you
Hey Steph, I see you're on. I don't know if you can hear me or not.
You're there! Hey! I can't hear you, but that's okay. I don't like this. There you
are. Yay, she speaks. Yes, I accidentally recorded like five minutes of my in a
dance conversation, so I logged out real quick and came back. Sorry. Yes, I have it set to
automatically start recording so I can. Don't worry, whenever you leave and then
come back in, because I've had someone do that before, it starts a new, what do
you call it, it starts a new recording. So I will only just post the second
recording. That's funny. I found service. That's right! It seems faster than it
usually is. Is it normally? I mean, is it, I mean, did you do something different?
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
working tonight. Oh, nice. Oh, well, I'm excited for you. Well, and I'm excited for you.
collections. Did you submit them? I did, so now I wait. I don't know how long it'll
take to hear anything. Yeah, how long has it in the past, you know, when other people
need their stuff? Well, this company's been really good to work with. They
didn't like the collection at first, the first one I sent, and she would like to
see more. So, oh, they actually respond, but others, if you don't hear anything in a
month, then they don't want it. So, you go for a whole month hoping to hear
something, and then you hear nothing. It's like, oh, okay, they don't want me.
Yeah, well, that's good. Did she give you any pointers, like in other
words, any direction that she was looking for? She did, she did, especially being a
cool company. Like, they wanted those tight repeats and things like that. So, this
time around, I sent her three. Those were the ones I sent you. I was like, I want to see how this goes.
Well, they said tight repeats. What? Yes. Okay, so like on your fabrics, instead of
having great big designs, yeah, they wanted the repeats to be really tight,
just little tiny. So, if you cut a two-inch square fabric, you're gonna have
the design on it. So, you're talking about for quilters? Yeah. Okay, yeah.
Quilting fabrics, yeah. Yeah, I quilt, and I'm friends with my quilt, and yeah, they, you know, I
mean, I've got, oh, well, no, I don't. I thought, oh, I have got a quilt. Here, I'll
show it to you. No, I don't. But it's, yeah, they, yeah, I can, I have one quilt where
the triangles are, I don't know, like this big. You know, actually, no, not even that
big. They're like this big. I mean, they're just very, very small, and so, yeah, I have
to have tight repeats. Yes, yes. You'll see this course, though, that was, that is
actually a scrap quilt. So, I, I ended up just collecting a whole bunch of, a
whole bunch of scrap fabric from my grandmother that I really liked, and
scrap fabric from, like, my, my childhood, and, you know, things that actually meant
something to me, and anyway, I, I didn't worry so much about whether or not they
were tight repeats, but I would imagine, because once just a scrap quilt, just
fabrics that have sentimental value to me, but if I had other fabrics, I mean, if I
had, were to make other quilts, well, then, yeah, I would need that, if, especially if
people are doing, like, such tiny, like, tiny, like, pieces, like I am. So, I'm
doing, I don't know what it's called, but it's just a triangle quilt. So, it's just
all of these triangles. I mean, like I said, just tiny little triangles, just
made out of, like, scrap fabric, and then, and so that, and, and I've done that for
multiple reasons. For one, I've always enjoyed pioneer scrap quilts, and also, my
favorite part about quilting is, is the quilting part. It's hand quilting it, not
piecing, hand quilting, and I love the rhythm. I love, I love it. So, I don't want
to send my quilt off to somebody else to do anything. I'm like, no, that's my
favorite part, and I have to do it by hand. So, the nice thing about this quilt, which
I'm very excited about finally getting to quilt, is the fact that it's, it's just
straight lines. I just get to quilt in straight lines. I don't have to worry
about, like, doing all these curves. No, I just get to quilt in just straight lines
across the quilt, and, which is, because I just enjoy, I enjoy the journey. I enjoy
the process of it. It's like knitting, because I enjoy, I knit, and I have, I have
some things that I knit, like, I'm in the middle of knitting. I knit my dad a
sweater, my mother's sweater. I'm knitting myself a sweater. I finally get to wear
something that I've knitted, and I knitted a lace shawl that I, that I actually
submitted to the state fair, and it won a ribbon. So, last year, no, two or three
years ago. Yeah, so anyway, I really enjoy knitting, and my point in telling you all
that is, I enjoy the journey of it. So, it's not so much of, in fact, that same
shawl, there's a, and I don't like the edging that I did on it. In fact, if, if I
believe that that's why it didn't place higher than it did, it is because, which I
was perfectly happy with the ribbon I got. I was perfectly happy, but I just
thought, I thought, you know what, I bet you it didn't place higher because of the
edging. I don't like it either. So, even, so I'm thinking, because I enjoy the
journey of the knitting, I don't mind undoing that piece, or doing, undoing that
part, and then just redoing it. Because, because it, the point of it isn't just
the end result, it's the doing of it. It's the creating of the thing.
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
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
Um, yeah, I don't think it was 2017 it was, I think it was 2016 I submitted it to the state fair so
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.
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.
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
Six feet in diameter.
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.
And I enjoy it for a while. And then I'm like, okay, I'm bored. So I had to start something
Well, there's always that as well that that we have all of these projects, all of these things. I have four
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
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
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
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
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
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.
There y'all are
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
I'm a teacher by nature can see
I have a question.
So I have a business question.
One thing that I have been working on lately is getting really comfortable with my
clear on my ideal client so that my messaging in my business will really like pull the right
client in that they'll know that I understand their situation and they'll feel comfortable
talking to me and wanting to maybe book a call with me or join my group or whatever it is.
