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Why You Feel Like a Fraud in Your Kingdom Business (And How to Silence That Voice for Good) · Jesus Girl Gang Kingdom Business Podcast | Faith-Led Strategies for Christian Entrepreneurs

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  SPEAKER_01: This is the Jesus Girl Gang Kingdom Business Podcast, where faith finally meets real strategy to launch your online business.
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_01: Well, hey there, and welcome back to the Jesus Girl Gang Kingdom Business Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm your host, Erica Pyle.
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  SPEAKER_01: And on today's episode, I wanted to do something a little special.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_01: So I've been going live on my social media pages each and every morning at 7:30 a.m., both on my Instagram and my Facebook profile.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_01: And I've been doing this because I wanted to share something each morning that I call a segment called Get Ready with God.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_01: And the impetus for this was that the Lord really spoke to me a few weeks ago and he said, you know what?
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_01: One of the hardest times for a kingdom builder is right when they wake up in the morning.
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  SPEAKER_01: And getting our minds aligned with the word-willing ways of God right when we get out of bed.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I started recording at 7:30 each morning weekdays on my Instagram and Facebook profiles.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_01: And on Thursday mornings, I do a segment that's specifically for kingdom builders, for godly women who are building a kingdom business or ministry out here in these online streets.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's you.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so this past Thursday, I talked about this question that we really need to be asking ourselves because there is this thing that when we wake up in the morning, it grabs a hold of us and it can actually make or break our day, how we answer this question that I'm about to share with you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because God shared it with me and He said, turn around and share it with them.
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  SPEAKER_01: But when we wake up in the morning and we start to have those self-doubting thoughts, those critical thoughts, those I can't do it thoughts, it's one thing to recognize that those thoughts are coming in and that we're having them.
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  SPEAKER_01: But here is the key.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ask yourself the question, but who said that?
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  SPEAKER_01: Who's telling me that?
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  SPEAKER_01: Who told you that you were a fraud?
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  SPEAKER_01: Who told you that you were a failure?
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  SPEAKER_01: Who told you that you'd never be able to make it, that you couldn't do this thing that God called you to do?
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  SPEAKER_01: Right?
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  SPEAKER_01: And when we ask that question and we answer it properly, that's when we get our power back.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so if this is something that you've been dealing with at any point in time, you wake up and you start having these thoughts.
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  SPEAKER_01: I wanted to share this with you.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is the episode for you.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I want you to grab your Bible, your journal, and a pen and let's go.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mentor Jesus Girl entrepreneurs every single day to build and launch and scale their online kingdom businesses.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so that's that's kind of what I do.
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  SPEAKER_01: And a few weeks ago, the Lord just said to me, Hey, Erica, get out online in the mornings and help people to get ready with me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because I really believe that the place where the enemy can steal from us so much is that he convinces us first thing in the morning that it's too hard.
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  SPEAKER_01: He convinces us first thing in the morning that we're not going to be able to do it.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_01: He convinces us first thing in the morning.
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  SPEAKER_01: And here's the thing that is really rough.
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  SPEAKER_01: Are you ready?
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  SPEAKER_01: He convinces us in such a way that we don't realize that we're doing it to ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the word that I have for us today, and it was it's really a question, this is what God was saying.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is what he spoke into my heart, and he said, Eric, I want you to get out there and ask them this question.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you ready?
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  SPEAKER_00: Who told you you were a fraud?
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  SPEAKER_00: Who told you that you were too much?
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  SPEAKER_00: Who told you that you were gonna fail?
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  SPEAKER_00: Who told you that this wasn't gonna work?
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  SPEAKER_00: Who told you that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Who told you that?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because here's the thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think that too many times we don't get down to the bottom of the answer for that question, and we stay on the edges and we stay at the top of it, and we're fighting battles at places where we're not actually seeing any results, we're not seeing any breakthrough because we're fighting on the wrong answer.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're fighting at the wrong level.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because I think that many times, like, because this is the thing, you wake up, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: And you immediately start to think about what you have to do in that day.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Especially if you're a builder, especially if you're someone who's building something, you know, big, bold, and beautiful with and for God.
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  SPEAKER_01: There is this thing in you because you've got you've got the passion to build it, you've got conviction to build it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so it makes a lot of sense that when you wake up in the morning, kind of one of the first things that comes up to your mind is your purpose.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's your assignment.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's exciting.
