yourself, shift into rest. And once you shifted into

819
00:51:04.920 --> 00:51:06.960
rest, once you, you know, you give things to the Lord, and

820
00:51:06.960 --> 00:51:09.000
you're gonna have to do this continually, by the way, this is

821
00:51:09.000 --> 00:51:11.600
not a one and done. Oh, I've shifted into rest. Now that's

822
00:51:11.600 --> 00:51:15.920
where I live. We're constantly coming up to new things that we

823
00:51:15.920 --> 00:51:19.000
realize, oh, my word, I have a deeper level of accusation

824
00:51:19.000 --> 00:51:21.520
against God. Now I have to release that one. And we'll go

825
00:51:21.520 --> 00:51:24.040
along and also we're confronted with a different, deeper

826
00:51:24.040 --> 00:51:26.600
accusation we have against God and God's like, see, I'm better

827
00:51:26.600 --> 00:51:28.880
than that. I'm better than what you're believing like, oh,

828
00:51:28.880 --> 00:51:31.040
okay, well, then I'm going to choose that. And we shift into

829
00:51:31.040 --> 00:51:33.120
rest. And then we come up against a different one. And

830
00:51:33.120 --> 00:51:36.760
God's like, you believe I'm worse than I am. You have

831
00:51:36.760 --> 00:51:39.280
permission to believe I'm better than that. Okay, it we're

832
00:51:39.280 --> 00:51:42.120
constantly moving into integrated levels of rest. So

833
00:51:42.120 --> 00:51:44.800
this is not a one and done thing. This is the new way of

834
00:51:44.800 --> 00:51:48.480
living. This is how I live. This is not something I've done.

835
00:51:49.440 --> 00:51:53.360
This is how we live, we choose that we continually choose that

836
00:51:53.360 --> 00:51:58.800
God is better than we've been believing him to be. And, okay,

837
00:51:58.800 --> 00:52:02.840
so, you know, operating out of who it is that you are, make

838
00:52:02.840 --> 00:52:06.280
decisions, knowing that you make good decisions, operate, you

839
00:52:06.280 --> 00:52:10.280
know, asking the Lord, you know, living, living in spirit,

840
00:52:10.280 --> 00:52:14.280
operating in spirit, and, you know, operating out of rest, and

841
00:52:14.280 --> 00:52:18.680
then from that place, where you release, you know, release your

842
00:52:18.680 --> 00:52:22.880
fear, you release your judgment, all of that, then go through

843
00:52:22.880 --> 00:52:25.720
those, those six practical tools, especially the ones like,

844
00:52:25.720 --> 00:52:29.120
you know, choose that what God says is true, and go where your

845
00:52:29.120 --> 00:52:32.080
spirit finds peace, or, or if you, you know, to whatever

846
00:52:32.080 --> 00:52:34.760
measure you can, and to whatever measure you can't declare that

847
00:52:34.760 --> 00:52:38.280
what God says is true, go where your soul finds peace, choosing

848
00:52:38.280 --> 00:52:41.720
that whatever your soul chooses is a gift that God created, for

849
00:52:41.720 --> 00:52:44.800
you to get to take advantage of and receive it as his character,

850
00:52:45.720 --> 00:52:49.960
as his character of love or whatever. As opposed to I'm

851
00:52:49.960 --> 00:52:53.000
going to grab it because God abandoned me. No, God, I'm

852
00:52:53.000 --> 00:52:57.240
claiming this, that you created this for me to take advantage of

853
00:52:57.240 --> 00:52:59.840
and this is you loving me, this is you, this is you providing

854
00:52:59.840 --> 00:53:06.520
for me. And so when you make, when you make decisions, know

855
00:53:06.520 --> 00:53:12.440
that they, in operating from rest, know that you have good

856
00:53:12.440 --> 00:53:15.360
desires of your heart, because God only creates good things. And

857
00:53:15.360 --> 00:53:17.880
I believe that you and God created those desires together.

