welcome back to the fear and doubt detox audio summit. I am so excited to be here with this woman today. Like I don't have words. I'm so excited. I know Rima as a friend and a mentor, but she is so much more than that. When I tell you that is literally the iceberg, like the tip of the iceberg that you can see above the surface, that's what it is. This woman has So many roles and responsibilities that she does and exceeds with grace. She is a mom of four. She is a loving wife. She is a leader of the marriage challenge. It's a 52 week challenge. That you guys will find out more about in the show notes, you need to check out. She is the leader of spiritual bootcamp, which is this transformational experience that allows you to get outside of your comfort zone and surrender to the Lord in a way that is unlike anything else I've ever experienced. And she's also the co creator of these amazing scripture jars. You'll find out more about all of this at the show notes, I promise, and on this page below her interview. But when I tell you this woman of God is just a powerhouse and a blessing that's who she is. That's how she has shown up in my life. And I'm grateful to God for her mentorship. And for just her obedience, the way she shows up and serves as a role model in so many different ways. So Father God, I thank you for my sister. I thank you for aligning our availability. I thank you for her capacity. And now we're going to talk about her topic and it's something neither one of us had planned. And because of that, I know it's just going to be so good and Holy Spirit is going to share his infinite wisdom with us today. So Rima is talking about, maybe I was afraid of me. We've talked about all these different fears. We've talked about fear of the unknown, fear of rejection, fear of uncertainty. We've talked about the fear of not being good enough in a few interviews. We've talked about fear of success, fear of failure. But what about being afraid of me? Let's talk about being afraid of you and what that looks like. All right, Rima, I'll turn it over to you. Hello, everyone. First of all, I want to say. Thank you to Simona for having me on. Simona can go on and on about, the tip of the iceberg for me, but the feeling is absolutely mutual. If you are here, if you are a part of this community, if you have been invited in by somebody, just know that Simona is like a linchpin. She is with everything kind of starts to revolve around like she has she has a resource for that. She has a connection for that. She has an understanding for that. She has a testimony for that. There's just so much that she offers of herself and can bring everybody together. It's a beautiful thing. To watch as she connects the dots. And so I'm always grateful for the relationship that we've built over the years. And everything that I know is to come in the future. So just my gratitude to you, Simona. And I am the owner of Dearest Father Ministries. The entire mission of Dearest Father Ministry Is to be able to help people live a more spirit led life, surrender their flesh, build the relationship with God in the Holy Spirit and really transform the way that they get to experience this life. There's so many different avenues, which is why someone was saying, she does this, she does that. And I always it blows my mind when I think about all the things that are on my plate. I am happily married to my very best friend in the whole world. We've been together for about 13 years. We have four, we actually host the marriage challenge together, which is a blessing in itself. We have four beautiful children who are involved in everything from sports and gymnastics to instruments and debate. Who take up a healthy portion of, my existence and what I do in this world. I have a job outside of the business that I run. I work for a beautiful tech company, that I've been doing that for many years. And aside from the business, I also have the ministry shop where I'm praying for people, hosting prayer challenges, teaching you how to pray. I am currently on location for a healing event that I'll be hosting. In Atlanta and my calendar is so full and I knew that we were coming to do this interview and I'm literally just going to segue into how we got to this topic from this. And I think it was important to mention, right? All of these things that are on my plate and all of these things that I do. Before I got down to Atlanta, I had to earn my vacation and by earn my vacation, I had. Hair to do to prepare the kids for school. I had uniforms to, sort out for dance and school and soccer and everything that needed a uniform. I had to make sure that, there were groceries in the house I had to prepare my Children to know mommy's going to be gone for these days and not to say that my husband is not capable, can't handle taking care of the Children for four days. He absolutely can. But it's a lot of work what we do. And so whatever I could do to make it a little bit easier for him. I earned all of this. I was had sleepless nights preparing for these events, just reading my Bible up doing all these things. And so my day typically feels yeah nonstop and at its capacity and even through it all, God is like showing me he's leading me to we're going to challenge that required me to understand the relationship with rest and all these things are going on. It's like