Okay, there you go, actually, Steph was wondering about where to find the link.
Let me quick tag her.
Okay, yes, I actually just posted it, didn't I?
Oh, okay.
Did I not?
Oh, shoot, I did not.
Yeah, I can, I was right there in the link there.
I'll tag her quick in the, whoops, my phone doesn't die before then.
All right.
Yeah, I was not paying attention to the fact that even though I had told everyone where
it was, that often I know from my own personal experience, sometimes I just kind of need
to be reminded.
And so, or like, oh, you know, where, where was that again?
You know, which one is the same one?
And so I thought, I just need to go ahead and repost it, but by the time I thought it
was 730.
And I'm like, we're done, we get it.
I think I tagged her in the post now, so she should be able to find it.
Thank you, Carrie.
Let me move this.
Okay.
So yeah, I have, I don't like this, sorry, my screen is so scary, there we go, make sure
of it.
Okay.
Yes.
Okay.
Thanks for clarifying in your, in your test.
I was listening, I was listening to your, the two trees and I was like, the longer I
listen, I was like, I think the answer to my question, but I would love to hear your
perspective on, cause it's all making sense now, but I still want to, I definitely want
to hear your perspective.
It was just, my goodness, my mind is just being blown over there in that live.
I'm like taking it like in five minute chunks and I have to like pause and like, it's just
absolutely.
Yeah.
The two trees.
Two nights ago.
Yeah.
It was the one from, I think Tuesday night.
Was it Tuesday night?
Yeah.
I was just, yeah.
And how she felt like there was something that she didn't know.
You guys have to add, and we'll put my earbuds back in, I need to be able to see.
Very relatable.
Sorry.
I have earbuds in and I'm trying to tune into this, so thanks for that.
And then I remembered to mute this.
Sorry, Carrie, you were talking, saying something about Eve.
Oh yeah.
I was just saying about how relatable it is to how, to what I've been feeling about how
she felt like she was missing out on something and all of a sudden there was something that
And I was like, man, I can really relate to like her motives and to how she operated
out of, you know, how she did and stuff.
So it just, it's, yeah, it's really, really good and very eyeopening.
Yeah.
And so, yeah, that's really good that you pointed that out because I mean, we keep villainizing
Adam and Eve and we don't, we do the same thing all day, every day.
We think, well, wait a minute.
What if, you know, what if, I mean, it doesn't matter how many times that God comes through
for us.
We question it yet again.
Yeah.
You know, just like we hit a new spot.
Has God ever come through for me?
Ever?
I don't know.
It's like the Israelite, you know, God had just come to them and he'd like brought water
from a rock or he brought the quail or he brought the manna or whatever the issue is
and they'd like, oh, God, you're going to die.
See, just.
Yeah, totally.
Yeah.
Well, I'm going to mute myself here and then that way I won't talk into anyone else's.
So in fact, we can start with your question.
And then there was something for somebody else that a lot of things that keep coming
Yeah, which came up again with a friend of mine today that she and I were talking about is this whole idea of like missing out on things and sorry. Oh, so, oh, hey, Amy. That is so weird. We are seeing your icon and you
But it's so odd.
That's
There we go. That is so weird. I've never seen that happen before.
Um,
Okay, sorry. Let me, let me write myself a note. So I don't forget to talk about the whole missing out thing.
But because I wanted to talk about your question first carry. Okay, so, oh, well, since you're here. Do you want to do you want to say it to everyone or do you want me to to say it.
Yeah, sure. I can go ahead and I was basically just asking Ashley.
For the past week or so, it has still in my relationship with the Lord, especially just seems like God is really silent like he he comes through in huge ways.
You know, like providing paychecks and all this stuff. And it's just, I mean, it's like miraculous, you know, and I still feel like my spirit is still very at peace.
But I still feel this distance or this quietness from God like there's still like there's just, it's not strife or conflict. There's just
Silence, like just nothing. And I was just asking, like, why, why is that you know that he would choose to not speak or not talk and especially, you know,
That moving into this whole resting. I'm like, oh, well, if he's ever going to talk. It's now you know this is going to be awesome. We're going to talk every day and he's gonna
Say all these wonderful things.
And so I was just asking her perspective on basically in a nutshell. Why is it that God does not speak it whether it's in certain circumstances or just in life in general. So hopefully that gives enough of a background to my question.
Yeah, thanks. So yeah, that is, in fact, I was talking to a friend of mine about that today that we were talking about the missing out thing. And they were talking about the fact of
You know, when, when God is silent. And so one of the, one of the things is that God is talking to us all the time, all the time. So if we're not hearing him.
There is again some measure in which we are not understanding how he's talking to us. We're not seeing that maybe he's talking to us in a different way.
In a different way than he used to. And we're used to hearing him over here and he's not manifesting his voice like that any right now.
But he is over here and but we're not used to hearing him over here. So God, a lot of times will transition to me into hearing his voice in a different way.
During times like this right always heard him like this in my spirit, but then I'm no longer hearing that. And in fact, it might even be quieter or might be in a totally different way.
And so I have learned through these experiences and to see to to hear God in a variety of ways.
Through stuff like this because he he it sounds really quiet here or non existent.
And then I so I start looking for him. I start, you know, kind of like pressing in like, well, what, what else could it be or where else could he be or where else could I hear him.
