Hello, how are you doing?
Can you hear me?
Yes.
Get that down.
Perfect.
Yeah, I decided to go ahead and have my other computer up today like I did the other day, just in case.
If so that it won't like shut off the, the meeting, if my computer dies. So speaking of that
I need to do a couple of things. Let's see. I think that's still yeah that's still hooked to the internet.
I think. Let me see here more let's make that a
must make me the host really quick.
Toast.
Perfect.
Switch from Wi Fi.
Did she go away.
Free.
All right, can y'all hear me now.
Yes. Good. All right. So, I needed to make I realized that I was on Wi Fi and the Wi Fi here isn't very strong.
So I had to switch over to a landline.
So, but I did it without dropping the call.
So how are y'all doing. Y'all doing okay.
Yeah, good.
Y'all, y'all survived drinking from a fire hose.
So impressive.
Okay.
It's really fun. I got to meet with. Let's see my code.
I got to meet with Annette and Renata today at three Eastern Standard Time because you know that's when the international rest group is.
And because it's just an easier time for them.
And so I was able to do a rest group with them earlier.
Yes. So I think all we need.
Hopefully Liberty will finally be able to make it and then.
And then, Diana.
Garza. So, Diana Marty, my friend, you know she just messaged me this evening and said that that she's not going to be able to continue right now but she wants to, you know, to look at some stuff on her own.
And, and so anyway and probably, I don't know. So, just kind of maybe pick this up later, and her, she had, she had some stuff that she's been through recently with her family that she's trying to navigate through she said so.
So anyway, so she will no longer be with us very sadly, but Diana Garza will be.
All right, but while we'll hopefully they'll be able to join in a minute so does anyone have.
And well, say that see normally what I would do is for the rest group. We want to break out but there's only three of you.
There's no breakout. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to you know it's just like our discussion called, you know, our discussion groups where we were on where we were all together for the sessions and then we break up in the discussion
and then y'all would just kind of share what's on your heart. So what you'll be what the rest groups are like every Tuesday night is gives everyone a chance to just share where it is that there are that they are on their journey right now, like in other
words how they've been processing this with the Lord.
And then of course as you continue to go on, you'll notice that there are some struggles that you'll run into where you'll as you realize more and more about what it actually requires of you to step into rest and you try to learn how to do it in different areas
you try to apply it, you'll run into walls to run into struggles or run into resistance. And so, and then of course it's, then we have to navigate that process with the Lord of finally feeling safe and
enough in certain areas of our lives to finally say yes to him, to finally move, to finally
choose that he's safe.
And so anyway, that's just what all that this time is, is just to, um, uh, to just update
everyone on, you know, any struggles that you're coming through, what it is that you're
talking to the Lord about related to it, um, you know, and be honest about, you know, your
feelings, uh, between you and the Lord and, um, and then obviously any victories that
you've noticed, like, okay, well, such and such situation came up and, um, and I realized,
okay, I was not in rest.
And so I shifted into rest, I applied such and such a tool or whatever.
And um, and then, and then the Lord showed up in this way, or I've never, or finally
everything within me went still.
Now I finally know what I was just talking about.
Um, and Renata, um, had a really neat, um, update to give us, um, earlier on her, on
the international rest group.
And then I'm going to post those recordings as well.
So just like I'm going to post these recordings so that everyone can watch them and if they
need to, um, cause normally y'all are going to be in separate rest groups.
And so I've been told in the past that people miss, you know, being in one rest group while
other people in the, in the program or in another rest group updating everybody and
they don't get to hear the updates.
So I'm trying to provide all of the recordings in here, meaning that y'all are going to get
to hear the recordings of the international group as well.
And they all get to, um, hear yours too.
So Renata was sharing in there as you'll hear when I'm able to get that updated, that she
said that exactly what, what I've explained before.
And it's always so much fun to get to hear someone else articulate that that is their
exact experience where she said, I didn't realize that all I had to do was choose.
She said, I thought I had to try.
I thought I had to believe, I thought I had to change and all of that wasn't working.
And all of a sudden I choose and it works.
I choose that God loves me.
And I finally began to feel that he loves me, but the feelings didn't come until after
she chose.
So anyway, that was a really neat update, um, uh, that she gave to Annette and I, when
we were all together.
Um, so anyway, so it's stuff like that, that y'all can just, uh, share and talk about,
and then we'll do that for about, um, I'll pull everybody in probably about, um, 20 minutes
till, um, so that, and then during that time we can, um, uh, y'all can ask me any questions
that may have come up while y'all are talking, like say for instance, you know, that, you
know, well, you know, I'm struggling with this and I didn't really know how to do that
or actually said this before, and I don't really understand.
So this is the time to also at the end, uh, you know, the 20 minutes before the top of
the hour, that'll be like, when to ask me some questions.
Um, and, um, and there was one more thing I was going to say, what was it?
Um, oh, also, so part of the purpose of this time, and this is actually why I developed
it.
Um, people like the community aspect of it.
In fact, you can ask Rita for some people, this is their, tonight is their favorite part
of the program when they get to get together with everybody else who's learning to live
like they are, because they feel normal, they're like, oh, I'm hearing so-and-so talk
about this.
Yeah.
That's how I felt this week.
Or, you know, that's how I, how I struggled with it last week that, but I never knew to
articulate it like that until so-and-so said those words and all of a sudden, oh my word.
Yeah.
That's what the words that I'd use.
So sometimes that's pretty helpful, encouraging, and, um, people move further faster in the
rest intensive when they do it as a group, because they're able to learn from each other
and you help each other articulate what's actually going on again, so that they can
shift faster.
So part of this whole process is as you're, as you're updating each other on how you're
navigating this with the Lord, then the other people in the group can maybe be able to highlight
things that you don't see like, oh, well, so, you know, you were struggling in this
area.
Do you think, what do you think it was that maybe you weren't, you know, that you were
struggling to believe about the Lord?
Do you think, you know, does this ring a bell or does this spring a bell?
And then just, because sometimes it's easier to pick those things out and to recognize
them in other people that, you know, in other people's situation than in our own, because
we're not as emotionally invested as in our own.
So that can sometimes be beneficial.
So with that, I do want to explain though, how it's done.
It's a help to each other.
We're not giving advice to each other unless someone blatantly asks for it.
And I've never heard anybody ask for it.
So just FYI, because again, we want everyone to feel safe to share because everyone is
being very vulnerable.
So.
This isn't a time I'm not talking about each other opening them that each of us is opening
ourselves up to receiving advice that we're not asking for.
What we're doing is we're collectively just sharing, Hey, look, this is my journey, you
know, individually, you know, this is my journey.
And then collectively just kind of discussing, okay, well, we all go through that.
So what aspect of that, how do we get it to that place of unrest?
What is it that we're not believing about God when we get there?
And then what do we think that we could do to, what could we apply in order to shift
out of it or, you know, whatever, um, or you'll be able to say, Oh yeah, that happened to
me last week.
This is what I did.
This is what worked.
So this is a, a collective group support time, not a giving of advice or teaching or anything
like that.
