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You Can't Give Yourself Grace (Is Your Business Wearing You Out?) · Jesus Girl Gang Kingdom Business Podcast | Faith-Led Strategies for Christian Entrepreneurs

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  SPEAKER_01: This is the Jesus Girl Gang Kingdom Business Podcast, where faith finally meets real strategy to launch your online business.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're going to be talking about something really, really good today.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's all good because we're always talking about something out of the word of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: But today is going to be really good.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're talking about grace.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're going to be talking about grace.
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  SPEAKER_01: I just wanted to introduce myself to anybody who's new here.
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  SPEAKER_01: My name is Erica, Erica Pyle.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm a pastor of a local church here in Tampa, Florida called Revive Church of Tampa.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I also am the founder and leader of an entrepreneurial women's community, a kingdom entrepreneurial women's community called the Jesus Girl Gang.
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  SPEAKER_01: And inside of that community, I host something called the Build with Faith Mentorship.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I am a breakthrough business coach who helps Kingdom Women to build and launch their business or ministry online to impact and income.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm really excited about what's coming up in the next week.
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  SPEAKER_01: So over the last few months, I've been kind of reinvigorating and reviving what's inside of the mentorship community for our current members.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I just got really excited about it and wanted to open up the doors of the membership again.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the Jesus Girl Gang hasn't been opened continuously.
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  SPEAKER_01: We open at intervals throughout the year.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I generally do that with a challenge or something like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And last month I was challenged by my coach, my mentor, and my pastor to do something different, like shake it up.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I started having a pray and a think with God about like how could I open this up again in a way that was an easy on-ramp for women who were struggling to finally launch their business or ministry online.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because that's who I work with is those women who will say, I've been working for years to get this thing launched.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's just not, it's not happening.
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  SPEAKER_01: Either I'm stuck and I'm thinking about quitting, or or I'm like, I keep on being in a spin cycle where I like I'm doing the things, I'm applying the strategy, I'm building the stuff.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then I go to launch and somewhere in there, it's not working right.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I can't get to the impact and the income that God showed me.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, you're my girl.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I was like, what can I put together that's easy to access and easy to understand so that you can determine whether you need to be working with me in my community.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I put together something called the Called to Build Workshop.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm going to be sharing with you the four things that every kingdom business needs to finally launch online.
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  SPEAKER_01: Chances are you're probably missing at least one of those things.
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  SPEAKER_01: But over time, as I've worked with women, I know that you're probably missing at least two of them.
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  SPEAKER_01: And these things can either be missing or misaligned, these four things that you need.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so even if you have all four of them, it's likely that they're not firing properly so that you can get launched effectively online.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so if you want to come and learn about what those four things are, I can help you to figure out which ones are missing and or misaligned.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then I can help you to fix them so that they're installed properly in your business and in your launch plan so that you can finally launch to impact and income online.
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  SPEAKER_01: Are you are do you need that?
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  SPEAKER_01: If this is you, if you're like, oh my goodness, she's describing me, then I want you to come to this free workshop.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's called Call to Build, and you can go to Jesus Scrollgang.com slash called to build and get signed up.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's free.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can just save your seat.
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  SPEAKER_01: I just need you to save your seat.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm watching the registrations.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I I know you probably know this if you've been in business or ministry online, but you know, you you have the Zoom account that is capped.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then you like every time you do a webinar, or once you get going, you you'll start to do these workshops and webinars, and you'll start watching that number because you're like, I know that if I cross a certain line, there's gonna come a point where people will get locked out if they try to join live.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I don't want that to happen.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I just I I need you guys to register so that I can properly like have the right number of seats in the Zoom package that I'm using to host you on Tuesday, September 15th at 7 p.m.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right.
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  SPEAKER_01: So go to Jesus Girlgang.com/slash called to build and you can save your seat.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um, obviously come live if you can, because we'll do a Q ⁇ A at the end and I'll answer any of your questions that you have.
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  SPEAKER_01: But if you can't come on Tuesday at 7 p.m.
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  SPEAKER_01: Eastern live, there is a replay, a limited replay for seven days.
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  SPEAKER_01: So if that's you, just still sign up and I'll send you the replay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's Thursday, friends.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so what does that mean?
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  SPEAKER_01: It means that I'm talking to Kingdom Builders today.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we are recording an episode of the Jesus Girl Gang Kingdom Business Podcast right here.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so today, this is what I have for you builders.
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  SPEAKER_01: Are you ready?