858
00:53:18.880 --> 00:53:24.400
And so, trust yourself, trust that you have good ideas, that

859
00:53:24.760 --> 00:53:28.440
trust that, that whatever God says about you is true, that you

860
00:53:28.440 --> 00:53:31.000
have good intentions, that you have a good heart, that you're

861
00:53:31.000 --> 00:53:33.120
loving, that you're good, that you're everything that he says

862
00:53:33.120 --> 00:53:39.160
you are. And know that you have what your business needs and know

863
00:53:39.160 --> 00:53:43.600
that you have what your clients need. If, and I'm just throwing

864
00:53:43.600 --> 00:53:48.360
this out here for whatever way that you, for whatever way it

865
00:53:48.360 --> 00:53:50.720
might be helpful, because all of y'all, you know, have different

866
00:53:50.720 --> 00:53:54.320
types of businesses. But I use this a lot when I talk to people

867
00:53:54.320 --> 00:53:57.360
such as like network marketers or whatever. I recommend to

868
00:53:57.360 --> 00:54:01.600
people that you don't, when you talk to people, whether it be a

869
00:54:01.600 --> 00:54:08.320
vendor, a client, business partner, whatever, any type of

870
00:54:08.320 --> 00:54:12.360
relationship, that you don't go into it with an agenda. Because

871
00:54:12.360 --> 00:54:16.040
an agenda is determining that you're trying to create a result

872
00:54:16.040 --> 00:54:19.120
for yourself, as opposed to releasing the results of the

873
00:54:19.120 --> 00:54:24.760
Lord. And just like Jesus told the disciples, he said, when you

874
00:54:24.760 --> 00:54:28.520
are called before the court, he said, do not prepare. He said,

875
00:54:28.520 --> 00:54:31.720
because this Holy Spirit will tell you what you need to know.

876
00:54:32.400 --> 00:54:34.760
So I'm not saying that it's not good to have knowledge and

877
00:54:34.760 --> 00:54:38.560
prepare and all that God was saying, you don't need it. So

878
00:54:38.560 --> 00:54:41.040
release yourself from needing it. Know that I'm going to take

879
00:54:41.040 --> 00:54:43.560
care of you in this situation. I don't, it may not work out the

880
00:54:43.560 --> 00:54:45.600
way you want, but I'm going to provide for and protect you. So

881
00:54:45.600 --> 00:54:50.640
now that I'm going to do that, now, now prepare just because

882
00:54:51.280 --> 00:54:53.560
you're, you're, you're, you're just moving in your business.

883
00:54:53.560 --> 00:54:55.440
This is just what you're doing today, you're researching,

884
00:54:55.440 --> 00:54:58.360
you're learning, you're, you're helping your soul learn things

885
00:54:58.360 --> 00:55:00.000
it didn't know, you know, that you're

886
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:05.520
not relying on it to get you something that you're trying to manipulate the situation to get you.

887
00:55:06.480 --> 00:55:12.880
So release an agenda. I recommend to network marketers, for instance, is just an example,

888
00:55:12.880 --> 00:55:19.360
that they don't use scripts. So don't use scripts when you get on your Facebook lives or whatever.

889
00:55:20.080 --> 00:55:25.200
And you can tell the people who haven't, and this is what I want to finish with,

890
00:55:25.200 --> 00:55:32.240
you can operate your business out of who it is that you are, what it is you live,

891
00:55:32.880 --> 00:55:39.360
and what it is you've owned, not what it is you've learned and know. People can smell

892
00:55:40.880 --> 00:55:47.280
hypocrisy a mile away. They know that it's not from a very genuine place. There are people

893
00:55:47.920 --> 00:55:53.120
that I watch in business, that I watch continually, almost on a daily basis,

894
00:55:53.120 --> 00:55:57.680
they'll pop up and I can watch them and going, you don't believe what you're saying.

895
00:55:58.480 --> 00:56:03.680
And you can tell by how they're talking that they sound very knowledgeable and people flock to them.

896
00:56:03.680 --> 00:56:10.960
But I'm like, you're speaking out of what it is you've learned, but you don't own it. You can tell

897
00:56:10.960 --> 00:56:16.240
by how they're talking about it. So it's just really fascinating. And the reason that people

898
00:56:16.240 --> 00:56:20.160
rely on their knowledge and learning, you know, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,

899
00:56:20.400 --> 00:56:26.880
more than what it is, you know, why they rely on that, is because they're not believing that they

900
00:56:26.880 --> 00:56:30.880
are who God says that they are, that they already have everything, that they already know everything,

901
00:56:31.520 --> 00:56:37.680
and that who it is that they are operating from their identity, their conjoined spirit with God,

