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If it's fire, it's got to look like fire, feel like fire, smell like fire or something.

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A burning fire in my chest, wanting to love and caress.

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Welcome to another Raising Home Fire Secret Place training session.

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Those who dwell in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of

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the Almighty.

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Our prayer and our vision for this time is that you would be further equipped, that you

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would be taken into a deeper experience of the secret place, into a deeper personal connection

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with God, and that you would experience what it's like in a deeper way to come under the

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overshadowing of God.

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Bill Johnson says, whatever overshadows you will come out in your shadow.

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The book of Daniel, Daniel writes this, he says, those that know their God shall do great

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exploits.

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And so our prayer is that you would grow in your knowledge, not just your knowledge about

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God, but your intimate, personal, experiential knowledge of knowing God.

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And so enjoy this session, God bless you.

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Hey, this is Andy.

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Right now today I'm talking about how God is safe and that how God accepts you right

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where you are at, and that He's not afraid of the dirt of your life.

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And each of us will have lies that we picked up as we were going through childhood and

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coming out into our adulthood.

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And many of those lies still stick around.

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They come in the form of, I am not, and we think it's us, but it's a lie that's spoken

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to us, whether it's, I am not good enough, I am not worthy, I am not prayed up enough,

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I am not beautiful, smart enough, you name it.

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There are so many I am nots available out there that are presented to us in our childhood

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that simply hold us back.

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But my point that I'm wanting to drive home into your heart for your secret place time

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is that God is safe and that for every I am not, He is the I am.

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And that not only that, that He will accept you right where you're at, meet you in your

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I am not, and smash it to bring you deeper into who you really are.

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And I love this quote that our glory is simply us becoming who we already are.

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And so God is safe.

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For me, in my world, I was born again the year 2001.

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And then I'm going to talk about an encounter I had in the year 2008, right at the end of

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it, and where I was radically shifted and I learned that God is safe.

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But from 2001 through to 2008, I was on fire.

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I knew Jesus, I knew the Holy Spirit, I love Jesus and I love the Holy Spirit, but I kept

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the Father at a distance.

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I didn't really get Him.

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I didn't understand this person in the Trinity who's known as the Father.

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And so He remained distant from me while I focused on Jesus and Holy Spirit.

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And it wasn't until the 2008 encounter, when I began to meet the Father, that God became

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a safer place for me.

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So let me share that encounter with you and how it came about that I learned that God

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is safe.

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It was in the year 2008, I'd started BSSM, which is Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry.

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I'm living in Redding, California.

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It's the start of the year and I get a phone call at one o'clock in the morning.

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And you know, when you get a phone call at one in the morning, just naturally, it's going

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to be a, you're kind of freaking out a little bit because, man, that's a pretty urgent call.

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And so I already had some natural fear.

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I picked up my phone, my wife wakes up and I say, Hi, it's Andy.

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And this voice says, Does it hurt?

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And a really harsh, horrible sounding voice.

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And I say, Hi, it's Andy.

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The voice says, Does it hurt?

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Like that.

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And I'm like, Oh my goodness, it's Andy, I'm scratching my head, just waking up.

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And the voice says, Does it hurt when you fall from heaven?

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Does it hurt when you fall from heaven?

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Repeats that a few times and then hangs up.

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And the spirit of fear that was sponsoring that person in that phone call just came into

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our room.

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It's like the temperature dropped, but we'd been learning that as we draw near to God,

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He draws near to us.

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It's an amazing principle.

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But so what I did was I just turned my affections to the Holy Spirit and said, I love you, Holy

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Spirit.

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And the Spirit of God began to fill the room and where the Spirit of the Lord is.

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He is the Lord.

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The Holy Spirit is the Lord.

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and it drives out the fear.

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I quoted this quote from the scriptures,

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blessed are you when you're persecuted

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for righteousness sake, for great is your reward in heaven.

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And I fell asleep, but a blessing was coming to me

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because of persecution.

