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Launch Like Jesus: 6 Steps to Launch Your Online Business · 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: On Thursdays, I record an episode of the Jesus Girl Gang Kingdom Business Podcast for my Kingdom Building Girlies.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's what we're doing this morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I couldn't be more excited about it because this word is so, so good.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, just a couple things, like as people are coming into the room.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just wanna, if you've never been here before, if you don't know who I am, um well, I'm Erica.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hi, I'm Erica Pyle.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I have I wear a few different hats.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wear a few different hats.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I am the co-lead pastor of a local church here in Tampa, Florida called Revive Church of Tampa.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have led the church alongside my husband for the last almost 15 years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I've got a women's ministry called Revive Woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, almost 15 years of um leading that ministry.
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  SPEAKER_00: We do annual conferences here in Tampa, Florida, called the Revive Woman Conference.
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  SPEAKER_00: Got one happening this coming year, 2027, May 14 and 15.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you want to get that on your calendar, it's always a good time to come to sunny, gorgeous Florida.
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  SPEAKER_00: And our location this year, we're gonna be right on the bay.
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  SPEAKER_00: So um really excited to host you guys.
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  SPEAKER_00: Haven't announced the location exactly yet, um, but we will soon, along with the theme.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so that'll be happening May 14th and 15th.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you um are able to, I would love to host you here in Florida.
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  SPEAKER_00: The seats are gonna be limited because the location that we decided to host at, it's it's not a huge location, but I really wanted to be at this location.
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  SPEAKER_00: So um they will be limited, they will sell out.
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  SPEAKER_00: So um get it on your calendar and I'll start sharing the Regio link as soon as I have it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but the other thing is that for the last six years, I've been actively mentoring Jesus Girl entrepreneurs inside of my community called the Jesus Girl Gang.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um, I have something called the Build with Faith mentorship.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a coaching community.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I have been uh walking with women who are building their businesses and ministries online, helping them to get launched.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's my heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's my that's like the thing that I'm called to.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can I help people scale their businesses?
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah, we do that too.
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  SPEAKER_00: But my my heart and my passion is there are women out there and this might be you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So listen, listen, this might be you.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know that you're called to build a business or a ministry online, like God's been talking to you about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you're like Samuel over in Eli's, you know, in the temple with Eli, and you've been hearing, you know, Jesse, Jesse, or um, Miranda, Miranda, or Connie, Connie.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I have a business for you to build.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have a ministry for you to step into.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you wake up and you're like, who is that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Who is that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, is that just me?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, am I just calling to myself?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is that just something that I want?
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  SPEAKER_00: You know?
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's actually no.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is calling you to build this business or this ministry online.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's that woman, it's that Jesus girl entrepreneur.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is that ambitious, audacious, faith-filled, spirit-filled Jesus girl entrepreneur that I am looking to work with and to serve.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so done so for the last, you know, six or so years actively.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I've been doing it long before that, but um, but for the last six years, really stepped into let me show you a framework for how to do that and how to do it efficiently and how to do it um so that it actually works.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, I didn't start in entrepreneurship.
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  SPEAKER_00: I started my journey almost, well, 30 years ago.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's just be honest.
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  SPEAKER_00: I started my journey 30 years ago in the marketplace as a um as a tax accountant.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I got my CPA license.
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  SPEAKER_00: I got my master's of science in taxation, and I began serving really big companies.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I was working for a big four organization, a big four accounting firm, and I was starting to serve really big companies to the point where in the last few years of working at the big four accounting firm, that was the entire thing that I was doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was only working for Fortune 500 companies, major corporations.
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  SPEAKER_00: And during that time, I actually became known as a process engineering expert and as somebody who could help to bring organizations into alignment with proper systems that they needed so that they could pass audit, so that they could actually, you know, their shareholders were looking at their books and looking at their reporting.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it was a time when there were a lot of different big companies that were struggling to be in alignment with those standards.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I was hired and paid really big bucks to be able to help big companies.
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  SPEAKER_00: And ultimately I went to one of my best clients for four years to actually do this as my main job.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I traveled around the world for those four years to over 30 something different countries serving the subsidiaries of this big company.
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  SPEAKER_00: We were based in New York City, and I worked with the CFO and the CEO of this$2 billion publicly traded company.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we got things right and tight.
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  SPEAKER_00: We got things functioning.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it was in that place, in that marketplace job, that I actually learned how to.
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  SPEAKER_00: My background or my kind of um gifting and skill set in the church is apostolic.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I know that it's wild to think of it, but here's the deal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's the deal.
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  SPEAKER_00: I learned I was sharpened in that gifting and that skill set more in that marketplace job than anywhere than I had been to date in ministry.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now I run, now I run a church with, you know, I oversee a church and lead a church with my husband.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so that's actually taken over as the most influential place where I have sharpened my apostolic gifting.
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  SPEAKER_00: But back then, when I was simply a member of a church and on the leadership team there, the place that I sharpened these skills the most, this gifting the most, was in the marketplace job.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it was because I had to rely on God every single day to hear him in terms of what do you want us to do next?
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  SPEAKER_00: What's the next best step for bringing this company and all of its systems into alignment so that we can show the shareholders that their investment is worth it and so that they'll hold on to their stock and they won't sell it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is this making sense?
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I learned how to create really great strategy and systems inside of this company while I served there.
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  SPEAKER_00: And specifically, I was dealing in systems that helped to make the company money and to save the company money to be efficient while it was also investing in expansion.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so this was where I started to learn like, oh, it costs money to expand the kingdom, friends.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you're sitting there thinking in any way, shape, or form, like God has given me this business idea.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's given me this idea to put something out on the internet that is gonna actually make money.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, that can't be God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you kidding me?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you kidding me?
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  SPEAKER_00: Expansion of the kingdom costs.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's not just in spiritual costs, it's not just in mental and emotional costs, it's not just in a time cost.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not.
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  SPEAKER_00: It there are resources that are necessary to get your voice out.
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  SPEAKER_00: You could be like, well, social media is free, so I could just do that, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: You could, but can I tell you something?
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  SPEAKER_00: I teach my girlies every single week how to get their ads out online because you need traffic.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like you you need, and if you're not walking around like Jesus doing miracles every single day and having people, you know, by word of mouth um spread your message, then maybe you're gonna need some ads.
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  SPEAKER_00: And ads cost money, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or how about investing before you can actually bring your thing to market?
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, especially if you've got like a a um a physical product, or even if you have a digital product, there takes, it takes time for you to actually build the thing that you're wanting to bring to market.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's investment time.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that means that there's not only the the time as an investment, but maybe you need to invest in some skill set sharpening, some courses, some, you know, training up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you need to spend time with a mentor and you need to get the shortcuts and you need to know how to not fall into the pitfalls that are ahead of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And all of this, all of that, it actually costs money.
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  SPEAKER_00: It costs resources.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so first and foremost, I want you to understand that if God's called you to build a business or a ministry, but if he's called you to build a business, then that is a it's a very spiritual thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the kingdom, it's a way to build the kingdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are many different ways to build the kingdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: So all that to say, this word that I have for us today, this is this is the title.
