How are you doing, fam?
Hope you guys are doing great.
It's gonna be a beautiful session.
Beautiful to be with you today.
We are just about to go live.
Well, we are live.
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And the Zoom room is open.
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Yes, all the tech is working like it should be,
which is great.
And yeah, so we're gonna be...
Here we go.
We've got a beautiful session ahead of us today,
which is gonna be glorious.
So I'll just give a second for people to jump in here.
And very cool, I see some people tuning up.
And yeah, we've got a beautiful, beautiful session here,
talking about the secret that no one wants to know.
Morning, Lisa.
Good to see you there.
So yeah, come jump in the Zoom room.
It's gonna be fun in there to see you guys there,
say hello.
Hi, Donna. Hi, Lisa.
Good to be with you guys,
whether you're watching live or the replay, say hello.
What time is it where you are?
How are you feeling?
How are you doing?
I'm just watching the comments on Facebook
as well as in the...
Yeah, and also like come jump in here.
Come jump in on the action.
Sweet.
So why don't we pray now
and then very cool, 6 p.m. for Donna.
Just following a couple of comments.
So...
Yeah, so some of the people are in there,
but they need to refresh their page
to actually jump in on a session.
So there you go.
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People starting to see you.
I see you, beautiful people.
Hey there, Lisa.
It's 11 p.m. for Lisa.
Lavinia is in Western Australia.
Michelle is jumping in here in the Zoom room.
Morning, Tina from just up the road.
Hi, Michelle, how are you doing?
I can see you typing,
but feel free to jump on and chat, Michelle.
It's good to see you.
Hi, good, thank you.
Beautiful, beautiful.
I've just got Raywan asking for the link.
So if you're wondering,
the link to get in the Zoom room is in your emails
and also in the description of this video.
So we're about to start jumping in.
Let's see a few people jump in here in the Zoom room now.
Just cool.
Hi, Kerry.
Good to see you there.
Very cool.
All right, hey, let's pray,
and then we will jump into the action.
Oh, just pray in the spirit with me for a moment here.
Let's lean into the presence.
Let's get well undone in the presence.
Raywan, good to see you here in the Zoom room.
Everyone else, if you're looking for the Zoom room link,
you can find it in the description of this video
on Facebook or I've emailed it.
So if you're on that Sunshine email list,
you'll find it in the description of this video.
So if you're on that Sunshine email list,
We'll have it in WIPs as well.
Let's pray in the spirit,
and just lean in and see what Papa will start to do.
E arabu kushi aranamama kwandei ria ngongongo
Em bandoro mana mimikia tatatauro nukumkwandao
U raba shi aranamau
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Ha ha.
Oh, we lift up our heads.
E arabu kumkwandei
E arabarani mihi aranamau
E bandoro bananamau
E arabu kushi aranamau
Papa, Papa, Papa
Whoa.
We open our hearts wide right now.
We receive your love flowing in us and through us and to us.
Whoa.
Open up our hearts right now.
We receive the ecstasy of the divine.
That's what.
Ha ha ha ha.
Whao, ria manamishi andoro huranamau
As we lift up your name, we open our hearts and we receive your glory.
Whoa.
E arabu shi aranamau
Whoa, whoa, kumkwandei ramanamau
E baranamishi andoro
E bandoro bananamau
E bandoro kumkwandei
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
E rabaranamishi andoro
Whoa, whoa, Papa.
We step in right now to seamless union.
We step in right now to the wonder of your bliss.
Woo hoo.
We step in right now to the wonder of your embrace.
E rabashiki aranamau
Ha ha ha.
E rabakishi andoro
E ramanamandau
Kumkwandei ramanamishi andoro
Ramanamandau
Rumkwando, rumbababashi andoro
Ramanamandau
Whoa.
Urabakiti aranamau
Shi andoro
Ramanamau
E arabashi andoro
Ramanamau
Be lifted high.
Papa, be lifted up.
Be lifted up.
Be lifted high.
E rabukishi andoro
E manamandou
Rumkwandei
Ribanamishi andoro
Ramanamandau
Rumkwando
Ribanamishi andoro
E rabakishi aranamau
Shi andoro
Ramanamushi andoro
Whoa.
We receive right now the spirit of the Lord,
the spirit of wisdom and revelation,
the spirit of counsel,
the spirit of understanding,
the spirit of knowledge,
the spirit of might,
and the spirit of the fear of the Lord.
We receive an anointing right now that breaks every yoke.
We receive that Isaiah 58 anointing that breaks every yoke.
We receive the Isaiah 61 anointing that restores the shattered mind that goes deep.
We receive that anointing that goes to the deep unto deep,
that breaks open, Lord, the unconscious and subconscious realms
that brings freedom to the depths and the core of our being.
