Hey guys! I am hopping on to say hello and do my intro video. My name is Lizbeth
and I go by Libby as well so you can use either one. I'm so excited I'm wearing my
Raise a Hallelujah shirt that I just got recently this morning and the Lord just
brought that song to mind as I was actually just receiving a pretty
disturbing text message and just being reminded he was like, I raise a hallelujah
in the presence of my enemies. Yes I do because he fights for me or heavens come
to fight for me I think is the actual lyrics so I love that I put this on and
then he used it and the lyrics of that song that worship song to encourage me
not five minutes later so yeah God is so good and I'm so glad to be here with you
guys and I guess it's all girls at this point so I'll call you girls and I'm so
so thrilled to to have an encouraging community around something that's just
such a paradigm shift for me. I don't think I'm alone I'm pretty sure that
I've heard a lot of testimonials about how life-changing this has been for many
of you and just how different it is than what we were taught in church and
that we're often taught in a religious church you know again no no offense you
know taken against the church it's just the reality that there's been a lot of
mixture a lot of mixed gospel and I know for me the Lord called me out of
religious mindsets and even fellowship about a year year and a half ago so
that's been a huge thing for me as to he was deconstructing and breaking down
you know the beginnings of just showing me what what was religious versus what
was really the message you know of the Messiah and what he came and demonstrated
and talked about and it's just so different than what we often learn in
here so I'm so thankful for the purity that he's bringing to the gospel and the
purity he's bringing to each of our lives and how he's doing this refining
purging work but all for good you know all because of love and a lot of it has
to do with old mindsets so I'm kind of here to say hi and also just confess and
let you you know that I am in a season of thankfully you know a huge shift
shift time and I know that's the purpose of this group and that's the purpose of
the intensive and really what Ashley is looking for is that we would be ready
for change and to make a shift and I am so there I'm so there I am just really
ripe and ready so I'd love to hear your stories about how you came into the
intensive how ready you felt or not for for the shift for the change but I'm
just as my family here and my community and accountability confessing to you
with great joy and boldness that I am ready and I need a shift and the Lord
knows that the time is now it's not next month or next year or when things settle
down a little bit or when things feel more stable honestly my life on every
level right now is in his hands like up in the air in the sense that it doesn't
look put together it doesn't look like the world or even Christians would say
oh that's you know wise living or you know you really need there probably is
more say like you religious you know people would say like you need to figure
that out or you need to you know do this or that but I'm really listening and
tuning into the Holy Spirit above all other voices which is different too
because I've been notoriously in the past just really led by fear of man and
people-pleasing and a lot of that stuff is just not serving me anymore and the
Lord is just like okay it's me and only me and you are not able to move forward
he's not letting me move forward and I don't want to disobey him and move
forward into say a full-time job right now because of what's happened in the
recent past and with COVID and everything he's not he's not giving me
permission to that for that and it's not just like he's not giving me permission
because he's taking from me it's a gift it's a an invitation to take the
opportunity to trust him for provision while getting healing and really resting
in him and knowing what that even means because rest is so foreign to me I'm not
even gonna lie it's so foreign to me even in my
mind if I'm not physically doing something a lot of times my mind is
going it's thinking it's it's pretty much always non-stop and so it's a
really big shift for me to even know and receive the invitation to rest to feel
permission to rest to feel like that's okay that's not selfish or lazy or any
of these other things but it's actually good it's just such an upside-down
kingdom and I feel like this group and this community and what we're doing with
the rest intensive and the focus here is very upside down Jesus and I'm thankful
for that because that's been something that's been brewing in me for a long
time and this is sort of the final I guess call into into a different way so
so thankful for Ashley and already the teachings that I've listened to have
blown my mind they've they're they're ones that I will already want to go back
to if I didn't need to keep moving forward I would just stay on them and do
the love exercise and really just dwell on what it means to not keep striving
when you're already been in striving mode to try to fix the striving with
more striving because it it's it's the default but I'm I'm shifting out of that
and already with the teachings I've listened to is making so much sense but
of course it takes time to build that habit of thought and a new way of
thinking and being and so that's where I'm at and I would love just to hear
your stories your testimonies I'd love to to pray with any of you or just to
ask you to pray for me and my family I have two little girls I'm a single mama
and we again are just trusting the Lord on every level right now so big for a
lot of needed breakthrough not only out of like striving and running and hiding
and these different things that are just opposed to everything we're talking
about here with resting in his love but just a lot of sort of past mess that
he's got to redeem and that he's promised to redeem and and bring justice
to regarding my girl's dad and our custody situation it's been a very very
very very traumatic several years but also traumatic kind of existence and so
not saying I'm stuck in that or that it's I'm saying that to be dramatic
just to be really honest with you that I'm coming from a lot of trauma and pain
and really needing the Lord to see us through and break through and really
looking to him with everything I have and not I don't have a backup plan I
don't have like I've really given it all especially the past year in every way
for the gospel and for what I feel he's called us to have a really big heart for
women and girls and a ministry and business he's laid on my heart and that
includes my little girls and a heart for trafficking and other injustices and so
it really feels like this pivotal moment of crossing a threshold crossing over
and into the new land and we've talked about that a lot this year a lot of
prophetic people have talked about that and it's just still true like we're
birthing something you know calling destiny and it's in in him and it's it's
it can't be snatched away from us by anything any trials or any suffering and
yet I have to go through him to get to that I have to go into what feels like
the scariest letting go and facing whatever it is that's been so scary to
face or felt so scary to face to receive his love and to lay down the
shame and the fear that has been driving my life and so there's that and then all
the practical things with like I said the girls and attorneys in court and
abuse that's ongoing in that situation for some years now as well as like work
and the timing of launching this ministry business and I'm just giving it
all up right now for this rest intensive and asking him what it looks like to
even what does it look like to give it up what does it look like to lay it down
what does what's the trade here because I know it's a really positive and good
trade but it's obviously uncomfortable and painful to go through transition
like it's always gonna be uncomfortable and it's sometimes painful to to let go
and to to adopt something completely new and none of us even have context for
this because it's unprecedented times of shifting you know is what you told me
and so and we can
see that all around us and so it's it's I'm holding on to the hem of his garment
I'm I literally feel like I'm holding on to the hem of his garment like pleading
with him and believing and even telling him honestly like I need you I need
healing I need change and shift like I can't go on like this there's not like a
you know it's like several occasions we can think of in the Bible where people
were desperate for their their breakthrough and their healing and they
had to get it and they weren't willing to take no for an answer so that's where
we are and yeah love you guys again you can call me Elizabeth or Libby if you'd
rather and my girls are Olive who's eight almost nine and going on 12 she
acts more like a 12 year old and thinks that way she's very deep and very wise
and then I have a younger just turned seven year old Nellie we call her Nellie
but her name's Penelope so Olive and Penelope and if you just be praying with
us and for us as we walk into this this shift and into a completely new paradigm
of rest which has never been really in my vocabulary before that would be
beautiful and I want to be praying for you too and I'm so excited to get to
know you all and be on the Thursday night Q&A call and just be involved in
all the things here that there is to be involved in as we walk together into the
new so all right love you all hope you have a beautiful and blessed day and
talk to you soon