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  SPEAKER_01: Listen to me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Giving yourself grace, give yourself grace, that's not biblical.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's actually not biblical.
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  SPEAKER_01: When we're telling ourselves, I have to give myself grace.
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  SPEAKER_01: Or when you've got a coach or a mentor or a pastor, even who's saying, sis, you got to give yourself grace in this season, you got to give yourself grace as you're building this business or this ministry.
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  SPEAKER_01: I will never say that to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'll never say it to you because it's not biblical.
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  SPEAKER_01: Understand that.
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  SPEAKER_01: So where do I get this?
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  SPEAKER_01: I get it from a number of different scriptures.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the first concept that you need to hear, because here's the thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Why do we even ask this question?
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  SPEAKER_01: Why are we even wanting to say, give yourself grace?
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  SPEAKER_01: Why are we even wanting to give ourselves grace?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because we worn out, sister.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're tired.
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  SPEAKER_01: We we've been trying the same thing over and over and over again, expecting a different result.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's not happening.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not happening.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so we're like, we gotta give ourselves what we think is grace.
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  SPEAKER_01: But really, here's what needs to happen.
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  SPEAKER_01: You need to give yourself a break.
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  SPEAKER_01: You need to, you need to, you need to allow the mercy of God to come onto you.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you need to give yourself a break.
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  SPEAKER_01: You need to take a rest, but a real rest.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not a, I'm quietly quitting rest, not a I'm fading to the back and maybe no one will notice then I'm not here anymore.
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  SPEAKER_01: Rest.
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  SPEAKER_01: That that's not that's not rest.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's quietly quitting.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's quietly quitting and stepping away from the work.
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  SPEAKER_01: You have you have exited the workspace when you do that.
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  SPEAKER_01: But how can we give ourselves a break and take on the rest of God to continue the work?
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  SPEAKER_01: How can we do that?
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  SPEAKER_01: Where's a picture of this where Jesus was doing this in the Bible?
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  SPEAKER_01: I would point you to John chapter four.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's one of my favorite stories in the entire Bible.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's the story of Jesus meeting with the woman at the well.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if you read that scripture, here's what it says Jesus, weary from walking, sat down at the well.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then he asked the woman for a drink.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now that might still look like rest, and that's okay because we're going to get into a scripture today that shows you that you work from rest.
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  SPEAKER_01: But he actually started working.
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  SPEAKER_01: When he asked that woman for water, he was working, he was ministering.
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  SPEAKER_01: So this is a picture of how our Lord, our Lord, and and our best example that we have of how to walk out this life.
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  SPEAKER_01: He was weary from doing work.
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  SPEAKER_01: His body was tired.
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  SPEAKER_01: He needed to sit down, but he worked from that rest.
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  SPEAKER_01: He began to speak to that woman and minister to her.
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  SPEAKER_01: And before you knew it, she was saved.
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  SPEAKER_01: She was a believer.
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  SPEAKER_01: And she was running over to tell her friends in the village what had happened.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so we can also work from rest.
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  SPEAKER_01: So this concept, this worldly concept that says, you know what?
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, because I I kind of like that meme that I see on social media sometimes that says, look, when you're tired, you need to learn to rest and not quit.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_01: But because we're kingdom women, we can actually learn how to rest without quitting, without stopping.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's wild, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because the rest that God has for us is active.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's active.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I can show you that in scripture.
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  SPEAKER_01: So let me let me start with the word that God gave me that started this, started this whole episode.
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  SPEAKER_01: Are you ready?
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  SPEAKER_01: He said, Erica, give yourself a break, breathe, receive the grace of God and the peace of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then keep going.
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  SPEAKER_01: Here it is.
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  SPEAKER_01: Give yourself a break, breathe, receive the grace of God and the peace of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then keep going.
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  SPEAKER_01: Can I say it one more time?
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  SPEAKER_01: Maybe you want to close your eyes and you want to put your hand on your chest and you just want to receive.
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  SPEAKER_01: Maybe you just want to let this word hit you and let the Holy Spirit help you to determine, to discern whether this is a word for you in season.
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  SPEAKER_01: Are you ready?
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna say it to you again.
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  SPEAKER_01: Give yourself a break.
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  SPEAKER_01: Breathe.
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  SPEAKER_01: Receive the grace of God and the peace of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then keep going.
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  SPEAKER_01: So first things first, let's define grace.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because when we say to ourselves, I need to give myself some grace, we just don't understand what that word grace is.
