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When Does the Bible Say It's Okay to Quit? · 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 sis, welcome back to the Jesus Girl Gang Kingdom Business Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Erica Pyle, and today I've got something special for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I just did a session on my Instagram and Facebook pages.
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  SPEAKER_00: I went live talking about what does the Bible say about quitting?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, is there a time when it's okay to quit?
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, I decided to record this session because as I'm mentoring Jesus Girl entrepreneurs through my mentorship community, the Jesus Girl Gang, I get this question asked probably the most, not directly.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm not getting people asking me when can I quit?
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  SPEAKER_00: But there's constantly, like every single week during our group coaching on Fridays, there's always some sort of question that's angling towards, is it okay for me to give up at this point?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is it okay for me to move the goalpost?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is it okay for me to move the deadline?
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  SPEAKER_00: Can I just take a break and like maybe not do this?
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, and there's a lot of questions in that area, but they really all thread back to this concept of deep down inside, we're asking the question, is this ever really gonna work?
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  SPEAKER_00: And maybe this isn't for me, or maybe I didn't hear God right, or maybe I've got to just change everything completely.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you've ever had those sorts of questions banging around in your head, or waking you up at two o'clock in the morning, or if you found yourself like me years ago, um quitting, quietly quitting a few times a year, then sister, this episode is for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I want you to grab your Bible, your journal, and your pen and let's get into this week's episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it is Thursday, which means we're talking to the Kingdom Business Builders this morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you a Jesus girl entrepreneur?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you Luke Gate Lady?
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  SPEAKER_00: What does that mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: What's a Luke 8 lady?
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  SPEAKER_00: Have you ever read Luke 8 verses 1 to 3?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because I feel like maybe we should define this a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, I'd I I have a community, a mentorship community called the Jesus Girl Gang.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so that's kind of understandable, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like we get it.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're Jesus Girls that are a gang.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've come together, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and inside of the Jesus Scroll Gang, I mentor entrepreneurial godly women.
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  SPEAKER_00: So women who have a kingdom business in them that they um are looking to build and launch online.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what I do.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have something called the Build with Faith mentorship.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I help women to build these businesses online.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I talk to them about being a Luke 8 lady.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we've heard so much about the Proverbs 31 woman, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like you and I, we've heard the story of Proverbs 31 woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the way I teach it, when you look at Proverbs 31, verses 10 to 31, you'll see five pillars of purpose on that woman's life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And one of the pillars of purpose is entrepreneurial.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know, I know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like we look at Proverbs 31 woman and we try to get to the trad woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: We try to get to that homemaking only, like mother-wife, godly woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I gotta tell you, that girl in there, that girl in there, she's in there.
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  SPEAKER_00: But there's five pillars of purpose in there.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the last one that gets highlighted in multiple verses from verse 10 to 31 is an entrepreneurial woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then I like to bring it into the New Testament because people are like, Well, I don't see that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't see that in like what Jesus was doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look, let me read you something.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's look like in my Bible, it says, women accompanying Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you see that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Women well, you probably can't think properly, but women accompanying Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what that section of Luke 8 is titled.
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  SPEAKER_00: And look at what it says.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says soon afterward, he, meaning Jesus, um, went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the twelve were with him, his twelve apostles, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Disciples, and also, also, also, some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities.
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  SPEAKER_00: These are women who had experienced the deliverance and the healing of Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: They had they had a story, they had something that went on in their life that God did, and they had a testimony.
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  SPEAKER_00: These are women who were following along with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And look, and it says also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mary, called Magdalene, we know Mary.
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  SPEAKER_00: We know Mary.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look at this, from whom seven demons had gone out, and Joanna, the wife of Chusa, Herod's household manager.
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  SPEAKER_00: What?
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  SPEAKER_00: What?
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  SPEAKER_00: There is a woman up in here that's living in a household of somebody who was persecuting, persecuting the movement that Jesus had come to bring.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah?
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  SPEAKER_00: That's interesting, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And Susanna and and many others, many others.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look at this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Provided for him, who provided for Jesus out of their own means.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some some some translations say out of their own substance.
