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- 0:00SPEAKER_00: This is the Jesus Girl Gang Kingdom Business Podcast, where faith finally meets real strategy to launch your online business.
- 0:09SPEAKER_00: I want to welcome you to the Jesus Girl Gang Kingdom Business Podcast.
- 0:14SPEAKER_00: On Thursday mornings, I record this episode of the Kingdom Builder Podcast because the Kingdom Business Podcast, because there is this need in our Kingdom entrepreneurial community to know how to operate in Kingdom principles so that our businesses and our ministries are blessed of the Lord.
- 0:41SPEAKER_00: And so, you know, when I'm when I'm recording an episode for the Kingdom Builder podcast, a lot of times it isn't even about, it's not even about like specific business strategies.
- 0:55SPEAKER_00: And those things we take care of inside of the community and inside of the mentorship.
- 1:00SPEAKER_00: So I am uh, you know, a breakthrough business coach and I have a community called the Jesus Girl Gang Community.
- 1:06SPEAKER_00: And inside of that, I host something called the Build with Faith Mentorship.
- 1:09SPEAKER_00: And so I help, I help women, kingdom women, who are looking to build and launch their businesses online.
- 1:16SPEAKER_00: That's who I help.
- 1:18SPEAKER_00: And I do that by giving them a platform, a framework to build by, a community that they can build with, and coaching.
- 1:26SPEAKER_00: So I'm in it with you.
- 1:28SPEAKER_00: And there's weekly group coaching.
- 1:30SPEAKER_00: And so that's the Build with Faith mentorship.
- 1:32SPEAKER_00: If you were interested to know more about it, you can go to Jesus Girlgang.comslash mentorship.
- 1:37SPEAKER_00: It's open right now.
- 1:38SPEAKER_00: But the reason why I kind of like preview what we're going to be talking about today like that is because the same things that will impact any believer have a massive impact on a kingdom builder, on their mindset.
- 1:56SPEAKER_00: Because when someone realizes, when a believer, when a follower of Jesus, when a spirit-filled follower of Jesus realizes that as part of their assignment and their mission, they're to build something in the earth that is kingdom-like, that they're to expand the kingdom in the earth, when we understand that, there's a whole level of warfare that comes your way.
- 2:17SPEAKER_00: And I'm not saying that to like be like dramatic or um to be focused on the enemy.
- 2:26SPEAKER_00: It's just a reality.
- 2:28SPEAKER_00: It's just a reality that if you're going to build anything big, bold, and beautiful for God in this world, you are going to garner the attention of the kingdom of darkness.
- 2:39SPEAKER_00: You're going to garner the warfare.
- 2:42SPEAKER_00: And so it just comes down to realizing that if you're a kingdom builder who's building a business online, you've you've got to understand that there's another layer of complication.
- 2:55SPEAKER_00: There's another layer of weight.
- 2:57SPEAKER_00: There's another layer of blockage that's going to be in your way.
- 3:02SPEAKER_00: It's not, you know, like you're not just out here trying to make some money for your life here in the earth and for your family.
- 3:11SPEAKER_00: Like, you're not.
- 3:13SPEAKER_00: You're actually trying to have impact in this world for Jesus and his kingdom.
- 3:19SPEAKER_00: And your business, your ministry is a part of that plan.
- 3:23SPEAKER_00: It's a part of your purpose.
- 3:25SPEAKER_00: And so that's what's under fire.
- 3:27SPEAKER_00: Like, I find it interesting, but a lot of times we don't realize that.
- 3:31SPEAKER_00: So it's not, but the enemy doesn't just hate you.
- 3:34SPEAKER_00: Like, he doesn't just hate you to hate you.
- 3:37SPEAKER_00: He's not after you just because he's after you, because you or I are anything special.
- 3:42SPEAKER_00: It's who we represent.
- 3:44SPEAKER_00: It's the work that we're doing and who we're doing it for.
- 3:48SPEAKER_00: And so you have to understand that anytime there's a weapon that's formed against you, it's been formed against you because of who you are as a much-loved daughter or son of a king, of a supernatural sitting in heaven king.
- 4:03SPEAKER_00: And there is a there is a battle that's raging, a clash between two kingdoms, as Graham Cook would say, and it's real.
- 4:12SPEAKER_00: And the minute that you step onto that battlefield as someone who is going to participate in expanding the kingdom, and if you're doing that by building a business or a ministry out here in these internet streets, you better believe.
- 4:27SPEAKER_00: Like the enemy is going to come with every weapon that he has to try and offset you.
- 4:32SPEAKER_00: And one of those weapons that he will use is the virus of doubt.
- 4:36SPEAKER_00: And so this past week, as I've been coming here live on my social media feeds, if you're listening to this on the podcast episode and maybe you didn't realize, but I go live every single morning on weekday morning on my Facebook and Instagram feeds.
- 4:51SPEAKER_00: And I do a segment called Get Ready with God, where we talk about, you know, the word of God and we talk about kingdom principles.
- 5:00SPEAKER_00: And the reason why we do it at 7:30 in the morning every weekday is because the enemy loves to get in your camp, get in your mind at the beginning of your day and get you totally spun out and off course.
- 5:12SPEAKER_00: That's one of the weapons that he uses.
- 5:15SPEAKER_00: And so I'm coming out here on weekdays at 7:30 a.m.
- 5:18SPEAKER_00: Eastern, and we're gonna get in the presence of God and in the mindset of Christ before we even step into our day.
- 5:25SPEAKER_00: We're not even gonna let him try to take the wheel.
- 5:28SPEAKER_00: So we're gonna focus, we're gonna get our mind set on the right thing.
- 5:32SPEAKER_00: And so, yeah, so we've been talking over these last few days about the virus of doubt.
- 5:39SPEAKER_00: And the the punchline that I've kind of been going with all week long is the antidote to doubt, the antidote for doubt, it's do.
- 5:51SPEAKER_00: And we will think to ourselves, and no, no, no, no, Erica, it's faith.
- 5:55SPEAKER_00: It's faith.
- 5:56SPEAKER_00: No, it's not actually faith.
- 5:58SPEAKER_00: Faith is a substance, faith is something that we've been given a portion of.