a whirlwind. And so we get to this interview and I'm like, okay what are we talking about? Just in the few minutes before we came on, it's what's the topic? What are we talking about? And Simona gave it to me and hallelujah father, the way it all came together was Simona saw me smiling and she talked about how when she sees that smile, because we've worked together enough for, her to be able to recognize the look on my face. When revelation is near. And so she saw this smile and she commented on it and I said, I've had this smile since I was a child. I'm looking at my face. In a camera screen and I'm like, yeah, this is the smile that I've had since I was a child. Since I was a child, I had a smile that said a revelation is near. Since I was a child, I had a smile that said breakthrough is on the other side of this. I had all these big ideas and I had all these abilities. I was like, I was a powerful kid. And. When we first started discussing doing this interview one of the things that Simona always mentions is that I don't struggle with fear, but I'm not somebody that really struggles with fear or having to like try to overcome it. And what am I going to come on and be able to share in this fear and detox summit. What am I going to be able to share? Am I just going to give people the tips and the tricks that I've used to not be afraid in my life and the testimony that shows why being fearless was beneficial for me and whatever. Like that was like the thought what are we actually going to talk about? Are there questions that are going to be posed? And. I didn't give it much thought because one of my tips or not being afraid is to trust the Holy Spirit and trust God with whatever I'm doing. Like I know that I'm doing it to honor him. And so that I know because it says in scripture that he will not make me look foolish. It says that he will not let me be look a fool. It said they would not forsake me. Cause they will not leave me all these things that I learned through scripture. So I'm like, okay, I know that God is going to show up in the interview. I know that the Holy Spirit is going to be there. So I'm not really worried about it, stressed about it, nothing. But we get on and as we're going through that thought process, it really, it clicked in my head that as much as you say that you don't really deal with fear, if you truly look back over your life, you're You have been afraid of you. You have been afraid of how powerful you really can be. And so people have been saying to me recently wow, you're such a heavy hitter in the spiritual kingdom. And That's a humbling statement because that's something I pray for. I pray to be a good spiritual leader. I pray for God to give me the wisdom to be able to help guide people back to him. And I pray for the courage to have difficult conversations with people who may have been serving in the kingdom for years and years before I was even a part of it. And yet there's something missing in what they're supposed to do. And I'm asking God to show me how to lead them to that destiny and lead them to that purpose. I fall on my face and pray for these things often. So for somebody to tell me that I'm a spiritual hitter in the kingdom and to know the testimony that I've received through everything that I've created. I'm so grateful for how that is used to me, but with all the things on my plate, I'm like, yo, this is what you were probably afraid of. Like you were probably afraid that you were too powerful and too big and people weren't going to get it and people weren't going to like it. And somebody probably made you feel like, ah, you got to be careful how you move because when you move, something happens. When you speak, something happens. That was the belief that I had that I was just so powerful and today in that moment when I look back and saw the 11 year old me with this smile that says revelation is coming on her face. And I have all these powerful siblings who are all, raised in the faith and all doing different things in their lives. I'm sitting around, I have five brothers and sisters, and I see myself with them. And I'm feeling like Joseph with the coat of many colors. Who had a dream that said my siblings are going to bow down to me, but the dream was more than my siblings are going to lead, I have to follow my lead because I'm going to do something monstrous in the kingdom and being afraid to tell them that because me, like me, I don't want to get that big, I don't want, that's not how I see this. And so when I'm looking back at that. Thought process and that memory just because, the smile triggered it and the Holy Spirit wanted it to be brought to the forefront. Looking back at that, I realized that over my life, I have made decisions, right? I have made decisions. And of course, these decisions were, rooted in situations that I allowed myself to be in when I was younger, and because I didn't have a full understanding of who I was, I just let the world chip away at me, and the world add things to me, and I let it. Just growing up in New York and what that looks like growing up in New York is very different than growing up like in the suburbs, but especially back in the nineties, like it was a very wild place. This is a very wild place. There's a Not to take it to this whole secular route, but we all have a past, right? We didn't wake up