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Instantly Reset to Celebration - RAVE CHURCH Volume 18
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This is the soundtrack to your success. It's something we call Rave Church and family. It is so good to see you here on the virtual dance floor. This is Rave Church Volume 18. Let's go. I'm coming to you from Los Angeles, the City of Angels with me in the mix, and in the room as always is DJ Brian Neville. And if you are joining us on the virtual dance floor somewhere that you are able to comment, I want you to take a second, leave a comment, and let us know where in the world you're tuning in from today. Again, this is Rave Church volume seven, not 1718. Can you believe it? And we're here to inspire you today to the soundtrack up some incredible music. Thank you for checking in. Thank you for saying hi. Thank you for letting us know where you are using these mixes, because we really do. Create this for you, and we really do want this to be the soundtrack to your success. You know, I'm being very intentional with the mix today that this particular episode is designed to be a celebration from start to finish, which is why you're gonna hear it infuse in the music, hear at the start, and through the end. It's a celebration from start to finish. It's a divine burst of joy from start to finish family. And I pray that this is a reset for you from start to finish. I'll say more about that in a second, but let's just feel our way into the spirit of celebration together. We've got the fish on the tv. I know you can barely see that, but I love looking over and seeing a jellyfish. We've got Brian mixing, we've got the disco ball going and family. It's been a second since I reported one of these. Whether you're on a flight or at the airport, whether you're on the treadmill or lifting some weights, whether you're going for a run or driving with the kids doing your homework. Or building a funnel wherever it is that this finds you today. I am so happy that we get to share these moments together. And by the way, there is a party going on and I wanted to make sure you knew, because you may not be aware. We actually have a brand new. Rave Church Podcast Feed. Let me know in the comments if you have subscribed to the Rave Church feed. I know some of you are listening on the Stephan Love Grove Show page. I know some of you are tuning in with us here on YouTube and certainly we welcome you wherever you happen to be joining us from. But I want you to know there is a brand new designated feed just for Rave Church that has all of these mixes, that has all of these episodes in a row. Nothing missing, all in one place. I was telling Brian when we announced this, people let me know. Stefan, I have to tell you, I'm secretly relieved because I've been doing it for over a year and I was willing to do it, but man, have you made us hunt? To find the episode I was looking for and to save it and to listen to it when I needed it. And I hear that feedback family, we are happy to make it easier for you, so we will link it here. Make sure that you're subscribed, whether on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or wherever you prefer to listen to podcasts, but just know that there's a new podcast feed for our Rain Church family, and we really do want you to use it on a regular basis in your life. In fact, really, if you want to, you're invited to use these daily. You can push play on this. Every single day and let it shift your frequency. Let it speak to you, let it inspire you. Rave Church is here for you. Everyone around the world, family. It's gonna be a good mix. It's gonna be a good night. It's gonna be a good episode here with you family. And I feel like I've said the word family 94 times in the first five minutes. But listen, it's been a second since we did one of these. I miss you guys. Okay? And I don't know if you can feel it, but at the time of this recording, I have to mention something special is happening in this community, in the world of Step and Love Grow ministries. I feel like the last two teachings that have gone out, I've gotten some of the most amazing messages and reports and testimonies coming in of what people have experienced since listening to those episodes. If you're not caught up, some incredible teachings, some incredible episodes. Recently on the podcast for you. And also I will give a little teaser here because I know what is coming your way and where we're gonna head as a community over the next five months. And let me just assure you, you wanna be connected, you wanna be tuned in, you won't wanna miss a single moment of it. There is so much goodness, there is so much power coming your way over these next few months. So you are fully invited to be here, to be a part, to lean into this community in any way that you feel called to. It really is a lovely day, and this space is even more lovely because you are here in an. Thank you partners for giving to make this possible and for being with me on this journey. I appreciate you and I love you with my whole heart, and I just wanna invite you to feel into these words being spoken over you as this beat plays. What if it is going to be a lovely day? What if you are right where you are supposed to be? What if this is in fact a perfect present moment? In which all things are possible. What if God is actually right where you are meeting you in this moment? What if this mix really does get to be a divine reset? Maybe just maybe even the beginning of something new in your world. You know, I'm gonna say more about this later on in the mix, but Brian, I feel left to say this right now. Did you know we talk a lot sometimes in the personal development world about spiraling, right? And the way that our mind can spiral. But all a spiral really is, is an acceleration of energy. It's just an acceleration of energy moving in a certain direction. And I remember it changed my life the day I found out spirals don't just go in one direction. They go in either. Direction. They go in infinite directions. In other words, what if it's not just a, a possibility that you can negatively spiral? What if even as this Bill Withers classic plays, you could actually start to. Positively spiral. I feel somebody at the gym, somebody riding a bike, somebody walking the dog or making breakfast or typing an email, and you are positively spiraling right now. And again, I'm gonna come back to this idea, but