I'm going to share my screen.
Originally my Friday was clear until this evening.
I thought I don't have anything until a lot later.
I'm sitting there eating.
I get a notification from Zoom.
I'm going to share my screen.
That's fine.
I was going to say I was playing Candy Crush.
I've heard it sucks you in.
I've never played it.
I've had it on my phone three times.
I've had it on my phone for a year.
I put it back on.
It's so much fun.
I have no idea how you play it.
It's not an addiction.
It just draws you in.
When I was stopped at stoplights,
I was playing Candy Crush.
That's so funny.
That's when you wanted to play.
That's hilarious.
How have you been?
This has been a really hard week.
At work.
We've lost the people who know stuff.
She lost 10 people.
Her name is Debbie.
She's a believer too.
She's finding it very hard.
People will come to her with questions.
Those questions were answered by the two people who got laid off.
It's hard.
I was talking to the guy that I work with.
I was saying.
We are now this company called Altaeus.
It started January 1.
It's not a good feeling.
It's like they don't care.
I'm working on a project.
The gal is from this company.
We are now Altaeus.
We merged with them.
This gal is so aggressive.
The new leader over clinical operations.
I don't know.
They are not people you would like or want to hang out with.
Not.
I have a meeting at 1 o'clock.
The doctors.
I don't know how to say it.
They have their patients.
This program is supposed to help them.
They are called e-consults with Stanford.
It's too intrusive.
On the provider.
The primary care doctor.
We had two doctors.
They didn't like the way it was done.
We put it on pause.
The gal who is leading it changed some things.
It still seems the same to me.
It still seems too intrusive.
This company has changed.
The manager of Altaeus.
The manager of the department said.
doesn't have any enthusiasm for work, you know?
Because it's losing the people,
but it's not just losing them.
It's the big change within the company
that is no longer the company we were hired by, you know?
That's always really challenging.
I know, it's really hard.
Yeah.
And I've got two different cultures,
especially in the culture that buys you out or whatever,
isn't as healthy as the culture that you were hired by.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm glad that you're feeling good, though.
I mean, all things considered,
like better than what you were concerned that,
you know, that the side effects would be.
Yeah.
I thought I'd have much worse side effects,
like fatigue and everything, but I didn't.
I just had my normal tiredness.
Yeah, so, and then the, I mean,
the skin discoloration and a few things like that,
those aren't troublesome, really, you know, those things.
Is your doctor pleased?
Yeah, yeah.
And I need to make an appointment, I think.
I'm not taking the hormone therapy
because it was making me feel kind of weird.
Yeah.
So, and I didn't tell the oncologist yet
that I'm not doing it,
but I wanted to feel good this month
when I'm doing the teaching, you know,
four weeks of, I did that this morning.
I was gonna ask, how's it been going?
It was good.
I got the course written.
I had one and a half PowerPoints done.
So I have, what, two and a half to do.
But I think it went well.
Yeah, yeah, I think it went well.
That's great.
And like, and the interpretation was, went well too.
She's really good.
I mean, I don't know if she's saying
what I exactly say or not, but she's really quick.
And it's- Yeah, that's great.
And I don't lose my train of thought and-
That's great.
Yeah, and I haven't, things are all written out.
Yeah. So I can-
Yeah.
Get rid of things, I've got the PowerPoint.
Yeah.
I didn't know how it was gonna work
because I thought maybe she would translate my PowerPoint.
And then, so at the very beginning,
I found out she wanted me to use my PowerPoint.
So that was just as well.
Okay.
Yeah.
And you had mentioned at some point,
you never actually asked me,
but you had mentioned to some other,
I think an arrest group,
that you wanted to ask me a question about something.
But did you get that all figured out on your own?
I don't know what it was now
because you mentioned something about that before.
Yeah, it was related to you teaching the Bible study
or the course, you know.
Oh yeah.
I'm vaguely remembering that it was, what was it?
Something about teaching and rest or I don't know.
Yeah.
Something like that.
Something about rest, that's all I know,
which is why you thought of me
and it's like, well, it has to do with rest.
So, but I wasn't quite sure of what the question was though.
And it sounds like, and since you hadn't asked since,
you know, hoping that you'd gotten it figured out,
whatever it was, I just wanted to make sure I hadn't like,
you hadn't felt abandoned and unanswered.
So you were unable to ask your question, so.
Yeah.
And I think it was when I was writing the course.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
And that, I mean, that was a bit stressed getting it done.
I was late getting it done.
I mean, I didn't realize, well,
I had to do all sorts of research and stuff too.
I mean, you know, going back and reading over things
and it was so, yeah.
It was so good to go back over this stuff.
You know, it just got me, you know,
and the thing about,
that I'm emphasizing through the whole thing
is the glory of God, His relational beauty
and seeing His glory, you know, experiencing it.
And I even talked about relationship, love and union today.
Wow, great.