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  SPEAKER_00: How to launch like Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: How to launch like Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know, I know it's like, what?
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, listen, last week I brought you a message how to sell like Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we talked about conversions, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: We talked about how um conversions are a concept that came from Jesus, but we talk about sales and conversions all the time in marketing, all the time in the business phase.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so you gotta understand that Jesus was the best marketer that ever walked the earth, Jesus was the best salesman that ever walked the earth, and Jesus was the best launch strategist that ever walked the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I want to show it to you today using a couple of chapters or a few chapters from the book of Luke.
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  SPEAKER_00: But right now I'm gonna do something a little bit awkward and I'm gonna move over here and I'm gonna close my blinds real quick.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you can still hear my voice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it is going to interrupt right in the middle of the best part of this message.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you ready?
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  SPEAKER_00: All right, so listen, if God said it, that settles it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I need you to understand that before we get into this, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because for some of us, we think that this idea, this vision, this dream that we have to launch a business, it's just like, it's just like us.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just like some crazy idea that we have.
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  SPEAKER_00: That can't possibly be God.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the reality is, just like that that example that I gave you of Samuel and the temple with Eli, it's like we need to tune our ears to know that even in the practical, even in the pragmatic things, God is speaking to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he will give you a vision and he'll give you a word over your life to launch a business.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even if, even if you don't come from a family that's entrepreneurial.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can I tell you that 95% of the women that I work with in my mentorship, none of them comes from an entrepreneurial family.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think I might have like one or maybe two women in my in my community right now that they had people in their family that launched businesses and were entrepreneurs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every other one of us, we we don't live in a time when when everyone was owning their own business, their own farm, their own marketplace shop, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So this concept of launching a business and being um an entrepreneur, it is a little, a little new.
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  SPEAKER_00: But here's the other thing that competes with this.
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  SPEAKER_00: The women that I work with, and I bet you this is true for you too, we are high capacity, high volume, high responsibility, high productivity women.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are like the multitaskers.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can do it, we can get it done.
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  SPEAKER_00: And one of the things that wars against this concept that God has called us to do this business and to launch it, called us to build this ministry online and to launch it, even though we've never seen it before in our family, even though we don't have people in our environment that are doing it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that can cause us to doubt, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: That causes us to doubt.
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  SPEAKER_00: But here's the problem.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's the problem.
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  SPEAKER_00: And tell me if this is your problem.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want you to get in the chat and let me know if this is you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen, listen.
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  SPEAKER_00: But we think to ourselves, okay, if that's true, then I should be able to do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I should be able to just rip it out of the ground.
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  SPEAKER_00: I should be able to just do it on my own.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because that's how I've done everything else in my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: I I serve an exponentially high number of firstborns, firstborn daughters.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I know this issue.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm a firstborn daughter.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but the thing is, like the commonality is I if if I was called to it, I should be able to do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But can I show you something, sis?
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  SPEAKER_00: Inside the Bible, whenever someone was called to do something that was um considered like a trade, considered something like big and for God, they were run through a process of apprenticeship.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like even in the Old Testament, if you look and you see like the school of the prophets that um Elijah had, um that's that's apprenticeship.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the way that we do things.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like the fishermen in the New Testament, they were being apprenticed, they were in their family's business.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so here's where the rubber hits the road because it's like if you are a first generation entrepreneur, if you're hearing God say to build this thing, you're called to build.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you're like, I don't, I don't see that anywhere in my world.
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  SPEAKER_00: But then you also have this thing on the inside of you that's like, no, I have to be the one to rip it out of the ground.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you're pioneering and you are a reformer and you are a go first girl.
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  SPEAKER_00: I get that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I totally understand it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the lie that's being served to you is that you've got to learn how to do it all on your own.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've got to figure it out all on your own.
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  SPEAKER_00: And can I tell you that?
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  SPEAKER_00: That that is a scheme of the enemy.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a strategy of the enemy because biblically speaking, you are allowed to get help.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are allowed to be apprentice, you are allowed to have a leader.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're allowed.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're allowed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Come on.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you want to talk, like get it, let's get it overly like I'm not being overly spiritual when I show you scripture.
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  SPEAKER_00: Titus II, Titus II, come on, those older women teaching the younger women.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I understand that it's about being a family person, being a wife, being a mother, and teaching the younger ones how to do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But listen, the Proverbs 31 woman, she was all bad and she was an entrepreneur.
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  SPEAKER_00: So can I not put into Titus II the fact that as an older woman, I can teach you how to launch a business online?
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  SPEAKER_00: Come on, somebody.
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  SPEAKER_00: We gotta break these lies off of our mind that say, I have to figure it out all on my own.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have to figure out all the resources on my own.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have to figure out how to get this sound out all on my own.
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  SPEAKER_00: When the reality is, Jesus shows us a perfect pattern for how to launch.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it does not include doing it all alone.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you ready to get in this word?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you ready to get into this word about how to launch your business or ministry?
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  SPEAKER_00: We call it a business tree around here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you if you're new to me, understand, like that's a that's a word for us, business tree.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because your business is a ministry.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your business is a ministry.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you might be like, okay, Erica, but I'm running a ministry.
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  SPEAKER_00: That can't possibly be a business.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh no, but it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the business of the kingdom, it's the business of expanding the kingdom of God, your ministry.
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  SPEAKER_00: So whether you are running a business, it's like a ministry.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you're running a ministry, it's like a business, so it's a business tree.
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  SPEAKER_00: You with me?
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  SPEAKER_00: You got a business tree.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, how to launch a business tree like Jesus?
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  SPEAKER_00: You ready?
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  SPEAKER_00: So, before we get into that, I told you, you need to get the concept in your head.
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  SPEAKER_00: If God called you, if you're called to build, then that settles it.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're moving on it, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because that's how we roll around here.
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  SPEAKER_00: If God said it, that settles it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when I look at the Bible, before getting into the story of Jesus in the book of Luke, that's where we're gonna be, Luke three to five, I think.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um before we get into Jesus' story, I just want to show you a couple of different builders throughout the Bible and kind of what they struggled with.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, because they did struggle.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I can guarantee you that these are the same things that we struggle with.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when I think about builders, people in the Bible that God was calling to build something, a business or a ministry of some sort, um, and something that was gonna have impact in the earth for the kingdom of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what we're talking about when we're calling when we're talking about called to build.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the first one of the first ones that comes to mind for me is Jonah.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know it's not the best example.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like we don't we cringe, we don't, we don't even wanna, we don't even want to think about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But here's the reality.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, Jonah struggled in launching his ministry to the people at Nineveh because he was offended.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you read that scripture, if you read that book, it's very short, you could read it very quickly.
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  SPEAKER_00: What we come to find is that Jonah was offended, not just with the people, but with God, because he was like, Why?
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  SPEAKER_00: Why would you treat these people who are being terrible to you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Why would you treat them with any amount of mercy?
