Hey, Alana, how are you?
Oh, I can't hear you. It says you're muted.
I'm good. I was actually, I tried to get on like four times and I was almost going to write a comment that I couldn't get on. I don't think you were on yet, so I think it just wasn't working.
Yeah, sorry about that. I'm having problems with my internet, so I'm having to, anyway, change what I was going to do. So, here we go.
Are you, is it because you're at your friends?
No, I have my own internet, so I'm trying to get my little thing at, there we go, my little stand. No, I have my own hotspot and for some reason it's telling me, sorry, I can't see me, it's telling me that it's not, that there's no service.
Oh, interesting.
So, I don't know if there's some reason, because I've been using it today.
Oops.
So, I'm going to have to look into that.
Hi, everybody.
Oh, someone.
It's Amy.
Oh, hey, Amy.
Oh my goodness, everybody's on. Let's see, Catherine, Steph.
Hey, everybody.
I'm just going to say hi and then turn off my video and sound because I'm making peach cobbler.
Oh, okay.
Where do you live?
Peach cobbler, is that what you said?
Yeah, Texas.
Oh, that's not fair.
Oh, Texas, it's a little far and I can't cross the border, so I guess.
Where are you, Alana?
I'm in Canada, Ontario.
Oh, very cool. I kind of wish I was up there, nice and cool.
Oh, yeah, well, I love Texas. Where are you in Texas?
In the Dallas area.
Oh, I love, Ashley and I have had this conversation.
My husband and I dream about moving to Texas in that area, like Plano, which is kind of just.
I'm just in Plano in Allen. I really like it.
I just moved to this area. I've been in the Dallas area, but I moved here, so.
It's a great, oh, we loved it there.
So, we play around with the dream of maybe moving there.
It is a little bit difficult when you're Canadian.
You want to move to the U.S.
Yeah.
So.
I had some friends here years ago that were Canadians that moved here for a while.
They ended up moving back, though, to Canada.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah.
I'm just having all kinds of interesting issues today.
I'm going to listen.
Oh, yay.
It says my Internet is now connected.
But, so, usually I'm on my computer.
Let's see.
Now I can see everybody.
I was going to say, usually I'm on my computer.
And, but, so, that's what took me a while to get on.
I was like, why won't it let me on?
The Internet says it wasn't happy, so I couldn't get on my computer.
So, I'm going to get on my phone.
Okay.
So, I'm on my phone.
Let me make sure that I am good here.
What is it doing?
Come on.
Oh, good.
So, I'm on.
Okay.
Yes.
So, it is Alana's first time.
And it's Catherine's first time.
Hey, how are you doing, Catherine?
I'm good.
Oh, let me turn on the light.
Good.
Yeah.
It's been a good day.
Yeah.
I'm from Texas as well.
So, connection.
I lived in the Dallas area, but.
Oh, my gosh.
Everybody on this thing is from Texas.
This is amazing.
I'm in California now.
I like California too.
I'm happy.
I like Texas.
I want to move to either.
Texas is first and then California would be second.
Yeah.
I love Canada, but I really like the heat.
You like the heat?
I love the heat.
I love it.
I could live in the heat all year round easily.
You are one of those places.
I will take the heat over the cold.
Pardon?
I will take the heat over the cold.
If you are having a hard time getting your bones and can't get it out,
that is miserable.
I will take the heat over the cold.
In Turkey, it can get up to 120 degree weather
over the cold. I hear you. Yeah, because it would also get cold in Turkey and not
extremely cold. We're not talking Canada here. We're talking like, I don't know, we
get into the 20s or 30s, 20s, where I was, but the problem is you couldn't get away
from the cold. So, oops, now it's saying that I need to plug my phone in. I
might need to switch to my computer just because it's gonna be easier. Anyway, so
let's see. I'm having all kinds of fun little things today. Let's see, I might
have to leave. Oh, is it going to make me end the meeting? No, DASA, uh-uh, just a
second. Let me see. Okay, no. Okay, so I'm gonna leave the meeting and then I'm
going to come back in on my computer because I think that that's going to be
best. So, I will be right back.
See, I'm going to sign. Let's see. Oh, so, Amy, I'm gonna sign you the host. Just, I'll
be right back. Where are you from in California? Where do you live there? I'm
in Redding, which is Northern California. Do you go to Bethel? Yeah, yeah, I go to
Bethel. I came out here for their School of Ministry and now I'm in their
Conservatory of the Arts. What do you do? Do you play an instrument or do you sing?
It's actually like an acting school, so I did an acting certificate last year
and then this year I'm doing a screenwriting program. Yeah, so all things
entertainment. How do you like it? Oh gosh, I love it. If it wasn't for the insane
heat, this would be the most amazing place to live ever, so you would probably
love it, but it does get like really, really hot in the summer, but other
than that, it's really, it's pretty amazing. Oh yeah, I'd love, we, I'll go and visit
one day. I'd love to go to Redding and go to Bethel and experience it. I've gone to
Bethel concerts and conferences. I went, one thing I love about Dallas is lots
last summer, I went to their Have and Come conference in Dallas and it was
amazing. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, I was at the one in 2018. That's kind of how I
ended up out here. Oh wow, that's amazing. Yeah, I like what they're doing a lot. I
love their music too and I sing for my church, like I sing on the worship team,
so I just love that kind of music and yeah, it's my thing, so. Awesome. Yeah, it's
neat. Well, I am not pleased with this because, let's see, recurring meetings start, because I
can't see, okay, so I can now see, okay, well now I can see y'all. I'm thinking
that my internet on my computer is struggling, so, because it's freezing
y'all, which means it might be freezing me, and so I'm wondering if I just need
to figure out how to switch back to my phone. I'm not used to having as much
trouble. You always freeze in lovely positions, though. I don't know how you do
it, but every time you freeze, you look so nice. Oh, there she froze.
Oh, I am seriously going to have to switch to my, to my phone, back to my
phone. So, I'm going to have to work out my, whatever issues are
going on with the internet. So, does anyone, let's see who is on here. I'm trying to
remember who I see is on here. So, yeah, and Amy, I hate to ask you this, would you
mind going in there when you get a chance and remaking me the host of my own Zoom meeting?
That let's go to participants. I'll just go to participants and then just make me host
So I had to make you host in order for me to leave, but it wouldn't. So it wouldn't end it meeting.
I switched it back to you.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
I like control.
So I do, by the way, mute anybody who's not talking so that because I've noticed that it'll create a whole bunch of feedback in the recording. So nobody be offended.
Okay.
Oh, cute.
All right, there we go. So you'll need to just unmute yourselves. If y'all have a question or and say something. So, okay, so now that we're actually finally getting into this what 15 minutes into the call and
For one thing, wanted to let everybody know. So y'all already know that Alana and Catherine are new as the last time that we were on a call. And so this is their first time joining us and I've been telling him and how much fun it is to be on a call with them.
And how much we enjoy getting on these calls and because we can just all and whoever is able to join via video or just join the zoom period to join the zoom meeting period.
That we enjoy getting to hear updates from each other or just being able to interact and we have a lot of fun. We, we do laugh a lot. I've noticed.
But anyway, does anyone have anything that has come up this this past week or anything sent that they haven't updated us on
That has just, I don't know, the Lord has revealed something to y'all about
How to move into rest and a greater measure or how to apply something that y'all had on that you'd applied in another area and the worst now showing you how to do it in this area and
I don't know any updates or any questions that anybody has that they've been thinking about and going through the teachings or life experiences.
Hey,
Anyone have anything. If not, I'm gonna have to come up with something.
I have to think of what I've been talking to people about this week. Oh, I think I've got something if nobody else does.
Well, I would talk about the you and I have chatted a little bit about this, but the whole thing about control.
And how God has been kind of showing me again. He shows me this a lot. I think I've kind of got a good handle on it. And then he shows me again that
I'm trying to control a little too much. So this week he was showing me that like in big ways that I was really struggling when things were not going the way they were planned to go. And so I chatted with you a little bit about it. I chatted with
Another friend of mine about it and gain some really interesting insight around where that comes from that desire for control and
You know, one of the reasons I chose to take this rest intensive was to figure out how to
Be in a space of rest and trust and faith, instead of trying to manipulate things so that they all work out the way that I want them to work out and therefore I feel good because nothing's out of sorts.
And I have a four year old. So there's, you know, every day.
Things are always, you know, out of control to a certain degree, because you never know what you're going to get.
And it's, you know, it kind of goes down to that to write like the parenting aspect. I'd love to be a mom who's more at rest and less focused on her showing up in a way that
Works for me, but to be okay with the way she shows up regardless. Yeah. Oh, that's perfect. Yeah. I love how you
How you also brought in the whole parenting thing. That's something that I've been I've been around some people with children lately like
Like several tiny children know all at once. And every now and then I it'll either be my nieces and and and nephew, or it'll be a friend or whatever. And so I happen to have been around recently and wasn't watching how they were handling it and I noticed that it was just a lot of stress, simple, not by the fact that things were going bad, they just were not going the way someone thought they should go.
It shouldn't be like this, like the children were sick and there were those constant, you know, you know, mommy. I'm not feeling good. And they were really just wanting attention and then no no mommy this and no mommy that and no mommy that and no mommy this and no mommy that
I didn't know the other child's doing something and then the baby's crying and and everyone was fine, essentially, but the problem. And so I was looking at the situation watching. Well, you know, yeah, there's people can look at it as a chaos as as
As everyone needs something, but really, if you thought about the situation because everyone's like talking all at once. You're like, oh, we shouldn't be
But if you just look at the situation. Well, nothing's wrong. Everything's fine. No one's dying. It's all okay. And they're all going to be okay, but it was the sense that it shouldn't be like this. And I was watching that build up in the mother.
Word and it but if so, I thought, oh, this is such a so neat because what I have the opportunity to do because I was, I was in the middle of all of this going on and the kids were looking at me as well.
