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3 Mindsets Every Christian Entrepreneur Needs for Breakthrough · Jesus Girl Gang Kingdom Business Podcast | Faith-Led Strategies for Christian Entrepreneurs

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  SPEAKER_00: 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_00: Well, hey there, friend.
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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome back to the Kingdom Business Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Erica Pile.
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  SPEAKER_00: And today we're going to be talking about the three kingdom mindsets that every builder needs to finally break through.
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  SPEAKER_00: In what you're building, so whatever God has called you to build, there is a breakthrough for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it's going to start with consistently holding these three mindsets.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we'll get into that in a second.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just wanted to let you know that the next Call to Build workshop is coming up on Tuesday, October 6th at 7 p.m.
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  SPEAKER_00: Eastern.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I would love for you to be there.
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  SPEAKER_00: So listen, if you're a Jesus Girl entrepreneur, someone who's looking to launch a business or ministry online, and you're feeling a little stalled or stuck and you're not quite sure how you got there, I want you to come to this workshop because in this time together, it's 60 minutes, it's online, Zoom, interactive.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to show you the four pillars that every kingdom business needs to launch successfully online.
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  SPEAKER_00: And chances are, if you're feeling stuck or you're feeling stalled, it's that you've got, you're missing at least one or two of these.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's pretty much the norm.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I want to show you what they are.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to show you how to diagnose if they're missing or misaligned.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then I'm going to show you how to install them so that you can finally launch your business online to impact and income.
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  SPEAKER_00: I would love to see you at this workshop.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's free.
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  SPEAKER_00: So just go to JesusGirlgang.com/slash called to build.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is a seven-day replay.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you can't make it live, I would love for you to make it live because we're going to do a QA at the end.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's where we generally get our breakthrough is when we get our questions answered about our businesses.
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  SPEAKER_00: But listen, if you can't make it live, I still want you to get the workshop and you'll get a seven-day replay.
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  SPEAKER_00: So go to Jesus Girlgang.com/slash call to build, and I'll see you there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now let's get into this week's episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is that I was wanting to talk to you about the three kingdom builder mindsets.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've been wanting to talk to you about it since last week.
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  SPEAKER_00: And on Friday, we talked about um the false mindsets that actually deter us from being able to be strong builders and to do the thing that God called us to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we talked about surrender.
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  SPEAKER_00: We talked about mindset, but the first thing being we need to surrender.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so, but on that day, I wanted to teach you on these three mindsets and we never got to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then, and then here we are.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, like all of this was happening.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in the background, I'm thinking to myself, I'm using these three mindsets the entire week.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, gosh, I have to go and teach on these three mindsets.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's what we're gonna do today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you ready?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because, you know, what we were talking about last week was that false, the false mindsets become these lazy gates around our mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's how the enemy gets in and he gets to like make a playground out of our mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, this is not a concept that I have originated.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not something that I started out talking about.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you are OG, um, if you're an OG Christian, if you are a woman of God who's been around for, say, I don't know, the last 30 years walking with Jesus, then you know that it was Joyce Meyer who published a book called The Battlefield of the Mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she was the one who taught us and told us that where the enemy tries to get us is in our mindsets, because if he can control our mind, then he can control our life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he can put his hands all over things and he can control what's coming out of us and what's happening.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I remember um, you know, reading that book.
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  SPEAKER_00: I read it when it first came out, and then I reread it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've probably read Battlefield of the Mind, I don't know, maybe five times, because it's so poignant.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are, there are such good concepts in there and the way that she explains it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so it just became pretty normal for me to understand that the battle is happening in my mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: And therefore, I have to be the one to set right mindsets in my mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's the thing: we walk by faith and not by sight.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what 2 Corinthians tells us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians, we walk by faith and not by sight.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so this is a principle in the kingdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if that's the case, I understand how a lot of us would think, well, we just have to believe for things and then just walk out our lives and everything should be hunky-dory.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, no, because the enemy has realized, he realized, that we can say that we believe for something.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then if he gets into our mindset, if he gets into our mind and begins to play with our thoughts and our perceptions, the the things that we think a thing means, if he can mess with those things, okay, then he can actually shift our faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we don't even realize that it's happening sometimes because we're just like, well, I'm saying I believe it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm saying I believe it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the thing is, your actions actually prove what you believe.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is biblical.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus said it in Matthew 19, I think it was 9 or 19.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said, Wisdom is shown to be true by her children.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wisdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wisdom is applied knowledge, and wisdom gets applied because we believe that it will work.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's how wisdom is applied, is because we we hear a thing from heaven and we know that it will work, and we know how to apply it, and so we apply it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so it wisdom, applied knowledge is actually it's it's an action of belief.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is, it is an action of belief.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so when we believe something, we will apply the knowledge, we will apply what we the revelation as action, and it will produce fruit.
