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How Do I Know If My Dreams Are From God? · The Curt Landry Podcast

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Well, hey, everyone, you're listening to the Curt Landry podcast where we're going to help
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you discover your kingdom destiny.
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My name is Darrell and sitting right beside me is Rabbi Curt Landry himself.
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And in this episode, we're talking about dreams, the idea of how to interpret your dreams and
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how to use your dreams to accomplish goals in your life.
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But before we jump into this topic and this episode, Rabbi, were you able to relax any
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this weekend?
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How's it going?
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Well, for us, the flow is the grandkids are all praying that it snows because they are
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wanting to be able to sled.
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And it looks like their prayers are getting answered because it looks like we're coming
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into a pretty cold, snowy, icy Oklahoma time.
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We're doing great.
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This is a great season of time.
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This is a fun season of time to particularly with our youngest, with Matthew, he's a year
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and a half and he's the third child.
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So one of the things with the third child is you have a tendency not to be so on top
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of the child as you were the first and the second.
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And the other thing is he immediately has all this modeling that he can follow from
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the four year old and the eight year old and the way Matthew is wired is he's a year and
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a half and he thinks he's probably about maybe eight or nine.
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And he thinks he's fearless and he's different than the other two.
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Like the other two, you could tell them don't go in the swimming pool and they would obey.
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They wouldn't go in.
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They'd wait for an adult.
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Matthew is like, oh, there's the pool.
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I can swim and he can't, but he says, I'm going in.
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He just, he's one of these ones that just goes in.
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If you leave a ladder up, Paul was working on some stuff in the closet with the wifi.
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He left the ladder up, went into the kitchen for a little while, came back out and into
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the closet and there's Matthew at the top of the ladder because he just climbs up.
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And so that's kind of where we're at.
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We're at that interesting stage where it takes all hands on deck to watch him so he doesn't
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end up hurting himself.
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Yeah.
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So the snow is, you know, like, has that ever been your thing being from California?
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I mean, like, did you, when you had lived in a place that had snows, was that something
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you miss Christy enjoyed or what?
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Well, I wouldn't have met Christy if it wasn't for the snow because I actually, no, I'm serious
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because I love to snow ski.
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I love to snow ski.
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Okay.
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I'm a snow skier.
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I was raised in Los Angeles, Southern California.
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And when you're in Southern California, you go to Big Bear or Lake Arrowhead and, or you
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go to Mammoth and you ski.
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And, but after I graduated high school, I didn't know what I wanted to do.
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So I said, I'm just going to go up to Lake Tahoe and I got a job at Harris Casino, which
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was a great job, a valet.
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I was a valet at Harris Casino.
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Really had clientele like Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Don Rickles, Lawrence Welk.
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I mean, the list goes on.
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And, but I worked from eight o'clock at night to six in the morning.
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And the reason I had that shift is so I could ski.
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So I was there skiing to Heavenly Valley and Squaw Valley and the different mountains.
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So I loved to ski.
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And, but then when the spring came, one of the spring, I was driving one of the park
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and ride vehicles for the casino.
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And as I was driving through the parking lot, I saw the, this girl walking through the parking
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lot with long strawberry blonde hair all the way down to her backside.
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And she had a pair of cutoff jeans and like this white blouse.
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Yeah.
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And that caught your attention.
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It, yes.
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Yes.
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It caught my attention.
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If anybody has seen my wife, you'll know she's beautiful.
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But anyway, I literally pulled up and started talking to her and she totally rejected me.
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It was awful.
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Anyway, my approach wasn't very good either.
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Now we all laugh about it, but I actually, I actually asked her out.
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We don't know, somewhere between 12 and 15 times.
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And she said no.
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But anyway, so you asked me about the snow.
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That's how we met Lake Tahoe.
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But it was so interesting.
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You want me to go on with this story?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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No, this is good.
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Okay.
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Well anyway, so, so anyway, I, I, I did, I, I had it, I was licensed to drive what they
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call H cars, all of Bill Harris cars.
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We would move the cars around.
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And so I moved vehicles around kind of like, okay, this executives here and there.
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And I also drove, there was a van that took people from the very back to the, to the casino.
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But when I was doing my valet, my toughest client I had was BB King.
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And my, my instruction with, from the, from the manager with BB King was when he gets
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done his show, try to get him, you know, get him fed, get dinner, and then get him back
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to his room because he, he liked to stay out all night.
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That's just, can I just say that way?
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All right.
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I'm just being careful.
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My job was trying to listen, and I wasn't very successful at it.
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He did whatever the heck he wanted.
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I listened to me, but I had to be there for him to take him wherever he wanted to go.
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If he wanted to go to another club, whatever it was, my job was that.
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So anyway, this night, my job was just to be with him to the end of the show.
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And then I was over and another guy took over.
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So on this, let's say 14th, 15th, 16th time, I asked Christy out, she worked days there.
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I called her at home and it's like two in the morning, you know, but it's that lifestyle.
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But she worked days.
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She picked up the phone and I said, listen, would you like to go with me tonight?
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We got BB King.
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I knew that, you know, everyone liked BB King.