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  SPEAKER_01: If we really understood the definition for grace, we wouldn't be saying that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Maybe we'd be saying, I need to give myself a break, or I need to give myself an opportunity, or maybe like I need to receive the mercy of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: Maybe these are ways, or I need to receive the grace of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: These are things that we can say because these are biblical.
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  SPEAKER_01: But once we understand the definition of grace, we're never gonna say to ourselves, I need to give myself grace, because we know it's impossible.
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  SPEAKER_01: So let's look at it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Grace is actually, if I had to define it in biblical terms, this is what I would say to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Grace is an empowering force from God that gives you the ability to do the thing that you could not do alone.
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  SPEAKER_01: You need God's power to do it.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's what grace is.
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  SPEAKER_01: Grace is an empowering force from God that gives you the ability to do a thing that you could not do on your own because it utilizes the grace, the power of God to do it in you and through you.
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  SPEAKER_01: You with me?
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  SPEAKER_01: So therefore, you cannot give yourself grace because you don't have grace.
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  SPEAKER_01: Grace is God's and He puts it in you and He works it through you through the power of the Holy Spirit in you.
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  SPEAKER_01: So are we there?
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  SPEAKER_01: So we can't give ourselves grace.
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  SPEAKER_01: So just right then and there, like just understand the definition of grace.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, with that definition in mind, now these scriptures about grace are gonna make much more sense.
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  SPEAKER_01: And now it's gonna be very clear that we cannot give ourselves grace.
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  SPEAKER_01: So check out 2 Corinthians 12 9.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have it sitting, I have an art piece that's right there on my wall.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um I see it every single day.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's 2 Corinthians 12, 9.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it says, this is Paul talking about he's talking about like how he couldn't do so, like he had the thorn in his side, and he kept on asking God to take it away.
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  SPEAKER_01: And God says to him, My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in your weakness.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, what this says is I have to identify that I'm weak, that I cannot do this on my own.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that is the perfect condition for God to come and give you grace.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's why I was saying maybe it's better to say there's an opportunity here for me, or I'm gonna receive the grace and the mercy of God, because that's really what happens is we admit our weakness in an area, we go to God and we say, I can't do this thing on my own.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm feeling weary, I'm feeling worn out and I need help.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so from there, that's how God gives us, gives us his grace.
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  SPEAKER_01: Are you with me?
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  SPEAKER_01: Now look at um, look at 1 Corinthians 15, 10.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it in verse nine, this is where Paul says, I'm the least of these because I was persecuting Christians, I was persecuting the very ones that I am now sent to minister to.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then in verse 10, he says this he says, but by the grace of God I am what I am, which is an apostle.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's called by God as an apostle.
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  SPEAKER_01: So he says, even though, even though I am it it seems impossible for me, even though I shouldn't be able to, even though I feel incredibly weak and not capable of this, even though it says, he says, but by the grace of God I am that I am.
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  SPEAKER_01: And his grace towards me was not in vain, was not in vain.
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  SPEAKER_01: On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is why in awards ceremonies, sometimes, you know, when they're giving accolade to the actor, the actress, the musician, the whomever, you will have a believer, a Christian, someone who follows Jesus going.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because they're acknowledging, they're acknowledging.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, we don't want to move into false humility that's like, oh, it had nothing to do with me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because Paul even is saying, well, on the contrary, I worked harder than all of these, but I did it by the grace of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm recognizing that I can't do it on my own.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm recognizing that there's no striving, there's nothing in me.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's nothing Paul says it in Romans, he says, there's nothing good in me that is in my sinful nature because I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot walk it out.
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  SPEAKER_01: But thanks be to God that he put his spirit on the inside of me, and now I can walk according to, by the grace of God, I can walk in accordance with the way that God is calling me, but it's only by grace.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you cannot give yourself grace, sister.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can't.
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  SPEAKER_01: What you're trying to say is I need to give myself a break.
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  SPEAKER_01: I need to, I need to step into rest because, listen, listen, because I've been sinning.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_01: This coach gonna tell you straight.
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  SPEAKER_01: This coach is gonna speak the truth to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: This I am that I am, I am that I am, that by the grace of God, I'm gonna work hard in this moment and I am gonna tell you the truth.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's likely that you're being worn out because you are in sin.
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  unknown: What?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, because we don't understand that when there is a challenge and we can't figure something out, we we go harder in the paint.
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  SPEAKER_01: We try harder to figure it out in our own effort, in our own striving.
