Do You Know How to Behave Under Pressure? | Church 4/12/26
You're talking to an empty chair — a prideful person. Hell is inside. Love is easy. Fear is a false identity. How do you behave under pressure?
Church with Jesse Lee Peterson, Sunday, April 12, 2026
📖 Biblical Question: Do you know how to behave under pressure?
📖 NEW Biblical Question: Are you a messenger of love or of hate?
🗓️ Women's Forum third Thur, Apr 16, 2026, 7pm, BOND, L.A. https://rebuildingtheman.com/events/
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TIMESTAMPS
(0:00:00) - 00 - Small talk off-mic; Welcome
(0:02:11) - 01 - Angry arson; No man leader; Religious leaders
(0:15:30) - 02 - Donyale decided not to be angry again
(0:20:05) - 03 - JLP story: flowers, chair, insane asylum, thoughts. Happy
(0:31:21) - 04 - How to be you? Stop thinking about it. Noticing others, not into self…
(0:40:55) - 05 - What is hell? Silent Prayer difficulty
(0:47:50) - 5B - Talking to empty chair. Nothing happened to YOU.
(0:58:00) - 5C - Demons carrying on. You're a prideful person.
(1:07:45) - 06 - No effort in prayer… Possessed ex-wife, love her
(1:17:00) - 6B - Not easy to love certain people? Feedback…
(1:22:40) - 6C - JLP: Love is easy… Forgive mother today?
(1:31:55) - 07 - Raymond on illusions; Fear of being nothing
(1:40:32) - 7B - JLP: Fear is not you, but false identities
(1:44:35) - 08 - Hell? Doug's HR situation
(1:48:12) - 8B - JLP: Hell is in you. God told you it's over!
(1:51:00) - 09 - Sweet potato pie! Prideful. BQ.
(1:56:00) - 9B - "Slap ya mama!" Behave under pressure?
(2:02:20) - 10 - New BQ: Messenger of love or hate? No goals. Love.
CLIPS
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CHURCH NOTES 4/12/26
📖 Biblical Question: Do you know how to behave under pressure?
📖 NEW Biblical Question: Are you a messenger of love or of hate?
🗓️ Women's Forum third Thurs, Apr 16th, 2026, 7pm at BOND, L.A. https://rebuildingtheman.com/events/
00 - Small talk off-mic; Welcome
(0:00:00) - Small talk (0:01:31) Intro (0:01:48) Welcome
1A - What a mess: Angry employee story
(0:02:11) - What a mess! An employee burned a place down because he didn’t like the pay — Ontario story. Jesse says we covered it on the radio show, but Hake isn’t sure about that.
1B - Let no man lead your life
(0:03:05) - Man: On a woman looking to him to be her leader of her life…? (0:03:49) JLP: No other God but God. (0:05:34) Always have what’s right first.
1C - Man's Q's: Religious leaders don't follow Christ. Sacrifice? AI? Fashion?
(0:05:49) - I came from WI to see you today. -Nathaniel… “Tiny hats”? What da! Why didn’t God warn the Jews about themselves? What they’re doing to themselves… (0:07:33) JLP: Pope, evangelical leaders, they don’t listen to God at all. The people who are meek at heart do not listen… They lie about Christ, to make themselves look real…
(0:08:44) - Should we negotiate with our future? (0:09:59) Let’s say I negotiate moving for Donyale… How can you negotiate with life?
(0:10:51) - Are sacrifices on earth a reward in heaven? We don’t have to make sacrifices anymore. It’s spiritual now… All an illusion. (0:12:02) Stay conscious — eat to remember. Ever done that?
(0:13:04) - AI conversation Monday … Real Estate use… (0:14:03) Young people think AI is God, or a human. A young man committed suicide…
(0:14:32) - Fashion Week? Demonic ritual, like in France… Welcome to Hell.
02 - Donyale decided not to get angry after the heirloom incident
(0:15:30) - Donyale (not Danielle) (0:16:13) - That moment changed my life. I decided I’m not getting angry anymore. It frightened me. (0:16:53) Before the whole heirloom incident, a niece or other gal crossed a boundary, and I didn’t handle it well. Then with the ornaments — after the dust settled, I realized I’d been demonically possessed. I circled back with my niece to let her know I was wrong. She wouldn’t take the call: Writing only.
(0:18:22) - I wrote a brief letter, letting her know I was wrong. Imperative to drop the anger: Non-negotiable — no way to get to God with anger. (0:19:09) Heirloom ornaments returned.
(0:19:34) I feel like I’m in heaven.
03 - JLP story: flowers, chair, insane asylum in thoughts; Grateful, Happy
(0:20:04) - JLP’s story of the lady watering her plants from this past week on the radio show … Talking with a chair — no one there! (0:21:42) A man commanding an army… You are in an insane asylum. (0:22:52) Y’all don’t talk to your thoughts.
SEE: JLP Thu 4-9-26 (timestamp 0:35:07) Watering no flowers. Conversation with a chair. Thoughts, not real
(0:23:29) - Why do you talk to the empty chair, Miss Alabama? (the Southern gal)...
