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Hello and welcome to Let's Talk About It podcast. I am your host, Apostle Rosemary of RCN Ministries and OSGA Apostolic Network, along with my wonderful, awesome husband, Apostle Herbie. Today we are on episode three of our series for season five, which is our season five series on Unshaken. Today we're coming to you with the topic that is peace under pressure. So we're going to... make sure we go ahead and we're going to dig right into this topic on today. And, you know, we need to understand and know how to hold on to God's peace when life is intense, when we're dealing with so many things that are going on globally, when we're looking at wrong that saying that they're right, we're looking at right and right knows wrong from right. And we're looking at where a lot of churches has become cliques and they've become occult. The presence of the Lord has left, they have become Ichabods because the glory is no longer there. There are a lot of people that have been fired, but they are still working. They're just like King Saul. Remember when King Saul, because of his disobedience, his arrogance, we can go on and on. But when King Saul was disobedient and he was doing all kinds of things that the Lord had dealt with him on through Prophet Samuel. And King Saul felt this, though, that he was such a, he had such a haughty, prideful spirit that, you know, he's going to do what he wants to do because he's the king. But, you know, he failed to understand that the Lord had ripped the anointing. He had ripped the kingdom. He ripped the kingdom literally from him. And he continued to function, but he was no longer anointed. The anointing was gone. The grace of God to be the The kingdom was removed from him. And God also removed the prophet Samuel. And Samuel was not just a prophet. He was a high priest. He was a judge. Why did I say that? Because he had to clean up the mess that Saul allowed to live, which was Agag, the seeds of Agag. So we're dealing with a lot of this on today. Within this topic, we're going to touch on some things because we're seeing so much. There's so much disorder, so much chaos, so much war. wickedness, people that are professing Christians, but they're living contrary to what the word of God says. Where is the love? Where is the love for the fellow men? Where is the heart that has been rent? Rent my heart and not my garment. Take out all of the racism. Take out all of the hatred. Take out all of the division. Take out all of the chaos and the wickedness and all of the things that are not like God. We have to look at the fruit. We must be fruit inspectors, men and women of God, because we need to know what is God and what is not. What is the Holy Spirit versus what is a familiar spirit. You know, we have to be careful because just because a church says that they are spirit filled, what spirit are you filled with? Is it the Holy Spirit? Is it a familiar spirit? Because there are many spirits, but there is only one spirit that comes from God and that is the Holy Spirit. I'm going to try not to preach right here, you all. So we need to understand how to go hold on to God's peace in this time. I don't want anyone preaching at me. I don't want anyone talking to me and I see your fruits and And I see the evidence because the word of God says that out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. I'm not receiving from those that have polluted and contaminated hearts because anything flowing from a heart that is not of God, it is polluted. It is contaminated. And it is wickedness that is coming from them. All right. So we need to understand that. We have gone through episode one, which was Planted Not Panicked in the Unshaken series. And then the second one we have had, the second episode was Faith Over Feelings of the Unshaken series. And again, today we're coming to you with... Peace under pressure. And so we need to understand that we're just going to go right ahead and move forward here today. So we need to understand people of God that living with peace, even when you're under pressure. It only comes from God. There is no peace without God. We need to understand that. We're going to give you some verses in just a moment here. God never promised that it would be easy. So it's not going to be a lifestyle that it's so easy that we're just going to sail right through. As a matter of fact, the most prosecuted people are the people that are a remnant that are of the lineage in the DNA of the Abba Father, my God. Listen, the word of God says in order to reign with him, we must suffer with him. So let me tell you something. If you are of a people that have suffered all your lives throughout the lineage, throughout your ancestry, throughout your lifetime, and you're still going through some things, guess what? Be glad because you're in the right company. You're suffering with Christ because you're going to reign with him. See, that's the thing about it. Being a true Christian doesn't mean it's going to be comfortable. It means that God is going to give us the grace to endure. And one thing about God, I'm looking at everyone and everything that's going on globally, everything that's going on in America, because we're no longer the beacon of Christianity. We're no longer what people really look at as a democracy. And I'm not being political, I'm being real. Real raw and unapologetic. So what we look at, and me and my husband have been global for over 13 years. And the sad thing about it is people look and they no longer look to America as a country of what it is to be a true Christian. But they know those that are part of the remnant in other countries and they honor us as we honor all of them. They look up to us as we look up to all of them and the grace and the anointing of God upon their lives. Why? Because they know we live what we preach. My God, I'm going to stop right there. So one of the things we need to know is we need to learn how when it comes to recognizing the pressure. So we need to recognize the pressure. We need to think about the realities of the pressure. What type of deadlines do I have? What am I under pressure for? Do I have deadlines? Do I have stress that's been caused in my family? Am I dealing with burnout because I haven't learned how to delegate? Let me pause right there. My husband and I, we cover so many, so many, oh my God, so many leaders globally, Bible colleges, Bible schools, churches, you name it, God has blessed us. And I'm not saying that to boast. I'm not saying that to be arrogant. I'm saying that because God knows he can trust us. And the thing about it is the one thing we have had to learn is that Ministry is never a one-man show. Let me put this out here real quick. Apostle Herbie is going to jump in in just a moment here. Ministry is not a one-man show. Ministry is all of us working in unity as a unified body of Christ. There is no church based off race, culture, ethnicity, none of these things. There's only one church and that's God's church. We need to stop the wickedness. We need to stop the madness. We need to stop the biases, the division, the discord, and then still want to call it of God. I don't listen to people who have no fruit. I don't follow people who have no fruit. I don't go for all of these