Latest / Jesus Girl Gang Kingdom Business Podcast | Faith-Led Strategies for Christian Entrepreneurs / 3 Things You're Saying That Stall Your Kingdom Business

Transcript

3 Things You're Saying That Stall Your Kingdom Business · Jesus Girl Gang Kingdom Business Podcast | Faith-Led Strategies for Christian Entrepreneurs

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_01: This is the Jesus Girl Gang Kingdom Business Podcast, where faith finally meets real strategy to launch your online business.
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_01: It is Thursday, and on Thursdays, we record a fresh, brand new episode of the Jesus Girl Gang Kingdom Business Podcast.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_01: And so today we are in James chapter three.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_01: And I want to talk to you about three kingdom confessions that can get your business unstuck.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_01: Three kingdom confessions that can get your business unstuck.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_01: Now, before you go, I don't know, I don't have a business yet.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_01: I don't have, do you have a ministry?
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and if you're like, I don't have a ministry yet, but remember when I was just talking to that woman who is building a sound to make into the earth for Jesus and his kingdom, and you wanted to be bold and confident, um, this is for you too.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_01: Because these are three kingdom confessions, three things that you need to be looking at and speaking about specifically, and so that you can see them live.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_01: Are we ready for this?
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_01: Because in James chapter three, verses one to twelve, which is what we're gonna be covering today, this is taming the tongue.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_01: That's what this section is called, taming the tongue.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_01: So, what I want to do is I want to read this portion of scripture for you.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_01: I want to unpack it for us real quick, and then I want to get into our topic for today.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_01: Are you ready?
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_01: I hope you brought your Bible, your journal, and a pen.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_01: You should always come uh to this with your Bible, your journal, and your pen, because I am gonna give you scripture out of the word of God, and then I'm gonna show you how to apply it to the thing we're talking about.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_01: You ready?
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_01: All right, this is what it says in James chapter three, starting in verse one.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_01: It says, Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_01: So he's talking specifically to people who are teaching about the word, scripture, the kingdom of God.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_01: And so the Bible tells us that uh preachers and teachers of the word of God, those who are going to take it upon themselves to lead, to lead in the word, will, and ways of God and the principles of the kingdom, we're going to be judged more strictly.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_01: Why?
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_01: Because as we stand up and we speak this, if we lead people incorrectly, if we lead them into lies, that's a problem.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_01: People are trusting us to speak uh with integrity.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_01: And so I want to encourage you today that if you have something that you're building that is kingdom-infused, that God called you to build, you want to make sure that you are speaking the word of God, that you are speaking in integrity, that you're speaking in truth.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_01: Goes on to say, for we all stumble in many ways.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_01: And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, also able also to bridle his whole body.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_01: So there's a little bit of sarcasm there because we're gonna go on to see that like no human being is gonna say this, no human being can tame their tongue.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_01: No human being.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_01: So, but also what James is saying here is if you can control your mouth, you can control your whole body.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_01: And as also as a certified holistic health coach, I know I didn't throw that in in the beginning because it didn't really seem to make sense there, but I'll throw it in here.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_01: Um when you speak certain things, the way that it works is you are a spirit, you have a soul, you live in a body.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_01: Hear that again, you're trying being.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_01: You are a spirit.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_01: That is the part of you that's gonna exist forever.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_01: You are a spirit, you have a soul, your soul is your thinking, your feeling, your declaring, and your choosing.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_01: You you have a soul and you live in a body, and your body is superseded by your soul, and your soul is superseded by your spirit.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_01: What this means is that your spirit can lead your soul, and your soul in turn can lead your body.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_01: So when he says here that when you can manage your mouth, when you can manage what you speak, you actually can bridle your whole body.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_01: This is true because what you think, what you feel, what you declare, and what you choose, your soul, it has the ability to direct your body.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_01: Your body's just a thermometer.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_01: Your soul's the thermostat.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_01: So what you want to see in your body, you have to set it at the soul level.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_01: So what you are believing in your spirit, what you're thinking in your mind, how you how you talk, how you think and how you talk about those things, that ultimately sets how you feel about a thing.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_01: And your feelings are actually what is the start of chemical cascades in your body that actually tell your body what to do.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_01: That's how it works.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_01: So when he's telling you that if you can bridle your mouth, what you're saying out of your mouth is really a culmination of what you've believed, how you think about it, how you feel about it, and now it's coming out of your mouth, right?