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  SPEAKER_00: It will produce fruit.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we've got to understand this at all times because I think that, you know, I I lead a non-denominational church.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what that's what we call ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: I quite frankly, I believe that the church is non-denominational.
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  SPEAKER_00: I believe that the church should all be gathered in unity around one thing: Jesus Christ as the Savior, as the Redeemer, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: The one way to be reconciled to the Father and filled with the Holy Spirit, the word of God is the infallible word of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is the truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: These are the tenets of our faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I believe that the entirety of the body of Christ and the church should be gathered around this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, denominations are just culture points.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're just like how the tribes of Israel were established in different giftings and different anointings.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, I could look at it and be like, well, thank you to the Baptists because they've kept a really strong hold on the actual word of God in current church culture.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like that is their thing, the Bible drills.
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  SPEAKER_00: And no, and how do I know this?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because, you know, one of my best friends Anne has been in church and doing ministry with me for over 20 years.
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  SPEAKER_00: She grew up Baptist, and this is what she brings.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I'm so grateful for that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I grew up Catholic.
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  SPEAKER_00: There were things about um basic tenets, you know, they call it catechism, and not all of it is is is necessary.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not all of it is biblical.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm just gonna say that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not all tradition in the Catholic um faith is is biblical.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, you can't, you can't get all the way down into scripture for for some of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But there are pieces of it that it's really beautiful.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh when I I I got saved, saved in my early 20s, mid-20s.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then when I came back into the Catholic Church for a mass here or there for a funeral, for a wedding, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: For any of those things, I realized in that moment the absolute, the absolute gratitude and just just, I don't know, appreciation, I think, really, for those places that the Catholic Church has just really put a stake in that, you know, driven a um a flag in that mountain and said, we, we are staying here.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are not moving.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so, you know, it's from those places that I realized just the beauty of real repentance and um and reconciliation, because there are traditions, what you know, they call sacraments, but there are they they've created a sacrament out of and and a tradition out of these things that we believe about marriage and about repentance and reconciliation, and they're really beautiful.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there are biblical anchoring scriptures for those things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so my point is, you know, we can have all these denominations, but at the end of the day, at the end of the day, those aren't biblical.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is no biblical support for the Baptist or the Episcopalian or, you know, the Catholic denomination.
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  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, the Catholic Church can say all that they want, that they are the universal church and, you know, that they are the one true church.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I got to tell you something, the body of Christ is the one true church.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so when we go there, what we need to understand is that we have a common enemy, but we have a common truth and we have a common redeemer.
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  SPEAKER_00: And all of this is in one, all of it's in one, and it's in the unity of the body of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so if we come back to that, then we can understand that there is this one wisdom that can be found in Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is a one solution that can be found in Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in fact, there is one mindset.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's called the mind of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Paul says, but we have the mind of Christ, but we have the mind of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's talking in a passage about like how things can go off the reels and how we can struggle, but, but, but praise be Jesus, we have the mind of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: If we're connected through Jesus, we have the mind of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Period.
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  SPEAKER_00: Put a T on the end of it and a period, period.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, because we've got to get to this place.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, here's another challenge.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I've had, I've I've been pastoring for a while now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our church is 15 years since we planted the church here in Tampa, revived church of Tampa.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I've I've pastored people through the course of that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I pastored people before that as well in the church that I was a part of in New York.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's it's a passion point of mine to disciple.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a passion point of mine to lead people forward.
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  SPEAKER_00: I I believe that God made me as a pioneer, as a a breaker, as um someone who goes first.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I love seeing women break through.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love seeing women step fully into their purpose.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love seeing women build the thing that God called them to build and seeing the glory go up and see the good go out into the earth and see the kingdom expanded.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just something that really riles me up.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I've been doing this for a real long time.
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  SPEAKER_00: The one thing that grieves me so greatly is when I start to have a conversation with someone about the breakthrough that they want to have, that they want to see that God has promised for them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we start to talk about, okay, well, then you're gonna have to shift your mindset.
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  SPEAKER_00: And at some point, out of fatigue, out of offense, out of frustration, because we're it's not happening fast enough, disappointment, all start to hear groans of, that's not true.
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  SPEAKER_00: I shouldn't have to work this hard to see this happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: I God said, and that settles it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Erica, you even say that.
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  SPEAKER_00: God settle says it, that settles it now, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, let's see it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But that's not the end of that sentence.
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  SPEAKER_00: If God settles it, if God said it, that settles it, now let's move in accordance with it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now let's move in accordance with it.
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  SPEAKER_00: If God said it, that settles it, now camp your life around it.
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  SPEAKER_00: If God said it, that settles it, now let's move in obedience to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the fullness of that paradigm.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when we get there, sometimes if you are frustrated, if you are offended, if you are disappointed, if you are exhausted, you will want to fight at that point.
