Vision: God's Strategy for Increase | Ep. 6

What if the level of increase in your life is directly connected to what you can see?

In this episode, we explore how vision is God’s strategy for multiplication, breakthrough, and spiritual growth. Throughout Scripture, God consistently expands capacity by first transforming what His people see—and what they agree with internally.

Drawing from the lives of Jacob, Abram, and Hannah, we unpack how God used vision to unlock supernatural increase:

• How Jacob’s vision influenced what was multiplied in his flock
• Why God brought Abram outside to reshape his expectation and expand his promise
• How Hannah’s surrendered vision positioned her to birth legacy beyond her pain

If you’ve felt stuck, limited, or unsure how to step into the fullness of what God has for you, this episode will help you understand how renewing your vision aligns you with heaven’s blueprint for your life.

You’ll learn:

• Why vision is essential for spiritual growth and breakthrough
• How what you focus on shapes what you produce
• The connection between faith, imagination, and manifestation in the Kingdom
• Practical ways to partner with the Holy Spirit to see clearly again

This episode is for Christian women seeking clarity, healing, purpose, and alignment with God’s promises. If you're ready to stop guessing and start seeing—this is your invitation.

✨ It’s time to expand your vision so you can step into God’s increase.

Transcript

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You know me, my name is Lexi Wanamaker and I am a certified life coach and I'm also an inner healer, inner healing and deliverance minister. I've been doing this for the past seven years and really enjoying and just being blessed by the process of walking with people through their stories. You know, it's it's one of my favorite things to do to see how God moves in their lives, in and throughout, how he's ministering to them, what he's leading them to do, the wisdom that he's pouring into their lives and just watching their process. You know, it's it's it's been an amazing um experience. Recently, the Lord has moved me from doing more one-on-one work over to uh actually forming groups. So that's kind of like the next thing that I'm setting my sights on, forming groups, doing more of these workshops. Um, and you know, the Lord's just been speaking increase, and I just feel like the more people that I can minister to at once, the better. Um, you know, it's just it's part of that plan of like increasing, um, not just like in numbers, but just being able to do more in less time because I can minister to more people at once, go through an answer. Did everybody get the email that has the downloadable PDF? Yes. Okay. Thank you, Jen. I see that. Okay, yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, if you guys didn't get the PDF, I sent it to your emails. It might have gone into your spam folder or your promotions folder, and there's a little link at the bottom of that email that says uh PDF, and you just click it and it's a fillable PDF where you have the questions, and you can just put the answers in there. So this is kind of gonna be like um a little crash course and maybe a refresher. If you're somebody who's like, I can hear the Lord pretty well, this is like a little refresher for you. Um if you don't feel confident, just some some quick tips. It's usually the first thing when you ask the Lord a question, it's usually the first thing that pops into your head. It's really common to be like, was that just me? Um, but just go with it, just trust that it's the Lord. And if it's not, he'll show you. You know, write it down. And if later you feel like throwing it out, you can. And you can ask the Holy Spirit to explain stuff to you. Sometimes I get images or I get words, and I'm like, I have no idea what that means. And I just say, Holy Spirit, can you explain that to me? And he will, you know, he always wants to go into more depth with us, and sometimes he gives us things he knows we're not going to understand so that we ask him more questions. So you want to be as simple as possible. You were made to hear God's voice, and yes, you can do it. And if you're struggling and you feel like you're really not getting anything, um, then let me know and I'll help you out. Probably not during the live, but afterwards. So don't overthink it. Okay, I'm gonna open us up in prayer, and then we're gonna do a little declaration. And um, so after I pray, we're gonna do that opening declaration. You guys can kind of just follow along with me and repeat what I say. So, Lord, thank you so much for this time. God, I thank you for the people who showed up, the people who said on you know, a Thursday afternoon that they were gonna come to a workshop on vision and clarity, Lord, to hear your voice, to see more clearly, to receive insight, revelation, and wisdom. God, I pray that you would pour out your spirit upon your people. God, I ask that you would give them deeper understanding, greater insight. Lord, I ask that you would expand their horizons. I pray that you give them ears to hear, a heart that understands. God, I thank you that you're moving these people from glory to glory. And you have more for them that they than they ever thought possibly. You have greater expansion, you have bigger things, you have um a deeper relationship with you. So, Lord, we give you thanks for these things, and we ask that you would just lead and guide the session. Um, and yeah, so we're gonna go ahead and make this declaration um over vision and clarity. Okay, so you're just gonna repeat after me. I claim vision and clarity in what God has for my life as my birthright. I come back into agreement with God that he has great plans for my life, and that he is leading me into triumph and directing my steps. God is for me and not against me. I will fulfill my destiny and purpose on this earth. I repent for disregarding, disregarding, burying to hide, giving up on or even cursing seeds of purpose that God has sown into my life. And I ask you, Lord, for forgiveness, full restoration in every area of lost blessing and assignment. So, yeah, we're gonna start with vision. So, what is vision? Your vision or your dream, you can go back and forth between the terminology. It's this mental image or picture that connects you to the promise that God has given you. So, this is something that you're tethered to. You're supposed to be tethered to it. It creates this magnetic pull towards what God has for you. So when we have this image, right, this dream that we have in our hearts that God has given us a mental picture of, it begins to pull us automatically towards God's will for our lives. When we keep our eyes on Jesus and what he's revealed to us, we can move forward confidently and with boldness and expectation. I think everybody wants to move forward confidently with boldness and expectation, you know, and it it takes it takes diligence, it takes leaning on the Lord, it takes humility to do these things because it's not easy. You know, the word of God says that the way, the path is narrow that leads to everlasting life. And that's not just salvation, that's also how we live our lives, how we stay close to the Lord. So the fear of the Lord is a huge part of walking out of vision that God has given you. Vision gives us the stamina to endure the process of pursuing. You can think of vision as the thing that lifts us up and keeps us in high spirits. When we have no vision, we cast off restraint. And because we don't know what we're living for, we don't have a specific vision, and anything kind of goes. I don't know about you, but I've been in spaces before where I felt a little bit off, or I've been having a really tough time, or I've just been in a place where I'm like, I don't understand what's happening, and kind of let go of the things that the Lord had shown me. And it's always, it's always a time of confusion. It always brings me to a place where, like, what am I doing? Like, what am I actually focusing on here? Um, and it can take quite some time to get back into the place where you're um you're fully aligned with him again, if that makes sense. So thank God we uh we serve