You know, they were wanting my attention and wanting to do that. And so I'm having to like
Go between one child and another and both of them are wanting attention.
And there was constant noise. And so that this is a great opportunity to just shift into rest because I was, I was noticing that that, you know, we typically think
It's this
That there should be order. There's something that's out of order. There is something that going on that shouldn't be. So I thought, no.
I can just let go of the fact that I believe that it shouldn't be like this. I just let go of this fact.
It doesn't mean that we can't like try to calm everyone down and give people what they need and whatever. But it was just, they were just
They were just moments and literally they were like several few hours in which we were going through all of this.
But I could be and I would, and I would shift into a place of rest, while there was all of this going on around me. And that was being required of me like all of these demands that were being required of me.
And in this situation, and I would just able to shift into rest. And then I noticed that when the children will be around me versus their mother, they would calm down.
Because I would be in rest when they would come in and they tag team. Oh, actually, this actually this actually this and actually this and whoever it was that I was paying attention to the other one wanted in on it.
And it was, it was just constant. And so because I was at rest, they calmed down and then eventually they calmed down to the point they went away from me.
Because they're like, okay, now I'm fine. I didn't need me to calm them down anymore. They had calmed down and now they could go entertain themselves.
And so, but I noticed that that whenever they were around somebody that had the emotion that was all stirred up, they would get stirred up.
And then they and they and they wouldn't stop and they would continue to come after the matter or whoever else, you know, looking for looking for peace and looking for stability and the emotion from the mom.
And the and the and the spiritual frustration that she was in spiritual meaning like even stuff that she wasn't saying or doing or whatever this state that she was in inside
Is what was is what they were receiving and so and they may and continue to create more and more chaos and more and more turmoil, because they just couldn't settle down.
So anyways, that I think that's interesting that you brought that up. So one of the things that you'll notice that when
When you go through the rest intensive that one of the things that I talked about about a very practical thing that we do in order to shift into rest like literally immediately in a moment.
Is to let go of the idea that things shouldn't be the way that they are because that's what's creating our struggle. And that's what's creating our resistance. It shouldn't be like this.
Now we're not making it now when we shift into rest and we let go of the sense of entitlement, our sense of entitlement that it shouldn't be whatever way that it
It is in the moment and whatever's going on, whether someone said something to us or someone's acting a particular way or someone's not acting a particular way or whatever, whether it be about parenting or marriage or business or whatever.
If we just let go of our sense of entitlement that it shouldn't be that way.
Will immediately shift into rest, but what we're not doing at the time is we're not creating judgment and we are
We're not, we're not determining whether what the truth is in this situation. We're not saying by by letting go. We're not saying, oh, it's okay that this is happening.
And it should be happening like this. And this is the truth. We're not saying that at all. We're not making any judgment. We're not saying it's truth.
We're not saying it's false. We're not saying anything. We're just like letting go of our sense of entitlement that it should not be the way that it is.
And as soon as we do that, as soon as we let go, we shift into rest. So the storm can continue to go on around us. But once we shift into rest.
Then we now are should have shifted into a position in where we are acknowledging that we're spirit was one with Christ. Therefore, we're perfect or holy or
righteous, we know all things, and we're above everything else. We're above Satan, we're in a
higher position, and because we're above everything, and because we're operating according
to him, because we now believe that we are sons of God, and we understand that we're in that
position of power and authority, we now have the opportunity to standing in our position
to tell creation, which includes other people's souls, to calm down. Even without saying
something out of our mouth, the intention that a son of God brings into a
situation will calm everything down. So that's what I was doing, that's what I was doing with
the children that I was around, and I was around them today, and that's what I was having
to do with them, is it wasn't anything that I said to the children. In fact, everything that
they were asking me for, I was giving them, I was constantly answering them every time. I
didn't ever tell them, wait just a second, let me get back to you in a minute, or whatever. I've
done that before, so I'm not saying that's wrong. I'm just saying that in the situation, it was
constant, and I was just answering them, whatever, but because I was in a place of rest, they eventually
caught that intention, and they calmed down, and they went away to entertain themselves. They no
longer needed me. So anyway, that's a really good example of a situation that so many people,
especially moms, find themselves in, that we think life shouldn't be like this, and it's saying
something about me as a mother, it's saying something about my children, my children shouldn't
be like this, and all of a sudden we see them, you know, 10, 20 years from now in jail, you know,
really they're just three, and they're just thrown in bed, you know, it's, yeah, and so it's
like bringing everything back into perspective, but so that's a really practical way in which we
walk out shifting, living in, that we can walk out living in rest, in very, in daily
life situations, where we give up a sense of control. We don't have control over our children,
we just don't. They're their own people, and they determine how they want to take what mom said,
so, and they have their own little personality, and each one that comes out is different from the
next person, so anyway, that, that's a really, that's a really neat thing that, that you were
filling the Lord, and revealing to you some, some ways in which he was saying, you actually have the
opportunity to live in greater freedom. I didn't mean for you to have to live like this, and you
can now live, you can now live, you have the opportunity to live in more freedom than this,
wouldn't you like to, because that's all that God is ever saying, is, is always that we have the
opportunity to, to have something better and more than what we have. It's never a condemnation of
where we are, but that we're in a place of lack, that we shouldn't be where we are. He's just like,
oh yeah, you're fine where you are, and wouldn't you like something more, wouldn't you like something
better? And so, it's always the kindness of God that leads to us being able to release control.
So, I don't, I don't know if that makes sense, because I know that, I know that you just joined
today and hadn't gotten an opportunity to watch some of the sessions, so I'm not sure if I just,
if you feel like I just threw you into the deep end of the pool, so I'm sorry. You know me,
I live in the deep end of the pool. I'm, yeah, I'm at the bottom of the ocean most of the time.
I'm good. I, well, yeah, no, it was great, and I watched your love lesson, the first one. Okay,
so you watched that one, okay. Yeah, so I've gotten a little bit of an idea, but you and I
have had lots of conversations too, so I feel like, yeah, I understand, and part of it is,
cognitively I understand, at a heart level, it is going to maybe take a little bit of time to
drop down and actually practice it, because, you know, being grounded when it's easy
is no problem. Being grounded and at rest when things are chaotic is always the opportunity for
growth, right, and yeah, so I like what you're saying, and that we don't have to, it doesn't
have to look a certain way, and that pressure we put on ourselves, or at least me, I can speak from
I, the pressure I put on myself to be that mother that's going to raise her daughter really well,
and then it's like, I have to do this, and I get, right, and it's not, it's like, how do you
actually just let go of control and say, it's okay, whatever, you know, it's hard to know the
balance, right? Yeah, yeah, so we're not, we're not, we're not, not guiding our children anymore,
but we're releasing this, we're releasing the struggle that we're holding against
whatever's going on, because once we release it,
Then, like I said, we can shift into, we're shifting then into a position of the spirit
from which we can tell creation what it needs to do and it will respond. But when we're down
there with it battling, meaning we're not in a state of rest, then it's at least 10 times harder
to get an effect if we have any effect whatsoever. So, which it depends on the situation as to
whether or not we have an effect. But usually, we just work really hard and we have an effect
on our children and all that good stuff. But if we just let go of that sense of entitlement,
we have the greatest opportunity to actually execute and get done what it is that we are not
get done, but to impart into our children the spiritual lessons and the spiritual understanding
that they need and need to actually receive from us. Because the majority of what it is that
they're doing is actually from very natural human nature response that they feel that they're not
protected or provided for in some way. They don't feel safe and so they're doing something.
Now, it's not every situation. I'm kind of covering it with a big, broad breaststroke.
But usually, when we're struggling with children because of how they're acting,
because they're not acting appropriately, like they're screaming or they are constantly begging
for attention and they won't leave us alone or whatever, there's an area in which they're trying
to learn how to express themselves. And they're not really sure how. It's like learning to use
arms or legs. And so that just is like this guiding process. But then there's this other
aspect to it in which like if they're insatiable, if they're screaming about something,
or whatever, that is a normal human tendency of anybody at any age. And children just
happen to express it screaming and adults express it using different expressions
that we're terrified. And we feel that we're alone, that we feel that we're abandoned. And we feel like
this is the only way that I can move into self-preservation mode is if I scream, I know that
I'll get this. If I do this, then I know that this will happen or whatever. So it's if we are
able to shift into our spirit and be able to provide them with the sense of identity, protection,
and provision where they can begin to believe, oh, you know, God is that I'm not alone.
I'm not unsafe. I'm not whatever. The behavior issues start to leave. And that's the same for
children as it is for adults. If we understand who it is that we are, our behavior goes away.
And then we don't even have to address the behavior. So I'm not saying that children's
behavior shouldn't be addressed because there's, so it's not like, oh, they can just do whatever
they want and I just need to address their identity. Then their behavior can be addressed.
But for us to focus on the behavior isn't dealing with the root issue. So, and they're just,
and children are just little people. They're just little adults and we all act the same way.
I mean, people act the same way at 44 that they do when they're four, except that we just,
we have more mature ways of expressing it, but it's the same fears and the same childishness.
Oh yeah. I think that people have,
making sure that I haven't like missed a comment that someone said. Oh, there it goes. Yeah. Y'all
just, y'all are just commiserating with each other. I know that we don't, we don't control
other people. We don't control children. We can't control ourselves. I mean, my goodness, how much,
how good have we done controlling ourselves? Remember even Paul talks about the fact that,
why am I doing things I don't want to do? And I'm not doing things that I want to do. And,
you know, that's ourselves, let alone somebody else. But anyway.
That's good. So it's kind of like the way I'm a visual person. So I'm imagining kind of like
floating above the situation in the spirit and not being in the chaos, but kind of rising above
the chaos. Is that kind of a, a bit of a picture? I'm not sure.