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I mean, his music is, you know, was excellent.
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And he was not in one of the big showrooms.
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He was in the small lounge.
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And so it was really cool.
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I mean, here you are, you got BB King and there's maybe 50 seats and you know, and so
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anyway, so I asked her, I said, listen, I've got to stay here.
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I'm working with Mr. King.
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Would you, would you like to come?
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And she said, yes.
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So literally that last show was like at like 2 33 in the morning and she got all dressed
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up.
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She came in and, and, and, and she'll explain it this way.
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She said that the Lord told her, she feels like we, she wasn't saved, but she feels like
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now it was the Lord.
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He says, if you tell him, no, this time he won't ask again.
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And I want you to, to meet him speaking to me.
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So anyway, she, she came in, we went out and obviously had the show not saved.
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So I'll just say this, but we have been together after that first date.
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We have been together ever since.
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So and the reason I say that is because we live together and I'm not saying, Oh, look
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at the lab rabbi.
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I live together.
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Yeah, but we were sinners and heathens.
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So don't be going down the patch.
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But the point is, is like, listen, if you think about it, if you look, if you just look
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at Megan, you know, I mean, obviously this was a match made in heaven.
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I mean, this is what God, God brought us together, but it was interesting that she, and the other
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thing, she had girlfriends and I had friends and they were all telling us to meet each
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other, you know, and you know, you got 2,500 employees, all these young people.
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It's like a giant college campus only with, you know, casino and a lot of alcohol and
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partying.
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And so anyway, we, but I always made it, I made a statement to all my friends.
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I said, if I ever meet anybody I care about, I have to leave here because this atmosphere,
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this place is not conducive for, you know, a good relationship.
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So anyway, we met, we got together and we left.
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That's the end of that story.
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She knew it.
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I knew it.
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But yeah, it was an interesting.
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So you, you, you asked about the snow.
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I probably went too deep into it.
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No.
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So snow equals love in the Landry household.
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I guess so.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I mean, yeah, that's so good.
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Well, that kind of brings us into, you know, our main discussion, our main focus of this
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episode and this podcast of the Kurt Landry podcast.
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It's all about dreaming and it's about dreams.
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And you know, a lot of the questions primarily I want us to kind of dive into is the idea
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of really how to interpret your dreams and what does that mean for accomplishing your
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goals in life?
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But first thing we're going to throw out there, if you need your download, your free download
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That link is going to take you exactly where you need to go.
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You can get the free download.
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Of course, we'll put the link in the show notes description.
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So Rabbi, let's jump, let's jump straight into it.
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We're talking dreams, goals.
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Let's just, how do you interpret your dreams?
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I mean, like you had a good one last night and you wake up this morning and you actually
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remember it and you feel like maybe God was speaking to you.
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Where do you start?
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Well, for me, you know, I have people like Pastor Tim and a few other people that when
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I have a dream, I usually ask the Lord, right when I wake up from it, I'll write it down.
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And then there's different symbolisms and colors and things in dreams, but the Lord
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usually use dreams to expand vision or confirm vision.
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So I want to say that expand or confirm.
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One of the things that, you know, we've been talking about goals to grow.
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One of the reasons I wanted to bring up the dreams is this, is that goals to grow, when
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I put together this program, my purpose was to be able to basically have time, task and
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activities that you could become boundaries so that you could accomplish your goals.
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Okay.
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And, but the thing is that your, your, let me just say it this way.
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Your goals to grow is the discipline path to find freedom.
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You know that if you'll do these habits and patterns, these time, task and activity, what,
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you know, you're going to get, you're going to have freedom, financial freedom and freedom
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to plan.
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Okay.
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So your goals are also your boundaries of what your culture and your mindset and your
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values are to, I will do this and I won't do that.
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So, but the, but the problem with just doing that is this passion to not become bored with
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the time, task and activities in the mundane.
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See a lot of people don't realize you have to do, let me, let me say it this way.
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You know, people know I like to cook.
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Okay.
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I, I don't necessarily like shopping.
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Okay.
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I don't like going to the grocery store.
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I mean, it's okay, but if you're going to cook, you have to go get stuff.
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And then after you get the stuff, then you come home and you have to prepare and there's
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steps to it.
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But I actually like the cooking side.
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The cooking side is very energizing to me, but your life can't just be about cooking.
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Your life has to be, you know what you have to work.
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You have to make money to go to the store, buy the stuff, drive the car, unpack the car,
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you know, get, you know, and all that stuff.
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So what happens is if you don't have what I call, I want to talk to you about dream
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goals.
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Your dream goals are the fuel and the passion that allows you to accomplish your personal
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goals.
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There has to be a dream.
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And I'm not talking about dreaming in the night.
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I'm talking about daydreaming.
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When you say, you know what?
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I want to be this.
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Listen, I want to, I want to speak a word of encouragement and correction to people.
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People need to listen to that gut, which is really the Holy Spirit, but that inner knower
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of what your desire is and that inner desire is where your spiritual gifting is.
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And if you can bring the inner desire, your spiritual gifting, and then have time, task,
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and activity goals that actually cultivate it, you're going to live a successful, happy
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life because your dreams are the fuel to your soul's emotion to enjoy your life, to accomplish
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your goals.