We receive right now, Holy Spirit, your anointing
to crack open the deep places that our hearts have never had exposed before
to bring light to the deepest part of our being like never before in Jesus' name.
Papa, we step in right now.
Whoa.
We step in right now.
Whoa.
We step in right now, Papa.
Oh, we step into the fullness of your glory.
We step into your limitless one.
We step into your limitless realm.
We step into the realm of your glory where there is no lack.
We step into the divine dance.
We step into seamless union.
We step into oneness with the divine nature.
Whoa.
We step into love.
We step into revelation.
We step into realm beyond fear of the god.
Whoa.
We say leave no stone unturned in our hearts or minds.
Search us out.
Let your refining fire, let your cleansing fire consume us.
Let that baptism of fire roll over us and in us and through us that you would consume
everything that veils Christ in us.
You would consume it.
You would burn it up.
While you would burn it up, so that all that remains is Christ in us, consume everything
that veils Christ in us, shake everything that can be shaken, burn everything that can
be burned, cleanse everything that can be cleansed, restore everything that can be restored,
redeem everything that can be redeemed, and breathe your life on us like never before.
Breathe resurrection life on us, breathe the divine life on us, release, release, release
to glory on us like never before, and we lay our lives down, we surrender, so we step into
extreme delight in you, whoa, we step into extreme delight in you.
Papa, we come in right now with a desire for the deep things, for the deepest things you
have for us, we come in right now to a place of desire with you, where we long Holy Spirit,
we long Holy Spirit for the deepest places in you, and we surrender our hearts and our
minds, and we come after you, we declare we have the mind of Christ, we declare we have
the mind of Christ, we have the mind of Christ, and we welcome your Holy Spirit, and we ask
you right now to bring radical alignment to the very core of our being, that everything
in us that can be shifted, we ask for grace to repent, we ask for grace to renew our minds,
we ask for grace to align like never before, we ask for grace to surrender like never before,
in Jesus name, wow, amen, whoa, wow, Papa, I just declare afresh right now that your presence is
watering the deep part of our being, releasing grace and releasing a capacity on the deepest
part of our being, so that every lie can be uprooted, so that freedom can fill our being
like never before, Papa, I thank you for grace to renew our minds in a way we never imagined
possible, whoa, in Jesus name, whoa, amen, whoa, anyone else has got anything you want to add on
there into our prayer, feel free to unmute, whoa, just share, pray, declare,
yes, Father God, we just thank you, Father, that you are the God of exceeding abundance,
Father, we just step into that exceeding abundance that you have for us right now,
Father God, higher and deeper than we've ever been, Father God, we thank you, God, that you want
to take us to places that we've not gone before, Lord God, that we go to places beyond where we've
been, that our mind has thought of, that our spirit has thought of, Father God, that you just
take us deeper because you are the Father of exceeding abundance, exceedingly abundantly
above all we can ask or imagine, to expand our minds, our souls, our spirits to that place,
to take in everything that you have for us, Father God, that you will just remove all the limits,
Father, all the limits that we put on ourselves, Father God, we thank you, Father, thank you,
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Beautiful.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
On our beautiful adventure.
It is a beautiful adventure.
It's a beautiful journey that we're on.
And I'm honored to be here with you guys.
So the live in the.
Yeah.
With the replay.
Zoom room as well.
Beautiful to be with you all.
And.
So.
Context for this, this is session three.
And we're at the start of week two.
So.
We're going to do a little bit of a recap.
Just so that everyone can kind of track where we're at.
Our first session we looked at last week is.
It was called it all starts with vision.
So hopefully whether you're alive or doing the replay.
Anytime in the future, you've been tracking in the guides.
You can check out the guides.
And then we'll do a little bit of a transition in there, but.
You want to have checked out session one,
it's all about vision and second session,
session two is the Q and a, which was all about.
All about identity and putting to death.
The belief that you're anything less than perfect.
Right.
When.
Yeah.
And I just remember one of your comments,
just some of your comments.
Do you feel like since we've had that conversation.
You've had any mindset.
Just in the last few days around identity.
Yeah.
I think it's.
You know, like we so see some of our mindsets.
And who.
Yeah.
I've been pausing a lot and.
You know, like.
You know, Benji, we're in a new place and.
And.
I can't see it now.
Right.
Just, just move Vietnam right around the lockdown time.
To be missionaries in Vietnam with how many kids.
Yeah.
I just feel like he's given me a new vision.
You know, like.
I have.
How to ride a scooter.
And there's a little.
Crossroads.
Yeah.
A million motorbikes.
Yeah.
But one of the things that hits me via is, is.
There's people that we place for.
You know, because I guess you'd call them, but they're not.
Just beautiful, gorgeous.
And.
And I just.
Yeah.
I just want God to just flatten that place with.
Freedom.
Yeah.
So every time I go for a beer, I just.
Yeah.
