Hey, everybody, by the way, if it's any encouragement, you know, like I said, the reason I is I teach
this is not only because I have, I have done this is this is how I live.
So this isn't a threshold that we cross.
This is a lifestyle that we choose a lot of where we choose, okay, I'm going to live in
the power of the gospel through what God calls sonship in relationship with him.
And it's learning how to now live life through that way, as opposed to the way that we've
been living or the way that we're tempted, that we've been tempted to live or whatever,
making sure everybody's in.
And so meaning that one of the things that keeps me, what would you, what would you call
that kind of not not up to date, not fresh, I can't think of the word, but basically,
what keeps these things more at the forefront of my mind, you know, to be able to help other
people and be able to relate to other people is because that's still where I am in certain
areas of my life.
So I've been struggling very, very much the past few days.
And in the middle of all of that, you know, that I have to, I have to remember who it
is that I am and how to operate from that place instead of out of my soul, etc.
And then Thursday, I had a four hour transformation session, solid four hours.
And then, and then of course, you know, I've, I've had, we had, you know, the fireside chat
that night.
And, and then I would, I worked until I don't know how late that morning.
I mean, that night.
Oh, no, no, no.
I had a phone call with someone afterwards.
That's right.
I was like, I felt like I had a late night, but why it was, it was a phone call with someone
I needed help.
So I called a friend and it's like, I just need somebody to talk to.
Can I be listened to this time?
So they did that for me, which I really appreciate it.
But then the next few days have been very challenging, including to today.
And yesterday I had a five hour transformation session.
So solid.
And then I had, and I didn't have anything to eat.
So I woke up, went to the transformation session.
It was in with an in-person, in-person transformation session.
So I didn't have anything to eat and, and was just in it for like five hours solid.
So I didn't eat until like four or four 30 that day.
So low blood sugar and, and and so you're just hitting these limits where your soul
and your body are reaching only have so much capacity and we're learning how to operate
out of our spirit, not so much out of our soul so that we don't get as tired so that
we're pulling on the Lord's strength, that we're doing things in rest and not considering
ourselves to be, you know, the, um, relying on ourselves to generate the outcome.
And so it all sounds great.
We can all say in theory, and we can all believe it, including me, but then, you know, boots
hit the ground.
And what do you really do?
What do you really believe?
And to what extent do you believe that, you know, how far does it quote unquote carry
me?
Like, how long am I believing it and how much of I believing it to what depth and then when
am I hitting a limit?
And then, and then I start pulling on my solar, my body.
And so I started reaching that because there was even more than what I'm telling you here
of like the transformation sessions.
Those were just some big things that happened.
There were other big things that happened, emotional things that are like pulling on
old wounds and, and, um, or, uh, getting me, you know, thinking about like the future and
trying to position things now for that future and just, it's just a lot.
So I was reaching some, some, um, limits for myself.
And, um, so anyway, uh, I definitely, uh, feel and understand everything that all of
y'all have been going through the past few days as well.
I'm really sorry.
It hit all of us, including me, we're all in the same community.
And so, um, uh, apparently it just kind of hit all of us at the same time.
So I'm sorry.
I haven't been able to get back to some of y'all, um, we know I've been posting the past
couple of days.
Um, I promise I read them.
So I just needed enough of, uh, I just wanted to be able to have some, uh, some really good
time to be able to, um, by time, meaning like, you know, focus to be able to give y'all what
it is that, um, that you deserve to receive from me.
And so finally it just kind of got it to the wire and I was like, okay, well, we'll talk
about it all on, on here.
So, um, so let's see, seriously.
Oh, thank you, Lindsay.
I appreciate it.
I know it, it does kind of take time.
And that is something that's always on my heart is because I've always, I've received
lots of, um, uh, like, uh, fluffy answers over the years.
And I realized that those didn't help me, those didn't help me grow.
And I hear a lot of fluffy answers, even, even these days.
And I'm just like, that's just not helpful.
And so I really.
have, it's really something I've sought with the Lord is Lord helped me provide and speak
out of, um, out of a place that gives someone substance, something that they can actually
grab ahold of, not a, not a theory, not an idea or not, wouldn't this be nice if, but
something that can actually grab ahold of.
So y'all are really sweet to be patient with me as I do my best to articulate things so
that you can actually practically step out in it.
And, um, uh, so, and then if y'all don't understand something, in other words, it's, it sounds
like a concept that, oh, well maybe sort of, I kind of logically get that, but you don't
know how to grab it to actually do something with it in your life.
Um, just, just let me know.
That's what all these questions are so that I can like circle back around and think, okay,
well maybe what's a different way to approach it that would make sense in your background,
your world, et cetera.
Um, I get to know you still have some rough days.
Yeah.
Oh yeah, I definitely do.
I'm, I'm human.
Jesus had rough days up until the day you died.
So we all have tough days.
It's just part of the human experience.
Um, okay.
And so God wanted to show, oh, so I'm just now seeing Christine posted a few minutes
ago and she said, like others of you, this has been a tough week for me.
Just when I thought things were getting better, they got worse.
I'm sorry, Christine, I know we are all in this together and I'm in there with you.
All right.
So, um, I wanted to look at before we, um, uh, before we, I opened the floor for any
questions.
I wanted to address the questions that I have yet have yet to address in the community.
Let me get there.
So I want to make sure all of that is addressed and let me go.
Okay.
The very first one that I remember, like chronologically, is this chronological?
No it's not.
Maybe it's this one.
No, no.
I think I've already answered that one.
Sorry.
Let me, yeah, I've already answered that one.
Okay.
So let me go.
So the first one chronologically that I can find is, y'all can correct me if I'm wrong.
If there's a question that y'all have asked, once I finally get through these that I have
not addressed, you feel free to let me know, um, and, uh, that I've just accidentally missed
it.
So, okay.
So, uh, Cicely was talking about the, the, um, video that I posted three days ago about
how to go through pain.
She said, this is something that's confusing to me.
You said there that God caused the pain, but these are opportunities that he invites us
into to overcome the struggle and pain.
So that kind of feels like to me that he does cause the pain or it's, and then she asked,
or is it our beliefs that caused the pain?
So Cicely, I'm sorry to ask, yeah, there you are.
Um, would you mind clarifying the question for me?
You said that I said that God causes the pain, so he doesn't cause pain.
So I don't know what it is that I said that sounded like it, uh, before I answer this,
which I can answer from what you've, what you posted.
Is there any way that you could maybe give me a little clarification?
I was supposed to say, doesn't cause the pain.
You said there that God doesn't cause the pain.
