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- 0:00SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Success by the Book Podcast, the place where Christians who want to experience the extravagant goodness of God in all areas of their lives come from mentorship.
- 0:09SPEAKER_00: I am your host, Dr.
- 0:10SPEAKER_00: Innett, and I'll be unpacking the secrets I have learned from the Word of God over the last two decades.
- 0:15SPEAKER_00: Let's dive in.
- 0:17SPEAKER_00: I am going to show you straight from the Word of God a formula that God gave you to live a life above anxiety, above worry, above depression, where you can have you are in a place where you live at peace.
- 0:36SPEAKER_00: Peace is your default setting.
- 0:38SPEAKER_00: You live the way Joyce Meyer describes it with your soul on vacation.
- 0:43SPEAKER_00: I want to have a life where when things are challenging, I'm at peace.
- 0:48SPEAKER_00: When things are great, I'm at peace.
- 0:50SPEAKER_00: When I'm having what someone consider a great day, I'm at peace.
- 0:53SPEAKER_00: When I have things I have to work through, I'm at peace.
- 0:56SPEAKER_00: Like at every point in time, there may be chaos, but that chaos is external.
- 1:01SPEAKER_00: There may be challenges, but the challenge is external.
- 1:04SPEAKER_00: All of those things are external, but on the inside, I have peace.
- 1:08SPEAKER_00: And the thing about this is this is what God wants you to have, because God said in his word, He said, Jesus, when He was here, He said, Do not let your heart be troubled.
- 1:18SPEAKER_00: My peace I leave with you.
- 1:20SPEAKER_00: Can you imagine that?
- 1:22SPEAKER_00: So if Jesus says, Don't let your heart be troubled, guess what?
- 1:26SPEAKER_00: It means I can live a life where I don't have my heart troubled.
- 1:31SPEAKER_00: It means that I have some control.
- 1:32SPEAKER_00: Because he said, You don't let your heart be troubled.
- 1:35SPEAKER_00: It means I can live that life.
- 1:37SPEAKER_00: The Bible also talks about this in the book of Isaiah, where it says, I will keep in perfect peace.
- 1:43SPEAKER_00: His mind, he whose mind is stayed on me, perfect peace.
- 1:47SPEAKER_00: Shalom, shalom.
- 1:48SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 1:49SPEAKER_00: So we did this last um on Saturday, so a few days ago, we had what we call the prayer-thon.
- 1:56SPEAKER_00: Okay, so we get on a call, we're praying for three hours.
- 1:59SPEAKER_00: So three hours we're in the presence of God.
- 2:02SPEAKER_00: And one of the statements that we said, because we do a lot of declarations, was peace is my default setting.
- 2:10SPEAKER_00: There could be things going on, there could be a pandemic, there could be all of that, but peace is my default setting.
- 2:17SPEAKER_00: Okay, so we are going to look in the word of God.
- 2:20SPEAKER_00: We are going to do this live meditation.
- 2:23SPEAKER_00: We're going to go through two verses of scripture, but we're going to come out on the other side ready.
- 2:29SPEAKER_00: We're going to come out on the other side knowing what reps to do.
- 2:34SPEAKER_00: So we can start building this habit of living with our souls on vacation, where peace is our default setting, where we handle what needs to be handled, but we're never rattled on the inside, no matter what is going on on the outside.
- 2:48SPEAKER_00: Oh my goodness.
- 2:49SPEAKER_00: Like Jesus, there was a storm.
- 2:52SPEAKER_00: And Jesus was at the bottom of the both, asleep, at peace, right?
- 2:58SPEAKER_00: Okay, so this is gonna be so good.
- 3:00SPEAKER_00: Now, because I used words like anxiety, depression, all of those things.
- 3:04SPEAKER_00: Yes, I am a physician, yes, I am a medical doctor, but I am not your doctor.
- 3:08SPEAKER_00: Okay, so if you have a diagnosis at first, you are on medication, okay?
- 3:13SPEAKER_00: Don't watch this and say, Dr.
- 3:15SPEAKER_00: Una said I should stop my medication.
- 3:17SPEAKER_00: That's something you do with your doctor, okay?
- 3:19SPEAKER_00: Well, this will absolutely help you.
- 3:21SPEAKER_00: And whether you have a diagnosis or not, Satan is an equal opportunity devil.
- 3:26SPEAKER_00: Okay, so everybody has anxious thoughts thrown at them, worry thoughts thrown at them.
- 3:31SPEAKER_00: Like, think about it.
- 3:32SPEAKER_00: God said, I will keep you in perfect peace if you keep your mind stayed on me.
- 3:36SPEAKER_00: God said, Jesus said this, do not let your heart be troubled.
- 3:39SPEAKER_00: My peace I leave with you, right?
- 3:41SPEAKER_00: And the reason why this is so important is we've worried for so long.
- 3:46SPEAKER_00: We've been, we've allowed, we've meditated on anxious thoughts for so long that that for most people is the default.
- 3:55SPEAKER_00: Now we're creating a new default.
- 3:57SPEAKER_00: That's what we're about to do.
- 3:58SPEAKER_00: So we're the things we're gonna learn today, we're gonna put reps, like we're gonna throw volume, like a lot of reps behind them, and we're gonna start building every day.
- 4:08SPEAKER_00: We're growing our capacity to be in peace.
- 4:10SPEAKER_00: We're growing our capacity to have peace as our default setting.
- 4:14SPEAKER_00: And if we'll do this for a week, two weeks, 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, a year, five years, we get to points where we're like, I don't know the last time I worried.
- 4:25SPEAKER_00: Now, how nice is that?
- 4:26SPEAKER_00: Okay, okay, now the scripture I'm gonna show you.
- 4:30SPEAKER_00: If you have been on success by the book for longer than a month, you have read the scripture many, many times.
- 4:35SPEAKER_00: If you're one of the people doing the 365 challenge with us and you're reading four chapters of your Bible every day, you have read the scripture many, many times.
- 4:42SPEAKER_00: If you come to a rise and shine, you have read the scripture a gazillion times.
- 4:48SPEAKER_00: If you were in the prayer-thon, you have read this scripture, okay?
- 4:51SPEAKER_00: But you have to understand the word of God is inexhaustible.
- 4:56SPEAKER_00: Okay, if you look at a scripture and you will approach it as somebody who is hungry, you will always learn from it no matter how many times you've read it.
- 5:07SPEAKER_00: This scripture, I have read it, I don't know, 250 times, but just on Saturday when we're doing the prayer-thon and I started reading it, I was like, Oh my goodness, I didn't see that.
- 5:19SPEAKER_00: Okay, okay, so Father, I pray we come to your word as people who are humble.
- 5:27SPEAKER_00: Come to our world, your word, knowing that we're people who desperately need to know you, know who we are and you, know your way of doing things so we can mirror that.
- 5:39SPEAKER_00: We thank you that we're about to look into your word that will change our lives forever.
- 5:44SPEAKER_00: I ask you for revelation, revelation knowledge to flow freely, that your people understand your word like they never had before.
- 5:52SPEAKER_00: They'll see things in it they have never seen before, they'll see things in it that they can use in their lives today, and not just for them, but for everybody who watches the replay, that this will be a mark.
- 6:02SPEAKER_00: Like I used to have anxious thoughts.
- 6:04SPEAKER_00: I used to be very worried, I used to be this, or I thought I was good because I've been working on this and everything changed on this day.
- 6:11SPEAKER_00: Everything changed when I watch this video.
- 6:14SPEAKER_00: And it's not because of me, it's not because of the channel, it's because of you, Lord.
- 6:17SPEAKER_00: We look to you and we thank you for this in Jesus' name.
- 6:21SPEAKER_00: Amen.
- 6:21SPEAKER_00: We're hungry people, we're not people who show up to the word of God proud.
- 6:25SPEAKER_00: We don't show up like I know that.
- 6:28SPEAKER_00: No.
- 6:29SPEAKER_00: So much more tonight.
- 6:30SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 6:31SPEAKER_00: All right, so let's look into this, okay?
- 6:33SPEAKER_00: We're gonna look at two verses, Philippians chapter four, okay, and we're gonna look at verse six and seven.
- 6:39SPEAKER_00: And I really want you to hang with me like you've never seen the scripture before, okay?
- 6:44SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna read it from a number of translations.
- 6:47SPEAKER_00: Now remember what we do with meditation.
- 6:49SPEAKER_00: Meditation, we have a number of things we could do, is spending time in the word.
- 6:52SPEAKER_00: And so we pray for understanding.
- 6:55SPEAKER_00: We just did that.
- 6:56SPEAKER_00: We read it for understanding, right?
- 6:58SPEAKER_00: We can write it because you know we just have to slow down to do that.
- 7:02SPEAKER_00: We declare it.
- 7:04SPEAKER_00: That's why we do a lot of declarations.
- 7:05SPEAKER_00: We type in the chat a lot, right?
- 7:07SPEAKER_00: We declare, we can visualize it like it's our reality.
- 7:11SPEAKER_00: Okay, all of these things, what are we doing?
