Hi, Diana, how are you finally was able to sign in, I mean I wasn't here because I wasn't
able to sign in but but today I'm glad I came in early to do to look at the videos because I
wouldn't have known when I was unable to log in and I wouldn't have had you know yes exactly yeah
I thought about that I said oh good she's getting that all worked out now yeah how are you doing
I'm doing good I'm here at my father-in-law's house and so my husband and I are
um we're resting but I'm also working with this you know so the rest intensive so I do a lot of
stuff in the background um and so I'm working actually basically all day and um and then he's
uh he's trying to rest so I'm trying to rest in there so but yeah and then yesterday we went to
or yesterday yeah yesterday we went to downtown St. Augustine and that was really special because
it was the it's um the U.S.'s first um America's meaning like specifically the U.S.'s uh first uh
city that was founded was St. Augustine by the Spaniards and so that was neat you get to see
you know like the original fort and all of that and then they have some they have some
uh like houses that were remade in that old style so they look like they're very old but
you know that there's no way that those things have lasted from the 1500s anyway so all of the
shops are in those old houses down at least at least one if not two streets and and that's really
fun so we went there to and then um to shop and to eat and hang out and anyway it was it was really
fun we we wanted to go to this Cuban restaurant because my my father-in-law is Cuban he came over
from Cuba when he was 15 right uh before the borders closed he got out on like one of the
last planes out of Cuba and when Fidel Castro took over and uh so anyway so my husband is half Cuban
and so we like to eat a lot of Cuban food and we went to a Cuban restaurant that they knew of and
we were very disappointed because we got there about like I don't know 5 30 I think or 5 and
they said well we don't have an opening until 9 30 and it is a big restaurant I mean it is a
really big restaurant just the real estate and then it's two floors so we're going how on earth
but anyway this is very popular so I was so disappointed that we didn't get to go to go to
a place that they knew of and that they were aware of but what is going on here um but what
in Florida huh are you in Florida yeah I was going to say a Cuban restaurant
with a big Cuban restaurant you have to be in Florida yes yes Jacksonville and so this was
down in St. Augustine and um the in the downtown St. Augustine I'm trying to log into our into the
zoom call from here to from my other computer just in case something because I've been having
problems again with this computer so my husband and I are going to have to have it
looked at here in Jacksonville but just in case this fails I'm gonna we won't lose on the meeting
this website not now oh is it not law oh shoot it's not lodged into the internet
I'm sure we'll be fine anyway um and uh so as typically happens you know you just kind of like
just give it all to the lord just kind of rest and be like okay you know kind of like if you've
seen Renata's and have you seen her journey share that she posted I think it was today
um she experienced you know the same thing and that is just when you give it all to the lord
that so often what happens is well I mean always what you get is something better but even sometimes
in the natural like not just in the spiritual you get something better but so often in the natural
it's just you get something better that you weren't expecting and so this restaurant wasn't
available to us so we just stumbled upon this other and then they were trying to find this
other Cuban restaurant couldn't find it so we found this other restaurant that neither of them
had ever seen before and it's because it's fairly new and we knew nothing about it it was Italian
coastal cuisine we walk in and I am telling you what it was an amazing meal they couldn't get us
to leave we just kept ordering appetizer after appetizer and then we ordered the entree and then
we ordered coffee and then dessert everything was excellent and I mean excellent
We loved everything we got.
It was so good.
And so we're like, this is such a neat gem of a find.
So that was a fun experience.
So we've been enjoying our time with Ed's family.
And then we're gonna go to his mom's
who lives here in Jacksonville as well.
We're gonna go stay with her, what is today's Sunday?
So this week, now I'm gonna do some training
while I'm down near her place.
And then it's at a ministry that Ed used to work at
before he moved to Morningstar.
And so he's gonna help out at the event
and then I'm gonna attend as a student.
But that's at the end of next week.
So anyway, that's my update.
So, yeah.
So anyway, let's see, you said that this past week
has been very busy for you, you've been all right?
Yes, yes, it's been good.
I had a birthday yesterday, my sister.
Was that fun?
She celebrated her birthday.
And so I'm a sister, a younger sister.
And which is, I was gonna just say something really,
it's been a very eventful week spiritually wise.
It was just wild, very wild.
Something I did not even know.
I started, my dad died in 94.
So that's like more, I don't know how many,
20 some odd years ago.
And Holy Spirit, and I kept thinking about him
and thinking about him, I'm like,
am I just thinking about my dad?
Like, I do think about him, but not that much.
And then I was feeling a lot of sadness.
And he said, that's grief.
And just the way the Holy Spirit has been talking to me
also this week, so clearly, it's just mind blowing.
Wow, I'm just amazed.
Cause he just, he clearly said,
what you're feeling is grief that is coming up
because you never processed it.
Like, it's like, I suppressed it 20 some odd years ago.
I never, I'm like, really?
It's like, yes.
And all week I've been just feeling this ache
and this grief.
And so I don't know what to do with it.
Honestly, I don't know what to do with it,
but just, I've been trying to feel it
and not push it away or not trying to,
but I don't want to fall into grief either.
Like, I don't want to stay there.
So, but it's just weird.
It's just an ache.
And I have never felt that before, really.
Yeah, wow.
That's really powerful and very exciting
that the Lord would show you that.
We talked about it this past, what was it?
I think it was this past rest group about,
it could have been the past.
Yeah, I think it was this past rest group.
We talked about negative emotions and what to do with them,
how it was important for them to come up and out.
So if you look up, I posted all of the fireside chats
and rest groups that we've had so far.
So we've had, this is our third, technically our fourth,
because I had the international rest group
at three o'clock on Tuesday afternoon.
But anyway, so all of those are posted.
And as to, if you go to the rest group one,
you'll see that at the end, near the end of it,
we talk about negative emotions and the importance,
like I said, to allow them to come up so we can feel them,
because otherwise it means that,
because if we don't allow ourselves to feel them,
well, then we're just stifling them,
we're stuffing them back down.
And then that's literally how we get physical diseases,
not to mention the spiritual and soulish ramifications.
But there's a difference between that
versus feeding on them.
So allowing it to come up and feeling it with the Lord
allows us to give it to them,
allows us to let, to take whatever it is
that we're feeling all of that about, and just let it go.
Because there's something that we're holding onto
and we have to let it just come up and out.
And versus holding onto it and use in feeding it.
If we feed on it, if we focus it,
well, then it'll just, it'll strengthen it
and then it'll stay.
So, yeah, you're right.
That balance is so challenging,
but yeah, it sounds like you're doing an amazing job
of just allowing yourself to grieve for the first time,
but as opposed to stifling it again,
but then, you know, being aware of,
okay, well, not feeding on it,
but allowing myself to fully grieve.
It says that when Jesus, you know,
heard that Lazarus had died
and he knew what was going to happen.
