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Hey Steph, I see you're on. I don't know if you can hear me or not.

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You're there! Hey! I can't hear you, but that's okay. I don't like this. There you

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are. Yay, she speaks. Yes, I accidentally recorded like five minutes of my in a

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dance conversation, so I logged out real quick and came back. Sorry. Yes, I have it set to

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automatically start recording so I can. Don't worry, whenever you leave and then

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come back in, because I've had someone do that before, it starts a new, what do

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you call it, it starts a new recording. So I will only just post the second

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recording. That's funny. I found service. That's right! It seems faster than it

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usually is. Is it normally? I mean, is it, I mean, did you do something different?

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A garage apartment that we started out in? So up there's like these old pictures? Yeah, I'm studying in like this big storage area, but it's quiet. Everybody's at the house and I'm alone. Oh, how nice! That's great. That works well. Well, that's exciting. I told them goodnight. I'm not going home until I'm done

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working tonight. Oh, nice. Oh, well, I'm excited for you. Well, and I'm excited for you.

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collections. Did you submit them? I did, so now I wait. I don't know how long it'll

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take to hear anything. Yeah, how long has it in the past, you know, when other people

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need their stuff? Well, this company's been really good to work with. They

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didn't like the collection at first, the first one I sent, and she would like to

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see more. So, oh, they actually respond, but others, if you don't hear anything in a

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month, then they don't want it. So, you go for a whole month hoping to hear

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something, and then you hear nothing. It's like, oh, okay, they don't want me.

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Yeah, well, that's good. Did she give you any pointers, like in other

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words, any direction that she was looking for? She did, she did, especially being a

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cool company. Like, they wanted those tight repeats and things like that. So, this

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time around, I sent her three. Those were the ones I sent you. I was like, I want to see how this goes.

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Well, they said tight repeats. What? Yes. Okay, so like on your fabrics, instead of

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having great big designs, yeah, they wanted the repeats to be really tight,

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just little tiny. So, if you cut a two-inch square fabric, you're gonna have

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the design on it. So, you're talking about for quilters? Yeah. Okay, yeah.

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Quilting fabrics, yeah. Yeah, I quilt, and I'm friends with my quilt, and yeah, they, you know, I

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mean, I've got, oh, well, no, I don't. I thought, oh, I have got a quilt. Here, I'll

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show it to you. No, I don't. But it's, yeah, they, yeah, I can, I have one quilt where

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the triangles are, I don't know, like this big. You know, actually, no, not even that

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big. They're like this big. I mean, they're just very, very small, and so, yeah, I have

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to have tight repeats. Yes, yes. You'll see this course, though, that was, that is

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actually a scrap quilt. So, I, I ended up just collecting a whole bunch of, a

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whole bunch of scrap fabric from my grandmother that I really liked, and

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scrap fabric from, like, my, my childhood, and, you know, things that actually meant

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something to me, and anyway, I, I didn't worry so much about whether or not they

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were tight repeats, but I would imagine, because once just a scrap quilt, just

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fabrics that have sentimental value to me, but if I had other fabrics, I mean, if I

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had, were to make other quilts, well, then, yeah, I would need that, if, especially if

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people are doing, like, such tiny, like, tiny, like, pieces, like I am. So, I'm

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doing, I don't know what it's called, but it's just a triangle quilt. So, it's just

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all of these triangles. I mean, like I said, just tiny little triangles, just

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made out of, like, scrap fabric, and then, and so that, and, and I've done that for

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multiple reasons. For one, I've always enjoyed pioneer scrap quilts, and also, my

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favorite part about quilting is, is the quilting part. It's hand quilting it, not

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piecing, hand quilting, and I love the rhythm. I love, I love it. So, I don't want

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to send my quilt off to somebody else to do anything. I'm like, no, that's my

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favorite part, and I have to do it by hand. So, the nice thing about this quilt, which

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I'm very excited about finally getting to quilt, is the fact that it's, it's just

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straight lines. I just get to quilt in straight lines. I don't have to worry

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about, like, doing all these curves. No, I just get to quilt in just straight lines

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across the quilt, and, which is, because I just enjoy, I enjoy the journey. I enjoy

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the process of it. It's like knitting, because I enjoy, I knit, and I have, I have

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some things that I knit, like, I'm in the middle of knitting. I knit my dad a

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sweater, my mother's sweater. I'm knitting myself a sweater. I finally get to wear

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something that I've knitted, and I knitted a lace shawl that I, that I actually

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submitted to the state fair, and it won a ribbon. So, last year, no, two or three

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years ago. Yeah, so anyway, I really enjoy knitting, and my point in telling you all

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that is, I enjoy the journey of it. So, it's not so much of, in fact, that same

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shawl, there's a, and I don't like the edging that I did on it. In fact, if, if I

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believe that that's why it didn't place higher than it did, it is because, which I

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was perfectly happy with the ribbon I got. I was perfectly happy, but I just

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thought, I thought, you know what, I bet you it didn't place higher because of the

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edging. I don't like it either. So, even, so I'm thinking, because I enjoy the

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journey of the knitting, I don't mind undoing that piece, or doing, undoing that

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part, and then just redoing it. Because, because it, the point of it isn't just

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the end result, it's the doing of it. It's the creating of the thing.

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You know, which I know is what you can appreciate so much of. It's not just the end result. It's the it's the putting of yourself into the thing. So if it doesn't turn out exactly like you want

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You're willing to stick with it until you get the result that you're looking for. So for me that that thing has been done now for, I think I submitted it to the fair in 2016 maybe

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Um, yeah, I don't think it was 2017 it was, I think it was 2016 I submitted it to the state fair so

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I finished it four years ago. And every time I look at it. I'm like, I do not like that edge. It drives me crazy.

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And so I'm like, okay, this is silly. I'm not going to go the rest of my life, not liking that that edge on that shawl and thinking about it every time I look at it. So I'm just going to undo it.

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Just the edge, not the whole thing, but the edge is this wide. I'm gonna have to undo that around this huge thing that's probably the shawl is probably

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So, yeah, so going a full circle in the full circumference that wide around something that six feet in diameter. It's a lot going to read it all. But I enjoy the journey. So it'll be fine.

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And I enjoy it for a while. And then I'm like, okay, I'm bored. So I had to start something

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Well, there's always that as well that that we have all of these projects, all of these things. I have four

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I have four quilt tops that I haven't quilted yet, but I have, but two of them I inherited from my great grandmother. So those don't count because

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I didn't start them that and that the other two and technically I had three quilt tops that I didn't and that I I just recently when I

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I just recently when I when I went through all of my stuff and only kept like 10% of everything I owned or less everything I own can fit in my parents closet or not my parents a closet in my parents house everything I am that's in the closet. Anyway, the

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And I I got rid of one of my quilt tops and play and it was the very first one I ever started when I was a little girl. I was probably about nine when I started on it. And I was like, I don't like this anymore. So I'm just

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Anyway, so let's see if other people have joined on. Oh my word. There's all of these people that are watching us have this conversation and we had no idea we were being

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Watched and just enter. We were being entertaining. So Alana and Amy and Barb. So everybody's on here and okay I'm does. Sorry, I missed everybody. Hello, everybody.

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There y'all are

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Okay, so I'm just anybody have any questions. I hope everybody's doing good. I am back at back in Dallas. For those of y'all who haven't seen the the live that I did on how to make friends and rest. I'm back in Dallas. I am

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Um, I'm at my friend's house and my best friends and his house. I was in for three weeks before I headed out to on my first trip Louisiana, Arkansas and back

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So I'm back here for the past for the next few days because I am going to a healing conference from and hosted by and the man who pastors my church.

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So they're really enjoying it. My friend and I just Amanda and I just finished our first day. And of course, it's great. It's good to get to see my church friends again and all that. So two more days.

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Well, anyway, that is what I'm doing. And so that's where I, I don't know the background probably doesn't look familiar, but

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Anyway, so does anyone have any questions or anything that they've been any about any questions about the lives. I've done recently or something that the Lord has been talking about or something. I don't know that and that you've been experiencing lately or trying to walk through

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Anything I was to give a very, I always feel like a very give a very long introduction to that y'all know what I'm gonna ask. I just keep trying to like come up with different ways to kind of like jog everyone's thought process like, oh, like you can ask about this kind of thing.

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I'm a teacher by nature can see

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I have a question.

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So I have a business question.

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One thing that I have been working on lately is getting really comfortable with my

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clear on my ideal client so that my messaging in my business will really like pull the right

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client in that they'll know that I understand their situation and they'll feel comfortable

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talking to me and wanting to maybe book a call with me or join my group or whatever it is.