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All right, so let me just get clarification on this.
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Am I going too deep here?
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No, no.
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Now, I did bring us a kind of base level and you did take me to another level pretty quick.
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Sorry.
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But no, you said something that was a little different than how I pitched it, and I'm really
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glad that you brought it this way.
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What's the difference in, okay, I'm dreaming at night, right?
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I wake up.
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I'm praying, trying to figure out the dream and direction, goal setting that way.
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What's the difference in that dreams, dreaming, and then daydreaming during the day for those
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goals, those ambitions, those things that you're trying to accomplish?
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Because when you brought it up, it just hit something real quick.
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It was like, oh, well, it's a difference.
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It's different, but the same in some ways.
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Well, okay, let me break it down in the behavioral world.
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What it is, is your subconscious trying to escape into your conscience.
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That's so good.
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All right.
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It wants out.
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See, but everyone-
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Say that again.
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Your subconscious wants to invade your conscience, just like in the courts of heaven.
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Your blessings in heaven want to invade on earth as it is in heaven.
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It wants in.
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It wants in.
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And the thing is, is what I teach is how to bring it in, how to take it in from the courts,
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but also the subconscious.
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See, your subconscious, my people, like people get too holy into- listen, if you're desiring
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something like you're lusting over something unholy, I mean, that's, it's just unholy.
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I hope everyone gets that.
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But when you have a holy desire for something, when it's holy, that holy desire, every good
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and perfect gift came from above.
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But religious people kind of want to bury it.
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It's like, oh, you know, people with like an orphan or a poverty spirit.
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Oh, I don't want that bigger house.
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Oh, I don't want that second property.
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Oh, I don't, I don't, you know, it's, it's- listen, I have learned all these things.
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This is where I live.
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Everything the Lord gives me and tells me to invest in is because it's a platform.
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That's it.
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It's just a platform.
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The neighborhood I live in, most people could never get to my neighbors.
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I do because I'm one of them.
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And so I get to minister and, and be spiritually influential with some of the most influential
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people in Oklahoma because of the neighborhood I'm in.
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But the Lord put me there, but the Lord told me, he says, listen, what you carry, your
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testimony, they'll relate to it.
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Now that was like 10 years ago.
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And my gosh, I mean, I'm well respected in that neighborhood and I have influence with
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it.
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The thing is you have to realize whatever the Lord gives you is to platform you so that
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you can testify to somebody in that sphere and be able to share with them.
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So here's the key.
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Let's go back to the dream thing.
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The reason that you're having sleep dreams is because your subconscious mind is, and
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there's bad dreams and good, but what happens is the subconscious mind is getting up in
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the night and basically saying, you know what, I want to watercolor.
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And I like to watercolor.
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So it's like, okay, I'm not any good at water coloring.
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My wife encourages me, but listen, they may, you know, I have friends that are real artists.
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I'm not, but I like to do it.
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It's creative.
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It's fun.
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So what happens is your, your subconscious mind wants to get up in the middle of the
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night and go, Hey, I'm going to watercolor something.
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And it does.
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And it's like this crazy dream, but you have to, the reason you interpret the dream is
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because your subconscious mind is trying to communicate something to you saying, I want
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you to bring this into a conscious state so you can take action.
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So I can actually bring it to earth and actually have deliverables.
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Does that make sense?
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Or yeah.
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And you know, I, hopefully people that are listening and seeing some of these little
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video shorts that are going out on social media to try to help promote the show, um,
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feel like we go into a great depth of study before we jump in here.
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But the one thing I love is that we talk about, Hey, like, you know, what's a topic or two
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before we come in to actually record the podcast.
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And then I just don't get in the way and just kind of let God do his thing with you and
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just let you roll.
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Um, but it's, it's fun when I get in here because especially in a moment like that felt
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like my brain just turned to, it just, it just exploded because like, you know, I'm
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being taught, right?
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And so now my brain's gone somewhere else.
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So you know, if you can just entertain me here, I will, I'm going to, I'm going to,
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I want you to experience something.
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Okay.
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So you just broke down subconsciously what the brain does while dreaming at night.
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You've given me a good, uh, example of, Hey, or daydreaming goals.
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Okay.
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So I'm, I'm, I'm walking, right?
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I'm walking, I'm trying to run now.
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So go to a biblical perspective from the old Testament, right?
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I mean, even up, you're talking about the gospels and about dreams and you know, angels
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coming to, to, to, uh, people like that and, and giving them prophecy.
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So what would be the difference that you say that like someone can, from a practical base
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level, I'm, I'm just like, Hey, I'm listening to this podcast.
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I'm learning like Daryl is right now.
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When they hear dreams and prophecy and God speaking to them, what's the difference from
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a biblical, you know, from, from the Bible theologically to what most people would say
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the everyday person like me, I go to sleep at night, I dream, and then I wake up like,
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you know, what's the big difference in the two to three different variations of dreaming?
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Okay.
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So I'm kind of everywhere with that, but I'm okay.