902
00:56:37.680 --> 00:56:48.400
is powerful enough that, and is powerful enough to, through which God impacts and transforms

903
00:56:48.400 --> 00:56:54.720
creation. Because you just present yourself as you are, instead of trying to look smart or act

904
00:56:54.720 --> 00:57:03.360
smart or, or whatever. And so that is in the way that I kind of drive at home with network marketers

905
00:57:03.360 --> 00:57:13.440
is I tell them, do not, do not use script. Talk out of what it is that you own and what it is you

906
00:57:13.440 --> 00:57:19.200
know. I do very little, little preparation, by the way, before I do coaching sessions,

907
00:57:19.200 --> 00:57:25.040
very little. And with the preparation that I do is just simply to remind myself of how I've

908
00:57:25.040 --> 00:57:28.720
articulated things in the past that help people finally understand what I'm talking about.

909
00:57:28.720 --> 00:57:33.760
Because otherwise, because otherwise I just like, okay, well, I know what I'm doing, but how do I

910
00:57:33.760 --> 00:57:42.720
say that in English, you know? And so that's what I do, but I'm not trying to, trying to like create

911
00:57:42.800 --> 00:57:49.840
any like, you know, like, like tricks or, or ways that, oh, if I explain it like this,

912
00:57:49.840 --> 00:57:54.960
that'll convince people that, that it really is true. No, I'm just telling you what it is that

913
00:57:54.960 --> 00:57:59.520
I believe and how I've been able to articulate what it is that I believe into English. And so

914
00:57:59.520 --> 00:58:04.400
I do that, but I do very, very, very little preparation because I can live it. If I live

915
00:58:04.400 --> 00:58:10.160
this way and I own it and I stake and risk my entire life, all of my relationships, including

916
00:58:10.160 --> 00:58:17.200
my relationship with God, my business, my finances, et cetera, on these truths, then

917
00:58:17.200 --> 00:58:22.240
that'll be that I can speak from that place. I can speak out of my spirit without sitting over

918
00:58:22.240 --> 00:58:25.760
here, you know, having to look at notes all the time. I use my notes to kind of like give me,

919
00:58:27.680 --> 00:58:34.720
because I have 22 pages of notes and we couldn't go through them all today. So I had to like skip

920
00:58:34.720 --> 00:58:44.160
around like, okay, which one do I want? But, but anyway, it's the, the reason I wanted to say that

921
00:58:44.160 --> 00:58:50.880
is again, for us to see how things that we've just taken for granted of, well, this is how you just

922
00:58:50.880 --> 00:58:56.080
operate your business. You prepare and you, I mean, like preparing this degree and you, you know,

923
00:58:56.080 --> 00:58:59.680
you have to have gone to college and you have to have learned these things and other, you know,

924
00:59:00.400 --> 00:59:04.000
all of this stuff. No, God's like, Hey, since you don't need it, which one of those do you want to

925
00:59:04.000 --> 00:59:11.120
do? But to enjoy me, to enjoy an aspect of what it is I put into creation and knowledge that I've,

926
00:59:11.120 --> 00:59:15.360
that I want to expose you to, Oh, now that you don't need it, isn't it? Isn't that interesting?

927
00:59:16.720 --> 00:59:24.320
But anyway, by relying on that, we're creating separate, we're acknowledging separation between

928
00:59:24.320 --> 00:59:31.840
us and God, as opposed to union and union and speaking out of our identity, speaking out of

929
00:59:31.840 --> 00:59:35.680
what, who it is that we are. And that's what I mean, when I say that we've owned something,

930
00:59:35.680 --> 00:59:41.600
who it is that we are and what it is, we truly believe because we act on it. That's how we act

931
00:59:41.600 --> 00:59:46.240
in our life. And we act according to what it is. We really do believe not, not what it is.

932
00:59:46.240 --> 00:59:50.640
We think we should believe in what it is that we know. Again, that hypocrisy will come across

933
00:59:50.640 --> 00:59:55.760
very easily, but and I don't mean to like, make it sound horrible by saying hypocrisy. I couldn't

934
00:59:55.760 --> 00:59:59.920
think of another word. The contradiction will be very obvious that that's a much nicer word.

