Yeah, I'm here.
How you doing, my friend?
I'm good, my friend.
Excellent.
Where are you, Paul?
I'm in
New Hampshire, USA.
Very cool.
Are you able to join with video today or are you just audio?
Am I what?
Will you, can you join us with video today or will you just be audio?
Oh, audio.
No worries.
Very cool.
Great to have you with us.
All right.
Thank you.
Pretty sure we're live in the group now as well.
Why don't we
hear
why don't we hear from you guys to see how you know, your
testimonies, what's going on, what's happening.
And be cool just to hear what's what's happening for people and
then we're going to
jump into the session.
So hello to the people in the Facebook world.
Well clicky.
Would you like to pray for us?
Sure.
We'll hear some testimonies and then we will launch into our
session.
But those on Facebook will feel free to say hello.
It's great to be with you, whichever platform you're listening
in on today.
Go for it, Vicki.
Okay.
Thank you, Father.
Thank you, Father, for this wonderful, wonderful day.
Thank you for letting us come together today and for letting
us be a part of this, this group that's helping us to grow.
We just thank you for for everything you're doing in our
lives.
Jesus name I pray.
Amen.
Beautiful.
That's great.
Thank you, Vicki.
Hey, yeah.
Well,
What's been happening to you guys in your life?
What's been happening in your week?
Call us to touch base and see what's going on.
Well, let's see.
I've been trying to participate in this 21 day thing that we've
been doing here.
And I don't know.
I made it to about 19 days and I had other things interrupt
that but I'm still continuing to to do hard things trying to
do hard things and I'm finding that
And my wife will attest to this that I've been
I don't know.
I'm spirit spiritually better.
I'm physically better.
I just feel good all the way around that way speaking, you
know what I'm saying?
Yeah, definitely.
I don't know.
I don't I'm not a I'm not a church going person.
I haven't been a church in like 15 years, so I don't I don't do
church, but you know, you you all have got my attention here.
The last church that I went to was Pentecostal.
There were there were issues there and and I myself and I we had
to leave we left there.
Yeah.
They were like control issues and I you know, condemnation is
what I felt from that place.
So I don't see that here.
I don't see condemnation.
I see positive things.
Everything that comes out of your mouth is positive for sure.
And and I listen to you.
These other people speak and it's all good to me and and I believe
that I'll put it this way the sheep know the Shepherd's voice.
Okay.
I believe that you're speaking truth and all that you're teaching
here.
And it's definitely benefiting me.
I mean things are falling off of me.
Oh, that is fantastic.
That's such great news.
My friend.
I'm so so glad to hear that.
What have you been finding the most beneficial out of the Daily
Heartland's Church?
Well, for one thing, I'm reading my Bible again.
That's a big step right there.
It not only did was just is I had a job that that took me away
from that too.
And after a couple of years of my wife.
I said, look, it's time for you to get out of there.
And she's like, refuses to go back to church.
I think I might, but I don't, I don't know.
I just want to listen to what you all have to say.
And I pray a lot now, both in the spirit, which I never did before, and pray.
So, but, you know, this, I'm here to see what's going on here with this cleansing of your
imagination and repentance is, you know, I know that I'm not a perfect person.
Oh, cool, man.
That's awesome.
And I'm just so, so happy to hear that good testimony for you.
So just to clarify, the Daily Hard Things Challenge is a challenge that is part of our
week program.
And I just, I forgot, I was trying to remember today, what week we're in, we must be in week 7.
Oh, you're into Acts, you're into Acts 1 today, I believe.
Yeah, which is exciting.
So yeah, we're starting Acts 1 today, which is great.
And we'll be reading through that.
And so it's great fun.
I don't know if you've noticed, you probably have seen it as well, just in the Facebook
group, those daily posts going up, feel free to share on there as well what's been good
and what's working for you.
So, yeah.
It's all working for me.
I just need to keep at it.
That's all.
I need to be consistent in it.
And when I first looked at it, I'm like, oh, that'd be easy.
I can do that.
No, it's not so easy because we have a life too.
There's things we have to do, you know.
So I've done a fairly good job at doing it.
So I'm happy with where I came and I'm going to continue doing what I'm doing.
That is great news.
I'm so happy to hear that.
Very, very cool.
Hey, so we're going to jump into our session today on cleansing the imagination and deep repentance.
So I'm just going to mute everyone just for now.
And I'm going to read a Bible verse to you from Ephesians 1.
The main verse that we're going to look at is Ephesians 1.18.
And I'm going to read this to you from the Amplified version.
And it says, by having the eyes of your heart flooded with light so that you can know and
understand the hope to which he has called you and how rich is his glorious inheritance in the saints.
How good is that?
I'll give you a couple more.
I'll give you another verse there as well.
Verse 19 says, and so that you can know and understand.
So here's the key now is to say no one understand, say no and understand.
And here's what he wants us to know and understand.
What is the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of his power in, say in us.
So he wants us to know and to understand the immeasurable and unlimited surpassing greatness of his power that is in us.
And that is for us who believe as demonstrated in the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his own right hand in the heavenly places.
Beautiful.
So go back to verse 18 here for a moment.
By having the eyes of your heart flooded with light.
So the word there for heart is the Greek word cardiac, but it also means mind.
It's connected with your imagination as well.
How good is that?
Right. It's connected with your imagination.
So part of the key, right.
Part of the key to understanding.
So let's look at that verse again.
But this 19 is so that you can know and understand.
And Lorraine, welcome.
Wonderful to have you joining us.
Massive love to you, Lorraine.
How you doing?
Let's just see if I just see Lorraine jumping in here.
She hasn't caught us live for a little while.
Lorraine, how are you?
How are you doing?
She might just be on audio for a moment.
We've lost her.
Anyway, jumping back in this.
So by having the eyes of your heart flooded with light.
So say flooded with light.
light, right? Flooded with light. That's a key for us. And so it's by having the eyes of our heart
flooded with light that we will know and understand the hopes which He has called us
and how rich is His glorious inheritance in the saints. And that we will also know and understand
what is the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power in us and
for us who believe as demonstrated in the working of His mighty strength which He exerted in Christ
when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places.
So the key here to kind of knowing and understanding is the flooding of the eyes of
our heart with light and with revelation. But the eyes of your heart there, you want to understand
that's speaking of our imagination, okay? So our imagination, here's some beautiful
things about the imagination. The imagination was never the product of evolution.
Let's do a little survey. Who thinks that their imagination is good or evil? Would you say that
your imagination is good or is your imagination evil? Feel free to unmute here guys and chat for a
moment. Is your imagination good or is it evil? Good. You got a good imagination. Biffy, how about you?
Good imagination or evil?
I would say both. Yeah, both. Is there anything you struggle with in your imagination?
Oh, I don't know. Not anything in particular. Yeah, okay. So
I'll just unmute you guys all again and we'll just carry on with it. But the imagination is not the
byproduct of evolution, right? That's something that God put in us right at the beginning to
empower us to have effortless communication and effortless intimacy with Him.
So the imagination is not the byproduct of evolution, right? That's something that God put in us right at the beginning
to empower us to have effortless communication and effortless intimacy with Him.