He knew he was going to go
and he was going to talk to Lazarus's soul
and resurrect him and all of that,
but yet he still wept and he still grieved.
Um, so anyway, um, figure that if Jesus grieves and it's okay for us to, but it
just means that we're not supposed to take any of that and use it in some kind
of an accusation against the Lord of his goodness or his sovereignty or his, you
know, whatever it is that he says.
Um, and, but it, but that grief means that we fully.
We fully interacted with someone, you know, and take them into our hearts
that we cared about and that we understood received and received the
significance of their value.
So, yeah, that's really good.
I'm excited for you.
All my words, such healing that we don't even know is down
there that we could have.
Right.
It's just amazing.
And then the videos, I was just looking, I was just like, Oh my God, so much.
I didn't know, but you know, that's why I'm here.
I'm so excited for you.
That's huge.
I'm excited to get to have seen all of the, um, uh, the journey shares and read
them and everything, because people are experiencing the things that, you
know, comes with this and all already, whenever we, uh, whenever people go
through this immediately, if they take this thing to heart, if they're serious
about it and they really start opening themselves up to the Lord, the Lord just
takes off immediately and starts doing stuff.
And, and, uh, and it's a, it always amazes everyone.
It always amazes me.
I was amazed at everyone else.
How easy it is.
It's like, we worked so hard for something and that all we had to do was God saying,
no, it's all here.
We're like, how on earth Lord is it all here?
Because I'm working really hard for it.
And I still can't find it.
And all we had to do is let go.
And as soon as we let go, as soon as we stopped trying, as soon as we accepted
that we were who God says that we were.
In other words, that what he was wanting from us was actually simply our default
state and our natural state, then all of a sudden everything, so many, but the hard
part is the letting it go.
The hard part is learning to operate in a different way.
Yeah.
I'm so excited for you.
Good.
Well, um, hopefully, uh, the others will join us pretty quick.
Um, does anyone have any questions to start us off with?
Yeah, they're having trouble getting on.
So I was trying to help direct, but, um, yeah, it's week two, February 2nd.
Right.
Yeah.
Um, yeah, it's actually the same zoom link.
So it, even though I have different days, same zoom link in each day.
So it's not working as weird as it sounds.
So I'm to go to a different day.
Oh, okay.
Are they on Facebook and they're no, they're on the, um, I don't see it.
I was trying to send a picture.
Yeah.
Oh, really?
Oh, I thought that on our, I usually like to have that open, but I'm
using my phone as a camera.
Yeah.
Thank you so much for navigating that Rita.
I appreciate that.
Okay.
There we go.
Did it go?
Yeah.
So fireside chat, right?
Yeah.
Fireside chat.
Yeah.
Um, so how did y'all get in here?
Um, that fireside chat and then the links in every single week.
Yeah.
So you went to today's and then you took you here.
Okay, good.
All right.
I want to make sure everything's working the way it's supposed to.
And that like, say for instance, so I'm, I'm used to this.
This is my old, um, flood, like my old training coming out.
So I have, and I used to manage software development teams.
And so I'm very aware of like how to troubleshoot technical issues.
So I'm like, okay.
Okay.
So Diana, how did you get in?
Okay.
Rita, how did you get in?
Clicked on the exact same page.
It got the same result.
Yeah.
She said today's date's not listing the problem, but I, I did
see the today's date listed.
She says, can you give me the steps from the beginning?
How do I get to the fireside chat tab?
So rest groups, right?
Yeah.
Either that just tell them to go to like week one and then look at today's date.
Cause today is because it's week one.
So go to today's date.
And then if they click on that on what is today, February 5th fireside chat,
if they click on that page, click on that, the page will pop up with the link.
Okay.
I'm going to start from groups though.
She's like, can you tell me from the beginning?
So groups rest intensive, right?
Yeah.
And then week one, right?
Yes.
So I'll probably do this differently.
I'll probably organize all this differently.
I organized it actually in the way that I thought would be most clear.
So you always do that and you see if it works and if it doesn't,
you organize it a different way.
So maybe I need to organize it by like just fireside chats, rest groups.
journey shares, instead of week one, week two, week, whatever.
So.
Oh, well, I mean, I like, I mean, like, it helps us know, like,
hey, we supposed to journey share this time. Yeah.
Now, what I can do is I could just do I could do each I could
do three tabs, you know, or three groups, or whatever you
call them, like, I can't think of what you call them in the in
the background, they're called collections, like, you know,
fireside chats, rest groups, journey shares, those recall
collection, or week one, week one is a collection. So I
collected a group of days under week one, what I could do
instead is I could just have, like journey shares. And then
under that I list every single day that needs to be done. The
reason that I did it the other way is that so everyone would
know, okay, today is we'd have one place for everyone to go
almost kind of like a calendar. What is on today? Okay, I go to
week one, okay, what's happening in week one, and you see all the
things that happen in week one by day. So basically, I did it by
times instead of by categories. I did it by days instead of by
categories of like, what type of thing. But anyway, I always
wanted to know what is going to work best for the most number of
people. Hey, Tamra, were you able to get on?
Oh, it looks like it's just Karen.
Yeah. Hey, yes. Hey, don't have any trouble.
It's the one that was asking for the instructions. What you read
a gamer so but she's Oh,
what I did is I had to go to week two on my iPad. It just
showed the seventh and the ninth I had to click more on
week two then it showed then it showed today's date which is odd
because you would have thought that February 5 would have
showed first even if you did if the list wasn't fully extended.
So I think that may be the issue Diane is having because she
usually logs off on her phone as well.
Oh, maybe from the phone is different. Oh, Karen. Oh, yeah.
Let me see. Can we just go maybe I can just put the zoom link in
the thing.
Oh, yeah, put it in the
in the chat was already. Yeah,
yeah. That's good. Yeah. I don't know. I'm not logged into my
phone. So I can't add it.
Thanks.
Yeah, I didn't have to click more. But maybe because like you
said, you're on the iPad or the phone.
Yes, we're to say.
Yeah, it's a little different on the phone. The phone is that I
find a bit challenging. Because you have to go to content. Oh,
she found it. Yeah.
I think we're all here now.
Yay.
Hey, Karen, you made it.
Yay, Karen.
Oh, we can't hear you. Let me. Uh, yeah, I can't unmute you. If
you want to unmute yourself.
Okay, so I'm going to unmute myself.
Okay.
So if you tap Karen, if you tap your phone, the unmute button
will pop up will appear at the bottom. Yeah, there you go. We
can't hear me now. We can hear you and see you.
Can you hear me loud and clear? Or do I need my headphones?
No, we hear you loud and clear. Can you hear us? Good.
Yeah, for the first time I can. I mean, wow.
Great. Right. Super. Well, I'm sorry that we can't hear you.