- 7:13SPEAKER_00: We're using it to change our mind, right?
- 7:15SPEAKER_00: So Romans 12 2 talks about be transformed, how?
- 7:18SPEAKER_00: By the renewing of your mind.
- 7:20SPEAKER_00: So, what are we doing?
- 7:20SPEAKER_00: We're gonna spend the next 50 minutes renewing our mind, changing the way we think, seeing things from God's perspective.
- 7:28SPEAKER_00: So everything's about to change for us, okay?
- 7:30SPEAKER_00: Okay, all right, and even for me, like I'm not here just teaching the word, I'm here meditating.
- 7:36SPEAKER_00: This is a live meditation, like I'm meditating, I'm pulling out revelation in real time.
- 7:41SPEAKER_00: Uh, this is so good.
- 7:42SPEAKER_00: Okay, Dr.
- 7:43SPEAKER_00: Calm down.
- 7:44SPEAKER_00: Okay, all right.
- 7:45SPEAKER_00: So Philippians chapter four from verse six.
- 7:48SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna first of all read it from the New King James Version.
- 7:51SPEAKER_00: It says, be anxious for nothing.
- 7:58SPEAKER_00: Interesting, be anxious for nothing, which means when is a good time to be anxious?
- 8:05SPEAKER_00: Never what is something so bad that we should be anxious about it, according to God.
- 8:12SPEAKER_00: Nothing, be anxious for nothing, okay?
- 8:16SPEAKER_00: But oh, so you could be anxious or you could do this thing, so be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your request be made known to God.
- 8:33SPEAKER_00: Okay, so verse six talks about what we need to do.
- 8:36SPEAKER_00: Okay, okay, now I don't want to get ahead of myself, but we're spending time in the word, okay?
- 8:42SPEAKER_00: We have no formula to this.
- 8:43SPEAKER_00: We're just allowing God, we're just sitting with his word and allowing God to do what God does.
- 8:48SPEAKER_00: The Bible says, be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
- 8:57SPEAKER_00: And so if we get many invitations to worry and we're to be anxious, we're not supposed to be anxious, we're supposed to on you know, the flip side, we're supposed to pray about that.
- 9:09SPEAKER_00: How many times does that mean we should have prayed today?
- 9:12SPEAKER_00: If I get many invitations to worry, and the antidote to for worry is instead of worrying, pray, and I've had many invitations to worry, so how many times should I have prayed?
- 9:26SPEAKER_00: Many.
- 9:27SPEAKER_00: So, what that means is that prayer cannot be this complicated thing we do once in a while, and we have to be in a certain place, at a certain posture.
- 9:42SPEAKER_00: The worry comes at us.
- 9:45SPEAKER_00: And when it comes, we have an invitation to worry or not to worry.
- 9:49SPEAKER_00: Instead of worrying, we can pray, which means when it comes, I should be able to pray.
- 9:53SPEAKER_00: Now we understand why the Bible says pray without ceasing.
- 9:58SPEAKER_00: Right?
- 9:59SPEAKER_00: And it doesn't mean then I pray for an out.
- 10:01SPEAKER_00: No, the same way it's like, oh, what if your kids don't turn out right?
- 10:04SPEAKER_00: You're like, oh, Father, I cannot depend on my own strength for my kids to turn out right.
- 10:10SPEAKER_00: I commit them into your hands.
- 10:12SPEAKER_00: You said that my children will be taught of the Lord and great will be their peace.
- 10:15SPEAKER_00: I commit them into your hands.
- 10:17SPEAKER_00: They are taught of the Lord and great is their peace.
- 10:19SPEAKER_00: And Father, I pray for grace to be their mother.
- 10:22SPEAKER_00: I pray for grace to raise them in the fear and admonition of the Lord.
- 10:26SPEAKER_00: And I thank you, Lord, because you're always faithful in Jesus' name.
- 10:30SPEAKER_00: Do you see that?
- 10:31SPEAKER_00: So the invitation came to worry, and I just turned it to prayer.
- 10:35SPEAKER_00: How long did that take?
- 10:36SPEAKER_00: 60 seconds.
- 10:36SPEAKER_00: Boom, and I'm off.
- 10:38SPEAKER_00: And I'm off.
- 10:39SPEAKER_00: Oh, this business you're doing is not gonna work.
- 10:42SPEAKER_00: Man, God, I am so grateful I don't have to do this business thing by myself.
- 10:46SPEAKER_00: I thank you because you are the one who gives me the power to get wealth, according to your word in Deuteronomy 8:18.
- 10:53SPEAKER_00: You are the one who said, you know, I will guide, I will lead you along the best pathway for your life.
- 10:58SPEAKER_00: I will guide you, I will advise you, I will watch over you.
- 11:03SPEAKER_00: I'm so grateful that I get to do this business in partnership with you.
- 11:07SPEAKER_00: Lord, you said about Bezalil, it is said that he was filled with the Spirit of God in wisdom, in knowledge, in understanding and skill.
- 11:16SPEAKER_00: And he was a master at every work.
- 11:18SPEAKER_00: And so I receive a fresh infilling of the spirit, a fresh deposit of wisdom, understanding, and revelation and skill to thrive at this business you've called me to do.
- 11:30SPEAKER_00: Do you guys see that?
- 11:32SPEAKER_00: Oh, you're gonna die young.
- 11:34SPEAKER_00: Oh my goodness, Lord, I thank you that I don't have to just depend on circumstance.
- 11:39SPEAKER_00: Your word says that that with long life you satisfy me.
- 11:43SPEAKER_00: I thank you that you are the anchor, you are the guarantee for my my long life.
- 11:48SPEAKER_00: I thank you if I speak over myself that with long life, God satisfies me in the name of Jesus.
- 11:55SPEAKER_00: So the the worry comes a lot.
- 11:58SPEAKER_00: We flip it to prayer a lot.
- 12:01SPEAKER_00: The word the invitation to worry comes a lot.
- 12:04SPEAKER_00: So, did you know like you you pray, you're either declaring what he said or you're asking him for what you need or whatever.
- 12:12SPEAKER_00: We're not whining and complaining in the presence of God.
- 12:15SPEAKER_00: And then he says, Bring that prayer with thanksgiving.
- 12:20SPEAKER_00: Right?
- 12:20SPEAKER_00: So now you are converting every invitation to worry to a profitable thing for you.
- 12:28SPEAKER_00: Because I want you to think about it.
- 12:29SPEAKER_00: Satan comes and says, Oh, your children are not going to turn out right.
- 12:32SPEAKER_00: And your response is you pray for them, you declare over them, and you thank God.
- 12:38SPEAKER_00: Like every time you're invited to worry, these three things happen.
- 12:40SPEAKER_00: What do you think?
- 12:41SPEAKER_00: Like the invitation to worry is not profitable for you because you're converting it into an ROI, a return on investment.
- 12:48SPEAKER_00: Okay, be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving.
- 13:02SPEAKER_00: Let your request be made known to God.
- 13:05SPEAKER_00: Let me even give you an example.
- 13:07SPEAKER_00: You may be like if you watch movies, you may watch and you may be watching a movie where an atrocity happens to somebody, right?
- 13:15SPEAKER_00: And the atrocity happens to somebody, and this is what happens.
- 13:19SPEAKER_00: All of a sudden it flashes.
- 13:20SPEAKER_00: Like, what if that happened to your family?
- 13:22SPEAKER_00: Or there's this family, everybody got killed, or whatever.
- 13:24SPEAKER_00: What if that happens to your family?
- 13:26SPEAKER_00: Right?
- 13:27SPEAKER_00: It is up to me to then say, Father, first of all, you have to decide, do I need to be watching this?
- 13:32SPEAKER_00: Because this just messes with my mind, right?
- 13:36SPEAKER_00: But then you say, Father, I thank you.
- 13:39SPEAKER_00: Because in your word, it is you are described as the one who rescues us from all evil.
- 13:46SPEAKER_00: I draw a bloodline around about my family.
- 13:49SPEAKER_00: I declare that we are off limits to the kingdom of darkness.
- 13:52SPEAKER_00: Father, in accordance with your word, deliver us from all evil in the name of Jesus.
- 13:58SPEAKER_00: I thank you, Lord, that you have always protected us.
- 14:01SPEAKER_00: You've always been our strength, you've always been our place of refuge, you've always been our hiding place, you've kept us all these years, and you are faithful and you will always keep us.
- 14:10SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Lord, in Jesus' name.
- 14:12SPEAKER_00: Do you guys see that?
- 14:13SPEAKER_00: This is we just pray.
- 14:15SPEAKER_00: That's what we do.
- 14:16SPEAKER_00: So it's not this religious, like we don't have a life, we just sit and pray.
- 14:20SPEAKER_00: No, but prayer is good for you.
- 14:22SPEAKER_00: Prayer is the antidote.
- 14:23SPEAKER_00: You don't pray, you must be a worried person, you must be an anxious person, you must be a depressed person, you must be a sad person.
- 14:33SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 14:34SPEAKER_00: Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, with prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your request be made known to God.
- 14:44SPEAKER_00: This is telling you what to do.