• 5:01
  SPEAKER_01: Guard your heart with all diligence because out of it flow the issues of life.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_01: It's in your heart that you culminate these things, that you actually meditate on these things and decide how you're gonna speak about them.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_01: But how you speak about these things is ultimately how your body is going to play this thing out, how it's gonna manifest in your body and in your life.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_01: So going on, it says, if we put bits in the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole body as well.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_01: So what the words that come out of your mouth are like a bit to your body.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_01: It guides your whole body.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_01: It says, look at the ships also, though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they're guided by a very small rudder.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_01: Wherever the will of the pilot directs.
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_01: So your mind is your pilot.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_01: So you've got to make a decision that what you believe and how you think about what you believe is actually going to direct what you say, because that is the rudder.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_01: What you say is the rudder over your life.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_01: It says, so also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_01: Now, here are some concerning things.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_01: Listen, listen.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_01: It says, How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire, and the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_01: The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_00: What?
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_01: So, what we need to understand is that we we live in a fallen world and we get a choice every single day about whether we're gonna line ourselves up with the kingdom of heaven or the kingdom of darkness.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus did not split hairs or words when he said, Look, either your father is the case, the father in heaven, or the father of darkness, Satan himself.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_01: In any given moment when you open up your mouth to speak, those words are either sponsored by the kingdom of heaven or the kingdom of darkness.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_01: There is no mixture.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_01: There is no in between.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_01: You can't be like, Well, I started out by saying the scripture, but then it kind of like fell off the cliff.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_01: If it falls off the cliff, you're speaking words of death and darkness.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_01: We need to understand this.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_01: There is no mixture.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_01: The Bible's really clear that God doesn't do mixture.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_01: And if you mix words, then if there's any darkness, if there's any evil in it, if there's anything that is death, that that's what you're getting.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_01: Anything plus even just a little drip of death is death.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_01: Truth is truth.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_01: And so you want to make your speak life over your over your life with words of truth, with words of life.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_01: And so it becomes really important to check what it is that you're saying, right?
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_01: And look at this is this is so interesting to me.
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_01: It says, for every kind of beast and bird and reptile and sea creature can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_01: Look at this.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_01: But no human being can tame the tongue.
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_01: You and I might be just be like, okay, then Erica, where's our hope?
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_01: Like, what what do we do then?
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_01: If no human being can tame the tongue, what do we do?
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_01: Here's what we do we give thanks to God above, and we give thanks to Jesus, who died and rose again and went and sat at the right hand of the Father and sent us his spirit.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_01: Because the Holy Spirit can tame the tongue.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_01: That is the only thing that can tame the tongue.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_01: And so we have to rely on the leadership, the conviction that the remembrance that is in us because of the Holy Spirit to be able to tame our tongue.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_01: And that is the only way that we can continually and consistently speak truth and speak life over the thing that God has called us to build.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_01: Now, on Thursday, I'm talking to kingdom builders.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_01: I'm talking to people who are building a business or a ministry out here in these internet streets.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_01: If you are here, you're listening to this, and you're like, I'm not building a business or a ministry just yet.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_01: I just want to call you to remembrance that you are called to be an ambassador for Christ in this earth.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_01: You are called to be a leader and an influencer in this earth.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_01: And your words are going to be the way that you do that.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_01: So it behooves you to take account of what we're teaching here today, even if you feel like you're not building a specific business or ministry.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_01: This is about what are you building with and for God in the earth to expand his kingdom?
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_01: What has he called you to be a messenger for?
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_01: What has he called you to make a sound for?
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_01: All right, let's finish out this passage and then I want to get into the teaching.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_01: Um, it says, um, with it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_01: From the same mouth come blessing and cursing.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_01: My brothers, these things ought not to be so, right?
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_01: Because it's like we need to be this is he's basically teaching us about our mouths, what he taught us about our thinking in the last chapter.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_01: Don't be double-minded.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_01: Remember that portion of James?
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_01: He's now saying, don't be double-tongued, don't be split-tongued, don't be fork-tongued, don't be double-speaking, be single-speaking, speak the truth.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, This ought not be true.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_01: He says, Does a spring pour forth from the same opening, both fresh and salt water?