- 6:02SPEAKER_00: How we work that faith is what offsets doubt.
- 6:05SPEAKER_00: How we work that faith, and that, my friend, is called faithfulness.
- 6:09SPEAKER_00: And faithfulness is a doing, just as much as doubt is a doing.
- 6:14SPEAKER_00: Doubt is a doing where we're starting to put down the portion of faith that we have and we're not stewarding it well.
- 6:20SPEAKER_00: And that comes on us like a virus because the enemy uses doubt as a weapon, he uses it as a way to infiltrate us and attach to our faith and make it work improperly, erroneously, much like a virus does to a cell in the body.
- 6:39SPEAKER_00: And so the antidote for that is not more faith, better faith, harder faith.
- 6:46SPEAKER_00: It's not your faith is what's being attached to you by the doubt and is being made to operate incorrectly.
- 6:54SPEAKER_00: What you need to do is operate this faith correctly, and that is called faithfulness.
- 7:00SPEAKER_00: That's obedience.
- 7:02SPEAKER_00: And so I wanted to share this story with you out of 2 Kings chapter 4 this morning, verses 1 to 7.
- 7:10SPEAKER_00: Because I think it's a beautiful picture of how we as kingdom builders need to be engaging with right principles when we find ourselves getting doubt offered to us, when we find ourselves inundated with doubt, when we feel like we've been exposed to the virus of doubt.
- 7:36SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 7:37SPEAKER_00: So 2 Kings 4 verses 1 to 7 is the story of Elisha and the oil and the widow.
- 7:45SPEAKER_00: So just to kind of set this up, so um, you know, Elisha was in something called the school of prophets.
- 7:52SPEAKER_00: This is something that Elijah had been called to set up.
- 7:55SPEAKER_00: And so it was a community, a community of like-minded, like-spirited individuals that were moving in the same direction.
- 8:03SPEAKER_00: This is what a faith-based community looks like.
- 8:06SPEAKER_00: They've got the same, they've got the same spirit, the same mind, the same heart, they're and they're moving in the same direction to build the same thing.
- 8:14SPEAKER_00: And so these were a school of prophets, people who spoke the word of the Lord on behalf of God to the people.
- 8:22SPEAKER_00: And so Elisha was there and he was running this school.
- 8:27SPEAKER_00: He was like, he was in control of the school.
- 8:31SPEAKER_00: And you have a widow we find out is a widow because she comes to Elisha and she says, Hey, one of your sons, one of the son of the prophets, your servant Elisha, died.
- 8:44SPEAKER_00: So it's like, now I'm a widow.
- 8:46SPEAKER_00: And there are people that are trying to come and take our sons as slaves because we have debts.
- 8:56SPEAKER_00: This is how they dealt with this back then.
- 8:58SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 8:59SPEAKER_00: And so she's coming to Elisha.
- 9:04SPEAKER_00: And here's the first thing that you need to understand.
- 9:08SPEAKER_00: So obviously, if you're if you are in biblical times and your husband dies and you're left a widow, this is problematic.
- 9:19SPEAKER_00: Because as a woman in that time, you don't have the ability to go out and work for a wage.
- 9:25SPEAKER_00: You don't have the ability to prosper your family.
- 9:28SPEAKER_00: And so you are relying on others.
- 9:31SPEAKER_00: And the law of Moses that they were operating under had very specific rules for how to take care of widows and orphans, which these people were.
- 9:43SPEAKER_00: But here's what I want to show you.
- 9:44SPEAKER_00: The doubt was on her because she was like, oh my gosh, what are we going to do?
- 9:49SPEAKER_00: And here's here's something else I want to show you.
- 9:52SPEAKER_00: It's it's rightful in the sense that it makes sense, right?
- 9:57SPEAKER_00: It makes sense that someone who was made immediately a widow is now afraid and doubting the provision for her life because her husband died.
- 10:08SPEAKER_00: This is normal, normal, right?
- 10:11SPEAKER_00: So, what I want you to see here is that as a kingdom builder, as someone who's trying to build something big, bold, and beautiful with and for God, there are gonna come times when something's gonna happen in your world and it's gonna be so obvious that it's a bad thing.
- 10:26SPEAKER_00: Like, no one is gonna tell you that something bad isn't happening, right?
- 10:30SPEAKER_00: You could be like, I don't have the money that I need to do this thing, I don't have the skill sets that I need to do this thing, I don't know how to do this thing, I don't have whatever, the resource, the connections, the support that I need to do this thing.
- 10:45SPEAKER_00: And nobody would say to you, you're crazy.
- 10:49SPEAKER_00: But I'm telling you, even in that moment, you are still battling with doubt.
- 10:55SPEAKER_00: Doubt.
- 10:56SPEAKER_00: Because as a kingdom builder, you likely, and I hope you do, have a word from the Lord about what you're meant to be building.
- 11:05SPEAKER_00: And if you have a word from God to build the thing, then intrinsic in that is the ability, there comes faith, a portion of faith with that.
- 11:16SPEAKER_00: So you should be able to believe that that is going to happen for you, that you're gonna stay safe in it, that you're going to be able to do it.
- 11:26SPEAKER_00: But doubt comes to attack that portion of faith that you've been given around that word.
- 11:32SPEAKER_00: Making sense?
- 11:33SPEAKER_00: So this woman believed that she would be taken care of by God because she had a husband who was taking care of her, and then her husband died.
- 11:43SPEAKER_00: So she had a portion of faith that was wrapped up in my husband takes care of me.
- 11:48SPEAKER_00: And this was a very reasonable expectation.
- 11:51SPEAKER_00: This was very normal.
- 11:52SPEAKER_00: She got married, and part of the deal is that he was going to take care of her, and now he died.
- 12:00SPEAKER_00: So listen, listen with all of your ears and with your heart right now.
- 12:04SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 12:05SPEAKER_00: It would be normal and like expected that this woman is now afraid and doubting her provision in the earth.
- 12:17SPEAKER_00: Because the way that she thought it was going to come, it's not coming that way anymore.
- 12:23SPEAKER_00: She's dealing with doubt.
- 12:25SPEAKER_00: The enemy is attacking her with doubt because she just had a circumstance come up that is challenging her faith.
