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Learn the profound concept of 'standing on business'. In this enlightening episode, she intricately breaks down this significant phrase, drawing connections with the iconic Housewives of Atlanta, showing how standing firm in our beliefs is akin to standing on business.

Imani not only talks about the importance of staying persistent irrespective of societal exiles but also emphasizes upholding one's faith amidst adversity. She explores seven key components of embodying this life-affirming concept, extending from accepting oneself as an outcast to nurturing emotional intelligence.

Immerse yourself in this faith-driven discussion as we consider the impact of strong beliefs, boundaries, and values on our lives. Drawing inspiration from the book 'How to Win Friends and Influence People', we explore managing personal conflicts and effective communication. We thus emphasize the importance of self-examination and course correction when we're wrong but 'standing on business'.

But the learning doesn't stop there, as we delve into the annals of history, particularly the Bible, holding numerous tales of individuals who stood on business. Discover the resilience of biblical figures such as Elijah, Noah, and Queen Esther, who stood firm in their convictions amid adversity.

This episode serves as a deliberate guide to resilience and persistence in life, aiming at spiritual fulfillment. We stand testament that 'standing on business' is essentially standing with God and his wisdom. So, embark on this transformative journey, and shape your path towards spiritual and personal evolution.

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(00:00):
Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, girlies. I hope y'all are doing
great. I know we had a little bye week.
We had a little bye week, but we back like we never left. I did post a couple
of blogs and I have been updating the girlies on TikTok.
So make sure you are following along down below. Sign up for the blog,
be a part of the community, be a part of the TikTok and let's get down to business.

(00:25):
Good morning, good evening, good afternoon, it girls. I hope you all are doing amazing.
Welcome to Faithfully Feminine Podcast where I, your host Imani Bailey,
shares all things faith, all things feminine, and practical ways to transform
yourself through navigating womanhood while sharing lessons God has taught me along the way.
Sit back, relax, and let's get into some things.

(00:47):
How exactly do you stand on business and what does standing on on business mean?
Where does standing on business come from? I honestly want to let y'all know
that I truly believe that standing on business is the same exact thing or the
modern day thing of NeNe Leakes infamous,

(01:08):
I said what I said, if you don't like it, you don't like it moment on Housewives of Atlanta.
That and her, ooh child, white refrigerator.
To this day, everyone still still says Wu Chao and Chao as a part of language,
especially where I'm from.
So when Drewski, and I'm going to give him the, I'm going to crown him king

(01:33):
of the phrase and coining the term standing on business because one, he's from Atlanta.
I'm from Atlanta. Nini from Atlanta. This whole concept on standing 10 toes
down, standing on business. this,
I said, what I said is like catching the internet in the way by storm.
And I was listening to Asha Christina's podcast. I'll link it down below.

(01:58):
And this was really like, her podcast is not about what we're talking about today.
And I don't know how, why, in what shape or form I got this message from listening
to that podcast, but I did.
And it caused me to open up my Bible and talk about what exactly does it mean
to stand on business, what happens when you do so, and what you have to do to even stand on business.

(02:21):
Because I see a lot of girlies posting they're standing on business and they're
not standing on business.
I'm not sure what they're standing on, but it's not business.
So rule number one to standing on business is if you are saying you are standing
on business with the S, you're not doing it.

(02:46):
When Nene said, woo, chow, and a Caucasian woman took to, I think it was Instagram
at the time, and she wanted to be a part of it. It's okay.
And she said, woo, Chile. She said that to her black boyfriend.
And he was like, what? And she said, woo, Chile, like what the girl's been saying.

(03:07):
And it was the funniest thing because it's like, girl, none of the girls were saying woo, Chile.
Like it's whoo child whoo child I'm tired of y'all child what's going on child
what is life it's not whoo chile I really feel like when I see people say yeah
because I'm standing on business.
It just it just ruins the term so if you're going to be a part of the movement

(03:29):
it's not business with the s it's business business with the n standing on business,
so that's rule number one of me just being petty but it just it grabs my gears
when I see it because girl. I was like, what is standing on business?
And this is kind of like outside of the entire episode, but I do have to interject
this because I could not believe my eyes.