a God who is the redeemer of time. Because even if that happens to you, even if you do wander off or you get confused or you get lost for a minute, you know, he can bring you back with acceleration. Dreams and visions are often thought as frivolous or something that comes after all other needs are met. And this might be true in the natural realm, but spiritually, spiritually, dreams and visions help keep our faith alive. Dreams and visions help keep our faith alive. It actually keeps us robust in the spirit because we have something that we know we're aiming towards. We won't survive tough seasons without something to hold on to. I want you guys to think about Joseph, right? The story of Joseph's Joseph in the Bible. Um, you know, he gets sold into slavery by his brothers, he gets thrown into a pit, he gets taken to Egypt, um, he gets thrown in prison, and he has all of these horrible things happen to him, none of which he actually observed, right? And, you know, life can feel a lot like that where we're getting thrown curveballs, we're getting thrown things that we don't understand that make no sense, and that we don't, we don't feel like we actually deserve, right? Sometimes things can be really confusing. But all those years that Joseph was a slave and then imprisoned, he held on to the dream that God had given him as a child. And that sustained him through the testing that he had to endure in order to fully step in. So by the time he was called from the from the pit into the palace, you know, that moment where Pharaoh calls him up, and you know, his gift is needed, he was he was able to hold on to that dream. And if he had let go, I don't I don't think he would have survived. So it helps us to actually get through the difficult parts of life. You need a vision to keep you on track and to sustain you through hardship. So visions are sustaining, they are directional, and they are transformative. Visions are sustaining, they are directional, and they are transformative. So vision in scripture and what it produces within us, vision is directly tied to fruitfulness. I don't know if you guys know this principle, but what we see in um in the Bible, what we see, we're taught this, that our vision is connected to the womb, and we see many different uh examples of this happening throughout scripture. God designed us to produce and become what we see, what we gaze upon, what we behold, we become. When we see him, we will be like him, first John 3.4. When we see him, we we will be like him. This is linking vision to transformation. And then the scripture that says, beholding as in a mirror with unveiled faces, as we see his glory, we are being transformed into his image. That's 2 Corinthians 3.18. So vision is this transformative tool as well as a reproductive tool. I want to talk to you guys about Jacob producing spotted lambs to increase his flock in Genesis 30. Um, probably one of the most wild stories in the Bible. Um, you know, Jacob receives this dream from God and it contains a strategy. A lot of the dreams and visions we have actually contain strategy from the Lord while we're awake and also while we're asleep. And so he receives this uh this strategy from the Lord to increase himself and to actually uh prosper under Laban because Laban wasn't being fair to him with his wages, and it produces these uh spotted lambs. So I'm gonna actually go to that scripture right now. So Genesis 30 verse 31. And I'm reading the Passion Translation. So Laban asked, What should I give you? Nothing, Jacob replied. You don't need to give me a thing. If you will do but one thing for me, excuse me, but for what but one thing for me and continue to care for your flocks, just let me pass through all your flacks, flocks today and take out every speckled and spotted sheep or goat and every black lamb, that's all I ask for payment. And in the future, when you review your wages or my wages, the integrity of my dealings with you will be obvious. And if you if you find any animal among mine that is not speckled, spotted, or black, then you will know that I stole it. So he's really smart. Agreed, Laban said. We'll do what you've suggested, but that same day, Laban secretly removed all of the male and female goats that were speckled or spotted, so he's he's cheating, all that had white on them, and all the black lambs, and left them under the care of his sons. He set a distance of a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob continued to tend to the rest of Laban's flocks. Jacob, however, he cut green branches of poplar, almond, and plain trees, and peeled back part of their bark to expose the white inner wood of the branches. Then he set the partially peeled branches inside the water troughs where the goats would see them when they came to drink. So he has, you know, this idea to set these branches in front of the eyes of these goats and sheep, and not just where they're going to hang out, where they're going to drink, where they're going to feed off of. So what are I want you to ask yourself, where am I going to feed myself spiritually and visually? Where are you going to uh, you know, when you're relaxing? Where are you going when you want to, when, where you want to spend like the most of your time? Are you spending time looking at things that are fostering vision, or are you spending time looking at things that are kind of uh not conducive to what you want to see in your life? You want to think about what do I want to see in my life, and I have to put that before my eyes and keep that in my vision. So they came to drink at this place. And Jacob knew that they mated when they came to the water troughs, and as they lowered their heads to drink, they saw the striped branches in front of their eyes, and it says miraculously, they gave birth to streaked, speckled, and spotted young. So there's this principle of what we see, we are just dating and then giving birth to and reproducing in our own life. So that's why it's important that you're keeping a visual in front of your eyes that you've been given by the Lord that tells you A, where you're going, it gives you a path to follow, and B, what that might look like in your life. And you want it to be something that you would like to see, the vision that God has given you. And you know, I think it's interesting because Laban tried to cheat him, and he still ended up with more sheep and more goats and more pretty much of everything because of the strategy that God had given him. So this is a strategy of increase. This is a strategy of multiplication. So when God gives us keys like this, you know, he's opening the doors of revelation and understanding for us to know how do I increase? How do I see what I what I want to see, what my heart's desiring to see from the Lord. This is one of those keys. You put it before your physical eyes. So we see a very similar thing happening with Abraham, right? And this is going to be Genesis 15. There's a lot of Genesis examples of this. So Genesis 15, starting in verse 1. After this, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision. Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward. But Abram said, Sovereign Lord, what can you give me since I remain childless? So he's dealing with barrenness, and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus. So Abram is dealing with a situation where he is barren. He and his wife have not been able to conceive children, they have not been able to give birth. And he is facing the fact that he might have to give all of his estate over to his servant, which he doesn't want to do. He doesn't want to do that. You know, sometimes we're in situations where it just seems like this is how it's going to be. You know, it might be something that, like, I don't want to go in this direction. I don't want to have to give my inheritance to somebody who's not related to me. And the level, sometimes people will tell you, like, well, maybe that's just got what God wants you to do. Maybe he just does, he wants you to pass this on to um in a way that you weren't expecting or in a way that you weren't uh in agreement with. But we know in our hearts what the Lord has promised us. And Abram had this uh this knowing in his spirit that this was not the way it should be. And I believe that there's like a lot of grief in this passage because he's he's lamenting before the Lord, like, you haven't given me a child, you haven't given me a legacy or an inheritance. I don't want to pass on my um my household to my servant. I want it to be my own heir. And then the word of the Lord came to him and said, This man will not be your heir, but a son who is your own flesh and blood will be your heir. He took him outside, that's very important, and said, Look up at the sky and count the stars. And if indeed you can count them, then he said to him, So shall your offspring be. Abram believed the Lord and he credited to him as righteousness. So God is always pulling us outside of what we think we already know. He's always pulling us outside of what we think is the ceiling for our lives. Abram lived in a tent. He was a tent dweller, he was nomadic. And God was saying, I want you to come outside of what you think is possible. I want you to come outside of what you think you know, I want you to come outside of the things that you think you understand so that I can show you and give you a visual representation of what I intend to do in your life. And that is what God is saying to you guys today. He wants you to come out from under the low ceiling of expectation that you may have been looking at, the the things that you feel like you can't get past, right? And he wants to begin to show you a broader horizon. Yeah. Abram had limited perspective, and God had this impossible vision of what he was gonna do in the very area of his life that he thought was it was hopeless, right? And I think we all have areas of our lives where we feel like this is not changing, this feels hopeless. I don't know what to do with this place, Lord. But you know, God can always change the situation if you are willing to allow him to change your heart and your perspective. God's vision will always exceed our own vision, and this is how he expands us. He doesn't expand us by telling us to do more or be more, he expands us when we come into agreement with the vision that he has given us for our lives. Abraham hoped for just one child. Well, God intended to give him the nations. So God had this plan for Abraham that involved giving him countless offspring, giving him the nations. And you know, Abraham didn't wake up one day and he was like, Oh, I think I want like 10 billion children. Like, I think that's what I want. I don't want just one child, I want 10 billion children. He didn't wake up and do that. This was God's dream, this was God's word to him. So, another question for you is what is God's word for you? What has he spoken over the areas of your life that you are contending for? Where you're contending for multiplication or even just breakthrough of some kind, fruitfulness of some kind. What is he seeding your heart with in this season? Where he's inviting you to lift up the standards. Um, when God said look up at the night sky, he was seeding Abraham with his dreams for his life. We can discern between our own dreams and God's dreams by our inabil, our inability, sorry, to conceive of such a thing. We usually can't um accept what God has for us like right off the bat. It usually takes a while. We have to kind of he needs to warm us up to it because it's usually so much bigger than anything that we would choose for ourselves, and that's because he has to do it in his own, in his strength and in his spirit. It can't be done in our own strength. The inability to conceive or barrenness in an area of life is usually a marker that God has a multiplication for that land. So God wants to seed you with the vision that only he can birth that promise. So when you think about vision, the vision for my life that's pulling me towards something that God has for me, you know, you want to think this is the area that God is multiplying me. It might look bleak, it might look like nothing's happening, it might look dead, it might have been something that was once something, but then died. There is always multiplication in areas of dryness. Same thing with the story of Hannah. You know, she was barren. It actually says that the Lord closed her womb, which is one of the only times that it, I think, I think it might be the only time that um the Bible actually says the Lord closed somebody's womb. So this was intentional by the Lord with Hannah, right? You know, this wasn't something where like she had a medical condition or somebody sinned her family line, which is what they would attribute that to. This was something God strategically did in Hannah's life because he wasn't not to come against. Her or to cause her frustration, right? God's not here to cause us frustration. He doesn't want us to be continuously frustrated that we're not seeing fruit. He wants to increase us and expand our capacity to carry more. And that's why your vision has to come up higher. Your vision has to expand. Because some of you are not seeing breakthrough because you don't have a big enough vision. Some of you are not seeing breakthrough because you think that God has this for you. And he's like, it is so big, it is so much more than that. It is so much bigger than you can imagine. And he's not willing to bless less than that because you will settle in that place. You'll sit in that place and go, This is good enough for me. I'm happy. But God's not happy. He's like, I have more for you, and I want you to steward more. Therefore, you must expand. And so what he was doing with Hannah in the process was he was expanding her expectation, her willingness to surrender, and her willingness to do what God was asking her to do. You know, she was um she was called to be the mother of Samuel, who was one of the most prominent prophets in the Old Testament. And at the time, there were no there were no other prophets. So she was birthing this move of God. So he was expanding her. The pain that she was feeling was actually growing pains. He was growing her into this person that would raise Samuel and be able to have the capacity to give back those things to the Lord, to give her son to the Lord, which is crazy. You know, could you imagine having a child and having to go and bring him to a temple and drop him off somewhere? I could not imagine doing something like that. She had to be at that place of surrender, and this was how God was getting her there. So God's answer to Abraham and God's answer to Hannah were the same. It wasn't no. God wasn't saying no, I'm not giving you a child. No, I'm not giving you somewhere to put your inheritance, I'm not giving you a legacy. He wasn't saying no, he was saying more. I have more for you. And so the process that they went through to get to like actually having their children was what um prepared them to carry that. And it was like a co-laboring with the Lord because he puts his desires in our heart, you know, he puts that there. And we sometimes feel like, oh my gosh, I want this so bad. But really, that's God. That's the Lord bringing this thing back around. No, I'm not gonna let you, I'm not gonna let you put this down, I'm not gonna let you give up on this thing because this is what I have for your life. And he wants it more than you do. He wants to bless you, but he wants to bless people through the life. So I highly just in, and you probably knew I was gonna say this anyway. Highly recommend a vision board of some kind. You know, I know people have different, differing opinions about vision boards, um, but I think that they are phenomenal because they help connect our vision with our womb and what we're incubating and what we're gesting, you know, while we're waiting it for waiting for it to become manifest. So, you know, it doesn't have to be physical, but it's great if it is, if you could have a physical vision board and get images and get things that the Lord has said to you and scriptures and all those things. Um, put up prophetic words on there, whatever you want. Um, I made a slideshow on Canva, which is what I do because it's easier. Um, and I don't have to worry about my kids finding it and tearing it apart. So I have a slideshow on there. Um so we're gonna go if you have your PDF. What time is it?

