7 Prayers You NEED To Pray For Your New Month

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Welcome to the Success by the Book Podcast, the place where Christians who want to experience the extravagant goodness of God in all areas of their lives come from mentorship. I am your host, Dr. Inna, and I'll be unpacking the secrets I have learned from the Word of God over the last two decades. Let's dive in. One of the worst things, one of the worst things you can allow in your life is for you, your life to go on autopilot month to month. Because in God, progress is available. God blessed Abraham in Genesis chapter 12. In Genesis chapter 13, it talked about Abraham being very rich in cattle, silver, and gold, and God still told him, Lift up your eyes and look. God got to got to Isaac in the middle of a famine. The Bible says, a severe famine. What did the Bible say about him? It said, and the man Isaac began to prosper and continued prospering until he became very prosperous. There is so much progress available for us in God. Proverbs 4.18, the Bible says the path of the just shines brighter and brighter, brighter and brighter, not brighter and dimmer, not brighter and the same, not brighter and cruise control, is brighter and brighter. Okay. So I want to invite you as we think of stepping into a new month. I want you to think God's thoughts, thoughts of progress, thoughts of overcoming obstacles, thoughts of overcoming limitations, thoughts, those kinds of thoughts. We overcome those and we move forward. That's what God wants for me. That's what I want for me. That's what I want for you. That's what God wants for you. Okay? Okay. Now, one of the tools that God gave us to trigger this progress is strategic prophetic prayer. Okay. Strategic prophetic prayer. Not random prayers, not prayers just because I'm a Christian, not prayers because it's a good Christian thing to do. It's strategic, it's prophetic, it moves my life forward. Okay. This is the kind of prayer we are talking about. And today I'm going to show you seven, seven strategic prophetic prayers to pray for yourself as you go into a new month. Okay. Strategic prophetic prayers. That's what we're working on. Okay. Now, if you are, if you don't come on a rise and shine every day, a rise and shine is a prayer meeting we do every morning at 6 a.m. Okay. I'm putting the link here for you, dcgeorgia.org forward slash prayer. Come join us. Come join us. Come pray. Come practice praying strategic prophetic prayers every single day. We actually start every new month with seven days of prayer and fasting. So you're not only going to know the kind of prayers to pray, but you're going to have the gift of accountability to pray those prayers with other people in your world. Okay. So if you're not a part of us, come join us. Um, dcgeorgia.org forward slash prayer. These are this is something that will radically change your life. And you just want to be a part of it. Okay. So come join us. Now let's talk about those seven prayers, but we're going to start like people who understand the protocol of the palace. Okay. So I want you to think for a moment. I want you to think about what God has done in your life in the last 30 days. I want you to think about breakthroughs God has brought in your life in the last 30 days. It could be a job you got, a promotion you got, something in your finances, your walk with him is deeper. You now pray in the spirit. Um, you're reading your Bible and getting revelation like you've never gotten before. Your family relationships are better. You lost weight. That was part of your goal. You had some health scare, but it turned out okay. God did everything that he needed to do for you. You got to go on this vacation. That was a dream. Whatever it is, you got saved, you got filled with the Holy Spirit. God is now using you to touch other lives. There are people saved because of you, reading their Bible because of you, all this stuff. I want you to think about it. Why? Because we're not going to start praying about what we want to see as far as more progress when we haven't thanked God for the progress we're already experiencing now. So as a community, Arise and Shines, Success by the Book, all of that, we are not ungrateful people, we're not entitled people, we're not complainers, whiners, and blamers and murmurers. Um, we're we're not prideful people, we're people who love God and who recognize his hand working in our lives. Yes? Okay, awesome. I see all the thank you, Jesus coming through. I love it. Okay, let's look through these seven prayers, okay? Number one, these are so important. And on a rising shower, we're gonna be praying these. I'm gonna teach you here so you can approach it with so much faith. Okay. Number one is this prayer, Lord, expand my vision of what is possible. Expand my vision of what is possible. Now, why is this an important prayer to pray? Because you must remember, you must know that as humans, our ability to see, not with our physical eyes, but the eyes of our mind or the eyes of our spirit, to see vision, to see possibilities, to see what is available is very limited. Okay, is very limited. And so that's why we need God giving us downloads, God breathing fresh inspiration, God opening our eyes to vision, otherwise we cannot see. We cannot see. So there's things that you see now that you're like, wow, that would be a big breakthrough. But God is seeing like a gazillion steps ahead of that. If you're going to be a visionary, like a God kind of visionary, then you're gonna be somebody whose vision was expanded by God. So let me give you an example. I already alluded to this in Genesis chapter 12. God calls Abraham. Okay, and I'm gonna read it. I know I can quote it, but you know, let me just read it from the scripture. God calls Abraham, and this is what he tells him in verse 2. He says, I want you to so picture this as I read it, right? God told a man, he said, I will make you a great nation. Big vision. I will bless you and