(03:52):
I feel like some of the terms and stuff is being like genderfied.
The woo chow with a girl called it Chile.
And also I've been seeing the girlies do sleepy girl mocktails.
I could not believe my eyes, y'all. I got on the Lord's internet and opened
up a TikTok and watched a girl create lean with no double cup.

(04:15):
By the way, I do not condone doing drugs. I don't even smoke weed,
y'all. Let's be for real.
This girl created lean in a wine glass, put some Jolly Ranchers or like sour
worms in it and called it a sleepy girl mocktail.

(04:36):
Two children, by the way, two children.
Do you know how insane that is? And to brand it to a whole demographic.
That doesn't know what lean is and call it sleepy girl mocktail is it's nasty
business it's so dangerous the way people are gingifying things and turning

(04:59):
it into something that's not remotely okay,
between the girls teaching other girlies to do seances thinking that they're
on a glow-up journey but really they are doing witchcraft is literally insane
and we're going to get into that that's actually the next episode.
Sis, that's not a glow up journey.
You are doing gingerfied witchcraft.

(05:21):
It's funny, but it's not.
And so the prerequisite for that episode is this one because you need to stand
on business because what's going on? What's going on?
So rule number one of standing on business is you have to be okay with being the outcast.
You have to be able to be okay with standing on in your truth and on your beliefs

(05:47):
and on your boundaries, on your values,
whatever it is, you have to be okay with standing 10 toes down on that.
And if that causes you to be an outcast, you're not wavering because it doesn't matter.
There's no standing on business is without not being an outcast.
Number two, with being an outcast, sometimes you can be outcast from friendship

(06:14):
groups, from relationships, from church groups, from whatever, study groups.
And I think of like Legally Blonde when she went to study and they were like, no, they were so mean.
Reese Witherspoon, they was like, no, you cannot join our study group or whatever.
Whatever sometimes being an outcast may feel

(06:34):
very lonely and it may
trigger emotions in which you feel like you are not enough or you feel like
you're doing something wrong and it might open up a can of worms if you like
questioning yourself and your reality which is a whole another episode for another
day but there's a lot of feelings that go into being an outcast,

(06:57):
being the weird girl being the it's not that big of a deal the men love us not
that big of a deal type of moment they love saying that one I don't know what's
up with people it's not that big of a deal we're grown but the second thing
is you standing on business when you standing alone,
because you standing on what's right what's that if you if you fall for anything

(07:21):
you die for for nothing y'all know one thing about me I'm a butcher somebody
saying if you don't stand for anything you'll fall for something is that not
the saying okay well y'all get what I'm saying I believe Dr.
King said something along those lines but don't quote it because I more than likely got it wrong.

(07:41):
So you might and will at some point stand alone away from the crowd when you're standing on business.
And sometimes being alone doesn't necessarily mean that you're lonely because
you can be with other people and still feel alone.
You can still be included in a group and still feel alone or like an outcast.

(08:02):
But with standing alone comes finding people and allowing people people to find
you that have the same beliefs, values, boundaries, or willing to respect your boundaries.
And then you'll understand that one day I'm actually not alone.
I just was alone in that moment.
And you have to be okay with being not okay for a moment to be alone.

