Walk It Out Inspirations
Walk It Out inspirations explores physical steps to achieve and overcome challenges or take action to move forward despite obstacles or setbacks with the goal of motivating, empowering, and inspiring listeners to take steps toward their personal growth and success through practical tips, strategies, time management, and other skills. Episodes feature interviews with individuals from a variety of backgrounds that share stories of triumph and truth that offer diverse ranges of perspectives and ideas.
Walk It Out Inspirations
Think I Can: How Shifting Your Perspective Changes Everything
What if your greatest limitation became your most powerful ministry tool? In this soul-stirring conversation with Prophet Sonja Washington, we explore how shifting our mindset from "I can't" to "Think I Can" transforms not just our perspective, but our entire reality.
Sonja vulnerably shares how her visible limb difference initially trapped her in shame, only to become God's vehicle to bring hope to others. "He took my legs, and it was the best thing that ever happened to me," she reveals, challenging listeners to reconsider their own perceived limitations. Through powerful personal stories, she demonstrates how the words we speak literally create our environment – making our self-talk either our greatest ally or our most destructive enemy.
The conversation dives deep into the prison of perfectionism that keeps many believers stuck. We explore how Adam and Eve themselves weren't created perfect (they came from dust!), freeing us from impossible standards. Sonja's insights on developing an over-comer mindset provide practical tools for anyone battling negative thoughts, generational trauma, or spiritual stagnation.
Most powerfully, Sonja reminds us that true transformation happens in community: "God will surround you with people where you're going, not where you are." Her book "Think I Can" offers a roadmap for breaking free from mental bondage and stepping into divine purpose despite – or perhaps because of – our limitations.
Ready to break free from what's holding you back? Listen now and discover how changing your thinking can change everything. Then visit thinkican.org to continue your journey with Sonia's transformative book.
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Speaker 3:Hey y'all, hey y'all. Good evening, good evening, good evening, Listen. I want to first, before I even dive in and welcome each and every one of you. I want to apologize for the delay. We were having some technical difficulties. Y'all know, listen, technology, they say, is smart, but I don't know. Nowadays it can be a little slow and have all these hiccups and issues. This is why we can't depend on technology, right? But I know one thing that we can depend on at all times, and that is God. Listen, I get excited when I say that because God is good. I know it's cliche God is good all the time and all the time. God is good all the time and all the time. God is good.
Speaker 3:Listen, I want to welcome each and every one of you to Walk it Out Inspirations podcast. Listen those that are watching live I welcome you. I thank you so much for joining us live and those that will be listening in in the podcast platform, that's listening in on Apple Podcasts, iheart Radio, spotify. I want to welcome you as well. I am super, super excited. I'm excited because we are in our reading edition and I'm super excited to get started and talk about this book that I've been reading and it's interesting. There's a little twist to that book too, but we'll get into that.
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Speaker 3:Walk it Out, inspirations is on. But listen, I'm ready to dive right on in. Before I dive right in, listen, y'all know I do nothing without my best friend, nothing without my partner, the Holy Spirit. So y'all know we got to go to the Lord in prayer. Heavenly Father, I thank you. I thank you, lord, god, as this is the day that you have made. Listen, lord, you were so gracious and so kind for us to see yet another beautiful day that you've created. So, lord, god, I just say have your way during this time, holy Spirit, come in, listen, you be the interviewer as you interview this wonderful, powerful, dynamic woman of God on this evening. I'm just a vessel being used by you, oh God. So we say have your way. I pray that each individual that is watching live and those that are even listening in in the podcast industry, I thank you that they shall be blessed by everything that goes forth through the airways. Oh God, I thank you that it will change their lives, it will change their perspective, it will change their mindset, it will change some of their ways. Lord, god, as you continue to use us to speak to your people. So, lord, whatever comes out of our mouth, let it be all of you and none of us. As we decrease, that you might increase. So, god, I thank you. We give you glory, honor and praise, and it's in Jesus name. Amen and amen. So listen y'all. We are starting this reading edition.
Speaker 3:I'm excited to talk about this book Think I Can written by Sonia. Most would know her as Sadie Washington. So, listen, I was excited to read this book and I selected this book to read for this month and because, shout out to, she Reads I am a part of the she Reads challenge. I'm super excited about that. The Lord put a mandate on me and said you need to do more reading, continue to write, but do a whole lot more reading, because I'm a writer by nature. So I said okay, lord, I hear you and I'm seeing and reaping the benefits of doing as much reading as I've been doing thus far.
Speaker 3:Now, this particular book is very interesting. Why do I say that? Because I actually I'm actually the publisher of this book y'all. So I know most would ask well, why are you reading a book that you published? I'm glad that you asked. You see, being a publisher is one thing, but being a reader is another. When I have the publisher hat on, I have the perspective and the eyes of a publisher. So what I'm looking for is the flow of the book. Will it draw the attention of the reader? I'm looking for the grammatical errors, I'm looking for the voice of the author. These are the things that I'm looking for as a publisher. But then, when I take the publisher's hat off and put on the hat of a reader, my God, I get to dive in and also be fed and be blessed by the literature and the context that is in the book.
Speaker 3:So a lot of times I find myself even with my own books. Have you ever authors out there that have written books? Have you gone back and read your book and said, my, my, my goodness, I wrote that, lord. Now, you know you did that. Oh, this is good right here, because, even as an author, when we are writing our books, we are literally one of the things that I love to share with my clients when I take them through and I coach them and I mentor them through the writing process. I tell them listen, trust God as your ink pen and just flow. Don't worry about the grammatical errors. Listen, I'm giving y'all a right until I hope y'all taking notes. Don't worry about what you're writing about, don't worry about how it sound. Just flow as the Lord flows through you. Trust him as your ink pen.