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And that night the blessing came in the form

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of a prophetic dream that marked me.

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It marked me from that point onwards.

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And in the dream, a well-known global ministry

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came up to me and said, Andy, I impart to you

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intimacy with God with no agenda

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and with no strings attached.

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I woke up the next morning after that profound vivid dream

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where God imparted something to me.

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And I went to my prayer, I was praying three hours a day

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at the time every morning in a hill outside I love space.

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And I began to pray.

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Now here's the problem.

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From 2001 through 2008, I had spent so much

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of my prayer life praying to get more anointing,

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envisioning the visions of revival,

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wanting to be the man of God that God had called me to be.

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So all of my prayer was God, I'm asking for something

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from you and I'm envisioning stuff,

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I'm building stuff with you in prayer.

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But this impartation was for intimacy with no agenda.

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And with no strings attached.

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And so I didn't know how to pray.

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The Lord would actually stop me mid-prayer

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and say, stop dreaming, son.

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Who am I?

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That question would interrupt my prayer

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for a couple of weeks.

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Stop dreaming, son.

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Who am I?

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And then here's the encounter that changed so much from me.

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It's two weeks into relearning how to pray,

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a voice comes to me.

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It's a motherly voice, it's the voice of God

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coming in a way that I wasn't familiar with

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and said, Andy, I am your safe place.

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You do not need to wear your religious robes around me.

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You can come before me simply as you are.

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And that statement from the Lord,

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who was the Father, totally transformed my heart.

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And I actually began to meet,

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like I remember I was sharing,

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I only knew Jesus really and the Holy Spirit.

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I didn't know the Father.

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I began to meet the Father.

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Everything changed for me.

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When I began to meet the Father

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and God became a safer place

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and I began to learn that I don't need to be fasting

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three days and on maybe the third day

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I might experience this presence.

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I don't need to do two praise songs

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and then maybe then I could open up my heart

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to his presence because I've praised enough.

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I don't need to apologize myself into his presence

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and repent myself into his presence.

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But as the scriptures say in Hebrews chapter four,

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I can come boldly before the throne of God's grace

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and find access, find help in our time of need.

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And so that was the marker moment for me

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and my prayer is that you'd receive that.

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I wanna talk a little bit more into that.

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You see, each of us have these I am nots

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that hold us back and that cause us to be afraid

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to fully open up before the Lord

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and to fully be ourselves as well.

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I had an I am not.

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I'll tell you the story of my I am not or one of them.

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I have many I am nots.

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I'm still on the journey of coming out

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from the I am nots into the I ams.

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But this one I am not the Lord revealed to me

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a few years ago.

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I came into a place of his presence

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and I went into a vision and I went clearly back

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to when I was an 11 year old child

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on the concrete courts of my intermediate school,

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North Cross Intermediate.

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And I remember in the vision,

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I was seeing myself looking out over this crowd

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of people that I really considered were the in crowd,

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the cool crowd.

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And this voice then came to me and said,

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Andy, it was subconscious.

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It was the voice of an enemy,

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but as an 11 year old child,

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I had no grid for spiritual warfare.

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And so I just thought it was myself, but it wasn't.

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It was the devil.

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And it said this, Andy, you are not cool enough

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to fit into that group.

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But if you are funny, I can, they will not reject you.

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They will tolerate you.

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So I was presented this, these two options

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of either be rejected by the cool kids

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or be tolerated by the cool kids.

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And when an 11 year old child is presented

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with those two options, you know, he's smart.

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He's going to choose toleration.

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And I was presented with these two options.

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But, tolerated is a long way away from celebrated.

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And I was presented with these two options.

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And so, the I am not that came to me was, I am not celebrated.

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And that was with me all my life.

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And the way that the voice came to me was, if you are funny, in other words, if you perform,

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if you say the right things and perform just right and make them laugh.

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If you perform, then you'll be tolerated.

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So I learnt this lie that if I could perform right, then I would be tolerated.