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  SPEAKER_00: But then we know we all know this.
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  SPEAKER_00: The next thing that starts to come in is um, well, what do I think about that?
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  SPEAKER_01: And if we're not doing what we've been talking about here each morning, which is to take those thoughts captive and make them obedient to Christ and ask him, ask God what he says about a matter, ask God what he says about you, ask God what he says about the possibilities and the outcomes, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: If we don't do that, then we are beholden, we are beholding um something that's not from him.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so when I ask the question, who told you?
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  SPEAKER_01: Who told you that you were a fraud?
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  SPEAKER_01: Who told you that you couldn't?
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  SPEAKER_01: Who told you that you were gonna fail?
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  SPEAKER_01: Who told you that?
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, a lot of times the first answer that we have to that question will say, well, you know, there were people, there were people, there were people around my life.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_01: And, you know, you get to a point pretty quickly when you know that you're called to do something that it's not generally.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I know that it's annoying and I know that sometimes it can sting, but it's not generally the people that are on your social media that you do not know.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, we can get some of those trolling comments, we can get some of those, some of those things, but for the most part, especially with the women that I work with, that's not, that's not where we're getting stuck.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're not getting like we we are okay to like see those things and be like, no, they don't even know me, they don't, they don't understand.
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  SPEAKER_01: So they move past it pretty quickly.
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  SPEAKER_01: But guess what?
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  SPEAKER_01: The people that know you the best, the people who are familiar with you, the people that are the closest to you, they don't even have to say like a critical comment.
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  SPEAKER_01: They don't even have to say like a very specific teardown.
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  SPEAKER_01: They don't.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's just like they say something and it's slightly negative or it's negative, and then we take that and we make it into something.
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  SPEAKER_01: So when I ask you, who told you?
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  SPEAKER_01: Who told you that you're a fraud?
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  SPEAKER_01: Who told you that you're not prepared for this?
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  SPEAKER_01: Who told you that you're not capable?
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_01: Who told you that that's not possible?
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_01: Who told you that you were gonna fail?
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  SPEAKER_01: Who told you that you were too much?
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_01: Who told you?
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_01: Who told you?
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  SPEAKER_01: Our first place that we go to generally is well, my mom said, Well, my sister said, Well, the pastor said, well, the person in the my friend said, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then it's like, we're already off to the races because I can almost guarantee you that number one, they didn't say the thing that ultimately you're believing.
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  SPEAKER_01: It expanded once it hit you, it once it hit your heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: It it did something, it morphed, it got bigger, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: So, first and foremost, at that level of answering the question, we gotta be honest with ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, what did they really say?
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_01: I know that there's a lot of people that are like, if they aren't paying your bills, then you shouldn't be taking their opinion.
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  SPEAKER_01: Or if God didn't say it, then you shouldn't be listening to them.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, that's a little bit weird because the Bible says that in the presence of many counselors, we will have success.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there is a place where we are meant to vet things.
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  SPEAKER_01: And especially when you're building things in business and ministry, it's great to have um spiritual accountability and community and people like counsel, people that go with you.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's good to have an apprentice.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's good to have that guide or that coach that's been ahead of you.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I'm not gonna be the one to say to you, oh, you don't need to care about what anybody thinks.
• 8:17
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, that's a little wild because then you're putting yourself out there all by yourself.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're, you know, no man is an island.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_01: And when we start to go there, that's when the enemy can come in and start to use things like arrogance and pride.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, it's like pride goes before a fall.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if we're thinking to ourselves, well, I can only listen to God is me, Jesus, and my Bible out here in these streets, like, come on.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like the Bible tells us that having good counsel is a good thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you can't get out of that simply by saying, Oh, well, I shouldn't listen to anybody.
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  SPEAKER_01: The issue is what happens when that stuff goes in your ear holes.
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  SPEAKER_01: What is your heart doing with it?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because the heart will reveal what you actually believe.
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  SPEAKER_01: I say to people a lot of the time, listen, uh, you will only believe what when people say something to you, you only have the ability to believe it to the extent that it already exists in there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because it's notes.
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  SPEAKER_01: I hope you understand this.
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  SPEAKER_01: When people say something to you, it's it's a note, it's a frequency, it's a tone.