Oh, well, okay. Sort of. Let me see if I can, if I can explain this better. Okay. So there's two
pictures that I can give you. So there's, there's operating, you know, basically where we believe
that we've been abandoned and alone, which is we believe that we're operating out of what I refer
to as the soul realm or the body realm. I say, I refer to it as if I came up with the idea. So
that's what I, that's what I heard. And I've heard from a teacher that I follow and that's
the way he expresses it. So, and it makes such clear, gives me such a clear picture that that's
what I use for, for the rest intensive is to just.
just draw it like your spirit realm, soul realm, the body realm. So when we're operating out of
the body or the soul, in other words, it create an aspect of creation and an aspect of ourselves
that was created because our spirits were not created. Our spirits came out of God and he's
not created. So our spirits are not created, but our soul and our body were created.
And anyway, so when we operate out of the solar body realm, that's a reference to the fact that
we believe that we've been abandoned and alone, that God leaves us in a place of lack, that he's
not fully providing for protecting us. And instead he's requiring that we somehow man up and pick
ourselves up by our own bootstraps and accomplish something for him, accomplish something that we
need to give him, get ourselves to a certain point or our children to a certain point or
a spouse to a certain point where we're finally acceptable to him. And even though we know not
to talk like that, our lives show that we actually believe it. And so, so by talking about the fact
that we're shifting into the spirit, it means that we're finally acknowledging that we are spirit.
So it's not really coming out and above this situation, but it means that we're not affected
by the situation. It means we can be smack dab in the middle of it, but it doesn't affect us.
It's not a threat. So it's one picture in the fact that we are spirit. So when I say that
we're shifting into this spirit, it means that we're just shifting our consciousness to acknowledge
I am spirit. I'm not soul. I'm not body. I'm not, I'm not able to die. I'm actually spirit,
which can't ever die. So it's just an acknowledgement. And then the other picture is the
idea that when Jesus was in the boat, and I use this one constantly when I talk about this,
I need to come up, I need to think of some more examples in scripture to give a bit of variety
to talk about. But in script, in three of the gospels, it references the time where Jesus
calmed the wind and the waves, where he was in the boat asleep and the wind and the waves are
crashing. And it says in all three accounts, all three gospels, it says that the, that the waves
were coming up over the boat and, and Jesus was asleep on a cushion in the stern. It mentions
that, that cushion in the stern in one of the, in one of the gospels, but in all three of the
gospels, it talks about the fact that the water was so bad. It was coming over into the boat.
In other words, Jesus was getting wet while he was sleeping and he was apparently finding no reason
whatsoever to get up and change the situation because he wasn't threatened by the situation.
He was basically acting as if it can do whatever it wants. I don't need to change the storm.
I don't need to tell it to do something different. Just, it can do whatever it wants to do.
It's in turmoil. It's in chaos. It's afraid. It can do whatever it wants, but it can't threaten me.
It was a spiritual, it was a physical picture of the fact that his soul was at rest.
He knew that it wasn't a threat to him, but the disciples on the other hand, were seeing the
threat. They're like, we're, we're under threat. Lord, you do not care for us. What are you going
to do? And so he gets up and he calms the situation. And that he was, and he was doing
two different things. He was telling, he was, he was saying for one, that, Hey, y'all have
the authority to be able to do this. You have the authority to be able to tell creation to,
to what it is that you want it to do, to take authority over creation and take dominion.
That was one of the things. The other thing that he was trying to say is, look, because you can
take authority and dominion over creation, it's not a threat to you. So you don't always have to
change the situation. It doesn't matter what the situation is doing. You don't have to change it
in order to be at rest. I was at rest while it was going on. I didn't see a need to wake up and fix
it. But since you're afraid, I'm trying to prove it to you in terms that you understand, because
you only understand rest if your environment's at rest. So we'll, we'll command the environment
to be at rest. And now don't you see that you can command it at any time. So therefore it's never a
threat to you. So that was, um, that says a, uh, a, an example in scripture of the fact that we
don't have to, that the outside circumstances do not dictate how we need to react or respond.
They can't, they don't say anything about who it is that we are or what it is that we need to do or,
um, uh, or, uh, that they don't dictate to us whether or not we're under threat or what the
truth is. We tell it what we want it to do. And we tell it how it needs to respond. And we don't
even have to do it because Jesus didn't even find a need to calm the storm. Like, ah, just let it
storm. Let it do its own thing. He didn't save the, uh,
And he didn't save Israel from Roman rule.
They all wanted him to save it from Roman rule.
And he's like, why?
This doesn't even need to be a discussion.
He said, the issue isn't that you're not under oppression
by outward circumstances.
You're under oppression inwardly.
Inside, you believe that you're enslaved.
He said, the issue isn't the fact
that you're enslaved outwardly.
He said, the issue is that you believe
that you're enslaved in the soul and the spirit,
and you're acting like that.
He said, that's the threat.
That's what we have to get rid of.
So that's all that he focused on.
So a lot of times, people think that when they move, oops,
that when they shift into rest, that it
means that we won't go through struggles anymore,
or that we always command the struggles to go away.
And they will.
That's not always true.
It just means that they're not a threat to us anymore.
But when we realize they're not a threat to us anymore,
we also can, if it's within the father's heart,
command it to calm down, and command it to change,
and command it to be different.
We can declare that someone be healed.
We can declare that we are to be healed.
I mean, to manifest healing, be free from cancer,
that if we're struggling financially,
that we can even declare money to appear on our bank account.
There are people that I know that can just
talk to their cell phone and tell it to charge,
and it'll charge.
But that's a process that we have to,
that's a shifting of our understanding
to come into agreement with who it is that God says that we are.
And the more that we've come into agreement
with who it is that God says that we are,
the more that we then can command creation
according to what we understand the father's heart desires
creation to be released from frustration,
because it's currently in frustration.
I really feel like I just gave a lot there.
Sorry.
For me, it's just, I've been talking about this so much,
and in living this so much, that it just kind of fills my life.
And so I just start talking, and then I realize,
I don't know if I just gave you an entire elephant
and told you to swallow it.
I'm sorry.
And anyway, that's the answer.
So if this doesn't make sense, just periodically,
just re-watch this, and you'll gain more and more layers
of understanding.
That makes total sense to me.
I mean, I think it's a process, but what you're talking about
sounds a lot like it's reminding me of how I felt.
So I recently, you and I have talked about,
I recently had to make a decision about which direction I was going to go.
And there was just, I could feel when I was in control,
and then I could feel when I just let go and allowed
it to unfold the way it was going to unfold.
And not that I surrendered all desire or wanting
it to be a good conclusion.
But I kind of just was like, OK, this isn't going the way
that I expected, but we're just going to roll with it.
And yeah.
And I also really loved what you said about,
I know it sounds like, whoa, but like commanding money
to come into your bank account or that.
I've been experimenting with just being really direct with God
and asking him for very specific things.
And especially financially, mostly just jobs.
Like I've been telling him what kind of jobs I wanted
and that kind of thing.
And it's been surprising to me how quickly he's answered.
Like I said to him like one morning, I would
love to get some more jobs like this.
And like a friend of mine texted me like 10 minutes later.
And so it's been really, it's been interesting to kind
of like realize that we have so much more authority,
I think, than we realize.
So.
Yes, we do.
And the more authority that we can.
OK, so let me back up.
We have everything now.
We don't have to, how would I read this?
When, as the son of God, we've been given everything now.
But we do not get to operate in everything
until we can, until we grow into it, so to speak.
So in the way that I've seen it pictured.
because I was talking to Jesus.
Well, I wasn't talking to Jesus about this.
I was talking to him about something else.
I was approaching him about something.
And I was just,
and he started just showing me various pictures.
And so one of the things that he showed me is
I had this brown mantle on,
and he took it from me.
And it's because I opened the mantle
and there were some things inside,
like drawings on it
that were to represent things of who it is that I was
and things that it is that he'd given me.
But there were,
not all of it, it was interesting,
not all of it could fit inside the mantle.
So in this robe, this mantle over me,
and like I said, it was like this brown cloak looking thing.
And he took it off of me,
which was interesting because I thought,
oh, I thought that would have been given to me if I got,
but I don't know.
Anyway, he took it off of me
and then he put a long mantle on me,
like one of the coronation robes.
Like think of like the picture of the coronation robe
that we've seen that belongs to Queen Elizabeth II.
And I mean, telling you, that thing is six yards long.
And I don't remember, it's at least a yard wide, at least.
And that thing is velvet and that's real ermine lined.
And in other words, all of that fur
and the square footage of it is so large
that it's extremely heavy
and she can't even drag it on the floor.
Her ladies in waiting,
like I think that there's like four or six of them
have to carry, they all have to carry a portion of it.
It does not drag on the ground.
They carry a portion of it, that thing is really heavy.
So that is the picture that I saw.
I saw that I looked about the size of a four-year-old
and I was standing next to Jesus
and I looked about the size of a four-year-old
and he gave me this mantle and it was a full mantle,
like the one like Queen Elizabeth would wear,
really, really, really long,
but on the size of a four-year-old.
So what he showed me is I was bearing the weight
of what he had given me as a son of God.
He'd given the entire thing to me, the entire thing.
But the only amount that I was bearing,
in other words, the only amount that I was operating in
at that time was what the part of the mantle
that was on my shoulders
and going from my shoulders down to the ground.
Because once it hit the ground,
the ground was bearing the weight of the rest of the mantle.
But it was mine and it wasn't anybody else's.
God didn't keep adding bits of material onto the mantle.
I got the full thing at the very beginning,
but I was only bearing the amount of weight of the mantle
relative to my size and strength.
So as I grew taller, though, the mantle,
I would pull up more and more of the mantle
because I'm getting taller,
so obviously more and more is being picked up off the floor
because it was related to how much I was growing.
So how much I was spiritually growing,
I was naturally receiving more and more of the mantle.
I didn't even have to ask Jesus for it.