televangelists because many have gone astray. And so I have to see the evidence of the fruit. We are fruit inspectors. That's who the remnant is. You have to learn to separate yourselves from what is not of God. Why? Because people... that look up to you and they know that you live what you preach, guess what happens? They begin to recognize and say, oh, well, if Apostle Herbie and Apostle Rosemary, if they fellowship and if they go places and they do things and whatever it may be, then guess what? Then that lets me know that they must be okay. They must be all right. No, what we're not going to do is we're not going to help those that are witches and warlocks pretending to be pastors and leaders deceive the people in the body of Christ, we're not going to do it. The word of God says in 2 Timothy 3 and 5 that having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof. See, we want to pause and stop right there in the church and in the body of Christ. We don't want to finish the whole thing. But the last part of that says from these kind, we are to do what? Turn away. In other words, have nothing to do with. No, I'm not going to condone Jezebel. No, I'm not going to sit at the table with Judas. I'm not going to break bread. I'm not going to fellowship with wickedness and evil. I'm not going to do it. Because people are watching our walk. People are watching. You know what? We can talk. We can preach. We can teach. We can do whatever we want to do. But when it comes down to it is a heart matter and we had better get it right or we need to sit down because God is not playing in this hour. And I want to encourage many of you right here. Let me pump my brakes. Please take your eyes off of man. Take your eyes off of idolatry and idol worship. There is only one person that we need to be looking to, and that is God. We need to take our minds off of all of this crazy stuff that is manifesting globally. And we need to put our mind back on God. People of God, hear me when I say this. It is all a setup. It's not what it looks like. The enemy will not win. God is already moving behind the scene. All of this stuff we see manifesting when man thinks they're going to have their way and man thinks they're going to do what they're going to do. Guess what? I got another thing coming. That's what God is saying. Because God is going to have the final say. And guess what? It doesn't matter if everything around us is burning. Guess what, baby? God has the remnant covered. So it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. The word of God says the first shall be last and the last shall be first. We don't have to worry about a thing. Sit back. Stay quiet. Rest yourselves, enjoy yourselves, continue to educate yourself. It's important to know history, to know everybody's history, to know the full history, not the things we've been taught in our schools because that's not history. I thank God for my culture and I'm not being funny. I thank God for my culture, the black culture, because this is something we do all the time. We pass down culture. We pass down through our culture. I mean, we pass down the truth world history of the United States, of the whole world. We're well-versed. We're very educated in those things. And so the thing about it is, people, it doesn't matter what has been removed, what may be removed, what's going to be removed. Take your eyes off of all that. Baby, guess what? There's an internet. And if people are curious and they really want to know, then they'll educate themselves. Don't worry about it. Do what you do. For the kingdom of God, God has the final say. Remember Pharaoh in Egypt. It was 400 years for the children of the Israelite Hebrew children, but did not God answer. Pharaoh wanted to hold on and what did God do? The Lord said, 10 plagues. Guess what? Those were just warning shots. And this is what God is doing right now. God is giving man an opportunity to repent here in America and all around the world. And all we need to do is stay focused and continue to carry the cross, continue to walk in humility, to continue to love all people. The word of God says, let me help somebody right here and I'm moving on. The word of God tells us that we owe no man nothing but to love them. For when we have done this, we have fulfilled the law. So guess what, people? You owe love. You don't owe people access. I've been posting this on my page. I've had a lot of my social media says access denied. I've got to get back active, guys. Keep me in your prayers. I'm a little hoarse still. Had an upper respiratory, me and my husband, and we're coming back. I had lost my throat, had a little bit of laryngitis. So I think it's just, I hope and pray it's just as clear for you all to be able to hear and understand what I'm saying. So We need to think about the delegating part in these churches and ministries. And that's something me and my husband, we have to do because Lord knows God has given us a global mandate and we thank God for trusting us with it. But we have had to learn how to delegate and we're going to be careful who we delegate to because it's got to be ordained by God. We're not playing games with people. We don't have time. We're going to be real about the things of God. We have to understand. So leaders stop trying to do everything, get people around you that are covenant, not connected. And then you will be able to delegate to those that you're able to trust. Not those who are trying to cut your throat behind the scenes, not those that are supposed to be in ministry with you and that you're covering as a spiritual leader. And they're telling other people in the church things and lies and trying to cut the pastor off. My God, that'll preach right there. It's happened to all of us. Now, listen, spiritual warfare is another thing we need to recognize that pressure we're talking about. The very real life examples we deal with as mom, as father, are real life examples. Then you have ministry, which is work. You have a career tension. You have an inner emotional stress. I want to say, even with me, medical background over 30, what, 35 years or so. Retired from that full-time 2014 from a director spot in nursing as well. And I went on to full-time ministry. Been doing it since then. Over two years ago, went out and door of favor opened up in the financial mountain sphere. And so I'm a financial professional as well. And that's another thing, finances, investments, all of this. This is another that mentioned another arm for our ministry to be able to equip the body of Christ. And so I understand this well, being a woman, being a wife, being a mother, full-time ministry, also working as a financial professional, all over America. The inner emotional stress, the career tensions, the different things, dealing with businesses, dealing with individuals, you name it, I do it. And so it's a beautiful thing, but we have to learn how to always have time for yourself, set time for yourself, set healthy boundaries, always be able to to know your limits, know how much you can deal with in a daytime management. Again, it's key people. People of God is key even for ministry. We need to understand as people of God that we are flesh and blood, that pressure is real, but peace is still available. I'm turning this over to Apostle Herbie.

