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140. Sowers of Disbelief · Your Enriched Self

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I've been asked this question several times, and I'm sure you have been to
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if you can go back in the past and have a conversation with someone of
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your past, in your past, who would it be. And I've heard
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the question answered like a grandparent or maybe someone in the public that had an
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untimely death, and people are curious to learn what had happened. And it
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dawned on me. If I were to go back to those conversations and that
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question was asked to me, I would want to have a conversation with a
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younger version of myself. I would want to have a conversation with her.
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I would want to tell her everything will be okay, everything will be okay.
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I spent so much of my formidable years as a young adult, a
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young woman, in a state of worry, in a state of wonderment,
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in a state of confusion, because so much was growing around me, and
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then I was growing myself, but I didn't recognize that, and so as
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things were happening, it almost felt like life was exploding in different parts of
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my world and in the world, and ultimately I felt like I had no
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control. And when you feel like you have no control, you don't think
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outcomes are going to meet you where you need to be met, if that
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makes sense. You don't feel like the outcomes are going to generate what you
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need in the season that you're in, and so you don't think it's going
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to be okay. You worry about making mistakes. You worry about how people
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see you when you make mistakes. You spend a lot of time in worry,
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and you're always thinking ahead. This is what happened to me, this
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is how I felt. But in those years, I just want you to
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know. If I could go back and have that conversation with my younger self,
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one of the key things, the overarching things I would say to her,
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is that everything will be okay, because when you really think about it,
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if you go back five years, ten years, even last year,
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there were things that were occurring in your life that seemed inescapable, like you
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could not leave that situation without scars and burns and tears and rips. And
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even if you left with some of that, you're okay. Now you're okay,
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and maybe you're not fully healed, maybe you're still healing, but you
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will be okay. And when I go back and I think about all of
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the things that were once so significant, so important to my life, Okay,
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I realized that those things were really insignificant and they have no play in
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my life today. That's that's something that's really been coming up in my spirit,
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is thinking back to how I spent those years, and if I could
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go back and share that piece of information with my younger self, it would
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be that everything would be okay. And I want you to know I don't
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know what you're going through, I don't know what you're dealing with. I
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don't know what situations you're in, but I promise you everything will be okay.
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Now, Now that doesn't mean you sit back and you do nothing at
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all. It means that everything will be okay, and all you can do
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is take the next best step. That's it, the next best step.
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That's all you can do. You can't worry about the next ten steps or
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the next thirty steps, just the next one. Right. How do you
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climb a ladder one wrong at a time, and how you're going to walk
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out of this season and into the next one and be okay is just taking
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it one run at a time. All my friends from all across the globe
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and welcome to the Your in Rich Self podcast. I am your host,
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mii Le Noir. I am a mindset coach and your mindset advocate. And
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what that means is that I have made it my mission, my purpose in
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this life, that I would create a safe space for you to become more
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of your enriched self. I recognize if you are listening to this podcast,
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you are running on high octane. You are busy out there in the world,
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and you often don't prioritize the most important thing on the to do list,
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which is you. And so that's where I come in and I am
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thrilled to be part of your journey of becoming more enriched. And so what
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we do on this podcast is we talk about self care, we talk about
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soul care, we talk about intentional thinking, because it all starts with your
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thoughts. No matter what it is that you are embarking upon, that you
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are restarting, that you're thinking about, that you are working through, it
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starts in your mind. Those thoughts will then generate the words that you use
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and how you speak about your life and how you talk about your adventures,
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and you talk about your purpose and you bring your vision into the world through
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words and those words then inspire the actions that you will take. And the
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activity and the actions you take are the representation of who you are in this
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world. And I know that you want to be the best version of you,
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and so it starts in the mind. And so that's the work we
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do each week. So if you are new to this podcast, I want
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know that you were brought here on purpose, for a purpose. And if
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you are a repeat listener, thank you, thank you, thank you,
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Thank you for the feedback. I've been getting a lot of great feedback lately
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about how these episodes are resonating with you. So I want to thank you
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for that feedback. But I also want to thank you for being on this
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journey. We are at episode one hundred and forty. That means for one
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hundred and forty weeks or maybe you binged these podcast episodes. You've been listening,
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and I'm so grateful that we can continue this journey and you have been
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a part of that. So thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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Now, if you know, you know, before we get into the episode,
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each and every week, I make a deposit in the bank of you,
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and I do so by way of affirmations. Affirmations are a great way
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to start your day and to command your morning. And this week's affirmation is
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inhaling peace, exhaling self doubt. Inhaling peace, exhaling self doubt, inhaling
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peace, exhaling self doubt. Now, let's get ready for this week's episode
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of the Your Enriched Self Podcast. So this past weekend, I did something
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that I've done for the majority of my life growing up as a child.