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  SPEAKER_01: We overthink.
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  SPEAKER_01: And where is this coming from?
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  SPEAKER_01: It's coming because we think that we have to resolve our own problem.
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  SPEAKER_01: We think we have to figure out the solution on our own.
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  SPEAKER_01: When all throughout the New Testament, Jesus and the apostles and the writers of the of the books of the New Testament are telling us, no, actually, your job is not to figure it out.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not to strive, it's to enter the rest of Christ and to allow him to be the solution for you.
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  SPEAKER_01: I know it's real hard.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're like, Erica, I didn't get on here.
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  SPEAKER_01: I didn't get on here to listen to you to be told that I'm sinning.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, you know what?
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  SPEAKER_01: Check yourself.
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  SPEAKER_01: Check yourself because that's what we're supposed to do, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: We're supposed to be convicted of the Holy Spirit.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's likely you could be on here and saying, no, I'm not doing that.
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  SPEAKER_01: But it's because you're operating in the grace of God, because you've entered the rest and you're working from rest, like Jesus did in John 4.
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  unknown: That's cool.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that could be you.
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  SPEAKER_01: But there are others of you that are in the sound of my voice that are hearing what I'm saying, and you're realizing, oh, that's me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Every time I hear God say, launch this business, every time I hear him say, This is what I want you to build in the earth for my glory and the good of the people that I've called you to, be a good steward.
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  SPEAKER_01: I go to the place of trying to figure it out.
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  SPEAKER_01: I go to the place of trying to strive to figure out how to do this thing, how to come into alignment with what God has commanded me to do.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I got to tell you something, sister, that's a spirit of religion.
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  SPEAKER_01: That that's a spirit of religion and legalism because it says, okay, this is what God said.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now I have to do it.
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  SPEAKER_01: But scripture doesn't say that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Scripture says that in our weakness, his strength is made perfect.
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  SPEAKER_01: Our weakness is made perfect.
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  SPEAKER_01: You with me?
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  SPEAKER_01: So we've got to start to understand that the first roadblock to actually experiencing the grace of God is that we are insisting on figuring it out and doing it on our own.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then we want to bring it to the throne and go, good enough God, good enough God, good enough God, good.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he's like, No, because you did it through striving.
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  SPEAKER_01: When I, my son died, I watched my son die so that you could have access, you could have access to my grace.
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  SPEAKER_01: Where's that scripture?
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_01: Where's that scripture?
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's in Hebrews 4, verses 15 and 16.
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  SPEAKER_01: Listen to this.
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  SPEAKER_01: It says, For we do not have a high priest, that's Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_01: So for we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let us then, let us then with confidence, let us then with confidence, see, when we strive and when we try to figure it out on our own, we're resisting this.
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  SPEAKER_01: So instead say this let me then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, not to the throne of striving, not to the throne of figuring it out, to this to the throne of grace that we may receive, look at this, mercy and grace to what to help, to help in time of need.
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  SPEAKER_01: You don't have to do this alone.
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  SPEAKER_01: You don't have to do this alone.
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  SPEAKER_01: See, I work with a lot of women who in the beginning, when they first start working with me, they believed the lie that they have to figure it out all alone.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're like, no, part of the successful work of launching this business, Erica, is that I figure it out.
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  SPEAKER_01: Why do you believe that?
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_01: Why do you believe that you have to figure it out alone?
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, because you lived a life where you were taught and reinforced over time that your value came from figuring it out on your own and being the cadence setter.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_01: Is that true about you?
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_01: I know it was true about me.
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  SPEAKER_01: I know that's where I learned it.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_01: Is that I got a lot of praise and accolades when I figured things out and I did them excellently in my own strength, in my own effort, in my own energy.
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  SPEAKER_01: I got a lot of praise and gratitude, and it felt to me like love.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I learned at a very early age, I gotta keep on pushing, gotta keep going.
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  SPEAKER_01: Gotta keep going, right?
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_01: Gotta keep pushing.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_01: You better work, you better work, you better work.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_01: This is all that cadence of my value and my proving comes from when I push hard in my own strength and I figure things out because then I get accolades and I feel good about myself.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_01: That is absolutely opposed to how God tells us to do it.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_01: And that's where that sin language comes from, sister.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_01: Because you could you could try to justify it and be like, no, nobody was coming for me.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_01: No one was helping me.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_01: I had to figure out how to do this on my own.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_01: Um, asterisk, you weren't doing it on your own even then.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_01: Even if that was the coping mechanism that was offered to you to get out of that pit in that moment and to get things done and to not die in that moment, you better believe God was with you.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_01: God stood with you.