- 12:35SPEAKER_00: And that's the place where doubt will always try to come in, is when we see something in the natural, when we see something in the evidence in the data that is not supporting what God said was going to happen.
- 12:48SPEAKER_00: She probably didn't have it on her bingo card for BC 400 and whatever she was sitting in.
- 12:55SPEAKER_00: She didn't have it in her on her bingo card that year that her husband was going to die and she was going to be a widow and that people were going to try to come and try and take her kids.
- 13:04SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 13:06SPEAKER_00: So let's look at what she does.
- 13:08SPEAKER_00: Look at what she does.
- 13:09SPEAKER_00: Verse one, right off the bat, she knows to go to the man of God, who is a representative for God Himself, and she calls out the responsibility, the ownership, the authority on the man of God to fix her problem.
- 13:27SPEAKER_00: This is big.
- 13:29SPEAKER_00: This is big because what doubt will do is doubt will try to get you to think, I have to fix this problem for myself.
- 13:36SPEAKER_00: That's the first problem.
- 13:38SPEAKER_00: The first place that we go wrong when we deal with doubt is we go, I have to figure this out on my own.
- 13:44SPEAKER_00: I'm doubting, but it's my problem, so I have to figure it out on my own.
- 13:48SPEAKER_00: No, absolutely not.
- 13:50SPEAKER_00: When doubt comes to you, you need to go to God first.
- 13:55SPEAKER_00: You need to go to God first.
- 13:57SPEAKER_00: As spirit-filled believers, we have a direct connection.
- 14:00SPEAKER_00: The Bible says that we can go boldly into the throne room and talk to our father.
- 14:03SPEAKER_00: Now, she didn't have that same arrangement.
- 14:05SPEAKER_00: So what did she do?
- 14:07SPEAKER_00: She went to the man of God.
- 14:08SPEAKER_00: And she went to the man who was in authority over her husband.
- 14:11SPEAKER_00: And she said, This is your servant, and that's your God.
- 14:15SPEAKER_00: And I'm coming to you with my problem because I know this is the right place to go.
- 14:20SPEAKER_00: So first and foremost, we need to know that we've got to go directly to God on this matter.
- 14:27SPEAKER_00: And she said this other thing in there.
- 14:29SPEAKER_00: She said, Your servant who feared the Lord.
- 14:33SPEAKER_00: This right here is what's going to be like the best like bubble wrap when we first have doubt hit us.
- 14:41SPEAKER_00: Do you have you been walking in fear of the Lord?
- 14:44SPEAKER_00: Have you been walking in such a way that God, the voice of God, the opinion of God, the command of God is the most important thing on your life?
- 14:54SPEAKER_00: Let's put this into the kingdom builder concept.
- 14:57SPEAKER_00: So if God has told you that you're to build this business or to launch this ministry and you're dragging your feet, you've got to look at that and ask yourself, am I walking in the fear of the Lord?
- 15:08SPEAKER_00: Am I walking in obedience to God?
- 15:10SPEAKER_00: Because delayed obedience is disobedience.
- 15:14SPEAKER_00: This woman knew that she could go before God and she could have her requests before God and that it would get heard and that it would get answered because she knew the authority lines and because she knew that her husband feared the Lord and walked in that manner, right?
- 15:33SPEAKER_00: That is a big deal.
- 15:34SPEAKER_00: So if you're gonna go before God and say, look, I'm being attacked by this doubt and I'm just really afraid right now, I need your help, you've got to position your heart rightly.
- 15:46SPEAKER_00: Now, that doesn't mean that you have to go back and fix up everything that was done wrong, but you do have to have a humble heart before the Lord and you have to have a repentant heart.
- 15:55SPEAKER_00: If you've been trying to do this business or this ministry in your own strength, in your own timing, in your own way, well, that's a lot of the reason why the enemy is bringing doubt to your camp because he's like, look, she's not going to be immediately obedient.
- 16:11SPEAKER_00: So she's probably gonna be susceptible to this virus that I'm gonna release in her camp.
- 16:16SPEAKER_00: So let's do it.
- 16:18SPEAKER_00: So now you've got doubt and you might have underlying issues with faithfulness.
- 16:24SPEAKER_00: And faithfulness is actually the antidote to doubt.
- 16:28SPEAKER_00: So you've got to make a decision even before doubt comes into your camp that you are gonna be an immediately obedient daughter.
- 16:36SPEAKER_00: Like whatever he says, you're just gonna obey.
- 16:40SPEAKER_00: That is the best discipline so that when when doubt does come your way, you know immediately how to be obedient.
- 16:49SPEAKER_00: That is faithfulness.
- 16:50SPEAKER_00: And so she goes to the man of God, she tells her request, and here's what God says to her through the prophet.
- 16:58SPEAKER_00: Are you ready for this verse too?
- 17:00SPEAKER_00: What sh what shall I do for you?
- 17:02SPEAKER_00: That's the first question.
- 17:03SPEAKER_00: What shall I do for you?
- 17:05SPEAKER_00: So God is asking you, What do you want?
- 17:08SPEAKER_00: What do you want?
- 17:11SPEAKER_00: In this situation, what do you want me to do for you?
- 17:15SPEAKER_00: And then he asks a follow-up question.
- 17:17SPEAKER_00: Look at this.
- 17:18SPEAKER_00: His follow-up question is, what do you have in your house?
- 17:22SPEAKER_00: So here's what's beautiful about God.
- 17:25SPEAKER_00: God is not gonna expect you to do some run the gauntlet and do all of these crazy things to get the provision out of him.
- 17:33SPEAKER_00: He's not.
- 17:34SPEAKER_00: He's like, tell me what you need, tell me what you want, and then tell me what you have nearby.
- 17:41SPEAKER_00: It's like when he said to Moses, what's near your hand?
- 17:45SPEAKER_00: Right?
- 17:45SPEAKER_00: Samson, what's near your hand?
- 17:47SPEAKER_00: David, what's near your hand?
- 17:49SPEAKER_00: Like he's constantly asking people in the Bible, what's in your arm's reach?
- 17:54SPEAKER_00: He's asking the widow, what do you have in your house?
- 17:57SPEAKER_00: He's like, it doesn't have to be hard.