Oh, but these are opportunities that invites us.
Okay.
Now I understand.
Okay.
Man, if I was like, yeah, that's probably, I need to go back and say, yeah, I could have
typed it wrong.
So I was going to say, just like you can type it wrong.
I could say it wrong.
So there's typos, but then there's like verbal O's or it's not a word, but we'll go with it
today.
Okay.
Thanks for, for clarifying.
Okay.
So that kind of feels like to me that he does cause the pain.
Oh, because there's opportunities.
He invites us into, okay.
So what, what's, what's happened is God is, um, okay.
This is, um, what would you call it?
It's very similar to Roman seven.
So I would recommend that y'all read Roman seven, because Roman seven talks about the
fact that the law is holy.
And, um, and so this is like, this is like foundation or background or context for me
answering this question.
So it says that the law is holy and that's how we know that the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil was a holy tree.
In other words, God only creates good things, even though it says in Roman seven, that the
fact, let me just read part of it because otherwise the way Paul goes into such depth
to explain this, that if I try to summarize it, it's going to make it sound different
than he really meant it.
Even he had to explain it from multiple perspectives in order to make sure that what he was saying
was crystal clear.
So I learned from Paul, you really have to be careful with this.
Okay.
Okay, so what shall we say then?
Do I need to go further back?
Belong to him, forever in the realm,
the simple path to the realm of God.
Okay, well, let me go further back.
I don't know if I need to go all the way back.
Okay, so let's go to Romans 7, 4.
So my brothers and sisters,
you also died to the law through the body of Christ
that you might belong to another.
To him who was raised from the dead
in order that we might bear fruit for God.
Four, when we were in the realm of the flesh,
the sinful, which is, you know, the soul and the body,
the sinful passions aroused by the law
were at work in us so that we bore fruit for death.
Remember that we were talking on Thursday
when Liberty asked the question, you know,
about good and bad fruit,
and then I was explaining that even though
it's from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
and we pick to do something good,
it still has evil in it because it says that,
so in other words, it just follows that same logic
that when that, where is it?
So that, so the simple passions aroused by the law
were at work in us so that we bore fruit for death
because that's what happens in us
when we interact with the law.
That's the problem.
And that's what, that's the,
that's specifically what Paul is trying
to get us to understand is that it doesn't make,
just because bad things, in other words,
negative things happen to us when we interact with the law,
doesn't make the law bad or the thing that caused the death.
It says by now, but now by dying to what once bound us,
we've been released from the law, blah, blah, blah.
Okay, what shall we say?
Okay, so verse seven.
What shall we say then?
Is the law sinful?
Certainly not.
Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was
had it not been for the law,
for I would not have known what coveting really was
if the law had not said, you shall not covet.
But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment
produced in me every kind of coveting.
For apart from the law, sin was dead, blah, blah, blah.
Sorry, I'm trying to get through this really quickly
because we've got lots to talk about.
So once I was alive, okay.
Once I was alive, this is verse nine.
Once I was alive apart from the law,
but when the commandment came,
sin sprang to life and I died.
I found that the very commandment
that was intended to bring life actually brought death.
For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded
by the commandment deceived me
and through the commandment put me to death.
So then the law is holy
and the commandment is holy, righteous and good
because what we can do is we can think that,
okay, well, I have this thing
and why does God require this quote unquote thing of me?
Does that mean then that the fact that this,
that I now have to do this thing,
that the fact that me doing something different
is now wrong and it's now bad.
And therefore we think that this thing therefore is bad
because its existence made this thing bad.
And Paul's explaining, no, no, no,
we have to remember that the law is actually holy.
My point is I'm very aware
that this is talking about the law, not talking about God.
But my point is that it's the same principle,
just like Paul is explaining here
that in our interaction with the law,
it triggers something that's already in us
and it triggers death within us,
but the law is not creating death.
It's not causing death.
It's simply the fact that when we,
there's something in us
that when we come in proximity with the law,
because there was some command or whatever,
there's something within us that rises up and causes death,
but it doesn't say something bad about the law.
The same thing with the Lord.
When the Lord says something, you know,
and then, or the Lord, you know, I don't know,
allows certain things to happen.
And this is our reaction.
This is the thing within us that rises up
that's of flesh and not of him,
doesn't make him the one that caused it,
doesn't make him bad or him the one causing the pain
or whatever.
So it's the same.
My point is it's the same principle.
So I recommend that y'all read this
to get a bit more of a more detailed understanding
of how Paul explains it.
But note verse 13,
did that which is good, the law,
that which is good then become death to me?
It says, by no means.
Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized,
Now it's just sin.
It used what is good to bring about my death so that through the commandment,
sin might become utterly sinful.
Um, understand.
And then of course, this is where he goes in verse 15 and says, for what I want to
do, I do not do, but what I hate to do.
And if I do what I, and if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is
good.
And that's where he has that whole play on words of like, why do I not, why do I do
what I don't want to do?
And don't do what I want to do.
Um, let's see here.
It is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.
Remember in spirit, this is backwards, man.
Is this backwards for y'all?
Nope.
Excellent.
It was backwards for me.
Okay.
So, so just like it says, it is no longer I myself who do it.
It used to be, but now it's no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.
So even Paul is mentioning in here that once we're in Christ, it is
no longer you that is sinning.
It's no longer you.
That's the problem.
It's the sin that's living in you.
So even, so Paul is trying to get us to, to, um, differentiate it.
Um, for, I know that for, I know that good itself does not dwell on me.
That is my sinful nature, meaning in the flesh.
Um, so maybe that will is good enough for now.
I felt that there was something else though.
Um, uh, well, maybe not.
Okay.
I think that that'll be good for now.
Okay.
So, um, and now I need to go back to, to the question.
So it feels to me that, yeah, that God does cause the pain.
So he is, what happens is there are things that happen.
Okay.
Let's, let's make an example.
Sometimes God will bring something to us and he's in, and a
circumstance, a situation that he invites us to do and we're like, but
God, I don't want to leave where I am.
So why, Lord, why are you creating this problem for me?
You know, you're, I, it, you bringing in this thing that you now want me to
do this decision that you said that you now want me to make or whatever.
Lord, I don't want to do that.
I don't want to live like that.
I don't want to whatever.
Lord, why are you causing me pain?
And he's like, well, I'm not my presentation of this and your
interaction with that, my presentation brought forth some kind of a pain,
some aspect of you that didn't, which is your flesh that does that
is warring against the spirit.
But it doesn't mean that God is causing us pain because remember, okay.
And this is what I need to go all the way back to remember what pain is.
