You Have The Power To Author Your Story | Level 10 Living

Lance: Welcome to my favorite podcast episode which is a Level10Living, which is only focused on you and how you can actually catch up to your face in the future. I remember how Kim Clement used to always say in his reverent way, that when the apostle Paul was converted, it was Ananias that came to him and said to him that, let’s see. What was it? He said to him that. 

Carl: I will always remember.

Lance: Brother Saul, God appeared to you on the way to Damascus and he has called you and he gave him a prophecy regarding his future. And then Kim paused and he said, and as it was with Paul it is with every one of you, God shows you your future. And then your job is to get your butt where your face is. I better crack up because it’s a very rough way of putting it. But your job is to get your butt where your face is. Your job is to catch up to where God put you in history.It’s 2022 if you watch this in 2023 24/25 it’s the same true the same Bible, the same word. Godhas an assignment for you right now. Are you living it? I go into these churches sometimes particularly when I was younger. The architecture captured an era.

Yeah, it just happens. The carpeting, the furniture, you all know ladies, you know what it’s like with your house. Certain the kitchen you could tell needs to be updated. It’s an old kitchen. What was new when it started?

Carl: Yeah.

Lance: It’s old now. The music they’re singing. Dated. Some people think that the songs that I play on my keyboard are somewhat dated. Well, maybe songs. But it’s nostalgic.

Carl: It might be old but it’s nostalgic.

Lance: The grand old hymns you can’t improve on people. Anyway, my point is that in the timelines we can get locked into a period of time. Your job right now is to get out of the 90s. Get out of the last season, some people are still fighting the last political battle they are recognizing. I heard Michelle Bachman say something. One reference.

Carl: You get one.

Lance: I get one per program. She said people are still thinking that the battle is between the left and the right between the Democrat Republicans. You haven’t woken up yet. It’s not about left and right or Democrats, Republicans. It’s about patriots and globalists. Patriots love their nation and are preserving the God-given destiny of what God gave them in their country. Globalists are rewriting the script to create a new world order. They’re on the right and on the left. Don’t trust anyone. It’s a populist movement.

Wow. That’s an update. So, where you are in updating your own story? We originally had this idea, we were going to call Unlocking Your, what was what was the original title for the series,Carl?

Carl: The original title of the series was going to be Unlocking Your History. But it goes beyond just Unlocking Your History in this this module where we actually help you reverse engineer from a place of convergence in the future, getting your butt where your face is. We help you figure out what the steps that are necessary in order to get you there. So, it’s not just Unlocking Your History. It literally is Unlocking Your Story that’s developing in real time with you.

Lance: Can’t tell you how often our beliefs are setting up our future. Our agreements authorize our experiences. Agreements authorize your experience. What does that mean Mercedes?

Mercedes: I think that it’s almost like the lens that you’re viewing the world through. So it’s going to color what you do and how you behave and the choices you make. So, if I have a script in my head that all men are selfish and they only want what’s best for them, it’s going to affect how my authenticity. I think with the opposite sex, I think it affects how I date people. I think it affects how I interact with men. So like if there’s a certain script that I have going to affect my actions.

Lance: The biggest script that I think we wrestle with nowadays is the script of victim versus responsible. I think the whole critical race theory BLM LGBTQ democratic party. I think it literally is a species of belief that it is gone beyond, just pop psychology. It’s actually become a cultural frame of reference for how people see their life. Carl, what is the meaning victim versus responsible?

Carl: Well, responsibility can be broken down into the ability to respond to a situation. Whereas being a victim means that you are subjected to the whims and will of somebody else. So, you do not have an ability to respond to that situation. You are just subjected to whatever the situation is.

Lance: So, this is so big folks. I mean, it’s so huge. I can’t imagine a lie that is more easier to disprove that has become more viral than We’ve created victim culture where everybody blames somebody else for whatever’s happening to them. The problem with being a victim is that it takes away all of your personal power to be able to reshape a direction because by nature, a victim is someone who’s disempowered.

