Meditation for Success: The 3-Step Framework to Win in Every Area of Your Life

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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. Inn, and I'll be unpacking the secrets I have learned from the Word of God over the last two decades. Let's dive in. Hello, hello, hello. What if I told you that the most powerful strategy that will make you win in all areas of your life was ridiculously simple. Ridiculously simple. And it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman, doesn't matter if you're a black or white, doesn't matter what mistakes you made in the past, doesn't matter. Like these things we think about that stop us from getting where we need to go, they do not matter. They cannot cancel out this principle. Okay. So today I'm going to unpack this for you. I'm going to show you this three-step framework that will make you win in every area of your life. Okay. And so if you're ready and you're all in and you're like Dr. Una, let's go. I want you to type I'm all in in the chat. Okay. Type I'm all in in the chat. So excited to see you guys. Um, Jaime from Louisiana, Jacqueline from Cle from Cleveland, Ohio. Teresa, hello, hello from South Carolina. Jacqueline from Arizona. Linda from South Southern California. So excited you guys are here. Okay. Now, let me tell you how I stumbled on this principle. Okay. And it's so simple. And a huge part of it, you know, but the combination is usually where people miss it. So this is not going to be anything complicated, but it's going to knock your socks off. So this started. Um, I was thinking about my business. Okay. I was thinking my bill, one of my businesses. I run five companies. One of them is called Entree MD. And in that company, I help doctors build profitable six, seven, eight-figure businesses so they have the freedom to live life and practice medicine on their terms. That's what I do. Okay. And then I, you know, like and my mission is to help a hundred thousand of these doctors, right? So it's a lot of doctors. And for the longest, I kind of felt like I was an outsider in the physician community, right? I said that because I went to medical school in Nigeria, not in the US. Um, shortly after training, like a year of after training, I started my own private practice. So I was kind of in my own world. And so I felt like all the organizations within the physician space, I don't have access to them. Let me know in the chat if you've ever felt like that. Like the reason why I can't pull off what this thing God showed me to pull off is, right? Um, I don't have the connections, I don't know the right people, I haven't been in the right rooms. Um, you know, like I don't, whatever that is, I don't have access, whatever that is. And so one day I was taking a walk and praying, and God asked me a question. He said to me, Are you diligent? I said, Lord, I like with this assignment you've given me, very diligent. Like I we've been at it for seven years. We've shown up. Like I have we we have a podcast that has over 550 episodes. We've been part, we have never missed the when never missed the Monday. We have the entree MD Business School for Physicians. We have had sessions every single Wednesday. We don't, we don't, we don't miss that. The day before Thanksgiving, we are showing up. We continue to serve people at the highest level. We have been helping people get bigger and bigger and bigger results. We have people all the way from startup to almost 10 million in revenue. And you know, like, and we're constantly modifying, like our students sometimes will say to us, Oh my goodness, we see the work that you're doing to make this even better. I said, Lord, I'm diligent. He said, Okay. So what does my word say about the diligent man? And he highlights what it says. So this is Proverbs 22, 29, and it says, Seeest thou a man diligent in his work. He will stand before kings, he will not stand before mere men. So I looked at it, I was like, Yeah, Lord, this is what your word says about people who are diligent. Then he said this to me. He said, The problem is you don't see yourself that way. You don't see yourself as the person who, based on diligence, can stand before kings and honor before kings. And so you're here thinking you're outside the physician community, but based on your diligence, you will be the person who stands before kings. Now, kings in the healthcare space or the physician community looks a little different, right? This could be heads of organizations or heads of private equity companies or heads of supergroups for private practices or heads like people who are the kings there. He says, You will stand in honor before kings. And he said, I want you, the internal picture you have is an internal picture of an outsider. And as long as you think that way, my word says, God says, my word says, as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. So that is exactly the way you are. Even though you're diligent, you have painted this picture, and that picture is almost canceling out the power of your diligence, your internal picture. Right? He said, your internal picture. So he said, you have to change your internal picture to line up with my word so that you so that your outside, your circumstances can line up with the picture you have on the inside, because it's always gonna line up with the picture on the inside. Proverbs 423 says this guard your heart with all diligence, for it determines the the determines the outcome of your the course of your life. So the course of your life will follow the internal picture you have. Okay. We're gonna, this is some really serious work. And I'm trusting God, I was just praying about this before we got on the call. I am trusting God that you will get this because once you get this, you can change every aspect of your life with it. It's a technology, it's a spiritual technology. So if you're following so far, type in the chat. I'm following. I'm following. I'm following. So it says, change your internal picture. You do the work to change your internal picture, your circumstances have to align. But you can be praying and you can keep the wrong internal picture, and your internal picture is canceling out your prayer. And somebody say, Dr. Una, what are you talking about? Ephesians 3.20 says this. Now to him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all you ask or think. Meaning your asking is powerful and your thinking is powerful. You must understand this. Your asking is powerful, your thinking is powerful. Okay? Your asking is powerful, your thinking is powerful. So if you want to be this person who is a successful person based off of God's principles, what do you need to do? Ask in line with his word and think in line with his word. You have to use both. You have to use both. Please hear me. You have to use both. So the Bible says, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he thinking. The Bible says, death and life are in the power of the word, speaking. Like all of these things, we have to use all of them. So don't speak one thing in prayer and think another thing that is not lining up with the word, because you are hindering your prayer with the internal picture that you have. So even before we go into this, I want you to