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  SPEAKER_00: And so out of that offense, he was kept from going in the direction of his calling.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and it as a result, it delayed the time that it took for him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it also was really inconvenient because you know, he had to get swallowed by a by a fish and all that, all that stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I gotta tell you something.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you want to be, listen, listen, if you want to be offended with God that he's calling you to build a business, but you don't know it yet how to do it, then you need to be looking at the story of Jonah so that you don't make the same mistakes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because the reality is when we get offended with God, because the thing that he's calling us to do feels too big, too heavy, too hard, too whatever, what we're actually doing is we are putting roadblocks in the way to us being able to even step into our calling.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you're called to build, you do not have time to be offended that God is calling you to something bigger than what you can do on your own.
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  SPEAKER_00: You need to understand that that's what God's grace is for and that he will give you the grace if you will simply trust and obey.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we don't want to be like Jonah and get all offended.
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  SPEAKER_00: How about Noah?
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, Noah's a better story, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: We like this story of Noah because it's like Noah did what he was asked to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: But here's, I want to show you what he had to push through because Noah is a good story, but there was a risk.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can I show you what it was?
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  SPEAKER_00: It was ignorance.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was ignorance because can I tell you something?
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  SPEAKER_00: The earth had never flooded.
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  SPEAKER_00: And quite frankly, I know that is a little shocking, but read your Bible and you'll see it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It had never rained before.
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  SPEAKER_00: It had never rained before.
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  SPEAKER_00: Up until this point, the water would come up out of the water.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, the there were like these water reserves.
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  SPEAKER_00: There still are water reserves under the earth, and it would come up, the water would come up and would water the plants and the and the growing things.
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  SPEAKER_00: The rain had never come, and now here comes God telling Noah, I'm gonna cause it to rain and I'm gonna cause there to be a flood.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was a moment right there where out of ignorance, Noah could have been like, that's never gonna happen.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_00: That could never happen.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_00: That can't be God.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna do that.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_00: No, no.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_00: Noah picked up his tools and he went and he built the thing.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_00: Because there, and then there were people all around that were like, What are you doing?
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_00: Like, what are you doing?
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_00: And maybe that's where you find yourself is you're like, okay, God's calling me to do this thing and to build this solution.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_00: And and I I d like I don't like I I don't know.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_00: Like this just feels really big.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_00: And and now I got people all around me saying that like that's stupid, or that no one's ever gonna buy that, or that's weird, or you're not made for that.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_00: That's ignorance.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_00: That's ignorance.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_00: And what that is, is it's this little sin that says, I'm gonna believe my eyes instead of believing what God has said.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_00: You with me?
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_00: You with me?
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_00: And so we don't want to get taken out of our calling because we've decided to partner with ignorance instead of what the word of God says.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_00: Remember, I told you if God said it, that settles it.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_00: Like you don't get to like interview God about it.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_00: You don't get to wait until there's proof.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_00: You've got to move.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_00: When God says to move, you move.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_00: There's a song that is not appropriate right now, but that's the one that's in my head right now.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_00: When you move, I move just like that.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_00: Don't listen to the rest of the song, okay?
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_00: But just that little piece.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_00: When you move, I move, just like that.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_00: There's scripture that says, um, you know, seek me, like pursue me, and I'll pursue you in um Malachi 3.7, I think.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's Malachi 3.7, but anyway.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so we've got to understand that the ignorance is gonna be something that the enemy is gonna try to try to use to get you off your calling to build.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, how about Moses?
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_00: Moses, I'm getting ready to preach a message on Moses this Sunday, and it's called the Man with a Million Excuses.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_00: The man with a million excuses.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_00: He didn't actually have a million excuses, he had five.
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_00: But it's like, I couldn't, I can't understand how somebody, when God is coming to them in a burning bush and is saying, Look, this is what you're gonna do, this is what I've made you to do, and this is what I've called you to do.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_00: He just had every excuse in the book.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_00: And if you look at what the excuses are, all of them are self-doubt.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_00: All of them.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_00: Every single one of them are why he couldn't do it.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_00: And so this might be you.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_00: You might be like, okay, I know that God called me to do it, but you know what?
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not the girl.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not the girl for the job.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_00: Can I tell you something?
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_00: Super secret spoiler alert that I'm gonna put on blast right now.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_00: Girl, you the girl for the job.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_00: If God said it, that saddles it.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_00: So we gotta, we gotta get past, we gotta find a way to get past that self-doubt.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_00: How about how about Gideon?
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_00: How about Gideon?
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_00: Gideon was in this self-doubt situation too, but he was the one who had no family history.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_00: He was the one who wasn't in the line that should be doing the thing that God was calling him to do.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_00: You know, when the angel of the Lord comes and finds him in the wine cellar beating out the wheat because he's like trying to just feed his family, and the Midianites are all stealing all their food and oppressing them and, you know, being um intimidating.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_00: You know, the angel of the Lord comes to Gideon and is like, Hi, mighty man of Balor.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_00: And he's like, Who are you talking?
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: Talking to, he's like, I come from the smallest tribe, the smallest clan.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_00: We're like the least.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_00: You know, sounds a little bit like King Saul when he was um being when he was being tapped to be the king, right?
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_00: By Samuel.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_00: But he's like, I know, um, I know family history.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_00: And then, and then, what is the first job that Gideon has to do before he takes out the Midianites?
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_00: The first job is to go to your father's house and tear down the Ashturaph pole.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_00: Basically, tear down the family history that's arguing against your assignment and your calling.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_00: Gideon was called to build back the the family of God, the the Israelites, the Jews.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_00: He was called to build back and he's called to take out the Midianites so that the Israel could stand again.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_00: But he hadn't do it by looking straight at the fact that his family line didn't have the goods and he was gonna have to rely solely on God.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_00: That is what he had to do.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_00: And here's the thing: God didn't make him go alone.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_00: He let him go get an army.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_00: Now, yeah, he he he cut it down and cut it down and cut it down to 300.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_00: But that's also so that we'll rely on God.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_00: So you don't need to have family history, girl, to start this business.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_00: You don't have to have a whole line of you know generational blessing and experience in order to do this thing.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_00: If God said it, that settles it.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_00: Do you see how that's gonna be the answer for all of these?
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, how about Abraham?
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_00: How about Abraham?
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_00: Because I know, I know, because I I've lived I've lived every one of these excuses, but I bet you anything.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_00: I bet you anything.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_00: If you are pushing past 40, you've probably said the things that Abe, this is so long.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_00: You know, Sarah, my womb is long since dead.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_00: Like this is where this is taking so long.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_00: I've tried everything.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_00: Like they even tried to bear uh bear an air through the through the servant woman Hagar.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_00: And it didn't work.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_00: It's like I've tried everything.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_00: You keep on telling me this, but there's so many years going by.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_00: I'm now a hundred.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_00: How is this even gonna happen?
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_00: It's too late for me, right?
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_00: What happened?
