YIELDING YOURSELF : LIVE YIELDED : EVANGELIST BENIE DIVINE

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all right oh my gosh okay I need to get the excitement now first of all so this has been a long time coming and finally here we are and if you've seen this you're probably wondering what have we been working on this is what we've been working on and this was released Honestly by the Lord and to be privileged to do this on this platform so I'm very grateful first of all for Prophet Lobby allowing us allowing me allowing all of us to have the opportunity to do this on this platform it is such an honor and a privilege to be a blessing to the people of God and just everything that this house is doing to be an extension of that I cannot even tell you how honored I feel and how humbled it is so I'm so excited to welcome you all to this journey of live yielded amen all right so it's gonna be great it's gonna be empowering it's gonna be enlightening it's going to be transformational and it's really going to be heart challenging for us to just discover the things that God has for us and we're going to get into even just the vision and how this came about so come on let's take it

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all right so live yielded I guess let me just give you my own personal little history of it we'll get more into it as we walk on this together but so I thought it was going to be an audio podcast right and I'm like okay I feel like the Lord is really something I've desired and I was filling that pool like okay let's do something just kind of teach a little bit Enlighten a little bit just in a different way just to be a blessing to people and so I come up to popular and okay great when you're ready to do it like we're gonna put it on my platform it's really what I wanted to do an audio podcast like and but that was very challenging instantly in that moment I said wow God really you can give us something and we can see the small picture and never imagine how because I don't know how but it downloaded immediately because I was like okay this is not just me getting to sit with my phone and the mic and just record and put it out there this is me having to show up and be on this amazing platform of it and really be a blessing to the people and I was like okay God well if this is what you're saying it's gonna be great let's do it um but even as he began to show me what Libya did was and just as we kick off this this podcast this show this space whatever you want to call it we're gonna go into a seven part series I was led to start off that way and for the next seven episodes we're just gonna hit on seven different areas about yielding or seven different areas where we can yield to the Lord and what that looks like and so we're going to start that today and so the very first thing we're going to talk about is yielding yourself okay yielding yourself so just live yielded first of all the idea of yielding right the thing that comes to me immediately is I think of when we're driving you know and you have to yield and so automatically and I went to the dictionary just like okay God what exactly is this just even as I understood more of what he was saying but to yield is basically to step out of the way so that you let somebody else take the lead or it goes deeper in saying letting go of doing something your way so that you can adopt a different way of doing it and in another way that we can say that as Believers is the famous word that is not always so easy is surrender and so to leave yielded is to surrender to yield is to surrender so living a yielded life is basically living a surrendered life but what does that look like and I think ultimately honestly for all of us If we're honest with ourselves the Journey of Christianity or our walk with God is the ultimate journey of surrender each and every single day us surrendering each and every single day us yielding to say okay not my emotion not my thought not my desire not how I perceive this thing will be but I surrender to your way so it's a constant saying God your way constantly okay how do you want to do this okay your way how do you want to go about that okay God your way so we find ourselves having to constantly yield like that and so I wanted to start with that yielding yourself because we are the ones that God is after I think when we talk about surrender we all talk about okay surrendering my dreams or surrendering my family or surrendering my finances or surrendering my career is that we think very external but really all that becomes the side effect of whether or not you're surrendered already and so it really starts with you and so when you've already laid everything out it's like saying God me and everything that I have I'm already yours so that encompasses my career that encompasses my family that encompasses my finances that encompasses my dreams and desires because that's all part of me so those things are not separate and I think that's why we kind of struggle sometimes is because we've separate it it's like yes me and then my career yes me and then my relationship yes me and then my desires yes me and my job or whatever it is that I have to do and not realizing even though we say it but it's like we are not fully embracing those two or fully merging those two realities that you are connected to everything else that is a part of your life so as we go a little deeper I wanted to read this verse in NLT because we've heard this a lot probably in King James but I'm going to read it for you today in the NLT and this is Romans 12 1-2 and he says and so dear brothers and sisters I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you let them be a living and holy sacrifice the kind he will find acceptable so let your bodies be a living and holy sacrifice then verse 2 in NLT he says don't copy the behavior and customs of this world but let God transform you into a new person how by changing the way you think then you will learn to know God's will for you which is good and pleasing and perfect and so even breaking it down further when we talk about our thought or our mind and the way we think that then ultimately changes Who We Are we are tripart beings right uh Body Soul and Spirit and when you think of the effect externally like all those things that we're