(08:25):
Some people don't like operating in that environment of right now I am not okay.
Or if I do this or say this or have to remove myself, it is going to hurt me
and I'm not going to be okay and I'm going to feel alone.
And I'd rather not feel that. So I'd rather go with what people are telling me to do,
whether it's, I don't know, going on dates at 11pm to this man's house,

(08:50):
instead of actually him courting you properly and treating you like a proper
woman you should be and going and planning something for you.
Whether it's, I don't know, going to a club with your friends,
and you know you have this feeling of you don't want to go anymore,
you don't want to go to the club anymore, more or whatever it
is you have to be okay with being

(09:11):
uncomfortable when you're standing on business because you
can't stand ten toes down if you're if you're willing to waver number three
is you got to be prepared for persecution the feeling of being persecuted oh
my gosh I know anyone who's listening to this episode I'm pretty sure you've
been persecuted some way somehow especially as a a woman, oh my gosh,

(09:34):
some way, somehow for not doing what somebody felt like you needed to do or allow them to do.
And when persecution comes, it might not be from like the standpoint of,
oh my gosh, I'm going to lose my life behind this.
But persecution is still, it's still, we're going to like get everybody together

(09:55):
and not invite her or we're going to condemn her or we're going to manipulate
her or we're going to talk down on her values.
We're going to tell her that what she believes in is not true
and that it's a make-believe world and that she's
going to be alone forever if if she acts
like this or that she's going to move away and never find friends
who think the same thing that she does or anything the

(10:17):
persecution that you receive from people's like very like their lips if you
live by the things that people say you will die by it too you have to be very
careful very careful with that girly number four or it gets messy and there's always a retest.
I talk about this all the time.

(10:38):
Anytime I talk about boundaries, there's always a retest.
In mathematical formulas, there's always a retest. Every time you do a problem
growing up, they will always tell you what they say.
Look through your work again and make sure you didn't make a step. You didn't miss a step.
As soon as you insert a boundary with the man and he does good the first time
and you're like, like, oh, wow, this is great.

(10:59):
He actually respected my boundary for today.
He's going to retest it. He's going to retest it in a different way.
Jobs do the same thing. When you insert a boundary at work, a professional boundary,
and they handle it well, they're going to retest it.
With a test, always comes a retest. They're always going to see if they could

(11:19):
do it and maneuver it in a different way, in a different time.
Maybe when you feel like, okay, this is a little bad day.
This is the perfect day for me to strike to test her boundary again perfect
day let's see if she's gonna like renege on it or not number five is you have
to be willing to lose anyone who does.

(11:42):
Not align follow through respect
you pour into you and people
aren't going to pour into you 24 7 like no one's perfect but
y'all get what I'm saying in this context you have to be willing to to
lose anyone you're not standing on business if you're
not willing to lose when I say
anyone I mean anyone it gotta be

(12:03):
anybody now if you're listening to this and you're married
that's a different story there's nuances
but you gotta be willing to lose people you gotta let them go you gotta sever
dead weight if it falls it falls sometimes the trash takes out itself I promise
you once you pray that like rejection prayer to the lord let me tell oh my gosh

(12:24):
every thursday i go live on tiktok,
And if y'all call my TikTok two Thursdays ago, I talked about how I prayed to
God about a man on Monday.
By Wednesday, this man was gone.
I was like, God, I am on the path to be with my husband.

(12:45):
And I'm honestly mentally tired from playing In-N-Out, Hopscotch,
Pogo Stick, whatever double Dutch childhood game with these demonic infested men.
Like if if blocking heathens was an Olympic sport, I would have the gold like,
oh, my gosh, going through these heathens like it's just like,
oh, my gosh, it's crazy. It's like a tennis match. I don't know what's going on.

(13:09):
But I literally was like, God, please make this very clear.
Make this very clear. If this is not the man for me, take him.
I literally remember telling God in my prayer, take him away expeditiously and
make sure I know that it is distinctly you.
That is exactly what I said in my prayer, because, Lord, I only want what you have for me.

(13:36):
I said that on a Monday, on Wednesday at 530 in the morning.
I get a text message and everything from this man. I'm not going to go over
the whole story. You got to catch my TikToks every Thursday at 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
But long story short, Thursday, not Thursday, Wednesday, 5.30 a.m., boom, God moved.