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  SPEAKER_01: You in that moment.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_01: God was handing you tools.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_01: God was handing you grace.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_01: It wasn't even you.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_01: It wasn't even you.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_01: You gotta have that moment like Paul had in 1 Corinthians 15, 10, where he was like, Yeah, but it wasn't me.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_01: It was the grace of God empowering me.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_01: We've got, we've got to lay that lie down that says, it was my strength.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_01: In 2004, I had a word spoken over me by a prophet.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_01: He came to visit our church and our church leadership, and we were sitting in a living room with the leaders, and this prophet was prophesying over everyone in the room.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_01: And when he got to me, he said, Look, God made you strong.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_01: God made you strong.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_01: He said, But your job in this life, your assignment is to work in the doorway of grace.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_01: And what I knew from that word is that I was gonna constantly be in a fight in my life between the strength that God put on me and trying to operate in that strength, in my own strength, or standing in the doorway of grace and allowing the grace of God to empower me to do a thing.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_01: And I got to tell you, I am 52 years old.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_01: That was 2004 was 22 years ago.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_01: And I got to tell you something.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_01: That tension, that that conflict has not ended.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_01: That tension tension and that conflict has never ended.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_01: I wake up and every single day there is a conflict between am I gonna do this in my own strength?
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_01: Why?
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_01: Because I am strong.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: God made me strong.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_01: But what he made stronger in me is his grace.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_01: And so it is a constant decision every single day to say, you know what?
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_01: I could, I could do this in my own strength, but I'm going to pick up the grace.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to actually receive the grace of God that He's given me, and I'm going to do it because I'll actually get farther, faster, without as much weariness.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_01: I will learn the rhythm of grace if I will take on his grace and do it in his grace.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_01: There's a cadence to the grace that doesn't wear us out.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_01: Are you with me?
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_01: Where do I see this in scripture?
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_01: I see it in Matthew 11.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_01: This is Jesus speaking, verses 28 to 30.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_01: I usually read this in the message translation because in the message translation, he says, come and learn the rhythms of grace.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_01: And I love that.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_01: But in the ESV translation, he calls it rest.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_01: And so we've got to start to understand that those two things, they're interchangeable.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_01: The grace of God and the rest of God, they're the same thing.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_01: And the grace of God, actually, this is what's so crazy is that the grace of God enters us into his rest.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_01: And so rest becomes the experience that we have in grace, from the grace, but it's the grace that got us into the grace.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_01: It's the grace that got us into the rest so that we can operate from grace and from rest.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_01: It kind of like folds on itself.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_01: And so the entry point into that is believing on Christ.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_01: And Jesus invites us in Matthew 11, 28 to 30.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_01: Look at what he says.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_01: He says, Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_01: Take up my yoke upon you and learn from me.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_01: For I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you'll find rest.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_01: That word grace also, you'll find rest for your soul, for your soul, for your mind, for your emotion, for your will.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_01: You'll find rest for your soul.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_01: Because he says, My yoke is easy and my burden is light.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_01: Now here's the thing.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_01: I grew up Catholic and I learned hymns.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_01: And in eighth grade, I was a part of the choir.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_01: And Mrs.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_01: Lambert, who was my homeroom teacher, she also taught me social studies and religion.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_01: She was also the choir director.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_01: And I really can't carry a tune.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_01: Well, back then I really couldn't carry a tune.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_01: Um, these days, because I praise and worship so much, I really believe that by his grace, the Lord carries my tune.
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_01: But um, back then I was in the choir and I know she was frustrated with me.
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_01: At a hard time.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_01: She always assigned me to the harmony and not the melody.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_01: And um, but one of the songs that she taught us, one of the hymns that she taught us, was this song, Come to Me, right?
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_00: Like um this these verses, right?
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_00: Come to me all shall give you take up my yoke, for I am eak and a find your soul, for my yoke is easy, and my butt is light.
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_01: Now, the good reason for learning hymns, even if you don't have a great voice or can't carry a tune, is that music is a way that God helps us to implant the word of God in our hearts.
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_01: James 1, 21 says, and that the implanted word of God has the power to save your souls.
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_01: And so it's good to learn hymns.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_01: It's good to learn worship songs, because it actually helps us to implant the word of God in our hearts.