So that's the purpose of your imagination. That's what God put it in you for. It's a divine
supernatural communication system that God placed in us so that we could experience
effortless communication and effortless intimacy with God. So the imagination in itself, it's the
divine design of the imagination is amazing. It's like a window that you can look through your
imagination. You can see God. You can connect with God. You can connect with so many of the
things where you step into a place of supernatural ministry. So many of them pivot
around understanding how to utilize and steward your imagination. Hearing from God, receiving
pictures, receiving prophetic words. So much of that pivots around your imagination and then also
just like in your own union and communion and connection with God. So much of it pivots around
your imagination. But I've got an old buddy who had a military background
and he had all sorts of skeletons in the closet, you might say, in his imagination. A lot of dark
memories from his military days. He's like, oh man, I don't ever want to go in there.
But because he had this kind of dark side to his imagination that made him scared of
his imagination, he missed out on so much of what he could have had in terms of intimacy
and connection with God because he was afraid of all the junk in his imagination. Now who's
had junk in their imagination or got junk in their imagination or has to declutter their imagination
on a regular basis? For me, for sure, I used to get way more junk in my imagination.
I learned this one trick. Actually, who's seen the movie Inception?
Yeah, Leonardo DiCaprio, fantastic movie, real mind-bender. But it was when I was watching that
movie that I actually, one of the first times I actually got a really deep, deep revelation of my
own holiness and actually of my own identity. Because in that movie, the whole idea is that
to incept someone, what they try to do is put an idea in someone's mind and then convince them that
that idea is their idea and not something that's been put there from an external
source that's the whole the art of inception was to convince someone that the idea you put in their
mind was their own idea and not your idea and while I was watching that I realized oh my gosh
my whole life Satan's been doing this to me he's been putting thoughts in my mind he's been putting
you know like I'd you know like I'd be walking along and then this really graphic evil you know
maybe sexually perverted image or a violent image or something just pop up into my imagination that
I never asked for it just ta-da it's just all of a sudden it's there and I'm like holy what's going
on here like I didn't ask for that but I didn't understand how demonic inception worked so I would
start feeling bad thinking oh no I'm such a bad person to have such an evil thought oh man what's
wrong with me not understanding that actually my imagination was being used against me and it was
when I was watching that movie that I realized wow this is what Satan's been doing to me and so I
want to give you one one hack that's completely changed my life in this area is I now have a
return to sender policy right now if an evil nasty image or something like that pops up into my
imagination I what I used to do in the past is I used to own it like it was mine and you get real
bad feel bad about it and you um repent about it and I'm so sorry but now the first thing that I do
is I um I identify that it's actually not that's not my thought and I don't take ownership of it
right I love to take ownership of things that are my mess and we'll talk about that in a minute but
things that aren't your mess or aren't aren't our own mess we shouldn't take ownership of that right
so if I get something that's you know just pops up into my mind that's this graphic evil or something
like I immediately just have this return to return to sender policy so return to sender
I like I have no part in that I just disconnect any like I disconnect myself from having any
ownership of it and I just say I refuse to partner with that in Jesus name I just return that to send
and I find now that those things just bounce off me it's kind of like uh trying to like a teflon
coating on your imagination it's non-stick right so all these things accusations evil thoughts
negative words about me um pictures all sorts of things that Satan needs to really get me with
really badly and then I feel all bad about myself and try and repent of it well now I just have a
return to send a policy if he puts things in my imagination that aren't supposed to be in that
post box I go return to sender and I don't bother repeating of them because I'm like that's not my
junk and it's like just goes in the junk box it gets returned to the sender and I don't participate
with it so I thought I'd share that one hack with you because that like really brought a huge amount
of freedom to me of the things that I was processing in my imagination because in your imagination
there's a whole bunch of stuff going on see that's where God's going to speak to you that's
where the enemy's going to speak to you that's where you're going to get like you know ideas
from God and that's where as well like your own memories are going to be in there um you know
if you've been watching you know like dodgy stuff or you've seen a traumatic incident those things
are all going to like be swirling together in your imagination and what you want to do is you
want your imagination to become a resting place for you and Jesus you don't want your imagination
to be a storm you want your imagination to be a resting place a place where you and Jesus connect
a place where you have intimate fellowship with God a place where you hear his voice a place where
he's speaking all the time that's that's what you want your imagination to be for you you want to
redeem your imagination so that comes back into alignment with the original purpose
for that that God has for imagination which is for your imagination to be a place of effortless
communication and oneness with God does that sound good who likes the idea of that
I think that sounds awesome so the first the first I guess one of the first things for me
in this process was identifying what shouldn't be in there right uh and that was that whole
inception thing so I started to realize well some of these things that I think of my junk
aren't so I what I was doing is I was cutting off the flow of negative stuff into my imagination
now uh there's another side to our imagination as well as like all the rubbish that we've put
in there ourselves you can't just retain you can't just return to seeing
it's a satan, something that's your junk, all right. You actually have to take ownership for
that, you have to deal with that and you actually have to cleanse your own imagination. Now your
imagination can get defiled, corrupted, contaminated by all sorts of things and they don't have to just
be your that. It could be an incident that happened in front of you, it could be a trauma,
it could be an abuse, it could be all sorts of things that... Hey Lorraine,
welcome, good to have you with us. Yeah, I apologize for that earlier, I was on my computer
and I don't have a mic on that so I switched over to my laptop. No worries, Lorraine, we're about to
you. Oh, where are you? I'm in Oklahoma. Very cool, wonderful to have you with us, very, very cool.
Righto, so if you missed anything, so if I always catch replays, but we'll carry on.
So with the imagination, we've got to figure out what's our mess, what do we need to tidy up,
what do we need to take ownership for and how are we going to actually do that. So
when it comes to your imagination, your mess might not necessarily have been made by you, right?