think about it. What is your default internal picture about your marriage, about your kids, about your health, about your finances, and all of that? If it does not line up with the word, we have to cause it to conform with the word because if not, our thinking is hindering our prayers. Okay? Okay, beautiful. So now that we're here, I want to do one more thing in the introduction, and then I'm gonna break down these three principles. I am telling you, your life is about to change forever. And if you believe that, you type amen in the chat. This is gonna be so good. Okay, now there's somewhere deeply ingrained in the life of every believer, not every believer, most believers, is this thought that God is in control and God will do whatever God wants to do. So I'm over here, I'm at the mercy of whatever he wants to do, and I'm asking him, Lord, please have mercy and do good things for me. There's just this underlying thing, okay? But I want us to look at some scriptures here because is God in control? Yeah, yes. And he gave us control, he gave us some control. Okay. So can can I do I have some control over the outcome of my life? Yes, yes, yes, yes. And as long as we don't know that, we won't use the tools God gave us to move our lives forward. Do I have a role, a significant role to play in the outcome of my life? Yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes, and yes. You must know this so that every day you can wake up and say, Okay, let me change my life, because you know what to do. It's a technology. Okay, so I don't want you to say, I don't want you to think this just based on what I said. So I'm gonna read a few scriptures here so you understand God gave you power to change your life. Now it's under him, he's the ultimate power, but he gave you power. Okay, so Proverbs chapter four, you see me looking down, looking at the scriptures. This is success by the book, after all. Okay, Proverbs chapter four, verse 23. I'm gonna read it from the New King James, probably gonna quote it from NLT because I like that translation. Okay, so it says, keep your heart with all diligence. Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it springs the issues of life. Okay, but the New Living Translation says, Guard your hearts above all else. Okay, we guard our bank accounts, we guard our homes, we have sophisticated alarm systems and all of those things. The Bible says, above everything you guard, guard your heart. Why? It determines the course of your life. So, what that means is if I'm a good guard over my heart, I put everything that is outside of the word outside of my heart, and I put the word of God and things that are word compliant in my heart, it will make sure that my life looks like the promises that are found in the Bible. So, do I have control over the outcome of my life? Yes, yes, yes, and yes. And God didn't say pray to me to guard your heart. He said, You guard your own heart. It determines the course of your life. Do I have control over the outcome of my life under God? Yes. That's the first scripture. The second scripture is a lot of fun. Um, it's Romans chapter 12, Romans chapter 12, verse 2. And this is what it says. It says, Do not be conformed to this world. And when we a lot of times when we see this, we think only in terms of sin. But the Bible didn't say in terms of sin. The Bible says, Don't be conformed to the world, world, period. Don't be conform to the world in virtue, in character, in nature, in results, in that don't be conformed at all. Don't be conform to this world, but be transformed. Is that change? Can I change my life? Be transformed. Yes, he said, how by the renewing of your mind. Who will renew your mind? Uh you will. Who will renew my mind? I will. I will take this book and use it to rewire and repaint my internal picture, knowing that every time I renew my mind, my life changes. I get transformed. If I renew my mind about finances, my finances will be transformed. If I renew my mind about my health, my health will be transformed. If I renew my mind about my state of peace and joy and well-being, my that aspect of my life will be transformed. Do I have control over the outcome of my life? Yes. Under God, yes. Okay, one more scripture. Why am I taking the time to read this? Because if you don't understand this, you will not do the work that is required to move your life forward. But God has given us the tools, and we are going to use those tools and we're gonna make daddy proud. Okay, okay, Proverbs chapter 18, verse 21. It says, Death and life are in the power of the tongue. Who has the tongue? I do. It's not God, I have the tongue, and he said, You can trigger, or let's even put it this way, because this is the way um on the New Living Translation puts it. It says, You with your tongue, you can bring death or life. So I can attract life to my life by what I say, I can attract death to my life by what I say. So who is in control? I am, you are. So type this in the chat. God has given me power to change my life. God has given me power to change my life. He has given us his Bible so we can see a vision of a preferred future. He has given us our tongue, he has given us our imagination, he's given us the capacity to do work, he's given us pastors to teach us, he's given us a power of prayer. God has given us power to change our lives. Okay? You must understand it. So everywhere where we've been complaining, whining, being paralyzed, all of that stuff, it's time to go like, huh? With the tools God gave me, how could I change this? How could this look different in the next 90 days? How could this you look different in the next six months, in the next two years? How can I engineer my life such that as Jesus at the end of my day I will be able to say, huh, Father, I glorified you on the earth by completing down to the last detail what you assigned me to do? God has given us power. He's given us power. Okay. So now that we understand that, I want to show you a technology. I don't want you to see this as oh, scriptures woven together. Uh-uh. I want you to see this as spiritual, a spiritual algorithm, a spiritual technology, a spiritual, spiritual framework given to you that you can pull out of your pocket and you can use it all day, every day, and twice on Sunday to change your life. That anytime you see an aspect of your life that brings you pain and sorrow and all of that, you can go like, wait a minute, wait, wait, wait a minute. I I got me some technology, okay? Let me use this and change this aspect of my life. I want you to think about all of us downloading from God what he wants our lives to look like, and we spend our life becoming who he called us to be, doing what he called us to do, having what he called us to have, having lives that are true masterpieces, because now we are co-creating those lives with God. God cannot make our life a masterpiece without our corporation. God loves collaboration projects with you. Okay? He loves collaboration projects with you. Okay. So if so far you're like, man, Dr. Una, my my mind is already blown. Um, I want you to do this. I want you to like this video. Okay, if you haven't done it yet, like it. And I want you to share it with the people in your world. Tell them, oh my goodness, we've only been on 15 minutes, and