And then I'll start hearing something. And I'm like, well, that's interesting. That's very, very different. And then God has to confirm to me. Actually, that's me and
I'm sorry, I have to get the cornbread out of the oven, but you'll confirm to me. Actually, that's me. And I'm thinking,
Is that really God. I don't really know. Is that Satan. Is that my mind, you know,
And in, but then I stop. And if I really think about it, you know, and if we're really sensing the spirit. I was like, no, that's my father.
That's his voice, but that is so interesting. I didn't know he could sound like that.
I didn't know that he could that he would talk like that. But I recognize in my spirit. There's something very familiar, even though it sounds totally different from how my spirit normally feels
It feels totally different. And yet, at the same time, I realized, wait a minute, that's my father, but it starts is very, very small and eventually have to get to the point where I have to choose to believe
That's really him. And then I again that whole choosing to believe thing and he'll as I continue to progress down that path and kind of like chase that possibility he confirms
That that really is him that that really is just speaking in a new way. And I think, oh my word. I didn't realize that his voice had such a broad
Broad way of being expressed. I thought his voice would always sound like this, but it also sounds like this. And it also sounds like this. And it also sounds like this and and and I've been I've been exposed to that through
Times like this where I thought I couldn't hear him, especially for very, very extreme situations like I was needing. I was needing an answer for something. And all of a sudden, God just like, we're going to change how I talk to you now. I'm like, this is not the time.
But it ends up that
It ends up that
I've come to discover God in new ways as a result. And I'm so very glad of that. So that's one thing of encouragement. He's always talking to us, but we have to realize that he talks to us in a variety of ways, and he wants to grow us and mature us to the point where we can hear our Father's voice, no matter how he's talking.
And then I'll see if maybe there's some other way that I can think of because I've operated in this for so many years, I'll try to try to think if there's a way that I can express
A bit more of what I'm saying, where he sounds like this. He talks like this, but then he starts talking like this and I didn't recognize that that's still God because
That's totally different. I mean, that makes no sense. I mean, that that would still be the same thing. And yet I began to recognize somewhere in there. No one taught me that I had to learn that. And so I had to actually walk it out.
And so let me talk about the rest of it, though, about, you know, what to do in times like this where we're wanting to hear God's voice.
And we feel we feel abandoned or feel like, God, I just, you know, all these things that you're doing for me. It's so wonderful. And yes, Lord, I'm very grateful. But where are you
You know, I want to hear your voice. I want to whatever I want to hear a particular expression. So I apologize. I have to step away for just a second to get the cornbread out of the other
And I am so sorry that I did not realize I needed to mute my microphone and I logged on. So the four year old was not happy that she couldn't sit with me.
The eight year old nine now came down to get a band aid and our teenager was standing on stairs have a window and she's standing in the stair window one
So yeah, I apparently didn't have my camera on but I'm trying to figure out what she's saying. And then I turned this on and go, oh my gosh. So yeah.
It's been a day. They're all somewhere in bed. I don't care where they crash. I'm just glad they're up there.
One of those days.
When you need it before I do anything else.
So I wanted to show y'all really quick.
What it is that I'm having to do some pulling the cornbread out of the oven, because I got back really late and found it and they had given me and for from something and and they found out that
They had given me, you would not believe how much meat that my friends brought from their ranch for me that they've, I don't, I don't know if it's all venison.
I think that they've already eaten all the cow. I don't know if it's all venison and they're all they they
hunted and butchered all of these animals themselves or if any of them is wild hog. I don't know. I'm gonna have to ask. Anyway, you would not believe how much how much meat they brought
I don't know. I'm gonna have to ask. Anyway, you would not believe how much how much meat they brought there were two, three huge hunks huge summer sausage.
Which I absolutely love. And then they brought me three of these
These were like packaged in March of 2015 so anyway. That's why I thought, okay, even if I'm going to have to interrupt my zoom meeting. I have to bake them something you know to thank them.
And they're all gluten free that they eat gluten free. And so that's also an additional challenge for me, who doesn't eat gluten free and that throws me because I'm a very southern cook. I'm like, how do you cook without gluten. I don't know. Is that possible and
So anyway, that's been a big challenge for me.
Um, so, okay. So here they are. They're about to come and pick it up. Ah, darn it.
So,
I have to figure out how to handle this and
Just make sure
Make sure you mute your mic before you yell at anybody.
Me, are you
Oh, yeah.
More for me.
Good tip. Yes. I thought that was real cute. It's like there's there's a little girl.
Or not.
No, it was Chloe.
Oh, it was
Yeah.
Um, okay. All right. So apologize for that. It was just very important because they're about to leave for the ranch. And so I've got to make sure to get this to them like ASAP because I don't know the next time I'm going to see him. So I wanted to give him that as a thank you. Um, uh, so, so about listening for the Lord. So one of the other things that we need to remember is this falls in the category of everything else where we need to approach it and still from a place of rest.
In the point of, we need to let go of an expectation that we're supposed to hear him. In other words, there's a strive for an anxiety or a feeling of abandonment and that's the issue that we feel that there's something that we're lacking and that's sinking down in
And that's sinking down in. And so if we, yes, God does want to talk to us and he does talk to us all the time because I can promise that he's still talking even now, but
It's that when we can't hear him. There is something that we're read that some way that we're resisting that we don't realize we're resisting and we can't hear
So what it's just all we have to do is like anything else we have to release an expectation that we have that the way that things are is is just shouldn't be. And so we have to let it go. And then we have to come to a place of rest because remember it's our natural because our very nature.
Connects with and communicates with God 24 seven in the spirit. We are connect our kit are communicating with God and he's communicating with us 24 seven and it never stops. So,
That the thing is that so. So in other words, we've got to get back to our natural state.