just talking about it's all the external things like my body in my career my body being present in my job how my body interacts in relationships is like that external thing and then you come behind that layer to the soul but then there's that third layer of the spirit and so as I was going deeper into this it's realizing very fundamental this is very very fundamental but your yielding starts from the spirit and then that's what influences your soul and then that's what influences the body and so when you haven't really locked in that first part we struggle on the third part and so a lot of us have been trying to come at it from the third part and I'm speaking personally just because of how I know this journey has been and some of the areas where I was like God what you want me to give this up and that's how you think of it is like giving something up it's like we think we are losing something or letting something go for God to be pleased it's like even that mindset itself is warm it's like oh I have to give up school because I have to do this thing that it's like I have to give up something for this thing that God wants versus thinking God wants me to gain something else rather than this thing that I thought was good we don't think of it that way and so a lot of us we go about even myself I'm sure a lot of us in this room will say okay yeah this thing I want to say about God did not allow me to do that it's like it was a loss for me not to do that for this other thing that God wanted me to do in that particular season and even though in retrospect when we've walked through it we see the benefit of it but in the back of our minds still like oh I lost something there because I didn't get to do that thing when I wanted to do it and it wasn't a loss it wasn't a loss and so when it comes to yielding yourself it's really that fundamental thing what is it that when we receive Christ in our lives what what are we saying like him being our Lord and savior what does that mean and recently Pablo is doing a series and he was talking about um maximizing the grace that you carry right and it was talking about you carrying that thing on the inside but when you don't even know what you carry other people will use it and so when I was sitting in that and because I already knew like we're working on this level the thing so my mind was just kind of filtering everything through that lens of living yielded and God began to challenge me like you have to recognize who you are in the sense of what you bring to the table and in the sense of you being a gift to the world just as we say Christ was the gift to to humanity we as followers of Christ and as being born again we are a gift to humanity I don't know how many of us actually think that way of ourselves you know it almost sounds vain for you to think of yourself as being a gift to humanity you know people think speak of that in whatever context they actually will say oh this person thinks it's a gift to mankind like we we talk down on that but in the place where God has called us we actually are a gift to the Earth we actually are a gift to the people connected to us we're a gift it goes even so much further where he says your days like and not only did that number you this but it says I completed the book of your days before I created you so it's that there is something in the earth that you are literally designed to come and solve to come and take care of to come and handle before you return back to the father and so it's not vain for you to begin to think that way but what we what that will do and what it has done for me is it immediately causes you to level up in the sense that you automatically now cannot stay confined to thinking only of yourself because if I'm a gift to the Earth and I'm an extension of God to the Earth then who is it that I'm called to impact what is it that I'm called to impact what is it that I'm called to change you cannot stay small anymore you cannot stay small anymore and so that's where yielding ourselves is it's God Is So generational like he's so farsighted like he sees beyond he is eternal so even saying that our minds can't even comprehend that but even just thinking of how far God thinks and sees like Generations past generations to come how you fit in the middle of all of that like a puzzle God intended all that on purpose and so now that we sit here it's like okay God like what part do I have to play and where you're saying okay living a yielded life you're calling me to yield myself so there's really a part of me that I don't even know is in me that you are requiring me to yield and that's where this journey of surrender is that's where this thing of the daily because every time we're with him he's constantly unveiling more of himself not only to us but more of himself that is in US and so as we see more of him in us and as we see more of ourselves in his light then that also becomes another part that you have to yield and surrender you say oh man okay this is there too okay God I give it to you okay God this is there too okay God it's available for you this is there too okay you can use it too yielding all of those things to him and another verse that I want us to look at there's three verses we're going to look at today um just in this little portion of what we're talking about this is Galatians 5 16-18 he says this I say then walk in the spirit and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh for the flesh lusts against the spirit and the spirit against the Flesh and these are contrary to one to the other so that you cannot do the things that you would but if you be led of the spirit you are not under the law this verse is so simple but is so powerful it's like one plus one equals to two and it makes sense you know if you said one plus one you want to add five in the equation okay where did that come from and that's literally what the scripture is saying he's saying if you're led by the spirit you won't fulfill the lust of the Flesh and it sounds so simple but now try being led by the spirit right try being led by the spirit and that's where we find this wrestling happening is this but I've given you the key like I've given you the solution I've given you how you win this thing be led by the spirit and so when you start thinking of that daily walk okay God