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And I'm unsure as to what exactly to write and like I kind of have an idea. I know I have an

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idea of who my ideal client is but I don't know how to speak the language to attract them and

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help them understand that I understand them. And so we've talked a lot about rest and I 100% agree

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that I can do this from a place of rest and I also want to have the right messaging so that

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I feel like I'm attracting the right person. So I was wondering if you could speak to that a little.

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Yeah, so what your ideal client will naturally be attracted to whatever message that you put out.

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In other words, you don't have to think about who your ideal client would be and what it is that

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they want. You think about doing it from a place of rest is doing it from who it is that you are

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in the spirit and allowing your spirit to flow within you and out of you. In other words, you

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write your message, you talk in a way that it's the tone that you use, the words that you use,

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the vocabulary that you use, the way that you say it, all of that that's going to attract the people

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that the Lord intends to be attracted to you. So you don't have to try to think, okay, what does

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someone need and how can I, in other words, you don't use your client to dictate to you how it is

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that you should interact and what it is that you should say, because now that is the way to do it

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in strife. And that the way, if you want to use like a formula or a tool or something like that,

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and there's nothing wrong with using formulas and tools, you can go at it that way. It's just easier

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and more effortless to understand that, that if the Lord has given this to you, has given you,

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I don't know, lack of a better phrase, this charge, as in other words, he wants to operate

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out of your spirit and have your spirit flow into other people's lives in a particular way.

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It's because he put in you what it is that they need, and they can't tell you what that is. In

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other words, they can't dictate that to you. So we shouldn't be looking to them to dictate what

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it is that we give them. I don't let, and that sounds really weird to word it that way. I spent

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months, I probably spent at least 10 to 12 months. I don't know, probably longer than that. I spent

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over a year. I just have never had to think about it before. I did. I spent over a year trying really

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hard to figure out what my client needed and to get the market to tell me what it is that they

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wanted. And in fact, that's how some of these people met me. That's how Steph met me, Susan.

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They met me because months ago, I was actually reaching out to them, asking the market what it

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is that they wanted, what it is that they needed, what it is that they were looking for.

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And they will tell you, that is not my message these days. It is not what we talked about.

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Because what I just had to, I had to put on my own oxygen mask first. I had to realize that if

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God put it on my heart to do something, then it meant that I had what they needed and he needed

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that. He needed him to dictate what it is that I said. And then whoever it is that he had prepared

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to that message to resonate with based on how it is that he prepared their hearts, they would

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naturally and effortlessly be attracted to the message because it would resonate with the way

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that God had already prepared them to receive it. So that's what I'm talking about when I talk about

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writing our messages or whatever in rest. It's understanding that we position ourselves,

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we acknowledge that we are positioned in the place that God says that we are,

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meaning that everything that we do from that position is just flow in the spirit. We understand

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that we already have everything, we already are everything, and we can just be us. We can just

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be ourselves, meaning, yeah, that probably sounded really confusing to say that we're just ourselves,

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but we are who we are in the spirit. And the way that we speak is going to be what God intends

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to go forth and to

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the world and creation. In other words, other people's souls will respond to that. So you

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have to put on your own oxygen. We all have to put on our own oxygen mask first. I mean,

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we have to get clear with the Lord. Lord, what is it that, that, um, when I open my

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mouth as a spirit, what do I sound like? What do I say? What is burning up within me that

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just has to come out and when it comes out naturally and I'm not trying to filter it

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and I'm not trying to think how it's going to be received and I'm not trying to think

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about what it is that other people need and are they going to understand this? Lord, when

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I'm not worried about any of that, what comes out? And then, and, and start from there and

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just kind of like start and you can take that, that journey with the Lord. And it doesn't,

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it doesn't always have to, I don't mean like it has to be a long journey. I just mean it's

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a, it's a processing. Is that making sense so far? Yeah, no, it definitely is. And that's,

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I think, so my other question then to go along with that would be if I'm, you know, in rest and

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I'm attracting the right people just by being me, but they won't know about me if there isn't

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something out there to show them that I'm, I'm in existence because they might not even know me. So

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is it okay to have, like if I have a couple of free downloadables that, you know, get advertised

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and then they have the option to book a call with me or get into my Facebook group or something like

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that. So I was wondering if that's okay, if that's like striving or if that's considered to be in

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rest and just putting it out there and allowing them to come. Yeah. So what it is that we do or

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don't do is not what, what determines whether or not we're in rest. It's, it's the attitude and

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perspective behind it. So if we believe that God is the one who's creating our results and then

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we're just enjoying doing the activities with them, Lord, here's my heart. And here's what I

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think would be fun to do. What do you, what do you think would be fun to do? What is it that we

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should do together? Then you're just doing the activities. And instead of believing that the,

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instead of burdening yourself and the activities with this responsibility that they have to get

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the results. That is doing it in stride, but there's nothing wrong with doing the activities.

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There's nothing wrong with doing, with advertising, with putting out free downloadables, none, none of

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that. It's what is it that you and the Lord want to do together? What do you feel in your spirit

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that he's pleased about that, that you find fun, you find fun to create. That is the way that your

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spirit, that your spirit, you know, again, Lord, when I open my mouth, what does my spirit say?

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And when I actually do, do work with my hands, even if it's obviously on the computer,

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what is it that I do? What, what do I want to do? What am I drawn to? What am I attracted to?

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Or Lord, maybe you want to challenge me in a particular way. What is it that I don't have

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experience in? Like say for instance, you have experience in doing free downloadable and what

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if I don't? Well, but that doesn't say, what if that doesn't sound fun to me? But then the Lord

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might say, well, you know, actually, you know, there's this idea about a free downloadable.

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Lord, that sounds hard. I don't know what that means. I, you know, how would I do it? What would

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I write about? But he just kind of impresses it on me. So we can sometimes be challenged.

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So I don't mean that we just go through life to think, what do I want to do for fun? And then

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that's God's, you know, indication of approval. My point is that the things that it is that he's

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put within us that sound fun, that just kind of feel like we're coming to life inside of us.

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When those things pour out, how do they pour out? What is it that we say? What are the activities

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that we do, et cetera? While we're believing what it is that I'm doing is not going to create the

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result. I could do it or not do it. And it's not, I don't have to worry that, oh, it's the,

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it's this perfect formula and it's this perfect strategy or it's not. We understand that we're

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just enjoying doing the activity with the Lord and that neither us nor the activity is burdened

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with the responsibility of getting us the result, that it's not those things that are getting us the

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result. God is giving us the result. He might do it through the things, but he might not.

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It might have, we might be able to see no connection whatsoever between like, say,

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for instance, you do all these free downloadables. And because the Lord says he, the Lord puts it on

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your heart and you think it's fun. And that's what the two of you do together. And then you get your

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next, you get your next 10 clients from over the next, I don't know, two months or whatever,

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like you spent lots of time, effort and energy in those free downloadables. But the next five

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clients that you get all come from referrals or somehow land across your Facebook page because

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Facebook recommended you as a Facebook friend request and not a single person even downloaded

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or they did, but none of them ever came to you because of it.

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In other words, it doesn't matter.

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It doesn't matter whether they're coming to you

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through the downloadables or not.

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You're doing that because you're expressing your spirit

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out into the world as opposed to thinking,

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the thing that I'm doing has to be connected

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with a definitive result in order to make it valuable

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because that's not true.

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of the burden that we can place on it or on ourselves

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that it has to result in something in order to be worth it

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or in order for that there to even have been a point

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in doing it.

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God's like, no, you just do it because your spirit

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is pouring out into the earth.

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And you said, and it is doing things that you know not of,

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whether or not you see a direct relationship with the client

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and then I'm gonna bring you clients,

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maybe through it, maybe some other way,

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but I'm the one who's responsible for it.

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in where the results are coming from,

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relieving yourself and the things that you do

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And it's funny because when you talked about doing

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those things that he might be asking you to do

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that are a little uncomfortable for me,

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it was the live video.

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Oh, you already did.

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I did two this week.

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it came from, there's no result that I'm looking for.

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and just allowing God to speak

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because I was telling you that I'm used to doing it,

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but I need to know my lines.

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I need to know what I'm going to say

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or I use a teleprompter or something.

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But going live is a new experience

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and it's fun and exciting.

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but as soon as I'm in front of a camera

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in front of people, then I get nervous, right?

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So this is really great.

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I'm excited about that.

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That was a really great answer.

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Good, good, I'm glad.

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which you may not need this at all,

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but the client told me this a few days ago

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and the way that they worded it was,

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they said, Ashley, this was a million dollar

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piece of advice.

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So I'll mention it just in case you're doing this

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and so this might be helpful.