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  SPEAKER_00: Out of their own substance.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a Luke 8 lady, somebody who's gone through some things, who has a call on her life to lead others out of that thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she's making money.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's making real cash money, real dollars, dollar bills.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's making money that she can then give to funding the kingdom expansion in the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: At Luke 8, lady time, that was Jesus's ministry, what he was doing, literally walking around the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: But for you and me, girl, for you and me, this is about expanding the kingdom by funding those projects that we know are bringing the kingdom into the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that could be very much what you're doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you coaching?
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you have do you have a product or a service that is helping to expand freedom and deliverance and revelation into the hearts of God's people?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you are you are you doing that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you a conduit?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you a conduit for these ideas out of heaven that are serving God's people, that are serving people, that are that are expressing the goodness, the greatness, and the glory of God in the earth?
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  SPEAKER_00: Come on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then you're a Luke 8 lady.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's that's who I talk to on Thursday mornings.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kingdom business builders, kingdom ministry builders.
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  SPEAKER_00: Women who have said, I'm gonna get into the earth and I'm gonna do the thing that God has made me to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know I have a God purpose.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know that He's called me to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's get into it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, what do I want to talk to you about today?
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen to this.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to talk to you about when does the Bible say it's okay to quit?
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you think that there's ever a time that the Bible says that it's okay for you to quit?
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you get scripture?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because that's what we're gonna get into today.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm just gonna give you the spoiler alert right at the top.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you ready?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you ready for this?
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  SPEAKER_00: The Bible never says that it's okay to quit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Never the concept of quitting, like if you understand the definition of quitting, quitting means I am stepping away from something or I'm stopping doing something that I committed myself to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what quitting is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Quitting requires that you have already committed to something.
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  SPEAKER_00: Quitting is a concept that says, I committed to do this, I said I was gonna do it, either I signed on a dotted line, I made a verbal commitment, I made a commitment in my heart, I said I'm going to do this thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And at some point, at some point, quitting means that I either step away or I uncommit myself.
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  SPEAKER_00: I uncommit myself, I stop doing right and when it comes to your godly purpose and assignment, this is an even stronger commitment than what I just talked about.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you've got a godly purpose and assignment on your life, something you need to understand is that's called a covenant.
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  SPEAKER_00: Covenant.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you've never studied the difference between a contract and a covenant, that's a really interesting biblical study to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Really interesting.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because a contract, a contract is about protecting the parties separate.
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  SPEAKER_00: The covenant is about keeping the parties together.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when it comes to covenant, that's there's just there's no quitting it.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no quitting it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we have to understand first and foremost that if you have been called by God to do something, to build something, to be something, that's purpose, that's identity, that's godly purpose and identity on your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you need to understand that there's no getting out of that in a godly way.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no getting out of that in a biblical, like legally biblical way.
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  SPEAKER_00: But here's the deal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look at what Hebrews 10 39 says, because this isn't even who we are.
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  SPEAKER_00: We shouldn't even be people that are thinking about quitting.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why am I bringing this topic?
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  SPEAKER_00: Why I bring this topic?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because remember, I told you that I work with I work with Jesus Girl entrepreneurs.
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  SPEAKER_00: I work, I uh I have a mentorship where I work with women every single day who are building and launching businesses online.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, one of the most interesting things, it happened to me, it happened to me for years.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now as I mentor other women in this space, I see it happening every day for them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's the thing that I coach on the most is you get going, you're excited, you're doing some things, and then something tries to get you off your purpose.
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  SPEAKER_00: Something tries to get you off your assignment.
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  SPEAKER_00: And all of a sudden, because it feels hard and it feels heavy, we go, maybe this means I should quit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe this means I'm not in the right place.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe this means I'm not doing the right thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe this means that I heard God wrong.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now we're in this, now we're in this swirl of, well, maybe this means I should quit.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I spend so much time in my coaching program talking mindset, biblical mindset.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so one of the most powerful things that I can say to you is there is no biblical support for quitting.
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  SPEAKER_00: In fact, only the opposite exists, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Paul said, I'm gonna run my race as if to win.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna finish this race.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're finishers, we're finishers.