I didn't have to ask Jesus to remember
that I'm more spiritually mature this year
than I was last year,
so can I have more responsibility and can I have whatever?
But it was just naturally coming with the territory.
I was naturally pulling up more of it as I got taller.
So I thought, okay, finally that makes sense
because I wasn't understanding
how I was given everything at the beginning,
and yet I felt like I'm not getting to operate
in all of it.
I'm like, how can I have it all
but I don't get to operate in all of it?
That didn't make any sense.
Why do people keep telling me, like preachers or whatever,
keep saying things like,
well, the more you prove yourself to the Lord,
the more he gives you.
It's like, I thought I was given everything,
so I don't understand this.
So finally when I saw the picture,
I'm like, now that makes sense.
Now that makes sense.
I have all of it, but I grow into bearing the portion of it
that is relative to the strength that I have built up,
the spiritual maturity, the height,
or whatever that I've built up to that point.
So my point in saying all that
is that our Father governs us
into understanding more and more
how to operate in the power and the authority
of our position, to be able to declare certain things,
to be able to whatever.
And he desires us to try and to practice,
which is what you're doing,
to be talking to him and asking him for things
and saying, oh Lord, this is what it,
I'm bringing myself to the table in relationship with you.
It's relationships, it's a two-way street.
You tell me what you want and what you desire of my life.
This is what I'm at.
This is what I would like. So let's communicate. Let's talk about this Lord, you know, what is it that we want to do together and how should it manifest into reality?
This is the type of job that I want. And this is why I want it. So what do you think about it? And to be able to do it together and, and to just kind of learn in, in how to build intimacy of relationship with him by, again, by bringing ourselves to the table.
I think that's wonderful. What you're doing. I was not brave enough to do that. I was, I growing up, I was always just this neat little servant. Yes, sir. I will do whatever you want. And I have no, I have no desires and I have no wishes.
That was me like six months ago. This has been a season with the Lord where he's been telling me over and over again, I need you to tell me what you want. Like, I'm not going to know I gave you what you want unless you actually vocalize it.
Yes, exactly. No, that's good. Because what it means in the fact that you're doing it means that you are choosing to, that, that you're choosing to trust your father. In other words, he's gaining your trust. And I don't mean that, that he, uh, that he did anything wrong in order to lose your trust. I'm saying that, you know, we all understand that, that it's us.
That's not believing him. But the point is, he's trying to woo you to himself and you are allowing yourself to be wooed. You're allowing yourself to choose to trust him. So you're like, okay, the Lord, here's what I want.
Here's, here's what I'm thinking. Here's whatever, as opposed to just being afraid because he tried to woo me too. And I, I didn't take it. So that's wonderful that he desires us to do that. He desires us to declare to him who he is because we're feeding those words back to him. He wants us to say how to tell him, Lord, I believe you're this good.
And like that, and he's just like, that's what I want to hear. I want to hear how good you think I am. How, how love, how much love that you think that I am, that I'm willing to give to you and be able to claim it.
It's a very intimate thing. Like, like a husband and a wife. It's very intimate thing for that. He would call you the one who's one with asking to, to declare that he has those things. He likes to be loved on and be made much of just like husbands do just like you do, you know, he does as well. That's why he gave us that picture. We're really funny. We don't, he doesn't need us necessarily.
He doesn't need us in the way that we think of as need, because we attribute the fact that we always attribute the picture of need with a sense of lack. And we understand that God's not lacking. So therefore we don't believe that he needs anything. That need to the Lord does not meet, does not result from lack.
He desires to be affected by us and he created us in such a way that he, that he would be affected by us and that he would need us, but he doesn't need us because he's in a place of lack, just like he doesn't want us to need him, like as in desire him, because we believe that we're in a place of lack.
I don't know if that sounded a little esoterical for tonight's discussion. That was a little deep, but there you go. But anyway, I was just trying to commend you for the intimacy of relationship that you are choosing to, that you're choosing to step out in with the Lord, because most people aren't that brave.
Thank you.
I didn't know that.
So does anyone have anything, Steph? You've been talking. Oh, Holly, you're unmuted. Did you have something?
Yeah, I was wondering if you, first of all, hey to the new people. How are you ladies? I'm so glad y'all are here. I'm excited about that.
Okay. So I was wondering if you could expand on the idea of God supplying us and giving us what we want, but in relationship to others, like I'm thinking of like who I'm surrounded with.
So we've had a lot of like family get togethers lately. So my in-laws who are wonderful, amazing people, but just have very different like family priorities than I do, how to get what I want and what I need with other personalities in the room, or even that you live with or that you work with or whatever, that God meets our needs.
in the middle of other people's free will.
I've been wrestling with the Lord about that
and trying to walk in my authority in that
and have really stumbled this week on getting revelation
and kind of going back to like belief systems of old wounds
of like, I just can't have what I want
because I'm not the biggest personality in the room.
And even though it's really important to me
and it's a good thing and it's not like a,
I'm not like the whiny-
Not selfish.
Corner, yeah, it's not selfish.
But I just, I can't have it when these people are around
and the only out I see to that is either to insist on it,
like which is not gonna go well
with a bunch of other adults, you know,
or to like separate myself to go get what I want,
which I don't, like none of that I'm at peace with.
I know that there is provision
in the middle of tough personalities,
but I'm just stuck at that this week.
So I'm assuming that this is a bit different
than what we were talking about last week
and then not you and I, but on the community Q&A
and that I did a live on about the sovereignty
versus our free will versus other people's effect
and other people's ability to affect that.
I'm assuming we're talking about something different than that
or what?
I haven't, I'm sorry, I haven't caught up on that yet.
No, that's okay.
I'm just, I didn't wanna answer something
that you're like, no, no, no, I got that one
and that didn't answer my question.
And maybe I need to go listen to those
and then I can call you later this weekend.
No, no, it's fine.
Again, I was just wanted to understand
if maybe that hadn't answered your question.
So you're just like, I needed,
you needed me to mention, I don't know,
come at it from a different angle.
So I think maybe I understand what you're talking about.
So you're talking about how you can be provided for,
okay, let me start out saying this
and you can tell and give me feedback
and let me know if this is heading in the direction
that you're kind of thinking.
I don't know if this is answering your question.
We talked, I think it was in the community Q&A last time,
maybe I even mentioned it in the live
that I was referencing just now,
but that if we, if when God says that,
yes, in fact, I know that I did.
When God is, wants to provide something for us,
whether it be something that he's told us
or whether it's something that we've asked of him
or whatever, if God, other people cannot affect
God's providing that thing for us.
They can just affect how it manifests sometimes
if they choose to kind of step in the way.
Let's say for instance,
the example that I used was of Joseph,
the fact that God had given Joseph all of those dreams
and then his brother stepped in
and then they sold him into slavery and all of that.
Well, it looked for at least a decade, if not two,
that that was just not gonna happen.
And so it looks like, okay,
well, did other people's will and desire,
were they, was it forced on the situation?
And then, and God didn't, was in thwarted God's ability
to fulfill the promise that he'd made to Joseph.
And the thing is that, and the answer is no, absolutely not.
It can affect how it might manifest
because when other people choose to be a part
of what it is that God wants to do and fulfill,
it's going to look different than it does
if they choose to not be a part of it.
So kind of like a business partner,
God promises something to you as for business,
but then your business partner or your husband,
cause I understand for instance,
that you and your husband are doing
the snow cone business together.
Say for instance, if God gives you a promise
about the business, but then your husband
isn't in agreement with that,
well, can he thwart the fact that God had promised,
can he thwart the fulfillment of it?
And the answer is no.
But what it can do is his desire to not agree with it,
and I'm making up a story, I'm making up a total scenario,
but his ability, his choosing to not agree with that
and to not cooperate, for lack of a better phrase,
that it's coming into agreement,
then it can affect how it manifests.
But it will not thwart God's promise.
promise because you are more important to him. You are so important to him that
God doesn't allow anything to separate us from him. And he, because he's
extremely jealous and he won't allow parents to get in the way of his
connection with someone, you know, that with his child. He won't allow a spouse
to get in the way. He won't allow Satan to get in the way because it says that
nothing, you know, not principalities, nor powers, nor things in heaven, or things
nothing can separate us from the love of God. So nothing can thwart the fact that
if God wants to do something, meaning if you, as a son, choose to ask him, Lord, I
need this. I'm asking this as your son. I'm desiring you to come through for me.
You know, I need this. I want this. Whatever. I'm asking for you to meet me
and show me that I'm not abandoned. I'm asking for you to support me. Whatever it
is, whether you've asked him or he's come up with the idea, whatever it is that
y'all agree on, no one can thwart it. So there's that.
Another picture that I wanted to mention is God can provide it in
what God's way of providing it can look very different than our limited
understanding of provision. For instance, if we believe, and this is the example
that I gave in the teaching, if we're hungry, or if, say, for
instance, that we're struggling with money, and we see our pantry getting
really, really low, and we have nothing but mustard left in our pantry, and it's
literally the only thing that we have, and we're thinking, okay, Lord,
can you please send me a client so that I can have money so that I can buy food?
Because our thought is, why do we think that we need food? We think that we
need food in order to stay alive, in order to not be hungry or whatever.
So we think it's very, very important. We think it's a need. Okay, well, how do I
fulfill that need? How do you get food? You get food from money. Okay, and
how do I get money? I get money from a client. So, Lord, please give me a client.
Please give me money. Please give me food. God may not choose to provide in any of
those ways, but he will always provide. So he may just provide by
sustaining your body where you don't become hungry, and your body doesn't need
the food. So he actually provided, but it was very, very different from any
of the other scenarios that we came up with that we thought provision looked
like, but he will always provide. So that's another thing to think about, is
that he will always provide for us, but it may not always look like he'll never
abandon us. He'll never leave us in a place of lack. It may just not. We have to
be more open to, he invites us to receive his provision however it is he
chooses to present it. So I mentioned that, and also the fact that nobody
can get in the way of him providing that for us, and how he provides it might
look a little different than we might expect. Does that answer any of it at all?
