Hey guys, welcome to session one of School of the Spirit.
I'm excited and feel free as you connect with this live to just drop a comment on,
letting us know where you're tuned in from.
I realize that many people are going to be tuning in on the replay because the time doesn't work for you guys,
and that's awesome.
So welcome if you're on the replay, welcome if you're live.
Exciting, we're going to kick this off very shortly,
but I'm just going to give a couple of minutes to wait for people just to jump on board.
Also feel free to spread the word and share this with your friends,
and the more the merrier.
I'm excited about today's session, we've actually got two sessions today.
Each session is, so School of the Spirit is going to...
Hey Jan, good to see you.
The School of the Spirit is a three day online school right here on the Raising Royalty group,
and the sessions are all going to be from between 12pm and 2pm NZ time.
Two sessions a day, and there might be a few extras in there too.
All the sessions will be between 12pm and 2pm, let's just say that.
And the sessions will be around about, give or take, around about half an hour, 45 minutes per session,
so just so you can plan your time a little bit.
After this first session, I'll let you know how long the break's going to be before the second session,
and that's going to be coming in straight after this one.
And then after this three day school, I'm going to share this pretty much at least every day,
possibly every session, just to make sure people are aware of it.
But straight after the school, there's going to be a three week activation,
but that's going to be in the online School of Sonship.
Now, I'll drop the link for that.
That does have a cost, so there's no pressure to do that.
It will be really helpful and beneficial for people who are wanting to engage in a deeper life in the spirit,
and who connect with this three day school that I'm running right now.
But I think it's about $50 NZ, $30 US, and that's not just for my three week activation.
That gives you, I'm pretty sure that gives you a lifetime access to every other thing that's on that site,
including a bunch of other teaching by me, and a whole bunch by Benji, and just Norm,
and a whole bunch of others who have got incredible teaching on there, and really helpful stuff.
And then you get access to everything that will be there in the future too, so it's a pretty small price.
I personally think it's a pretty epic deal, but I'm not trying to sell it to you,
just letting you know that that's where that will be.
And I'll put the link on the comments of this Facebook live session after I've finished it,
so that you can access that if you do want to sign up to that.
And then following that, I'm going to give an opportunity,
make some time available for those who would be interested in some one-on-one mentoring coaching.
That will also have a cost attached to it, but it will be far more in-depth, far more thorough,
and we can work out the details as per the individual who is applying for it.
So that's going to be available too, and I'll let you know more about that as we carry on through the school,
and as we carry on through the activation, the three-day activation.
So just to explain how the activation, three-day activation, and this three-day school kind of work,
and I'll just share a little illustration to kind of share the big picture,
and once I've done that, we're going to get into kind of the theme and the principle behind today's two sessions,
and then we'll get into session one.
So the way these two kind of work, it reminds me of teaching my daughter how to surf.
I'm in the middle of like teaching my daughter how to surf. It's super fun. I absolutely love it.
And the father loves taking you on a journey too and teaching you what's available for you.
And so for Ari, what the first step is, you know, wait for a good swell day.
And there's a couple of ways for her.
The way it kind of works is, the first thing is I normally get her to hold on to my leg rope and I paddle her out the back.
So sometimes it's pretty hard to duck dive under the waves, sometimes it's pretty hard to get through the onslaught of energy that's coming towards you.
And so I get her to hold on to the leg rope and I paddle her out.
And that's the equivalent of these three days.
The purpose of these three days, school of the spirit here on the Raven Royalty Group, is to get you out the back ready to catch the waves.
And then the three week activation is what I do once Ari is out the back with the surfboard and she's in the spot.
And I've got her to the spot ready to catch the wave.
Because when the wave comes, her paddle muscles aren't fully strong enough yet to paddle on by herself.
Most of the time, although she is getting there.
I'll be out the back and I...
Oh, sorry, I'm just reading a comment from you, Tia.
There is, typing is over your voice. It is a bit challenging to focus.
I'm really sorry about that, Tia. I'm not sure what I can do about that.
If anyone knows, if there's anything Tia can do about that, you just drop that on the comments.
That would be really helpful.
I'll try and fix that for next time. I really apologize for that.
Is it my typing?
Yeah, so...
But when, yeah, so sorry, back to that.
When Ari's out the back and the wave comes, I push her onto the wave.
And my push, along with her paddle, just gives her that little push, that little supercharge,
to get her onto the wave so that she can enjoy the flow of the wave.