And I'm unsure as to what exactly to write and like I kind of have an idea. I know I have an
idea of who my ideal client is but I don't know how to speak the language to attract them and
help them understand that I understand them. And so we've talked a lot about rest and I 100% agree
that I can do this from a place of rest and I also want to have the right messaging so that
I feel like I'm attracting the right person. So I was wondering if you could speak to that a little.
Yeah, so what your ideal client will naturally be attracted to whatever message that you put out.
In other words, you don't have to think about who your ideal client would be and what it is that
they want. You think about doing it from a place of rest is doing it from who it is that you are
in the spirit and allowing your spirit to flow within you and out of you. In other words, you
write your message, you talk in a way that it's the tone that you use, the words that you use,
the vocabulary that you use, the way that you say it, all of that that's going to attract the people
that the Lord intends to be attracted to you. So you don't have to try to think, okay, what does
someone need and how can I, in other words, you don't use your client to dictate to you how it is
that you should interact and what it is that you should say, because now that is the way to do it
in strife. And that the way, if you want to use like a formula or a tool or something like that,
and there's nothing wrong with using formulas and tools, you can go at it that way. It's just easier
and more effortless to understand that, that if the Lord has given this to you, has given you,
I don't know, lack of a better phrase, this charge, as in other words, he wants to operate
out of your spirit and have your spirit flow into other people's lives in a particular way.
It's because he put in you what it is that they need, and they can't tell you what that is. In
other words, they can't dictate that to you. So we shouldn't be looking to them to dictate what
it is that we give them. I don't let, and that sounds really weird to word it that way. I spent
months, I probably spent at least 10 to 12 months. I don't know, probably longer than that. I spent
over a year. I just have never had to think about it before. I did. I spent over a year trying really
hard to figure out what my client needed and to get the market to tell me what it is that they
wanted. And in fact, that's how some of these people met me. That's how Steph met me, Susan.
They met me because months ago, I was actually reaching out to them, asking the market what it
is that they wanted, what it is that they needed, what it is that they were looking for.
And they will tell you, that is not my message these days. It is not what we talked about.
Because what I just had to, I had to put on my own oxygen mask first. I had to realize that if
God put it on my heart to do something, then it meant that I had what they needed and he needed
that. He needed him to dictate what it is that I said. And then whoever it is that he had prepared
to that message to resonate with based on how it is that he prepared their hearts, they would
naturally and effortlessly be attracted to the message because it would resonate with the way
that God had already prepared them to receive it. So that's what I'm talking about when I talk about
writing our messages or whatever in rest. It's understanding that we position ourselves,
we acknowledge that we are positioned in the place that God says that we are,
meaning that everything that we do from that position is just flow in the spirit. We understand
that we already have everything, we already are everything, and we can just be us. We can just
be ourselves, meaning, yeah, that probably sounded really confusing to say that we're just ourselves,
but we are who we are in the spirit. And the way that we speak is going to be what God intends
to go forth and to
the world and creation. In other words, other people's souls will respond to that. So you
have to put on your own oxygen. We all have to put on our own oxygen mask first. I mean,
we have to get clear with the Lord. Lord, what is it that, that, um, when I open my
mouth as a spirit, what do I sound like? What do I say? What is burning up within me that
just has to come out and when it comes out naturally and I'm not trying to filter it
and I'm not trying to think how it's going to be received and I'm not trying to think
about what it is that other people need and are they going to understand this? Lord, when
I'm not worried about any of that, what comes out? And then, and, and start from there and
just kind of like start and you can take that, that journey with the Lord. And it doesn't,
it doesn't always have to, I don't mean like it has to be a long journey. I just mean it's
a, it's a processing. Is that making sense so far? Yeah, no, it definitely is. And that's,
I think, so my other question then to go along with that would be if I'm, you know, in rest and
I'm attracting the right people just by being me, but they won't know about me if there isn't
something out there to show them that I'm, I'm in existence because they might not even know me. So
is it okay to have, like if I have a couple of free downloadables that, you know, get advertised
and then they have the option to book a call with me or get into my Facebook group or something like
that. So I was wondering if that's okay, if that's like striving or if that's considered to be in
rest and just putting it out there and allowing them to come. Yeah. So what it is that we do or
don't do is not what, what determines whether or not we're in rest. It's, it's the attitude and
perspective behind it. So if we believe that God is the one who's creating our results and then
we're just enjoying doing the activities with them, Lord, here's my heart. And here's what I
think would be fun to do. What do you, what do you think would be fun to do? What is it that we
should do together? Then you're just doing the activities. And instead of believing that the,
instead of burdening yourself and the activities with this responsibility that they have to get
the results. That is doing it in stride, but there's nothing wrong with doing the activities.
There's nothing wrong with doing, with advertising, with putting out free downloadables, none, none of
that. It's what is it that you and the Lord want to do together? What do you feel in your spirit
that he's pleased about that, that you find fun, you find fun to create. That is the way that your
spirit, that your spirit, you know, again, Lord, when I open my mouth, what does my spirit say?
And when I actually do, do work with my hands, even if it's obviously on the computer,
what is it that I do? What, what do I want to do? What am I drawn to? What am I attracted to?
Or Lord, maybe you want to challenge me in a particular way. What is it that I don't have
experience in? Like say for instance, you have experience in doing free downloadable and what
if I don't? Well, but that doesn't say, what if that doesn't sound fun to me? But then the Lord
might say, well, you know, actually, you know, there's this idea about a free downloadable.
Lord, that sounds hard. I don't know what that means. I, you know, how would I do it? What would
I write about? But he just kind of impresses it on me. So we can sometimes be challenged.
So I don't mean that we just go through life to think, what do I want to do for fun? And then
that's God's, you know, indication of approval. My point is that the things that it is that he's
put within us that sound fun, that just kind of feel like we're coming to life inside of us.