Yeah, I think it helps a lot for sure. I have just been, and I have not gotten on this
call, and I haven't updated for like weeks and weeks, but the last time I was
on here I was talking about like my mom's health, yes, and walking in dominion over
that, and my mom had her surgery three weeks ago, and she is so good. She's doing
well, but I also really feel like if I had not listened to the Lord, and like
commanded her body, and commanded her health, and commanded that that surgery
came place, because that was, it wasn't like a supernatural healing. It was like
the Lord was like, this is the surgeon, this is what we're doing, we're going this
direction. Like I feel like if I would not have done it, I think she would have
died for sure, and anyway, and so I'm feeling very, I mean I'm a little fiery
anyway, but I'm also feeling very bold in a lot of these things, and so then when
it comes up to the this issue of like I'm not with these personalities around,
like I'm not gonna get what I want, there is something rising up inside of me
that's like I will move you out of my way, but like when you bring up Joseph
in prison, and yes the purposes of his life were not thwarted, but I'm like I'm
not going to prison because you're in my way, or I'm not like I'm not getting
something delayed because you in my way. I'll pick you up and move you, like so
I'm working that out with the Lord, because it seems so rude to me. I just
really want to be good a guy to people also, but I'm tired of, I'm tired of
of accepting lack when I think I've really had provision in my life, but I've accepted
lack because of like stronger personalities. And I've accepted like just going without
when I could have had it, but I was like, well, okay, that's fine. You know? And I think
like you were saying, Ashley, like, like feeling like it was the holier thing to give up what
you wanted for someone else. And that kind of thing. It's such a, like the, like more
of a whole mentality of works when it's like consider others above yourself and yeah, yes.
But when it's something that you need or your heart's desire, you don't put away your relationship
with the Lord to put somebody else first. Right? Like you don't give up your heart's
desire for someone else's like preferences type of a thing. And so just like working
that out. I mean, even like working that out in marriage, I have such a wonderful
husband, but, and, but like sometimes I'm like, man, you are really spoiled rotten and
that's my fault, you know? And so, um, I don't know, just walking that, um, through and,
and just really trying to, yeah. To see, to see what that looks like with like with authority.
Yeah. Am I rambling? I feel like I'm rambling. No, no, all of that makes sense. So, um, yeah,
for, so one of the things is again, you know, making sure that we're, um, being in a place
of, uh, being in a place of rest. Um, we understand that we're not, we're not in,
we're not being threatened. It can feel like we're being threatened. It's like they are,
you know, I'm going to move you out of the way and you're in the way that that's this
feeling that we're, that we're threatened. And why do we feel it? We threatened. It means
that we feel that we're in a place of luck and that God is not going to provide or protect
us. And therefore it's up to us to create it. It's up to us to grab hold of this situation
before the whole dadgum thing falls apart, you know? And so it's, so it doesn't mean
that God won't have us do something. My point is that if we shift into rest and remember,
okay, wait a minute, I'm not under threat. So now that I'm not under threat and now that
God will, God will fight my battles for me. And God is the one who can move in and intervene
in spiritual and supernatural ways where I don't have to say anything and I don't have
to do anything and he'll change the whole situation for me. So now that I know that
and now that I actually believe it and I just let go and I, uh, that what, what is that
that cliche? Oh, I haven't, I haven't heard that in a while. The let go and let God, um,
which really, you know, a majority of people just took that as giving up, which is very
sad. But anyway, so just, just letting go and understanding, okay, God's going to provide
for and protect me. Now that I know that God's going to provide for and protect me, what
do, do he and I want to do together? What is in the father's heart and what now do I
do? Is there some activity that he wants me to do? Does, does taking dominion over the
situation mean to actually say something? Does it mean in this situation in the father's
heart, now that I know that I'm not under threat, now that I'm in a place of rest, I
can see things from his perspective, from the perspective of, because being one with
God, I am love. I am goodness. I am righteousness. And that is what comes out of me. I am a life
giving spirit. So now that I know I'm a life giving spirit and, and I'm, I act and look
just like my father, what does my father, what is my father's heart in this situation?
And is my father's heart in the situation to speak a particular truth that, um, that,
uh, but obviously in love and righteousness and whatever that to someone else that, Hey,
you know, you're, you're not gonna, and bad way to phrase this, but you're not going to
put up with this. And, and this is going to be a different way. Not that you're not going
to put up with it, but that's the old, that's the old mindset version of what it is I'm
talking about. Basically that we're just let people know where, you know, what it is that
we are and are not going to allow, you know, or that they can do, you know, whatever, but
you're not going to be a part. They're begging you and they're pressuring you to be a part
of something. I'm not going to be a part. So I'm, so when I talk about moving into rest
and the fact that God is going to provide for and protect us, it does not mean that
he won't have us be a part of something he wants to actually have said and done in the
physical world. But if we say, and we do it from a place of, of our soul, from our body,
where we believe that it's up to us, that's when things can get, that's when we have inserted
something into this situation that can create more chaos, more, um, uh, relational discord.
or destruction, in other words.
So I just wanted to point out that shifting into rest
and believing and trusting the Father
that the Father's gonna provide
does not mean that we're not going to say or do things,
but it means that we're gonna say or do it
from the Father's heart.
And the only way we can get into the Father's heart,
which is everything is said and done from love and truth,
God's Jesus spoke some very serious words to the Pharisees.
He called them vipers, for goodness sake.
So if Jesus can call them vipers,
and he can overturn the tables
of the money changers in the temple,
he might call us to do certain things.
But the important thing is doing it from the Father's heart,
from which vantage point, from which perspective
that a spiritual power and dominion
and the releasing of creation from frustration
and from chaos and from fear is what will come,
as opposed to us being down in the middle of creation
as another creature,
dicking it out and may the best man,
may the best and most powerful man win.
There's no life in it.
There's no spirit.
There's no heart of God in it.
And it's from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
and that can bring nothing but death.
So I wanted to point out that rest does not mean
that he won't have you say or do something.
It means that it'll be from a different heart.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm fine with saying and doing things.
I don't like, that's not,
like I don't feel timid about that kind of thing.
I just, I don't know.
I think-
I just didn't want you to think that I was saying that.
No.
Resting in the Lord meant that you don't say or do things.
Yes.
I think too, like I'm more of a naturally like content
and happy person.
So I'm like, well, okay, well, that's fine too.
But there are some certain situations
with certain people that I'm like,
man, when you are around,
I never get like what I would like in big scenarios.
You know?
Yeah, I know.
I know.
Yeah.
Oh, I wanted to say, Katherine,
you asked me like if it's a question of boundaries.
I don't think so.
I would have certainly said that about myself,
like in my teens or early 20s or something like that.
But I'm pretty firm about stuff like that.
So I think it's okay.
I don't think it's boundaries.
I think it's,
well, I guess I'm just not sure, am I?
So.
Did you get my, I sent you a message,
but I didn't-
Yes, I saw that too.
And I don't mind talking about that.
So Elaine, do you say Elena?
No, Alana.
Alana.
Okay, thank you.
Okay, so Alana asked me,
she was curious when in my life have I not felt provided for
or listened to?
Is this feeling a pattern
that's come up throughout your life?
Yeah.
Yeah, I would say for sure.
Like, yes, definitely.
I also feel like I've dealt with it a lot
and I've had a lot of freedom from it,
especially like money-wise,
like a poverty mentality or not being heard.
I've always been in like more like masculine
business arenas and jobs.
Like I've always kind of been surrounded by men.
So have felt unhurt about that,
but have dealt with it like, you know, that kind of thing.
So yeah, I think it's a pattern.
And what I really see in this scenario
is that it has become more of a wound.
So instead of something like,
okay, I'm just gonna have to speak up for myself,
which is what my dad taught me to speak up for myself.
So I have very strong, loving, supportive father figure.
But now in my husband's family, he has to,
and not to give too many like family details
that are like, you know, drag y'all into this,
but like, so my two sister-in-laws
are more of like a spirit of Jezebel
and maybe even like a spirit of Leviathan.
Whatever you say, they hear it differently
and you be danged if you do not go,
and they will make your life miserable
if you don't go along with them.
So then I'm coming in as a similar age female
asking for things from my husband
or from my in-laws in various situations.
But if I press the issue,
all their wounds show up from dealing with the sister.
So then it feels like this is not worth it
to wound them or to hurt them in these ways.
They have no skillset to deal with this.
They have no inner healing to like get over this.
It'll ruin our relationship
because they won't know how to respond.
to me in love, it won't matter what I do afterwards, like it's just going to blow up for them.
And I really love them and don't want to blow things up and don't need, I don't, okay, I
don't need this.
I don't need to blow this up.
Why would I, why would I make this an issue?
But then walking away from it and internally being like, man, I really wanted that scenario
to play out or that was actually really important to me.
And I felt like the Lord handed it to me, but I looked at them and went, okay, okay,
that's fine.
You know?
So wanting to not walk in that anymore and being like, things might blow up a few times
and that might give, give opportunity for them to have inner healing and you know, that
kind of a thing.
And so, um, wanting to walk through that really well, but also in my spirit, man, just being
like, and I'm done with this.
Okay.
See you guys later.
I just need to walk in my authority and walk with the Lord in this and get what's needed
because I think it's heavier.
Okay.
Anyway.
So that's sort of the basics of that.
And so I think now it's turned into a wound and, um.
Do you feel like you can't use your voice or speak your truth when you're around them?
No, no, I can.
But I know that when they hear it, they feel instead of like, oh, this is important to
Holly.
Okay.
It's like, oh dear God.
Okay.
Everybody do what she says or else not because I've ever treated them like that.
I have not, but because they have been treated like that by their own daughters.
And so I come in as the daughter and so it's, that's the only sound they hear.