Yeah.
So I would put the four together, glory.
I mean, glory is really the way it was defined
in this missions course I took,
is like His relational beauty.
Yeah.
His grace, His love and all that.
and, you know, his holiness and everything like that, too. But
so I'm emphasizing that. And I think it's, I'm just enjoying it
so much, because, you know, I have a passion for his glory.
And, you know, this week was really rough. And so I was
reading some verses last night, and it just brought it out
again, he's all about his glory. Yeah. He's all about that
and making it known to the nations. Which is ethnic groups,
not countries. Yeah. So yeah, so it was really an immediate, you
know, seeing some of the people, some are in Dubai. There's about
two or three in Dubai, some in Sri Lanka. And Sri Lanka is
really going through a hard time. Some couldn't get on the
call because of electricity being out. And their inflation
was like 70%. You know, it's like, from what I've heard, it
sounds like the government is corrupt. That's what, yeah, so
I think somebody was from either was either Kuwait or Yemen. So
it was just really, and I don't, I wish, you know, if I was
normally teaching, there would be discussion time. But it's
kind of hard to do that with this. I don't know. You know,
because she would have to translate them. Although one of
the gals that's in Dubai can speak English. You know, she's
spoke a bit. But and I would have to break up into groups
like you do and discuss things. But there. I don't know. It just
doesn't seem to be the time to do that. But I don't know. What
do you think?
I mean, I mean, you can do it just I don't know, just however
you want, whatever you think you could even try it once or you
could try it like at the end of one of your things for like five
minutes or say, Hey, you know, we've got time for one question.
And you can see how the one question goes. You know, instead
of like, oh, we've got all of this 15 or 20 or 30 minutes to
fill with this, with this experiment, I'm trying, you
could just have like open the floor for like one question or
something. And, you know, me, I used to not do the I, this is
this past rest intensive was the very first time I'd ever done
rest groups. I'd always just had q&as. And I'd only done them
once a week. But I began to realize what in the many rest
intensives that I would do the importance of meeting more than
once a week, I found that very impactful for people. And then I
decided, for whatever reason, oh, then I decided, you know
what, let's try let's get everyone always wants community.
They're always talking in the rest intensive about how much
they enjoy each other. But because everything's q&a, and
then just simply like the live videos on the that posts that
people do for their journey shares, they don't get to
actually interact unless they privately message each other. So
I thought, okay, so let's do something like a small group,
give people an opportunity to interact. Apparently, from
everybody's response, it was like one of everybody's
favorite things in the group. So meaning like in the program, so
anyway, so my point is, for me, I used to not do it either. And
it only came up recently, because I, I kept I was
listening for feedback, because I'm always trying to figure out,
okay, where are people getting the biggest thing for their
book? Where are they ship? What is helping them shift the
fastest, you know, and, and so one of the feedbacks I kept
hearing was community and, oh, love getting together with
everybody. And so I thought, well, how do I add this? So I
ended up adding the element, but it worked just fine before then
people were shifting, people were, you know, we're changing.
So it can work either way. And what you could do is what I did
just on a smaller scale, because it you're dealing with more
factors than I was, you're dealing with multiple
languages, you know, and a difference in language, not only
between the teacher and then this in the students, but maybe
even between the students. And so so anyway, you could just
kind of like experiment with, like a little bit of something.
So now, do all the students speak the same language as each
other? I think they all speak the Sierra Lankan single ease, I
think. Okay, great. Well, I don't know, you could just do
little breakout rooms. Are y'all on zoom? Yeah, it's on zoom.
And you could do it for like 10 minutes, give them all a question to talk about
in their group, let them handle it however they want, and then bring them
all back in and just let it be real quick.
You know, so you can do it like that.
Cause that's what my rest groups were.
They were an experiment.
I was like, let's see if this works.
And then, so for you, if you've got more factors involved, you still
try it and experiment like I did, but on a bit of a smaller scale, because
you've got more factors involved, like other languages or in different
countries and all kinds of stuff.
So, but I've just noticed that.
That people love it.
Now, maybe if I was in y'all situation in the rest intensive and I was a student,
maybe I'd enjoy it too, but the reason I'd never added it before is
I'm not big on discussion groups.
I do not like participating in discussion groups.
I don't find it fun at all.
And so case in point in, in ed's, um, school of the profits,
they had discussion groups.
And I set at a table with him and, and a couple of the people, a couple
of the, a couple of people who support him in, in administrative work.
And then another couple of people who are, I don't know, I think
they're, they're both in their seventies.
And one of them is taking all of the notes from all of the speakers
and like literally noting and notating everything that they say.
And then his wife sits with him.
So we're all in one table.
And so when everyone breaks out for the discussion time, we don't
even discuss among ourselves.
We're busy doing other things and I don't enjoy it.
I just don't, I, I'm not a huge Bible study person.
I just don't get much out of it.
