Greetings.
Greetings, Prosper Women.
And did you just start the recording, Earlene?
Beautiful.
OK.
I had to go find it yesterday.
You sent it to the cloud.
And so thank you.
Thank you.
I'm glad it's there.
Love it.
All right.
Ladies, I am so excited.
I think that, in my opinion, I've loved every single day.
And we've built line upon line.
And they're all super significant, right?
I mean, starting with day one, if we're not
partnering with God, if we're not
knowing how to hear the voice of God
and have divine appointments, have divine direction,
have divine provision, walk in the miraculous,
see miracles in the marketplace.
If we don't have that, then we're
kind of like the Bible describes the tree that's
not connected to the branch, right?
Jesus said, I'm the vine.
You are the branches.
And we are meant to be so interconnected.
In fact, that was one of Jesus's last prayers.
Father, let them be one.
Let them know, just like I'm in you and you're in me
and I'm in them, help us to understand, right?
So we opened with the partner with God in business.
And so deliberately so, because I think apart from God,
we're nothing.
We're like that branch that is cut off.
What life does a branch have cut off from the vine?
None, you know?
And we run out of juice.
If we're relying on our own willpower,
on our own strength, on our own wisdom,
well, what we have has gotten us this far.
It's not going to get us further, right?
So day one about partnering with God,
go back and listen to that super significant.
Then we moved into day two that, of course, partnering with God.
But there's this view out there.
So often, people just say, well, I'm just waiting on God.
There's this, I call it the bus stop philosophy, right?
They're just parked at the bus stop
waiting for the bus to take them to heaven.
And that's when everything's going to happen.
And they're not living now.
And we saw, I got feedback that understanding that there's
God's part, and there's our part.
And God has called us to be transformed
by the renewing of our mind.
We choose our thoughts.
God doesn't take over your brain and make you into a robot.
We choose our thoughts.
We choose our words.
We choose to learn, to grow, to renew.
And so there's God's part, and there's our part.
And it's a divine dance.
It's a divine partnership.
And so day two, learning how to renew our mind.
And this is a moment-by-moment, day-by-day journey, right?
And then learning how to open the flow and activate.
We have to understand that this world, the way
that God created the planet, there's basic laws.
And those laws are cover to cover in scripture, right?
And so we learn about sowing and reaping.
And we learn that if we sow sparingly, we reap sparingly.
And we sow abundantly, we reap abundantly.
And often that's used in church in the context
of giving money and tithing.
But no, no, no, this is a basic principle of life, right?
And so if you're trying to grow an apple tree,
don't plant a corn seed, right?
And there's basic principles.
And we nurture the seeds.
We get rid of the weeds.
We water.
We add fertilizer.
Like everything in nature is a parable, right, of our life.
And so there's ways that we open the flow.
If you've been constipated, coagulated,
whether it be physically, spiritually, relationally,
emotionally, there's things you can do to activate the flow.
It's like the old pumps, the old well, right?
You had to get it primed.
You had to start the process, right?
Or any of you that have had to, I hope you didn't.
But I remember being young and when
you ran out of gas in your gas tank
that you didn't have the dollar that it
took to fill your gas tank, right?
And any of you had to siphon, you know?
And you had to like suck on the gas
and move it over and not get it in your mouth.
Hopefully, you weren't stupid like some of us.
But anyway, you know, there's this principle
that you've got to activate the flow, right?
So we really.
So all of that to say, we've covered some really powerful ground.
We talked about creating space and how clutter, physical, emotional, spiritual clutter keeps us from advancing.
And today, I believe, is one of the most important days because we're talking about your identity.
Now, identity is really interesting.
It's a concept of how you see yourself, what you believe about yourself, what you believe you can do, what you believe that you can't do.
So it's a combination of your belief of how you see yourself.
And how many of you know that that can get really twisted and it doesn't line up with how God sees us, right?
And so we're going to look at that.
And it's also the standards that you're setting.
What is your floor? What is your minimum?
Because you're getting what you're settling for.
You are at the income level that you are willing to settle for.
It's like a thermostat.
If you get below that, you will not tolerate.
Whatever your floor is, you won't tolerate it.
And you will get out there and make it happen to get it back there.
It's like a thermostat.
It goes below the temperature you have it set.
Heater's going to kick on and get it there.
But on the other hand, it's adjusting your ceiling.
Adjusting your ceiling of what you believe is possible.
And that is setting the future self.
So there's some really classic examples.
And then we're going to pray.
We're going to dive in.
We've got a lot of ground to cover.