- 14:46SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 14:47SPEAKER_00: Then the next verse tells you the outcome.
- 14:50SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 14:50SPEAKER_00: It says, and the peace of God which surpasses all understanding.
- 14:57SPEAKER_00: So you are at such peace that people are like, How are you this calm in the midst of all this craziness?
- 15:06SPEAKER_00: And that doesn't mean we ignore situations, we don't handle situations, we don't take care of business.
- 15:10SPEAKER_00: I mean, you have to understand, you know, in when you think about what we are doing here, maybe I should backtrack and say this.
- 15:18SPEAKER_00: Whether you come on a rise and shine or you come by success on success by the book, or you read our books, or whatever, everything you see us do is to drive us to do three things.
- 15:29SPEAKER_00: Okay?
- 15:31SPEAKER_00: And these three things are the things given to us in the last days to thrive as Christians.
- 15:37SPEAKER_00: Number one, and this is all from Isaiah chapter 60.
- 15:39SPEAKER_00: Number one, go deeper in God.
- 15:41SPEAKER_00: We gotta go deeper in God.
- 15:43SPEAKER_00: We we are always optimizing for going deeper in God, deeper in prayer, deeper in the study of the word, deeper in meditation, the word, deeper in worship, deeper practicing, hosting the presence of God, deeper in manifesting the character of God, like love, joy, peace, all of that, like deeper in Him.
- 16:00SPEAKER_00: That's the first thing.
- 16:01SPEAKER_00: The second thing we're always optimizing for is aggressively advancing the kingdom of God.
- 16:05SPEAKER_00: That's why we teach, that's why we lead prayer meetings, that's why we invite you to invite people, that's why we do all of these things.
- 16:12SPEAKER_00: This is why we challenge you.
- 16:13SPEAKER_00: People should be saved because if you're filled with the Holy Spirit, because if you're back in church because of you, watching videos like this because of you.
- 16:19SPEAKER_00: We we challenge you to live lives of global impact.
- 16:23SPEAKER_00: Why?
- 16:23SPEAKER_00: Aggressively advance the kingdom of God.
- 16:25SPEAKER_00: That's number two.
- 16:26SPEAKER_00: Number three, manifest the blessing of God in all nine areas of life.
- 16:30SPEAKER_00: What does that mean?
- 16:31SPEAKER_00: That in all nine areas of your life, you're a sign and a wonder.
- 16:34SPEAKER_00: You're a sign and a wonder.
- 16:36SPEAKER_00: We're always optimizing for these three three things.
- 16:39SPEAKER_00: So when you hear me talk about, you know, the peace of God that passes all on the side, it's not like being disconnected from reality and you're in la la land and all no.
- 16:49SPEAKER_00: Because people who are manifesting the blessing of God in all nine areas of their life, they don't act like that.
- 16:54SPEAKER_00: They don't act like that.
- 16:55SPEAKER_00: It means you have peace.
- 16:56SPEAKER_00: You're working on stuff, you're working on making things better, you're addressing the issue, you're challenging the challenge, you're overcoming your your your fighting, you're fighting the good fight of faith, and you're at peace.
- 17:08SPEAKER_00: You guys see that?
- 17:09SPEAKER_00: So, this is not about you know just being, you know, you know, you know, heaven-bound but earthly useless.
- 17:15SPEAKER_00: No, none of that.
- 17:16SPEAKER_00: We're not those kind of people.
- 17:17SPEAKER_00: Those are the three things we stand for.
- 17:19SPEAKER_00: We're not those kind of people.
- 17:20SPEAKER_00: Okay, so so verse six is what we do, verse seven is the outcome.
- 17:25SPEAKER_00: And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds through Christ Jesus.
- 17:36SPEAKER_00: Now, when I read this on Saturday, a new part of this opened up to me.
- 17:43SPEAKER_00: And this is what you know made me make that declaration that peace, you know, peace is my new default setting.
- 17:49SPEAKER_00: So I said, okay, be anxious for nothing.
- 17:51SPEAKER_00: So when should I be anxious?
- 17:53SPEAKER_00: Never.
- 17:55SPEAKER_00: Instead of being anxious, what should I do?
- 17:57SPEAKER_00: I should pray, and I should pray and add thanksgiving to it.
- 18:02SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 18:03SPEAKER_00: So if I'm never anxious, and when I get an invitation to be anxious, I pray with thanksgiving, and the result is and the peace of God that passes all understanding is mine, it means that if I am obedient to this scripture, I am always at peace.
- 18:22SPEAKER_00: It doesn't mean once in a while I get this peace.
- 18:24SPEAKER_00: If I'm obedient, which means every time a thought that provokes anxiety, worry, depression, sadness, all of that comes up, I take that and convert it to prayer with thanksgiving, then I'll always be at peace.
- 18:39SPEAKER_00: Like peace becomes my default setting.
- 18:41SPEAKER_00: And if I find myself not at peace, I know exactly what has happened.
- 18:45SPEAKER_00: What had happened was an anxious thought came, and instead of converting it to prayer, I started meditating on it.
- 18:53SPEAKER_00: Right?
- 18:54SPEAKER_00: And we've all done this.
- 18:56SPEAKER_00: A thought comes, oh, they're laying people off in an industry that has nothing to do with your industry, a company that has nothing to do with your company, and like nothing.
- 19:06SPEAKER_00: And you're like, they're laying people off.
- 19:08SPEAKER_00: What if I get laid off?
- 19:10SPEAKER_00: Anxious thought.
- 19:12SPEAKER_00: And they don't capture it in prayer.
- 19:14SPEAKER_00: You're just like, Yeah, what would that be like if I get laid off?
- 19:17SPEAKER_00: Then you start playing the movie, and then I went into my office, my my manager's office, and they started, you know, we thank you for all your service, your service to us, and all of this stuff.
- 19:28SPEAKER_00: And we have decided that your last day will be today.
- 19:31SPEAKER_00: And you imagine walking out of there and driving back home and wondering how you pay your bills, and you started looking for jobs, and it was really hard to get a job.
- 19:41SPEAKER_00: And, you know, because of that, you now couldn't pay your bills.
- 19:45SPEAKER_00: Um, you had to give up the car and all of this stuff.
- 19:48SPEAKER_00: How many of you are like, I know exactly what you are talking about, Dr.
- 19:53SPEAKER_00: Una?
- 19:53SPEAKER_00: Like you collected the anxious thought and then started meditating on it.
- 20:01SPEAKER_00: That is what the enemy wants you to do: to take the thought, meditate on it, make movies out of it, extrapolate it all to the end, take it further and further.
- 20:13SPEAKER_00: And the more you do it, the more faith you develop in the negative outcome.
- 20:19SPEAKER_00: So you in you initially you are you are good, you have peace, you are fine.
- 20:23SPEAKER_00: This thought came, you took it, you started meditating on it, all of a sudden your heart is racing, you're afraid, you start snapping at people, you start doing all of that.
- 20:30SPEAKER_00: Why you took Satan's stuff and you started meditating on it.
- 20:39SPEAKER_00: We don't do that no more, right?
- 20:44SPEAKER_00: So God is saying, and you so Saul is saying, I ain't got time to pray about everything that makes me worry.
- 20:50SPEAKER_00: You either meditate on what Satan said or you pray.
- 20:53SPEAKER_00: These are the only two things happening.
- 20:55SPEAKER_00: The time will be spent, it will either be spent meditating on the anxious thoughts, or it will be spent praying with thanksgiving.
- 21:06SPEAKER_00: But you are going to use that time anytime an anxious thought comes or a worried thought comes, you are going to invest time.
- 21:13SPEAKER_00: You're gonna meditate on what Satan said, or you're gonna pray on what God said, and part of prayer is declaring God's word, right?
- 21:19SPEAKER_00: And all of those things.
- 21:20SPEAKER_00: So, so you you you go on, you go and use that time.
- 21:24SPEAKER_00: So the question is what will you use the time to do?
- 21:27SPEAKER_00: So if you meditate on the anxious thought, you get more anxious, more worried, and the worst part is you start acting in line with the anxious thoughts because we think we just choose our actions.
- 21:40SPEAKER_00: We meh meh, kind of sorta.
- 21:42SPEAKER_00: Well, we choose what we brood on, and what we brood on long enough controls our actions.
- 21:50SPEAKER_00: Okay, you were fine, and you were driving on the highway, and you saw this billboard, and it was a billboard for chick.
- 22:00SPEAKER_00: Filet and you like Chick-fil-A.
- 22:04SPEAKER_00: You got the four-count chicken strips with the fries, and you got a frosted lemonade and all of those things.
- 22:10SPEAKER_00: You were fine.
- 22:11SPEAKER_00: You were not hungry.
- 22:12SPEAKER_00: You may have even planned to fast.
- 22:15SPEAKER_00: And here you go.
- 22:16SPEAKER_00: You saw the blue the billboard.
- 22:18SPEAKER_00: And you you started meditating.
- 22:21SPEAKER_00: Meditating on wow.