my whole world, my whole world is turned right side up. Okay, so let's get into this three three three-step formula. Now, to give you the three-step formula is going to be based off of two scriptures that are the same scripture, and you have heard the scripture many times. You've heard me teach this scripture many times, but please, I don't want you to approach this with, oh, I know this scripture because God is about to show us something. I want you to lean all the way in as if you never heard it before. Okay, okay. Joshua chapter one, verse eight. Please, please hear this. Thank you, Zarisa. She says she shared the video, she liked and shared. Thank you. Okay, please hear this. This is God talking to Joshua, and I want you to hear it as God talking to you. Okay, Joshua is not here anymore, but the reason is in the Bible is for you. Okay, it says, This book of the law. Now, in their time, they had the first five books of Moses, they didn't have the Bible. We have the Bible, they had five books, we have 66 books. Who has the advantage? We do, okay. So, this book of the law, your Bible, okay. Let me translate it. Your Bible shall not, the scriptures shall not depart from your mouth. So, when should scriptures be coming out of my mouth all the time, all the time. Okay, the scriptures shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that that you may observe to do according to according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. Okay, pause. So let's unpack this a little bit. We have the scripture shouldn't depart from our mouth. When do we speak the word? All the time. Said, but you should meditate in it day and night. When are we meditating on the word? All the time. If and when we do this, what should follow it? We should then observe to do. We should do what the word says. And when we do what the word says, we will make our way prosperous and we will have good success. Now, sometimes when I talk about success, people are like, oh, you know, all this success thing, we're called to be holy. Hello, holy is part of success, it's your spiritual success. Having money is part of success, it's your financial success. Having a successful home is part of success, it's your is your family success. We are called to have success all round. Okay? Okay. So type this in the chat. I choose success. What do we do? What are we doing when we do that? We are we are we are meditating on the word of God because most believers have a virus in their minds that they're not to be successful. They're supposed to be humble and like, yeah, I guess, I guess we don't have to be like completely messed up. We we can just be okay, but we don't have to be like all the way there successful. God punish the devil. Okay, God said success. I say success. Okay, so this book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you meditate in it day and night, that you observe to do all that is written, and then you will make your way prosperous and you have good success, meaning there's bad success. We ain't about that life, we're about the good one. Okay, that's the first scripture. I'm gonna unpack this, but I need us to have this background. Okay, the second scripture that is like the first is Psalm one. Psalm one, and I'm gonna read from verse one. I'm gonna read three verses. I know you've heard this before. I need you to listen like you've never heard it before. Okay. Blessed is the man. So let's even stop there. Type in the chat, I am blessed. Okay, like don't say anything the word of God didn't say about you. I am blessed. And blessed doesn't mean like the thing you say when somebody sneezes. Uh-uh. Blessed means an empowerment to prosper. I am empowered to prosper. Allow that thought sit. What? Okay. Bless is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful. Doesn't mess around with this stuff. But let's look at what this person does. But his delight is in the law of the Lord. Now, I like looking up dictionary definitions because you know, we kind of know what it means, but sometimes, you know, delight refers to extreme pleasure, joy or satisfaction. Delight is extreme pleasure, joy or satisfaction. So type this in the chat. I enjoy reading the word of God. Type it in the chat. You might say, like, Dr. Una, that book be boring sometimes. I know, but we're like our father. We speak what we want to see, not what we see. So it's fine. If you don't feel it, that's okay. We speak our way to feeling it. I enjoy reading my Bible, I enjoy reading the word of God, I enjoy meditating in the word. I love God's word. I love his word. Okay. But his delight, this person now who's the who is blessed, his delight is in the law of the Lord, so in the scriptures. And in this law, in the scriptures, he meditates when? Day and night. Day and night. So let me even stop here to say this. Okay, you you have to always be able to identify the tricks of Satan. Satan has made it seem like if I read my Bible a lot, that I'm fanatical, that I'm extra, nobody needs to do that. But everywhere in the word, it's like read it a lot. Read it a whole lot. Okay, so I'm gonna read my Bible a whole lot, and I'm not gonna let listen to any demonically engineered thinking. Like this makes me fanatical, or this makes me not core, or I'm going off the deep end. What deep end? Right? Okay. So that's an aside. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law he meditates day and night. He shall be now. Now the Bible's saying what this person will be like. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that brings forth fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither. And whatever he does shall prosper. This person who delights in the law of the word of the Lord, meditating it day and night, what is going to happen to this person? They're going to prosper in whatever they do. In their walk with God, they prosper. In their family life, they prosper. In ministry, they prosper. In their health, they prosper. In their finances, they prosper. In intellectual development, they prosper. In social capital, they prosper. In fun, they prosper. They're prospering on every side. In business, career, academics, they're prospering. Why? Because this is a person who does not walk in the counsel of the ungodly, does not stand in the path of sinners, does not sit in the seat of the scorner, but delights in the law of the Lord and meditates on this day and night. Okay, let's practice. Type in the chat. Whatever I lay my hand, whatever I put my hand to do prospers. Type it in the chat. I know it will be it will be clashing with some theology, like, no, but we shouldn't go after that. It's in the Bible, child. We're going after everything in the Bible. Whatever I put my hand to prospers. Whatever I put my hand to prospers. You're gonna write that. You're gonna start changing your internal picture. I'm this person who experiences success in all areas of my life because I'm devoted to my God and I love his scriptures and I love his word. And I'm it doesn't depart from my mouth. And I meditate in a day and night, and I observe to do all that is written in there. My ways prosperous, I make my way prosperous, and I have good success. Whatever I put my hand to do prospers. Whatever I put my hand to do, prospers. Okay, okay. So now let us go to