So just FYI, because we want it to all feel very safe for each other to kind of share.
Okay.
So I'm just going to pull myself off of, um, I'll still be here, but I'll be off of microphone
and a video.
So y'all just feel free to chat and then, um, I'll pop on about like 20 to the top of
the hour.
Hi everyone.
Hi guys.
You look so comfy, Karen.
I had to lay down, I just, my sinuses were kind of bothering me and laying down, palms
and down.
So I said, I'm just going to get all ready and lay down for this.
Yeah.
I have my robe on like Rita today.
Oh, good.
You got your robe on?
Yeah.
There you go.
I was going to put my blue robe on too, but I thought, well, I've got jammies in my covers.
So that's, yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I guess I can say a little bit if you want me to start.
Sure.
Okay.
Well, I have had a few chances to apply like the fusing.
I'm going through a lot of stuff right now.
Working on my marriage.
My husband and I had split up and we're back together.
And I'm going through a lot of healing stuff.
So I've had the chance to just use this.
Okay.
I can, I can stop, you know, or I can, I can.
And what I, what I've done a couple of times, at least that I can think of is
gone back to, I wrote a little something as to help me go back to my identity and God.
And I wrote something like, you know, I'm in, I'm in you, you're in me, we are one.
You know, and I'm seated in heavenly places.
That's my identity. And so therefore I'm always about my father's business.
And I was able to do that.
At least twice.
And kind of bring me back to a, because I kind of got triggered.
And it helped bring me back to a better place.
I've had a lot of triggering lately. Let me tell you.
Working, working.
Yeah, I've gone through a lot of went through a lot of stuff and a lot of some physical stuff to working with a natural path doctor in the last year.
So yeah, that was real helpful.
That was helpful.
Read through my notes that I took.
And even told one of my friends about it.
And even to my, my natural path doctor has also become a friend and we had a session today on the phone and I told her a little bit about it.
About the whole dress intensive.
And
also, I practice again just kind of inviting God to come.
I tried that.
Again, was it last night and I didn't have so much of a feeling of.
Of.
I like I did the first, the first day of the exercise.
I'm just practicing, you know, and today was kind of a good mental health day for me, in a way because I had a massage and a session with my natural path doctor and I, my work from this morning but I'm blessed to work from home.
I'm blessed to work from home.
But during my massage, I always welcome God's healing angels and my massage therapist is
a friend of mine.
He's awesome.
He's done massage for like 40 years plus, but I was just, I was just inviting God to
come during my massage too.
And I, and one thing someone told me that, uh, that does Oaks Rising Ministry, we were
talking one day and they were telling me that you can invite, even during a massage,
like if you have areas of trouble, you can invite God to, you know, you could just bring
him into that area and just release those traumas to God.
Just saying, you know, Lord, if there's something like, if there's a trauma in this area, you
know, release it to God.
So today I was, I did that, but I also just in my own quietly, myself just invited God
to just come during the massage and, you know, help me, help me to let down these walls,
you know, and, um, really kind of felt that he, I felt, um, a peace, a peace and just
knowing that there are tools, you know, it's been, I think a big help because I've gone
through a lot these last couple of years, it's probably been some of the most stressful.
It seems like that I have my life, but, uh, so getting school, you know, it's just, it's just so,
it's so good.
And I was looking forward to this night of, you know, of, uh, I didn't know exactly how
it would go, but it's been able to share how, how it's impacting our lives.
And I shared it a little bit with my husband.
Um, and yeah, yeah, it's, it's, um, I've got a few little health issues going on and stuff.
And so maybe feels a little vulnerable, you know, it's kind of, but yet it's also in another
sense.
It's, um, it's comforting to know that there's always company, company, comforting to know
there's solutions and, and, uh, you know, that we're not, we're not alone, you know,
we have, we have each other and, um, we have that, of course, first, but we have each other
and others are going through different things, but also some things are similar.
And, um, it was just such a recognition.
I mean, such a, um, kind of an eye-opener too.
So I got to listen to this session, but it's been two years ago.
And, and, uh, you know, it was like a fire hose and not applying your lives.
Was awesome.
But just the recognition that, oh, that's part of the biggest, really explain things.
I've had these walls up.
Of course, God, you know, because I really have been seeing even recently more and more
how much I've tried to control my life and keep things in, you know, this as much as
I can, you know, uh, control my environment.
And, and, and so this brings even more, uh, you know, these balls, these balls that, that
God wants to just, uh, help me to let his love really come in and, uh, and help, and
help me.
So, yeah.
So it's good.
Feels good.
It's kind of comforting.
Yeah.
I'll just pass it on to one of you.
Thanks for listening.
Yeah, no, that's good.
Yeah.
You sound nice and relaxed.
I needed it because my nose has been, and my sinus is, that's another thing I've been,
it's been being healed, but the massage kind of got them worked up and I was just, um,
yeah, so, so yeah, I'm glad I'm, I'm glad I'm relaxed.
That's great, Karen.
Thank you for sharing.
I mean, you want to go, Tammy?
I mean, you can go, I don't.
I could, but you can go.
You go.
OK.
OK, so I guess the testimony I have
is really just being able to experience him more.
And it's really great.
So I guess a breakthrough of sorts
is just because when Ashley was talking about no shame
and no condemnation, and she was going through the six tools,
that was just really powerful.
And I was able to choose that.
It was yesterday.
Yes, it was yesterday.
So Karen, I understand with marriage, whatever,
and it's just like, they're the old person.
They're going to say, do whatever they want to do.
You know what I mean?
And so we had a bit of a conflict just talking
or whatever.
And I just was kind of like, he was just saying things.
And I just was like, you know what?
I just started to imagine Jesus.
And it was just like, he put his hands on each side of my cheeks
and was just kind of like, look at me.
Just like, look at me.
It was all this noise.
It was like, the shame.
He wouldn't feel the shame, condemnation off to the side.
My husband and I just was like, he was just like, no,
look at me.
And it was just kind of like noise, just noise.
You know what I mean?
And so it's so good because now I'm like, I don't have to like,
I'm not going to, Jesus doesn't give me
shame and condemnation.
He just tells me to stop.
And I'm like, so I'm not going to do that to myself.
And I'm not going to accept it from anybody else.
You know what I mean?
So it just teaches me what real love is and what to accept
and what's not OK.
You know what I mean?
I just felt really loved in the moment by Christ.
And it was like, my heart was protected despite the things
that were coming at me.
And it was good.
And I think another thing that I'm working through
is during my quiet time, I read 1 Corinthians 13,
the chapter about love.
So I'm going to read a couple of verses every day.
Just so, because for me now, I'm like, OK, God.
I know that people aren't going to always love me
the way that I should be loved or love me
the way you love me.
I don't love people perfectly either.
But it's like, how can I walk in a way where I'm not,
I want to be Jesus to other people
in that I'm loving them the way that he loves me,
even when I'm not necessarily being loved that way.
So it's kind of like, OK, Lord, well,
teach me what real love is and show me
how I can emulate you.
Because I love how gentle you are with me.
I love how kind and caring you are with me in my heart.