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  SPEAKER_00: You will want to point at that fight at that point because the enemy will try to sell you that if God really loved you, he'll do it for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: If God really loved you, he would do it for you because he would see how tired you are, he would see how hard you're trying, he would see how difficult this is for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so he would give you grace and it would just happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, I gotta tell you something.
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  SPEAKER_00: Grace isn't just make it happen, sparkly juice, it's actually power.
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  SPEAKER_00: Grace is the power from God to do a thing that you could not do on your own.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is power, it is power, but that's the thing we think that it's just gonna fall out of the sky or it's just gonna happen, and we're just gonna like I love it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's well, we could just manifest it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen, I am all for a Christian manifesting the word of God and expanding the kingdom in the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm all about, I'm all about declaring the word of God in faith and walking it out and seeing the purposes of God manifest in the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am all about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am not against manifestation.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am not, I will, you will never catch me, you know, calling it woo-woo and new age and that Christians shouldn't touch it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus himself was the capital M manifestation in the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just read John 1.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's very simple.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so this is how God creates in the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you want something in the earth, understand you're gonna manifest it.
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  SPEAKER_00: You, you, that is what's going to happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're going to manifest it.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's how God gets a thing into the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: He says, When we pray, our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is a manifestation prayer.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are praying for the manifestation of the kingdom of heaven to come to earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: And how God does that is he finds someone in the earth who is believing him at his word and is willing to be obedient to his word and walk it out.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is the formula for manifestation in the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so what that means is that our mindsets actually matter.
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  SPEAKER_00: They matter because that is the place at which we connect to the thing that God wants to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: And our mindset is the place where we agree that what God has said will be done in the earth as it is in heaven.
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  SPEAKER_00: We we have to understand that the mindset, the choice, the choice to believe happens in a mindset.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, God gives us grace and he gives us a portion of faith to believe, but there has to be something that clicks on in the thinking that actually turns on the cascade to be able to make the choice, to walk out the choice, and to see the manifestation happen in the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's the mindset.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a choice.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's our will.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, our soul is our thinking, our feeling, our declaring, and our choosing.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is what our soul is.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the seat of our will.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so if we're not willing, you we work out our our salvation through our soul.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that means that we have to line up our thinking, our feeling, our declaring, and our choosing with what we believe, with what we believe.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so this is a very active experience.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so these three kingdom mindsets that I want to tell you about, they become vital.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because if you get to that place where I've told you, I get to with some people where they're like, this is bunk.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is just like, this is ridiculous.
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  SPEAKER_00: If God wanted this for me, then he would just make it happen for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, that's not actually true.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's biblically speaking, it's not actually true.
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  SPEAKER_00: If God wants it to happen for you, he's going to offer it to you as a faith point and he's going to give you the grace for it.
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  SPEAKER_00: What you do with that is your business.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like literally.
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  SPEAKER_00: What you do with that is your business.
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  SPEAKER_00: It it is to you because he's given us free will and he's invited us to partner with him to see the kingdom come into the earth and be established.
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  SPEAKER_00: That that is that is the commission.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the commissioning.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is the job that every person, every single child of God's purpose has infused into it expanding the kingdom, making disciples, teaching people how to follow Jesus, being a beacon, being a minister of reconciliation, being an ambassador of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have that baked into your purpose.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every single child of God's purpose has it baked in.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so for that reason, we have got to be people who know how to manage our minds.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's 2 Corinthians 10, 5, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Take every thought captive and make it obedient to Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take every thought captive and make it obedient to Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is where we get the the charge to manage our minds and to manage our minds in alignment with the mind of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so there are three mindsets that I want to encourage you to just be like all in on and to never waver on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, that doesn't mean that we don't, you know, get tired, get lazy, make mistakes, fall off, you know, but here's the thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs 24, 16 says, for though a righteous person may fall seven times, he gets back up again.
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  SPEAKER_00: For though a righteous person may fall seven times, he gets back up again.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what that means is that just because we've fallen off of one of these mindsets, it doesn't mean that we don't get back up again.
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't mean that the mindset failed, it means that we failed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if we fail, it doesn't mean that we're a failure, it just means that we failed in that moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Failure isn't forever if you get back up again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Failure is not forever, it's not a life sentence, it's information.
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  SPEAKER_00: Failure is information that you let go of one of the mindsets.
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  SPEAKER_00: Failure is information.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's that you got something happened and you got taken out in that moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you don't have to stay down.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so that really is, I think, the first place that we can resolve that these that we can have these mindsets.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because I think that a lot of times when we fail, when we fall out of one of the mindsets, we go, see, there's proof that it doesn't work.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, no, no, no.
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  SPEAKER_00: It it's just an indicator that you failed.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you failed and it's information, so it means that there was a weak point there.