Carl: Well, the problem with identifying as being a victim, because there are people who are victimized and then they change their narrative around what the situation was. In another broadcast I mentioned, I believe it was Daniel Goldman who introduced me to the idea as A plus B equals C. A is happens to you. B is what you tell yourself about what happened to you and then C is ultimately how you feel about what happened to you. And what they find in the neurological research is that it’s almost all B stuff. It almost always boils down to what you tell yourself about the situation and that shaped how you feel about that situation, more so than the situation itself.

Lance: What did you tell yourself about the situation? In real simple language, I remember hearing Jesse Duplantis say something recently that really impacted me. He said, something he was in some place, an art gallery, something. He goes, I know God loves Jesse and he just talked about God loves Jesse. And I thought, wow, he has stepped into a relationship with God where he’s not afraid or ashamed to say that God loves him and the Bible says God loves you. It’s a fundamental revelation. God so loved the world. But he actually said it which meant he believed it. He’s authorizing God‘s favor to show up. Of course, the story goes on to say he sees a piece of artwork that God wasn’t going to sell and the guy ends up giving it to him. Jesse was going to buy it and the guy gave it.

Carl: God loves Jesse.

Lance: And he said God loves Jesse and it’s like wow. In my mind, I don’t know if God could say I could say that about God and me, it’s just a terrible confession to make as a teacher. I could tell you doctrinally God loves me, but I don’t feel like I’m living up to the level of where I feel I deserve that from God. Isn’t that terrible that I’m not living up? So human being, this is the complexity of human experience. If you’re honest about it, you’ll say well I’m not really praying enough, I’m not really doing enough. Well, there’s something I should be doing. So,condemnation or conviction or whatever can start to weigh you down.

God still loves you, but you see what I want you to catch is your beliefs, your agreements authorized the spirit realm to do certain things for you or against you. Which is why Paula White said this and it was a friend of mine was talking to her about flying, travelling and danger. She said, when she was on a flight where the flight was imperiled, could’ve crashed.

Carl: I remember the story, yeah.

Lance: She said there was tremendous fear and people are saying oh my God we’re going to crush and she said the first thing you have to do is make sure that you aren’t in agreement with what fear is telling you. You have to agree with what God is telling you. And so, she said I just made it intentional. He said, because it’s life and death. If you actually authorize the catastrophe by your cooperation, you’re instead of resisting and altering it you’re actually helping assistant.

Carl: Yeah.

Lance: So, listen folks this is why you need to have other people in your life, because their faith maybe the shield of faith that comes up in front of you where you’re vulnerable. You can’t do this thing on your own all the time. I have friends of mine that are a little bit hypochondriac. They’re soldiers in the battlefield. They could deal with protest. They could deal with politics. But if they get and someone in their family get sick, it’s like a vulnerability, it’s a panic hits in. It’s like the enemy knows if I can get that arrow through there, it’s like a hole in the armor. I can shoot the arrow. It’ll be that’s why you have to have other people that are praying for you that are holding up the shield of faith.

I had a friend of mine that had a vision. We’re ministering to a great prophet and he had a vision of the shield of faith taking a scorpion and crushing it against the wall and it was for this minister. A guy called back and said, a certain thing had happened in his life, but he really believed. It was that prayer of the shield of faith crushing the scorpion that was instrumental in giving him that victory. Your agreements authorize your experience and you’re the editor of those agreements which is why we want to focus on your life history. When you look at your journey, Mercedes, I see that hand. I’m trying to move in the page

Mercedes: I see that hand.

Carl: Yeah.

Mercedes: I see that hand.

Carl: Oh, I see the hand. Thank you very much, ma’am.

Mercedes: Well, no, I just wanted to jump in before the train gets further down the tracks here. But I really like what Carl was talking about with the A plus B equals C. So, I learned I learned that in school, my degrees in psych and its basic behavior modification. I mean, some great examples. I think it’s important to reframe be and catch how quickly the B stuff is already there. And so, let’s talk about like somebody cutting you off in traffic. You’re driving, somebody cuts you off.

Carl: Triggered.