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Well, let me, first of all, um, if they do the goals to grow, what they're going to find
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out is like, this is what I desire to accomplish in 2024.
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Okay.
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So now what happens is they've had to cerebral think about it.
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They've had to visually write it down kinesthetically.
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They've had to feel it and they say, this is, this is what I want to do.
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So just filling this out has started.
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So now what happens is now the dreams are going to come night dreams and daydreams to
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try to fuel what you're asking the Lord for.
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See what happens is the scripture says, I could go so deep on this.
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Just take me level two.
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Okay, the scripture says you have not because you ask not.
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The more reason most people don't ask is the fear of rejection, like it won't happen and
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then I'm rejected and I failed.
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But that's not what Jesus says.
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Jesus says knock and knock and be consistent and knock.
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So what's the knocking?
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The knocking is basically you ask the Lord, you fill out your goals to grow, and then
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what happens is the Lord will start sending dreams to show you the path of how to best
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accomplish the goals.
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Okay, to best accomplish it.
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And so what happens is there needs to be not just do this, there are not the do's and don't
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do's in that list.
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That will make you boring and burn out.
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So there has to be where you say, okay, I need to see what it looks like.
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I need to see what it looks like when I accomplish this goal.
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And you need to write that out.
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But what happens is you need to let your mind and your subconscious mind engage in, show
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me what it's like.
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And once your subconscious and your mind start to experience, start to experience what you're
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wanting to accomplish, like let's say you're wanting to buy this new house, okay?
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Your family's growing, you need more bedrooms, you need this and you know, and now you're
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great because you only have a one car garage.
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Now you need a two car garage.
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And so what happens is you need to start daydreaming about, man, that would be really cool.
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I'm a car guy, okay?
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That would be really cool because my car is going to be in the garage and I won't have
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to scrape the ice off the windshield.
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Okay, it's going to be in the car next to my wife's car.
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And guess what?
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My kids get to have their own bedrooms.
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Hey, we've got the bigger kitchen.
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I love this pantry.
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Listen, I can go ahead and don't have to go out.
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You need to start like visualizing that daydreaming about that.
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And so then what happens is you may have a dream.
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And so I recently had a dream about a situation and I'm asking the Lord, how do I accomplish
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this?
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And so just recently the Lord said, in this dream, I had a dream of this office situation
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and it was going this way and that way.
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And what it did was it was a very vague dream that happened.
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But what happened is it was a confirmation to something that Megan and Paul and I had
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talked about.
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The dream was.
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So what's happening is in the practical, the sleep dream that I had was confirming that
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I need to spend more time researching in the natural what we had talked about.
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The dream was like, okay, take the next step.
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So you don't want to be wasting a lot of time on taking steps of your time task activity,
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chasing rabbits down rabbit holes.
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So what you want to do is what the dream and the passion.
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Here's the thing is all the hard work you do in self-discipline needs to end up at a
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finish line with a dream or a desire that's in your heart.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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So I'm tracking, I'm tracking people listening.
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Listen, just go back a couple minutes and get the beginning of that and just hit the
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replay so then you can kind of at least for me when I'm reading, especially like my Bible,
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but in general, I have to read a paragraph once or twice, maybe three times to really
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comprehend what that is.
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I would encourage people just to go back and and listen to the last five or 10 minutes
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again just to grasp that.
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So let's say people have gone back or they're smart like my wife and they understood the
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first time that you said it.
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So next steps in creating those goals, being able to daydream, but then also in the moment
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when you wake up, what's like an actual practical thing, like something physically I can do
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that may be a strategy that you do in your own personal time that when you wake up, I
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know a lot of people struggle with that they just, man, it's like 30 seconds, they wake
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up, they're still almost in dream state a little bit and then like they forget the dream.
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Like I do that all the time.
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And so what would be a good practical way to maybe capture that dream, right?
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And then be able to talk to other people that can kind of help me interpret maybe a little
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bit.
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I mean, like what's the next steps?
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Like I'm just trying to figure out what a, you know, like what a good workflow of like
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figuring this out would be.
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Have a notepad or a journal beside your bed.
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And when you wake up, even if it's three in the morning, have the discipline while it's
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fresh, write it down.
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Just scribble it down the best you can and put down all the detail that you can do with
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it.
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Because every part of that dream is important.
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Colors are important.
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Numbers, numbers and dreams are important.
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All numbers have significance.
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So if you bring it to somebody like a Pastor Tim or myself and we're interpreting the
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dream, depending on the colors, the numbers and the atmosphere, then we know from that
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like what, so to say, the dream and the interpretation.
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But in a night dream, in the night dream, a lot of times what happens is God has been
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trying to speak to you in the daytime in a conscious state.
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And what happens is you're too busy and you're not listening.
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And so a lot of times, even like with startling dreams or dreams that will wake you up, what
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will happen is the Lord's trying to usually get you to slow down, focus and think about
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something.
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And so He'll give you something in that dream.
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Yeah, it kind of brings me back to a point that, you know, the past couple episodes,
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we've been super heavy on goals to grow and, you know, the different topics as we've kind
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of worked our way through it this year so far.