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_00: God made Abraham the father of many nations just as he said he would.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_00: So it it is not an excuse that holds water because God can move whenever he wants.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_00: Isaiah 60, 22 says, When the time is right, I, the Lord, will make it happen.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_00: So why are you and I stressing out all the time about how long it's taking to happen?
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_00: Why?
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_00: Because we want it to happen sooner, because we want to feel the comfort of the control.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_00: We want to feel the comfort of the of the confirmation.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_00: That's what we want.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_00: We want to feel comfortable.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_00: And waiting on the Lord for a long time and watching him do it his way is very uncomfortable.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_00: But guess what?
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_00: That makes a really good skill set for an entrepreneur.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_00: So if you want to have a successful, impactful income generating business out here in these internet streets, you better learn how to trust the Lord with everything in you and to know that it's his timing and not yours.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_00: This is something that I'm dealing with in my mentorship every single day is women who come in and because there's all these people out on the internet that are trying to say to you, like, if you do it exactly like this, you'll make money real fast.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_00: And then people step into those programs, those courses, those frameworks, and they can't generate the funds the same way.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_00: And so now they're like in idol worship because they're like, oh, but I want her results.
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_00: I want the results of the one who told me that it could be like this.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_00: And so now we're just idolizing and we're like, okay, how can I move like her, like this?
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_00: What can I do over here, like her, like this?
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_00: And the reality is that's not how it works.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_00: Your business is your business.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_00: And there are frameworks that if they are, if they are kingdom, if they are biblically foundation on, you know, on truth, and they really do serve all of the builders who are building something for the kingdom of God, then you should be able to walk in those frameworks.
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_00: But at the end of the day, it's still gonna be you believing that God called you to do this thing.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_00: And there are always gonna be um individualized things.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_00: This is why it's nearly worthless to buy someone's framework or course and not have any level of support or way to ask questions.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_00: This is something that infuriates me.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_00: This is why I have a mentorship and I don't just do a course.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_00: I have a signature course that teaches you my five-step um framework for how to build a business online.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_00: I have that, five steps, and I can teach that to you and I teach it to you in a signature course.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_00: However, there is support around that.
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_00: You can only get access to my signature course and my framework if you're in my mentorship.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_00: That's it.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_00: The only way you can do it.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_00: Because you need support.
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_00: You need a place to be able to ask questions.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_00: You need to be able to go, okay, here's my business.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_00: How does this work in my business?
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_00: Does that make sense?
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_00: And so a lot of times, I don't know how we got here off of Abraham, but the reality is the reason why things take so much longer.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_00: I think that's where I was going, is that we think that we just need a framework.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_00: We just think that we need the steps when in reality, we need more than that.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_00: We need more than that.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_00: And um, and so that's that's a story for a little bit later.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_00: Last one, David.
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_00: David.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_00: I know that we look at David and we go, look, he was successful, right?
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_00: And he became king, but his journey was hard, y'all.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_00: And if you are like, no, this means this wilderness period, this this long suffering, this trauma.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, David had PTSD.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_00: You understand?
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_00: Like he went and lived in the enemy's camp for 16 months because he was just done done.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_00: He had just gotten taken out emotionally and mentally and he couldn't handle it anymore.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_00: And so he went and he lived with the very, with the very enemy that started his whole trajectory.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_00: When he took out Goliath, Goliath was fighting for the Philistines.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_00: He winds up living with the Philistines for 16 months, trying to get his his brain back, trying to get his like the get getting the plot back.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_00: So even if, even if this has been a long season, even if you've experienced pain and suffering and trauma and you've lost the plot a few times while you've been trying to build this business, understand, sister, that does not remove the calling from your life.
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't remove the anointing.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_00: Just like David, you can keep on going.
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_00: So these are all the reasons why, you know, people tap out so many excuses.
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_00: And quite frankly, like a lot of these feel very valid, don't they?
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_00: They feel valid as a human being.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_00: You're like, well, listen, if someone's dealing with incredible self-doubt, if they are second guessing all the time, if they have extreme trauma, if you're telling me that like they are suffering, then Erica, isn't that a reason to to like exit stage left?
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_00: Isn't that a reason to hit the eject button and say, maybe this wasn't God?
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna tell you straight up.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_00: No, no, no.
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_00: Because they sound valid, but nothing, nothing can go against the word of the Lord.
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_00: The word of the Lord will happen.
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_00: Isaiah 60, 22, when the time is right, I the Lord will make it happen.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_00: Isaiah 55, 11 says that his word, it goes out and it performs everything that he sends it to do, and it does not return void.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_00: And if God has called you to build, if he's called you to build this business or this ministry, then understand that is a word over your life.
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_00: So instead, instead, like we can look at these people through the history of the Bible, and all of them actually were successful.
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_00: Every single one of them was successful despite having these excuses.
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_00: Do you see that?
• 29:25
  SPEAKER_00: And so this is your story too.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_00: This is your story too.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_00: It's just that you're in the part of the story where you're like, okay, but it just hasn't happened yet.
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_00: Can you say the word yet with me?
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_00: Drop the word yet in the comments where you're watching this.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_00: Say the word yet.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_00: It hasn't happened, dot dot dot yet.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_00: It hasn't happened, dot dot dot yet.
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_00: And that's okay because it's still coming for you.
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_00: So here's what I think.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_00: I think and I believe that we need to launch like Jesus.
• 29:55
  SPEAKER_00: We need to launch like Jesus.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_00: What does that even mean?
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_00: So listen in the book of Luke, starting in chapter three, I mean like the whole thing is his launch story, but I like to start in chapter three, and I'm gonna bring you through into um chapter five.
• 30:10
  SPEAKER_00: I see you guys with the yet.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_00: I see Janet yet, I see Peggy yet.
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_00: I know because because we in it together, aren't we, sisters?
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_00: These are girls who are in my mentorship, and they get it.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_00: They get it.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_00: They're on the journey.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_00: They've launched, and now they are in that place of what we're gonna talk about are six steps, six steps that I see.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_00: Six steps that I see in the story of Jesus, the launch story of Jesus in the book of Luke.
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_00: So we're already at time for this, and I'm gonna keep on going.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_00: This one's too important today.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna keep on going.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_00: Are you ready?
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_00: So we're gonna launch like Jesus.
• 30:43
  SPEAKER_00: So, what are these six things that I see coming from Luke three to Luke five?
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_00: Number one, number one, have a word from God over your life.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_00: Have a word from God over your life.
• 30:55
  SPEAKER_00: So, how do we know that this is the case for Jesus?
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_00: Well, first of all, we have the Old Testament prophets, we have all of the different prophecies.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_00: You're like, Erica, I'm not Jesus, though.
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_00: There are not all of these testimonies, there are not all of these, you know, these prophecies about me in the earth.
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I can almost guarantee you that there are at least a couple times that God has spoken to you.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_00: But look at what happens in Luke 3.
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_00: Luke three is where John the Baptist prepares the way.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_00: And so this picture shows us, this story right here shows us a picture of Jesus, even though he had all of these prophetic words over his life, and you can go into the Bible.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_00: God also sent a sponsor.
