We're going to be doing a couple of exercises, and then I think I'm going to open it up for
a live Q&A.
And then we'll have some more Q&As, but I thought that now might be a good time.
And so, first of all, the first two exercises that we are going to be talking about, these
will all help us learn how to understand that we are actually in control, and that we're
not being controlled, that we're not subject to our thoughts, and it will also teach us
how to focus in our intention on something.
And the importance of all of that is for a variety of reasons.
One, yes, we're going to be talking about intention, like I said, you know, on Sunday.
But intention has to be done throughout everything it is that we put our minds to, everything
it is that we're deciding, I'm going to do this, I'm going to approach it this way, I'm
trying to shift into rest, Lord, I'm choosing your character, I'm choosing faith, whatever.
Everything has to be done with very, very solid intention.
But we have to be able to focus in on where that place is in us that is actually intention
so that we can grab it and move it somewhere.
But we have filled our lives and our minds are, I don't know, just are filled with a
lot of noise.
There's a lot of things that we have going on.
We thought that we were required to have all of that noise because we were all punished
by either, you know, in other words, got in trouble by our authorities, you know, whether
it be a Bible teacher, you know, Sunday school teacher, or a school teacher, or our parents,
or someone at the church, or our college professors, or whatever.
So often, so many of us got in trouble for being ourself, got in trouble for not knowing
something.
So do we see how the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is condemning in both ways?
You're condemned if you know something and you don't do it, and you're condemned if you
didn't know it and you didn't do it.
So you're condemned either way, and it's just absolutely exhausting.
It's extremely oppressive.
There's no way to win in that.
So we filled our mind, I don't know about you, this is, I'm a very analytical person,
you can probably tell in how I teach, that I do teach where I will sometimes repeat things
over and over because I'm constantly trying to come at it again from another angle so
that people can actually own this for themselves, and they're not just simply gaining knowledge
or facts to be able to, to be able to, and think, oh, okay, well, I got that, I understood
that, now I'll move on.
Can you actually own this so that when you're alone with the Lord, you can, you can problem
solve and shift into areas that we don't even talk about in here?
Can you do that on your own because you truly own the thing?
So I will, so what I'm doing is I'm trying to, I'm presenting something in 1D, and then
I'm going to try to expand it by talking about it in a different way so that you now see
it's actually two-dimensional, and then I'll talk about it in a different way to help you
understand it's actually three-dimensional.
So now you've got a substance that you can, that you can understand, that you, that you
truly understand the context of, therefore you can manipulate it, so to speak.
You can take that thing into new situations that we don't talk about here, and you know
how to apply it because you truly have owned the concept.
So I wanted to point that out, but the, but I have that, I have that analytical brain.
I can think of all of the questions, again, this is how I teach.
I think, okay, I've just presented that.
What are all of the things that someone, that, that, all of the reasons why someone could
present to me that it's not true?
All of the questions that they have, and then I am going to answer all of those before they
even have a chance to ask.
Another reason why I belabor points, and I have, and I've, and I've been told, I've been
told, but I know that it might bother some people.
They're just like, oh my word, let's just get on to the next topic.
But for, for so many people, they have told me, Ashley, because their minds have worked
so often like mine, where they come up with all these questions of why not.
All of these, these aspects of resistance in their own mind that they're requiring to
be overcome before.
they can move on and so they, I've been told before,
Ashley, you answer all of my questions before I ask them.
So, that comes from a very analytical mind, being able
to see literally a hundred things at one time and work
with all of them.
So, that's a strength, but there is a problem in that,
in the fact that that is just, that's an extreme version
of something that we all deal with,
which is it creates a lot of noise, a lot of things
that we're thinking about at once.
Sometimes someone will present a very simple subject to me,
a very simple concept, and I'll look at them like a,
with a, you know, a deer in the headlights look,
because they don't understand, because I don't understand how
to receive the one thing that they, that they told me,
because I, all I just saw was a hundred, and I'm trying
to process through it to be able to come to a conclusion of how
to be able to answer someone on something,
and we're just talking about a simple conversation.
We're not even talking about a point where I'm teaching
or I'm coaching or anything.
We're having, I'm simply having a simple conversation
with somebody else about the weather,
and they'll say one thing, and I see a hundred, and so I have
to figure out how to filter all the noise.
So, I, I, I started this practice, and it has,
it really, really helped me to be able to quiet down the noise
and, and come back into control, and it began
to help me identify a quiet place within me
in which I could recognize intention.
And so, it's very important that we realize
that we're not subject to and, and threatened by and need
to be in fear of our thoughts.
So, the first, the first exercise that we're going
to do is we're going to work on, we're going to,
we're going to practice not thinking at all.
So, I'll, I'll walk you through that in just a second.
I know, trust me, I'm like, how do you not do that,
because I'm thinking like a million things at one time,
but this is very fascinating to go through.
And then, the second exercise that we're going to go
through is actually, is actually watching our thoughts
and learning to not judge them, even the bad ones,
even the perverted ones, not judging, because we have
to practice releasing ourself from shame and condemnation.
That is the only place where we can find freedom.
You will not be, you will not find freedom
by judging yourself, not even the bad.
You find freedom in releasing and understanding
that you're released from shame and condemnation,
and it shifts you into a place of rest, and we'll talk
about this tonight, but then it shifts you into your spirit,
which is the place of your identity.
You're sitting in heavenly places,
operating in a particular power and authority,
and from that position of power and authority,
you now have a right and an ability to be able to,
to be able to judge righteously,
but until you're in that place,
you don't have an ability to judge righteously,
so there's no point in trying, so we don't need
to be judging our thoughts, and from a,
from when we're struggling in what I refer to
as the soul realm or the body realm.
We'll be getting into that tonight, but,
so this is going to help us practice actually,
actually being able to let go of all of these areas
in which resistance is manifesting itself,
and there are things that we just don't think of
as resistance.
We think, oh no, this is me, this is me trying.
This is me doing the godly thing, and we don't understand
that if we're trying, we're resisting.
If we're doing what it is that God's telling us to do,
well, it's effortless, and there's no trying involved.
We're operating according to who it is that we truly are,
so if there's trying involved, it's resisting,
and we're actually doing the exact opposite
of what it is that we're wanting to do,
so that's what these two exercises are all about.
So the first one, first of all,
another thing to mention about these exercises
is that another word for it, and don't be scared,
another word for it is meditation.
This is not new agey meditation.
We're not inviting spirits.
We're not opening ourselves up
to a spiritual realm, so to speak.
We're seated in heavenly places with Christ.
We feel very safe with Christ.
We're going to this place, so to speak.
In other words, this feeling, or whatever.
Christ is gonna be with us.
We don't have to be worried that this is the same kind
of thing as some other meditation that we'd be sitting in
in some yoga class somewhere.
There's nothing wrong with yoga,
but if yoga, if people are using yoga as a channel
by which to invite spirits, that's the problem.
If they've built it on a corrupted.
foundation.
So the same thing with this meditation.
All that meditation is, is it's actually scientific.
The word meditate is in scripture.
Tells us to meditate on God, to meditate on his word.
So scientifically, what does meditation look like?
Meditation is, we've got different brainwaves.
So we've got the alpha brainwaves.
Some of y'all may know this already, but we've
got the alpha brainwaves.
And these are the highest ones.