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  SPEAKER_00: But look at Hebrews 10 39.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says we're not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're not of those who shrink back.
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  SPEAKER_00: Quitting is a shrinking back.
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  SPEAKER_00: Quitting's a shrinking back.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you're like, okay, Erica, well, is there anywhere in the Bible?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because I know that there are people that, you know, they started out doing something and they didn't finish it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know that there are people that, you know, they they were called to do something and we see them going in a different direction.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, like, we've seen Jonah, we saw Elijah, we've saw Peter.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, I understand that there are that there are instances in the Bible where we see somebody who's been called and who's accepted the call, but then at some point they're not going in that direction.
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  SPEAKER_00: But that doesn't mean that the Bible approved that.
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  SPEAKER_00: That doesn't mean that God approved that.
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  SPEAKER_00: It means that it happened.
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  SPEAKER_00: It happened.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen, can I tell you in my own business how many times I quit?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like for real, for real.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like there were some quietly quitting moments.
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  SPEAKER_00: There were some like mini quits.
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  SPEAKER_00: There were some like, I'm gonna take an un, I'm gonna take an un like an unauthorized break.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mini quits, mini quits.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, I'm just gonna like throw my hands, throw my toys down in a tantrum and walk away for a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mini quits.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had a lot of those.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had a lot of those.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm talking about?
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  SPEAKER_00: Mini quits, quiet quits.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right?
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  SPEAKER_00: You're like, I'm just done for today.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm just rethinking my whole life.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a that's a quietly quit, mini quit kind of situation.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I also had some big quits.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I remember back in, I think it was 2018.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now it's all kind of coming together because there were multiple times that I did this.
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  SPEAKER_00: There were multiple times in a period of time that I tried to quit altogether.
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  SPEAKER_00: And God let me do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like He let me be like Jonah.
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  SPEAKER_00: He let me be like, I'm not going that direction.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's like, well, I'll sit with you and we'll see how that works for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it didn't work.
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  SPEAKER_00: It didn't work because I'm not of those who shrink back, not a quitter.
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  SPEAKER_00: If God said it, that settles it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it took me a hot minute.
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  SPEAKER_00: In one instance, it took me a couple of months.
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  SPEAKER_00: It took me a couple of months.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like I quit and I had quit.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had quit.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, yeah, no, I'm not, I'm not doing that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not doing it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord just sat with me through that season.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was a little quiet because that'll happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: That'll happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: He'll get real quiet with you while you're working your stuff out.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's like, it's my pleasure to give you the kingdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: You remember when Jesus said that to the disciples, he said, Fear not little flock, for it's your father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I feel like in those, in those moments, the Lord was just like, hey, listen, it's my pleasure to give you the kingdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if this is how you need to get it, if if like if you're gonna kick against the goes and you're gonna do it the hard way, that's okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll be with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll be with you in it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's gonna, it's gonna be a little bit dicier for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's gonna feel a little bit more painful for you, but that's okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm in it to win it with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: But we're not quitting.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't quit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not on covenant.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can't quit on covenant.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's for life.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's for life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Erica, this is a part of your purpose and this is your assignment.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm just gonna wait on you until you walk it back.
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  SPEAKER_00: So in that season, I really dug deep and I asked the Lord, like, is there any time when it's appropriate to quit?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, God, show me if there is an exit door here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Show me if there's an eject button here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because I was going hard for it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was going hard for it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And can I tell you something?
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  SPEAKER_00: There, while there is no quitting in the Bible, here's what's possible.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can be rerouted, released, or complete.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what you can do in an assignment.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what you can do in a godly assignment and a purpose is you can be rerouted, you can be released of God, and you can complete, you can complete the assignment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those are the options.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those are the options that we have.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, first and foremost, let's talk about completing because I mean that's the easiest one to understand, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: To be completed in John 19, verse 30.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is Jesus on the cross, and he says, it is finished.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that is the number one thing that we can do in covenant assignment and purpose is we can finish.
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  SPEAKER_00: And obviously, finishing is not quitting.
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  SPEAKER_00: We finish.