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And for me personally, and as we've recorded these episodes and, you know, I've learned
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a ton, right?
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But just from past experience, from what I know what other people struggle with is that
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the first thing I heard you say about the dreams was even if it's 2 33 a.m., you wake
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up, you have the discipline, you write it down.
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You put as much detail.
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So then it's capturing, right?
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So it would be step one is capturing.
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It's like being forward aggressive and saying I'm going to go to Kurtlandry.com forward
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slash gross 2024 and I'm going to download the guide.
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But now I'm going to be aggressive and capture those goals and put into practice.
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So what's the next thing?
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You know, I want to keep it simple.
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I want to keep it like two steps or maybe three at the most, because I want people to
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go away from this podcast right by and say, you know, I can actively in my conscious right
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now and hopefully remind myself to be active, to intentionally focus on this, you know,
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because it's a long year.
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So what's that second, maybe third thing after they capture, they write it down, you know,
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they've got the dream.
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Where do they go next?
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If you go in our goals to grow and on page 15, there's a the fourth thing is called joy
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goals.
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Goals that bring joy.
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Usually when you starting to have like stressful dreams, it's because the Lord is trying to
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get you to de-stress and to calm down and to slow down.
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And so because what's happening is just your subconscious mind is starting to go into stress.
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And so what happens is it brings anxiety attacks and stress and all the things.
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So what happens is you have to have some joy goals and joy goals usually will come and
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be revealed through dream goals.
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So what will happen is you'll have a dream and the dream might be that the dream, you
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know, is you're doing something like you dream that you're snow skiing.
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You talked about snow.
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You dream that you're going to the beach.
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You dream that maybe you're single and you dream that you're getting married.
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Or you dream and you see yourself fulfilling that dream.
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Like, you know, you've been in Bible school and you're in your and you get ready and you
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see a dream of yourself at a, at in a large setting and you're at the pulpit and you have
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that dream goal.
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Usually what happens is with dreams and joy goals is what the Lord is trying to do is
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to get you into, have you ever thought about the word recreation?
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Recreation is re-creation.
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The Lord wants you to, dreams usually come and they're like stop signs in, in your emotion
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and said, a good stop sign.
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Would you stop?
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Go sit on this park bench in the Spirit and ask me what it is I want to do to give you
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peace, to re-energize you, to give you a hope.
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You know, it's Jeremiah 29, 11.
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It says that you give you a future and a hope.
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And so Israel was, you know, going into captivity in Jeremiah 11.
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But the Lord says, you know, listen, even in the midst of difficult times in captivity,
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you can find a future and a hope.
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And that's kind of what, what dream goals can do.
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And that's what daydreaming does.
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Daydreaming, you say, what do you mean by daydreaming?
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I mean, daydreaming is when you sit down and you meditate and you just sit down for a little
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while, close your eyes and take a deep breath and say, okay, I'm, I'm doing this.
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I'm having to work two jobs.
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I'm having to work overtime, but why am I doing this?
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And what you have to do is you need to discipline yourself and you pause and you say, the reason
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I'm doing this is because, and whatever that reason is, we're moving into this new house.
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You know what?
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I'm going to get a raise.
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I'm going to get a bonus and, and I, I won't have to be taking stuff out of the basket
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and having my child say, please go put that back on the shelf.
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You know, I want to be able to have enough money that when I go, I can get what I need
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at the store and I'm not having to, to put stuff back, all that type of stuff.
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And you need to start dreaming and seeing yourself.
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You need to start, you know, listen, Christine, I went through a time when we first went into
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full-time ministry where we were completely broke and, and literally our neighbor had
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to bring produce to our house and all we ate was out of their garden that summer.
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We had no food in the house.
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We had to go to Christie's parents and borrow $200 to get dog food so we could feed our
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dog.
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And so what happens is like with me, what I do now, if I'm at the grocery store and
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someone's in front of me and I, and listen, I know the behavior because I was that person
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and I see them and they're looking at stuff and they're watching the cash register calculated
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up and they've got their money out and they're going like this and they have to go to that
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child and say, okay, put that box of cereal and take it back.
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We can't get it this time.
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Not with me sitting there.
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I will push all the groceries in and I'm saying, no, this is all going in and they look and
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they say, what?
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And I say, the Lord's blessed me and I'm going to bless you in Jesus name.
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I'm taking care of all.
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And usually I'll put a hundred dollar bill down and I say, and you keep the change.
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And so I dreamed when I didn't have it, I daydreamed about, I want to be that person
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that blesses people who has a need.
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And now I'm there.
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It's not a dream anymore.
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It happens to me pretty regularly.
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So what happens is you have to start having that imagination and let your subconscious,
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here's the key is your subconscious mind.
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I don't care who you are.
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I don't care what your background is.
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Your subconscious mind wants to make an impact for good on people because you are, human
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beings are innately good.
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They want to do something good, especially when you're born again, the spirit of God
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is love and perfect love cast out fear.
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And God wants that love coming out.
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You want to be able to do it.
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But the thing is you have to be physically able to do it and financially be able to do
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it and be in the right place.
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Start seeing yourself like, okay, I want to do more evangelism.