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I watched the movie The Ten Commandments. Now you have to understand my mother
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was deeply rooted into this movie. I would say it was a Easter weekend
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tradition that we would, you know, go to church on Good Friday and
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we would watch The Ten Commandments after church. And it was just this traditional
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thing that we did every single year. And that movie was released back in
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nineteen fifty six. I know there's been other versions of The Ten Commandments,
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but I'm talking about the og version of The Ten Commandments. Okay, Charleston
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Heston and the whole cast and crew. That's really the only name, the
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only actor that I know. It was, again a staple, a tradition
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in my household. That we would watch that movie. And so this weekend
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I caught the movie. I didn't watch it on Good Friday like we traditionally
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did, but I did catch it on Saturday leading up to Easter. And
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it really kind of hits different when you're looking at things from a fresh perspective,
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a different mindset. And there was something that stood out to me when
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I watched it this time around that had never stood out to me before,
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and it was a particular character that I had never really given as much shine
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or attention to, or even remembered this character as much as I did.
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Of course, Charleston Heston who played Moses, the actor that played the Pharaoh,
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the actor that played the King, like all of those characters were significant
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and they had unique and very intentional roles in the story of the children of
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Israel escaping Egypt by way of Moses and of course God. So what was
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interesting is that if you know the story of Moses, Okay, let's just
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start there. Moses was a prophet. He was the person that God selected
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to shepherd his people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt. These
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people were enslaved, they were in bondage, they were basically building this empire,
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and they were treated terribly and they were crying out to God. And
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so God sends this person, this deliver, this shepherd of the people to
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get them out of this bad situation. And so Moses finally has gone through
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so many episodes with Pharaoh trying to convince him that you gotta let these people
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go. I mean literally, you gotta let the people go. And so
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Pharaoh was not having it. I mean, he wants his pire build.
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You know, that was the one thing his daddy told him to do.
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The King said, I want you to build this thing up. And so
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he wasn't gonna let Daddy down. So he was dead set on this thing
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happening. By Eddie means necessary, and I mean he was the original by
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any means necessary type of guy. So all that is going on, but
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Moses still has this directed from God that these people are going to be moved
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out of this death trap and moved into a place of life and abundance.
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We get to a portion in the movie. This is where the character that
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I want to focus on today comes into play. And this character is named
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Dathan, and so you have to imagine the scene, right, Moses leads
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the people out well. Pharaoh finally says, okay, go just just leave,
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and so Moses finally leads these people out. They're experiencing for the first
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time this sense of freedom, this sense of movement, that they hadn't experience
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in this kingdom where they were tightly bound to the work and they were enslaved
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and chained literally to the work. And so this is a very different thing
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for them. And so they get to an impasse where now they're not able
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to go any further because there's a sea, the Red Sea. They can't
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move, they can't go any further. They've walked as far and ran as
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far as they could, and so now they're kind of stuck, right,
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They're feeling stuck. They're starting to show despair on their faces. And this
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is where the character Dathan comes in. So Dathan says, now he has
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everybody's attention, just ripping into Moses, and he's like, look at this
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guy, Like he brings us out here, and we're gonna die, Like
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we're gonna die, We're not going anywhere. He misled us, Like this
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guy is a fraud, Like he's inciting doubt and fear mongering in this group
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of people in this group of people who already felt a sense of despear and
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now all of the things that they had prayed about and they had thought about
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are coming to pass, and they're finding themselves feeling stuck once again. So
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once again, what does Moses do. He doesn't pay any attention to dates.
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And first of all, he goes back to God, gets his command,
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and God tells him put that staff down. Now the Red Sea.
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Keep imagine this. The Red Sea opens up. Imagine a wall on the
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left and the wall on the right of water, waters of walls or walls
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of water that are on either side, and these people are now walking,
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running, moving through a body of water. I mean, we got to
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pause for a moment to see the power of God in all of this,
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you know, Hollywood wonder because that's what it was to me as a child.
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I didn't think of God's power more so, Wow, this is kind
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of a cool effect to watch on TV. But in fact, this was
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a powerful miracle moment that was happening and unfolding, and it's so interesting.