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  SPEAKER_00: That you you stepped into a trap, you took the bait, you you got tired, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And you picked something.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what you picked was wrong.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's really that simple.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because when you're not holding to these three mindsets, it's because you put something else in that in their position.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you don't pick, if you're if you're finding that you're failing in one of these mindsets, it's because you picked something else.
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  SPEAKER_00: The enemy offered you something else and you picked it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And these mindsets, they have specific spots in your mindset.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you pick the opposite, if you pick the other thing, well, they they can't exist with the opposite in there, in there.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you've got to pick clean and you've got to pick that one.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it means that you really do have to 2 Corinthians 10, 5, because it you've got to take that other mindset captive and make it obedient to Christ, which means that I do an exchange.
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  SPEAKER_00: It means I give back to Jesus the thing that was the faulty mindset, the subpar mindset, and I get back the right mindset in return.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he is the God of exchange, Isaiah 61.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, what are these three mindsets?
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's get into them.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm just gonna name them and then I'm gonna give you scripture for each of them, and I'm gonna talk briefly about them, and then we'll be done.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you ready?
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_00: Are you ready?
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_00: So these are the three, the three kingdom builder mindsets that you must have.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_00: You ready?
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_00: First one, steadfastness, also considered to be faithfulness, but I call it steadfastness because we need action in these mindsets.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_00: And when I say faithfulness, all of us Christians, we go into churches and we think about faithfulness as this like soft little floaty idea.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_00: So we're gonna call it steadfastness.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_00: I'll give you a scripture in a minute.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_00: Um, second, consistency and number three, resilience.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_00: Steadfastness, consistency, resilience.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_00: Did you write them down?
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  SPEAKER_00: Number one, steadfastness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number two, consistency.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number three, resilience.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're like, Erica, that second one, that consistency, that's an action.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_00: Very good.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_00: You're starting to notice that these three mindsets, they are actionable mindsets.
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  SPEAKER_00: It means that when we have the mindset and we think about it, it implores us to act.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_00: Every single one of these has in it, baked into it, a seed of action, a seed of do.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_00: So it's like the be that leads to the do.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_00: A few weeks ago, I taught about being a beacon and a steward, a beacon and a steward.
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  SPEAKER_00: You got a be and do.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_00: And so these three mindsets have baked into them the ability to influence your be and your do.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_00: That's why they're so powerful.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_00: And that's why I believe that.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: These are the three foundational mindsets for any kingdom builder.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_00: So let's talk about steadfastness.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_00: Steadfastness.
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  SPEAKER_00: So here's the verse for it, Isaiah 50, verse 7.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_00: It says, But the Lord God helps me, therefore I have not been disgraced.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_00: Therefore, I have set my face like a flint.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_00: And I know that I shall not be put to shame.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_00: That's Isaiah 50, verse 7.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_00: Therefore, I have set my face like a flint.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_00: Therefore, I will not be put.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I know, and I know that I will not be put to shame.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_00: This is how strongly we need to hold to this mindset, this mindset of steadfastness.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_00: Now I told you that another word for this is faithfulness, faithfulness.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_00: But too many times we think of faithfulness as some ethereal, like floaty thing.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_00: And it's like, oh, I'm being faithful because I'm believing.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_00: I'm being faithful because I'm believing.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_00: No, actually, the definition of faithful is that your actions align with what you said you believed.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_00: That's faithful.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_00: It's integrity to the word of God.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_00: So that's why we call it steadfastness, because it's like standing and not being moved.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_00: I will set my face like flint.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_00: You know, and what I love about the flintstone, the flint rock, is that it actually can spark a fire.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_00: It actually sparks and creates energy.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_00: And so I like to think about that.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, I am a face set like flint.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_00: And anything that comes against me is just going to create a spark that's going to create the energy and the fire that's necessary to see this thing happen.
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_00: I'm steadfast.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_00: Where I'm looking, I'm going to go.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_00: Where I'm looking, that's where the action's going to happen.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_00: God has my gaze where it needs to be so that I can see the things that he wants me to see.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_00: And I will say the things that he wants me to say, and I will see those things that he has said come to pass.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_00: This is a steadfastness, right?
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_00: But the Lord God helps me.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not doing this by myself.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not standing strong by myself.
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  SPEAKER_00: He helps me.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_00: And that's why I haven't been, I haven't been disgraced.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_00: Therefore, I have set my face like flint.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_00: This is the action, friend.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_00: This is the part where we make the decision that we're going to set our perspective.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_00: We're going to set where our eyes are.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_00: We are making the decision that we're not going to be moved.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_00: And here's the thing: feelings will try to get you off of this.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_00: But we walk by faith and not by sight.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_00: We set our gaze by faith and not by sight.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_00: We choose our actions by faith and not by sight.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_00: And when the feelings of tiredness, when the feelings of weariness, when the feelings of offense, when the feelings of frustration, when the feelings of despair, when the feelings of disappointment come in, it is our job in steadfastness to say, I will not be moved.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_00: I will not be moved by you.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_00: That doesn't mean that we ignore feelings.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_00: It means that we put them in the right position.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_00: We put them in a, in a, in a, in a, in a corral and we bring them to the Lord and we say, I'm feeling all of these things.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_00: What does that mean?