- 22:24SPEAKER_00: Oh, four-count chicken strips with fries and a frosted lemonade with some ketchup and some Chick-fil-A sauce.
- 22:32SPEAKER_00: Yes.
- 22:32SPEAKER_00: You're meditating.
- 22:34SPEAKER_00: You're imagining eating it, how good it will feel, all of that stuff.
- 22:38SPEAKER_00: Then all of a sudden, you were going somewhere else.
- 22:40SPEAKER_00: You start driving.
- 22:42SPEAKER_00: And you may even, like, if you're one of those Tesla people, you're like, Grok, where's the nearest Chick-fil-A?
- 22:50SPEAKER_00: And you're like, boom, driverless set it, like, let's go, right?
- 22:55SPEAKER_00: Self-drive said it, let's go.
- 22:57SPEAKER_00: And here you are in Chick-fil-A.
- 23:00SPEAKER_00: Did you make a conscious decision to go to Chick-fil-A?
- 23:03SPEAKER_00: Like you used your will?
- 23:05SPEAKER_00: Not necessarily.
- 23:06SPEAKER_00: Start from your mind.
- 23:07SPEAKER_00: If you choose to meditate on what Satan is projecting, it will drive you to act a certain way.
- 23:13SPEAKER_00: If you choose to pray and to meditate on what God is saying, it will drive you to act a certain way.
- 23:20SPEAKER_00: You get to choose what you put here, but the outcome of it, you don't get to choose that.
- 23:25SPEAKER_00: That's why the Bible says in Proverbs 4.23, guard your heart with all diligence, for it determines the course of your life.
- 23:34SPEAKER_00: What you let sit here will show up in your life.
- 23:38SPEAKER_00: So we don't have time to sit and be met, I mean, like meditating on everything Satan said and all.
- 23:45SPEAKER_00: No.
- 23:47SPEAKER_00: No, we don't know.
- 23:50SPEAKER_00: Okay?
- 23:52SPEAKER_00: So it means all of all that all of this means is the time will be spent one way or another.
- 23:58SPEAKER_00: Instead of meditating on what Satan says and all the things he keeps projecting, that these things could go wrong and all this stuff.
- 24:04SPEAKER_00: I'm going to choose to meditate instead on what the word of God says.
- 24:07SPEAKER_00: I'm going to choose to take this and go pray to God and tell God, this is what I need, this is the help that I need.
- 24:13SPEAKER_00: Right?
- 24:14SPEAKER_00: We tell two-year-olds all the time, we say, use your words.
- 24:18SPEAKER_00: When they come and they whine and they cry and they do all of this stuff, and we in, we in, we're you're like, what do you want?
- 24:22SPEAKER_00: Use your words.
- 24:23SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 24:24SPEAKER_00: God is telling us the same thing.
- 24:25SPEAKER_00: Use your words.
- 24:28SPEAKER_00: Don't don't waste prayer time whining.
- 24:30SPEAKER_00: I God, I don't know why all these things are happening.
- 24:33SPEAKER_00: After all, I pay my tithe.
- 24:35SPEAKER_00: The other day I gave an offering and I serve you in the church.
- 24:38SPEAKER_00: I don't know what's going on.
- 24:39SPEAKER_00: Girl, what you want?
- 24:41SPEAKER_00: Say what you want.
- 24:44SPEAKER_00: Say what you want.
- 24:46SPEAKER_00: With not with a grumbling attitude, but an attitude of gratitude coming to the one you know can turn your world right side up.
- 24:56SPEAKER_00: Right?
- 24:57SPEAKER_00: So if you're cranky because you need a husband, tell God need me a husband.
- 25:01SPEAKER_00: That's you know what I'm saying?
- 25:03SPEAKER_00: Like, tell him this is what I need.
- 25:06SPEAKER_00: This is what your word says.
- 25:08SPEAKER_00: I'm standing on this word, and I thank you you've been faithful here and here and here and here and here.
- 25:13SPEAKER_00: I know this will not be different.
- 25:15SPEAKER_00: Every time the worry thought comes, you answer with prayer.
- 25:20SPEAKER_00: Prayer that's based on the word, prayer that's baked in faith because you have scriptures you're meditating on, and you thank God.
- 25:28SPEAKER_00: You look for all the times he's been faithful, all the times it seemed like he showed up at the last hour.
- 25:34SPEAKER_00: Because God doesn't God doesn't show up like super early, and God doesn't, but he doesn't show up late, he shows up on time, right?
- 25:41SPEAKER_00: And you're like, Lord, I have my faith locked in you.
- 25:44SPEAKER_00: I know that divine helpers are working on my behalf.
- 25:47SPEAKER_00: I know that angels working on my behalf.
- 25:49SPEAKER_00: I know my footsteps are being ordered.
- 25:51SPEAKER_00: I thank you, Lord.
- 25:51SPEAKER_00: You have never disappointed me.
- 25:53SPEAKER_00: And look what we did for that sister, look at what you did for that brother, look at this.
- 25:56SPEAKER_00: You are so worthy of praise.
- 25:58SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Lord.
- 25:59SPEAKER_00: This is what we do.
- 26:00SPEAKER_00: We don't meditate on what Satan gives us, we don't meditate on things that provoke anxiety, depression, worry, sadness.
- 26:08SPEAKER_00: No, why would we?
- 26:10SPEAKER_00: We only have 24 hours a day.
- 26:11SPEAKER_00: If we're gonna meditate, we might as well pick the things that work for us.
- 26:17SPEAKER_00: Okay, we are still in the first translation.
- 26:19SPEAKER_00: Pray for me.
- 26:20SPEAKER_00: Okay, so let me read that translation through one more time.
- 26:24SPEAKER_00: Okay, one more time.
- 26:26SPEAKER_00: So be anxious for nothing.
- 26:29SPEAKER_00: When is a good time to be anxious?
- 26:30SPEAKER_00: Never.
- 26:31SPEAKER_00: When is a good time to sit and brood and create movies out of anxious thoughts?
- 26:35SPEAKER_00: Never.
- 26:35SPEAKER_00: Anxious thoughts, worry thoughts, depression thoughts, sadness thoughts.
- 26:40SPEAKER_00: We do not focus on these things.
- 26:42SPEAKER_00: When we get the invitation to do them, we pick something else.
- 26:47SPEAKER_00: It is prayer with thanksgiving.
- 26:50SPEAKER_00: Okay, okay.
- 26:52SPEAKER_00: And then so be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your request be made known to God.
- 26:59SPEAKER_00: And the God and the peace of God, not regular peace.
- 27:04SPEAKER_00: See, regular peace is not regular peace, is the peace of God.
- 27:08SPEAKER_00: And this this peace passes all understanding.
- 27:12SPEAKER_00: Like it doesn't make sense.
- 27:13SPEAKER_00: This happened so many times in COVID, with so many people when they rise and shine.
- 27:16SPEAKER_00: I wouldn't even say it was me, right?
- 27:18SPEAKER_00: It happened with me, but so many people where people are like, How are you so calm?
- 27:24SPEAKER_00: How are you so chill?
- 27:25SPEAKER_00: We in a pandemic.
- 27:26SPEAKER_00: You know the number of people who died yesterday, you know this, you know that.
- 27:29SPEAKER_00: How are you so chill?
- 27:31SPEAKER_00: You know why they were chill?
- 27:33SPEAKER_00: They were meditating the word of God.
- 27:35SPEAKER_00: You know why they were so chill?
- 27:36SPEAKER_00: They understood when worry comes, I can pray.
- 27:39SPEAKER_00: When worry comes, I can stand on God's word and pray and declare his word and ask him for what I need and all those things, and I'll do it with Thanksgiving.
- 27:45SPEAKER_00: Peace of God that passes on the Sunday will guard my heart.
- 27:48SPEAKER_00: Throughout the pandemic, we meditated on Isaiah chapter 60.
- 27:51SPEAKER_00: We declared it, we visualized it.
- 27:53SPEAKER_00: We knew we were exempt.
- 27:55SPEAKER_00: Why?
- 27:55SPEAKER_00: This is what Isaiah 60 says Arise and shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon you.
- 28:02SPEAKER_00: Darkness will cover the earth.
- 28:03SPEAKER_00: What was that?
- 28:04SPEAKER_00: What did COVID?
- 28:04SPEAKER_00: What was COVID?
- 28:05SPEAKER_00: Darkness over the earth.
- 28:06SPEAKER_00: Gross darkness should cover the people.
- 28:07SPEAKER_00: What was that?
- 28:08SPEAKER_00: COVID.
- 28:08SPEAKER_00: COVID.
- 28:09SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 28:10SPEAKER_00: But that was our favorite word.
- 28:12SPEAKER_00: But but the glory of the Lord is risen upon us.
- 28:15unknown: Right?
- 28:16SPEAKER_00: Will be upon you, and his glory will be seen upon you.
- 28:18SPEAKER_00: And then it says, and and not only that, while there's darkness everywhere, Gentiles will come to your light.
- 28:23SPEAKER_00: That's how bright you'll be.