(0:26:41) - She tells of things not going her way. Ungrateful. The noise… I was judging myself too much. Felisha (sp) moving too fast, I’m judging myself, not being grateful.
(0:28:33) - JLP: Important to be happy in life. Devil trying not to let you be happy in life. Pulling you away from happiness… Lady still makes noise, but you don’t react — decreased. It’s still loud… Don’t get angry about it; you’ll be fine.
(0:29:46) - Alexis: Supposed to care about thoughts? Idk that I do. (0:30:32) JLP: aware it’s there but give it no meaning. (0:30:58) BS = Bogus Speech (but don’t say it, kids)
04 - How to be you? Stop thinking about it. Noticing others, not into self…
(0:31:21) - It’s better to be you, don’t wanna be like anyone else… Why do I feel like crying rn… If we don’t know who we are, how do you be you? (0:32:09) You don’t have to be you anymore. A real you…
(0:32:55) - I love being me, says Jesse. My friend wanna tell you how: Jason(?) (0:33:45) JLP: 100-percent, the imagination can’t imagine who you are. Stop thinking about it.
(0:34:54) - Unlike anyone else, God will use you for his purpose. No identity at all. You’ll just be you…
(0:36:26) - JLP: As you’re being you, you’ll see others’ misery. Busy thinking about yourself, you don’t notice others. On your ego trip, it’s all about you, and no one else. Others are not free b/c they don’t wanna be — or they’d stop communicating with it. As DONYALE said…
(0:38:25) - Donyale … (0:39:42) Jason, I forgot his name… Stop talking to the empty chair. I forgot what would’ve made me angry.
05 - What is hell? Difficulty with Silent Prayer
(0:40:55) - Southern gal: That week of hell, if God defeated the Devil, and there’s no hell, what am I experiencing?
(0:42:29) - I don’t think I have the answer. But going through the same thing — brain, thoughts, but afterlife? Struggling with it here. I can’t turn it off. (0:43:32) - Silent Prayer is difficult, says Chris from Calabasas. How? (0:44:56) - How am I supposed to get anything done without analyzing?
(0:45:40) - Mimi: How do you accomplish goals if you don’t think? Difficulty in prayer? “I’m still in the basement… I don’t care about you shaking your head!” (0:46:39) Deals with the Devil…
5B - Talking to the empty chair. Nothing happened to YOU. Demons, Pride
(0:47:48) - Mimi is talking to the empty chair, watering flowers that don’t exist… (0:50:12) - JLP: When the thoughts remind you of the past, don’t get into them and don’t judge. Give it no room — it’s all an illusion. (0:50:57) She breaks down, I’m here, and that’s it. You’re still believing thoughts. It’s an illusion: Do you believe that? “Sometimes.” (0:52:03) - You have never done anything wrong. “I was sitting in the back.”
(0:52:42) - JLP: Do you know nothing happened to you? “Idk that I believe that.” Nothing was happening to you, at all. Happened to your body, but not to YOU. (0:54:41) - “OK, Jesse, thank you.” What did I say?
(0:56:23) Sorry, sir. (0:56:58) - Where do I fight thoughts? Nowhere.
5C - Demons carrying on. You're a prideful person.
(0:57:59) - JLP: Demons crying, carrying on, pretending to be you. I didn’t know what was happening either, says Jesse.
(0:59:44) - God: I’ll fight that for you, if you let me. Acting that way, you’re a prideful person. (1:00:45) - So prideful! “Jesse Lee Peterson… I am not a very prideful person.” You don’t let God fight it for you. You cry, Oh, poor me! “I do not care about you saying that.” God only helps the humble — he cannot help the prideful person. Why don’t you humble yourself? … Your friend Donyale didn’t tell you you’re prideful?!
(1:03:20) - …God only helps the humble ones. You need to humble yourself.
(1:05:12) - What you gonna do when they come for you. The Devil hates this meeting rn…
(1:06:48) - Pray without ceasing, naturally present with God all the time ….
06 - No effort in prayer. Observe thoughts. Possessed ex-wife.
(1:07:45) - Only reason prayer is difficult, you’re putting effort into it.
(1:09:20) - … Emotions, dealing with my ex-wife… message from her, a day or two to come to peace and respond to what I need to respond to… If I can handle my thoughts that way… (1:10:28) - JLP: Observe thoughts. You can’t handle thoughts. Do you realize your wife is possessed as well? … NO WALL … Love her. (1:12:08) - … Does God love her?
(1:13:32) - You wanted that hell. “I didn’t see it.” Like is attracted to like. You married who and what you were. She was just like you, and you, her. … Showcase personalities, fought the devil and the Devil won. Lied to her and she lied to you, and lied together and made a baby…
6B - Not easy to love?
(1:16:58) - Not easy to love?