- 17:59SPEAKER_00: It just has to be what's submitted to me.
- 18:01SPEAKER_00: He's asking you today, what's in your arm's reach?
- 18:05SPEAKER_00: What's in your house?
- 18:06SPEAKER_00: What's under your authority that you can submit to me that I can solve your problem with?
- 18:12SPEAKER_00: Come on.
- 18:13SPEAKER_00: Come on, somebody.
- 18:15SPEAKER_00: This is good.
- 18:15SPEAKER_00: I'm preaching good right now.
- 18:18SPEAKER_00: We need to be people who first and foremost approach God with fear of the Lord in our heart.
- 18:23SPEAKER_00: That means an absolute humility and submission and surrender to him as our king and as our Lord and our Savior.
- 18:30SPEAKER_00: We're gonna do what he tells us to do.
- 18:33SPEAKER_00: Even when this virus of doubt tries to attack our brain, we're still gonna have a position of faithfulness.
- 18:40SPEAKER_00: And so God is asking you today, what do you want me to do for you?
- 18:44SPEAKER_00: And what do you have in your house?
- 18:47SPEAKER_00: What's nearby?
- 18:48SPEAKER_00: Because he's going to use that.
- 18:51SPEAKER_00: He's gonna use that, but we've got to position our hearts towards God first, telling him what we want, what we need, and then he's going to ask you, what do you have nearby?
- 19:02SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's willingness, maybe it's a conviction to build the thing that he's called you to build.
- 19:07SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's the idea, maybe it's a small following, maybe it's your wisdom and skill set and ability to solve a certain problem.
- 19:17SPEAKER_00: What do you have in your house?
- 19:19SPEAKER_00: What do you have at your hand's reach?
- 19:21SPEAKER_00: What do you have?
- 19:23SPEAKER_00: Because in the next verse, she said, well, in the same verse, she goes, I've got nothing.
- 19:28SPEAKER_00: Except I've got nothing.
- 19:32SPEAKER_00: Except, let me tell you something.
- 19:34SPEAKER_00: That except is very powerful.
- 19:36SPEAKER_00: That accept is very powerful because many of us are stopping at nothing.
- 19:42SPEAKER_00: Many of us go, I've got nothing.
- 19:44SPEAKER_00: I've got nothing.
- 19:45SPEAKER_00: Because if I had something, then I could have done something with it and I could have seen this being worked out.
- 19:50SPEAKER_00: But I don't see it worked out, and so clearly I have nothing.
- 19:53SPEAKER_00: Clearly, clearly I have nothing.
- 19:56SPEAKER_00: But this widow woman goes, I've got nothing except.
- 20:00SPEAKER_00: And she brings the thing that she has, just like Moses had a stick, a step, right?
- 20:05SPEAKER_00: Just like David had just a slingshot, and he could go and get five smooth stones.
- 20:11SPEAKER_00: You have got something in your arm's reach.
- 20:15SPEAKER_00: You have got something in your house.
- 20:17SPEAKER_00: So instead of stopping at the nothing kingdom builder, identify what's in your house that you do have.
- 20:25SPEAKER_00: I teach about this all the time.
- 20:26SPEAKER_00: I'm like, what's good about this is, but what's good about this is where the upgrade is in this is, it's because I've trained my eyes in faithfulness to look for the thing that God can use.
- 20:40SPEAKER_00: That is a form of faithfulness, is to be willing to look through your circumstances and find the one thing, even though it might be one shot in a million, that God can use to prosper you.
- 20:54SPEAKER_00: So what is that thing that you have in your house?
- 20:56SPEAKER_00: Nothing except, she says, nothing except a flask of oil.
- 21:02SPEAKER_00: If you're only gonna have one thing, let me tell you something.
- 21:06SPEAKER_00: In your house, if you're only gonna have one thing in your house, let it be oil.
- 21:10SPEAKER_00: Let it be the anointing, let it be the unction and the filling of the Holy Spirit, let it be that fire of conviction that He puts on the inside of you.
- 21:18SPEAKER_00: Come on, somebody.
- 21:19SPEAKER_00: She had nothing except oil.
- 21:22SPEAKER_00: That is everything.
- 21:24SPEAKER_00: Nothing except oil is everything.
- 21:26SPEAKER_00: The conviction that the Holy Spirit is placed in your heart for this thing that you've been called to build, the knowing on the inside of you because of the Holy Spirit, that fire, that knowing, that's everything.
- 21:39SPEAKER_00: That oil is everything.
- 21:41SPEAKER_00: And from there, from there, look, this is what happens next.
- 21:45SPEAKER_00: Because in verse three, what does the prophet say to her?
- 21:47SPEAKER_00: He goes, Cool.
- 21:48SPEAKER_00: Now here's what I want you to do I want you to go borrow.
- 21:54SPEAKER_00: Excuse me.
- 21:55SPEAKER_00: I told you I have what I have in my house is a flask of.
- 22:02SPEAKER_00: We're thinking that if we identify the one thing that we have, that God's gonna make that enough right there all by itself.
- 22:08SPEAKER_00: But the prophet says to her, go borrow.
- 22:13SPEAKER_00: Go borrow.
- 22:14SPEAKER_00: The go is an invitation to faithfulness, to faithful action, to immediate obedience.
- 22:20unknown: Go.
- 22:21SPEAKER_00: God is saying to you, go.
- 22:23SPEAKER_00: And then what is he telling you to do?
- 22:25SPEAKER_00: For her, it was go borrow.
- 22:27SPEAKER_00: Go borrow.
- 22:28SPEAKER_00: So she had to rely on others.
- 22:30SPEAKER_00: She had to ask others for help.
- 22:32SPEAKER_00: So many times we get stuck because we're like, I showed God what I had in the house and it didn't work.
- 22:38SPEAKER_00: Well, it didn't work because he said, Well, then go get trained up by that coach.
- 22:43SPEAKER_00: Go, go, go get, go get the skill set that you need.
- 22:46SPEAKER_00: Go make the connections at that networking event.
- 22:49SPEAKER_00: Go do something that involves something outside of your own house.
- 22:54SPEAKER_00: The prophet said, Leave your house where I just asked you, what do you have in your house?