It's the only decibel they hear is like demand.
And then it turns into eggshells for a year and you're like, I feel like I'm constantly
trying to restore something for them just because of whatever I said a year ago.
Yeah.
Um, so I don't know if you saw in the chat, but I, I've had quite a bit of experience
with that spirit.
Like, yeah, Leviathan.
Yes.
Um, my mom carries both of them very intensely and your intro video.
Yeah.
Okay.
Um, so I was just going to say the only thing that I, the only way I've ever found success
or I'll just tell you what the Lord told me that like, got me to leave that situation.
I'm not saying you need to leave this situation, but the message was like, he told me she needs
to learn to rely on me.
And it was the message of like, you have to let go of trying to manage her world.
So what I hear a little bit and you being like, if I say this, they're going to take
it that way is you're, you're, you're keeping them from hurt.
And that is, I mean, Ashley, you can correct me if I'm like overstepping here, but that's
where it's not your responsibility.
And that doesn't mean you are snotty, but you don't seem like that kind of a person.
Like it doesn't mean that you have to go in hard and heavy, but you, you just are who
you are.
And then the chips, like not you, not honoring your heart is kind of like you trying to control
the situation by not rocking the boat instead of letting yourself fully show up.
And then whatever happens happens, which I know is hard because it was chaos, especially
with that spirit.
Yes.
But yeah, I think you can just let go and you have the right to say what you want and
what you need, especially if it's like, and you know, like for me, it was always when
I walked away and I felt violated.
That was when I gave away something that I shouldn't have given away.
You know, there are things that don't matter.
Like what we have for dinner or whatever, you know, like if it's something that is really
close to your heart and you have like almost cried three times, you know, like, I just
think the Lord doesn't want you to, to be in that spot.
Yeah.
That's why I was asking about your voice, because when Ashley was talking, I felt like
one thing she was saying, like maybe you feel confident using your voice, but in that situation,
I don't know, maybe not as confident using your voice because you're afraid of rocking
the boat and you want to keep the peace in a sense, which is nice, but it's at your own
expense.
So when Ashley was saying about, and I can't word it in the exact same way, but kind of
like going into that spirit realm and like.
like sort of, I would say, in my words,
like kind of talking to God about it
and asking him for his wisdom in those situations
and what he would have you say or be like
or do or whatever it is.
And Ashley could probably explain it way better than me,
but you said something along those lines, right, Ashley?
About which piece specifically?
About asking God about it?
Kind of like, yeah, going to the Lord and just saying,
here's where I'm at, here's what I'm feeling,
and what would you have me do or be or say,
or kind of going into that,
just kind of consulting the Spirit and asking.
I don't know how you would word it, though.
Yeah, so like what you're talking about,
where you, because we're one with the Father's heart,
or one with the Father,
and in relationship, we each bring ourselves to the table.
So we bring ourselves to the Lord, he brings him,
so we listen to himself,
so we listen to what is in the heart of the Father.
And because we're shifted into rest,
meaning that we're now abiding in him,
fully understanding we're one with him,
we sense what his character is
and how he feels about the situation,
what he desires as an outcome of the situation,
not even just long-term, but in the moment,
what is his heart for currently the situation,
that how things need to manifest as heaven into earth,
and what part that he desires you, Holly,
to partake in how it manifests into heaven into earth,
because it says that heaven is the Lord's
and the earth was given to man.
So he desires you to manifest that heaven into earth.
So what is it that your heart,
that your Father's heart desires you to manifest
into the, of what's in heaven into the earth,
and then to speak, or to do, or to say, or whatever.
But it's interesting, in the chat,
Steph, you brought up a really neat, neat story.
I was very excited for you.
She was talking about the fact that,
and that sometimes we're used in our families
as a catalyst, where we look like the bad guy.
We look like the bad guy
because we're the one that rocked the boat.
And there are several ways, actually, in my family,
that I was shocked to discover that I'm seen
as someone who rocks the boat in the family.
And I'm like, me?
But apparently I'm the one seen like that.
But, for various things.
But it can, that that person who does that,
and can, what does it say?
Steph says she's a hurricane
when it comes to rocking the boat in her family.
Because Steph is really brave,
and it took her a very long time,
in the conversations that I've had with her,
it took her a very long time to get to the point
where she was finally willing to do that.
But anyway, the thing that she was just wanting
to encourage us with is the fact
that sometimes we're used, and I think I used this,
oh yeah, did I use this, that term with you,
Steph, when I was talking to you,
about that we're used as a catalyst.
We're used as the thing that's dropped in the,
that's my list of, I know, that a catalyst,
we're so often used as a son of God,
as a catalyst in the situation.
Okay, so I did, so I talked to you about that.
Because that was something the Lord used with me.
I was in a situation where I was just,
everything was blowing up, and I was in the middle of it.
And I thought, how on earth did someone like me,
who didn't do anything, how on earth is everybody
looking at me, like the storm is blowing up,
and it's revolving around me, and I didn't do anything.
Someone else instigated it, and it looked at me,
and everybody else looked at me,
and like, what's going on, Lord?
And it's like, Lord, this isn't fair,
why am I being villainized, et cetera.
And for the first time, this was several years ago,
the Lord told me, he said, Ashley,
because I put you in this situation as a catalyst.
He said, the issue was already there.
The issue was always there, it had nothing to do with you,
it was in all of these other people.
But he said, I dropped you into it,
because he said, I knew I had prepared you as a catalyst,
meaning as a metal, or as an element,
that could not, that could be inserted in the situation
without being corrupted by the situation.
Because he said, I needed a trigger to trigger everybody,
because no matter what, no matter how bad things
were getting in their situation,
they weren't, things weren't coming to a head.
They weren't fixing it, they weren't changing it,
and so he said, I dropped you in it,
because I knew that you could be put
in the middle of a situation, and you wouldn't be affected,
but it would finally be the thing that triggered everybody.
So, so I was talking to Steph about that
when she was struggling, you know, issues with her family,
and she's just like, I'm just frustrated, Ashley,
this isn't fair, you know,
these aren't the words that she used,
I'm just like talking about like,
because we had multiple conversations
for multiple hours, you know, about this,
but I'm just kind of like summing it up.
It's like, why am I seen as the bad guy?
Why did I, why didn't somebody else bring this up?
Why does it have to be me that brings it up?
Because now everyone's looking at me
as if I've caused the problem,
based off of the fact that everybody else has these issues.
And because I'm the one who's drawing,
and I'm the one who's shedding light
on the fact that there's these issues.
I'm the one that sees the problem,
when they're the ones who are all creating the problem.
So, you know, why me?
And so I was encouraging Rose,
because God knew that he could put you in it,
and he could protect you,
and you could be unaffected by everybody else's,
their turmoil, their unsettledness,
their venom, and all of that.
But it can feel unfair when you're in it,
and you're not the problem.
So just as a reminder of what a catalyst is, chemically,
catalyst is a thing that you put into a substance,
like say, for instance,
you have two atoms, sodium and chloride,
have sodium and chloride,
and until you combine them,
and I don't remember if this is the exact two elements
that have to have a catalyst.
There are certain elements
that can literally be side by side in each other,
each other in a beaker or in a jar,
and they will not interact.
They just sit next to each other.
You'd have a pile of sodium,
or certain atoms in another pile
of different element and atoms.
But when you put a catalyst in the middle of them,
all of a sudden it triggers them
so that there's two elements
who've been sitting there perfectly fine together,
all of a sudden interact with each other,
and they become a totally different substance.
And you pull the catalyst out,
and it's completely unaffected.
So it's not like the catalyst ions
that were the totally third element
that you've added to the whole situation.
It's not that.
They combine molecules and get separated and all of that.
It's that the two things
that were already present interacted,
and then you pull the catalyst out,
and it's unaffected.
And then the whole situation and environment was changed
simply because the catalyst was present.
And that is what so many people,
like you, Holly, maybe,
are being called to by the Lord to do that.
I was called to do that in my family.
Steph's called that to do it in hers.
And so I just wanna encourage you that it's a great,
it means that you,
if the Lord does call you to do that,
it's hard to be in that situation.
But know that it's, yes, it's an honor,
but it's a compliment
that you are prepared by the Lord
that he's like, I know I can trust Holly.
I can trust my reputation in Holly's hands in that family.
Because when they look at Holly,
they see God.
When they look at Holly,
they see the Father's heart
in a way that they haven't seen it.
You know, like acting out in real life.
They hear about it from a preacher.
They hear about it here, that, and the other.
They read about it in the Bible.
But to watch it in living form,
and to see what Jesus would do if he was in their midst
when all of that was going on.
And to know that he can trust his reputation
in your hands and in your actions,
and that he will protect you where you are unaffected,
no matter what goes on around you,
because you're choosing to lean on him.
Now, you have to do it in the middle of it,
and you might have to learn like I did
when I'm in the middle of it.
I'm like, Lord, I'm not prepared for this.
And he said, you're prepared enough
to always look at me while you're in it,
to know what I'm gonna ask you to do next.
He said, no, you're not prepared
as if you've done this before,
and as if you can walk away and handle it on your own,
and say, I'll see you, Lord, on the other side.
He's like, no, no, no.
But you're prepared enough to look at me
and be sustained by me in a very unfamiliar situation
while you're going through it,
so that you will be pulled out unaffected.
But he said, finally, I will trigger the healing
that I desire for those people.
That that might be what he's calling you to.
I'm not declaring that that's what it is,
but I just wanted to give you an encouragement.
And Steph, thank you so very much for bringing that up.
And so Steph put in the chat that for months,
Steph has been the only one to do that in your family.
And finally, because of Steph's actions
and how her sister got courage to stand up
and to do the same thing.
Just, what did you say, last week, I guess?
Anyway, that's wonderful.
So anyway, just as an encouragement.
Thank you.