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_00: God also sent someone who was calling him out.
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_00: And so there are people in your everyday life right now, you've got at least one fan, you've got at least one encourager, you've got at least one person.
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_00: Even if it's just your mama, you've got one person who's like, you can do this.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_00: And if it's not your mama, then it can be me.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_00: Because I absolutely believe for women who've been given a call to build.
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_00: I know you, I know what it's like, I know what it's like to hear this word from God and go tell all of these excuses that we just went through.
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_00: You need one person.
• 32:03
  SPEAKER_00: That's all you need.
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_00: You just need one.
• 32:05
  SPEAKER_00: And God is already for you.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_00: So if that's the only one that you've got right now, that's fine.
• 32:09
  SPEAKER_00: But here's the thing: you found this sound, you found this room, you found this coach, you found me, you found this pastor, because there is someone in the earth who's willing to shout you out and lift you up and say, this girl, this girl right here, this girl right here.
• 32:25
  SPEAKER_00: I got someone like that.
• 32:26
  SPEAKER_00: I got someone like that.
• 32:28
  SPEAKER_00: And here's the thing.
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm just gonna be really honest with you.
• 32:30
  SPEAKER_00: I paid big bucks to have that woman in my world at the level that I have her at my in my world because I want access and because I want to be able to chat with her.
• 32:39
  SPEAKER_00: That's a story for another day.
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_00: But understand, you don't have to start there.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_00: You don't have to start there.
• 32:44
  SPEAKER_00: I had my husband in the beginning.
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_00: My husband, my husband believes in me more than any other person on the planet.
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_00: And that was enough.
• 32:51
  SPEAKER_00: And what is that person meant to do?
• 32:52
  SPEAKER_00: They're meant to remind you of what God said to you.
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_00: They are not your fangirl, they are not your hype guy, they are a repeater.
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_00: They are an echo of what God said over your life because there are gonna come moments when you are not gonna remember it and you're gonna be seeing everything that's going on around you, and you're gonna need that person to say, hey, remember what God said.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_00: Don't quit here.
• 33:16
  SPEAKER_00: Keep going.
• 33:17
  SPEAKER_00: Keep going.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_00: I know some of you guys are still offended by the fact that I told you that I pay big money, big dollars to have a person like this in my life.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_00: Look, higher levels, higher opportunities, higher level.
• 33:28
  SPEAKER_00: You thought I was gonna say higher devils.
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_00: I don't care.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_00: I don't care about that.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_00: What I'm talking about is higher level, higher opportunities, higher multiplication, higher returns.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_00: Okay?
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_00: That's what I'm talking about.
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_00: And so I'm able to do that.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_00: Don't let your brain get offended there and stop there.
• 33:44
  SPEAKER_00: Understand.
• 33:45
  SPEAKER_00: You just need one.
• 33:47
  SPEAKER_00: You just need one person in your corner who's willing to help you remember what God said.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_00: And here comes Jesus getting ready to start his ministry.
• 33:55
  SPEAKER_00: And the first thing that happens is here's John the Baptist shouting him out in the desert in front of the people that Jesus ultimately came for to serve and to save.
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_00: And here's John saying, There's the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not even worthy, right?
• 34:12
  SPEAKER_00: This guy.
• 34:12
  SPEAKER_00: We need to get our eyes on this guy, and that's what you need.
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_00: Number one, you need a word from God over your life, and you need a reminder.
• 34:21
  SPEAKER_00: You need someone who will remind you.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_00: Number two, next, Jesus goes into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil, right?
• 34:29
  SPEAKER_00: And he goes and he fasts for 40 days.
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_00: He the devil tries to take him out three different times, and Jesus responds only with the word of God.
• 34:38
  SPEAKER_00: He's hungry, you guys.
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_00: He's absolutely suffering in the desert.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_00: And now here comes his hater, here comes his biggest um enemy, and is gonna be like, Well, if you're this, well, if you're this then, well, if you're this then, and Jesus had to learn how to not look in the mirror and give excuse give responses out of what he saw in himself.
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_00: He gave responses out of the word of God.
• 35:06
  SPEAKER_00: Drop word of God, drop word of God, drop word of God, word of God, word of God in the comments right now, because that's the deal, you guys.
• 35:13
  SPEAKER_00: You can look in the mirror all you want.
• 35:15
  SPEAKER_00: But 2 Corinthians, I think it is, says that it's like a man.
• 35:18
  SPEAKER_00: No, no, no, James, I can't remember right now.
• 35:20
  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna have to find the scripture for me in this moment because I'm in the flow.
• 35:23
  SPEAKER_00: But there is a scripture that says you can look in the mirror.
• 35:26
  SPEAKER_00: You're like a man who looks in a mirror and you walk away and you forget what you look like.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_00: However, when you look in the mirror of the perfect law, yeah?
• 35:33
  SPEAKER_00: So we've got to be looking in the mirror of the word of God and we've got to be reflecting the word of God out to the enemy when he tries to take us out by tearing down our identity.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_00: So there is a wilderness moment for Jesus and it leads to a win.
• 35:48
  SPEAKER_00: How do I know that it leads to a win?
• 35:49
  SPEAKER_00: Because the Bible says in Luke 4 that he came out, he came out in the power of the spirit.
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_00: The spirit of God had followed him, drove him into the wilderness, and then was faithful to take him out in the spirit, in the power of the spirit to go start his ministry.
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_00: So if you have a wilderness moment, it's gonna lead to a win, sister, because that's the next step in launching.
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_00: Do you notice that I haven't talked about getting followers yet?
• 36:17
  SPEAKER_00: Do you notice that I haven't talked about gathering people yet?
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_00: The only things that I've said yet are number one, have a word of God over your life and someone who can help you to remember it.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_00: Number two, you gotta have a wilderness moment.
• 36:29
  SPEAKER_00: You've got to.
• 36:30
  SPEAKER_00: Not just, oh, that happens a lot of the time.
• 36:32
  SPEAKER_00: No, no, no, no.
• 36:33
  SPEAKER_00: The wilderness is the crucible.
• 36:35
  SPEAKER_00: The wilderness is the refinement moment.
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus needed it, so so do you.
• 36:38
  SPEAKER_00: Before you launch anything successful, you're gonna have a wilderness moment and it's gonna lead to a win.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_00: And the way that it leads to the win is because you keep your mouth on the word of God and not on things that you think about yourself because the enemy is trying to use your words to tear you down before you even get launched.
• 36:53
  SPEAKER_00: So, no, we're gonna go into the wilderness and we're gonna have a win.
• 36:57
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus returned with the power of the spirit to Galilee.
• 37:01
  SPEAKER_00: And look at this a report went out about him.
• 37:05
  SPEAKER_00: Look, you need to stop thinking that you need to just start posting on social every single day with every single thing that comes to mind.
• 37:13
  SPEAKER_00: Have have you have you won in the wilderness yet?