- 22:58SPEAKER_00: Great.
- 22:59SPEAKER_00: I'm glad you got the oil.
- 23:00SPEAKER_00: But now you're gonna go and you're gonna borrow.
- 23:03SPEAKER_00: You're gonna go, you're gonna be faithful to move your feet, and you're gonna go engage with other people and ask for help.
- 23:11SPEAKER_00: I know this is not rocket science, but this is where we make the excuses and where we go, no, I can't go and do that because I'm not worthy of the help.
- 23:20SPEAKER_00: Um, I don't have the money to get the help.
- 23:22SPEAKER_00: Um, I don't want people to see that I'm suffering like this.
- 23:25SPEAKER_00: I should be able to do it by myself.
- 23:27SPEAKER_00: I should be able to figure this out.
- 23:29SPEAKER_00: All of those things are stumbling blocks for your faithfulness.
- 23:33SPEAKER_00: And if we know that faithfulness is the antidote to doubt, then you better believe that the enemy is behind that.
- 23:39SPEAKER_00: The enemy is behind all of those thoughts that are holding you back.
- 23:42SPEAKER_00: Do you see that?
- 23:43SPEAKER_00: Can you see that?
- 23:44SPEAKER_00: Get in the comments.
- 23:45SPEAKER_00: Come on, get in the comments.
- 23:46SPEAKER_00: I see you guys here.
- 23:47SPEAKER_00: Get in the comments.
- 23:48SPEAKER_00: Somebody let me know that this is clicking, that this is making sense.
- 23:52SPEAKER_00: Right?
- 23:52SPEAKER_00: We have the opportunity right now to be engaged in this conversation.
- 23:56SPEAKER_00: And so I really want you to be engaging.
- 24:00SPEAKER_00: If you're listening on the podcast, come and find my feed on Instagram and get in the post and let me know what you're thinking about it.
- 24:07SPEAKER_00: What's hitting you?
- 24:10SPEAKER_00: He says, go borrow, and he says, empty vessels, not a few.
- 24:16SPEAKER_00: Empty vessels, not a few.
- 24:18SPEAKER_00: He's like, be extravagant in your ask.
- 24:21SPEAKER_00: Be extravagant.
- 24:22SPEAKER_00: Now, here's what I want you to see.
- 24:25SPEAKER_00: He was asked, he told her to go and ask for empty vessels.
- 24:28SPEAKER_00: These don't cost people anything.
- 24:31SPEAKER_00: So a lot of times when we're thinking, when God says you need to go and ask for help, we're thinking, oh, it's gonna cost them so much to help me.
- 24:40SPEAKER_00: But in reality, it's not.
- 24:42SPEAKER_00: It's just an ask.
- 24:44SPEAKER_00: They have the opportunity to say yes or no.
- 24:47SPEAKER_00: And many times the thing that we're asking of them to help us with, it doesn't cost them a lot.
- 24:53SPEAKER_00: So for these people that were handing her empty vessels, they probably it wasn't expensive to them.
- 24:59SPEAKER_00: Maybe she was gonna hand them back when she was done with them.
- 25:02SPEAKER_00: Like, and even if it was just an earthenware vessel, they're a dime a dozen.
- 25:06SPEAKER_00: Like, I can get another one.
- 25:08SPEAKER_00: So, you know, a lot of times the person that we need to be asking for help, the thing that we need, it feels so hard for us.
- 25:16SPEAKER_00: The thing that we need, it feels so heavy for us.
- 25:19SPEAKER_00: But God is sending us to a person that it's easy for them.
- 25:23SPEAKER_00: It's easy for them to help in this way.
- 25:26SPEAKER_00: I can't tell you how many times as a coach I hear this feedback that I hear people that go, you know what?
- 25:32SPEAKER_00: I'm kicking myself that I waited so long.
- 25:34SPEAKER_00: I thought this was such a hard problem to solve.
- 25:37SPEAKER_00: I thought this was like an unsolvable problem.
- 25:40SPEAKER_00: They're like, and then 30 minutes on a call with you and it's completely solved.
- 25:45SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, because it's not hard for me.
- 25:47SPEAKER_00: That's something that God has given me a grace in, and I gladly hand it to you.
- 25:52SPEAKER_00: I gladly hand it to you.
- 25:54SPEAKER_00: It's not hard for me.
- 25:56SPEAKER_00: It was harder for you to realize that you needed the help and to lean in and to ask for it.
- 26:01SPEAKER_00: Now, some people might be, well, didn't they pay you for that?
- 26:04SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
- 26:04SPEAKER_00: So it might have been harder for them to figure out with God, how do I find the resource to pay for that?
- 26:10SPEAKER_00: But God is so happy to show you the way to that because your solution is so easy when you lean in to borrow the help.
- 26:23SPEAKER_00: So sometimes God wants you to do it that way because you were never going to be able to solve that problem on your own.
- 26:29SPEAKER_00: It was worth the dollars.
- 26:31SPEAKER_00: It was worth the time.
- 26:32SPEAKER_00: It was worth the ask.
- 26:34SPEAKER_00: I know I'm talking to somebody.
- 26:36SPEAKER_00: I know I'm talking to somebody because you keep on beating yourself up and saying, no, it's not good stewarding if I spend the money before I've even made any money in my business.
- 26:44SPEAKER_00: What if that's the smartest and wisest thing that you could do right now?
- 26:47SPEAKER_00: What if by doing that you shorten your timeline and you get to revenue faster?
- 26:52SPEAKER_00: What if that is the very thing that you need to do?
- 26:54SPEAKER_00: So you need to check that with God.
- 26:57SPEAKER_00: So the prophet says, go borrow empty vessels, not a few.
- 27:02SPEAKER_00: What does that mean for us?
- 27:03SPEAKER_00: Not a few.
- 27:04SPEAKER_00: That means raise your expectations.
- 27:06SPEAKER_00: It means you can ask for more.
- 27:08SPEAKER_00: It means that you can go and receive more because to the extent of your expectation is what's going to be filled.
- 27:14SPEAKER_00: And that's ultimately what happened for her.
- 27:16SPEAKER_00: So you've got to expand your expectation.