Pain is the fact that your flesh is warring against your spirit.
So that which is unified, in other words, a house, you know, divided
against itself, cannot stand.
That's what pain is.
Pain is simply your flesh warring against your spirit.
That's when we experience pain.
So God doesn't cause our pain because pain exists when the flesh
is warring against the spirit.
So God is just himself.
God is just spirit.
God's just himself.
And he's presenting himself like this.
And then, then the aspects of ourself that are in unbelief is coming against it.
And is in, is, um, is, uh, oh man, may the Lord please help me with my
vocabulary and articulation it's when it's coming in, um, and, oh man, why
can't I think of my words lately?
This is very aggravating, but basically where it's coming against the spirit
and it's telling this and it's telling the spirit, no, I'm in disagreement.
Then your spirit, your soul, and body you're one being that
you're supposed to be unified.
You're supposed to be aligned with yourself.
So obviously it's going to create pain.
If you're warring against yourself, you're not even
worrying against someone else.
There's aspects of yourself that are fighting itself
first towards self-destruction.
That's not natural.
That is not normal.
That is not the way that God created it.
In other words, that's what I'm saying.
Yes, it's a very normal, natural experience.
Unfortunately due to the fall.
My point is that is not normal and natural according
to God's original intention.
So obviously that war that's pain.
God doesn't cause pain.
Pain is caused when there is something that already exists within us
that is in opposition to thank you, Lord.
That was the word I was looking for.
It's an opposition to the spirit.
If there's no opposition, there's no pain because you're all in alignment.
body are in complete agreement that your soul and your body are agreeing with your spirit.
And therefore there's no struggle. There's no war. There's no divide between bodies. So imagine
like the person on the rack, you know, back when they used to torment people by putting them on
the rack and then they would, and then they would pull that they would literally pull the person
apart. It's that kind of an idea in spirit, soul, and body. It's this war, this separation, this,
this resistance of the soul to the spirit of just in this pushing away and like trying to get away
from it, that creates the pain and the struggle. And so God doesn't create it. And we don't blame
ourselves for it either because meaning like, Oh my goodness, aren't I bad? I'm the one causing
this. No, no, no. This is what we're doing here. We are overcoming that disagreement. We are over
to get all three parts of ourselves to finally come into agreement. One part of us is already
in agreement with the Lord. That one's good. We got one day on due to go. Okay. We're great. Okay.
We're bringing the rest of them into alignment. That's what that is. Jesus experienced pain.
Pain isn't to be avoided. Another thing that is kind of like a segue into some of the,
into the answer of some of these other questions is, and I've already said it, but I'll repeat it.
Is that, uh, pain is not, it is not about, it's not about trying to avoid pain.
It's about how we go through it. That is what we're doing. That is how we overcome. You can't
avoid something. Sorry. You can't overcome something that you don't face. You can't
overcome something that you've never, that you don't experience. You can't overcome something
that you don't make, that you don't get to that, that you don't experience and then make a
different type of a choice. We have to be presented with it and then make a higher choice than that,
that will overpower it. And that's why Christ had to go through what he went through. That's what,
by the way, that's how he, that's why he had to die. You know how he said how he died and now we
don't have to, I mean, does anybody else ever wonder growing up? Well, why did you have to die
then? You know? I mean, because if he came to overcome death, wouldn't overcoming death be,
you are the only one who finally proves to everybody that you don't die. But no, no. Why
did Jesus have to die? He had to do it because he had to go through it. You can't overcome something
you don't go through. He literally had to go through it. You can't come to it and avoid it.
You literally have to go through the thing. That is literally the only way that you can overcome
it because you have to go through it and overpower it. So the way that Jesus overcame death was not
by being confronted with it and avoiding it, but by going through it and not being changed. Why?
Because he was resurrected. Death didn't have the last say because remember what death is,
is death is lack. Death is you have, and now you have not existed. Now you don't or whatever.
It's lack. It's have, and now you don't have. So he had to, in order to conquer death,
the sting of death, in order to remove the sting of death, he had to remove lack from death,
meaning that you go through death and except for Jesus on the other side, there was no lack.
He resurrected. That is how you overcome death. That is how you overcome every single other
aspect of death that we go through, which are all of these decisions that we're trying to make,
all of these internal emotional struggles or spiritual struggles that we're trying to have.
I mean, that we're, that we're having and we're trying to, um, that we're trying to go through,
you have to go through it and make the higher choice. That is the only way you can prove
to the spirit realm and to creation that what God says is true by avoiding it. It doesn't prove
anything. You have to go through it and come in and come into that higher agreement. That is the
only thing that will prove to it that it doesn't have power because it's used to you going through
it and it conquering. You have to go through it without being conquered. That is overcoming.
So anyway, that's why Jesus had to die. And so that's what all this pain is. God doesn't cause
the pain. The pain is the fact that there's that aspect of the flesh that subject to death is in
an opposition to the Lord is an opposition to the spirit, and it has to be brought into alignment.
And so that, that unalignment, that disalignment is, um, uh, is a pain. So is that, is that helpful?
Yes, that is very helpful.
Okay.
So is it a thing where like, if you don't overcome it, you get to do it again, you know what I mean like, if you keep, if you keep coming to the same roadblock, and you're not living from a place of overcoming is it just kind of a thing where we'll
keep cycling.
Sort of it in the fact I don't.
I do believe that there is a point in which, if we say no, that God finally stops that part was like find that if you you have a free will you're making a free will decision if you say no.
Okay, no. Now I don't mean that he gives us like one chance at that there's a particular way in our intention where we flat out tell God, no.
And we refuse. And I don't mean that we've like literally said it, we may not be aware that we've said it but there's something in us that absolutely definitively resist not kind of like Oh Lord, I don't want to do this, this is hard.
There is an absolute resistance of know, sometimes we do that thinking that we're doing the godly thing but anyway that's, and that's a discussion for another time.
Point is that, generally speaking, yes, because, you know, keeping our heart, you know supple before the Lord. Okay, Lord, you know he will he can keep bringing things back around again.
But that is simply remember an invitation to move into more love and freedom. It's not a, hey, you know, you need to win the battle you need to, you need to, you know, you're one of my soldiers and one of my minions and you just need to go do this.
And so for us as our as kings I mean yes we're soldiers for the cry for Christ etc but it's from the perspective that we're kings coming into.
We're not conquering our kingdom it already is our kingdom. We're just, we're just, and we're finally acting as kings work, we're proving by our sacrifice for creation for our soul for our body for the rest of creation, that we really do mean it when
we say Lord protect provide for it, you know, etc. And so yeah we we do have those times where the Lord will will bring it back around, but that is because they're invitations into more love and freedom.