I sort of like.
You know, there's a language barrier.
You were speaking the other day.
Yeah.
You know, God's love doesn't need any language.
It just needs to be represented in some way.
So I'm really just.
Leaning into him at the moment to give a real vision for that.
What that looks like.
You know, these.
Little children, you know,
Tiny little ones with the little hats out.
Yeah.
People with no fate.
Yeah.
It's.
Yeah.
I keep getting reminded of X, you know, and just.
You know, I only took a shadow.
Yeah.
Yeah, for sure.
So.
Yeah, it's just.
And yet.
You know, I can't even organise my own day in a logical way, you know, or some sort of
lie like that, that's, you know, that's not true, you know, and so it's just pausing,
catching myself and, yeah, just leaning in, yeah.
Yeah, well, that's good kind of conversation, actually really good content, really for all
of us.
So here you are, you're chasing down the call of God, like everyone, just let me know in
the comments or, you know, wherever you are, are you chasing down the call of God on your
life?
My guess is that if you're in this group, it's because you're chasing down the call
of God on your life, you know, there's a passion there, you're not like, oh, no, I'm not really
interested in the call.
You're here because you're passionate about the call, you want to make it happen and you've
got big dreams.
So there's Rewin in Vietnam on a little scooter driving past people with no feet, blind people,
children begging and dreaming of God blasting the place.
A good example would be Korea, Korea, not too far from there, when people first took
the Gospel of Korea, they were martyred in the droves.
If you got caught with a Bible, you get decapitated on the spot, they just cut your head off.
So a land full of bloodshed and martyrs and then, you know, radically opposed to the Gospel,
radically Buddhist.
And what do you know, God breaks out in Korea, a land where no one thought that God could
ever move.
God breaks out in Korea and it was in about 1907 that revival started sweeping through
Korea.
I was there in the beginning of 2007, so just after 1907 that revival started sweeping through
Korea, totally transformed the place.
Now, when I was there in 2007, it was estimated that it was about 50% Christian.
I went and hung out at a small Presbyterian church of 1500 people.
I went to a big church, which is Yoido Full Gospel, the biggest church in the world, which
is in Korea.
I'm not sure if it's still the biggest church, but it would be pretty up there.
When I was there, there was 631,000 members.
And the Korean people were celebrating a centenary of revival, and they were celebrating a centenary
of revival with a thousand days of prayer.
How wild is that?
So there's Raewyn in Vietnam with a dream for God to move in a place that people think
God might not move.
Now, if you've been following and tracking along with the Open Heaven intensive up to
now, what we've covered in the three-day intensive and where we're at now, then you'll be flooded
with, your mind will be flooded with all the stories of God doing amazing, amazing things
all over the place.
And then you'll be in this place where you're like, okay, right, well, that's excellent,
but I want that now in my life.
I want that for my life.
I don't just want that for someone else's life.
And so here's where we're going to talk about the secret that no one wants to know.
And this secret that no one wants to know is the secret to actually making dreams happen.
It's the secret to really seeing transformation in your own life and seeing transformation
in nations.
That's the secret that no one wants to know, but it's the secret that will get the job
done.
So we're going to look at that in a moment, but really we have to just, I want to just
contextualize our journey for you.
So everyone kind of knows where we're at, right?
I'm going to get everyone to start doing is making some commitments, not to me, but making
some personal commitments to a level of discipline that you're going to lean into in this season.
Because you'll get it by the end of this session, what it's really going to take to see transformation
in your journey.
But as we talked about.
know, in the last, you know, in that first session on vision
last week, how many sets of 12 weeks go by that you just don't
notice any change in your life? Countless, I say countless sets
of 12 weeks go by and you're like, oh, did anything really
change in that last 12 weeks? Another 12 weeks? Do I feel
kind of similar? Do I feel kind of similar to how I did, you
know, previously? Or am I, you know, am I really, you know, has
had things changed and shifted? Hey, John, welcome to welcome to
our chat here in the online School of Sonship. Good to have
you with us, my man. You hearing us okay?
Yes, Benji.
Good stuff. Well, great to have you with us, bud. Great to have
you with us. So week three, right, next week, in the
process is where I'm going to start getting you to start
drawing up some personal commitments to that reflect your
level of ownership towards the transformation that you want to
experience in the next 12 weeks. Okay, there's a classic
saying that you can't work harder than someone else. So it
doesn't matter how much I'm praying, it doesn't matter how
much I'm working out, it doesn't matter how much, you know, good
stuff I'm doing. That's not necessarily going to bring the
transformation in your life, you know, it will and will to a
degree, you know, because it will influence the level of
revelation that I'm operating in and influence the level of,
you know, anointing that I can operate in. But, you know, you
can experience really powerful ministry, you can experience
really powerful revelation, and that can break open access to
something. But like we talked about in that last session, it's
like the promised land. If you want to fully possess the land,
you've got to go from revelation to implementation. Okay, if you
want to fully possess the land, if you want it to be something
that you own for yourself, you want to shift it from a promise
to something that's actually manifested in your life, then it
has to go from just beyond the revelation, knowing you can
access it, revelation knowing is available to actually stepping
up and putting the discipline in to make it happen. So jump with
me in your Bibles. I've got lots of other translations that I
like reading this verse out of more, but I'm just going to read
out of the NIV today, which is Ephesians 3.20. Now you guys will
have all heard this many a time. Ephesians 3.20. So much goodness
on this.