So I don't want to hold a fence in my heart.
And I want to be able to love like he does,
even when I'm not necessarily receiving it.
Because he does that to us, for us.
He's never like, no, he never rejects us.
And so I want to do that.
And I just realized that, just in how I talk sometimes,
it's like I will, I'll be holding, I'll be upset.
Or it's not, I don't know if it's a grudge,
but I guess it is kind of a grudge.
I realized that, even when I was talking
to Ashley the very first time before I started,
like the little 30-minute thing just
to see if this was right for us.
And I was like, I thought about it afterwards.
I was like, huh, I feel like I'm holding some things,
even how I'm speaking.
And so, Rita, remember that book that you
suggested a long time ago in community group
about unoffendable or whatever like that?
So I started listening to the Audible.
And I was like, OK, this is really good.
But it's like, I want to start walking that out,
where it's like I'm not bringing shame and condemnation
to others.
I'm not holding grudges against other people for whatever it is.
And so I just feel really light and open.
And I know that I'm in rest.
And the tools that I've enacted has helped me tremendously.
And even if my brain starts to swirl
with the negative loop of thoughts,
it's like I can just, like I've told myself a couple of times
in the last couple of days, just stop.
And I'm like, OK, just stop.
I have the ability to choose not to think these thoughts.
You know what I mean?
That's not what it is.
And so it's really good.
And then I think the final thing is my dad and I,
sometimes we connect.
And he called today.
It was a snow day in Texas.
And he was walking.
So.
we were talking about Abide a couple weeks ago
and sharing books we read or whatever, whatever.
It was good.
But anyway, he was talking about some stuff
and I just was like, like, it's one spirit, you know?
And so it was like really right on the same pathway.
And I'm just excited because I get to live this new life
with like a experience and understand who God is
and share that with others.
And like Eva, I told my dad about, you know,
the whole face thing with Jesus holding my hands.
He was like, oh, Tam, that's so good.
I'm gonna, he has a friend accountability partner
and he's like, oh yeah, I'm gonna tell Josh about that.
So it was just like, it's just so,
it's so rich to be able to like share and, you know,
walk this life along other believers
and just even little things like, you know,
sometimes we'll speak things when we don't know
before we really understand.
Like, I'm just a baby trying to understand this now,
but I'm like, oh, okay.
So I'm like, he's like, you know,
like if you're talking about, you know, yeah, you know,
just the sin that's in us, you know,
I just gotta fight it.
And I'm just like, no dad,
we're like the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.
Like you gotta choose to declare that that's who you are.
Like, you don't, we're not,
we're not declaring that that's the old nature.
We're born again, we're new.
Like, you know what I mean?
It's like, as Christians, these old things that we say
just to like, no, like reframe it,
but just like in a, like a loving, just gentle,
like, oh, I understand this.
Let me share this with, you know?
So, because I've been doing,
I've done that so many years
and I'm just really excited just to have a happy, peaceful,
and just know that it's how I respond to things, you know,
and I have the choice.
So those are my testimonies.
That's awesome.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Thank you.
That is good.
I feel like I'm forgetful,
but I need to start journaling so I can remember stuff
or remember things that happened.
But, you know, it, you know, God's just good that,
you know, I get to go through this again.
And I, you know, on my way to work on Monday,
I was just like feeling all this anxiety again.
And I'm just like, Lord,
well, first I told myself to stop.
And well, no, I was like, I, you know, I'm in Christ
and he's in me and we're abiding.
And I was like, I need to stop.
And yeah, it's good.
I get, I guess I get rest.
And then when I get to work, I just forget everything.
Like, I just feel like I'm not inviting him in my moments.
And I think that's why I just,
I'm kind of staying in the same place.
And not to be like condemning myself for where I'm at.
It's just like, I feel like the Lord's like,
no, you need to stay here with me and grow.
And just, and do it.
I don't know.
I just feel like I'm just kind of go through the motions,
especially when I get busy.
And so I think this time at home,
because we're snowed in, I was like, Lord, this is a gift.
It's just me and you.
And yeah, so just trying to slow it down at home.
I think, yeah, it's going to help me out.
But I also did the, cause the, you know,
I felt like, I don't know.
I just, I feel like anytime I have anxiety,
I'm like, where is this from?
Why am I even feeling this way?
And I can't really,
I don't know if I can really identify it,
but I'm sure it's like fear of man
or something like that.
Yeah.
But the tools definitely help.
Cause I did the whole pulling it out of my chest thing too.
I just imagined it being this entity
that I could pull out and like remove it for myself.
So yeah, just remembering to use the tools
is just helping me.
I guess with my negative emotions, and then, I don't know, Sunday went by fast.
I don't feel like there's a lot I can share of what's gone on in between, and I've definitely
been trying to sit with God, and I keep, I'm like, Lord, I want to see your eyeball.
I can't force it.
I've never even seen him in an image, but I'm just like, I'm believing you're here.
I guess the next thing, instead of believing or feeling the belief, I'm going to be like,
you are right here, and we are going to do this thing, and I need to let go of what I
expect to come because he has come to me a couple times, but I'm just like, yes, I want
that, Lord, and I feel like I'm trying to force it, and, yeah, so, okay, that's it.
Thank you, Rita.
That's good, Rita.
Thank you.
I can relate to some, we'll call it anxiety in the past, I like to say, I don't like,
it's just kind of a little fun thing I say, and I'll say it's in the past kind of saying
it's behind me, but I can relate to a lot of that in the past, and we're getting tools
here to help, and that's just, like I said a while ago, I think it's just comforting
to know, isn't it, that we have tools, and something else you said, I was thinking about,
now it's not coming to me, but I was going to comment on, but it'll come back, it's,
I don't know if it was, but Lord, help me remember what it was, I don't know, it's not
coming back now, so I'll pass on and see if Tammy's got a comment, if it comes back, I'll
let you know, okay, yeah, I don't know, I think I, one, one thing that is just, it's
I don't know if this is unsolicited advice, tell me if it's wrong, but I know, because,
you know, the longest, I was like, it didn't help, like, I couldn't, I couldn't experience
him or imagine him, but I decided to figure out, like, what would I want him to look like for me,
so, like, what I experienced, like, she said, use your imagination, so he's African-American,
he's got locks, that's my Jesus, I love it, so now, like, I have something to,
you know, like, to fit, so, I don't know, like, it's, it just is like a reference point in my
mind, you know, because, you know, he's spiritual, he's not, he's not a body in the same sense as us
anymore, you know, like, he was on earth, so, it's, you know, like, I'm like, that's the Jesus
I feel comfortable with, you know what I mean, and that's all good, he loves variety and creation,
he created all of us, so I know he's cool with that, too, so. I love it, that's good,
that's, that's what I was gonna say something about that, I was gonna say, Rita, sometimes
I get, I get glimpses of something, I'm not, I have, I'm not like this huge seer,
you know, but I'll get glimpses of things, just, and that's kind of the way I see it, so
I'll get glimpses of his eyes, you know, but it's not like I'm sitting there staring at him for,
you know, for minutes or whatever, but I'll just get glimpses of, like, and for me,
Tammy, and I think you're right, I think people do see Jesus the way that they, they want to see
him, and the way they should see him, and it's different for everybody, and I like how you put
it, you know, he's a black Jesus with these locks, yes, he's gorgeous, that's right, that's
cool, that's so cool, and you know, and I just see, I've seen, you know, like, kind of blue eyes,
but I've also seen, like, fire for just, it's just like a glimpse, you know, and I did see that the
other day when we did the exercise for just, just for, and I see that sometimes when I,
when I just pray, and I just, just kind of say, you know,
Um, I just want to see your, see your face, Jesus.