When those things pour out, how do they pour out? What is it that we say? What are the activities
that we do, et cetera? While we're believing what it is that I'm doing is not going to create the
result. I could do it or not do it. And it's not, I don't have to worry that, oh, it's the,
it's this perfect formula and it's this perfect strategy or it's not. We understand that we're
just enjoying doing the activity with the Lord and that neither us nor the activity is burdened
with the responsibility of getting us the result, that it's not those things that are getting us the
result. God is giving us the result. He might do it through the things, but he might not.
It might have, we might be able to see no connection whatsoever between like, say,
for instance, you do all these free downloadables. And because the Lord says he, the Lord puts it on
your heart and you think it's fun. And that's what the two of you do together. And then you get your
next, you get your next 10 clients from over the next, I don't know, two months or whatever,
like you spent lots of time, effort and energy in those free downloadables. But the next five
clients that you get all come from referrals or somehow land across your Facebook page because
Facebook recommended you as a Facebook friend request and not a single person even downloaded
a downloadable.
or they did, but none of them ever came to you because of it.
In other words, it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter whether they're coming to you
through the downloadables or not.
You're doing that because you're expressing your spirit
out into the world as opposed to thinking,
the thing that I'm doing has to be connected
with a definitive result in order to make it valuable
because that's not true.
So the nice thing is, is it relieves it and us
of the burden that we can place on it or on ourselves
that it has to result in something in order to be worth it
or in order for that there to even have been a point
in doing it.
God's like, no, you just do it because your spirit
is pouring out into the earth.
And you said, and it is doing things that you know not of,
whether or not you see a direct relationship with the client
and then I'm gonna bring you clients,
maybe through it, maybe some other way,
but I'm the one who's responsible for it.
So it's an attitude and a perspective and a choice of faith
in where the results are coming from,
relieving yourself and the things that you do
from the responsibility and the burden
of getting you the result.
So does that help?
Yeah, for sure.
And it's funny because when you talked about doing
those things that he might be asking you to do
that are a little uncomfortable for me,
it was the live video.
Oh, you already did.
I did two this week.
My first two ever.
So impressive.
So that was exciting.
So, but it came from rest, it came from fun,
it came from, there's no result that I'm looking for.
It doesn't have to be forced.
It's just what is on my heart to talk about
and just allowing God to speak
because I was telling you that I'm used to doing it,
but I need to know my lines.
I need to know what I'm going to say
or I use a teleprompter or something.
But going live is a new experience
and it's fun and exciting.
And it's, you know, I have no trouble talking,
but as soon as I'm in front of a camera
in front of people, then I get nervous, right?
So this is really great.
I'm excited about that.
And so thank you for that.
That was a really great answer.
Good, good, I'm glad.
And then also just as a help,
which you may not need this at all,
but the client told me this a few days ago
and the way that they worded it was,
they said, Ashley, this was a million dollar
piece of advice.
So I'll mention it just in case you're doing this
and so this might be helpful.
So she, what really helped her,
it is when I told her,
because she was talking to me about doing live videos
and she was already doing them and everything,
but I don't remember if she asked me about it
or maybe I was just speaking into her
and telling her how, giving her ideas about how it,
how it looks to operate your business in more rest.
And one of the things that I recommended to her
is I said, I said, I said, you don't need scripts.
Now you may not use scripts,
so it may not be you I'm talking to,
Alana, it might be somebody else in here.
I'm just, I'm just saying this because it came to mind
that there's nothing wrong with scripts.
If somebody wants to use scripts, that's fine.
If someone is using scripts and it's stressful
and it's hard and we have this intentional agenda behind it
where we think that we are,
we're planning and we're preparing
in order to create a particular result,
like there's this result that I want out of this video
and we could, we could, it could be as godly as anything.
It could be like, oh, well, I want them to understand
that they really are loved to the Lord
and I really want them to get such as to point across
and I really want them to understand
how they can be free by the time
they end up watching this video.
And so in order to do that,
well, then they have to do this, this, and this.
You know, we make it all difficult and complicated
when we don't understand that it is by the spirit
that people are transformed.
It's by our, and God says that it's our spirit
that they need.
It's our spirit that people come in contact with
that transforms their lives.
So we don't, so if scripts are stressful for somebody,
if they're feeling that they're relying on them
and that they don't have, they doubt themselves,
they do not trust themselves and they do not believe
that they have a strong enough contribution
without planning for it by working,
by having a specific agenda
and working towards using knowledge and experience
of how to actually manifest the result
that I want to manifest in somebody else's life.
If it's that kind of stressful, let the scripts go
because it's based off of the belief that it's based off
off its stride. We're trying for a particular result. We got a particular agenda and we don't
believe that the Lord, we're not allowing the spirit to just flow as, and allowing yourselves
to just be enough. So what I do for my lives is I get a general idea. And sometimes I write down
notes and I do, I have noticed that the fewer that, that my best, my best teachings, my best
lives and by best teaching, as I mean, the one where I, I rewatched them and I noticed or not
rewatched them. I, I feel like I'm just flowing in the spirit and I just, and I just know the
next thing to say and I just say it and then I rewatch it and I'm like, yeah, that actually
sounded a lot better than it felt even in the moment. I didn't realize I sounded that fluid
because when I said it, I didn't feel like I sounded that fluid. You know, I noticed that
those particular lives are the ones in which I have my oxygen mask most firmly on, where
obviously I'm teaching something that I'm living. I'm teaching something that not some knowledge
that I've just recently gained. But it has to be something that I truly believe and live by.