make your name great, and you will be a blessing, and I will bless those who bless you and curse him who curses you, and in you all the families of the earth will be blessed. I want you to think, think about the magnitude of this vision. Could Abram have had it on his own? No, no, but God gave it to him, okay? And God has shown us many things about ourselves, okay? Now, God is a God of progress, okay? So Abraham starts making progress. So now if you go to Genesis chapter 13, the next chapter, verse 2, it says Abraham was very rich in livestock in silver and in gold. So, number one is that Abraham was not broke, Abraham was rich, labor money was not just rich, he was very rich. And it wasn't just very rich in livestock, he was very rich in livestock, silver, and gold. So he had multiple streams of income. Okay, so this is Abraham. Now you you get you start making progress, and you're just like, wow, like this is good, and God is good. I can just settle for this. The temptation to settle is so real. Like, I know he hasn't given me a child, so I know I'm not yet, I don't have many descendants, and I'm not yet a great nation, but he has blessed me, he has empowered me to prosper. Now I'm very rich, and all of this thing, and he could have settled. He could have settled. But let me show you what God did. So that was verse 2. God then came in verse 14. It says, And the Lord said to Abraham after Lot had separated from him, and he said, Lift up your eyes. Like, lift up your eyes now and look from the place where you are. Like the way where you are is amazing. Where you are, like, I mean, there's there's no way you would have come here without my grace and all of this. But now from that place, I want you to lift up your eyes and look because there's more. I'm not done. So it says, for so lift up your eyes from the place where you are, northward, southward, eastward, and westward. For all the land which you see, I give to you and your descendants forever. He says, I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth, so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered. What was God telling him? I am not done. What I have ahead of you is so much more than what you've already experienced. The thing that looks like a limitation, I can take you beyond that limitation. Like, don't slow down, don't stop, let's go. So we want him to expand our like he knows where he's taking us to, he knows our preferred future, he knows what it can look like. We are in a world that is full of limitations and what you can do and what you can't accomplish or why you can't accomplish it, and all of that stuff. And we're like, Lord, expand my vision. Help me to see what you see. When you look at my next month, what do you see? Expand my vision. Expand my vision, deliver me from the limited thinking that I have, the limited sights that I have. Expand my vision. Expand my vision. Okay, let me give you a practical example. So you guys know that um I'm the founder of Untrained. So I do business education for physicians. We help them um launch, grow, and scale six, seven, and eight-figure businesses. That's that's what we do. That's what I do in one of my businesses. And so a doctor was telling a story. She had a business and it was a coaching business. And she said, okay, I have this coaching business. I just want it to cover, you know, the expenses for the coaching I get and to pay for my team. So it's$40,000. That's what I need the business to do. But now she comes to a workshop that I host, and in that workshop, she's like, huh, why did I cap myself at$40,000? Like, you know, why do why did I cap myself at$40? So she implemented the things we did at the workshop, she made another$20,000. So I might see her yearly goal was$40,000, but now she made this$20,000. And then she came for another workshop, did another$20,000, right? And so after that, she comes, she joins the On-TraMD Business School, you know, which is which is a program that we run, and she comes into the school, and she ends up that year, okay. She was in the school for six months of that year. So last year, she ends up that year with$250,000 in revenue. This is somebody whose whole vision was$40,000. Like it's a hobby society gig thing, right? To now she's at$250,000. And then for this year, her target is a million. And she's not a million like it's a wish, like she's actively working on the million. What happened to her? Her vision, so because it's the same person, but her vision was expanded of what is possible. So I want you to think by the end of this year, when she makes a million, see the diff what the difference in vision can do. Something that was a$40,000 side gig becomes a million-dollar business. What happened? Her vision was expanded. You cannot accomplish on the outside what you don't see on the inside. And so this is, and this is not just us going like, ooh, what you know, what can it be? This is us depending on God, and God is giving us God-sized vision. What did Abraham have? A God-sized vision. Okay. Second prayer. Second prayer is praying in tongues. We don't know what we're praying for. We're praying in tongues. We're praying in the spirit. Like as you go into a new month, you want to take time and just pray in the spirit. What am I praying for? Okay. The Bible says in Romans 8 26, we don't know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us. Do you see? Like, so when you're praying in the Spirit, who gives you the words? The Holy Spirit. Who knows everything? The Holy Spirit, who knows the vision for your life? The Holy Spirit, who knows the challenges that are waiting for you in the next month, the Holy Spirit. So when you allow the Holy Spirit pray through you, give you the words to pray, right? What you're doing is you're praying intelligently for the following month, even though you may not know all the moving parts. You don't, but he does. You don't, but he does. You don't, but he does. Okay? So we take time to pray in the spirit. As we're praying in