as as soldiers in the kingdom. We didn't, we weren't born like that. This was a journey that we came to. And I remember there's a song by the artist Fabulous, right? And he I don't even remember like the actual song, but he says this line that says it was the 90s. You had to be there. And he grew up in New York in the 90s too. And so for me, I'm like, yeah, I remember. I remember New York in the 90s. So I let this world tell me that I was something. And I never sought out what God had told me I was called to be. I never sought out what God sent me here for, that agreement, that purpose that he built in me on that side of the of heaven. And when he sent me to this world to fulfill this thing, during this time and space, when I came here for whatever assignment he put me on, you have to build your life from the beginning in a way that you are working towards that thing. And if your childhood pulls you away from it, if who you are at the beginning of your life pulls you away from it sometimes we never find our way back to it. Sometimes it's a long journey to it. Sometimes we get saturated with other things, right? Like we grew up in the church and we get saturated with church culture and church culture doesn't always, especially not, for anybody that's an adult right now, times are changing. Life is changing. The world is changing. So for anybody that's adult right now, when you were a child and you were growing up, a lot of the churches, a lot of the churches were not on a machine. To help you fulfill your individual purpose or assignment in this world, they were established to just give us a place to honor, worship, and learn God's word, but never truly how to make us everything that we were intended to be. I'm going to turn my. And so when I think about that, I think about how my decisions. were based off of the trauma that I had in this world. And the decisions that I made in this world, I realized that is where all my decisions came from. And the decisions that I was making. We're decisions to play small, impress them, but don't wow them like you can be at level 10, but they're only at level three, so just go to level six and you'll still be amazing but I've taught this lesson before, right? I've taught this lesson before, and I never even realized how it applied to me, because I thought I was firing on all cylinders. I thought I was doing all the things. But as he calls me to more, I realized, You weren't. You were doing just enough to make it look like you were doing a lot. You're doing just enough to just enough to be able to, help people and, show them that it's possible. But there was so much more. There is so much more. That you are capable of that you are required to do that you are assigned to. And now you're starting to truly step into it and I think that I'm stepping into it because because of all the ways that I've just been honoring God with my life this year, I've. Hosted events. I've hosted booze camps. I've hosted marriage challenge. I've showed up at other people's events. I've been to every praise and worship service that, I've been invited to do another spiritual hygiene group that I am a part of. Like I have been tithing on my time. I have been tithing on my finance. I've been doing all the work. And because I have, God has been Showing and revealing more and more of who he is in my life, but also who I am. And so as I'm doing all these things and he's giving me more assignments and I'm just like trying to organize them to make sure I do all these things, it makes me recognize that like maybe I was afraid of me, maybe I was afraid of what it required. For me to be who he called me to be. And so I started making me smaller and started acting like I didn't see all the things that he was calling me to. And I was fully locked in on the things that I was doing. And this is what he called me to while like literally turning a blind eye to the next. 10 levels of influence that he wants me to have. Know I spoke a lot and I know that you probably have some questions. But that is the maybe I was afraid of me. Maybe I didn't want to do what was required. Maybe I didn't want to be responsible. I For something so extraordinary and something so big and then he gave me four children which told me, hey, you are responsible. You might as well just embrace it, embrace who you are and stop being afraid of who you are. But I'm going to give the question, sorry, the floor to you if you have any questions that I could answer now. It's so funny as you were talking, the biggest thing that came up for me wasn't so much biblical as it was a reminder. I'm sure you're familiar with Marianne Williamson's infamous quote our deepest fears. Our deepest fears are that we are not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure. Yeah. Yeah, that's what kept coming up for me and how we, I guess it goes back to something I learned from Raven, how we make covenant with mediocrity, how we say, What's the point of me being all that he called me to be? What's the point of me realizing the greatness that lives within me because his power is within me? And we fall prey to the lies. Maybe it's a lie you heard from childhood. Maybe it's a lie that you heard. That maybe you didn't even know you were making covenant with it. Maybe you thought, Oh, somebody just said that. And now as an adult is coming back