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We're gonna go if you have your PDF to the vision reflection questions. Okay. Did you guys make make it through them? Again, we can always go back, you can always go back later in your alone time with the Lord and just go back over them and get more from him. Um okay, good. I'm glad. So moving on to the next part because we have quite a bit to get through. And um I I made this only an hour and a half, and I don't know why I did that to myself. I'm like, okay, now we have to get through like eight pages of notes. Um, I'm hoping this is engaging for you, and it's not just me reading my notes to you in like a way that's not actually interesting. So I want to move on to clarity, right? So we covered vision. What is clarity about? Why do we need clarity? Um, first things first, we're gonna make a declaration over clarity in our lives. I want you to put your hands on your heart and close your eyes, and you're just gonna decree what I decree. You're gonna say, I decree and declare an increase in clarity and spiritual vision. I break agreement with confusion and lack of understanding. I do know the will of God because I know his word. I renounce fear and receive a sound mind and the perfect love of the Father, which drives fear out. I will not be led by my emotions, but by the voice of my father. I make a decision today to take action and believe that God is guiding and ordering my steps. I will move and not delay my own destiny. So what is clarity, right? So we think about clarity as like the same almost as vision, um, but they're a little bit different because clarity is all about starting. Clarity is all about movement. In the kingdom of God, it's all about movement. So in the natural realm, you want to have everything planned out, right? Before you make a move. If you're gonna do something, if you're gonna decide, if it's something as simple as going to the park or I don't know, starting a business, you want to have everything parsed out so you can see it properly, right? But in the kingdom of God, that's not how clarity works. Clarity is unlocked when we move in faith. So you can think of clarity kind of almost like a verb. It's all about going. We think we need clarity to have clarity to have a start, but God releases clarity when we move. And clarity is a byproduct of activity. So when we receive clarity, one of its purposes is to spark momentum. Clarity sparks momentum, and that's why it's one of the biggest battles for us because if we cannot see, we cannot run. Habakkuk says, write the vision and make it plain so that those who read it may run with it. If we cannot, if we can't see plainly what we are going towards and what we're um what God has for us, we can't run. So, like, I don't know if any of you guys are runners in this. Um you guys go running, if you guys have ever done a marathon, if like, you know, I don't run. So I like sometimes have to run after my kids when they run away from me, but that's about all the running I will be doing. Um, but if you're somebody who goes for jogs and stuff, like think about that scenario and now imagine how difficult it would be if you could barely see. If you could barely see, you're not going anywhere. Um when we don't have clarity, it slows us down. So clarity unlocks movement. I'm sorry, movement unlocks clarity and momentum, which is what we need to keep going. So the more we go, the more clarity God releases to us because we're stewarding our movement. We're stewarding momentum, we're saying yes to God. So the more you say yes with your actions, the more he releases to you. That's why the enemy wants to bring confusion in this place. People are always looking for clarity. They're always like, What do I do? I don't know what to do. Like that's the biggest thing I hear. Like, I don't understand what God is saying to me. I just don't get it. I don't get how I'm supposed to do this. And it's it's this place of spinning and fear where you're making an agreement with confusion and you're going, I don't know, but you do know because you know him and you have at least one thing that he's told you. If you had one thing that he's shown you, you can make a step in that direction and get more clarity. So confusion hinders momentum and brings delay. So we don't want to partner with confusion. When you start to feel confused about something, that is a sign that you're getting out of alignment with what God has spoken to you. And you're probably overthinking things, you're probably thinking too much about what you have to do versus what God is going to do through you and how He's going to shepherd you into whatever it is that you're doing. So, what are the biggest vision and clarity stealers? So if you permit these things, these specific things uh to happen to you or to continue in your life, they will slow you down and they will pull you, they will pull you out of the game. So the last thing that we want is to partner with our own delay, right? Like life is hard enough. We get thrown curveballs all the time, stuff is happening, like there's always warfare or something going on, right? The last thing that we want to do is actually be partnering with our own delay. And I'll tell you something that is absolutely true. God, we think things are taking so long, right? It just feels like, my gosh, why is this taking forever? And normally it's because we are behind in our own development. And so we're not partnering with God most of the time because we're looking at things from a human perspective. We're not leaning on Him for wisdom, we're leaning on our own understanding. And this is like slowing us down because then we start to make silly decisions and we start to do things that you know don't make any sense or that he's not telling us to do. Um, and so we're behind in the time, this is something Graham Cook says, we're behind in the time of our own development prophetically. So God wants to bring you into acceleration because there's lots of time to redeem. So, like if you feel like you're somebody who has spent a lot of time, you know, in the wilderness, circling around and not knowing what's going on, and you just feel like I, you know, I need to get out of here. You know, one of the things that you can begin asking God for is redemption of time and how do I accelerate? God, give me one step I can take to accelerate today. And come into agreement with him, and you will see him start to unlock those things. The biggest thing that seals clarity and vision uh besides our own partnering with the with the enemy is distraction. So, distraction is a thing that prevents someone from giving their full attention to something. That's one definition. The other definition is extreme agitation of the mind or emotions. So we all have had this experience where we get stuck in like doom scrolling, excessive scrolling, uh, household work that can definitely wait. You do not need to clean the dust off the top of the bookshelves right now when you're supposed to do the thing that God was asking you to do. I'm speaking from experience. Um, binging shows, feeling like you get you're just stuck in like not being able to put your eyes forward and to begin actually putting your hand to the plow. And I don't want to over-spiritualize things, but it definitely can be something that is demonic, something that you know the enemy is using. And the more we give into it, the worse it gets. Like it becomes like this black hole. Um, the other thing is if you are doing something and you're being really diligent, the other distraction is he'll send things that are upsetting, like really upsetting and triggering to get you spinning so that you'll drop your vision or you'll disconnect from it because it's too painful. And this is something that I have experienced in my own life quite a bit. Um, you know, the Bible says to be aware of the enemy's devices. We don't focus on him, we don't give him glory, we don't, you know, I don't think about