Now to him who was able to do immeasurably more than all we
ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.
Now to him who was able to do immeasurably more than all we
ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.
To him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus
throughout all generations forever and ever. Amen. I like
that's the NIV. I like the passion. I like the amplified.
I like all those other beautiful versions that say, he is able,
God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above and beyond all
that we have ever did to ask, dream, pray, think, or even
imagine. Let me ask you, you can't make much traction in this
journey without taking a level of extreme ownership. Is there
anyone here that hasn't seen my book, The Science of Dreams? If
you haven't seen my book, The Science of Dreams, you should
all have access to it. I've dropped it, sent it out, emailed
it, given it to over 50,000 people, actually. You should
have access to that. I'll really encourage you to do that. But
one of the points in there that we really start that journey
from is the journey of taking extreme ownership. I'm going to
hit you with a little bit of extreme ownership right now and
just ask you, why don't you answer me either in the comments
or where you are right now. First question is, are you
living right now in your wildest dreams? Or is there distance
between your life right now and the wildest dreams that you
would see if you went all in to dream with God? Is there
distance there? So if there's distance there, first of all,
I'd suggest that there's always going to be
There's always going to be a tension because God's always, if you're dreaming, if you're having an
honest conversation with God, he's always going to be taking you way beyond what you've ever seen,
right? Because he's limitless. So he always takes you, if you're having an honest conversation
about, with God, like, hey God, what are you dreaming for my life? You know, what have you
got for me? He has always got so much more. It's beyond what you have dared to ask, dream,
or imagine. That's just his nature. You can't keep up with him. You can't keep up with him,
but what you can experience is transformation, right? Like, he's always going to be
infinitely beyond us in his dreaming. He's like, whoa! He is the biggest ADD kid in the world when
it comes to dreaming, all right? God is just, he cuts loose. So if you think you're good at dreaming,
he's got way, way, way more than you've ever dared to ask, dream, pray, think, or even imagine.
Doesn't matter how big you're dreaming, he's infinitely beyond you. So there's always going
to be a tension there. There's always going to be a tension like, ah, I feel like I'm not, you know,
living in the fullness of what God has for me. No, because he's got more. So he's just, he's the
God of infinitely more, infinitely more, infinitely more. And you think you've seen the miracle of
miracles. Well, he's got infinitely more. You're like, so scoping, you saw a blind eye. Well,
he's got infinitely more. You've seen God, you know, like people get out of a wheelchair,
he's got infinitely more. Like, whoa, God, this just goes on and on and on. You've seen God,
you know, you've seen 10 people come to the Lord. Wow, he's got infinitely more. So
there's this dynamic where there's always going to be more, but where you're living right now,
how does that line up with what you're dreaming of? And ask yourself, what's the tension there?
What's the space? How far away are you from where your dreams are? Now, some people are
amazing at dreaming. They'll be like, oh my gosh, I'm like, I'm living it right now. You know,
this is awesome. For me, I'm loving the process, but there's so much that I'm dreaming for that
I feel like I'm a million miles away from my dreams. I am a million miles away from my dreams,
but I'm loving the process and I'm running them down. You know, like most mornings I'll be up at
4am, like boom, today we go after it, we are fighting for it. It is happening. And every
day is a day of discipline. Every day is a day of focus of going after it. So
first point right now is just to, what I want you to do is just take some ownership and go,
okay, where are you at in the process of bringing your wildest dreams? Are you close to it? Are you
far from it? Where are you at? Where are you at in this journey? And be real honest with yourself
because extreme ownership is absolutely critical because one of the biggest problems that we have
is that we lie to ourselves all the time and we justify all the time. You know, we justify
a substandard existence. We justify a life that's less than God's best for us. We justify all the
time. And so the first point of what I want to say is, you know, like for all of us, we've got
dreams that are massive, but we have to be aware of the fact that we have dreams that are massive.
But we have to take, you know, step up, really step up into that place of extreme ownership
and take real extreme ownership for where we're at right now. Because the reason you're at where
you're at right now is not, you're the reason. You are the reason. And what you think, how you think,
the way you think is producing everything that you see in your life.
Everything around you, your whole, your entire
experience with reality is a byproduct of the way that you think.