Great. Right. Super. Well, I'm sorry that there was so much
trouble on finding it. Did you figure out how to do it?
Right. I get I guess so. I thought I mean, I was asking
to go on a zoom 15 minutes ago. And I don't know why it I'd
Yeah. So I don't know which one I was on any different than
this, though. So that's what's frustrating is, I don't know.
I'm sorry. What you can do is, you know, if you just go to
like, whatever week that we're on, and then click on or really
on any fireside chat, you know, it'll say like January 28
fireside chat or something like that. You click on it on the
page that will open next to it is a zoom link is the same zoom
link for every fireside chat. And it's a different zoom link
for every rest group. So sorry, meaning like all the rest groups
are one zoom link for all six weeks. And then every fireside
chat is the same zoom link for all six weeks.
Okay now so okay so when we meet Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, are they all fireside chats?
No, Sunday and Thursday are and then Tuesday is the rest group so all you have to do just go to
when you go to the platform go to content if you're on your phone you know it says discussion
go to content which is the last tab at the end because it'll say something like about
discussion content click on content and go down to whatever week we're on and we're on
we're on week one and if you open each week it'll have a list of the dates so look at today's date
and see what what's going on that day like oh today's the fireside chatter and then open up
that day yeah but then okay i'm having a problem because for one thing isn't this week two
uh oh yes it is it is week two so did you go to me but either way so either way all of the
fireside chats are the same zoom link okay okay but okay but i never could find this
today's date anywhere two five is nowhere to be found for me so that's yeah erin i was having the
same problem on my ipad i have i have the word it said more when i clicked more than it um everything
it extended and then i was able to see all the dates for week two but before i clicked that it
didn't show february 5th so that's why i was confused like you i don't know if it was looking
the same way yeah okay i appreciate y'all telling me that i'm going to have to contact the people
who um created the platform let them know that when i'm see i have to sort it on the back end
and on the back end i've sorted it so it's according it's it's telling it to do it in the
date that i tell it but apparently for some of you it's showing up in the date that i ordered it and
in others it's ignoring that i gave it that i gave the platform that instruction so i'm going
to have to let them know about that glitch so i'm sorry it's very sad yeah so it's cool so it's yeah
because i'm on an android too so tell me again what'd you say sunday and sunday and what now is
so sunday and thursday are fireside chats and tuesday is rest group so what's the difference
so fireside chats are just a live q a's and then the so where people come on and they ask me
questions and i you know about like hey you know i've been going through this you know and or and
i've been having questions i've been experiencing this what's on earth is going on or how do i
handle this and rest whatever live q a and then on tuesday nights that's when people we all get
together like kind of like a small group and then y'all all divide into breakout rooms you know or
if it's a small enough group well then everyone stays on the same group but then i get off video
and off microphone and then y'all just discuss together basically kind of journey share together
hey this is what i've been going through and kind of like y'all talk it out so basically it's you
get to articulate things um without having to have a teacher there so which is kind of nice sometimes
okay yeah okay all right i'll see if i can remember that yeah yeah and like yeah like i said
if you just go to the to um whatever week that we're on and then just look for the date i'm sorry
that you couldn't find the date today so like tim tamari said if you if you go down to anything
um and it's and it won't give you enough information it'll say load more at the bottom
and like this black i tried that i tried that too i don't know and it didn't work oh i'm sorry
i don't know no i keep trying to uh look at the platform make sure that it's smooth for everyone
um the reason that it was important to me to get off of facebook is i'm concerned that with fix
facebook's crackdown they're cracking down on christian groups and they're completely deleting
them so i wanted to get off of facebook before ours was deleted now no hopefully that would never
happen but i've just been praying myself through facebook for two and a half years asking lord lord
i'm because i'm like constantly hearing of like people that were especially for a period of time
there that christian groups were christian private groups just like ours were being deleted by
facebook just because and um invite even some non-christian um uh facebook profiles and groups
were being completely erased um even just because they didn't who knows what i heard that yeah i've
heard that too so so tuesday's fireside chat the other ones are rest no so sunday and thursday
fireside chat see i have too too many things so yeah yeah i'm sorry for all the confusion like i
say if you just
Just try to go by the dates, that'll be easier.
But if I can't find them, I need to know the other.
Yeah, I thought they were all the same.
So this is just kind of confusing to me.
So.
Yeah, I'm trying to think.
I don't know.
I'll see if there's something else that I can do
to make it a little easier.
I'm sorry, running into issues.
Because I've had issues getting on here a few times now.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Yeah.
And that, yeah.
So, okay.
So the Tuesdays, the rest, Sunday.
So if I find anything that says rest,
I can click on it and Tuesday, Thursday
or the fireside chat.
Yeah, Sunday, Thursday.
I mean, Sunday.
See, I'm getting, sorry.
No, the reason that I do it that way is,
and Rita knows this,
is because originally rest groups were on Sunday nights.
But the problem with that is then you only had one day
between two live Q and A's.
And it was just, it was too quick.
I mean, people didn't have enough questions
that could come up sometimes between in just two days.
So what I did is I moved the live Q and A's
further apart in the week.
So that's why I did it that way.
So, yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
So does anyone have a question
that they would like to start us off with?
I don't have anything.
Afraid that I can't think of any questions
that have come in that I've seen to be able to.
So if someone has anything that maybe has come up or.
Oh.
Has everything been making sense
in going through the teachings?
If anyone is trying to either catch up on the teachings
or has gone through that kingship
and releasing exercises video,
you know, that we didn't do in the conference.
And I said to just do that on your own.
I believe that's session four.
And has anyone had any questions about any of that?
Under, I remember all of this stuff discussed in that.
I think, I think meditation, which I know sounds crazy
and it sounds kind of scary.
You know, it's not, it's not new agey or anything,
but kind that I'm talking about
is just simply bring yourself down
where you're removing yourself basically below a propensity
to be afraid and being more open and supple to the Lord
to receive what he has to say to us.
So there was that.
Do you have any tips on how to get to that place
on meditation?
I struggle because I'm like an overthinker
and sometimes I have to tell myself to, you know,
to be still like, you know,
cause I'm just, how do you get to yourself?
Any tips on?
Have you watched the session yet?
Yeah, I did.
But, and then I put on music that, you know,
just like instrumental, like, like that,
that music and stuff.
And at times I still find myself just struggling.
Is it, does it get easier?
So what are you struggling with specifically?
Too many thoughts or, or, or feelings internal?
I guess I, I like,
I need an internal quietness or something.
Sometimes I just don't get to that place that you,
as I'm saying,
is it a process to that place that you're talking about
where you're completely, what did you call it?
Yeah, moving into theta.
Yes.
So the, it is easier if,
well, what I did to practice that is I would,
like I mentioned in the, in the teaching,
I, what helped me other,
in other words, this isn't a magic formula.