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it is when I told her,

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because she was talking to me about doing live videos

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and she was already doing them and everything,

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but I don't remember if she asked me about it

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or maybe I was just speaking into her

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and telling her how, giving her ideas about how it,

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how it looks to operate your business in more rest.

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is I said, I said, I said, you don't need scripts.

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Now you may not use scripts,

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so it may not be you I'm talking to,

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Alana, it might be somebody else in here.

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I'm just, I'm just saying this because it came to mind

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that there's nothing wrong with scripts.

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and it's hard and we have this intentional agenda behind it

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where we think that we are,

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we're planning and we're preparing

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in order to create a particular result,

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like there's this result that I want out of this video

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and we could, we could, it could be as godly as anything.

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that they really are loved to the Lord

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and I really want them to get such as to point across

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and I really want them to understand

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how they can be free by the time

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they end up watching this video.

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well, then they have to do this, this, and this.

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You know, we make it all difficult and complicated

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when we don't understand that it is by the spirit

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that people are transformed.

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that they need.

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that transforms their lives.

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if they're feeling that they're relying on them

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and that they don't have, they doubt themselves,

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they do not trust themselves and they do not believe

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that they have a strong enough contribution

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without planning for it by working,

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by having a specific agenda

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and working towards using knowledge and experience

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of how to actually manifest the result

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that I want to manifest in somebody else's life.

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off its stride. We're trying for a particular result. We got a particular agenda and we don't

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believe that the Lord, we're not allowing the spirit to just flow as, and allowing yourselves

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to just be enough. So what I do for my lives is I get a general idea. And sometimes I write down

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notes and I do, I have noticed that the fewer that, that my best, my best teachings, my best

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lives and by best teaching, as I mean, the one where I, I rewatched them and I noticed or not

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rewatched them. I, I feel like I'm just flowing in the spirit and I just, and I just know the

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next thing to say and I just say it and then I rewatch it and I'm like, yeah, that actually

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sounded a lot better than it felt even in the moment. I didn't realize I sounded that fluid

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because when I said it, I didn't feel like I sounded that fluid. You know, I noticed that

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those particular lives are the ones in which I have my oxygen mask most firmly on, where

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obviously I'm teaching something that I'm living. I'm teaching something that not some knowledge

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that I've just recently gained. But it has to be something that I truly believe and live by.

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Those lives are the ones that people constantly come back to me and say, actually, I watched them

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repeatedly. Why? Because it's my spirit. It's the spirit of the Lord that is coming out and is,

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is impacting people and it's exactly what it is that they need to hear as opposed to me thinking,

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well, I got this particular agenda and I have all of these points and then the more points I have

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and the more notes that I end up writing, even, even if I don't have a script written out, which

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I, I never have a script written out, but even if I just have notes, if I have too many notes,

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the, the, and the live ends up being very disjointed, very confusing, et cetera. So anyway,

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so for what that's worth, if that's something that, that might be well, that you might find,

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what's the word, sorry, lost my word, but it relatable to your situation. Well,

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then hopefully that's helpful. And if not, hopefully it'll be helpful for somebody else.

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Yeah, it's definitely helpful. I felt like my live today was more easygoing. I did have some

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points because, see, here's the thing before I met you and we talked a lot about rest,

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I was following all of these business people who were talking about how to structure your lives,

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how to structure this, how to structure your messaging and everything was very structured.

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And I was trying to follow a formula. So it kind of included bits and pieces of the formula in the

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live, as far as, you know, introducing yourself and maybe asking them a question or whatever,

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but most of it was pretty, pretty much coming just from God or somebody was interacting. And

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so are we able to like mix them a little bit and, and say, okay, well, I think I want to

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include these points or include this question or whatever for people to answer and a call to

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action maybe at the end, can we sort of have an idea of that and then just let the spirit go at

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that point with everything else? Oh, yeah, absolutely. Because the problem isn't what we

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do. It's the attitude behind it, you know, why we're doing it. If we're doing it, because we

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believe that we are creating, we're trying to create our own results, because we believe that

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we're responsible for it, then it means that the, then that's the thing that we want to,

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that God says that he wants us to understand that we're free from, and he wants us to live

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free from that. But there's nothing wrong. But as long as we believe, and as long as we step

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into and live and operate out of the freedom that he says that we have, we can use whatever tools

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we wanted to, Jesus used tools, Jesus ate, and Jesus traveled across in a boat, he walked on

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foot from place to place all over, you know, all over Israel, and even in this area. So

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there's nothing wrong with using, with using tools, they're God given, they're God created.

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strategies, I'm talking about those, I'm not even necessarily talking about like physical,

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like social platforms, and whatever, I'm talking about just like, like ideas and strategies and

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formulas, those are tools as well. And in the metaphysical. But point is, because we've been

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talking about metaphysical a lot. But the thing is that all of those tools were created for us to,

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as we manifest heaven into earth, to manifest them through those tools, not in ignoring the

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tools and doing it without the tools.

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how would I read that?

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Until we know how to do it by how to manifest heaven into earth,

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using the tools without relying on the tools,

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sometimes God will bypass the tools.

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he'd been walking in the water.

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He and Peter had been walking in the water.

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and it said immediately the boat was on the other side.

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let's just get him to the other side.

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look, the tools do not get us the result.

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But once we learn that those tools are not required,

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then we can greatly benefit from the whole purpose for which God

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created the tools, which is to operate in rest, manifesting

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heaven into earth, manifesting our spirit

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through the use of tools, because we're

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no longer attached to them.

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purpose, which is to be a method through which using,

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through which heaven is manifested into the earth.

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So heaven isn't manifested into earth

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for the whole point of ignoring and removing

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the purpose of tools.

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There's nothing wrong with using formula strategies

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and deciding, I want to do an introduction.

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point summary to help tie at some loose ends

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and give people a bit of something

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solid to sink their teeth into so that by the time

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they leave, they remember everything

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it is that we talked about in a nice, neat package

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that they're more likely to remember if they can't remember

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the whole hour or whatever.

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I just tend to keep going.

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00:37:33.340 --> 00:37:35.820
But anyway, is that helpful?

416
00:37:35.820 --> 00:37:37.220
There's nothing evil about tools.

417
00:37:37.220 --> 00:37:38.220
They're very, very good.

418
00:37:38.220 --> 00:37:41.620
In fact, God intends for us to use them.

419
00:37:41.620 --> 00:37:45.340
We are just, we don't know how to use them while keeping

420
00:37:45.340 --> 00:37:46.740
them in appropriate perspective.

421
00:37:46.740 --> 00:37:49.500
We give them entirely too much power.

422
00:37:49.500 --> 00:37:51.060
And that's the problem.

423
00:37:51.060 --> 00:37:53.220
As long as we understand they don't have that power

424
00:37:53.220 --> 00:37:54.900
and that we're giving it to the Lord,

425
00:37:54.900 --> 00:37:56.580
we can use them all we want.

426
00:37:56.580 --> 00:37:58.820
And then we're now using them the way that God intended.

427
00:37:58.820 --> 00:38:01.620
They're serving us instead of us serving them.

428
00:38:01.620 --> 00:38:04.380
Are we, like, you know how you talk about the physical realm

429
00:38:04.380 --> 00:38:08.300
and how we have authority over it when we're in Christ?

430
00:38:08.300 --> 00:38:11.340
Are we able to set intentions with physical tools

431
00:38:11.340 --> 00:38:15.820
and, like, you know, I might be wording this incorrectly,

432
00:38:15.820 --> 00:38:20.300
but when we talk about, like, having authority over even

433
00:38:20.300 --> 00:38:22.540
things like the weather, the physical weather,

434
00:38:22.540 --> 00:38:25.300
the physical tools, the physical whatever it is,

435
00:38:25.300 --> 00:38:29.140
can we set intentions for things like that in a godly way

436
00:38:29.140 --> 00:38:32.820
for it to go the way that, like, do

437
00:38:32.820 --> 00:38:34.500
you know what I'm trying to say without me saying it?

438
00:38:34.500 --> 00:38:36.740
I'm not quite sure how to articulate it.

439
00:38:36.740 --> 00:38:38.340
Are you talking about setting intention

440
00:38:38.340 --> 00:38:39.700
that we want the wind in the ways

441
00:38:39.700 --> 00:38:43.540
to become where we don't even have to speak it out loud?

442
00:38:43.540 --> 00:38:45.420
Yeah, kind of like that.

443
00:38:45.420 --> 00:38:46.540
Yeah, we can do that.

444
00:38:46.540 --> 00:38:49.060
Absolutely, because that's the power of it anyway.

445
00:38:49.060 --> 00:38:51.020
It's not in the spoken word.

446
00:38:51.020 --> 00:38:52.740
It's in the intention.