Say if you, this is what I was just covering there, it's like if you went through a traumatic incident
that it wasn't your responsibility but you were there, what you have is you have all this
information going through your eye gate, going through your ear gate, going through your sensory
gates, you know, like you're seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it, all of
these things, they get stored in your memory, stored in your imagination. Your imagination, like
it's kind of like a cow, you know, like a cow chews its cud, your imagination does that with
all your memories. Every now and then it'll just pluck a memory up and it'll kind of recirculate
and cycle and it'll just be, you know, in your mind. So what I want to share with you now is
some really amazing tips on how to actually cleanse your imagination and I spent a lot of time
cleansing my imagination, had a number of different people that speak on this
concept and so I was like, okay, cool, I'm going to do some work personally on cleansing my
imagination and I just started with, I started with looking at, you know, what were the things
that were on the forefront, you know, like what were the things that seemed to be the messiest
things in my imagination that would pop up, anything that was kind of, yeah, I guess those
things that were on the forefront. So I spent the first time, I tidied up those things that were on
the forefront of my imagination, then there was some stuff from my past and, you know, like
different things like that, I tidied those up, the obvious things and after I kind of tidied up the
obvious things and I guess I'm sharing, what I'm sharing with you now is to kind of highlight the
fact that I put a lot of time into this, like I didn't just do it every now and then, this is
something that I invested years into intentionally working on cleansing my imagination in order to
turn my imagination into a resting place with Jesus, where there's not going to be other junk
in there, my imagination is a place for oneness with God, my imagination is a place for effortless
communication with God and anyone can cleanse their imagination but imagine, if you can
utilize your imagination, imagine a big warehouse that's just full of junk, right, a lot of people
don't realize the value of their imagination, just treat it like a warehouse full of all sorts of
junk and smelly stuff and there's a few dead bodies over here and a bit of junk there and
all sorts of random stuff over there and that, so imagine it could be a, your imagination could be
a big warehouse full of junk or your imagination could be a garden,
your imagination could be a garden, a resting place where you commune effortlessly
with the Trinity and it could be a place where you can effortlessly tap into the divine light,
could be a place where you effortlessly tap into all that God has for you, could be a place where
you're receiving exactly what you need in that situation, could be a place where you're hearing
from God on a moment-by-moment basis, like all through the day, he's just chatting to you exactly
what you need to hear, so what would you like your imagination to be? A messy storehouse or a garden
that is a resting place for Jesus, so that's why I spent years working on this process, so
I say that to kind of help give a scribe some value to the process of what we're doing right
now, that this is not something that I've done and then walked away from it, something that
I did have a season for a couple of years where I intensely worked on my imagination and decluttered it,
but it's also something that is event and process.
So, I've given you the first thing that's the helpful thing is that I have security around my imagination of what I commit in there in the sense of,
you know, we have to have security around what we're going to allow in through our eye gates, our ear gates, all our five senses.
What are we going to allow in there? And then there's a spiritual dynamic, which we talked about before,
in terms of if there's something demonic that's being spoken or a word that's being dropped,
we want to be able to return that to senior and say, I'm not participating in that.
But then there's this, OK, let's focus right now on how we're going to deal with the things that are already in our imagination that might be causing some chaos.
So. A few different people in New Zealand have taught this, Mike Connell, Ian Clayton,
I think Mike Connell was one of the first guys to teach this in New Zealand.
But it's it's all about dealing with things.
So I'll give you an example of this. It's about utilizing the blood of Jesus to cleanse our imaginations.
But it's actually quite a fun activation, quite a fun tool.
So you might want to do this with me as I describe it.
You feel free to like it's probably best not to take notes right now and kind of get more into it,
like a practical state and maybe take notes from the replay or something like that.
But I want you to think about something as I tell a story, it might pop up, you know, something might pop up for you.
But if there's anything in your imagination, say a traumatic event or could be a sin,
it could be something that, you know, like if you're online, you could be looking at something,
you know, I'm looking at something the other day and, you know, like a naked lady just pops up on my screen.
I'm like, hey, I didn't ask for that, I didn't click on that, it just turned up on my screen.
How rude, you know? So all sorts of things can jump up in there.
So I was dealing with this one particular relationship, actually.
It was a relationship and there was some unforgiveness there, really.
And there's some offense on my end in the relationship.
But I could feel this stuff brewing up in my imagination.
So let me share this activation with you and how it works and how I got a deliverance from it
in the process of using this activation. And I use it all the time.
So it really does work. So first of all, what you want to do is you want to imagine,
this is a good thing, you can be in your imagination now.
So if there is a problem, whatever the problem is, I'll take that problem,
I'll look at it in my imagination and I'll kind of grab a hold of it, OK?
So it could be an image that you've seen, it could be a relationship,
it could be all sorts of different problems. And this particular story,
it was about a relationship, OK? There was this relationship.
So I had a picture there in my mind's eye and the picture was a symbol of the relationship.
I imagined it as a picture and then I took the picture and I nailed the picture
to a cross in my imagination. This is the awesome thing about your imagination
is anything is possible. All of a sudden, ta-da, I've got a cross, that's great.
Then I've got a hammer, you know, all these things disappear.
So I nailed this image to the cross. And then what I've started to do is
I've started to imagine myself painting this image with the blood of Jesus, all right?
So this is for me a repentance tool that I use to cleanse my imagination.
So this is how it starts oftentimes is I'll identify whatever the issue is
and I'll frame it as a picture and I will nail it up to the cross.
And then once I've done that, I take ownership. If it's my junk, I take ownership.
I'm like, God, I just want to own it. This is my mess, but I also want to break
all allegiance with it. So ownership is step one, okay?
So you're going to own it. So you're going to own your mess.
Okay, Jesus, this is my mess. This is in my imagination.
Let's take ownership for it, but I break all agreement with it.
Okay, that's a real key with repentance. Make sure you break all agreement
with whatever it is, okay? If there's a, you know, if you've watched a movie
or something and there's a bad image there, you just want to put that up there.
So I break all agreement with this. Whatever form of darkness there is,
you've got to break agreement. That's so key. Breaking agreement.
So I'll do that. So Jesus, I break all agreement with this lie,
with this event, with this image. And I ask right now, Jesus,
for your forgiveness. That's a real beautiful space, okay?
So you're owning it. You're renouncing it. You're receiving forgiveness.
Now, you never have to question whether or not he'll forgive you.
That's a done deal. So you can ask, but it's really more about receiving.
receive forgiveness for this in my life. Wow, in your beautiful
name. So this particular image, it was to do with the
relationship, but there was still a fence in my heart. And
when I looked at this image in my imagination, I could see
something kind of writhing underneath, moving around, kind
of squirming under the picture. And then I had this table full
of things there. And conveniently, there's a sphere.
So I just picked up the sphere in my imagination. And I threw
it at the image, and it hit the image, and it went, and
exploded. All this demonic junk exploded out. It was like,
like, imagine popping a massive boil, you know, gross. It was
like, all this junk popped out of it. And I realized that what
was exploding was all this stored up offense and bitterness
in me. And so I broke agreement with all of that. I renounced
that. I said, Jesus, I'm not going to have any part of that
offense or that bitterness or that unforgiveness anymore. And
I just ask you, cleanse it in the blood of Jesus. Now, I'm
going to shift to, like, a classic way I would do this
normally, because that's a slightly different way. But when
you're doing this, it can happen all sorts of different ways. So
I want to walk you through one now, practically. So I want you
to think of something right now that is something that you could
be, like, dealing with in your own imagination. Okay, so I just
want you just to take a moment now and just ask Holy Spirit,
say, Holy Spirit, what do you want me to deal with? You know,
Holy Spirit, what is my imagination that you want me to
deal with right now? Okay. Let's take a moment. Okay, now,
whatever it is that you're dealing with, you want to frame
it, you want to see it as an image, okay? You're going to
take that image, and you're going to nail it to the cross in
your imagination. First thing we're going to do is we're going
to say, Jesus, take ownership for this being my imagination.