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  SPEAKER_00: It means that it's completed.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that feeling that we want to have that pressure off of us, that feeling that we want to get out of the, the, the, the struggle to get out of the suffering, to get out of the spotlight.
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  SPEAKER_00: The number one way to do that is to finish the course.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's to finish the race.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's to finish and to finish well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because, in all honesty, friend, what we want is the well done of our father.
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  SPEAKER_00: When we're sitting there thinking about quitting, it's because we think to ourselves, I'm never gonna get to the well done.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm never gonna get to finished.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I got to figure out a way to get out of this pinch.
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  SPEAKER_00: I got to figure out a way to get out of this frustration, this stress, this struggle.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the deeper desire of our heart is, I want to finish well.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want my father's well done.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to please the heart of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the number one way that we do that is by finishing, by completing our course.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, um, 2 Timothy 4, 7, I think it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, Paul says, I have finished the race.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is nothing like, I have finished the race.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me explain this to you in a in a slightly different way.
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  SPEAKER_00: When I work with women who are launching businesses for the first time, okay, one thing that happens a lot, a lot, is that, and I, and it's it's something that I actually, when I am advertising my program and my course, I talk about this a lot in my ads because it really hits home.
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  SPEAKER_00: This idea of have you been circling the mountain of that launch for a long time?
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  SPEAKER_00: Have you been getting to about 80% of launch and you can't seem to get past that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Have you gotten to eight 70 to 80% of getting your platform set up, of getting your offer set up, of starting to gather your people on social media, but you just can't break through.
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  SPEAKER_00: That, that feeling right there, okay, that is very common in our community of godly women who are looking to launch a business because there's a lot of opposition.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you decide that you're gonna launch a kingdom business in the online space, the enemy is like, absolutely not.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so he'll just start to push, he'll start to push.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so there's this place that we will begin to feel like we can just let it down for now.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll I'll get to it at some point.
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  SPEAKER_00: But there comes a point when you've got to make the decision that you're gonna finish.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_00: And you're like, Erica, but that's my problem, is that I don't, I can't get all the way there.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_00: So here's what I do: I teach you very early on, stop moving the goalposts because that's why you can never finish.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_00: You're like, what does that mean?
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_00: It means that if you say you're gonna launch, then launch on that date.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, but Erica, but it's not good enough.
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  SPEAKER_00: Launch anyway.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_00: Well, but Erica, I didn't get all the ads at launch anyway.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_00: Well, but Erica, no one signed up.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_00: Launch anyway, launch anyway, make it a replay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Get out there and do the thing that you said you were going to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: The goalpost.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kick the ball, go for it.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_00: Because that right there is the one thing that you can do to actually break that lie off your life.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_00: That that's what it is.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_00: Because for many of us, we're like, I can't finish the goal.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, okay, then finish the quarter.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_00: Like, finish well the quarter.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_00: And if you've set yourself a goal, stop moving the goalposts.
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_00: Is this making sense?
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_00: Because you're never gonna be able to complete the whole thing if you won't complete the first quarter.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_00: And that's that's a word for some of you.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_00: You're never gonna be able to complete the fullness of what God has called you to if you're not even willing to complete the first quarter of it.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_00: So let's be people who finish quarters that finish the mini targets, that finish the mini goals.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_00: So one reason that you can get release is because you completed the goal.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_00: You completed the assignment, you didn't quit, you finished it.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_00: You know, Nehemiah finished the project and he went back to King Art Exercise.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_00: So he finished and he was able to go back.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_00: Well, what's number two?
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_00: So you can be released and you can you can be released, or what looks like, right?
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_00: You're you're getting released because you finished the project.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_00: What's next?
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_00: What's next?
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_00: Number two, God redirects you.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_00: Now, this might look like quitting.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_00: It might look like quitting.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_00: Remember in the Bible when Paul says, I wanted to go over there, but the Holy Spirit wouldn't let me?