a spiral is just an acceleration of energy. It can work in any direction. So if you can ride energy down in the wrong direction, why couldn't you spiral in a great way? I want this episode to be a reset for you, that you can use anytime you want. And I believe somebody might just be saving this, saving this on YouTube, saving this to their phone, downloading it in their podcasting app, because I really. Intend for this specific episode to be a go-to reset on demand for you. Anytime you want it, anytime you need it, and I wanna speak over you. It is never too late. It's never the wrong time, it is never out of reach. You can always, always reset. I don't care if this is your 73rd time listening to this episode. Welcome back. There are talks, there are episodes, there are resource. That I have returned to at least that many times because they were that impactful in my life. So I don't care if it is your 73rd time, it is never too late. It is never the wrong time, and it is never out of reach. You can always reset. So welcome back. Welcome back to Rain Church. Welcome back to the show. Welcome back, and take this reset. I knew this song would make me smile. This is the shortest track we've ever played. And guess it's from the Disneyland 70th s selection. I don't have to be so good, but I knew. I knew that this would elevate us together. I knew that this would make me smile. Come on, key change. Take the reset. It is here for you. It's headed your way. So good. We're singing it eye to eye. We're seeing it in a new light. We're seeing it differently right now. I, I wanna talk to you in this episode today about what you see, because I really feel called and I really feel led and I really feel it strongly. Some of us need a reset in this area. There are people listening to this episode, listening to this mix right now, and somehow, maybe not on purpose, maybe by accident, maybe along the way, but somehow you have ended up in a rut and in a pattern of going by what you see. That what you see sets the tone and sets the narrative that what you see determines what you're capable of and what's possible for you. That what you see determines your move, your emotions, how you feel that what you see determines what you expect, what you see determines what you believe. And I really feel so strongly some of us have gotten stuck in a rut and now we're just going by what we see. And the challenge here is when we only live according to what we see, we end up living life in reactive mode. Where we're never truly fully creating. We're just reacting. We're just responding. We're just living at the effect of something else. Reacting to what you see, reacting to the environment around you, reacting to the circumstances or the current events continually and family, this doesn't feel good. It doesn't feel good to live life in reactive mode. Mo, you know, I was telling Brian before we started recording today, there's new research out this month that, and I, I'm a little hesitant. I hate to be the one to share this with you because. I imagine I am breaking the news that a lot of you haven't heard this research, but I think it's important. I think it is worth acknowledging even as someone who admittedly loves TikTok myself, but new research would suggest short form video. Scrolling frequently can actually be five times worse for the brain. Then alcohols and can actually make permanent changes to how your brain operates. Now, I'm not here to be a scientist. I'm not here to be a a brain expert. I'm not here to tell you what to do with your phone or your apps or your time. But I think there is a point that I can speak to and that I want to acknowledge here. I think there's something going on beyond just what this does to our attention span. See, I think something happens when we live from scroll to scroll to scroll, uh, an another dopamine hit another dopamine, hit another dopamine, hit new, new, new, refreshed, refresh refreshed. I think this thing accidentally happens that it puts us into a continuum. Reactive mode. I don't know if anybody ever told you this, but the algorithm is not actually designed for what you like or what you love or what you want. Sometimes it's that, sometimes it includes that, but the algorithm is actually designed for what you react to. And so I know people love to say, I built this algorithm. I built this FYP brick by brick. But did you know the algorithm is giving you what you react to? You know, somebody just asked me a question today. They said, Stephan, how do I come to terms with the fact that I feel so angry about this particular thing? But everyone in my life doesn't seem to feel the same way. Not everybody in my life feels angry about it. Not everybody in my life is on the same page seemingly, and I'm trying to make sense of that. And I. I want you to be aware, the algorithm on any app is designed to trigger a reaction to get you to react to something. And it's possible without us realizing it. For us to not live in creative mode, but in reactive mode. And it's almost like we are the pinball being thrown around the machine in every direction. And I love this fierce, intense dead mouse track playing right now because this is the intensity and this is how it sometimes feels when you're just getting thrown around, reacting to this, reacting to that. And everything is designed to produce an emotion, and everything is designed to push a button to the maximum debris. And so this thing is making me angry and this thing is making me jealous of that person. And this thing is making me feel like I'm behind. And this thing is making me feel like I should be further along by now. And this thing is making me want something that I don't even really want. Always reacting to something. But we're here to break that cycle, to break that pattern, to interrupt that experience today. Attention, attention, attention, attention in your brain, attention in your heart, attention in your consciousness, attention in your spirit, attention in your nervous system. This is a divine interruption. This is a divine reset. We interrupt this broadcast for a telecast that goes straight to your soul. And I wanna remind you today that you are made in the image of God, which means you are designed to be a creator, not a reactor. We're getting you out of the for a moment today. It is time for you to remember how much power you have. It is time for you to remember the divinity that is carried within you. It is time