And she can thereby...
Oh, sorry, I'm just reading a comment from you, Tia.
There is, typing is over your voice. It is a bit challenging to focus.
I'm really sorry about that. I'm not sure what I can do about that.
If anyone knows, if there's anything Tia can do about that, you just drop that on the comments.
That would be really helpful.
I'll try and fix that for next time.
But when Ari's out the back and the wave comes, I push her onto the wave.
And my push, along with her paddle, just gives her that little push, that little supercharge,
to get her onto the wave so that she can enjoy the flow of the wave.
Oh, OK.
Do you disconnect Bluetooth? No.
Little thing, isn't it?
Here we go.
Now, can you guys hear me now?
Tell me, can you hear me now?
Is this better?
Matt, no voice. Oh!
Tell me, am I sound off? Is sound still off?
OK, just give me a thumbs up. Can you hear me?
OK, cool, sweet. I think you can hear me.
I don't know where we got up to.
Hang on, let me just ask my wife when she turned the headphones on.
No.
When did you turn the headphones on?
They've been on the whole time, but they always do that.
OK.
I don't know what you last heard from me.
But maybe I'll just start again.
I'm really sorry about that, guys.
That is such a bummer.
Thanks, Rachel. Thanks so much.
Thanks for all the responses. That's awesome.
OK, so let me just start again.
Again, really sorry about that.
Welcome to School of the Spirit.
And sorry, there's no Zoom link for this,
but there will be for the next thing that's coming up.
So the purpose of the School of the Spirit is,
I've designed this to equip you to live naturally supernatural
at a greater dimension.
That's kind of the whole idea of this,
is that you would step into your life in the Spirit at another level.
Hearing the voice of lady who said her typing.
OK.
You were just getting to the waves with your daughter.
OK, cool.
So, right, all right.
Thank you so much for letting me know where I was.
So this school, this three-day school,
is the equivalent of getting you out the back.
Paddling you out, you're holding onto my leg,
I'm getting you out the back.
And the three-week activation is my way of pushing you onto the wave
once you're out the back,
to give you that extra little bit of support.
of oomph to get you on the energy of the wave, to get you into the flow of the spirit, and
I'm not assuming that all of you aren't in a flow of the spirit.
I know that many of you are doing amazing things and you're already in that flow, but
this is to get you into an even greater flow.
And then after that, there'll be available one-on-one mentoring coaching sessions, which
will be, I was apologizing, that's all good, which will be getting you improving in that.
So that's going to be awesome.
Right, let's get stuck into today.
Thanks everyone for tuning in and thanks for your comments.
Also just let us know where you're tuning in from.
I might interrupt myself every now and again with reading a comment.
I really love the interaction.
Yeah, so cool to have you all on here, whether you're tuning in live or whether you're tuning
in on the replay, God bless you, and we're going to pray right now.
And my prayer really is that you will be deeply touched by the reality of God's presence and
that you would feel the reality of this is not just me teaching you, but that you would
actually feel the reality of God teaching you and the Spirit of God teaching you as
I'm teaching you as well.
And so, Father, right now, I just thank you and I declare your peace, I declare your goodness,
I declare your kindness and an awareness of your presence over every person that is tuned
in that's a part of this right now.
And I pray, Holy Spirit, teach us.
You are the teacher.
You are our teacher.
And Lord, the things that I'm sharing that you're wanting to awaken in individuals' lives
during this session, God, I pray for a spirit of revelation to explode and to erupt and to
alight in people's hearts as I'm teaching.
Holy Spirit, we invite your presence into this moment in Jesus' name.
Amen.
Awesome, guys.
Thanks for letting us know where you're from.
God, there's people from all over the world.
This is so cool.
So, guys, this is day one, School of the Spirit.
And today, there's kind of an undergirding principle that undergirds both sessions.
And this principle goes way beyond just these both sessions, just these two sessions and
what I'm talking about today.
But it really undergirds and gives kind of the reason why what I'm talking about today
is important.
And so I'm going to share that principle, and then we're going to get into session one.
So it's the Proverbs 23, 7 principle.
And Proverbs 23, 7 says this, as a man thinks in his heart, so is he.
And the principle is this.
Your concrete experience of life is not necessarily in line with God's version of reality.
Your concrete experience of life is evidence or is not necessarily reality, but it is the
evidence of what you believe reality to be.