like how do I yield myself completely to the point that even my thoughts I will know that these are the thoughts of God because I'm so yielded to you wherever I find myself I will have the assurance that it's it's the will of God for my life in that moment because he is the one that is leading me in that place every single time and so being yielded to be led by the spirit remember how we said Spirit soul body living from the inside out so my challenge to all of us really as we begin this journey and even as we've been on this journey or whatever it is that we've been doing is how how do we recognize how do we recognize what God is doing in our lives and align ourselves with it so that we can be who he has called this to be like even just in this me being here honestly I I cannot help but see the hand of God in where we see so limited like so so tunnel vision sometimes like we don't even understand the full picture but God is dealing like with 10 million things at the same time and when it all unfolds you're like oh my gosh like this this is what you were doing and I was over here battling with you and wrestling with you like this is what you had in mind and you almost want to be like oh you should have just told me and he's like but I was trying to tell you but you were resisting and the things that resist the things that we are fighting against and that's really where this yielding yourself is so key because he said you offer yourself as a Living Sacrifice it's everything that's inside of you that you're considering that you're thinking of that you're Desiring and all those things never thinking that anything that God asks you to lay down that he doesn't have anything better for you that's the first thing we think our plans for ourselves are the best we speak of God we know Jeremiah 29 11 like well quoted I know the plans I have for you will say all of that but in all of that we have a vision and an image of what it should look like and we think that's the best and I was talking to somebody the other day and I was like man God will tell you I'm taking you from point A to B and you're like oh okay great we're going from point A to B but he was like I'm going to take it from a to K to X to L to F to C and then we're going to get back to B and you're like wait why did we have to go to all these places if we're just ending here but by the time you come to that b there's things that he had you learned and things that he needed you to bring into that beat that you wouldn't have been able to bring if you just went from point A to point B and so that's where yielding yourself even all the things that it is our timeline our ideas of things are the the dreams our parents have for us you know the dreams our families have for us being able to say you know what yes it's great you won the best for me no problem I don't hate you for it I appreciate it but God's plan is what I desire more than that yes and being able to follow through and it will cost you absolutely it will cost you it will but even the joy that you find in that is really a measure of Your Surrender what I've come to discover we talk about uh peace of mind and just living life like with no stress and unburdening there is no peaceful life more than a surrender life there is more joy food no more joyful life than a surrendered life because when you have completely yielded there's a way that literally all those precious God will carry it it's like nobody can put anything on you it's like oh okay that's what you think good for you like but I'm on somebody else's class I'm on God's time like I'm on his agenda like you don't even get to make me feel bad for something that doesn't look the way that you thought it was but it begins with us it's only when we've overcome that battle with ourselves that then what anybody else can try and put on you will not stay but a lot of times we have not resolved that within ourselves and so even when now the enemy will use those voices because he can recognize the weakness the devil is what is he he's just uh he takes advantage that's all he does like any crack you give him any crack he sees like yeah I'm gonna Pummel that all the way to the ground and so when there's those weaknesses that we have he wants to use that against us whereas if we're strong enough something I read a long time ago that I've kind of held on to as my own um what should I say like a mantra so to speak is disarm the enemy of the weapon of your weakness by surrendering that weakness to God because your weakness in the hand of the Devil is a weapon that he will literally use to destroy you but when you take that weakness and give it to God like that's not a weapon you can use anymore because he cannot take anything from the hand of God and so when you can recognize that okay this is a weakness this is something that I'm struggling with this is something that I have and you can take that to God you have disarmed the enemy of being able to use the weapon of your weakness against you and that's one of the ways that God keeps us in his presence that's one of the ways that God keeps us uh humble and depending on him and surrender to him yielded staying yielded because ultimately that's the key to our Victory right there's no other way there's no other way and so even when we talk about pleasing God it's really it gets heavy because you realize you can do everything but when you're not surrendering the God is not even pleased with you and that's where even this Romans 12 only says that's the only worship that is acceptable to him not what you think it should look like not what you think it ought to be and that's where even when we come to serving uh serving and Ministry or serving God it becomes a very dangerous place to be because many times we have gauged it or measured it based on what we see somebody else's service to God is and so those become our examples and that's good yes it should be our example we have leaders we follow uh mentors Paul said follow me as I follow Christ absolutely but it becomes dangerous in that place where we begin to cap God at that like God cannot do more than that like God cannot do beyond what you see and so you it's like God is saying okay what eyes have not seen what is I desire to do that to you and I desire to reveal that to you so that you would actually