the spirit, what are we doing? We're praying some of the highest capacity prayers because we are praying as though we knew exactly what was coming in the month. Okay? So that's the first part. The second part is, you know, let's look at, you know, one of the most fun scriptures on praying tongues, which is um our chapters, 1 Corinthians chapter 14. This is what it says. It says, verse 2, for he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men, but to God, and no one understands it. However, in the spirit, he's speaking mysteries. What is a mystery? Something that's too difficult to explain or understand. So when you think about the following month, is it a mystery? Yes, because you don't know what's coming, you don't know what will happen, you don't, you don't know. You don't know. Like I want you to imagine that in 2020, people are like praying intelligently for 20 in 2019, people are playing intelligently for 2020. They didn't know there was going to be a pandemic, they had no clue. But let me tell you something about people who pray in the spirit. For me, when I when the pandemic hit, I was I was talking to my office manager and I said, it is so weird. It is as though we made plans as if we knew there was a pandemic coming. And so when the pandemic hit, we didn't have to create new plans. We just needed to execute our plans more quickly than we thought we would need to. Why? Because you don't know what to pray for as you are, but the spirit himself makes intercession. When you pray in the spirit, in you may not understand what you're saying, not me. You don't understand what you're saying, but in the spirit, you're declaring mysteries. You're not saying nonsense, you're not babbling, you're you're declaring mysteries, things too difficult to explain or understand. Do you guys see that? So, yes, pray in your intelligence, and we're gonna give you like the the remaining five things are gonna be things you pray for strategically, but you also want to give pray place to praying in tongues and praying in the spirit because you do not know, you don't know, you don't know. Okay, so verse two he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him. However, in the spirit, he is speaking mysteries. Mysteries, and of course, the Bible does go on in in verse 13 to say, Therefore, who he who prays in a tongue, pray that he interpret. That's where all those strategies come from. Okay, okay. So you're preparing for a new month, and you want it to be a month of progress, you want it to be a month of divine acceleration, all of that stuff. What is one of one of the things that you're going to do? You are going to pray in the spirit. You're going to pray in the spirit. So this is why God gave us a directive on Horizon Shine, which is the prayer meeting we do at 6 a.m. every day. It's like the first seven days of the month, you guys pray and fast. And part of what we're going to do a lot of is praying in the spirit. Why? Why are we doing that? Because we want to declare mysteries, we want to pray mysterious prayers to handle a mysterious month. Okay. The second one is praying in tongues. The first one is Lord, expand my vision. Second one is praying in tongues. We gotta pray in the spirit, we gotta pray in the spirit. If you're if you're too cool to pray in the spirit, you are too cool. Okay, you're too cool. Okay, all right. Number three, this is a powerful prayer. Okay, I'm gonna read, I'm gonna read it from Matthew chapter six, verse 10. And the prayer is, Lord, let your will be done. It's a prayer of surrender, but it's a prayer of radical advancement. Okay, so so let's look at this, okay? Now, Jesus' disciples, I'm guessing they figured, man, we understand that some the is a powerful secret of the life of Jesus is his prayer life. And so they came to him and said, Lord, teach us how to pray. And so God Jesus gave him this framework of prayer, right? So it's not necessarily a prayer to repeat, but it's a framework of prayer. What did he pray for first? What did he pray for second? What was included in this prayer? Okay, so we call that the Lord's Prayer. It's um Matthew chapter six from verse nine. But um, I'm gonna read verse nine and ten, okay? And I want you to think about this. If Jesus thought we needed to pray for this, then we need to pray for this, okay? So pay attention. He said, in this manner, therefore, pray, our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Okay. By the way, this is part of the reason before we started to hold the prayer. We are like, let's go into Thanksgiving, let's go into all of this, acknowledge God before we go into the prayer. Okay. He then said, Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Now, Jesus was the sinless son of God who came to take away the sins of the world. He was all powerful, full of wisdom. If there's and in all that wisdom, he said, when you pray, like I pray, because it's like teach us to pray. When you want to pray, you need to pray that God's will will be done on earth as it is done in heaven. What does that mean? What is the implication of that? It means that if you do not pray, asking for God's will to be done on earth, right? As it is in heaven, it won't be done. And you might say, Oh my goodness, Dr. Una, I really liked you, but you started, you know, this is like blasphemy. God can do whatever he wants. God can, but God chooses not to. God put rules in place and he made himself subject to those, like laws in place, and he made himself subject to those laws. Let me show you something. The Bible says in Psalm 115, verse 16, the heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord's. So if you see, God didn't tell you to pray anything about heaven. He said, The heavens, that's mine. He said, But the earth, but the earth he has given to the children of men. So who has jurisdiction in heaven? God does. Who has jurisdiction on earth? We do. Do we own the earth? No. But do we have jurisdiction? Yes. Same thing with someone who has an apartment