And if we feel that there's a place of lack and we're concerned that, oh my goodness, I don't hear from him. We are trying to pull from that old nature again, which thinks me 9% thing.
So in order to move into that natural state and away from our tendency and our habit of thought of, oh my goodness, you know, something just shouldn't be there for that. That's an issue. No, there is no issue.
God always talks to me and it's putting ourself in that mindset and choosing to book and it's more than a mindset. We choose to believe that this is true because God said so, period.
It doesn't matter what the evidence around us is trying to tell us that the evidence around us. The wind is blowing the waves are crashing.
Oh my goodness, I'm in the middle of it. There's a problem. And then we start thinking, we've got to stop looking at the wind and the waves, because they actually don't
Tell us the truth about the situation. We're choosing instead to look at God. He said that something is true. So we're moving towards it.
We're choosing instead to look at God. He said that something is true. So we're moving towards it. Um, so I'm just explaining how to how to release and let go of when we're in that situation because trust me, I know that is one of the worst things and if it well it is it is the worst thing when God isn't talking
And God's not talking when we don't feel his presence when we don't have some kind of an interaction positive, negative, whatever. I don't know if any of y'all ended up watching the still faced experiment link that I posted
And that if y'all haven't, I recommend that you scroll back down and look at that where
And you can see how a human soul interacts with another human soul. Well, that's how a human soul learns with whether it's with another human soul or whether it's with the Lord.
And, and that is the fact that we're always looking for attention. We're always looking for a response and a reaction and a back and forth. And so if we don't get it. We start panic and we start shutting down.
And we start going into into trauma, etc. Even if we're experiencing the Lord in other areas.
If there's if we feel that there's a type of communication that we long for that we're desiring to hear him or whatever. And we start going to panic mode, we're starting to think, wait a minute, this, this is
This is what my environment is currently this is what it. This is what my environment must be saying and therefore we think this is a problem. And we've got to stop looking at the fact even our environment of this is what
That a my the environment is the fact that I'm not hearing God.
Even that is an environment.
I'm not hearing him.
I can't hear him.
That's an environment.
That is us looking around and thinking, I should have something and I don't see it.
I don't hear it.
It's even that kind of an environment.
So regardless of whether it's a physical environment that we're talking about or a spiritual environment,
it's an environment.
And we've got to make sure that we don't look at that and use that to determine what it
is that we believe is actually true.
What is it that God said, therefore I'm going to believe it.
So and then how do we believe it if we're, if our emotions are struggling, the wind and
the waves are still, are still crashing, right?
So what do we do?
We release all expectation.
It doesn't mean God's not going to do it.
It's release expectation.
We release obligation.
We stop holding God accountable to it.
And by holding God accountable to it, what I'm talking about is I used to call God to
account for it.
God, why?
I need you to answer me.
This is, you know, you said, et cetera.
And there's a bit, there's a bit of strife in it.
There's this idea of I'm lacking and God's like, let go of the belief that there's lack.
So I choose to believe whatever it is God said, he's talking to me, he's interacting
with me, he loves me, he, whatever.
And then the environment around you will mana, including, including communication with God
will manifest what it is that you've dictated is so.
Because our world is framed by our words, including the spiritual world.
So just FYI, God's always talking, but when we can't hear him, that's still an environment
that we're looking at in order to determine whether or not it's true.
God is always talking, period.
So if there was there anything else I was going to say about that, no, I guess, I guess,
I guess that's it.
I used to handle this very differently before I learned all of this.
When I would go through phases where I couldn't hear God.
That was very hard.
When I would go through phases where I could not hear God, um, I would just hunker down
and endure and it was miserable.
And so now I've learned how I can actually just release everything.
And when I release it, I'm naturally going to come back.
I'm going to allow myself to be in a natural state, according to the way God says that
I really truly am because it's, I'm the new man and, and eventually it will manifest itself
according to my belief, because I am saying, this is the blueprint that I am giving my
soul and my body to manifest, including the soul, because the soul is still a created
thing too.
And so we as spirit have to Lord over our soul and identify in the same way we have
to Lord over our body and give it instruction.
We have to give our soul instruction too.
It needs a King as well.
Um, and, uh, I'm sorry.
Um, so anyway, is that helpful, Carrie, did that leave any gaps anywhere?
No, that's very helpful.
Um, I didn't totally answer them intuitively in my spirit.
Something just tells me, don't worry about it.
But then I'm like, how can I not, you know, it's like the biggest thing in life, you know,
but it, it really, it does.
It just confirms kind of what I was feeling.
It was something I wasn't expecting to experience.
So anyway, yes, that totally helps.
That helps a lot.
Okay.
Good.
Um, you mentioned one other thing.
Oh yeah.
Whenever, uh, whenever anyone tells us that there is something we should worry about,
even if it's a godly thing, it's a lie.
It's absolutely a lie.
We should be like this.
God should be talking like this.
I should be good.
I should love him.
I should, there's no more shoulds and shouldn'ts in, um, uh, with the gospel anymore.
There's no more should and shouldn'ts.
There's no more should, I should love God.
There's no more, I shouldn't hate God.
There's no more shoulds and shouldn'ts, period.
God's not worried that we're not going to act according to our nature.
We keep fighting our nature is the issue.
Once we stop fighting it, we will naturally be everything.
We don't have to worry that we're not something we should be.
We will naturally be it.
We've got to let go of the rest of it.
So, yeah.
Wow.
Could you just like engrave what you just said in stone?
Those last two sentences.
Um, I don't remember what I said.