Lord to the point where we flat out say no.
That had, I have done that I'm trying to think I've done it to the Lord once or a few times, and trust me when you've done it you know you know you've done there's something totally different about it yes I repented Yes, you know, everything was undone
man, there was something very very different in it. It wasn't a, it wasn't a child's tantrum, that was an adult, making a free will decision and I told him no, because I don't remember what it was I think I was probably going through a horrible deep
deep dark valley, and I just didn't have anything left and I didn't know what's going on and I was just like weary, and I just like Lord, just know, and inside when I, when I felt him shift of like, Oh my word I've done it.
I could, I could tell it's like I did. Okay, God I repent. I'm so sorry I don't understand. I'm tired, I'm hurt. I'm mad at you, but I don't say no.
He sometimes will just sometimes will just have me keep going through it and other times would be like, he'll, there was been one time where he where he removed the pressure from me for a while for us to not address it for a while.
And then when I was revived when I had more strength back kind of like Elijah when he was going when he was running from Jezebel and he was in God took him you know to Mount Sinai on the journey there he went to sleep, just fondant of his life and just
kill me now went to sleep. And then the Lord woke him up with an angel, giving him food and water and the angel said, rise up, eat and drink, because the journey is too much for you.
Sometimes God knows when it's just too much.
And so he'll remove the pressure, the pressure of like that overcoming aspect of it. And then so he just said, I just, you know, so just focus on me right now.
Focus on me focus that you're okay focus that I am I am who I said that I am etc etc. And then we'll just revisit this later. So, but yeah, so we do revisit it but again it's when it's when we postured ourselves, generally before the Lord of like
I really do want to move into more love and freedom. So it's always a it's always a gift from God, he does that it's not him being hard on us or having us pass some kind of a test, because, and I think that I explained that in the video that all of these
these things the pain and the struggles are all God's invitations to us to shift until more love and freedom. It doesn't mean that he always prompts all the situations and that's another
scenario that I wanted to run through real quick, say for instance, if there's a car crash or
whatever, does it mean that God caused the car crash or God allowed the car crash or whatever
we want to say? Sometimes those things happen because there's the result of, uh, because
creation is, uh, is, um, acting based off of the fact that for thousands of years, billions of
human beings in their souls have not believed God. And so they, so creation thinks that it's in
chaos. So creation acts like it's in chaos and bad things happen that you didn't do and that
you didn't cause your decisions and your posture before the Lord didn't cause, you know, a car
crash. And so it's because we exist in a world in which, you know, creation and flesh is subject to
corruption. Bad things are happening because creation thinks that, that this, because the
sons of God haven't don't know who they are yet and they haven't manifested themselves.
And so, and we're all telling it human beings and human souls are telling creation, well,
God can't be trusted. So bad things are happening. Everything's in chaos. Nothing's in order.
Well, I don't mean nothing. I'm just trying to make a point here. You know, things aren't in
order. So you can have things like car crashes, et cetera. Now I'm just using that as an example.
And so, well, God didn't cause the car crash, but the fact that the car crash happened
created pain. I don't just mean physical pain, but physical pain in your body,
emotional pain in your soul, you know, questions of God, who are you? You know,
but those are all unbeliefs that we already have that the situation prompted to rise.
And that pain is simply that unbelief warring against belief that our three
aspects of ourselves aren't fully aligned in agreement on something. So it creates pain.
By the way, since we're, since we're on you, was there something in the video that you,
or something, you know, that you were going through today? That was some,
your video was one that I hadn't, you know, responded to yet. Was there something in there
that I haven't addressed with everything it is that I said? Because I know that there's
generally a theme of just that, of that answer, but I mean, a questions that that would have
answered that was there anything else in that video today that I hadn't addressed?
I don't actually remember.
That's all right. Maybe you were just verbally processing.
I don't remember what my video, I don't remember at this moment. I don't remember what I said.
I think, yeah, it's probably along a lot of the same lines of just the journey and
pain and overcoming that and that kind of thing.
Yeah. Okay. And I think that you'd asked something about, oh yes. Now I remember
something that you did ask. You asked about the choice and let's see here. You asked about the
choice that well, if you, you were wondering that if maybe giving up, oh, how did you word it
though? Wanted to word it the way that you did. So I could answer your question best,
but basically you were saying, you know, all of these things that you're wanting for your life,
you were wondering is choosing God, meaning giving up those things ever happening. And is
that what you need to do? Is that what you were asking? Does that sound familiar? You were, you
were kind of like verbally processing. If you needed to give up your, you didn't say you're
right, but giving up the possibility, so to speak in front of, to the Lord of those things ever
happening. And that that is actually choosing him. And he, you were wondering if that's what was
required. Is that true? Did I understand? Okay. All right. So, um, the answer is yes.
So that that's exactly it. But let me, let me explain when you were giving something up your,
when you were, in other words, when you're letting it go, you're not giving up on it.
In other words, you're not giving up hope. Hope is a wonderful thing. You remember faith, hope,
and love these, you know, you know, the remain these three, but the greatest things is love,
but still means that hope is good. Hope is still great. It's just that love is greater. Right.
But so hope is a good thing. And God and it, and hope means that in a manner of speaking,
that we're having faith in God about something because faith is the substance of things hoped
for. And so that's a good thing because it says without faith, it's impossible to please the Lord.
So it's really good to hope for things. We need to want them. If we don't want them,
we can't submit them to God. So submitting them to God.
but does not mean that we don't want them anymore.
And it's not bad to want.
God just says, want me more,
want me to the point where you give it up, so to speak.
It doesn't mean that you actually have to let it go
as if you don't want it.
What I mean is like, it's what Abraham did with Isaac.
He took Isaac to the altar and he actually released it,
released him, let him go.
It was giving him fully to the Lord.
And the reason that God didn't require that Isaac die
is because Abraham in his heart was letting him go to die.
And all that God needed was Abraham's intention.
That was where all the power was.
It wasn't in whether or not Isaac died.
So that's why God didn't require that.
But anyway, so it's actually just choosing
that God is the higher priority.
We can say that God is our prior priority
over anything else while we want.
But if we are taking these other things,
like say for instance, let's have this be the thing
that's important to us, whatever this is.
So this hope, this dream, this desire,
or something we already have, whatever it is.
And if God is just, what God wants us to do
is choose him more than this.
And if we are using this and we can say, like I said,
all we want that, oh God, I love you more.
And you're my higher priority.