him that much, but you know, I do use wisdom and I ask God, make me aware of how the enemy tries to get into my life. Show me if there's doors, show me if there's things that he's, you know, planning or things that like if you pay attention, you'll see how he comes at you. It's usually the same ways. If he sees that something works, he's gonna come back through that door. If you get really triggered over finances, the minute you sit down to do something that God told you to do, you're gonna get 15 bills in the mail. And then feel like, I can't do this, I can't do this. Um, when in reality, and I know that sounds like okay, but they're bills, you do have to pay them. Yes, they're things that you do actually have to take care of, but a lot of this stuff will come out of nowhere, and it's like old stuff. I've gotten bills that were like from something from seven years ago, and I'm like, why is this showing up now? Or all of a sudden you'll have relational issues and you were fine with this person before, and all of a sudden it's like you can't, they're angry with you, you're you don't understand if relationships are a trigger for you, he'll use that to distract you. So we do need to anticipate some warfare because if we're prepared, we'll have um a greater chance of success. It's just part of the game. So distraction, dis, a Latin prefix, means a part, asunder, or having a negative reversing force. So, and then traction is something that pulls you forward, it is friction that pulls you forward. You need traction to move forward. So, distraction pulling you in the opposite direction. That's what that means. So anytime you engage with a distraction or you allow it to um get the upper hand over you, you're engaging with going in the opposite direction of what God told you to do. Yeah, its purpose is to reverse direction and pull you away from the vision because vision requires focus. You have to be single-minded, you have to have your eyes single, you have to um know where to prioritize things. You can't look in two places at once. And you know, when you are in the place of assignment and you're in the place that God has you building something, whether that is in your family, it could be a business, it could be a ministry, it could be a lot of other things, right? Um, you know, you that's the place of power and safety. So I think of the story of Nehemiah where he was building the walls of Jerusalem, and you know, uh Sam Balat and his friends came to try to get him down off that wall. They were trying to distract him from what he was doing, and they were using fear tactics, they were using insecurity, they were trying to make him um, you know, afraid of what other people are saying about him. Oh, people are people are saying this about you and that about you, and um, we're gonna go tell the king that you're trying to make yourself king and all of these lies. They were just lies. Um, but they had to get him to come down off the wall for them to engage with him because if he was up on that wall doing what he was called to do, he was empowered, he was safe, and he was surrounded by other people who had like-minded um who were like-minded because they were all building the same walls, they were all building the same city, right? So the other thing is that you want to be with people who are doing at least some people that are doing the same things you are or have the same goals. That is one of my biggest things is having friends and having um you know people in my life that are doing what I'm doing. Because if I would if I didn't, I wouldn't be able to do it. I can't, we can't be alone. So it's one of the biggest reasons for wasted energy. It takes a lot of time. If you give distraction like the upper hand, it takes a lot of time to get back. The main focus of our lives is Jesus, what he's doing in us and through us, and how we're partnering with him in that thing. And inconsistency and a lack of prioritizing is another vision and clarity stealer. So when we're inconsistent, consistency is key. Consistency is key. When we are inconsistent, we're not gonna see the growth and the acceleration that God has for us. And I cannot tell you how many times people come to me and they have they want to see growth and they want to see things happen and they want to see their promises manifest and they want to see the vision come into the physical realm, right? What God has promised them, but they're not prioritizing it at all. It's like one of the last things that they do during the day. It's one of the last things that they think about. They're not putting it, you know, ministry and stuff and assignments, they don't come before your family ever. But like they need to not be the last thing that you do. It can't be behind laundry, it can't be behind binging Netflix, it can't be behind those things. You will not see it happen. I people don't like when I say that. You won't see it happen. It can't be casual. You're trying to inherit something spiritually, it cannot be casual. So the third thing is just I've said this before, so I'm not gonna spend a lot of time here. Lack of the fear of the Lord, which is not depending on him, not depending on the Lord. You think you can do it yourself, you're trying to figure it out yourself. That is one of the reasons we spin our wheels and we lose clarity and vision because we're like, why are all my efforts that I decided to do not working? And the answer is because we're leaning on our own understanding. We'll give God a minute or two, right? But if we don't think that that thing he told us to do or the strategy he gave us is gonna work, we'll go right back, or it's or we're afraid of it, we'll go right back on our own understanding. And it's like, then he has to disentangle you from the stuff you're choosing to do because you didn't want to do the thing he told you, or you were afraid of it. Okay, so we're gonna do the clarity and reflection questions, and we're gonna do the same thing, like three minutes. So that would be the next okay. We're gonna move on to awakening dormant seeds. I can't tell you, I cannot tell you how much this is on my heart. Like the Lord is all over the seed thing, okay? He wants to, he wants you to reap a harvest. He wants his people to reap a harvest. If they would cooperate with him and sow the seed, they could expect that harvest. Okay, what are seeds? Seeds are what you cannot see that must die to grow. They are what we sow in order to reap a harvest. Our harvest is always waiting on us, not the other way around. People will sit literally sit around waiting on a harvest from God and they haven't sowed any seeds. And seeds, it's more than financial. Yes, financial seeds are important, but there are many different kinds of seeds that you can sow to expect a harvest in the Lord. So our harvest is always waiting on us to be diligent enough to sow the seeds that are necessary. What do you want to reap? What do you want to reap in your life? That's the that's the seed that you sow. We can't see what's happening underground, but we know a process is taking place. It can be really frustrating when we sow seed and we don't see anything for a while, but we have to trust that this is a biblical principle. It says, um, you know, God will not be mocked. Whatsoever a man sows, he will reap. So whatever you sow, whether it's good or bad, and it's God's not a respecter of persons. Like this works for people who don't believe in the Lord, too, because this is just how it is. This is a biblical principle that works across the board. What you sow, you will reap. Hebrews 11 says that faith is the sub substance, faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen. I used to read the scripture and get so confused. I'm like, what? Until the Lord began to break it down for me. Um, substance in the Greek means foundation. It means foundation. So our faith lays the foundation and makes tangible what is yet to manifest. Your belief in something literally pulls it