I know, I didn't even say that.
What did I say?
Here's why.
I talk out of the spirit.
If you do know, I re-watch all of these, right?
I re-watch these.
I re-watch my client sessions as if I was listening to a teacher.
I re-watch my clients sessions as if I was listening to a teacher.
because when someone asks me a question,
I answer out of the spirit,
and I go back to listen to what the spirit said,
and I learn.
So I do not remember what I said.
So what did you say?
Can you say it again?
Something like, stop fighting your nature.
Oh, that.
What else, what was else did she say, guys?
Help me out.
Yeah, so, oh, go ahead.
Can someone help?
Can't hear you, Cheryl, can't hear you.
Mm, okay, that God's, can you hear me now?
Yeah.
Okay, that God's not worried
that I'm not gonna act according to my nature.
There we go.
Yeah, but then she kept going.
Yeah, but anyway, it's all right.
It went into our spirit.
We don't have to remember it, right?
Yeah, also, there will be a recording after this.
So it's eight o'clock, approximately 30 minutes after the,
or 28 minutes, I think, after the recording started,
something like that.
No, I think it's less than that,
because I waited until a few people got on.
So in the recording, you can go back to it,
and we'll all discover what it is that I said.
Can you crop out the beginning, when I made my entrance?
I think I probably did, so it doesn't matter.
Remember, release everything.
There is therefore no foundation.
You can't, I just got cornbread out of the oven,
and I might be having to leave y'all
for just like a split second in order to give it to him.
So if I can have grace for myself
in what's supposed to be a professional environment,
everyone else can, too.
Speaking of that,
something that I did want to mention at some point,
and maybe we'll get a chance to talk about this
at some other point.
I don't know if y'all have noticed,
the way that this,
the way that I have handled this intensive, for me,
has been a bit of a healing process,
and God has given y'all a lot of grace
to give grace to me in it,
because this, the way that I have done this intensive,
as far as like the fact that y'all are maybe getting
like the Zoom links,
like two minutes after the Zoom is supposed to start,
or I don't know, just a variety of things
that there are ways that I would have prepared y'all
to anticipate certain things.
This, for me, is highly unprofessional,
the way that I have been conducting it,
and because you understand that the way I've been doing this
is not the way I have been able to run around businesses
for all of these years.
This would not fly,
but the reason that I have is there is still some,
and the reason, I wanted to tell y'all all of this,
but hopefully y'all could get a bit,
y'all could,
I don't wanna say heal,
but it would maybe help y'all in whatever areas
in which y'all are healing,
to understand that what I'm having to walk out right now
and step into is the area in which I was traumatized,
and that's operating in business.
I know that sounds really weird,
but I have been through so much stuff,
you would not believe it.
You would absolutely not believe it.
Think about where people's,
where whole businesses are in balance,
and you've got all of these employees,
dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens of employees
that are depending on your decisions
that you're making like that,
and so, and the issues that come up
is they're all dealing with their emotions,
and I've had legal issues I've had to work through.
I never did anything wrong,
but that people would attack in,
and then I was forced to have to go through, et cetera,
and it is traumatic.
We're talking about corporate bullying.
I mean, terrible abuse in front of other people.
My subordinates, I was working 21 hours a day.
I was, it was bad.
So you add all of that up over multiple years,
and I felt God abandoned me in it.
I felt abandoned by God in it.
So when God called me,
I wanted nothing with business, nothing.
I was like, I wanna get out of this thing.
I don't wanna do something else,
and God's like, Ashley, no.
This is what I've called you to,
and so what helped heal me to the point
where I've now gotten to this place
is the fact that God said, Ashley,
what it is that used to hurt you
will no longer hurt you in this place.
So he said, so you can step into this
and know that you're not going to be hurt like that anymore,
and so from that, I took that,
and I chose to believe that God would take care of me
and that God would remove that from me
and would protect me in a way that I felt abandoned.
before, I would no longer feel abandoned.
And I was going to have to learn to trust God in a new, I don't want to say in a new
way, but in a way in which I felt that before I was here and I left alone, is what it felt
like.
God never left me alone, but that's what it felt like.
I had to trust again, okay, I'm going to step out again, Lord, and this time you promised
that I'm going to know you're there, you're going to heal me.
So what we do when we're still going through a bit of trauma, so I've healed tremendously
to get to this point, to get to have an intensive like this, to have my own business, et cetera.
But there are still elements in which I hit trauma and I respond in the way that someone
does when they're in a traumatic situation and start shutting down and I mentally and
emotionally go into the fetal position.
For something as silly as writing a Facebook post, I start shutting down because it was
so intense and so bad, but the Lord has healed me to the point where I'm able to function
well and be able to contribute through the spirit of the Lord, but he's still taking
me through a season of healing in the fact that sometimes things end up because I'm still
battling the trauma that wants to beg for attention, this feeling that I'm not safe,
I'm not protected, I'm not provided for, all of those things that I've accused God of.
And they come out and what do I do?
I shut down and I stop.
Evidence is itself is inactivity or procrastination because I'm avoiding pain.
There's nothing painful that's coming, but it's kind of like a soldier coming off the
field, being at home and thinking he's being attacked.
There's nothing wrong, nothing's coming, but you're going into self-protection over something
that makes no sense.
So anyway, I apologize that this intensive has gone in some ways, hopefully y'all haven't
noticed, but according to my previous standards that I used to hold myself to, this is highly
unprofessional way to conduct a business or whatever, but I realized God is moving me
into a place of rest and he's expanding my measure of how to operate within rest in the
place of my trauma, which is hard.