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_00: So he was redirected.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_00: He quit.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_00: He didn't quit.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_00: It's that God said, Not right now, not That place and not right now.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_00: And so sometimes when we're in the middle of launching our business, our ministry, when we're in the middle of producing that project, we get redirected.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_00: It's like not that strategy, but this one.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_00: I work with a girl right now, a woman who is incredible.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_00: She's a rock star.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_00: And she has finished not one, not even two, but I think three launches.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_00: Three launches.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_00: And she's only had minor sales.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_00: But she keeps going.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_00: She's not quitting.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_00: And I am just in awe of her because she realized something.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_00: After like the first or second one, she realized something.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_00: She made Galatians um 6.9 her like her jam.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_00: It says, Don't be weary and well doing, right?
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_00: Because at just the right time, you will reap if you don't give up.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_00: She realized that and she put it a sticky on her on her desk.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_00: And she was like, you know what?
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not giving up.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not quitting.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_00: Just because I'm being redirected, because that strategy didn't work, that strategy didn't work, doesn't mean that I get to throw the whole thing away.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_00: She was redirected.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_00: She didn't quit.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_00: Does this make sense?
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_00: So there are, it looks like quitting sometimes, right?
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_00: Think about, like I said, you know, where Paul didn't couldn't go into that one place, but he didn't throw away his whole ministry, his whole missionary trip.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_00: He had three different, three different missionary trips.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_00: And he just kept on going to different places and he kept on going.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_00: He went with different people.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_00: He like the the story developed.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_00: He kept going.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_00: He never quit.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_00: He just got redirected at different points, right?
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_00: What about when Jesus sent the disciples out to preach?
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_00: And what happened?
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_00: He said, look, if they if you go to a place and they reject you, shake the shake the dust off your shoes and go somewhere else.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_00: That doesn't mean stop preaching.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't mean stop doing the assignment that I gave you to go and preach the gospel and to um and to heal the sick and to deliver those who are demonized.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, just go somewhere else.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah?
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_00: So it's like that's not quitting, that's being redirected.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_00: In the Old Testament, when um Moses was leading the people across the wilderness, they had the pillar of cloud, the pillar of fire, right?
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_00: And so they were just called to follow, to, to follow.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_00: And so sometimes in your assignment, it's gonna be like, wait, but we're we're we're doubling back, but this feels like we're just hanging out.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_00: Listen, sometimes the redirect is rest.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes the redirect is rest.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_00: I've worked with some women, I work with some women right now who they got to a certain point in their launch and they're like, I'm really hearing God say to rest for a moment.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_00: This happened to me last year.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_00: As we were, I didn't even know yet that I was going into the hardest season of my life last September and October.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_00: Didn't even know, had no idea.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord came to me in August, September, and he was like, put your women's conference on hold.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_00: Put your women's conference on hold.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_00: We had had Revived Women Conference for 14 straight years.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_00: 14 straight years.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_00: We did a conference.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_00: And in that moment, the Lord said, punk the brakes.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_00: I want you to hold.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_00: I want you to take a rest.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_00: So I went and I told the ladies.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_00: At that time, I think we were a team of 10, 11 leaders.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, Look, we're gonna take a break this year.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_00: Can I tell you that in the next six months, that leadership team dwindled, was cut, was pruned to just six people?
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_00: God was like, look, I'm about to do some things, I'm about to prune some things, I'm about to rearrange some things, right?
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, take a break, take a rest.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_00: You're not gonna quit, but you're gonna take a break.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_00: And so I took a a holy rest for a few months, and that wasn't the only thing that happened in my life during that season.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_00: Like I had a whole other, like, we'll we'll get into it another day on a get ready with God.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_00: But my my marriage almost ended during that season.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_00: Like for real, for real.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_00: But it almost did.
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_00: And I needed that space, that holy space of sitting with God to walk through those really difficult things.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_00: It was an extreme pruning.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_00: But can I tell you something?
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_00: Conference back on, conference back on next year, May 14, 15.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_00: We are on in Tampa, Florida for a revived woman conference.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_00: So here's the thing: I didn't quit.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_00: I took a holy rest.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_00: I took an appointed rest.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_00: And for some of you, that's what happens sometimes.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_00: Now don't take an unauthorized rest.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_00: Don't, don't, don't take an unauthorized rest.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah?