And I'll just get that little glimpse.
And, and it's not like I have the whole, you know, yet, maybe that'll, maybe that'll come.
I don't know.
I don't really worry about it though.
Cause for now a glimpse is good or whatever we have, you know, it's good.
And so, so yeah.
Yeah.
Or if we don't see him, it's that we can just know he's there, you know, he's always, you
know, we're, we're learning more and more and just practicing that he's, he's always
with us and, and I think that's the thing I've been missing is, is really knowing
that, you know, you know it, but to know it and to get it in here.
And, um, you know, I believe this intent is going to be helpful to know it more,
you know, and to enter that rest.
Cause I feel like I've been at unrest.
Um, I've had seasons of maybe a little more rest, but, but really deep down, if I
look at it, there's been a lot of unrest.
So, so yeah.
Yeah.
I think we're going to know, we're going to know that rest more and that he's with us.
Cause that's what brings us rest, right?
Yes.
I like that.
Him.
Yeah.
I agree.
My dad, he was like, Tammy, he was like, it just, it's like, you're, it's like a
deeper level.
Like you're on a deeper level with it.
And I'm just like, yeah, I know.
It's so, so good.
Yeah.
I'm really excited.
Yeah.
Oh, y'all forgot to tell you when he touched my face, he was like, who do I say
you are?
I was like, girl, right.
It's like, cause other people is like condom date.
You know what I mean?
It's like, no, we're focused on who do I say you are.
You know what I mean?
It was just like, it's this, these, and then when you have these moments, it's
just like, I don't know.
It just feels so tangible.
You know, it's like a difference.
It's like, oh, reading about him in your word.
But it's like, I had a personal experience.
Sometimes I don't even want to tell other people, you know, like, it's like,
because it's just like between us two, but you know, I need to share, cause I
can't help but share when good things happen to me.
But like, sometimes it'd be like, you know, when you like with your boo, you
don't want to be like, you can't tell all yet.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
That's so good.
Terry said, who do I say you are?
Oh, that's so good.
So good.
Yeah.
Thank you for sharing.
Is it just my internet?
Is it where Rita?
Is it just my internet that's cutting out?
Yeah.
Mine's okay.
Then.
Okay.
Yeah.
Um, I guess I'm gonna have you guys, I'm going to say it out loud so I can be
accountable.
I I'm pretty sure last time, um, you know, I guess during the rest thing, Jesus
said, draw my eyeballs, like, like try to draw him first.
I was like, oh, and I never did.
So maybe that'll help me get an image of him.
Oh, cool.
Yeah.
That's a great, you were artiste Rita.
When I was a babe, when I was a baby, I used to draw.
Oh, cool.
Let me send you Rita.
So let it come back out, girl.
Yes.
I agree, Karen.
There's, um, uh, some, there's, there's a man who tries to help people with this,
um, with, uh, trying to see Jesus because some people come to him and they're like,
cause he's like, Hey, you know, just close your eyes, you know, and allow the Lord
to come to you and you just accept him, you know, is how he shows up.
And cause people will just see him in various ways.
Some people see him, you know, in the typical, like Israeli garb from back then.
And then other people see him, you know, with like, you know, like, you know,
just close your eyes and just let him show you just appear to you as he wants to.
And, uh, but some people have a hard time seeing him.
So what he suggests to do is to give yourself an anchor point of memorizing
whatever room that you're in, you know, like sitting there and like memorizing
your room for a second, like getting a real good sense, you know, that you
know, where everything is.
Okay.
There's a plant in the corner.
There's a door.
There's a window.
There's a door.
There's a window.
There's a door.
There's a window.
There's a door.
There's a window.
There's a door.
There's a window.
There's a door over there or whatever, and then closing your eyes and
then repicturing it in your mind.
So this, this really helps people, um, uh, also who don't have a very
strong imagination because they squelched it so early, um, because
imagination,
It's very normal for us. It's very normal for kids. They have no problem imagining things
unless they've, they were taught to squelch it because they were constantly ridiculed or,
or even hurt, you know, and punished for talking about, well, you know, things that aren't real,
you know? And so anyway, my point is, this is one of the things that he does for people who
struggle with imagination. He is like, we're talking about people that even go to that
extreme, but say they're not struggling with the imagination, but they can't see Jesus.
They can see the room or they can see something that can't see Jesus. So he says,
picture your room. So give yourself an anger point and then ask Jesus, okay, Jesus, where are you?
So in your mind's eye, you're looking at the whole room and then you just see where he pops up.
See, for me, he popped up over here, but for you, he might pop up, you know, sitting down on the
coffee table facing you, or, you know, facing the other direction on the coffee table, or you might
appear to standing on the couch. I mean, and then, and you just kind of like go from there.
So it gives you an anchor point to start with of like, okay, this, I know in this, I can force
myself to picture because I'm picturing something that I can actually see. And then you try to use
that to picture something that you've never seen, just Jesus, you know? So anyway, it's kind of like
stair-stepping your way through it. So that sometimes helps people to finally be able to see
him. And like I said, in the video, you know, the teaching, sometimes I see his eyes and sometimes
I don't. So I just, like I said, I just kind of mentioned the whole eye thing, just because I
noticed that it's when I looked in his eyes that I felt loved. And because it gave me an anchor point
for it, because eyes have always been very important to me. And then I noticed that I was
getting flooded and with emotion. And so I learned that I kept trying to like break away and whatever.
So I began to realize what ways I was trying to keep myself from the Lord, what things I was doing
that were actually evidencing resistance. So I bring those things up to kind of help somebody
else who may not be able to figure out how to articulate that that's what they're struggling with.
But I don't ever want anyone to feel bad because they can't see Jesus's eyes. I'll be able to do
it. I don't, I don't sometimes. And so anyway, maybe, maybe that'll help. And then I thought
it was great where you said that Jesus invited you to draw them. So just draw what his eyes look
like. So anyway, I think that's a great idea because it's not us imagining and us, you know,
drawing an idea of what he can look like. Isn't sacrilegious because, I mean, you think of all
of the different artists who've tried to depict Jesus. It's just an artistic expression and a
representation, you know, so, um, is all that it is. And he's just like, find some aspect that
enables you to connect with me. If, if what I'm asking of you feels like too big of a jump,
too big of a leap, what can you do towards it? You know, just kind of like work that way. So,
so anyway, if that's helpful at all. So that's what I do when I have, when I struggle to see
Jesus at all, is I pick, is I go through that exercise that that man said, and I see the whole
room. And because there are certain times in my life in which my imagination is more exercised
than at others. And if it hasn't been exercised in a while, I have to go back to, okay, memorize
another room. I'm in the close my eyes and then repicture it. I give myself a definitive to
picture my mind. And then I allow something that's not definitive, which is Jesus to kind of like to,
to appear. Okay. Well, where is he in the room? He's going to be, he's going to appear as a man.