I'm just saying, this is what actually worked for me
so that y'all can try it if you want.
And if it doesn't work for you, you can modify it.
But what worked for me is I imagined a,
I closed my eyes and I would imagine a blank screen.
Again, I wouldn't, I didn't stand and I didn't lie down.
I would sit up, but I would close my eyes,
imagine a blank screen in front of me
and then pick a white dot that I kind of imagined as light
and that I imagined as Jesus.
Now I didn't give him a.
form because he would, I would bank him so far away that I couldn't get distracted by a form.
But the fact that that light was Jesus would make me feel safe and would make help me anchor myself
and my thoughts on God, as opposed to me kind of like being out in some ethereal
aloneness, you know. And so anyway, because again, what I'm wanting to make myself subject,
make myself supple to and suggestible to, in other words, easy to receive something
that's being said. I only want it to be from God, not from my own fears, not from my own,
you know, anything negative for my own soul and not anything from an outside spirit that's not
of the Lord. So anyway, that's, that's another reason why I like focus on that light as being,
you know, Jesus. And then I, and it also gives me kind of an anchor point because it's easier for me
to get distracted if it's all blackness, because then there's just, there's just nothing to,
to anchor myself to. So I've got an anchor. And then I just, I know that, you know, the thoughts
are going to start coming. And sure enough, as they start coming, I just allow, I don't focus
on him. I just like, okay. I just thought about that. Okay. I just thought about that, but I
don't stop and think, oh my word. I don't latch on to the idea. I don't latch on to the fact that,
oh my goodness, I can't believe I thought about that. Or I don't latch on to the fact of,
oh my word, you know, that's right. I do need to look into that or, oh my word. Yeah. I need
to add that to the grocery list. I, I just, I don't, basically I don't give it any power.
I allow it to present itself. I allow it to try to get attention and I just don't empower it.
I'm like, you know what? I'm just going to ignore it right now. It can yap. I don't know it.
So I just kind of move through it. Like I mentioned in this, in the session,
I just moved through it like a cloud. And what that does is it, because it is, is training me
to govern is training me to govern myself because I'm, and I'm starting with my thoughts
and that, and that actually be yet. And because I'm, because what it's doing is it's training me
to move into my position of rulership and authority. I'm subconsciously taking rulership
over my own emotions. And so, yes, it does start everything in me starts calming down
simply because I'm learning to exercise my kingship. I'm learning to exercise the fact
that I own myself and I govern myself. So as soon as I move into that position of like
Governor governorship, you know, of kingship, all of the other aspects of me that are waiting for
me to present myself that are waiting to be identified that they themselves are waiting
to be identified by who I reveal myself to be. So if I reveal myself to be a King, then like,
Oh, well, we're subjects of you. So now I know who I am. Now that you've presented yourself.
Now I know who I am. And now I feel safe because I know who I am. And I know that you're there to
protect me. So I calmed down. So everything in us, even our emotions will begin to, you know,
when everything internally, or, you know, our heart rate, you know, our breathing, all of that
will slow down as we begin to, as we begin to remember, even subconsciously, even if you're
not consciously remembering it subconsciously, even if you're not consciously remembering it,
subconsciously, you were remembering that you're a King and you're remembering that you rule and
you're suddenly taking your position and everything around you will notice meaning like
everything within you, your feelings, your beliefs, your thoughts, your body, whatever, it'll notice,
Oh, there she is. Okay. Now I know what to do. And now I can calm down. So everything, you know,
eventually will. So, um, and so, yeah, you just kind of, you just practice because really what
you're doing is you're not practicing getting it to, how would you put that base? Uh, Oh,
how, how would you word that? You are, you are, are taking more and more of a, um, Oh man,
why am I, my, uh, where it's failing you tonight? You're just really what you're doing is you are
reminding yourself more and more of who it is that you are, and you're moving yourself more
into your default state. So that's what's taking a while. It's not usually really so much that
your feelings are taking a while to get on board in something like this. And I, and this is not
always the case, but it's usually the case that what's taking a while is you shifting into that
position. It's not that you're shifting into that position and it's not responding again,
that can happen. And that does happen periodically, but usually it doesn't usually by far
the highest.
The highest amount of times, the highest percentage of times, it's just that it's taking a while because you're not stepping into that place.
There's something that is still making us afraid or something that really, you know, that we're still not choosing.
We're waiting for something to happen instead of putting ourselves there.
So I suppose it's another way for me to word that is, or for me to explain, is that when we're in that situation, remember, this is teaching us how to shift into sitting in the position of kingship.
So it's something that we're needing to actively do, so to speak. In other words, we have it, we're needing to make a choice.
We can't just sit there and allow the thing to happen to us. And we're so, and that's what this exercise is all about.
We're so used to feeling victim to what happens to us. Oh my word, this happens to me today because so-and-so made a decision and it affected my life.
And now I have to deal with it. You know, we're so used to, or this is how I feel. And so now it's requiring a response from me.
We're used to living our lives so often by what is requiring, from the perspective that our lives are dictated by what is requiring a response from us.
When really, God says, no, no, no, get up every morning, remembering that you are who I said that you are, and you choosing very determinedly, very, very intentionally what you want to create, what you want to do, all with God.
But my point is from a very offensive position instead of a defensive one. And so that's something that we, that we use this exercise to help strengthen within us is being intentional about positioning ourselves where God says that we are.
We're not doing a series of like formulaic actions of, okay, imagine a blank screen, imagine this, imagine this, and then suddenly something's going to happen outside of our control.
All that we're doing is we're giving ourselves a particular environment that is in which we're more likely to choose, but we still have to be the ones who have to do it.
So anyways, all of this helping or making sense.
Okay, good.
Good.
So and then when I've done this, I'm telling you, I, it was normal for me to do this sometimes on a daily basis for an hour.
And it would feel like it was 510 minutes and I would look up and it would been an hour.
Because she just, anyway, it's very, I don't know, everything just kind of everything within me just kind of stills and it just slows down.
And you would think that it would have slowed down time so that's something that I've never understood is why and I would look up at the clock and think how on earth has it been an hour and 15 minutes I thought it was 10 minutes.
And it would happen over and over every day and I don't understand, because to me it felt like I was everything within me had slowed so much that I thought that it was slowing time down, so to speak.
In other words, that I was able to feel every millisecond.
But really what it was is it's like when as soon as I slowed down I flew through time.
How that works exactly I don't know, but I experienced it every day.
So anyway, so I'm glad that that's helpful.
So on that note, so we're meditating and learning to take control of our minds or, you know, in our thoughts to at some point after you've taken that do you put something in there and you start talking to God or, or are you just trying to teach yourself to be.
Yes. So, go ahead.