complex. Do they own the building? Do they own the apartment? No. Do they have jurisdiction? Yes. Can the apartment owners just barge in on them? No. Because the person who signed the lease has jurisdiction. That's the person who has jurisdiction. Okay. So if we want to see the intervention of God, so let's say the plumbing goes out in somebody's apartment and they want the intervention, they call the management, the property management, and say, we have a leak, come fix the leak. What is the will of the apartment comes that their properties are okay. But if you don't call them, they're not coming. In the same way, God is giving us jurisdiction here. He's giving us jurisdiction over our lives. If God would just do anything, he'd get everybody saved. But he lets us choose. I used to be nervous about praying these let your will be done things because I'm like, then God wants me to go be a missionary in China. Nothing against China. If you're from China, please say hi. I love Chinese people. Okay. But as I'll send me, he'll he'll destroy my life, send me to go be a missionary in China and stuff like that. Like, I'm not praying for his will. I'm not, I'm not praying for his will to be done. I need to know what his will is and examine it carefully and decide if I want that will. Where are my cousins? Okay. So let me show you how I resolved that. Okay, let me show you how I resolve because it's important that you understand that your will is nothing compared to his will. Your plan is nothing compared to his plan. Okay, so let's look at this. Let's look at this. If you met Moses at the time when he was in the backside of the desert watching his father-in-law's sheep, right? And on exile from Egypt, and all of this, and you ask him, Moses, we have a new year coming up. What is your goal for the new year? Do you know what he would have said? That I have my own house and I have my own sheep business, and maybe you know, I can go back to visit Egypt. Maybe Pharaoh lets me come. That would have been his plan, his goal. Something like that. Okay? But what was God's plan for him? God's plan was I will use you to end 430 years of bondage. They had been slaves for 430 years. He said, I will use you to to end 430 years of bondage. I will use you to mesmerize Egypt, and you will, you, you will demonstrate these 10 plagues. I hope you understand how crazy it is. Like a whole country, all the water turns to blood because one person spoke. A whole country, all the animals, you know, die because one one, not all the firstborn of every animal, the firstborn of every you know, family because one person spoke. Where the, you know, like he lifts up sand and throws it, they all turn into flies and they're everywhere. Okay, let's look at another one. David. David again was in the backside of the desert watching his brother and his his father's sheep, right? And he was just a cool kid, right? If you ask him what his goals were, what do you think? He won't say, I'll kill Goliath. He probably wouldn't even have said that I'll be the king, because there was a king and his son was supposed to be king after him. Right? So it could have been maybe my father will accept me, my siblings will accept me. Because we don't think he was accepted, because when they told him to bring all his sons, he didn't bring his last son. So, you know, okay. They will accept me. You know, maybe I can start going to the battle like my brothers and all of those things. He wouldn't have known that he was going to be the king. He would not have known that he would have been a king that did not die in battle, but he fought battles and won. And when he was done, he laid down and slept, aka died. He would not have known that God would have set him up to have an everlasting dynasty, so much so that Jesus had to come through his lineage so God could keep his promise. He would not have known that he Have been the one responsible for funding the building of God's temple, he wouldn't have known that, he wouldn't have known to set that as a goal. So David's plan or God's plan, which plan was better? Okay, let's look at one other person. Let's look at Joseph. Joseph was a prisoner. First of all, he was a slave in Potiphar's house, and then Potiphar's wife lied against him, and then he went to prison and he was in prison. He'd been in prison for a while. If he had said, Joseph, Joseph, what's your goal? What's your goal for the next 12 months? Joseph would be like to get out of this prison, to finally go back to my father's house. I can be united with my parents and my siblings and all of this stuff. That would have been his big goal. What was God's plan? God's plan is like from that prison, you are going to show up before Pharaoh and you are going to be the second in command, and you're going to be the one responsible for preserving Egypt, preserving, you know, like your family, Israel, and all of that, and preserving the world. You are going to be the one responsible for Israel getting the choicest land in the middle of a severe famine. So whose plan was better? Joseph's plan or God's plan? God's plan for me is extremely good. So it is with confidence we'll now pray and cry out to God and say, Lord, for this next month, let your will be done in my life. Let your will be done. Let your will be done. Father, let your will be done in our lives. We trust you. We have confidence in you, have faith in you that everything put into your hands becomes beautiful, like a sign, a wonder. Thank you, Lord. In Jesus' name. Amen. Okay. All right. So that's number three. So number one, Lord, expand my vision. Number two is praying in the spirit, praying in tongues. Number three, Lord, let your will be done. Okay. Number four. Okay. Number four is so critical. All right. Number four is Lord, help me grow every day. So this new month we're going into, help me grow every day. Every day. Every day. Okay. Now, let's track this, okay? Because this is something I've been leaning into, and man, we can grow every day. So