Everybody else seems to, I just don't.
So if I don't get much out of it and I don't particularly enjoy it
historically, I didn't want to put it in my program, but everyone else kept
saying that they really enjoy that kind of thing, so I was like, well, let's try it.
You know, or they wanted community.
So I thought, well, small group gets you an opportunity to visit with other people,
but I put it within a structure of like having them like talk only about rest.
And then for you, you could even give more structure of answer of having
them ask us this answer specific question.
So, because if all, otherwise some of those people, you know, I mean,
you can't control the discussion.
So you get on and give them some parameter of a source.
Hey, it's going to be 10 minutes and there's three per group.
So each of you as like three minutes, here's the question, you know, or, or
something, you know, and to more structure you put in place, and I don't
mean you need to make it rigid, but the more like few little things that you put
in place, the more successful it's likely to be and effective and helpful.
And the thing is that they'll enjoy getting to contribute, getting to
have their say, getting to talk to.
They've been sitting there and listening to a teacher the whole time.
Now they get, now someone else gets to hear them, their opinion, you know, and
they're in the epiphany that they, that they heard, and they always say
psychologically that it helps people learn more if they got, if they have to
verbalize it, or if they get to express an opinion on the subject or whatever,
they're more likely to connect with the material and own it.
So whatever you want to do, but those are just some ideas.
Yeah.
I mean, I technically, I don't know how to do that, you know,
the breakout rooms.
Yeah.
I, I'm not sure.
I mean, like today there was, I don't know if there was maybe 10 people,
something like that.
Um, I know I'm at the beginning of next class.
I'm going to ask them all a question because they had homework and I had
them, I gave them two things to do because they're supposed to have four
assignments.
Um, one was to look at all the verses on the great commission and to kind of
combine them and see what Jesus is, is actually commanding.
And, um, and then we can discuss that a bit about, you know, I just
discovered last week or was it this week?
I don't remember.
But anyway, that the disciples did not obey the great commission.
They did not, they did not go into all the world.
Correct.
It was Paul.
Yeah.
Paul was the only one.
They all stayed in Jerusalem.
And then eventually though, eventually though they, they traveled, like what
was it, Thomas went to India, you know, that was, that was John.
Wherever it was.
eventually got, you know, was persecuted. They all died horrible deaths, except John,
and because they couldn't kill him. But yeah, they wouldn't, it took them a long time to leave.
They got a lot of persecution because they stayed. And in fact, God used persecution to spread them
out, not on purpose. Yeah. And then the destruction of Jerusalem too. So it's interesting that they
did not, I hadn't realized that before reading something that Don Richardson, I don't know if
you know who he was, Peace Child. Well, that sounds familiar. Peace Child, the missionaries
to the Saudi cannibals. And, you know, anyway, it was, it's quite a story. But I got his book
Eternity in Their Hearts. In the very last chapter, he asked that question.
Did the disciples obey the Great Commission? Really?
I had never thought about it. And it, and as I, you know, in Genesis 11, where, well,
in the very beginning, he tells them to be fruitful and multiply and, you know, go into
all the world. Correct. And they didn't, they went to Babel, you know, the Tower of Babel.
To try to stay together. Yeah.
Isn't that fascinating? I know. And then, and then the disciples, they were sent out into all the
world, but it was Paul who first got the heart for the Gentiles. Now, Peter had to be talked to
by the Lord a bit, because with Cornelius, you know, and so, and kind of prompted, but you like,
but even Paul talked about the fact, I believe, if I remember correctly, that Peter acknowledging
the fact that Peter was really, he didn't say he was called to the, to the Jews, but that he had
a heart for the Jews, you know, all of the disciples did. They had a heart for their own
people. And so it's hard for them to get Phil to get up and leave and, and whatever. So it is
fascinating to you that, that we all, it was just goes to show us that if that's happened multiple
times in history, even with people that saw the son of God in the flesh and lived with him and
knew him better than anyone else after like living with him for four, three years and very
in suffering type situations, you know, cause that really bonds you with suffering,
you know, and, and they even didn't obey. And it took them a long time to be pushed out.
That's, you know, just kind of, I don't know, just kind of helps us understand, wow, we, we,
why the Lord pushes us to do it because we're going to have this tendency, this very strong
tendency to not want to do it. Yeah. Yeah. That's so fascinating. I know that, that they've learned
so much from, from you, your experience, your heart, your spirit, you know seeing God in the
way that you do having experienced him in the way that you do. And then just there's a gentleness
about you that makes people risk more receptive to the truth and feel more safe and able to be open.