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In John chapter 14, verse 27, it says, My peace I give to you, not as the world gives. Philippians 4, verse 6 and 7, these are prayers, thanksgiving, and God's peace, God in our heart. See, we must guard our heart. We cannot allow folks to come can trample on the heart and take advantage on the heart. So we must protect our heart. The worldly peace, that's an eternal calm. God, he is peace, eternal strength. Peace is not the absence of problems. it is it is the presence of god when you come on if i look at john 14 and verse 27 it says peace and leave with you my perfect peace i gave you not as the world gives do i do i give do i give to you do not let your heart be troubled No, let it be afraid. Let my perfect peace calm you in every circumstances and give you courage and strength for every challenge. In Philippians chapter 4 and verse 6 and 7, do not be anxious worried about everything but in everything every circumstances and situation by prayer and petition with transgiving continue to make your specific request known to god and the peace of god that that peace which which reshores reshores the heart that peace with transcend all understanding that peace withstands God over your heart and your mind in Christ Jesus is yours. My Lord.

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Powerful. That is powerful, Apostle. Okay. You hear? I don't know. Okay. So how to live with peace when you're under pressure? Peace under pressure. Practice these three things. Pause and breathe. Before reacting, retreat, go to God. Pray it through. Turn pressure into prayer prompt. The third thing is protect your inputs. Guard what you consume. The news, the drama, the conversations. Let me stop right here. People of God, listen. Turn the TVs off. Get off the news stations. because we're not getting what we should be getting. We're not getting truthful from anywhere. So guess what? As Christians, we need to stay off of news channels, pick up the word of God, and pick up some books to educate ourselves outside of the word of God. People that do not ingest education, and I'm not, you know, They're very easily manipulated and misled. That's one reason. And another thing, that's a natural thing. I'm helping somebody right here. When we look at the word of God, what it says, study to show thyselves approve unto God, a workman that will not be ashamed, rightfully dividing the word of truth. The Lord is telling us this people of God, because many people, they go to church and I have an iPad. I have many books in here to study from all different dialects and all kinds of things in here and concordances and three in ones, all of this, we've got an apostle and I, and, um, but then we have to, and I, I use my iPad all the time. We, you know, and a lot of times, um, People, you see them, we have the Bibles on the phone. So there's many different ways that people use different tools, electronics and the regular Bibles and different things like that to minister or to read the word. But it's so important, people of God, that we read the word of God. We get an understanding for ourselves. Stop allowing people to tell you something and you don't follow along. You don't study out the word of God for yourself. You need some alone time for yourself. And let me help somebody. The reason we have so much foolishness, I'm just going to say it, foolishness going on and professing Christians in the body of Christ is this. It's because we've come to a place, people of God, where everyone that's preaching or teaching the word of God was not, they went, but they were not sent by God. They were not called, nor were they chosen. A lot of them, some were called, but they went astray. According to when you look in, it's Matthew chapter 24 and verse 24. Let me pull that up. Because what we're seeing is a lot of people have been deceived people of God. A lot of people have gone astray. And what I did, I started cleaning up my friends list and the ones that I've cut loose and I've had to sever, they're going to stay severed from false Christ and false prophets will appear and they will provide great signs and wonders. So as to deceive, if possible, even the very elect who are the very elect God's chosen people, God's chosen people. I saw this over a decade ago and I'm telling you something. I'm going to keep plowing. I'm going to keep pioneering. I'm going to keep obeying God. When I say I, Me and my husband are one. That means Apostle Herbie and I in unity, in oneness. We're going to continue to move on in the things of God, but we've walked away from and we've severed relationships because God told us to. They were ordained by God that, you know what, that Abrahamic anointing hit and God began to show us the lots. And he said, cut them loose. We cut them loose and we're going to leave them cut unless God says differently. It's got to be God. That's the only way. So we need to learn how to Encourage.