- 28:25SPEAKER_00: And kings will come to the brightness of your rising, which means in the midst of COVID, we're going to rise, we're going to advance, we're going to move forward, we're going to make progress.
- 28:33SPEAKER_00: So we meditated on that and we sat on that and we spoke that and we visualized that and we prayed and we did all of those things.
- 28:40SPEAKER_00: So ain't nobody got time to be meditating on the pandemic fixing it, take me out.
- 28:45SPEAKER_00: What?
- 28:46SPEAKER_00: We weren't doing that.
- 28:47SPEAKER_00: We weren't doing that.
- 28:49SPEAKER_00: So what did we then have?
- 28:50SPEAKER_00: The peace of God, that pastoral understanding, right?
- 28:56SPEAKER_00: Was the guard for our hearts and our minds through Christ Jesus throughout the pandemic.
- 29:03SPEAKER_00: You get it, say I'm getting it.
- 29:06SPEAKER_00: If you get it, say I'm getting it.
- 29:08SPEAKER_00: Okay?
- 29:08SPEAKER_00: So we are called to have a very different experience.
- 29:15SPEAKER_00: We are called to live at peace at all times.
- 29:19SPEAKER_00: And when the peace lifts, we go back to trace it.
- 29:23SPEAKER_00: There must be an anxious thought, worried thought, sad thought, depressed thought that we took and meditated on.
- 29:30SPEAKER_00: We identify it and then we answer it with prayer.
- 29:34SPEAKER_00: We go to our God, who is the who is the answer for every challenge, who is able to provide all our needs, heal all our diseases, right?
- 29:42SPEAKER_00: He's able to protect us from all disease, from all disaster.
- 29:46SPEAKER_00: Like he's an all kind of God.
- 29:48SPEAKER_00: And we go and we ask him for what we need.
- 29:51SPEAKER_00: And we don't do it from a place of complaining and whining and griming and all.
- 29:54SPEAKER_00: We don't do that.
- 29:56SPEAKER_00: We do it with thanksgiving.
- 29:59SPEAKER_00: And what do we do?
- 30:00SPEAKER_00: We relaunch the peace.
- 30:02SPEAKER_00: We relaunch the peace because this is this is what we are designed to have as our default setting.
- 30:10SPEAKER_00: Peace is my default setting.
- 30:12SPEAKER_00: So every time we see ourselves out of peace, we're like, what thought triggered that?
- 30:15SPEAKER_00: What have I been brooding on?
- 30:16SPEAKER_00: And why do we have to do this?
- 30:18SPEAKER_00: Because we've been we've been practicing the worry piece all our lives, all our lives.
- 30:23SPEAKER_00: So now we want to make practicing the prayer piece our new norm.
- 30:29SPEAKER_00: Yes?
- 30:30SPEAKER_00: Okay, all right.
- 30:32SPEAKER_00: So now let's look at another translation.
- 30:35SPEAKER_00: This is so good.
- 30:36SPEAKER_00: I am so happy.
- 30:40SPEAKER_01: So happy! So happy.
- 30:47SPEAKER_00: Okay, so let's look at what translation do we look at?
- 30:54SPEAKER_00: Oh, this is so good.
- 30:56SPEAKER_00: I am having such a blast.
- 30:58SPEAKER_00: I am learning so much from this.
- 31:01SPEAKER_00: Okay, so let's do let's do the new living translation.
- 31:07SPEAKER_00: It says, Don't worry about anything.
- 31:10SPEAKER_00: I you know, okay, let's do something for fun.
- 31:12SPEAKER_00: Okay, what is the definition of the word anything?
- 31:15SPEAKER_00: Because maybe something snuck through, right?
- 31:18SPEAKER_00: Let me pull it up.
- 31:19SPEAKER_00: I'm pulling it up.
- 31:21SPEAKER_00: Anything, anything is a pronoun that refers to any object, any event, any situation or action of any kind.
- 31:37SPEAKER_00: Okay, so any, so the opposite of anything, well, I don't know if it's opposite, but on the other side we have nothing.
- 31:47SPEAKER_00: Okay, so what should we worry about?
- 31:53SPEAKER_00: Nothing.
- 31:54SPEAKER_00: There is nothing God recommends you respond to with worry.
- 32:01SPEAKER_00: There is nothing in this universe that God recommends you respond to with worry.
- 32:07SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna say it again.
- 32:09SPEAKER_00: There is nothing, there's no action, no object, no event, no situation that God recommends you respond to with worry.
- 32:23SPEAKER_00: So when we worry, God, like I didn't ask you to do that.
- 32:27SPEAKER_00: I did not ask you to do that.
- 32:30SPEAKER_00: So when you like there's nothing, nothing, not a single thing, not a single thing, nothing.
- 32:39SPEAKER_00: So when people say you don't know what I'm going through, ma'am, I may not know, but I know what God's response is to that.
- 32:47SPEAKER_00: Thou shalt not worry.
- 32:48SPEAKER_00: Now, thou shalt not worry without any now do this, you know.
- 32:53SPEAKER_00: That's crazy, right?
- 32:54SPEAKER_00: So let's see.
- 32:55SPEAKER_00: Like you could worry, but that's low-level stuff.
- 32:58SPEAKER_00: We don't do that.
- 32:59SPEAKER_00: Like in this kingdom where you're a part of, when things that other people worry about happen, we don't worry.
- 33:04SPEAKER_00: In this kingdom, we do something else.
- 33:08SPEAKER_00: Okay, okay.
- 33:09SPEAKER_00: So in this kingdom, what do we do?
- 33:11SPEAKER_00: Let's let's go back to the scripture.
- 33:13SPEAKER_00: So new living translation.
- 33:15SPEAKER_00: Um where did my scripture go?
- 33:19SPEAKER_00: Okay, hold on, hold on.
- 33:21SPEAKER_00: My my team put it here, I'll just pull it from here.
- 33:23SPEAKER_00: Okay, so don't worry about anything, instead.
- 33:28SPEAKER_00: Okay, so let's name and shame some stuff.
- 33:31SPEAKER_00: What is something you habitually worry about?
- 33:35SPEAKER_00: We don't we observe we don't judge here, and so um we're gonna name and shame it.
- 33:41SPEAKER_00: So that's why we're doing.
- 33:42SPEAKER_00: Let's just pick like things that are common.
- 33:44SPEAKER_00: What is something that almost every day you get an invitation to worry about this thing?
- 33:49SPEAKER_00: Because I want I want this to get all the way home.
- 33:53SPEAKER_00: Like I want this to, by the time we're done, it's so deeply rooted in you that this is how you respond to things all day.
- 34:02SPEAKER_00: And from today, you start putting in the reps, putting in the reps, okay?
- 34:07SPEAKER_00: Okay, to make this your default setting for real.
- 34:10SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 34:11SPEAKER_00: First of all, I love every one of you, and thank you for your honesty and thank you for being willing to share.
- 34:17SPEAKER_00: This is how we change, right?
- 34:19SPEAKER_00: Like when we go to the doctor's office, for instance, the first thing the doctor doesn't say, This is what is wrong with you, this is how we're gonna fix it.
- 34:25SPEAKER_00: No, they first start asking questions so that we can come up with the diagnosis, right?
- 34:31SPEAKER_00: Okay, so listen, isn't it interesting?
- 34:36SPEAKER_00: Like, I want somebody to get um angry, like holy anger, okay.
- 34:43SPEAKER_00: Isn't it interesting that the most common thing that triggers worry for us as believers on a daily basis is finances?
- 34:53SPEAKER_00: But that is the one thing that it's so criticized when it's talked about in church.
- 35:00SPEAKER_00: Like if you holy mad, I want you to put a mad emoji there.
- 35:04SPEAKER_00: The one thing where we should have the most biblical education, the most understanding, the understanding of how it works from the spiritual side, how it works from the natural side.
- 35:16SPEAKER_00: But every single time the conversation of money comes up in the kingdom, there's a whole fight.
- 35:22SPEAKER_00: Now you can see who is behind that.
- 35:25SPEAKER_00: Because Satan is the one behind that.
- 35:27SPEAKER_00: Because as long as we don't know what God's will for finances is, as long as we don't know the framework God gives us to pull that off, the worry continues.
- 35:37SPEAKER_00: And as long as the worry continues, we cannot have the peace of God that passes all understanding.
- 35:43SPEAKER_00: And the worst part is the Bible says it's with joy that you pull from the wells of salvation.
- 35:49SPEAKER_00: Now we're not with joy, we're with fear and anxiety and worry.
- 35:52SPEAKER_00: So even the revelation to turn situations around, we can't access it because we don't know.
- 35:59SPEAKER_00: Listen to me.
- 36:00SPEAKER_00: I want you to hear me, I want you to hear me good.
- 36:03SPEAKER_00: Okay, we're gonna do a little detour before we get back here.
- 36:07SPEAKER_00: Um, um, team, help me look.
- 36:11SPEAKER_00: I think is Damien City, dcgeorgia.org slash teaching or dcgeorgia.org slash built different.
- 36:18SPEAKER_00: Find the link for the series, built different in our church, and you don't have to be a part of my church, okay?