in the chat, let me know. If you grow every day, what will happen to your life? All right. So let's look at G Jesus had a Jesus had a personal development program that God put him on. Okay. This is the personal development program. Luke chapter 2, verse 52. And Jesus increased, increased in wisdom, number one, stature, number two, favor with God, number three, favor with men, number four. Jesus had multidimensional growth. Wisdom, stature, favor with God, favor with people. You can look at it as intellectual, this is spiritual intelligence, intellectual, right? The second one, physical, the third one, spiritual, right? Favor with God. And then the fourth one, social, favor with men. If you grow in these four areas on a daily basis, what will happen to your life? Let me tell you what will happen in the best possible way. Okay. Okay. Now, let's look at this in terms of money. This will make sense. When somebody gets money, let's say somebody works a job and they get a salary. All right, let's even use that as an example. They get a salary. Okay. If somebody gets a salary and they spend all of it today, they're considered not smart. Okay, if I get a salary, I get a salary of you know$7,500 every month, and at the end of the month, I have nothing left. It's called not smart. Why is it not smart? Because there is a future, and I need to be taking money from today and putting it into the future. Okay. The Bible has an even better way of saying it says there's wealth and luxury to be had in the house of the wise, but a fool spendeth it all. What it means is you don't spend everything you get. You're like, but what if it's not enough? It's already not enough. So don't spend everything you got. Okay. Okay. So what is the wisdom here? The wisdom is when you get something today, use part of it today and use part of it to invest in the future. Same thing with the farmer. A farmer will have a harvest. Let's say they planted corn, they have a harvest. You're like, okay, now that you have this harvest, you can eat some, but you need to put away some for the future because planting season is coming again and you need to have something to plant. Or you take some of this stuff and you put like whatever you do, but you you invest for the future. In the same way, in the same way, if you take the time you have now and you just squander all the time and you don't invest some of the time in the future, that will be considered foolish. Now, you can't really put time in a bottle and save it, but what you can do is use some of the time today to work on future you. Okay? Future you doesn't exist now. There's a version of you that is wiser, a version of you that has skills you don't have, a version of you that has a mindset you don't have now, a version of you of you for whom the challenges you face now are nothing. You invest in that version of you. So that version of you can show up tomorrow. This is important. If you squander all of today on you 1.0 and you didn't invest in you 2.0, that's a problem. The super smart, ultra successful, wise children of God don't do that. So the skills you need for tomorrow get developed today. The mindset you need for tomorrow gets developed today. The attitudes you need for tomorrow get developed today. The body that will be strong to carry you when you're 90 gets developed today. Do you see what I mean? I must grow every day. I must grow every day, every day. I must grow. I must grow. I got up, God gave me a gift of 24 hours as a good steward of 24 hours. I must read a book that makes me spire. I must read my word and grow in wisdom. I must relate with growing my ability to relate with people and have influence. I must grow in my ability to negotiate. Like I have to, I must do something with this body to prepare it for where I'm going. I must grow every day. So we are the ones who will make the decision. We're the ones who will look at the God, like for instance, Jesus' personal development plan and then say, okay, I'm gonna work this plan. Because it like, can I grow in wisdom every day? Yes. Read my Bible, apply what I learned, read relevant books, apply what I learned, yes. Can I grow in stature every day? Yes. Can I work on my body, take a walk, drink water, sleep properly, or whatever? Yes. Can I grow in my relationship with God every day? Yes, I pray to him. I meditate in his word, I'm doing all of these things, I'm I'm worshiping him, I'm thanking him, right? Can I grow in my relationship with people, in favor with people every day? Yes. Yes, I can grow in the fruit of the spirit and interface with people in that way. I can serve people in that way. I do that, I've grown. Can you grow every day? Yes. And as a child of God, saved by the blood of the sacrifice of Jesus, I invite you to choose to grow every day. Okay, so now that we've made the decision, because God can make the decision for us, what is the prayer? Lord, help me grow every day. And when you pray that what he does is he gives you, he helps you, give, gives you the stamina, he gives you insight, he keeps you encouraged, he brings right people and right information your way. Like for instance, what is happening now is God is the help of God. God, so he helped me in the sense that he helps me see this, he anoints me to teach it, he he helped you that you saw it, somebody invited you to it, or you heard about it, and it happened that oh, I can watch this video. And so this is God helping us. Well, we have to make the decision. I will grow every day. I will grow every day, every single day. I will grow is a decision. And now we have the help of God. What? Can you imagine if you spend the next 30 days growing every day? It will be another you on the other side of the month. And if you are another you, remember the rule is be do have, right? And so if I'm different, then I do different. And if I do different, I have different. What? Everything is about to change. Okay, so now, in the spirit of everyday growth, um, if you do not subscribe to us on