Speaker 3:So a lot of times, when you are that author and you're doing just that, you don't get the opportunity or the advantage to go back and really dive deep in and fully read what you have written. So I challenge y'all authors if y'all have not done it already, I challenge y'all, after you publish your book and it's already published and out there go back and sit, take the hat of the author off and put the hat of the reader on and I dare you to read it because, just as the Bible, I don't care how many times you read it, you're gonna get a new revelation. Even as an author, I don't care how many times you might read your book that you read, god going to show you something different and you're going to be blessed in a different way. So listen, y'all ready to come on this journey with me as we interview Sonia Washington and her book.
Speaker 3:Think I Can Listen. I'm excited and I'm ready to dive in because there was some really, really juicy stuff and I'm going to tell y'all, me reading this book, there were some things in there that was speaking to my now. It was speaking to my now and it gave me a reminder of a lot of things. So, listen, before I bring her on and we dive in, we're going to go ahead and take a commercial break, but before we do that, listen y'all, make sure y'all like, share and y'all tag some people in this. This is Walk it Out Inspirations. Stay tuned while we come back after this commercial.
Speaker 4:God healed my shame and now my wounds are weapons for his kingdom. Let my life story of living with limb difference teach you how to win through anything. Purchase my book, Think I Can, and your life will shift by changing your mindset. Visit thinkicanorg to purchase.
Speaker 3:All right, y'all. That was the commercial for Think I Can. Listen y'all. If y'all want to purchase a copy of Think I Can, y'all can go to thinkicanorg. Y'all definitely want to grab a copy of this book. I'm telling you it is life-changing. But y'all will find that out when I bring her on and I'm going to go ahead without further ado. Listen, I'm not going to waste no more time. And I'm not going to waste no more time. I'm just going to go ahead and bring our guests on. I'm super excited. Hello, hello, hello, hello, sadie. Prophet Sadie, how are you this evening?
Speaker 4:Welcome. Good evening, prophet Alicia. I'm doing fine. We had a really great week and so this is a highlight of that, of that. As we conclude and going to the weekend.
Speaker 3:Yes, that is amazing. That is truly, truly amazing. I am super, super ecstatic about Listen. I love it when God does things over the weekend and prepares us for what's to come. I love it when God does things over the weekend and prepares us for what's to come. He does a mighty, mighty, he does mighty work and he is always blowing our mind and he is always revealing himself to us. So I want to go ahead and dive right on in. I want you to go ahead. Tell the people a little bit about yourself. Talk about yourself a little bit before we dive into this book. Tell them about yourself.
Speaker 4:Well, I guess my first purpose or first career was and is a leader of people. I have been leading people since I was 19 years old I'm going to date myself here, but that's coming up on 30 years and I really enjoy igniting someone's hidden talents that they may not know. A lot of times we think very narrow of ourselves and so many times as leaders we can see the hidden gems or the diamonds in the rough inside of you and I have been able to ignite those in several people that I've led over the years and they've gone on to have great careers. And those are the things that really fill me up in leadership not so much myself I talk about in a book that I'm drafting now and reading and building for now is that many of the leaders today focus on utilizing the people around them to propel their own career. For me, I have always elevated myself in the workplace by elevating others, so, as people continue to develop their skills and grow, the talent that I have within me was highlighted because I was able to do that and partner with that person. So I believe equal success I feel like an equal failure when we work in team environments. So that's a first passion of mine as we flow over into this subject matter.
Speaker 4:I am convinced that the largest prison on earth is the mind, and many people are locked into their singular thinking or even maybe a few things that they think they can do. Maybe a few things that they think they can do, but I truly believe and I've lived this out over all these years that Think I Can is a concept and a way of living that has godly principles in it, and I have been very successful just with the first thought of I can do something. So I'm also a mother and I'm also a business owner, so I have a lot of things on the fire, which keeps me very focused. But also I want to highlight that I am a member of Shiloh Sisters, which is a group of women that gather together every October and we just worship the Lord, we have classes, and so that has helped me prepare, propel my life into ministry and as well as the mentorship of Apostle Sharon Peters-Ruff. So that's just a little bit about me, but I'm sure you have a lot of questions that's awesome.
Speaker 3:That is awesome, that is amazing. Listen I do?
Speaker 3:I do have quite some questions and as I was reading, when I was reading, and even the title itself, think I can. It reminds me of one of my favorite scriptures that I like to read backwards. It's funny because the Lord he shared with me one day as I was reading his word and he wanted me to go deeper. There was a few scriptures that he was like read it backwards. And when I read it backwards it gave a whole, a deeper revelation and it spoke to me in such a different way. So just thinking about the title of your book, think I Can, it reminds me of the scripture Philippians 4.13.
Speaker 3:I believe that's one of the scriptures as children or at least I can speak for myself that was one of the scriptures that we had to memorize, remember and know front to back address of the scripture and things of that nature. But it's interesting because in my adulthood, when the Lord told me to read that scripture backwards, the scripture says I can do all things through Christ. That strengthens me. And so when the Lord said, read it backwards, he had me read it in a way that said in Christ I'm given strength to do all things. Look, I'm getting excited to be able to do all things. And even with the title Think I Can. I thought about Paul. I think myself happy Okay.
Speaker 4:It always is that mindset yeah definitely.
Speaker 3:It always that mindset. Yeah, definitely, I definitely want to dive into that and in and ask you because there was a point, y'all, y'all gonna see me looking down because, as you, I have her book right here with my notes and my highlights because there was some things that I was like, oh, I want to talk about this and oh, I want to talk about that. I want to first go into shame. That's the first thing I I want to dive into shame and and I'm gonna read this, quoting in quote straight out the book it says shame is a weapon of the enemy, a tactic to keep us stuck in bondage. It has a strategy to keep you from walking into your destiny. It is a silent assassin keeping you in continual defeat. It will keep you from understanding how much you have accomplished and underestimating how much you can achieve. Estimating how much you can achieve.