And if you were to ask me to give this up for you,
I would do that.
And God's like, that's what I'm asking you to do now.
And here's how you know that this is more important
than God to you is if you use this
in accusation against him, that's the problem.
And that's what God's very aware of is God, why not?
Why can't I have this?
Why can't I keep this?
Why haven't you done this?
Why are you having me give it up?
Don't you love me?
Don't you care about me?
Don't you remember me?
Why don't I feel you?
Why haven't you left me?
Why have all of those are accusations.
Even if we don't feel inside that we're mad
or sad or whatever,
sometimes it goes a lot deeper
than our feelings are indicating to us at the time.
Because remember, feelings are simply indicating something
that's actually already there.
But remember that the feelings,
we only feel the feelings sometimes.
And so that's why I said,
hey, don't be afraid of your negative feelings.
It means that then something has been prompted
to finally come out for you to finally feel it.
But it doesn't, just because you don't feel it
doesn't mean it's not there.
So anyway, if we're using this in accusation,
what would God ask me to do if I were to choose him?
Would he ask me to give this up?
I don't know about that.
That struggle, that is an indication
that in our flesh, we've got accusation.
That in our flesh, this is of higher priority.
And God's saying, I need you to make me higher priority
where you release me of being accountable
to you being accountable for this happening
in your life at all.
So release me from the accountability,
no longer hold me accountable for this,
no longer use this in accusation against me.
And so that's what it is that God is wanting.
It's not, he's not saying, hey, I'm not gonna do this.
He hasn't, you know, it's just that he's like,
I want you to choose me over this
because we can only choose this or God.
And so if we choose this in our life
and we choose this control and we choose this outcome
or whatever, it means that we're choosing it over God.
So, but we have to release it to God
in order for God to finally have it
and to do something with it, for God to be in control,
you know, for God to even fix the problem,
for God to even tell us what to do and give us clarity.
If we've been wondering, well,
I would like to know an answer to something, Lord,
or whatever, we have to let it go first
and because he wants to be chosen before it.
And look what happened with Abraham and Isaac.
And this is classic example of how God deals with us
is just like he did with Jesus
is once the thing is given up,
Isaac was given up by Abraham,
Jesus died, you know, all of those things.
Then God said, okay, now that you've given it up,
now that you've released it completely to me
and you've let go of it and you've chosen me,
now I can supply.
And so Jesus, of course, after he,
since he released his right to any power and authority
and he completely died in full submission
and obedience to the father,
he was put in a position of power and authority
because he'd given it up.
And then the same thing with, um, and the same thing with Abraham is once he
submitted Isaac, the Ram was provided.
So, uh, but it has to be once we've like, we've gotten it, given it up.
So you're, you're musing, you know, about, Oh, I wonder, you know, does it
mean that we have to give that up of ever happening?
Yes, because with that, we're, when we finally give it, give up it ever
happening, we're not bullied.
We're not no longer believing it'll ever happen.
It's just that we're releasing God of holding God hostage.
In our relationship to it ever happened or to, to it happening, or, you
know, to have this particular outcome, we're releasing him from being
accountable to us for it happening.
And so I had to choose God.
I no longer hold you accountable for that.
And so when I, you know, told the Lord, Hey God, you know, I choose you over my
lifestyle, I told, I was telling him, Lord, I, I no longer hold you
accountable to give me X, Y, and Z anymore.
So not only, you know, um, I mean, like I released you from it completely,
not like, Oh, well, God, you know, I'm asking you for this, but you know,
if you say no, well then I guess that'll just be no, and it'll just happen.
And I'll just kind of like watch it happen.
And I'll just endure that won't work.
God, I give up ever holding you accountable.
For making that happen.
I give you, I released you from ever making that happen.
That's another, that's probably the simplest way to say it.
I gave you up it ever, um, ever happening.
Once you do that, you're choosing the Lord and the Lord's like, now I can do
something now I can give you direction.
Now I can move now I can, whatever.
It's not that God won't move.
If you don't, we're talking about a maturing process.
God does that, you know, and has done that in all of our lives.
He does that when we're young in the faith and he's trying
to help us and teach us.
He does more for us.
We does do all this stuff for babies and we don't do all this
stuff for our 19 year old children.
You know, and so I'm talking about.
About how we change in the maturing process, how God changes with us.
Cause some of us are very frustrated with the fact that God, I've seen
amazing miracles and God's done amazing things.
Why is my life so hard now?
Why isn't he doing those good things anymore?
It's not that God's not being as good to you and as loving and
as wonderful as he used to be.
He's just maturing us.
And that means that we have to give things up first.
He's teaching us how to interact with and co-create with him instead of being
babies with him, where we have to have them do everything.
Um, because with the, with babies also comes the fact that they
don't get to choose where they go.
Their moms pick them up and take them around and take them to target and
take them to the grocery store and put them in their high chair and put them to
sleep and the baby has no say, do we want to live like that for the rest of our
lives where we're, because we think that being taken care of completely by God,
meaning like, you know, where we don't have to give anything up and he just
does things for us and whatever we're actually in less control like that.
And life is as comfortable and as exciting it is, it is to have to be a child.
I don't know any adult that ever wants to go back to being a child because it also
meant that you had no control over yourself.
You didn't get to do all the cool things you do as an adult.
Sure.
There's all the responsibilities, but I don't know.
I do not know a single adult other than one, like maybe he's in an
abusive situation or something.
I do not know a single adult that wants to go back to being a child.
And we all talk about how sweet it was.
Oh, wasn't it fun as a kid?
You just have to go to work.
You didn't have to do whatever.
Nobody wants to go back.
Why you give up control.
You're you're now have to be taken.
Just like Jesus told Peter, he said, you will be taken where you don't want to go.
You know?
So anyway, um, so I hope that's helpful.
Is that helpful?
Okay, good.
Uh, so let's get to the next one.
Oh my word.
Really?
I mean, of course I was answering, I was actually addressing multiple people, I
think in that, in that answer and I was just, um, appreciate Sicily providing the
prompt, um, let's see here.
Um, okay.
Uh, so I'm looking at Casey's and I know Casey that this has just been such a hard
time for you.
Um, I feel very, um, honored by the Lord that we get to, um, know you walk with
you while you're going through such a hard time, but I'm really sorry that you are having
to go through a hard time because having a support system, being married and having a
husband and all of that does not mean that it doesn't feel alone because you're still
having, you're the one having to do it.
Right.
Um, and.
And okay, so let me just ask you, because this has been a bit, there's been a bit of time that's passed. I know it was just yesterday, but you also responded to your own to your own post.