know it but there is a way that our lens become literally the hindrance and the marker that we have said it's like a line that I've drawn because I've decided that this is the height that it can go it cannot go above this it cannot be more than this and so then we take that same standard and we apply it to every other area of Our Lives I'm successful in my job or career when I'm making so-and-so figures I'm successful when I'm able to have this title opposition that's what success looks like or in whatever oh I'm in music okay great I'm only successful if I have Grammys or I've been nominated for awards like I'm only successful if I've uh if I have platinum records and you move it to whatever else like I'm successful in whatever other area I have based on the accolades that we see and whereas God is like there's so much more impact to make in this world why are you limiting me to this little place that Humanity has decided to highlight or bust so you also box yourself in and God is that but I want to do more with you I want to take you further than that I want to do beyond that but we have not even allowed allowed ourselves to even consider the possibility of that I gotta say yield yourself just yield yourself literally when you're yielded think of yourself as a puppet that does nothing except the Puppeteer moves the strings that literally ultimately how we are to be in the hand of God and it's hard because we're very much alive but he's saying that's why I want you to offer yourself as a Living Sacrifice that's really what it is like to get to the point of that spiritual sensitivity that you say Okay God I'm not taking this step if it's not you but then you find that you fall into a place of communion and popular has been the best challenge for me in this honestly where I don't know about you guys at least from me like I'm just speaking for myself you know there is the place where dependency on the Holy Spirit has looked like you praying visibly has looked like you actively reading your word that's what it looks like you depending on the Holy Spirit but then there's another level where you're walking with him is I don't need to be praying in that time like it's like I'm walking with you we're in this together so I am depending on you even in this moment right now I don't need to say okay hold on a minute I'll come back and give you an answer let me go to the closet first and pray real quick get an answer and then I'll come back and tell you okay this is what the Lord said because I've come to another level and I always used to ask myself if we are to give our whole life to God like think of even the disciplines we put and it's a great yes pray yes read your word but if you're gonna hold that as oh I woke up in the morning and this is my devotional time and I had my time with God okay now I'm going to my job and then now I'm spending time with family just look at the way our lives are structured first of all so basically God is two hours of your day if that maybe even 30 minutes of your day so that can't really be what God was saying that can be what God was saying it can't be that okay it's just this little time with me and that's you and me doing life together absolutely not not if you're supposed to be with you in your job not if you're supposed to be with you with your children not even supposed to be with you in everything that you do that means there's another dimension of that that I literally pray without seizing not because I'm over here like praying without seizing but I am in communion without seizing I am in Fellowship without seizing I am with him consistently that's what praying without ceasing is because what is prayer communication with the father he speaks and I speak the reason we miss it is because the prayer for us is like okay uh Father Here I Am like okay then I'm waiting okay sometimes you don't even let him speak back to us it's like okay I had my prayer time how that was one way communication can you imagine picking up the phone to call somebody and you just talk talk okay cool it was great talking to you no you did not talk maybe you needed to vent and you needed to let something out but that that was not a conversation but that's what we do and we said Okay that was my prayer time my prayer is communication Praise Fellowship I promise you even test yourself you'll see when we're talking about how the flesh then follows the body like we're talking about spirits thoughts and body if you even sit yourself and say God I'm gonna come and pray today even in that spiritual discipline and say I'm not getting up until God speaks back to me you'll see how Restless your flesh is you'll see how many of us have not actually prayed in the way that we think we pray to say God let me talk let me say what I have to say now let me wouldn't hear what he has to say your flow would be like oh your thoughts will start running left right like okay what do I do okay we're done okay I'm out of time I have something else to do right now okay God you're not talking we have not finished the task even in the place of prayer that we say but God is saying it's not just that I don't want you to limit me to your devotional time and then sometimes you'll miss it so and this is what I always used to say so if I miss you say I woke up late right and I didn't get to do my divorce so I missed my time with God for the day that's it like me and God are not spending time together today like so till tomorrow again like how does this work but he said no I want you to do life with me like let's walk together like let's live life together and that's what it is like when you have somebody that you love even just your best friend not even a romantic relationship like you guys are texting each other throughout the day it's like oh my gosh this is like it's that consistent communication and that's what God is wanting for us yielding ourselves that's what that looks like so it's not even I'm not doing anything until God moves is that I'm doing everything knowing he's with me in everything that I'm doing so that if at any point there is something that I should not be doing like we are so in tune that the check I'll listen to it yes I listen to it and there's a scripture that encourages me for that um Philippians three I want to read that for you guys real quick