Speaker 3:I highlighted that because it took me to when I was first diagnosed in 2022, when they officially, permanently was like you disabled. It was like you disabled and it was like my world went caving in and crushed down and my perception at the time was I didn't want to go back to church, I wanted to isolate myself, I wanted to stay in the house. I didn't want to go outside. I didn't want to go back to church. I wanted to isolate myself. I wanted to stay in the house. I didn't want to go outside. I didn't want to go anywhere because I didn't want nobody to see me in this condition, because everybody knew me as the woman with the crazy faith. If God say leak, she'd be like okay, lord, how high. So now I'm in this condition, I have this thing going on, and it made my faith look weak because it was like or at least I felt that way, that was my perspective, that's how I perceived it, and I was crushed and I was just like in my mind I said Lord, I'm damaged goods to you, now you can't use me. I felt like a burden to my family, especially my husband, because I couldn't care for my children. I couldn't care for myself much.
Speaker 3:What God? What God? What God Y'all? God had to send an example because I'm going to say how the Lord said to me. He said I will surround you with people where you're going, not where you are, we will. The Lord had to connect me to Sadie, prophet Sonia, because her disability is visible, whereas in mine, y'all look at me and like what's her disability, what it called when it at? I can't see it. Mine's is not as visible. So god surrounded me with her and allowed me to see her live her life with something that was physical, that everybody in the world could see, to cause me to rise up and get up from the place that I was in of feeling shameful and embarrassed, and give me strength to continue to press forward and move forward and go forward. And he also showed me You're not damaged goods, don't you see that I'm using her, so why can't I use you? A broken crown can be broken, but it can still be used.
Speaker 3:So tell me those that had that mindset, because I think, thank the lord, my mindset ain't there now praise the lord. Those that have that mindset tell me how, because that that's a place of prison yes, it is.
Speaker 4:It's a place of prison and it's a place that you unbeknownst to you, that you might be residing in, because shame is one of those things in society we don't discuss enough, because I believe it's to continue the perpetual environment of I'm not good enough or I can't do this, or because of my background or because of my disability, or because I don't have this, or because of this or because of that, or because I was, you know, mistreated or, you know, abused, or because I'm not from this, or because of this or because of that, or because I was, you know, mistreated or, you know, abused, or because I'm not from this country. I mean, we can go on and on and on about, because of, and and those are the quiet things, and the quiet things that you hear in your mind and your spirit that keep you from going to the places that you're destined to go. That keep you from going to the places that you're destined to go. It keeps you accepting the status quo in your life and not reaching for more. And that's where the enemy can just really mess with your mind and just play with your mind, make you feel miserable all the time. And I won't tell you, I have my highs and lows, but I took a long time to come out of shame and I think that I put a nail in a coffin of shame when I published this book. It was like it was like the Lord said it was. It is done. And so I just see, I see shame, I see people operating in shame and I just want to come close and just minister to those people and help those people out of that darkness.
Speaker 4:But and another thing of shame is grief. I am I am really I see this a lot now because people around my age group are losing people and, for any other reason, locked in shame. Shame of grief, like I'm still grieving my mother, I'm still grieving my loss of my friend, but I can't break free of this and I don't know how. And I'm shameful because people will say why I'm still shame. So I mean, it covers a prevalent of things that could keep you locked and bound and and so, um, with the spirit of the Lord, he can break you free.
Speaker 4:But I think that a lot of times the scriptures come alive when you have a physical representation or the testimony of someone that was able to overcome what you are experiencing and in that it makes you just think. And the Lord revealed to me a time ago I would say it was about six years ago a woman in a previous job I was working for Nissan and she came up to me and she said I just watched you in the parking lot. Take your chair out, get out of the car, walk to the car, or, you know, walk on my stumps to the car, get the chair out, get my, my bag out, which included, you know, my work stuff, roll all the way into the office and go up on the third floor and sit down and begin to work. And she said, the lord convicted me for complaining about my current disposition, which was far less now. Now I'm going to tell you something about myself. I don't think that I was given a bag, deck of cards, if you want to say, you know how they have that phrase.
Speaker 4:I don't think that. I think that we all have stuff that we have to overcome. Most of my stuff just happens to be visible. Okay so, but it's not more than yours. You understand, the Lord is wise, so the things that you, that he uses to buffer you, as Paul talks about in scripture, um, it's just the same as mine. It still has the same dynamic, but um, but what I would say? That's how I feel. I know some people don't think that, but um, so I don't look at it as I have it at worst, but I look at it as God gave me a key to help you deal with yours. And even if I never open my mouth around you and I just operate in the way that I can, without legs, you can see the glory of the Lord through my life, which also can rest on you my life, which also can rest on you.
Speaker 3:That's good, that's real, real good, and that's so evident and true, because there is no. Did you know that y'all we're talking about disabilities and having a disability, whether it be physical, or whether it be visible or invisible, whether it be a physical disability, a mental disability, but did y'all know that you can also be disabled spiritually? Did y'all know that you can also be disabled spiritually, mm-hmm? True, you might have not been diagnosed by the world of a disability, but did you know, spiritually you can become disabled, mm-hmm. So let me ask you this For one that is experiencing disability spiritually, how does one come out of that?
Speaker 4:I know it is to have a fire for learning the Lord intimately. So that will involve some consecration, you know, pulling away from everything. You know having time with him, reading his scripture, praying, also maybe getting a mentor, but really getting to know God for yourself, not who they say he is give you, but truly experience and have an experience that is unexplainable to me. That will change your life. And so in the scriptures it teaches you who you are to him. You're his child. He loves you.
Speaker 4:Many times people think of God like this big ogre. That's always talking about how bad we are, but that's not talking about how bad we are, but that's not really the emphasis of what he is. He does love us and he does have where. He disciplines us, but just like our parents, when we get disciplined to make sure that we are going the right way, he will do that too. But it's all based in love. And so when you begin to really learn who he is and focus on that and then begin to ask why am I here? You know we just come out of a season it's almost five years, probably two weeks from now where COVID hit our land and we had to pull in and seclude ourselves to be able to stay alive. Many of us lost people and many of us didn't make it. But I speak to those that are here now and I say why are you here? I know God is intentional and he has a purpose for all of our lives. And if you're still here, you still have a purpose that is mandated in the realm of the spirit and it is your job to seek him in relationship, to find out what is it that he needs you to do.