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_01: Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives or a grapevine produce figs?
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_01: Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_01: So he's like, look, if you want to be a fountain of life into the earth, if you want to be a fountain of God's kingdom into the earth, you cannot be speaking darkness and evil and death.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_01: And so we have to rely on the Spirit of God to help us in this.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm going to teach us through this today.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_01: Here's the concept.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_01: If your business or ministry feels stuck, like it's plateaued, or like you can't even get it off the ground, the way you are talking about yourself as the owner leader, your business, and your people that you're called to serve may actually be the culprit.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_01: The way you're speaking about these things is likely the culprit.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_01: You might be like, okay, but Erica, like, I didn't, I don't mean it.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_01: I I'm just talking.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_01: I'm listening this is the one that I get a lot.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_01: Get ready.
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_01: Get ready.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_01: Cause we we get my little hammer today.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_01: Tink, tink, tink, tink, tink.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna hammer on it.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_01: Jeremiah tells us that the word of God is a hammer.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_01: It has the ability to split the rock.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_01: It has the ability to break through those mindsets that are holding you back and are causing death in your life.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_01: So check it.
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_01: Listen, listen.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't, I like that's not how I meant it.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_01: That's not how I meant it.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just listening listen, Erica.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just a verbal processor.
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_01: Woe to you.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_01: You do not want to be a verbal processor.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_01: You don't want to be a verbal processor because every word that comes out of your mouth is creative.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_01: Every word that comes out of your mouth is productive.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_01: So here's the deal.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_01: If you're gonna say things out of your mouth that are feelings but are not true, are not the word will and ways of God, you better preface them.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_01: You better cancel them and their power before you even get the full word out.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_01: Because I I work with a lot of people that are like, I do know the truth.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just feeling this way.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_01: Then say that.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: Then say that.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_01: Instead of prophesying over your life by declaring a thing, you might very well want to say, hey, listen, I know that the truth is fill in the blank.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_01: Here's what I'm feeling right now.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_01: But here's what God says, and this is what I'm gonna believe and what I'm gonna do.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_01: This is the Psalms thread.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_01: If you read the Psalms, David is doing this all the time.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_01: He's like calling out to God, calling out to God as who he is, magnifying God.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_01: He's saying, I'm feeling this.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_01: My enemies are pursuing me.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_01: I feel like I'm dying.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_01: Everything in my body is off.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_01: Yet, here's what I know is true, and therefore I will declare and I will camp my life around and I will walk into blah.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_01: This is the Psalms template.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_01: So when you say, No, I didn't mean it, understand.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_01: If it comes out of your mouth and it's audible, it's a frequency, it's a vibration, and it is by design and definition creative into your world.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_01: It will manifest.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_01: I just I understand that some people clutch their pearls when a Christian starts to talk about manifestation, but understand, Jesus is the OG manifestation in the earth.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_01: We follow a God who is manifestation.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_01: And he showed us that the way he manifests is through the spoken word of God in the presence of his spirit, that creates.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_01: And so we are made in his image, and this is what we're capable of.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_01: And so you need to understand that all day long the enemy wants to hijack your mouth because he knows that your words are productive, they are creative, and they manifest into the earth.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_01: And so if he can get you off of speaking words of kingdom and life and the word, will and ways of God to bring the kingdom into the earth, if he can get you onto words of death and confusion and destruction and burnout and you know, all those things, he knows that he can manifest those things into the earth.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_01: And when we're talking about your business or your ministry, guess what?