So where would that be? You know, do you see pop up over there? Does he pop over there or,
or where is he behind you or something? So, so does anyone have any questions?
So, or I don't know any thoughts, anything that they hadn't shared yet, or any thoughts and
having gone through all of the, all of the stuff on Saturday and Sunday. Does anyone have anything?
Um, I guess I'm one of the videos, you know, you said our prayer isn't
anything we're lacking, so we're not really asking for anything, but it's more like him showing us
that we have it or, yeah, so we can ask, but what we're asking for is we're asking for something
that we already have, as opposed to asking for something, thinking we don't have it.
So I know that that sounds a little weird, but think about the fact that we,
we have access to something, but we don't know what it is and we don't know where it is
and how to utilize it and how to, how to, how to operate in it. And, and we're
what to do with it when we have it, you know, that kind of that.
So we're asking, in other words, we're, we're curious, we're asking questions,
but it's in faith as opposed to, and believing that if that we already have it and that God is
good and he's not withholding something from us, you know, that kind of a thing it's approaching
God be in belief and expectancy, as opposed to, I don't have it, he hasn't given it,
or he's withheld it. And therefore I I'm in lack and I need to get. So we still ask,
but we're asking from a perspective of expectation that we already have it,
which is coming into agreement with God, as opposed to, I don't have it God.
So therefore what you said isn't true and you're not good because you haven't given it to me yet,
or you're withholding, or I'm in, I'm in need that hasn't been provided for all of those
things are the opposite of what God said. So we're, we're still asking, we're just doing it
from a new perspective. We're doing it from the perspective of, of agreement with God,
as opposed to disagreement is if we're kind of like, as if we're appealing to him to save us,
because we're abandoned, we're alone, and this is an issue and you need to fix it. We're not asking
God to fix something. We're asking him, he's already, he's already provided. He's already
has us an environment of provision protection. We're asking how to engage with that. We're asking
Lord, who, who, who have you already made me to be? And how do I rise up into that a bit more?
How do I, how do I mature a bit more Lord in this, in this situation? How do I rule,
how do I learn to rule a bit more or, you know, yeah. Anyway, does that, is that helpful at all?
Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And it really is very it might sound like, just like this little
detailed nuance, but it makes all the difference in the world. It completely changes the, it
actually gives prayers power. Because remember that, that things manifest into creation. Remember,
you know, Tammy was asking questions about manifestation and like co-creating with the
Lord and everything. We back on, I think it was Sunday, you know, it's, it's, we're actively
engaging with something by agreement with God about it. And that's how we can, that's how the
thing can finally show up. So we still need to ask. In fact, there was a verse, man, there was
a verse that I wrote down that I thought, oh, my word about asking that I thought was so powerful.
Oh, if, if I abide in you and you abide in me, I think this is John. I mean, meaning like the book
of John, but Jesus is saying, if you, if I abide in you and you abided me, you can ask what you
will and I will give it to you. Or my father would give it to you or something like that.
So what was the condition? The condition was union. That if you agree with the fact and you
choose the fact that you're in union with me, if you abide in me and I abide in you, then ask of me
and I will give it to you or ask of me or whatever you ask of me, my father would give to you. I
don't remember what she said, bother me, but whatever it was, that was the condition of getting
our answer to our ask of getting what it is that we asked for is simply abiding in that union.
And remember, that's why we're at rest and why we already have everything every anyway.
And so what we're is because we're in him. So when we're asking for something from the position of
being in him and abiding in him means that we already have what we're asking for. So we're just
trying to learn, how do I engage with this thing? What is it that I already have? Like a baby
discovering that it has hands. Well, it's always had hands, but now it's realizing it has hands,
but now even though it realizes it has hands, it still doesn't know what it does. What does the
hand do? You know, what's it called? What does it actually fully look like? And so it'll study it
for a while. What does it taste like? And I'll stick it in his mouth. And I'm like, you know,
what is all of this? And, and then they'll, and then they figure out, well, what can it do? Well,
it can, it can open and close and it can grab things and it can bring it to me. And so there's
this development process. And so that's what our asking is. Um, you, we do it from that place of
union, uh, place of abiding, knowing we already have the things and now we're just asking Lord,
how do I, what is this thing? How do I engage with it? But all from the perspective of
anticipation, expectation, excitement, expecting the goodness of the Lord in the answer.
Oh my goodness. This is so exciting. What is it?
You know, and that's honestly how I, I know I'm very expressive, how I can get with the
Lord.
I'm just like, I wonder what it is, you know, and then the more that I expect that it's
like that, the more that's how it shows up.
It shows that, that exciting.
Why?
Because I'm, that's what I'm looking for.
I'm looking for the goodness of my God.
I'm looking for his love.
I'm looking for something that brings me into, that allows me to exercise in it, that allows
me to experience more of his love, that allows me to experience and live in a greater fullness
of his freedom.
And so when he showed, when he shows up, sorry, okay, I was thinking it was my, is my computer.
No, it's fine.
Um, uh, uh, and then anyway, so what it is that I'm expecting of God's character, that's
what shows up.
And then when it shows up, I can see it a lot more, a lot easier.
I recognize it because I'm, I'm looking in the direction and see if I'm looking for something
over here and God shows up over here, I can't see it.
So he's given it and he's doing it and it's all great, but I cannot see it because I'm
focused over here.
But if he tells me, no, Ashley, no, that I'm good.
No, that I'm loved.
And I'm like, okay, that's what I'm looking at.
That's what I'm looking for.
Then I can see it when it shows up.
Um, so anyway, so is that helpful?
Good.
Yeah.
Good.
So.
Can I say something?
Yeah.
I heard one of my friends just say the other day, um, I, I don't think I said this over
the weekend, but maybe I did.
Um, they just said something like, well, I can't wait to see how God's going to work
that out.
And it was kind of a, uh, and so I've had some tough situations at my job lately.
And so that's how I've just been, well, God, I can't wait to see how you're going to work
this out.
And I think I'm going to add to it.
I just can't wait to see how, because you love me so much, how good this is going to
work out for me.
That just came to me when you were saying that, because I've, and it's just like another,
another real tough situation came up just, just Friday and it got confirmed yesterday
morning.
Pretty, you know, another one.
And I'm like, okay, God, can't wait to see how much you love me and how you're going
to work this out.
And my behalf and my clients, we have, you know, yeah, yeah.
Because what we're choosing is we're not choosing the manifestation.
We're not choosing, oh, this is how God will work it out.
We're choosing that.
God's good.
Yeah.
And God, I fully expect you to be good, but what does goodness look like?
What do you and your sovereign will choose goodness to look like in this situation?
In Jesus, this situation, he was scourged and he died, and that was how God chose to
show his love.