And I mean, that's what faith does. Faith redesigns reality in the image of heaven.
So the first thing that we have to do right now is take ownership of where we are in our journey.
Where are we in our journey? And take extreme ownership. And we have to address the fact, okay,
what is it in my own thinking that is killing my dreams? What is it in my own thinking that is
actually, you know, keeping me from living in my wildest dreams? What is it? So I want to talk
through seven of the classic things that stop people from living in their dreams. And I'm going
to talk to you about the number one secret that no one wants to know about how to actually make
your dreams happen. And then we are going to
going to be using this to just using this mindset,
the space to frame up where we're going week three.
Week three, week three, we,
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Just see notifications here.
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and said something might have gone wrong.
So first of all, there's seven areas,
seven top areas, seven reasons why people
don't live in their dreams.
So the first one is identity, right?
That's the first, that's the number one reason
why people don't live in their dreams.
If you have anything in your own mindset
that endorses the lie that you're not perfect.
Remember, we've talked about this later,
like already, and we'll keep processing this.
It's about your identity, not your behavior, okay?
So I'm not saying your behavior's perfect.
We all know that that will change
as you come into alignment with,
as your beliefs come into alignment
with who God believes you are, your behavior changes.
That's why Jesus said in John 8, 12,
anyone who follows me will never walk in darkness.
Interesting, I put up a post last night
in the Mass Raising Loyalty group
just to see if people think that Christians
can live a sinless life or not.
And, you know, a real debate there amongst people,
probably 50-50, people thinking,
no, Christians will always live a sinful life.
They'll never get free until they die.
Death will be our savior from sin, not Jesus.
Versus John 8, 12, where Jesus said,
anyone who follows me will never walk in darkness,
and they will have the light of life,
which is a sinless existence,
fully participating in the divine nature,
thinking the same as God, feeling the same as God,
emotions the same as God, and never walking in darkness.
So first thing, first reason why people
never see their dreams fulfilled
and why they become their own worst enemy is identity.
Great African proverb is, if there is no enemy within,
the enemy without can do you no harm.
So the number one reason why Christians
take their dreams to the grave is themselves.
We are the number one reason.
And most people will justify
and never take extreme ownership of that reality,
so they'll never make the changes necessary
to see something, to see a different outcome.
And they just live in that cycle their whole life.
So what we want to do is we want to shift that.
We want to take extreme ownership for our lives.
We want to, we don't want to be our own worst enemy.
We want to be those that, you know,
if there is no enemy within,
the enemy without can do us no harm.
So we want to make sure that we master the enemy within.
And the enemy within is actually your identity.
You know, who do you actually say you are?
Your agreements.
Where are your agreements?
Are your agreements with truth,
that you're exclusively defined in the image of the Trinity?
Or are your agreements with the devil
and everything that he wants to say about you?
Okay, that's number one reason
people don't step into their dreams.
Number two reason people don't step into their dreams
is vision skills, okay?
They just don't actually have good vision skills.
There are, so I wrote a book on it, right?
I wrote a book on it.
It's called The Science of Dreams.
And The Science of Dreams will take you
through the vision skills necessary.
So optional homework for you.
Read that book, The Science of Dreams.
Read my book, The Science of Dreams.
If you don't have it and you want a copy,
then just comment on this on Facebook.
Don't comment on the Zoom, but comment on Facebook
and say, hey, I want a copy of your book.
I'll drop you a free ebook.
I'll drop you a free audio book.
You can grab it.
And you want to understand The Science of Dreams.
Okay, that's the number one.
That's the second reason why people don't understand.
They don't understand that the process
of bringing your dreams to life is a supernatural process
as much as it is a natural process.
It's both.
They go hand in hand.
You have to be working by faith
to redesign your reality by faith,
working in the spirit realm,
taking up spiritual,
taking up residence in the fruition of your dreams
before they happen and birthing them
into the natural realm through faith.
All right, so that's point two.
That picture on my, you know, behind me, that is to do with birthing my dreams into the
natural.
I've got things everywhere all around me that are about birthing my dreams from the spirit
realm into the natural realm, and we want to work just as hard spiritually birthing
our dreams as we want to naturally, right?
The spiritual, that's so much of what prayer is, is a creative process of birthing your
wildest dreams into the earth from the spirit realm.
That's what so much of the process of prayer is.
Prayer should be more of a creative process of birthing your wildest dreams into the natural
than it should be about asking God for anything, okay?
You can ask, if you, if you, if you operate according to faith, you ask God once and then
the rest of the time you create with him, as opposed to, you know, like, oh God, will
you please, will you?
So that's the second reason, science of dreams, people don't understand the science of dreams.
The third reason is cash, so we're not going to talk heaps about cash, we're not really
going to talk much about cash on this series at all, just letting you know.