(14:01):
If you are even scared to utter a rejection prayer, I call it a rejection prayer,
but it might be called something.
If you're scared to utter that prayer to God about somebody or something,
it could also be about a job.
It could be about anything that's not in alignment with his will
if you're scared to say that that means a

(14:23):
couple of things but that also means you're not standing on business and you
are comfortable and operating outside of what the lord has for you and that
is a dangerous place to be because of your emotions and because the way you
currently feel i really did enjoy my time with with that man. I did.
He made life pretty, I don't want to say he made life easy, but he was always giving me gifts.

(14:49):
I'm always finding men who give me gifts all the time.
I think I just attract men who have gift giving as a love language,
which is great. I love it.
So it was great. Every time I would see him, he would have some gifts,
literally. And I was like, oh, I look forward to seeing him.
But if I cared about his gifts more than I cared about my feelings and what

(15:10):
God's plans are for me in that moment, I would have done myself a huge disservice.
Even the thought of you being scared to say something like that to God shows
that you're not standing on, you're not standing on businesses. Number six.
Know that you are standing with wisdom, other people, with God. You will never lack.

(15:38):
Like I literally lack nothing. I don't.
It might not be in my bank account right now, but it's there.
I might not see the zero. I don't lack nothing. You will never lack anything.
Whenever you're standing alone, whenever you're in that uncomfortable moment,
whenever somebody has to go you lose a
friend you lose the job you lose the

(16:00):
man you were getting to know you're dating you lost
I don't know writing a blog post I'm talking
about myself like it's writing a blog post all of a sudden my computer like
auto updated mind you're supposed to auto save I lost the entire post I literally
want to cry and throw my computer out the window because not all my hard-earned
work just went down the drain and I ended up still doing something else anyway,

(16:22):
but you never truly lose.
When you're on the right side, there is no losing. There's only perception to
where you think you are losing or you don't believe the promises that God has
for you. And God is not a liar.
Number seven is that you have to have enough emotional intelligence to feel,

(16:43):
control, and respond. This is a huge one.
Because I see me all the time, I'm standing standing on business.
No, what in the world? No, you're
not. You don't even have emotional intelligence. Bankrupt character.
It's okay to feel how you feel and validate your feelings. I talk about that
all the time. Not every day is going to be a good day. Not every moment is going to be a good moment.
You are allowed to be angry. You are allowed to be sad.

(17:08):
However, you have to feel your feelings. You have to think,
control your feelings, control how you
respond in certain situations whenever you lose
control someone else has gained it and
this is coming from someone me a girly who
grew up a very angry girly I had anger problems
I was very angry I was angry

(17:30):
borderline mean girl I mean words slice like knives very quick at the tongue
I still am very quick at the tongue y'all oh my gosh the holy spirit has worked
so much on me and I look at certain situations that happened recently and I'm
like, oh my gosh, I'm proud of the way I responded.

(17:51):
Oh my gosh. Because if only they knew.
You have to learn how to feel control and respond.
Peacefully, coherently, in a way that is not much condemning.
And I mentioned this book, I think on my TikTok, it's called How to Win Friends

(18:11):
and Influence People by Daniel Carnegie.
This is a, it's in my book, Amazon storefront.
I have a lot of great books in my Amazon storefront. So check that out.
But although that book does go into like some historical stories and everything,
thing, How to Win Friends and Influence People is a really good book because

(18:31):
there are rules to learning how to deal with people,
not only how to influence them, but really how to interact whenever you're having like conflict.
Whenever conflict arise in your relationships, I always go back and think about
the lessons that I've learned in that book.
And it's helped me to be able to respond and to communicate effectively to get

(18:53):
through to other people.
And sometimes times and within doing that, I have to humble myself because that
might not be what I really want to do in that moment.
And so the last one I have written down is something that when I outlined this,
God, like the Holy Spirit really reminded me of the time I was standing on business,

(19:16):
and I was standing on the wrong business.
What happens when you are wrong? When you're standing Standing on wrong, incorrect principles,
deceptive, like something that kind of goes against what you believe in,
but you believe in your heart that you were not doing wrong.
Like, I wasn't doing wrong.