this framework. The framework is based on these two scriptures, okay? It's based on these two scriptures. Father, I trust you for deep understanding and insight and revelation and wisdom that every single person on this call, every single person who catches the replay will be forever transformed and they'll understand how to use this technology all the days of their lives. In Jesus' name, amen. And every single one of them will become billboards of your goodness. They become people who show off how good you are, how glorious you are, how powerful you are. In Jesus' name. Amen. Okay, all right. So now let's look at the framework. Okay, so I'm going back to Joshua chapter one. It's all from the word of God. If if I tell you something's not in the word, you can feel free to throw it away. Okay, this is success by the book, after all, not success by Dr. Una's thinking. Okay, okay, now the the first thing here is not meditation. I didn't know this. Meditation is powerful, but according to this scripture, the most the first thing is not meditation. Let's read it. This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. There are three steps. The first is not meditation. The first step here is submitting yourself to the word of God as the final authority. Submitting yourself to the word of God as the final authority, submitting yourself to the word of God as the only source of wisdom. It is the source of wisdom, it is the source of how I should live my life. It is the manual for my life. Until you make that decision, this process cannot work for you. Because then you say, I know the word of God says this, but there's no but. There's no but. Like the starting point is submitting to the word of God. The Bible says, in the beginning was the word, and the word was God. Then the word was with God, and the word was God. That's John chapter 1, verse 1. God and his word are the same. There's no such thing as I'm submitted to God, but I'm not submitted to his word. The Bible actually says that you, O God, have put your word above all your name. So even God abides by his word. And if he abides by his word, he's not about to violate his word for you. So this whole idea that the Bible is something that is a book of suggestions is the reason why we have so many, so many instances of defeat. The starting point is that my life is governed by the word of God, submitting to the word of God as the final authority, submitting to the word of God as the final authority. So if I have a marriage, I submit it to the word of God. I have a body, I submit it to the word of God. I have a way of thinking. My way of thinking submitted to the word of God, which means if my life and the word of God don't line up, I take this and toss it and adopt the word of God. The word of God is the final authority. If you decide to follow God, but you tell him, But I'm gonna do it my way, the kingdom of God is not Burger King. You can't do it your way, you have to do it God's way. You have to do it God's way. Meditation will not work, prayer will not work. Your suffering starts where your disobedience starts. We came to this earth, we met it here. We didn't create the laws in the earth, we didn't create any of it. We showed up here. The person who made it now gave us the principles that govern it so we can follow them, so we can win. And when uh-uh, we're gonna do it our way. Based on what? Like, based on what you made the earth, you made yourself, you made like where do we get this pride from? The word of God is the final authority. So type this in the chat if you are making a commitment to the word of God. The word of God is my is the final authority for me. The word of God is the final authority for me. For me, and I'm not doing this because I'm like, oh, God has this book of does do's and don'ts, and he's about to smite me. That's not what it is. Hello. God made laws and he gave you a set of actions that will make the laws work for you, not against you. For instance, if I tell my mother, if I if I if I'm a mother and I see a child at the top of a building and I tell the child, do not jump. I'm not telling them do not jump because I want to cramp them their style. I don't want them to enjoy their lives or all that, because I know there is a law called gravity. And if you jump, you're gonna break your legs. End of story. So the the instruction is for your good. It's not God trying to control your life, it is for your good because he knows the laws he put in place. As a mother, I have a child going towards a hot stove, and I'm like, don't put your hand there. I'm not saying that because I don't want the child to enjoy themselves and play a game and put their hand there. No, I'm saying that because you put your hand there, it is going to burn you. The the principles of God are given to us for our advantage. Again, so now you can see the deception of Satan. What is the deception of Satan? Oh, God be telling you all these things because he wants to take something from you. That's not new. He did that to Eve in Genesis chapter 3. Oh, God said you shouldn't eat that fruit. Child, you know, if you eat that fruit, you'll be just like him. You're trying to be God all by himself, and you could be God too. Well, she listened. How did that work out for her? Right? So the the the the instrument, okay. Type this in the chat. The commandments of God are for my benefit. The commandments of God are for my benefit. You must understand that the word of God is given to you as an expression of God's love. It's not control, it's not cramping your style, it's not so you have a boring life. What is boring about you succeeding in everything you do? That's the ultimate self-life, right? Every commandment is given to you for your good, for your benefit, so it will be well with you. So that this way, when we obey him, when we model our lives after him, we're doing it from a place of understanding, not feeling like God is robbing us because he is not. Okay? Okay, so I even think this is a good place to celebrate the mercy and grace of God. He gave us 66 books of instructions and vision and encouragement and all of this. I think we just need to throw up some emojis. That's how we shout and praise God when we're together, since we can't hear each other. Let's just throw up some emojis and thank God for his word. Thank him for his in his word, their principles, their prophecies, their um, their instructions, their commandments, there's all promises, all of these things. He gave us all of these things for our good. It is for our good, it's for our benefit. So, Father, we celebrate you. We are so grateful. We thank you for your word. We thank you for showing us the truth about why you sent your word. We thank you for the transformations it will create in our lives. We are so excited, and we are so excited to not let this book of the law depart from our mouth, but we'll meditate on it day and night, and we'll observe to do, and then we'll make our way successful, and then we'll have good success. We'll be the billboards for our world like you called us to be. We'll be the salt of the earth, we'll be the light of the world, we will be key, we'll be the kings and priests you called us to be, and we will reign in the earth as you destined for us to do. We will be those people