Could you basically give us an update on do you still have a question or a wondering or or anything. I don't want to address something that that's past or you're going, oh, actually, that was so yesterday.
Um, I think it's past and some things have kind of worked out today. I guess the question I have for you is that I had, I wrote it down it's kind of in regards to this.
If one choice brings me into shame and condemnation.
And another choice brings me into freedom and love is the latter choice, the one I should be choosing.
Um, it does. Um, but here's the thing. So, the former choice brings you into shame and condemnation, but is that the only way to make that choice is in shame and condemnation.
Like in other words, I do not, I mean, this is not me trying and in any way, shape or form to make to tell you, or to put to tell you that one form of handling your situation is better than the other, because I disagree I think that either situation.
So me personally, and I'm not putting my beliefs on you, I'm just trying to explain this from a spiritual perspective of like, I believe that either one of those situations is that either one of those and solutions is valid going the naturopathic route, or do you
human radiation. And here is why I could be wrong about that I'm just telling you here is why I think that is because those are tools. So which one does God want you to do, which aspect of creation, does he want to part, what you, and he to allow to partner
with you on his healing journey with you as you and he overcome your flesh and your body, which is subject to corruption is thinks that it is being attacked, and it is having to fight, and it is, it is feeling just feeling overpowered by this thing that's
called cancer by following the rules of science of like when encounters cancer cells, this is what it does and it thinks, Oh my word, I just have to go along with it.
So that's what the body, you know, can think. So while you and the Lord are working through that he provides various solutions that I believe that he created now, quite honestly I don't know enough about chemo or radiation to know whether or not they're,
you know, they're, they're bad or the naturopathic way is bad or anything I'm just talking very generally about solutions that are just kind of out there kind of like the television televisions not bad.
But how do you use it. That determines whether or the same thing with the internet. How do you use it. So, the, so these tools so my point is what does God want you to do, what is the what's his heart for you.
What is, what does he want to be part of your journey, how are you doing it are you doing it in shame and condemnation, or are you doing it in love and freedom in him.
So, so my point is, I don't know which which one you're referring to like which solution you're referring to as you feel that this one's, you would be doing a shame and condemnation this one in love and freedom.
So it's really good I don't know, because then you can just make a decision for yourself without it sounding like I'm telling you what to do.
And I absolutely have no idea whatsoever.
But is that either one of them to be done in shame or condemnation or in love and freedom.
So my question to you is that is, is one of them in shame and condemnation because when you've presented it before the Lord.
He, and you feel, how would I put that when you've presented this potential solutions before the Lord, you're feeling his love in his freedom in one way not your idea of what you think God's love and freedom would look like, but you're actually
feeling as a son of God, you're feeling God's Spirit, you're feeling love freedom and openness in this one. And in this one, you want it because you're doing it out of fear.
And that honestly could be for either one of those solutions, whichever because I really don't know which one you're referring to for each one of those.
So, are you doing it out of fear well then obviously you know if you're feeling fear well then you're like, Oh my goodness, and this is definitely shame and condemnation, but God could have you do that.
And just not just not you be doing it because this is where he's showing you love and freedom and you don't have to, you don't have to approach it in shame and condemnation.
So,
My point is it really could be either answer because it's depends on how you're doing them.
How are you making that decision?
And so as far as like, you may have already that, you know, you could just take everything
I said.
And you're like, yes, I actually, I know I've already gone through all of that and I've
already settled where my soul is operating and where my spirit is operating.
I've already presented all these before the Lord.
This solution, you know, before the Lord is only in shame and condemnation.
That's the only thing when I present it to him that I feel, but this one, I feel his
love and his freedom.
So you may, might be there.
So it may, may have already been to the point where, you know, it was decided between you
and the Lord, where your soul is and where your spirit is right now and how, um, uh,
where you're feeling his draw, does that make sense?
It does.
Yeah.
Yes.
Right.
So, um, I'm not, again, I'm not trying to in any way, shape or form tell anyone what
it is that they need to do and which solution is right.
Which solution is wrong.
I'm telling you that generally speaking, I don't believe that most solutions that seem
dichotomous, that's the word I've been looking for that seem dichotomous, that seem, um,
that seem in opposition to one another or whatever, that a lot of people, cause like
for instance, I'm here at, um, at Morningstar, a lot of people here believe that, um, uh,
believe against masks.
They don't like the C word meaning like COVID, they don't like COVID.
They don't, there's a lot of, they, they're very, very, very vocally anti-vaccine very
vocally to the point where they've been kicked off YouTube and all that good stuff.
So I, I personally, they don't know this.
I don't personally believe that way, meaning like, I don't believe that it's, and I can't
believe I'm actually saying all of this.
So please just take this with a grain of salt because I'm trying to express a spiritual
principle.
I'm not trying to tell anybody what it is they need to believe.
It's how are you approaching it?
God created all kinds of things.
God created all kinds of tools.
It's not the tool that's bad between you and the Lord.
Are you operating in the tools in shame and condemnation and fear in trying to, Oh, I'm
working really hard and using all of my effort to obey the Lord by making this choice.
Or am I doing it out of love and freedom that in the Lord, these things are tools and
they can't heal me and they can't hurt me.
Not if I choose that it's God that's healing me, you know, or, you know, or whatever.
So that it's really not.
And then the tools are just which aspect of creation does God want you to engage with?
Now y'all can take that with it with a, and just take that before the Lord and see if
the Lord reveals, you know, that, that to you.
And if he's, and if he says, no guys, this bogus, don't listen to Ashley.
You know, I'm going to tell her she, that's what she thinks.
And you know what, I'm going to give her grace one day to reveal it to her.
That is perfectly fine.
I grew up extremely black and white.
I was very harsh, very judgmental.
I was very definitive in what I believed and everything else was of hell.
And so prior to what I believe now, I would have been very picky or not very picky.
I was at, well, I was very picky, but I was very specific about, I only believe these
things and anything that's the opposite.
Is of Satan, you know, and it is not of God.
God only likes this solution and not this one has the Lord began to expand me.
I believe that he began to show me, and this is how I began to live that Ashley they're
tools just like Romans seven, Ashley, I created the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
It's that you're not supposed to eat from it.
They're not supposed to be your salvation.
You're not supposed to be the thing that you depend on emotionally or physically to heal
you.
Let me do that.
Now that I'm going to do that, which tool do you want to use?
Which tool do you with me?
We'll code aside.
Do we want to be part of our process?
So God gets to decide with us about what that process is because we're not living our life.