So there's, sorry, not alpha.
Beta is the highest, beta, alpha, theta, and then delta.
When we sleep, we're in delta.
So we all, but when we're fully awake,
and we're like right now, when y'all are fully engaged,
oh, someone's talking, and this is all brand new,
then I'm just going to call this attention.
In other words, it's like we're, we
have a heightened sense of attention and of awareness.
If we go down into alpha, there's
still an element of activity and of attention,
but it's at a much slower rate.
And then what we're wanting to do in meditation
is to get our brainwaves down to theta.
But we're not wanting to get them to so low
that we're in sleep.
If our brainwaves, if we drop ourselves so low,
we'll go, we'll be asleep.
So we're going right above sleep.
And the benefit of this, well, let me point real quick.
Like the brainwaves in beta are like this.
They're very, very fast.
And then for alpha, it's a bit slower.
And then theta, it's a lot slower.
And then obviously, delta.
The waves, the difference between the crust and the trough,
those of you who remember from science class,
it's very, very small.
And the waves are really, really far apart.
So we're trying to lower the frequency
that our brainwaves are passing.
This is the benefit of going into theta.
There's a multitude of benefits.
Down here, this is why we're going down there,
there's less resistance.
And those who are hypnotists know that.
Their idea is to get somebody down here
because you're very suggestible.
So no, we're not gonna be talking to you
and suggesting things to you.
You're doing it yourself.
You're fine.
There's no talking, you're gonna be involved.
But the thing is, this is a very suggestible place.
Why?
There's fewer inhibitions.
There's less reason that we're trying to apply of why not.
And constantly being on the defensive.
This is what it looks like if you're running from a tiger.
This is what it looks like
if you're trying to gather information.
You're constantly on the defensive.
You're looking out, you know, self-protection.
We're trying to bring ourselves down to this point
where we're much more receptive.
We're less likely, meaning we're much more likely
to receive things from the Lord.
And yeah, so anyway, that's what we're doing.
I'm gonna mention one more thing, though,
that's very fascinating is scientifically,
if you bring yourself down to theta,
that is your body actually can heal faster
and more effectively in theta state
than it can while you're asleep.
Because your brain and your body,
one of them is always determined to be alert
in order to protect you.
So if your brain is asleep,
then your body is on the alert.
So it's trying to give you something
that if some threat comes at you,
you've got something in you that is alert enough
to recognize it and to choose to respond.
So what we're wanting to do
is we're wanting to give our body rest
by just barely elevating our brainwaves enough
where they're active.
Well, I mean, they're still active down here,
but they're more attentive.
They're getting closer
to the more attentive side of the scale.
They're more attentive,
and that means that the body's like,
okay, I can rest now.
What happens in theta,
and they have tested this on very severe PTSD patients,
people who've come back from the military
and have suffered from major PTSD,
they've had them go through meditation.
In other words, lower their brainwaves down to theta for,
I don't remember,
it's actually a very short amount of time every day.
I thought it was 20 minutes,
but let's just be conservative and say an hour.
An hour for every day for 20 days.
They saw significant improvement in their PTSD
just by dropping their brainwaves into theta
because their body has stored,
and this is one of the things.
Your body can rest,
and your body,
understand when our body is at rest,
because all aspects of us need rest, including our body.
When our body is at rest, it finally
is able to release things that it has manifested of what
it is that we've believed.
All the stress that you've had in your life
that you have not released is present in your body currently.
And that's why we're all sick.
You can hear me.
It's why we're sick.
It's why we're susceptible to illnesses, et cetera.
It's why we all are very aware of the fact that it'll
add to like, it helps, it increases,
stress will increase body fat.
Not just because of how we've eaten,
but the fact of how it actually responds to stress.
So it's not just the fact that you eat a lot,
it's how your body handles what it is that you've eaten.
Because it thinks you're under stress.
So anything that we have believed
that is an accusation against God,
we'll be talking more and giving more context about that
this evening.
But any aspect of ourselves that we
have believed something about the Lord that's a lie,
excuse me, manifests into our body physically in some way.
And stress gets stored in our cells in a variety of forms.
And in Theta, they have noticed that your body heals faster
than it does in sleep because it's finally
able to be at rest because your brain is still active.
And you start releasing stress all the way back
to when you were three years old.
Your body can start finally releasing this stress
that even when you've gone to sleep,
it hasn't been able to do.
It hasn't had enough time and low energy
in order to be able to release it and let it go.
So while this is important for our bodies to be at rest
and to begin to start releasing all of that stress,
I personally have noticed a physical difference
in doing this in my body being released
from the physical manifestations of stress, which
is very fascinating.
But we're using it in order to lower our resistance
and to lower the amount of noise.
This here is a lot of noise going on, a lot of thoughts,
a lot of things that we're calculating and analyzing
and measuring in order to make sure that we're provided
for, protected, et cetera.
But anyway, so down here in Theta,
we're more, we feel, you abandon yourself
and you release yourself to trust that you're safe.
So anyway, it's scientific.
It's not scary.
If you don't want to do it, you don't have to.
But I promise, you just choose.
You know, I'm the Lord.
The Lord created all things.
He created my brain to work like this.
He even says the word, he even talks
about meditating in the Bible.
But just because nonbelievers have taken something
good that our God created does not
mean that the original that God created is corrupt.
It means we shouldn't do it in that way.
I mean, Satan will take anything good of God
and will pervert it.
But anyway, when I was learning all this,
actually, I asked the Lord, OK, God, I can see you in there.
But I don't understand how to understand this.
The way I'm explaining is how I began to learn it
from a godly perspective.
But when I first was learning this,
I was hearing it from secular teachers.
And I said, God, I can hear you in there.
In fact, honestly, God's the one who led me there.
He said, Ashley, I'm in there.
Go find me.
So I found him.
They're like, oh, my word, Lord, there you are.
I can see that you created these things.
The thing is, Lord, all of these teachers don't believe in you.
And they're coming at it from a corrupted foundation.
And I want no part of that.
So will you redeem this for me and show me
your original intention for these laws
and these principles?
Anyway, so I just wanted to give people
a scientific explanation of what's really going on here,
of what it is that we're doing.
But so here's the exercise.
The first one is we're going to learn how to, so to speak,
not think.
We're going to learn how to.
And it's not that we're not thinking.
It's that we're zeroing in on a particular focus
because we choose so.
A son of God is propelled through life by his will
because he chooses.
And we're trying to get back to that place
where we are not a victim and we're not allowing ourselves
to just be kind of like hit, hither and yon,
but that the trajectory of our lives,
and I don't mean like, oh, well, what kind of career?
I just mean us together with the Lord.
So I'm not talking again, you know,
we've emphasized union enough.
I'm not talking about separation.
In union with the Lord,
the way that our lives are propelled forward
is our will and God's will together
and moving in a particular trajectory.
And yes, our will is involved.
It's not like, you know, God,
we're just, God's doing what he wants
and we're along for the ride
and we just hope we don't get squashed
and, you know, as a result of his decisions.
There's a co-laboring there.
He's maturing us into the co-laboring,
but we'll get into that.
Anyways, there's a co-laboring there
and that's what we're trying to identify
and recognize about ourselves.
So in this exercise, what I would recommend,
you can form this however you want to,
but I'll tell you how I do it.