Speaker 4:And when you begin that process and you really really start trying to hold his hand instead of touch it. So I give an example when things go bad, we are on our knees, we praying, we calling whoever's the prayer word in our lives and we're saying can you pray for me? Pray for me, oh, my goodness. I don't know how I'm going to get through this, but that's when we focus on him and I call that going to the altar and just touching his hand.
Speaker 4:But when you get to the point where you take his hand and your hand is in his hand, then those things that are on you, that you believe that you cannot do if you're operating in shame, or all the other things lack of faith, or lack of faith in yourself, or doubt, or all these things that are ugly, will begin to peel off of you and you'll look up and say I'm not the same person anymore. I'm not this person, I'm not that person. They used to call me moody. I'm not moody anymore. Oh my goodness. I used to be offended by everything. I know who I am in Christ. So you can say one thing about me and I'll never be offended by it because it's not true. So, taking his hand, and if you don't know necessarily how to do that, get a mentor to help you take his hand and develop an intimate relationship with God is the first answer.
Speaker 3:That's good. That's good, that's good, right there. Listen, this is Walk it Out Inspirations podcast. We are here with Prophet Sadie Washington. We are talking about her book. Think I Can, those that have just dropped in. We want to welcome each and every one of you that are watching live, and even those that are listening in the podcast world. We definitely want to welcome you as well. Listen, this has become. This is starting to heat up, y'all. It's starting to heat up and it's providing so much knowledge and so much wisdom Having an understanding of who God is for yourself.
Speaker 3:Not for what your mama told you, not for what your papa told you, not for what the preacher told you. Do you know who God is for yourself? She said one key word experience. I can recall listen speaking about that experience. Listen y'all. Two years ago, I went to a place called the shallow experience. Let me tell you something, boy, was it an experience? Yes, so, listen, y'all, shout out to the shallow experience. Yes so, listen, y'all, shout out to the shallow experience that is founded by Apostle Sharon Peters Ruff. It is definitely an experience. With that being said we are going to take a commercial break. Y'all stay tuned, because when we come back we're going to dive even deeper and talking about the mindset and the many experiences that we experience within our mindset. Y'all stay tuned, we'll be back.
Speaker 2:Lord, who am I, that you are mindful of me. Whatever follows I am is that's why you got to watch your own I am statement. I am tired, I am, I'm sick and tired, I'm this, I'm so disgusted I, whatever follows I am, is I wouldn't be able to minister like I could minister without an experience and I'm not just talking so y'all testify about the experience of being jacked up and the experience of the breakup and the experience of the loss and the experience of walking out on you and the experience, but I'm talking about the experience with I am the lord continues to appear at shiloh and there he revealed himself.
Speaker 3:Every year in Chicago Illinois, the I Am meets us at the Shiloh Experience. Are you ready to have an experience like no other with the I Am? Are you ready to shift into prospering God's way? Prospering God's way. Register for this year's Shiloh Experience happening at the Westin Chicago Northwest on October 17th through 19th. There's day classes, ministry sessions, sisterhood, love and fellowship. To register today you can go to wwwsweetroseofsharoncom. That's wwwsweetroseofsharoncom. See you there. Listen, that's that sweet rose of champs. But listen, I was there for that dynamite. You hear me?
Speaker 3:yes, yes here's another thing I wanted to share with y'all about this, um, shallow experience. There's another book that I just finished reading, last month. It's called the Five Star Church. When I tell you, I would have swear that Apostle Sharon's Peter Roof read that book, because, when I tell you, the experience that I had when I went was everything that was mentioned in this book.
Speaker 3:It was a five star experience. Five star experience. You felt the love, you felt the presence of God, you felt the fellowship. You felt like this is where I belong. I fit right on in. It was amazing. So, listen, if you want to have that experience, as we talked about getting to know God for yourself, and that was the other thing it wasn't so much about the speakers that were there and the different sessions that we had, everything that happened in shallow experience pushed you closer to God. Yes, yes, as he said, draw nigh unto me and I will draw nigh unto you. Yes, if you want to have that a deeper experience with God for yourself, with God for yourself, definitely go to wwwsweetroseofsharoncom and go register, listen it is a worthwhile investment.
Speaker 4:Sometimes we have to invest in ourselves. Oh, you know, I want to say something about that. A lot of times we are pouring into everyone else and we're the light. As women, a lot I'm speaking to women, and some of some men are playing this role as a single father. But us women, whether we're married or not, we're the light, we're pouring everything in and we we have a lot of darkness going on right now in this nation, so to say, and a lot of things going on that is very disturbing.
Speaker 4:So one thing I want to encourage everyone is be intentional to put yourself in places of light. You will need it because all the negative energy around us you could lose hope easily around us, you could lose hope easily, and so be intentional about not just going to, possibly considering going to Shiloh Experience, which I am a Shiloh sister as well as a mentee of Apostle Sharon Peters-Ruff. It's important that the light you are involved and connected to light. It's amazing how this group of women come together and support each other through so many things, and so why we're talking about that in relation to my book is because I would not be an author had it not been for Prophet Alicia and Apostle Sharon Peters-Ruff uh, prophet Alicia, and uh, apostle Sharon Peters-Ruff, you know, um, I said you have to some things.
Speaker 4:You have to have a mentor or somebody to walk you through um the birthing process or to create, or how do I get across this hurdle? I know how to do this, but I don't know how to do that. And both of these women have been a dynamic impression of my life, as the Lord has been using me to impress on them. They have impressed on me, and that's exactly what goes on in that community. We encourage and lift up each other through prayer and presence, and so you know, if you don't join us, just make sure that you're intentionally you're intentionally placing your room yourself in rooms of light.