up for you and you're like, where did I, where did that come from? How did I give that route? Why is that even impacting me at this stage? And I think it's important to note that our memories hold so much power. And so I would challenge the listeners to do something that you've taught me to do. We can lean into our memories and remember the script and the stories that we developed based on our own understanding, based on our own experiences, or we can lean into our memories and remember that even though that happened, God saw us through it. He brought us through it. And we can choose to activate those memories that push us towards faith, or we can Focus on those memories that force us towards doubt and keep us stuck and keep us playing small and being less than and keep us in these undesirable cycles. So as you're speaking, I'm, I get my mind. I just keep on hearing like the body keeps score and the spirit keeps track and the body keeps score. We hold on to like our attentions and we hold on to our fears in our physical body. Like we There's a, there's an entire book about it. It's actually called The Body Keeps Score. I don't know who the author is but I know that it talks about how you can have your childhood like experiences settle into the way that you yeah, that your body feels like it could be pain. It can manifest into sickness. There's so many different things, but the body keeps score and the flesh side of it. Is the thing that is competitive, but in the spirit, it just keeps track. It just keeps the record. It just holds onto all the things. Until you're ready to be able to experience those things again. The thought that when I was a teenager, I wrote a poem called Killing Time. Man, I wish I could find that poem. I wish I could on the spot find that poem. I wrote this poem 20 years ago. And the poem was about how I could do, and it's all these different things that I could do I could show you how to do this. I can lead you to do that. I can and it's just like a, not like a like a brag fest or anything, but just all the things that I know that I'm capable of. And. All the things that I know that you're capable of, right? I'm not even talking about what I'm not just talking about what I can do in that poem. I was talking about what I could help other people do. I literally made up an entire poem about that. And then at the end it was something along the lines of yeah, but right now, I'm not really I'm not really in the mood for that I'm not really I don't feel up to it. And so until I do, I'm just killing time. I have to go back and find that poem. I hope I can find it and share it with you so that other people can hear it as well. But I remember my sister. Reading that poem and saying to me like, yeah, this is 100 percent you just like you're so powerful. You just sit around doing nothing with that power. And I was just like, oh, came right into alignment with that came right into right into coming in with that and didn't even realize it was just like, yeah, I know I can, but, whatever the complacency of it and It's taken years to undo that complacency. It took an entire journey to undo that complacency but what lasted as a drip for a long time, all of a sudden turned into a full fledged float from this faucet. When I really truly realize that I'm, I was blocking so many things and I think that it didn't even cause not even like a long past revelation or anything like that. It's as I'm going through the process as I'm doing the work. I'm realizing and recognizing, and the spirit is bringing back to my memory these moments I haven't thought about that poem in 20 years. But that poem just popped into my head and I remember I could literally see myself and my sister standing in that room right now. And I have to repent for coming into alignment with that. And, but I can physically see myself standing in that room, what I was wearing. I could see what I was wearing in that moment. And so I have to repent for that moment and I have to thank God that He is revealing these things to me because we all have things that we need to be repenting for, right? And we need to be repenting for the things that we've been fearful of. We need to be repentful of the things that we have come into covenant with that were not of God. Like we need to repent for those things. And a lot of times we feel like, oh, I'm not living that life anymore or I'm not that person anymore. So it doesn't really matter, but no, because. In our spirit, those things still have holds on us, even though in our physical, they don't. And so I'm grateful for the moment that the spirit is keeping record and bringing back the things for me to be able to see. Because now that I know that I was afraid of me, and now that I know all the decisions and covenants that I made because of that fear, I can look back and repent for it. And in this moment going forward, I never have to feel that again. I never have to be afraid of me again, because it's we've already overcome that fear. That fear no longer has authority unless we give it new authority and I'm not like I won't refuse I there's no need to I'm once this is the thing where you can't go back to the point of no return that repentance and that understanding is the point of no return I can no longer return to who I was before it. Because she doesn't exist anymore. And why would