out of the spirit realm, out of the heavenlies, into your life. And this is not a manifestation, whatever thing that people do. You guys know I don't I don't preach that, and I don't agree with that, where people are just doing whatever they want and getting stuff because they were, you know, going through the wrong door, you know, honestly. Um, I'm talking about what God has promised his children when we are we are faithful and partnering with faith. So our faith lays the foundation and makes tangible what is yet to manifest. When we act on what we believe to be true, it brings the structure into existence. And every time you are faithful to partner with God, with what God has promised you, you are taking a step towards bringing that thing into the physical realm. Those are seeds. That's stewardship and its seeds. So every time you intercede, intercession is a seed. Every time you make a decree or take action or you take a step closer, you are closer to seeing a harvest. So what I said before, like what kind of seeds do you want to sow? Depends on the harvest you want to reap. The most powerful seed that you can possibly sow is the word of God, both logos and rhema. The logos word of God, the rhema word of God. Sow those seeds diligently into your life and into the lives of other people, and you will see God come through for you because his words cannot return void. Cannot return void. Financial sowing is another seed. And I don't know if you guys have heard I'm searched, I'm sure some of you have about um up sowing, a term called up sowing or sew where you want to go. So this is the practice of sewing into other other people's lives or even ministries or um charities or whatever, whatever that whatever's on your heart. And you sew into places that you want to see in your own life. So for me personally, before I uh really launched out to do what I'm doing now, the Lord was like, I want you to up sew. I want you to sew into ministries that you want your ministry to be like. Um, and that doesn't mean my ministry is going to be exactly like their ministry, but it will bear similar fruit because they're carrying a similar blueprint as me. And so I would sow into ministers that I respected and really received from and loved because I wanted to bear that kind of fruit. I wanted to help people that way. I wanted to see um, you know, breakthrough flow through my ministry in that same way. So I would sow financial seeds into them. And I did see, I to this day I have seen a lot of growth and a lot of things come out of my life very in line with what I was sowing into. So seeds of faith, seeds of preparation, preparing for what God uh is going to give you or what you're looking for. And it really depends on what it is you're believing God for, right? But preparation signals heaven that you're ready to receive. Preparation signals heaven that you are ready to receive. When God looks down and he's like, hey, she's got things in order. She has uh all of the paperwork filled out, she has you know X, Y, and Z. She's connected with the right people. I'm gonna send the resources, I'm gonna send the open doors, I'm gonna send the breakthrough because she is ready, she's prepared. Decrees, and you know, this goes right along with words, right? Decrees of the mouth, words in general, words in general. And I know some people get really freaked out about this, but Job does say that you decree a thing and it will be established for you. Your tongue is the rudder for your life, it is a small member, but it directs the entirety of your life. I cannot um cannot emphasize that enough that it is so important that you're sowing decrees and seeds, ones that God has given you into your life. Because you will see them, you will absolutely see them. And if you sow the opposite, you will see the opposite. I have had times where the Lord came to me and he said, You are getting in your own way with your words. Like your words are ruining what I'm trying to do. You need to stop. And I had to repent and be like, Okay, Lord, I'm sorry. Like, help me to use my mouth to plant and build up instead of tear down in my own life. I mentioned intercession already. Spending that time in intercession is really important, really important. You're not gonna get anywhere without prayer, you're not gonna get anywhere without prayer, you're not gonna get anywhere without intercession. In fact, most of what you do to see what God has promised you is intercede. More than physical stuff. Like, yes, there's always gonna be physical stuff we have to do to come into alignment, like there's just things we have to practically do, but intercession is gonna move things along. The people who are here today in this uh in this Zoom meeting, under the sound of my voice, your dreaming with God is going to allow you to read the destiny scrolls of your life. The word of God says that we have books written about us in heaven, we have destiny scrolls that we can actually take a look at. Um, and I specifically saw like the books being opened and you having access to those things, but you have to ask him and spend the time to get to that place so that he can show you what's in them. Proverbs 3, uh 13, 12. 13 12, if I don't joke, uh says desire realized is a tree of life. You might not look at an acorn and see an oak tree, but God does. It's a tree of life. Desire realized is a tree of life because trees are long-living and life-giving. Others should be able to come and eat the fruit of your desires in Christ being realized. That is so important. Our dreams are not just for us, they are never just about us. When God dreams through our lives and wants to bring that into fruition, this is for other people to come and eat from, come and receive the benefits from. This is one of the reasons that our promises see so much resistance, because the enemy knows if you get that, if you get this desire realized, if you get this dream manifested in your life, it is going to, it's not something that's short-lived, it's gonna continue through your family line, it will affect your bloodline. Because what one person gets in the kingdom of God, because we're all connected, one person's breakthrough is everybody's breakthrough. And it'll it's especially going to affect your children, your great-grandchildren, the people around you in your immediate vicinity. But I mean, this can be this has the potential to have huge ramifications. So the enemy wants to stop that. A tree is a picture of family, so when we actually see these things come to pass, it results in generational blessing. Trees live way longer than humans. Those dreams will impact your great-grandchildren if you carry the vision well and bring it to fruition and beyond. People like centuries from now can benefit from your obedience today. Like you are powerful, like that's how powerful God made you to be. That your life can shift your entire family. So we want to think when we think about the visions that God has given us, we want to think generational impact. That's how Abraham thought, and that's one of the reasons I believe that God chose him because he wasn't just interested in his own thing. God was like, I am your very great reward. And he said, I who am I gonna give it to you? Who am I gonna give that reward to? Like he was immediately concerned that he didn't have his own heir. And I think that, like, if you want to be blessed, you have to think generationally. Okay. This is one of the things that the Lord was really showing me was disappointment, disappointment, and just not seeing or experiencing the things that you thought you were going to, not inheriting a promise the way that you thought you were going to inherit it. And you know, these can be incredibly difficult, emotionally hard setbacks, but God wants to break off that spirit because there's just this spirit of heaviness that comes with that. You know, the end the enemy uses that to hammer it home. He wants to keep you in that place, but he's not going to. So