935
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:04.800
because I don't mean it as harshly as hypocrisy sound is the contradiction will be very obvious

936
01:00:04.800 --> 01:00:08.000
to people to be like, wait a minute, there's something that's not right here. And it will,

937
01:00:08.000 --> 01:00:13.200
oh, here's a huge one. It will not transform people's lives. This is giving them nothing

938
01:00:13.200 --> 01:00:17.600
but death. And we think that it's powerful because, oh, well, if I word it like this,

939
01:00:17.600 --> 01:00:23.200
then that phrasing will really like help, help the light bulb come off, you know, you know,

940
01:00:23.200 --> 01:00:28.560
come on in their life in their, in their minds. No, no, sure. The light bulb might come on,

941
01:00:28.560 --> 01:00:34.080
but it won't transform their lives. It can bring nothing but death, but operating out of your

942
01:00:34.080 --> 01:00:37.920
spirit, speaking out of your spirit, speaking out of what it is that you and the Lord have

943
01:00:37.920 --> 01:00:45.120
owned together. In other words, who it is that you are in heaven. You're trying to bring heaven

944
01:00:45.120 --> 01:00:51.360
down into earth. This over here starts in earth and ends in earth. It can't transform the life

945
01:00:51.360 --> 01:00:56.560
because there's no spirit in it. You want to figure out how do I bring spirit in heaven,

946
01:00:56.560 --> 01:01:04.320
down into earth. It comes through me. We are the ladder on which everything is moving.

947
01:01:04.320 --> 01:01:08.480
Remember that Jacob's ladder, how Jesus compared himself to Jacob's ladder. He said, you will see

948
01:01:08.480 --> 01:01:14.480
the angels ascending and descending on the son of man. We're in Christ. We're the ladder that

949
01:01:14.480 --> 01:01:20.000
things between heaven and earth are moving from. We have to be inserted. That is what is going to

950
01:01:20.000 --> 01:01:25.760
transform people's lives is giving them access to a spirit that from heaven, a supernatural spirit

951
01:01:26.240 --> 01:01:30.640
that gives their spirit something to respond to because the spirit will respond to spirit.

952
01:01:30.640 --> 01:01:35.520
The spirit won't respond to law, but a spirit will respond to spirit. They have a choice as

953
01:01:35.520 --> 01:01:38.560
to how they want to respond to it positively or negatively. If they want to receive it,

954
01:01:38.560 --> 01:01:42.560
if they want to be helped, if they don't, you know, whatever that they get to choose that,

955
01:01:42.560 --> 01:01:46.320
whether they believe it or not, you know, that's up to them and their relationship with the Lord,

956
01:01:46.960 --> 01:01:49.840
but they don't even have the choice. If we only give them knowledge,

957
01:01:50.000 --> 01:01:57.680
get, we can speak knowledge, but the knowledge needs that the power is needs to be spoken from

958
01:01:57.680 --> 01:02:06.000
the, from the spirit. So anyway, hopefully that's helpful. I guess that is it.

959
01:02:08.720 --> 01:02:13.120
Cause oh my word, there's so many more things, but that is just going to have to be it. I bet.

960
01:02:13.120 --> 01:02:19.120
I hope that there is, well, I do know that there is that I know everything I didn't say. So I'm

961
01:02:19.120 --> 01:02:23.520
like, Oh, I hope that that's enough, but I'm realizing that's probably very overwhelming

962
01:02:23.520 --> 01:02:28.560
because I aware I'm very aware that all of these things that I said today, I didn't learn in one

963
01:02:28.560 --> 01:02:35.120
day. I did not learn them in four and a half hours. I learned them over years, years and years

964
01:02:35.120 --> 01:02:40.400
and years. And it's only been recently that God gave me the words to articulate it to myself,

965
01:02:40.400 --> 01:02:46.560
what he'd been telling me, let alone now to other people. That's what's been recent. Um,

966
01:02:46.560 --> 01:02:50.400
and, and also that he would tell me that I was free of condemnation and all of that,

967
01:02:50.400 --> 01:02:54.880
but the stuff about rest, he's been teaching me about rest for, I don't know, I don't know

968
01:02:54.880 --> 01:02:58.720
how long years and years and years, but I didn't know that that's what he was teaching me. And I

969
01:02:58.720 --> 01:03:03.760
wasn't living in rest. I was still living, thinking I had to earn his favor and earn

970
01:03:03.760 --> 01:03:08.240
success in business and earn, you know, to make him happy or to, or to make the business work or

971
01:03:08.240 --> 01:03:14.720
to make the client happy or whatever. And, um, anyway, it was that, that God had to teach me,

972
01:03:15.120 --> 01:03:21.760
how to operate in rest out of my identity, as opposed to just receiving his gifts of rest

973
01:03:21.760 --> 01:03:28.800
that I have been receiving and operating into a measure for years. Um, so, uh, that the things

974
01:03:28.800 --> 01:03:33.280
that I'm telling you, those are all of the, those are the, are the really the biggest nuggets.