But I break all agreement with it right now, in your beautiful
name, Jesus. I break all agreement with it. And I ask you
to cleanse me now, in your beautiful blood, Jesus, I ask you
to cleanse me in your blood right now. Now, what I want you
to do is I just want you to imagine yourself covering that
image in the blood of Jesus. Now, when I do this activation
with people, with a lot of my students, they'll use different
ways. Some people paint it, some people get a water blast from
their imagination. Some people have water bombs of the blood of
Jesus. But the whole idea is that you find your way with
Jesus to cover this image in the blood of Jesus. And what I
would, what I would notice is that some things would, would
get cleansed quite quickly. Just got Beth joining us, which
is quite cool. See if she connects to the audio. Give her
a second. So, um, so what I would notice is that some
images that weren't like really deeply connected to my heart, I
could do this quickly. And then I would find that they were done
and they were gone. And I was actually set free. And that
image wasn't an issue anymore. Hi, Beth. Welcome. Good to have
you with us. Oh, there he is. So what I would do, I'm just, I'll
just follow through with you with the rest of this, okay,
with the rest of this process. So I've put the image up on the
cross, owned it, renounced it, cleansed it. Then I would take
this image now to the cross with me. Once I felt that it had
really been cleansed, then I'd take it. And then I would
imagine a ball and chain on the end of this cross, and I would
throw it off a cliff into the blood of Jesus. And then it
would be gone. Sometimes I noticed for some things that
were in my imagination that for whatever reason, they maybe had
deeper level of memory attached to them or a deeper level of
trauma. They didn't just go just like that. I could do it
multiple times. And the other thing about this is that I had
to learn, I had to learn a process of doing it. So it's a
little bit like creating a pathway in your brain. So when
you first start doing this, it's not actually, it doesn't
actually work that way. You're kind of developing a new thing.
It's kind of slow. But after a while of doing this, all of a
sudden, it's like, oh, this is really
like you're cleansing things all these things that were in your mind you're able to like you
kind of created a fast track system to be able to deal with all this junk that's built up so even if
something new comes in there you can kind of deal with it real quick and so what I do is I chuck it
off that cliff into uh into the ocean of the blood of Jesus and then if it popped up again
um because sometimes they do right and it's to do with your brain and how your brain stores
information and memory and things like that but if they popped up again then I would take that
image and I'll just do it again right repeat the process and throw it off the cliff again and if it
can't pop up again I repeat the process and throw it off the cliff and do it again and what happened
is you imagine a warehouse full of junk well that was what my imagination used to be so I just got
busy going around the warehouse little by little spending a couple of years just going I'm going
to cleanse this up I'm going to tidy this up I'm going to repeat to this I'm going to cleanse this
and tidy this up and slowly my imagination shifted from a warehouse full of junk that shifted to a
garden that became a resting place for the blood of Jesus uh for a resting place for my relationship
with Jesus and my imagination became a place where I could have effortless communion and effortless
oneness with God and effortless communication as well how good is that
cool fam hey we're gonna um just have some Q&A now
so feel free to take a moment now ask any questions I'm watching Facebook too so um
if anyone's got
um if anyone's got any questions on Facebook or on Zoom then feel free to drop them now
um you can just unmute if you're in the Zoom just unmute and chat away
is this like similar to taking every thought captive
that's exactly what this is
ah that's exactly what this is
that's exactly what this is but it's just a you know like you can read that 2 Corinthians 5 10
and go okay we're gonna take captive every thought and make it obedient to Christ Jesus
but then how are you actually going to do that
how are you actually going to do that and I'll give you one other
element to this process as well if something doesn't cleanse if something doesn't kind of
get sorted out right away what I'll do as well as well that picture is is on the cross
so I'll ask Jesus is there am I believing a lie about this is there a lie I'm believing
about this situation this event somewhere is there a lie that I'm believing okay so I want
to break agreement with all the lies and I'm going to stop and I'm going to ask and take
some time there and go Jesus is there is there a lie that I'm believing so if it doesn't cleanse
right away then you want to really take some time just to meditate and ask Jesus is there a lie that
I'm believing about this image this experience this memory and a lot of times you'll be like
yeah here's the lie and you go okay sweet if you get if he reveals a lie then you always have to
follow up with okay well what's the truth and you'll find that he will bring amazing revelation
there and it's extremely powerful revelation because it's revelation specific to you specific
to a particular circumstance and so he'll give revelation in a way that produces amazing freedom
cool any other any other questions there
no all right sweet so yeah you go for it yeah when you talk about these things is
is this like the whole area as well about you know ptsd and
yeah so that kind of starts moving into the next part of where we're going
but I would love to challenge you guys to start practicing this
right like that's that's something that I would encourage you to practice okay
and remember just who likes the idea of their imagination becoming a garden a resting place
for their relationship with God who feels like that's what their imagination is already
for sure I'd like that to be that way yeah cool so I mean for all of us we've got it it's a process
you know to to get there and you know we can hear people say repent or Romans 12 to be
transformed by the renewing of your mind. Those are great lines, but often there's not many
practical tools that you can use to do that. So what I actually did, and there was, you
know, people that were talking about this, giving this example is, I said, okay, Jesus,
I went back, I went through every year of my life. And I was like, Jesus, is there anything
that you want to deal with that happened in this year? Is there anything that you wanted
to deal with that happened in this year? Anything that happened? And so I went through all the
years of my life, I was like, Jesus, is there anything you wanted to deal with? And sometimes
he said, yes, sometimes he said no. And if he said yes, I was like, great, let's deal
with it. You know, so it's that, it's about being really intentional, not just doing the
bare minimum, but about getting really intentional in the process of turning your imagination
into a garden for intimacy with you and Jesus. I even went, you know, like some of those
years, I even went, I mean, I spent a lot of time doing this, to be honest, I'd just
get in my secret place and be like, okay, God, here's the year, here's the month, anything
here that you want to go through? And oftentimes there wasn't, but every now and then, just
every now and then something would pop up and be like, yes, I want to deal with this.
And so, I mean, you don't have to do it like that. You can do it any way you like, but
the mindset behind it is intentionality of saying, God, search me and know me and test
me and see if there's any wicked way inside of me. It's about having this heart, and I
pray this all the time, Lord, leave no stone unturned in me. You're like, purify me, cleanse
me, leave no stone unturned in me. Like, don't let there be a place in my mind, in my heart
where lies can hide. Don't let there be a place in my heart where I've created shelter
for darkness. And like, no matter the cost, Lord, leave no stone unturned. Do whatever
you have to do. Do whatever you have to do, Lord, to unearth that stuff.
So, there's two things that are really key here. One is the intentionality of going after
God for this deeper level of transformation. And then, so that's one thing. And then the
other thing is actually having a tool to be able to do it. So, you need different tools.
That's why I wanted to share this session with you, because of how powerful this tool
has been in my life to bring a lot of freedom. So, now with your PTSD comment,
come with me to Isaiah 61. And we've got to start moving now into this place of deep
repentance. So, Isaiah 61 says, the spirit of the sovereign Lord is on me, because the
Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the
brokenhearted, and to proclaim freedom for the captives, and release from darkness for
the prisoners. To proclaim the year of the Lord's favor, and the day of vengeance of
our God, to comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion.