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_00: So sometimes rest is commanded in a season.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_00: There are other times when God will redirect you because staying would require you to sin.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_00: Staying means that you would be stuck in sin.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_00: Then there then that's a redirect, girl.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_00: Get out.
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_00: Get out.
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_00: Get out, get out, get out, get out.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, I'm redirecting you.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not, I'm not, I'm not telling you to quit your purpose or your assignment.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just telling you, not here, not like this.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_00: Not here, not like this.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_00: Or if it's dangerous to stay, where do I see that in the Bible?
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I see Joseph taking Jesus and Mary and fleeing to Egypt.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_00: That that wasn't their assigned location.
• 27:47
  SPEAKER_00: That's not where Jesus was meant to minister.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_00: Before that season, there was danger, and the Holy Spirit said, get out of there.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_00: And so for a season, they left the position and then they came back.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_00: So these are all instances of redirect.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_00: So you can complete the assignment, that's not quitting.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_00: You can be reassigned or redirected.
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_00: Sorry, you can be redirected by God, that's not quitting.
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_00: But here's number three you can be released.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_00: Now, oh no, we're all like, yes, yes, tell me that one.
• 28:23
  SPEAKER_00: Because I'm just looking for a release.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_00: I just want to get out.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_00: Listen, I just went through one of the hardest seasons in our church where people like they left.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_00: And this was the question that was on the table, which was you know, God said, or um, God's showing me that I need to be released.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_00: God's saying that I and there, I'm not, I'm not here to to debate that right now.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_00: What I'm telling you is this is this is the one that when we feel like quitting the most, this is the one that we lean into the most because this one feels the godliest.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_00: This one feels the cleanest.
• 28:59
  SPEAKER_00: It's like if God releases me, then I'm cool, right?
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_00: But here's what I need you to understand.
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_00: Even if, even if God releases you from a position, a location, a timing, that is not, that is not releasing you from the assignment.
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_00: It's just redirecting you.
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_00: So a lot of times, what we're looking for as a full-on release, what you're really looking for is a redirect.
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I just had my sister and her husband, who were the first couple to help us plant our church almost 15 years ago.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_00: So when we started our church in Tampa, Revived Church of Tampa, when we started on December 18th, 2011, we started in a living room in our townhome, our two-level townhome.
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_00: And we started with myself and my husband, our two then sons at the time, two small boys, and then my sister and her husband and her two kids at the time.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_00: So we had a kids' church of four and we had an adult church of four.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_00: We were a church of eight people and they were with us.
• 30:10
  SPEAKER_00: And at that time, they had said to us, listen, we are all in.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_00: We are we are gonna plant this church with you, we are gonna be with you in it the entire time.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_00: They've been with us ever since that day.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_00: But they also said, but one day when these kids graduate from high school, we're going to move north.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_00: They had a vision and a passion for something that they wanted to pursue in God.
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_00: That was their assignment.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_00: And so for almost 15 years, we built this church together side by side.
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_00: We've labored in the field together.
• 30:43
  SPEAKER_00: And about two years ago, two years ago, they came to us, Doug and I, and they were like, look, we just want to remind you, this is happening.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_00: And now it's got some legs to it because there are actually some things in motion and we're we're angling towards a very specific vision.
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_00: And we were like, okay, okay, it's happening.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_00: And then a year ago, a year before they moved, they came back and they were like, look, we have more details now.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_00: We have a date, we have a moving date.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_00: And we were like, okay, let's let's sit down and let's meet about it.
• 31:17
  SPEAKER_00: And can I tell you something?
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_00: We had multiple meetings with these people, with this couple, with my sister and my brother-in-law, to plan out how to finish well.
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_00: Because part of their assignment was to be released from our church.
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_00: That was part of the plan.
• 31:35
  SPEAKER_00: It was part of God's plan.
• 31:38
  SPEAKER_00: And so we angled towards this.
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_00: They trained up people for the positions that they were going to be exiting.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_00: They stayed committed, connected.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_00: And so there were conversations that kept on happening throughout the year.
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_00: Then life blew up.
• 31:57
  SPEAKER_00: Like my life blew up, the stuff in the church blew up.
• 32:01
  SPEAKER_00: There was, there were, there were issues.