Mercedes: What do you think? This so and so thinks he’s so important cutting me off. I’m going to show him. I’m going to write up right on the back of his bumper. Next thing you’ve got yourself a road rage situation. Nobody wants that, okay. But it’s the B stuff. It was the thought that you had that this so and so, how dare him take in front of me. Do you know what I think? I think they must be on their way to the hospital.

Carl: Right.

Lance: Imma let them go ahead and get in front of me. I don’t have any of that penned up upsetness, any of that anger spilling over, you just got to reframe it. And a lot of what Carl’s trying to say is its B stuff and what’s interesting too is the implication you just talked about with Jesse and his whole narrative is that not only are there just common sense, real-world things where this applies to, how your thoughts, if you got to grab that thought really quick, right.

Carl: Yeah.

Mercedes: Submit it to Christ but there’s spiritual implications to what you’re thinking and saying about yourself. So you’re like you’re talking about it’s like and I struggle with that too. It’s like more so I struggle with. I don’t want God to give me a really expensive painting. I’d rather take that money and like help feed kids in Fort Worth or something. But no, I’m just saying but there’s spiritual implications so that A plus B equals C as well. Like there’s truths that apply to you. There’s promises that apply to you, that if you don’t grab hold of them like you’re talking about with Paula the really creepy thing about fear is that it likes to masquerade is wisdom and that’s where the hypochondria stuff gets you.

Carl: Smart.

Mercedes: That’s where we’re wearing the masks all the time. Two weeks to slow the spread and all that we’re doing it out of wisdom. We’re doing it out of like whoa we better be safe. All the sudden you made agreement with the spirit of fear and you’ve thrown common sense out the window and you’re wearing masks outside and it’s beautiful out and like you forget it.

Lance: So, but the thought that I’m going to get to now is behind me is the artwork the kind of like Gestalt artwork from the last session. I remember I did an illustrate, I did a bunch of these at a Peter Wagner event in Colorado Springs. I had I don’t know, like a couple of these illustrations and these guys came up to me afterward in genuine concern. The movie Beautiful Mind just came out with Russell Crowe and they asked me how much sleep I was getting and my nutrition and they were genuinely worried about Joanne’s. It’s like because I know it looks like I’ve lost my mind. But let me draw something here that’ll be much easier. Because I want because I want to get this down.

The part that we’re talking about here is agreements authorizing our experiences for the future. You will have and we’re talking about one of the strategies we have in our graph is we actually ask you to do a time chart of your journeys. Let’s say, this is your timeline and it’s going to be pick an area. Let’s say this is in relationships. Ladies, you got relationships or in work/career. What I say is pick a subject and then, let me try to find another pen here. Then observe what happens. Up here, it’s the high point. This is positive. And this is negative down here is the low points. And what you see is you have memories where normal is in the middle. You’ve had high points in your experience in your relationship you had a low point. The high point and low point.

And life isn’t always like this. Sometimes the graph is high up and then boom one down low and then normal like that. But I’m giving you an idea that when you look at this you’ll see there are certain, put your spiritual life up here. You’ll see that what happens in the high points, in our methodology you’ll notice these are the bread crumbs that start to give you a clue. Remember in our level 10 idea about where convergences up here, you’re facing the future level 10, 10, it’s up here. Well, these are convergence patterns. This is when you run for student council. This is when you caught the football. This is when you did the play or told the funny stories, and this is when you have the little grouper.

These are the memories that are positive reinforcements for something you did that affirmed your competence or capacity. And you’ll start to see what were you doing, who are you with and what were you feeling and thinking when that was going on. Those things over the course of a lifetime. This is like maybe this is from your time that you were a child till you were like 25 or 30. You’ve got those memories. But you also have these and these are the ones when I say your agreements authorize your destiny, the positive ones set up an expect for what can work. But these negative ones are the ones that can really kill you. Because what you agree with down here in the negative chapters, nobody wants to hear what I have to say.

Soon as I get close to people, they’ll leave. I don’t know what it is with me. Every time I get money, it’s like some something comes up. It’s just like every time I get on my feet, something knocks me down again. How many of you have ever heard those things? How many of you ever said those things? Well, those agreements actually can be authorizing repetition. In terms of renewing the mind, what we’re doing here with this material, we’re saying, let’s take a look at here’s your face, right. What we’re saying is let’s take a look at the unwind like the story of your journey in what ways like if you cut a tree in half, you’re going to see the rings of the tree. You’ll see the lean years, you see the good years. It’s like this sideways. You see the tree. You see the history of the tree.