You know? Oh, thanks. Very helpful. Yeah. I mean, and, and I've also, you know, like I'm
talking about motivation and, you know, and I read somewhere too, and I was
feeling this before I even read this, but that our motivation is progressive
that it progresses because like at the beginning, maybe you see the need or, you know, God, maybe
he's called you and then you see the need and, and then you see, or maybe it's duty or,
and then you feel God's love is, is, you know, you get to know God's love
by experience and then that is moving you, motivating you. And then, you know, when I saw
this whole thing of glory, you know, that was even after I came back from Japan, when I went to a
missions class, 15 week. Anyway, it, it kind of changes now. It's, it's not just the love
constraining, but it's, you know, God's glory and, and understanding and experiencing it that,
and I mean, love's involved in it, but that is what, when you see it all the way through scripture
too. Yeah. And yeah. So, I mean, this class is just really, you know, got me jazzed up.
Oh, that's wonderful. Yeah, yeah. Well, is there anything you
like to update me on as far as like, how you're doing with
like, I don't know, with rest with, with stress with anxiety
with them? I don't know, just your feeling and interaction
with relationships or I don't know, connection or church or
the Lord or anything.
I like I was yesterday I was feeling really anxious about
this class. And I just called on the Lord, you know. And, and
then you know, when I it just changed things and then reading
some verses about his glory and, you know, reading john 17. It
just kind of changed things. So when I had to get up at five
this morning, which is early for me, because I tend to go to
bed late. But yeah, it was like he had my focus in the right
place when I was teaching the class.
Yeah, you just kind of let it go and like, okay, what happens
happens. And then God just takes care of it. The more work that
we put in the more even like the more internal effort and strife
we put towards it, the less likely it is, we're basically
sowing death into it, not sowing life. So it, it, it
doesn't have life in order in spirit in order to make it into
make it, you know, good and healthy or whatever. So for
coming into it, just like, okay, Lord, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm not
prepared in a worldly sense. And I knew that you were prepared in
worldly sense. But what I mean is like, there's some, there's a
reason why you're anxious. There's all of these what ifs,
what if I forgotten something, what if, and you know, I'm not,
I haven't done my due diligence, what if something is going to
come up, that is going to require something of me that I
either didn't prepare for or didn't know, know to prepare
for, you know, that's, that's what creates all this anxiety,
right? But if we just approach it is like, No, Lord, you are
going to create the outcome, I am just going to show up. So
Lord, I make myself available, this is you and me showing up
you and me giving ourselves to these people, not knowledge, but
ourselves to these people, and therefore the life of the spirit
within you, you know, being unified with Christ, that will
that will do the wonders, you know, Paul even talks about the
fact he says, he says, I very purposefully try to not talk to
y'all in like, big words and with and make everything sound
very, like and speak in very fine speech, he said, because I
want to allow the power of the simplicity of the gospel, to
have basically to have all of the all of the glory, because
it's actually not my logic and the words that I use, but
rather the power, the transforming power of just the
message, and you know, the spirit that's in the message of
the gospel. So anyway, so I'm excited, you know, you're just
you're, you're resting, you're you're applying it, you're, I'm
one with God, I'm abiding in him. And so he and I are showing
up. And then this is how we transform creation when he and I
are present. It's great.
Yeah, it's really good. Yeah, I did for you. Yeah. So and I want
to take the next one, but I'm not sure, you know, yeah, if I'm
going to have the time, or, yeah, I'm not sure yet.
Yeah, well, I would be, it's just an opportunity for people.
And, and so it's just there is someone wants it, but in just,
and it's, I don't know, it's just for every person to
determine between them and the Lord, if that is something that
is needed or wanted, right now, and where they are on their
journey, because God might just be like, yeah, let's have a
different focus for a while, a different, more concentrated
focus in a different area. And so anyway, but I didn't want to
not offer it. And then my incentive that I was making in
in the whole family and friends thing of like, you know, hey, if
you have any family, friends, you can come in for, you can
have the core group core program for free. That wasn't even to
incentivize people to share it with family and friends. That
was to incentivize people who were already sharing it with
family and friends, that if their friends come, I wouldn't
want to do incentivize people to come in with them. In other
words, it would help support the family and friends give them a
more powerful and transformative and supportive,
experience.
experience to be able to change.
So even me offering the incentives that I had, they were it was just kind of as a as
a way to kind of like love on y'all to give and to offer something to y'all.
But just in case y'all wanted it.
And then, like I said, the free incentive was simply to incentivize people
to join with family or friends that they were already choosing to share it with
so that to to just encourage them, hey, you can do this with them.
You can live life in a deeper way
with people that you're already living life with.
And I'll provide the means by which you can do that.
Basically, I'll support you in that and doing that.
So anyway, but it's just all it is, is it's just an offer for if people if it's
something that people decide is for them and their and where it is that they are
in their life right now, it's all it is.
So it's here if you if you want it and if
it's not part of what God has you to do, then you go do what God has you do.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
It's been really good, though.
I'm so glad that you've enjoyed it.
And yeah.
And the people, you know, the other aren't they special?
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah.
Everybody is. Yeah.
Yes.