975
01:03:33.280 --> 01:03:37.200
There's so many things I could say, but they're just extensions of the big stuff that I've already

976
01:03:37.200 --> 01:03:42.080
been saying, which is how to submit ourselves in our, in our will truly to the Lord, how to

977
01:03:42.080 --> 01:03:47.360
actually how, when we're struggling and we feel stuck, what it is that we're needing to do is to

978
01:03:47.360 --> 01:03:52.560
let go of something instead of trying to do something different than what we've been doing.

979
01:03:53.360 --> 01:03:58.720
It won't work. It's stopping whatever it is that you're doing because you already are the thing.

980
01:03:58.720 --> 01:04:04.160
We're just in resistance against it because we're, we're trying to stop trying. That's a good word

981
01:04:04.160 --> 01:04:08.960
for you. Um, uh, possibly that might be a good word for you to, um, that highlights to you,

982
01:04:08.960 --> 01:04:14.640
whether or not you're operating in rest or not is, are you, when you talk about it to yourself,

983
01:04:14.640 --> 01:04:19.920
are you using the word try? Well, Lord, I'm trying to understand. I'm like, Oh, there we go. Okay.

984
01:04:20.560 --> 01:04:26.080
Sorry. You know, um, just like, okay, just let it go. Let go. Oh, one more thing I want to mention.

985
01:04:26.080 --> 01:04:31.200
I keep thinking of all these things I think might help y'all don't just release what it is you're

986
01:04:31.200 --> 01:04:38.320
going through release the process of it. Um, don't think, uh, okay, well, you know what I'm trying to

987
01:04:38.320 --> 01:04:42.880
shift into rest and, and switching all of our trying from all the activity onto now trying to

988
01:04:42.880 --> 01:04:48.160
shift into rest at won't work either. You have to, you have to understand, you have to choose that

989
01:04:48.160 --> 01:04:54.240
you already are at rest and you can only shift into rest. If you finally let go, if you finally

990
01:04:54.240 --> 01:04:59.840
stop. So that even means the processing of it, don't get stressed, anxious, and up.

991
01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:04.240
tight about the process of you trying to shift into rest and being aggravated with yourself if

992
01:05:04.240 --> 01:05:10.640
you can't figure it out or you're not knowing how to do it right now. You will actually, it will,

993
01:05:11.680 --> 01:05:18.240
it will take longer to shift into rest like that. You will shift faster if you let it go.

994
01:05:18.240 --> 01:05:22.560
If you give yourself grace, if you release yourself of the shame and condemnation that

995
01:05:22.560 --> 01:05:26.640
you haven't figured it out or that you're not doing it right now and that God's giving you

996
01:05:26.640 --> 01:05:30.320
the opportunity and you don't know how you're not choosing it and you're all confused,

997
01:05:31.440 --> 01:05:35.120
release yourself from all the shame and all the condemnation that's coming with the confusion

998
01:05:35.120 --> 01:05:41.120
and how you're handling it or not handling it or whatever. So it's more than just releasing,

999
01:05:41.120 --> 01:05:47.440
letting go of our ownership of the result. It's also letting go of how we're going through the

1000
01:05:47.440 --> 01:05:55.120
process of this. That is vital to understand. Absolutely vital. Because otherwise, I was

1001
01:05:55.120 --> 01:06:00.480
noticing that people, because I've, I've coached dozens of people through this and I was noticing

1002
01:06:00.480 --> 01:06:08.240
that people were shifting their trying from one thing onto now rest. It's the same principle

1003
01:06:08.240 --> 01:06:13.920
across everything, including the process of all of this. So if you get nothing else from this,

1004
01:06:14.560 --> 01:06:21.360
from this whole time, know that you're free. Hear that you are released, hear that you are relieved.