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I projected that onto the Lord, that if I could perform religiously right, then the

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Lord will tolerate me.

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That is a million miles away from being celebrated.

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But I'm here to tell you this, the Lord wants to celebrate you.

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There's more to this story, but I wanted to let you know that that I am not celebrated

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lie wrapped around my life and in the vision I went through flashback after flashback

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after flashback, 11 years old, 12 years old, 16 year old, 21 year old, like imagine a 21

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year old on his 21st birthday celebration with a lie that says, I'm not celebrated,

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I'm only tolerated.

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I couldn't even enjoy my own birthday celebrations.

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This crippled me and held me back and it was projected onto the Lord.

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I want to pause that story right there.

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I'll come back to the encounter that I had where the Lord healed me.

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But I want to talk about your I am nots and I want to talk about how the Lord is not afraid

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of that.

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And I want to by doing that and to get there, what I want to do is talk about how there

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were two betrayals in two gardens.

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The first betrayal in the first garden was when Adam betrayed God and he ate of the fruit

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of the knowledge of good and evil.

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And so in his betrayal of the Lord, Adam, in the sense of guilt and shame that he experienced

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as he disobeyed God and experienced the fruit of the knowledge of the tree of good and evil,

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he dipped his own lenses of how he perceived the world, himself and God into his own now

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all of a sudden guilt ridden heart and then put those lenses back on and looked at God.

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And he made some massive assumptions.

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He thought he knew how God would respond because he felt so bad.

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He knew he thought he needed punishment.

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But there was a second betrayal in a second garden.

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And that was the betrayal when Judas betrayed God in that garden and God as Jesus Christ.

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Now we get to see in the second betrayal a sneak peek preview of what was really going

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on when the humanity whom God loves betrayed God.

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And it wasn't like what Adam thought where he was deserving of punishment, needing to

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hide away, only needing to present the very good parts of himself before the Lord.

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What we see in the second garden, in the second betrayal, is the response of God loud and

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clear for all to see.

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And it is this, forgive them father.

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They do not know what they're doing.

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In other words, with action speaking so much louder than words, I love you, humanity.

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In the midst of your betrayal of me, in the midst of your worst moment when you handed

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me over to be crucified, even then, even at your worst, I love you.

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You see, God is not afraid of meeting you at your worst.

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God loves you.

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He's not afraid of the dirt of your life.

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He's not afraid of the things that you think hold you back.

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All these I am nots that we have that we think disqualify us from Him.

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I just want to close this session with this thought for you from a parable of Jesus, famous

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parable about the 99 sheep that stay behind and the one that gets lost and the response

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of God.

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Now that one that gets lost, we don't know how long it's lost for.

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We don't know where it goes, but I want you to imagine with me, it goes down into the

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valleys away.

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It begins to feel lonely.

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It realizes it's separated out.

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It's no longer part of the family.

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It's no longer in a place of belonging.

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It's walking through the swamps.

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It's covered in the filth and the mess and the I am nots of its own lostness.

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But that shepherd, that

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picture of God

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comes and searches out, leaves the 99 to look for that one lost sheep.

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And then when he finds it, the picture is that the shepherd picks up

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the sheep and puts it on his shoulders.

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Now who knows where that sheep has been and all the dirt and all the mess of that sheep. And on his pure robes,

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the robes of God,

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he is not afraid for the dirt of the lostness of that sheep to dirty him.

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He comes right into the world of your lostness, your dirt, your

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I am nots, and meets you right where you are at and brings you home.

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Can you imagine the look on the face of that shepherd when he saw that lost sheep in its

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brokenness and he was able to put it on his shoulders and bring it home.

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That's the look that God has for you. In Ephesians 1 and 6, in the New King James Version,

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it says, we are accepted in the Beloved. When it says that we're accepted, that you are accepted in the Beloved,

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it doesn't just mean the righteous and holy parts of you that you're proud of before the Lord.