Speaker 3:Yes, that that's really really good. I mean, the Bible says. He said in his words who are better than one, let iron sharpen iron. And he said that that's what we're supposed to do. As we love one another, we're supposed to uplift and build one another up. These are the things that he desires for us to do I want to talk about.
Speaker 3:You made mention of something that was so powerful in your book, and it was in chapter three Overcomer Mindset. Mindset you said the words I formulated in my thought process and spoke out of my mouth created my environment. Jesus created my environment and built a vision of who I saw myself to be. That was such a powerful statement because you want to know what that reminded me of. That reminded me of God in the book of Genesis.
Speaker 3:He spoke everything into existence. That's why he says in his word that the power is in our tongue. We can speak life or we can speak death, definitely so. I want to. I want to ask you, I want to dive a little bit deeper into that, because one of my other favorite scriptures that I always say and that I walk on and it ties into what you're saying. He said that he made my tongue as of a pen, of a ready writer, so I want to go into that. You said that you realized that it formulated, it developed who you were. So you mean to tell me what I speak out of my mouth develops who I am.
Speaker 4:Yes, I can. Let me take you back to when I was about 13 or 14 years old and at that time I was playing wheelchair basketball and I had the pleasure of traveling across the nation. I went to Chicago, maryland, texas, just different places. And I remember being in Texas, just different places, right. And I remember being in Texas and Dallas, texas. And we went to this restaurant and the reason why I imprinted on me, two things happened the jalapeno pepper was so hot, they had to bring me bread and milk and I will never forget it was so hot, I thought my, my tongue and my lips were going to burn off. And the other thing I remember saying I said I'm going to move here one day, the power of the tongue. About six, seven years later, I got it, packed up my car and my clothes and had already landed me a job, transferring from one location in Kansas City to Dallas, and I went about my way, all by myself, to make a life and build a life for myself here. And so, although I went back home for a little bit while I was pregnant with my son, I came back in 2011.
Speaker 4:So, what you speaketh, so is what you thinketh, so is he, and I believe what you speak. So is he. Because what happens is I formulate in my mind there's another thing that's medically not possible. In my diagnosis I'm not supposed to be able to walk on my stumps. But guess what? I decided I was going to be able to walk on my stumps. I spoke that I was going to be able to walk on my stumps and therefore I did it.
Speaker 4:So it starts in your mind and your process of what you believe you can do, and then you formulate it into your speech and then you go to action. And a lot of that can be subconscious, but what I believe is true success is being intentional Meaning. I'm going to quiet the negative affirmations that I hear in my mind. I'm going to align it with the word of God and what it says about me. I'm going to put it to a goal that I want to achieve. I'm going to imagine myself doing it. I'm going to visualize myself doing it, then I'm going to speak that I'm going to do it, and then I put my hand to the plow.
Speaker 4:So that's the reason why the way you shift yourself to the place that you want to be and you may have to do that several times.
Speaker 4:I remember a couple of times I was in companies and I would go over to the desk that I knew would possibly be mine.
Speaker 4:I would just sit there and imagine what I was doing, the job that I wanted, and then I would pray, and then I'll put my hand all over the desk and then I would speak I'm going to do this job and I would leave the area, and there's not many times that I didn't get that position when I was able to do that process. So what I'm saying is also I have to bring up faith. I'm sorry I'll try not to get emotional here, but you have to have faith in God, that he, his promises, are yes and amen for your life, and then also that you have faith in yourself that you can do it. I don't believe that you can have true faith in God and not have faith in yourself. Those correlate, because you are his creation, you are here for his intention and there's no mistakes that he made, and so, therefore, you can do allings through christ jesus, which strengthens you, but you have to make a decision that that is what's going to happen in your life and you.
Speaker 3:You said so many powerful points and so many powerful, powerful statements because, it's true, it's what we speak out of our mouth and also what we think. Whatever a man thinks in his heart, so is he. So they all tie into each other, because the scripture said I believe, so therefore I speak. Yes, what comes out of my mouth, what I'm speaking, is what I believe. If we ever pay attention to what we say out of our mouth and if we ever listen to people when they speak, it will tell you what they're believing and what they believe. Yes, this is so, so good. Listen y'all. This is walking out inspirations.
Speaker 3:I am prophet Alicia and I have my guest, prophet Sonia Washington. We are talking about her book. Think I can? We're dealing with the mindset? I don't know, the Lord just has me. There's so much within this book. I want to get through all through the whole book, but for some reason the Lord got me stuck in the beginning portions and the portions dealing with the mindset. Dealing with the mindset because it was. It's interesting we can walk around this world so free but still be in prison because of our mindset and our way of thinking.
Speaker 4:Yeah, Go ahead. Well, I kind of think about some people that have maybe started in poverty and a lot of times that mindset will perpetuate itself and keep you there, unbeknownst to you, and also because you don't feel like you can have better and so you don't try to reach for better. That can be applied for everything. I won't reach for better because I don't think I deserve better. Oh yanda, oh, I feel okay. So sometimes we don't think we deserve better, so we don't reach for better, we don't require for better. But when you take God's hand and when you get someone close to you that can help you through, you'll reach for better and you will do better and your mind will shift. But it has to start there. There's no way that you can achieve the things that you want without first believing in God for you and your ability to walk it out the first. You speak about the first three chapters of the book, and people have mentioned it that I read it all the time. It's the first three chapters that just kind of have you sit in it and be like because I talk about you know, people look at me and say I think limb difference was the hardest thing that I ever overcome. And that's not true. It's generational trauma. You know we all have it. There's no perfect family. We all been through something that imprinted on us that it may be limiting us to move forward and have faith in ourselves. Maybe someone talked something over. It could be even childhood trauma. Maybe you had a teacher that was talking negative, that didn't believe in you. They said you couldn't read or said you couldn't do this, or they said you would never graduate or things like that. So those were the things that were the hardest for me. Somehow I remember having an experience with God as a little girl and it was like he was, like you can do this, and I just remember just having that, that mindset placed inside of me and I thought it was for me. But God don't give you anything like that for just you. He gives it to you so you can help others. And I testified to that fact.