• 37:16
  SPEAKER_00: Are you committed to the word of God and nothing else?
• 37:18
  SPEAKER_00: Because the minute you start doing that, you're gonna attract the people that are gonna try to tear you down.
• 37:22
  SPEAKER_00: Because the enemy's like that.
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_00: And he'll send them for you.
• 37:25
  SPEAKER_00: And when there's no likes on the on the post and there's no engagement on the post, you'll start doing it to yourself.
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_00: So unless you have that wilderness wilderness moment that leads to the win because you stayed on the word of God no matter what, you're not ready to launch yet.
• 37:39
  SPEAKER_00: What's number three?
• 37:40
  SPEAKER_00: He had an unwavering identity declaration in the face of rejection.
• 37:46
  SPEAKER_00: That was the next step.
• 37:47
  SPEAKER_00: He comes out of the wilderness ready to win.
• 37:49
  SPEAKER_00: He's got a word on his life, he's ready to start his ministry.
• 37:51
  SPEAKER_00: And what happens next?
• 37:52
  SPEAKER_00: He goes into the synagogue, he sits down, he asks for the scroll.
• 37:56
  SPEAKER_00: It's the scroll of Isaiah 61.
• 37:59
  SPEAKER_00: This is Jesus' identity statement, and Luke 4 says that he speaks it without stuttering.
• 38:05
  SPEAKER_00: And he says, And this scripture, this prophecy has been fulfilled in your hearing today.
• 38:12
  SPEAKER_00: And what happened?
• 38:12
  SPEAKER_00: You think you would think that all the people would jump up, cheer, and say, Thank God, our Messiah is here.
• 38:18
  SPEAKER_00: That's not what happened.
• 38:19
  SPEAKER_00: That's not what happened.
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_00: It said that they rose up in wrath, they rejected him.
• 38:24
  SPEAKER_00: That's what the name of that section in Luke is called.
• 38:28
  SPEAKER_00: It's called Jesus Rejected at Nazareth.
• 38:31
  SPEAKER_00: That's his hometown.
• 38:32
  SPEAKER_00: That's his hometown.
• 38:33
  SPEAKER_00: So when your sis be out there tearing you down, telling you that's not possible.
• 38:37
  SPEAKER_00: When when your aunt, when your auntie is like, no, no, that can't happen.
• 38:41
  SPEAKER_00: No, sweetie, listen.
• 38:43
  SPEAKER_00: I uh my mother at one point said to me, I had prayed for so much better than that for you.
• 38:50
  SPEAKER_00: Like, stop doing this.
• 38:51
  SPEAKER_00: This is too hard.
• 38:52
  SPEAKER_00: I don't want to see you suffer like this, sweetie.
• 38:55
  SPEAKER_00: Go back to the thing that was making you a half a mil a year.
• 38:58
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, I can't.
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_00: I can't because I've got a word of God on my life, and I've already entered the chat with the wilderness season, and I'm coming out with a win.
• 39:07
  SPEAKER_00: So then when I started making the sound, and now I've got my mom going, This is too hard for you.
• 39:12
  SPEAKER_00: I don't want you to live like this.
• 39:14
  SPEAKER_00: Go back to the half a mil job, please.
• 39:17
  SPEAKER_00: Go back to where they wanted to give you six figures if you stayed long enough.
• 39:21
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, no, no, because I know that I'm called to build this thing with God.
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_00: And so sometimes you're even gonna have to say, Mom, I love ya.
• 39:30
  SPEAKER_00: I love ya, but no, I'm gonna, I'm, I'm, I'm gonna obey God.
• 39:34
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna believe what God has said.
• 39:37
  SPEAKER_00: Is this making sense?
• 39:38
  SPEAKER_00: So you've gotta be willing.
• 39:39
  SPEAKER_00: Step three is an unwavering identity declaration in the face of rejection.
• 39:46
  SPEAKER_00: Step number four that I see in how Jesus launched his ministry is he walked as the real deal, he walked as though before anyone was buying.
• 39:57
  SPEAKER_00: What?
• 39:58
  SPEAKER_00: Erica, what are you talking about?
• 39:59
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so listen, in Jesus' ministry, buying is equated to conversions, conversions, okay?
• 40:07
  SPEAKER_00: And it would also look like people that are committing their life to follow him.
• 40:11
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 40:12
  SPEAKER_00: So when we look in Luke chapter four, um, like after, so what is this?
• 40:18
  SPEAKER_00: This would be verse, whoa, it really is when he was in the synagogue, but really starting in verse 31 down to 44.
• 40:24
  SPEAKER_00: Here's Jesus doing miracles, healing people and getting them set free.
• 40:29
  SPEAKER_00: But there's no word around, there's no word yet around people getting converted.
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_00: Go check it.
• 40:37
  SPEAKER_00: Go check it.
• 40:38
  SPEAKER_00: Check me, check me, test the fruit, test the word.
• 40:41
  SPEAKER_00: Because this is what I find fascinating is that Jesus was doing freebies.
• 40:46
  SPEAKER_00: I know, guys, just let the religious spirit just go.
• 40:49
  SPEAKER_00: Just be like, you know what?
• 40:50
  SPEAKER_00: I don't need you today for this message because it will ruin you if you let that get in you.
• 40:55
  SPEAKER_00: Just let your spirit tell you whether this is the spirit of God that is in you.
• 41:00
  SPEAKER_00: Let the spirit of God test this word.
• 41:02
  SPEAKER_00: Because I need you to see that Jesus did some miracles.
• 41:05
  SPEAKER_00: He delivered some people, got them healing, but he never said, okay, now follow me.
• 41:10
  SPEAKER_00: He never said that.
• 41:12
  SPEAKER_00: He was just delivering and healing them.
• 41:14
  SPEAKER_00: He was just doing it.
• 41:15
  SPEAKER_00: So he walked as the real deal, delivering what he was made to do and how he was made to serve the people of God.
• 41:23
  SPEAKER_00: He walked as though before anyone was following him, before anyone was buying from him.
• 41:29
  SPEAKER_00: You got to understand that it's not until chapter five that it says Jesus calls the first disciples.
• 41:34
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 41:35
  SPEAKER_00: So you've got to be willing when you're going to launch something, you've got to be willing to walk in that.
• 41:39
  SPEAKER_00: I walked in what I can do for pay right now.
• 41:42
  SPEAKER_00: And I, you know, I get paid pretty good to do what I do.
• 41:46
  SPEAKER_00: But there were years when I was doing it, like I was doing it for very little, or I was doing it for free to those who were for those who are in my church family, and I was apprenticing them.
• 41:58
  SPEAKER_00: And there are also going to be times when people need to see.
• 42:01
  SPEAKER_00: This is where testimonials come up on your feeds and why you put testimonials on your sales page.
• 42:06
  SPEAKER_00: It's not because you're trying to like talk yourself up like you're some great thing.
• 42:10
  SPEAKER_00: It's that people need to see that you're the real deal before they're going to hand you any money.