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_01: And so from a very early age, I had Matthew 11, 28 to 30 implanted in my heart.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_01: But here's the here's the the risk is that when we learn things in hymns and in songs, and now they're singy songy for us, we can start to forget the power of them.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_01: And if we never learned the actual meaning of that scripture to us in the beginning, then it loses its power as well.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_01: Now, I wasn't filled with the spirit until um I chose Jesus for myself in my mid-20s, and I got baptized and I got saved, saved.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_01: So as a baby, I was baptized in in the Catholic Church by my parents and I was brought up in the faith through learning catechism.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_01: But all of this was legalistic to me until my mid-20s, when I received the Holy Spirit and I decided to follow Jesus for myself.
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_01: At that time, when I began to read scripture, it started to jump off the page to me and it wrapped itself around my face and it began to empower my heart in a way that wasn't possible for me before I was filled with the spirit.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_01: And so when I started to sing this song after my saving experience, and when the Holy Spirit was in me, this took on a whole new meaning because I began to dig into what does this mean?
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_01: He says, Come to me, all who labor and are heavy burdened, and I'm gonna give you rest.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_01: It's like if you're tired, if you're worn out, it must mean that you're doing it through a striving way.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_01: Come to me and I'll give you rest.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_01: And then it says, Take my yoke upon you.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_01: Here's something that I need you to understand, kingdom builder.
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_01: Here's something that I need you to understand, Jesus Girl Entrepreneur.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_01: He's not saying stop working.
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_01: He's saying, Come to me, I'm gonna show you rest, and I'm gonna do it by putting my yoke on you.
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_01: A yoke is a symbol for work in agriculture and in farming in biblical times.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_01: What this meant was he was using a story from a very common happening in the time that he was telling the story in.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, you know, like the farmers when they have an ox who needs to train another younger um calf because they need to train them how to do the work.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_01: What they would do, what a farmer would do, is they would take the yoke and they would place it on the what they call the master ox and the student calf.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_01: And they would yoke them together because they knew that if they yoked the student calf to the master ox, that the student calf would learn perfectly how to work like the master.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_01: That's what Jesus is referring to when he's speaking out Matthew 11, 28 to 30.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_01: He's saying, Come and take my yoke upon me, because I am gentle and lowly in heart.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm gonna teach you how to do this work, and I'm gonna do it while you are connected to me by this yoke, which is a solid being.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_01: And what's cool, if you study this, is that they would pair, farmers would pair a young, reactive, untrained calf, younger, reactive, like gonna be triggered, gonna like bolt, right?
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_01: Untrained calf with the steady, mature master ox who already knew the commands, the voice of the master, and the field routines.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_01: They knew the standard.
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_01: That's what the master already understood.
• 31:07
  SPEAKER_01: So this was a master student pairing.
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_01: And so Jesus is inviting us into a master student pairing.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_01: Now, also, if the younger animal were to get spooked or would lag, then that yoke that connected them would hold the calf, the student, to the master, who can physically hold the student to the direction, to the cadence, and to the task at hand.
• 31:33
  SPEAKER_01: This is what Jesus is inviting us into.
• 31:36
  SPEAKER_01: Wild, right?
• 31:36
  SPEAKER_01: Now listen to this the master in that scenario with the ox and the calf, the master ox is carrying pretty much all the weight and the strain of the work.
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_01: There, the the calf isn't figuring anything out.
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_01: The calf isn't carrying anything.
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_01: The calf isn't striving.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_01: The only time that the calf is striving is when it's trying to bolt or lag or it's getting spooked.
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_01: Do you get it?
• 32:03
  SPEAKER_01: So the only time that the that the calf is striving is when it's doing something misaligned, when it's doing something wrong.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_01: That's why I said to you, if you're experienced this, experiencing this is probably because you're sinning.
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_01: It's because you're doing the thing that you're not supposed to be doing.
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_01: You're trying to do it on your own.
• 32:22
  SPEAKER_01: So this is why Jesus is saying, come into the yoke with me, because even if you try, even if you try to get away, even if you try to get spooked, even if you try to figure it out on your own and go in your own direction, he's like, this yoke that you've submitted yourself to, that you've stepped into and allowed to be placed on your shoulders, the yoke of Jesus, that is gonna hold you and keep you safe and keep you going in the right direction with the right cadence after the right work.
• 32:52
  SPEAKER_01: Are you with me?
• 32:54
  SPEAKER_01: Anyone in here, strategy switcher, who keeps on trying to switch strategies because you're like, I haven't figured it out yet.