who are blessed, who are empowered to prosper on every side, and not just us, but our family members as well. Thank you, Lord. We're so grateful, so grateful in Jesus' name. Amen. So grateful. Okay. All right. So the starting point is submitting to the word as the final authority. If not, you cherry pick what you meditate on, you'll cherry-pick what you do, you obey here, you disobey here. Every time you disobey, you're opening the door for Satan. Every time you accept something that's not in line with the word of God, you're opening the door for the kingdom of darkness, and we're not doing that anymore. We're done. We are done. Done, dun, done. Okay. So that's the first step, submitting to the to the word as the final authority. So let's go back to to Joshua chapter eight. Okay, now the next thing in there, so it says that this book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, okay? But you will meditate in it day and night. So the second step of our technology is meditate on the word day and night. Meditate on the word day and night. Now, oh my goodness, who can do that? No, no, no, no. If God said that, we can do it. So the question is, how? If God said it, we can do it. God is not some wicked father that that's like me telling my my 12-year-old that you know, I want a birthday present and I want $50,000 as my birthday present. Not kind, not kind. How is she supposed to do that? Okay, okay. But God doesn't do that, God tells us what we can do. So type this in the chat. I can meditate day and night. We can figure out how, but if he said, it means we can't. I can meditate day and night. How? I'm I'm getting there. Give me a moment. I'm getting there. But I can't. I can meditate day and night. I can't. If he said I can, I can. If he said I can, I can. If he asked me to do it, it means I can. With his help, I can. Okay. All right. So let's look at this. Now, what is this whole deal about meditating in the word? Okay. There are many different actions. I did a whole training, how to meditate. Okay. How to meditate, the ultimate guide for meditation. Um, and after this video, this is the next thing you want to go watch because you want to go deep in this stuff. Okay. In meditation, what we are doing is we are taking, it's a process, there are activities we do in it, but we are taking the word of God from our head, okay? And then we're installing it in our heart, right? So our mind, if you will. So in our in our mind, in our heart, so it becomes the new internal picture. Guys, you're always meditating, okay? Like, how many times have we spent hours worrying about something and we had an internal picture about it, and we had a clear picture of the negative outcome we didn't want to see, and all that? We're always meditating, we're always meditating, but now we're going to have controlled scriptural meditation. Now, let me say this really quickly: there are forms of meditation that are like empty your mind and all of those things, but that's not what God is talking about here. He said, This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it. So we're meditating in the word, we're meditating on the word, we're meditating on the word. Please hear me. We are meditating on the word, we're not emptying our minds. Okay, okay. So we're taking the word and we're going in, going at it, rolling it over in our minds, saying it out of our mouth, painting pictures with it, visualizing it, doing all of that until it takes. Until it takes. Okay. So we do this day and night. So for instance, I gave you guys the example where God was saying, Oh, you you don't you don't have the expectation of what my word said, which is that you shall stand before kings. Now let me say this, because sometimes when we think about meditating on the word, obeying the word, we only think about sin and and doing right. Please hear me. It's all of it. If the Bible says in Revelations 5, 10, it says, and we are kings and priests. So you also need to meditate on that and observe to do accordingly. Right? It's not just thou shalt not fornicate, it's all of it. Type in the chat, it's all of it. So I'm going like, I'm a king and I'm a priest. And your mind, your brain will go like, you royalty? Like, what's wrong with you? Your job is to stay on it. I'm a king and I'm a priest, and I'm designed to reign in the earth. I'm a king and I'm a priest. I'm designed to reign in the earth. I'm a king. I represent God to the people. I'm a priest. I represent the people to God. I'm a king and a priest. And I'm designed to reign in this earth, in this earth, in this time, not in heaven, in this time. I am designed to reign in the earth, to rule, to have dominion. That is what I'm sent here for. I'm a king. I'm a priest. In the beginning, your brain is like there is no way, but you keep muttering it, you keep visualizing it, you keep saying it, you keep writing it, you keep reading it, you keep at it until it takes. When your default thinking is I'm royalty, your default thinking is I'm a king. Your default thinking is I'm a priest. So when you pray, you know that I am sent and I'm a priest and I represent God, I represent the people to God. So when I present them before God, God shows up because I'm his priest. When I'm a king and I command in the earth and I take projects and I'm going after them, I win. I know I can win. Why? Because I'm here representing God to the people. If you're getting it, type in the chat, I'm getting it. Right? So we we we're we're doing all of these things, we we're saying it, we're we're writing it, we're praying it. Like you see, for instance, that scripture may say, Lord, I don't see how I'm a king. Then you're praying, Lord, open my eyes, give me a revelation of the scripture that I'm a king, that I'm a priest. It's part of meditation. You're reading it, you're doing all of that stuff. What are you doing? Rewiring this picture, so it lines up with what the word of God says about you. The Bible talks about you being the light of the world. Can you imagine that? That's who you are. Okay, all right, let me come back here. So when he gave me that scripture, you will stand in honor before kings. What do you think I do with it? Till today, I'm taking a walk. I stand in honor before kings. I stand in honor before kings. I'm invited to the biggest stages when there are problems at a corporate and a national level. I am sought out. Um I'm sought after to solve those problems. I am sought out by kings. I stand in honor before kings. I stand in honor before kings. I don't stand before mayor men. What is that meditation? Then I paint the picture of me being in those boardrooms, I paint the picture of me being on those stages, I paint the picture of me being in you know, commencement speeches. I paint all of these pictures. What am I doing? I'm meditating in the word of God. Then I'm praying. I'm like, Lord, open my eyes, give me a deeper understanding of this scripture that I stand in honor before kings. This is my job. What am I doing? Rewiring. So it's like you may have been given a diagnosis, and or maybe not even a diagnosis. You know, people in your family die young and the internal picture, you've already seen it. Oh, at 56, everybody's gone. You know, maybe I live to 57, and then 57, I'm gone, and then my children