yes Philippians chapter three let me go back to King James for this one verse 15. he says Philippians 3 15. he says let us therefore as many as be perfect be thus minded and what is the mind that he was talking about it was the mind of uh pressing on towards the prize of the High Calling like just Desiring to be apprehended by that which has apprehended me wanting more of Jesus he says let us therefore as many as be perfect be that's minded then he says and if in anything you be otherwise minded God shall reveal even this to you and so this I remember when God just said wait hold on so I don't need to worry so then that made me even more Desiring to be like holy spirit I really want to hear you because I don't want to miss it because you're saying that if I'm ever doing anything that is not your will you're gonna tell me and so that means I have to be able to hear that check and immediately obey immediately adjust immediately realign whatever it is that's going on and so now it's no longer oh okay God like what are we doing right now okay do I move why not move okay God what's happening no it's me walking with him it's me doing and trusting that if anything at any point he will speak and so that means I'm living life with my ears open I'm living life with my eyes open I'm living life sensitive to him and that's what living yielded is is being open that at any time even now God can speak and I am open to hear him speak even now I'm not saying God in this okay you can't speak right now let me finish this first and then you're free to speak no I'm saying even now God anything you want to say I'm open to that anything you want to shift I'm open to that yes this is the career I love but you want to change it okay cool I don't know how it's going to go but I trust that you have something that I trust that you know what you're doing so I just need to follow you're never going to lead me astray so let's go for it that's what it is and people sometimes will not understand real quick I have a few minutes um before we finish this for today but I'm I'm remembering even how the Lord led me to come to LA and it was such a it was so intense and it was a lesson that I'll never forget because I remember the scripture that I'm reading for you guys right now but the time that the check started coming I was just like no that can be God I think we live how and the timing was so off if you ask me as far as human time goes because at that time um I have my fashion business and stuff that I'm doing right so I just got this storefront and I was like oh my gosh this has been my dream like I want a storefront and it's right by the freeway like prime location I'm telling you like my business is about to take off I'm like let's go okay like we've been working we've been putting in the work like this is it I'm about to see the fruit of this so when God starts saying like I was like no no no no no no no no no it can't be like what how like I have a shop I have clients I have fittings I have all these things I'm like no this can be and the ministry I never know God maybe I'm not hearing right but then it got like and that's the beauty of God that I'm learning more and more God is honestly more committed to his purpose being fulfilled even more than we are we think we are about purpose and we think we want to fulfill purpose we think we're gonna God is not going to let his purpose not be fulfilled he doesn't care if he has to drag you whatever he's like I will fulfill my purpose like even you don't get to stand in the way of that and I became so uncomfortable I can't even tell you how why I was uncomfortable anybody else would be like Benny was strong like I was so uncomfortable and of course prior to this right below his known and he's just like you need to come to L.A I'm like yeah come visit he's like you need to cancel it I was like yeah I'll come visit but then at this point it's like I just knew I needed to be here like it didn't make sense and so I'm talking to some of my friends I'm like I need to be in La I don't even know why and that's all like I don't know why but it's like I have to be in L.A like right now and the way it happened I was like get in your car and go literally I drove I was just like okay cool I'm gonna drive and it was last minute too because I did not plan to drive my car and so the very last minute I was like no take your car I'm like why am I so it's like you're doing all these things that even in your mind it's like why am I doing this like this does not make any sense long story short I'm here thinking I'm coming for a visit but as I start driving he's already telling me like holy spirit showing me you're not going to be going back to Houston as quickly as you thought you were so I'm just like okay then I'm talking to Buffalo he's like oh you have to give yourself time when you come okay like don't be in a rush to go back I'm like what is going on right now but it was literally I had to be out forgot and I saw in that moment it was like when God shows you a mirror and you see that you yourself have been the hindrance in that space of the thing that you say God I want you to do this God I want you to move here God at least like he literally held the mirror up and said it's you you were not listening to me when I was talking to you one thing after the other after the other after the other long story short like what was the visit was a move literally and here we are but all that to say in this place of yielding yourself it's so important that it's day to day because I am reminded of Abram and I wanted to go into that but we will talk about this next time and Abraham the Bible says something very interesting about Abraham when God came to call him out in Genesis 12 he says God can come out of your Kindred come out of your father come out of all these people to a land I'm going to show you but when you study that you realize that that instruction had not been given to Abraham first it was given to his father but his father got comfortable and settled in that place where Abraham then has to be called out of and in this journey there's places and paths like me in Houston was great like for that duration and season of what God needed me to learn in that place and the things that I grew in and it was absolutely amazing I'm so grateful for it but