1005
01:06:21.360 --> 01:06:25.920
I was talking to, um, to, I went to God about someone the other day and I was asking him,

1006
01:06:25.920 --> 01:06:29.680
God, what do you want to say to them? And that they had all these questions for him. Oh Lord,

1007
01:06:29.680 --> 01:06:33.360
what about this? And what about this? And I didn't know that. And God said, tell them,

1008
01:06:34.000 --> 01:06:38.880
I want them to be relieved. So he was just telling they, they had, they were all,

1009
01:06:38.880 --> 01:06:43.600
they were trying so hard to please him. And he said, tell him, I want them to just be relieved.

1010
01:06:43.600 --> 01:06:48.400
And he wouldn't let off that. He said, that's what we're going to deal with first. He kept

1011
01:06:48.400 --> 01:06:53.120
trying to save them, kept trying to save them, kept trying to relieve them. And they kept wanting

1012
01:06:53.120 --> 01:06:59.760
to try to try to get him to reconcile for them, whether or not they'd been pleasing him so far,

1013
01:06:59.760 --> 01:07:03.120
whether or not they'd made the right decisions, whether they were making the right decisions now

1014
01:07:03.120 --> 01:07:08.320
and what it is that he wanted, they wanted him. He expected at them now and in the future,

1015
01:07:08.320 --> 01:07:10.960
God, I'm just here. I just wanted to, but you want me to do. And he's like,

1016
01:07:11.680 --> 01:07:16.800
okay, I want you to let that go for a minute. Stop trying to please me. Stop trying to think

1017
01:07:16.800 --> 01:07:22.000
what it is that I want from you. I want you to be relieved. I want you to choose no condemnation.

1018
01:07:22.000 --> 01:07:27.200
I want you to choose no shame. I want you to choose freedom. I want you to choose relief.

1019
01:07:27.200 --> 01:07:33.840
I want you to choose release. I want you to choose relief, relieve yourself. It's just fascinating.

1020
01:07:34.480 --> 01:07:41.120
That's where everything starts. If you start doing that, you find yourself in rest and easier to

1021
01:07:41.200 --> 01:07:48.320
shift into it. So anyway, because if you don't, you're going to take all these principles that

1022
01:07:48.320 --> 01:07:52.240
I talked about, letting go, and you're going to apply it down. You're up here. You're applying

1023
01:07:52.240 --> 01:07:56.480
it down here, but you're not applying it here. Well, then this is where you've created your own

1024
01:07:56.480 --> 01:08:01.760
resistance to be able to, you can't get to the, to the lower level, to the deeper root level of

1025
01:08:01.760 --> 01:08:06.480
some things because you've now shifted it from putting it here. And you're now creating your

1026
01:08:06.480 --> 01:08:10.160
own resistance here. I'm trying here, Lord, I'm working here. I'm working through the process of

1027
01:08:10.160 --> 01:08:15.440
getting to the point where I don't have to work. Cause like, no, you can't work anymore because

1028
01:08:15.440 --> 01:08:19.920
everything in the kingdom has to be freely given and freely received, or you can't have it.

1029
01:08:21.600 --> 01:08:26.960
You cannot work for it or you can't have it. Anything that you work for will only be in the

1030
01:08:26.960 --> 01:08:30.720
tree of the knowledge of an evil and you will earn it, but you can't earn spirit.

1031
01:08:31.439 --> 01:08:36.000
You can earn certain results, but you can't earn spirit. Anything that you want of spirit,

1032
01:08:36.000 --> 01:08:42.880
which is rest and all the other aspects of our inheritance can only be freely received with open

1033
01:08:42.880 --> 01:08:48.000
hands where we haven't, where we don't deserve it. We haven't worked for it. We haven't worked for it

1034
01:08:48.000 --> 01:08:53.680
by obedience. We haven't done anything. We just choose that if he says that that's who he is,

1035
01:08:53.680 --> 01:08:58.800
that's why we get it. We get it because that's who God is. We don't get it because he loves us.

1036
01:08:59.680 --> 01:09:04.319
I mean, I mean, in other words, we don't get it because we're a loved, we're a loved thing.