I recreate a version of myself that didn't even serve the purpose that I was sent here for? It just doesn't make sense to me. I love that. I love the freedom that comes with that response. I love that. What would you say? Who the sun sets free is free indeed. I'm sorry. Who the sun sets free is free indeed. Yes. Whatever. That's so good. What would you say to the person who came to this summit? Maybe they thought they had a different fear. And in hearing you speak today, acknowledges that they are indeed afraid of themselves. What would you say to that person? The fear of the Lord is where wisdom begins. The fear of the Lord is where wisdom begins. You were made in his image. If you're going to be afraid of yourself, then really you're afraid of God because that's who God created you in his image. God made you who you are. So if you are afraid of yourself, then really you're just afraid of everything that God used to create you and what that formed into. And then that means that's okay because the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. And so now you have the ability. Now you have the foresight to say, okay. Let me go seek after wisdom and once you start seeking after wisdom, which God will give to you generously. If you ask, there are multiple books of wisdom in the Bible that literally will just fill you with wisdom. Transform your mind. And so if you came to the summit and you thought you had a different fear, but now you realize that you really been afraid of who you are and how powerful you can be. I say congratulations because you're at the, you're at the starting point. Of now learning more about who you are learning more about who God called you to be learning more about what you're able to do. So you're just at a point where you're able to learn. And so congratulations. Now, go read the book of Proverbs. After you read the book of Proverbs, go read the book of Romans, go read, just go read your Bible. That's that's all I can say. Go read your Bible. Once you get to that point, because The Bible will start to reveal to you all the things. That this world has distorted in your mind and once that distortion gets to be lifted and you understand who you are through his word, there is no need to fear and the things that you still subconsciously are afraid of. As you continue to read the Bible and transform your life through his word, he'll start to take care of that when you first ask the question, I like reached for my digital Bible because I was going to go to Joshua chapter one. Yeah. Jo Joshua, chapter one, verse nine. That's where I was going at first when you asked me what would you say to them? cause in that story, not just that verse, but in that story let me see. Yeah. So in that story when Joshua is afraid he never tells God that he's afraid, but God tells him what to do if he's afraid, right? He's if you're afraid, go down. And hold on. I wanna make sure I'm getting the story 'cause in my head I'm in my mind I'm like, you might be telling the wrong story, but I wanna just make sure. Yeah. Okay. This is the be strong and courageous. Let's see. Okay. The concept of the story is that he's afraid and God knows he's afraid, but he doesn't tell God that he's afraid. And God says, if you're afraid. Send your servant down to listen in to the enemy and then come back. And that's why it's confusing me. I'm like, am I in the right chapter of the Bible? I'm probably not in the right chapter, just in the right book. But either way, that's the concept of it, right? And so God tells you what to do when you're afraid, even if you don't tell him that you're afraid. He's always working something out for you. He's always moving you along. He's always piecing things together. He can't give you everything all at once because it would overwhelm you. So just start that journey of, okay, Father, you start leading me out of it. And if you don't know how to pray, that's okay. Scripture teaches you how to pray. If you don't know how to worship, that's okay. Scripture teaches you how to worship. The Scripture is the most powerful tool that we have. To get to know who God is, it's his living word. And so for anybody that came here thinking that they were afraid of one thing and maybe discovering that they were afraid of something else, anybody who came here and thought they were afraid of one thing and then realized that they actually already overcame that fear and now are looking to say what do I do now that I've overcome this fear? When, wherever you end up, wherever you land on the flip side of this summit, My encouragement to you is go deeper into your bio. Very simple. I love that. I love how you always point us back to the word. That's good. I wish everyone could see your face right now. Yeah. The word changed my life. Because the word changed my life. Going to church didn't change my life, listening to worship music didn't change my life, praying, getting a fellowship, those things didn't change my life. Those things were bonuses and yes, like little turning points, but the thing that truly changed my life was reading my Bible and understanding. Jeremiah 33 says that that God will show you. Unsearchable things, right? That's what 3 says hold to me and I will answer. I will show you unsearchable things. And it's true. Like I started reading my Bible because I was like going to church