- 36:24SPEAKER_00: But but this is a gift to the body of Christ, okay.
- 36:28SPEAKER_00: We did a nine-session series on finances from God's will is not lack to how the purpose of the blessing, to how God brings wealth, to how you build pipelines, to the laws of harvest.
- 36:46SPEAKER_00: Like you've sown a seed, then what?
- 36:48SPEAKER_00: To tithing, like getting rid of that argument once and for all.
- 36:52SPEAKER_00: It's a complete series.
- 36:53SPEAKER_00: It was nine services about money.
- 36:57SPEAKER_00: Listen to me.
- 36:58SPEAKER_00: Every single person on here, I want you to grab the link.
- 37:03SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 37:04SPEAKER_00: Now, the YouTube channel is um Dominion City, Georgia, okay.
- 37:09SPEAKER_00: And the series is called Built Different.
- 37:12SPEAKER_00: I want you to get it.
- 37:13SPEAKER_00: I want you to watch it as you watch it.
- 37:16SPEAKER_00: I want you to pull scriptures you'll meditate on.
- 37:18SPEAKER_00: I want you to get actions that you will take, and I want you to make a decision that I will gain mastery of financial dominion.
- 37:27SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna have the worry on one side and not know when it's been made available.
- 37:31SPEAKER_00: No, ma'am, no, sir.
- 37:33SPEAKER_00: The devil is a liar.
- 37:36SPEAKER_00: The devil is a liar.
- 37:38SPEAKER_00: I hope you're mad.
- 37:39SPEAKER_00: Okay, the team has posted the link there.
- 37:42SPEAKER_00: Let me just click real quick.
- 37:45SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Jesus.
- 37:48SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Jesus.
- 37:49SPEAKER_00: If you'll do it, say I'll do it.
- 37:51SPEAKER_00: I hope you're mad because I'm mad.
- 37:53SPEAKER_00: That's why when people like, you talk about money.
- 37:56SPEAKER_00: I'm like, you must be nuts.
- 37:57SPEAKER_00: Yes, of course I talk about money.
- 37:59SPEAKER_00: And I talk about it a lot.
- 38:00SPEAKER_00: I talk about success in online areas a lot.
- 38:02SPEAKER_00: Why?
- 38:02SPEAKER_00: Because God has it for us.
- 38:05SPEAKER_00: God has it for us.
- 38:07SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 38:08SPEAKER_00: He even had a prayer session.
- 38:11SPEAKER_00: One of the sessions was a prayer session.
- 38:13SPEAKER_00: It was about six or seven prayers to pray for your finances, guys.
- 38:17SPEAKER_00: I'm telling you, get the series.
- 38:19SPEAKER_00: The team has posted the link.
- 38:21SPEAKER_00: Get the series, watch the entire series.
- 38:24SPEAKER_00: Watch the entire series.
- 38:26SPEAKER_00: It's nine sessions.
- 38:27SPEAKER_00: Watch every last one of them.
- 38:29SPEAKER_00: Meditate on the scriptures that speak to you.
- 38:32SPEAKER_00: Take action immediately and start turning your financial world right side up.
- 38:39SPEAKER_00: And anytime someone's like, all these church people, they shouldn't talk about money, they should talk about holiness.
- 38:45SPEAKER_00: Jesus talked about money more than holiness, righteousness, um, heaven, hell, and healing combined.
- 38:55SPEAKER_00: And we are Christians, we are Christ-like, we are like Christ.
- 39:00SPEAKER_00: And Christ talked about money.
- 39:01SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna talk about money.
- 39:03SPEAKER_00: The only person who wins when Christians don't have financial dominion is the kingdom of darkness, is the kingdom of darkness.
- 39:15SPEAKER_00: Okay, so we must master this thing.
- 39:18SPEAKER_00: Okay, okay, all right.
- 39:20SPEAKER_00: So we took the detour, we're back now.
- 39:22SPEAKER_00: You guys back now?
- 39:25SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 39:26SPEAKER_00: Oh man.
- 39:30SPEAKER_00: Okay, now so be anxious for nothing, which means my finances.
- 39:36SPEAKER_00: I'm not to be anxious about that.
- 39:38SPEAKER_00: I'm not to be anxious about my like I'm not to be anxious about that.
- 39:41SPEAKER_00: He's like Dr.
- 39:42SPEAKER_00: Una, but you don't know what my bills are like.
- 39:44SPEAKER_00: I'm not to be anxious about that, but you don't know the taxes I do.
- 39:46SPEAKER_00: I'm not to be anxious about that.
- 39:48SPEAKER_00: God said, do not be anxious.
- 39:50SPEAKER_00: He said, instead, right?
- 39:53SPEAKER_00: So let me let me read it.
- 39:55SPEAKER_00: New living translation.
- 39:57SPEAKER_00: Instead, pray about everything.
- 40:00SPEAKER_00: Now, you say, How do I pray about my finances?
- 40:02SPEAKER_00: There are a number of things you could do.
- 40:04SPEAKER_00: Now, first of all, you you you you you gotta you gotta load the software, okay?
- 40:08SPEAKER_00: That's why I say you give you gotta go watch the series, okay?
- 40:10SPEAKER_00: You gotta load the software.
- 40:13SPEAKER_00: Now, there are many things you can pray about.
- 40:16SPEAKER_00: For instance, there is a prayer like Lord, I have this need, meet the need, okay?
- 40:21SPEAKER_00: But I promise you, God loves collaborating with you.
- 40:25SPEAKER_00: God wants to create, like He okay.
- 40:30SPEAKER_00: In the beginning, God said, Let us make man in our image and after our likeness, and let them have dominion.
- 40:41SPEAKER_00: Does that sound to you that God was creating people who can't do anything?
- 40:46SPEAKER_00: Does it sound like he was creating victims?
- 40:49SPEAKER_00: Now we are always going to be dependent on him because he's our source, but he was creating sons of God, people in the God class.
- 41:00SPEAKER_00: He was creating sons of, like, we're sons of God, we're sons and daughters of God, which means we have creativity on the inside of us, we have power on the inside of us, we have the ability to have financial dominion, to create value and interact with the marketplace in such a way we have dominion there.
- 41:21SPEAKER_00: Like he made us to do that.
- 41:24SPEAKER_00: So, this is what that means.
- 41:26SPEAKER_00: Depending on where you are, one of the prayers is Lord, give me the wisdom for wealth creation.
- 41:33SPEAKER_00: One of the parts is Lord, give me a revelation.
- 41:35SPEAKER_00: Your word says, You have given me power to get wealth.
- 41:40SPEAKER_00: So it apparently is there.
- 41:42SPEAKER_00: You give me a capacity and ability to get wealth.
- 41:45SPEAKER_00: Lord, give me a revelation of this power that's working on the inside of me, right?
- 41:50SPEAKER_00: It could be you're in a working a job.
- 41:52SPEAKER_00: Lord, open my eyes to see how I can qualify for a promotion here.
- 41:56SPEAKER_00: You're doing a business, Lord.
- 41:58SPEAKER_00: We've done a million, we've done two million.
- 42:00SPEAKER_00: Open my eyes to how we take this business to eight figures.
- 42:03SPEAKER_00: Lord, give me a mentor that will show me the ways of financial dominion.
- 42:07SPEAKER_00: Like there's so many prayers to pray.
- 42:10SPEAKER_00: Lord, give me favor that opens doors.
- 42:12SPEAKER_00: Lord, this door opens, show me how to cash in on it.
- 42:16SPEAKER_00: This is you asking him for what you need as opposed to whining and complaining.
- 42:22SPEAKER_00: If you see it, say I see it.
- 42:24SPEAKER_00: So we can ask him for what we need.
- 42:26SPEAKER_00: Lord, I've been applying for interviews.
- 42:28SPEAKER_00: I don't seem to be getting anyone.
- 42:30SPEAKER_00: Open my eyes to see there is a prepared place for me.
- 42:34SPEAKER_00: Like you're not shocked I'm here.
- 42:35SPEAKER_00: You're not shocked I need a job.
- 42:37SPEAKER_00: Where is it?
- 42:38SPEAKER_00: Who should I be talking to?
- 42:40SPEAKER_00: And he will tell you.
- 42:42SPEAKER_00: He will tell you.
- 42:44SPEAKER_00: Then you get three job offers.
- 42:45SPEAKER_00: Lord, which one is the one for me?
- 42:49SPEAKER_00: Right?
- 42:49SPEAKER_00: Lord, you talk about how there's wealth, there's oil and wine in the house of the of the wealthy, but the fool spended it all.
- 42:57SPEAKER_00: Lord, I spend all my stuff.
- 42:59SPEAKER_00: And I've read this book.
- 43:00SPEAKER_00: I don't get what they're talking about.
- 43:02SPEAKER_00: Lord, help me, give me revelation.
- 43:07SPEAKER_00: Do you guys see this?
- 43:08SPEAKER_00: Like, and and even like you if you have a scarcity mentality, like you can't even imagine, like you can't even imagine owning stuff, you can't imagine owning a house, you can't imagine running a company.