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  SPEAKER_01: And just like a like you your heart is like it has these tuning fork capabilities in it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so, and it's like an instrument, and so it's resonant.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so when a sound comes towards you and it goes in your ears and it goes down into your heart, if your heart resonates with it, understand, like that's the whole idea of tuning.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_01: That's how you use a tuning fork is bing, you play a note and then you tune the string to the note.
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  SPEAKER_01: And what winds up happening is when it comes into resonance, there's a thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can hear it, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Like if you've ever been around music, if you play an instrument, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, when the tuning fork and the instrument are playing different notes, there's a dissonance.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can feel it.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's like visceral, like you can feel it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then when it comes into resonance, and then it like it comes together.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then you're like, yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, here's the thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you've got people, even close people, even people that you trust saying something and it's negative and it's not true, but you have that that you've been believing that lie about yourself, you will resonate with it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then you'll be like, uh, that doesn't mean that you'll believe intrinsically that it's true, like in the big picture.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's just that something on the inside of you is afraid and says, I think that's true about me.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it will resonate.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that feeling of resonance with what they said, that will convince you that it must be true.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's just the same hardware.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your heart has that hardware in it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so when God speaks truth and you know, how do you know the difference?
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_01: How do you know the difference?
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, when you come into resonance with the truth of God, peace is your portion.
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  SPEAKER_01: Colossians says, and let the peace of Christ rule in your heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I can almost guarantee you that when that person says that negative thing about you and it goes in your ear holes and it goes down in your heart, and you have any of those negative thoughts that you've been believing about yourself and it comes into resonance, you'll feel the resonance.
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  SPEAKER_01: It'll be like, oh, that feels true for me, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: But the next thing that you need to check for is do you have peace about that?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because I'm telling you, if you put the Holy Spirit on the inside of you, there is no way that you're gonna feel a peace while believing a lie about yourself.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's like that became a great opportunity for you to test, test the spirit, and see what's actually in operation in that thought, and then go, you know what?
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  SPEAKER_01: I that's not good for me.
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  SPEAKER_01: I want to exchange that.
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  SPEAKER_01: I want to do Corinthians 10 5, that thought.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_01: But going back to what we were talking about, who told you?
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_01: Who told you that?
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_01: We want to make it about what the person is saying.
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  SPEAKER_01: We want to say, no, no, it's them.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's them.
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  SPEAKER_01: They said that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so therefore, I it it must be true.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like I trust that person.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_01: No, no, no, no.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_01: You've got to go down into the layers, you gotta go down into the levels because I'm telling you, you can't believe anything that's not already in there, waiting to be resonated with.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so that's really the issue is you gotta go down there because there is no negative thought that God has about you.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_01: There's no negative thought that God has about you.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_01: One of my favorite stories about this is in the Bible, obviously.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, and it's the story of Abraham, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: So, Abraham, we all know he gets promised that he's gonna be the father of, you know, many nations and it's gonna happen through his child, and years are dragging on.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so he tries to figure it out in his own strength, in his own way, um, alongside his wife Sarah.
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  SPEAKER_01: He winds up sleeping with um Hagar, the um Sarah's servant woman, and they have Ishmael.
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  SPEAKER_01: And almost immediately, God's like, Yeah, that ain't it, bro.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's not the way this is gonna happen, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: And so now we've got a problem.
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  SPEAKER_01: We've got an actual child involved in this mix now.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not just like an idea or a thought of something that we wanted to do, it's something that actually happened.
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  SPEAKER_01: He cheated on his wife with the servant woman, and they produced a child, and it didn't work out the way that they thought it was going to.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is not the child of promise that God spoke about.
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  SPEAKER_01: So now we have this child.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that, like, think about the family dynamics.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, like, you can because you can read Genesis and see what happens here.
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  SPEAKER_01: But like, this is like for real.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_01: This is like real lives on the line, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: And so they kind of work it, they're they're going forward and working it out and they're feeling their way forward.
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  SPEAKER_01: And eventually, right, the miracle happens, Sarah gets pregnant, they have Isaac and all the things, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: So now we're moving forward, but we still got Ishmael, we still have this like blip, this fine print in the historical story of how Abraham had this child of promise.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, fast word into your New Testament.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fast word into your New Testament, and what does God say about Abraham?