we're gonna pray for that. I'm just gonna go through the rest of these and we're gonna pray for those things. Double-mindedness. Um, double-mindedness is the fruit, one of the fruits of distraction is double-mindedness. Being in two places at once, you can't do that. You have to pick one. You have to make a judicial decision. What are you going to believe? If you're gonna believe the lie, then fully commit to that. If you're gonna believe the Lord, fully commit to him. Because if you are in the middle, you will be in torment. Some of you know exactly what I'm talking about. Double-minded, uh, double-mindedness, if that's a word, um, it breeds unbelief. It just breeds unbelief. And unbelief is one of the only things that can stop the power of God. Because He wants He wants and needs to work through human vessels. And we have when we have unbelief, it's like we're putting a dam right in front of where the power of God wants to flow in our lives. We always live what we truly believe. If you believe what God told you, you will begin living according to that word, because um, the word has the power to manifest itself in your life. God, that's how powerful God's words are. Uh, rooting out unbelief, highly recommend fasting. Highly recommend it. Um, a fast is called a fast because it causes things to happen quickly. When we see what God's capable capable of doing when we crucify the flesh and we are obedient to him to fast, it roots out that unbelief. It roots it right out. Um, every time you put off doing what God showed you, or even fail to meet with him, and this is something he told me, you are practicing unbelief. So when you let disappointment and discouragement tell you what you're gonna do, you're gonna meet with God, you're not gonna meet with God, you're gonna start doing what he told you, you're gonna be obedient or not. If you partner with the not, you're practicing unbelief, and then you're reinforcing this in your life, you're reinforcing that. Yeah, so right now, um, for those of you who are have been under that disappointment, discouragement, heaviness, delay, I want to pray over you before we move on. Um, I'm gonna pray over you for those things, and we're gonna pray over spiritual barrenness being broken. Um, because that is just something that I feel so strong that the Lord wants to bring you guys into a place where you're conceiving, you're carrying, you're giving birth. That's his that is his plan for your life. But one of the first things he told uh mankind was be fruitful and multiply. So that is your birthright to be fruitful and multiply in all areas of your life, no matter what they are. It could be physically, actually conceiving a baby, or you know, financially in your calling, in your career, and your family life, whatever it is. So if you're feeling that that weight of the disappointment, I want you to just put your hands on your heart or get into some kind of a uh receiving position. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord, thank you, Jesus. But I thank you in the mighty name of Jesus that what the enemy has planned for evil, you are turning for the good. I break off in the name of Jesus every disappointment, every moment of grief, every moment of trial, the effects of those trials, the trauma that came from those trials, in the mighty name of Jesus, I command those things to go for you to be loosed, for your hopes and your expectations to be loosed from that place. God has created you to dream, God has created you to succeed, He has created you to succeed and to see the fruit of those things. I come against every word that has been spoken against you, every word curse, every false accusation. I just see the Lord burning up, burning up word curses, burning up things that even have been written about some of you. Wow. Written about some of you. Who is that for? Where the enemy has, I don't know if it was a person or if it was just like in the spirit realm, written something over your life that's canceled in the name of Jesus by the blood of the Lamb. I break that off of your life now in Jesus' name. Lord, I thank you that you are bringing your people back into alignment with your heart of hope for them, that their futures are bright, that they will not continue to circle mountains, that they will not continue to go down the same path paths, that things will not stay the same as they have been. God can take a curse and make it bless you. That is your inheritance, that is your portion. You are not stuck, you are loosed in the mighty name of Jesus. You are loosed, you are loosed from those things, you're loose from that paradigm, you're loose from those thoughts, and from everything that has had its hand around your throat. In Jesus' name, and I speak, I speak barrenness, go now. Every area of barrenness, I command be broken in your life, and I release and decree multiplication in all of the dry areas of your life, in finances, in family, in calling and relationships, in church homes, needing a needing a community, needing a church home. God is rewriting your story, and it is one of increase. It is one of restoration. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Come out of agreement, he says, come out of agreement, come out of agreement with those things, come out of agreement with them. Don't give the enemy your agreement. Come into agreement with me. My my my words are life, he says. My words are life. If it's not producing life, it isn't from me. Some of you have been in situations that are so dark for so long that you've just begun to believe this is what God has for me. This is my life. That is a lie. It is producing the fruit of death in your life. It is not from Him. God's voice is empowering, God's voice is loosing, it sets you free. There's liberty when he speaks, there's breakthrough when he speaks. And I speak breakthrough over you in the mighty name of Jesus in every area of your life, in every area of your heart that has been in alignment with this, that it would be cleansed. God says, I will not hold you back. I will not hold you back. Some of you feel like God is the one holding you back, that God has actually been the one standing in your way. He does not work like that. He does not tell his children to run and to go and then trip them. This is coming from another source. This is coming from the enemy, and he's trying to make you believe this is God. Thank you, Jesus. If you feel that barreness word, if that is for you, where you feel like you're spiritually infertile in some areas or there's just these dry places, put your hands on your womb. Put your hands on your womb and one over your eyes. God, in the mighty name of Jesus, I thank you that you are reconnecting them to the vision that you've given them, that they will be fruitful, that they will conceive, gestate, and give birth to the things of God in the mighty name of Jesus. Wow. I'm going on your behalf. I'm going on your behalf. I'm removing the blockages and the draws. I command your spiritual womb to open in the name of Jesus. Open, be loosed, open. Delay, be broken. For those who have experienced barrenness in their life, he's saying, I want to give you wings in those areas. I want to give you wings in those areas. I want to strengthen you in that place. Lift up your heads, you ancient gates, and let the king of glory in. Praise is going to make the way. Anytime the Bible mentions barrenness or dryness, it always mentions singing. It always mentions praising. It brings the breakthrough. I know it's the last thing you want to do, but it works. It brings the breakthrough. Praise over those areas. Like God has set them free. Like you've received the harvest in those areas and you will. In Jesus' name. Okay. All right. Am I missing anything here? Let me see. Okay, I think you have to do seed questions, yes. So we're gonna take three minutes. There's a link. You just press the button and it'll bring it up for you.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:38