for you to create more than you consume. It is time for your vision to be more powerful in your life than any algorithm. It is time for you to exit reactive mode. And I just believe family, at some point we have to decide are we going to walk by faith or by sight? Because you literally have to choose. There have been moments in my career when coaching people and working with people and living in la. I found myself having friends or clients or allies on both sides of a big Hollywood divide or a big entertainment divide. And there have been moments in the past where I have said, I choose to be Switzerland here. I'm not gonna take a side. But unfortunately, you don't get to be Switzerland. You don't get to be neutral with this. At some point, family, we have to decide, are you going to walk by faith or walk by sight? And walking by sight just means going by what you see living according to what you see. That's very normal. That's very automatic. That's very easy to do. It's not something insidious. That's all it takes to walk by sight. But at some point we have to choose, and I hate to be the one to tell you this as well, if you have not chosen or are not choosing deliberately, think you don't wanna choose, the choice has already been made. The choice has been made for you, and you are in fact walking by sight. The default is walking by sight here. This today, walking by. Just means going by what you see. But see, faith is the evidence of things not yet seen. I pray that someone gets that in a new way Today, faith is the evidence of things not yet seen, and I decree and declare somebody's making a new choice right here and now. I. You know, I love this track because it reminds. Us that a new state of mind is always available forever available, available to you right here and right now. Nothing else needs to happen for you to move into a new state of mind. Nothing else needs to change in the external before you enter a new state of mind. What if you have the mind of God fully available to you right now? And so we're talking about walking by faith and walking by sight and the trap of just living according to what we see. And I want you to know family. I get it. Is so easy for what we see to get us hooked, especially when there is history, especially when there is emotion behind it, especially when there is a story there. And even more so when tied to our identity, tied to our self image or our self worth, or the way that we see ourselves. Fundamentally, I know how easy it is for what we see to get us hard. But what you see is infinitesimally small. I don't know if I said that word correctly. I put it in my notes. I literally had to look it up to confirm I was getting it correctly. I'm gonna try one more time. What you see is in, I, I'm still saying it wrong. You get the idea. It is so small. It is so micro. It is infinitesimally small. I think that's it compared to the infinite potential that lies within God and God is. You. God is within you. Resurrection power is inside of you. Family. I came to tell somebody today, you are so much bigger than what you're going through right now. You are so much bigger than what they said about you. You are so much bigger than that circumstance or obstacle or situation that is taking up so much mental real estate, and at some point you have to interrupt what you see. I pray this episode truly gets to be a divine interruption for somebody today. I pray this episode is a divine interruption for you to believe in something that is currently invisible. To believe in what God speaks over your life more than what you can currently see in your life. Because only one of them can win out. Somebody needs to hear this truth today. Then there's only two options. Either the circumstances will change your beliefs or your beliefs will change your circumstances and all depends which one you stick with. It all depends which one you hold on to. It all depends which one you give all the power. Either the circumstances will change your beliefs or your beliefs will change the circumstances. You know, there's a principle from an ancient scripture that I feel like very few people understand and very few people live, but it gives us four simple and yet life changing works. And it tells us, are you ready? These are the four words in everything. Give thanks. Now many of you know Thanksgiving is like my favorite day of the year, my favorite holiday. It is so special and meaningful to me. And around that day, around that time, around that month of November, here in the United States, it can be easy for people to think this is the day, this is the holiday. This is the time where we choose to quote unquote give things better. Actually, the spiritual principle tells us in everything give, and the way I take that is that God wants for you to know there is a choice that you can make in every single moment, and that choice is called gratitude. The choice to give thanks. The choice of praise, the choice of celebration. You can always give thanks. You can always say thank you. You can always find a reason to go there in your heart. Now, I would argue potentially the opposite of gratitude. Potentially the other end of the frequency spectrum from gratitude might just be self-pity. And I would suggest to you today, yes, living by what you see is one of the most dangerous choices you could make, but tied with that might just be living in self-pity. See, self pity says you are by definition a victim deserving of pity, deserving of people feeling bad for you. Because you are inherently broken, you are inherently disadvantaged. You are inherently not able to have what everybody else can have. That is the soundtrack of self-pity, the story of self-pity, and I want you to understand family. What makes this such a trap is our brain always wants to prove us, right? We never want to contradict our own self image. So self-pity ends up being a very hard thing. To receive. Good. On top of, you could say self-pity is like emotional junk food. When we start going down that route, when we start indulging in it, when we start feeling bad for ourselves, Brian, have you ever done that Indulgently, and can we be so for real family, it kind of feels good for a minute. It feels comforting. But I think it really is like emotional junk food. It feels comforting in the moment, but it leaves you weaker, hungrier, more unhealthy at the end. And maybe somebody listening to this though, this isn't the main message