(19:38):
You can always course correct. You can stand on business and realize that you're
wrong because let's face it,
at one point in time, you are going to be and you have been wrong before.
It's not the last time. I'm the most humbling part of standing on business.
And I said what I said. If you don't like it, you don't like it.
Is that what if what you said was wrong?

(20:00):
Like in reality, what you said was very much wrong.
And if you go back to my season one of this podcast, I was standing on business
with being such an aesthetic girly on TikTok. Yeah.
And I was practicing yoga like hard just because I want to be so aesthetic.

(20:22):
And I look back at that and yoga, it was giving me no peace.
I was at the most like non-peaceful part in my life, spiritually bankrupt,
spiritually going through distinct warfare.
And I was actively putting myself into it. And I remember someone,
a couple of people actually have gathered me under multiple of my videos that

(20:43):
I posted at the time saying that I thought like, girly, you're Christian.
Why are you doing this and I saw that and was like what
are they talking about then someone else had commented like
how are you practicing yoga and you're Christian lol and I'm like what in the
world rule number one of how to win friends and influence people the book I
told y'all y'all need to get I will link it down in the description box is with

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condemnation breeds defense never Never condemn people because when you do,
more likely than none, they will defend themselves.
Whenever someone is doing something wrong, always reframe what you're saying to say what you did.
You did X and what you did made me feel like Z.
I'm not sure if that's your intention. Just frame it differently because when

(21:29):
you condemn people, the girl literally commented, y'all, I thought she was a
Christian, but you're doing yoga. LOL with a little emoji.
And what did I do? I got defensive. I
got defensive and i'm self-aware enough to know like I want to say a couple
weeks after that Someone else had sent another message to me They commented

(21:50):
and then they sent message to me personally And they said hey,
I really enjoy your content.
I i've been following you for a while I really want you to research yoga That
was the person to get through to me,
That was the person who opened
up the floodgates of me

(22:11):
researching of me finding everything out of me seeing spiritually
I was putting myself in a demonic room
with these demonic sounds and doing worshiping
Hindu gods that was the person who got through to me wasn't
the person who condemned me wasn't the person who put me down it was the person
who said hey I love you I support you I want you to look this up remember that

(22:35):
remember that and I truly believe God sent those people to me in that way.
And so I was convicted in that manner. And I literally have,
if you go back to my season one, it'll be linked in the description box as well.
I have an episode from about yoga. I spilled everything and it's a spiritual warfare episode.

(22:57):
And so I just wanna let y'all know the last point of that is sometimes what
you standing on is wrong, sis. It's just wrong.
And now we're gonna go to our Bibles. God gave me three people.
I was like you know who been it's the bible is
filled of like gossip history

(23:17):
is my favorite subject growing up because it's like gossiping about people
who aren't in the room it sounds bad but that's why history was my favorite
subject I love me a good scandalous story the bible is actually very scandalous
as well and there are a ton of people who have stood on business in the bible
I mean for real 10 toes down and the easy thing would have been to talk Jesus.

(23:41):
The reason why I didn't want to talk about Jesus, and I'm going to note that
Jesus is the ultimate stand-alone business person in the Bible,
but I didn't want to talk about Jesus because we are not perfect.
We are made in God's image. However, we can strive to be more Jesus-like,
more Christ-like, but we will always fall short.
And I did not want Jesus to be the example because of that.

(24:03):
I wanted someone, a regular mortal human that would ultimately upset God too, just like we are.
So the first story is actually one of my favorite stories in the Bible.
Oh my gosh, it's in 1 Kings and I'm just, Elijah, the prophet Elijah in the
Bible, that man stood on business. The Holy Spirit gave me Elijah's name first.

(24:26):
Talk about standing on business. In 1 Kings 21, someone messaged me and was
like, girl, I love your interpretation of the Bible stories.
Like, it's just so funny.
It's so funny. I give y'all the Atlanta Georgia girl version of the Bible.
It's called the peach version, P-I-V.