I feel, the way I've described it to people is I feel like I'm in a toxic relationship
trying to heal from the toxic relationship.
I feel that I'm in the area of my trauma and I can't heal.
So now I have been able to heal.
So I've been able to see tremendous progress and benefit and healing, et cetera, but still
when some things don't, I forget to tell y'all certain things or I forget to know y'all or
I do it like, you know, it ends up coming to the last minute or I forget to allow to
anticipate something or I've even procrastinated on things before.
That's me in that PTSD because it's even mental PTSD to just go into self-protection mode.
There's a bear and I just know it.
There's no bear, but my body and my mind and my emotions react like, no, there is a
bear and it goes into hyperdrive.
So it's a, it's a terrible emotional moment.
You know, some people experience with sexual abuse or whatever I've experienced in the
corporate world.
So just FYI, I greatly appreciate the grace that y'all had for me because God is using
this to show me that, Ashley, you can break all of the standards by which you used to
hold yourself in business and God still sustains it.
God still provides people that have the grace for you in such an, according to my standards,
a measure over here, an unprofessional, you conducted yourself in an unprofessional way
and they've had grace and peace for you.
So just FYI, I apologize, but know that God has used that to heal me.
And I wanted to be very transparent with y'all so that you would understand that, that you'd
understand that this is who you're listening to.
That's telling you all of these wonderful things that I've heard from the Lord, you
know, that are all for all of us.
The truth is that things that we go through are very real and they're very difficult.
They're very challenging and everything that I'm teaching works in this situation.
I have used these things to heal to get to this point and I'm still
journeying because it was very traumatic and there's a lot of accusation against God that I'm
still battling and it'll keep coming up. I keep thinking, oh wow, I am doing so good and then I
get another trigger. I'm like, man, I thought I was doing good. It's a journey. So just, so hear my
story and have grace for yourself and remember whenever you're battling or struggling with
something, I am teaching and expressing this message while I'm in an environment that I'm
still healing from. And if I can do it because God's grace sustains me by telling me I can move
in here and he would keep me safe and he wanted to teach me a new way of operating business,
et cetera, we can do it for you too. This is how he operates. This is normal. This is real life.
I'm not over here having it all together. I'm here in the middle of it and this is how we can,
we, I, and I'm still whole. I'm learning to manifest the fact that I'm whole and I'm healed.
So just FYI, to have an explanation to y'all of why everything looks very unprofessional
and for also for y'all to be encouraged to remember my story, whenever y'all are going
through something, you think, shouldn't I be over this now? You know, we've been, we've been learning
this stuff for two weeks. I've been learning this stuff for a month and God still has to reveal
other things to me. Like, Ashley, you're still not healed in this area. You're still traumatized over
here. You're whatever. So he says, so now we're going to those areas. So I'm like, okay. So it
continues to expand and expand and expand. So just wanted to mention that. I've been looking
for an opportunity to say that. The other thing I wanted to say about missing, so some of y'all
have talked, including a friend of mine today, have talked about this fear of missing out.
So there is a parable that God uses to talk about the fact that we don't miss out. Remember
everything that I talked about yesterday. Oh, I still haven't. So remember everything that I
talked about yesterday, you know, about the body, soul, and the spirit and the, that we are,
that when we move into this spirit, when we, in other words, we're still there,
we're always there. But when we continue to operate from that place, then we,
when we start to operate from that place, we realize that we can now have the benefit
of everything that it is that God says that we've always had. We can now operate out of the
things that he says that we've always had. So my, that is what lets us know that there's no such
thing as missing out. When God, the parable that Jesus used to describe this was when
he said that there was the owner of, I don't remember what it was. I don't remember if it
was a vineyard or something. The owner of, you know, some land, and he had some work to do on
the land. And he would go to the, I don't know, wherever people that, you know, day laborers would
gather, he'd go and he would collect them throughout the day. And he collected them like,
I think, four different times. And so some of them, so the laborers are all there. And then
at the end of the day, he's going to pay them a wage. So you remember that some of them were
there all day, and then some were there, you know, a few hours less than that, a few hours
less than that. And then the other ones were there for like an hour or something. And so as they all
line up with the ones who had gotten there last, so remember the first, so we last, the last,
we first. So the ones who've gotten there last, you know, the owner's divvying out the wage.
So by the time he gets to those who've been there all day, he gives them the exact same wage.
And they got very upset. They're like, Lord, I've been working for you and with you
this whole time. They've only been here for an hour. How is it that they have been given
everything that we have? Shouldn't we been given more? And Jesus says, you know, or, you know,
the, the, the owner of the field says, you know, what is it to you? What did, what I do with what's
mine? So know that, that, that don't think that all of this time, you know, oh, well, all of these
past years, I've been wasting my time or that right now, because there are certain things,
certain revelations that I want to walk in and I want to manifest. And I'm trying to believe that
I have, but I'm not seeing it evidenced in my life yet. I'm missing out until I can figure it out.
And we're not missing in doubt. We're not missing out people who've gone ahead of us. People who
have learned these truths a long time ago, people who've been operating like this for years,
they are not further ahead than us.
As soon as we step into it, for one thing, we're already all there at the same level
anyway.
We're already one in Christ.
We already have everything.
They're operating out of it, and just because we're not operating out of it in every area
of our life yet does not mean we're missing out until we get there.
They're not ahead of us.
Once we get there, we're at the exact same place that they are.
You can't progress any higher than this.
This is it.
You got everything.