But I want you to think of things that people say or how they see themselves.
So, for example, maybe they see themselves as a smoker.
It's just part of their identity.
I've always been a smoker.
I'm a smoker.
I'm not going to stop anytime soon.
So if they go to quit smoking, even if they quit for a week or two or a month or two,
they're going to go back because their basic identity, they see themselves.
Now, you can apply this to anything.
If you see yourself as being stupid or see yourself as not being successful or seeing yourself,
hey, my family's never had money.
I come from a long line of people.
We just don't have money.
Or maybe you can see yourself as an addict.
And I have mixed feelings about that.
I come from a long line of addicts, mothers, grandmothers on both sides, brothers, sisters.
I've been around the struggles of addiction all my life.
I struggle with opening every day saying, I am an addict.
I am an alcoholic.
I struggle with putting, after the words, I am the name of God, something and tying myself.
Now, I understand for them, that becomes a very important.
And I love the program.
I love the steps.
I love the biblical ones as well.
It's helped so many people get out of addiction.
I'm in no way in any place to judge anything about that.
But I've always had a little bell go off to continuously repeat, after the most powerful words, something that maybe you don't want to be.
Right?
And so it begs the question, are we something like stagnant?
Are we something?
Right?
Or is there something called emotional flexibility or mental flexibility that actually we have the ability to change who we are and who we see ourselves as?
And I think that the jumps in psychology right now, the jumps in psychology have opened whole new doors of possibility, in my opinion.
Right?
If you were like me, you probably were taught, you know, my master's was in counseling psychology.
Right?
And even in high school, I was taking psychology classes.
I was always fascinated.
Right?
And so we were very influenced, you know, Freud and Erickson and all of them.
And so much of what we inherited as psychology has the idea that your past has made you who you are today.
And so we're taught to do all kinds of things.
kinds of inner child work and past regression, whatever.
And the idea is we're trying to go back and heal the past.
We're trying to heal the trauma.
Because somehow, if we can make the past better,
our current life will be better.
And so we tend to be very fast, very past focused often
because of this psychology.
Newer, newer positive psychology, newer research
says, actually, that's not the case.
That who you are today is framing
how you look at your past.
Your present is shaping your past, OK?
Meaning you have the ability to go back and reframe
how you view and what you attribute to your past.
Because the truth is, the past is gone.
It's completely gone.
And the interesting thing is we have a distorted memory.
We remember the past very differently, OK?
And so when we go to think about the past in this present time,
we actually reconstruct it based on who we are now.
And so knowing that, you can not be driven.
You can make your past an asset.
You can make your past something
that you're very thankful for.
And that doesn't mean that it was roses and lollipops
and unicorns, OK?
We've been, I know many of you, we've
been through some tough stuff.
I'm not denying that that impacted us and impacts us.
I'm not denying that it doesn't, OK?
I know what it is to be molested by your father.
I know what it is to see domestic violence.
I've seen a lot, much more than any child
should ever have to see.
So I'm not negating that it didn't happen.
But I am activating our God-given power
to choose how I choose to view my past.
Do I look at it as a liability that keeps me tethered?
Or do I look at it as a springboard and a gift?
And I choose the latter.
I can use the lessons.
I can use the wisdom.
I can use those experiences to have more compassion, more
insights, more et cetera.
Are you all following me so far?
This alone, before I even start in prayer,
is laying a foundation for something really significant.
So how many of you, let me get where I can see the chat.
I want to see your comments.
Let me go over and grab that so I can see the chat.
OK, perfectly.
So I can see the chat.
By the way, if you didn't get the study guide for today
because it just went out this morning,
Linda's going to pop the link in the chat
so you have the notes for today.
They weren't included in the others.
So Linda, if you could put that there.
OK, how many of you put in the chat
feel that you have really changed over the last 10 years?
In other words, who you are today
is very different than who you were 10 years ago.
Put in the chat if you feel that you have greatly
changed over the last 10 years.
OK, yes, oh, God, yes.
Yes, I have.
OK, oh, yes, changed so much, so much.
OK, all right, yes, and every decade.
Truly, yes, all right.
So why do I ask you that?
Because when you realize that you've
changed that much over 10 years, then
you realize you also have the possibility
that you can greatly change in the next 10 years.
Now, this is where what I'm teaching today
becomes very, very important.
Because what we tend to do is we tend
to project that who I am today is how I'm always going to be.
And doing that mental exercise of going,
wow, if I change that much over the last 10 years,
what's possible over the next 10 years, 20 years, 30 years?