All right, thank you.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:39

And if you can't get it, I will I'll send it to you after this.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:42

Thank you. I can't write into mine, but I'll fill it out. Like, yeah, I'm trying, but I think it's just me, you know. Me and electronics. Yeah, I'll show it to you though. It's definitely not letting me write in. Yeah. I'm sure it is PDF. Maybe I don't have the app. I don't know. Maybe I didn't download it. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:05

Emory, your vision statement can be a scripture, but I want you to put like I would put something underneath that too. So it could be the scripture. And then put like something clarifying. Like this is what that looks like in my life. When you read it, you want it to be something you can see happening specifically for you. God likes when we have specific prayers. He doesn't like vague prayers. I learned. Don't be vague. Told me that before. Don't be vague. What exactly do you want? When you say you want increase, when you say you want more, when you say you want you know something to happen, what exactly do you want to happen? And how many more do you want?

SPEAKER_02 1:03:54

Lexi, does the definitive statement should be did you say a prayer or what the Holy Spirit has pointed out during this entire workshop?

SPEAKER_00 1:04:05

Yeah. So and if you didn't get the PDF, it might be hard for you. So once you get the PDF and you like start going through them and you get the you answer those questions with the Lord, yeah. You want to take all of that information and kind of put it call uh put it into that vision statement, but it have it's just make it short, don't make it very long, just two sentences.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:25

Okay. Okay. Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:28

If you guys are struggling with it and you need help and you're like, I don't, I don't get it, I don't hear anything, or like I don't understand what he's saying. I will um just let me know and we'll make time to go over that with you. It can be hard to hear for yourself, it really can. Okay. Um you're supposed to end at 3:30. I did not get to the personal prayer part. I promised personal ministry. So is there anybody who doesn't want personal ministry? If that's you, um, you're free to go. You don't have to stay. Um so happy that you came. I hope you got a lot out of this. Uh, the only thing I was gonna say uh before everybody who doesn't want ministry leaves. Um, I am not charging for this. I don't, you know, I'm not asking for money or anything like that, but I am in the process of writing a book and that costs me a lot of money. It costs quite a bit to uh process a book, to get it published, to get it into the hands of readers. So if you feel led by the Lord, you do not have to, but if you feel led uh to give back in some way or to sew in some way, I will send you the link to my campaign and you can donate if you choose to. In fact, I'm gonna put that in the chat if I can. Why Zoom is telling me I can't do stuff today, and I just I'm in charge of you, Zoom. Like, why? Hold on, I'm gonna put it in the chat.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:02

Please send me the link, Lexi.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:05

Okay. It's right there. So that link will send you to the campaign. Um, and if you choose to give, thank you very, very much from the bottom of my heart because this is something that the Lord birthed through my life, and I'm very excited for I'm very excited to see get into the hands of people that need the teachings. And you know what? There's only nine people here, and 18 people signed up. Okay, I have nine prophetic words for people who aren't here.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:42

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:43

Too much work. It's fine, it's a labor of love, but still, it takes a lot of time. It takes a lot of time, and they're good ones too. I'm like, man, I hope you show up so you can get this. I'm gonna bring those up right now. It's dry in this room. It's dry and it's hot in here. Um, okay. I'm just gonna go down my list as I have it written. So Jennifer Red, you still here? Bloom. And so uh I'm gonna put that up on my website too, and you'll get the email, and then you can sign up from there. Okay. All right, thank you guys. Have good, have a great rest of your day. Thank you. Have a great day.