Substack, I'm putting the link here. The team is gonna put the link in the in the comments. I want to invite you to subscribe to us because what I do there is I share posts about what God has done, posts about what he's teaching me about growth. In fact, I have an article there called the Ultimate Personal Development Program, where I break in detail this personal development program that Jesus was on. Okay. So if you don't subscribe to us, subscribe. And I have made a decision for those of you who are, we call it call you the inner circle. So those of you who are paid members of um SubSlack, you're the success by the book, Inner Circle. I am going to start doing weekly articles, some of them will be podcasts, but weekly trainings on what I'm doing in those four areas. Because if you think about it, it's four weeks in a month, most months, right? And so we'll do wisdom, stature, favorite God, favorite people. So it's the practical aspect like, how am I doing this in my life? How am I helping other people do it? What is this looking like? What results are they creating? So that together we're part of this personal development program that Jesus was a part of because it was so good for Jesus, so good for him, that in three and a half years, he changed the world. So if we embrace the same personal development plan, what could happen after three and a half years for us? Like who knows? Right? But we're talking about being on the speed lane. Okay. So if you haven't subscribed, subscribed. If you're not a paid member, come join us. Okay. And that's what I'm gonna do. Every week I'll just tackle one of them. Okay, so this is what I'm doing to grow in wisdom. This is the results I've gotten. This is what I'm doing to grow in stature, these are the results I've gotten, all of these things. And that will just be week in and week out so that every day we're changing. Every week we're radically different. Okay, so we change how often? Every day. We grow every day. Lord, help me grow. Okay, number five. Number five, Lord, give me divine helpers for acceleration. Lord, give me divine helpers for acceleration. Okay, so we live in a time where there's this common philosophy that if it will be it's up to me, and you know, I can do this by myself. I don't want anybody up in my business, if you're people poor, you're poor. Okay? If you are people poor, you are poor. We need people, and the more high-quality people we have in our world, the richer our lives will be. And I don't mean just money, right? I mean success in all nine areas of your life tied to people. People. Okay? All right. If you if you come on success by the book regularly, guess what? I'm a divine helper for you. Because you get insight, you get inside information about strategies and the word of God and all these things to push your life ahead. Could you study these things on your own? Sure. But did God put me in your life to be a blessing? Yes. Those of you who are on here, you share about success by the book, you share our subsite, you share our rise and shine, you buy our books, you share our books, you do all of that. You are divine helpers to me. There are people you have told about success by the book that on this side of eternity I never would have met. But you know why they're here? They're here because you invited them. You're a divine helper to me. We need each other. People need people, and the more high-quality people you have in your life, the better every aspect of your life will be. So, again, Jesus Christ was the sinless, all-powerful, all-wise son of God who lived a life. That was signs and wonders. Now, let's see if he did this without people. Okay, Jesus had John the Baptist. John the Baptist was the one who had great crowds following him, and then he turned around and said, Behold the Son of God who takes away this, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world. What was he? He was almost like um a brand influencer for Jesus. And now these crowds are then following Jesus. He lent him his credibility. Jesus needed people. Jesus had two people who were in the temple for decades praying for him to come, praying for his ministry, Simeon and Anna the prophetess. Jesus needed intercession, not his own prayer, but prayers other people prayed for him. If he did, how much more you? Actually, let me tell you guys something funny, okay? Let me tell you something funny. One day, um, this was a few years ago, maybe three or four years ago, I would I still remember was I was standing in the driveway and I was thinking about, I was just randomly thinking, okay? I was randomly thinking. And so as I thought, I said, it's, you know, like they say um it's less than, I don't remember the actual stat. It's a very small percentage of African American women who build seven-figure businesses. Okay. And so I'm thinking about my life. I'm like, I built multiple seven-figure businesses. I've built I've built multiple seven-figure businesses, and I built a multi-seven-figure business. And I was like, this is crazy. And I'm thinking about the impact of my life and all of these things. And then in the moment, I said, but this is the strange thing about my life. I had a dad who really loved me, who gave me confidence in myself, right? Like, he made us think there was nothing we couldn't do. I had a mom who, till today, prays for me every day. Like she has a book with my name and my pictures and the name of my children and my husband and everybody, and she prays every day. I have a husband who is a mentor of mentors, and he's my mentor. You know, but you know what it is where somebody pastors a church and the whole church is better? But that person who can do it for that many people is my own personal mentor. And I was like, So I had a funny thought. I said, I wonder if I have a reward for anything I've done because of the level of contribution of all these people. Like people can say they're self-made. I'm not fooled. Like self-what? Right? And I'm like, these guys, like