And this opens up mental flexibility.
So this opens up.
And by the way, there's two books
you can read that really go into this.
And there's some fabulous YouTube, like TEDx talks
about what I'm talking about is future self, OK?
So I really like Benjamin Hardy, Dr. Benjamin Hardy's
Be Your Future Self Now.
And any.
He also wrote a book called 10x is easier than 2x really good.
And he really has a good grasp of he's
an organizational psychologist and positive psychologist.
And he's pulled a lot.
If you go onto YouTube and watch 10x, Daniel Gilbert,
there's several people that have really
spoken a lot about this concept of future self.
So the idea of future self is that we
can, through the power of imagination,
tap into our future self.
Now, here's my bias.
Here's what I think.
Because you know I want to be scriptural.
I tend to line up everything with the word of God
to the best of my ability.
I don't see a lot in scripture that tells
us to go back into our past.
I don't see it.
I don't see stuff about nurturing our inner child.
And I understand it's helped a lot of people heal.
But I don't see a lot.
But I see a lot in scripture about fixing our mind
on the future, about vision, about future.
I see a lot.
And I'm going to share all those scriptures with you.
So with that in mind, in the same way
that we can in the present, because I believe now
is all we have, every moment, this moment,
this is all you have.
This is where prayers are answered, right now,
right here.
This is where your life changes.
This is where you choose.
This is where you move forward.
Right now, it's always, and it's the now.
And it's the now, and it's the now, right?
And so we can choose with the now
how we're going to view the past, OK?
So it doesn't have a negative charge on us.
And we can choose the now to, by vision,
by the power of our God-given image maker, which
is our God-given gift to be able to imagine,
we can tap into imagination and revelation and prayer
to get very clear on a future self, on a future self.
And the more clarity you have about the future self,
the more you will have, like you do for the inner child work,
the more you will have compassion, love, vision,
connection with your future self.
This is so big.
Because if you're really connected,
if you're disconnected, you're like, ah, just live today.
I'll spend all my money.
If I'm broke and I don't have a retirement, oh, well.
I'll figure it out when I get there,
which is where most people go.
Or, eh, I'll be healthy.
I'll just continue to eat junk and not invest in my health,
and I'll figure it out when I get there.
A good thing they've invented, heart surgery or whatever.
Because we tend to detach because of the dopamine hits
of, I want instant.
And of course, all the marketing, everything
has trained us to want instant.
The microwave's not even fast enough.
I don't use microwaves, but we stand in front of it.
People who use microwaves just can't go fast enough.
So the more we can connect, the more
that we will make choices today that
will get us where we really want to be in the future.
Put in the chat, if this is eye-opening,
if this is making you think.
Because I'm laying a context of, why does identity matter?
And is my identity fixed?
Or can I shift it?
And if I shift it, will it produce
a great reward in the future?
Put in the chat or put in the Facebook
if you're on Facebook Live.
What comes up for you as I tell you this?
That the fact is we can pull from our future self
and make decisions today that will completely
change our success in the course of our future.
And so we can continuously tap in.
And I mentioned Dr. Benjamin Hardy.
I followed him.
I admire him a lot.
And he has teamed up with, no, I can't
think of his name right now, Dan Sullivan, isn't it?
Dan Sullivan.
So anyway, in Be Your Future Self,
now, let's see what this says.
OK.
Let's just see what you're writing.
OK, growing awareness that vision
is improved with deepening imagination.
what may be absolutely very good working on this.
Yes, my future self is not crystal clear.
What is the meditation you used yesterday?
Okay, beautiful.
Recently read future self now, such great stuff.
Okay, beautiful.
All right, so I recommend great reading,
putting desires out into the universe.
It brings back to you in reality, I've seen this work.
Okay, all right, love your comments.
So I like, like I said, Benjamin Hardy,
I really like the model that he's been.
Back in graduate school when he was working
on his doctorate, you know, he had really three visions.
One was for his family.
He's adopted six children out of the foster care system
and raising them and all of that.
And then where he wanted to be financially
and his identity, he saw himself as a best-selling author.
So he, his future self wrote absolute best-selling books.
And so he began, even when he was in graduate school
to do the things in the current present
in order to create that.
Well, right now, as far as I know
he's got eight best-selling books.
And I don't mean fake best-selling that you go out
and get a bunch of people to buy on the first day.
I mean like millions and millions of copies sold
and still continuing to be sold bestseller, okay.
And so this is a powerful concept.