So what we're doing is we're not, we're not hanging our hat.
And this is what I was talking also to Renata and Annette about.
We're not hanging our hat on and looking for having and having faith in how it manifests.
We're having faith in choosing instead, God being who he is, regardless of how that manifests.
And anyway, that makes all the difference in the world.
It's much more powerful position from which to pray, like we were talking about with Rita.
And then we can also, it's the only position from which we can rule is if we choose that
God is something and we receive, however, he chooses to manifest who he is as a, instead
of choosing that, we want a specific manifestation.
We want his goodness to manifest like this, but then that's going to keep getting us the
life that we've been living this far.
And meaning like the different struggles or, or pain and, and whatever, and lack of rest
and lack of freedom that we've been into that we've been living in is if we are looking
for that manifestation, well, if God is, you know, I believe that God wants good things
for me, therefore he'll do this.
That's like, no, no, just believe that I provide for you and I protect you and you're never
in lack and you're always in abundance, you know, and, and that I'm good and that I'm
faithful and that I'm, you know, all of these things.
And then watch how I show up like that.
Watch what faithfulness looks like in your situation or protection or provision or whatever.
And I say that we were talking with, I was talking with her net, Renette, Annette and
Renata about.
Um, promises like promises that are unfulfilled or whatever it was like, the focus is not
on the promise.
It's on the one who made the promise.
We actually released the promise to the Lord, like, or a prophecy or whatever.
We don't hang on to it like this because then we kill it.
So we have to just allow the Lord, allow it to just experience it as if you, we have our
hands in the river and then just allow, and then just experience the water of the spirit
as it passes through and rolls all over our fingers and everything.
We get to experience so much more of the river, but as soon as we decide that we like
a specific aspect of the spirit, oh, I love this promise, or I love this prophecy.
And as soon as we do this and to start using an accusation against the Lord, like, Lord,
why haven't you accomplished this yet?
You're the one who gave me this promise, or you're the one who prophesied this.
We start taking this beautiful gift that God gave us of this promise in this, in this prophecy
that was strictly given to us in order for the Lord to communicate to us how much we
mean to him or how good he is or something about himself.
But instead we've chosen this, not what it says about God as the thing that we're focusing
on.
And then because we're doing this, we kill it and God's like, okay, we've missed the
whole point.
So it's always important that even with promises that we release them and that we just hold
them very loosely.
And God says, he makes a promise and promise or prophecy.
Okay.
Then you know what, Lord, I will just partner with you and then I'll just watch and experience
and let it happen and dah, dah, dah, as opposed to, okay, excellent.
This is great.
I like that one.
I'm going to claim that one and I'm going to, you know, drive it.
And unfortunately that's where some of the whole, um, that's where I believe some of
the word of faith can get screwy is where we're not having faith in God.
We're having faith in an outcome and we are driving the outcome as opposed to having faith
out of relationship with God.
And there's no difference between driving to an outcome, um, for Christians than there
is in doing it, uh, under the law of attraction as a new wager or whatever, because it's taking
God out of the equation.
Even if we put a godly stamp on it and say, well, God prophesied or God promised.
Remember that's what Abraham did with, or Sarah, I did with, um, for Abraham.
Well, Abraham was party to it too, obviously, but it was Sarah's idea of like, Hey, you
know, giving a hack Hagar, uh, and to Abraham in order to try to fulfill God's promise.
It leaves God completely out of the equation anyway.
So even with promises that God's made, it's like, yeah, don't, don't focus on the promise,
you know, focus on me.
And then because the fact that I said it, in other words, word that gave that promise
everything that can carry out that word and cause that word to happen.
So anyway, you're right.
Yeah.
Makes all the difference in the world being into anticipating an outcome, because what
it is that we're going to see, what it is that we're going to get is not an outcome.
What we're going to get is we're going to get peace and parcel of God himself.
We're going to actually see something of him.
We're going to experience something of him.
We're going to have something of him, not, Oh, this thing is going to happen.
It's a total different shift of switching.
It's a total change in value system, valuing God over what happens, choosing God over a
lifestyle or whatever.
So, yeah, that makes sense that I wish you would have taken a couple of notes on that
one.
Well, you'll have the recording.
He's in God over the outcome.
Yes.
Yeah.
She's in God over the outcome.
So important.
That was the pivotal choice that I made.
Um, and, uh, that I call it Rita's heard me talk about it.
It's called the ultimate choice, you know, where you choose God over the outcome, you
choose God over the lifestyle and, um, and say, God, I just choose that you be who you
are.
And I don't know who that is, but I'm choosing it without knowing what it is.
That's faith.
I mean, God, whatever that is, I ask that you manifest that into my life.
And that can make, and your goodness can make my life look however you want.
And I saw what it made Jesus's life look like.
I just ask that you be who you are and that that inner earth in a physical sense to create
my life.
And, um, and anyway, that every, everything changes after that point, but yeah, we have
to continually choose him over the outcome, him and his character over the manifestation
of his character.
In other words, his character instead of the manifestation of his character, but we get
focused on the manifestation on, well, what, what is it going to, what kind of an experience
is it going to give me?
I was like, no, no, no.
Choose me over.
you experience me only then can I entrust you with actually experiencing me is I need
to know that you'll choose me first, because I need you to choose me before I reveal myself
to you.
I need to know that I can entrust you with who I really am.
So I'm not going to even reveal myself until you shoot until you choose to receive me blindly.
And then I'll show up and then I'll reveal myself, then I'll show you who it is that
I really am.
So, yeah.
Oh, wow.
So it is 10 o'clock.
Good.
It was helpful.
Let me ask a quick question.
Yeah.
The steps, there were six of them, right?
Uh, no, there are five.
Well, there, I only talked about five.
Technically there are six.
The sixth one was on another video that was that was in the next session that goes to
the rest lifestyle group.
Okay.
That one is basically what is that one?
Oh, that one is basically talking to your spirit, soul, and body.
Okay.
And, um, and, uh, and trusting that they, that God has equipped them to shift without
your consciousness.
Okay.
And what was five?
I don't know that I wrote it down in front of it to declare and, and go where your soul
finds peace.
So if you can't choose that God is who he says that he is to the degree, he says he
is that that's fine.
Just choose that he is that to whatever degree you can.
And then the rest of it, uh, declare that, that what he says about himself is true, that
he really is that good, declare it, but you're having a hard time, like actually choosing
it to that degree to actually act on it.
You're not quite there yet, but you'll act on it to the degree that you really do have
faith in the rest of it.
You go where your soul finds peace.
So, um, trying to think, uh, in other words, you, you think, okay, well, um, uh, like,
I don't know if you can't, how, how would I put this?
Okay.
Say for instance, that, uh, you feel that God is, and I'm just going to use money as
an example that, um, because this is how God taught me this, that, um, you have, um, I
don't know, he, you have only $50 left in the bank and he, oh, and I think, yeah, I
think that this is, yeah, this is my example.
I think I had $50 in the bank at the time.
Like I literally have $50 to my name, no credit cards or anything to back me up.
I was just $50 and I needed to buy food with it.