We never, ever miss, so we can know that we're never in a place where we're missing out.
Again, there is no such thing as lack.
We have that tendency to think that we're missing out or that we've wasted time and
that, oh, well, I could have gotten further in my spiritual walk if I hadn't, for 30 some
odd years, believed differently and spent all of my time, effort, and energy doing something
different.
I'd be further, and that's not true.
God even gave us that parable to explain that to us.
He's like, it doesn't matter how long or short you've been here.
You get everything.
Anyway, I just wanted to mention that.
That was something that a friend of mine and I were talking about today, and I've had it
come up multiple times, multiple times with clients, this, what did they call it, FOMO?
Fear of missing out?
What did they call it, FOMO?
I don't know.
It took me a long time to figure out what people were saying with that acronym.
I was like, what is FOMO?
But yeah, that fear of missing out, and there's no such thing even in the spirit world, but
we're used to thinking like that because linearly, in other words, according to our old man,
you had to work to earn a wage.
Once we're in the kingdom, there's no working because there's no wage.
Everything's just a gift, but we're used to thinking there's a missing out because you
can't earn something until you've put in time, effort, energy, money, whatever, sacrifice,
et cetera.
We can't use that model in order to understand the spirit.
That's where we're getting that whole mindset of I'm missing out.
That doesn't work in the spirit world.
So anyway, just wanted to mention that one because that's been brought up multiple times
with various clients that I've talked to over the past few weeks.
So that is answering a variety of questions.
Does anyone have anything else that they had come tonight with to ask?
Ashley, I was kind of wondering, so in a couple of your videos this week, you were talking
about how the spiritual laws are meant to serve us rather than us serve them, and you
brought up the law of sowing and reaping.
Can you give an example of what that looks like in business?
Today, I had a goal for getting messages out to a bunch of people, and it just didn't happen.
It wasn't coming smoothly.
My mind couldn't generate, and I was like, this feels like striving, and this is just
not for me today.
So I walked away from it.
So in my soul thinking, you reap what you sow, I'm not going to get anything because
I didn't do anything, trying to get to the spirit thinking on that, even though normally
I enjoy doing those business activities and doing them just for the joy of them, then
I got lost.
How does the law of sowing and reaping serve me if I'm not doing the thing?
I'm not quite complete on that thought yet.
Okay, yeah.
So you know that we can do all of the activities as long as we know that they're not what's
getting us the clients.
It has nothing whatsoever to do with getting us the clients, and we can get the clients
without it.
And so God gives us the increase, and then he bothers us into governing it.
We just go along for the ride and enjoy the governing process of doing the activities.
So when you, sorry, I'm trying to think about how else you worded it, because while you
were talking, I thought, oh, and then I'll answer something you said.
You said, oh, you were wondering about how, were you wondering like how we still operate
according to, you know, that doing that, you're no longer sowing and reaping, so to speak.
You're no longer sowing and reaping anymore, because everything, God is giving you everything.
There's no planting, and then like in order to get a particular result.
But as far as like the, so as far as like how it serves us, you are, I hope I'm not
confusing in how I, and how, if I'm confusing.
How I'm wording this, if I sound like I'm contradicting myself. I'm not. So you just let me know if that's what it sounds like.
What it is that you're doing by governing the increase is you are actually sewing when you're doing the activities and then and then what it is. And then you'll read
But it's not according to the law of sewing and reaping where God isn't is not the life source. So God being the life source and you determining and you knowing in your mind.
And in your, in your spirit. God is the one who provides me with all my clients.
I'm just going to do these activities that I really enjoy them, you know, it's a way for me to interact with other people. God, God, it allows God because my spirit is in it and in our spirit is constant movement.
It will allow God spirit which is flowing through me to continue to move between me and other people and it facilitates our, our, our business and our activity helps facilitate the movement of God. God can move without it, but it helped it.
God moves within the activity. Right. So that's another reason why it's good for us to be in it, you know, just because God
God moves through our activity, just like that, but
There's it's not a direct relationship anymore as far as sewing and reaping. So when we pull God out of it and cut it off or like I'm in it for myself.
He's looking on me saying, Hey, look, you better you better create a really good business and you got better do well and you better follow the formula. Then we think I so this I'm going to get this I so five kernels. I'm going to get five
Whatever it stops corn. It's equal is direct relationship, but it's the opposite. It's a it's different with God when we understand that God is our life source and we just we so by simply
You know, moving in the activity of business, what it is that we read because we will still read that since God is the provision it God provides the increase. We're going to read 30 60 hundred fold.
Not directly. It's not five and five. It's exponential because he's the one who's providing it when we're the ones who are
Are when is our source this principle. Normally, when we're the life source, so to speak, when we're the source. We're not a live source, but when we're the source. It's a direct direct relationship. I put this much in I get this much out. It's a formula plug and play.
But when we operate according to when this when that principle is sewing and reaping serves us
The it's when we're when we understand we're in this position. Everything else is below us.
And therefore, God always provides the increase. I can just do the activities that sewing, just like God and set up all of these physical and spiritual laws to operate according to
So, but when he provides the increase the reaping what it is that we read it. I hope I said that right, you know what we're selling what it is that we read is exponentially more and greater than what it is that we so it's not a direct relationship anymore so
That's how it is serving us everything is exponential in the Lord, but it still operates according to same spiritual principles, we can try to use them ourselves. But if we use them ourselves.
We limit them because we're we're serving them and they're not serving us. You can get arrested on the Sabbath.