I got comfortable that when God was not saying hey it's time to shift I didn't hear because I'm like why are we shifting out of this place like this is a good place like why are we shifting and so you have to be careful yielding yourself daily to say God like I'm never gonna hold on to anything that I think more than what you want to do that I'm willing to let anything go at any time because I never lose like you already have to make that up in your mind you never lose even if it looks like you're like let that sink in with God you are never losing anything so that you can let go of whatever is telling you to let go and you can be open for whatever he's giving you you're never losing settle that so that you can flow with God when he's telling you to flow and you'll find that literally the most peaceful life I'm telling you the most joyful life is the surrendered life and you'll never regret it amen all right all right everybody you know what time it is time for us Auntie Vance so yeah all right so we're going to take questions all right guys so our special guest today Miss Shanice

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the disclaimer okay for those of you that watched revealed I want to reintroduce her as the black queen

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thank you for having me thank you for being here yes so what's your question my question while you were teaching you made a statement saying that our lens can be the hindrance um of what God wants to do with us especially when we're comparing ourselves to other people and their Journeys or if we see them elevating before us so if you could give us a couple practical steps because it's easy to say just oh you need to pray or just you need to surrender that to God or you need to yield that to God but like a couple practical steps that someone can do if they find themselves in that place you need to pray you need to surrealism you know it's that's really it practically would be seeking that specifically I'd say ask God to show you his plan for you and I think in anything in life actually whether it's that place of comparison or whenever we find ourselves in our own um in our own head too much or just even depression or all those things that come I've discovered it's usually because of a lack of vision and so when you have no vision it becomes very it's like you get stagnant in that and so whether it's you lacking vision for yourself in relation to yourself or you lacking vision for yourself in relation to what you see other people having and so really praying for vision I would say ask God to show you and remind you who you are because once you can have a reminder of your identity in him that will awaken that purpose that he has for you and so you find the fuel and the strength to pursue that regardless of what anybody else is doing because when we lose ourselves that's when we will fall into what somebody else offers versus the identity that God has so that I can lock that in and say okay this is what he has for me so really Vision Vision Vision asking God yes pray let's surrender like as far as asking God to give you Vision like show me who I am yeah yeah good that's really good yeah so we have two more questions here from my audience today and so the first one in what moment did you realize that this is what it looks like to yield was there a moment in your life when you said this is what you mean Lord honestly it's the perfect question piggybacking of what Shanice just asked because that moment was when I realized that you have the pressure of what people wanted anymore and so it was in the moment of God leading me in a different path and it was really weird too because I knew I wanted what God wanted for me but it didn't look like what other people had and that was throwing me off and so at that time I it's very specific because I remember my leader at the time would constantly encourage me and say Benny stop comparing yourself to other people what God has for you is different and it's like I had to hear that over and over again but it wasn't until like God locked that in in me and that's the moment when I was like oh okay and so at that point is when I could actually genuinely celebrate other people I could generally be happy for what they were achieving in their life and what God was doing in them without feeling like I was missing out on anything or that I was lacking but I had fully accepted that my journey was different and so I had full peace and so sometimes you even hear people telling you oh celebrate what other people are celebrating or be happy for other people your time will come people say this is but when you don't really understand what they're saying sometimes you'll think it's just surface level nobody's very real because you can literally be happy for somebody else in a place where it feels like man I wish that was me but you've kind of let go of that I wish that was me you can just be happy for them while you're fully present with what God is doing in you and that's when I knew for me that meant okay I've accepted what God is doing in my life and I'm at peace with it so that was yeah that was the moment so uh last question for today can you share an experience with us of a moment while walking in the Holy Spirit produced a greater result than you originally expected moving to Los Angeles okay no seriously moving to La has been one of the biggest blessings of My Life um and I think everything we talked about today kind of built on that because again my past or where I was looked really good it wasn't the best you know there were still areas where I was like okay I can work on this so this could be better this situation could be a little different but I'd kind of settled in that I was like I can see how we can grow from here but where God would completely want to shift to me in a completely different place and want to reveal himself to me in ways that I couldn't have even fathomed that that's definitely been one of the biggest blessings so this would be a prime example I'll say of walking with the holy spirit that the result was so much greater than what I imagined so yeah right amen okay so thank you Shanice thank you black queen thanks for being here and thanks for the questions I 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