That's been very helpful to me.
So is, I go, I close my eyes
and imagine blackness, excuse me.
But what I needed is I needed,
in order to kind of keep my attention, so to speak,
I needed something to focus on.
So I would imagine like a white light in front of me
and then in order to make me feel like Jesus was with me,
as opposed to I'm alone in this blackness
and there's all these bad associations
that I have with darkness and blackness.
By the way, darkness and blackness
in the Bible is a very good thing.
It says that his treasures are found in the darkness.
The darkness does not belong to evil
and darkness is not indicative of evil.
Darkness is created by our own God.
It's an actual thing.
It's not simply the absence of light.
It's an actual thing.
So anyway, but it's of God.
But I have all these associations in my mind
of what darkness means and fear and blah, blah, blah.
So I want to know that God is,
but I'm creating blackness
so that my mind can't be distracted.
So I create blackness
and then I create a focal point for myself
and I think of it as light
and then I just imagine that that's Jesus.
Personally, I don't give him form
and I don't, and I just imagine,
okay, well, that's Jesus
and he's paying attention to me and he loves me,
but I let that be it.
I don't focus on all these attributes
of who it is that God is and whatever
because that's thinking.
That's thoughts and I don't want that.
I just kind of get an idea in my mind.
I focus on that and then what's going to happen
is you just focus on it.
You don't, you, so to speak, try not to think,
but you're going to think.
You're going to have thoughts and that's not bad.
Here's how you deal with them.
So remember us talking about spiritual warfare
and the fact that it's much more powerful
instead of battling spiritual warfare
because you have to pay attention to it
and whatever you pay attention to,
you feed and you strengthen.
So instead of paying attention to it,
you just neutralize it.
Imagine how many power over you.
We're going to do that with our thoughts.
You just neutralize them.
So what we tend to do is,
especially in meditation or anything
in which we're trying to like,
well, I'm trying to like not have all of these thoughts,
is we see thoughts as a threat.
Oh no, I thought again.
Oh no, there's another one and I'm going to get this.
Apparently, I'm really not doing this right
and oh no, there it is.
I'm thinking again and we see it as a threat
and we have to remember the very first thing
that we always do before we try to figure out
how do I deal with something actionably?
Release yourself from shame and condemnation.
What is it that we're doing?
We're neutralizing the power of something.
That's what going back to no shame and no condemnation is.
We're constantly going back to that.
So if you have a thought, think of it kind of like this.
Imagine that you're in a plane and you are,
if you're a kid and you've never been in a plane before
and you don't understand clouds,
then if you're above the clouds
and then the plane starts to descend
to an airport or whatever
and you as a child see you getting closer and closer
and closer to the cloud and you think,
oh no, we're going to crash.
But then you just move through it, right?
Well, that's what thoughts are.
They're just going to come
and you just let them go through you.
And here's how you do that.
You don't focus on them.
Okay, there's that thought.
Okay, whatever.
There's that thought, whatever.
You're going to think.
So it's fine.
It's not like there's going to be an absence of thought,
but you don't, oh, okay, oh, there's another one.
You don't focus on it.
You're just moving through them.
They're not a threat to you.
You don't have to think about them.
You don't have to pay attention to them.
You don't have to recognize them.
You don't have to acknowledge them.
And so once I got that visual in my head of a cloud,
I was like, all of a sudden, I could do this.
All of a sudden, I took control over my thoughts.
I began to discover that I had, that I was not,
and it was so weird.
Just that thing about my thoughts
and going through this exercise helped me
truly solidify more and more for myself,
especially the more that I did it,
that I really was not.
a victim to my circumstances. I was not a victim in life. I was not subject to things.
So that is the first exercise. If y'all have any questions, I'll just be walking around.
If you struggle with something, you're wondering, okay, well, what about this and what about
that, just feel free to raise your hand. We'll be doing this for, I think, approximately
ten minutes. I know that that sounds like a long time, but trust me, I usually would
do this for over an hour. And it would feel, once I got good at it, I was so much down
into theta that I thought I had been only doing it for ten minutes, and I'd look up
and it'd be an hour and fifteen. And I did that repeatedly. Because my brain waves had
slowed down so much. Anyway, that's just kind of how it works. So it's very fascinating.
But the whole point of this is a practice, and I want to make sure that people really
get a good, solid practice in. I usually do it much longer than this. So that's the first
one, and then after this, we'll talk about the second exercise. So y'all can go ahead
and do that. If y'all have any questions, just feel free to raise your hand, let me
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Before we move on to the next exercise, did anyone have any questions about that?
Anything that they ran into that they weren't expecting, or found it harder than they were expecting,
or they were wondering, is it supposed to be this easy?
Does anyone have anything?
I know it's pretty simple, but for me personally,
I didn't have someone to articulate these things so much for me,
and so I found if I wasn't careful, I could find it frustrating.
So I had to continually just release it and just like,
it's all okay, I'll figure it out.
I just shifted to rest.
Yeah, Linda.
So I heard that breathing should go with that.
So do you have a breathing part that goes with it too?
I don't.
I know that there is, and breathing is very, very important.
So God breathed into us the breath of life.
There's so much about ourselves
that is connected to our breath.
However, for me, I find when I,
so for so many people, that helps them slow down
and it helps them be able to move down into theta
and all of that.
For me, it's been distracting.
I can just move down into theta without the breathing.
If I start trying to cadence my breathing,
it throws me off.
Now there is such a thing as like starting
a particular cadence with your breathing.
You can do a variety of things,
which I can go through just really quick.
And they can start you and then you just,
and then you don't keep it up, you just let it go.
You just keep going,
but you keep doing whatever it is you're doing,
but you stop trying to breathe in that cadence.
But it triggers your body to start slowing down.
You know, because your brain is in your body,
so it can help trigger that slow,
that trigger it to slow down.
Me personally, I have found it a hindrance.
I'm not, because now I'm thinking.
And me being me, I'm very triggered by rules.
You know, with my background and my tendencies
to think that I have to do something
in order to be pleasing to God
or in order for something to be right.
So I try to release myself from rules as much as possible
because they're very triggering for me.
Very easy for me to go into self-condemnation.
So, but yeah, there's it.
So as for breathing, if any of y'all,
if any, it has worked for y'all,
something that y'all can do.
Like if you found yourself too agitated
or still too, too attentive, maybe,
and you couldn't get down into a restful state,
you can do things like, you can do different box,
you can do box breathing, which is where,
and by the way, whenever you breathe,
you always start with breathing, I don't know why,
but you start with breathing out, not with breathing in.
So you breathe out for four, hold for four,
in for four, hold for four, out for four,
hold for four, et cetera.
So it's called box breathing.
And it's called box because you stop.
You stop at the top and you stop again at the bottom.
There's other things that you can do
where you just breathe, excuse me,
you breathe in for, I'm trying to remember,
you breathe in, really, you can,
me personally, my favorite is something
that is very easy and simple
and has a repetitive cadence to it,
like as in, it's the same all the way around,
like that box breathing,
but I don't like the stopping and starting.
It throws me off and it gets me to thinking again.
But my favorites are things like,
breathe in for eight and then breathe out for eight.
So it's the same.
But there's also a benefit in breathing in quickly,
like breathing in for maybe, say, two or four,
and then breathing out for eight.