Your experience of life is determined by what you believe is real, not necessarily what
is real.
And that's why repentance is so important.
And that's why changing the way you think until you begin to think like God is important.
Because when you learn to think the way God thinks, and when you learn to have the mind
of Christ, and you receive the mind of Christ, and you learn to think within the mind of
Christ, then you are believing the same reality as God.
And your life will come into, eventually, maybe not instantly, but eventually will come
into alignment with what you, and here's the powerful thing, with what you choose to believe.
And sometimes changing your belief and choosing what direction you want your belief to go
in can take discipline, can take intentionality, and can take a rerouting of tracks that are
thoroughly entrenched in your brain already to think a different way.
And that's where the Spirit of God comes in.
And that's where the beauty of being a disciple of Jesus and following Jesus in moments like
this are important because they help us to retract the way we think to think the way
God thinks.
And therefore, our reality of life or our concrete experience of life comes into alignment
with what we think.
As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.
And your life will line up with what you believe is real.
And when what you believe is real is what is actually real, then your life will look
like Jesus.
We're all on a journey of repentance, and we're all on a journey of going from glory
to glory, especially in terms of the way we think, which
Translates into the way we live and so that is the the principle that's behind these two sessions
Exactly, right Janice the renewing of our minds
And there's a lot to be said about that principle. There's probably session upon session upon session
That that I would actually be tempted to teach you on just that one principle alone, but we're going to take that
principle I've tried to put it in a very succinct way and
And
And we're going to go into session one
I'll repeat that principle again as we go into session two just to recap and remind and
But that's the Proverbs 23 7 principle
Super important and worth taking a note of worth applying to and considering in pretty much every area of life
And
In session one where session one is is entitled our compass for spirit life
This is what we're going to go into
We're going to answer these questions. What is life intended to look like? What's your life? What's my life?
What is that? What are our lives intended by God to look like and what can we expect on our journey with the father?
What can we expect our journey with Papa God to look like? What can we expect our sonship?
What can we expect our expression of life as a child of God to look like?
Where do we get our bearings from how do we navigate the spirit life? How do we know when we're safe?
How do we know when we're off? How do we know when we're on?
How do we know when we're like what what's the roadmap to spirit life? And we're going to talk about that
And we're going to talk about kind of resetting
what
Resetting
resetting our
Expectations of what's available and when we reset our expectations what we're in effect really doing is we're resetting what we believe and as we
reset what we believe and
Reset what we expect then we reset the trajectory or the direction or or where our life is hitting
And like I said before our life will match up and will tend to bend towards
the direction that we set our belief and set our mindset and so
Our compass for spirit life
Let's start off we're going to start off with a few scriptures
Then I'm going to share a moment that happened to me that kind of illustrates what I'm talking about
We're going to share another scripture and we're going to pray and we'll end with a little activation
John 1 14 the word became flesh and
Dwells amongst us who is the word now? The word is now. I love I love the graphite. I love the Bible
I love the scriptures. I think all scriptures God breathed and useful for
for for life for
You know, I believe I believe in the inspired scriptures. I I really feel I even feel like in this day and in this time
the
The significance the importance and the relevance of the scriptures is so important
And so I absolutely do not want to dumb that down or dial that down or dilute that in any way
But what I do want to say is that when John is talking about the word became flesh
He's not talking about the Bible became flesh. He's not talking even about the scripture became flesh
He's talking about the word that was in the beginning that created all things
He's talking about God became flesh and dwelt amongst us and we beheld his glory the glory of the unbegotten Son
and
And so so what is this word? What is the word? What is Jesus is?
And what what John is really saying there is
Jesus is this is a this is a profound statement
I just want to throw this out there and this this really is a game-changer for so many things
Jesus is what God has to say
Sailor
Jesus is what God has to say about himself
Jesus is what God has to say about you and Jesus is what God has to say about life and what he's intended life to be like
it's almost like
It's almost like
Like this it's almost like
God was trying to describe
himself
life
Who he created you to be like?
Through the prophets and he was like just say it like this to say like this and it was kind of like Chinese whispers
And it was sort of half game through but wasn't fully getting through and it was almost like he was like, you know what?