Those lives are the ones that people constantly come back to me and say, actually, I watched them
repeatedly. Why? Because it's my spirit. It's the spirit of the Lord that is coming out and is,
is impacting people and it's exactly what it is that they need to hear as opposed to me thinking,
well, I got this particular agenda and I have all of these points and then the more points I have
and the more notes that I end up writing, even, even if I don't have a script written out, which
I, I never have a script written out, but even if I just have notes, if I have too many notes,
the, the, and the live ends up being very disjointed, very confusing, et cetera. So anyway,
so for what that's worth, if that's something that, that might be well, that you might find,
what's the word, sorry, lost my word, but it relatable to your situation. Well,
then hopefully that's helpful. And if not, hopefully it'll be helpful for somebody else.
But it was just something I've been talking to people about recently.
Yeah, it's definitely helpful. I felt like my live today was more easygoing. I did have some
points because, see, here's the thing before I met you and we talked a lot about rest,
I was following all of these business people who were talking about how to structure your lives,
how to structure this, how to structure your messaging and everything was very structured.
And I was trying to follow a formula. So it kind of included bits and pieces of the formula in the
live, as far as, you know, introducing yourself and maybe asking them a question or whatever,
but most of it was pretty, pretty much coming just from God or somebody was interacting. And
so are we able to like mix them a little bit and, and say, okay, well, I think I want to
include these points or include this question or whatever for people to answer and a call to
action maybe at the end, can we sort of have an idea of that and then just let the spirit go at
that point with everything else? Oh, yeah, absolutely. Because the problem isn't what we
do. It's the attitude behind it, you know, why we're doing it. If we're doing it, because we
believe that we are creating, we're trying to create our own results, because we believe that
we're responsible for it, then it means that the, then that's the thing that we want to,
that God says that he wants us to understand that we're free from, and he wants us to live
free from that. But there's nothing wrong. But as long as we believe, and as long as we step
into and live and operate out of the freedom that he says that we have, we can use whatever tools
we wanted to, Jesus used tools, Jesus ate, and Jesus traveled across in a boat, he walked on
foot from place to place all over, you know, all over Israel, and even in this area. So
there's nothing wrong with using, with using tools, they're God given, they're God created.
In fact, it's a very, very special and by tools, I'm even talking about things like formula
strategies, I'm talking about those, I'm not even necessarily talking about like physical,
like social platforms, and whatever, I'm talking about just like, like ideas and strategies and
formulas, those are tools as well. And in the metaphysical. But point is, because we've been
talking about metaphysical a lot. But the thing is that all of those tools were created for us to,
as we manifest heaven into earth, to manifest them through those tools, not in ignoring the
tools and doing it without the tools.
But until we learn sometimes how to do it through the tools,
how would I read that?
Until we know how to do it by how to manifest heaven into earth,
using the tools without relying on the tools,
sometimes God will bypass the tools.
And that's what we sometimes see and refer to as a miracle.
Like, for instance, when Jesus got into the boat,
he'd been walking in the water.
He and Peter had been walking in the water.
And then he'd get back into the boat,
and it said immediately the boat was on the other side.
So that was a time in which God completely
went around with the tool, and just like, hey,
let's just get him to the other side.
And a miracle happened.
And one of the things about that is it lets us know, hey,
look, the tools do not get us the result.
So they help teach us that.
But once we learn that those tools are not required,
then we can greatly benefit from the whole purpose for which God
created the tools, which is to operate in rest, manifesting
heaven into earth, manifesting our spirit
through the use of tools, because we're
no longer attached to them.
So we no longer think that they're creating a result.
So now they can actually serve their real original God-given
purpose, which is to be a method through which using,
through which heaven is manifested into the earth.
So heaven isn't manifested into earth
for the whole point of ignoring and removing
the purpose of tools.
It's to use them according to their original function.
There's nothing wrong with using formula strategies
and deciding, I want to do an introduction.
And then I want to have a question.
And then at the end, I want to make sure to do a little quick
point summary to help tie at some loose ends
and give people a bit of something
solid to sink their teeth into so that by the time
they leave, they remember everything
it is that we talked about in a nice, neat package
that they're more likely to remember if they can't remember
the whole hour or whatever.
Because my lives tend to be like 30 minutes to an hour.
Hopefully, yours are shorter.
Mine just tend to keep talking.
I just tend to keep going.
But anyway, is that helpful?
There's nothing evil about tools.
They're very, very good.
In fact, God intends for us to use them.
We are just, we don't know how to use them while keeping
them in appropriate perspective.
We give them entirely too much power.
And that's the problem.
As long as we understand they don't have that power
and that we're giving it to the Lord,
we can use them all we want.
And then we're now using them the way that God intended.
They're serving us instead of us serving them.
Are we, like, you know how you talk about the physical realm
and how we have authority over it when we're in Christ?
Are we able to set intentions with physical tools
and, like, you know, I might be wording this incorrectly,
but when we talk about, like, having authority over even
things like the weather, the physical weather,
the physical tools, the physical whatever it is,
can we set intentions for things like that in a godly way
for it to go the way that, like, do
you know what I'm trying to say without me saying it?
I'm not quite sure how to articulate it.
Are you talking about setting intention
that we want the wind in the ways
to become where we don't even have to speak it out loud?
Yeah, kind of like that.
Yeah, we can do that.
Absolutely, because that's the power of it anyway.
It's not in the spoken word.
It's in the intention.
The benefit of the spoken word is
it is just an additional way in which the spirit is being
manifested into the physical because it's
being spoken in the physical.
But it's not the power by which something
is manifested in the physical.
It is manifested because our intention is set.
Remember that even non-believers,
and it mentions this even in the Bible,
that non-believers can set their intention that someone
be healed or cast the devils out in Jesus's name and all
of that, even non-believers.