don't have a mother or don't have a father, and you've already attended your own funeral and all of this stuff. Because if you don't govern your mind, your mind is not going to stay quiet. Satan will hijack it and use it for his agenda. Okay. So it's not up to me to say, by the stripes of Jesus, I am healed. By the stripes of Jesus, I am healed. Then you see Jesus and you see all the stripes that were laid on him, all the beatings he went, and that's the beating you should have had. The same way cancer should have destroyed your body. That's how they beat him and destroyed his body. So he took that from me. So by his stripes, I am healed. By his stripes, I'm healed. When you lay down to sleep, you're like, that same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead. Think about it. Jesus was dead for three days. Think about meat that was left outside for three days. Jesus was dead for three days. And that spirit came on the inside of him and raised him from the dead. Now, the spirit that lives on this inside of me is that same spirit. So if that same spirit, if that spirit could raise Jesus from the dead, that spirit can bring a life to my mortal bodies. And so, as I'm here, the Holy Spirit is going through my body, giving life to every organ, every ligament, every tendon, every joint, giving life to my mortal body. You're like, with long life, he will satisfy me. God is like, what can I do for her? I'm gonna satisfy her with a long life. So you attend your 50th birthday party, and then your 60th birthday party, and then your 70th birthday party, and then your 80th birthday party, and your 90th birthday party. You watch yourself carrying your grandchildren. Why? Because with long life, he will satisfy me. You see yourself at 90, teaching your generations wisdom, the things you've learned over seven decades of following the Lord. You're teaching them why? Because God satisfies you with long life. Are you guys getting this? This is meditation, so it's work, it's not casual, it's work, but we do it and do it and do it until our default thinking is this. We work at this until our default thinking is what the word of God says. So I was thinking a walk the other day. I think this was after our prayer thong. And um, I remember this scripture. Um, David said, Your testimonies are my meditations all day long. And I was thinking about it, and God said to me, I said, He said, Do you know why He could he could say my test, my testimonies were his meditation all the day long? Because he had made this his default thinking, he had made his imagination line up with the word of God. So when he's just imagining, his imagination is in line with the word of God. How beautiful will it be when your default imagination about the different areas of your life or just what the word of God said? How beautiful would that be? How amazing will that be? Instead of thinking of, oh, then we die young, and oh, if we get into an accident, and oh, if that doesn't work, oh my goodness, when the other shoe drops, oh my goodness. No, you're gonna put in the reps and train your mind on how to think. You're like, mind, come here. This is how we think. This is how we think, and that means now I think I need to do a whole other session on this scripture because let me read it for you. Um this is important because we have we have looked at this scripture in a weird way, right? Um, second chronicles, second chronicles, 2nd Corinthians chapter 10, verse 3, from verse 3. Pay attention to this. It's Says, for though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty in God for pulling down of strongholds. Now, when people hear this, they yes, in the name of Jesus, I pull down strongholds. Yes, and pay attention. He said, Mighty in God for the pulling down of strongholds, casting down arguments. This is in the mind realm, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought. Please, in the chat, in the chat, type how many, how many thoughts? Every thought, every thought roaming in your mind, take every thought and bring it into captivity to the obedience of Christ. So if there's a thought I think that doesn't line up with the word of God, I'm supposed to take it captive. And like, no ma'am, no, sir, you can't stay here. So when you're like, oh, you know, we pay our bills, so so we're good. Uh-uh. That's not what the Bible said. That's not what the Bible said. When it's like, oh yeah, you know, uh, we're just supposed to be humble. Humble doesn't mean broke, humble doesn't mean powerless, humble, meek, actually bring means power under control. The Bible called Moses the meekest man as of his time, the meekest man. Meanwhile, the meekest man was the person who was executed the ten plagues of Egypt. Hello. So our job is every thought. We take it and put it under this Bible that we agreed is our final authority and said, This thought now does it line up with this book? If it doesn't, we take the antidote and we say it out of our mouth, and say it out of our mouth, and meditate on it and pray over it and say it out of our mouth and visualize it and continue at it until we have cast that stronghold down. Okay, all right. So, step one of the framework, nothing works till this works, is I submit myself to the word as a final authority. Final authority. When woman, respect your wives, respect your husbands. Uh-uh. All this patriarchy that you can say whatever you want. The butt God said what he said. You submit to the word of the final authority, you have a home you enjoy. You don't, you won't. End of story. Okay? And we have to understand that God is good. Everything that he put in his word is for our good. It's not to punish us, it's not to harm us, is for our good. Okay. All right. So what is the third step? The third step you find again in Joshua chapter one. So let's go back there. Joshua chapter one, verse eight. This book of the law that I've made my final authority, this book of the law shall not depart from your mouth. So when do we speak the word? All the time. You should see me when I'm taking a walk. Okay, when I'm taking a walk, okay, um, I will put my headphones in, and so if I my earbuds in, so if I'm speaking, nobody's wondering, is she crazy? What is she doing? They just think I'm on the phone, or they think I'm rapping, or whatever. I don't know what they're thinking. Good for them, right? But I'm speaking the word by the stripes of Jesus. I'm healed. My footsteps are ordered, I'm always in the right place at the right time. All things are working together for my good. I'm the head and not the tail, above only and not beneath. No weapon fashioned against me shall prosper. But this is the heritage of the sons of like on and just just this is why you read your word. This is why you meditate in your word, so you have something to say. Okay, this book of the law that I've made my final authority shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do. The whole point is when I when I take the word of God and I meditate in the word of God, that word of God should change my picture, it should change what I say, and it should change what I do. So, for instance, I can say, I stand in honor before kings, I stand in honor before kings, all I want. But if I don't then go and do what will make me stand in honor before