I'm gonna stop trying to explain it to you. I'm just gonna come and show you
I'm gonna come and show you myself. It's like trying to teach
I was trying to teach my my youngest daughter how to kick a football the other day
and I was like you use this kind of I was like trying to explain use this kind of part of your foot here and
You sort of do that put your your ankle in front of you and you're like, I'm gonna kick a football
And you point your other foot and I was trying to explain it
And then I was just like, you know what, pass me the ball, come stand beside me, and I'll
actually show you.
I'll demonstrate to you how to kick the soccer ball.
Jesus is God's own demonstration of what it is to be you.
Jesus is God's own demonstration of what it is to be a normal human.
That is so awesome.
He is, Jesus is our compass.
Jesus is our map.
Jesus is our guide.
And now as we know Jesus in the Holy Spirit, and so that's just a real amazing thing.
Jesus manifested as, he gave himself and was given a few titles.
One of the main ones was Jesus is the Son of God.
He was crucified for that one.
Jesus is the Son of God.
In other words, if you look at me, you see God.
You see me, you see the Father.
Jesus is God's own word.
Jesus is what God has to say about himself, Son of God.
Jesus was the most common, I think you'll find the most common title for Jesus is Son
of Man.
And what is that?
What is that all about?
Well, what that is all about is this, is what we're talking about right now, is Jesus is
not just what God has to say about himself, but Jesus is what God has to say about you.
In other words, not just when you see me, you see the Father, but also when you see
me, you see you.
When you see me, you see you.
When you see the way I live, you see the way that you've been designed to live.
When you see the way I walk with the Father, you see the way that you have been invited.
You get to decide whether you respond to the invitation or not, but you get to decide.
You have been invited to live with God in the same way that I am showing you how I live
with God.
As he is, so are we in this world.
Incredible.
This mindset, what I'm sharing right now, is really what undergirds spirit life, what
undergirds a naturally supernatural Jesus kind of lifestyle.
It's learning to believe what Jesus believes, not just about God, but about you also.
Another amazing scripture is Philippians 2 verse 7, and I've just pulled that up in my
analog right here, my retro, beautiful, sometimes I just love to smell the pages.
This right here has served me well.
Thank you Jesus for the scripture.
Philippians 2, and we'll start in, this is another amazing principle I just want to pull
out, Philippians 2, and we'll actually start in verse 5.
Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.
Now that statement is made in the context of the scripture that's been written right
here by Paul, but man, you could take that same thing and just apply that to just about
every aspect of your life.
Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, Selah, who being in the form
of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal of God.
In other words, Jesus was happy to acknowledge that he is God and the Son of God.
As I said, that's why he was crucified, you just read the scripture and see that.
But he made himself, in verse 7, of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant and coming
in the likeness of men, and being found in appearance as a man.
He humbled himself, he volunteered this, he humbled himself and became obedient to
the point of death, even the death of the cross.
What is all of this saying?
When it says he made himself of no reputation, it literally can mean this, it could be translated
as this, he emptied himself.
He emptied himself of what?
He emptied himself of his divine rights as God, and what did he empty himself into?
He emptied himself of his divine rights as God, listen, he didn't consider it robbery
to be equal of God, he never denied that he was God, he in fact confirmed, I am God, I
am the Son of God.
I'm equal with God. He said all those things. Jesus is 100% God in the flesh.
We know that. I mean, that's Orthodox theology. That's clear in the Scriptures. That's clear in
the life of Jesus. But what is also clear is Philippians 2 verse 7, where it says,
listen, while that is true, that he is 100% God, he chose by his own volunteering, by his own choice
to humble himself into the limitations of what it is to be a human. In other words, I am God,
but I'm putting aside my Godness. In other words, what makes me distinct from being a human? What
makes me different from you? I'm putting that aside and I am going to wear the limitations
of humanity to show you what the human life and the human experience is designed to be like,
because you just haven't got it yet. In other words, Jesus is saying this, I want you to look
at me. And while you're looking at me, I want you to see you. I want you to look at me because when
you look at me, you will see the way that you have been designed to live.
It's one thing to receive Jesus as fully 100% God, and that just makes you just go,
wow, God, you are so good. To have a God that is 100% like Jesus,
whoo-wee, man, that's what kind of God you want. And that just adds ammunition to the praise
canon. If you want to have an amazing worship time, just think on that, man, we have a God
that is 100% like Jesus. Come on, God, you're so good. But that doesn't necessarily propel you or
activate you into a life that's like Jesus. What activates you into a life that's like Jesus is
this thought and this truth, is that you are a you that's like Jesus. God made you like Jesus,
and God came in the form of man as Jesus Christ to show you who you are. He's 100% son of man
and 100% God. That's an amazing mystery, and there's a lot to that that will remain a mystery
and is designed and meant to remain a mystery, and it's a beautiful mystery.