No, I actually have like a word
that I am to be like a catalyst of change
in my husband's family, kind of thing.
And when you said that word, I was like,
oh, I forgot about that.
I forgot about that word.
But there are so many deaf personalities
that are part of.
me is like, you know what, this is your shit storm and you can
handle it yourself. And I don't usually say bad words. But part
of me is like this. I do not want to do. But I'm sorry.
Stories. Yeah, I that's right. Steps. You remember that one
night I like told y'all a bunch of stories.
It's recorded. It's somewhere in the page. You're Oh, gosh, it
should not be please take that down. Someone will find that
and I'll get Chris over it. No, I'm surprised. Um, no. Yeah, I
think you're right. I think there might to, you know,
because it's 2020 be like something brewing there in the
family and the Lord's like, and I need you to deal with this
really quick because I'm about to ask something more of you
that you, you know, I'm like, okay. But anyway, thank you.
Thank you all so much.
You're welcome. I'm sorry. It's been hard. But thanks for
bringing it up. And, and, and I'm glad that your mom's better.
That's wonderful. And yeah, in spiritually, I'm in that
situation. Yeah, it's been pretty remarkable.
There's been some I need to write a post. There's been some
really cool ways the Lord showed me to walk in dominion
and, and, and stuff like that. So I will, I will do an update.
Yeah, please do because that's, that's always encouraging,
encouraging for people to seek, you know, middle of the
struggle so that they don't feel alone. And then, okay, this is
what it looked like when I was going through it. And then this
is what it and this is what how the Lord decided to prove it
because it's so often like I was talking about with the whole
food situation, you know, Lord, I need food, you know, will you
give me money and where you've been clients, etc. The way that
the Lord ends up providing, we can look at it and go, Oh, my
word, wow, that was him providing, but I would have
never guessed that this is how we work it out. But in the
middle of it, I'm gonna happen. But so yeah, it's always very
encouraging, because it just it builds up all of our faith,
because we can look at each other's stories and claim them
for ourselves. And I know that I've talked about this many
times. So when I hear other people's stories, and I'm going
through something, I will tell myself, Ashley, yeah, but you
remember when God did such and such for you, and I relay
somebody else's story that they've told me. And anyway,
which is anyone, and we sometimes that by the way, Alana
and Catherine, sometimes we go over an hour just because it's
fun to hang out. So or sometimes just because questions and
answers go a long time. And so I just like to as long as I have
the time, I like to give everybody that space. But just
wanted to make sure that y'all know, if ever y'all, you know,
y'all get on, you're always welcome to leave whenever y'all
y'all need to. And we had to hop off, you know, some people have
to get off like right up the hour, because that's all that
they set aside time for. But I just wanted to make sure.
I actually just sent a message just to Holly, I realized it was
just to her not to everybody. But it said, it's 1030pm here.
So I'm gonna get going to bed. Yeah, spend time with all of
you. It's just my time difference is a little different
in my bedtime is has passed. So it is time to get some rest.
Lena, where do you live?
I am in Ontario, Canada.
Oh, my goodness. Okay, awesome.
California or where?
No, I do not live in California.
If I did, though, it would be in Reading, that would be the only
place that I would step foot. But no, I'm like 1000 miles
south of you in North Carolina.
Oh, is it?
I knew your accent was familiar.
That's, that's on my bucket list. North Carolina.
Client there in Charlotte, so I'd love to visit one day.
Yeah. North Carolina. Are you in Holly?
Pinehurst. It's a little town south of Raleigh.
Hmm. The golf courses.
Yes.
Oh, my gosh, that's gorgeous.
It really is. It really is.
I visited there when I was a little girl.
Mm hmm. It's worth it. It's like a it's like a Hallmark movie.
Yeah, for sure. Yeah.
Hi, Lena.
Hi.
Oh, I said it wrong again.
It's okay. It's Alana.
Alana.
It takes some practice. It's okay. I'll be around.
All right. Bye.
Bye.
I was going to say I need to get going, too.
I haven't eaten dinner yet, so I'm starving.
Yes. Yeah. Go eat.
It was good to get to have you on.
Thanks so much. Now.
Yes. So Catherine is our our first West Coast person.
So her time difference is like really different than everybody.
So most people that get on here, it is nine o'clock by the time
they get on here and get their kids off the bed and everything.
So you're our first six o'clock.
person. Yeah, so much admiration for y'all. I know. Thank you. I received that. Well before
we jump, before the rest of us jump off, did anybody have anything that they, that we didn't
cover that, or any question before we jump off? Everybody good? Steph, are you good? Thanks for
chiming in on the, on the chat and catching us up on that update. That is huge. That is really
huge. That was a big deal. I was pretty proud of her. Yes. How'd it go? How is she? She said she's
okay. So I'm like, but are you? She's like, yeah, I'm good. I'm good. So, which I ran into my mom two days
later and she was just, oh yeah, all is well. I'm like, yeah, I know it is. But yeah, but it's just one of
those things that there's a black and white hard line drawn and no compromise and she finally spoke
up. So I was pretty proud of her. Yeah, that'll hopefully bring some healing. Yeah. And even when
I, like I ran into my mom at the pharmacy of all places and I'm never in there, but I had to stop
the other day after an appointment and she was very welcoming, totally fine. Anytime that they've
spoken to me, they've been very reserved, like on good behavior. They're not trashing people. They're
not being mean or rude. I'm like, this is nice. So we've only spoken probably still fewer than 10
times since Christmas, but at least it's been civil. It's been nice. So I don't know if you guys
can hear me. I'm trying to be quiet. Dan and Emma fell asleep across from me. So I've been sitting in
the dark kind of hiding out. Yeah, no, we can hear you. And can you believe everything that has
happened in your family since you spoke up in, wasn't it December? Yeah. Yeah. Christmas Eve of all
times is like perfect timing. Yeah. But yeah, it's different. So hopefully things will kind of level
out moving forward. So we'll see. Good. I'm glad. I know I actually six months, all of this is very
fast for so much to be happening, you know, and especially in a family that has this much water
into the bridge in this one direction, you know, so this is really, really good. Really good. Yeah.
I'm excited. Yeah. And the kids are watching. They're watching, but they're still not the older
to still they don't don't want to go around. They don't want to interact much, but they do. And
they're respectful. And that's all I fire of them. Yeah, yeah, obviously. But and they'll see over
time, they'll see and how the adults and how the adults choose to and demonstrate for them
reconciliation and restoration in a healthy way, you know, according to whatever it is that the
Lord does in, you know, your parents lives and to and what people allow to happen, etc. But they'll
they'll see and, you know, they'll they'll start to see no healthy interactions between other people,
like what's acceptable and what's not acceptable and, and how you can and you can know what it is
that you and what what were I don't know who the Lord says it is that we are and how it is that we
actually live that out in reality. So as opposed to just all of the nice things that people say
in church, and we have no idea how to live them and we either live in this a doormat, or we live
them and we live them and very bringing tremendous amount of judgment and harshness and our interactions
to one another. And the Lord's like, No, neither one of those are my heart, or coming out. Yeah,
I was raised as a doormat. So and my girls aren't being raised that way. Yeah, especially the one
I'm like, Okay, you need to kind of rein it in a little bit. But like the 12 year old literally
sent her younger sisters on a snipe hunt today to get them out of her hair. And Bailey's like,
Oh, yeah, Bailey said, Mom, is that real? It's like, well, I've heard of snipe hunting,
but I've never done it. Because it's like, yes, please. Of course, Emma was all about it. She's
like, and so they were all through the house. They didn't find one, obviously. But yeah, I heard your
I read your post. It's been a day. It's been a week. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And that's part of why I
Camera office because my resting face is more like a resting wrench face. I'm kind of like, okay, I'm here. I'm just, yeah.
We're glad I know, but
I didn't know what to do when you weren't on when I first got on there. It's like that this. I don't know. I feel like a fish out of water were step, but a lot of us. Yeah.
I was looking at the clock of like, oh my gosh. So yeah, they kind of got away from me. I was sewing. I've been sewing all week.
So I have one more dress to make. That'll be four dresses in a week and I haven't sewn clothing and years so
That yeah huge
Man, I haven't sewn in a few months and and I miss it. So I have one of those full on like dress forms and I used to go to and I periodically I'll give myself a treat and I'll buy us sewing lessons that teach that
From a guy here in town that learned open tour in from it.
From in Paris and stuff like that. And so teach me how to like do like really nice stuff and they may he and his partner like
Crew so really, really nice clothes for like some wealthy people in Dallas and stuff. And so it's a lot of fun to learn all of that, but anyway.
But yeah, so I miss them. I miss them. But when I come to when I come to visit all probably have my knitting, at least with me, even though I want how I selling
And I'll have my knitting. I'll show you what it is that I've made. So I'm making myself a sweater right now. So
Ashley, didn't you have your sewing machine and your form in college.
No, I didn't have a form in college. Did somebody else
I thought you had your sewing machine and you're like bust thing. I'm a jig. I remember it.
Well, it must not have been a real dress form. I may have had like a statue best
Yeah.
Maybe
Yeah.
Oh, okay. All right. Maybe so. Yeah.
Yeah, I don't. I know I love sewing.
But how are you doing
Did someone say, How am I doing
Yeah, how you doing
I'm good. I got I jumped off because the peach cobbler was ready.
And we ate it. And then I thought, well, let me just see if they're still on here and you guys are still on here. So
Yeah, I'm glad. Yeah, I think Cheryl Reese did that the other day. She got really late and
So yeah, periodically yard. So anyway,
Well, I just want to check in.
What
I hopped off just before nine and then I just hopped back on.
Yeah, well, does anyone have anything before we were calling tonight, but they needed to make sure that was said
Well, it's always good to see y'all hope y'all have a good night. I'm in Louisiana. I didn't make sure y'all knew that people keep asking me where I am. I'm Louisiana, then go to Arkansas.