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So they get to the other side and now they're on dry land again,
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and here comes Daithan once again, inciting fear. So the majority of them
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had come through, but there's still, you know, a couple hundred thousand
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people that are still trying to come through this pathway that Moses, by way
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of God, it has made for these children of Israel to go through.
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And Daithan speaks up again, inciting fear, inciting doubt, just literally making
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the whole scenario be a scenario filled with doubt. I'm parapraising. Of course.
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One of the things that he said, he said a lot of things,
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but one of the things he said was, can you imagine this guy
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brings us all the way out here. Of course, they're now seeing in
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their peer view Pharaoh, his chariots, his armies are all so coming through
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this pathway to God, you know, put together with Moses. And so
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as they're watching these chariots come after them, Dathan is now using this as
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another moment to point out the flaws of Moses, so much so he convinces
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the people. At one point convinces the people, after inciting the doubt,
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that they were going to die in this land and they weren't going to go
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anywhere. Inciting this doubt, he convinced the people that they should stone Moses
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to death and they picked up rocks, they picked up stones. They were
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getting ready to stone Moses to death until Moses performed yet another miracle, And
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that miracle was the very same pathway that was used as a purpose and as
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a pipeline to move those people through. He closed the waters in on the
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enemy, on the adversary, which was Pharaoh and his chariots and armies of
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people who were after them. And I just thought, as I'm watching this
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movie, I'm blown away that they had just seen so many miracles take place
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in Egypt before Pharaoh finally said yes, you guys can go. They watched
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another miraculous thing happen when Moses, by way of God opened this red sea.
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And they were still not convinced that they were in the right hands and
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the right things were happening, and they were worried that things would not be
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okay. They were listening to someone tell them that they were going to meet
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certain death, that they were going to have a demise in that moment,
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and that was Daithan. But my question to you is how many of you
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are listening to the daythan in your life, Because if in fact the people
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stoned Moses, the person that would in the end use another miracle to protect
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them. They would have blocked their blessings. They would have never entered that
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promised land. They would never have entered where God had intended for them to
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go. And so if there is a Dathan in your life, I promise
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you that Dathan is likely blocking your blessings. See the thing about it is
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Moses was anointed to lead these people. Moses was in fact the person that
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God had appointed for this work. And the work was going to get done,
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and the people would find and walk into their blessing. But there is
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a process that has to occur. And it's, yes, a physical process
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of crossing bridges and crossing waters and going through things, but there's also a
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process in your mind that has to happen. And unfortunately, for a lot
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of those people at that time, particularly in this movie, and maybe for
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some of you right now, doubt was the space that was occupying the mind.
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Doubt was, in fact the real estate of the mind that could have
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easily prevented these people from experiencing something new, something better, something greater,
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and in fact a blessing. Of course, the way the story would end
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is these people would move out of slavery, from Egypt, but ultimately they
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were still enslaved in the mind. And that's a whole different story, for
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a whole different conversation, because mine enslavement is a big part of why some
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of you are where you are today. And my question to you is,
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how are you playing the role of Dathan in your life. It's easy to
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look around and hear the people that are throwing doubt and spewing and inciting doubt
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into your life, But what are you doing. Do you have real estate
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in your mind for doubt? Because if you do, we need to unpack
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that and we need to properly understand what we are allowing in our life.
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And so you know me, I want to get to the root of doubt.
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And so the root of doubt. First of all, let's define out
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doubt is a feeling of uncertainty. It is unsureness, It is indecision,
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hesitation, distrust, mistrust, and disbelief. I want you to hold on
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to that word disbelief. Now let's break down the word doubt itself. Doubt
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is spelt dubt. So I'm gonna ask you, in your mind mentally right
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now to remove the D and the B and those letters represent the disbelief.
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Remember we were gonna come back to disbelief, the D and the B in
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doubt from that, any time you think about doubt or doubt comes into your
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mind, I want you to recognize that there's disbelief that exists there, and
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I want you to take the other three letters out and I want you to
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remove doubt. I want you to remove the disbelief. Let's now look at
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the eptymology of dis because we know there's disbelief, we know there's distrust.
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We talked about that too, and there's a lot of words in our culture,
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in our vocabulary that starts with dis but I want us to focus on
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disbelief and we'll pull up some of those other words too. So the Latin
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origin for dis has several nuanced meanings. One is lack of or not.
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For example, in the word dishonest, the prefect disc conveys lack of honesty.