- 43:20SPEAKER_00: And God may have shown you these things, but you're like, I just you're like, Lord, you have to understand that our physical eyes are open, but spiritually, we there are areas where we're blind.
- 43:30SPEAKER_00: If there's a place where you don't have revelation, you're blind.
- 43:32SPEAKER_00: And you're like, Lord, open my eyes, give me a revelation of this thing.
- 43:39SPEAKER_00: Do you guys see that?
- 43:40SPEAKER_00: So every time the work, oh, what if we can't pay our bills?
- 43:43SPEAKER_00: Now we have things to pray.
- 43:46SPEAKER_00: And one of the sessions, um, uh Pastor Steve did a built different series.
- 43:50SPEAKER_00: One of the sessions was prayer.
- 43:51SPEAKER_00: It was like a one hour prayer session or so.
- 43:53SPEAKER_00: Take it, pray, pray it.
- 43:57SPEAKER_00: Right?
- 43:58SPEAKER_00: Ask God.
- 44:00SPEAKER_00: Like, where are the resources for this?
- 44:02SPEAKER_00: Where's the insight for this?
- 44:03SPEAKER_00: Where's the wisdom for this?
- 44:04SPEAKER_00: Who has done this and does this thing that seems so complicated to for me so easily?
- 44:09SPEAKER_00: Connect us, Lord.
- 44:11SPEAKER_00: I know how to pray for the things I used to worry about.
- 44:14SPEAKER_00: Because powerful as that is, God said, Don't worry about it.
- 44:19SPEAKER_00: You pray.
- 44:20SPEAKER_00: You pray and you bring Thanksgiving.
- 44:23SPEAKER_00: You pray, you bring Thanksgiving.
- 44:26SPEAKER_00: You pray with Thanksgiving.
- 44:28SPEAKER_00: You pray with Thanksgiving.
- 44:30SPEAKER_00: I'll turn it around.
- 44:31SPEAKER_00: There's no situation you bring to God and God's like, oh man, they they finally did it.
- 44:36SPEAKER_00: Like Angel Michael, Angel Gabriel, where are you?
- 44:40SPEAKER_00: She's in trouble.
- 44:41SPEAKER_00: And for the first time in all eternity, I don't know what to do about it.
- 44:46SPEAKER_00: There's no such thing.
- 44:48SPEAKER_00: There may be things bigger than you, but there's nothing bigger than God.
- 44:52SPEAKER_00: And you're in partnership with God.
- 44:54SPEAKER_00: You have an unfair advantage.
- 44:56SPEAKER_00: I have an unfair advantage.
- 44:58SPEAKER_00: I have God.
- 45:00SPEAKER_00: So unfair.
- 45:02SPEAKER_00: But life is not fair, and favor is not fair.
- 45:04SPEAKER_00: It just is what it is.
- 45:06SPEAKER_00: And if you think he's unfair, come follow Jesus.
- 45:08SPEAKER_00: He'd be your partner too.
- 45:11SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 45:13SPEAKER_00: Let's go back to our scripture.
- 45:16SPEAKER_00: I thought we were gonna read this in many translations.
- 45:18SPEAKER_00: We're still trying to get through number two.
- 45:22SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 45:22SPEAKER_00: All right, so let's go back to Philippians 4, 6.
- 45:26SPEAKER_00: Um, from the New Living Translation.
- 45:29SPEAKER_00: Okay, okay.
- 45:31SPEAKER_00: So it says, Don't worry about anything.
- 45:38SPEAKER_00: Okay, what do we worry about?
- 45:40SPEAKER_00: Nothing.
- 45:41SPEAKER_00: Nothing.
- 45:42SPEAKER_00: What is worth our worry?
- 45:43SPEAKER_00: Nothing.
- 45:45SPEAKER_00: Nothing.
- 45:47SPEAKER_00: And you know, if you're honest, it sounds a little irresponsible.
- 45:51SPEAKER_00: Like, what do you mean?
- 45:52SPEAKER_00: You should worry about but that's the world's way of thinking.
- 45:56SPEAKER_00: In the kingdom where we're from, we don't worry about things like that.
- 46:00SPEAKER_00: We don't worry about things like that.
- 46:02SPEAKER_00: In the kingdom we're from, when we get the invitation to worry, we pray.
- 46:07SPEAKER_00: When we get the invitation to worry, we pray.
- 46:10SPEAKER_00: When we get the invitation to worry, we pray with thanksgiving.
- 46:14SPEAKER_00: We pray.
- 46:16SPEAKER_00: We pray.
- 46:17SPEAKER_00: So I don't worry about finances.
- 46:19SPEAKER_00: I don't worry about finances.
- 46:22SPEAKER_00: Now, do I need to learn some stuff?
- 46:24SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
- 46:24SPEAKER_00: Do I need to pray?
- 46:25SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
- 46:25SPEAKER_00: Do I need to pray with Thanksgiving?
- 46:27SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
- 46:27SPEAKER_00: Do I need to pray with good attitude?
- 46:28SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
- 46:29SPEAKER_00: Do I need to learn the laws of financial dominion?
- 46:32SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
- 46:33SPEAKER_00: And Dr.
- 46:33SPEAKER_00: Luna already gave me a link.
- 46:35SPEAKER_00: You get a link, you get a link, everybody gets a link.
- 46:37SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna go learn.
- 46:39SPEAKER_00: Instead of worrying, I'll watch a video.
- 46:41SPEAKER_00: Instead of worrying, I'll declare the scriptures.
- 46:43SPEAKER_00: It's a worrying, I'll play that prayer session and pray through.
- 46:45SPEAKER_00: It's a worrying, no, I know what I know what to do.
- 46:48SPEAKER_00: But this worry, it costs time and it's unproductive.
- 46:51SPEAKER_00: Actually, it's not unproductive, it's productive in the wrong direction.
- 46:56SPEAKER_00: Okay, Dr.
- 46:57SPEAKER_00: Una, come on now.
- 46:58SPEAKER_00: Calm down.
- 46:58SPEAKER_00: We almost had an hour.
- 46:59SPEAKER_00: We need to get this thing through.
- 47:00SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 47:02SPEAKER_00: Um, don't worry about anything.
- 47:05SPEAKER_00: Instead, so it doesn't mean don't worry and go like I won't worry, I won't worry, I won't worry.
- 47:10SPEAKER_00: No, that's not what the Bible said.
- 47:11SPEAKER_00: They said it said, Don't worry.
- 47:13SPEAKER_00: Instead of worrying, do something else.
- 47:15SPEAKER_00: Pray, pray about everything.
- 47:17SPEAKER_00: Pray about everything.
- 47:18SPEAKER_00: Pray about my finances.
- 47:19SPEAKER_00: Yeah, pray.
- 47:20SPEAKER_00: Pray about it.
- 47:22SPEAKER_00: And not just Lord, make it better, make it better, make it better.
- 47:24SPEAKER_00: No, come on now.
- 47:25SPEAKER_00: We're talking financial to me.
- 47:27SPEAKER_00: You gotta know some stuff.
- 47:28SPEAKER_00: Okay, okay.
- 47:29SPEAKER_00: So don't worry about it anything.
- 47:31SPEAKER_00: Instead, pray about everything.
- 47:32SPEAKER_00: Tell God what you need and thank him for all he has done.
- 47:35SPEAKER_00: See, gratitude, always a winning strategy.
- 47:37SPEAKER_00: No gratitude, no peace.
- 47:39SPEAKER_00: No gratitude, no peace.
- 47:40SPEAKER_00: The peace that passes all understanding, it's a it's a consequence of verse six.
- 47:44SPEAKER_00: And verse six says, number one, do not worry.
- 47:47SPEAKER_00: Number two, instead pray.
- 47:48SPEAKER_00: Number three, add thanksgiving.
- 47:51SPEAKER_00: This is your job.
- 47:53SPEAKER_00: I want to live the life where peace is my default setting.
- 47:56SPEAKER_00: I don't worry, instead of worrying, I pray, and I pray with thanksgiving.
- 48:00SPEAKER_00: I don't worry, instead of worrying, I pray and I pray with thanksgiving.
- 48:04SPEAKER_00: If I don't worry and I pray and my prayers nagging and whining and complaining and questioning God, like, why hasn't this happened yet?
- 48:13SPEAKER_00: Then I may feel good because I had a royal tantrum, but I'm not gonna get peace.
- 48:20SPEAKER_00: So if I'm gonna be that person who lives life with peace as my default setting, number one, I don't worry.
- 48:25SPEAKER_00: Number two, when worry when invitation to worry comes, I pray.
- 48:29SPEAKER_00: And that prayer is with thanksgiving.
- 48:32SPEAKER_00: Yeah, okay.
- 48:33SPEAKER_00: So let's go to verse 7 in NLT.
- 48:36SPEAKER_00: It says, then if you do these three things, we talked about in verse six, then then what?
- 48:42SPEAKER_00: Then you will experience God's peace.
- 48:48SPEAKER_00: So you can trigger the peace of God all day, every day, and twice on Sunday.