But Jesus is not just something, a life to stand back and applaud.
Jesus is God's invitation to live in a certain way. Jesus is God's invitation and challenge
to live at a certain standard and to live with a certain belief and to live with a certain set of
expectations and in a certain level of hope that wasn't available until we saw ourselves in Jesus,
and we'll talk more about that in a second, but just absolutely outstanding. I remember
to sort of illustrate this point, and what I'm about to share is not going to completely
illustrate the point, and I was trying to think there's multiple different examples to share, but
I just felt that this would be appropriate for the time. I just remember when I was growing up,
and I say this with the slight risk of coming across disrespectful or non-honoring, but
believe me, I have the biggest amount of honor for every
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Okay, cool. Thanks, Catherine. All right. Oh, sorry. Now I can't see who
commented that first comment. Sorry, I've forgotten who commented the first comment, but
it might be your reception. I just wanted to see if it was my reception or yours. It might be yours.
I'll leave you to figure that one out. Sorry about that. I remember when I was in my first
few years of Christianity, and I remember God sending a teaching about the fivefold ministry,
and I remember looking at the fivefold ministry, looking at the prophet, the apostle, the pastor,
the teacher, the evangelist, and at the time my church leader
Amazing man of God, Don McDonnell, I have the hugest respect for him.
He is a 100% purebred evangelist, purebred evangelist and I remember thinking, he was
shining and he was such a great example of an evangelist that I was like, my perspective
of an evangelist and evangelism was like way up there, I was like, man, I want to be an
evangelist.
Evangelists are so exciting, they're so cool, you know.
And then I remember reading books and stuff about prophets and seeing that prophetic gift
in operation and thinking, whoa, man, the prophet, man, it'd be so cool to be called
as a prophet, you know, like to have that gift and to see, you know, to walk in that
way and to have that kind of dynamic with God, man, because there were so many clear
examples of, for me, maybe not the same for you, but for me, there were so many examples
around me of purebred prophets.
And then I started to see even the apostolic in certain areas emerge and I thought, man,
that's so attractive and to a degree teachers as well.
But one thing that wasn't in my life at the time or that just to be honest, and I've been
a bit vulnerable here, that seemed quite boring to me, was the pastoral office.
I used to pray like, God, the last thing I would want to be is a fivefold pastor, it
just seems so boring.
It's just like the examples I had at the time were just like, you know, people who were
engaged in pastoral ministry that didn't have that fivefold pastor office in their lives.
And of course, we're not doing a teaching on the fivefold ministry right now, so I'm
assuming you have some kind of idea around that.
And if you don't, we can do one of those at a later time, another session in a different
school sometime.
But just to let you know, I didn't really have an example of a pastor and therefore
my mindset of the pastoral ministry was quite low.
My expectation of what was available in terms of a pastoral fivefold office was really low
to non-existent.
And my level of expectation or delight in that function from the heart of God, that
pastoral function, that pastoral gift from the heart of God, my expectation of how good
that was, was just not really there until I spent some time, for those of you, some
of you know this, but I spent two years living in Redding, California and studying at the
Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry.
And I met a man named Danny Silk, who is a fivefold mature pastor.
And I saw the pastoral grace and it was being honored, it was being received, and it was
in full operation.
And I'm, you know, I know this is probably illegal to say this, but like for so many
of the students, Danny was like their favorite person, their favorite pastor, their favorite
teacher, their favorite leader.
And I think because so many of them had not seen a clear example of a fivefold pastor,
and Danny was the first example they had seen in that kind of way.
And for me, it just, it lit something up on the inside of me.
And I realized, oh my gosh, like the pastoral, I started thinking like this, man, how cool
would it be to be called as a fivefold pastor?
I used to say, God, the last thing, please, just anything but a fivefold pastor.
I do not want to be a fivefold pastor.
I know that sounds funny to say that, but when I heard Danny, I was like, man, how epic
would that be to be a fivefold pastor?
And it changed my perspective, it changed my expectation, it changed the way I interacted
with the pastoral grace and the pastoral ministry.
It gave me a whole different value system and a whole different mindset that opened
up a whole different realm of teaching.