Okay, so I'm just going to stop. I'm going to stop right there. Actually, this first
verse is really the key for us. The Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted. Okay, so that word brokenhearted is actually
the Hebrew word Shabbat. Okay, Shabbat. Some of you might have heard there's a ministry
out there called Shabbat, a ministry protocol called Shabbat. But what Shabbat means is,
Shabbat means the shattered minds. Interesting, eh? That one of the key purposes of why Jesus
came was to restore the shattered mind. So, yeah, it's really powerful. It doesn't actually
mean brokenhearted. It means shattered minds. But brokenheartedness is actually more a symptom
than a root cause. Does that make sense? If you feel brokenhearted, it's evidence of a shattered
mind. So, the deeper level of what Jesus was saying there is Shabbat. I have come to
proclaim good news to the poor, and he has sent me to bind up the shattered minds. And the way
that he's going to bind up the shattered minds is always going to be with truth. Okay, you will know
the truth, and the truth will set you free. So, it's always going to be through truth that he's
doing that. It's always going to be through revelation. It's always going to be light.
that shatter minds and it's always going to be truth that restores them.
He has sent me to, oh sorry, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for
the prisoners. So another thing that's interesting here is there's a difference between being a
captive and being a prisoner. Okay so if you're a captive it's because someone has sinned against
you. Right so you've been abused or you've been wronged or whatever you're a captive in that
sense that's what a captive is maybe but maybe you've got a maybe you were the victim but you
took offense you're still a captive okay in that sense but a prisoner in this context a prisoner
is someone who is sitting against someone right they have a legal right to be a prisoner of
someone who's you know there's a legal right for them to be in prison the captive is someone who's
just taken they've been taken unjustly okay so captives and prisoners there's an important thing
there like you're a prisoner if you're the perpetrator you're a captive if you're the
victim so just a slight difference there in terms of what Jesus is talking about but let's check out
Shabbat for a moment so Shabbat the shattered minds this is a really dynamic place because
you know PTSD post-traumatic stress disorder so many things we don't realize how often the mind
shatters and you will find that if you get into you know more in-depth in the healing ministry
you will find that people have they call it parts oftentimes it's called someone has a different
part and if there's a trauma your mind will shatter it will break it into a different part
and that part might be you know like it might be a four-year-old girl and sometimes what happens
is your mind gets shattered into lots of different parts and depending on the trauma depending on the
person these parts can take on personalities of their own so the personality you know this is
where you get multiple personality disorder okay it's a shattered mind but it's a really deeply
shattered mind and it's a person who's you know in the context of a shattered mind this is a really
really like simple simplistic overview of it but a really simplistic basic overview of it which is
not like extra just just basic would be that those shattered parts of the mind can take on different
personalities and in different contexts an individual will find that one of those personalities
is more beneficial for them so it's like a mask right and sometimes you meet people like this oh
hey it's like you're a totally different person right they put on they take a mask off they put
a mask on so in one particular and usually it's coping mechanisms survival mechanisms safety
mechanisms that if they're in an unsafe space in one area one part might be the right part to play
to be safe in that area so they get that personality they put that on and then another part it will
change now the interesting thing about this if you talk to people who really experienced in
deliverance ministries is that each of these different personalities and paths can take on
their own different uh demonic afflictions right so they can each of these different personality
each have their own uh evil spirits in a sense they can all they could be oppressed by different
things so if you talk about talk to people who've been in deliverance for a long time
you'll find that sometimes they cast the same spirit out of someone five different times
now what's going on here it's not that it's gone back it's actually that a different part
is surfacing a different part is coming to the forefront of this person and that different part
is some of the same demonic affliction that they dealt with in another different path i hope this
is making sense right it's pretty dynamic but that's why jesus was talking about the shattered
minds now because he's like this is why i've come i've come to uh i've come to bind up the shattered
minds and you'll find as well now if someone's been through ritualistic satanic abuse which is
actually way more common than you would think ritualistic satanic abuse or rsa is designed
like the whole the whole mindset behind it is that it's designed to shatter people's minds
it's designed to create different paths it's designed to create multiple personality disorders
so if you if you see people who've been through this type of ritualistic abuse you'll find that
they've got multiple parts as a real key thing for it now what we don't often realize in ourselves
is that we can you know we can have that in our
You know, there's a lot of my students that I've worked with in the past that had these
different paths.
You know, it could be trauma, oftentimes it's abuse, sexual abuse, that will shatter.
And so, you know, sometimes we'll be praying for someone and, you know, talking to someone
and say, you know, who am I talking to right now?
And they'll actually go, they will step into that path, in a sense, they'll present that
path, and they will be, all of their characteristics will become a four year old girl, they're
fully personifying a four year old girl, everything about them is now trapped in this
path as a four year old girl, and yet you have to relate to them and get them free as
that path.
So taking captive every thought and making it obedient to Christ, this and the shattered
minds, this is the process of deep repentance, because oftentimes, repentance is quite shallow,
and remember, we've talked about the conscious, subconscious and unconscious mind.
Majority of the time, when we deal with repentance, it's in the conscious level, right?
A Bible study, and things like that, you know, church, often in church, we usually only go
as deep as the conscious mind.
And I wouldn't say all churches only go that way, but it takes something really significant
to shift someone's belief at a subconscious, unconscious level.
What about, what about dreams?
Bad dreams?
I mean, I dream more bad dreams than good dreams.
Yeah, well, I would, and I wake up and I pray against it, I say, leave me or whatever, I'll
wake up, why am I even thinking this?
Yeah, yeah, now, there'd be two parts to that, that I would look into.
One, I'd be wanting to clarify if that is an external source, you know, I talked about
before the return to sender.
So I'd be, there's two things that I, every person's going to have to take something like
that, you're going to have to take that to the Lord and get real clarity.
But there'd be, from my perspective, there'd probably be two options on what's going on
there.
And you'll have to get clarity on this.
But it could be that Satan's just bringing an attack from the outside and trying to just
bring accusation, trying to infiltrate your imagination.
And so this is where we have to kind of really take it to the Lord.
So Lord, is there a root in me that's producing this or is this an external attack?
I kind of think it's external more than anything.
I think that the more that I'm involved, the more that I read the word, the more that I
get attacked.
Right.
Well, if you come to the place that, let me just share two possible scenarios of what
I would do.
So if I was in your place and I came to the conclusion, well, this is an external attack,
then I would basically ignore it.
I'd be like, return to sender, that's got nothing to do with me.
I definitely wouldn't repent from it.
All I would do is like, wow.
I wake up.
We're talking about a dream here that I wake up from and I'll say, why did I have that
thought?
Why?
You know what I'm saying?
It's not, I wake up from it and I'm like, let me just try and try and get to the key
here is if you think it's an external thing and it's an attack, then I wouldn't ask the
question, why did I have this dream?
Right.
Because what you're doing and asking that question is you're starting to take ownership
and it plants a root in you that makes you think there's something wrong with me that
I had this dream.
Right.
But if it's an attack, then you want to make sure that you take no ownership for it.
And you say, I break all agreement.
So I always start with, I break all agreement with this and I just return that to sender.
I have no participation in that.
That's not mine.
I return that to sender.
I break all agreement with it.
