Overcoming obstacles and enduring trials to achieve your goals
1. OVERCOMING - PART III
How to endure so you receive what’s coming to you …
By: Edward A. Carmona
2. HE SHALL BE LIKE A TREE
PLANTED BY THE RIVERS OF WATER,
THAT BRINGS FORTH ITS FRUIT IN ITS
SEASON,
WHOSE LEAF ALSO SHALL NOT WITHER;
AND WHATEVER HE DOES SHALL PROSPER.
Psalm 1:3
3. PART III - OBJECTIVE
• Understand The “Seasons”
• You will learn:
• What a promise is for
• Learn the 10 movements or cycles you
will encounter
• Implement the strategies to endure the
Cycles and the Trap
4. NINE ANTIDOTES TO OUR AFFLICTIONS
Affliction
Lack
Conflict
Trials
Insensitivities
Evil
Betrayal
Accusation
Temptation
Fruit
Joy
Peace
Patience
Kindness
Goodness
Faithfulness
Meekness
Self-Control
6. MOVEMENT 0
• Type of promises
• General Promises
• Individual Promises
• The Promise of Rest – The Archetype of
Promises
• Believing in the heart…what does that
mean?
• Structure of a promise
• What’s a promise for?
Topic Scripture Ref
Before you begin… 1 Timothy 1:18
Promise Types
General Psalm 1:3, Deut 28
Individual Gen 12
Global Heb 4:1-12, Exodus 17:7, Number
20, Deut 34
7. I WILL OPEN RIVERS IN DESOLATE
HEIGHTS,
AND FOUNTAINS IN THE MIDST OF THE
VALLEYS;
I WILL MAKE THE WILDERNESS A POOL OF
WATER,
AND THE DRY LAND SPRINGS OF WATER.
ISAIAH 41:18
FOR I HAVE LEARNED IN
WHATEVER STATE I AM, TO BE
CONTENT:
Philippians 4:11
8. MOVEMENT 0
• Type of promises
• General Promises
• Individual Promises
• The Promise of Rest – The Archetype of
Promises
• Believing in the heart…what
does that mean?
• Structure of a promise
• What’s a promise for?
Topic Scripture Ref
Believing in the heart Romans 10:9
The heart is in trouble Jeremiah 17:9
Peter Denial
Peter sinks
Peter Used By
Satan
9. ANATOMY OF THE SOUL
S C
E
W,G
C Conscious
S Subconscious
I Imagination
W Words
G Images
E Emotions
F Flesh
H Heart
B Body
D Desire
H Hope
K Knowledge
IMAGE
FOCUS I
H
Analytical
Deliberate
Conscious
Subconscious
Reactive
Integrative
10. MOVEMENT 0
• Type of promises
• General Promises
• Individual Promises
• The Promise of Rest – The Archetype of
Promises
• Believing in the heart…what does that
mean?
• Structure of a promise
• What’s a promise for?
11. ANATOMY OF A PROMISE
• Hope
• Sense of Reality
• Intentions
• Desires
Heart Imagination
• Unbelief
• False Identity
12. MOVEMENT 0
• Type of promises
• General Promises
• Individual Promises
• The Promise of Rest – The Archetype of
Promises
• Believing in the heart…what does that
mean?
• Structure of a promise
• What’s a promise for?
13. ANATOMY OF A JOURNEY
• Hope
• Sense of Reality
• Intentions
• Desires
Heart Imagination
• Unbelief
• False Identity
AFFLICTIONS
14. MAN RESTORED
• Hope of Glory
• Renewed Sense of
Reality
• Intentions
• Desires
Heart Imagination
• Belief
• True Identity
16. ACTIVITY-REST QUADRANTS Lukewar
m
Flow
Vexed Burnout
• Soul States
• Vexed: High distress without pursuit.
• Burnout: High distress with high pursuit.
• Lukewarm: High calm without pursuit.
• Flow: High calm with high pursuit.
• To move toward flow from
• Burnout - Need heart restored. Water of
refreshing.
• Lukewarm - Need imagination restored. Need
Fire.
• Vexed - Need Heart and Imagination restored.
Water and Fire.
Activity
Soul
Rest
Foundation/Practitioner
18. TRANSFORMATION FRAMEWORK
TOWARD REST, FLOW, AND GLORY
The Exodus
Deliverance
Through Spiritual
Gift
Separation
The Red Sea
Eliminating
Mentality
Through
Washing
Water
The Mount
Receiving
Mentality
Through
Encounter
Fire
The Journey
Renewing
Mentality
Through
Endurance
Trial
The Promised
Land
Living Mentality
Through
Retaining
Flow
Release Renew Prove
19. MOVEMENT #0 - CONCEPTION
• How to know
•
• What is it for
• To cause you to move, so you can
discover Him and yourself.
• What to do
• Write it down. Meditate on it daily. Pray.
Seek confirmation. Hear God say Go!
Act on as if it is so.
• What to watch against
Reference Scripture excerpt
20. MOVEMENT #1 - GRACE
• How to know
• When actively pursuing and things work
out, its because grace/favor with God and
men allows you to effortlessly move
through the journey.
• What is it for
• You get a better sense of how God sees
you, which increases your sense of Him
and your own identity.
• What to do
• Notice the grace, react to it by praising
God and men, give testimony
• What to watch against
• Careful you don’t fall into conforming
(#3); it’s time to increase your pursuing.
Move to flow (#4)
Reference Scripture excerpt
Deut 28:2 …all these blessings will overtake you
Gen 30:27 “…if I have found favor in your eyes, for I have
learned by experience that the LORD has
blessed me for your sake.”
21. MOVEMENT #2 - TRIAL
• How to know
• You experience afflictions which
challenge your ability to experience the
fruit of the Spirit.
• Key Fruit Flavor:
• Joy & Patience
• What is it for
• To make you aware of To address
unbelief. To complete you.
• What to do
• Depending on type of affliction
• What to watch against
Reference Scripture excerpt
1 Peter 5:10 But may the God of all grace, who called us to
His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you
have suffered a while, perfect, establish,
strengthen, and settle you.
James 1:2-4 2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall
into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing
of your faith produces patience. 4 But let
patience have its perfect work, that you may
be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.