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  SPEAKER_00: He says, Abraham, who did not shrink back in faith, but grew stronger in his conviction, giving glory to God.
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  SPEAKER_01: I when I read that scripture, sometimes I'm like, hold up.
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  SPEAKER_01: We we ain't gonna talk about what he did to get Ishmael.
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  SPEAKER_01: We ain't we ain't gonna look at that.
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  SPEAKER_01: But this is the nature of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: The nature of God is that he doesn't have a negative thought about you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like the Holy Spirit in us will help our own hearts to convict us of knowing where we're out of line, where we're out of alignment with the word, will, and ways of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: But God is just gonna keep on speaking the truth over you.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's just gonna keep on speaking your reality over you, his true reality for your life, because he is the greatest tuning fork that you could ever have over your life.
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  SPEAKER_01: So he just keeps on playing that note, playing that note, playing that note.
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  SPEAKER_01: And our job is to allow the Holy Spirit to convict us to the point where we repent.
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  SPEAKER_01: And now we've got that instrument in our heart that picks up that tuning note.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Instead of the tuning note of the person over there who says, Oh, you're never gonna be any good.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can't be good at that.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're never gonna get that, right?
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_01: Like that's not who you are.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_01: You're a fraud, you're a fake.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_01: Stop.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_01: You've got to realize that the problem isn't making other people say better things about you.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_01: God is always saying better things about you.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_01: God is always speaking the best truth over your life.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_01: The issue is when that stuff goes into our earholes, first of all, protect your eye holes and your earholes, okay?
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_01: Protect them.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_01: But if something gets in, you've got to know that in your heart, you have that that that thing that will resonate more truly with what God says about you than what those other people are saying about you.
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  SPEAKER_01: So what does that mean?
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_01: It means that even when someone outside of you is saying something negative, critical, accusatory, uh tearing down about you or to you, you still have a choice.
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  SPEAKER_01: You have a choice.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you cannot control what people are gonna say to or about you.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can't.
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  SPEAKER_01: So when I ask when God asks that question, then about you?
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  SPEAKER_01: Who lied to you?
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  SPEAKER_01: Who told you that you were a fraud?
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_01: Who told you that you weren't good enough?
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_01: Who told you that you'd never make it?
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_01: Who told you that you couldn't do it like that?
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_01: Who told you?
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_01: Who told you?
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_01: Well, your first answer might be, oh, they, they, but we've got to realize that even when they say it, it really comes back to us.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_01: The second answer that generally comes up when the question is, who told you that?
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  SPEAKER_01: Who called you a fraud?
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_01: Who told you that you were never gonna make it?
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_01: Who told you that you're gonna fail?
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_01: Who told you?
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_01: Who told you?
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_01: Um, the second answer that we usually give is, oh, it's the enemy.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_01: I'm under attack.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's attacking my mind.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_01: And listen, I gotta tell you something.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_01: The mind is the battlefield.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, thank you.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_01: Amen, Joyce Meyer, right?
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_01: Like, have you read that book?
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_01: It's an oldie but a goodie.
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  SPEAKER_01: But there's a mechanism again, because it's like if we don't have that thing sitting down in our heart waiting to resonate with the lie that's coming in, we don't have doors open.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_01: And one of the main ways that we open doors to our heart is believing lies.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_01: It's resonating with whys and aligning our life with whys.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_01: So that's why the best way to guard your heart and to protect your heart is to be reading the word of God every day, declaring the word of God every day, and living out the word of God every single day.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_01: That's the only way to guard your heart fully.
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  SPEAKER_01: I read the word of God, I believe the word of God, I declare the word of God, I walk out the word of God.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_01: Let me show you.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_01: This is soul health.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_01: Soul health.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_01: So you remember how we've talked about this um previously, but you are a triune being.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_01: You have you are a spirit, you have a soul, you live in a body.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_01: And in your life, the battle is for your soul.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_01: What's your soul?
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_01: Your soul is your thinking, your declaring, your feeling, and your choosing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your soul is the seat of your will.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that is what's the battle is raging over.
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  SPEAKER_01: Is what is she gonna think today?
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_01: What is she gonna say today?
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_01: What's gonna come out of her mouth?
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_01: This this person who was made in the image of God, and therefore, when she declares in faith, it causes a thing to come to be manifest.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_01: Hello, like that's the that's the battle.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_01: It's over.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_01: What is she gonna say?