Yeah. So the family or friends are coming in.
You know, I said, you know, without applications, they can come in without
applying and they can just register, but the people that more because what I've
historically done is I've historically required people to apply.
And the reason I'm talking about this is you had just mentioned, you know, oh,
all of these other people that were that were in the group, weren't they special?
For one thing, God's the one who attracts all of those people, you know, and they're
just and they're on the same part of their journey with the Lord as as each other is.
So there's that kind of connection that really helps.
It's like, oh, you understand and you have
the same passion to the same extent that I do.
And that just kind of bonds people.
But also I usually take people through an application process where I make sure that
the people that are being attracted are ready for this.
Like, is this really, you know, God's timing for it or not?
And I hear the I try to hear the Lord for them as well of whether or not I should
offer them to be able to come in and I and part of that is I don't I want to make
sure that they're that they're ready for it so that they don't get discouraged.
So instead of being encouraged and going
through the program, if if someone came in at the wrong time.
Then they would just get discouraged, they would be to feel defeated,
they would feel like, well, why can't I get it when everybody else is?
It's just because they're they're just not at that place yet in life.
You know, they've been working on other areas of their life.
God's been working on other areas of their life.
But then then there are other people that, you know, they're just they're they're
ready and it helps to create and maintain a particular type of culture in the group
that enables it to be safe for everyone, that enables it to be where everyone's
respectful and respectful of each other's time,
respectful of each other's feelings, you know, et cetera.
And and I'm very I'm very protective of that because I try to create an
environment where people feel safe enough to face themselves in ways that they
haven't felt safe enough to do up to this point.
They were afraid to face that part of themselves.
They were afraid to expose that part of themselves.
They were afraid to be vulnerable in that area with the Lord.
So anyway, and that means that only certain
people who were at a particular walk with their Lord, with the Lord and conduct
themselves in a particular way, get the privilege of coming into the group.
But it creates this environment in which in this community where everyone sees
the tremendous value in each other and just really are able to connect because I
try to gather a group that is all about this the same.
You know, everyone's very, very different.
But what I mean is like they're all they're all in kind of like the same phase.
And so that maintains a particular culture
in the group, not a victimhood, but of encouragement, of support and hope.
Yeah.
And and so that helps maintain that atmosphere.
And anyway, and so it helps everyone enjoy each other's company,
you know, enjoy time with each other because they don't listen to each other.
Complain. So anyway, I'm really glad that you've
enjoyed it and glad that you've gotten to enjoy visiting with everyone and
and have friends.
And so anyway, that's great.
Yeah, yeah.
So I just haven't decided I've got to make a decision soon, though.
Well, you know, it's open until
it's open.
Until what is it January I guess the 27th I haven't really thought about it, and yeah I guess it would be open to January 27 I might change that it might be January 26 because.
That would leave me a day to make sure that all the technical stuff is put in place for people.
And that would be joining the conference on the 28th but anyway point is 26 or 27th being the deadline.
I'm just doing a special offer for anyone who joins on the fourth by the 14th that they get to all have an additional.
fireside chat for them and then i'll do they can do the kitchen series, which is the original rest series that I did that's in the in the Facebook group, did you ever watch that one it's in the guides.
um no I watched.
A video or so from from I don't remember it wasn't in the regular.
wasn't in the Facebook group.
It was in the Facebook group, but it was on the side.
Correct yes, those are the guides yes, so it there's there's session one through session 13 that is my original rest.
teachings, the very first ones I ever did in April of 2020 I would just jump on live on random nights of the week and then that actually me jumping in live and just talking about stuff on various topics.
Is what became the rest intensive so anyway people, they would have access to that if they join on the 27th of January, but the thing is, by that time they're focused on learning all of these other.
On focused on this other set of teachings, which are the inner his rest ones, you know that you watched already.
So what i'm doing is some people were like well, we wanted to start earlier than January 28 so what i'm doing is i'm giving them the opportunity to.
start early and i'm making it kind of a mini program where they literally can go through a whole course on rest.
And then i'll do a fireside chat where they can ask me questions so that is the benefit of jump of doing it early but you've already that.
you've already been exposed to those teachings so and then you know, and I mean it is the case for everyone they anyone would have access to those teachings after the 27th.
And it's just that most people are so focused on the meetings by then, and what it is that they're learning and applying.
That they're not going to want to go into and watch a whole other course in addition to all of that.
they're just going to be focusing on that drinking from a fire hose on Saturday and Sunday, all of those seven teachings they're probably just going to rewatch those that's why I made this other thing, even though it's available later.
made it into its own little thing it's just kind of like sometimes you just kind of have to divide things up for people to make it more consumable for them, because otherwise.
They just kind of get overwhelmed with Oh, you could do two courses and meet three times a week in six weeks it's just it's just too much so anyway, so that's the that's the that's the benefit that.
you've already had.
By time, as you need.