Yeah, I guess, you know, yeah I guess after the step of quieting yourself I guess I didn't know the next step. What would happen next. Yeah.
So that's a good question. So one of two things you can use that to initiate listening to the Lord, being more open because you're dropping yourself down you're dropping your brain down and into what they know is more suggestible state.
In other words, there's less resistance, which is why people talk about doing that with like hypnosis and whatever people who do hypnosis, because you're people are more suggestible now that what I'm talking about is nothing whatsoever to do with hypnosis.
And that people use that use, um, that people getting people to a particular
state because they're suggestible.
But remember all we're doing is we are breaking down our, all of the resistance
that we're having against God, why we're not believing him, why we're not
hearing him, why we're not whatever, or we're not receiving from him, right?
That's all we're trying to do.
We're not trying to do anything weird.
You have full control of yourself.
You're fully functioning, you know, in your consciousness and all of that.
You are using it in order to, to gain control of yourself again, so to speak.
So, um, by again, removing all of the resistance that you, and all of the,
it, all of the, um, are they called inhibitions?
You know, you know, all of the, all of the things that you're
using to create your resistance anyway.
Um, so that's the whole practice is just basically to teach you and to
strengthen that muscle of regaining control of yourself.
And to realize, oh, I really do govern myself.
I really am not subject to my thoughts.
I can control my own thoughts.
I can, in other words, I can determine what it is that I listen to pay
attention to follow through on or whatever.
So that's, it's kind of like this revelation of a thing of like, oh my
word, I'm really not subject to my life.
Like I thought it, like I thought it was.
So it's that kind of an exercise, but you can use it kind of
just to strengthen your muscle.
But you can extend that into, okay.
Now talk, you can then do that process for a bit and then
start talking to the Lord.
Cause the, again, the whole point of this is you strengthen the muscle so that you
can go to that place every time.
And you can, without going through this whole thing of like seeing blackness,
it, you know, with a, with a white dot that you're thinking of as light, and
then imagining your thoughts going through you like clouds, you know,
you don't have to, it's, it's making yourself familiar enough with gaining
control and shifting into that place of Kingship so that eventually you'll be
so used to it that you don't even have to use this tool.
You'll just go there.
You'll just drop your resistance.
You'll more easily hear from the Lord because you just don't, like I said,
you're not having as much resistance.
It's similar to the rest shifting tools.
You know, how eventually those, those tools are all to just teach you how to
find that place within you that's in resistance and just letting it go.
And that eventually you'll get so used to finding that place because
the tools just help you find a place.
And so, and teach you how to like understand what it means and
feels like to let something go.
And eventually you'll become so familiar with that process.
You don't even need the tool to go to the place within you.
That's got resistance in the left.
The thing go, that's what this exercise is.
It's to basically strengthen a muscle so that eventually you won't even need the
tool in order to just stop resisting and very clearly hear the Lord or start
talking to him without distractions.
That's kind of the whole point of this is we feel very victim to our distractions.
Oh my goodness.
I couldn't do it because I was too distracted.
I mean, you're just like, I can't, I can't pay attention
because the television's on.
I can't pay attention because there's music.
I can't be attention.
We're feel victim to our environment.
And so this is to teach us how to, that we're not victim to our
environment, including our own.
Our own thought environment.
And the more that we gain control of ourselves, the more that we can control
ourselves in any environment, and we're not even doing the tool.
Why?
Because we simply use the tool to strengthen the muscle.
So now we can use the muscle whenever we want.
That's the point of it.
Does that make sense?
Yes.
Okay.
But you can use this exercise if you want to, like, right before you
start talking to the Lord and whatever, you can do that.
Absolutely.
But it's not like you can't find this tool somewhere in the Bible of like,
oh, he said, before you talk to him, you know, to do this, it's just to like,
help us, like I said, strengthen, um, and ask it re, um, I don't know, kind
of put hands and feet to practicing being a king, governing ourselves, being
in control of ourselves, making the rules by which, uh, by which we live.
So those two having to respond.
I mean, I equate it to being still like that, that Bible verse
teaching ourselves to be still.
Yeah.
Be still.
I know that I'm God.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Yeah, you're welcome.
Does anyone have anything else, anything else that's come up?
Have y'all, have the rest shifting tools been helpful?
Have y'all been able to apply them or what have you been using the most?
Have you been using, trying to, you know, remembering and choosing that God loves you,
that you're unconditionally accepted?
That for me is what I had to remember the most.
I had to choose no, and that's what I recommend to everybody.
That's the most important foundational thing is to choose that you're unconditionally accepted
without shame and condemnation, and that you're unified with him.
Remember that's the first two things that we talked about were the fact that God loves
us and, and unconditionally, and that we are unified with him to the extent that he says
that we are.
It's not like, oh, we're, we're inside of him and oh, isn't that nice?
You know, no, we're, we're like, we're so integrated with him.
We can't be separated.
He is the head and we are the body.
I mean, we're just like this, we're that integrated, right?
The body gives instruction to the head, gives instruction to the body and the body can't
exist or function without instruction and direction from the head.
Remember it's the head that gives instruction to the heart to pump and the lungs to breathe
and tells everybody what it is you're supposed to do that kind of a thing.
And we're that integrated with him.
So as, as much as it might seem like it's not as easy to real, um, that it doesn't seem
as relevant sometimes to specific situations as maybe a rest tool would be, Oh, well, you
know, I'm in the middle of the situation.
It's a lot easier for me to connect a rest tool to it, you know, um, while it, so you
can absolutely use a rest tool.
Just remember though, that the most powerful thing that will change everything because
the rest tools are completely powerless without these things, the most powerful thing is actually
to, to really, um, have a, an interaction with an experience with God, meaning like,
like as a, as a normal occurrence, not like a one-time experience, a normal, um, interaction
with the Lord that, um, that you are unconditionally loved and accepted that you are who he says
that you are, that you have, that there is no shame, no, no condemnation, even when you're
in the middle of a sin of sinning, that you're so unified with him, that there's no separation
even when you sin and actually live like that.
So ask yourself things like if God loved me, as much as he said that it says that he does
how, what would I do in this situation or how, you know, how, what choice would I make
in this situation?
And the same thing about union, if I really am not separated from God and I am as unified
with him, as he says that I am, what would I do?
And what would I, what would I believe?
What, what would I act on?
Because remember that that is faith, that faith is acting, that faith has to have an
action in order to actually be faith.
It's not because it's a formula like, okay, well, you know, there's, you know, one plus
one is two.
It's that it's that if you really do have faith, then you will act on it because it
means that that is what is what you base your sense of reality on.
And we always, always, always, always, always, always, always without fail live and act by
what we really believe is real.