And then, and then God just is, is on the standby, you know, giving us approval or disapproval
like, okay.
You're doing it.
Good.
Okay.
That's great.
So I'm going to go see someone.
So make sure they're doing it.
Good.
This is you and God living life together.
He is living through each one of us right now.
He is getting a life experience of what it is like to live in the 21st century, or are
we in the 21st or the 22nd, we're in the 21st, right?
21st century as a 38 year old now married woman.
What's that experience like?
What's it like living with my personality and my character and my character and whatever
He is getting a life experience through me because we're doing, we're living life together.
So because we're living life together, it's not my decision to make it's our decision.
That's why our decision is important.
And it's not just his, we co-decide together.
The more he matures me in making those decisions and looking like him,
the more my decisions bear weight in what it is that we actually do.
But, um, so anyway, um, so that is just for you to just take before the Lord.
I have no idea what it is necessarily, you know, that, yeah, I don't know what
it is that you want to do and what it is that you and the Lord have decided and
which one you believe is shame and condemnation and which one believe that
you believe that you're feeling freedom, love and freedom in.
So just ask the Lord, Lord, you know, would just be, you know, what do we,
what aspect of creation do you desire to be part of my experience?
How do you and I want to show who it is that we are in spirit
out into the physical world?
Do we want to do that through chemo and radiation?
Or is the journey that you, you know, knowing the future and you
believe is best for me, is it going a natural pathic route?
You know, Lord, Lord, which one, which one are, you know, is, has, I
don't know, uh, just, I don't know which one is going to, um, be, which
one do you want to be part of help of, um, partnering with us as we create
the outcome because they both have physical, um, I don't know what was
outcomes, you know, you know, there's different side effects to both.
There's different experiences to both.
Um, but God is the one who heals.
So which through which physical method does, does he want your physical
body to go through in order to reveal who you and he are in spirit into
the physical realm, and that is going to be very unique for you.
I personally believe it's going to be very different answer for someone else.
So, um, like I said, you said that you've gotten through more of a solution
and understanding from, um, today, uh, when you've been talking to the Lord,
um, uh, and, uh, that he has been walking a couple of my friends
that I, that are here, uh, through that, they have both gotten cancer
diagnoses while I have known them while I've been here and they have
both not wanted to do chemo and radiation.
And I'm only going, I don't know what you believe in what you've decided.
Now.
I just know from your post, you said, oh, you know, I haven't
wanted to do that before.
They didn't either.
And they were dead set against it.
Dead set.
They're like, nope, not me and God, me and God, we're doing something
different and they've changed their mind since then I haven't asked them
what their spiritual journey with the Lord has been, you know, that finally
brought them to making a different decision.
I've just respected the fact that they have, that they have been
asking him all along the journey.
And these are people that'll do hands down, whatever the heck
they have to do to follow the Lord.
So I don't know what it is.
He told him, I don't know how he is that he did it, but they've been
working this journey with Lord.
What do you and I want to do together?
Lord, what is that?
And Lord, there's only so much that I know.
So what, so, um, which tool should be part of our journey.
Um, so in everybody, I believe that God is going to literally have every
person go through something different.
He's literally going to tell everybody something different.
I believe some people, it tells them radiation, chemo, other
people, he says, natural pathic route.
Other people, he says, I don't want you to do a jacking thing
because I'm going to do that.
Every it's, it's our own unique relationship.
The Lord, what we do doesn't kill us.
It's our, it's our inner.
It's our, it's our, um, uh, meaning like it's not our, how do, how do I explain
that meaning like that's not the thing that God's focusing on.
That's what I'm trying to say.
I'm talking about in a spiritual sense, not like a physical sense.
You know, it doesn't kill us.
I'm talking about like in a, in a spiritual sense, that's not which one we
choose isn't in which one we allow to be part of things isn't so much the deal.
It's God's like, why, how are you making the choice?
Are you making it with me?
And are you making it in love and freedom?
Are you, are you making it because you know, I'm good.
And in my goodness, you sought me and you sought my character and this
is what we decided to do together.
So, um, so anyway, does that all make sense?
It does.
And I think just to hit on that, something, I feel like he told me today,
which was the first time I've heard, because I felt like I was
been, I've been in punishment.
And for the first time today, I felt like he gave me like the, I want you to
choose, like the freedom to choose.
Like, I trust you to make a choice.
And, and that was like, what did you just say that?
So I know it wasn't me because that wouldn't have come from me.
That's exciting.
That's very exciting.
The God just.
us all on our own journey. He's like tile. What's important to me is, do you know me?
Are you looking at me? Do I matter to you? Do you choose me over what choice you make,
you know, et cetera. And, um, so that is wonderful. That's what all of this is about.
It's about your journey with him. And so, um, and, uh, that's, it's, it's not again,
even though we're overcoming, it's not about the overcoming. The overcoming happens as a result of
the development of our relationship with him. So our focus always needs needs to be on their
development of our relationship with him and choosing him not focused on the overcoming.
That's a side effect. That's what happens because we do that. So, yeah, I've excited for you.
Yeah. To have that. There's nothing like having that stamp of approval, you know,
from the Lord, you know, of just like, uh, just hearing how he sees you and, um, how he views you
and how he, um, uh, how he trusts you, how he loves you, you know, to just, to just know that
as opposed to, you know, having a sense that, Oh my word, what if he doubts me or what if he
doesn't feel I'm enough or whatever? Yeah. Yeah. That's wonderful. You're welcome.
Um, is this an experience to talk about? Oh, I'm sorry, guys. Yeah. Yeah. I was talking with Nick
and, and, uh, Liberty there, what they mentioned the chat. I know, I don't know what this thing is.
Um, okay. Wow. We are a bit past, um, let me see. There's, I think, um, one, I think there's just
one more thing to address because well, maybe let's see here. Um, so Cicely, you asked how does
one who is married abandoned all to God and yet still have needs met by your spouse. Remember
that, um, the things are just like what I was talking with Casey about the tools aren't bad.
Um, just like, you know, and I'm not comparing our spouse to a tool. I'm just saying just like
that principle is the same thing with like a spouse or anything else. They're not, they're
not bad. And I mean, it's not bad to have your needs met by a spouse or desire that or whatever
God's just like, just choose me more. I need to be your higher priority so that there's no
competition. But in the process of that, you know, we still have our needs met by my met by our
spouse. Like for instance, me, when I am very upset about something or I'm very hurt or I'm
very whatever, um, yeah, I, I, I need to, God needs to be more important than, you know, my
husband, but I also go through, you know, process of that. That doesn't just turn around and just
happen overnight. And I just, um, and so I'll seek, um, my husband about something just for
his comfort. Well, I, and, and so sometimes sure I go to him first before the Lord, because it's
just, it's just part of my journey. I just feeling like a little kid and I just need some comfort
right now, you know, or whatever. And so we just, um, so it's just kind of like all part of the
journey, but like, ultimately we always need to choose that God is our higher priority, but it
doesn't mean that nothing else is wanted or that nothing else has any, has any, um, part in our
life. They're all different parts in which, um, God wants us to have an experience here on earth.