- 27:19SPEAKER_00: You've got to get your hopes up.
- 27:20SPEAKER_00: You've got to get that expectation up.
- 27:22SPEAKER_00: Doubt attacks that nerve, that feeds, that ability to grow your expectation.
- 27:29SPEAKER_00: But if you need it, go to Isaiah 54, because that is a total expectation chapter where he's saying, Look, you who are barren, oh barren woman, sing, expand your tent, draw out your cords, make more space, because I'm about to fill it.
- 27:45SPEAKER_00: That is an expectation chapter.
- 27:47SPEAKER_00: And that's what we're talking about here in 2 Kings 4.
- 27:50SPEAKER_00: He goes, go get a lot of vessels.
- 27:52SPEAKER_00: Don't limit yourself.
- 27:53SPEAKER_00: Get as many as you can.
- 27:55SPEAKER_00: And then in verse 4, he says, go inside with your sons and close the door.
- 28:00SPEAKER_00: Go inside with your sons and close the door.
- 28:02SPEAKER_00: Here's the thing: he doesn't expect you to work this out on your own, but he does expect you to do it in a community where people are faith-filled.
- 28:11SPEAKER_00: Don't let anyone in that house shut the door and don't allow anyone in who is lacking faith.
- 28:18SPEAKER_00: Do you hear me?
- 28:20SPEAKER_00: Don't allow anyone in who's lacking faith.
- 28:23SPEAKER_00: And her and her sons were very much, this had to work, right?
- 28:28SPEAKER_00: They were believing God.
- 28:30SPEAKER_00: And so they were about to do something that was going to be a miracle.
- 28:33SPEAKER_00: And so the prophet said, shut the door, go inside.
- 28:37SPEAKER_00: And so we don't go in alone.
- 28:39SPEAKER_00: We work together with the right people.
- 28:41SPEAKER_00: This reminds me of Jesus going and healing Jairus' daughter.
- 28:45SPEAKER_00: Do you remember?
- 28:46SPEAKER_00: He walks up and they're all heckling him.
- 28:48SPEAKER_00: They're all mocking him because he said, She's not dead, she's asleep.
- 28:52SPEAKER_00: And they're all like laughing at him.
- 28:54SPEAKER_00: So what does he do?
- 28:55SPEAKER_00: He puts out everybody but the three disciples that he brought with him and the parents of the daughter, the ones who could stay in faith, the ones who could operate in faithfulness.
- 29:06SPEAKER_00: And he shuts the door, and he's not, he's not like there's already so much doubt circulating.
- 29:12SPEAKER_00: He's not going to let doubt in the room, and he's also not going to let doubt near him.
- 29:16SPEAKER_00: Do you see?
- 29:18SPEAKER_00: So these are strategies for how we hold off doubt.
- 29:22SPEAKER_00: These are strategies for how we walk through doubt and grab a hold of faithfulness and apply faithfulness.
- 29:28SPEAKER_00: Because I hear all the time people saying, Yeah, well, faithfulness is the answer, but I'm having a hard time getting to faithfulness.
- 29:35SPEAKER_00: Faithfulness is a choice.
- 29:36SPEAKER_00: Faithfulness is a choice and a movement of the feet.
- 29:39SPEAKER_00: And so I understand that there are things that make it hard for you to move your feet.
- 29:44SPEAKER_00: So I'm giving you those strategies for how to move your feet anyway, even though it's hard.
- 29:49SPEAKER_00: Do you see them?
- 29:50SPEAKER_00: Don't go alone.
- 29:51SPEAKER_00: Like go to God first, right?
- 29:54SPEAKER_00: Look at what you have in your house.
- 29:56SPEAKER_00: Tell God what you need.
- 29:57SPEAKER_00: Don't go alone.
- 29:59SPEAKER_00: You're gonna have to probably rely on others for some help in this.
- 30:02SPEAKER_00: Like all of these are strategies for how to move your feet when you are being pummeled by doubt.
- 30:09SPEAKER_00: And so he she he says to go in there and he says, pour into all these vessels.
- 30:14SPEAKER_00: And this would be the moment at which the doubt crescendos, because she's gotta be like, What?
- 30:21SPEAKER_00: These are empty.
- 30:22SPEAKER_00: And I have a flask of oil that is this big.
- 30:25SPEAKER_00: And you just told me to collect like a hundred vessels, probably like 40 or 50 vessels she has strewn all about her main room.
- 30:35SPEAKER_00: And she's got this little flask of oil.
- 30:37SPEAKER_00: And she's like, What?
- 30:39SPEAKER_00: That's faithfulness.
- 30:41SPEAKER_00: Faithfulness is not talking back, faithfulness is not articulating the doubt and the fear.
- 30:47SPEAKER_00: It's moving your feet and starting to pour.
- 30:51SPEAKER_00: That is what you need right now.
- 30:53SPEAKER_00: That is faithfulness and action.
- 30:55SPEAKER_00: When the doubt is at its crescendo, is the very moment when you need to silence fear, silence doubt, and move your feet in faithfulness.
- 31:03SPEAKER_00: And so that's what she does.
- 31:05SPEAKER_00: She said, She didn't say it's not gonna work because, right?
- 31:10SPEAKER_00: She didn't say that.
- 31:12SPEAKER_00: She the the prophet said, When one is full, set it aside, keep going.
- 31:17SPEAKER_00: Now I see this in my coaching all the time because I work with women who haven't launched yet, generally.
- 31:24SPEAKER_00: I have most of 80% of the women at least that I work with are women who haven't had a successful launch in their business yet.
- 31:32SPEAKER_00: Absolutely love working in that doorway.
- 31:35SPEAKER_00: I love it.
- 31:36SPEAKER_00: It is there's so much potential right there.
- 31:38SPEAKER_00: There's so much for God to be glorified in when they step across that threshold and they finally launch.
- 31:43SPEAKER_00: But can I tell you something?
- 31:45SPEAKER_00: Doubt is the hardest when they get up against their launch deadline.
- 31:49SPEAKER_00: They set a launch deadline early in the process.
- 31:52SPEAKER_00: And then as we get closer, I always have women who go, I'm moving my launch deadline.