• 32:59
  SPEAKER_01: I haven't figured it out yet.
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_01: I'm 80% launched every single time and I don't get anywhere.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_01: Why?
• 33:05
  SPEAKER_01: Because you're strategy switching.
• 33:06
  SPEAKER_01: Why?
• 33:07
  SPEAKER_01: Because you keep on trying to figure it out on your own.
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe, maybe you need to go find a coach.
• 33:12
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe you need to go and find a mentor.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe you need to go and find a master ox that you can get hooked up to next to you, and they can walk with you and show you how to do it.
• 33:22
  SPEAKER_01: Because, sister, strategy is only one piece.
• 33:25
  SPEAKER_01: Framework of how you're building is only one piece of what you need to do.
• 33:29
  SPEAKER_01: You need four things in the in launching a kingdom business.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_01: And one of them, one of them is finding a mentor.
• 33:35
  SPEAKER_01: One of them is finding someone that you can yoke to who's done it before, who is experienced.
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_01: And when you get spooked, when you try to figure it out on your own, when you start to spin, they're like, no, no, girl, stick with me, stick with me, stick with me, stick with me, stick with me.
• 33:49
  SPEAKER_01: And in that instance, that is rest.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_01: That is the grace of God for your life because you're learning.
• 33:55
  SPEAKER_01: That's why I like the message translation of Matthew 11, 28 to 30, because he says, learn the rhythms of grace.
• 34:02
  SPEAKER_01: Learn.
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_01: He's gonna give you grace, but there's a rhythm to grace.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_01: And the rhythm is stop getting spooked, stop trying to run off and figure it out on your own.
• 34:12
  SPEAKER_01: Stop, stop striving, stop lagging, stop kicking against the goats.
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_01: Move forward in cadence with the rhythm of grace that is given to you because you're low yoked with Christ.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_01: Look at this.
• 34:25
  SPEAKER_01: Lastly, it says the student, oh sorry, um, they don't, the master is carrying pretty much all the weight and strain.
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_01: The student just has to stay in the direction and cadence.
• 34:34
  SPEAKER_01: And eventually the student builds stamina and understanding of their own.
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_01: Eventually, the student can become a master ox, but they got to go through this process of learning the rhythm of grace.
• 34:46
  SPEAKER_01: And then look at this the student learns cues, not because they're figuring it out on their own, because the person who's driving the oxen, they're calling out cues and they're directing them.
• 34:57
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 34:57
  SPEAKER_01: But that student ox, that student calf doesn't learn which direction to go in or the work to do because they understand the human voice that's behind them.
• 35:07
  SPEAKER_01: The student learns cues by feeling the master ox respond to the cues and the calf, the student actually patterns after the master ox.
• 35:17
  SPEAKER_01: So it eventually learns what it means to follow.
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_01: It eventually learns what it means to turn left or to turn right or to go faster or to slow down because it's watching the master.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_01: This is the picture of Matthew 11, 28 to 30, because Jesus is saying, Come to me, work with me, watch me, see how I do it.
• 35:37
  SPEAKER_01: I won't put anything heavy or ill-fitting on you.
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_01: We're back to the message translation.
• 35:42
  SPEAKER_01: It says, Come and learn the unforced rhythms of grace.
• 35:46
  SPEAKER_01: You'll learn to live freely, you'll learn to work freely and lightly.
• 35:52
  SPEAKER_01: So this is why, sister, I say to you this morning, if you are looking to build something big, bold, and beautiful with God, if you know that you're called, if you are convicted to build a business or a ministry in this earth for God, and you're struggling, the first place to look is am I striving?
• 36:10
  SPEAKER_01: Am I trying to figure it out all on my own?
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_01: Am I trying to figure it out all on my own?
• 36:16
  SPEAKER_01: Because you don't have to.
• 36:18
  SPEAKER_01: And in fact, it's not good for you to.
• 36:21
  SPEAKER_01: You need to access the rhythms of grace and you need to learn those rhythms.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_01: And so for that, it's good to find a guide.
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_01: It's good to find a holy spirit-filled mentor, someone who can walk you through the steps that you can learn the paces, you can learn the strategy, you can learn the framework, you can learn the steps through.
• 36:46
  SPEAKER_01: And they can help you to learn the cadence of that so that you can finally launch the thing into the world that God called you to bring.