Speaker 4:I had a sort of a spiritual mom. Her name is Barbara Bowden and a few years back I was not working at the time and I was taking her back and forth to the doctor and one day I didn't even know she was going to say this. We were driving down and she said she was blind in one eye. She said you're making me do better for myself, you're making me not quit. She said your presence you never said anything told me to do better, you never pushed me, it was just your presence that made me know I could do more for myself. So that think I can mindset dropped into her spirit because he gave it to me, and so I know that's a part of my purpose.
Speaker 4:I know that I can help people that don't believe that, have that inkling, that want more. I do want my life to be better, I want to accomplish more, I want to do this and I want to do that, but I really don't believe in myself. That's when you go into a coaching environment and you get real with your coach and you start working on why? Because in that safe environment you can be honest about I'm here because of this and begin to work through that with God and prayer and coaching and mentorship so that you can work out those soulless issues that are inside of you that are actually your burning altar instead of God. So you're feeding off of that energy which is negative and which is keeping you locked and bound versus the Holy Spirit and what he can do through you for yourself and others.
Speaker 4:And that has to be walked out a lot of times with mentorship. And that's where I placed myself in a mentorship because I know that a road I've never traveled. Many times I'll need someone's direction and if I'm stuck in places I don't know, then they can reveal it to me and I can work on that and change that. But many times a lot of us don't want to hear the bad stuff, we don't want to face the bad stuff. We don't want to talk to the silent, negative affirmations in our life that are controlling us and fix it. We just want to ignore it and act like it's not there. Every relationship, decision, every where you live, where you work, your friends, it is driving everything in your life. It's either driving it for better or driving it in the ground.
Speaker 3:And that is usually the solution of shifting your life and shifting your mindset for better. Y'all, listen. She is giving some phenomenal gems. I hope you guys are taking heed, I hope you guys are tuning in, because the Lord wants you to be set free. He said to whom the sun sets free, it's truly free indeed. Listen y'all. I want to encourage each and every one of y'all. That may be battling in your mind with the whole idea of. That may be battling in your mind, With the whole idea of. I still see myself from the rear view mirror. I still see myself as the person that I was in my past and I cannot see past that. I want to encourage you. As the Lord says in his word, if any man be in Christ, he is a new preacher.
Speaker 3:All things have passed, it's all things have become new. Then he went further, said behold, I do a new thing and it's springing forth even now, having that time of meditation with God, speaking with God, communing with him, spending time in his word. We'll begin because he said he didn't want us to be conformed to the world, but being transformed. But then he, he, tells us how to be transformed. Our transformation comes from the renewing of our mindset. How does our mind get become renewed? By getting into his word and spending time with him. Y'all see how that works. Yes, and surrounding yourself you you know how they say birds of a feather flock together. Yes, the cliche saying going back, god will surround you with where you're going, people that are where you're going, not where you are. You never want to be in a circle where you're the smartest one in the circle. No, because what growth and development? How are you growing? How are you developing? By being the smartest cookie in the thing. And you never want to become intimidated if there are those in the circle that are smarter than you. That's that perception and that mindset. You want to think you know what I am shopping at RM because she got that thing down. Pack in that area, and then you have something to bring to the table that they may not have down pack that they might know of. So, listen y'all, we're going to take a commercial break and when we come back I have two more sections that I want to wrap this thing up with. That stood out to me quite a bit. I mean, the whole book stood out to me. If I had to hide, the whole book would have been yellow if it was up to me. But uh, I, I, I was like I have to do key points, key points. So we're going to take a commercial break and we will be back.
Speaker 3:Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil. God, you are with me, your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You are a strong tower that I can run in and be safe. When I was in the valley, god said walk it out. When I got to the end of the valley, the race began. God said keep going, now run it out. The race is not given to the swift, neither is the battle given to the strong. God wants to know will you keep going? Some things are designed to walk out and some have to be run out, just as there's an expiration date on everything some things don't expire, they just run out.
Speaker 3:Know this just ability.
Speaker 4:I love that I got about three of those shirts. I got a black one, a white one, yellow one, I mean.
Speaker 4:I have a black and yellow one. Yeah, so I love those shirts because it is there's no, this, it's just ability. Yes, I have to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit. So I'm going to speak to whomever is on this live, that is, you're dealing with what we're talking about, but you don't know how to stop and you don't know how to navigate your way through it.
Speaker 4:A lot of hurt, a lot of pain and a lot of things that you are embarrassed about, maybe a former life, or ashamed of. I call it out in the name of Jesus, right now, and I call it out to be put to the altar of God, to be burned up by the Holy Spirit, the altar of God, to be burned up by the Holy Spirit, and that it be a renewing of your mind in the name of Jesus, it be a renewing of your spirit, in the name of Jesus, for you to on this life, to leave this life, and know that you can shift your life, know that whatever you're dealing with, you can leave it at his feet and he will take it from you. Father, god, in the name of Jesus, I just want you to know if I can do it with all the limitations physical limitations of my life, you can do it too. There's no, there's no exception. There's nothing too too big and too hard for God, and I know that's a phrase and a coin that's coined over and over.
Speaker 4:But I know him well. I know him as Jehovah Jireh. I know him as Jehovah Rapha, which Jehovah Rapha means a healer. I know him as Jehovah Jireh, which is a provider. I know him by so many of his names. I can go over and over and over, and he will show ever so presence if you just let him in and let him minister to you, let him help you and let him encourage you to be who you were put on this earth to be, because I can guarantee you, even Alicia and myself have not walked everything out that we need to do for God and for ourselves and for our family. We have not done that yet because we're still here.