(24:48):
1 Kings 21. Now just to set the scene, basically the Israelites was cutting
up. They were cutting up for a while, but they were cutting up for so long that
they're begging God, like, look, we need somebody instead of you leading us, we can't see you.
We want somebody to to lead us like we want a king, give us a king.
And they kept saying that, please give us a king.

(25:08):
And God was like, you know what? I'm going to give you all a king. All right.
It's going to be another story for another day, but it's so many lessons in
first Kings. I'm going to give you all a king. All right. So they're cutting up.
God's favorite prophet, Elijah is seeing them cut up as well.
And the Israelites are worshiping the devil. They start having orgies.

(25:29):
Sounds like like today they start having orgies
they start saying like oh threesomes are totally normal
watching porn is so normal sacrificing kids
is what you do for more money like they
just they doing it all and Elijah is seeing this and while they're doing that
they're also worshiping the devil and it's called Baal Baal basically Satan

(25:54):
interchangeably and so God is like basically like like you need to steer,
we're going to steer them back on track.
And so that's where we're at. So I'm going to read from first Kings and I'm
going to start at chapter 21. We're also going to skip around,
but I want to read this because Elijah is so like sarcastic. I just love it.

(26:18):
All right. So actually it's not, it's first Kings 18, 22.
Then Elijah said to them, I am the only one for the Lord's prophets left,
but Baal has 450 prophets.
So Satan literally has 450 prophets and Elijah is the only one of the prophets left.
Get two bulls for us. So he's letting the people know, okay,
we about to put on a show. Y'all think who y'all worshiping is God for real? Let's really see.

(26:42):
Get two bulls for us. Let Baal's prophets choose one for themselves and let
them cut it into pieces and put it on wood, but not set fire to it.
I will prepare prepare another bull, put it on the wood, but set fire to it.
Then call on the name of your God, and I will call on the name of the Lord,
the God who answers by fire. He is God.

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So all the people like, all right, cool. Like that God only got one prophet.
Like we got 450 prophets.
Like that ain't nothing. Ain't no problem. So they feeling like they standing on business.
Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, choose one of the bulls and prepare it first.
Since there are so many of y'all Call on the name of your God,
but do not light the fire. So they took the bull given to them and prepared it.

(27:26):
Then they called on the name of Bell from morning till noon.
Bell, answer us, they shouted. But there was no response.
No one answered. And then they danced around the altar that they made.
At noon, Elijah began to taunt them. This is why I like Elijah.
He's like, shout louder. I'm surely his God.

(27:49):
So at this point, Elijah knows what and who are they worshiping.
Whoever they're worshiping is not God.
So he's playing in their face like, oh, really? Shout louder. Surely he's God.
Like maybe he don't hear y'all. And so perhaps he's deep in thought, busy or traveling.
Maybe he is asleep and he must be awakened.

(28:11):
So they shouted louder and they slashed themselves with swords and spears until blood flowed.
At 29, midday passed and they they continued their frantic prophesying until
the evening of the sacrifice.
But there was no response and no one answered and no one paid attention.

(28:33):
Then Elijah said to the people, come here to me. They came to him and he repaired
the altar of the Lord, which had been turned down.
Elijah took 12 stones, one for each of the tribe descending from Jacob to whom
of the Lord had came and saying, saying, Your name shall be Israel.
With these stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord.

(28:54):
He dug a trench around it large enough to hold two series of seed.
He arranged the wood, cut the bull into pieces, laid it on the wood,
and then said to them, Fill four large jars with water, pour it in the offening in the wood.
Do it again, he said, and they did it. Do it a third time, he ordered,

(29:15):
and they did it a third time.
Then the water ran to the altar and even filled the trench.
At the time of the sacrifice, the prophet Elijah stepped forward and prayed,
Lord, the God of Abraham,
Isaac, and Israel, let it be known today that you are the God in Israel and
that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command.

(29:36):
Answer me, Lord, so these people will know that you, Lord, are God and that
you are turning their hearts back again.
Then the fire of the Lord fell on the burnt up sacrifice, the wood,
the stones, and the soil, and also licked up the water in the trench.
The people saw this and they fell and cried, the Lord, the Lord is God. He is God.