447
00:38:52.740 --> 00:38:55.380
The benefit of the spoken word is

448
00:38:55.380 --> 00:38:59.620
it is just an additional way in which the spirit is being

449
00:38:59.620 --> 00:39:02.060
manifested into the physical because it's

450
00:39:02.060 --> 00:39:04.060
being spoken in the physical.

451
00:39:04.060 --> 00:39:07.100
But it's not the power by which something

452
00:39:07.100 --> 00:39:08.940
is manifested in the physical.

453
00:39:08.940 --> 00:39:13.380
It is manifested because our intention is set.

454
00:39:13.380 --> 00:39:16.660
Remember that even non-believers,

455
00:39:16.660 --> 00:39:18.620
and it mentions this even in the Bible,

456
00:39:18.620 --> 00:39:25.340
that non-believers can set their intention that someone

457
00:39:25.340 --> 00:39:31.340
be healed or cast the devils out in Jesus's name and all

458
00:39:31.340 --> 00:39:34.460
of that, even non-believers.

459
00:39:34.460 --> 00:39:37.460
And it will happen.

460
00:39:37.460 --> 00:39:39.980
And so we can set our intention, and then

461
00:39:39.980 --> 00:39:42.060
we can choose to speak it if we want to.

462
00:39:42.060 --> 00:39:46.980
But it's the power of everything is

463
00:39:46.980 --> 00:39:48.460
in the intention of the human soul

464
00:39:48.460 --> 00:39:53.980
because the quantum mechanics, for instance,

465
00:39:53.980 --> 00:39:56.060
gets its instruction from the human soul.

466
00:39:56.060 --> 00:39:57.900
The human soul sending intention to it,

467
00:39:57.900 --> 00:40:01.060
and then quantum mechanics ends up.

468
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:07.360
I'm giving instruction to the, uh, uh, to turning wave into particle, making it reality

469
00:40:07.360 --> 00:40:14.720
and making it manifest simply because a human being desires something to be so it made it so.

470
00:40:15.760 --> 00:40:21.840
Um, and they, and even non-believers have tested and measured all of this with other non-believers.

471
00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:26.720
So they, and then that's where you get into the whole new age thing of like law of attraction

472
00:40:26.720 --> 00:40:31.200
and all of that. All of that is very real. Um, we don't ever want to believe it or use it from

473
00:40:31.200 --> 00:40:37.040
the corrupted perspective from which the law of attraction is taught in new age theology.

474
00:40:37.040 --> 00:40:45.520
But, um, the, uh, but just the idea of the fact that a human can intend something, um, and,

475
00:40:45.520 --> 00:40:49.920
and creation will listen to it. It's very real. And the non-believers are the ones that are stepping

476
00:40:49.920 --> 00:40:56.400
out into it and unfortunately not doing it from a, from a, from a heart that's trusting in and

477
00:40:56.400 --> 00:41:05.200
relying on, um, on God, the, the, the things that God created are so powerful that even non-believers

478
00:41:05.200 --> 00:41:10.320
can use them when they remove, when they remove God out of them. You think of someone like say,

479
00:41:10.320 --> 00:41:16.080
Tony Robbins or, Oh, I can't think of other big names, but, but you know, big names like that,

480
00:41:16.080 --> 00:41:21.680
they can remove, um, uh, or the people that follow Tony, Tony Robbins or whatever,

481
00:41:21.680 --> 00:41:25.120
cause I'm not trying to like call out a specific person and say what it is they do and don't

482
00:41:25.120 --> 00:41:28.880
believe and like labeling with somebody as a heretic or as a non-believer or whatever.

483
00:41:28.880 --> 00:41:32.320
So I'm not trying to say something about Tony Robbins. I'm saying that I think that all of

484
00:41:32.320 --> 00:41:37.840
us are generally familiar enough with his philosophy and his theology and his philosophy

485
00:41:37.840 --> 00:41:42.720
that he teaches. So regardless of what he believes, people that have taken that idea,

486
00:41:42.720 --> 00:41:48.480
and then they operate like that, you can remove God out of these things. And it still works

487
00:41:48.480 --> 00:41:52.320
just like you don't have to believe in God and you're still subject to gravity.

488
00:41:53.280 --> 00:42:03.200
So, um, anyway, uh, but yes, uh, we can set intention and, and it is, um, uh, in creation is,

489
00:42:03.200 --> 00:42:09.760
is, is, uh, created to function, responding to human intention.

490
00:42:10.800 --> 00:42:16.960
Do you, um, do you know if there, you must know like some Bible verses to, cause this is so

491
00:42:16.960 --> 00:42:22.000
interesting to me based on some of the things that we've talked about, this intention that we can

492
00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:28.000
have from a Christian perspective. Do you know like some, some verses or some Bible stories that

493
00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:35.200
would support this so that I could go and read a little bit more about it? Um, let me see here.

494
00:42:35.200 --> 00:42:40.240
Uh, see both stories. Um, are you talking about intention where the intention was set,

495
00:42:40.240 --> 00:42:49.440
but nothing was spoken? Um, just this whole idea around people, you know, living in the spirit or

496
00:42:49.440 --> 00:42:53.280
not, depending on if they're Christians or not, but in the Bible, it would probably talk about

497
00:42:53.280 --> 00:43:00.480
people living in the spirit who can set an intention for something like, you know, the wind

498
00:43:00.480 --> 00:43:05.440
and the waves to be calm or something physical to change or somebody, you know, a human being,

499
00:43:05.440 --> 00:43:12.000
not Jesus, but somebody in the Bible who is, you know, going around and there are some healings,

500
00:43:12.000 --> 00:43:17.680
right. But I'm talking even about other things beyond that, like where they actually set a human

501
00:43:17.680 --> 00:43:23.920
being in the Bible, set intention in the spirit and it was done and like the proof behind, because

502
00:43:23.920 --> 00:43:29.680
what you're saying, it sounds amazing and I love it. I've never heard it from a Christian perspective.

503
00:43:29.680 --> 00:43:36.240
I've only heard it from a new age perspective. So whatever you can, um, sort of pull out from the

504
00:43:36.240 --> 00:43:40.400
Bible around that would be super helpful and it doesn't have to be right now because I know it

505
00:43:40.480 --> 00:43:48.800
might be a big question. So, okay. Yeah. Yeah, it is. And I will get back to you, um, on that and,

506
00:43:48.800 --> 00:43:53.680
um, on, you know, some more specifics on that. There's a, there's a lot of examples,

507
00:43:53.680 --> 00:44:00.720
um, as far as the one about like human intention. Um, Hey, Amy, the first thing that comes to my

508
00:44:00.720 --> 00:44:06.800
mind is just that verse. We all know that. Oh, wait, can you hear me? Yes. You hear me? Yep.

509
00:44:07.600 --> 00:44:11.120
I was just going to say that the first thing that came to my mind when she asked that was,

510
00:44:11.760 --> 00:44:15.600
um, and I don't want to take over teaching, but just, uh, it just came to me. It was like,

511
00:44:16.160 --> 00:44:21.520
as a man thinks in his heart, the thoughts and intentions of your heart. So is here. So is his

512
00:44:21.520 --> 00:44:27.360
life. That's all I was going to share that. It's not a story, but it's a very profound concept.

513
00:44:30.320 --> 00:44:34.080
Yeah, no, I appreciate you mentioning that because yes, that is a perfect verse.

514
00:44:34.160 --> 00:44:41.120
Another thing, um, another example of that is now, now you might, um, we have to really like

515
00:44:41.120 --> 00:44:45.760
really think about this in order to understand the connection that I'm trying to draw, but where

516
00:44:45.760 --> 00:44:51.360
Jesus was telling the, um, the Pharisees that it wasn't what it is that we were, that we're,

517
00:44:51.360 --> 00:44:55.440
that we're doing. It's what it is that, um, is the intention of our heart

518
00:44:56.240 --> 00:44:59.920
that, uh, that determines whether or not we've sinned. So, you know,

519
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:04.100
know, he said that in our, um, um, so whether or not it's,

520
00:45:04.140 --> 00:45:06.600
it's for positive or for negative. So we need to wait,

521
00:45:06.620 --> 00:45:11.200
like we have an intention of our heart towards the negative versus an intention

522
00:45:11.200 --> 00:45:14.500
of our heart towards like something like beautiful, like healing. I mean,

523
00:45:14.500 --> 00:45:17.460
it doesn't matter. It's the intention of our heart. He, he even said, Hey, look,

524
00:45:17.760 --> 00:45:21.060
even if you, um, harbor, um, anger in your,

525
00:45:21.180 --> 00:45:23.940
even if you hate your brother in your heart, you already murdered him.

