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[0:00]You don't actually want a relationship with God, you want what it means about you. You want how it's gonna make you feel. So, you're setting this goal of I'm gonna read my Bible, I'm gonna pray, and then let's also throw it into your purpose. I'm gonna make a million dollars. I'm gonna go to the gym and I'm gonna lose 50 pounds, and I'm gonna have a multi-million dollar business. And you think these are the things that you want, and you now think once I get these things, once I master the Bible, once I get all these unlocks, once I make a million dollars, once I get that girlfriend, I'm gonna be so happy. But the problem with this is, is you are outsourcing your goals. You're trying to create these things from an internal place of scarcity and fear and shame and condemnation, and you're thinking once I get these things, all that fear and shame and condemnation is gonna go away. But the problem is, you're not gonna be able to get those things if you're moving from that internal state. So instead of focusing on I'm gonna make a million dollars, or I'm gonna get my relationship with God right, I'm gonna read my Bible, I'm gonna pray, we need to focus on what we can create internally that's now going to produce those things like making a million dollars, like reading your Bible as a byproduct. So now if you can stabilize your internal state, and you can think about, okay, if I get my relationship with God right, I'm gonna feel peace, security, joy. If I make a million dollars, I'm gonna feel happiness, I'm gonna feel joyful, I'm gonna feel like my life is worthwhile. Okay, those emotions, now we have to create those emotions right now, cuz remember what we said? You don't actually want the business, you don't actually want a relationship with God, you want the feeling that comes with it. So create that feeling internally right now, and now your actions are going to start reflecting that, and now your day-to-day habits might actually put you in a position to have a close relationship with God, to have a million dollar business, because you're not attached to what that outcome of having a business or having a relationship with God means about you anymore. You are living in alignment with who you know that you are, to realize this external world is a complete illusion. You thinking that all these external things are gonna make you enough and make you complete is not true. The external is a mirror of what is going on in the internal. So when you realize that these outcomes, you don't actually want it, you just want what it's gonna make you and what it's gonna make you feel like. Now you can see I'm already enough. I'm already complete. Now, the outcomes can simply become a byproduct of you going from the inside out, instead of from the outside in. But when you're living under this idea of this action makes me more or less worthy, everything you do has pressure. When everything you do has pressure, your nervous system can't function. When your nervous system can't function, you can't focus. You can't be the best version of yourself. You cannot create things that puts you in a position to make a lot of money, to have a business, to you grow your relationship with God, cuz all you're going to be doing is escaping reality. I promise you if you get this internal state in the right place, you won't care if you're making $10,000 or $1 million, because that's not what you want. Like we said, you simply just want the feeling of peace, gratitude, security, joy, and you can get that right now, and you know why? Because of your identity in Christ. But you're finding your identity still through the external world, through performance, that's why you don't feel peace, that's why you don't feel joy, and that's why you feel empty, that's why you feel like there's a void in your life. There is no void. You have to accept that you're already enough, and the moment you accept that, I promise you you're gonna start moving different and producing actions in your life that are going to lead to a business, to purpose, to direction, to a relationship with