And he put us meaning like, uh, an experience in our soul and in our body. And he wants all of
those any gave all those things apart to play. He's just always the ultimate, they can never and
should never to us provide something or be more important to us than he is. Um, and then us getting
our needs met through him, where his are not enough. And we choose somebody else's instead,
or we choose, you know, something else instead. Um, so there is that, what was the other thing?
Okay. So the last one I believe is, is Kate. I had read that one. Um,
last few days held super low moments. Now there's transformation helpful to have this group support.
Um, Oh yes, it is excellent that you were having dreams just like Rita. So having dreams where fear
and stress are present. And then I'm actively applying the things that we're learning, such as
releasing the outcome to the Lord and letting him in close. That's amazing. Because when you start
to dream it, it becomes more, um, it it's evidence of the things that evidence of the fact that it
is becoming more entrenched in really, in your real true belief system. They say the same thing.
And I total side note, but it's the same thing. When you learn another language, they say that
you're becoming more fluent and that it's really.
You really are grabbing a hold of the language when you start dreaming in that
other language that you're learning.
Um, so the same kind of a thing here is because so much of our, our dreams are
revealing both our spiritual, as well as our soul life.
So things that we're seeing in the spirit and that we, that, um, God is
revealing to us in the spirit, as well as things that are coming up out of our soul.
Sometimes they're good things.
Sometimes they're bad things, but I believe, you know, that this one
also, this is a great thing.
You are starting to do things, both you and Rita, you starting to
dream, and those are the choices that when you are presented in those
situations with those situations in your subconscious, so to speak, or in the
spirit or whatever it is that you're doing, you are making that new choice.
So it means that really, truly you are owning it and you're making that
decision, um, to the point where you're actually, it's showing up
even in your dream life.
That is amazing.
Um, okay.
The last thing, um, okay.
Uh, talking about, uh, talking about, you know, I've been thinking a lot
about the father, Jesus and the holy spirit the last few days, I easily
connect with Jesus and the holy spirit, but I know there's a block or
separation with the father there usually is because we've been taught that the
father is the, the, um, the one that's holding us to the law that's the task
master that's, um, you know, that the spirit is the comforter and the spirits,
the helper, and Jesus just loves us, but then there's God who makes all the rules.
And so that, that is a very challenging thing to unlearn, but he's also father,
meaning like he's the origination of love and he's the one that loved you so much.
You were literally born from the love and the desire to have you.
Um, so, uh, uh, so me, when I try, uh, Me, I had a lot of problems with Jesus.
So that was a big hurdle for me to come for me to, uh, cross over.
But when I finally did, it really is the father that I usually have to, that
I'm usually struggling with is the father and not Jesus anymore.
Um, just because that other, that old idea of the task master
is just so deeply entrenched.
Um, and so that's why I talk a lot about the father.
I said, oh, you and the father are doing this or whatever.
Well, there's the whole Godhead, but I talk a lot about the father just because
my own personal experience, as well as other people's tends to be that
the father is the harsh one and the father is typically the one
we have the greatest issue with.
So he's the one usually that I, um, that I address my issues with, okay.
Well, who does God say that I am a lot of, who does God say that he is?
I'm usually thinking specifically about the father because he's the
one that I have the issue with.
Um, so I just mentioned that in case it's helpful to anyone else to do the same.
Um, I've done all the things in the past to sort that out, had brave
conversations, inner healings, et cetera.
Yeah.
So, you know, that you can't do anything to fix it other than
acknowledge that I need his help.
And then Casey had mentioned the same thing that, you know, just realized,
wait a minute, I just need to let it go and allow the Lord to do, to do the
heart shift, remember everything, including faith is a gift from God.
So without faith, it's impossible to please him.
And yet faith is a gift, meaning that God won't put you in a position
where you are condemned by him.
So if he requires that, so to speak for, to please him, it means he, and it's a
gift, it means he's already given it.
So you're all, so you already please them.
Everything's fine.
Um, and then, so you're saying that I know I can't do anything to fix it other
than I acknowledge that I need, you know, his help.
So, yeah, you continue to, you continue to choose that.
Okay.
If, what does God say?
He says that he loves me.
All right, then I'm going to make that.
So I can make that.
So to myself, that's, that's going to be my decision that that is my, the
reality in which I'm going to exist.
Um, and then, so now I'm going to act on it.
If I believe it, if I truly do choose that for my reality, then I'm going to act on it.
I'm going to put my skin in the game.
Many more of my mouth is, and now I'm going to risk myself, my future, my today, my
relationship, my whatever on that fact.
If I believe that if, if I, if God really is love, what would I do?
If God, if God loves me to the extent that he says that he does, what would I do?
So I choose it first.
And then I act on the fact that God loves me.
That's my reason for doing the thing that I, that I then step out to do, you know,
because faith without works is dead.
So we're talking about the works that follows the faith, make the thing that
you're coming into agreement with the reason you'd make the decision.
Like, it can't be like, okay, well, I'm going to, I, I hope this is right because
here it goes, there's no hoping that it's right.
You make it for yourself and you're like, I'm going, it's as if you make a new law.
And you're like, okay, I make the determination that this is what's real.
And you step.
And you're like, OK, God, you know, I'm choosing that it's real.
So I'm assuming that the kingdom of heaven is going to make that thing happen
and it's going to supersede of the principles of the kingdom, this world.
And so I guess that's it for tonight.
So sorry that we really didn't.
We're able to cancel just a whole lot of questions.
I suppose that Cicely had one and Casey had one.
But I hope that all of this was helpful for for everyone.
And kind of that
I don't know, just kind of address
maybe some things that maybe we're all going through,
since apparently we all had a hard week, seriously, what was that?
And is there something else I'm going to say?
Maybe not. So I will see you all on Tuesday night.
And that will be for our rest groups, which is going to be really fun
because all can just get together and share and
and just help and love and support one another.
If you all have any questions, maybe I didn't get to them in tonight.
Just feel free to put them in the chat and I will answer.
And anyway, I hope you all have a good night.
Bye.