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_00: Those feelings are actually indicators that somewhere in the biological system, the chemical cascades have gone off.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_00: And the only way the chemical cascades go off is because of meaning that we've assigned to something.
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_00: So our feelings are actually a response to either learned or to the point of automated meanings for thoughts or experiences.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_00: This is trauma.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_00: Like we could do a whole session on this.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_00: So you need to understand that the mindset of steadfastness, the way that the enemy is going to come against it is by trying to convince you that your feelings are more real than the truth.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_00: And that your feelings need to be addressed more than your feet need to stay planted on the Word of God.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_00: He's going to get you to feel those feelings so deeply.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_00: And it's going to feel urgent that you respond to them.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_00: But I want to tell you, Isaiah 50, verse 7, set your face like flint.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_00: Do not allow, it's like spiritual Botox.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_00: Do not let the despair, the disappointment, the frustration, the rage, the whatever, don't let it get you off.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_00: Set your face like flint and you will not be disgraced.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_00: You will not be put to shame.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_00: That's a choice.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_00: That's mindset number one.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_00: Mindset number one.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_00: Number two, consistency.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_00: Consistency.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_00: This is a mindset.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_00: I know that in productivity coaching and in, you know, all the things that we do today, consistency is an action.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_00: I love it.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_00: I love that.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_00: I love that we're looking at consistency as an action.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_00: But remember, every single one of these mindsets is a be and a do.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_00: And it starts in being.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_00: You can't do properly if you don't be properly.
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_00: You need to stand in your identity properly so that you have the connection to God and his power so that you can walk the thing out fully.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_00: And so when we talk about consistency, we have to be consistent.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_00: What does that mean?
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_00: What does it mean to be consistent before you can act consistently?
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_00: Well, what it means is that if God said that this is who I am, then I practice standing in that identity.
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_00: And I don't look, here's the best way to practice the consistency of being in your identity.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_00: Don't open up your mouth and say stuff that violates who you are.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_00: Don't open up your mouth and violate who God is with your words.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_00: Don't do that.
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_00: Don't let the feelings lose out of your mouth like diarrhea.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_00: Like pucker.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_00: Pucker, consistency says, I consistently speak the word of God.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_00: I consistently speak truth.
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_00: I like, do you see?
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_00: I am.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_00: I am someone who consistently speaks truth.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_00: I am someone who consistently speaks the word of God.
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_00: I am someone who is consistently in fear of God and not in fear of man.
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_00: I am, I am, I am, I am, I am.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_00: Interestingly enough, the word for I am in Exodus, um, it it the root of it is the word for beacon.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_00: So it's like this is who I'm going to shine to the world.
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_00: This is the light that I'm gonna be.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_00: This is the beacon, the signal fire set on a hill.
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_00: This is the example that I'm going to be.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_00: And so before you can do consistency, you have to be consistently.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_00: Before you can do consistently, you have to be consistently.
• 29:00
  SPEAKER_00: And that means holding to your identity.
• 29:03
  SPEAKER_00: That means if God said it, that settles it.
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_00: And now we're gonna walk like it.
• 29:07
  SPEAKER_00: And so that consistency starts with knowing who we are and deciding I'm not going to say anything that violates that.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm not gonna do anything that violates who I am.
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna start with consistency in my identity.
• 29:25
  SPEAKER_00: Once we can do that, then it becomes easy to be consistent in our behavior.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_00: But if you cannot stay consistent to your identity, understand that's how the enemy can get in there and he can play all over the place in the playground of your mind.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_00: What's our scripture?
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_00: Our scripture for consistency is Galatians 6 9.
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_00: It says, and let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap if we do not give up.
• 29:55
  SPEAKER_00: So that's the doing piece of consistency.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_00: It's like, look, don't grow weary.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_00: You're like, wait a minute, what?
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_00: Let us not grow weary of doing good.
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_00: Erica, I'm exhausted.
• 30:05
  SPEAKER_00: I'm beyond exhausted.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_00: It's why I'm acting like a child.
• 30:09
  SPEAKER_00: It's why I'm acting like I can't hold myself together.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_00: It's because I'm exhausted.
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, well, the enemy is wearying you out, right?
• 30:16
  SPEAKER_00: That's Daniel 7.25.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_00: He seeks to wear it, the saints.
• 30:19
  SPEAKER_00: Congratulations, you're a saint.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_00: Like that's what's happening.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_00: But you don't get to entitle yourself to acting like a child throwing a tantrum because it's hard.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_00: Said what I said.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_00: I say it to myself.