Are you coming in North Carolina, Ashley.
Absolutely.
Do it.
To see y'all.
I'm very excited to come.
Good. Good. I will look forward to it for me. I'm leaving, Amy. I'm going to visit everybody else.
We've had a lot of good times together. So
That's right.
I will. I'll see her in two weeks, though, because I have to go back to Dallas for conference.
And then head out again. But anyway, but yeah, I've got a couple of people actually to visit North Carolina. You're one of them. Holly and then I have and
I have that gentleman and that didn't interview me and the black gentleman Julius and to do this. He is. He's a pastor, as well as a
Leader of I think he started Christians in the marketplace and he did the my first he he was the first person to interview me
So I'm going to go visit he and his wife and they live in North Carolina as well. But I don't remember where they live in relationship to where y'all are. So I have to look all that up on the map that
Yeah, I'm not sure yet what I'm going to be in North Carolina, but I'll keep up updated when I've had that way. So, and then, and then eventually Western Virginia West Virginia.
Has to do. Yeah, I may have to delay it till spring.
We are going to do our addition, which is exciting, but I also am scheduling surgery, I guess. I have a lot of. Yeah, we're doing
Some more testing at the end of the month to decide if it's an ablation or a full hysterectomy, or I guess it'd be a partial hysterectomy. So I don't know what I'm in for, but it's kind of been a rocky week.
Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, that's down. Yeah, all of that. I worked for someone that struggled with that kind of thing. And it was
Yeah, it was
It was
awful. I can't imagine actually two people, two people that were on my team, my business team.
They asked me the other day, what's that? Oh, my mom just had a full histerectomy. So
they did hers lap laparoscopically, like tiny cuts. And she was like up and walking around
like it was a day surgery. Came home that night. I was like, is this real?
So that's reassuring. Yeah. Well, I hope it goes well and easy for you.
Yeah, I think 26 is when I go for all my scans and ultrasounds. And with family history,
I lost an aunt to breast cancer. So that's automatic mammograms and ultrasounds there.
And then my mom with her endometrial carcinoma. And I'm like, I'm pushing him going, hey,
what about this? What about that? Can we just take it out and be done with it? And he's like,
oh, we can do such and such. And we bantered back and forth. And this last month, I thought I had
COVID. And it's an every month thing that I get like the flu. I was 101, fever, chills,
nausea, the whole nine yards. And then once things started, it just instantly disappeared.
And it's every month. And then it's, it's pretty bad. I'm literally homebound for that week,
or at least for the first three or four days. And I said, I can't live like this. I've got
to get my life back. Yeah. I literally have my calendar blocked off every month. Like,
no, don't schedule anything this week. So yeah, Dan literally told me you're going to go where
I'm going to make you go. I'm going to take you to your appointment. So, so I went and I'm sitting
there. It's like, I feel really stupid wearing nothing but a gown and a mask. Hurry up, get this
over with. Then he had to deliver a baby. So I waited in my gown and my mask for an hour for him
to come back. I was there two hours. So it's like, when do I get dressed and leave? Can I just sneak
out? But yeah, it's been a fun week. It's therapeutic. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I mean, it is
what it is, but it's still kind of, kind of rough. It's the mental part of it, I think.
Yeah. Yeah, it is. Yeah. I'm sorry.
All right. Well, it's good to see y'all. Okay. Yeah. Please do let us know. Make sure we have
the updates. Yeah, well, I may just hide if I'm in a mood like I was tonight. I'll hide until I
turn the camera on. Yeah, you can do that. It's just life. Yeah. Well, I always know that I'm
available if you need to reach out about anything. I know we've talked about Marco Polo. Are you on
Marco Polo? I know we're not connected on it. I started to sign up one night and I started
reading the terms and conditions and like a few hours later, I woke up and I was still on the
terms page. I'm like, okay. So, I never did completely sign up. So, I'm going to forget
about it. Steph, you got to do it. Marco Polo is the greatest invention in the world. Actually,
I didn't know you were on it. Okay. I'm going to send you a polo tonight. Good. Connect.
Good. Yeah. Do you have my email? Do you have my new address? My new phone number?
Um, yeah. I'm this. Do you have my phone number? Yeah. Okay. All right. Oh, yeah. Are we connected?
Yeah, we are. That's right. Yeah. We've talked on the phone. What am I thinking about?
So, we usually connect via Facebook Messenger. So, I forgot that we've also called.
So, yeah. Okay. Good. All right. Yeah. Please do. That's my favorite way to connect with people is
Marco Polo. So, and Priscilla, and Carrie, and I, and Cheryl Flair, and in fact, Cheryl Flair,
and she, I know she hasn't been on these community Q&As since she joined, but she,
I got a notification that she Marco Polo'd me while we've been on here. So, I'm going to go
watch her Marco Polo. So, it's my favorite way to stay connected with people because I get video.
I've not met her. I've never met her, but she's a cheerleader. Like, she's really,
really supportive. Oh, I know she is. She's extremely encouraging. She's really, really sweet.
It's just her spirit and her heart. And she is, she is the one that Cheryl Reese and Carrie
Beeler, Beiler, I think it's Beiler, are under in Young Living. So, she recruited
Cheryl Reese and Carrie. So, that's how I met Cheryl and Carrie is I was on a,
and Cheryl Flair was a client and, well, obviously a friend from college and a client,
and then she asked me to
to do a talk for her team.
And so, and Carrie and Cheryl were on there.
Of course, I'd actually met Carrie on something else
that we've done for Young with Lily.
Anyway, that's how I met them.
And then they became part of the rest intensive.
So that's how I met them all.
But yeah, yeah, Cheryl's really, really sweet.
So I went to college with her
at Pensacola Christian College
before I transferred to La Turner University
and met Holly.
So anyway, yeah, she's really sweet.
And of course, when you listen to her,
when you listen to her member intro,
she's got a really sweet,
hear her voice is really sweet voice.
I missed a lot of the intros.
I'll have to go back and watch them.
And I'm very careful not to have any of my dateras
sitting around with all the Young with Lily people.
Oh, that is so funny.
If they would, they're not offended,
you know, they're not offended.
It's no big deal.
Some of my uplines are, oh my goodness.
Well, some people are, but Cheryl, Carrie
and the other Cheryl, they're all just,
you know, they're fine with it.
You know, I'm sure they all have people in their lives
that have datera.
Like I had people in my, I used him living,
but my sister-in-law used datera.
You know, everybody just does whatever.
No big deal.
But what was I gonna say about that?
And we were talking about that
before we talked about the datera.
I was gonna mention something.
And it was something.
Oh, thank you, the member intros.
So if you look at the,
if you look at the, what is it called?
The post topics, there'll be things like journey sharing.
What else do we have?
Encouragement, member intros, community Q&As,
whatever, and you can just click on those bubbles
and then it'll filter the page
to only show you those things.
So if you click on member intros,
it'll pull up all of the member intros.
So all of the lives that people have done
to introduce themselves to the group.
But Priscilla's and Renee's are still over
in the other group, and I need to pull those over.
But everybody else's are in this group.
So, but that's how you can get to know everybody.
So anyway, but that's how to find them.
Yeah, same thing with community Q&As.
Now the community Q&As, Susan gave me the idea
to go ahead and like create a unit for the community Q&As.
I wanted to save the units for just the teachings,
but the community Q&A is really,
so much of it is teaching anyway.
So I'll just do that.
And then also whenever y'all post anything
where y'all are like posting updates,
or you're posting, well, yeah,
updates of like your struggles
or updates of like testimonies
of how the Lord has, you know,
proven his character in a particular way
or manifested his character,
then I tag those as journey sharing.
So there's like 80 something of those
that everybody, you know, combined that everybody has done.
So I just see if you click on those,
the everybody's updates and stuff
that they've been posting over the past several months.
And then there's encouragement,
which is anything that I post, that's not a teaching.
And then there's one for just rest intensive series period.
And of course, all those you can go in the unit and see,
and then any additional teachings or just teachings
and click on those and you'll see all those,
but those you can see in the units as well.
So there'll be a quiz on this later.
Yeah, I can see, I can see Amy, you know, just zoning out.
So I had to like it or not, it's a big quiz.
It's like, actually, whenever I was looking,
I was like, oh, look at all this.
She's got it all organized.
That's pretty cool.
Yeah, so anyway, so I will let y'all go,
but it's good to see all of y'all
and I'll hopefully see y'all next week.
If y'all need anything, reach out to me.
I'm very excited I'm getting a Marco Polo from you, Holly.
I didn't find a Marco Polo because you talked about it,
but I haven't started using it.
I know you haven't either.
You and I just always either text or get on Facebook.
So yes, Marco Polo, I like it because it's video.
I like it so much better than anything else.
Anyway.
I always hide from video.
You hide from video.
Oh, but you're so good on video.
Yeah, I'm telling you, just like,
we're the clean court.
No, no, no, no.
That's the thing about Marco Polo.
You gotta let it fly.
You do it.
No makeup on, while you're putting your makeup on,
it doesn't matter.
These are your girlfriends,
you're whoever you're talking to.
Like, whatever you're wearing,
whatever you're doing, that's it.
Whatever my kid is not wearing
and whatever the dog is doing.
Or not doing, that's right.
It's between you and your friend.
I do it.
I have a friend of mine.
She and I talk and visit,
not while we're doing our makeup.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
It's just, it's casual.
Yeah. It's casual.
You gotta get, yeah.
You can't like,
cause you know, you turn on the video
and you like look at yourself and you're like, oh.
But you're like, nope.
I'm doing it. That's right. My daughter uses it a lot with her friends. They have
like a group. Can you do like a group? Videos for each other from her old
college roommates and so they keep up with each other that way. Yeah. That's
kind of neat to have a group and you can all watch the video whenever. Yeah, that's
kind of neat. Yeah. All right. Close it down. Good to see y'all. Sleep tight.
Honestly. Bye.