I didn't know when the next money was coming in, that kind of thing.
So I had $50 and I needed to buy a fan because my central air went out.
I think it was in the middle of summer.
So I went to Walmart and I was looking back and forth between, I think like a, a $10 fan
and then like a $16 fan, $17 fan, something like that.
I don't remember exactly.
And, um, and so that, that $7 difference isn't, you know, very much, but it is when you only
have $50, that's a big difference.
That's a huge ratio.
You know, it's kind of like a child who's only two years old.
Well, one year to us isn't a very big deal for him.
That's half of his life.
You know, it's, it's just kind of, it's all relative.
So it was a very big deal to, because I wasn't sure it was like, Lord, what's the responsible
decision?
Um, so this is a $10 fan, but my concern about it, Lord, is that it can't do X, Y, and Z.
It's not very big.
Um, therefore I don't know that it's going to actually blow through my whole apartment,
you know, but it is cheaper and it would probably do, I mean, Hey, it's better than nothing.
Right.
Or should I get this, this fancier fan that has this extra little like feature on it that
I would just really like, yeah, but Lord, you know, that's probably not responsible.
I could make do with this one, but I knew I said, Ashley, your God is bigger than that.
And he's good.
And he's kinder than that.
And he's good.
So I, and, um, so I just, but I was trying to learn this, I was trying to learn Lord,
how do we make these decisions with, I'm used to making them from using certain logic, you
know, but it doesn't include having to have any faith.
But you're telling me that without faith, it's impossible to please you.
So what do I do?
Where does logic come in in making decisions when you also tell me to live by faith, like,
like how to, how do these two work together?
And so what I did is I just, I just figured out, okay, well, where does my, what is my
soul think?
Well, my soul is very, very afraid of making a buying the big fan, even though my soul
wants the big fan, you know, it probably feels, it feels more safe and more comfortable, you
know, as far as like, you know, the out output, but the amount of money scares me.
I mean, like really scared my soul because like, I don't know the next time I'm going
to get money and I need money for food, you know?
So my, what my soul wanted was my soul wanted the cheap fan.
I asked, okay, so after I let my soul have it say, it was mad and it was scared and it
was whatever.
Okay.
Now I know how I feel now.
What does my spirit think?
And because my soul got to talk for a while, it was now quiet because I let it have it
say, I let it have its voice and I gave it an acknowledgement that it was valuable.
So now that it felt valuable and heard it was quiet.
And then I can more clearly hear my spirit because I let my soul talk first, you try
to let your spirit talk first, the soul will be yapping over it.
So tell your spirit who's much more mature to quiet down and let your soul have its little
say, reveal to yourself what it is you really think and feel about the Lord and about the
situation because all you're doing is you're acknowledging something that's there.
You're not feeding anything.
You're just acknowledging it to yourself so that you can actually deal with it because
you can't deal with something that you won't let come up.
So anyway, let it come up.
Now I know then now it'll be quiet.
You'll be really shocked.
It'll be quiet.
And then you let your spirit talk and then you find out what is your spirit?
What is your spirit?
Feel the freedom in the Lord.
And does it feel it over here or does it feel it over here?
Because God might say this one, but no, you know, actually, I know all of these things
that I need you to have money for the next few days that you don't even know are going
to come up and I'm guiding you to this decision, but, um, or he could say, no, I say, I want
you to believe me like this.
Am I this good?
Like, like, because you think you think that this sounds like good for me.
Do you believe that I'm as good?
Yeah, Lord, I do.
Okay.
Well, you know, where do you feel that your spirit is feeling freedom to open up?
God could pick either one, but which one is he doing now?
So that's what you're feeling into.
You're feeling into the freedom of the choice that you're being given in your unique moment
in your unique situation by the Lord, not, Oh, God would always choose the more expensive
options.
No, not necessarily.
There's a reason why we choose this one because God taught us those logical principles of
finance.
Those are God given and God made.
So, okay.
If they're both good God, and if you both made up, if you made up both of them, which
one do I pick right now?
So anyway, you just kind of feel like that.
And, um, and then, so what I, so my point is, that's what I mean, where you choose what,
if you have enough faith for where it is that your spirit is feeling the freedom is say,
for instance, my spirit felt the freedom here.
Okay.
So it's great that I now know where my spirit is willing to go.
Is my soul willing to go there?
Is it willing to make that huge leap?
Because if it's not there, I can't make that leap because I don't believe in it.
So therefore there's nothing to hold me up because faith is, is like coming to the edge
of this cliff here.
And then you have faith in, say, say God says something and you have faith in it.
What that does is it creates a step for you to step out on.
When you step off of this ledge, you step off the ledge, you know, like this into the
great unknown, and there's nothing there until your faith created a step.
And now you can step onto something.
But if we step out on something that God said, but we don't believe it, there's no step created
and we do fall.
And we bear the consequences of the fact that we don't have faith now.
And so what we've done in the past is we've assumed when we've done stuff like that, like,
okay, God, fine.
If you just say, so I'm going to do it, you know, if we do that and we're not preparing
ourselves with faith first, then, and we, and we fall to, you know, to bad consequences.
We keep blaming God, see, either I didn't hear God, right.
Or he didn't speak, right.
In other words, that's not true.
Whatever it is he said, isn't true.
And God's like, no, no, no, no, no.
Neither one of those is the case.
So the thing is that what creates the step is you believing that that's what I said and
that it's actually true.
So anyway, so my, my point is if we have faith enough to actually step, if we have enough
faith to create that step, then when we act on that, we'll land on something, we'll land
on our feet because God says that it was true.
But if we don't have, if our soul can't have that much faith in God yet, then we don't
want to step out into nothingness.
So what we need to do is we need to say, God, I'm just not there yet, but I declare that
you are who you say that you are declare.
So I can't choose that you are that, but I can declare it.
And you know what?
That is better than what I've been doing.
Cause in the past, I've been calling you a liar.
So I'm going, I'm moving it, I'm moving a bit, uh, moving forward.
So I can't make it.
I can't make this huge gap leap, you know, to having faith, but I can move a step further
than what I've been doing.
I will declare.
And I will choose in that my choose my willingness for believing what it is that you've said,
even though I can't actually choose that it's true.
I can desire to believe that of you.
So it's something I declare that if you say that this is who you are, then that's who
you are.
Then what are you at?
How do you act?
So you've made a choice, you're going to declare it, but do you go with your spirit or do you
go with your soul?
If you don't have enough faith to go with your spirit, so you go with your soul.
So where does your soul get peace?
Which fan should you buy?
If you were too scared, if your spirit feels the freedom, but your soul just, just can't,
just can't do it by the cheaper fan.
But here's the cool thing.
When you buy the cheaper fan, you're still not doing what you used to do.
Remember you're going, you're, you're making at least one step closer.
You're, you're making progress.
So you've declared that God is as good as he says that he is.
And you're receiving that in the fan, he in the, in the fan, you're picking, you're not
picking the fan because you don't believe God.
You choose to pick the fan because God's that good God, you are so good that you've created
this fan and you've given me the opportunity and the money to be able to buy it, to take
care of the fact that I'm hot.