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_00: Even though people like were doing all different kinds of things, we kept on having conversations.
• 32:11
  SPEAKER_00: We kept on walking forward because we knew that this was an assignment on their life and that we were not going to get around the fact that they were going to leave.
• 32:22
  SPEAKER_00: But there is a way.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_00: There is a way that these things are ordained to happen.
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_00: There is a way that God wants to redirect and to release.
• 32:32
  SPEAKER_00: And so we just released them two weeks ago.
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_00: We we brought them up in church, we prayed for them, and we released them into this next season of their life.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_00: And now they're up in North Georgia pursuing the dream of God for their life, but we're still connected.
• 32:47
  SPEAKER_00: We're still connected and our purposes are still intertwined.
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_00: I was just on a phone call with my sister yesterday.
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_00: She's still very much involved in deliverance and prayer ministry around our church.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_00: And so it's like we keep on pursuing that assignment and that purpose that God has for us, even though sometimes we get released.
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_00: But really, that was just a redirect for them.
• 33:12
  SPEAKER_00: They weren't released from their purpose.
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_00: So is there ever a time that you could truly get released?
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_00: Can I tell you something?
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_00: It's a bit of a trick answer.
• 33:22
  SPEAKER_00: Are you ready for this?
• 33:26
  SPEAKER_00: The Bible says that we can get released from a purpose or an assignment when we were never sent.
• 33:35
  SPEAKER_00: When we were never sent.
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_00: You see, stepping out of an assignment God never gave you isn't quitting.
• 33:42
  SPEAKER_00: It's repentance.
• 33:44
  SPEAKER_00: And it's just another redirect.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_00: So truly, truly, there is no way, no biblical way, no godly way, once God has called you to a thing, once God has put a purpose on your life, once God has assigned you to a thing, there is no quitting.
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_00: There is no quitting.
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_00: There is no quitting.
• 34:01
  SPEAKER_00: And specifically, the Bible states that these are not good reasons to quit.
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_00: Are you ready?
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_00: Write these down.
• 34:07
  SPEAKER_00: Intimidation, Nehemiah 6.11.
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_00: Remember where he says, I will not come down to you.
• 34:12
  SPEAKER_00: Why should the work of God stop while I come down and deal with your nonsense?
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_00: No, we're not doing that.
• 34:18
  SPEAKER_00: We're not doing that.
• 34:19
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna keep on doing the work that God called me to.
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_00: Nehemiah 6.11.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_00: Another reason that God's that the Bible specifically states that you cannot quit for.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_00: Number two, weariness.
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_00: That's Galatians 6.9.
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_00: Do not grow weary and doing good, for at just the right time you will reap if you do not give up.
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah?
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_00: So weariness is also not a reason to quit.
• 34:44
  SPEAKER_00: Another reason not to quit, loneliness.
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_00: Loneliness.
• 34:49
  SPEAKER_00: 1 Kings 19, verse 18.
• 34:52
  SPEAKER_00: This is Elijah.
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_00: He keeps on repeating the same lie to God.
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, but I'm the only one.
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not, I'm the only one.
• 34:59
  SPEAKER_00: God's like, you know, the only what?
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_00: 50 prophets.
• 35:03
  SPEAKER_00: 50 prophets out there that didn't bow the bow the knee.
• 35:07
  SPEAKER_00: But but you, my friend, you are like in this haze of only me.
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_00: It's only me.
• 35:13
  SPEAKER_00: It's only me.
• 35:14
  SPEAKER_00: That's loneliness.
• 35:15
  SPEAKER_00: That's a spirit of loneliness and despair.
• 35:18
  SPEAKER_00: You gotta remember that there are many brothers out here, many sisters out here that are, you know, that's what Peter said.
• 35:25
  SPEAKER_00: Remember, there are others out there that are suffering for Jesus just the same as you.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_00: Keep running your race, keep running the race that you've been given, that you've been assigned.
• 35:33
  SPEAKER_00: Don't quit.
• 35:35
  SPEAKER_00: And another reason, and this is the one, this is the kicker.
• 35:38
  SPEAKER_00: Are you ready?