I think you all know that it takes cash to make dreams happen.
There's the Kingdom Economics series if you want to go deeper on that.
The fourth reason is relationships.
Actually, I talked to someone years ago and his job was to go around to connect with churches
that were falling apart and fix up their issues.
He was the guy they called in when everything went bad.
And he said 90% of the time, the reason that the church had issues was because of the relationship
between the senior pastor and his wife, you know, or, you know, between that senior married
couple, whether it was the wife or the husband who was a senior pastor, that couple there,
he said that was the, that was 90% of the reason for why churches didn't work out was
because of the relationship there.
And so relationships are a huge maker or breaker.
Your relationships with other people, your relationships in marriage, your relationship
with God, your relationship with yourself, huge maker or breaker in the process of bringing
your dreams to life, the process of stepping into what you want.
I think everyone understands that.
You can understand the level of emotional pressure, the level of pressure that comes
on your life, whether it's, you know, whether it's in a marriage or whether it's a work
colleague or whether it's somebody you don't know who just all of a sudden starts hating
you.
Relationships are a huge game breaker.
Or they can open huge doors for you.
So relationships are a massive deal.
What have we got there?
Next one is health.
It doesn't work very well if you're dead, if you're dying, if you're struggling, if
you, you know, that's a big deal.
So we've got, I've covered six there so far.
Sorry, I think I've covered five.
Work with me here, make sure I've covered five, right?
We've covered identity.
We've covered the science of dreams, vision skills.
We've covered cash.
We've covered relationships.
We've covered the sixth, the fifth one, sorry.
The fifth one is health.
And then I've got to put it down.
See, look, you can't see it, but I've got all these whiteboards and things around with
this stuff here that I'm always thinking about.
Yeah, there we go.
So, are you ready?
I'm just going to, I'm just going to, I'm just going to simplify.
I've got, I've got two here.
There's kind of, there's, no, there's seven, there's seven.
So action, all right?
Action, how you actually operate.
You know, the things that you're actually doing.
So actions, the actions that you're taking.
And then the last one, the last one, this is the one that people, this is the secret
that no one wants to know.
The secret that no one wants to know is willpower.
All right?
Now, when you tell Christians that the number one reason why they will or won't live their
dreams is willpower, they get all weird on you and try and tell you that's not spiritual
willpower.
You call it willpower.
You could call it fortitude.
You could call it tenacity.
You could call it grit.
Some people, pastor I know from Invercargill, he calls it testicular fortitude.
You know, the ability to fight, to, to make things happen.
So willpower, all right?
Willpower is, is more than any, willpower is more powerful than anything else.
And what I want to talk about today,
to you about now is how to develop willpower all right and this is this this bit here this is the
secret that no one wants to know all right how do you develop willpower how do you change things
shift things well you know if you don't have money but you've got willpower you can shift it
if your marriage is stuffed up but you've got willpower you can shift it if your health is
got willpower you can shift it if you don't understand the science of dreams but you've
got willpower you'll learn it you'll master it you know if you don't understand your identity
but you've got will power you will master your identity if you don't you know if you're stuck
but you've got willpower you will get unstuck if you are struggling but you've got willpower you
will conquer you will overcome this is what it means we are more than conquerors what is it
that sets christians apart that makes them more than conquerors actually the thing that makes
you more than conquerors uh the thing that makes you more than conquerors people most people don't
know what is it that actually makes you more than a conqueror is it just the promise it's just the
fact that god's with you you know that's the next part you know like romans 8 uh 31 if god is for
us who can be against us but what sets christians apart okay like because you'll you'll obviously
know plenty of christians who may like struggle majorly in every area of their life and you just
look at them and you go man that you live a dumb life and you're your own worst enemy
oh my gosh how can christians be their own worst enemy how can christians like live such terrible
lives sometimes i mean it can be anyone but you see you don't automatically become a christian
then all of a sudden okay great you've got your life sorted out it's not like that um and you
actually see plenty of non-christians who achieve far more than christians so what's the difference
what's the difference between non-christians who are living a much better lifestyle achieving much
more seeing much more impact and probably even blessing humanity more than plenty of christians
who are having no impact what is the difference the difference is willpower so how and here's
the kicker how do you um uh
how do you develop willpower so i this is this is this is something for me and i went through a bit
of a psychological process because i'm always doing training and you know running a ministry
school for over a decade i was like how how do i how do i help people
change like i've really accomplished change how do we see genuine transformation for people and
what's the thing that why is it that some people succeed and others don't all right so i can tell
you i can tell you the three reasons why some people succeed and others don't right it's desire
hunger right you're gonna have hunger you've got to be teachable you know you're gonna be
teachable you've got to have humility you've got so you've got to have that hunger you've got to
have that teachability so hunger teachability and work ethic right hunger teachability and work
ethic um but the work ethic is going to be determined by your will power so as i looked
and studied this the the process like of psychological you know the psychology of
transformation what is it that really makes the big difference for people so the thing that makes
a real big difference here is you've got to be hungry you've got to be teachable and you've got
to have great work ethic but those three things the thing that really empowers those three things
more than anything else is willpower so if you want to see people actually shift and change their
lives you have to develop willpower so um how could it how can we do that how can we develop
willpower anyone got any ideas on how you can develop willpower because this is your greatest
asset in life your greatest asset in life is your willpower it's more important than anything else
because your willpower will bridge the gap between where you are right now and okay i see michelle
saying practice what do you practice uh what do you need to practice how do you practice
what has to what has to practice what do you what do you do to develop willpower
hmm
any ideas there any ideas on the facebook world or anyone else just check out there um
how do you
how do you develop willpower routine practice and your mindset right when she's
routine, knowing your why. Okay, here's the secret that no one wants to know, all right?