so. This is what I told myself. I said, F me coming to this high, like where I am now, has a lot to do with the people in my life. And so if I'm serious, what I now need to do is see where I've come to as raw material, and then do my own work before I have this life and all of this stuff, and all the rewards belong to other people because they pulled their weight and I did it. So it was a funny thing, right? There's no doctrine here or anything like that, but it was just a funny music I was had because I was so aware of the power of contribution of the people that God put in my life. This is important that you understand this. You need people. Oh, you need a lot of people. So Jesus had John the Baptist, he had Simeon, he had Anna, he had his disciples. Do you know that many places Jesus didn't go to preach? He sent his disciples two by two first. They combed the land, then he went. Jesus needed his disciples. Jesus had people he healed that were divine helpers for him. I told the story, I was talking about this on church on Friday. I told the story of the madman of Gadara. He had a legion of demons in him. Jesus cast out the demons. He came back to his right mind. He said, Oh, let me follow you, Jesus. Jesus said, Nah, don't follow me. Go tell people what I've done. This man went to the decapolis. He went to 10 cities and started telling everybody about what Jesus did. What was he for Jesus? A divine helper. Jesus had the women who funded his ministry, right? So he had Herod's, the wife of Herod's business manager, he had Mary Magdalene, he had all these people, and they funded Jesus' ministry.

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And I could go on and on. There's Joseph of Arimathea, who was the person who gave him the donkey for the triumphant entry, and on and on and on. Jesus was people rich. And a huge part of the massive impact he had, a part of it is he was people rich. If you're people poor, you're poor. And you might say, Oh, I'm poor because I'm people poor. It's not about that. We have 30 days to change that. 30 days from now, you could go like Dr. Una, you won't believe it. And I'll tell you, of course I will. Tell me. Tell me all about it. Okay? So now is the decision. I will be people rich. So so when you hear a statement like I don't do people, it's a demonically engineered statement. Don't ever say it for as long as you live. Because you saying I don't do people means I want to live and die poor. I want to live and die with no impact. I want to live and die without being a sign and a wonder. I want to live and die without fulfilling my calling. If Jesus could not fulfill his assignment without people, it is pride for you to think you can fulfill your assignment without people. You cannot. You cannot. You can't do it. Okay. Number six. Number six. Lord, give me help me to get and obey divine downloads. Help me to get and obey divine downloads. Okay, so let me read this here, okay? John chapter 21. This is so good. Pay attention to this because this will change your life. Okay. Um, John chapter 21, verse 3 says Simon Peter said to them, I'm going fishing. So this is after Jesus died. Okay. I'm going fishing. They said to him, We will also go with you. They went out and immediately got into the boat, and that night they caught nothing. So I want you to think about it. They fished all night and they caught nothing. They fished all night, they caught nothing. All right. But when the morning had now come, Jesus stood on the shore, yet the disciples did not know it was Jesus. Then Jesus said to them, Children, have you any food? Then they answered him, No. Now I want you to think about it. Okay. There may be um things that you've been trying to hit, you haven't been able to hit, targets you've been trying to crush, you haven't been able to crush, obstacles you've been trying to mow down, you haven't been able to mow down. And it seems like the longevity of the problem is giving it legality. No, ma'am, no, sir. We are one instruction away. Okay? Okay, so look at this. So he said, Do you have any food? He said, No. Then Jesus said in verse six, which is what we're praying for. Jesus saw them, they caught all night, they went like all night, they caught nothing, they were done. So what that means is they didn't catch anything. That was a bust. Or was it? Or was it? He then said, verse six, cast the net on the right side of the boat. He gave them a divine instruction. Cast your net on the right side of the boat, and you'll find some. So they cast, and now they were not able to draw it in because of the multitude of fish, from no fish caught all night, to a multitude of fish. What was the difference? What took them from here to here? One instruction. What now? Okay. Now, multitude of fish sounds amazing. It's a lot of fish, but let's look at verse 11. Simon Peter went up and dragged the net to land, full of large fish. So we're not talking itty-bitty fish, full of large fish. And it was 153 of them. And the Bible says, and although there were so many, the net was not broken. So it means they got a harvest that their nets wasn't even built for. That's how massive the harvest was. What was that from one instruction? So I decree over you. Now you're gonna pray this, but let me decree real quick. I decree over you that this next month is going to be a month where the heavens over you will be opened and you will gain access to divine downloads. When God speaks to you, you'll be able to hear it, you'll be able to recognize it as the voice of God. You will obey quickly, and as a result, you will get sign and wonder level results in Jesus' name. But Lord, I'm releasing my faith, divine downloads. I will be able to get capture them, and I'll be able to obey them. And because of that, my life will be a sign and a wonder. There may be things you've been wondering, cracking your brain out. I don't know how this works, I don't know how this will work. This is a good time to ask Him. You're gonna say, Lord, a divine