of this mix, maybe somebody listening to this, what's gonna help you disconnect from being reactive and living according to what you see is pulling the pluck on the cell pity. And I just believe for anybody who is treading water in the wave pool of self-pity right now, I believe gratitude interrupts that, that gratitude is so effective in interrupting that that gratitude interrupts that like hardly anything else. And gratitude tells you there is something good in your life right now. Even if this is a difficult season, gratitude says, Hey, there is something good happening right now, even if you can't see it yet. Brian, this was a perfect track to play right now for the shift that somebody needed out of self-pity and into gratitude. I'm just gonna let a verse and a chorus play for people to breathe good energy in. Love is not gonna leave you. Broken family. There's a new love coming in the picture. A love that is unconditional, A love that you can trust. Breathe this in. I believe God is healing somebody right now. God is speaking to somebody right now. God is energizing refueling somebody right now from the inside out. And so family. I really want you to breathe in these four words and this simple, but life changing, profound invitation in everything. Gift thanks. I'm here to suggest that that practice alone could change your life this day, this week, this month. I wanna invite you right now, whatever you're doing right now, whatever you're going through right now, whatever you're moving through right now, what if you took this as an opportunity to practice?'cause this is something I practice in everything. This is something I practice always, and I'm not trying to reference our boys, John and Dom with everything. Always shout out. But I dare you, family, whatever you're doing right now, to give thanks. To choose gratitude. God is so good. Life is so good. Your future is so much brighter than your mind is telling you right now. This iconic song that I literally waited for it to come out for years is called Inside Our Hearts, and that's where the real transformation all begins. That's where God does brain surgery like no one else. That's where God does heart surgery like no one else. Would you open up fully to the transformation that is occurring inside your heart? You know, I once heard it said anytime God allows a delay in something. It is only because there is compound interest for us there. Brian, I love that you're taking us in a gospel vibe for a moment because I feel like I need some keys. I need some drums. I need an organ. Can we give an amen for compound interest? My God. That's the most Republican sounding thing I've ever said on this mic. Wow. Listen, anytime God allows a delay in something, it's only because there is compound interest for us there, meaning? I, I want somebody to really hear this. I know I'm saying that in a plate. Little cheeky, fun way, but this is the serious point. If that thing had already showed up by now, there's something you would've missed. There's something you would not have received. There's something you would not have gotten. You know, I just had a partner message me today. They said stuff in this thing I thought I wanted, I was in so much pain about, I thought I swore I wanted it. They said, since then, all this information has come to light. All of this stuff that was hidden. All of this stuff that I didn't see before. Thank God I didn't work out. They said I wanna celebrate. It was protection and I speak that over somebody today. Sometimes it's protection and you don't even have to know why. Sometimes though, it's protection, but I really wanna speak this idea that sometimes God allows a delay in the things showing up because there's compound interest. So you actually end up better off, more blessed, more abundant, more successful, more wealthy inside and out on the other side because there's something that came in through the delay or during the delay there's compound interest. What if that is true? What if the thing that you're frustrated about, the thing that you're asking, why, why, why? The thing that you feel delayed about, what if there is. Compound interest accruing for you in that situation? Right now. Play. Play. I love that we're listening to this particular track. Say it over and over and over again. Grateful. Grateful, grateful. Because I can feel people starting to practice in everything. Give thanks. So if I'm working, I'm choosing gratitude and it's an opportunity to practice. If I'm working out, I'm choosing gratitude and it's an opportunity to practice if I'm by myself or if I'm with my partner. If I'm with my kid, it's an opportunity to practice. I can feel somebody shifting into gratitude right now. See, I think this is how you would be feeling if you knew I'm getting something out of this. This is working for my gut. This is not a punishment. This is not a curse, and this is not gonna be wasted. I'm getting a gift outta this. I'm getting a blessing outta this. I'm getting compound interest out of this. I believe somebody would be in that gratitude if you knew that. It's gratefulness. It's the opposite of self pity. It is the power to transform your perspective in any situation. You know, there's a story that I felt led to share with somebody today. You can let me know in the comments if you're familiar with a woman named Darlene Jack. Let me know if that name means anything to you. But there was a, a, a song writer, an artist named Darlene Jack, and a couple of decades ago. She found herself in this really difficult season of life. She was very much in the gig economy, barely surviving, barely making it from one gig to another, and they had a family to take care of. They had kids to feed, and it was a difficult season, and things had just been tough for a long, long time. And Darlene shares in the middle of this season. It felt like it just kept going on and on and on. There was a moment that almost broke her where this tact bell showed up and it was just too much. It was just overwhelming. It was the straw that broke the camel's back. This season had already been difficult. It had already been going on and on and on, and now here's this massive tax bill, and she has no idea what they're gonna do, how they're gonna pay it, how they're gonna come up with the money, and she's overwhelmed. But in that moment that as that song just said, she could have given up, she felt like it. She, she felt tempted to give