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Start seeing yourself doing that evangelism, start imagining it, start dreaming it.
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Have what I call creative visualization, start seeing yourself, maybe take pictures of somebody
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else doing what they want to do.
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I'm just using it as sports.
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You see, we talked about snow.
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You want to be a better snow skier, then get a picture of somebody doing snowing, skiing
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and imagine it.
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What happens is every time you trigger that, what happens is every time you trigger, let
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me show you something.
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I was going to show you this earlier.
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Okay.
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I'm not going to put it up on the screen.
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I'm going to show you.
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Okay.
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So this is my dream goal.
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Okay.
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This picture, I'm going to show it to you.
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Okay.
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All right.
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Okay.
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All right.
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I see it.
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Okay.
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Now, now what I want you to do is I want you to take yourself and put yourself in a beach
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chair looking at this.
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Now all of a sudden you start to slow down.
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Hmm.
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Absolutely.
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Now if you take a deep breath, you'll start smelling the salt air.
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If you concentrate on it long enough, you'll start seeing, hearing the waves, small little
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waves hitting the sand.
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It's all in your memory.
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So what happens is when I'm working super hard, I don't know if I can put that on the
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screen for him.
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No.
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I mean, primarily people should be listening to this podcast.
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In a couple months, I don't know why I'm saying this.
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People watching now will know where to get it then, but just, I mean, showing things,
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I don't even know what I'm trying to say.
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Try to, if I was blind, explain it to me.
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Let's just do that.
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So explain to me the image from a sensory perspective on someone that can draw an image
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in their head, right?
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Or like play a movie.
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Okay.
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So when you write a goal and you have a plan, you need to be able to visualize it being
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complete.
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Okay.
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Just like traveling.
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If you take a long trip, we just came back from going to Israel.
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By the time I check the bags at Tulsa, okay, I check my bags in Tulsa and it says, and
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they hand me my tickets and they say, your bags are checked into Tel Aviv.
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You just kind of go, but now you've got basically about a 14 to 18 hour time of time task and
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activity.
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You got to change planes.
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You got to do all this stuff.
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So where does your mind go?
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Your mind goes to, I can't wait until I'm through passport control and I'm walking out
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to the curb and there's Sam going court court.
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So what happens is I am visualizing that at the first, second 14th hour, all during that
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time I am visualizing my goal.
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My goal is to get out of the airport and to be feet on the ground in the land of Israel.
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So the key is with what we're talking about with dreams and dream goals is you can't write
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a goal without writing the final chapter that you finish well.
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You need to undergirt your mind, body, soul and spirit saying your mind and your soul
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and your spirit wants to know like, you know, how does this finish?
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You know, Bishop Paul spoke a word at House of David back in the early 2000s and the word
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he spoke is he came here and he said, came from Togo, Africa and spoke a word to House
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of David and he said, you're going to finish and you're going to finish well.
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Well that's huge because as we know in ministry and in business, a lot of people start well
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and finish poorly.
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Well one of the ways to secure that you will not finish poorly is have dreams and daydreams
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and dream goals of you finishing well.
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What does it look like when you finish well?
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What does that look like?
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You know, so for me it's like my life started with my identity in Christ.
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I want to fulfill that purpose.
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I want to live in that destiny.
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I want all that God has in the courts of heaven for me, my inheritance.
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I want every drop of anointing, provision, everything I'm to do and say out of that
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account and I want to finish well and stand before Jesus and hear, well done good and
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faithful servant, but I want to leave an inheritance to my children's children.
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I want to leave the way.
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I want to leave breadcrumbs so that my children, my grandchildren and their children will say,
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we can follow Rabbi, we can follow Saba because it worked for him, it will work for us.
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So my dream is I actually have seen myself standing in the Spirit and through a dream.
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I've seen myself standing before Jesus and I've said this at Passover's before.
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I really believe, I can't biblically say this, but the fourth cup of Passover, the
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cup of praise, I believe that we're going to be welcomed by Jesus in heaven and he's
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going to have a goblet, a kiddish cup.
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You're going to hand that kiddish cup and as we hand that kiddish cup to us, you want
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to hear, well done good and faithful servant because when you seal a wedding, a Jewish
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wedding, you do it by drinking the cup.
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And so I believe that I personally have had dreams and daydreams of that moment when I see Jesus.
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So when I'm going through times where it's very difficult and I want to quit, I'm going
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through times when I'm sick, where I'm physically sick, but I have a speaking engagement and
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this is just me.
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I have actually not canceled speaking engagements because I was sick.
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I've been at the pulpit with 103 temperature.
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Doesn't matter, it's just what I do.
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But my point is when I have to face challenges like that, where do I go?
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I look at how I finish.
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I've dreamed it, daydreamed it and dreamed it in my sleep enough that I believe it and
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I know I make a promise to you and to my family.
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I'm going to finish and I'm going to finish well.
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All right, let's wrap up this episode with a little different question, has to do with
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dreams, but let's go ahead and wrap this up.
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Again, if you want to get the most recent download of The Goals to Grow, it's just kirtlandry.com
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forward slash grow 2024.
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That's where you can get your free download, free PDF.