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_00: So I am good to say it to you.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_00: You and I do not get to entitle ourselves to throw a tantrum because something is hard.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_00: Because if a child throws a tantrum next to a street where there are zooming cars going by, just because the child is throwing a tantrum and decides to throw itself out into the street doesn't mean that it won't get hit by a car.
• 30:55
  SPEAKER_00: Understand there are consequences to bad behavior, regardless of why you did it.
• 31:02
  SPEAKER_00: Regardless of why I did the bad behavior, I'm going to reap a consequence to bad behavior.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_00: That doesn't mean that God doesn't love me.
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't mean that I'm not saved.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_00: It means that if we do certain behaviors, there are certain consequences.
• 31:16
  SPEAKER_00: And so if we don't learn how to consistently walk in the ways of God and be obedient and like do the good behavior consistently, then we're going to reap bad consequences.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_00: It's going to happen.
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_00: And so when we entitle ourselves to making mistakes, when we're like, it's okay, Jesus still loves me.
• 31:37
  SPEAKER_00: So I don't have to be consistent because God will still love me.
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_00: Congratulations.
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_00: He will still love you.
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_00: He'll love you even if you made a bad mistake until the day you died.
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_00: He will.
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_00: But that doesn't mean that you won't experience bad consequences.
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_00: That doesn't mean that you're not going to reap.
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_00: You're not going to reap what you sowed in those, in those bad actions.
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_00: So that is why it becomes really important that we know how to be consistently and do consistently.
• 32:05
  SPEAKER_00: And Galatians 6.9 says, look, do not grow weary.
• 32:09
  SPEAKER_00: Don't give yourself an excuse.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_00: Don't say, oh, it's too hard.
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_00: I can't, I can't do the right thing today, even though I know, you know, they made me upset.
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_00: They did wrong.
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_00: Two wrongs don't make a right.
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_00: Like we learned that in kindergarten, right?
• 32:22
  SPEAKER_00: But the reality is you know your Bible, and you know that if you choose violence, violence is gonna choose you.
• 32:28
  SPEAKER_00: You know that if you choose laziness, laziness is gonna choose you.
• 32:33
  SPEAKER_00: You know that if you choose anger, anger is gonna choose you.
• 32:37
  SPEAKER_00: You get to choose.
• 32:39
  SPEAKER_00: You get to choose.
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_00: So choose well.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_00: That's the steadfastness piece, and then choose consistently.
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_00: Amen?
• 32:46
  SPEAKER_00: So that's the second mindset is consistency.
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_00: Mindset number three, resilience.
• 32:51
  SPEAKER_00: So we've got steadfastness, consistency, resilience.
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_00: So our scripture for resilience is 2 Corinthians 4, verses 8 and 9.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_00: It says, we are afflicted in every way, but not crushed, perplexed, but not driven to despair, persecuted, but not forsaken, struck down, but not destroyed.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_00: That's a choice.
• 33:16
  SPEAKER_00: That's a choice.
• 33:17
  SPEAKER_00: Resilience says, I'm afflicted in every way, but I will not be crushed.
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_00: Crushed is when the integrity of the inside, the best way that I like to explain this is like you've got peace on the inside of you, and the world is pressure all on the outside of you.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_00: And so that pressure is constantly pressing in on your container, on your vessel, right?
• 33:37
  SPEAKER_00: You are the temple of the Holy Spirit.
• 33:39
  SPEAKER_00: It's constantly pressing in on your temple, on your container.
• 33:42
  SPEAKER_00: But you've got the peace of God on the inside of you.
• 33:45
  SPEAKER_00: And as long as that peace is one pound per square inch more than the pressure that's pressing in on you, you can be afflicted, but not crushed, right?
• 33:55
  SPEAKER_00: Like a can.
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_00: The pressure inside the can, the peace inside the can is greater than the pressure coming in on you.
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_00: And that is that right there is resilience.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_00: It's saying, I'm gonna let the peace of God that exists on the inside of me press out just even one pound per square inch more than the pressure that's coming in.
• 34:16
  SPEAKER_00: When you believe that, that's where resilience steps in.
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_00: That's where the grace of God for resilience comes into your life because you believe that it's possible.
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_00: You believe that the peace that exists on the inside of you is greater than the pressure that's crushing in.
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_00: And so that's how we can be afflicted, but not crushed.
• 34:34
  SPEAKER_00: That's how we can be perplexed.
• 34:36
  SPEAKER_00: Like, how is this even happening?
• 34:38
  SPEAKER_00: How is this even happening, but not driven to despair.
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_00: Not driven to despair.
• 34:42
  SPEAKER_00: You can say, How is this happening?
• 34:44
  SPEAKER_00: But then ask God for the answer.
• 34:46
  SPEAKER_00: Ask God for his meaning, ask God for his perspective.
