The document discusses the process of enduring trials to receive promises from God. It explains that there are 10 movements or stages one goes through: conception of the promise, trial, grace, conforming, flow, being trapped, backsliding, struggling, waiting, and receiving a miracle. It provides strategies for enduring each stage, such as not changing direction during trials and leaning into grace. The overall goal is to experience God's rest and flow by believing promises despite afflictions and cycles of struggle.

1. OVERCOMING - PART IV
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. 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

4. SO FAR, WE
HAVE
COVERED
• Just like God in the beginning, our contention is constantly
about contending with Disorder and creating more Order –
We are order-creating beings.
• Enduring is essential – it means to last through the renewal
and transcendence
• The Tree is the mechanism for sustaining ourselves
• The Fruit is of the Spirit, and our job is to believe and
consume of it
• We went over nine main afflictions, and the Fruit of the Spirit
are antidotes for them
• Afflictions are manifestations that reveal unbelief
• F.A.R. is the equivalent for being grounded. It stands for
Focus, Attention, Reaction
• There are 10 states, or movements, we are in as we move
toward the promises.
• Movement 0, the inception of the promise, is critical to our
obtaining it
• Understanding what promises are for gives insight to the
process of renewal

5. 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

6. NINE ANTIDOTES TO OUR AFFLICTIONS
Affliction
Lack
Conflict
Trials
Insensitivities
Evil
Betrayal
Accusation
Temptation
Fruit
Joy
Peace
Patience
Kindness
Goodness
Faithfulness
Meekness
Self-Control

7. TEN MOVEMENTS
0. Promise conceived
1. Trial
2. Grace
3. Conforming/Wandering
4. Flow
5. Attack / Trapped (Snare)
6. Backsliding
7. Cycles / Struggles / Being Stuck
8. Waiting
9. Miracle
10. Promise reached / Heart Restored
Proximity
Exertion
1
2 3
4
5
7
8
6
9
0
10
Promise
Line

8. ACTIVITY-REST QUADRANTS
Rest
Vexation Burnout
• Soul States
• Vexed: High distress without pursuit.
• Burnout: High distress with high pursuit.
• Complacency: High calm without pursuit.
• Rest: High calm with high pursuit.
• To move toward flow from
• Burnout - Need heart restored. Water of
refreshing. Lean on God.
• Complacency - Need imagination restored.
Need Fire. Stir up the gift.
• Vexed - Need Heart and Imagination restored.
Water and Fire. Surrender.
Activity
Soul
Rest
Foundation/Practitioner
Reliance
on
personal
strengths
Conformance to carnal pursuits
Complacency

9. MOVEMENT #1 - TRIAL
• How to know
• You experience afflictions which challenge your
ability to experience the Fruit of the Spirit.
• What is it for
• To make you aware of your unbelief. To teach you to
live by your graces. To complete you. To learn about
rest and flow.
• What to do
• Do not change direction
• Dig in, spread roots
• Change perspective
• Find why conditions bother you knowing that all
arrows point to internal struggle
• What to watch against
• Complaining, grumbling, offense
• Leads to conforming (#3), backsliding (#6), cycles
(#7)
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.
Psalm 1:1 Blessed is he who does not take counsel from
… fear, guilt, or shame

10. MOVEMENT #2 - GRACE
• How to know
• When actively pursuing and things work out, its
because grace/favor with God and men
• What is it for
• You get a better sense of how God sees you
• Reliance on grace manifests God’s power
• Learn to compensate for inadequacies
• What to do
• Notice the grace, react to it
• Learn to lean toward your graces
• What to watch against
• Careful you don’t fall into conforming (#3); it’s
time to increase your pursuing.
• Careful you don’t focus on the affliction so much
that you wreck your graces
• Careful you lean on grace and fail to address
unbelief
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.”
2 Corinthians 12:7-10 … And He said to me, “My grace is
sufficient for you, for My strength
is made perfect in weakness.”

11. MOVEMENT #3 - CONFORMING
• How to know
• You don’t sense the fire
• You are not sensing any opposition
• You don’t know where you are going
• What is it for
• Reveals your sources of complacency
• What to do
• Stir yourself up
• Fast against your complacency
• Keep your vision before you that you may run
• What to watch against
• Hardening of heart, forming idols
• If your fire dies out, you may end up going
around the mountain for rest of your life.
• Backsliding is around the corner…
Reference Scripture excerpt
Numbers 14:26-
35
…In this wilderness they shall be
consumed, and there they shall die.’
Proverbs 13:12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
But when the desire comes, it is a tree
of life.
Revelations 3:16 So then, because you are lukewarm,
and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit
you out of My mouth.
Timothy 5:13 And besides they learn to
be idle, wandering about from house
to house, and not only idle but also
gossips and busybodies, saying things
which they ought not.

12. MOVEMENT #4 - FLOW
• How to know
• Despite opposition
• Able to stay connected
• Continuous supply of the Spirit’s Fruit
• Pursuit is unhindered
• Continuous gain of ground
• What is it for
• Experience the Promised Rest
• Combine grace, grounding, and dominion.
• What to do
• Increase dominion
• What to watch against
• Remain in your lane
• Balance between Spirit, Mind, and Body
• Stay on the edge of order and disorder pushing
the boundaries lest you fall into pride or
conforming
Reference Scripture excerpt
Psalm 1:3 Fruit in season, leaves don’t wither,
prosper in everything you do
Exodus 23:27-30 Despite being in the promised land
there is a need to take dominion
Deut 6:3 … that it may be well with you, and that
you may multiply greatly as
the LORD God of your fathers has
promised you—‘a land flowing
with milk and honey.’
Acts 8:26-29 …29 Then the Spirit said to Philip,
“Go near and overtake this
chariot.”

13. BACK MATTER

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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?

18. ANATOMY OF A PROMISE
• Hope
• Sense of Reality
• Intentions
• Desires
Heart Imagination
• Unbelief
• False Identity

19. 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?

20. ANATOMY OF A JOURNEY
• Hope
• Sense of Reality
• Intentions
• Desires
Heart Imagination
• Unbelief
• False Identity
AFFLICTIONS

21. MAN RESTORED
• Hope of Glory
• Renewed Sense of
Reality
• Intentions
• Desires
Heart Imagination
• Belief
• True Identity

22. TRANSFORMATION FRAMEWORK

23. 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

24. 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