So it's by January 14 you'd see see the videos inside the Facebook, the ones you did from the very beginning, is that what yours.
Yes, so if someone joins by January the 14th then they get to then I read, then I add them to the Facebook group.
You know, and then it's in there in the Facebook group, so they can go ahead and be in the Community, you know that you've been in for 12 weeks.
They can see all of those rest teachings and start going through all of those and then I will make myself available before the program even starts before the official program even starts on the 28th.
i'll i'll do a fireside chat with them and let me let them ask me questions and whatever it's just in it and it's no extra money it's just a benefit for for registering early instead of later.
I wanted to give them like a bonus like an extra course because, and the whole reason this came up is, I was talking to someone and they said well Ashley that sounds great.
i'd love to join, but I was really hoping it started earlier, so that I could do it now, and so I thought well what could I do if I don't want to.
bring up I don't want to move the date of the official of the official program.
For whatever reason i've asked the Lord if I could move it up and I just feel that January 28 and 29 was the dates that he'd set aside i'm like okay.
So I won't move those and I felt him on those dates, so I thought well i'll do a basically a DIY course where they could take themselves through another additional rest course.
learn whatever it is that they want to learn on their own about REST and then even throw in a
night where they could ask me questions. It's just a bonus for registering early and it gives
people an opportunity that want to start early to strike while the iron's hot, but it's no extra
money. So it just means that they have to pay earlier instead of later in order to get the
benefit, but no extra money. So are those videos shorter than the REST content? I didn't think
they were, but they are. They're like, some of them are an hour, but I noticed that a lot of
them are like 30 minutes or something like that, but they are the original teachings that transformed
groups of people. Like I don't know how many people, I think 25 people went through my REST
intensive with not at the same time, but over time through those teachings, that's what they used.
And so, but no, they're not as long. When I did the conference, I had been teaching
on REST for a year by then. So I had even more that could flesh out the teaching
and to just really be extra thorough about the concepts. And I even added more
on like the things about the power of intention or goals, dreams, and promises. That is not in
the original teaching, but in the original teaching, I do talk a lot more about business.
I talk about, I don't know. I don't know what I said, like how to make business decisions maybe,
or I think I have several things. In fact, I even thought about mentioning to like
writing them out on the, on the website. What is all in them? Oh, wow. That's weird.
It doesn't let me, that is so strange. It's not letting me see the guides for,
for the REST intensive. That is so strange. Anyway. If I remember right, they were gone
after a certain point. They were gone. Well, I don't remember exactly, but it seems like
I saw them there and like I listened to the one that I did. And then after that, I couldn't see
them. Well, they, here I'm looking at it right now. No, I know for sure that they're there unless
we're talking about two different things. So, okay, here it is. Here's guides. I don't know
why it's not showing up online. I mean, on, on the, can you see me by the way? Yeah. Okay. Cause
I can't see you now that I'm pulling up my other window. Okay. So the session one is love affair,
session two is rest, how to receive session three is how to release session four is how to believe
session five is how to decide. And then session six, one with God session, seven, two trees,
session eight, three realms, you know, the ones you're familiar with. And then session nine is
business forming a business in rest. Session 10 is business and how to approach goals.
Session 11 is business and how to operate in business. Um, session 12 is how to attract
clients in business and session 13 is how to lead in business. In other words, business leadership.
So those, those that's the course, but underneath that are 44 bonus teachings, some of which,
and that may be what you're talking about. Um, I mean, there are all kinds of things like
faith for unfulfilled promises or the difference between sons of God and daughters of God, or
what do personality tests do us tell us or how to process grief. But then in addition to those are
all of the ones that I, uh, that I made when, um, uh, that I made when you were, uh, uh, during
y'all's rest intensive. And I was answering questions. I just answered questions and then
I called them and then I did, and those were teachings and I just added them to the guides.
So in other words, there's 13 sessions of my original rest course. And then in addition to
that, there's 44 bonus teachings on a variety of things, half of which actually were filmed.
And, um, during y'all's rest intensive and answers to questions that were asked and you already have
lifetime access to those. Cause I also duplicated them and put them on the rest intensive members
page.
So you already have access to those.
So anyway, so in, like I said, all of this year,
if you were to join on January 27th, you know,
or January 26th, whatever,
you'd have access to all of this.
I just am offering this, you know,
and letting people know
who've never been in the Facebook group before that,
hey, there's a whole bonus course in there
that if they want to jump in and do that now,
I'll answer questions and everything,
and they get to get started before the official course,
even starts with a totally different
eight, nine hour conference group of sessions.
So I just want to make sure that you know,
and that it's very clear that there's no,
you don't get anything more by joining earlier,
and it, but it also doesn't cost you anything more
to join earlier.
It just means you pay earlier in order to have access,
you know, before instead of later.
So that's the only difference.
You're giving us a discount anyway.
Well, yes, yes, y'all.