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You are not weak for feeling pressure, but you are strong for chosen peace. Powerful. Invite them to write down one pressure.

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So then we can begin to just ask yourself, write down one pressure that you're dealing with and turn it into a declaration of peace this week. Then you can begin to That's my fault because I went ahead of an apostle right there. Then when you begin to write down something that you've had a lot of pressure that you've been dealing with, it may be that you don't seem to have enough time to read or it may be that You don't, you just don't, every time you pick up your word to read, you just can't seem to just sit and read and meditate on the word of God. So that is a pressure. That's a pressure point. So write that down. When you write that down, this is your homework. Whatever it is that you're feeling pressure about. But then the thing that you have to understand is this, but you are strong enough for choosing the peace as apostle says. So you have to choose peace over all of these other things that we see going on. Now, our next episode next month will be family first, but God always. We have to understand family is first, but God is always. So we need to understand when everything has passed away, the word of God says only the word of God will stand.

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Amen.

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So peace under pressure. You can be under pressure and still live a life of peace. The scriptures for this were.

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In John chapter 14 and verse 27. Philippians chapter 4 verse 6 and 7. Pressure is inevitable. Panic is opinional. My God, that's a

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good quote, y'all. Y'all need to catch that quote. And then remember your three peace practices.

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Now

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listen, as we reflect upon what we've talked about this morning, think about these things, these two points. Where in your life are you feeling the most pressure right now? Think about it, evaluate it, look into it, write down those pressure points, people of God. Think about these things and say, what is it that I'm dealing with that I feel the most pressure from right now? What would change? Just think about and ponder on this. What would change if you brought that pressure to God before trying to handle it yourself? That's good right there, y'all. That's very good right there. So let's think about some Q&As right now. We're going to do four questions and the answers, okay? This is a Q&A segment part of the podcast. So question one, can you really have peace when everything around you is chaotic? My God. I want to be able to stand here right now and be happy to tell you all, yes, you can. Yes, God's peace doesn't depend on your situation. It depends on your connection to him. Peace isn't found in the calm. It's found in Christ, my God. He is always there in the midst of chaotic times and in the midst of chaos. So guess what? We are the remnant and God is with us.

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What does guard your heart look like in practical terms? Watch what you are taking in. Your news, conversation, even your own inner dialogue. Protecting your peace often means saying no to chaos.