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It means all of you. He sees you,

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all of you, and loves you. And he not only invites you into his presence,

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he wants you in his presence, and he'll meet you just like he met that sheep,

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just like he met the world on the cross of Calvary, right where we are at,

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coming into your world. He is your Father as you are.

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And so let him into all of you because he is your safe place.

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What about this baptism of fire thing? What does that mean?

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Because like, if it's fire, it's gotta look like fire, feel like fire, smell like fire, or something.

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Hey, welcome to the activation part of this teaching.

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We're so excited to turn this from just theory and mindset shifting into

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something practical in your life. And so here we go. I want you to find a

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quiet place where you can just be alone.

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I want you to have a pen and a paper, and here's what I'm gonna be asking of you. Now remember,

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intimacy is into me you see, and God is not afraid of your I am NOTs.

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We in religion think that we need to hide them from him and get it sorted out before we can come to his presence,

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but we know that that is a waste of time. He meets us right where we are at.

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So here's what I'm boldly asking you to do. With the Spirit of the Lord,

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together with him,

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in a journal with a pen, I just want you to prayerfully think,

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Hey, Holy Spirit,

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what are my I am NOTs that I hear most often?

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Now some of these I am NOTs, they're so subtle. They're on a subconscious level.

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They hold us back so much, but the Spirit of God I'm believing is going to highlight those

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I am NOTs. Is it I am NOT worthy? Is it I am NOT a spiritual person? Is it I am NOT good enough for God?

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What is your I am NOT? I want you to think about three, write down at least three I am NOTs and

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take time with the Spirit on that. And then as you're writing those down,

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and as you've written them down, I want you to, with the Holy Spirit, think about how much of my life

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has this affected me?

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All right, so you've done that. You've got your I am NOTs. You've spent some time processing with Holy Spirit.

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How much has this I am NOT affected me?

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You know, and sometimes what that does and what's that done for me is it's brought up grief of the loss of

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destiny that that's had on my own life. But hey,

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everything is redeemable and

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God is the God who comes and just connects with us and walks us through all these things.

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He will turn these things to good. I'm telling you now. Now,

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here's the next thing. For every I am NOT,

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God is I am. For Abraham, he was I am your provider.

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For the people of Israel, he was I am your deliverer.

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For you, he has an I am NOT that directly

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counteracts,

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sorry, he has an I am that directly counteracts the lie of the I am NOT. So

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But I want you to spend time with God and just say,

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Lord, here's my I am not, I let you in on that,

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but God, you are the I am.

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What I am, what of your nature comes

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to bring truth to that lie?

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And I want you to spend time meditating with the Lord

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on the truth of who he is and what he says to that I am not.

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All right, here's the final activation,

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and then after this, I'm going to set you

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some homework for the week.

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But here's what I want you to do,

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is the I am nots that are on your page,

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the Lord has spoken to you about who he is, and therefore,

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who you are, and broken those lies and revealed truth.

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So I want you to right now cross out the I am nots

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that you have written down, and then boldly,

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and with joy and with the Holy Spirit,

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write the declaration of who he is and who you are.

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You could just choose to write who you are.

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Instead of I am not, you can write I am.

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For me, instead of I am not celebrated,

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I would write down, I am celebrated.

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I am celebrated by God, and I can be celebrated by others.

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And so I want you to spend some time just crossing that out,

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the lies, and declaring by writing it out boldly

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the truth of who you are.

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And here's your really simple homework, guys.

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It's not going to be hard, is I want

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you to, every morning of this week,

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as part of your secret place time,

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declare those I ams out over yourself.

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Maybe you might just want to put your hand on your heart,

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and you might want to declare, Jesus,

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you said that I am celebrated.

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Father, I am celebrated.

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I just want you to declare it to the point

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that you can begin to feel it penetrating into your heart.

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You might need to say, I refuse the lie of the I am not,

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and I embrace the truth of the I am,

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and allow your heart to be open to the reality.

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And don't stop declaring it until you

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can feel that it's beginning to penetrate into your heart.

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That's right.