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_01: What is she gonna create when she speaks in faith?
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_01: It's what is she gonna allow her body to feel?
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_01: Because her, you know, her feelings, because your feelings, they dictate in many ways what you're gonna actually feel organically in your body.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_01: Hello, neurotransmitters, hello, hormones, hello, hello, chemical transactions that occur.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_01: This is why you're like, I know we say that the mind is the battlefield, but can I tell you something?
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_01: What I'm coming to find out after years and years and years of studying in this space, both as a Bible teacher, a preacher, a pastor, and a holistic health coach, can I tell you that the battlefield is really your nervous system?
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_01: Your by the battlefield is really how you navigate what things are coming at you and what you're gonna decide to think, what you're gonna decide to say.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_01: And in turn, that's what you're gonna feel, and that's gonna dictate what goes down, goes on in your body.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_01: So you've got these thoughts, these declarations, these feelings, and then ultimately out of your soul come your choices.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_01: Because it's a seat of your will, it's what you choose.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_01: So all of that then turns and manifests into your body and into your physical life.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_00: So the battle is over your soul.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_01: So when the question comes, when God says, Who told you that?
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_01: Doesn't this sound like Genesis when Adam and Eve they eat the apple?
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_01: And now God's coming through in the cool of the day, and you know, he's like, Where are you?
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_01: And why you got why you got leaves on you?
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_01: Like, what are you doing?
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_01: And Adam's like, well, we were naked, and God says, Who told you that?
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_00: Who told you that?
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_00: And in that instance, it was the enemy, right?
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_01: The enemy, because why?
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_01: Because they made this choice to violate God's word, his law, and it opened a door, and now the enemy gets to talk to them.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_01: But again, I would say to you, just the same as when we were talking about what if it's they?
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_01: What if they are saying it?
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_01: It's the same answer if the enemy is saying it, because the enemy is always prowling around your life like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_01: So don't be ignorant to his schemes, friends.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_01: So what he will do is he will start throwing darts at your mind to see what's gonna resonate, what's gonna resonate, what's gonna resonate.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_01: And look, he's an expert of human behavior.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_01: He's an expert of human psychology.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_01: He's been roaming these streets of the earth for thousands and thousands of years, right?
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_01: So it's like, yes, he understands the human mind and the human frame too.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_01: And so he's got these schemes and these strategies.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_01: But if we want to sit here and go, oh, well, it's just the enemy.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_01: And I just there's You know, that is a victim mentality.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_01: I gotta, I gotta just call that out.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_01: Because if you want to do anything big, bold, and beautiful with God in this life, if you want to walk out your purpose, if you want to see the fullness of what God made you to do and to be and to have in this earth, then you've got to decide right now.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_01: Decide.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_01: I will not carry a victimhood spirit.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_01: I will not operate in a victimhood spirit.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_01: I will not have a victimhood mindset.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_01: Because here's the deal, and I'm gonna get real raw with you on this.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_01: Listen, some of you need to hear this.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe you need to hear this.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_01: Listen to me.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not saying that we are never a victim.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_01: But what I am saying to you is the moment that you were victimized, you were a victim.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_01: And when that victimization stopped, when that action stopped, you got to make a decision about how you were gonna walk from that place.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_01: And it was in that moment that you decided am I gonna continue the victim mentality or am I gonna step into the victor mentality?
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_01: Because in this life, there are gonna be a lot of things that happen to you that God did not plan, like He didn't, He didn't make these things, but He allowed them.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_01: But He knows that the power is in when we step on the other side of that abuse, when we step on the other side of that thing that happened to us that made us a victim, you get to decide right from that moment.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_01: And one of the best decisions that you can make right away when you step out of that is I forgive.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_01: I forgive, I forgive, I release, I release.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_01: Now, God help me to walk out of this.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_01: Help me to heal.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_01: Help me to put the pieces back together.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_01: You put the pieces back together, right?
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: That is that's really important.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_01: And so when we have this experience of like, who told you?
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_01: Who's telling you that you're a fraud, a liar, a failure?
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_01: Who's telling you that you'll never be able to do this?
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_01: Who's telling you that it's impossible?