And it will happen.
And so we can set our intention, and then
we can choose to speak it if we want to.
But it's the power of everything is
in the intention of the human soul
because the quantum mechanics, for instance,
gets its instruction from the human soul.
The human soul sending intention to it,
and then quantum mechanics ends up.
I'm giving instruction to the, uh, uh, to turning wave into particle, making it reality
and making it manifest simply because a human being desires something to be so it made it so.
Um, and they, and even non-believers have tested and measured all of this with other non-believers.
So they, and then that's where you get into the whole new age thing of like law of attraction
and all of that. All of that is very real. Um, we don't ever want to believe it or use it from
the corrupted perspective from which the law of attraction is taught in new age theology.
But, um, the, uh, but just the idea of the fact that a human can intend something, um, and,
and creation will listen to it. It's very real. And the non-believers are the ones that are stepping
out into it and unfortunately not doing it from a, from a, from a heart that's trusting in and
relying on, um, on God, the, the, the things that God created are so powerful that even non-believers
can use them when they remove, when they remove God out of them. You think of someone like say,
Tony Robbins or, Oh, I can't think of other big names, but, but you know, big names like that,
they can remove, um, uh, or the people that follow Tony, Tony Robbins or whatever,
cause I'm not trying to like call out a specific person and say what it is they do and don't
believe and like labeling with somebody as a heretic or as a non-believer or whatever.
So I'm not trying to say something about Tony Robbins. I'm saying that I think that all of
us are generally familiar enough with his philosophy and his theology and his philosophy
that he teaches. So regardless of what he believes, people that have taken that idea,
and then they operate like that, you can remove God out of these things. And it still works
just like you don't have to believe in God and you're still subject to gravity.
So, um, anyway, uh, but yes, uh, we can set intention and, and it is, um, uh, in creation is,
is, is, uh, created to function, responding to human intention.
Do you, um, do you know if there, you must know like some Bible verses to, cause this is so
interesting to me based on some of the things that we've talked about, this intention that we can
have from a Christian perspective. Do you know like some, some verses or some Bible stories that
would support this so that I could go and read a little bit more about it? Um, let me see here.
Uh, see both stories. Um, are you talking about intention where the intention was set,
but nothing was spoken? Um, just this whole idea around people, you know, living in the spirit or
not, depending on if they're Christians or not, but in the Bible, it would probably talk about
people living in the spirit who can set an intention for something like, you know, the wind
and the waves to be calm or something physical to change or somebody, you know, a human being,
not Jesus, but somebody in the Bible who is, you know, going around and there are some healings,
right. But I'm talking even about other things beyond that, like where they actually set a human
being in the Bible, set intention in the spirit and it was done and like the proof behind, because
what you're saying, it sounds amazing and I love it. I've never heard it from a Christian perspective.
I've only heard it from a new age perspective. So whatever you can, um, sort of pull out from the
Bible around that would be super helpful and it doesn't have to be right now because I know it
might be a big question. So, okay. Yeah. Yeah, it is. And I will get back to you, um, on that and,
um, on, you know, some more specifics on that. There's a, there's a lot of examples,
um, as far as the one about like human intention. Um, Hey, Amy, the first thing that comes to my
mind is just that verse. We all know that. Oh, wait, can you hear me? Yes. You hear me? Yep.
I was just going to say that the first thing that came to my mind when she asked that was,
um, and I don't want to take over teaching, but just, uh, it just came to me. It was like,
as a man thinks in his heart, the thoughts and intentions of your heart. So is here. So is his
life. That's all I was going to share that. It's not a story, but it's a very profound concept.
Yeah, no, I appreciate you mentioning that because yes, that is a perfect verse.
Another thing, um, another example of that is now, now you might, um, we have to really like
really think about this in order to understand the connection that I'm trying to draw, but where
Jesus was telling the, um, the Pharisees that it wasn't what it is that we were, that we're,
that we're doing. It's what it is that, um, is the intention of our heart
that, uh, that determines whether or not we've sinned. So, you know,
know, he said that in our, um, um, so whether or not it's,
it's for positive or for negative. So we need to wait,
like we have an intention of our heart towards the negative versus an intention
of our heart towards like something like beautiful, like healing. I mean,
it doesn't matter. It's the intention of our heart. He, he even said, Hey, look,
even if you, um, harbor, um, anger in your,
even if you hate your brother in your heart, you already murdered him.
So he talks a bit, he talks about the fact that it's all in,
it's the intention of our heart that create that, um,
determine, um, where the power is in order to, um,
that the thing that God actually pays attention to, you know,
it says that man looks at the outside, but God looks at the heart.
It's all of that. It's,
it's all about the intention and the heart is essentially is always, um,
connected to the metaphysical. It's always connected to the, to the soul realm.
Um, which is where I'm talking about, you know, that we,
that we as humans set our intention is from the, it's from the, um, uh,
from, from the human soul, we make those decisions.
So those are a couple of things. Um, and then I, just to,
you're talking about Bible verses. I don't, um,
remember when I said while ago that, um,
because I understand that this is actually speaking something, but still,
or at least it's implied maybe, but, um,
remember where it says that Jesus will,
cause I referenced this earlier, talked about like non-believers,
what that non-believers can, um,
I can cast out demons in Jesus's name and they can heal other people and all of
that. They can do that. And we don't need,
and someone doesn't even have to be a believer in order to operate according to
their God given function of a human being. Um,
and, uh, that is the, and we know this from scripture. When Jesus said, you know,
you will come to me and you will say, Lord, well, didn't we,
didn't we heal people? And didn't we cast out demons in your name?