• 34:49
  SPEAKER_00: Ephesians 2, go sit with Christ in heavenly places and see it the way that he sees it.
• 34:54
  SPEAKER_00: That's how we don't go to despair, because we have resilience.
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_00: We remember that we have better options, right?
• 35:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, in Hebrews it says, but the blood of Jesus speaks a better word.
• 35:05
  SPEAKER_00: Speaks a better word.
• 35:06
  SPEAKER_00: So if you are bleeding out because someone cut you, if you are absolutely bleeding out because you've been, you've been terrorized and traumatized and attacked, what you have to remember is the blood that's that's spilling out of you and that you're looking at, there is a blood that speaks a better word than that.
• 35:25
  SPEAKER_00: That blood that's coming out of you is speaking despair.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_00: It's speaking trauma, it's speaking death.
• 35:31
  SPEAKER_00: But you can look to the blood of Jesus that speaks a better word.
• 35:35
  SPEAKER_00: And therefore, you won't be driven to despair.
• 35:38
  SPEAKER_00: Do you see?
• 35:39
  SPEAKER_00: Do you see how it works?
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_00: You can be persecuted, but not forsaken.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_00: Persecuted says that you've been betrayed, you've been attacked by those around you.
• 35:49
  SPEAKER_00: You are literally being forsaken by those around you.
• 35:53
  SPEAKER_00: But resilience says, but there's one other person who hasn't and will never forsake me.
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_00: And that is my God.
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_00: I'm never alone.
• 36:02
  SPEAKER_00: I am never forsaken because of Jesus.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_00: And so resilience grabs a hold of that.
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_00: It sees the one place that we can still hold on to.
• 36:12
  SPEAKER_00: It says, struck down, but not destroyed.
• 36:15
  SPEAKER_00: Listen, God is not trying to tell you that you're not under attack.
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_00: He's not, he's not going to try to convince you that you're not suffering.
• 36:23
  SPEAKER_00: He's just saying it's not the end.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_00: It's not the end of the line.
• 36:28
  SPEAKER_00: You have another move.
• 36:29
  SPEAKER_00: You have another move.
• 36:30
  SPEAKER_00: Resilience says, I have another move.
• 36:33
  SPEAKER_00: Resilience says, I can think something better here that gets me to breathe another day, that gets me to fight another day.
• 36:40
  SPEAKER_00: That is resilience.
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_00: But these are mindsets, friend.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_00: They start in the place of our mind.
• 36:46
  SPEAKER_00: Because if you cannot agree with them in your mind, if you cannot take the thought captive that's attacking you and make it obedient to Christ by putting one of these mindsets in that place, you will get taken out.
• 36:59
  SPEAKER_00: You'll get taken out.
• 37:00
  SPEAKER_00: So that's why it becomes vitally important that we commit to these kingdom builder mindsets: steadfastness, consistency, resilience.
• 37:11
  SPEAKER_00: And it's a choice.
• 37:12
  SPEAKER_00: It is a choice.
• 37:14
  SPEAKER_00: So the enemy will try to convince you that you have to feel your way to them.
• 37:18
  SPEAKER_00: That is a lie.
• 37:19
  SPEAKER_00: If you try to feel your way to these mindsets, you're done.
• 37:23
  SPEAKER_00: You're toast.
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_00: You are the enemy's snack.
• 37:27
  SPEAKER_00: So I need you to understand that you're like it is going to happen when you need to pick one of these mindsets.
• 37:33
  SPEAKER_00: It's going to feel impossible.
• 37:35
  SPEAKER_00: Can you just write that down?
• 37:36
  SPEAKER_00: It is going to feel impossible, underline, underline, when I try to install one of these mindsets.
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_00: Impossible.
• 37:46
  SPEAKER_00: Circle, circle, circle, underline, underline, underline.
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_00: But you have to remember, Jesus said, is it impossible?
• 37:52
  SPEAKER_00: Well, with man, it is impossible.
• 37:54
  SPEAKER_00: If you're left to your own devices, it's totally impossible.
• 37:57
  SPEAKER_00: I can tell you it's totally impossible.
• 37:59
  SPEAKER_00: I've tried to do it in my own strength.
• 38:01
  SPEAKER_00: But with God, no thing is impossible.
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_00: So that means I can install these kingdom mindsets at all times.
• 38:10
  SPEAKER_00: It is possible.
• 38:12
  SPEAKER_00: And in fact, if you ask God to help, it is more than possible.
• 38:17
  SPEAKER_00: It's probable.
• 38:18
  SPEAKER_00: It's a guarantee.
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_00: So I want to encourage you today to know those three mindsets and to start to notice where you have fallen out of them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And start to notice where you need to install them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because the things that you want to see happen in your world, the breakthrough that you want to see happen in your world, it is a bunch of bunk when people tell you everything you ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
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  SPEAKER_00: So stupid.