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, well, the enemy, I'm just under severe warfare.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_01: He's constantly on my on my mind.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_01: Listen, I'll tell you what, it's the truth.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_01: The minute that you have a big, bold, beautiful promise on your life of something that you're gonna build in this kingdom with and for God, you you have a target on your life.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_01: Because the enemy's full, like full out job is to try to hold back the kingdom for as long as he possibly can.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_01: Because he knows.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_01: He knows that when we get to that point, he's going somewhere where he's never gonna be able to get out.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_01: And it's over.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_01: We already know the end of the story.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_01: So now all that he's doing is trying to extend his time.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_01: And in doing that, he's Daniel 725ing you.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_01: Because he cannot change the times and the seasons.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_01: He's he's seeking to do it, but he can't.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_01: He can't extend it beyond where God said it was gonna happen.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_01: So now what does he do?
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_01: He seeks to wear out the saints.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_01: That's you.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_01: And so he will send those arrows at your mind.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_01: He'll send those arrows, but here's the thing: you're not a victim.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_01: So you still get to say, okay, hold on.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_01: Is that true?
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_01: So again, 2 Corinthians 10 5 becomes the most important thing you can do.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_01: What does that say?
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_01: I take every thought captive and I make it obedient to Christ.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_01: Not some thoughts, not sometimes when you're feeling good about it, not when you remember.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_01: You need to make a discipline in your life that you are going to take every thought captive and make it obedient to Christ.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_01: If you want a worksheet for this, go to ericapile.com slash toolkit.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_01: This is the Kingdom Builders Mindset Toolkit.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_01: So it's got um the four questions prayer template that I teach.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_01: It's got a something called the Thoughts Exchange worksheet, which gives you a place to work out this exchange with God, 2 Corinthians 10 5.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_01: So if you want something tangible to have for like your journal, go and look at that.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_01: Go to Ericapile.com slash toolkit and download that.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_01: It's free.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_01: I'll send it to your email.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_01: So when we when we hear this question, who told you?
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_01: Who told you?
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_01: Who told you you were a failure, a fraud, you're never gonna make it, uh, you don't have what it takes.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_01: And we try to say, oh, it was other people.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_01: We've now established it's not the other people.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_01: It's the fact that there's something in our heart that's resonating with what these other people said.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_01: And so ultimately it has to do with what we believe, right?
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_01: Number two, we'll go, well, I'm under warfare.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_01: The enemy is after me, he's attacking me.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, same answer.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_01: Because at the end of the day, it's still about your heart.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_01: It's still about what you believe in your heart.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_01: And so we've got to call ourselves out on this, friend, because if we don't, then we're walking in this victim mentality.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_01: And in that case, like there's nobody that's gonna be able, you cannot control what everybody is saying about you and to you, and you can't control what the devil tries to come at you with.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_01: He, that is his deal.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_01: That's his deal.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_01: So if it's not other people and it's not the enemy that's causing us to answer the question, and like we can't say it's it's them who said that about me.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_01: They may have started that, but that's not who's really saying it.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_01: And it's the enemy could present those thoughts to you, but that's not who's really saying it.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_01: Then what's the answer?
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_01: What's the answer?
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_01: What's the answer?
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_01: Who said?
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_01: Who said you were a fraud?
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_01: Who said you couldn't make it?
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_01: Who said this was never gonna happen?
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_01: Who said that you didn't have enough resources, money, you didn't know the right connections?
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_00: Who told you that?
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_00: Who told you that?
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_00: Well, it may have been that someone outside of you told you that, but ultimately it comes down to I fell for it.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_01: I took the bait, I believed it.
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_01: I believed it, I believed it.
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_01: And here's the reason why I want to say this to you and why it's I think it's so important that we get to this answer.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_01: Are you ready?
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_01: Because if we are not willing to say it stops with me, I'm the one who's able to change this, I'm the one, then you will forever be a victim.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_01: Because you'll be like tossed to and fro every single day of your life because you'll be like, oh my goodness, like I can't fix this.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_01: I can't make the people stop talking to me, I can't make the enemy stop attacking me.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_01: So I guess I'm just like, that's it.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_01: Like, this is my life now, is to just constantly be under attack and my mind be under this kind of pressure.
• 28:17
  SPEAKER_01: No, no, no, no.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_01: The minute that you realize, and um, I did a podcast episode about this a while ago.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_01: I don't remember if it's position to prosper episode 26 or 28, 29.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_01: I'll have to post it later on.