Or the Sabbath conserve you at which point you can be rested exponentially by only there's some people that sleep.
Like I don't know 123 hours a day in in the Lord, knowing that it's the Lord that gets in the rest. And that is all that they need.
And sometimes they don't even even need that much. These are people that have really pushed into the Lord and understand who they are and that they're one with God and operating from that place.
Because, and there are some people actually that don't eat. They literally do not eat and they literally live off the Word of God that is really getting into some deep stuff there, but that's that's using
That is because they understand spiritual principles serve me. I don't serve them. I'm not a slave to them. I don't have to follow them in order to provide for myself.
I just get to govern God provides the increase in because he's he's in because we're learning over the spiritual principles they operate in an exponentially
I know that was a long explanation. Did that make sense. So you're still using the spiritual principle, but you're not the source. And so it's
So you are governing over it and and it is serving you. You're not serving it. You're not using it to get as a means to get an end.
Yeah, yeah, that helps. Thank you.
You're welcome.
So did someone else have a question? I think that some people are chatting. I'm wanting to make sure that no one's like asking something that I'm missing. Okay, nevermind, those are old.
And so, anybody else have a question?
There we go. One thing that I am very fascinated with you keep touching on little bits is the, what we believe is what is manifested and I think we had talked about this in our private session.
And I know it might get too extensive to talk in it tonight or whatever. But I was just wondering like, is that a topic you were going to cover or is that something you can answer in a q&a.
Yes. So basically, I'll answer it and then you let me know if you would actually, if it acts, if you're like, yeah, but that doesn't answer whatever. So in other words, if you realize, oh, well, actually, the question is a bit more detailed than that.
So manifesting something, let's use healing, for example, that makes that makes more sense. I mean, it enables us to really quickly think about it. Okay, so manifested healing.
All right, so hopefully y'all can see this. And sorry for my little light ring. I did that so that y'all can actually see me in here.
I don't know if y'all can read it, but you just need to get the general idea. Okay, so the body, like say, for instance, that I need healing.
And I could determine, you know what, the way that I can heal myself is if I eat right, if I go to the doctor, if I have surgery, if I whatever.
Or we can believe that actually, and we believe this is how good God is. God is so good. He gave us things that we can harness in order to heal ourselves.
Or we can look up here at the, you know, an operate from the 60 fold, which is, you know what, I actually believe God's even more good than that.
He's so good that all I have to do is I have to claim something in faith and work really, really, really hard.
You know, this faith healers, it is real. It is absolutely real.
And that if we, those word of faith mindsets, that if we claim it, and if we work really hard, and if we focus, and if we don't listen to anything else like Smith Wigglesworth or whatever,
who was very anti-social because he just focused completely on the word, and he just filled himself up so much with so much faith that he was able to heal people because he believed 100%.
If the Bible says it, well, then it's true that he did it out of a lot of striving. He did it out of a lot of work.
So we can claim that healing from this point where I don't need nutrition. I don't need to go have surgery.
All I have to do is claim it, lay hands, declare that they're healed, and then they're going to be healed.
That requires doing it, though, from a word of faith mentality is very strenuous.
I go to a word of faith church currently, and I have for the past several weeks, which is very unusual for me.
But it's just where God told me to go.
So I love these people. They're wonderful. They're really sweet. I really enjoy them.
They have tremendous amount of faith, but the problem is there's a lot of work in it.
There's still some strife. They're not healed because my faith wasn't enough.
It's very self-condemning, where eventually it's my fault.
God said it's so, but it didn't happen, so it's my fault.
In other words, it didn't manifest.
Healing can manifest from the 30-fold.
If I've eaten right, if I have gone to the right doctor, if I got the right diagnosis, whatever.
Again, all the responsibility is on me.
If I don't get healed, I did something wrong.
I picked the wrong doctor.
According to the law of sowing and reaping, I apparently did not eat all of the nutrition that I should have.
For my whole life, not just these past five months, but my whole life.
Somehow, I brought this on myself. It's very self-condemning.
Or, you know, your word of faith.
Hey, healing hasn't manifested. I must not have had enough faith.
I must not have prayed long enough, hard enough. I must not have fasted long enough, whatever.
Lots of work.
Or, we can claim that according to the Spirit, according to where we are in the Spirit, I'm fully healed.
A hundred percent.
If Christ is not sick, I'm not sick. Period.
But that, if we're sick down here in the body, what it is that we truly are in Spirit has not manifested.
In other words, our body...
is not receiving the instruction that it is healed.
It's receiving the instruction that it's sick.
So it's manifesting that it's sick
because the soul doesn't believe that it's healed.
If the soul doesn't believe that it's healed,
the body is going to,
it follows whatever it is that the soul says.
The soul says, we're not healed, we're sick.
We've been abandoned by God.
God doesn't love me enough.
God told me to not eat so much sugar,
but I did it anyway because I was very,
I went through a period of a very deep depression.
And so now I'm reaping what I've sowed.
Very self-condemning.
So by living out of the spirit, by understanding,
no, if Christ isn't sick, then I'm not sick.
And eventual in choosing that that's our reality.
And by believing that more and by not,
and I don't mean like more faith,
like the word of faith people, I'm not talking like that.
But as we move into greater and greater belief,
greater and greater rest, understanding I am one with God,
I am not only fully healed, I am healing.
Like in other words, I am the thing that's called healing.
If I'm one with Christ
and he is the thing that's called healing, I am healing.
So I'm not just healed, I am healing itself.
I am the thing that's called healing.
So therefore I can provide,
so and therefore I can dictate to my soul, you are healed.