So as we look at today and shaping our identity,
we begin to do that from the context
of who is it that I really desire to be?
Where do I desire to be in 10 years, in 20 years?
Financially, physically, spiritually, relationally.
And the more tapped into that,
so that we begin to shape and take actions today
based on that future self,
the more we are going to up-level our future.
Does that make sense?
How many of you are getting this?
Say, aha, type in the chat if this is making sense.
And I'm laying a foundation
of why we're gonna spend so much time
on how are you viewing yourself?
How does God view you?
How do we shift that?
Knowing we can shift our identity
and why we need to shift our identity, okay.
So that's a little of the big picture where we're going.
So let's start with prayer.
And then let's just dive right into the scripture
and the science of all of this.
So Father God, I'm just asking,
I get so excited when I think about
how you have made us in your image.
And I get so excited
that you've given us the ability to transform.
You've given us the ability to be transformed
by the renewing of our mind.
You've given us the ability to grow.
And I'm so thankful for that.
And I'm so thankful for every single person
listening to this live right now or later in the replay.
And I'm asking Lord that whatever they need to hear today
to get a breakthrough.
Lord, you are Jehovah Bel-Perezim,
the God of the breakthrough.
Lord, I'm asking not just for little breakthroughs,
I'm asking for massive breakthroughs.
I'm asking for every single person who's done this series
to make a massive leap, a leap in confidence,
a leap in faith and expectation,
a leap in their skillset,
a leap in stepping into who you've called them to be,
who you see them as.
May a divine alignment take place today
that we begin to see ourselves as you see us.
And Lord, I just ask that the words of my mouth,
the meditation of my heart are pleasing in your sight
and that they are not just words, but they are spirit.
They are life, they are truth,
and that they bring about transformation.
I pray blessings on every single person
listening to this call.
Lord, bless their finances, bless their health,
bless their relationships.
Lord, may everything they put their hand to prosper.
I ask in Jesus' name, amen.
Amen, amen, amen.
Who's ready?
Type ready in the chat.
So I want you to look at, and it's in your study guide.
If you didn't get your study guide,
just in case anybody came late,
go ahead and pop it in there one more time,
Linda, for the study guide.
So you'll have all of these notes, all of these verses.
are for you. The Lord reminded me last time I taught this, maybe six months ago, about
a verse in Numbers 1333. Numbers 1333, look at that, three threes, divine perfection,
right? Numbers 1333. And it's a fascinating, sometimes in scripture, there's like these
fascinating little verses that often get overlooked that are just like meaty and rich, okay?
You remember that I talked, I think yesterday, about the spies that went into the promised land
and they came out and they had a report and they were talking about the giants and I talked about
anytime we go into, take more territory, go into our promised land, we too are going to face
whatever area we need to grow and stretch. We're going to face giants, might be financial giants,
might be health, physical giants. So they faced the giants, right? And it says in this verse,
it says, there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak. And look at this, we were like grasshoppers
in our own sight. And so we were in their sight. This is such a profound statement.
So their identity at that moment, how did they see themselves? They saw themselves as small,
as weak, as helpless, as hopeless, as no match for the giants. And they used the metaphor,
we saw ourselves like, can you imagine? Humans made in the image of God, walking in the spirit
of God, describing themselves as a grasshopper. How often do we demean ourself and who God made
us to be when we talk about ourselves? So it says, we were like grasshoppers in our own sight.
And so we were in their sight. This is very profound because this is exactly how it works.
However, you're seeing yourself is how you're showing up and it's how others are seeing you.
It has this effect, right? And so I love that scripture just put that right there. So,
when we look at this, we've got three dimensions. We've got how we see ourself.
And so how do you see, what are the things that maybe you've said over the years about yourself?
Well, I'm not the sharpest tool in the toolbox or well, I'm not good with numbers. Well,
I'm just not good at business. Well, I'm just not good at sales. Well, I'm not a salesperson.
I'm just not, you know, right. What are you even saying about yourself that you see yourself like
a grasshopper? And then on the other hand, what area have you really grown that you just go,
you know what? I am a teacher in the body of Christ. I'm an evangelist. I'm called to teach.
I know I've got a book in me. I've got so much to share. So you've got, number one,
you've got number one, how you're seeing yourself. Do you see yourself limited or do you see yourself
infinite with infinite possibilities? How? And so this is where prayer, meditation, journaling,
asking God that you begin to tap into your future self. And then I play a game with it.
I actually play a game. I'll be out shopping and I'll be like looking at clothes and it's
like with my future self. So, so, so there's probably pictures in your imagination. Okay.