(30:02):
Then Elijah commanded them, seize the prophets of Baal. Do not let anyone go away.
And they basically sees them so talk about
standing on business the taunting the smartness like
I know what whatever the heck you're doing whatever seance
you are doing as a hashtag lucky girl and manifestation you're doing is not

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of God but I'm gonna let you do it for a little bit and you can tell that Elijah
doesn't put on this for him he is giving the glory back to God like Like that
is literally standing on business. The man was standing by himself.
Baal slash Satan have 460 prophets. Elijah was the only one left, prophet of God.

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Next person standing on business, we all know this person, is Noah.
Noah was standing on business.
And I just imagine some of these stories, right? Basically, the people were
cutting up again. It always starts off with the folks just cutting up.
And God's like, at this point, I'm gonna flood the entire earth and we just
gotta start over because we got Nephilim, we got demons sleeping with regular

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people, whatever going on.
We just got to wipe off the entire world and start over again because this is
crazy. And so he tells Noah, you've been faithful to me.
And so because of that, I want you to build an ark big enough for your family
and one of each female and male animal.
Do you know that Noah was building this ark for years, y'all?
People are looking at him like he's crazy.
I can imagine people walking down on the street seeing this man build an

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ark and like what are you doing there has been a drought what are
you building an ark for we haven't even had rain taunting
him making fun of him he is doing this alone he's still standing on business
and listening to god like i'm gonna build this ark regardless you see this in
genesis 6 5 in genesis not 6 9 noah is blameless in genesis 6 15 he gets It's the promise from God.

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God ends up flooding the entire earth, killing everybody, but Noah and the animals he had put in the ark.
Next person standing on business is our queen, Esther.
I did a whole mysterious girl series on Queen Esther on TikTok.
Esther was, and I also did a podcast on Esther. There's so many different lessons you can learn.

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I did a beauty girl maintenance. It's important to take care of yourself as
a woman because we also see that in the Bible.
Well Esther has to make sure she knows how to apply
makeup and smell good and take care
of her hygiene because as a
queen like come on now you can't be looking all frumpy and homely
but anyway that's not the lesson for today Queen Esther was a orphan she also

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was a Jew but nobody knew this so when she finds favor in the king she becomes
queen she learns that her people were set to be be martyred. They were set to be.
I don't want to say exterminate, but it's said to be taken off this earth.
And so she finds that and decides she fasts. She also tells other of her people

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to fast with her for three days.
And after that day, she hears from the Lord. She's going to go.
She's basically going to break the law.
Actually, she did break the law because it's against the law to go to the king
without being summoned, even though she is the queen.
She breaks the law. And her famous line is, if I perish, I perish. perish.
At the end of the day, she was going to save her people, the Lord's people.

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And if she was going to die doing it, that was going to be fine.
So she went, she didn't perish.
The plan was abruptly like turned around and the glory went to God.
But that is standing on business. That woman said, if I die, I die.
But the Lord's people, my people are going to be protected protected either

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way. She also fasted and wanted to hear from God.
So all of those rules that I told you all about standing on business,
all 10 of them, you have to be okay with being an outcast.
You have to stand alone for what's right. You have to be prepared for persecution.
It gets messy, but there's always a retest of boundaries and your quote unquote business.

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You have to be willing to leave anyone that does not align or lose anyone who
does not align with your values, beliefs, leaves boundaries.
Six, you have to know that you're standing with God, wisdom, and other people.
Seven, you have to have enough emotional intelligence to feel, control, and respond.

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And then eight, in the event that you're wrong, you have to ask for forgiveness and then retest, reset.
I feel like I said a lot this episode. Mic drop.
If you've enjoyed this episode, go ahead and rate it five stars.
You got anything less than that, just go ahead and just don't do it, sis.
Share this with a friend and stand on business all 2024. I love y'all so much.
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