526
00:45:24.580 --> 00:45:28.220
So he talks a bit, he talks about the fact that it's all in,

527
00:45:28.220 --> 00:45:31.920
it's the intention of our heart that create that, um,

528
00:45:31.940 --> 00:45:36.240
determine, um, where the power is in order to, um,

529
00:45:36.280 --> 00:45:38.640
that the thing that God actually pays attention to, you know,

530
00:45:38.640 --> 00:45:41.240
it says that man looks at the outside, but God looks at the heart.

531
00:45:41.880 --> 00:45:42.520
It's all of that. It's,

532
00:45:42.520 --> 00:45:46.960
it's all about the intention and the heart is essentially is always, um,

533
00:45:47.000 --> 00:45:51.320
connected to the metaphysical. It's always connected to the, to the soul realm.

534
00:45:52.520 --> 00:45:54.640
Um, which is where I'm talking about, you know, that we,

535
00:45:54.820 --> 00:45:59.460
that we as humans set our intention is from the, it's from the, um, uh,

536
00:45:59.500 --> 00:46:01.860
from, from the human soul, we make those decisions.

537
00:46:01.860 --> 00:46:06.100
So those are a couple of things. Um, and then I, just to,

538
00:46:06.140 --> 00:46:09.100
you're talking about Bible verses. I don't, um,

539
00:46:09.860 --> 00:46:12.060
remember when I said while ago that, um,

540
00:46:12.100 --> 00:46:16.420
because I understand that this is actually speaking something, but still,

541
00:46:16.460 --> 00:46:19.180
or at least it's implied maybe, but, um,

542
00:46:19.420 --> 00:46:22.780
remember where it says that Jesus will,

543
00:46:22.800 --> 00:46:25.440
cause I referenced this earlier, talked about like non-believers,

544
00:46:25.440 --> 00:46:27.840
what that non-believers can, um,

545
00:46:28.200 --> 00:46:32.920
I can cast out demons in Jesus's name and they can heal other people and all of

546
00:46:32.940 --> 00:46:34.880
that. They can do that. And we don't need,

547
00:46:34.880 --> 00:46:39.560
and someone doesn't even have to be a believer in order to operate according to

548
00:46:39.560 --> 00:46:43.880
their God given function of a human being. Um,

549
00:46:44.080 --> 00:46:48.360
and, uh, that is the, and we know this from scripture. When Jesus said, you know,

550
00:46:48.500 --> 00:46:52.260
you will come to me and you will say, Lord, well, didn't we,

551
00:46:52.420 --> 00:46:56.300
didn't we heal people? And didn't we cast out demons in your name?

552
00:46:56.300 --> 00:47:01.180
And he says, depart from me. I never knew you. So, um, anyway,

553
00:47:01.340 --> 00:47:04.700
I just wanted to mention where that was, uh, uh,

554
00:47:04.740 --> 00:47:09.180
what that particular Bible reference was just cause I had mentioned it, um,

555
00:47:09.220 --> 00:47:10.060
a little bit earlier,

556
00:47:10.140 --> 00:47:14.940
but I can get back to you on some other

557
00:47:14.940 --> 00:47:17.660
places in scripture where it talks about that. If you were,

558
00:47:17.880 --> 00:47:20.160
if, um, if what Amy and I had mentioned,

559
00:47:20.800 --> 00:47:23.800
if you were needing more than that, were you needing, um,

560
00:47:24.400 --> 00:47:27.400
so just let me know if you were needing more than that and then I can get back

561
00:47:27.420 --> 00:47:28.240
to you on it.

562
00:47:28.440 --> 00:47:32.120
Yeah, no, I'd love to have a little more on that. Cause this is a biggie for me.

563
00:47:32.120 --> 00:47:34.680
And I'm also curious too,

564
00:47:34.680 --> 00:47:39.020
like how do you actually get yourself to a place where your intention is strong

565
00:47:39.020 --> 00:47:42.760
enough that it's actually going to heal someone or make a difference?

566
00:47:43.740 --> 00:47:47.540
How do you get yourself? Um, all it was actually very, very easy.

567
00:47:47.980 --> 00:47:49.060
Cause remember that, um,

568
00:47:49.100 --> 00:47:52.460
even our faith can be as small as a mustard seed and we can move a mountain.

569
00:47:52.780 --> 00:47:57.380
So it's not an amount of faith or anything like that. It's not even,

570
00:47:57.940 --> 00:48:00.700
um, uh, I know that that you talked about intention,

571
00:48:00.700 --> 00:48:03.340
but all of this is connected. Um,

572
00:48:03.420 --> 00:48:06.940
and that is the fact that we have to believe that we are who God says that we

573
00:48:06.940 --> 00:48:10.140
are. And I know that I keep driving home this point and everyone's probably tired

574
00:48:10.280 --> 00:48:12.320
of me saying it, but that's where everything is.

575
00:48:12.640 --> 00:48:15.560
If we are struggling somewhere,

576
00:48:15.780 --> 00:48:19.680
it means that that's the issue that there is, there's,

577
00:48:19.720 --> 00:48:23.520
we have accusation against God, that something it is that he said,

578
00:48:23.560 --> 00:48:24.920
we're not believing.

579
00:48:25.200 --> 00:48:28.140
We're not believing that he is who he says that he is or to the degree that he

580
00:48:28.140 --> 00:48:31.840
says that he is it, or that we're not who he says that we are, et cetera,

581
00:48:31.840 --> 00:48:36.160
et cetera. So that's why I keep hounding on that point. But, um, once we,

582
00:48:36.180 --> 00:48:41.180
once we agree with the Lord of what our identity is,

583
00:48:41.780 --> 00:48:46.780
then we, we, that shifts us into rest and we agree,

584
00:48:46.780 --> 00:48:51.220
okay, I'm releasing everything that's keeping me from acting,

585
00:48:51.260 --> 00:48:54.940
from, from accepting that I'm the new man. So once I release it all,

586
00:48:54.940 --> 00:48:58.940
I naturally shift into the new man. And, and because I can, I,

587
00:48:58.980 --> 00:49:02.500
my soul comes into agreement with my spirit because my spirit knows all truth.

588
00:49:02.880 --> 00:49:06.960
And, and the truth that the spirit is saying is the fact that,

589
00:49:07.000 --> 00:49:11.200
and that I am who God says that I am. I am a King. I am a beloved son,

590
00:49:11.200 --> 00:49:12.020
et cetera.

591
00:49:12.080 --> 00:49:15.560
So now that I believe that I am this and now that I'm operating out of my new

592
00:49:15.560 --> 00:49:16.880
nature effortlessly,

593
00:49:17.440 --> 00:49:21.520
I will then open operate out of my new nature effortlessly.

594
00:49:22.760 --> 00:49:24.120
I will. And then my,

595
00:49:24.580 --> 00:49:29.580
so I don't have to try to try to become stronger and,

596
00:49:30.360 --> 00:49:35.360
and, and, and foster and practice strengthening my intention.

597
00:49:36.720 --> 00:49:41.720
I just am it because our spirit has never been anything else.

598
00:49:42.920 --> 00:49:44.520
Our spirit has never rebelled.

599
00:49:45.120 --> 00:49:49.360
Our spirit doesn't know what it's like to be anything, um, uh,

600
00:49:49.400 --> 00:49:54.400
to be separated from the Lord. It's not, he's never, um, you know, you know,

601
00:49:54.560 --> 00:49:57.240
not being in heaven or something like that is what I'm talking about.

602
00:49:57.240 --> 00:50:00.100
Our spirit does not know what it's like to just, to, uh,

603
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:06.800
be on earth and to have made a difference to make a choice or to be even be confronted

604
00:50:06.800 --> 00:50:11.820
with the choice that I could be wrong about that, but I don't even think that our spirits

605
00:50:11.820 --> 00:50:15.760
have ever been confronted with the choice of, um, of leaving the Lord.

606
00:50:15.760 --> 00:50:18.360
It's like, they don't understand it at all.

607
00:50:18.360 --> 00:50:20.560
It's like, why, what, huh?

608
00:50:20.560 --> 00:50:24.920
I mean, it's like, it's almost like they're so naive and they are so innocent.

609
00:50:24.920 --> 00:50:31.320
I don't mean naive as an ignorant or child or, um, or like negatively immature or something,

610
00:50:31.320 --> 00:50:40.320
but it's like our spirits have no concept of anything other than being one with Christ.

611
00:50:40.320 --> 00:50:46.880
So if we shift into the new man, which operates according to the spirit, we're just the thing

612
00:50:46.880 --> 00:50:48.400
that we've always been.

613
00:50:48.400 --> 00:50:54.520
We're, we're the, um, uh, where, uh, we've never lived in rebellion.