- 31:57SPEAKER_00: And I will always say to them, don't, don't do it messy.
- 32:02SPEAKER_00: Do it with whatever results you're gonna get.
- 32:05SPEAKER_00: Because you're that is letting doubt move your hand.
- 32:09SPEAKER_00: That's letting doubt bring fear and and and you you start to shift in accordance with submission to that fear.
- 32:18SPEAKER_00: No, don't do it.
- 32:19SPEAKER_00: I would rather that you launch to crickets.
- 32:22SPEAKER_00: I would rather that you launch the thing without any sales.
- 32:25SPEAKER_00: I really would.
- 32:26SPEAKER_00: I really would.
- 32:28SPEAKER_00: Because what you learn and what you gain in going up against that doubt and fear and doing it anyway, you it is so much that the next time you have an exponential gain in your next effort.
- 32:43SPEAKER_00: And I'm telling you, this is where doubt is trying to take you out.
- 32:47SPEAKER_00: But there are strategies for moving through that to move your feet anyway.
- 32:52SPEAKER_00: And I've told you some of them already.
- 32:56SPEAKER_00: He says, don't like as soon as one is full, set it aside.
- 33:00SPEAKER_00: Keep going, keep going.
- 33:02SPEAKER_00: And here's the thing you need to hear: your deliverance is not gonna happen all at once.
- 33:07SPEAKER_00: Like the salvation that God is gonna work for you, it's not gonna happen all at once.
- 33:11SPEAKER_00: It's gonna happen as you move your feet.
- 33:14SPEAKER_00: As you move your feet, as you continue to move your feet, as she continued to pour out, God was resolving her problem.
- 33:22SPEAKER_00: But it wasn't even fully solved yet because all she had was the step of pouring out the oil into the vessels.
- 33:30SPEAKER_00: Now she just has a house full of vessels full of oil.
- 33:34SPEAKER_00: How is that gonna solve her problem?
- 33:35SPEAKER_00: How's that gonna solve her problem?
- 33:37SPEAKER_00: Sometimes we have a platform with our pages built out, a website, but no traffic to it, right?
- 33:43SPEAKER_00: We have an offer built out with a sales page, but no traffic going to it.
- 33:48SPEAKER_00: We have a social media page and we're posting, but it's no traffic going to it, right?
- 33:54SPEAKER_00: So it's like, I don't see how this is solving my problem.
- 33:57SPEAKER_00: But can I tell you something?
- 33:59SPEAKER_00: The first step to the solution many times doesn't look like the solution.
- 34:03SPEAKER_00: And that's where faithfulness is required all the more because you have to keep going.
- 34:09SPEAKER_00: You have to keep going.
- 34:10SPEAKER_00: And so, um, verse six, she went all the way through to the finish line.
- 34:14SPEAKER_00: She called for another vessel from her son, and he said, There's no more.
- 34:19SPEAKER_00: So she finished, she poured into everything she had.
- 34:23SPEAKER_00: So maybe she'd have thought, who knows?
- 34:25SPEAKER_00: Maybe she's looking and she at like 60% of the vessels filled or 80% of the vessels filled.
- 34:30SPEAKER_00: She's like, This should be enough.
- 34:32SPEAKER_00: What if she would have stopped?
- 34:34SPEAKER_00: What if she would have stopped?
- 34:36SPEAKER_00: The prophet said all the way.
- 34:38SPEAKER_00: And so she obeyed and she went all the way.
- 34:40SPEAKER_00: She didn't hold back, she didn't decide for herself where the finish line was.
- 34:45SPEAKER_00: She was completely obedient to the word of God.
- 34:49SPEAKER_00: You with me?
- 34:52SPEAKER_00: Here's something.
- 34:53SPEAKER_00: This is gonna be the the thing you need to hear.
- 34:55SPEAKER_00: Get ready if you're multitasking, if you're doing something else, I just want you to zone in right now and hear me when I say this.
- 35:03SPEAKER_00: The oil stops when the obedience stops.
- 35:09SPEAKER_00: The oil stops when the obedience stops.
- 35:12SPEAKER_00: So if you don't want the oil to stop, don't stop your obedience.
- 35:16SPEAKER_00: Don't stop your faithfulness.
- 35:18SPEAKER_00: If you want the oil to keep on flowing, you need to keep on obeying.
- 35:23SPEAKER_00: This means that we need to create a lifestyle of faithfulness.
- 35:27SPEAKER_00: Are you with me?
- 35:28SPEAKER_00: Are you with me?
- 35:29SPEAKER_00: This is why I love working with audacious, ambitious, entrepreneurial-spirited women, because we understand how to jump off a cliff and believe that God is going to be there to catch us.
- 35:40SPEAKER_00: This is what we're cultivating in our mindset is that we believe God at His Word.
- 35:45SPEAKER_00: If God said it, that settles it.
- 35:46SPEAKER_00: Now let's move.
- 35:48SPEAKER_00: Let's move in obedience, in faithfulness, because when our obedience stops, the oil stops.
- 35:55SPEAKER_00: So I will not stop moving in obedience.
- 35:57SPEAKER_00: Can someone say amen?
- 35:59SPEAKER_00: Can someone throw up an amen right now for that?
- 36:02SPEAKER_00: That is powerful.
- 36:03SPEAKER_00: That is wisdom, that is a lifestyle of obedience.
- 36:08SPEAKER_00: That's a lifestyle of faithfulness, right?
- 36:12SPEAKER_00: So she didn't.
- 36:13SPEAKER_00: She went all the way to 100%.
- 36:15SPEAKER_00: And then in verse 7, she comes back to Elijah and she gave her testimony.
- 36:20SPEAKER_00: I've done it, I've completed the task.
- 36:23SPEAKER_00: And look at what happens next.
- 36:25SPEAKER_00: When we give testimony, another meaning for the word testimony is do it again.
- 36:30SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you know that, but that's the that is the heart of testimony, is that we give testimony and it attracts the power and the spirit of God to do it again, to do it again.
- 36:41SPEAKER_00: And so when we give testimony, we should expect that it's gonna increase.
- 36:45SPEAKER_00: We should expect that it's gonna happen again, that it's gonna become a normal thing in our lives.