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Rabbi, let's end this episode on an idea of generosity and how I think a lot of people,
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most Christians, I would say, I don't know of a study or a percentage, but I'm going
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to say most probably struggle with generosity, with tithing, with just giving in general.
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I'm sitting here listening to this story about you're sitting at a grocery store and if
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you see something like that to where you can kind of jump in and do it, it started with
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a dream.
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It started with being intentional on your daydreaming that resulted into... It was
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basically the full circle of dreaming.
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If someone wants to get better and tap into that spiritual power and receive the blessings
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of what being generous is and being able to fully buy into the tithe and just not miss
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and just be super intentional, where does dreams come into that if they want to use
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this goal to work on within the realm and the topic of dreams to just get better in
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consistency of giving and being generous?
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Honor... When you give, like when I go to a grocery store and I'm doing this, we live
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in a very rural area and around us is there's a lot of poverty.
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We have the dollar general and the family dollar and the different places that I shop.
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Most of the time when I'm there, socioeconomically, I'm at a much higher level, a different level
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than the people that are in that store.
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Here's the key is when you're giving in tithes and you're giving in offering, you need to
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experience in your soul, your mind, will and emotion, not the pain of sacrificial like,
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ooh, this hurts.
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I'm writing this big check.
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I'm giving.
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What you have to do is you have to understand that it's a seed.
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If you'll keep it in your heart and be a cheerful giver, the Lord will give back.
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It says 30, 60 and 100 full return.
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So what happens is you have to start having the... You have to crawl, walk, run and start
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having the experience of giving.
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Can you use, say daydreaming if you were to... You're sitting at the house and you say,
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I'm going to meditate for 30 minutes.
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I'm just going to sit here and just think and daydream.
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Can you use the technique of daydreaming, of basically visualizing yourself, getting
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to that level of, I don't want to say wealth, but the ability to the position to be as generous
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as you want.
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Is that a technique that people could use to do that?
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Yeah.
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You just have to not despise the time of small beginnings.
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Listen, I would encourage people to answer your question.
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First of all, tithing, giving 10%, it's a command.
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Offerings.
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I mean, obviously we tithe and we bring offerings and you can get all my teaching on biblical
47:23
finance at curtlandry.com.
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But the reason that we're cheerful givers is because it is, and you've heard the saying,
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it's better to give than receive.
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So here's the key.
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You have to start... Let's go to a grocery store.
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You're going to get in that situation.
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But one of the keys, one of the things you have to do is have some cash in your wallet.
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So what happens to me, before I go out, I always carry some cash.
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And the reason I do, and I have other friends that do this as well, it's not just me, we
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put cash in our wallets.
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Listen, I've got credit cards.
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I don't need cash.
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But the reason I have cash in my wallet is to do what I call alms, is to do exactly this.
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But I can tell you, listen, I can tell you I have had some dramatic experiences with
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this, to where I've taken care of someone's meal at a restaurant.
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I can take taking care of some groceries.
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And then I get out to my car and that person knocked on my window.
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I put the window down and they're crying.
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And they said, I so needed this today because I was ready to give up.
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25 bucks or something.
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I mean, it's like, come on.
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I pray for them.
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They leave.
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And then I sit in the car and cry because how good is God?
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How good is God?
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Can I share one testimony?
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Yeah, yeah.
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Let me share a testimony.
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It's kind of on that line.
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I used to be in the fruit business.
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And my partners, I was the one that traveled out and did all the PR for the brokerage.
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So I would go to the different grocery brokers like Publix, Harris Teeter, those different
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ones.
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So I was, and I used to stay at very moderate hotels, rent moderate cars.
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And my partners, listen, our business was extremely successful, multimillion dollar
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business.
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But that's just what I felt like to do.
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So I did.
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Understanding that my business partner says, listen, on the end of this junket, what I
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want you to do is when you get to St. Louis before you come home, go to the Marriott there.
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They have a really good spa, get a massage, stay in the nice room and go to a restaurant,
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eat steak and have a nice meal.
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So I said, okay.
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So I like that.
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Yeah.
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So I had all that done.
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And I didn't do that down in, I went to Publix.
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So I was in Jacksonville and Lakeland and Miami.
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I didn't do any of that.
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So I get there at the end of the trip.
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So I saw my last customer and I'm driving through a bad part of St. Louis on the freeway.
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I can't remember the area.
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It's been a long time ago.
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And this is a true testimony.
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So I'm driving and I'm thinking, okay, I got to get back to the hotel, change clothes so
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I can go get my spa and like that, and then go eat dinner and go to bed, fly home to Seattle
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the next day.
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And because we lived in Washington at that time.
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So I'm driving and I'm on the freeway and I look off to the right and the Lord says,
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I want you to stop and help that car.
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There's a car on the side of the road, a little four door compact car.
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And then I'm thinking to myself, no, I'm going to go to the spa.
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I heard the Lord say second time, He said, no, I want to hear that.
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I want you to go back and help that car.
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I said, I didn't stop again.
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So finally I heard a third time, He said, you need to go back to that car, the Holy
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Spirit.