We do not act on things that we don't believe are real, um, always, but even like it, we
can say that we believe something is real all we want, but if subconsciously we don't,
we want to act like it or, and if, if we do it anyway, if we act on it anyway, even without
the faith, remember what I talked about before, you know, if you like go to the faith is going
to the edge of the cliff and then believing in something that God said, and if God's,
and then because you believe it, it creates a stepping stone for you to step out onto
it.
But how I said that if you don't have faith faith in it, just stepping out and acting
on it, won't, won't get you anywhere because your faith didn't create the step.
You know, it's, it's that kind of a thing you just, because you act on it.
So we can do that sometimes we can be, we can want to believe God so much that we think,
okay, well, what does faith mean?
Well, I thought if I really believe it, then I'll act on it.
Okay.
So I'll just act on it because, but if you don't remember that, if you don't have the
faith, then, then.
You're not going to get the, you're not going to get the benefits of acting on it.
You, you, you'll act on it and you'll fail.
And it won't work for all the reasons that you thought in the
first place, it wasn't going to work.
You're going to bear those consequences.
Why?
Because your faith didn't, didn't create a step to support your action.
So, um, I don't remember how it got off on all of that, but, um, it's
very important to, um, to act.
Oh, that's what I was saying, you know, to think, okay, Lord, I'm
choosing that you really do believe.
I mean, if you really do believe that you really did say that
you accept me unconditionally.
So I've just sinned.
So now what do I do?
Well, before I would feel so guilty that I would pay for, I would pay for
reconnection with you by apologizing over and over and over and over and over
and feeling really bad, but Lord, that whole action was based off my belief
that I'm separated from you and that terrified me.
So if I'm wanting to change that belief, Lord, so you're telling me that I'm not
separated from you, even when I sin.
Okay.
So what would I do?
Okay.
Lord, I'm desiring to believe that.
And so, Lord, I am going to believe it.
I'm in other words, I'm going to choose that it's true, because
remember what I said about faith.
That you choose that it's true because it's an act of your will.
You determine for yourself that that is the reality of
the world in which you live.
You make it up.
That's what it's going to feel like.
You're not making it up because God said it first, but it will feel to you like
you were making up something that's not even true, that's how it will feel.
You won't believe it.
And you know, and you won't feel like it and you will have no law and
you'll have no logic to back it up.
But God said, so, okay, Lord, you said that I'm not separated
from you, even when I sin.
So therefore, if that's true, God, I can prove it to myself by choosing that
that's true, and I'm going to act on it.
I'm going to put myself in a vulnerable position with you too.
And again, this is a safe one.
You're not like walking out in the middle of the street, you know, coming
on oncoming traffic or something and being really ridiculous.
You're putting yourself in it.
And in quote, unquote, like safe place to be able to exercise and
practice these things with the Lord, put yourself in a vulnerable
position with the Lord.
So he can, um, for him to show up as he says that he is like, okay, God.
And here's the thing though, remember, you're not supposed to test God.
This isn't testing that has a specific.
Very negative heart to it.
Like, okay, well, I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna make up, prove himself.
That's not what you're doing.
Really?
What you're doing is you are forcing yourself out of your old
box into, to, into believing what God said.
So it was like, okay, I used to act like this.
Okay.
God, that's was based on this belief.
So instead of Lord, I'm going to choose that you're not separated, that I'm not
separated from you even when I sin.
And Lord, you say that if I ask anything of you in your name, that I'm going to
receive it because you say, God, that you're a good God, you say that you're
an abundant, that you are, um, that you, that you take care of me in abundance.
So therefore Lord, I'm going to ask you for something.
And then I'm going to see by experience, I'm going to prove to myself by putting
myself in a very vulnerable position, the Lord, that the Lord really is who he says
that he is, you're not testing God.
Cause here's the difference.
Testing God is going to God, not believing it.
And then wanting him to prove you wrong.
That's going to him expecting that he's guilty and him had enforcing
him to prove his innocence.
That will get us nowhere.
And it says in the Bible that that's wrong.
It says we're not supposed to test God, but where you are, that if you're coming
to God's choosing that, what he says is true, really what you're doing
is you're risking yourself.
You were trying to take what you use.
You're, you're trying to, um, write what, what a friend of mine refers to as
writing a new record for yourself that you've been in this position before.
And you made a particular choice and maybe you tried to trust God or whatever,
but you had no faith and it was only, um, you had no faith in it and it was only
action and you saw what happened.
No faith without faith or, you know, trying to step out on something action.
Without faith, completely fall down because there's no, there's no step to hold yet.
Right.
So you're like, okay, I've been here before.
Last time I tried, it didn't work.
Also, if I did the opposite of what God says, these things happen.
So when God says that I should step out and that he really is there and I've
tried it before and it didn't work.
So now I'm going to risk it again, but this time I'm going to do
it from a different position.
I'm going to do it, trusting God.
Last time I did it, not trusting God, testing God.
And claim and believing that it wasn't going to work and just hoping that I was
wrong and just requiring of God that he proved himself innocent, you know, and
then I fell and here I am again.
So what you're doing is you're proving it to yourself.
You're proving to yourself that God is who he is.
You're not asking God to prove it.
That's the difference.
And it's a heart issue.
It's a heart position makes.
All the difference in the world.
I'm telling you, because I experienced it, meaning like I've experienced
both many, many, many, many, many, many times stepping out and action
without faith, completely failed, completely flopped, and then got very
hurt and then got very bitter and resentful against the Lord.
And then I had a whole plethora of examples in which I had faith in God and
what he said, and I stepped out on that faith, meaning like I really did choose.
And I stepped out and he completely supported it.
So, um, do anyway.
Um, but I, so my, the way that I got there was, um, just wanting to remind
everyone that the most important thing is not that we're trying to, that the
point of the rest intensive is not, Hey, we're all in a bad place and we
need to be in a better place.
That's not it.
It is focusing on God's goodness and his love.
God is good.
And what he wants for you is freedom.
He loves you unconditionally there.
You are not is, and to choose that you are not under any more shame and condemnation.
It's to focus on, on the goodness of who he says he is and who he says that you are.
That is what I recommend you focusing on.
That will completely change your life and it will completely change
the tone of your experience during the rest intensive.
If you approach the rest intensive, like, okay, Ashley, I don't feel good.
I want to escape it.
That will be a very long road.
It will feel very, very difficult.
And Rita's Rita's nose, like smiling.
She's like, I've watched other people go through it.
You could ask her whether she's gone through it.
I've gone through it, but I'm telling you totally changes the tone of it.
But if you, and I'm noticed by the way, I've noticed a world of difference in
the people who go through the rest intensive and view it as a positive
forward thing that is drawing them to God.
Oh my word.
He loves me as opposed to, okay, what can I believe about God that
will let me escape how painful this is?
That is a very long journey.
And, um, and you, you can, you can absolutely do it.
It will take a lot longer though.