I'd only ever repent of something if I was completely convinced that I was believing
a lie about it or there was an issue in me, because what Satan wants us to do is try and
start repenting of something that's not our issue.
And it's impossible to do that.
So we'll never win.
You know, we'll fail in that quest.
And a lot of times I found myself failing, trying to repent of something and failing
miserably because it wasn't something I needed to repent of.
I'd just been tricked by the enemy that there was something wrong with me when there wasn't.
And so I was fighting phantoms in my.
prayer life. So that's where I would say, if it's something that you perceive as an external attack,
then just be like, God, I break all agreement with this and I wash my hands of it and that's it.
I wouldn't take it any further. I would just ignore it. So that's got nothing to do with me.
It's not my mail.
So what started to happen though, in a sense, if there's a weakness, then Satan tries to exploit
it. And once I stopped repenting of things that weren't my junk, he stopped throwing it out there
as much. When he had me hooked on that trick, he used to just keep getting me all the time.
But once I caught up to what he was doing and I stopped taking his bait, he realized,
this is a waste of my time. So it only happens occasionally now, as opposed to being all the time.
But then, if I did come to the conclusion, as I saw God as an icon, there's something in me,
then I'd be like, God, let's deal with this. Show me the root cause, what's going on here.
And I'd be listening out to him for that. So if we get into this
conscious, subconscious, unconscious stuff, this is, and I'm going to read this
verse to you again. I'm just going to pull this up for you.
2 Corinthians 10, verse 5.
This is the take captive every thought. So it says, we demolish arguments and every pretension
that sets itself up against the knowledge of God. And we take captive every thought to make it
obedient to Christ. Now, we can read that and it can just kind of be like a super simple thing,
not realizing how deep that is. That is talking about the process of engaging with every thought
that you've ever had, turning over every stone in your heart and your mind and searching out
your entire body, soul and spirit to see if there's anywhere where there's a trace of a lie
or a trace of ignorance, where there's a lie or there's a lack of revelation. Because
Hosea says that my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. So even the fact that there's
something that you don't know, you can still suffer from, you know, Satan doesn't care that
you don't know, you'll still suffer. So it's like this, okay, God, take me, take me deeper, deeper,
deeper. Leave no stone unturned in me. So 2 Corinthians 10 5, again, we take captive
every thought to make it obedient to Christ. It's deep, right? That's all of your past,
every piece of information that you've ever collected and brought together is stored in
your mind, your conscious, your subconscious and your unconscious. So deep repentance is about
getting to the very core and shifting those things around. But one of the things that we
talked about that we've been focusing on with the Daily Hard Things Challenge, I'm going to
wrap this session up shortly, but I'm going to give you some challenge this week, okay? I'm going
to give you some homework to take away from this one this week, that's about enabling you to start
shifting the deeper things in your conscious, subconscious and unconscious, right? I want you
to start connecting with those deeper levels of conscious and, you know, going right into the
very core of your unconscious and subconscious. I'm going to give you some homework that actually
will start shifting and moving those things at the deeper, at the deeper level.
I forgot what I was, I forgot what I was just saying there.
We were talking about Shabbat, Shattered Minds, 2 Corinthians 10 5, taking captive every thought.
So we'll just, I think I had, I had a thought of something I was going to touch on, but we'll just
stay on this track. We have to be able to figure out how we're going to connect into
to that deeper level, because we're so used to
always just operating out of our conscious mind.
So we have to shift things in the spirit.
Oh, that's what I was talking about,
is the daily hard things challenge.
What that so much of that has been about
is about preparing the soil.
Remember the parable of the sower, right?
What people don't often realize in the parable of the sower
is that the ground, the soil represents your mind.
The soil represents your conscious, subconscious
and unconscious.
That's one of the keys to the parable of the sower
is that the divine life,
there's nothing wrong with the seed in that parable.
You remember that parable, don't you?
Where Jesus talks about the parable of the sower.
He's scattering seed and the seed, some hits rocky ground.
You know, some goes on the path and the bird snatched up,
some hit rocky ground, it doesn't grow very well.
Some hits that rocky ground where it springs up real quick
and then withers because it has no root.
Some goes where there's weeds
and the weeds grow up and kill it.
And there's only some good soil.
So we see that good soil that the seed only comes to life
and bears fruit in the good soil.
Now the seed is the seed of the gospel
and the fruit is the fruit of the divine life.
But in every case,
was there ever anything wrong with the seed?
That's one of the keys to this whole dynamic
of the parable of the sower is the seed.
There was never a problem with the seed.
And Jesus is telling us
there's never a problem with the seed.
You know, the seed,
and this is how it's really a moment
of extreme ownership for us
because there's nothing wrong with the seed of the gospel.
Right, the seed of the gospel,
if the seed of the gospel goes into good soil,
it will always produce the fruit of the divine life.
And the divine life looks like
the exact same state of being as God.
So the only thing that changes in the equation
in terms of you and I is the quality of the soil.
And the quality of the soil directly relates
to the quality of the beliefs that are stored
in our conscious, subconscious, and unconscious minds.
So what we need to do more than anything else
is take care of the soil.
So the activation tool that I gave you today
for cleansing the imagination,
it's like a plow,
that you can use that plow to take care of the soil
of your own mind.
So essentially, we wanna get rid of the weeds.
The weeds is one thing.
Yeah, there's a lot of things going on there, isn't there?
There's hardness of heart where nothing's growing.
There's weeds.
There's the rocky soil where it's just shallow.
And then there's the good soil.
So yes, for us, if we're taking care of the soil,
we wanna take care of everything.
You've got birds that are coming to steal the seed.
You've got weeds.
You've got rocky grounds.
So you've got to, as a farmer,
as a person who's trying to turn your mind into a garden,
your imagination to a garden,
that's a resting place for you and the Trinity,
a resting place where you share and experience
the divine dance with the Trinity.
You're a gardener, that's what you're doing.
So a huge part of being a gardener
is taking care of the soil.
So the homework that I'm gonna give you is,
first of all, hopefully you are participating
in the Daily Hard Things Challenge,
because a big part of the Daily Hard Things Challenge
is about preparing the soil.
This is where we so often miss in our discipleship.
We think that so much of discipleship
is about trying to do good teaching.
Trying to do good teaching,
as opposed to people taking care of the soil
in their own hearts.
If you've got great soil,
the teaching that you receive can be average
and will still produce the divine life.
So it's actually more related to the soil than the seed.
Now, you can guarantee that the seed is always present.
The seed is always active.
The seed of the gospel is ready to go.
It's the quality of the soil,
the quality of our hearts and minds, that's the trick.
So here's the homework that I'm gonna give,
and then we're gonna wrap it up for today.
But in the Daily Hard Things Challenge,
we've been praying in the spirit five minutes a day.
I would like to put a challenge out there.
but I'd like to put a challenge out there to you all to at some point in this next week
spend one hour praying in the Spirit.
You know, dedicate an hour, set aside one hour to pray and just spend the whole hour
praying in the Spirit.
And the reason is because praying in the Spirit is deep unto deep, right?
Praying in the Spirit, if you start praying in the Spirit for an hour, it will, it's like
a, it's again, it's like a hoe, it's going to go deep into that soil, it's going to churn
it up.