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_01: That's what he's trying to get into your business and ministry.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_01: So let's talk about this.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_01: If he can get you to talk that way about yourself, your business, or the people that you serve who are your are your future customers, then he can break that whole thing apart.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_01: And you won't be bringing the kingdom into the earth with that.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_01: You'll be bringing chaos and the things that the enemy wants in.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_01: So it's important that we learn how to line up our mouth and our words around how we speak about ourselves as the founder and leader of our business or ministry, around how we speak about the business or ministry itself, and around how we speak about the people that we're called to serve.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_01: Those are our future customers.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_01: So let's talk with about with talking about you, the leader and the founder.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_01: When I say you the leader, I always think about this is just like a memory for me.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_01: Um, my, my, what I call my grandfather in my faith, because he was the pastor of my pastor, where I truly came into the faith that I have.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_01: Um, his name is Dr.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_01: Phil Pringle.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_01: He's a pastor, um, leader of the C3 movement out of Australia.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_01: I think he handed that global movement off to um his to another person, but he is the founder.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_01: And I call him my grandfather in my faith.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_01: And he has a book called You the Leader.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_01: It is so incredible.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_01: I think he wrote it in the 80s or the 90s, but it's still such a good book.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and so whenever I say you the leader, um, he is he is so gifted in faith and speaking faith and um, you know, controlling the words that are coming out of your mouth.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_01: And so I just always think about him when I teach on this.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_01: So when you speak about you as the leader or the founder of your business or ministry, here's the lie that the enemy tries to convince you of, and he tries to convince you to speak.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_01: Get ready.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_01: The problem is me.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not fill in the blank.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_01: The problem's me.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not good enough at this.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_01: The problem is me.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_01: I don't have the skill sets that are necessary to build this.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_01: The problem is me.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know how to.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_01: The problem is me.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_01: I don't have the faith for it.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_01: The problem is me.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_01: The problem is me, the problem is me, the problem is me.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_01: That is what the enemy is gonna try to convince you to speak out loud.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_01: He's gonna call you, he's gonna convince you through his propaganda into your brain to tear yourself down.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_01: Because if he can tear down the leader of the thing that God called you to build, then the thing that God called you to build will never get built because you don't even believe in you.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_01: So this is a scheme of the enemy to get you to disqualify yourself.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_01: Now, when you speak disqualification over yourself, you're actively cursing the leader that God appointed to build, launch, and grow the business or ministry that he called you to.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_01: That is a very effective scheme from the pit of hell.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_00: So understand this, excuse me, first and foremost is the place that you need to watch your mouth over how you speak about yourself.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_01: See, you cannot effectively steward this God assignment that He gave you while also sabotaging the woman in the mirror.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_01: You're going to have to get good at speaking rightly about this woman, this girl that God called to this job.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_01: You with me?
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_01: All we need to do is look at Exodus 3 and 4 and see Moses and how he tried to blow up the assignment that God had for him.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_01: And how did he do it?
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_01: Five times making excuses that spoke to his inability, his weaknesses.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_01: The reason why he wasn't good enough for the job, he wasn't able to do the job, he wasn't a good leader, he didn't have the skill sets.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_01: And eventually it says that God burned with anger.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_01: And then what did he do?
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_01: He appointed Aaron to be his mouthpiece.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_00: So listen, here's what I want to tell you.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_00: Unless you want God to allow delay, distractions, or complications in your journey, you you need to stop talking that way about yourself.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_01: If you need help, if you need a skill set, if you need something from God, ask him and ask him without being double-minded, right?
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_01: Because that's what the beginning of James says to us.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_01: But you do not want to take the tack of complaining about yourself and trying to convince God that you're not qualified.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_01: If he called you, you're qualified.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_01: I know, you're like, I don't feel qualified.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_01: Well, there you go.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_01: That's a feeling, not a truth, not a reality.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_01: If God called you to a thing, he knows that you are the girl for the job.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_01: So stop arguing with him.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_01: Stop trying to disqualify yourself.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_01: Look at what happened to King Saul when King Saul spoke negatively about himself.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_01: He hidden the baggage.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_01: That thing right there, that wound up being the thing that took him out at the end of the day.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_01: That never left him.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_01: He kept on sowing that seed of disbelief about himself and disqualification about himself to the point where he disqualified himself.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_01: So you do not want to be stewarding a word like that.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_01: In Proverbs 31, verse 25, it says about the Proverbs 31 woman, it says, She is clothed with strength and dignity.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_01: Straight up, that's the truth.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_01: You are clothed with strength and dignity.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_01: Period.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_01: And it goes on to say, she can laugh at the days to come.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_01: You do not have to fear what's coming next.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_01: If God said that you're the girl for the job, that settles it.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_01: Now let's move in accordance with it.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_01: That's faithfulness.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_01: And the fruit of this is gonna be that you're gonna be able to look at the future and you're gonna be able to laugh because you're gonna be like, you know what?