kings, I'm canceling it out by my lack of action. Faith without works is dead. Okay, so what that means is I am giving to excellence. If I know, if I know that I was, okay, for instance, with with Daniel, right? God gave him unusual aptitude and he was found to be 10 times better. So what do you think I say? I am 10 times better than my peers. I'm 10 times better than my my um my um uh um okay, I forget the word, but bottom line, it's my peers, my contemporaries, right? I'm more I'm better than them. I'm I'm 10 times better. I perform at a level, 10 times better, which means I have to study to match that, which means I have to have the work ethic to match that, which means I need to have the do you guys see what I'm saying? So when you're done declaring, you then act like the person who does that. So if you're saying I'm a straight A student, then go hit the books. Go hit the books. That's what you have to do, right? That's what you have to do. If you're saying, Oh, I am led by the God. So one of the scriptures we meditate on on Arise and Shine is Psalm 32, verse 8, where it says, The Lord says, I will lead you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you, I will watch over you. So I can go and say, Oh my goodness, my life. I am led by the Most High God on the best pathway for my life. When you're done saying that, you gotta read your Bible, knowing that he uses his word to direct you. It means before you make decisions, you pray because you're like, Lord, I depend on you to lead me along the best pathway of my life. You have to do that. You say you're a business person and the works of my hands are blessed. That one of the scriptures we meditate on is Genesis 26, 13, where it says, And the man I and the man, referring to Isaac, began to prosper and continued prospering until he became very prosperous. Very good. So I can say it. I begin to prosper and continue prospering until I become very prosperous. Hello. Then you have to go and act like a prosperous person. You create value in your company, then you sell the things that you do, and then you lead a team that helps you do more things. You do what somebody who is very prosperous will do. Part of being very prosperous is yes, you generate revenue, but you're also converting that revenue to wealth. You're putting in wealth-building engines, so you're going to be disciplined. If your company makes a million, you cannot spend a million. A portion of that million is going to need to go into investments, a portion of that million is going to need to go into an emergency fund. You act like a person who is very prosperous. If you got it, you got to type in the chat. I got it. Because if you don't have this part, none of it makes sense. None of it makes sense. So if the Bible says, see as a man who is diligent, he will stand before kings, then go be diligent. Go be diligent. The Bible talking about raising our kids. Huh? The Bible says, when you wake up, uh, teach them the word. When you are going on your way, teach them on the word, teach them the word. When you're going to bed, teach them the word. You want to create children that are world changers, you must indoctrinate them with the word of God. That is your job. That is your job. So there's no point saying my children will be mighty, they'll be like quick, they'll be like arrows in the quiver of a mighty man, and they'll answer the enemy in the gates, and you're not training them in the ways of the Lord. No, you have to train them. You have to train. That's now the doing part. So let me read the scripture again. This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth. You gotta say it. But you meditate in it day and night. So when are we doing day and night? And every time that Satan offers you some crazy thought, or your undisciplined mind offers you some crazy thought, you open your mouth and say the opposite. He shows you a picture, ooh, and you died young. You open your mouth with long life, he's satisfied. But if he's satisfying you with long life, you also have to watch what you eat. You also have to go and exercise, you also have to do all these other things, you have to do your part. Okay, this book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you meditate on it day and night. That that the purpose of that is so that you can observe to do according to all that is written in it. And there are very few in there are almost no instructions that will take you to the height of heights that are not based on the word of God. Even if you're the person I read a lot of books, when you read a lot of books and you read the Bible, you find out that the principles that work are in the Bible, they're all in the Bible, right? So, even like finances, debt, the Bible says, he says, wealth and luxury are found in the house of the wise, but the fool spendeth it all. So the Bible is saying, don't act like a fool, don't spend everything you make. It's in the Bible. I know Dave Ramsey said it, but it's in the Bible. The Bible says, be take care of your business in the field, your work in the field, and then build your house. Meaning, create ways of creating income, create a cash cow, then go and buy your house. Right? As opposed to, but you see, people do it upside down. They're not really making any money, they're not doing anything, then they go acquire uh a house, and the mortgage is like every single month. The Bible said don't do it. That you may observe to do there is type this in the chat. There is profound wisdom in the word of God. Profound wisdom, profound wisdom. If you apply this, and I will invite you to apply it in all areas of your life, it will rock your entire world. You can change any aspect of your life using these three principles. Submit yourself to the word as the final authority, meditate in the word, do what it says. Submit, meditate, do it. It will change your whole life. Now, so which what that means now is that I have three jobs, and I want to put them as I want to position them as jobs so you understand this is work. This is not a walk in the park, but it's good work because the ROI, the return on investment of this work is so good. I mean, David talking about he was like, Your word has made me wiser than my teachers, it's made me wiser than the ancients, it's made me wiser than my enemies. Like your word, boo. Okay, you have three jobs. You have three jobs. These are when you wake up, this is the work you do. Okay, job number one is the job of the sheep. I'm a sheep, I have a shepherd. My shepherd is God. I follow him. If he says this in his word, I do it. If he says that in his word, I do it. I follow him. I just follow him. Like, where's the shepherd going? Are we are we taking a right? Okay. Are we staying here for the night? Okay. We're taking a left now. Okay, that's my job. Sheep of God. Not he goat of God, where God says, Go this way. Well, where what I think is what? No, sheep. We just follow. It's your job. That also means you're reading the word to know where the shepherd is going, so you can follow him. You're praying so you can know by promptings where the shepherd is going and downloads where the shepherd is going, so you so you can follow. Right? Like, I'm just sheep. Right? I'm just his sheep. Number one. It's work. We do the work. Work number