I want to know where am I unconsciously creating an open door for certain things to hit me in my life so that I’m setting myself up. Where are we actually participating in a setup? Because once you can see the devil is a setup man. I heard a preacher say that once. The devil is a setup man. He’s setting you up. But if you can see the setup and vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird. When you start to see your journey, your history, you begin to go, oh I see what’s coming now. I’ve been here before. You could actually start to block that, the Meta–Hodos, what is in Greek. The word for the meta with Hodos (road). That’s the word for we are not ignorant of the devices of Satan, the Meta–Hodos. He seeks a roadway into your life but you could see the agreements and the experience you’ve had. You maybe need to have God come down by the blood and say, forgive. Yes, what that person did to you was wrong. You were a child. Forgive them. Why? Because the bitterness, resentment, unforgiveness is locking up a pattern that gives the devil access.

So, every time you get close to someone you don’t trust them and you sabotage the intimacy. Why? Because of what happened to you when you were a child and trusted somebody. See how this game works?

Carl: I would like to interject one. It’s not just at the low points that you can shape these agreements. You can have an incredible high point and then tell yourself, I will never feel this way again. I will never have this pinnacle experience again and then boom you just shut yourself off from ever experiencing it again. So, give the devil his due. Like he’s a good bad guy. He’s really good at what he does.

Lance: That’s a very good point. So, you’re saying that you can actually have peak. Okay, so to your point they found out with the astronauts, they suffered with depression.

Carl: Oh yeah.

Lance: So, go ahead tell the story.

Carl: So what they found with astronauts was that after having achieved the pinnacle experience of going out into outer space or lunar landings or working with asteroid belts. When they got back to Earth, there was no more dragons to slay. They had done the thing. So they ended up diving into this deep depression. And one of the recommendations was to have a garden. Have something that you can work your hands with that you can actually see the effect of the activities that you’re doing. Some of them encouraged to do creative outlets to activate the other side of the brain, because a lot of those guys are very much logical type A personalities. Very much a go-getter type attitude, but they didn’t have like I said anymore dragons. So, there was nothing for them to go and get.

Sometimes they were recommended to do creative outlets. But usually it was some type of long form activity that they would be able to develop and potentially plateau and then develop and get better at that would keep them engaged with life as opposed to just being this sack of who they used to be. Because there’s nothing left for them to do. They already did the thing.

Lance: So the point is you can have depression if you had a high actualizing experience. You won the gold medal or you got the award.

Carl: Happens to musicians too. They go on tour. The tour is over.

Lance: The adrenaline rush. The endorphins and then they’re off the road.

Carl: Yup.

Lance: There’s nothing else and they start to hit a depression and then you can go into a slump.A slump is when an athlete actually is starting to think in a way that is going to cause them to start to sabotage that they can’t hit the ball.

Carl: Right.

Lance: They start to really like they feel like they’re under a curse and so what I’m saying is Carl’s got a great point. That is that the transformation by the renewing of your mind and unlocking your story. Can you see how there’s some substance here to how deliverance like the layers of an onion, renewing your mind, growing emotionally? Maybe locked in to where you’ve been. There’s so much power here. Your agreements authorized what’s going to show up in the next chapter. I remember Mercedes and I are working with a client and we both had the same experience. Thank God not at the same time. Where we’re dealing with these people that were so he got high-end clients, right. And sometimes he got nutty people that just fallen all over.Celebrities and so they had security and they had guards on the floor and all this stuff.

So, we’re working with them, but there was a gatekeeper that did not recognize who we were and actually treated us rudely. Pulled me out of a meeting actually embarrassed me in front of a whole group of people. Tapped me on the shoulder and said, you’re not authorized to be in the room and I’m one of the teachers. Pulled me out. I was so furious. I was like, and Mercedes be like, talk to me off the ledge. Like alright, yes that’s the devil lands. I was ready to do something that could have sabotage my relationship with that company.