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Listen to this. I was just saying, turn the TV off. Turn the TV off. You know why? Because we have to be careful as people of God. What are we feeding ourselves? I haven't watched the news in over 10 years. What are we feeding ourselves? All of this chaotic stuff. What are we feeding ourselves? All of this hate, this division, this discord, this lawlessness, all this crazy stuff. What are we feeding ourselves? And we're saying we're Christians. What are we feeding ourselves? And leaders, what are you feeding As shepherds to the sheep. Okay, the third question. I feel pressure every day. How do I reset quickly? Answer to that is this. Try the peace pause. Number one, exhale, excuse me. Number one, inhale deeply, exhale slowly. So you inhale deeply, exhale slowly, exhale slowly. You could do that to like a count of 10. All right. The second thing, whisper a simple prayer. God, center me. Lord, I need you to center me. I'm dealing with some pressures right now. There's a lot of chaos going on in my life. I'm under lots of lots of pressure. And God, I need you to center me. The third thing, meditate on truth. like the word that apostle was reading here on Philippians chapter four and verse seven. It only takes 60 seconds to recenter yourselves. Did you know that? The fourth thing,

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what if peace feel impossible right now? The answer is that the moment to press into God, not pull away. Tell him honestly, Peace is not a performance, it's a gift. Ask for it and trust that he will meet you right where you

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are. People of God, hear us when we say this. Take everything to the Lord in prayer. Peace under pressure is what the remnant is seeing that's happening all around the world. But the people of God and those that are in search of the authentic peace Word, unadulterated word, pure word of God flowing from the pure hearts of men and women of God. Guess what? They're looking for authenticity. They're looking for something outside of the status quo. The sinner man and a lot of people are old. So many people are not coming to church anymore. You know why? Because they're sick and tired of going to church broken. And leaving still broken. They're sick and tired of going to church. And they go in burdened down. They go in depressed. They go in oppressed. I've had someone that was very close to me that I met in the field that I worked in prior to ministry. And they were under so much pressure until they ended everything. But they had been to church and everything. This has happened. What is wrong that the church is the hospital and people are coming to the church because they need healing? The word of God tells us that the sick are the ones that need the physician. It's not to those that are not sick. The Lord is the great physician to those that are sick. And so we have messed up in the church and we have gone to a place where in ourselves where we've stepped outside of where God has called us to be as the body of Christ. We've gotten to a place where we don't care what we say, how we act, how we treat people, how we divide people, how we lie to people, how we have biases. And we're preaching and teaching politics and all of this madness in the houses of God. Listen, people of God, hear me when I say, repent now. Repent and get it together and get it right because we are in a time that many around us need the people of God to be in one mind on one accord like the book of Acts 2. The people in the world are looking to the church for the answers and we must rise in this hour and come forth with the power, the authority and the dominion that God has given us. We must speak truth. We must call right, right and wrong, wrong. Don't play with the devil. Let's do what's called right by the word of God. Mark chapter two and verse 17. It states, it is not the healthy, that need a physician, but the sick. And the Lord said, Jesus said, I have not come to call the righteous, but the sinner to repentance. Listen, people of God, it's time to get it together. It's time to get it right. And it's time to live right according to the word of God. This is not the time to play. So we pray that this has blessed you all today. On our podcast, which is Let's Talk About It podcast. And again, I am your host, Apostle Rosemary. My husband, Apostle Herbie, is the co-host. We are the apostles for RCN Ministries and OSGA Apostolic Network and many, many, many other ministries that have been launched under our main ministry, RCN Ministry. You guys can Google. You can find everything that Google RCN Ministries. You'll find everything that we're doing, our podcast here. You'll find our websites. Our online stores, all I can say is Google it. It's a lot. Just Google it and you'll find it. Reach out to us. Let us know you visited the site. Connect with us. Follow us on our platforms. I've joined TikTok, so I'm going to start doing reels, possibly do some lives. I've just got to look at my schedules and get everything done. have our admin teams get everything put together. So once again, we thank you for joining us on today. We thank you for just taking out the time and remember next month, episode four is dropping and it's going to be on next month in July. And the topic is faith, family first, but God always. And it deals with putting your family in order without putting God second. That's powerful. In other words, charity is, in ministry, getting your house together starts at home. If we can't run our homes, we can't be expected to run the things of God and the churches of God. God bless you and God keep you. Apostle, you want to pray us out?

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Heavenly Father, we thank you, Lord Jesus, for this word tonight. God bless all those, God Jesus, who is listening, God, around the world, God Jesus, all of the steps, God, God, we cover you, God Jesus. Heavenly Father, we thank you. We appreciate you, God Jesus. Bless your families, God, your loved ones, and the unsaved loved ones, God Jesus. Bless the children, God, as their school, God, who travel in God's mercy, who seek in the body of your healing virtue. Father, I thank you, appreciate your love, and just in payment.

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Amen. God bless you. We will see you again and talk with you again next month. Have a great, great rest of your day.