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_01: God's going with me.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_01: Whatever comes up, whatever is next, I'm gonna be able to handle it.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_01: He called me to this, he's not leaving me alone.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_01: He says that he'll walk with me through every single thing.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_01: Therefore, I'm gonna believe that I'm gonna prosper in it.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be good.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_01: And I can laugh at the future.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_01: See, because your identity is in Christ.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_01: You need to elevate from complaining, the the complaining employee in your business or your ministry or the project that you're building.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_01: Elevate yourself from sit with God in heavenly places, Ephesians 2, and elevate yourself from the complaining employee within that thing to the visionary founder that you are, and speak like it.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_01: And that means speaking to yourself as the girl that God called for this job.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_01: All right, let's move on to number two.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_01: Let's talk about how you're speaking about the business or the ministry that he called you to build.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_01: You ready?
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_01: The lie that the enemy tries to Convince you to speak is this.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_01: This is gonna hit.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_01: Get ready.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe you want to put your hands on your heart.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_01: Listen to me.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_01: Guard your heart right now.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_01: Because I don't want you speaking this.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_01: But this is the most common thing that I hear spoken against businesses and ministries by the founder, by the one who's building it, called to build it.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_01: Ready?
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_01: Nothing's working.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_01: Nothing's working.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_01: It's not working.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_01: This isn't working.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_00: I'm trying as hard as I can and nothing's working.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_00: It's not working.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_00: That is so disqualifying.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_01: And it's disqualifying to the word that God spoke to you.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_01: The assignment that he spoke over you.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_01: And the thing, the very thing that he called you to build, to create in the earth for his glory.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_01: See, this business or this ministry or this project that he's called you to, it's not just for you.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_01: It's not just some crazy idea that you cooked up in your mind.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_01: It's something that God called you to because it's going to bring him glory and it's going to do good to the people that he's called you to serve.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_01: It's expanding his kingdom in the earth.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_01: You with me?
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_01: So when we think that thought and when it comes out of our mouth and we go, this isn't working, nothing's working, this isn't going to work.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_01: That you're cursing, you're cursing.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_01: You're not speaking in accordance with the words of life that God gave you when he assigned you this thing to build in the earth.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_01: You with me?
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_01: And so we don't want to be disqualifying the word that God gave us.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_01: So verse nine of James 3, it says, We'll bless God, but then we'll curse his word, the very plan that he gave us.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_01: We don't want to do that.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_01: So this is the this is simply when the enemy does this with you, it's simply the enemy trying to frustrate, disappoint, and wear you out.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_01: Frustrate, disappoint, and wear you out because he knows that if you can speak words of life over this business, this ministry, this thing that God has called you to build, it's gonna live.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_01: It's gonna live because the word of God is life.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_01: Isaiah 55, 11 says that the word of God does not return void.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_01: Wherever he sends his word, it's going to prosper.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_01: It does whatever he called it and sent it to do.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_01: And so you've got to realize that if you can start speaking life over this thing, it's going to live.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_01: So stop canceling that out by saying nothing's working.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_01: It's never gonna work.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_01: I've tried so many things.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_01: It's just never gonna work.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_01: Stop it.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_01: Cancel, cancel.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_01: Speak words of life.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_01: It is going to work because God said so.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_01: If God said it, said it, that settles it.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_01: Now let's move in accordance with his word.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_01: So the strategy is to say instead, what is working is here's what is working.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_01: So I have an example here for this.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, I work with business builders, people who are looking to build their business, scale it online, and they're looking to go to the next level.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_01: And many times they're stuck.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_01: Many times they're in a place where they've done some things, but now they're feeling themselves stuck or stalled, and they don't know how to get unstuck or unstalled.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_01: And so they come to me.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_01: And usually that's through some kind of a workshop or a training that I'm doing so that I can show them how I can help them.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_01: And in the midst of that, I'll give them an offer to come into my program, my mentorship, the Build with Faith mentorship.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_01: And sometimes they still have questions.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_01: And so I will offer them a quick call with me to just be like, okay, well, could this work for you?
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_01: How can I help you?
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_01: That kind of thing.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_01: And when they come on a call, sometimes, sometimes the people, and I have a really good percentage of people who join my mentorship after getting on a call with me.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_01: Because it generally tends to be that I cultivate the pathway for the right person to find me and continue with me through whatever that workshop or that talk that trading is.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_01: And so they'll generally get onto the call with me and they know that I'm the right coach for them.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_01: They'll know that it's the right program for them, but they do have some questions.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_01: And when we get onto that call, every so often there'll be someone who's who says, Well, I need this.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_01: I think I need this.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_01: Does your mentorship have that?