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I said, okay, pull the car aside the road.
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I'm embarrassed to say this, but this is what I said.
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I said, well, Lord, now I've got to back up on the freeway.
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And if I do, I'm going to get a ticket.
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So I'm going to do it, but you better protect me from getting the ticket.
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I mean, how stupid is that?
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But that's what I said, forgive me.
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I'm being transparent.
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So I back up onto the car.
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Okay.
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I've got my suit on.
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I'm doing business, right?
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And there's a young woman in the car and she's got two kids in the car, car seats, and she's
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in the car and she's physically very upset.
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And I'm so stupid.
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I don't know what to do.
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I mean, we're in a bad part of St. Louis and here I am and she's in the car.
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She's a young girl and young lady, two kids in the car.
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So I did this, Darrell, so stupid.
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I raised my hands like this and I said to her, fear not, I come in the name of the Lord.
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I mean, it's like, how dumb is that?
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But that's what I did.
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I just raised my hand like, you know, she's in a bad part of town.
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There's a guy with a suit.
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I come up to the car and I say to her, I said, the Lord told me to stop to help you.
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She put the window down.
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She just breaks crying.
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I look in her lap.
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She's got a 357 Magnum in her lap.
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And she said she pulled the car over the side of the road.
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She says this was her husband's gun.
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And she pulled over the side of the road and she told the Lord, if you don't send somebody
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to help me, I'm going to kill these children and I'm going to kill myself right now on
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the side of the road.
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And long story short, I ended up following her, taking her home to where her house was.
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The family, why in the heck would you stop at that part of town?
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Told them she got saved.
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All the family got saved.
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I never made it to the spa.
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Got in so late, didn't eat the steak dinner.
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But that was a dream.
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I had a dream that Lord, you would use me to save people's lives.
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And saving people's lives is inconvenient and it costs you something.
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But I can tell you this, even the joy that I feel right now telling the story that was
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gosh, almost 28 years ago, it was better than the spa, better than a ribeye for the rabbi,
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better than me getting rest, was obeying God and doing what Jesus would have done.
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Because a young girl cried out in desperation, was listening to demonic demons that wanted
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to get her to commit suicide and answer the call.
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But that's always been a dream of my life is to help those who need help.
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Because in my life, when I've needed help, the Lord already sent people to me.
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So now He wants to send you and me to them.
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So, there's a step, CurtinAndrew.com forward slash goals 2024 Rabbi Super.
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Wow.
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I mean, thanks for sharing on your show.
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I hope that's what makes this podcast and content a little bit different, that people
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listening can get a different side and different perspective on things.
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And you can impart your wisdom in life and super relational experiences to try to take
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a little nugget out of it, right?
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And just do a little bit better today and just do a little bit better tomorrow.
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But again, CurtinAndrew.com forward slash goals 2024 to get your free download of Goals
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to Grow.
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Also, Rabbi, I know you love this.
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You love engagement.
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You love when people are giving feedback and they've got questions.
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Everybody knows you love answering questions on some live streams.
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But you can send those questions.
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Just make sure you put something in the subject line, title line.
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Send those questions to podcast at CurtinAndrew.com.
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And Rabbi, if people have made it to the deep end of this episode, what's your one little
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last parting thought before we jump out of here?
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Ask the Lord to give you big dreams.
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That's the key.
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I pray right now for each person within the sound of my voice that he would release to
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you big dreams.
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Big dreams.
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I had a dream, saw myself standing in front of thousands of people on a platform in like
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an evangelistic healing crusade.
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And I had it when I was new believer, fruit broker, not in ministry.
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And then several years later, I was with Dr. T.L.
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Osborne and Lome Togo standing on a platform in front of 30 to 50,000 people and I was
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wondering.
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And what happened is that subconscious dream, that sleep dream I had was preparing me for
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the Lord saying, I have things other than fruit business.
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This prophet named Fran Lance came to our house.
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And part of the words she spoke to me right about the time I had that dream, she said,
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you think of yourself in the fruit business and selling fruit that comes from trees.
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But the Lord says, I have called you into the fruit business that will not perish.
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And he says, and I've called you to give abundant fruit, fruit that remains.
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And that's where I'm at now.
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So I had a dream and the prophet had a word and none of them made sense in themselves.
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But now all these years later, those words and those dreams is what guides me and encourages
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me today, particularly on days when you need encouragement.
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So dream big.
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Dream big.
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Also, for the listeners, if you want to learn more about Curt Landry Ministries and the
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projects and just everything that we're doing from a humanitarian perspective, just visit
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our website, curtlandry.com.
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Again, if you have questions, send them over to podcasts at curtlandry.com as well.
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And Rabbi, it's been a good episode.
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Good.
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Tough subject, but I think if it helps, listen, it's not something that you can, when you
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start dealing with dreams and daydreaming and things, it's just good to know that your
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dreams can be your friend.
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So make friends with your dreams and invite the Lord.
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Before you go to bed, ask the Lord, Father God, give me a dream that will advance my
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life in your kingdom purpose.
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All right.
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That'll do it for this episode, Rabbi.
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Until next time.
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Yeah.
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Good night.