• 35:39
  SPEAKER_00: The other reason that the Bible says that you can't quit, it's not a valid reason.
• 35:46
  SPEAKER_00: Wanting relief or comfort, wanting relief or comfort.
• 35:51
  SPEAKER_00: And for and that's really the kicker because for many of us, we're tired, we're overwhelmed, we've been burned, we've been disappointed.
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_00: But sister, you you are not authorized.
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_00: You are not authorized to quit for that reason.
• 36:05
  SPEAKER_00: You can ask the Lord for a rest.
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_00: That's what he did for Elijah.
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_00: Gave him a nap and a snack, but then he told him to run.
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_00: And so that really is, you know, it's one of the biggest questions, like I said, that that I get asked or things that I coach on is this concept or this feeling of I feel like I need to quit.
• 36:28
  SPEAKER_00: But can I tell you what one of the best things you can do to I guess reinforce what you know, which is I I'm not I'm not authorized to quit.
• 36:40
  SPEAKER_00: I have to keep going.
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_00: What is one of the best things that you can do practically?
• 36:45
  SPEAKER_00: You can get in a community.
• 36:47
  SPEAKER_00: You can get a community of like-minded, like-spirited individuals who are going in a similar direction as you because iron sharpens iron, but also we can bear one another's burdens and we can run together.
• 36:58
  SPEAKER_00: I teach my girls all the time about the concept of um draft in racing.
• 37:03
  SPEAKER_00: My father was a race car driver when I was young.
• 37:06
  SPEAKER_00: And so I learned a lot about the physics and the mechanics of racing.
• 37:09
  SPEAKER_00: And um, there is the concept of drafting off of another car so that you can get some of their momentum and you can even slingshot past them.
• 37:19
  SPEAKER_00: And so there is this concept in the kingdom, even that this is why God has us go together.
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_00: We're better together because there is a collective momentum.
• 37:28
  SPEAKER_00: You know, the Bible says two are better than one.
• 37:30
  SPEAKER_00: They get more for their bang, more bang for their buck.
• 37:33
  SPEAKER_00: It's because of this concept of draft.
• 37:35
  SPEAKER_00: It's because of this concept of agreement.
• 37:37
  SPEAKER_00: There's something powerful about agreement.
• 37:40
  SPEAKER_00: And so you need to find other women that are godly, that are Luke A ladies, that are going in the same direction as you, that are convicted of the same at the same level as you and are like, we cannot quit.
• 37:51
  SPEAKER_00: We have to keep going.
• 37:53
  SPEAKER_00: Now, I have a community if you want to join me.
• 37:55
  SPEAKER_00: This is not a sales pitch, but if you want to know more about the community that I lead that has women that are like-minded, like-spirited, going in the same direction.
• 38:03
  SPEAKER_00: We're all building businesses online together.
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you can look at Jesus Girlgang.com slash mentorship.
• 38:11
  SPEAKER_00: That's the that's the the group that I lead.
• 38:14
  SPEAKER_00: But you don't, you don't have to join mine.
• 38:17
  SPEAKER_00: You know, just get a group of girls together that are, you know, like going in the same direction as you and have the same value for the principles of the Bible and are not gonna let you sit down and quit.
• 38:31
  SPEAKER_00: They're gonna call you on it.
• 38:32
  SPEAKER_00: Like that, that's one of the main things in our community is just having a group of women who, when the going gets tough, you're like, no, no, no, no.
• 38:40
  SPEAKER_00: Remember what God said.
• 38:42
  SPEAKER_00: Remember what God said to you.
• 38:43
  SPEAKER_00: Here, let me help you.
• 38:44
  SPEAKER_00: I'll hold space for you while you remember, right?
• 38:47
  SPEAKER_00: I'll pray for you.
• 38:48
  SPEAKER_00: Let's do it together.
• 38:50
  SPEAKER_00: That's what you need.
• 38:51
  SPEAKER_00: You don't need to quit.
• 38:53
  SPEAKER_00: You need a community.
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_00: You don't need to quit.
• 38:55
  SPEAKER_00: You need a community and you need to keep going.
• 38:58
  SPEAKER_00: Amen?