What I've noticed a huge difference in is how quickly and how powerfully people
move and stay in, you know, in love and freedom and continuing to follow the
Lord like that by them choosing to focus on God's love, unconditional acceptance.
No shame, no condemnation union with him that he's that good.
I mean, keep asking yourself, is God really that good?
Yes.
And then you go deeper, you know, is God really that good?
Yes.
If you use that to draw yourself, then you will have, then you will shift much
faster, much more powerfully, and it will be a much more positive experience.
So that's where all the power is because remember whatever we focus on, we feed.
So if we were going to always focus on what, where it is, we're trying to escape
from, we're feeding the monster.
We're trying to flee from.
We're actually making a lot harder to escape because we're focusing on
trying to get out of the dadgum thing.
And God's just like, no, no, no, forget about it.
You're giving it entirely too much power and attention.
Just focus on me.
And then I would, in my love will completely transform your life.
You will begin to make decisions without even needing to ask Ashley about how you
make these certain decisions and rest simply because my love and my freedom
will open you up to being able to more clearly know on your own of how to make
these decisions, you know, and how to shift into rest and all of that.
That's what shifted me into rest.
I'm tell, see, I'm telling y'all tools that worked for me.
No one told me those tools.
How did I learn them?
I learned them because what I always had to focus on was, okay, God says he's.
That much love.
He says, there's no shame and no condemnation.
He says that there's no separation.
He says he's that I'm, I need that unified with him.
So what, what am I doing?
That's not letting me let that's resisting me choosing that.
And then how do I let that go?
So what helped me learn everything that I did was focusing on those things.
I didn't have the tools, the tools were developed in my
seeking out how to follow these things, how to believe in, how to act on them,
how to choose them, how to move forward.
So basically I wasn't trying to escape.
If I, when I had been living my life, trying to living my life, trying to escape
all of the pain and using God and like, is it kind of like a formula of how to
escape all these bad things just simply so I can live an easier, better life that
just that it was a long and painful road.
And it brought me absolutely to the end of myself.
So what switched for me is when I stopped focusing on what I was trying to escape
from, I no longer required of God to allow me to escape or to work or to, you
know, cause me to escape.
I no longer require God to get me out of where I was.
That's what changed everything for me.
And instead, what I did is I chose God.
Who are you?
And I want to get to know that I want to believe that I want to have faith in that.
I want to live like that.
And whatever that causes, even the bad, painful, suffering things to happen in my
life, so be it that's fine, but I'm just going to focus Lord on the good, not on
escaping the bad, and that's when everything changed.
So just FYI, it's very important to, to be focusing in the rest intensive on the
fact that God is so much better than we thought that he was as opposed to how
can I use God to help me escape?
So that will be a very long, painful road.
And what I'm going to do is I already have some of these, I already have these
journey shares in here from past people that have gone through the rest intensive,
but you'd have to scroll way down to find them.
So I'm going to find a few of them and pop them up from up top, either that, or
put them in a special category.
I'm not really sure.
And so that y'all can read those and hopefully be encouraged by them.
There are people that have that again, they, you know, I've been, I've been
mentoring people for almost three years now, it'd be three years, April 4th, I
think, and these are people that have gone through this, that I've taught this
to, and then they went to try to apply it in their own life and real life situations.
And they came back with these amazing testimonies.
I mean, time after time, after time, time again.
So I'm going to find some of those so that y'all can know, Hey, look, it's not
just me, it's other people who've been on this journey and what it is that they
experienced, because maybe what it'll do is it'll help you flesh out what it is
that I'm talking about into your daily life by hearing how other people, um,
actually, um, lived it and experienced it and what they saw of their own God in
their lives, because that's where everything changes, all this stuff that
I'm talking about, uh, it just sounds good.
It won't change your life until you, until you choose between you and God that
he is who he says that he is, and you step out and risk yourself on him really
being who he says that he is.
And let yourself experience, um, actually got himself experienced
that he is who he says he is.
So, and then you'll start seeing what happens in your life and you'll find that.
That you, what it does is odd as it is.
And it's, it's, it's actually very exciting.
You won't care as much about what happens.
It's basically like promises.
Remember we talked about the promises the other day, how it, how
we're not supposed to focus on.
Oh, I think it was in the, uh, it was in the, um, international rest group.
So I recommend if y'all haven't seen that, I've posted all of the rest groups
in the fireside chats we've had so far recommend you go and you watch the,
uh, the international rest group one.
Um, cause we were, um, you can hear, you know, Renata and Annette and I visiting.
And in there, we were talking about promises versus the one who promised
and how important it is for us to focus on the one who promised
instead of what he promised.
And, uh, uh, anyway, so we'll, you'll discover that when you begin to
experience, we begin to risk yourself on God's character and give up the
things that meant so much to you.
That God will start manifesting the goodness of his character and his
abundance and his love and all of this is specific ways in your life that
matter to you, that makes sense to you, that, that you value, and you will
find that all it will do will just get you will is you won't be as excited
about what happened as you will be about what it showed about God and it
basically what it can do.
who is it can begin to loosen your whole even more and more to this world because
you're, because you begin to actually experience how good God is, and then
he's just all you want, and it'll help you loosen your, your need and your
hold of how things manifest on earth.
Like, are you in pain or are you in comfort?
You stop caring as much.
I know that that sounds weird, but it's because you finally discover
God's as good as he says that he is.
And if he's that well, then who cares about the world?
And the more that you do that, the more that you feed into that, then, um, the
more, and the more you let go of this world, the more of this, the, um, of this
world that sometimes that God will give you why, because you no longer need it.
But he doesn't want to give something to us and, and like, like fill our lives
with things that are actually creating greater resistance to him, because it's
actually not giving us what it is that we're asking for.
So as weird as it is, you know, he's, he's, um, kind of interesting, you know,
how he fulfills our, our, our, um, our, and answers our prayers that we ask him
for, Lord, I want to know more of you and all of that.
So it was like, this is, this is it.
Um, you know, and you think I'm withholding things from you and instead
I'm trying to give you what it is that you actually want.
So anyway, I'll post some of those up and I think that you'll
be really encouraged by them.
I'm always encouraged when I read them, you know?
Um, and, uh, so I will, it is after time, so I will let y'all go and hope
that y'all have a good evening and, uh, don't forget the, the journey shares.
Those are great.
I'm enjoying those.
Um, and on the journey shares, uh, I had noticed this and so poor Renata
had noticed the same thing, maybe even Rita, that you can't post
emojis in the actual post itself.
It will reject the post.
It'll completely disappear.
And I wouldn't want that to happen to y'all.
So, um, I, and it took me a while to figure it out.
I thought, why are some of these posts disappearing?
So I thought, let's see if I remove the emojis.
Yeah, sure enough.
You know, if you remove the emojis, it won't disappear.