Yeah, I think it's what, I don't remember.
Is it 500 or 600?
How much are you charging?
500 and something, I think.
Oh, okay.
Is it, oh, 525.
That's what it is.
So it's almost half, not quite half, but almost half.
Yeah, yeah.
Who has signed up so far?
No one, but I've had a lot of conversations for new people.
And then some of the, I know of multiple,
well, I'm trying to think of how to describe this.
No one's committed to anything,
but there have been people who are talking
and having been in the old rest intensive,
meaning like just this past one, you know,
talking about the same thing as you,
like, well, they're thinking about joining,
but they're not sure if that's a time commitment
that they want to make with other things
that they've got going on.
So, but they have, some of them have family or friends
that they're wanting to refer,
and they're just not sure whether or not
they're gonna join them.
So that's all I know.
No one has, no one signed up, no one's committed.
I have a new person that was referred
by someone not in the group,
but someone that I've mentored on the side.
And so she might be joining soon, but anyway.
So no one's joined yet, but yeah, it's early.
Yeah, yeah.
So I was gonna say something, but I just forgot.
Oh, well, as my dad would say, must not be important.
I know, my dad would say the same thing.
Must not be important.
I learned though, that is not always true, dad.
That is not always true.
Sometimes you forget very important things.
I like to always tease my dad about that.
Sometimes it's actually not true, dad.
Well, I know what I was gonna tell you.
That session with Ed was really good.
Really?
I'm so glad it was helpful.
Yeah, that was so helpful.
And I'm gonna go back and listen to it again.
Oh, good.
Yeah, very helpful and encouraging.
I'm so glad, so very glad.
Yeah.
You guys are a good match, good match.
Thank you.
We think so.
Yeah, it's been really fun
and it's gonna continue to be a fun adventure
to see what the Lord does
and how he has us just compliment one another.
Just what our spirits carry
and how we, our hearts for other people.
We have similar hearts for other people,
but we express it differently.
He expresses it as like a very,
he expresses his care for other people
through like the heart of a father.
And then me, I do it through,
kind of like the heart of a mother,
very nurturing, trying to make a safe place, you know?
And he does it with providing a lot of like security
and like, and safety and everything.
And so anyway, and then he does,
he has a lot of his experiences
in inner healing and deliverance.
And a lot of my experiences in like helping people
like make those feel safe enough to be vulnerable
with the Lord and make really hard decisions
and whatever to do it with intentionality.
And anyway, so, but yeah,
so it's fun to get to work together and operate together.
And we're just still discovering what that looks like.
But I know he was, he enjoyed,
he was greatly encouraged by all of the benefit
that people seem to express that they got
when during-
Yeah, you can tell him that I, that was so good.
Yeah.
I'm so glad.
I'm really glad that that was so helpful.
Well, he enjoyed getting to meet with you.
Well, thank you.
That was, yeah, it was very helpful.
Good.
Well, I know we're probably in the middle of your work day, but is there anything
else that you, that you need, that you, you know, that you have questions
about that, I don't know, just whatever.
Well, Ashley, right at the moment, um, you're always just so easy.
You've got such a long history of walk with the Lord that I've
noticed when I get on with you.
You're like, well, I don't have any questions.
Amazing.
Well, you know how to walk me.
I've, I would have been in this, um, a bunch of years ago.
I mean, God, I mean, it was encouraged, encouraging to hear Ed say, you know,
you seem stable while I didn't use to be very stable, look what the Lord has done.
She would have done it like 20 years ago though.
So I had to have longer to, you know, minister, you know, all that,
but, you know, his timing is good.
Yeah.
I know.
That's one of the things I kind of, that I struggled with, you know, when I first
learned about, about, um, about rest or really other things as well.
I remember when I first started learning about the demonic, meaning like how
active that it is and how influential it is and deliverance and all of that.
I remember asking my mom one time.
I was very upset.
Now I tried to, I was very kind about it, but inside I was very upset and I'm,
and I wasn't, I was an adult and I said, mom, why didn't you tell me?
Why didn't I know that this is how life is, that this
is spiritually what's going on.
And so she just, she explained, she's like, well, sweetheart,
she said multiple reasons.
She said, well, one, you know, you're, you're, you were a kid, you
know, when you were in my house, there were things that you didn't, you
didn't need to, um, always have to, you know, be focused on like all the
negative or whatever we wanted you to put to, we wanted you to talk to you
about like the positive things and the truth of God and the whatever she said.
And also she said, there's a tendency of people to just, to start
seeing a devil under every rock.
In other words, that, that the demonic is the problem and the, and
the cause of everything, you know?
And in basically just giving Satan just too much glory anyway.
So I remember like that as a moment, you know, in my life or whatever,
where I just remember thinking, why didn't I know, you know, that would
have helped if I'd understood that there was that things that were going on in
my life were more than just me, that it was me being affected by the spiritual
realm, it was me being in something bigger than myself and my physical
circumstances that sometimes when you're being attacked, it's not the
person it's what's behind the person that's coming out to, you know, just
stuff like that.