Just saw a comment there by you, True Sandy, what is a fivefold pastor?
I really apologize, I actually am not going to explain that in this session, but I will
be able to explain that in some future question and answer sessions, and we might do some
teaching on the fivefold ministry in a later school, but I'm not going to explain that
right now.
But thanks so much for the question, and it is a valid question, and there are probably
others asking that same question as well.
But just to let you know that when I, I had had people talk to me about the pastoral ministry,
and it kind of went in one ear and out the other, but when I saw the example of it, when
I saw the demonstration of it in a person's life fleshed out, it was as if...
The Word became flesh, it was as if that pastoral ministry, that pastoral grace had become flesh
in the person of Danny Silk, and it was only then that I could fully receive it and benefit
from it and be enriched by it.
And when I say it, I'm talking about enriched by the presence of God and the Spirit of God
manifest through that pastoral grace.
And my life has been so much better because of it.
And I could only receive it because it was demonstrated in the flesh of a human life.
I hope that makes sense to you.
And the same is true of Jesus, but not just with the narrowing of one pastoral grace or
one color of grace, which I call the pastoral grace.
When I saw Jesus, Jesus is, you know, He is a in-fleshed manifestation example from
God of a pastor.
But He's much more than that.
He is the in-fleshed manifestation, the incarnation from God of not just what it is to be a pastor,
not just what it is to be an apostle, prophet, teacher.
He's all of those things.
He's all five-in-one.
But not just the five-fold ministry, He is God's demonstration to us of the normal human
life.
He is God's demonstration.
He is God's compass given to us as a gift, God's own word about what it is to simply
be human with Him.
I know this sounds very simple, and for the most part, it is very simple.
And that's the cool thing.
Spirit life, Christian life, supernatural life, the miraculous, the gifts of the Spirit,
seeing tumors dissolve, seeing blind eyes open up, seeing the dead raised, seeing all
those things happen.
It is very simple, and it all boils down to actually truly deeply believing very simple
things that God has been trying to teach us for thousands of years, which we can really
truly receive in our relationship with Jesus.
One more scripture, and then we're going to pray, and that is in Colossians 3, and this
is one of my favorite scriptures, Colossians 3, and verse, let's start in verse 2.
Colossians 3 and verse 2.
Set your mind on things above, not on things of the earth.
Now, just stop right there for a second.
This is slightly out of context of the rest of the session, but given the state of social
media, media, the airwaves, and life in general at the moment, the general kind of conversation
you have when you walk down the beach or you have a coffee with your friend at the cafe,
it's pretty easy to have your mind not set on things from heaven.
It's pretty easy to have your mind set on a whole bunch of other things that have nothing
to do with the nature of God.
Set your mind on things above, not on things of the earth.
Not on things of the earth, for you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
Let me just try and break this down for you.
Oh my gosh, this is such a very, very good scripture.
For you died.
Now, it says you died, and then it says your life is hidden.
So you died, but you're also alive.
What died?
What you died?
The you that was apart from God, the old you, the darkened minded you, the you that was
trying to navigate life on your own strength and your own understanding, under your own
autonomy, under your own leadership.
That you, the alone you, the you in lack, the limited you, the lost you, the you outside
of relationship with God, that you is dead.
It died with Jesus.
But your life is hidden.
What life?
Your true life, the life that you have, that has always been, that God has always intended
for you.
That you is hidden with Christ in God.
That word hidden, it could also be translated kept secure and safe.
