Hey everyone! Alright, so I am reposting an old post from a previous Rest
Intensive member that proves the amazing impact and effectiveness of making
journey share posts. I know that they're hard. I know that it's hard to be
vulnerable. I know that it might not be a fun exercise to do. Maybe some people
don't enjoy writing. Maybe some people enjoy not or don't enjoy doing
videos. I understand all of that, but what this does is remember that in order
to get a different result, we have to actually start living our lives
differently. We can't continue to live our lives the way that we've been living
them and expect to to get different results. So this exercise of the
journey share of being vulnerable with the people in the group will enable us
to be finally be vulnerable with the Lord in areas that we felt that we had
been and yet we were not getting the benefits of it. In other words, we're not
actually seeing any results in our lives. It means that we're not actually being
vulnerable with Him. So the journey shares are basically a tool that
enable us to start to open ourselves up to being vulnerable, to start doing the
hard work of writing or doing a video. Videos, by the way, are much more
powerful and effective than the written because, again, they're more vulnerable
but if someone needs to start out slowly, they can do the written. But
anyway, so I'm gonna post this because she had posted a membership intro
video. You know, as y'all are all required to do, she posted a member intro
video back when she joined in August of 2020 and she did not post a single
journey share until January the next year and that's months later and she was
struggling with the breakthrough. She could not, for the life of her, get a
breakthrough and she was so disheartened. She was so, so, you know, just, she was
just really struggling and I'm telling you what, she had, she had countless
one-on-one sessions with me and she attended all of the fireside chats and
and she would read everybody else's journey shares and whatever and she was
trying to do all the work with the Lord, you know, privately in her own life and
she could not get the breakthrough and so I told her because she was just,
she was just distraught, you know, and in January she reached out to me and told
me, Ashley, you know that I cannot seem to get the breakthrough. I can't
figure out what it is and I told her, I said, well, I said, you know, the important
thing is that we have to be vulnerable to the Lord. That's how we're able to get
our breakthrough and she's like, well, I think that I am, you know, I'm doing all
of this stuff, whatever and I said, well, so here's the thing, I said, if you're
not getting the results, it means that you're not actually being vulnerable. So
here's what you can do to break that barrier, in other words, break that
oppressive chain that you seem to be shackled to, you know, in the Spirit and
you can't seem to figure out how to latch on to that thing and where that
thing is in order to break it. I said, if you are vulnerable in a post with other
people, I said, that will help you break off the thing that is resisting your
vulnerability to the Lord in the Spirit and she's like, oh my word, I really don't
want to do this. You can even tell, even in the post, she's like, I
really don't want to do this. I think I'm gonna have massive regret, but I'm trying. I'm
gonna trust Ashley and so what you won't see in the post is actually her
response after the post and that was in a fireside chat, the very next fireside
chat that we had after she made this post. She was glowing. She was so excited.
She's like, guys, she said, I made that post to all of y'all, you know, and was just
very honest and transparent about where it is that I was and I couldn't get a
breakthrough and Ashley said, if I posted this, that it would help me with my
vulnerability to the Lord and break that resistance that I had to Him that I
didn't even know that I had and she's like, and everything worked. She's like, I
finally got my breakthrough with the Lord. I finally get it. I finally
understand. I can finally connect with Him in the way that she was wanting to.
So anyway, I'm just posting this, reposting her old post as an
encouragement to all of y'all in making these journey shares for yourselves at
the power of this type of vulnerability. Again, I know it's hard, but remember,
you're choosing God, not a lifestyle. You are trying to step out and
write a new record of what your relationship with God is and then
allowing your lifestyle and allowing for your lifestyle, the
chips to just fall where they may because you are choosing a higher value.
value system. So, that's why I do require the journey shares is because of the
effectiveness that I have learned. See, back then they weren't required to do
journey shares. As you noticed, you know, between August and January, she didn't
have a single one. I didn't require them back then. But, and it wasn't just this
one, it was all the other people that were passing her by in their
relationship with the Lord that were getting results. Why? Well, you know, for a
variety of reasons, but they were, well, why they were getting, they were, is
because they were being vulnerable with the Lord. But, as far as what tools they
were using, they were using a variety of tools. One of which was they were all
posting more than she was. In other words, they were being more vulnerable with
themselves, with the Lord, and with others more than she was. And it proved, you
know, in the post. Anyway, I am telling you what, this woman has gone off and has
just taken off as a result of, ever since then. She has her own coaching
program where she coaches people through healing, experiencing God's love.
Why? Because she knows firsthand what it means and what it's like and how to live
a life like this. So, anyway, just wanted to send this, repost this, in order to
encourage everyone. And so, I'm very much looking forward to continue to seeing
your journey shares. Remember that if you're feeling this resistance, if this
is the kind of thing that the Rest Intensive is all about, is to push past
this resistance. If you push past these things that we're not, we're not getting
headway because we have this resistance and we're getting to this resistance and
then we're stopping. We're like, oh, I don't, I don't want to do that. I don't
want to have to go that far. I don't want to have to push past that. So, anyway, I
hope that this, that this reposting is very encouraging to you and I will talk
to you later. See you in the group.