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_01: And a couple of times in the last two years, there has been a suggestion of something that is not in my mentorship, was not in my mentorship.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_01: And it will torpedo me, if I'm being honest.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_01: Because I have to say to that person, no, that doesn't exist in our in our mentorship.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_01: I still think it's a good place for you.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_01: I still think it's a great place for you.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_01: And either they join or they don't join.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_01: But can I tell you something?
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_01: That suggestion sits like a rock in the pit of my stomach because there's some truth in it.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_01: Now, here's the thing: even when you see that there's something that it's true about your business, it's true about your ministry, it's true about the thing that you're building.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_01: And yet, like you're like, but I can't do that right now.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_01: I don't have the skills for that right now.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_01: I don't have the following for that right now.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_01: I don't have the platform for that right now.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_01: I don't have the tech stack for that right now.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_01: You know, fill in the blank, whatever.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_01: It's the negative.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_01: It's the thing that's making you to say, nothing's working.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_01: This isn't gonna work.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_01: I can't do this, whatever, right?
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_01: Right there, insert.
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_01: But what is working about this is, or what is good about this is, and I've had to learn in those moments to say this, okay, that's a really good suggestion.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_01: That is one of my person, my ideal customers' pain points.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_01: And right now, I don't have it in my business.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_01: Right now, I don't have it in the in the in the mentorship.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_01: But I asked the Lord, could I add it?
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_01: I I get into that first Samuel 30 kind of vibe, like where David was when his people, his wives and his children and his stuff had gotten hauled off in a siege.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_01: And and David calls for the ephod, and then he goes, God, should I pursue?
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_01: And what does God say to him?
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_01: He says, Yes, pursue, and surely you'll recover all.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_01: So I go after that moment.
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_01: So what is working is that when people give me suggestions like this, instead of looking at it like strikes on my record, instead of looking at it like why it won't work, I go, Lord, is this something that I could add that could work?
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_01: And when he says pursue and surely you recover all, I gotta tell you something.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_01: Twice in the last two years, I've had a call like that.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_01: And twice in the last two years, God has said pursue that.
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_01: And twice in the last two years, I built it and put it into my membership.
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_01: And can I tell you something?
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_01: It has drawn my ideal customer.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's simply a timing issue, you guys.
• 29:00
  SPEAKER_01: And so instead of thinking like nothing's ever gonna work, why don't you add the word yet?
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_01: It it's not it hasn't worked yet because I haven't put it in there yet.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_01: But God says that I should pursue and surely I'll recover all.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_01: It will work.
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_01: And so what is working is that I'm getting these ideas from these sales calls, even when people don't buy.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_01: But guess what?
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_01: They circle back and they buy.
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_00: The people that I'm talking about in those two scenarios, they ultimately became members of my mentorship.
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_00: It can work.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_00: So here's the thing: this is what you need.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_01: Zechariah 4.10.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_01: Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_01: Stop counting yourself out before you've even given it a good go.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_01: Your mouth is what's holding you back.
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_01: Not like if it if you have started to produce small glimmers, double down.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_01: Double down with your words and with your effort on those things and watch them grow.
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_01: Deuteronomy 28, 8 says, the Lord will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to, if you will trust and obey him.
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_01: If you'll trust and obey him.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_01: So I want to encourage you today, trust and obey him, even with your words.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_01: See, your business is holy ground.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_01: God called you to build it so speak life over that seed, even while it's still underground.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_01: Stop calling your divine assignment a struggle and a failure or impossible.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_01: Stop that.
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_01: Cover your mouth.
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_01: Instead, speak life.
• 30:37
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 30:37
  SPEAKER_01: So we've talked about you, the leader and the founder of this business ministry or project.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_01: We've talked about how you're speaking about that business ministry or project.
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_01: And now we're gonna talk about the people that you're called to serve who are your future customers.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_01: Are you ready?
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_01: So the lie that the enemy convinces you to speak is they don't want this or they're not gonna pay for it.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_01: They don't want this, they're not gonna value it, they're not gonna give money to this offer.