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  SPEAKER_00: So stupid.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sure, the enemy is gonna put fear at the at the at the gate of the thing that God wants you to have.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course he is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course he is.
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  SPEAKER_00: But that's not the indicator.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like that knowing that fear is in between us and the thing that we want, that's that's the scheme of the enemy, is to try and get you scared.
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  SPEAKER_00: So don't look at the fear.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's so ridiculous.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's so ridiculous.
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  SPEAKER_00: What you need to do is understand that the breakthrough is just on the other side of obeying God.
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  SPEAKER_00: That like everything that God has for me, everything that He wants me to have, everything that I need to have to complete this assignment, any of those things.
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  SPEAKER_00: It sys just through the doorway of trust and obedience.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it, just it's it's like literally, like we're thinking that this is some like massive gargantuan metal door that is like so hard to open and we're gonna have to war to get to the other side of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when in reality, it like in the spirit, it looks like that the little girl's like flowery and pretty little hollow core door going to her bedroom that is like that simple little doorknob, doesn't even have a lock on it, and it's just like easy to open.
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  SPEAKER_00: Cause it's it you get there through obedience and trusting God is the easiest thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now you're like, come on, Erica, that's not easy.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, it's because of your mindset.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's because of what you've made it to be in your mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I get it because I've been there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because it's a battle, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: The enemy is trying to make it a battle.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what is he doing?
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  SPEAKER_00: He's he's like, have you seen those um Christmas decorations where it's the it's the lights that set a hologram on the house and it changes the complete appearance of the house?
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  SPEAKER_00: Have you seen that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Have you seen it?
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  SPEAKER_00: And they it could put snow and it can put like stars, but it can also change the like texture of the house and it it changes the complete perspective, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: That's all the enemy is doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's like, this door is gonna be so hard to get through.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's fear and there's thorns and there's bushes, and it's gonna be so hard.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so you just spend so much time in your life looking.
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  SPEAKER_00: And all this time it was a hologram.
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  SPEAKER_00: All this time it was a hologram.
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  SPEAKER_00: All this time you were like, it will be so impossible to do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's so impossible to get over that.
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  SPEAKER_00: What's the solution?
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  SPEAKER_00: The solution is to change your mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: The solution is to change your mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh.
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  SPEAKER_00: The solution is to change your mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: How do we do that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Ephesians 2.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go sit with Christ in heavenly places.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ask him for his perspective.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like from where he sits, you're gonna see it rightly.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's from that place that we can install these mindsets and we can just open the door and walk through.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know, like you're gonna be like, Erica, that's you, you're saying it like it's so easy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know what?
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  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna have to practice.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna have to practice.
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  SPEAKER_00: And yup, you're gonna fail.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're going to.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna wake up some days and choose violence.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are like it happens.
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  SPEAKER_00: It happened to me the other day.
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  SPEAKER_00: You wake up, you choose violence.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're just like, I just I'm so exhausted, I'm so tired, I'm so frustrated.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna entitle myself to choose violence today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like it happens.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what do you do?
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  SPEAKER_00: You repent, get back on the horse.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because the truth is never gonna change.
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  SPEAKER_00: The truth is never gonna change that if he said it, that settles it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now we have to walk according to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now we have to walk it out in faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: That that's that is the deal.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is the mission.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so, yeah, we're gonna fall down.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Proverbs 24, 16 says, Where though a righteous person may fall seven times, he gets back up again.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we don't try to say that the truth isn't the truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so that's the place that I just really want you to land today in this.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna pray um that you would know.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Ephesians 1, Paul prays this prayer and he says, I pray that the eyes of your heartened heart would be enlightened, that you might know.
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  SPEAKER_00: That you might know that through the knowledge of him, you might know what is the hope, what is the hope that towards those who believe?
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  SPEAKER_00: What is the riches that are that are found in the saints?
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  SPEAKER_00: And what is the immeasurable power that's coming towards those of us who believe?
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  SPEAKER_00: I I want that for you this morning, because these mindsets, they are like the gems sitting in the crown of our daughterhood of the king.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's it's the it's the gems that are sitting in our crown as sons and daughters of a most high king.
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  SPEAKER_00: To have those gems of mindset protecting our mind, protecting our mind, and being able to think through the mind of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is how we can see the way that God sees.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is how we can see it the way that God sees it, and it protects our mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: It protects our mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it just, it just creates in us the ability to break through.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I pray that for you this morning that you would put these gems of mindsets on your mind that with steadfastness and with consistency and with resilience, you begin to see the kingdom manifest before you.
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  SPEAKER_00: You begin to see the kingdom of God manifest all around you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you can you can walk in it.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can walk in the kingdom even now.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is the breakthrough in Jesus' mighty name.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right, I love you so much.