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_01: But it's uh it's about the victimhood mentality and why you don't want to take that up.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_01: Because here's the truth.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_01: Listen to me.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_01: The minute that you decide that the recovery, like the, the, the shift, the pivot is your responsibility, that's when you get your power back.
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_01: It's true.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_01: It's true.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, you're gonna operate under the power of God.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_01: Don't, don't, don't get it twisted, right?
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_01: But the the moment when you actually have the ability to come under the power of God and to do it differently is the moment when you say, This is my responsibility.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_01: It's not to everybody else to say something different.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_01: It's not to like believe that, like, oh, you know, I'll get to a point at some point where the enemy will stop attacking me.
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_01: He won't.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_01: People are always gonna be wild in your comments.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_01: The enemy is always gonna be wild about attacking you.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_01: But the one thing that you can do is say, as for me in my house, as for me in this territory, as for me in this mind and this nervous system, this is what we're gonna believe.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna serve the Lord.
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna believe his word, his will, and his ways.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_01: And that is the work, it's the soul work of bringing your thoughts into alignment with what he says, bringing your uh declarations into alignment with what he says.
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_01: And then it's like, then those feelings will start to come into alignment.
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_01: And then your choices are gonna be better.
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_01: And then those things aren't gonna bother you anymore.
• 29:56
  SPEAKER_01: And that's where that real resilience can come into you so that you can keep on going after the thing that God called you to do.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_01: Because listen, sister, this is it's not a joke.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_01: You have big things on your life.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_01: God has spoken big things on your life.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_01: You are a mover, you are a pioneer, you are an expander for the kingdom of God.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_01: You are bringing the kingdom.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_01: You're bringing the kingdom.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_01: That's the message series that we're starting up at Revived Church of Tampa this Sunday.
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_01: Um, Kingdom Bringer.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_01: But that's the truth.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_01: It's the truth about you.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_01: You are a kingdom bringer, and you're also a kingdom builder.
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_01: You're a kingdom builder.
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_01: God wants to build with you.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_01: But this is the this is the main way that the enemy will get you off course is getting you to believe that, oh no, like I have to believe what they said.
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_01: I, you know, the the warfare is too much.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_01: I have to step back.
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_01: I have to take a break.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_01: No, no, I'm gonna go harder, I'm gonna go faster, I'm gonna take pictures while I do it and post it on social media so that the devil knows that I am so confident about my outcome that I'm showing you the process.
• 31:07
  SPEAKER_01: Come on, somebody.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_01: Come on, somebody.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_01: That's the deal.
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_01: I am not gonna throw away my confidence because it has a rich reward.
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_01: What you need right now, Hebrews says, what you need right now is perseverance.
• 31:20
  SPEAKER_01: What you need right now is stick to itiveness that what God said about you, it settles it.
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_01: It's true, and you're gonna move in it in Jesus' mighty name.
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_01: The end.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_01: Well, Erica, I might look like a fraud, I might look like a failure, like I might look like a fool.
• 31:36
  SPEAKER_01: Isaiah 57.
• 31:38
  SPEAKER_01: Come on, baby girl.
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_01: Come on, come on.
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_01: I will set, I will, therefore, I will set my face like flint because I will not be put to shame.
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_01: When I obey the word of the Lord, when I make this flesh come into alignment with the word of God, and I say, I will not, I will not go after other things.
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_01: I will not sit, I will not walk, I will not stand with the wicked.
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_01: I will not allow those things to come in my ear holes, my eye holes.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_01: I will not.
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_01: I won't allow it.
• 32:09
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna stay on the word, will, and ways of God, and I'm gonna keep on moving because if he said it, that settles it.
• 32:15
  SPEAKER_01: That's Isaiah 55, 11.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_01: He says it's the same with my word.
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_01: Wherever I send my word, it does whatever I tell it to do, and it prospers wherever I send it.
• 32:26
  SPEAKER_01: Are you kidding me?
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_01: Isaiah 60, 22, when the time is right, I the Lord will make it happen.
• 32:32
  SPEAKER_01: These are the scriptures that you need to be getting in your heart.
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_01: Jeremiah 1.12.