And here's the three things that I noticed that start happening when you start intensely
praying in the Spirit.
The first thing that I noticed is conviction starts coming, because if you, you want to
be praying in the Spirit like a gardener, right, the gardener's really concerned for
the quality of the soil, like, okay, Jesus, I want the divine life here, I want my imagination
to be a garden that's a resting place for us, so Jesus, what I want to do is I really
want you to search me out, and I'd be encouraging you to pray your version of this prayer, which
is leave no stone unturned in me.
It becomes quite a radical prayer when you say, okay, God, leave no stone unturned in
me.
And you kind of, you can expect a bit of mess when you start praying like this, because
if there's a, if there's a wound, he'll start messing with it.
If there's a lie you're believing, if there's a relationship that's in chaos, if there's
a mess, if there's offense, if there's, you know, like, sin in your life, he's going to
start messing with it when you start praying these prayers, but the fruit will be worth
it.
So, first thing I want to encourage you to do as homeworkers, you come up with your own
version of this prayer, which is God, leave no stone unturned in me, search me out.
God, leave no stone unturned.
And then the second part of your homework is sometime between now and next week, because
we'll have this session again next week, same time, is spend a dedicated hour praying in
the spirit.
Now, I've got no idea how many times I've done that, spend an hour praying in the spirit
or two hours or three hours praying in the spirit, but what you find is one of the first
things that happens is if there's anything that's out of alignment in your life and you
start stepping into a season of intentionally pursuing God like this, one of the first things
you'll find is conviction will just hit you like a freight train.
And it's glorious and uncomfortable and hard and difficult and awkward and challenging
and often unpleasant, but it's always going to produce life and produce growth and
produce transformation.
This is probably one of the reasons why people often avoid going to this depth with God,
because it gets really uncomfortable.
He's going to look at your secret sins and go, oh yeah, some of these are a mess.
He's going to, and now he'll do it in his own gentle, beautiful way where he doesn't do
everything all at one time, but where he does things, you know, just so beautifully and so
tenderly with us and in such a beautiful way where he's like, oh no, we can deal with this
one right now. We can deal with this right now.
So he's gentle and he's tender in the process, but then sometimes he puts his finger on
something and says, we've got to deal with this right now.
So there is this kind of like, I don't know, it's almost like a brutal tenderness where he's
like, I don't want you to continue living in this dysfunction.
And he calls us out. So this first phase is conviction.
Then the next phase that I've found is revelation.
Does it help bring revelation on why this is an issue?
You're like, OK, why this is an issue, you know, why you need to deal with it.
And then the third phase is edification, the strength to actually deal with it.
Now, if you go through that and you actually deal with that stuff, you know, that's a
limited, finite amount of things that you're going to get convicted about or they're
going to have to tidy up.
So what happens once you've kind of finished that tidy up side of things and you've
finished decluttering the warehouse of your imagination, then really what starts to
happen is you just start stepping into this place of revelation and edification.
You don't have tidying, you don't have to tidy the warehouse anymore.
It's kind of like you get to plant gardens and do beautiful stuff in the garden.
So. How does that sound?
Any questions? We're going to wrap it up in a few minutes, but we'll just open it up for
any questions or feedback.
I'm watching the Facebook comments here as well.
Benji, I was just wondering, I mean this isn't for myself, but I'm just wondering, like what
do people do when they don't pray in the spirit, like, or they don't know how, or it's been,
I don't know, maybe I'm just reading into something like there seems to be like an assumption
that this is what people do on here, and I'm just wondering about people who don't or don't
know how, or this is new to them.
Yeah, totally, so I would just find out how to pray in the spirit.
I would rather, I don't want to create, I don't want to create an easy way out for people.
If they're in this, if they're in the Online School of Sonship, and they don't know how
to pray in the spirit, then ask, we'll do a session on it, every time I've asked so
far, everyone has said, yeah, that's, I'm all good with that, so if anyone's like, hey,
I don't know about praying in the spirit, then always ask, we'll always, we're always
gracious, we'd love to do training on that, but put it in your heart that you want to
know, and then do whatever it takes to get it, because that is going to be one of your
greatest resources for transformation.
Yeah, it's not the only thing, but it is beyond words beneficial, beyond words beneficial
to do that.
There's not many things that, here's one of the reasons, right, is because nearly everything
else operates out of the conscious mind.
Praying in the spirit doesn't operate out of the conscious mind, it operates deeper,
it comes from the spirit, which actually, the spirit is deep, the spirit kind of like,
wrong, it revolves and operates in this unconscious subconscious realm, so it's kind of like
when you start praying in the spirit, especially for an extended period of time, it's like
you start, it's deep, pulling out to deep, it starts breaking up the hard ground in the
deep part of us, I don't know how to explain that better than it's deep pulling out to
deep, and it's like it breaks up the hard ground on the inside of us, and it stirs stuff
up and breaks stuff up.
So that's not a very good explanation for it, but that's what I would suggest.
I mean, everything's going to be good, you know, read the Bible more and things like
that, but one of the key differences is that it doesn't operate out of the conscious mind,
operates from the spirit, and therefore it kind of gets this unconscious subconscious
activation happening.
Cool, all right team, anything that you've taken away from today that you're like,
that was a really good point, I'm happy I tuned into that.
Rachel is watching online and she said, I started praying those sorts of prayers,
Leave No Stone Unturned about four years ago, and I can testify it is well worth it.
Healing happened and acceleration happened and fruit, fruit, fruit, how good is that?
It's a dangerous prayer, but a beautiful prayer.
Thank you so much, Rachel.
Great to have Tina and Lisa, thank you so much for joining us today.
Great to have Tina and Lisa all online, beautiful, and all the others who are online as well.
Wonderful to have you together, and Dorcas, hi.
How about, so whether you're on Facebook or whether you're here in the Zoom, why don't
you just share one thing that's a good takeaway that you felt like, yeah, that was a good
thing I picked up from today.
I thought the practical application for it was good.
Visualizing the, you know, the image on the cross and covering it with the blood, and
yeah, that was good.
Excellent.
Lorraine?
I think it's really important what you said to be intentional, you know, sometimes we
just do things like just going through the motions, but you know, to be really focused
and intentional is that, you know, I really want this.
Yeah, beautiful, beautiful.
I'd say something like that's one of the things about with tongues as well, because
tongues doesn't operate out of the cognitive, conscious mind, you can, there's different
ways that you can pray in tongues.
You can pray in tongues while you're making your lunch or whatever, but if you set aside
an hour and you really dedicate that to praying in the spirit and really going,
like really flowing with the spirit when you're praying, you'll find that not all praying in
tongues is alike, not all praying in tongues produces the same fruit. Praying in tongues
when you're not engaged with the fact that you're praying in tongues won't produce as much fruit as
if you dedicate some time out, like you said, being intentional, praying in the spirit and
flowing in the spirit, you'll find that you'll get way more fruit praying in the spirit like that.