Because, and the reason that you focus on the out
in breathing is the same as,
because your body is manifesting the same physical,
the same laws in the visible
that are true in the metaphysical and the spiritual,
which is the point is to let go.
So you always focus on the breathing out,
not on the breathing, on the breathing out,
not the breathing in.
Anyway, I just found that connection really fascinating.
Those are some ideas.
Yeah, so anyway.
So pick whatever works for you, whatever helps.
Mm-hmm.
This might be a silly question.
So is this meditation mainly to just get you
in the closest state of rest without sleeping
and to let things go?
Or is there, because I always felt like a meditation
is more to like focus on something or to let your brain
basically at rest so that you hear.
Mm-hmm.
You can do that too.
So there, you can, so for those of you who couldn't hear,
cause I'm sorry, I know I'm the only one with a microphone.
She was asking that she'd heard that meditation.
It is also for us to actually,
where we're supposed to focus on something.
We're supposed to focus on a Bible verse.
We're supposed to focus on the Lord.
We're supposed to, or we're supposed to focus
on hearing something from him.
But, and so you can do that, absolutely.
So there's a variety of ways you can,
there's a variety of things that you can do down here.
But the operating down here, so to speak, is meditation.
You're bringing yourself down here to do something
is basically meditation.
I don't want to say that it's so far as whenever
you're in theta, you're necessarily
a meditative state.
I'm just trying to draw a very simple connection.
So you're just down here in the state,
and you can do a variety of things down here.
What we were doing was we were just
learning how to focus on one thing and the fact
that we are completely in control
and that we're not threatened by anything
that wants to come at us, Satan, a thought, whatever.
So it was just to help us actually experience
being the king in a situation where nothing is a threat to us
because we are neutralizing everything that's coming to us.
It was just practice for that.
The next one we're going to do is also meditation,
but this time we're focusing on something.
So it's all different.
Anybody else have a question before we
go on to the next one?
Uh-huh?
I have a couple of questions.
Is theta like the same as being like going into a trance?
No.
I honestly am not fully sure what a trance is,
but there is an aspect.
I mean, meaning like I haven't experienced it,
but there is an aspect in which in a trance
you're not in control.
So the Bible, in the Bible, they went into trances.
It says in Peter, when he was given
the vision of the sheep coming down with the animals,
it literally says in the Bible it was a trance.
There's an aspect in which in a trance you're not in control.
And now we're talking.
So yes, you can go into a trance where
it's like people are connecting with the bad spiritual side
of things, but then there's also other, I mean,
I've heard of ways, I've heard of other things.
Peter apparently went into a trance,
and that's where he saw his vision.
I don't, I'm not familiar with trances.
I've honestly never seen anybody in a trance.
And I have, I mean, other than like something really weird
that I just flashed across my YouTube
sometimes like, oh, my word, get that away.
Because that was obviously somebody
who was Hindu or whatever.
Or I don't know if you've seen the whirling
dervishes in Turkey.
I'm sorry, I grew up in Turkey.
And you are familiar with the whirling dervishes
where they point one finger to the ground and one to the sky,
and then they twirl for hours in one spot.
The only way you can do, they actually
are doing that using spiritual, like demonic spiritual forces
to be able to stay in one spot and twirl like that.
They're in a trance.
They are out of it.
But in Theta, no, we're not doing that.
You're still fully in control.
So y'all were in Theta, and y'all,
you knew what you were doing.
You knew that you were there.
You might have felt extremely lethargic.
And your brain activity, your thoughts
might have slowed down over time.
Because like at the beginning, at the beginning,
you might have had a lot of thoughts.
And then you're bringing your, you're
allowing your mind to slow down.
So the speed at which those thoughts came,
or the speed of your heart rate, slowed down
as you realized that you were fully in control.
But you were still aware.
You were still there.
So it's not the same thing as a trance.
I'm not fully sure what your brain function exactly
is doing in a trance, but it is very different.
And people usually, like Tammy was talking about,
hear the Lord better in Theta than in Beta.
Because there's just so much noise
that you have to be very spiritually sensitive
and very spiritually in tune to be able to hear
the Lord when you're in Beta.
I did not know that until a friend of mine told me that.
And they said, Ashley, I'm so surprised
that you can hear the Lord like you do,
operating like you do in Beta.
I was like, well, I don't know.
But I'm just very spiritually aware in certain areas
and there are so many people that I'm around,
they spiritually sense and see all kinds of things.
I'm like, man, that would be nice.
But the point is that we can be sensitive
to the voice of the Lord in Beta.
The problem is we can also be threatened
with a whole bunch of noise that can confuse us
if we're not careful.
So a lot of times when people are learning
how to hear from the Lord, they have to do it in Theta
until they practice and learn enough.
That's what I did.
I didn't have anybody to teach me that.
That's how I went from Theta into Beta
and could still hear the Lord
because I became so in tune with what sounded like Him.
But that was also not birthed from a very healthy place.
That was birthed from a place that was,
I mean, it birthed from a heart from the Lord,
but I was also.
driving. I was also driving, so that wasn't really good. But anyway, but yeah, so it is
like Tammy was implying. It's easier to hear the Lord in Theta when we're learning. But
hearing the Lord is our, we are in Him, and therefore we always hear Him. God is always
talking. This is resistance. We're increasing the resistance to being able to hear Him.
But He's always talking. He's never not talking to us, always. If we can't hear Him, then
we've created noise, and we're pushing back, and we're trying to release all of that. So
that's one of the reasons why we do this, is to learn to drop that resistance to being
able to hear the Lord. Yeah. Is there another question, or are we good? Okay, so we'll go
to the next one really quick. So the next one is, we are going to think in this one.
So when you, we're going to do the same exercise, so the same visual. It's, you're in blackness
with a white light, or whatever ended up working for you. Only this time, when your thoughts
come, recognize them, and notice what they are. Notice what they are, and don't judge
them. I mean, it might be a good thought. Don't think well of yourself. It might be
a bad thought. Don't think badly of yourself. Just like, what's there? And that's a me.
And acknowledge that it is you. It's not going to help if you distance yourself from it,
and be like, okay, well that's just a thought, and I'm not going to connect the fact that
I'm the one who thought that. You know, I'm not going to connect myself to that. You have
to connect yourself with it. You have to realize, I thought that. I thought that. But don't
create a judgment off of it where you make a determination about something about yourself
as a result of having had that thought. That's what's important. And the reason that we do
this is we're going, we have to do this in very strenuous situations where we have to
shift into rest. We have to choose no shame and no condemnation, especially when we've
just done something wrong. To not shift into shame and condemnation. I mean, it's hard
enough to shift into no shame and no condemnation when we're being verbally abused by someone
who's telling us lies, and it's easier, as hard as it is, to realize, okay, there is
therefore no shame and no condemnation. It's hard for us to do that when we're being threatened
with lies, but at the same time, that is easier than when we have actually done something
wrong. Because with the other, there's a possibility that it's not true. Okay, well they're just
saying that, just as they're saying that doesn't make it true. But what if you did it? And
that's why the shame and the condemnation is going on. So even if you do it before you
deal with this sin, you release yourself from shame and condemnation. What is the first
thing that Jesus told the woman who committed adultery before he told her to repent? And
remember what repentance is. He didn't tell her to bear sackcloth and ashes. He simply
told her, go and sin no more. That's all that repentance is. Stop and do something different.