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_01: We do it all the time.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_01: And we put it on ourselves, but understand something.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_01: You are speaking over the people that God called you to serve when you say this.
• 31:17
  SPEAKER_01: I think that alone will help some people to stop speaking like that.
• 31:21
  SPEAKER_01: Because when you say they don't want this, they don't need this, they won't pay for it, they're not gonna, they're not gonna actually put any value behind this, you're actually speaking about the person that you're called to serve.
• 31:35
  SPEAKER_01: Because it's speaking to their ability to hear God rightly.
• 31:38
  SPEAKER_01: It's speaking about their ability to see rightly what God has for them.
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_01: See, the offer that you have, whether it's a business offer, a ministry offer, um, whatever, it's actually a solution that God has put into your world for the person that you're called to serve.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_01: So when you speak down about their ability to want it, to see it, to know the value of it, you're actually speaking down about the person that you're called to serve.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_01: And I believe that for most of us, that will stop that in its tracks today.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_01: Because God put a solution in you and he's expecting you, and he's and he's equipping you and empowering you to be able to communicate the solution to the people that he's called you to serve.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_01: So in verse 11, it says, a spring cannot pour out both fresh and bitter water.
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_01: So you're gonna have to make a decision about how you're gonna speak about the people that God's called you to serve.
• 32:34
  SPEAKER_01: You can't serve and steward your people with love and excellence if you are quietly criticizing and complaining their ability to get what it is that you offer.
• 32:44
  SPEAKER_01: Whoa, what?
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna say that again.
• 32:47
  SPEAKER_01: You cannot serve and steward your people that God has called you to with love and excellence if you are quietly criticizing and complaining about their ability to receive what it is that God has given you to give to them.
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_01: I understand that sometimes it breaks your brain that God is calling you to sell this thing to them, but that actually gives them an opportunity to notice that there is value here and that you're the one who's supposed to be handing them the solution.
• 33:16
  SPEAKER_01: It is a gift that people can pay for the solution that God is putting through you, because that is how they realize this is valuable and it's gonna work.
• 33:26
  SPEAKER_01: Can I tell you something?
• 33:27
  SPEAKER_01: When people come to my free workshops, I have many less people come to them and then the people that do come to them, less a smaller percentage of people actually action what they learned in the workshop.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_01: If I put as little as a$10 or$20 price on the workshop, the show-up rate goes and the application rate goes up.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_01: Why?
• 33:53
  SPEAKER_01: Because people value what they pay for.
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_01: It's just human psychology.
• 33:58
  SPEAKER_01: And so when you put a price tag on something, you're actually helping the right people to say, that is the solution that I need and I'm gonna value it.
• 34:07
  SPEAKER_01: And it actually creates in them a desire to actually apply the solution.
• 34:11
  SPEAKER_01: You're actually helping them when you charge for your solution.
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_01: I hope you understand this.
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_01: And so when we talk down, when we quietly criticize or complain, their ability to get it, their ability to value it, their ability to step into that offer.
• 34:27
  SPEAKER_01: This is actually desperation coming through your words.
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_01: And it produces a graspiness in your messaging, which bleeds into your copy.
• 34:37
  SPEAKER_01: It bleeds into your invitation.
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_01: So we've got to stop thinking these thoughts and declaring these things.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_01: Seriously, you need so look, they will feel you.
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_01: If you are desperate, if you don't believe in your future customer, if you keep on questioning their ability to get what you sell, get what you're offering, pay for it, value it.
• 35:00
  SPEAKER_01: If you keep on questioning that in your mind and in your own heart, and if you keep on talking like that, they will feel you because it bleeds into your messaging.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_01: It bleeds into your offer.
• 35:10
  SPEAKER_01: Do you understand this?
• 35:11
  SPEAKER_01: It bleeds into what you the energy, the very energy with which you are delivering this invitation.
• 35:20
  SPEAKER_01: So you are creating the lack of response.
• 35:26
  SPEAKER_01: I know.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_01: It's crazy, right?
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_01: But Proverbs 16 24 says, gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and healing to the bones.
• 35:35
  SPEAKER_01: Galatians 6 9 says, Let us not become weary in doing good, which is speaking words of life over your future customers, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest out of those seeds that we're selling at our mouth if we do not give up.