• 42:15
  SPEAKER_00: And so it's okay.
• 42:16
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus did it like this too.
• 42:18
  SPEAKER_00: He didn't even call the first disciples until after he was already working in these signs, miracles, and wonders.
• 42:23
  SPEAKER_00: You get it?
• 42:24
  SPEAKER_00: So it's like you've got to be willing to walk as the real deal.
• 42:29
  SPEAKER_00: Walk as though what you are saying you can do, you really can do it, and show people that you can really do it before anyone's buying.
• 42:37
  SPEAKER_00: He was healing people and preaching before one person decided officially to follow them.
• 42:43
  SPEAKER_00: Number five, number five, here we go.
• 42:45
  SPEAKER_00: He won followers and testimonials.
• 42:48
  SPEAKER_00: He won followers and testimonials.
• 42:50
  SPEAKER_00: Here's the first step for gathering people.
• 42:52
  SPEAKER_00: In chapter five, this is the story where Jesus starts to call his disciples and he calls Peter.
• 42:57
  SPEAKER_00: Peter's out on the water, right?
• 42:59
  SPEAKER_00: He's a fisherman.
• 43:00
  SPEAKER_00: He didn't catch anything all day long, all night long.
• 43:04
  SPEAKER_00: And now he's coming back and they've already washed the nets, put the nets up, you all.
• 43:08
  SPEAKER_00: There he was done.
• 43:09
  SPEAKER_00: He was done.
• 43:10
  SPEAKER_00: And Jesus rolls over and he's like, Hey, push out your boat again into the deep for a catch.
• 43:16
  SPEAKER_00: Peter's like, What are you talking about?
• 43:19
  SPEAKER_00: I'm the fisherman here.
• 43:21
  SPEAKER_00: I already tried, you know, and he says, but he goes, nevertheless, nevertheless, why would he say nevertheless?
• 43:26
  SPEAKER_00: Because he'd seen, he'd seen what Jesus was walking in.
• 43:29
  SPEAKER_00: He was interested.
• 43:30
  SPEAKER_00: That's why you need to put the walk as though before you're actually selling anything, before you're actually seeing buyers.
• 43:37
  SPEAKER_00: People need to see you walk as though, because then they will trust you.
• 43:42
  SPEAKER_00: Then they will go, let me see what you got.
• 43:44
  SPEAKER_00: Let me see what you got.
• 43:45
  SPEAKER_00: And Peter goes, I'll go back out.
• 43:48
  SPEAKER_00: I'll set push out into the deep.
• 43:50
  SPEAKER_00: And then Jesus preaches a message from that boat.
• 43:53
  SPEAKER_00: He's now he's affecting the people that are sitting on the on the shore.
• 43:58
  SPEAKER_00: But Peter Gets a great catch, so great that he can't pull it in himself.
• 44:03
  SPEAKER_00: The nets are splitting.
• 44:04
  SPEAKER_00: And what happens?
• 44:05
  SPEAKER_00: Peter starts to follow Jesus.
• 44:08
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus got him results.
• 44:11
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus got him results.
• 44:13
  SPEAKER_00: Do you see?
• 44:14
  SPEAKER_00: Do you see how walking is though and beginning to offer what you have and then making sure that you've got people that are getting results?
• 44:21
  SPEAKER_00: This is all a part of launching successfully.
• 44:24
  SPEAKER_00: And that's what happened.
• 44:25
  SPEAKER_00: And then number six, Jesus won souls.
• 44:29
  SPEAKER_00: From there on, the first story of Jesus healing or delivering and also converting is found in chapter five, verse 17, when Jesus heals the paralytic.
• 44:40
  SPEAKER_00: And this is where the guys are pulling the roof apart and lowering the guy down.
• 44:45
  SPEAKER_00: And when he sees the faith of the people, what does he say?
• 44:49
  SPEAKER_00: He says, Man, your sins are forgiven you.
• 44:53
  SPEAKER_00: And then there's the whole argument about, well, wait a minute, why?
• 44:56
  SPEAKER_00: And he's like, Well, what is it harder for me to say this or say that?
• 45:00
  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna have haters from that point on.
• 45:02
  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna have detractors, you're gonna have people that are trying to tear down what you're doing.
• 45:06
  SPEAKER_00: But the minute, my friend, that you see that conversion is happening, that people are following, that people are buying, even the smallest things, that's it.
• 45:14
  SPEAKER_00: That's all you need.
• 45:15
  SPEAKER_00: Then you know you've got it.
• 45:16
  SPEAKER_00: Then you know you've got it, and you know you're launched.
• 45:18
  SPEAKER_00: See, I think that a lot of times we get overwhelmed because we think that to be launched means that you've got a six-figure business out of the gates.
• 45:25
  SPEAKER_00: I gotta tell you something.
• 45:26
  SPEAKER_00: You've got to be grateful to God for what a launch really is.
• 45:30
  SPEAKER_00: And it's these six steps.
• 45:32
  SPEAKER_00: This is Jesus launching his ministry.
• 45:34
  SPEAKER_00: This is Jesus launching his ministry.
• 45:36
  SPEAKER_00: And so it's a word from God over your life and somebody who will repeat it to you when you start to forget.
• 45:42
  SPEAKER_00: Number two, a wilderness moment that leads to a win.
• 45:45
  SPEAKER_00: Number three, an unwavering identity declaration in the face of rejection.
• 45:49
  SPEAKER_00: Number number four, you walk it out as the real deal as though before anyone is buying.
• 45:55
  SPEAKER_00: Number five, then you win followers and testimonials.
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_00: And then number six, you win souls.
• 46:01
  SPEAKER_00: You convert.
• 46:02
  SPEAKER_00: That is the six steps of how to launch like Jesus.
• 46:06
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my goodness.
• 46:07
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my goodness.
• 46:08
  SPEAKER_00: Look at listen, in that last one where he converts people in that in that uh healing, at the end of it, at the end of that section, it says, um it says, and so an amazement sees them all and they glorify God, and we're filling, filled with awe, saying, We have seen extraordinary things today.
• 46:33
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe those people didn't buy.
• 46:35
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe those people weren't converted that day.
• 46:37
  SPEAKER_00: But can I tell you something?
• 46:38
  SPEAKER_00: It can take a hot minute for people to convert sometimes.
• 46:41
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it takes people a few times of seeing what you have on offer.
• 46:45
  SPEAKER_00: So that's why you've got to get launched because you got to have something out there that people could consider.
• 46:50
  SPEAKER_00: You have to start putting those stories out, those testimonials out.
• 46:53
  SPEAKER_00: You got to start putting those things out there.
• 46:55
  SPEAKER_00: And that's what constitutes a launch, not your six-figure business.
• 47:00
  SPEAKER_00: Do you understand?
• 47:00
  SPEAKER_00: That's called scaling.
• 47:02
  SPEAKER_00: And we can do that later.
• 47:04
  SPEAKER_00: But I'm talking about actually getting it out there.
• 47:07
  SPEAKER_00: And that's something if you're called to build, then that's what I want to help you with.