up. She made a different choice and she interrupted. The despair. You've heard me quote before, the Shel stray quote, my dear, I'm sorry, but you do not have the luxury of despair right now. Somebody might need to hear that you don't have the luxury of despair. Don't indulge in that and so. Darlene did not give herself the luxury of despair, but instead she said, I'm going to choose gratitude. She chose to live out this principle. I'm not going to go by what I see. I'm going to make a a different choice that's rooted in something deeper. I'm going to choose in everything gift. And so she sat down at a little piano and she did what she knew to do. She did something that might have seemed small and insignificant. She did something that she had done so many times before and she sat down at a piano and she wrote a song. Specifically. She opened the scriptures up to an ancient Hebrew text found. Psalm 96 through a hundred, and she said, I'm going to connect to something deeper. I'm going to connect to something higher. I'm going to connect to the goodness of God, even if nothing about my life feels good right now. And she sat at this piano and she wrote what felt to her like a throwaway song called Shout to the Lord. Now, if you grew up in a certain kind of church world, you know that song? I don't have to tell you. You know about Shout to the Lord, and if you don't know, that's okay. But she wrote this song and it felt like a throwaway song. In fact, Brian, the first time she played this song for someone, she said, I probably apologized a hundred times or a thousand times as I played it every other lie. I'm like, I'm sorry. It might not be good. We can change the lyrics. I'm sorry. She's playing the song and she finishes the song and the guy looks at her and he says, that song is amazing. We're singing that song on Sunday, and I wanted to share this because we're somewhere around I, I don't even know, I wanna say the 30th anniversary of this song and this song by conservative estimates. By the way, we're not playing this song. I feel like now I'm setting it up for this song and we're not playing this song, but this song has been sung at least 100 billion times worldwide by conservative estimates. Some people would estimate could be a trillion times or more. That individual people have sung this song, and I am so struck by this story that she was going through this overwhelming moment of, are we ever gonna get to the other side of this season? Is life ever gonna be better? And now one. I can't believe I have to deal with this. How are we ever gonna pay this tax bill? But she interrupted it all and she wrote the biggest song of her life. Like, if you don't know this song, you don't understand. This song changed a genre of music. Okay? This song went in languages she would never even know, like know the language existed, much less know the language. This song changed her life. This song changed her career. This song changed an entire world of music. And it came from one moment where she said, I'm not gonna go by what I see. I'm going to interrupt that. I'm gonna choose gratitude. I'm gonna choose to find the good. I'm going to choose to connect to a truth that is greater than my situation and family. We have several songs left. Don't, don't click off. Now, don't click off at the most powerful part of this episode in this mix so far. Have to tell you a quick story. And I'm not gonna indulge in despair, but I am gonna indulge in this story for a moment'cause it's been too long since I did rave church. Um, so I was telling Brian last month, I had what people seem to be calling around me locally these days, at the time of this recording, the summer flew. Now I don't know if that's a real thing. It feels like a thing that seems to be going around that people are talking about. I don't know. I certainly don't wanna give energy to it. I'm certainly not speaking it into existence for anybody listening today. But a apparently I have the summer flu. All I know is family. I was down with something for like two weeks plus, and that is so rare for me. I've never been sick in my life for two weeks plus. And, and I wanna share this transparently with you because with the positivity that I. Show up with, with the motivation that I show up with, with the inspiration that I show up with. I know that sometimes it's easy for people to sit at home and think, yeah, it all sounds so great in the mix. It all sounds so great when that feely music is playing. I've had people tell me this over the years, Stefan, it's so great. When I'm praying with you, it's so great when I listen to the teaching, it's so great when I'm in that space. But the problem is at some point I have to turn it off and go back to my life and then I'm dealing with my kids and then I'm dealing with my boss, and then I'm dealing with my clients and it doesn't feel the same to which I say, have you tried bringing the music there? No, I'm kidding. You could bring Rave Church into your everyday life, but, but listen, I want you to know I don't show up this way and I don't have this perspective and I don't have this level of belief and conviction and faith that you can feel. And it is real and it is genuine. When people. Say, Stefan, you prayed for me and I felt a conviction. They're saying that and feeling that for a reason, that conviction is real. But I want you to understand, I don't have this, I don't show up this way because there's never any issue or there's never any contradiction, or there's never any challenge in my life and in my circumstances and on the level of what I see, and I just wanted to be real with you for a moment. Then being sick for longer than I've ever been sick in my life and really not feeling well for a second. There was getting to me at times, and it was this weird place of, I know this isn't gonna last forever. Like, I'm not permanently ill, I'm not chronically ill. I, I did believe at the whole, throughout the whole experience that it was temporary, but it was this weird place of, I know this isn't gonna last forever, but man. Does this feel exhausting and never ending and not fun right now? And I could feel even going through it. This is what it always feels like when what you are going through temporarily feels all encompassing and feels overwhelming and feels like it's never gonna end. And I know there's somebody listening to this, and that's where you are at. And I want you to know just as much as it was true for