- 48:58SPEAKER_00: Like the peace of God.
- 49:00SPEAKER_00: I don't need to worry about finances, I need to do something about my finances, but it's not worry.
- 49:06SPEAKER_00: Do I need to do something about my finances?
- 49:08SPEAKER_00: Yes, but it's not worry.
- 49:10SPEAKER_00: Worry is not one of the things.
- 49:13SPEAKER_00: I can pray about it, I can thank God for all He's done.
- 49:16SPEAKER_00: I could go watch the Built Different series, I can take action on what was taught, I can meditate on the scriptures, I get from there.
- 49:23SPEAKER_00: There are many things I can do about my finances, but on that list, as a kingdom person, worry is not there.
- 49:35SPEAKER_00: It's not there.
- 49:36SPEAKER_00: Being anxious, it's not one of them.
- 49:40SPEAKER_00: Okay, then you will experience God's peace, which exceeds anything we can understand.
- 49:47SPEAKER_00: Like the peace is ridiculous.
- 49:52SPEAKER_00: His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.
- 50:00SPEAKER_00: The peace of God is my default setting.
- 50:03SPEAKER_00: The peace of God guards, protects my mind, protects my heart as I live my life in Christ Jesus.
- 50:15SPEAKER_00: Amen.
- 50:17SPEAKER_00: Listen, listen, we have exposed something.
- 50:25SPEAKER_00: First of all, I want us to throw up as many emojis as we can, thanking God, because we prayed at the beginning.
- 50:31SPEAKER_00: And even I, as we are reading this, saw things I had never seen before because that's the way the word of God is.
- 50:37SPEAKER_00: This is the way the word of God is.
- 50:39SPEAKER_00: Um, team, somebody's asking how she can be part of the morning prayer.
- 50:42SPEAKER_00: Please give her the information.
- 50:43SPEAKER_00: We'd love to have you.
- 50:44SPEAKER_00: DC, and this is everyone.
- 50:45SPEAKER_00: Everyone, we pray about all nine areas of our lives over the course of the days on Horizon Shine.
- 50:53SPEAKER_00: Horizon Shine is a prayer meeting that's been running every day for the last six years.
- 50:57SPEAKER_00: And we come together and we we praise God, we practice gratitude every morning, we intercede for others, we meditate in the scriptures, we study our word.
- 51:06SPEAKER_00: We like depending on the day, we do different things every day.
- 51:10SPEAKER_00: Come join us if you're not a part.
- 51:12SPEAKER_00: dcgeorgia.org forward slash prayer.
- 51:15SPEAKER_00: The team will post the link in the chat.
- 51:17SPEAKER_00: Come join us every morning, 6 a.m.
- 51:19SPEAKER_00: Eastern, um, 6 to 7.05.
- 51:22SPEAKER_00: It is a powerful time in the presence of God.
- 51:24SPEAKER_00: Once a month we do a prayer-thon and we go three hours.
- 51:28SPEAKER_00: So last Saturday, the last prayer-thon, we did three hours of meditation.
- 51:34SPEAKER_00: Like this was a meditation marathon.
- 51:38SPEAKER_00: It was so insane how good it was.
- 51:43SPEAKER_00: So insane, right?
- 51:45SPEAKER_00: And people walked in one way and left another way.
- 51:49SPEAKER_00: And if you are part of us, you find that every morning you re-trigger the peace of God in your life because that is supposed to be our default setting.
- 52:03SPEAKER_00: Okay, now I really want to give you guys this as my closing charge.
- 52:09SPEAKER_00: Please hear me.
- 52:10SPEAKER_00: Think about how Satan assaults believers everywhere with worry.
- 52:17SPEAKER_00: Think about how he assaults them with living in a state of urgency and their frantic and panic energy and all of that.
- 52:24SPEAKER_00: And they're Christians, and some of them may be tongue-talking Christians.
- 52:30SPEAKER_00: Think about how he has deceived us into thinking we don't want to talk about finances in church.
- 52:35SPEAKER_00: We just want to talk about holiness.
- 52:38SPEAKER_00: But the church equips us to handle the battles of life.
- 52:43SPEAKER_00: And where Satan is bringing the most worries in finances, which means we gotta know some stuff.
- 52:51SPEAKER_00: So, how can you be a gift to the body of Christ?
- 52:55SPEAKER_00: Number one, live out what you are learning today, practice it every day.
- 53:02SPEAKER_00: Every time worry comes, practice.
- 53:04SPEAKER_00: Get the built different series, watch it and learn.
- 53:07SPEAKER_00: Watch it and learn.
- 53:08SPEAKER_00: Treat it like a curriculum for a course that you paid 25 grand for.
- 53:13SPEAKER_00: If you know the way you will approach it, if you did, approach it that way.
- 53:18SPEAKER_00: And where you will see yourself will shock you.
- 53:20SPEAKER_00: That's number one.
- 53:21SPEAKER_00: Number two, let there be a minimum of 12 people in your world who have learned what you learned.
- 53:30SPEAKER_00: You share this video with them, you say, watch it, let's discuss this, change my life.
- 53:34SPEAKER_00: You compel them.
- 53:37SPEAKER_00: The Bible, it is called anakazo, the compelling force.
- 53:42SPEAKER_00: Compel them to watch this video.
- 53:44SPEAKER_00: Invite, give them the gift of accountability to start practicing putting in the reps.
- 53:50SPEAKER_00: And if you do that and they do that for another 12, and they do that for another 12, and they do that to the other 12, what what impact will your life have?
- 54:00SPEAKER_00: You gotta understand the kingdom of God moves forward, but it can't be only by ministers, what who we consider ministers, the pop the apostles, the prophets, the teachers, and all of that.
- 54:12SPEAKER_00: God needs his all, his whole army in the army.
- 54:17SPEAKER_00: And go be the reason why Christians, so many Christians, have peace as their default setting and understand like a science, financial dominion.
- 54:28SPEAKER_00: You be the reason.
- 54:32SPEAKER_00: You you don't need a pulpit or a title or anything.
- 54:38SPEAKER_00: You just need to say yes, Lord, and start impacting lives.
- 54:42SPEAKER_00: Can you get 12 people to do this?
- 54:44SPEAKER_00: Yes.
- 54:44SPEAKER_00: And can you teach them to get 12 people to do it?
- 54:46SPEAKER_00: Yes.
- 54:47SPEAKER_00: And you, the, the, the impact of your life, nobody will be able to measure it on this side of eternity.
- 54:53SPEAKER_00: That's the kind of life I want to have.
- 54:55SPEAKER_00: That's the kind of life I want you to have.
- 54:59SPEAKER_00: It is so simple to live a life of global impact.
- 55:04SPEAKER_00: If you just say whatever God puts in me, I'm gonna put it in other people.
- 55:08SPEAKER_00: That's literally all it is.
- 55:09SPEAKER_00: Like a rise and shine.
- 55:10SPEAKER_00: Do you think a rise and shine is a program?
- 55:12SPEAKER_00: It's not a program.
- 55:13SPEAKER_00: It's my prayer life with my microphone on.
- 55:15SPEAKER_00: That is literally all it is.
- 55:18SPEAKER_00: Literally all it is.
- 55:19SPEAKER_00: If it was a program, I'd not be able to sustain it for six years.
- 55:22SPEAKER_00: It's not a program.
- 55:26SPEAKER_00: It's me saying, Wow, God taught me to pray like this.
- 55:28SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna help other people pray like that.
- 55:30SPEAKER_00: That's it.
- 55:30SPEAKER_00: That's all it is.
- 55:32SPEAKER_00: I'm rooting for every one of you.
- 55:34SPEAKER_00: I want you to see the new life you have.
- 55:36SPEAKER_00: You are a person who has peace as their default setting, a person who has down to a size, financial dominion.
- 55:42SPEAKER_00: You understand like how to walk in it, right?
- 55:45SPEAKER_00: This is you, this is the you you're building.
- 55:47SPEAKER_00: How to walk in it, all of those things.
- 55:49SPEAKER_00: And a time is coming where the things that were challenges will look like a child's play, where you understand how to create wealth, you understand how to manage wealth, you understand how to multiply wealth.
- 56:01SPEAKER_00: And you're a person who lives this life of global impact because this thing that God triggered in your life today, you're triggering the lives of other people and you inspire them to trigger the lives of other people and other people.
- 56:12SPEAKER_00: So here you are, peace is your default setting.
- 56:15SPEAKER_00: You understand and walk in dominion in financial dominion and you're living a life of global impact.
- 56:20SPEAKER_00: Three for three.
- 56:22SPEAKER_00: That's what that's that's what all of this is about.
- 56:25SPEAKER_00: This is what all of this is about.
- 56:27SPEAKER_00: So God bless you.
- 56:28SPEAKER_00: If this has helped you in any way, I would love for you to join the movement and share this episode with your friends, family, and the Christians in your world.
- 56:37SPEAKER_00: By doing this simple thing, you could be changing the trajectory of someone's lives, their family, and their community.
- 56:43SPEAKER_00: That makes you a world changer and they will love you forever.