And he says, depart from me. I never knew you. So, um, anyway,
I just wanted to mention where that was, uh, uh,
what that particular Bible reference was just cause I had mentioned it, um,
a little bit earlier,
but I can get back to you on some other
places in scripture where it talks about that. If you were,
if, um, if what Amy and I had mentioned,
if you were needing more than that, were you needing, um,
so just let me know if you were needing more than that and then I can get back
to you on it.
Yeah, no, I'd love to have a little more on that. Cause this is a biggie for me.
And I'm also curious too,
like how do you actually get yourself to a place where your intention is strong
enough that it's actually going to heal someone or make a difference?
How do you get yourself? Um, all it was actually very, very easy.
Cause remember that, um,
even our faith can be as small as a mustard seed and we can move a mountain.
So it's not an amount of faith or anything like that. It's not even,
um, uh, I know that that you talked about intention,
but all of this is connected. Um,
and that is the fact that we have to believe that we are who God says that we
are. And I know that I keep driving home this point and everyone's probably tired
of me saying it, but that's where everything is.
If we are struggling somewhere,
it means that that's the issue that there is, there's,
we have accusation against God, that something it is that he said,
we're not believing.
We're not believing that he is who he says that he is or to the degree that he
says that he is it, or that we're not who he says that we are, et cetera,
et cetera. So that's why I keep hounding on that point. But, um, once we,
once we agree with the Lord of what our identity is,
then we, we, that shifts us into rest and we agree,
okay, I'm releasing everything that's keeping me from acting,
from, from accepting that I'm the new man. So once I release it all,
I naturally shift into the new man. And, and because I can, I,
my soul comes into agreement with my spirit because my spirit knows all truth.
And, and the truth that the spirit is saying is the fact that,
and that I am who God says that I am. I am a King. I am a beloved son,
et cetera.
So now that I believe that I am this and now that I'm operating out of my new
nature effortlessly,
I will then open operate out of my new nature effortlessly.
I will. And then my,
so I don't have to try to try to become stronger and,
and, and, and foster and practice strengthening my intention.
I just am it because our spirit has never been anything else.
Our spirit has never rebelled.
Our spirit doesn't know what it's like to be anything, um, uh,
to be separated from the Lord. It's not, he's never, um, you know, you know,
not being in heaven or something like that is what I'm talking about.
Our spirit does not know what it's like to just, to, uh,
be on earth and to have made a difference to make a choice or to be even be confronted
with the choice that I could be wrong about that, but I don't even think that our spirits
have ever been confronted with the choice of, um, of leaving the Lord.
It's like, they don't understand it at all.
It's like, why, what, huh?
I mean, it's like, it's almost like they're so naive and they are so innocent.
I don't mean naive as an ignorant or child or, um, or like negatively immature or something,
but it's like our spirits have no concept of anything other than being one with Christ.
So if we shift into the new man, which operates according to the spirit, we're just the thing
that we've always been.
We're, we're the, um, uh, where, uh, we've never lived in rebellion.
We don't know what it's like to not believe God.
And therefore we're going to owe it.
We've always been a king and we've always operated as a king.
So now I'm just going to continue to do that.
It's our soul that's never done it before.
So if our soul just continues to release and let go and not hold, grab a hold of anything,
um, that is, that thinks it's abandoned and left alone.
If it stops doing that, it's going to effortlessly allow the spirit to take over and the spirits
always been a king.
So the spirit always knows how to have intention and I intend this as a king, I intend this
and I desire you to do this and this in my, in my all-knowing wisdom desires this and
it knows how to govern.
We don't have to, um, we don't have to necessarily learn it or drum it up or whatever.
There might be a measure in which our spirit does mature that I'm just not aware of or
familiar with yet.
I don't know everything.
I just tell everybody what it is that I know so far and I know in part, but I don't know
perfectly.
So, um, uh, and I could believe very differently tomorrow, but this is what I believe now.
And in the way that, um, so this is, this is me and my limited understanding and it
has greatly, greatly pro uh, progressed my relation, uh, my journey with the Lord.
So I share it with y'all because apparently it's true and apparently it works.
I don't know what exactly it looks like.
I don't know.
So I don't know if our spirit isn't, is still growing in the Lord.
Just like, just like, um, just like a baby does on earth.
I don't know.
Um, but right now the only way that I have, uh, the way that the Lord has talked to me
about it is in the concept that it's fully matured and that it knows all things and that
it understands all things and whatever, because that's all I can kind of grasp right now.
And once I get a hold of this and I, and it changes my life more and more and I can live
like this, then I can handle a fuller revelation that, that, that, um, I haven't, that he hasn't
revealed to me yet.
What it is that I'm expressing is all of our experience with the Lord.
I mean, think of all of the things that wonderful revelations that we've received from the Lord
10 years ago and think how differently you believe now than you believe then, but think
about how much, what you learned from the Lord 10 years ago, progressed your faith in
your relationship with him.
So just anyway, my point is, um, don't take what I'm saying is like this perfect and don't
take anything that I say is like, oh, well that's just the know all end all be all.
No, this is just what I believe right now.
According to the revelations that I believe the Lord has given me and everyone takes it
to the Lord and in their own spirits to bounce it off of him and see if, um, see if he affirms
that.
And then he'll just continue to expand and give us, allow us to see more and more pieces
of the puzzle, but he won't overwhelm us with all of it right now because he's so complex
and he's so amazing and he's so, um, I don't know, just, just awesome.
You know, the real, the real original sense of the word that we can't, we can't consume
it or understand it all right now.
So he just gives it to us in, in, in bits that we can consume.
So point is that viewing it from that perspective, our spirit knows, um, and, um, already, uh,
is fully mature.
It always knows how to, how to be a King.