and like listening to sermons and I didn't really know what they were talking about. Like it felt good, right? It felt like motivational speeches. It felt like I was learning this lesson, but I didn't really know what the foundation of those lessons were. I didn't know how the pastor was getting to those lessons. I didn't understand everything that they were referring to. When they would say things about God's promises and all these different things, I'm like, okay, so yeah, this feels good. And yes, I'm encouraged. And yes, I'm built up, but my life didn't really change who I was didn't change through those activities. It just gave me like it gave me insight and it gave me a line of sight to a different reality, right? That's what, Church did for me. That's what worship music did. That's what praying did for me. All of that gave me line of sight to a different world and a different reality than the one that I was already experiencing, right? But reading my word, reading the Bible was the bridge. From where I was to this other reality that I could see because the word became the foundation of it. When I pray now, I don't just pray, God, can you please God help me God? No, I go to his scripture and I stand on it. Your word says, In Joshua one nine to not be afraid of to be courageous and to go as if I sent you so father whenever you send me one assignment, allow me to have that experience and that courage that Joshua had to lead them into the promised land when Moses was unable to finish the job father give me the correct the courage that Joshua needed to have. When I say. Father, give me the word of Isaiah 55 11. You said that your word does not return to you void. And I didn't say that my words can return to me. Boy, my words are not the powerful words. His words are the powerful words. And so when I say, father, your words don't come. Come return to your void, then Father, anything that you speak over my life, allow me to be able to walk in it. Allow me to be able to have the strength to withhold to do, to be able to manifest the things that you've called me to and do the work and see the fruits of the labor. Allow me to see that because your word says it doesn't return to your void. When I'm praying, I'm not just praying. My thoughts are my hopes and that's also good, but you have to be able to stand on your father's word. And so the scripture was the bridge from the life that I was living, looking over at this world that God has created. And looking over at the kingdom and seeing all these beautiful things that are now privy to me because of my praise, my worship, and my fellowship. But the way that I got to be on the inside of that, the way that got to be on the inside of me was reading my word and the scripture that changed it all for me is Galatians chapter 5. When it talks about the fruits of the spirit and it talks about the flesh versus the spirit and what kind of life you get when you let your flesh lead you, versus the kind of life you get when you get let your spirit lead you. If I never read that scripture, if I never read that word, I would've never known how important it was for me to die in my flesh daily. And so reading the word was the thing that bridged the gap for me. So how could I not encourage you to get into your word? I know how powerful it is. What would you say to the woman who says, Rima, all of this sounds great. You've opened my eyes. I know I need to read my word. I know I struggle with this fear. I believe that God wants to give me victory in this area and set me free. And yet I still hesitate, right? I still have this uneasiness for that woman who doesn't quite have the relationship that you nurture and walk people through, right? Doesn't feel as comfortable going to the Word. Maybe she feels that she doesn't understand the Word. I know that's a lie that the enemy tries to get a lot of people to believe, that I read the Word and I don't understand it. I think I tried that with you one time Oh, I read this translation. I didn't get it. And you were like, pick up another translation. I was like, Oh, she didn't let that, she didn't let that slide at all. What would you say to that woman? I would say it's okay. You're not alone. That's the first thing, recognize that you're not alone in those feelings. Because a lot of times we feel like we're the only ones that are struggling with this, we're the only one that doesn't get it. Or then or, if we're, if we don't feel like we're the only one, we feel like everyone struggles with it. Most people don't understand. It's only a select few that can understand the Bible. So whatever side of the fence you fall on, where you feel like you're the only one, so it's an embarrassment or you feel like everyone, so it's a comfort. Whatever side you fall on, just know that you're not alone in what you're feeling. But that there is no excuse, like at some point we have to stop letting, we have to stop believing lies. Period. At some point, we have to stop believing lies. And we look at it from this physical standpoint and this very worldly perspective. But it's true and it's true in a worldly perspective, right? Because, from a worldly perspective, when you're a kid, you believe in depending on the household that you grew up in, the Easter Bunny, right? The Tooth Fairy. Period. You believe in Santa Claus. You believe in the