Carl: For sure.

Lance: That lady’s not there anymore. And I’m teaching. Oh, I hate to say it.

Carl: On this one.

Lance: I hate to say it. The truth is that our passion is in some sense connected and shaped by our pain and not a few great achievements are driven by the need to prove someone wrong. Jim Rohn, one of the early motivational teachers says that revenge is a great motivation for growth.

Carl: It can be.

Lance: It can be.

Carl: It can be. It’s all sublimated.

Lance: Anyway, I could have been so sabotaged but I knew the principle of this thing behind my head and I said, man, I got to endure this contradiction. I’m like Joseph right now. I’m getting the devil is hitting me right where I hate to get hit and I got to hold on. I cannot do something irrational right now, because your tendency is to do something, say something, tweet something out of pain. You got to hold yourself in check. My dad was told that he was in college material by an 8th grade, 9th grade teacher. He went on like VPI, became an engineer. And he became an engineer largely for the satisfaction of taking the diploma and going back to that teacher.

Carl: Yep.

Lance: Putting it in front of them. Introducing himself. Saying, I sat in your class. I sat in that desk over there. And I got to tell you, never tell a student he’s not college material. But you see it was that provocation that made him college material.

Carl: How about that?

Lance: So what I want you to catch is this. Think of a story you’re telling yourself right now that may not be serving you. I’m reading to you from page 4. It might be about a circumstance you’re experiencing. A job, a financial frustration. You could literally do this process. Well give me the paperwork to do your personal history map on romance in your life and why it sabotages. Why intimacy doesn’t work? Why you don’t paid what you feel your worth? What’s your history with money? What’s your history with work? What’s your history with ministry, with spirituality? I want you to look for a moment at your own role in the story and I want you to see, are you framing yourself as a victim? Well, they did this to me. They did that to me. Then, my pastor did that and then the church did that and then my boss did. If all your stories have your setbacks coming because someone is doing something to you, it’s likely that you are setting yourself up to be treated that way somehow. As a rule, any area where you show up as a victim will be an area where you’ve given up your own responsibility and you’re blaming someone else and you’re defending what happened. But you’re losing the opportunity to critique yourself. How did you contribute to that? Oh, I didn’t do that, they did it to me. How did you behave after they did it? Well, I got upset, I said a few things I probably shouldn’t said. Oh, well maybe that’s why it screwed up.

My point is to pick a on you. My point is to say that in the first chapter of our little booklet here.I want you to be able to get handles on the journey you’ve been on because the spirit of God will take your greatest pain. You see these things here? Look at these low points. Oral Roberts, John Alexander Dowie, Kenneth Hagin, all on what they call the sick bed of affliction, poor kids dying, tuberculosis, congestive heart failure, or being around death like Dowie where his friends and loved ones were all dying of the plague, bubonic plague. And the lightnings of God hit these individuals and cause them to come up out of their reversals and put in them a gift. It could be that the secret sauce to your anointing is in the very area of your greatest setback and your greatest discouragement.

Carl: Oh yeah.

Lance: The area of your greatest pain could be the area where your Samson like ability comes upon you to deal with the Philistines that are tormenting us. You may have a healing or deliverance ministry culturally, emotionally, spiritually, financially, in marriage, relationships, in the area of addiction or as an evangelist. I don’t know, but your pain can become the catalyst to God visiting you if you reframe what’s happening and let God put his finger into the wound.Right Carl.

Carl: We got to wrap up I know, but there is one excerpt on page 4. I would like to read I think it ties the 8th.

Lance: Okay, and you tell people what to do with how to get hold of this.

Carl: Sure, so here’s the excerpt and then I’ll give you the link. But says on page 4, when the apostle Paul looked at his scarred and disfigured body, he could have easily created a meaning that said, look at how I’ve been mistreated and by my depraved countrymen. Or this, behold how much I’ve suffered more than others for the faith. Instead, he gave a different meaning to his scars and said, I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus, Galatians 6:17. How amazing to think about it that way.

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