I know that when I operate in my spirit and I stop resisting, I suddenly seem to know
how to handle every situation I'm in.
Um, I know what to say, I know what to respond.
Sometimes I end up answering questions that I was not expecting that I would, that I would
get, um, tonight and I'm giving these answers and it's as if I've always known this.
Well, sometimes I don't know those answers until I open my mouth.
So I just have to make sure that I don't have an agenda that I desire someone to feel a
particular way or desire.
to understand something about their relationship with the Lord and how special it is and or that
they would think well of me or that they would think that I gave a good answer. I have got to
let all of that go if I want the spirit to be able to speak out of me. Otherwise, you know,
I can create not only damage for them, but I can start locking up and trying to pull the answer
about of my own logic, which is extremely dangerous. I need to just let the spirit flow.
So my point is that we can trust our spirit and that's how we're supposed to operate in every
area including in building and that's where our intention comes from. That's where a maturity
of learning how to intend something and send it forth. Develop and create a desire or a dream
what we intend for our creation that God has given us dominion over and to understand how
we want to send it out in order to benefit creation. You know, in other words, decisions
that a king would have and that a king would make. We do that in the spirit and we just need
to stop hindering the spirit and we don't have to worry about oh trying to make this spirit
get it all worked up and learn all this stuff. No, we just need to release and let go and unlearn
all of the things that we've built up as hindrances to allowing the spirit to just be itself and the
spirit is just is the thing that we keep thinking we're trying to attain to, but we already naturally
are the thing that we keep trying really hard to attain to. We just need to stop trying to attain
and then we'll naturally be it. No, that's awesome. Thank you. You're welcome. So, I think
I'm missing some chats. Just a second. Yes, yeah, absolutely. I got, you know who you are. I got
your chat. Absolutely. Just reach out to me right after this. What time is it? Let me make sure. Oh,
wow. Okay. So, we've got just a few minutes. Does anyone have anything? Amy, did you still
have something or because it shows that your hand is raised, but I wasn't sure if that was an old
thing. Is she still on here? Yes, she is. Hey, Amy, can you hear me? Did you still need anything?
You have your hand raised. It could have been what you've already contributed,
but I didn't know if you had a question. Okay, maybe she's good. So, does anyone have anything?
Just to go with what Alana said at the beginning about governing our businesses from a place of
rest and directions, Ashley and I had a talk one time. You'll have to tell her about the circle
and all the little arrows because I was listening to all these people. I have a blog. I have a
YouTube channel that ties into my blog with my tutorials. I mean, I've done way more than I
should do really, but we're to the point now that my husband literally said, okay, is an itch or burn?
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.
I sent Ashley pictures a few days ago. I said, yeah, he gets it, but I sat down and I drew
three different fabric designs in four days and I just said, no, I feel like this is where
the same way with my Etsy shop, everything has always been using my lettering, my illustrations,
things like that. So, I went back to, okay, this is where I started. This is what God was blessing.
This is where I am at peace and content and it has just snowballed. A friend sent me an idea for
something I could do with my business. It's like, oh my goodness, and the snowball just
continued building. Well, I was sending messages earlier. I had a lady send me a five-star review
and ask me more questions about my shop. Like, this is really cool and I'm enjoying what I'm
doing. I'm not chasing it, where before I think I was chasing it and trying to course that square
peg into the round hole. It's like, but I've got to write this blog post and I've got to do this.
And Ashley told me that from the get-go and I'm like, oh, but all the experts have said,
oops. Yeah. I used to be one of those experts that said, this is what you need to do.
Yeah. Tell her about the circle and the arrows because that really hits home now.
Good, good. I'm glad. I wish I had a piece of paper. So, basically the idea is,
you know, if we're spreading ourselves and, uh, too thin.
So that's what Stephanie and we're talking and I were talking about,
my goodness, that was, that was a long time ago.
And that we were talking about that was probably, I don't know,
how many months ago it was five, six months ago that we were talking about that.
And, um, and if we have a circle,
if we can think of it kind of like a circle and that's all of our energy.
And, um, we, uh, we've, and if we have like, say for instance, or not,
not our energy, let's just say like, um, that is.
And, uh, I don't know if that's ourself. So the energy though, can be wrecked.
It can be, um, you know, meaning like effort or whatever can be represented by,
by, uh, 10 inches.
And so if you take those 10 inches and like kind of like arrows coming out from
the circle and you have 10 one inch lines and arrows coming out from the
circle,
because we have all of these each each line and each X each one inch of energy
is being expended towards 10 different things. So we,
so by the end of the year, we only get one inch from the circle,
one inch from our original destination. Well, if we just focus on one thing,
we end up being able to combine all 10 inches into one long arrow and we get 10
times farther in one thing. Um,
as opposed to only being able to get one inch away, um, uh,
after the year, um, by, um, you know,
by spreading ourselves too thin and, um,
dividing all of our effort and energy into too many different,
too many different tools, too many different strategies, too many different, um,
uh, even different hobbies, focuses in life, et cetera.
Um, it, it ends up spreading ourselves too thin.
So it's,
and one of the reasons that we do all those things is because we're told that we
have to. So the majority of all of those arrows,
if the Lord tells us to do all this, that's great. But if we are,
what we need to eliminate all of the things that, that the experts,
that the quote unquote experts told us to do,
who are experts in how to operate according to the tree of the knowledge of
evil, um, that what they told us to do,
if we do not feel the spirit of the Lord on it,
if we do not feel that it is that it,
it brings us to life inside of us. When we think about it, if we,
if it doesn't bring us to life and then it's just dead and there's no point in,
if there's no point in operating in it, but if it brings us to life,
we need to be focusing all of the rest of our energy on that one thing.