up, that God has kept, God never lost sight of who you are, God has, sorry I'm just getting
all these emails, they just keep coming over the screen, it's so funny, I probably need
to turn the notification off, but that you, the you that God has always intended for you,
the you that God created you to be like, the you that is in the mind of God, that was in
the mind of God when he first created you, that has stayed in the mind of God and stayed
in the heart of God, that he never lost, that you has been kept safe, no one, nothing, absolutely
there is no power, no strength, no power, principality, there's no might, there is no
authority that could ever steal that from the heart of God, you, the true you, the real
you has been kept, has been guarded, has been in the most secure vault in the entire universe,
it has been kept safe by the Father in the heart of God, the true you has been stored
right alongside Jesus, and you might have heard me say this before, but when you go
to the supermarket and you go to, you know, the food is arranged in certain sections,
if you want crackers you go to the cracker section and the cheese crackers will be alongside
the pepper crackers in the cracker section, if you go to the wine department of the supermarket,
if you want wine, the wine area is an area that's set aside for wine and within that
wine area there are bottom shelf wines, middle shelf wines, top shelf wines and then there
are the wines that are in the locked case and they're the really expensive wines, that's
like the top, top, top, top shelf wines, at least that's what it's like in New Zealand
supermarkets, you have been hidden, kept safe in God with Christ, if you want to find
you, you go to, to the space in the heart of God that is that locked wine space, you
have been, you are, you are top shelf, you are the very top shelf of the supermarket,
you are the most prized possession, you are the, the absolute treasure of the heart of
God and you have been kept right alongside Jesus, right in that space, in other words
if you want to see you, when you see him you see you, it says this, when Christ who is
our life appears, when Christ who is our life manifests or shines or is shown or is, or
you see him, when Christ who is our life appears for you, for you to see, then you
too appear with him in glory, in other words when Christ appears and you see him, you don't
just see him, you also see you, where, in glory, what does that word glory mean, I mean
there's many teachings on glory but if you look up the Greek word doxa, it means, it
literally can be translated a high opinion, a high opinion, when Christ who is our life
appears, you too appear with him in God's high and good opinion of you, in other words
you see God's, when you see Jesus, you see the Father's perspective and the Father's
good opinion or the way the Father sees you, you see God's opinion of you, you see God's
mindset towards you, you see God's perspective of you, you see the way that God sees you,
when you see Jesus, you see the way God sees you, the same way God sees Jesus, he sees
you, now I'm teaching this right now, I'm sharing this session with you and I want to
just be a little bit vulnerable with you right now, I am on a process of learning to believe
this and I believe that I will be on this process for a very long time, you see the
depths and the richness of what I'm sharing right now, the quantity of revelation that's
available in what I'm sharing right now is so vast and so deep and so wide and so rich
that it cannot be consumed in one meal, it cannot be consumed in two meals, it cannot
be consumed in three meals, it's not even a year-long course that you can do to get
to the bottom of this, this is a bottomless forever extensive resource, reservoir of goodness
from the heart of God that you will never find...
the end of. And so really, as I'm sharing that, because I want you to know that this
is a journey to which you will never fully reach the end. But the joy is not in reaching
the end, the joy is being on the journey. The joy is learning to enjoy the ocean of
God's heart that you've been invited to swim in. And the ocean of God's opinion of you
that you have been invited to adopt as your own mindset towards yourself. And until we
can look in the mirror and see, looking back at us, the same person that God sees when
he sees us, we really need to retrain and repent towards the way that God sees us in
the way that God thinks about us. Because as I said before, our experience, our concrete
experience of life is not necessarily what God has designed or intended to be your reality.
It's not necessarily a reflection of reality. Most people are living lies. Most people are
living below the reality that God designed for them. Your concrete experience of life
is evidence of what you believe to be real, not necessarily what is actually real. And
as we learn to engage with this process of repentance, as we learn to engage with Jesus
show me you so that I can see me. As we learn that, we go deeper and deeper and further
and further into God's reality for us until our lives begin to look like the life of Jesus.
Until we begin to live naturally supernatural in the same way that Jesus did. Until walking
on water is normal for us. Until raising the dead is normal for us. Until walking through
walls is normal for us. As he is, so are we in this world. As we start to believe in that,
we start to see the same sort of things erupting and flowing from our lives as Jesus did and
the disciples did, the apostles did from their lives. And the process of doing that is learning
to be a really good beholder. And we're going to spend a little bit more time talking about
this in some of the other sessions. But what I want to ask you to do, I'm going to give
you a little bit of homework right now. And if you join in for the three week activation,
some of that three week activation is going to be meditation and going to be beholding
Jesus time. And I'll take you through some guided meditations and I'll also be giving
you homework to just spend time and challenges to spend time beholding God. And what I'm
going to do now is just issue a little challenge for you. And I realize that different ones
of you are at different time zones and things like that. But what I want to challenge you
to do is find just a simple 15 minutes to begin with. And I feel like 15 minutes is
something that most people can do. Find 15 minutes. It doesn't need to be right now,
but sometime before you go to sleep. I want to challenge you to find 15 minutes, put some
nice music on if that helps you. If you like the silence, just choose the silence. Sometimes
I like to go to the beach and just hear the ocean. That really does wonders for me. 15
minutes and I just want you to make some space with God. And I know that's very simple and
I know that most of you do that often anyway. But just after the session and in terms of
reflecting on this session right now, I just want to invite you to do that. And I want
to invite you to really ask Him, Jesus, what aspect of you do you want me to behold right
now? Don't just sort of broadly behold Jesus. Ask Him to narrow it down a little bit. Just
ask Him, Jesus, I want to see you freshly today, but I want to see the aspect of you
that you're wanting to show me. What are you wanting to show me? And just wait on Him until
He shows you the aspect that He's wanting to show you. And then as you begin to behold
that, I just want to also invite you to ask Jesus how that will affect change in your
life. How it would look in your life if you were to be transformed by the aspect that
God's showing you. What kind of change would that bring in your life? What kind of change
would that bring in your day-to-day? What kind of change would that bring in your marriage
and your workplace and your relationship with your children?