• 36:55
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_01: And that's why I'm inviting you to come to the Call to Build workshop because for those 60 minutes, sister, let me let me be a mentor to you, let me be a master ox for you.
• 37:07
  SPEAKER_01: Like this thing that I'm teaching you right now, it really speaks to you getting yoked with Christ directly.
• 37:14
  SPEAKER_01: But there's also this practical application.
• 37:17
  SPEAKER_01: And that's why I showed you the story of or the the image of the master ox and the student calf.
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_01: Because in in biblical times, apprenticeship was a thing.
• 37:29
  SPEAKER_01: This was actually a thing.
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_01: And so it can be a thing now too.
• 37:33
  SPEAKER_01: You don't have to figure this out all on your own.
• 37:36
  SPEAKER_01: You don't.
• 37:36
  SPEAKER_01: So come to the Call to Build workshop.
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_01: And for 60 minutes, I will show you the four things that you absolutely need to get your business launched effectively online so that you can start making impact and income consistently.
• 37:49
  SPEAKER_01: And it's four things.
• 37:50
  SPEAKER_01: And this coaching component, this mentorship component, it's only one of them.
• 37:55
  SPEAKER_01: There are three other things that you really need.
• 37:57
  SPEAKER_01: So go to Jesus Scrollgang.com/slash call to build and get signed up.
• 38:01
  SPEAKER_01: It's happening Tuesday, September 15th at 7 p.m.
• 38:05
  SPEAKER_01: Eastern.
• 38:05
  SPEAKER_01: It's free.
• 38:06
  SPEAKER_01: And there is a replay.
• 38:08
  SPEAKER_01: So here's the thing: even if you can't make it live, you can get the replay for seven days.
• 38:13
  SPEAKER_01: But even if you do come live, then you get the replay for seven days and you can listen to it again.
• 38:18
  SPEAKER_01: You can listen to it again and you can really get these four things in you and get straight and know what your plan's gonna be.
• 38:26
  SPEAKER_01: Because on that night, on the 15th at 7 p.m., I'm gonna actually walk you through the four things.
• 38:31
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna show you how to know whether you've got one or more that are misaligned or missing.
• 38:37
  SPEAKER_01: And then I'm gonna help you to figure out how to get them installed in your business.
• 38:40
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna show you the most efficient way to do it.
• 38:43
  SPEAKER_01: But there's also other ways, and I'm gonna talk you through them so that you can decide how am I gonna get these four things installed in my business so I can finally launch to make impact and income.
• 38:52
  SPEAKER_01: Because here's the thing, sister, your impact and income, it's not just important for you.
• 38:59
  SPEAKER_01: Because that business or that ministry that God's called you to, it's it's it's not just so that you can walk in your purpose.
• 39:06
  SPEAKER_01: It's not just so that you can bring glory to God.
• 39:08
  SPEAKER_01: It's so that you can that you can bring good to the people that God's called you to serve.
• 39:13
  SPEAKER_01: And those people are waiting on you.
• 39:15
  SPEAKER_01: They're waiting on you.
• 39:16
  SPEAKER_01: And that's not guilt.
• 39:18
  SPEAKER_01: That's that's not guilt.
• 39:19
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not trying to put a weight on you that's not for you.
• 39:22
  SPEAKER_01: That's purpose.
• 39:23
  SPEAKER_01: The purpose is to expand the kingdom.
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_01: The purpose is to glorify God in our purpose and to do good to the people that God has called us to, to lead them well, to disciple them.
• 39:35
  SPEAKER_01: And what God put in on the inside of you is a piece of that.
• 39:38
  SPEAKER_01: And so you got to get it out.
• 39:40
  SPEAKER_01: And so if you're finding yourself stuck or spiraling and spinning, then come to the call to build workshop.
• 39:45
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 39:46
  SPEAKER_01: Go to Jesus Scrollgang.com slash called to build and get signed up.
• 39:50
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 39:51
  SPEAKER_01: I hope to see you there.
• 39:52
  SPEAKER_01: And uh yeah, so that's what I have for you guys today.
• 39:55
  SPEAKER_01: I hope that was helpful.
• 39:56
  SPEAKER_01: Let me know.
• 39:57
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• 40:00
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• 40:05
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 40:05
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• 40:10
  SPEAKER_01: Let me know how this how you process this today.
• 40:13
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 40:14
  SPEAKER_01: I love you so much.
• 40:15
  SPEAKER_01: I'll talk to you soon.
• 40:16
  SPEAKER_01: Bye for now.