But what did he tell her even before he told her to repent? He said, neither do I accuse
you. He addressed condemnation first before the repentance. It's that important. So when
you're looking at something, oh my goodness, Lord, I've just done this on my word. I'm
starting to feel this remorse come up. Lord, I'm so sorry. Even before all of that, choose,
God says no shame and no condemnation. It doesn't mean that you didn't just do that.
It means that he does not condemn you for it. Choose that first before you choose repentance.
God takes it that seriously. We've all been taught repentance is the most important thing.
God says no. What it is that I've told you about yourself and to believe what it is that
I've said is the most important thing. And I said that I've declared your identity and
part of your identity is no shame and no condemnation. So choose what I have said. Choose my word
first. Here's my word. Here's your belief. Choose that first before and then from that
your actions will, then you'll have, then you'll act. We don't have to drum up action.
If we believe God's word, we're going to automatically act because it's who it is that we are as
opposed to, okay, well, I shouldn't have done that. Okay, I need to try to do something
different. Again, that's work, that's strife, that's effort. We have to shift and know who
does God say that I am, no shame, no condemnation. Now from that point, what a person that knows
who it is that they are in Christ, that finally recognizes their identity, would they have
done something like that? Well, no. So it's very easy to repent because you're not going
to do it anymore, right? So anyway, it's, that's why this
This exercise is another reason why this is very important.
Partly, again, your thoughts are not
things and objects outside of you that you're threatened with.
Oh my word, I can't believe I thought that.
What does it say about me?
Whatever.
They are not a threat.
They're absolutely not.
So we are releasing ourself from shame and condemnation.
So we're practicing that.
We're also practicing, again, just like what we did last time
to realize that thoughts are not a threat,
even when we recognize them.
It was a lot easier in the earlier exercise
to realize that thoughts weren't a threat
because we're not paying attention to them.
We're just moving through them.
Just like, whatever, whatever, I don't know.
I kind of sort of got an idea of what that thought was.
And well, I really got an idea of what that thought was.
And well, I kind of sort of know what that thought was,
but whatever.
But this one, you're acknowledging it
and you're realizing, I thought that.
Make a connection with it.
I'm not saying own it, like taking it into yourself
and take responsibility for it and all of that.
I'm just saying acknowledge the connection
and realize that you're not in condemnation
because that's going to trigger condemnation.
You're trying to trigger your old condemnation
and you release yourself from it.
So we're putting ourselves into that situation.
Honestly, these are very, very basic things
that will teach us at kind of like a subliminal level
how to do things that we'll be talking about
either tonight or tomorrow morning
about how to actually release things
and shift into rest in a moment
where you were in the middle of a situation
and someone has just said something to you.
Someone is sitting there verbally abusing you.
Someone, you know, something just happened.
You've just been threatened with a, you know,
I don't know, somebody called you
and told you some really bad news or whatever.
And you have to shift into rest in a moment.
You have to release yourself first
from shame and condemnation.
And there's all this other releasing that,
it's not complicated,
but there's some releasing that we need to do.
But the thing that it gives us power, so to speak,
to realize, in other words, empowers us to realize
I can do this and allows us to move into it
is if we understand first our identity
and that we're not threatened.
So we're practicing first with our thoughts
because that's where we feel
the majority of the threat from.
Okay, so if, like I said,
the, you know, just think of the blackness again
and the white light, if that helps you,
that helps me because it gives me something to focus on.
And then as thoughts just come to your head,
let them go by you.
Don't hold on to them.
Don't grab a hold of it, take it into you,
think about it.
We're not analyzing it.
We're acknowledging it and realizing it was that thought
and I thought that.
And then let's move on to the next one.
You're not thinking about it from every angle.
You're not grabbing hold of anything.
You're letting them still move past you.
Think of kind of like Star Wars, you know?
You know, at the entry, you know,
where you're kind of like moving through the stars?
It's that kind of an idea.
And they're moving by.
Just acknowledge them as they go by,
but let them go by.
Don't ever grab a hold of one
because when you grab a hold of it,
you give it power over you
because you're giving it attention.
So, I think that's it.
Does anyone have any questions before we start?
Good?
Okay, we can go ahead and start then.
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So I always liked doing those exercises.
I don't know what y'all thought about them,
but I always like them.
I get so, my brain waves get so slow.
I just sit down there and I immediately went into Theta
because I practiced it a lot.
And I love it because I, I don't know, I feel so relaxed.
I feel better in Theta than I do asleep.
There's something in me that's just very, very active.
You know, when I'm asleep, I feel more relaxed in Theta.
I feel, different things will happen.
Sometimes I feel tingly all over.
I don't know if y'all felt like that.
You know, if you feel extremely relaxed
when someone's like, I don't know,
they're brushing your hair or they're, you know,
they're doing whatever.
It can, it can relax you to the point you feel,
you feel tingles.
That's what I can feel when I sometimes go into, into Theta.
So anyway, it doesn't always happen like that,
but it's very nice.
So I just enjoyed a moment by myself too.
I thought, they can't have all the fun.
But just anyone, one thing I wanted to mention is that
one of the reasons why we're doing this,
I've mentioned multiple reasons.
Another reason is, this is very important.
These aren't mindless, no pun intended, exercises.
You are actually taking, you're taking,
God at his word. If he says there's no condemnation, then you're acting on it. So
you have these thoughts whether you're stopping and thinking about him, or
you're still doing the dishes, or you're taking care of your children, or you're
driving to work. So even you stopping and then you know making this kind of like
this this thing that you're like setting aside time to do, regardless of what's
going on, what else you're doing, you are actually, you're always thinking those
thoughts anyway. Only this time you are choosing to take your thoughts captive.
In other words, you own them. They are, it doesn't mean that you're gonna grab a
hold of them, and use them, and abuse them, and all this others, and all this
other stuff. It means you are, you lord over them. You are the king and they're
subject to you. So you're saying this is like an act of what y'all just went
through, those two exercises. Those are an act of faith. If God said it, then it's
true and I'm gonna act on it. God, these, these, so it's not, it's not
mindless. It's not time wasted. It's not busy work. It, yes, it is practice, but
you're, it's practice by actually doing the thing. But I'm saying that we're
practicing for other things because this is easier for us to grab a hold of than
that other step is that we're about to go to because then, then what it is
that we're gonna be talking about is how to do what we just did, how to release
while you're being triggered. And that's harder than when you're sitting there,
you know, I mean, how do you, how do you release up here? We're learning to
release down here when we have less resistance than up here when we have all
of this resistance because this is where God's saying, no, you're not under
threat. You have full permission to shift into freedom in this moment because it's
yours. So we're taking him at his word and we're learning to begin to apply it,
faith, at a, at a, at an easier level so that when it's really hard and it really
matters to be at rest and to shift into rest, we can do it. So that's why we're
doing all of that. So we're, we're taking God at his word. You believed him. God
gave you a word. You thought, okay, if God says that there is therefore now no
condemnation, when I had that thought, I'm gonna choose there's no, there is
therefore now no condemnation. Not that I don't, not that I know why there's no
condemnation, you know. I just, and some of you might be able to think off the top
of your head, oh, exactly why. But then some of you, you know, at a moment,
especially when you're like, oh my word, I don't know that. It just felt really bad.