614
00:50:54.520 --> 00:50:57.560
We don't know what it's like to not believe God.

615
00:50:57.560 --> 00:50:58.920
And therefore we're going to owe it.

616
00:50:58.920 --> 00:51:02.200
We've always been a king and we've always operated as a king.

617
00:51:02.200 --> 00:51:04.440
So now I'm just going to continue to do that.

618
00:51:04.440 --> 00:51:06.700
It's our soul that's never done it before.

619
00:51:06.700 --> 00:51:11.800
So if our soul just continues to release and let go and not hold, grab a hold of anything,

620
00:51:11.800 --> 00:51:15.680
um, that is, that thinks it's abandoned and left alone.

621
00:51:15.680 --> 00:51:21.840
If it stops doing that, it's going to effortlessly allow the spirit to take over and the spirits

622
00:51:21.840 --> 00:51:22.840
always been a king.

623
00:51:23.040 --> 00:51:29.000
So the spirit always knows how to have intention and I intend this as a king, I intend this

624
00:51:29.000 --> 00:51:35.920
and I desire you to do this and this in my, in my all-knowing wisdom desires this and

625
00:51:35.920 --> 00:51:37.200
it knows how to govern.

626
00:51:37.200 --> 00:51:44.960
We don't have to, um, we don't have to necessarily learn it or drum it up or whatever.

627
00:51:44.960 --> 00:51:50.440
There might be a measure in which our spirit does mature that I'm just not aware of or

628
00:51:50.440 --> 00:51:51.440
familiar with yet.

629
00:51:51.440 --> 00:51:52.440
I don't know everything.

630
00:51:53.040 --> 00:51:57.880
I just tell everybody what it is that I know so far and I know in part, but I don't know

631
00:51:57.880 --> 00:51:58.880
perfectly.

632
00:51:58.880 --> 00:52:04.880
So, um, uh, and I could believe very differently tomorrow, but this is what I believe now.

633
00:52:04.880 --> 00:52:09.680
And in the way that, um, so this is, this is me and my limited understanding and it

634
00:52:09.680 --> 00:52:17.160
has greatly, greatly pro uh, progressed my relation, uh, my journey with the Lord.

635
00:52:17.160 --> 00:52:20.960
So I share it with y'all because apparently it's true and apparently it works.

636
00:52:20.960 --> 00:52:22.440
I don't know what exactly it looks like.

637
00:52:22.440 --> 00:52:23.440
I don't know.

638
00:52:23.440 --> 00:52:28.320
So I don't know if our spirit isn't, is still growing in the Lord.

639
00:52:28.320 --> 00:52:31.920
Just like, just like, um, just like a baby does on earth.

640
00:52:31.920 --> 00:52:32.920
I don't know.

641
00:52:32.920 --> 00:52:39.840
Um, but right now the only way that I have, uh, the way that the Lord has talked to me

642
00:52:39.840 --> 00:52:46.320
about it is in the concept that it's fully matured and that it knows all things and that

643
00:52:46.320 --> 00:52:50.840
it understands all things and whatever, because that's all I can kind of grasp right now.

644
00:52:51.720 --> 00:52:55.320
And once I get a hold of this and I, and it changes my life more and more and I can live

645
00:52:55.320 --> 00:53:04.680
like this, then I can handle a fuller revelation that, that, that, um, I haven't, that he hasn't

646
00:53:04.680 --> 00:53:06.120
revealed to me yet.

647
00:53:06.120 --> 00:53:09.040
What it is that I'm expressing is all of our experience with the Lord.

648
00:53:09.040 --> 00:53:13.320
I mean, think of all of the things that wonderful revelations that we've received from the Lord

649
00:53:13.320 --> 00:53:18.500
10 years ago and think how differently you believe now than you believe then, but think

650
00:53:18.500 --> 00:53:23.500
about how much, what you learned from the Lord 10 years ago, progressed your faith in

651
00:53:23.500 --> 00:53:24.980
your relationship with him.

652
00:53:24.980 --> 00:53:29.940
So just anyway, my point is, um, don't take what I'm saying is like this perfect and don't

653
00:53:29.940 --> 00:53:35.420
take anything that I say is like, oh, well that's just the know all end all be all.

654
00:53:35.420 --> 00:53:38.820
No, this is just what I believe right now.

655
00:53:38.820 --> 00:53:42.340
According to the revelations that I believe the Lord has given me and everyone takes it

656
00:53:42.340 --> 00:53:49.060
to the Lord and in their own spirits to bounce it off of him and see if, um, see if he affirms

657
00:53:49.060 --> 00:53:50.060
that.

658
00:53:50.060 --> 00:53:56.060
And then he'll just continue to expand and give us, allow us to see more and more pieces

659
00:53:56.060 --> 00:54:00.820
of the puzzle, but he won't overwhelm us with all of it right now because he's so complex

660
00:54:00.820 --> 00:54:06.860
and he's so amazing and he's so, um, I don't know, just, just awesome.

661
00:54:06.860 --> 00:54:12.220
You know, the real, the real original sense of the word that we can't, we can't consume

662
00:54:12.220 --> 00:54:13.780
it or understand it all right now.

663
00:54:13.780 --> 00:54:17.500
So he just gives it to us in, in, in bits that we can consume.

664
00:54:17.500 --> 00:54:25.540
So point is that viewing it from that perspective, our spirit knows, um, and, um, already, uh,

665
00:54:25.540 --> 00:54:26.900
is fully mature.

666
00:54:26.900 --> 00:54:28.820
It always knows how to, how to be a King.

667
00:54:28.820 --> 00:54:34.020
I know that when I operate in my spirit and I stop resisting, I suddenly seem to know

668
00:54:34.020 --> 00:54:37.140
how to handle every situation I'm in.

669
00:54:37.140 --> 00:54:40.460
Um, I know what to say, I know what to respond.

670
00:54:40.460 --> 00:54:44.620
Sometimes I end up answering questions that I was not expecting that I would, that I would

671
00:54:44.620 --> 00:54:50.460
get, um, tonight and I'm giving these answers and it's as if I've always known this.

672
00:54:50.460 --> 00:54:54.060
Well, sometimes I don't know those answers until I open my mouth.

673
00:54:54.060 --> 00:54:58.140
So I just have to make sure that I don't have an agenda that I desire someone to feel a

674
00:54:58.140 --> 00:54:59.980
particular way or desire.

675
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:04.960
to understand something about their relationship with the Lord and how special it is and or that

676
00:55:04.960 --> 00:55:08.880
they would think well of me or that they would think that I gave a good answer. I have got to

677
00:55:08.880 --> 00:55:15.440
let all of that go if I want the spirit to be able to speak out of me. Otherwise, you know,

678
00:55:15.440 --> 00:55:26.080
I can create not only damage for them, but I can start locking up and trying to pull the answer

679
00:55:26.080 --> 00:55:31.600
about of my own logic, which is extremely dangerous. I need to just let the spirit flow.

680
00:55:31.600 --> 00:55:37.600
So my point is that we can trust our spirit and that's how we're supposed to operate in every

681
00:55:37.600 --> 00:55:43.440
area including in building and that's where our intention comes from. That's where a maturity

682
00:55:43.440 --> 00:55:52.640
of learning how to intend something and send it forth. Develop and create a desire or a dream

683
00:55:52.640 --> 00:55:58.640
what we intend for our creation that God has given us dominion over and to understand how

684
00:55:58.640 --> 00:56:06.080
we want to send it out in order to benefit creation. You know, in other words, decisions

685
00:56:06.080 --> 00:56:19.120
that a king would have and that a king would make. We do that in the spirit and we just need

686
00:56:19.120 --> 00:56:25.120
to stop hindering the spirit and we don't have to worry about oh trying to make this spirit

687
00:56:26.080 --> 00:56:32.080
get it all worked up and learn all this stuff. No, we just need to release and let go and unlearn

688
00:56:32.080 --> 00:56:36.800
all of the things that we've built up as hindrances to allowing the spirit to just be itself and the

689
00:56:36.800 --> 00:56:42.240
spirit is just is the thing that we keep thinking we're trying to attain to, but we already naturally

690
00:56:42.240 --> 00:56:47.440
are the thing that we keep trying really hard to attain to. We just need to stop trying to attain

691
00:56:47.440 --> 00:56:57.760
and then we'll naturally be it. No, that's awesome. Thank you. You're welcome. So, I think

692
00:56:57.760 --> 00:57:07.280
I'm missing some chats. Just a second. Yes, yeah, absolutely. I got, you know who you are. I got

693
00:57:07.280 --> 00:57:15.520
your chat. Absolutely. Just reach out to me right after this. What time is it? Let me make sure. Oh,

694
00:57:15.520 --> 00:57:22.400
wow. Okay. So, we've got just a few minutes. Does anyone have anything? Amy, did you still

695
00:57:22.400 --> 00:57:28.480
have something or because it shows that your hand is raised, but I wasn't sure if that was an old

696
00:57:28.480 --> 00:57:40.400
thing. Is she still on here? Yes, she is. Hey, Amy, can you hear me? Did you still need anything?