1037
01:09:06.000 --> 01:09:10.000
He gives it to us because it's who he is. Now he gives it to us because he loves us,

1038
01:09:10.000 --> 01:09:14.720
but that's saying something about him. And, um, so it doesn't have anything to do with us

1039
01:09:14.720 --> 01:09:20.399
because God reigns on the good and the evil. And God is, what does it say? God, um, pours

1040
01:09:20.399 --> 01:09:28.399
out his mercy or something like that on the grateful and the ungrateful. So anyway, I wanted

1041
01:09:28.399 --> 01:09:32.000
to mention all of that because it's very important. I'm glad I remembered that you have to release the

1042
01:09:32.000 --> 01:09:36.399
process as well, and just choose that you're free and you will find yourself shifting faster.

1043
01:09:36.399 --> 01:09:40.640
And I know this from personal experience and walking dozens of people, you know, through

1044
01:09:40.640 --> 01:09:44.399
this process, those that have shifted into rest are the ones that, and it shifted the rest of the

1045
01:09:44.399 --> 01:09:49.520
fastest release themselves, even in the process. So I, that's another thing that I began to learn.

1046
01:09:49.520 --> 01:09:57.760
Oh, I need to learn to articulate that. So, okay. Now that we are a little bit over time, um, uh,

1047
01:09:57.760 --> 01:10:00.080
I think, I guess that is it.

1048
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And I hope that this has been helpful, that you've all enjoyed it. And oh, one more thing,

1049
01:10:05.520 --> 01:10:12.400
I'm so glad the Lord reminded me about this. You do not have to do this, but I will confess

1050
01:10:12.400 --> 01:10:16.720
something to you. So hopefully this will help y'all and help you maybe even in your own business to

1051
01:10:16.720 --> 01:10:22.080
know, well, this is Ashley and she struggles with this as well. I have learned how to articulate

1052
01:10:22.080 --> 01:10:32.400
the process of shifting into rest, but I have a difficult time describing the before, before,

1053
01:10:32.400 --> 01:10:36.960
you know, in the unrest, what it feels like, all the turmoil and all of that. And then what it,

1054
01:10:36.960 --> 01:10:42.960
what life is like in rest. If you think about what life is like in rest, the best way that I've come

1055
01:10:42.960 --> 01:10:47.520
to describe it is just like in chosen, in the chosen where Mary Magdalene says, what does she

1056
01:10:47.520 --> 01:10:54.640
say? She said, um, I, I used to be one way and now I'm completely different. And the thing that

1057
01:10:54.640 --> 01:11:00.560
happened, you know, in between was him. That is the only way that she could figure out how to

1058
01:11:00.560 --> 01:11:07.040
describe what her life was like. And she was possessed with demons. And so she went from

1059
01:11:07.040 --> 01:11:13.360
being possessed by demons to, you know, now living, now living, you know, uh, uh, being

1060
01:11:13.360 --> 01:11:17.280
saved by the Lord. And the only way that she could think of to describe it now, yes, it's

1061
01:11:17.280 --> 01:11:21.200
just a, it's just a fictional rendition. It's not in scripture, but, but you know, what they kind of

1062
01:11:21.200 --> 01:11:28.400
picture here is, is the fact that when God transforms us, how it is so soul deep in the

1063
01:11:28.400 --> 01:11:35.200
very core of our identity, how on earth do you describe that? So I, I know that there are ways

1064
01:11:35.200 --> 01:11:41.680
to articulate it. The Lord thankfully has given me ways to articulate the middle part. I know I go

1065
01:11:41.680 --> 01:11:46.000
very deep. So I may have said things in a way you're like, Ashley, I, you articulated it. You're

1066
01:11:46.000 --> 01:11:50.480
claiming you articulated, but I didn't understand. I do go very deep and I try to come at it from

1067
01:11:50.480 --> 01:11:55.760
multiple angles so that people will, I don't know, grab different bits of it that will hopefully make

1068
01:11:55.760 --> 01:12:02.400
sense. But just generally speaking, um, I know, and I know because clients have been transformed

1069
01:12:02.400 --> 01:12:06.960
by hearing the articulation. So I know that there's help in there somewhere. I have learned

1070
01:12:06.960 --> 01:12:12.000
that, but it's the parts on either side that I don't understand yet that I've really struggled

1071
01:12:12.000 --> 01:12:18.320
with knowing how to articulate. So people have, so therefore a lot of people don't know what it is

1072
01:12:18.320 --> 01:12:21.920
and don't understand what it is that I talk about in rest. They don't understand. So what is this

1073
01:12:21.920 --> 01:12:26.720
thing about rest? Why would it, why would it be important to me? And I think this is an amazing

1074
01:12:26.720 --> 01:12:32.720
freeing message, but people on the outside who've never heard it other than sometimes reading my

1075
01:12:32.720 --> 01:12:36.400
posts, they've never been to a conference. They don't understand what I'm inviting them to when I

1076
01:12:37.360 --> 01:12:41.520
have a coaching program or when I have those teachings available online, you would be surprised

1077
01:12:41.520 --> 01:12:45.040
at how very, very, very few people have signed up on the website to go through the teachings.