And then we'll get much further. So, yeah.
So I'm glad it was helpful stuff. Yeah. That's helpful for me too.
I like that. I like good visual.
Okay.
So did anyone have anything before we go?
Whatever time it is, but I know, I think it's about time.
I can't see the time, but I think it is just any, Oh, sorry.
I'm missing chats, aren't I? I apologize. So, um,
I am wearing rainbow colors. Um, dr. Yes. Dr. Lee. Yeah.
Dr. Caroline Lee. She's really great. If I'm not mistaken,
I wonder she's in the DFW area. I don't remember.
Talks about not milkshake multitasking. That's correct.
Somebody loves so many things in a variety of people and expressions.
It's tough for me to keep narrow focus,
but I fell in calling me to narrow focus this season. Yes.
So it's a wonderful thing to be able to appreciate a bunch of things. Um,
but we need to pay very close attention to what it is that the Lord wants us to
expend energy on,
because if we're spending energy in areas that he didn't,
doesn't, um, and intend us to spend, um,
expend our energy on,
then those other areas that needed our spirit are,
you know, are going to miss our contribution. Um,
and I have a whole lot of interest. Oh my word.
Y'all would not believe the interest that I have.
I have learned to appreciate so many things, um,
in life, but I just don't,
I'm not able to put all of my time, effort and energy in all of those things.
I like, um, I like knitting. I like, um, I like sewing clothes.
I like sewing quilts. I love reading. Um, I,
or I, I, um, have a degree in English. So it, at some point,
I'm sure I'll write a, write a book. Um, and, uh,
and currently I'm traveling and I'm,
I'm consulting and I'm pouring into other people in business and in, in their,
in their marriage or their parenting or whatever. Um,
I love personal development, self-help stuff. I love, um,
Bible study and all of these things that I'm talking about. I'm not saying,
oh yeah, I kind of like all those things. No, I love them.
All of these things I mentioned, I love, I love learning about new things.
Um, I love all kinds of music. I love, I love that.
I love opera. I like theater and Broadway theater. I live. I like singing. I like all
kinds of things. I just don't, I don't have time for it all. And so I, it's hard. Like
Lord, I love to do all these things. And he just says, well, actually you said, well,
for one thing, time is not an issue. If I put it in you, you can express it and just
know that you are not limited to this earth. Know that you are not limited to 70 years
or 80 years or whatever, you know, 90 years or whatever that people would say that we're
limited by God's like, no, no, no, you're eternal. And he said, you're you've got lots
of time to do all of these things. He said, just for right now, let's focus on these and
then just be able to value and appreciate and honor those that are expressing themselves
and expressing who it is that I am through them in all of these other areas that you're
also interested in opera, singing, reading, whatever. So anyway, so we're not what we,
God loves the fact that we value and we have appreciation for the variety that he created,
but it doesn't mean that in order to show appreciation that we have to expend energy
in all those areas. So we just have to understand what it is the Lord wants us to focus on.
And anyway, cause we're not meant to overcome in all those areas, but the rest of the body
of Christ is waiting for each of us to to overcome in the area that was given to us
to overcome because it's going to benefit the rest at the end, the body of Christ.
So I don't know how I got to the just go play stage, but I do know I'm focusing on where my
piece is. Good stuff. That's wonderful. I'm being who God made me to be and following where my
piece is that's narrowed my focus down so much. Exactly. Yes, I know. Yeah. People keep telling
me I write a book. I don't know what I will write about. Probably about rest, I guess.
Let's see. Sure. Experience. Good. Oh, thanks. I appreciate it. I think that's all. Oh,
one more thing, Elizabeth. You had asked about my shirt. Yes. This is a really fun shirts.
I just love this shirt. So it's got these little because rainbow colorful tassels over. It's like
this. I don't know. Yeah, actually, I know it's one of my favorites. Let me see if I can back up
and show you the outfit, just because we're all girls and you don't think it's fun.
Rainbows are off the chain constant this week.
I have more pictures of rainbows sent to me more friends posting double rainbows sending
me pictures of rainbows. My whole flight home from Dallas was a rainbow over the clouds.
The whole. Oh, wow. Right. Sorry. Rainbows are everywhere right now. It's wild.
So here's my little outfit. So fun and colorful. I know it's it. It's one of the funnest little
outfits that I have. And it was a way in which God taught me talking about expressing ourself
about appreciating new things, but learning to expand our horizons and appreciating more
of what it is that God created. This is not the style that I used to wear. I was extremely
straight laced and conservative, extremely. Like I love to pioneer a pioneer and type of
conservative dress. Not that I wore it, but I'm just saying it was that conservative and that
changing. And so the Lord had to teach me actually, you know, just get a little more trendy,
a little more interesting. So anyway, so that's one of the things about this shirt that I love
so much is it taught me to step out of my comfort zone. So every time I wear it,
it's kind of another symbol to me of a way and of the ways in which God is redeeming and restoring
me and teaching me that how free I am, because even in my dress, even in my even in my style,
I was stifled. I was expressing the fact that I felt stifled and he wants me to know, I know,
Ashley, you're free. So even before I stepped into rest and freedom, I bought this because
I was attracted to it. It made me uncomfortable to wear it in public. It was like, no, Ashley,
if God says this is who you are, you need to act like it. So anyway, even though it was hard for
me to believe, but anyway, so I guess I will let y'all go. It was good to talk to everybody.
And I hope that y'all have a good night and I will talk to y'all next week.
Don't know where I'm going to be next week. I didn't know if I'm going to be my
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.
Oh, good to see you girls. Thank you.
Bye.
Good night.
Thanks.
Love you guys.