Here's the secret that no one wants to know of how to develop your greatest asset in life,
which is your willpower. And this is so, so critical for where we're going next week. And
it's actually going to be the foundation of what produces the real change for you in the next 12
weeks. And here it is, is do hard things. Do hard things as hard as possible, as often as possible.
Do hard things as hard as possible and as often as possible, right? Because nothing will develop
willpower like doing hard things. So I studied myself, right? I studied myself
in this process of psychological, like this process of transformation, like what makes
transformation work? So I was like, why is it that, you know, I was able to transform my life
and shift my life at an accelerated rate when so many of the people around me couldn't do it? Why
was I able to achieve dreams and things like that? Why was I able to make things happen in my life
when so many of my friends and my peers, they could never make those changes. They could never
do that. They were always stuck. I was like, why was I never stuck? Why did I always have momentum?
Where did that even come from? I didn't understand. I was like, it was just, you know, sometimes you
have to just psychoanalyze yourself. And so I actually psychoanalyzed myself all the way back
to my childhood. And it's like, what created the mindset? What created this willpower within me?
Where did this even come from? I don't ever remember doing a class on willpower.
It was just there. Where did this willpower come from? And actually, as I psychoanalyzed myself
all the way back to my life, and as I started to realize that the key is doing hard things,
I went all the way back to my childhood and I realized, look, I grew up on an organic market
garden and my dad would, you know, like working a hundred hours a week was pretty normal.
You know, like whether he was doing that with us, with us as a family, or he had a job and he had a
job where he often had to do a hundred hours plus a week. And then he was also pastoring a church
on top of that and running a farm and being an amazing dad. That's crazy, right? So my dad,
what did my dad do all the time? And my mom, they were always doing hard things. And so I grew up in
the context of a culture of a family where we did hard things all the time. And an organic,
like farming is one thing, but an organic farm, that's a whole nother level on doing hard things.
Okay, guys, we're going to plant out five acres by hand now. All right, grab your trowels. We're
going to, you know, we've got a tractor, we'll plow it, but then we're going to fertilize it
by hand. You're going to shovel all that chicken manure over that two acres right now. You're
going to plant two acres right now. You're going to plant 30,000 transplants right now.
You're going to weed five acres right now. It's hot, it's raining, it's cold, it's sunburned.
It didn't matter, you know, like on the farm, we did hard things all day, every day. And so this
was actually something that I was like, oh my gosh, and even as a parent, one of my values is,
how can I create a context where my kids do hard things? I don't have an organic market,
kids do hard things. I don't have an organic market garden, which would be such an asset,
right? If you wanted to really develop willpower, you should have an organic market garden.
And interestingly, this is one of the things that they did have in most of the monasteries,
right? In most of the monasteries, they had an organic market garden and they did gardening
every day. Guess what they did every day in those monasteries? Hard things every day. Rain or shine,
what are we going to do? Hard things, hard things all day. So what did the mystics do? Hard things.
The mystics did hard things all the time. How often? All the time. How hard? As hard as possible.
So the secret for us going forward is going to be taking personal extreme ownership to do hard
things. Now, let me ask you, what area of your life do you want to shift? You know, like this
is the Open Heaven Masterclass, so primarily we want to shift our spiritual state of being, right?
But we also talked last week about the fact that our spiritual state of being is directly
intertwined and interconnected with body, soul, and spirit. So if you want to see spiritual
transformation, it's a chemical game. So you're going to shift more, move more, go faster,
go further than you've ever gone before if you're thriving body, soul, and spirit.
If you really want to take your spiritual transformation seriously and if you really
want to make this 12 weeks or 12 weeks where you go further than you've ever gone before
in a 12-week period, if you want to ensure that this next 12 weeks you see more personal
transformation than any other 12 weeks in your life, then you personally have to take ownership,
you have to choose it, you have to set the routine, you have to embrace your own commitment
at your core, at your heart level, you have to embrace your own commitment to do hard things.