We can't think of why, why we wouldn't, why we shouldn't feel under no
condemnation, but you choose it anyway. So God doesn't want us to choose him after
we, after we hold him hostage to, to, to giving us proof. So he doesn't want us to
require proof before we choose him. And just because we are, we're waiting on
supper, so I think we're gonna go, supper's gonna be delivered at 530. So
unless y'all needed to go early to y'all's probably, okay. So I figured that we would
just go till 530, unless y'all need to leave earlier, and then we can just cut
off. Okay. So we've got two different groups here, if you were doing two
different things. So I wanted to make sure we were all, I honored everybody's
schedules. So we have time then, excuse me, for some Q&As. So those of you who
have, were, maybe had a private consultation with me, and you maybe had
more questions, and you didn't get to finish answering them, and you feel okay
asking them in a public setting, or some other question that you've, you've had
thus far, and feel free to ask it. We'll have other opportunities, but I just
thought that I would, because we don't have very much time to go into the three
realms until tonight. Yes.
I always thought that the scripture stuff was meditating on the Word. So is there another layer that's that part of it?
Yeah, so really good point. So with the Bible, there's always multiple layers.
Multiple layers. So you can read, you can, you can see it at a Sunday school level,
and then as God, as God matures us, we see a deeper meaning, and then as God
matures us even more in the Spirit, we see a deeper meaning. So the Bible has
multiple layers to it, and as we mature, we see that actually Word means, is
deeper strictly than the Bible Word. If God says to meditate on His Word, well
how do we expect people who've never read the Bible to be able to follow that?
God says that it's a help, and all of that, and the, remember that Word is not
just spoken, it's not written. Word is something that, that emanates from God. It
is the way in which He chooses an aspect of Himself.
a part of himself to be expressed so that the invisible God can be seen.
The invisible God is seen through word.
When we think of word, we think of hearing, but the invisible God, in order to present
himself, presented himself as word.
So word is more than hearing.
It's meant to expand into, so that we can understand, we can experience word in all
of our five senses.
I know that this is going to sound really esoterical, and like we were talking about
ice versus steam.
This is very steam.
You can experience word in the different five senses, and the fact that word, God does not
have a physical mouth in which he's speaking physical words, which is a very good thing,
because it also means that people who are mute are not limited to all of these things
that they can't do, because they can't speak.
Their word is just as powerful as anybody else's, because word isn't this spoken word.
That is a visible physical expression of something that originated much further back in themselves.
Originated either in the soul, or originated, if the soul believes that it's abandoned and
alone by God, then it originated in the soul.
If we're abiding in the tree of life, it means that our soul and our spirit are lined up,
meaning that it originated in the spirit, that what it is that came out eventually originated
in the spirit, and because it originated from heaven, it brings life.
Anything that originates from this earth brings death.
Anything that originates from heaven and manifests down into earth brings life.
The word is actually, whether it's God, and remember we were created to look like our
father, we do the same thing.
God emanates word of his very essence.
That's where our word comes from.
When God calls us to speak over things, it's not verbally.
He's not talking verbally.
You can do it verbally, but understand that verbal is simply a trigger for the thing that
it needs to actually come from.
Because before you can speak something, you have to intend to speak it.
You have to have a will and a decision, and that comes from much deeper than the physical
spoken word.
I just wanted to draw the connection of what it was that I was talking about God that extends
into us as well.
Yeah, word is much deeper, so when we're meditating on the word, we're meditating on an aspect
of the essence of God that is coming out of him.
There are all kinds of things that we hear from the Lord that we don't know how to articulate,
but either we're hearing them in the spirit or we're sensing them.
Some people smell in the spirit.
I'm not sure if I've ever smelt anything in the spirit or not.
I sometimes see.
I sometimes—I don't remember if I've ever felt—I see a lot and I hear, but people
feel different things.
Some people can smell things, but the point is, all of those things, when we're spending
time with the Lord, when we are not even specifically spending time with the Lord, but we're just
aware of the fact that there's an aspect of God that's around us, that's in us, that
we can interact with, that is word.
That is how God interacts with us, is word.
Something that comes out of him is word.
When we're meditating on it, we don't have to think of a Bible verse.
We can do that.
That's very helpful because, obviously, that's an expression of his word.
It's the written word of something that originally came from spirit, but the spirit was a spirit
word that came out and eventually manifested as written or it eventually manifested as
verbal.
Anyway, so you can focus on that if you want, but just know that what it is that you're
focusing on is the thing that gave that thing life, which is a word that had to be spoken
out of the spirit.
You can focus on the word.
You can focus on verses, but I recommend that even if you start there, you start backing
up.
Where did that spoken word come from?
What emanated from God?
You start just opening yourself up and exposing yourself to the Lord, and you start to encounter
things, encounter certain feelings.
I'm trying to figure out how to describe it.
Sometimes it's so hard to say in English what you experience in the spirit, but you just
sense things and don't disregard them as natural.
Oh, well, that must just be a fluke.
That's just a feeling.
The air conditioner came on, so it gave me goosebumps.
We're constantly trying to disregard things.
Did that answer your question?
Okay.
Does someone have another question?
Yeah?
before we can actually speak at it.
So, you hear all these things about affirmations now.
You have to speak at it, and then it comes.
So, explain how that comes into play with any of this.
Very good point. Affirmations.
You might want to repeat the questions for your lecture.
Okay, yes, thank you.
Okay, so the question was, what about affirmations?
We're talking about the fact that we have to will and to decide.
When we speak something, it had to originate as a will and a decision
and an intention to actually speak the thing.
Then, if that's the case, what about affirmations and what part do they play?
So, affirmations, yes, they are powerful,
but the power is not in the fact that you said something.
Repeating something over and over is not going to do a dadgum thing.
There has to be will and intention behind it that's giving it the power.
The words, we're not subject to words,
and so we're grabbing a tool and using this tool,
hoping it's going to serve us and prompt some magic.
It's a will and a determination that we exert, that we rise up within us,
and we decide to speak it as an affirmation.
It is a spoken intention.
So, that's where the power of affirmations come in.
Whatever it is that we speak over ourselves,
whatever it is that we determined and we intend,
we'll have power over our lives.
That's why we only want to speak what God has said first.
Because if we start operating out of fear of like,
well, I want a million dollars.
I want a million dollars.
Well, if we're not in the heart of God,
where He and we have decided that that's the route to go,
we decide this is what it is that I want.
The reason I use a million dollars is this is something that's very common
in the law of attraction that's promoted in a lot of the new age,
or the secret, or whatever.
To repeat something over and over, and to intend, and to drive it home,
and to set your will and your determination on something.
And you can, something will manifest, by the way.
The law of attraction is attractive because it does work.
The problem is, it's according to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
and there's nothing but death in it.
That's why it's wrong.
That's why it works.
But it's wrong.
I mean, meaning like, if you're using it as your source,
it's going to bring forth nothing but death.
But it is very important that if we're speaking words like positive words
that God has already said about us, and we use those as affirmations,
like, oh, well, God declares this about my identity and whatever,
we can repeat it over and over again.
And what affirmations are,
are they simply tools, something we can kind of grab a hold of easier.
If I see it, if I feel it, if I hear it, it makes it feel more real,
and it starts to strengthen our belief in it.