It doesn't mean that you shouldn't pray in the spirit while you're making your lunch,
you'll get benefit from that as well, go for it, but you've got to, if you want to see some real
deep work start happening in your life, you know, shut yourself away, create that space
where you can really flow as you pray in the spirit. Thank you. Cool, Lorraine, so good to
have you with us, appreciate you jumping in. Now, is it Beth or, I'm not sure if I've got your name
right because it's just the name on Zoom, but it says iPhone Ben Beck, but what,
do you want to unmute and share with us what's happening for you and what a takeaway is for you?
Are you getting it there? Yeah, you can hear me now? Yeah, so how do we say your name correctly?
Well, in Dutch it's Bep with a P at the end and in English it's Beth, that's the end of Elizabeth.
Okay, beautiful, beautiful, well welcome. What's something that you're going to take away from today?
Well, you know, I just came in, it's five o'clock in the morning here now, I came in just
before the questions, Q&A that you started, but I have also been with, just about 10 years ago
with restoring the foundations and there I had a strategy of repenting from lies
and then so I think I can make a beautiful combination at the replay to listen and
to combine with I had before what I already practiced. I have quite a list of lies that
I didn't go away yet, so I could just pick up those papers and get to work with it.
Yeah, beautiful, that's very cool, very cool. Barbara is just jumping in from Facebook and
she's saying, I've been taught that because of the finished work of Christ that we were
good soil. In the past I've gotten into such introspection that I was left with such guilt and
shame, but when the Holy Spirit brings conviction it is clean and without shame it brings radical
grace change. Yeah, beautiful. So, I think if you've tracked with us for a while you'll understand
that, you know, like when it comes to an identity statement, you know, I believe that we're perfect
a hundred percent that as our identity we're perfect, right, but there's this dynamic of
almost like diffusion, it seems like our identity is perfect, but there's lies or it's
Romans 8, you know, Romans 8 says all creation is groaning for the unveiling of the sons of God,
but if you imagine that something needs to be veiled, then let me give you an example here,
okay, look, this is my drink bottle, this is my whiteboard cleaner, okay, that is veiled, right,
now it's unveiled, and so for us the prophecies of the unveiling of the sons of God is removing
a lie, you remove the lie, you unveil the sons of God, so every time you remove a lie you reveal
something that's already there, and so for us our mind is the place where those lies go, and so this
process of deep repentance and the cleansing of our imagination is the process of removing the
deep lies, and that's what all creation is groaning out for right now, is that, you know, these deep
lies that we've been believing will be removed off us, but in response to Barbara I'd definitely
say as well, you can get into this place where you kind of like turn your whole life into a witch hunt,
and that's definitely not what I'm suggesting, I'm not saying turn your whole life into
a witch hunt, but what I love about the way that God does it is that he does it in his own rhythm,
you know, for me as well, like there's so much that he didn't even put his finger on for years,
there's probably tons that he still
hasn't identified a me that he's like, yeah, son, we'll get there.
And so that's one of the reasons as well.
Why I'd encourage praying in the spirit, because when you do it like that
and you say, hey, God, leave no stone unturned.
I would I would put the searching out.
I'd make that his job rather than your own job. Right.
You make that his job to search you out.
You make it his job to refine you and you make it your job to chase him.
Yeah. So, Barbara, thanks for that.
Anyone else want to jump in?
I'm going to sign off otherwise.
But if anyone else wants to jump in and share, then that's awesome.
Barbara, very cool.
That's fantastic. You're welcome.
Yeah. Rachel says he's good and gentle and you can trust him.
Absolutely.
Last chance, if anyone wants to say anything,
otherwise we're going to wrap it up for today.
I'm going to ask a question.
Yeah, yeah. I know that I know of
at least two people in my life, my past life here,
that that I've seen God use powerfully and have
physically felt the Holy Spirit on them.
You know, when I don't know if you've experienced this or not, but
when a person is praying for another person, there's a wall around them.
Do you know what I'm talking about?
There's a wall around them.
It's like a circle that goes around him or.
Do you get where I'm coming from here?
I think I just I missed a little bit of what you see, sir.
Can you just repeat it? Sorry about that.
I just like it cut out or something. I didn't quite hear.
OK, I know of two people in my life that I've seen God use.
OK, and I'll just put it this way.
I knew these people. OK.
And, you know,
how the expression goes that
like people go to church on Sunday and then when they're out of church,
they're entirely different people.
OK, so and I felt the Holy Spirit is so strong
and then that I could not lift my own arms physically to pray for them.
What do you think about that situation?
Yeah, I mean, it's pretty, pretty common.
That's one of the meanings of the word glory is the word Kabbalah.
It means a white presence.
So it's really common that the way the presence of God
will come on you in one way or another and mobilize you in a sense.
So that's pretty, pretty normal.
That's normal.
I mean, yeah, it is pretty normal, especially if you're hanging around
the Holy Spirit a lot.
He will immobilize.
That's the meaning of the word glory, which is one of the words for his presence
is the weighty presence.
So the Hebrew word Kabbalah
used in the Old Testament a lot.
It means the weighty presence.
You even see it in the Old Testament.
We, you know, Solomon's temple was dedicated.
You know, they couldn't stand to minister in the temple.
No one could stand because of the glory, the weighty presence.
Everyone was, in a sense, immobilized by the weight of his glory.
So, yeah, it happens a lot around the Holy Spirit.
OK. All right.
I want to. Yeah, I love it.
I love it. This presence is awesome.
And we want more of that.
OK. All right.
Thank you. Hey, welcome, Paul.
Lorraine, why don't you?
I just feel like it'd be great if you prayed for us to wrap up today.
Ramella, great to have you with us as well.
And thanks, everyone, for joining.
We'll let you pray your own and then we'll sign off.
Thank you, Father, for this time that we can gather.
You gather us from all over the world at a at a time where
we are we are learning and and wanting to just
enter more into your presence and
enter more into your presence and have and to be able to build that garden
and and just be more productive as
in our lives in every way.
And as we turn into you and allow you to do your deep work,
we can then be able to
turn around and be your hands and feet in the places that you send us
and take us and people you put in front of us
so that as your word goes out, that we can become part of that word
because it will not return to you.
So I bless these people that are here and that you will give us
full understanding and reveal more to us.
And as we do this this next week, that we will
just encounter what you have.
for each one of us, just because you are so specific
with each one of us and you work with us
in the ways that we understand.
And I thank you that you do that for us
and that we are just not a cookie cutter,
but that you are just so personal with us.
And I praise you, I thank you and bless your name, ma'am.
Amen.
Thanks everyone, love you.
And we'll catch you all again soon.
I'll be live, you might see me,
I'm live in the mornings this week as well,
doing the automated income training
because we're giving away kingdom businesses this week,
which is actually crazy cool
because they're worth over $10,000
and I'm showing people how to use them,
giving them away, so that's really fun.
So that's happening at the end of the week.
So if you're wanting to follow along with that,
you can, and then Alana and I are live again Friday
with the Seven Sacred Pathways
and our book is all done back from the editors,
designers and everything.
So we'll be releasing that real soon for you guys as well,
so you all get a free copy.
So cool, cool, bless you and we'll catch you soon.
Bye-bye.