two is the work of the architect. Okay. So in your mind, right? When you were born, there were no pictures in internally. You have no internal pictures. As you grew up, life, circumstances, people's experience, people's sayings, all of that created internal pictures. So you get this internal pictures. Oh, all men cheat. They have this other internal picture. There are no good spouses anywhere. You get this other internal picture, die young. You get this other picture, it's not cool to serve God. You get this other internal picture, it's too hard to read the Bible. You get this other people, um, I don't go to, I don't do church, I just do, I just do God. Meanwhile, the church is the bride of Christ. That's like walking to a man. I like you, but your wife, I can't stand her. Like, what? Okay. So we get all these crazy internal pictures. But as the architect, you're now going to go to the word of God and pull the picture and paint that picture inside. You're going to create an internal picture that matches the word of God. You're the architect. That's work. So, what does the word say about marriage? That becomes the picture, the blueprint in your mind. What does God say about my health? What does God say about my walk with him? What does God say about fulfilling my destiny? What does God say about all this? Like, so we're painting pictures. I'm an architect. Okay, I'm an architect. I'm I take this blueprint out of this book and I put it in me. That's what we do in meditation. Okay? Okay. Now, after I'm done painting that picture, the architect usually hands off the blueprint to a builder. And the builder now builds. Okay. So I'm painting the picture. This is what I do in my time with God when I'm meditating, when I'm praying, when I'm doing all of this stuff. And then when I go face my day, I'm building. I'm a builder, but I'm building according to the blueprint. I'm building according to, I'm not building just to build. No. So I'm like, okay, my marriage is supposed to do like look like this. Okay, let me let me make it line up with that. My relationship with God is supposed to look like that. Okay, I'm gonna build it so it lines up with that. My finances are supposed to look like this. Okay, good. I'm gonna build it so it lines, I'm building, and I'm building up to make the this internal picture that is based on the word of God a reality. If you got it, type in the chat, I got it. Because that's the framework. And the sheep, I followed, I follow him. I don't I don't get up and say, This is my this is not Burger King. Have it your way. This is not Burger King. Okay, I just follow God, sheep of God. God, where are we going? Okay, let's go. That's my job. Job number one, job number two. I'm an architect. This internal picture, like my inner life, my mind is my real estate. It's my real estate. And on that mind, I'm going to paint the picture of the word of God. So every time you see me, what I'm saying, like what I'm saying out of my mouth, what I'm thinking about, what I'm brooding over, the picture, the visualizations I have on the inside, it's all based on the word of God. Then when I go about my day, I'm building, I'm taking those nine areas of my life and I'm building them according to the blueprint. When you do this, your entire life becomes a sign and a wonder. And your entire life lines up with the word of God. Entire. Entire. Okay. So what I want from you guys, what I really, really, really, really, really, really want from you is I want you now. First of all, I did a training, the team will post it again, and post the the YouTube, um, the YouTube link. I I did a training how to meditate. Okay. So go watch that because this is your job. You're an architect. That's your job. Okay. Okay. So I want you to get seven scriptures, ten scriptures that you can sit on that you're going to commit to really going deep and meditating on them. Right? These are scriptures that correct crazy pictures you have on the inside. Yes? You're gonna sit with them, you're gonna say them out of your mouth, just mutter them under your breath. You're just saying it. Every time you're saying it, what are you doing? You're writing it on the inside. You're writing, you visualize it being your reality. You're writing it on the inside. You pray through, you're like, Lord, open my eyes to understand the scripture. What are you doing? You're you're you're rewriting, right? You're rewriting, and then as you rewrite, then you act in line with it. So, sheep, architect, builder, sheep, architect, builder, sheep, architect, builder, this is what you're doing. So you're not living randomly, you're not wondering, oh, I want to know what will happen with my life. No, because you're in the process, you're co-creating with God, right? You're co-creating with him. So, okay, so the sheep I'm following, the architect, I'm taking his word, which is the blueprint I'm putting here, I'm building, and all of this. So when people are like, all of a sudden, she just became this person, all of a sudden he just you know it's not all of a sudden, you've been working at it. Sheep, architect, builder, sheep, architect, builder, sheep architect, builder. That's just what I'm doing, guys. I'm telling you, we do this stuff, it will be so dramatic. Like every 90 days, you're different. Every 90 days, you're having a different experience. And let me tell you something. You never outgrow this because the more you do the sheep architect builder, the deeper you go in the word, the more revelation you have. That's that's why you hear me say the deeper you go with God, the higher, the higher you go in life, deeper revelation, bigger. Okay, I'll give you an example. One day I was like, I don't know, this real estate stuff, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm not really into that. And God was like, I own all the real estate. Real estate is the family business. Is the family like if I if I own the entire earth, the sun, the moon, the the whole galaxy, you you can own five acres, ma'am. You can own 200 acres, like, ma'am, you can. This is the family business. I'm telling you, like, once you start going deep in this stuff, right? Like, why do we start saying like oh, we live, why do we say it's on rising, I live a life of global impact? Because that's the family, that's the family you come from. Your family thinks in the globe, so it expands the way you think, it expands what you can believe for, it expands what you and and and when you're running and building, people are like, what is driving her? The sheep, the architect. There's an internal thing that is actually making you act like this builder doing all these things. Man, type in the chat, I'm gonna do the work. I'm gonna do the work. God has so much in store for him. We will not abort the process. We are the people who are going to do the work. Type in the chat, I am going to do the work. Okay, and then go catch that video, how to meditate, and just take your role. Sheep architect builder. Sheep architect builder. Live this way all day, every day, twice on Sunday, and you will shock your own self by who you become. I am rooting for you always. So grateful I get to do this stuff with you. And I'll see you, my friend, on the next episode, the next video. Success by the book. Bye, y'all.