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Makes perfect sense, But this was the one that I thought was really
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timely for where we are right now and what's happening to a lot of you
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right now. It's it's another, it's another meaning of this, which is
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a part or a way when we say discard we're implying that we're putting something
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apart from us. So you're discarding the trash. You're taking the trash outside
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of your home or outside of your room, and you're discarding it. You're
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putting it away from yourself or apart from yourself. So I want you to
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think of that. And here are other words again in your vocabulary and culture
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that we've used. Here's a couple of them that I thought were pretty significant
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and relative to the conversation. Distract. We talk about distractions here. How
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many of you feel distracted? Distracted is drawing you apart from whatever it is
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you're supposed to do. You're distracted from getting your project done. You're distracted
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from managing your financial portfolio. You're distracted from so many things. You're drawing
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apart from the thing that you're supposed to be doing. Disorder it is apart
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from So you're apart from orderliness. You're apart from it. You're not in
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order. Disease, disease, it's apart from ease. You're no longer in
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alignment with ease. You're apart from ease. That one was a really big
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one for me to hear that word disease, which is no longer having that
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ease. Disinterested again, You're apart from being interested. And so there is
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a fascinating journey when you start to look at doubt and you start to peel
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back the layers that all start with disbelief. You are now apart from belief.
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You are apart from believing. And so that's why it was easy for
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the crowds that day then started to incite this doubt into It was easy for
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them to quickly shift and turn and be apart from the plan, the purpose,
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the vision that Moses had for them by way of God, because they
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were apart from belief. And I don't know where you are in your season,
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but in order for you to get to your promised land, in order
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for you to achieve the vision that God appointed for you to achieve, I
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challenge you to focus on where your doubt is coming from. What have you
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set yourself apart from that's preventing you from connecting to believing again, Believing in
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yourself, believing in your vision, believing in your purpose, believing in the
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promise over your life. What do you need to do to get into alignment
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with believing again? Because your belief systems, whether you know it or not,
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they are shaping the life you're living, They're shaping the conversations you're having,
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and ultimately they're shaping your mindset. And as we talk about on this
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podcast, everything starts in the mind, and if your mind is set on
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doubt, the disbelief is going to live within you. We broke down the
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word of doubt. We know that in the word doubt is disbelief, and
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we know that the breakdown or the eptymology of this is being apart from.
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So you're going to continue to be apart away from the things in your life
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that you are constantly running toward. It's the craziest thing. It's like you're
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running towards a goal that keeps moving further and further away from you, apart
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from you, and you've got to get into alignment where your belief systems line
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you up to the goal and allow you to take the step forward that's going
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to lead you closer to the destination. I know we've all heard the saying
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I feel like I take two steps forward and then three steps back. You
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know what, because there is doubt inside of your mental conversations. Your self
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taught it's there is doubt in how you speak about your life. There's doubt
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about what you allow the Dathans in your life to say about you to you
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and start to create a new belief system. What Dathan was in fact doing
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this character in the movie The Ten Commandments is he was building a mindset.
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He was building a literally real estate in their mind about how this thing wouldn't
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work, how things would not be okay, how they would never establish,
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accomplish or be in the space where they can receive the blessing, and if
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they had listened to him, and they did, actually they did listen to
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him. If Moses did not do what he was told to do and be
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obedient by what he was appointed to do and not even listen to Dathan,
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because if you watch the movie, Moses was unfazed by what daythan was saying.
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The people were the ones, the crowds were the ones going with this
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herd mentality and running towards that doubt. There is something about doubt where people
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just flock to it and it just seems like it's the loudest thing in the
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room. It's the loudest voice in the room, it's the loudest person in
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the room. It's the loudest, it's the biggest, it's the gy gantuous
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thing that you can't stop looking at. But I promise you, if you
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get refocused and you go back looking at what you were intended to do,
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you can close that out and you can be apart and away from the doubt,
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which is what Moses essentially did. He never paid any attention to daythan
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he did not address him. He simply did his work. He simply followed
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what he was intended to follow, and he kept focused on the vision.
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I don't know what you are working toward, but I'm gonna encourage you to
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find in your life where disbelief lives. Find in your life where disbelief has
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kept you from receiving your blessing, and be intentional about looking at the word
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doubt, recognizing there's disbelief in it, and working to get it out.
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You don't want to block your blessings. And if you keep doubt as part
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of your story, you're going to miss out on some of the greatest things
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that you can accomplish in this life.