So I want to encourage you to do that, find some space to do that.
I also want to encourage you just to recap, some of you may be taking notes if you haven't,
just to recap on what I've shared and just ask the Lord to give you some ways to or give
some ideas or some practices that you can put into place in your life to be a good beholder,
to behold Jesus in order to be transformed into what you're beholding.
Truth is, your life will look the most like what you spend the most time beholding.
And your belief structure will imitate what you spend the most time thinking about.
If you spend all of your time thinking about the latest COVID conversation, then your life
will actually end up looking like the spirit behind that COVID conversation.
But if you instead engage in that conversation, but spend more of your time beholding Jesus,
then your life will look more like Jesus than the spirit behind the COVID conversation.
So I just want to encourage you with that and yeah, awesome.
So thanks guys.
That is session one.
Feel free, I won't have heaps of time, but I might have a little bit of time to answer
a couple of questions on the comments.
If you have some questions in the comments, feel free, just drop a comment with the question
and I'll try and answer a couple of those.
And even if I don't get around to answering it like today and on this comment thread,
it will also help with later schools and things like that as well.
So bless you.
And Father, right now I just bless every person.
I pray God again for that spirit of wisdom and revelation to really explode in people's
minds and in people's hearts.
I really pray in the name of Jesus, I pray God, Holy Spirit, that you come right over
people right now, that you be the one that's peddling us out the back, that you be the
one that's pushing us under the waves.
God, I declare in the name of Jesus, I declare in the name of Jesus that your color floods
people's minds and hearts right now.
Thank you, God.
Hey, Andrea, thanks for, I just noticed your question pop up as I was just praying there.
Could you define the word behold in the context of this teaching?
What I mean by behold is to meditate towards the person of Jesus.
To behold means, in the most simple way you could say it, is to look at.
How do you look at Jesus?
Well, a really great way is through the Scriptures, through the Gospels, to study the life of
Jesus and to think about and internally look towards the nature of Jesus.
It might even be to look towards some of the ways He's been in your life.
I think one of the absolute keys is to, and this is where the Scripture really does come
in, is to look to the Jesus described in the Gospels and to spend time, obviously not physically
looking at Jesus, but closing your eyes and internally looking at the person of Jesus
as described in the four Gospels and in the Scripture.
Janice, thanks for that question.
Is guided meditation scriptural or godly?
Isn't this anti-Christian?
Yes, some guided meditation might be ungodly, but meditation just means to internally think,
and so that's obviously not ungodly.
That's obviously thinking, and imagination is something that's come from God, and it's
something that He designed us with for a specific purpose.
And when meditation is redeemed, in other words, when it's surrendered and devoted to
Jesus and in the Holy Spirit, it can be possibly one of the most powerful things, and also
a very scriptural thing.
If you look up meditation in the Scripture and just do a word study on meditation, you'll
see that it's been a part of life in God for, well, you see it through the entire Scripture
from Genesis all the way to Revelation, so I suppose the big thing, whether it's anti-Christian
or ungodly or not, is...
who's the guide? If the guide is the Holy Spirit or it's someone that's leading people to the
guide who is the Holy Spirit, then I think it's very Christian and very scriptural. So
thanks for that question. Awesome. All right. We're going to peace out. And what's the time
right now? It is one o'clock. We're going to come back in, we're going to come back in
15 minutes. We're going to come back in 15 minutes, quarter past one, and in 15 minutes,
and we're going to come back with session two. Session two is going to be a really good one.
It's entitled Balancing Your Internal Stance for the Miraculous.
It's going to be a fun session. So we'll see you in 15 minutes. Peace.