Boogeyman. You believe in, like, all these things that you believe in. You believe your parents are superheroes, right? You believe all this stuff. As a child, right? And as you grow up, you have to stop believing in these things. You typically start to, you typically stop believing in them when you start to piece together how how there's no real evidence of it, just word of mouth, like there's just word of mouth about the Tooth Fairy. There's no evidence of the Tooth Fairy, there's word of mouth of the Tooth Fairy. These are oral traditions that are being passed down to us. And so as you get older, you realize that's all they are is oral traditions. There's no proof behind them. When it comes to, when it comes to your Bible, when it comes to your faith, when it comes to that. You have to stop believing the lies that are told about it because now you're growing in your spirit. You grew in your flesh and you stopped believing those those lies because there was no evidence of the truth, right? But in your spirit, as you start to mature, you have to stop believing the lies of the enemy, that you can't understand the Bible, that it was written 2, 000 years ago and it's not, relevant now. There's too many thousands. arts and words that I don't, that you don't understand as if you can't just, look them up. It, the, these things are lies. And so as you mature spiritually, you have to stop believing lies, stop believing the lies. It's not true. There's so many translations of the Bible. When you're reading it, you can study it in multiple translations. You can get one that sounds you can start with a translation that is in basic English. That doesn't have all the different what was translated from Greek and Hebrew and Aramaic as they wrote the Bible in English. And it translates different so that you could actually understand. Pick up a different version of the Bible. If you're determined to do something, if you really want to do something, you'll do it. And you don't have to have any excuse. The only reason why this feels like excuses is because this is something that is serving the enemy's purpose. If you don't know who you are, you can't be who you are. If you don't know what God says about you, you can't battle against the lies that the world is trying to tell you if you don't start to recognize that you have kingdom authority and that there's a promise on your life. And every day that you live, you are expected to honor that promise on your life, then. If you don't know those things, then you'll never accomplish those things. It's so beneficial to the enemy for you to believe those lies. So I would say stop believing those lies. I would say find a mentor, find a, a program that you trust, find a Bible study step outside your comfort zone, and then I will tell you that there's even scripture for that, right? There's even Bible for that. Psalm 34, 8 says, taste and see that the Lord is good, blessed is the one who takes refuge in him, but that taste and see, try it, and not just like the the little effort, not the, oh I picked it up once, okay, once is not enough. I picked it up twice and then I didn't feel good. So is that how you would approach, learning how to drive a car? Would you try once and if it didn't work, not try again? No, you would keep trying. There's nothing that we do in this world that if it doesn't work the first time, we just say, Oh that didn't work. I'm not going to try to learn. And if it is, if that's the kind of person that you are, pray about that, because everything requires effort. Everything requires process. Everything requires a process. Nothing just transforms from one to another without a process. And yeah, taste and see, ask for help, find a village but just know that I am living proof. I am living proof of like, how powerful reading the scripture can be. And how you can take your life from good to, to, to God ordained, like, all through reading your Bible from a person that didn't understand it. Or from a person that was just like, what am I reading? And now it's just I'm excited. I can't wait. But it's, it took time to get there. Be patient, but be consistent. That's good. I appreciate you being here today to talk to the fear and doubt detox community. How can we stay in touch with you? What's the best way to reach you? So I guess the best way to reach me is to go to dearestfatherministry. com. That's my website. Or you can follow me on Instagram the scripture strategists straight across the scripture strategists spelled out. Those are the two places where you could probably find me the most. Once you go to my website you can join my mailing list and you'll be able to, see whatever challenges I'm hosting, whatever prayers whatever prayer things I'm doing. You have access to sign up for spiritual bootcamp there or the marriage challenge. I think everybody in the world needs spiritual bootcamp. I have just been this, I'm the fifth spiritual bootcamp for this year. We'll start on October 13th and. After doing four spiritual boot camps this year, like God has just revealed so much to me. And I think that everybody should have that experience because it's just a place for you to do spiritual exercises that really fuel your spirit to be able to overcome your flesh. It shows you how to diet your flesh. It shows you how to get into a better relationship and