(1:17:33) - FEEDBACK: People who are easy to love? “Good luck?” (Laughter)
(1:19:25) - Not easy to love? You say? A mother: Don’t listen to the thought… “It’s not easy, thought!” (funny)
(1:20:24) - Alex going through the same thing… 2 ex-wives, 4 kids… I think I was more prideful than Mimi (was gonna call her Gigi) … (1:22:15) - The love I was giving before was not real love, the love before was expecting
6C - JLP: Love is the easiest thing… Afraid to forgive mother
(1:22:38) - JLP: Love is the easiest thing… flows like river water, love your bitter enemy, flows through you. Only God has love
(1:24:54) - We are one. We’re not separate. As Christ and the Father are One. The mind makes you think you’re separate. So you don’t even love those easy lovers.
(1:25:23) - People who are likable, pleasant, easy to like. Parents treat you “nice,” but… moment they hurt your ego pride, you hate.
6D - Forgive mother, why not today?
(1:28:04) - talking about being afraid of forgiving mother, at 47 or so… Shake in your boots. (1:29:11) - You really put people on the spot
(1:30:01) - Have you noticed wherever you go, you’re there? … Don’t have to stop at the bar to have another Gin & Tonic… Q’s?
07 - Raymond on illusions; Feedback: Fear of being nothing
(1:31:55) - Raymond on people living in illusions, Marlon Brando movie Viva Zapata! (1952 Western) …
(1:33:10) - Jason: real fear of being nothing, engage with thoughts, identity from them, things from the past, future… perceived as boring…. really be a doormat.
(1:34:32) - Dolores … (1:35:46) - Give anyone a title, expectation, ownership: When Jesus called his mother, Woman. (1:37:27) - He gotta forgive his mama, he married his mama.
(1:37:46) - Daniel: Afraid to lose identity, wanna be somebody. (1:38:28) - Another man… (1:39:48) - Fallen into identity with career…
7B - JLP: Fear is not you, but demons; Appreciate talent without identifying
(1:40:32) - JLP: Fear of losing identity is not you anyway — Devil in you, a false identity, spirits in body and mind, but not in the real you.
(1:42:18) - Appreciate talents of others, without identifying — learn without identifying…
(1:43:44) Jason… just being honest
08 - Hell? Doug's HR situation.
(1:44:35) - Hell question? By Southern Gal… (1:45:13) - Doug: If you’re trying to figure something out, then you are in hell. HR situation at work, thoughts started: I was wrong…
(1:47:23) - Jesse compares it to that man trying to tiptoe up and figure out how to talk with his mother. Doug says you’re not going through anything, like talking to an empty chair. You’ve just believed the thoughts that told you you are going through something.
8B - JLP: Hell is in you.
(1:48:12) - JLP: There is a hell. Hell is in you. When you overcome that hell, there’s no more hell. God didn't put you here to go through this. He told you, and you didn’t listen, that all your sins forgiven, the Devil has been defeated. The Devil roars like a lion, but he’s lyin’. The only hell you have is inside you, and it’s an illusion, and not even real, but you won’t let the light take the darkness from you.
(1:49:47) - I’m feeding into this illusion. Right.
09 - Sweet potato pie; Prideful; BQ
(1:51:00) - Did you make the sweet potato pie? Puerto Rican and Irish-Scottish(?) — she never had it before.
(1:52:24) - Donyale, now that I’m nothing… all these identities about dressing well, etc., is exhausting! I love being nothing! Pride and ego interchangeable (1:53:49) - JLP making fun of Mimi’s pride … (1:54:27) - JLP: Anytime we defend… (1:54:55) - BQ: Behave under pressure?
📖 Biblical Question: Do you know how to behave under pressure?
(1:55:36) - Feedback on BQ…
9B - "Slap ya mama!" Behave under pressure?
(1:55:59) - Sweet potato pie, make you wanna slap your mama! Go to Gary, IN, smack her!
(1:56:53) - Lemme ask my lil Chinese friends, Ohh! (Korean… long as you don’t say Japanese)
(1:57:46) - Fascinated with evil…
(1:58:27) - Anita… (1:59:52) - Practically? Iranian pressure or white people pressure? My father, very hard
(2:01:29) - Vanessa, what’s wrong with you? Why you look like you beat your husband? Why you look all Muslim-like?
10 - New BQ: Messenger of love or hate? No goals.
(2:02:19) - New BQ, Hake says: Mimi answers. (2:03:19) My daughter if I had one, Alyssa (sp)....
(2:03:47) - JLP: No goals. Let life happen naturally
📖 NEW Biblical Question: Are you a messenger of love or of hate?
(2:04:36) JLP: Love. Closing, Announcements — Women’s Forum third Thurs…
REMINDERS / Assignments…
- 2026 Theme: Endurance (since Church 1/4/26)
- 2026 Assignment: Be a doormat. (since Church 12/28/25)
- Rise to the 3rd, 30th, 50th or 100th floor, out of the basement (Church 2/15/26)
- Resist anger. (Church 3/29/26, Church 4/5/26)
- Don't think about you at all this week. (Church 3/8/26)
- Keep your mind where your body is, for one week. (After Church 3/1/26)
- Next time you cry, check yourself. (Church 3/1/26)
- Watch the Devil in you. (Church 2/1/26)
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