That's what I mean by a tool.
That's the purpose of an affirmation.
You can, the power is not in the affirmation.
It's in the fact that it starts triggering our will.
And it's, oh, yeah, yeah, I heard it, so therefore I believe it,
because I'm hearing myself say it.
So, yeah, I believe it.
I'm going to say it again.
That makes me believe it a little more.
I'm going to say it again.
That makes me believe it even more.
We're using it as a tool in order to trigger
what is actually the powerful thing,
which is our will, our intention, our determination.
So, yeah, affirmations can be very good,
but it all depends on the source.
Are we in a place where we are shifted into the spirit,
we're shifted into rest, and it's from the heart of God,
where our spirit, we're recognizing that our spirit is joined with his spirit,
and it's the two of us going forward
so that his will is done on the earth?
Or do we believe that I'm separated from the Lord,
and I'm just trying to accomplish something,
and so I'm going to determine something,
and I'm going to speak these affirmations,
and I'm going to drive it home?
It can happen, but you're giving it nothing but death
because you believe that you're in separation.
So remember that the point isn't what it is that we do.
These people speak affirmations.
These people could speak affirmations.
The difference, so in other words, the fruit can look the same,
but in both of these, people can actually get the results.
This person can get a million dollars.
But remember that if you do it from this tree, it has life in it,
and if you do it from this tree, it has nothing but death in it.
So, did that answer?
So, okay, good.
Does anyone have any other questions?
Yes?
So then when it comes to prayer,
is it more powerful to pray out loud versus just what happened to yourself,
or is that not?
Yeah, it doesn't matter because all you're doing by speaking it out loud
is you are, okay, you're doing a couple of different things.
You are triggering yourself. In other words, you're prompting. Trigger has a bad connotation.
It usually means that you're being triggered for trauma. You're being prompted. You're trying to prompt yourself.
You're speaking it out loud. Sometimes the way that certain people like to express themselves in the world is verbally.
So they talk more than other people. So if you like to talk because it's the way that the spirit operates through you,
then just talking is just you being you and talking out loud.
While somebody else might prefer to pray silently, somebody else might prefer to pray out loud.
That's perfectly fine. So other than that aspect, what I'm talking about here is the power is not –
it doesn't make your prayer more powerful to speak it out loud.
What might help in increasing the power by speaking it out loud is that that increases your faith, your belief, your will, and your intention.
If you're using it as a prompt to strengthen something within you, that actually is the power, but it itself isn't more powerful.
It doesn't make something more powerful. You have to choose how you respond to that thing.
So you could speak something out loud and a prayer out loud and gain more strength.
It could build up your faith. I could speak the same prayer out loud, and it doesn't build my faith.
It's all based on how you choose to use that thing and how you choose to respond to it.
But remember, you are always the more powerful thing. I'm not saying powerful outside of God.
I'm not trying to say that, oh my goodness, we're gods and all that.
I'm talking about the power that God says that he gave us.
Us being in him and being one with Christ, he's in a position of power and authority.
Someone we're in him, we're in a position of power and authority. I'm talking about that power.
We're always more powerful than anything else in the universe outside of God and Jesus Christ.
Any other questions about anything?
Whether what we're talking about here, or we were talking about being one with the spirit, one in spirit,
or the two trees, difference between rest versus operating in strife, or the love of the Lord.
And how he loves us. Anything else?
All good? Yes?
I realized that I just got here.
We're glad to have you. Hello.
There's something about vibration and resonance and sounds when you're speaking out.
Let's say you're praying in spirit, and you're just groaning.
Sometimes if you're praying in spirit in your mind, I'm not sure that has the same value as if you're going into the intent of God.
And the words, Tom, you're speaking the words of Christ or whatever you're speaking, the words of angels.
When you're speaking in time, you're speaking a perfect prayer that maybe that resonance that needs to be spoken,
because it needs to be heard in the universe.
And I don't think that you were saying that it has more value to not speak.
I want to make sure I understand what you just said when you answered that question.
Yeah, so the power isn't in whether it's verbal or not.
We're not subject to it having to manifest physically in order for it to have power.
That's all I'm saying.
But God, and I'm glad that you brought up this question, that subject,
because that was the other part that I was going to say to answer Laurie's question, and I got sidetracked and forgot.
One of the benefits, though, of speaking out loud is God created sound.
He created vibrations. He created frequencies.
Meaning that vibrations, frequencies, meaning sound waves, energy is in waves, et cetera.
So God loves, just like he wants us to partner with him, he doesn't want to do it all alone,
and we stand by the sidelines just kind of watching him do everything,
and we're just like, well, we're just subject to whatever it is he decides.
He says, no, I want you to do this with me.
Then we, being like God, being like our father and looking like him, he desires us to do the same thing with creation.
And an aspect of creation, things like vibration, frequency, speaking, sound, et cetera,
he loves when we choose, being over creation, being kings of creation,
choose to engage with them and allow them to partner with us to do something into the earth,
including allowing, speaking things verbally so that an actual physical vibration, frequency,
or even in the metaphysical frequency vibration and sound is emanated.
It's allowing creation to partner with us.
But it's us doing it.
I'm also, you know in the speaking in tongues speaking in tongues can be done in the spirit
And I'm not just verbally like it we can do it in our head. We can also do it in our stomach
You know where it doesn't even come out
so anyway, the the point and the power is in the is in us and as
Us being in Christ as the source of everything from which everything emanates
It's not something out here that we need in order to accomplish something
but the whole reason why God so often talks about hey use this and do this and and
Put oil on the head and whatever, of course the whole oil on the head in the Old Testament was under the law
but I'm talking about like say even in the New Testament is to allow creation to be to for us to
to extend our relationship and our partnership with the Lord down into
Creation where we're all we all have a partnership and what's going on and we're allowing creation to be part of it
but not in the fact that oh the only way that I can get something to happen in creation is by using something in creation because
Then that leaves us subject to and in lack of something that can't that we need
In order to do something else and God's very serious about that. He says no. No, I am everything that you need
I'm the source of everything but
Just like I want you to partner with me and engage with me
Allow creation to engage to partner partner with creation and allow it to engage with to you to engage with it and
And you all to actually accomplish something together allow it to be part of your journey your plan
But you set the intention
So does that make sense?