me, it's true for you. It is not always going to feel like this. It is not always going to look like this. It, it is not always going to be like this in your life. Please hear that. Please know that was a divine message for you, but I haven't even gotten to the, the most important part of the story. So I'm on the tail end of the, the quote unquote, can we laugh at it now? The quote unquote summer flu. I'm at the tail end of it. Okay. And I spoke to her. Earlier this idea that a spiral is just an acceleration of energy, it's just compounding energy, right? It's just energy moving in a direction. And I could feel at this point, because this has affected me physically, mentally, emotionally, it's gotten to me, I could feel the possibility of energy moving in a bad direction. And I was aware of that. And so I'm in that place and I can feel that. And it's a little bit fragile. It's a little bit vulnerable. And in the midst of this, I had something happen, and it might sound so small, but you need to understand, I've already been sick for two weeks at this point. I'm already feeling fragile at this point. You know, this is why they say never trust exhausted emotions, okay? But I'm in this moment, and I for context, and I know this is a long story, but I believe the payoff is worth it. I actually believe this is the message that I came with most of. So for context, I've lived in this building approaching four or five years. I don't know exactly, but a good while. And I have never had anything stolen whatsoever. And I, I, I'm not gonna worry about how this comes across. I'm sorry if this sounds very privileged and somebody might be listening to this and they're like, Steph, and I've had 80 packages stolen. You're not gonna get me, you're not gonna make me feel sorry for you. I'm so sorry that's the case. Um, I don't know how this story's gonna come across, but again, I just need you to understand, I have lived here for so long. You, you have to have access to even get to this floor. Brian knows security's gotta let you up. I've lived here for years. I've never had anything stolen and family for the first time in my life. As I'm on the tail end of the summer flu, I have a package stolen. And for a second I felt. The immense spiral that was available to me. Have you ever felt it where you're like, you're not in it yet, but you're on the cusp. And this is when we wanna bring awareness. This is when we wanna catch it. And I could feel we could really go down a spiral. You've been sick, you've been suffering, you've been going through it. And as if you needed another thing, and I hadn't even heard the Darlene Jack story yet at the time, but I want you to consider, we all have these moments and people tell themselves a story that the ones who are successful, the ones who are abundant, the ones who seem so happy and doing so well, people tell themselves a story. They don't understand what it's like. They haven't been through what, what I've been through. And I want you to understand family. Don't let that, that thought process win. Don't go down the road of self pity. It's not your friend. And I want you to understand, I know this is a minuscule example. This is not the worst thing that's ever happened to me, okay? But I want you to understand we all have these. Moments big or small, where we get to decide what kind of turning point is this gonna be? And I have seen this play out family where two people can go through the same thing and one person will say It was because of that, that I lost my faith and I gave up and I never believed in anything again. And another person will say, I went through that same thing and that was when my faith grew like never before. And they're talking about the same instance. And that's why I love the Darlene story, because she gets this tax bill in an already overwhelming season. And that could have been the thing that made her give up. That could have been the thing that made her decide life was not worth living. That could have been the thing that made her sink into depression and despair that she never got out of the rest of her life. But instead she said, I'm gonna go to the piano. I'm gonna tap into something I'm gonna choose and everything give thanks. And so here's what's crazy, for the first time ever living in this place. I have a package stolen, and I can feel we could go a lot of directions with this in consciousness, but then I realized something and I feel like this was so on purpose. God made sure I didn't miss this. Of all things that could have been stolen, the package that gets taken had only one very cheap, very small, very tiny item in it. I, I swear to you, family and I, I don't know if this feels as significant to you as it did to me in that moment, but it was major for me in that moment. I needed this in that moment, the package that got stolen was my neon sticky notes for the celebration wall. I swear to you, I have never had something stolen. You know, that, that TV being delivered, no threat, no issue, hasn't stolen. Of all the items that have come through, I have never had anything touched or stolen. The one time it happens, it. Literally a package that only contains my neon sticky notes for the celebration wall. Now family, I am not one of those people that like the mic crackles a little bit and I'm like, the enemy doesn't want you to get this word. I am not one of those people, but I felt I have to share this with you as transparently as I can. This, this was my experience. As soon as I realized that what got stolen were my sticky notes for the celebration wall, it, it was like I immediately heard in my soul, and again, I'm not trying to make this weird. I'm not that person. I'm not trying to oversize it, but this is how I experienced it. Family. This is how I felt it. It was like the moment that I realized that I heard in a still small voice step, your celebration is at risk. Right now. Your celebration is. Under attack. It's your celebration that you're being tempted to give up right now, and you can choose to walk away from the celebration because you're tired of being sick. You can choose to walk away from the gratitude. For now, because you're tired of and exhausted, you can choose to leave behind the joy because this season has gotten to you for a second. But it's your celebration. Will you let them, will you let this sickness? Will you let this season take your celebration and family? As I said, spiraling can work in infinite