697
00:57:41.120 --> 00:57:44.560
You have your hand raised. It could have been what you've already contributed,

698
00:57:44.560 --> 00:57:58.000
but I didn't know if you had a question. Okay, maybe she's good. So, does anyone have anything?

699
00:58:01.600 --> 00:58:06.960
Just to go with what Alana said at the beginning about governing our businesses from a place of

700
00:58:06.960 --> 00:58:11.920
rest and directions, Ashley and I had a talk one time. You'll have to tell her about the circle

701
00:58:11.920 --> 00:58:18.000
and all the little arrows because I was listening to all these people. I have a blog. I have a

702
00:58:18.000 --> 00:58:24.400
YouTube channel that ties into my blog with my tutorials. I mean, I've done way more than I

703
00:58:24.400 --> 00:58:31.280
should do really, but we're to the point now that my husband literally said, okay, is an itch or burn?

704
00:58:31.920 --> 00:58:39.600
He's like, if it's an itch, ignore it. If it's a burn, go for it. I never thought about it that way.

705
00:58:40.320 --> 00:58:46.480
I sent Ashley pictures a few days ago. I said, yeah, he gets it, but I sat down and I drew

706
00:58:46.480 --> 00:58:53.120
three different fabric designs in four days and I just said, no, I feel like this is where

707
00:58:54.160 --> 00:58:59.840
the same way with my Etsy shop, everything has always been using my lettering, my illustrations,

708
00:58:59.840 --> 00:59:06.560
things like that. So, I went back to, okay, this is where I started. This is what God was blessing.

709
00:59:06.560 --> 00:59:13.040
This is where I am at peace and content and it has just snowballed. A friend sent me an idea for

710
00:59:13.840 --> 00:59:17.120
something I could do with my business. It's like, oh my goodness, and the snowball just

711
00:59:17.120 --> 00:59:22.400
continued building. Well, I was sending messages earlier. I had a lady send me a five-star review

712
00:59:22.400 --> 00:59:26.880
and ask me more questions about my shop. Like, this is really cool and I'm enjoying what I'm

713
00:59:26.880 --> 00:59:32.240
doing. I'm not chasing it, where before I think I was chasing it and trying to course that square

714
00:59:32.240 --> 00:59:37.120
peg into the round hole. It's like, but I've got to write this blog post and I've got to do this.

715
00:59:38.720 --> 00:59:42.640
And Ashley told me that from the get-go and I'm like, oh, but all the experts have said,

716
00:59:43.840 --> 00:59:48.000
oops. Yeah. I used to be one of those experts that said, this is what you need to do.

717
00:59:48.560 --> 00:59:52.800
Yeah. Tell her about the circle and the arrows because that really hits home now.

718
00:59:54.240 --> 00:59:59.360
Good, good. I'm glad. I wish I had a piece of paper. So, basically the idea is,

719
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:03.960
you know, if we're spreading ourselves and, uh, too thin.

720
01:00:04.680 --> 01:00:07.120
So that's what Stephanie and we're talking and I were talking about,

721
01:00:07.160 --> 01:00:08.880
my goodness, that was, that was a long time ago.

722
01:00:09.440 --> 01:00:11.720
And that we were talking about that was probably, I don't know,

723
01:00:11.760 --> 01:00:14.320
how many months ago it was five, six months ago that we were talking about that.

724
01:00:14.760 --> 01:00:17.120
And, um, and if we have a circle,

725
01:00:17.680 --> 01:00:20.360
if we can think of it kind of like a circle and that's all of our energy.

726
01:00:21.280 --> 01:00:25.800
And, um, we, uh, we've, and if we have like, say for instance, or not,

727
01:00:25.800 --> 01:00:28.200
not our energy, let's just say like, um, that is.

728
01:00:28.880 --> 01:00:33.080
And, uh, I don't know if that's ourself. So the energy though, can be wrecked.

729
01:00:33.120 --> 01:00:38.280
It can be, um, you know, meaning like effort or whatever can be represented by,

730
01:00:38.360 --> 01:00:39.960
by, uh, 10 inches.

731
01:00:40.200 --> 01:00:44.240
And so if you take those 10 inches and like kind of like arrows coming out from

732
01:00:44.240 --> 01:00:48.760
the circle and you have 10 one inch lines and arrows coming out from the

733
01:00:48.760 --> 01:00:49.600
circle,

734
01:00:49.640 --> 01:00:54.640
because we have all of these each each line and each X each one inch of energy

735
01:00:55.640 --> 01:01:00.000
is being expended towards 10 different things. So we,

736
01:01:00.040 --> 01:01:03.560
so by the end of the year, we only get one inch from the circle,

737
01:01:03.600 --> 01:01:07.760
one inch from our original destination. Well, if we just focus on one thing,

738
01:01:07.800 --> 01:01:12.680
we end up being able to combine all 10 inches into one long arrow and we get 10

739
01:01:12.680 --> 01:01:15.200
times farther in one thing. Um,

740
01:01:15.240 --> 01:01:20.240
as opposed to only being able to get one inch away, um, uh,

741
01:01:20.400 --> 01:01:23.800
after the year, um, by, um, you know,

742
01:01:23.880 --> 01:01:26.680
by spreading ourselves too thin and, um,

743
01:01:26.720 --> 01:01:30.560
dividing all of our effort and energy into too many different,

744
01:01:31.320 --> 01:01:35.760
too many different tools, too many different strategies, too many different, um,

745
01:01:36.520 --> 01:01:41.080
uh, even different hobbies, focuses in life, et cetera.

746
01:01:41.640 --> 01:01:46.160
Um, it, it ends up spreading ourselves too thin.

747
01:01:46.160 --> 01:01:47.360
So it's,

748
01:01:47.480 --> 01:01:51.200
and one of the reasons that we do all those things is because we're told that we

749
01:01:51.240 --> 01:01:54.120
have to. So the majority of all of those arrows,

750
01:01:54.120 --> 01:01:58.360
if the Lord tells us to do all this, that's great. But if we are,

751
01:01:58.400 --> 01:02:02.040
what we need to eliminate all of the things that, that the experts,

752
01:02:02.200 --> 01:02:04.640
that the quote unquote experts told us to do,

753
01:02:04.680 --> 01:02:07.520
who are experts in how to operate according to the tree of the knowledge of

754
01:02:07.520 --> 01:02:11.840
evil, um, that what they told us to do,

755
01:02:12.040 --> 01:02:14.600
if we do not feel the spirit of the Lord on it,

756
01:02:14.600 --> 01:02:18.080
if we do not feel that it is that it,

757
01:02:18.360 --> 01:02:22.440
it brings us to life inside of us. When we think about it, if we,

758
01:02:22.440 --> 01:02:26.280
if it doesn't bring us to life and then it's just dead and there's no point in,

759
01:02:26.760 --> 01:02:30.280
if there's no point in operating in it, but if it brings us to life,

760
01:02:30.280 --> 01:02:33.000
we need to be focusing all of the rest of our energy on that one thing.

761
01:02:33.240 --> 01:02:36.200
And then we'll get much further. So, yeah.

762
01:02:37.120 --> 01:02:42.040
So I'm glad it was helpful stuff. Yeah. That's helpful for me too.

763
01:02:42.040 --> 01:02:43.360
I like that. I like good visual.

764
01:02:43.920 --> 01:02:44.760
Okay.

765
01:02:46.120 --> 01:02:50.720
So did anyone have anything before we go?

766
01:02:50.720 --> 01:02:53.440
Whatever time it is, but I know, I think it's about time.

767
01:02:53.760 --> 01:02:58.480
I can't see the time, but I think it is just any, Oh, sorry.

768
01:02:58.480 --> 01:03:02.720
I'm missing chats, aren't I? I apologize. So, um,

769
01:03:03.480 --> 01:03:08.240
I am wearing rainbow colors. Um, dr. Yes. Dr. Lee. Yeah.

770
01:03:08.240 --> 01:03:12.120
Dr. Caroline Lee. She's really great. If I'm not mistaken,

771
01:03:12.960 --> 01:03:15.040
I wonder she's in the DFW area. I don't remember.

772
01:03:15.400 --> 01:03:18.160
Talks about not milkshake multitasking. That's correct.

773
01:03:18.520 --> 01:03:21.560
Somebody loves so many things in a variety of people and expressions.