And you know, my, my central air went out and I needed, I needed some way to keep the
air going and you're providing me with enough money to purchase one.
So you receive what your soul chooses.
You receive it declaring that that is the manifestation of who God says that he was.
Does that make sense?
Yeah.
Huge difference in what we've in, in both of those in choosing and going where your
spirit finds peace or declaring and going where your soul finds peace, huge difference
in either one of those from what we've been doing, which is.
I don't believe God.
And so I'm going to go save myself in both of these.
We're still declaring that God is who he says that he is and that he's manifesting it in
the gift that we receive from him.
So think about, for instance, the story of the prodigal son, how the prodigal son asked
the father for the inheritance.
The father gave it to him and we call that enabling.
I mean, we saw what the prodigal son did with that.
The father didn't have to give him the inheritance, but he's thought, I want my son to be able
to provide for, protect and comfort himself.
So I'm going to enable him to do that.
So that's what God does when he gives us money or jobs or whatever that we're doing all by
The sweat of our brow is he saying, okay, if they want to provide for themselves, instead
of letting me provide for them, like for me, provide for them by finding them a job and
me provide for them by, if they want to try to do it all themselves, that's fine.
I am going to create a system and a means by which they can do that.
So again, we call that enabling, but for him, he calls it love because again, the kindness
of God leads to repentance.
So what we're doing is we're helping ourselves on that faith because we're like in every
step that we take, we're like, God is this good that he would provide me with the opportunity
to work and sweat to get this for myself.
So it's still a step.
It's still a step closer towards believing God, because we're saying, God, you're this
good.
I can't believe you're this good yet, but I do believe you're this good, which is better
than what we were believing.
So that's how we make progress.
So that's what the number five was declaring and go where your soul finds peace.
That makes sense.
Yeah.
And then just to clarify real quick, number one was the no shame, no condemnation, right?
Yeah.
Number two, is that choosing union and identity?
No, that's stop, you know, telling your soul and your body to stop.
That's what I had.
And number three is no judgment.
Correct.
And then number four is, is choose and go and act where your spirit finds peace.
Okay.
And then five was declare and act on what your soul finds peace.
Okay.
And then number six was the talking to spirit, soul and body, which isn't another one.
I think I ended up splitting that up at the conference because because it was a much larger
subject that I kind of wanted to spend like an entire session, just unpacking that one.
So that's why it's kind of on a separate little deal, but yeah, even the five or, you know,
be able to take care of things.
So at least they do for me.
Okay.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
Well, it was good to see everybody tonight.
And I guess the next time I see you, I'm going to be in Florida, I guess.
Are you really?
Yes.
I'm going to be in Florida.
The current plan is to go tomorrow.
And then I.
Okay.
I started an inner healing training Thursday, and I have to hurry and make it out at the
end of the, at the end of the night so I can get back for our nine o'clock meeting on Thursday.
So awesome.
Yes.
I'm looking forward to it and hopefully we'll feel more, even more equipped and so, okay,
well, I will let y'all go.
I hope that y'all have a good evening and let's see, just check to do a couple of journey
shares this week.
Y'all do get to choose which days that you do them.
You don't have to do them on Tuesdays and, and what is it Mondays and Wednesdays, but
in fact, it'd probably be better if you like, kind of like spread it out.
But I thought, well, if I, if I at least, you know, fill in a Monday and a Wednesday,
they have something that they remember, you know, without even having to look at the platform,
they have something every day from Sunday to Thursday, and they have nothing Friday
and Saturday.
That's how my mind works.
Y'all can do whatever you want, but anyway, go ahead.
So that's just to put something in there.
Yeah.
To put it on the discussion board.
It's as if you were posting it on Facebook, but it's on the platform.
It's not on the Facebook group and just scroll through and all of those previous posts are
all journey shares.
So just kind of see how other people are doing them.
Some people post videos, some people post three sentences, you know, some people write
huge, several, a huge thing with several paragraphs, just depends on whatever you want to do.
But the whole point you'll read in there about the point of a journey share what's, you know,
what to include, what to not include, basically like don't complain, but be honest, you know,
that kind of a thing.
So anyway, so if you click on one of the things that it says, like journey share, like say
February 1st journey share or something like that, if you click on it, what'll appear is
an explanation of some things to keep in mind in doing a journey share.
Then you go back to the discussion tab, which is where you, if you scroll through, you can
see all those other posts people have made like a, like a Facebook newsfeed, and then
you just make a post in there.
So yeah.
Okay.
One quick thing, Tammy, Rita, you're snowed in, in Texas.
I got to ask you that.
How much snow did you get?
Just to warn y'all, you're talking to someone in Missouri.
He really knows what snow is, understand we Texans, we get any, if it's in the air, we're
like snow day.
Shut it down.
I like it.
Yeah.
So how much did you get?
I want to know.
They called it thundersleet.
So it's just like a sheet of ice.
Yeah.
Okay.
More ice than snow, I think.
We're not good at, Texans don't know how to drive in snow and ice.
So it's like a whole thing.
And we're having flashbacks from two years ago, which we call snowmageddon, where it
really was shut down, like my house flooded, it was a hot mess because the pipes broke
and you know.
I remember that we had a little snow, a little south of here too, perhaps a quarter of the
state or so had ice yesterday, but yeah, so it must've been something that went through.
Okay.
I just wondered.
Okay.
Yeah.
It's a storm called Mara.
What's it called?
What's the storm called?
It's a storm.
Like it's got a name.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
It's blowing across, it's this big ice storm that's just blowing across, I don't know.
Texas and Arkansas and I don't know, just going, but yeah, it's a, I don't remember.
I think my mom said at nine, at nine 30 this morning or eight, eight 30 this morning, it
was a half a sheet, a half an inch of ice on the road and it was thundering, like we
just said, and it was, it was raining ice where it was snowing in Texas, yeah.
In Dallas where they are and where my family is, yeah.
That's wow.
That is a lot.
That's yeah.
Well, I'm partnering with, I'm partnering with the weather to be warmer in mid Missouri.
Yeah.
There you go.
Yeah.
And we've had a pretty good, we've had a pretty good winter really.
Yeah.
So, so yeah.
And yeah.
And I hope, yeah.
I hope nobody was hurt or anything.
I just, that's the only, yeah.
Now people are stuck on like major highways between here in Louisiana and Arkansas.
I mean, like just hacked and just sitting on the road in the middle of nowhere is just
wish.
Oh my gosh.
I know.
Mercy, mercy, mercy.
Okay.
All right.
Well, y'all have a good night and I will see y'all Thursday.
Okay.
Bye.
If y'all have any questions, by the way,
y'all make sure to keep note of them.
And I'm trying to think of like where you could post them.
I meant to have a place for you to post like questions
as you think of them,
because I don't answer questions in between times,
but I do, but you'll have them
while you're thinking of them.
And then you can ask them in the Fireside Chats.
So anyway, just FYI.
Okay, and blessings on your travel.
Thank you, I appreciate it.
Bye guys.
Bye.
Good to see you.
Bye bye.
You too.