download here will be nice. Listen, you have a challenge that has been there for a long time and it seems like it's defying all odds. One day I was thinking through something and thinking and thinking and brainstorming and mindstorming and doing all this stuff. God said, if the answer was in your brain, you would have found it. So why don't you ask me? If that hits you in your soul, just say thank you, cuz thank you for sharing that, cuz right. Like if the answer was in your mind, you would have pulled it out and solved the problem. Well, you've been thinking about this for three months, you don't have an answer because it's not in your mind. But guess what? I am an endless reservoir of wisdom. God is an endless reservoir of wisdom. So ask him. Ask him. You have things that like Lord, I must be missing something. Right? So, Lord, that I will hear, I will capture and obey divine downloads. That is a powerful prayer. So that's prayer number six. That's prayer number six. That blessed my heart so much. I was like, oh, it set me free. I was like, I don't have to figure all this out on my own. Amazing. Now, sometimes his answer will be a book to go read. His answer, like he answers how he chooses to answer, but if we ask, he does answer. He does answer. Love it. Okay, number seven. Number seven is a powerful prayer. And we're gonna go back to Matthew chapter six, the Lord's Prayer. Jesus gave us a template of prayer. Okay, so Matthew chapter six. Um, you see me looking down, it's because you know, it is success by the book after all. Yes? Okay, so Jesus prayed and prayed and prayed and got to a point. And I say this because as a younger Christian, I used to be deceived. I said, God is all powerful, I'm I'm I'm a child of God now, so Satan is, you know, like Satan has nothing on me. He doesn't, but you live on earth. Let me show you what Jesus said. Jesus said in verse 13, he says, and do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. If Jesus thought in teaching his disciples to pray, so pray, deliver us from the evil one, you better pray, deliver us from the evil one. And this is not to say be afraid or anything like this. No, God has given us provision. And in the provision, you pray, he answers, and keeps the evil one at bay. Okay, so deliver us from the evil one. So prayer number seven, that's what it is. Lord, deliver me from the evil one. And Satan has deception, Satan has distractions, Satan has inspired us to be disobedient. He has all these tactics. Deliver us from the evil one. That when we see distractions, we will know what they are. Distractions. When we see deception, we will know what it is, deception. When we get inspired to disobey, we understand the opportunity costs, the price of disobedience. And we're like, man, saying you've we we played this game back in the day. I'm not playing this game with you no more. Okay? Deliver us from the evil one. So there may be things that he is Satan has planned, has put in place, and all of that stuff. And with this prayer, you've invited God to handle this on your behalf. Deliver me from the evil one, deliver my family from the evil one. Everything that concerns me, deliver from the evil one. Okay, okay. Now, this is the deal. This is the deal. This next month is going to be your best month yet. This is going to be your best month yet. This is going to be a month where you will function under the influence of God and daily downloads will be your portion. And you will have the stamina and the energy to obey. You have the heart to obey. And as you obey, you create a life that is a sign and a wonder. This will be a month where divine helpers will emerge in every aspect of your life and you'll recognize them and you'll collaborate with them. And because of that, you'll have divine acceleration on every side in the name of Jesus Christ. This is going to be a month where it will be brighter, it will be bigger, it would be greater in the name of Jesus. This will be a month where you grow and you grow so much so that everything on the outside will be forced to change. Every aspect of your life will need to conform to the growth you've had on the inside. Where things that were obstacles and challenges are now so little because you've become so big. Daily growth will be your portion in the name of Jesus. This will be a month where you'll have the stamina to invest in the spiritual habits that create great breakthroughs on the outside. You'll be a person of prayer, you'll be a person who studies the word, you'll be a person who meditates, you'll be a person who goes to church, you'll be a person who practices obedience, you're growing in the fruit of the spirit, you give, you're doing all of these things. You understand how to speak, and your words are framed by the word of God, your imagination is framed by the word of God. And because of this, every aspect of your life will move forward. And we're not talking about a little bit, we're talking about quantum leaps upon quantum leaps upon quantum leaps. Okay? So if you receive that, say amen. Amen. And now it's time to then go all in and do the action. But this is the picture I want you to hold. If God says the path of the righteous will shine brighter and brighter, you decide that, oh my goodness, brighter and brighter is here, and I walk in it every day. Satan will try to throw discouragement at you. It's a trap. He just wants you to get distracted. It's part of his distraction. What did God say? He said, Do not be afraid, for I'm your God. Do not be discouraged, for I am with you. God is with you. And so we're gonna make this, we're gonna partner with God to make this our best month yet. We're gonna come back, we're gonna testify of his goodness. Okay. I'm rooting for every, every single one of you. I want to see you on the rise and shine. I want to see you back here at Success by the Book. Share this video. Let's do this. And welcome to your best season yet. Love you guys. 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