So, um, so just don't put any emojis in the post, which is
very sad because I love emojis.
But it does, the program does let you put them in the comment section.
So, um, there's that.
Um, and it's, uh, also if you do a video videos are my favorites, Rita and
Renata will tell you they are my favorite, um, cause it helps me
connect so much with people.
But, um, uh, the, uh, if you do post a video, do some kind of a text or
something, you just say, it could just be like, Hey, Hey there, or journey
share, because the, if you click on the video, it won't let people, it won't
let people comment if you only do a video.
So if you do a little text at the bottom of the video, like you, you post a video,
but you also put some little texts in there, it will let people comment on it.
Cause they can open up the post by clicking on the text.
If you click on the video, it'll just start playing the video, but it won't
open it as weird as it is though.
Just little glitches that I apologize for.
But, um, again, I'm very pleased with the overall platform and I'm very
excited that it gets us off Facebook.
Um, but the program is still in, uh, still being developed.
There are some really big ministries that are actually using it right now.
And some are using it as their sole platform.
Um, so I'm trying to do the same thing cause it, um, it gives me more, um,
autonomy and control over the content, um, without me being afraid that it's
going to disappear or something because I'm on some other free platforms.
So anyway, so I'm okay with dealing with these little glitches, but I wanted to
make sure that y'all knew how to navigate it.
Does anyone have a question?
Great question, Ashley.
And I haven't done, I haven't done any journey share.
So is that like, is that okay?
Yeah, just try to jump on there soon and do some, because the
whole point is to articulate.
Um, so it is part of the program.
So in the point of it is to art is, um, to articulate what it is that some, that,
um, for yourself, what you're going through, you know, between you and the
Lord and, um, and just basically, you know, just kind of like what you've been
talking about, like say for instance, on the rest group or whatever.
So if you'd go in there and do those, that would be great.
It really is extremely effective.
Um, I'm a process improvement specialist.
In other words, I, I was hired by companies, really good money by
companies to cut down on the amount of work because, uh, um, that's just kind
of my specialty is cutting out busy work.
So I promise that anything that's in the program is only the stuff that I've
noticed was actually effective in the people that shifted the most.
I started doing kind of an analysis of everyone who was shifting
the most versus people who weren't.
And I noticed that people who did posts, people who did, especially people who did
video posts, but people who did post people who were the most vulnerable by.
Well, it doesn't mean you have to give private information, but vulnerable about
your, like your processing things with the Lord, it doesn't have to be, oh, well,
I had this fight with my husband and we said this and we said that that's private
information.
You don't have to say that some people do because they feel very comfortable.
It has to be very vulnerable about like, Hey, you know, I was struggling with this
with the Lord found out I wasn't believing him about this.
So I talked to him yesterday and I know it's hard, but if we can't be vulnerable
with people, it, we can't be vulnerable with the Lord.
That's what I've noticed over and over.
In fact, I have a, a couple of journey shares from someone else who
know who found this out the hard way.
And I'll try to find those and post those up as well.
So they all getting good encouragement by the major breakthrough that she got after
several months of trying and couldn't until she did a journey share and then she
got it.
So she got a breakthrough and, uh, cause she was able to use that as a tool to
finally be vulnerable with the Lord.
And she kept thought she kept thinking she was being vulnerable to learn.
I told her, no, you're not.
And I was very kind about it, but it's like, no, no, you're not.
I said, and this is how you can, it's just like, how am I not?
I said, have you been vulnerable, you know, online, you know, with the, in the
group and she's like, no, I don't want to, that's too terrifying.
It's too scary.
I said, if you do that, it will finally break the thing in you.
That's keeping you from being vulnerable to God.
Oh, she was terrified.
She did it anyway.
And she got a breakthrough.
She was ecstatic.
So she got online and she did a testimony about it.
She's like, Ashley told me it would happen.
So, um, so anyway, that's the point of them is to help people.
They will, people will shift more effectively that way.
So anyway, simply to help everybody else.
I hope you mean, okay.
What are the, what would a video be about?
I don't understand that.
Okay.
So just go to the, uh, go to like any of the pages that say journey share, click
on it and it'll give the, it'll give instructions about the journey share
and about what they are.
Also, if you look in the discussion tab, you'll see other people who've been
posting things like they'll post a video or they'll post a, they'll post a written
post, you know, the writeup stuff.
And, and then you, and then you just see how people are doing it.
Okay.
What kind of video would it be though?
I don't quite get that.
It's a video where you do a video about yourself.
Like you get on as if you're on Facebook.
Oh yeah.
So it's that, or you can do a written post and just look at examples that other
people have done, some people in, you know, people in this group, as well as
like people for, if you keep scrolling, you'll see people that aren't in this
group, people from prior rest intensives and you'll see stuff that they do.
I mean, there's like, I haven't finished moving them all over yet, but there's
hundreds.
So yeah, give you ideas about like how other people are doing it.
And some people are more open than others, meaning more, um, more open about
their private, you know, lives and then other people keep that close to the vest.
But the only people that shift are the people that are vulnerable about their
walk with God, you know, the struggle, like through, you know, whether it is,
I don't, I think I'm kind of vulnerable, but I'm not the best about wanting to
type.
I'm not, I don't even like text typing emails for a while.
So that's, what's hard for me.
I'm just going to be honest with you.
I don't, I'd rather talk to you than type things out and text things to people.
I feel like I'm so, but I, but I don't like videos, but I don't like doing videos.
So, oh, well, I'd rather talk to somebody.
So this, this, this is, I'm just telling you my little dilemma here.
Yeah.
Well, you just do a video talking to us.
That's what you're doing.
You're not doing a video for yourself.
You're doing it and you're talking to us.
Like for instance, Renata's gotten on a couple of times and Annette, and they both
done videos and they're talking to us.
So it's like, Hey, everybody.
So just thought I'd let you know, you know, what's going on and that's what it's like.
So if you look at it, it'll make more sense.
I think.
Okay.
Yeah.
All right.
And by the way, whenever y'all do a journey share, you don't have to, but if you want,
you can go through and like, just hit the little, um, that little like circle next
to the journey share that has the date with the journey share it next to it.
If you click on it, then you'll know, then you can kind of keep track of if you
have completing your journey shares that week.
Um, and I don't see those.
I don't see the little dots.
It's just for you to keep track of your week.
If that's helpful, may not be helpful.
You don't have to do it.
I just want to let you know, for some people, some people are very structured and they like,
they like that kind of thing.
Me, that's entirely too much structure for other people.
So, but if you like it and if that's helpful, there it is.
Okay.
Well, it's good to see y'all.
If y'all have any questions, just feel free to reach out on the Facebook messenger.
Wish there was something in this platform that let us do it, but that I've been told it's coming.
So.
Anyway, good to see y'all.
Thank you.