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_01: Then the Lord said to me, You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_01: God says, Look, when you realize that what I have said I will do, because you believe Isaiah 55, 11, because you will believe Isaiah 60, 22.
• 32:52
  SPEAKER_01: Check this one out.
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_01: 2 Corinthians 5.7, which is a throwback to the Old Testament.
• 32:57
  SPEAKER_01: It says, For we walk by faith and not by sight.
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_01: That's the key.
• 33:02
  SPEAKER_01: That's the key to this.
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_01: You know, science shows that your um your five senses, they only perceive about 2% of your reality.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_01: Can you believe that?
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_01: But it's true.
• 33:16
  SPEAKER_01: It's true.
• 33:17
  SPEAKER_01: Your your senses, your five senses can only perceive about 2% of what's really going on around you.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_01: We have these other pieces of us that are internal to us and they they discern or sense things and they bring things together and give it meaning.
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_01: And so you've got to understand something that when when God says we are people who walk by faith and not by sight, this is a cheat code, friend.
• 33:43
  SPEAKER_01: This is like the easiest road.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_01: Just make a decision that your eyes lie to you all the time.
• 33:50
  SPEAKER_01: What you're looking at and how you're analyzing it, listen, go back to Proverbs 3, 5, and 6.
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_01: Trust the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_01: In all your ways, acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_01: That's how we walk by faith and not by sight.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_01: And that's how we start to shore up the doors and the holes of how this thing is getting into our heart and causing us to resonate with things that aren't true about us.
• 34:18
  SPEAKER_01: So right now, as we close up, I just want to give us an opportunity to make a decision right now.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_01: Put yourself before the Lord right now.
• 34:25
  SPEAKER_01: And if this is you, I want you to say it to him.
• 34:27
  SPEAKER_01: Lord, there have been places that I have blamed other people for opening up and causing and wreaking havoc in my heart.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_01: But Lord, I know right now that those gates and those doors, they are a joint venture between you and me, God.
• 34:42
  SPEAKER_01: You've given me the Holy Spirit to be my comforter, my protector, my guide, my leader.
• 34:47
  SPEAKER_01: You're gonna lead me into all truth with Him.
• 34:50
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_01: And so I also know that you put hedges of protection around my life.
• 34:55
  SPEAKER_01: And I know that when I believe you at your word, that is the strongest hedge.
• 35:00
  SPEAKER_01: That's the strongest hedge that you can put around me.
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_01: And so I'm asking, Lord, right now, for that portion of faith that allows me to stand up boldly in my heart and say, I will believe what God has said and not what others and the enemy have tried to present to me in Jesus' mighty name.
• 35:17
  SPEAKER_01: That is what I'm doing because I am a kingdom bringer.
• 35:20
  SPEAKER_01: I am a kingdom builder.
• 35:22
  SPEAKER_01: I am going to build this big, beautiful thing that God has called me to with and for him.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_01: It is going to happen because he said it and that settles it.
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_01: And so I'm believing right now, God.
• 35:32
  SPEAKER_01: So I ask right now that you would prick my heart whenever I go down that road of picking up that victimhood mentality that would seek to blame shift, that would seek to blame shift and cause it to say it's somebody else's fault outside of me.
• 35:46
  SPEAKER_01: I know that it's the condition of my heart.
• 35:48
  SPEAKER_01: And so, like David, I will bring my heart before you daily and I will say, if there's anything in here that doesn't serve you, that doesn't bring you glory, that's not good for me, then take it.
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_01: Take it, Lord.
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_01: I repent of it right now in Jesus' mighty name.
• 36:02
  SPEAKER_01: Wash my heart, wash my heart, and let me walk forward knowing the truth of who you say I am, what I'm capable of, and what's gonna happen in Christ Jesus.
• 36:17
  SPEAKER_01: That is what we're praying today.
• 36:18
  SPEAKER_01: Are you with me?
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_01: Drop an amen in the comments if you're there.
• 36:22
  SPEAKER_01: All right?
• 36:23
  SPEAKER_01: Come on, come on, you got this.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_01: You are a kingdom builder.
• 36:29
  SPEAKER_01: You are gonna see, you're gonna you're gonna do mighty exploits for the Lord, and you and He will give you every good thing that you need to be able to do it in Jesus' mighty name.
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 36:38
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, friends, love ya.