1078
01:12:45.760 --> 01:12:50.800
I'm so surprised. Um, but because I'm like, Oh my goodness, it's so transformative. It's spring.

1079
01:12:50.800 --> 01:12:57.920
You can have this, but I don't know how to articulate to other people what that is to

1080
01:12:57.920 --> 01:13:03.120
highlight, to talk to them in a way that they can, that they hear themselves in the story of unrest

1081
01:13:03.760 --> 01:13:09.200
and they can hear on the, on the, what life is like in rest. And they think I want that

1082
01:13:09.200 --> 01:13:14.000
so that they know that their father is offering that to them. Cause all the, I just keep talking

1083
01:13:14.000 --> 01:13:19.040
about the word rest. I'm like, that's great. What does that mean? How does that mean for my life?

1084
01:13:19.040 --> 01:13:23.600
So point and telling you all of that is that is something that, that, um, that I'm asking the Lord

1085
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to increase me in my, um, uh, what do you call it in my, uh, abilities to be able to,

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and he began to help me articulate those things. So in the, so while he's doing that,

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I'm asking for help from other people who are also spirit beings and we all rely on each other

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as one spirit. And people had told me repeatedly that it was the testimonies of other people that

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helped them finally understand and want to finally find out more about, about rest. And, um, because

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they thought, Oh, this is something that I've been looking for because the way I've been describing

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it hasn't, um, they, they couldn't, they couldn't hear it, but they could hear it when other people

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were doing their testimony. So for anybody that has it, you know, that would like to use on your

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heart, um, uh, I, uh, I would just invite you to, if you would like, you're welcome to post something,

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either a video people, you know, the videos are very powerful, whether you do it live or you do

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it on your own page and share it to mine, or you do it live on my page or you record it. And when

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you've got your perfect recording that you want, you know, you know, cause you had to practice

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both of us, whatever, everybody has their own, our own kind of securities. Sounds like me. How

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do you think that I know these things? Um, then, um, and then post it to my page, or if you want

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to just write something, um, uh, you know, uh, to give people an idea of, uh, it may be articulate

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for people in a way that I've been struggling. What, what I talk about in the inner, in the

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inner is rest program and, and, um, and how, how, um, you've been at unrest in certain areas.

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areas of your life, and having walked through certain things,

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you're now experiencing rest, and this is what it's like.

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This is how you would describe it in your own language,

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in your own words, in your own world.

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This is what it looks like to you,

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and there are certain people that will resonate with that.

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So if for any of you who would like to,

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that would be wonderful because it would help other people.

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You do not have to if you don't want to,

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but in fact, I think most people that I've asked haven't,

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but it's just something that I just wanted

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to let everybody know is very helpful,

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and people have told me that that was one

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of the biggest reasons why they actually joined

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was other people's testaments,

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and they thought that's what I want for me

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when I was saying it, they didn't get it,

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but when somebody else said it and they got it,

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they're like, oh, I want it.

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So anyway, I guess it's finally good.

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I can't, I can't, it's like a pastor, right?

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You know, just like, this is the end, this is the end.

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Yes, it's unfortunately a thing.

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So I love all of you, and it was very special

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to get to spend time with y'all.

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Thank y'all so much for being online

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so that we could have the connection

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and just the personal connection

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because the personal connection always means so much to me.

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Those of you who know me, you know I love video.

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If I have a chance to talk to somebody on video

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instead of by audio, I'm going to do it.

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So anyway, I love you all, and it's good to see y'all.

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May your lives be transformed,

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and I will be sending out a link for y'all

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to sign up for a private consultation session

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for next week.

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It'll be Monday through Thursday of next week,

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and y'all can grab a time that's convenient for y'all.

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And anyway, I will look forward to it.

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I'll talk to y'all later.

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Y'all have a good Saturday.