I'm like, how much more could my life have felt more free?
You know, if I know, or when I learned about rest, I'm like, why Lord, have
I lived my life so long in such stress and such agony, such torment and such
disappointment, you know?
And then, um, why do it?
Why did I have to learn it as late, you know, as at the time that I did.
And then there are other people who are older than me and they're like, well,
you, I wish I'd gotten to learn it early.
Like you, everything's relative, but anyway, I understand.
So, but I'm really excited for you.
Um, I really am hoping that, um, your life continues to unfold and
becomes even more free.
Um, I'm really hoping for, um, relationships for you, you know, um,
connection and belonging and, um, and just, I don't know the word I keep
seeing and hearing is just connect, not connect like acquaintances or
whatever, but just like real true connection, you know, where it's
important and it's life giving.
And, um, I don't know, there's a bit of, um, uh, not dependency.
What's the word, um, a bit of, you know, mutual contribution pouring
into and, um, each other enrichment, you know, that you, of you making
another people's lives and then making in you were, like I said, that
it's very life giving, and then it gives you a bit of a network, a bit
of a support and, um, so anyway, that's what, cause you always keep a
really good attitude about that and whatever, but I really would.
You know, wish that for you.
I mean, like outside of work, you know, cause you have it at
works and so that's great, you know, but P yeah, you did, you know,
but, and I know what that's like to not have connection and relationship.
relationship. This is the most I've ever had in my life. You know, this, the past few years
since I learned about rest, actually, that is when things opened up for me. In fact,
I have a couple of teachings on how to make friends in rest, because some of the people
that have come into the rest intensive over the years have really struggled in making
friends and in their lives. And I'm not saying you have, my point is they were lonely. They
felt isolated from connection. And so they were wondering, how do you actually start
making connection with other people to build a network of life-giving enrichment, you know,
between people. So anyway, it's a very real thing. Anyway, I pray that for you and desire
that.
Well, thank you. Yeah. That is really my heart's desire. Yeah.
Cause you have so much to give and, um, I hope that, you know, pray that the Lord will
guide you to the people that, that value what it is that is in you. Um, because it's very,
it's very weighty. It's very solid, very, um, uh, it's, uh, I keep, I know I keep using
the word life-giving, but there's another word there it's eternal. It's spirit. It's,
um, it's significant. It's something that can actually change them. Um, it matters,
you know, it, it has value. That's the word I'm looking for. It has value. It has significance
and, um, and, uh, like beyond the fact that, well, we're all valuable. No, it's like, there's
a measure of, you know, you're carrying a measure of heaven and you're actually willing
to pour that out. So they get to benefit from something that's valuable. Um, and, uh,
it's almost like having a friend that's very wealthy. You get to benefit as a result. They'll
take you out to dinner and pay for things and let you stay at their house while they're
at it down and use your pool, lose their pool and whatever. You're that kind of friend.
You're the friend, you're the wealthy friend that people, other people get to benefit from,
because what you have is substantial, it's valuable and significant. So anyway, um, you
know, and I've actually just want to pray about it right now, you know, Lord, we, we,
um, I, I come into agreement, Lord with Chris and, um, and thank you for everything that
you've poured into her life. How much that you have, um, uh, how much that you have poured
into her, enriched her with, um, created her with Lord, um, knitted her together with,
and um, what it is that she has to be able to give to others. And we ask that you would
bring the people to her and attract people to her that can recognize value, appreciate
and receive that, um, for what it is that she would be treated with kindness and dignity,
respect and honor, um, for what it is that she carries, that she would be re that what
it is that she pours out of herself would be received. Um, again, Lord, that she would
be honored in what it is that she is offering of herself that she, that this last half her
life will be more blessed, much more blessed, doubly blessed, like, like I Job, then, um,
her, the previous, um, half of her life Lord in Jesus's name.
Amen. Thank you, Ashley. Thank you. Yeah. Always get to always good to get to see you.
I'm glad it worked out for us to fit it in. Yeah, I am too. Cause I wasn't sure about that. And I,
um, about the transformation session. So it was good that you asked. Yeah. Yes. I'm sorry. Maybe
I announced it when you were, uh, when you weren't on a call or something like you weren't able to
make it. So I apologize. I didn't realize that it meant that you'd missed the information. Um,
but what I ended up doing is because of the holidays, I ended up basically kind of like,
it's almost like extending the program for a week by allowing everyone to do a transformation
afterwards, which gives me a touch point. You know, it gives us a touch point with each other
after the program's even done. I was hoping that would be helpful for everyone. So
yeah. Well, thank you. You're welcome. And it's really good to see you.
Yeah. Good to see you too. Take care. Bye-bye.