So yeah, so it's asking allowing them creation to be part of what it is that we're doing which is very very good thing
But we're always the king of it. Where's the governor? We're always the life source
Yes, so the tree of the knowledge of good and evil there's
It's just
There there tools that God created then, you know, there's this is the law, you know
Think of the law that the Israelites were given or spirits as certain
Particular laws that that have rules do this. Don't do that. If you do this this thing will happen certain
formulas and
We have to know okay. So the easiest trying to think of the easiest way to describe this. Okay. Here's an example
This is a this isn't the
Okay, this will help more clearly explain it you remember that when I'm Jesus told the wind and the waves to be quiet
He didn't tell the wind and the waves to stop being what they were. He told them he said, okay
I'm here and I'm telling you you're operating according to particular laws
And I'm telling you in operating according to the laws that you intended to function
I'm telling you move into the calm state. So still be what you are and operate in the calm state and
I bring that up because even when Christ is operating as as a king and as the Son of God telling creation
Hey, look, I need you to change. I need you meaning like I need you to operate differently than the way that you're acting
We call that a miracle
But and so we think okay, he overthrew physical laws. No, he didn't
He just superseded over them and the governor of the physical law didn't change the physical law
He just guided and told it at how he wanted it to operate
But he didn't he didn't do away with it and it talks about that with Jesus with the law
It says Jesus did not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it. Jesus didn't come to do away with it
He says it's a good thing. It's a holy thing. There's no reason for it to be destroyed
and
So the so we can the law meaning all of these ways that certain things function
We're talking about and we'll expand it into like physical laws
Spiritual laws. I don't know just the way that things operate you do this and then you do that and then you always get this
That's a law. It's a formula and
We have to understand we're outside of that
Just like Jesus was outside of the wind and the waves so he could command them what to do
He wasn't subject like the disciples thought that they were of like whatever it is that the laws are doing I'm subject to them
It's like no, you're not subject to them. You govern over them. You tell them what to do
we do the same thing with laws and formulas and like business strategies or
We're not subject to business strategies. We are over them. We can use them
God created the business strategies God created the fact that and
That our bodies work a particular way our bodies digest a particular way and we can know those laws and operate within those laws
But we're not
to, we're not subject to them, we're not a victim to the fact that they do
whatever they want to do, and then we just have to deal with the consequences.
We roll over them, but we still operate within them, but it's much more
effortless that way. So Jesus, when he was here on earth, you know, he operated
according to all kinds of laws. He, when he would go across the Sea of Galilee, he
would usually go in a boat. He's operating according to the laws, but then
periodically he'd decide, nope, I'm gonna supersede the laws because I govern
them, so I'm gonna walk on the water. And anyway, there's other things
like when he ate, Jesus ate in his physical body, and later when he
resurrected and he was still in a spiritual body, he still ate, but in
neither place did he believe that he was subject to them, but he
used them. What else? He slept, but let's see what else, there was something else.
Oh, and he was a carpenter. So as a carpenter, he knows all he has to do, my
goodness, if he can turn water into wine on his first miracle, then Jesus knows
how to build a house without tools, but he used the tools. So he could use the
laws. The laws are good. It's engaging with creation. It's allowing in creation,
like what we were just talking about, to be part of the process of us coming down
into creation and making something. God lets us to partner with him, so we
allow creation to partner with us. Jesus was enjoying what the
Father created, but he didn't feel that he was subject and victimized, subject to
and victimized by it. Does that make sense? That's how he operated according
to it, and he gave us freedom from being subject to it when he
died on the cross. So we have freedom from everything, so
not everything is permissible, but not everything is edifying, but everything is
permissible. Also think about like meat offered to idols. Before people
couldn't eat meat offered to idols, but then afterwards they realized, oh,
we have the freedom to do it if we want to. Well, the laws didn't change. There's
reasons why God said not to eat meat offered to idols, reasons why God said
not to eat shellfish. To tell the Israelites not to eat shellfish, he told
them not to eat pig. Yet we all eat pig. Why? Because we realize that we are over
the laws. We're not subject to them. Pigs are extremely dirty, and I don't just
mean inside. I mean like outside and the fact that they roll around in the
mud. As a meat, it is extremely dirty and has higher
potential to do harm, and there was a reason why he told the Israelites to stay
away from it. Those laws have not gone away. Science has been
able to prove why God gave them those laws all of those years ago. They're like,
oh my word, now we understand because we look at pig and we can kind of see this
that and the other, but God told Peter, mm-mm, everything is permissible for you
now. So again, when Peter went into the trance and he saw the
sheep come down, and Peter was struggling with that because he was like, Lord,
that's a law. I'm not allowed to touch that, and he told Peter, he
said, do not declare unclean what I have declared clean, and that was the
law. That was the thing that they were told to not do, and God said, mm-mm,
everything is permissible for you. So the law is a good thing, but we
lord over it. When we lord over it, we can use it instead of being
threatened by anything, any harm that it might be able to do to us, which it could
do to us when we were subject to it and under the law.
Yes, yeah, yeah, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is law.
It's not limited to the law of the Israelites. It's just law.
It's the fact that this is how things work. It's
predictable, so if you learn the law, if you learn the knowledge, you can control
it, which is what we like, so we can control the outcome. We can control our
results. Problem is, we're giving it nothing but death, and the result results
in nothing but death, but we control it, meaning that if we believe
that we're separated from God, we have some semblance of control of ourselves
where we're covering ourselves in fig leaves, trying to protect for and provide
for ourselves, so that's why we like it, but yeah, the law is
more than just the law that the Israelites had. It's law. It's the fact
that there's strategies, there's formulas.
There's predictability. There's principles. That is law. It's a very good thing and a very holy thing
But God says no you are over the law all laws
including spiritual laws are
Subject to us now not spiritual laws that emanate from the very character of God
That's different because that also, you know, if we're at the character of God is as well. Well, then it emanates from us
It's an expression of of his essence. So we're not
We're not over that because it's just kind of like
It's it's in us because we're in him and and so it's flowing out
I'm talking about anything that was actually so I'm talking about the spiritual laws that we refer to of like
Tithing we call that a spiritual law
Think of it more like a soulish law the the principle of tithing and tithe and offering did not come from the character of God
It's something it's the principle that he created
But so we are over those and we tell and even spiritual laws like that things that we call spiritual laws, but it gets very
Confusing but let's just call on that because we're used to it. Even spiritual laws are subject to us
Because everything is under Christ's feet. And so if we're in Christ, everything's under our feet
The only way that we're allowed to have authority though over spiritual laws is if is if we position ourselves in Christ
so we're not talking about a
Power that God gave us and then oh my goodness
It's like, you know, it's like giving a knife to a child, you know
but you God hasn't done that the only way that we can operate in the way that I'm talking about in having in in in
Governing laws like that is is understanding is only operating
In our position of being one with Christ and understanding that we're in that power and authority in Christ
That's the only thing that enables us to then Lord Lord
Over it because that's the only position in the universe that is higher than the spiritual laws
So if we're if we're not positioned in Christ, we think we're abandoned and alone
Then we don't believe we're positioned in Christ and then no we don't have we don't have a dictation of our spiritual laws
But if we're in Christ, we do the reason I want to belabor that point is the fact that when we do govern spiritual laws
It's always gonna be good. We're always gonna do the right thing. We're always going to do it from a righteous vantage point
We're being matured to that. I'm not there if anybody in the room is there. That's wonderful
I am NOT there yet
God's maturing me to that point
but eventually when I get to that point I can I can govern but
The nice thing is we're not under threat of oh my goodness
this is somebody, you know, because they're one with Christ or they can like just learn how to how to
How to do the magic and then they're gonna make it dark
It's impossible
Because you have to be in Christ in order to do it
and when you're in Christ, you're you're of his character and it's always gonna you're always gonna do good and
And operate in a righteous way. So I just want to mention that just in case anybody thought oh my bird
Given somebody too much power, you know, what if they don't what if they reject God what they check for God?
Then they're then they're outside of Christ and then they're they're not above the spiritual laws anymore. So
To be able to dictate it that really just got into a very deep subject, but did it answer your question?
So I don't know if if the if the food is here yet, but I
figured that unless somebody else has a question we can
we can go ahead and
break or
For dinner. So, all right, so I'll see everybody here at 7
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