- 36:50SPEAKER_00: So she goes to the to the prophet and she gives testimony.
- 36:53SPEAKER_00: And look at what he says.
- 36:54SPEAKER_00: He gives her the next step.
- 36:55SPEAKER_00: He says, now take those flasks of oil, those vessels of oil, and go sell them in the market and pay off all your debts.
- 37:05SPEAKER_00: And that's what she did.
- 37:06SPEAKER_00: Go sell the oil and pay your debts, and you and your sons can live on the rest.
- 37:13SPEAKER_00: God will provide for you in this solution.
- 37:18SPEAKER_00: The widow didn't know how to fix her problem, but she knew how to access the miraculous problem solver.
- 37:25SPEAKER_00: And she knew how to move in faithfulness despite doubt.
- 37:31SPEAKER_00: This is what you need to hear this morning, Kingdom Builder.
- 37:35SPEAKER_00: This is what you need to hear today.
- 37:38SPEAKER_00: If you will keep moving your feet in faithfulness and in obedience to what God has said, the oil will not stop flowing.
- 37:46SPEAKER_00: The provision into your house and into your life will not stop flowing.
- 37:51SPEAKER_00: But you gotta keep going.
- 37:53SPEAKER_00: You gotta keep going.
- 37:54SPEAKER_00: And do you see how just having more faith, better faith, louder faith isn't gonna cut it?
- 38:00SPEAKER_00: It takes faithfulness, it takes a heart decision, a heart position and decision that says, I will keep moving in obedience.
- 38:08SPEAKER_00: Are you with me?
- 38:10SPEAKER_00: Are you with me right now?
- 38:13SPEAKER_00: You have access to that same miraculous problem solver.
- 38:16SPEAKER_00: In doubt, she knew to go to the man of God.
- 38:20SPEAKER_00: This must be an autopilot in our lives.
- 38:22SPEAKER_00: We must know immediately to go to God.
- 38:25SPEAKER_00: Pray first, yes.
- 38:27SPEAKER_00: But if you're still stuck, ask for the help that you need.
- 38:31SPEAKER_00: Always pray, knowing your birthright, knowing that you are a much-loved child of God, and that it is your birthright to have your prayer answered and to be provided for.
- 38:41SPEAKER_00: In Luke chapter 12, I think it is, Jesus said, Fear not, little flock, it is your father's great pleasure to give you the kingdom.
- 38:51SPEAKER_00: That is the heart of your father to provide for you.
- 38:54SPEAKER_00: All right.
- 38:55SPEAKER_00: I understand that you want to always pray from your birthright and the character of God, knowing who he is.
- 39:03SPEAKER_00: He is a loving father who provides for you.
- 39:05SPEAKER_00: Doubt can turn you into a zombie.
- 39:07SPEAKER_00: It really can.
- 39:08SPEAKER_00: So I've learned the value of being in a spirit-filled, spirit-led community of Jesus followers who value the word because I have people who can see if I'm turning into a zombie because doubt got me.
- 39:22SPEAKER_00: They can see if I'm being affected by the virus of doubt.
- 39:25SPEAKER_00: And they can help to remind me of what God said for my life and for my business and for my ministry, right?
- 39:32SPEAKER_00: And they can also remind me of faithfulness.
- 39:36SPEAKER_00: Be faithful.
- 39:37SPEAKER_00: What did God tell you to do?
- 39:39SPEAKER_00: You need to do that.
- 39:40SPEAKER_00: That's what's going to get you out of this doubt.
- 39:42SPEAKER_00: That's what's going to get you out of this pit, right?
- 39:45SPEAKER_00: That and listen, that's real accountability.
- 39:48SPEAKER_00: Having people around you who can remind you of what God said and encourage you to keep going.
- 39:54SPEAKER_00: That's real accountability.
- 39:56SPEAKER_00: And so if you are a kingdom builder who's building a business or a ministry online and you're realizing that you need to get into a community like that, I want to invite you into the Jesus Girl Gang community.
- 40:08SPEAKER_00: You can totally come in.
- 40:10SPEAKER_00: It's open right now.
- 40:11SPEAKER_00: We're in the middle of, we just started our framework.
- 40:15SPEAKER_00: We just started the Jesus Girl Business Blueprint, which is our build with faith framework, our step-by-step eight-week program to get your business or ministry built and launched online.
- 40:26SPEAKER_00: We just started it this week.
- 40:28SPEAKER_00: You're not too late.
- 40:29SPEAKER_00: So you can come in, we'll give you a platform to build that business on, and you'll have the community all around you for that accountability, that support, and you'll have me in your corner coaching you every single week.
- 40:41SPEAKER_00: So if this is something that you know you need, then I want to encourage you go to Jesus Scrollgang.com slash mentorship and check it out and come join me.
- 40:50SPEAKER_00: Come into the community, okay?
- 40:53SPEAKER_00: Because this is what we're doing.
- 40:54SPEAKER_00: We are eradicating doubt in our camp.
- 40:57SPEAKER_00: We are moving in faithfulness at all times in our camp.
- 41:01SPEAKER_00: That's how we do.
- 41:02SPEAKER_00: If God said it, that settles, now we move on it.
- 41:06SPEAKER_00: That is faithfulness.
- 41:07SPEAKER_00: That is faithfulness, and that is the antidote to the doubt that's trying to attack you right now.
- 41:13SPEAKER_00: Okay?
- 41:13SPEAKER_00: It's not thinking better.
- 41:15SPEAKER_00: It's you can do 2 Corinthians 10 5.
- 41:17SPEAKER_00: You can take every thought captive and make it obedient to Christ, but it has to lead into faithfulness.
- 41:22SPEAKER_00: It has to lead into action that's in alignment with your faith.
- 41:26SPEAKER_00: That is faithfulness.
- 41:27SPEAKER_00: There's no way around that.
- 41:28SPEAKER_00: You can't pray your way into this.
- 41:31SPEAKER_00: You're gonna have to move.
- 41:32SPEAKER_00: Amen.
- 41:33SPEAKER_00: All right.
- 41:33SPEAKER_00: I hope that was helpful for you today.
- 41:35SPEAKER_00: I'll see you next time.
- 41:37SPEAKER_00: Bye for now.