communication, not only with the Holy Spirit, but with your own spirit. It's just, It's a transformation. I know you said it earlier, but it's a transformational spirit of experience. Someone said to me that it was mind blowing to them that this person has done different courses and they have access to They have access to a lot of good spiritual leaders and mentorship. They have access to so many things and they try so many things, but spiritual bootcamp was the one thing that turned the knob for them that had breakthrough for them. And so that was such a humbling thing because it's just father, I thank you every day for the opportunity to host people who just want to get closer to you so that you can do something for their lives. You can stay in contact with me, like I said, on my website, but I encourage you to join a program, have an experience and let God really speak to you through it. I love that. Which free gift will you be sharing right below your session? So I will be actually sharing The condensed version of a spiritual boot camp. This is a five day trial of what boot camp evolved from. But it's like the beginner basics of what spiritual boot camps looks like. So I'll be sharing that it's going to be an audio that you can do over a five day period one hour per day. And then I'll also have just just some, a devotional resource. That you can work through. That's what I'll be sharing. It's perfect. Say that one more time. The devotional is called ask. And it's about how to ask God for things and what it means to ask, seek, and knock for his spiritual help. I love that. And what would you be including inside the marketplace? I don't understand. And that's the marketplaces where you have your items that are for sale. Oh, okay. So in the marketplace you'll have access to the scripture jars. Which is so transformational. So there's people who like they like you said a little bit earlier don't know how to read the Bible, don't know where to start in it. I asked God for one way, I asked him for multiple ways but I asked him for ways to help people overcome that and he gave me the scripture jars. They are three different scripture jars that we offer. One is called the Child of God jar. The Child of God jar is just filled with so many different scriptures. There's a hundred scriptures in there that just help you, bury the word of the Lord in your heart, help you understand his promises, help you understand how to battle in spiritual warfare. There's just a ton of scriptures packed in there. And that's the child of God jar that is for not only for children. For them to learn the word as they're being trained up, but also for people that are new to the word. So the Child of God jar is there, and then there's the Goal Getters jar, which is for people that are ambitious, people that, want to put God at the forefront of their business, if they're entrepreneurs, people that want to put God at the forefront of their education, if they're students anybody who is working towards something, the Goal Getters jar. Is a scripture jar that is made just for you. So you can stand on what God's word says about different categories. Success, goal setting, endurance, doing the work, motivation. These are some of the topics that are color coded and covered inside of these scripture jars. And then. The Marriage Jar, which is not a standalone product. The marriage Jar comes with a 52 week challenge where you, this community who meets together weekly to discuss the word and discuss, you know. The way that they've been developing and breakthrough that they've had within their marriage. So you have this community that you get when you purchase description job, but you also get new assignments. So you'll be journaling on the word, you'll be applying it to your life and you'll have A team of people to keep you accountable to that when you purchase the marriage jar you are also automatically enrolled into that community. So those would be for sale and they'll also be registration. If you are, if you're ready to sign up for spiritual bootcamp there'll be registration open for that as well. Thank you so much. I'll make sure these links are included under your interview, as well as within the show notes for the podcast. All right, everyone. Rima, we thank you for your time today. Thank you for sharing your God given wisdom. Thank you for encouraging us to step outside of our comfort zone and abandon mediocrity. Everyone, I know that you were blessed. So I won't even say I hope you were blessed. I know you were blessed. Please take it, take what you've learned today a step further. Don't just be hearers of the word. Don't just hear this word and let it fall on deaf ears. Instead, I want to encourage you to be doers. If this resonates with you and you said to yourself, You know what? I've been playing small. I haven't been doing all that God's called me to do. I haven't reached not even my full potential, but I haven't reached for purpose. My encouragement today is for you to take one small step. It usually starts with an act of trust and surrender and ask God for help. He will do it and he will exceed your expectations. So I'm just praying, for each and every one of you, praying that You will do just that. And I hope you will stick around with us and enjoy the rest of the summit. Don't forget to listen to the other sessions.