What hard things? As many hard things as possible. How often? As often as possible. In what area of
my life? Every area of your life. So if you want to see improvements in your health, do hard things.
I'm not like, I struggle to exercise. Do hard things. Well, I really don't, I really do like
my treats. Do hard things. I really don't like the idea of cutting back on my sugar. Do hard things.
I really don't know about getting up earlier to pray. Do hard things. I'm really not sure about
reading the Bible more. Do hard things. I don't know about praying in the spirit
any more than I already do. Do hard things. What's the answer to...
David Riddell has a good quote. He said, he asked people, what's the secret to getting
whatever you want in life? Who wants to know the secret to getting whatever you want in life? Now,
everyone is going to say, I want to know that, right? Who wouldn't want to know the secret to
getting whatever you want in life? Now, the secret to getting whatever you want in life is to do
whatever it takes. But the problem is that if you don't have the willpower, you'll never actually
do it. So, the secret to getting whatever you want in life is not actually just doing whatever
it takes, right? You actually have to go back and you actually have to go back to the foundations
of your whole psyche and your whole, the essence of your being, your level of willpower. You have
to go back to the core of that and say, well, do I have the willpower to do whatever it takes?
Sweet brain, when I see that, we're just going to wrap up in a couple of minutes anyway. So,
that's the question is, do you have the willpower to do whatever it takes? Now,
this is the missing link for most of us. And this is one of the biggest areas of growth for
most of us is that we need to increase our willpower, but the only way that we're going
to increase our willpower is by doing hard things. So, that's really us for today.
We're going to wrap it up there. Now, I've kind of set the context for week three with the fact
that we're going to be doing hard things. Your homework that you want to be finished up by the
end of this week, your homework you want to finish up by the end of this week is you want
to draw your picture. You want to have a picture drawn of what does the most, what is your dream
of intimacy with God look like? What is the most phenomenal, exceptional, wonderful, outrageous
level of intimacy that you can imagine with God? What does that look like? What is the best case
scenario look like when all the promises are fulfilled, when it's just beyond what you've
dreamed or imagined? What does that world look like? You want to have a picture drawn of what
that level of intimacy looks like. Now, you can do it however you like, stick figures or whatever.
It doesn't matter what it looks like and it doesn't matter your artistic ability. The point
is that you want to have a reference because when things get hard, you need a reminder of why you're
doing this. And if you really want to step into a level of intimacy that's beyond what you've ever
dreamed or imagined, there is a price to pay. And that price tag is an insane amount of hard
things. Now, how many hard things do you think you're going to have to do? I'd say probably
10,000 plus hard things to start. I'm not kidding. This is not a small thing. This is a huge process.
So we have to do hard things, but in that process of doing hard things, we need to have a reminder
of why we are doing them. So we're going to get that picture done. And then next week,
we're going to be looking at setting out disciplines. We're going to be setting daily
disciplines. So choosing our list of hard things that we're going to be doing. So we're going to
be doing some hard things. And those hard things are the infrastructure for spiritual transformation.
in your life. So that's us for now, fam, for today. And I think I'm just going to pray.
But I want you to, I want to start a motto before we go. So I want you to say this, I
want you to say, we do hard things. All right, say this, say, we do hard things. All right,
we do hard things. We do hard things. I want that to be your new motto. Okay, we do hard
things. So us as a community, you as an individual, I want this to be your new motto. I do hard
things. We do hard things. Doesn't matter. How hard is it going to be to have that relational
conversation? Doesn't matter. We do hard things. How hard is it going to be to set your alarm
clock? It doesn't matter. We do hard things. This is who we are. This is how we roll. We
do hard things. How often? All the time. How hard? Impossible. We do hard things all the
time. Okay, so let's pray. Papa, I thank you that you have given us the grace and the
ability to do hard things. I thank you that you've given us the power to choose to do
hard things. And Papa, I thank you that you breathe on this. I thank you that you highlight
to us the hard things that we need to do in order to see the results that we want to see.
So Jesus, I thank you that you did hard things. I thank you so much that you did hard things,
Jesus. And I thank you that you equip us to walk in your footsteps of doing hard things
so that we can fulfill the destiny and the calling that you have on our lives. In Jesus
name. Amen. Last quote for you is a Les Brown quote. And Les Brown said, if you do what
is difficult. If you do what is easy your life will become difficult. If you do what
is difficult your life will become easy. If you do what is easy your life will become
difficult. If you do what is difficult your life will become easy. Alright. Did you like
that guys? I hope you liked that. We do hard things. May that be your anthem. We do hard
things. Alright. And go out and go do some hard things. I've got some hard things to
do so off I go to go and do some more hard things. Love you heaps. Laters fam. Bye bye.