Speaker 3:And so, as we reach for more, commit yourself to reach for more. That is good, that is good, that is so good. And with that, you know, know, the other portion, dealing with the mindset, is the mindset, is the, the mindset that is entrapped in perfection. Listen, I'm gonna be transparent with y'all, right? Okay, so I come from a, a breed of perfectionist. My mom is a perfectionist. I have other family members that are perfectionists. I was raised by a perfectionist and so Mm-hmm, and so my mindset was somewhat of perfection. Everything had to be perfect. And sometimes I'll be transparent, even sometimes now my mindset tries to revert back to perfection. I'll give you all an example.
Speaker 3:Okay, so I'm out of town right now, my baby girl, she has had dance competitions and so the scenery done, shifted. I'm a whole nother town. You know, I'm not used to doing lives, and you know, in hotels and stuff, this is all new to me, y'all. Ok, so y'all bear with me. Ok, I'm not used to. You know I'm used to quiet on the set, no noise, don't you say a word. You better not even knock on the door, right? That's that perfection. I'm going to be transparent. I want y'all to see this. Y'all know, walking out inspirations. We we real, we we truth, we, we give it to y'all raw. We don't sugarcoat nothing, we don't even try to paint this beautiful picture like we got it all the way together and we got it going on. I mean we got it going on because god has us to have it going on, but you know what I mean. So I'm sitting here and it's a lot going on and you got one thing in my ear Reschedule, it's too much going on. You got the people above you stomping. You got people walking in the hallway making noise. You got other noises. You might want to reschedule that because it don't look professional, it don't sound professional.
Speaker 3:But then the Lord reminded. He said no, there's a lot of times that we're going to be put in predicaments and situations where they're not going to be perfect. God never said in his word that I needed you to be perfect. God never said in his word that I needed you to be perfect. He said I needed you to live out my spirit of excellence because he's a God that does things in decency and in order. He never created us to be perfect. So a lot of times God will put us in situations like this, like this situation that I'm in to see. Will you still be obedient and go forth with the assignment? Will you use the excuse of it's not perfect and it's not right and it seems chaotic, so I can't do it? Now, weren't we speaking about our words Negative? Then you have to ask yourself why can't I do it? I have everything that I need to do it, so what's really stopping me? And I bring that up because in Think I Can. She talks about corporate America and she talks about how there was that moment of perfection making sure every I is dotted and every T is crossed. Mm, hmm, yeah. So so tell me that mindset.
Speaker 3:I want to give one gem and I want you to chime in on some nuggets how to come out the mindset of perfection? The one gem I will give is, as I stated earlier, god did not create us to be perfect. Adam and Eve was not even perfect. Thank you, holy Spirit. He brought this back to my remembrance. He stated.
Speaker 3:He said this is what broke my mindset out of it. He said the reason Adam and Eve were not perfect was because they were created from an imperfect world. Mind you, adam came from the dust of the earth. That's imperfections, that's impurities. There's nothing perfect about that. Only God can perfect. Like you said, I perfect those things that concern me. Only God can bring perfection to us Right. However, in our operations, look at it this way Did I do my best? Did I give my all? Wasn't done in excellence? Yeah, did it please God? Because I'm going to tell you something If you're trying to be perfect for, for, for, for humanity and for humankind, you're going to drive yourself bananas and nuts because we are very fickle. Do we really know what perfect means?
Speaker 4:I think perfect is an illusion and it had me locked for a long time. I'm already coming to the table with a disability long time. You know I'm already coming to the table with a disability, you know, to the corporate table with a disability. And this is before DEI, and I know it's a big topic right now which I'm not going to go into, but I only bring it up is that I began my career where there was no DEI and there wasn't any opportunities like that and it wasn't in the forefront of corporate America, but yet I still came to the table. So, because I've already come to the table flawed, see how the enemy was working on me I felt like I could do no wrong. I felt like I had to be perfect. I felt like I had to work so many hours and I had to do everything perfect and I had to be the best leader and I couldn't make any mistakes because I'm already flawed. But what I found out is the biggest flaw that people call is a flaw, but it's not, because God doesn't make any mistakes. And once he healed me from that shame, I realized that he took my legs and it was the best thing that ever happened to me in my life. I know some people on this live will probably say what in the world, it is the best thing he's ever done to me in my life, because I have been able to connect with people like no one has ever been able to connect with people on the job. I have been able to encourage people, reach people that are closed off. I have been able to be impactful. I have been able to shift the mindset of people about disabilities. I've had several people come up to me and say I've never even seen anybody in a wheelchair. I've never even talked to anybody in a wheelchair, lived in a small town and then came to a big town, a big corporation, and honest, was honest with me. I'm breaking the barrier of, ok, I can do this without legs. I can do it just because I don't have legs. I have a mind. Just because I don't have legs. Legs, I can do it. I just because I don't have legs. I have a mind. Just because I don't have legs, I can do things because a lot of times, even when people just see me out, they're like oh, she probably has a nurse, she probably has someone to come help her, do everything, get out of bed, I drive, I drive myself to work, I take care of my son and I wash clothes and I cook and I do everything like everybody else does, because he doesn't make any mistakes.
Speaker 4:And actually he used the greatest flaw for his glory. He used the greatest flaw to heal people. He's used the greatest flaw to encourage people. He's used my greatest flaw to make me stand out amongst many, and I'm so ever grateful for that, because meaning stand out something about you that you think is a flaw and an imperfection is what makes you great. And unfortunately, we have all these AIs and you know, I'll be honest, it makes me look better too but all of these different things to alter our appearance or also alter our, you know, put our AI and words in AI chat. You know GP I think it's chat GPT yeah, put our words in there. All of it changing all of us. You know everything about us and we go get plastic surgery and we increase this or reduce that, and all of it is just an illusion, because no one is perfect. No one is perfect. There's no epitome of perfect.