directions. We can take the same moment, the same turning point, the same inciting incident, and we can go in a very positive direction or we can go in a very negative direction. But I'm telling you, when I realized it was these sticky notes, I said, I'm fighting back. And yes, this is a. Neon yellow sticky note I have for us today, rave Church volume 18. It's going up on the celebration wall after this, as we bless it, even before it gets to you, even before you hear this. But it was like something came over me and I said, oh, I know what we're choosing now. That's all I needed to see. I'm not gonna stop celebrating. I'm not gonna walk away from gratitude. I'm not gonna let this take my joy as soon as I realize you mean this is what's under attack? No th there's no power in neon sticky notes. But there's power in gratitude. There's power in in everything. Give thanks. There's power in. I'm not going by what I see. I'm going by what God has spoken over my life. There's power in that. And you know what I did, Brian? I immediately placed an order and I said, I'm ordering them twice over, even brighter. Even more colorful and, and I got those sticky notes and the very next day I put like 20 up. I said, nothing is gonna take away my celebration. And so we have a few more songs left. We're gonna play the next song in a moment. But family, I really am believing, and I came believing today as we press record and met you on the virtual dance floor, that this is a divine reset and a divine interruption on purpose, right on time for somebody. And I pray that just like I did when I reordered those sticky notes and I said, nothing is gonna stop my thanks. Nothing is gonna stop my gratitude. Nothing is gonna stop my celebration. I pray that you can reconnect to that place within yourself here and now as well. Let's keep the music going as the reset occurs for people. All over the world right now. Show me all your, and I'll show you, tell me how in the middle of the night, not the only one, you're not the only one who feels that way. And more importantly, you are not alone. God is not left. Jill rise. Yes. It'll, oh yes. It'll, I need you to hear. You won't be feeling like this forever. Oh, yes. One. I know it might feel like this is just the way it is for you. The way it's always been or the way life has to be, but it's a lie. It's a lie. It's a lie. Only one. The seasons are changing. Something new is coming. And it is time now to believe in something you haven't yet seen. Your vision is gonna have to expand into that. Your self image is gonna have to expand into that, but you get to make the choice right now. It's time right now to believe in a future that looks different from your present. Together, somebody is choosing hope. Right now. Somebody is choosing to believe again. Right now, somebody is choosing gratitude. Right now, somebody is choosing to leave the bill right there and to go to the piano. And what you choose in this moment might just change your life or change the world. The midnight hours, the turnaround, that's cheesy, but it's good. Yes, it'll breathe this hope in. Yes, it'll, it, it, it in the back of the van cross all high. I wanna encourage you family, at any moment in time, you can plug something new into your imagination. Didn't go that GPS somebody needs to hear this, that GPS was not set in stone by your childhood. That GPS was not set in stone by your hometown. That GPS was not set in stone by your parents or your trauma. The first time you can plug something new in, and when you plug something new into your imagination, you immediately begin heading towards something new that is happening for somebody right now. And God knows how to get you there, and I promise your subconscious can handle it. I wanna encourage you, the details will be figured out over time. You don't have to know how love is gonna lead the way love is gonna take you there. Love is all it takes. The details will be figured out over time, but let yourself go there. Let yourself connect to the new. Let yourself begin to imagine something new. I can feel it right now. Somebody disconnecting from what you see and starting to see something new on the inside with inner vision, whatever has to happen will happen. Whatever has to happen will happen. Whatever has to happen, I said will happen. Let your mind go there. Let your imagination go there. Let your heart open. God is downloading something new into your spirit today. All right, family. We have a bonus song. If you are a regular dancer with us on the Raid Church virtual Dance floor, you may know that we usually only have two songs after the Keys. We've got three today. We've got one more, and I told you I promised, and I keep my word, that this was gonna be celebration from start to finish. We started with celebration. We're gonna end with celebration, and I want you to choose Celebration right now. Do you know when they wrote this song? You might have heard me share before they wrote it about the creation poem in one ancient text and how God made the world and made the humans and made all of the creatures and there was a celebration upon creation. I pray that as you hear the song, you can feel God celebrating you, that you are a royal child, infinitely and unconditionally loved on air to all of the inheritance that God is speaking over you today. Somebody hear this text? My dearest one. Let me tell you how I see you. You are so thrilling to me. Somebody received that. You make God so happy. You make God smile. Guys so proud of you. This is Issa. I told you this was gonna be a divine interruption. I told you this was gonna be a reset that took prior, and as this song plays, I speak over you. You're getting your joy back. You are getting your happiness back. You're getting your gratitude back. Shut back. Nothing can steal your joy and nothing can take away your celebration. I hope you feel that your gratitude is taking you somewhere new right now, and I pray you just let yourself go there, that you breathe in, in that you let yourself feel it, because after all, your subconscious mind doesn't know the difference between an imagined and a real experience. Your nervous system doesn't know the difference. So you might as well breathe it in now. Let yourself feel it right now. Feel what it feels like to live in the answer prayer. Feel what it feels like to know how loved you are. Feel what it feels like to know it's all taken care of. Are you feeling how