774
01:03:21.560 --> 01:03:23.080
It's tough for me to keep narrow focus,

775
01:03:23.400 --> 01:03:25.720
but I fell in calling me to narrow focus this season. Yes.

776
01:03:25.720 --> 01:03:29.360
So it's a wonderful thing to be able to appreciate a bunch of things. Um,

777
01:03:29.400 --> 01:03:33.880
but we need to pay very close attention to what it is that the Lord wants us to

778
01:03:33.880 --> 01:03:35.200
expend energy on,

779
01:03:35.600 --> 01:03:39.840
because if we're spending energy in areas that he didn't,

780
01:03:40.200 --> 01:03:44.000
doesn't, um, and intend us to spend, um,

781
01:03:44.080 --> 01:03:46.040
expend our energy on,

782
01:03:46.400 --> 01:03:51.160
then those other areas that needed our spirit are,

783
01:03:51.480 --> 01:03:55.240
you know, are going to miss our contribution. Um,

784
01:03:55.720 --> 01:03:58.320
and I have a whole lot of interest. Oh my word.

785
01:03:58.320 --> 01:04:00.240
Y'all would not believe the interest that I have.

786
01:04:00.240 --> 01:04:04.840
I have learned to appreciate so many things, um,

787
01:04:05.040 --> 01:04:06.840
in life, but I just don't,

788
01:04:07.120 --> 01:04:10.640
I'm not able to put all of my time, effort and energy in all of those things.

789
01:04:11.160 --> 01:04:15.880
I like, um, I like knitting. I like, um, I like sewing clothes.

790
01:04:15.920 --> 01:04:20.120
I like sewing quilts. I love reading. Um, I,

791
01:04:20.240 --> 01:04:25.080
or I, I, um, have a degree in English. So it, at some point,

792
01:04:25.080 --> 01:04:28.920
I'm sure I'll write a, write a book. Um, and, uh,

793
01:04:29.040 --> 01:04:30.840
and currently I'm traveling and I'm,

794
01:04:30.840 --> 01:04:35.160
I'm consulting and I'm pouring into other people in business and in, in their,

795
01:04:35.280 --> 01:04:39.160
in their marriage or their parenting or whatever. Um,

796
01:04:39.200 --> 01:04:43.440
I love personal development, self-help stuff. I love, um,

797
01:04:43.480 --> 01:04:47.360
Bible study and all of these things that I'm talking about. I'm not saying,

798
01:04:47.400 --> 01:04:50.560
oh yeah, I kind of like all those things. No, I love them.

799
01:04:51.360 --> 01:04:55.560
All of these things I mentioned, I love, I love learning about new things.

800
01:04:56.080 --> 01:05:00.000
Um, I love all kinds of music. I love, I love that.

801
01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:07.280
I love opera. I like theater and Broadway theater. I live. I like singing. I like all

802
01:05:07.280 --> 01:05:13.200
kinds of things. I just don't, I don't have time for it all. And so I, it's hard. Like

803
01:05:13.200 --> 01:05:18.000
Lord, I love to do all these things. And he just says, well, actually you said, well,

804
01:05:18.000 --> 01:05:23.360
for one thing, time is not an issue. If I put it in you, you can express it and just

805
01:05:23.360 --> 01:05:27.520
know that you are not limited to this earth. Know that you are not limited to 70 years

806
01:05:27.520 --> 01:05:31.520
or 80 years or whatever, you know, 90 years or whatever that people would say that we're

807
01:05:31.520 --> 01:05:36.880
limited by God's like, no, no, no, you're eternal. And he said, you're you've got lots

808
01:05:36.880 --> 01:05:42.800
of time to do all of these things. He said, just for right now, let's focus on these and

809
01:05:42.800 --> 01:05:51.040
then just be able to value and appreciate and honor those that are expressing themselves

810
01:05:51.040 --> 01:05:56.320
and expressing who it is that I am through them in all of these other areas that you're

811
01:05:56.320 --> 01:06:03.200
also interested in opera, singing, reading, whatever. So anyway, so we're not what we,

812
01:06:03.200 --> 01:06:08.960
God loves the fact that we value and we have appreciation for the variety that he created,

813
01:06:08.960 --> 01:06:14.000
but it doesn't mean that in order to show appreciation that we have to expend energy

814
01:06:14.000 --> 01:06:18.160
in all those areas. So we just have to understand what it is the Lord wants us to focus on.

815
01:06:18.880 --> 01:06:25.680
And anyway, cause we're not meant to overcome in all those areas, but the rest of the body

816
01:06:25.680 --> 01:06:34.000
of Christ is waiting for each of us to to overcome in the area that was given to us

817
01:06:34.000 --> 01:06:37.920
to overcome because it's going to benefit the rest at the end, the body of Christ.

818
01:06:39.440 --> 01:06:45.280
So I don't know how I got to the just go play stage, but I do know I'm focusing on where my

819
01:06:45.280 --> 01:06:50.320
piece is. Good stuff. That's wonderful. I'm being who God made me to be and following where my

820
01:06:50.320 --> 01:06:56.320
piece is that's narrowed my focus down so much. Exactly. Yes, I know. Yeah. People keep telling

821
01:06:56.320 --> 01:07:00.240
me I write a book. I don't know what I will write about. Probably about rest, I guess.

822
01:07:02.000 --> 01:07:10.400
Let's see. Sure. Experience. Good. Oh, thanks. I appreciate it. I think that's all. Oh,

823
01:07:10.400 --> 01:07:15.040
one more thing, Elizabeth. You had asked about my shirt. Yes. This is a really fun shirts.

824
01:07:15.040 --> 01:07:20.640
I just love this shirt. So it's got these little because rainbow colorful tassels over. It's like

825
01:07:20.640 --> 01:07:28.960
this. I don't know. Yeah, actually, I know it's one of my favorites. Let me see if I can back up

826
01:07:28.960 --> 01:07:32.080
and show you the outfit, just because we're all girls and you don't think it's fun.

827
01:07:33.840 --> 01:07:37.760
Rainbows are off the chain constant this week.

828
01:07:38.400 --> 01:07:44.240
I have more pictures of rainbows sent to me more friends posting double rainbows sending

829
01:07:44.240 --> 01:07:49.440
me pictures of rainbows. My whole flight home from Dallas was a rainbow over the clouds.

830
01:07:49.440 --> 01:07:55.200
The whole. Oh, wow. Right. Sorry. Rainbows are everywhere right now. It's wild.

831
01:07:56.720 --> 01:08:05.760
So here's my little outfit. So fun and colorful. I know it's it. It's one of the funnest little

832
01:08:06.720 --> 01:08:11.840
outfits that I have. And it was a way in which God taught me talking about expressing ourself

833
01:08:12.400 --> 01:08:20.640
about appreciating new things, but learning to expand our horizons and appreciating more

834
01:08:20.640 --> 01:08:27.120
of what it is that God created. This is not the style that I used to wear. I was extremely

835
01:08:27.120 --> 01:08:37.279
straight laced and conservative, extremely. Like I love to pioneer a pioneer and type of

836
01:08:37.279 --> 01:08:41.600
conservative dress. Not that I wore it, but I'm just saying it was that conservative and that

837
01:08:41.600 --> 01:08:47.760
changing. And so the Lord had to teach me actually, you know, just get a little more trendy,

838
01:08:49.040 --> 01:08:55.520
a little more interesting. So anyway, so that's one of the things about this shirt that I love

839
01:08:55.520 --> 01:09:00.160
so much is it taught me to step out of my comfort zone. So every time I wear it,

840
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it's kind of another symbol to me of a way and of the ways in which God is redeeming and restoring

841
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me and teaching me that how free I am, because even in my dress, even in my even in my style,

842
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I was stifled. I was expressing the fact that I felt stifled and he wants me to know, I know,

843
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Ashley, you're free. So even before I stepped into rest and freedom, I bought this because

844
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I was attracted to it. It made me uncomfortable to wear it in public. It was like, no, Ashley,

845
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if God says this is who you are, you need to act like it. So anyway, even though it was hard for

846
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me to believe, but anyway, so I guess I will let y'all go. It was good to talk to everybody.

847
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And I hope that y'all have a good night and I will talk to y'all next week.

848
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Don't know where I'm going to be next week. I didn't know if I'm going to be my

849
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A plan is for me to be in Houston. So yeah, so I'll be in Houston next week. So anyway, unless scheduled changes for some reason. So, because I need to do stuff here in Dallas. But anyway, good to talk to y'all. Always good to see all of you.

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Oh, good to see you girls. Thank you.

851
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Bye.

852
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Good night.

853
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Thanks.

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Love you guys.