Speaker 3:There's an illusion that society has created that we believe is perfection, and if you're striving for that, all you're doing is allowing the enemy to break you down in your mind. Yes, indeed, true, indeed true, because no one is perfect, no one is perfect. So, listen, y'all. This has been really, really, really good. Uh, it's so much more. Listen, I may, I, I'm thinking we need, we might need to do a part two because it's so much more I wanted to go into. There's so much more I wanted to dive into and and talk about that. I'm just like y'all need to get the book. Yeah, y'all really, really, really need to get the book. Listen, if you want to purchase a copy of the book, think I Can go to thinkicanorg. Definitely go to thinkicanorg, because it is a life changer, it is a mindset shifter. You definitely want to purchase you a copy.
Speaker 3:I want to go ahead and greet some of the ones that have been watching us online. Hello, cassandra, thank you for tuning in. Hello, lucita, thank you so much for tuning in. Listen, lucita, that's. That's another young lady that, my goodness, listen. Talk about dynamite. Hello, miss Tammy, thank you for tuning in. Thank you for tuning in. Cassandra said part two, please. All right, cassandra, at your request, at your request, at your request, listen. I'm glad that you guys tuned in, even those that are listening in the podcast world. We thank y'all for joining in. Do you have any final words? And then, would you be so gracious to close us out? And, for a matter of fact, before we even do that, I want to. Y'all heard that intro. We got a second yes, yes To part two, please. When the Lord say something more than once, that means it's already been established. So we definitely going to have a have a part two. Y'all heard that intro. That's our new intro. I'm excited about this.
Speaker 3:I'm excited about our intro Walk it out inspirations, shout out we we talked about, which is also in her book, the chapter four of her book relationships. We didn't get a chance to go in there. So, yes, we will have a part to how, if god has a way of connecting you with people and shout out to prophetic styles. He is actually the originator of that song, of our little jingle Praise the Lord. That's actually a whole song. Listen, y'all. Check him out. He is on Facebook. It's prophetic styles. You might want to look him up because, listen, god did that.
Speaker 3:I have been asking the Lord and I've been praying to God. I said, lord, I want an original song, I want something original, I want something original, I want something original. And the Lord sent him my way and it was like so spot on, love it, love it, love it. So shout out to Prophetic Styles Also, listen, y'all, don't forget ladies, listen, y'all want to have that experience. Definitely, go and register for the Shiloh experience. It is a dynamite time. It is definitely an experience. You want to definitely register and invest in yourself. Registration at this time is a hundred dollars and then you can set up a payment plan to go ahead. Listen, you know to say and say we do what we want to with our money and we do what we want to with our time. So we definitely want to go ahead, invest in that, if you are able to.
Speaker 3:It is October 17th through the 19th. Trust me, it's a royalty time, a time of royalty. Go ahead and treat yourself Also. In addition, listen, think I can movement. Listen, if you like what you were hearing and you would like to sow into the think I can movement. You can do that by donating the cash app. Information is displayed on the screen. You can go ahead and donate into Think I Can movement if you would like to donate or contribute to the Think I Can movement, because that's what it is. It's a whole movement on a mission to shift the mindset of God's people. Amen. So we thank God for each and every one of you. Do you have any final words and would you be so gracious to close us out in prayer?
Speaker 4:Yes, my final words are for those that are listening or going to listen to this live afterwards. I want you to sit in silence and I want you to sit after prayer and listen to yourself. If what you hear is not positive things about yourself and your mind, then you need to work on your mindset of yourself and when you do that, you will see God shift your entire life. And if you need help doing that, you can reach out to me, you can reach out to another mentor, but I want you to do it sooner than later. Seek who you are, not what you think you are, because somewhere in there there's a break and what we need to do is fix that break so that you can achieve and get to the greatest days of your life. It says your latter days. He will make great, and so I want to help you with that. I want you to find someone to help you with that. The start is the book, because it gives you principles of God, things that I walked out, relationships, different aspects of the book that helps you navigate through my experience. That helps you navigate through my experience what you can do to shift this area of life, move this area of your life. So I just want to encourage you. It's not about a purchase of a book. I've met several broken people in my life, people that you can see. On the outside everything looked okay, but on the inside it was a big turmoil, because the outside didn't match the inside and what has happened is many people have worked on their outside more than they worked on their spirit and their soul, and what is on the inside eventually comes out and is your reality. So that's all I have today for us, but I will lead us in prayer and you ready for that, prophet Alicia? Okay, father God, I thank you so much for this day. I thank you so much for this opportunity to speak to God's people, to begin to open the door, to remove themselves from the invisible presence of their mind. Lord, let no words that was spoken on this live fall to the ground. Let it drop in someone's spirit, if just one person's spirit, to ignite them to believe it better for themselves, to ignite them to start a process, so that they can think I can, so they can go forward in all the things that they imagine and they want to do for themselves, all the things that they doubted, father God, but above all of that. I pray that someone that listens to this live, that don't know you well, begins the process to begin to commune with you, talk with you, walk with you, learn your word, learn your ways and apply them to their lives. Lord, we thank you for Prophet Alicia and Walk it Out. We thank you for the opportunity and thank you for the ingenuity that you've given her and the the craft to go forward and launch this into the earth so that we can help God's people one by one.
Speaker 4:Keep us, lord, in this time of confusion and, just like I said, there's a lot of darkness around us. Lord, keep us in light, hold us, take care of us and provide for us. Keep us in light, hold us, take care of us and provide for us. Keep us sheltered. Father God, cover us in the blood, our house, our children, our family, our finances. In the name of Jesus, I know that you can do all of these things. I ask because by faith, that's how I walk everything out. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen. Everything out.
Speaker 3:In Jesus name, I pray Amen, amen, amen, amen. Listen y'all. Thank y'all for joining us Until next time, y'all stay tuned. We are Walk it Out Inspirations Podcast. Take care, bye, bye, bye.
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