loved you are? Are you feeling how favored you are? Are you feeling how supported you are? You know, this track is almost 12 minutes long in total, and I don't think we've ever done any track, even the long ones that have come close to being 12 minutes in duration. And I almost second guessed it for that reason. I almost took this track out. But I felt family. I felt Brian, I felt that we just needed this track because we're fighting for somebody's faith today. You know? That's really the only battle you're called to fight. The fight of faith, and so I just felt like we needed to persist in consciousness. We needed to stay in this energy. We needed to stay in this frequency. We're getting you back to gratitude. We're getting you back to celebration. In fact, in just a moment, I'm gonna write a new sticky note to add something else to the celebration wall, just to remind myself, nothing stops my celebration. See what you're about to realize with this track. Is, that wasn't an ending. It was just a transition. And that's really the word I'm speaking over somebody today. It, it's not an ending. It's a transition. It's not a curse. It is a transition. It is not doom and gloom. It's a transition. It's not a ominous sign. It's a transition. It's not the end of the story. Somebody hear me today? It's a transition into something greater. It's a transition into something higher. It's a transition into something better. Oh my God, we've never gotten this carried away with energy and rave church, but it feels right. I don't know. From your breakthrough, what if you really are just one away from your breakthrough? One choice, one decision, one moment of celebration. I don't know who took that package, but they didn't know that joy that they unleash within me, the celebration that they unleash. Within me, the power that they unleashed within me because I'm spiritually stubborn. And I said, wait a minute, there's an opportunity to hear to shut down on my celebration. I'm doing the opposite again. I wanna remind you your nervous system and your subconscious don't know the difference. Experience and an imagined experience. So you might as well just feel it as real right now. You might as well just feel it. It's not, you might as well just feel it like it's happening right now. How cool is it to realize across space and time? There's people feeling it right now. We're sitting at that piano metaphorically, and we're saying, this is not gonna be the end. This is not gonna be a negative spiral. This is not gonna take me out. But from here, I only go higher. It only gets better and better from here. I came to tell you today, the rest of your life is the best of your life. You have a glorious future. Nothing has canceled out your destiny. I told you we were gonna go longer than ever before. We were gonna go longer than you expected. We are going longer than comfortable because we are getting you into that celebration zone beyond what you see. This is RA Church. Thank you for sticking with us all the way to the end here, family. This is Rave Church volume 18. A huge thank you to DJ Bryan Neville for always co-creating these mixes with me. If you have any kind of event, especially a wedding coming up, I 100% recommend Bryan for the events and the dance floor of your dreams, and thank you, God for speaking through me and speaking to every single person as this episode goes out around the world. I pray and I affirm that every single person got exactly the reset and the encouragement that they needed today. Now, if you are new to Rave Church, but this episode spoke to you today, I wanna make sure you know there is an entire podcast with every single one of these mixes ready for you on demand anytime, we will link it here. It is available both on Apple Podcasts and on Spotify, really wherever you prefer to listen. So make sure to follow the show right now, and I fully invite you to make these a part of your everyday life and see how it gives you new perspective and changes the way that your life feels over time for the better. As always, I wanna shout out and say thank you to all of my partners. As many of you know, I no longer sell coaching courses, masterminds, or programs, but all of my work is given away to the whole world and translated into various languages as it reaches nearly 200 countries and territories, all for free, and that is all community supported, made possible by my partners who generously give and sow into this work. If you benefited from the episode today and you want to be part of supporting this work, we joyfully receive that now at lovegrovepartners.com. 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I bless you into every need in your world always being met without question, without hesitation, and without fear. As some of you have heard me teach before, all, always everything. I bless you into million dollar, multimillion dollar, and even billion dollar ideas, all of which are a blessing to you and a blessing to the world. I bless you into being able to reach more, serve more, love, more, impact more, and give more than ever before this year, because you have received more than ever before, and it all comes from overflow and most of all family, I bless you into knowing that God is your source. There is always more on the way. You never have to be afraid and you only increase and multiply and expand from here. I speak all of this in the name of Jesus who said all things are possible for the one who believes. And if you are joining your faith with mine right now, you are the one who believes. Last but not least here, if you resonated with today's message, the best thank you that you can give us is to share it. You never know whose miracle is waiting on the other side of your share. Somebody needs this joy right now. Somebody needs this message right now. Somebody needs this exact encouragement and the way it's gonna get to them. The reason it's going to show up on their feed or on their phone is because of you. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you for sharing right now, wherever you like to hang out on social media, Bryan and I appreciate you more than words can express. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for being part of the Rave Church family. I will see you back here soon, both on the dance floor and for more life-changing teachings on the Stephen Lovegrove Show. In the meantime, I love you. I believe in you, and the best is yet to come.