So I'm looking at this process of saying, wait a second, these cycles are kind of interesting.

What does that cycle look like?

And if you've worked with me before, you know how the cycle actually goes.

It starts off with a dream of what God showed you He was going to do.

And then you go into the distress of a contradiction.

And you're wondering, oh my God, what's happening?

So you start off with the dream, then you enter into the contradiction zone.

Now, why is the contradiction happening in the dream that God gives you?

Well, it's because He's actually building in you the competency and the ability to do the thing He's called you to do.

So here you are.

You're starting off with low skills and you're developing your skills and your maturity as you go.

But the distress that breaks into another stage, if you will persevere and not quit,

then you'll find there's going to be development.

In the development stage, you start to realize, ah, this is how I do it.

But you have to like focus on it.

And then as you move from that development stage, you go into the demonstration stage,

where you're actually now doing the thing you originally saw yourself doing.

What most people do is they have the dream, they want to go to demonstration that way.

They don't recognize the process is that you process.

It's going down into the challenge of making it manifest,

persevering through the contradictions that you go through,

the humbling process of manifesting what God called you to do.

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