• 35:51
  SPEAKER_00: So you need to shift your mouth from I'm selling to a target market to prophesying hope and breakthrough to the people God called you to lead.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_01: Prophesying hope and breakthrough and transformation to the people that God called you to lead.
• 36:12
  SPEAKER_01: So speak words of life, breakthrough, transformation over those future clients and watch them become drawn to you.
• 36:21
  SPEAKER_01: I'm telling you, the reason why you're not attracting more people, the reason why it's crickets on social media, the reason that your landing pages aren't seeing more people come to them is because in the background, you're speaking, this isn't working.
• 36:34
  SPEAKER_01: You're speaking, they're not getting it.
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_01: You're speaking, they're never gonna get it.
• 36:39
  SPEAKER_01: You're speaking, I don't know how to do this.
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_01: You're speaking those words.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_01: And that's bleeding into and getting into your messaging and your ability to draw those people who absolutely need you and the solution that you carry.
• 36:53
  SPEAKER_01: Are you with me?
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_01: So you want to speak words of life and breakthrough and transformation over them and watch this draw your people to you.
• 37:00
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 37:01
  SPEAKER_01: So, what's our activation for today?
• 37:03
  SPEAKER_01: That's some good stuff, right?
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_01: I gave you three strategies.
• 37:07
  SPEAKER_01: I gave you how to speak over yourself as the founder and the leader of this thing that God has called you to build.
• 37:12
  SPEAKER_01: I told you how to speak about the offer itself, the solution, the thing that you actually have to offer, the thing that you're building.
• 37:21
  SPEAKER_01: And thirdly, I taught, I told you how to speak about the people that God has called you to serve through this offer.
• 37:29
  SPEAKER_01: You with me?
• 37:30
  SPEAKER_01: So, what's your activation?
• 37:32
  SPEAKER_01: You need to journal out some declarations around yourself, around your offer, and around the people that God's called you to serve.
• 37:41
  SPEAKER_01: If you need some help with this, like if you need just some like mindset because you're like, Erica, the lies are really loud.
• 37:47
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, fine.
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_01: Then let's start there, but let's do that thing that I said in the beginning, which is to identify it, but to cancel it out and then to swap it out for the truth.
• 37:57
  SPEAKER_01: And the best way to do that is using my thoughts exchange worksheet that's found inside of the Kingdom Builders Mindset Toolkit.
• 38:03
  SPEAKER_01: That's perfect for this exercise.
• 38:05
  SPEAKER_01: So you can go to EricaPyle.com slash toolkit, okay, or let just go to ericapile.com slash toolkit and I'll send you the mindset toolkit to you.
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_01: It's three tools in there.
• 38:18
  SPEAKER_01: One of them is the thoughts exchange worksheet.
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_01: So get your hands on that and let's write some declarations of truth around who you are as the leader builder, around what it is you're building, what God has called you to build, your offer.
• 38:31
  SPEAKER_01: And number three, what you say about the people that God has called you to serve who are your future customers.
• 38:39
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 38:40
  SPEAKER_01: And then listen, if you are interested to know more about my mentorship, my coaching, the community that I serve, if you want to know more about if you're a Jesus Girl entrepreneur who is building a business or a ministry online in these internet streets, and you want to do that as part of a collective where you get a platform, a framework to build by, a community to build with, and a coach who's with you every step of the way, then I want to encourage you, go to Jesus Girl Gang.com/slash mentorship, check us out, and I would love to have you in there.
• 39:11
  SPEAKER_01: I would love for you to join us there.
• 39:14
  SPEAKER_01: And we talk about stuff like this.
• 39:17
  SPEAKER_01: This is this is our lane.
• 39:18
  SPEAKER_01: And so um, yeah, I hope to see you in there.
• 39:21
  SPEAKER_01: All right, friend, that's what I have for today.
• 39:23
  SPEAKER_01: I hope that it was helpful to you.
• 39:25
  SPEAKER_01: Drop in the comments or come see me on Instagram.
• 39:28
  SPEAKER_01: Um, find this post and let me know what you got out of this episode of the Jesus Girl Gang Kingdom Business Podcast today.
• 39:35
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 39:36
  SPEAKER_01: I love you so much.
• 39:37
  SPEAKER_01: I'll talk to you soon.
• 39:38
  SPEAKER_01: Bye for now.