• 47:10
  SPEAKER_00: You need to be known for something of substance that expands the kingdom.
• 47:14
  SPEAKER_00: Not because the name or the product screams Jesus, but because the thing that God put in your heart to put out in the world, it has things of quality, excellence, integrity, service, speed, beauty, effectiveness, peace, and joy.
• 47:28
  SPEAKER_00: These are the things that expand the kingdom through undeniable brand marks.
• 47:33
  SPEAKER_00: Because as you launch your business, you are expanding the kingdom because you are bringing the culture of the kingdom of heaven into the earth and you're offering it to those who want it.
• 47:44
  SPEAKER_00: Do you understand?
• 47:46
  SPEAKER_00: We can be like Jesus in this, but you've got to be willing to launch.
• 47:49
  SPEAKER_00: You've got to be willing to put it out there.
• 47:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 47:52
  SPEAKER_00: Even before you're certain and sure that it can be a six-figure business.
• 47:56
  SPEAKER_00: Even before you're certain and sure.
• 47:58
  SPEAKER_00: Even before.
• 47:59
  SPEAKER_00: In fact, it has to be before, because these are the six steps that I just showed you.
• 48:03
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah?
• 48:04
  SPEAKER_00: So you don't need to hustle to sling your thing, but you do need to move in faith.
• 48:09
  SPEAKER_00: You do need to launch.
• 48:11
  SPEAKER_00: So if you are called to build, then listen, I am doing a free workshop on Tuesday, September 15th.
• 48:18
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 48:19
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm going to show you on that workshop, I'm going to show you the four things that you must do to get launched for real, for real.
• 48:26
  SPEAKER_00: These are the six steps of how to launch like Jesus, but there are four very practical steps that you need to put in place, these things you need to put in place to actually launch your business so that, so that these six things can happen.
• 48:40
  SPEAKER_00: And I got to tell you something.
• 48:42
  SPEAKER_00: That thing I was telling you in the beginning about the woman who thinks to herself, I've got to do it all myself.
• 48:46
  SPEAKER_00: I've got to figure this out all by myself.
• 48:47
  SPEAKER_00: Sister, stop.
• 48:48
  SPEAKER_00: You are delaying the bringing of the kingdom.
• 48:51
  SPEAKER_00: You are delaying your word.
• 48:53
  SPEAKER_00: You're delaying what God has promised you because you are insisting that you have to figure it out on your own.
• 48:59
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm telling you, you don't.
• 49:00
  SPEAKER_00: The first step is come to the call to build workshop on Tuesday, September 15th.
• 49:04
  SPEAKER_00: We're going to go over those four things that you absolutely need to have operating in your business so that you can launch.
• 49:10
  SPEAKER_00: If you're missing one, if one is misaligned, then it is going to be very difficult for you to finally launch your business online.
• 49:16
  SPEAKER_00: And if you've been stuck, and I specialize in working with women who tell me after the fact, you know what, Erica, I was working for weeks, months, and even years, two years, four years, six years of trying to get my business launched and I couldn't.
• 49:28
  SPEAKER_00: And then I stepped into the room with you, I stepped into coaching with you, and all of a sudden it just all made sense.
• 49:33
  SPEAKER_00: It all came together and I launched my business.
• 49:36
  SPEAKER_00: Do you hear me?
• 49:37
  SPEAKER_00: That's what you need.
• 49:38
  SPEAKER_00: And that's what you're stepping into if you step into the call to build workshop with me on Tuesday, September 15th at 7 p.m.
• 49:44
  SPEAKER_00: So go to Jesus Girl Gang.com slash call to build.
• 49:48
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus Scroll Gang.com slash call to build.
• 49:52
  SPEAKER_00: If anyone is watching on the on the thread, you could drop it into the comments, but I'll put it in the description once we leave here.
• 49:58
  SPEAKER_00: And get signed up.
• 49:59
  SPEAKER_00: Like I told you, it's free.
• 50:01
  SPEAKER_00: If you're like, I don't, I'm not available at night.
• 50:04
  SPEAKER_00: I can't get on live.
• 50:04
  SPEAKER_00: That's okay.
• 50:05
  SPEAKER_00: You'll have a replay for seven days.
• 50:07
  SPEAKER_00: I really want to encourage you to make the time to come live though, because there's going to be a QA at the end and you can ask any question that you have, and I will answer you.
• 50:15
  SPEAKER_00: So I want you to get there September 15th, 7 p.m., the Call to Build workshop.
• 50:21
  SPEAKER_00: Go to JesusGirlgang.com slash called to build and join me there.
• 50:25
  SPEAKER_00: Because listen, sister, your calling, this thing that God has called you to, it's too important for you to delay anymore.
• 50:33
  SPEAKER_00: And I know that for you, it might feel like, oh, well, that you're telling me that like this is my fault.
• 50:38
  SPEAKER_00: No, no, no, no.
• 50:39
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just telling you that this is the next best step and you need to take it because it's time.
• 50:44
  SPEAKER_00: It's time for you.
• 50:45
  SPEAKER_00: The people that God's called you to, they need you to launch this business.
• 50:48
  SPEAKER_00: They need you to launch this business street.
• 50:50
  SPEAKER_00: And the longer that you wait, the longer that you keep on making those excuses, right?
• 50:55
  SPEAKER_00: The excuses of, you know, I it's just not me.
• 50:58
  SPEAKER_00: I can't do it.
• 50:58
  SPEAKER_00: I've got self-doubt.
• 51:00
  SPEAKER_00: My family did not teach me how to do this.
• 51:02
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I've tried too many times.
• 51:04
  SPEAKER_00: It's taking too long.
• 51:05
  SPEAKER_00: I've got trauma.
• 51:06
  SPEAKER_00: All the thing, push those to the side.
• 51:08
  SPEAKER_00: Believe God.
• 51:09
  SPEAKER_00: If God said it, that settles it.
• 51:11
  SPEAKER_00: I'm called to build and I'm going to Erica's workshop on Tuesday, September 15th.
• 51:14
  SPEAKER_00: So go to JesusCurl Gang.com slash called to build and sign up today.
• 51:19
  SPEAKER_00: And I'll see you there, okay?
• 51:20
  SPEAKER_00: All right, friends.
• 51:21
  SPEAKER_00: I love you so much.
• 51:22
  SPEAKER_00: I hope that this was helpful.
• 51:24
  SPEAKER_00: Get in the comments, let me know what was the biggest thing for you.
• 51:27
  SPEAKER_00: If you're listening on the podcast and not on my socials, then just come find me on Instagram.
• 51:31
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just Erica Pyle on Instagram.
• 51:34
  SPEAKER_00: Come find me, come find this post and uh and comment.
• 51:37
  SPEAKER_00: What was the biggest thing that you took away from this message?
• 51:40
  SPEAKER_00: I love you so much.
• 51:40
  SPEAKER_00: I'll see you soon.
• 51:42
  SPEAKER_00: Bye for now.