The soul can dictate to the body, you are healed.
And the body has to manifest that healing.
So the body is always takes its blueprint
and its instruction of what it should be like,
what state it should exist in.
Are we in a state of fight or flight?
Or are we on a state of rest?
Are we stressed?
Is everything okay?
Is everything not okay?
You know, what is it?
It gets it from the soul.
The soul gets the instruction.
So it's according to what it is that the soul believes.
And so the soul needs to submit to the spirit
and believe, oh no, I am healed.
If it believes I am healed,
and it really truly believes it,
and there's none of that resistance in the soul,
there's not accusation against God
that somehow we're in a place of lack
or somehow he's requiring something more of us,
or, oh my goodness, I hope I'm not bearing consequences
of everything that I sowed all those years ago.
And I bet you that God's just left me here to,
and he's just like, you know,
I'd love to help you and I still love you,
but you're gonna bear the consequences
of everything you sowed for the past 10 years.
If we think that our body's gonna take the instruction,
I guess I'm sick, I guess I've been abandoned,
and I gotta fight for myself.
So that's what manifesting means.
And that's just using the idea of healing.
Manifesting means that the soul and the body
actually put on display what is true in the invisible.
So that, I suppose, is a shorter answer.
I was giving, I went to the detailed answer
really quickly there.
But I guess the summation of it is,
it is that manifestation is making the invisible visible.
Period.
We are the manifestation of God.
We make the invisible God visible.
And our body is the visible manifestation of who we are.
It's supposed to be the visible manifestation
of who we are in the spirit,
but it is the visible manifestation
of what it is we believe in the soul.
So it's our soul that needs to change
to accept whatever it is that,
to manifest who we are in the invisible spirit.
And once it manifests what we are in the invisible spirit,
the body now receives new instruction from the soul
and understands, oh, wow, I guess I'm not sick.
I guess I'm healed.
I guess I'm, so it'll start to heal itself.
It can start healing itself without essential oils.
Essential oils are never there to remove
the hindrances from the body being healed.
By the soul believing and understanding
who it is in the spirit,
it naturally is removing everything
that is hindering the body.
It's literally removing the very things
that are hindering the body from healing itself.
So once it removes those hindrances,
the body is going to act according to its natural state,
because even the body is the new man.
Everything's the new man.
We just have to operate like it.
What God is wanting, and that's what salvation is.
And oh, shoot, I was going to answer this question,
but there was a verse I wanted to look up for,
because I don't remember where it's found.
I don't remember.
for the exact verse, but I'm going to try to find it and one going to find it and tell it to y'all. And that is where it explains in the Bible that what salvation is, is manifesting in our soul and our body who we are in spirit.
That is what it says salvation is. It says it's for the redemption of our bodies. He says, the hope to which you were saved is the redemption of your body, physical body that we always think, oh, that's going to die. That's going to go back to dust. Somebody told me that the other day.
Well, you know, it's just going to go back to dust anyway. I was like, I mean, yes, it's going to go back to dust, but then God says he's going to, it's going to be redeemed and it's going to be restored and we're going to, and it's going to be changed just like Christ's body was changed.
So that's what, that's what salvation is. We were always meant to manifest visibly what we are invisibly, just as we manifest who God is, who's invisible. So did that make sense? Manifesting it, just making the invisible visible.
Yeah, that makes sense. I mean, especially in, if you look at it in context of what I believed about God, especially through going through things in my past, like through traumatic childhood or whatever, if you believe a certain way, it kind of basically gets stored in your body. And if it's not according to the nature of who we actually are in God, then that's basically manifesting a sickness. I mean, is that what you're saying?
Yes, you're absolutely right. In fact, non-believers say that. You go to non-believers who have researched this and they say that the body manifests whatever it is the soul believes. So if the soul is stressed, the body manifests that stress. In fact, they say that 99% of the bodies, and I don't remember why it's not a hundred, but 99% of all sickness that people go to the doctor for or whatever,
is a result ultimately of stress. And what is stress? Stress is striving. So it's the opposite of breast. Stress isn't something that's odd or whatever. It's the very thing we've been talking about this whole time. Stress is striving. Sickness, even non-believers claim and have realized that sickness comes from striving, not resting.
And oh my word, there was another thing that I meant to also find about this guy. He was a longevity expert. He has said that he has figured out, and I don't remember if he did like this, he researched some stuff.
And he said that longevity is directly related to how quickly a person goes back to a state of rest after fight or flight. How quickly they can go back to rest and stay in rest, that determines how long somebody lives.
And I don't think that this man is a believer, but he's tested all of us. In other words, striving is what's killing us. Stress is what's killing us. Stress is striving and that's what's killing us. Not just physically, spiritually. The body is physically manifesting a spiritual truth. It leads to death. So that's why the body is going to death, because it is manifesting a spiritual principle.
And even non-believers believe this. They just don't understand to the fullest extent that there's a God and there's a spirit.
The soul is manifesting the spirit, but they do understand that the body is manifesting the soul. So does that help?
Oh, wow. It is 838. Did anybody have another question? Before we get off, y'all are always welcome to ask questions in the private or on Facebook group and I can answer them there. I can either get on a short video and answer them or I can answer them in writing. But before we get off, did anybody else have a question?
All right. Well, it's always good to get to see y'all.
So I guess I will just close this out and I will, as soon as I get the recording, because it takes a little bit for it to gather in the cloud, and then I'll just post it. So I hope y'all have a good night. Good to see y'all.
Bye.
Bye-bye.