So, I wanted to jump on really quick and give a bit of a better explanation or an example,
like what Amy had asked for.
The problem, and this is sometimes what happens with me, is there's so many different ways
to come at answering a question.
I have a very, very analytical brain, very analytical brain, so I can see the details,
I can see the big picture, and I see it all at once.
So sometimes when someone asks me for, okay, can you explain this, if I'm not careful,
I can start thinking of literally a thousand different ways to explain it, and then everything
shuts down.
I know it sounds weird because it sounds like a computer, but I have noticed that that's
what happens.
I can think of a thousand things at once, and then it's like everything gets overloaded
and it shuts down, and then I can't think of a single one, so I thought I just need
to get off and turn off all the breakers, and then just turn down one breaker, and then
just deal with that one thing.
So I got a little overloaded with all of the possibilities, and then suddenly my brain
just kind of shut off.
So really what everything comes down to, let's just make this as, because I wanted to make
this literally as simple as possible, so that when you're in a situation, you've got an
anchor that you can grab ahold of, that you've got something that you can immediately think
about, and that is that every single time, what it is that we are holding in our container
that is foreign to that container, that it was not intended to hold, that is not in its
nature to receive, is fear, period.
Every single time, because love is the highest form in the universe, and what is the opposite
of love?
Fear.
So fear is the root of literally every single thing, every single foreign thing that we
could be holding in a container, and then we could get specific about what might be
in a container, but the root of every single thing that we do that is a sin against the
Lord is rooted in fear.
We believe it, which in fear, always, always, always, always, always, always, always, always,
always, have I repeated that yet?
Always comes from unbelief.
Always.
So fear, unbelief, that's always what we're dealing with in that container.
So our container was not built to hold fear and in doubt and unbelief, and if we just
simply stop holding on to that and just let it go, even though we don't know what might
come to replace it, which is the very reason that we grabbed a hold of it in the first
place is because we decided to control our destiny, so if we just let it go, then naturally
belief will come in, naturally faith will come in, naturally love will come in.
We think that we have to work for all those things.
No, we're already working.
We're working entirely too hard to hold on to our fear and unbelief.
We are very unaware of how much effort we're putting in to do that.
So that's an example, because really that's the root of every little example that you
can think of.
So just think of things as you're going throughout your day and your life, whenever you are struggling
with something, and that struggle always has a root in fear, always has a root in something
that we are not believing about God.
That is what we're needing to release and to let go of.
Not to fight it and try really, really, really hard to try to disprove our fear and think,
well, that couldn't possibly be right, and then we battle it and we battle it and we
battle it and we focus on it and focus on it and just let it go.
So it's like, okay, I'm not going to hold on to this anymore.
I'm going to let it go.
The more that we practice this, the more that we recognize what it feels like and to tell
our soul, let it go.
Because otherwise it feels like, oh, it's just there and I can't get it to leave unless
I fight it.
But if we practice, you'll come to understand how all you have to do is just let it go.
And I had to transition into this as well because I was, like I told you in the previous
video, I was queen of being able to work really hard to battle against something that I thought
wasn't supposed to be there and that I shouldn't be like, and that wasn't like the Lord and
I would push it, push it, push it, push it, push it out.
And you don't have to do that.
All you have to do is just let go of holding on to it anymore.
And now when I battle with fear.
I can get rid of it like that and we're talking about serious fears. We're not
talking about small ones. We're talking about very serious things that are
rooted in very deep decades-old wounds. I can let it that that you know they
don't bother you all the time every now and then you're you're triggered and you
get this fear and this anxiety to rise. Now I can get rid of those things like
that because I've learned that the I've learned what it feels like to tell my
soul, release it. Not fight it, not focus on it, push it out and just prove it and
like well that's not true and that's not true and that's not true and that's not
true until I finally believe it. You finally get to the point where you
understand just let it go. Stop hanging on to it. You begin to feel what it feels
like to hang on to something and then you and then you tell your soul how to
do the opposite. So understand that resistance at its very nature means to
not receive. That is the definition of resistance. You can look it up in the
dictionary. It means to not accept something. That is resistance. Sure one of
the one of the definitions is also to push away or to resist it to push away
something. In other words, to battle it but that's really but that's only one of
the definitions but the root of the definition you know the very basis the
very core of the definition of the meaning of resistance is actually not to
push away. It's one of its additional meanings but the root of it the root of
the word exists a resistance simply means it's very very simple it simply
means to not accept or to not receive. That's what this resistance is. So
whenever you find yourself feeling like you need to do something like well I
something's coming against me whether it feels like internally something's coming
against you or somebody says something on the outside and it feels like an
attack regardless regardless if it's an internal fear that's just coming up out
of somewhere because of whatever it is you're going on that's going on
inside or it's something coming at you from the outside some outside
circumstance or whatever some at attack somebody calls you declares something
over you that that you know isn't true or that you don't want to believe is
true or whatever hurt your feelings and all that regardless of what it is if you
if you will note what's going on inside you you'll note that you want to do
something you either want to fight back you want to you want to get angry you
want to get afraid be afraid you want to somehow do something to then protect
yourself or to provide yourself you want to do something doing up like this
requires effort and in order to do something you have to have something to
do it with otherwise you can't do it you have to have some kind of a force
you have to have some kind of a drive etc well that does not come out of your
natural nature because your natural nature wouldn't you know give into
doing wouldn't give into striving wouldn't give into the anxiety you know
all of that so if you've got this desire to do with that in this feeling in this
aptitude that you know I could step into it and actually do something it means
that you had something in you that you could do it with that you've claimed and
that you're holding on to and it is creating all of this angst and all of
this work and that is the very force and and the thing that is fueling your
ability your your ability you're feeling that you have the ability to actually do
something and whenever you you're doing something you're creating a barrier for
being able to receive because doing is the opposite of receiving so in order to
receive you have to stop doing so I'm hoping that that and that that maybe
provides a bit more clarity and explanation hopefully you got it from
the first slide but just in case you didn't I thought I would create this
one too so just remember that doing means that you can't receive it's the
very opposite think of think of between a man and a woman how physically women
were created to receive and men were created to initiate and were created to
do so if you think of it in terms of like doing and receiving you think even
in our physical our physical bodies were created like that you can't do both
you can't there's
There's the doing or there's the receiving.
Our body parts are evidence of the fact
that you can only do one, you can't do both.
So just think of it like,
so just understand that when we do something,
when we try to exert energy into an issue,
even if it's just energy that we're keeping internally,
all of that is evidence of the fact
that we're not in a state of being able to receive it.
So we have to let go of the do
in order to be able to finally be in a state
where we can receive.
So hopefully, for those of you
that may not have got a full explanation
or had one, just an additional example,
hopefully this was helpful.
So anyway.