That you have of your future self. Okay. I have a picture coming from a God given vision
of retreats properties that I own on four different continents for four different purposes.
You know, a health retreat in Belize and a trauma horse retreat in Columbia. Okay. And a business
retreat in the vineyards of Italy and a, and a kind of a combination of those in Northern California
on the, on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe. And, and I, I go over that vision very often and there's
pictures in my mind. Okay. And one of the things is I want an absolute ease of travel
that the whole experience for them as they step into the fullness.
um that from the time that my private plane actually picks them up and that they're riding
and I might be riding with them if I feel like going to pick them up and we're riding
in the private plane on the way to get you know to get over there and I've got the vision
of what the property looks like and what we're doing and so I could go on and on I can describe
this in great detail and this is what I recommend that you do that you you use your God given
image maker to begin to design your future right but as I'm as I'm doing that and I've
seen beyond that that 90% of those profits go to the babies and the mamas of the land
so I see the healing centers I see the micro lending I see the the the schools that are
truly teaching and raising up these kids for their future and teaching all these things
that I'm teaching here so so I see this whole vision right and and I see that to do that
you know I'm a billionaire and I see the amount of money and and the one of the largest philanthropists
in the world and so as I'm doing that and for you it might be that you're earning your
first six figures it might be you know you're a millionaire whatever it is but now when
you go to pick out clothes you will say would my future self wear this when you go to do
things with your time with my future self would my future self spend two hours a day
scrolling would my future self watch this you know I used to do this with my kids all
the time they'd they'd want to watch a movie and we didn't have TV and I kind of watched
over the movies they watched and and they'd say something to me they say mom it's not
that bad I don't know if any of your kids say that it's not that bad and I think we
say that as grown kids right it's not that bad you know and I used to say is it making
you more or less of the person that you desire to be right and so we've got to stop again
I talked about floor and ceiling you know what's your base standards how you will spend
your time what's your base standards about the value of your health and your energy and
having a sharp mind what's your base standards about the people you'll allow into your inner
circle what's your what's your base standards on how how little you'll let yourself earn
how how broke will you allow yourself to be before enough is enough right so so this tapping
into the future self so that you're not seeing yourself you know as a grasshopper but you're
seeing yourself as powerful and so everything when you go to eat with my future self like
this is this making me more or less of the person what you know when you multiply these
donuts for the next 20 years what's going to be the cost of that right um that's why
I don't have sugar in the house you won't find sugar in my house um I've got pure maple
syrup I've got some amazing raw organic honey that Tracy gives me she's on the call um you
know I don't have that because it doesn't fit my future self now I'm so grateful beyond
grateful that I adopted that thinking when I was 17 years old so I have truly cared for
this body in my food choices and my supplements in my exercise and I believe that it's made
me when I get tested it's made me physically 20 years younger than I am okay um so it has
a payoff and I know that's going to compound as I go into the next decade or two of my
life and I plan and I say things like my future self I want to be dancing at 120 um you know
what are you saying about yourself well I'm just old you know I can't do those things
anymore BS there's 80 year olds 90 year olds 100 year olds any of you watched what's his
name grandpa something the black guy that's always on social media that pops up I don't
know if he pops up on yours but he's out there boogying and dancing at 100 years old you
know um so this is so important you know I say age is just a number yes but do you
say every day I'm getting stronger and healthier and do you envision what do you envision for
yourself do you you know I've had people put word curses on me you have to really guard
the words that you receive I've had people say things about um when they're mad especially
my children about what the end of my life is going to look like and you've got to be
able to block that out and say that doesn't line up with what the bible says that doesn't
line up with what God says that doesn't line up with my vision for the future self no no
I will not be sick and lonely
lonely and broken, nobody helping me,
and all of those stories, right?
So we've got to look at what is the story
that you're telling yourself?
What is your current identity, okay?
And maybe take just a second right now,
reflection in your study guide, just a second.
When you look in the mirror,
or when you talk to yourself right now,
how do you typically, and be honest,
don't try to come up with an answer
that you think will sound good.
This is about being real and about creating change.
So how do you, what do you say?
What is how you see yourself?
Write a little note.
If you want to put it in the chat and share it,
that makes everybody richer.
You know, how, honestly, honestly,
do you look in the mirror and you are so fat?
You are getting so old.
You are so stupid.
Why do you always do stupid?
Do you do this?
Or have you broken through that,
that you honor and respect who God made you to be?
And so I'd love to,
Bell Pera's, oh, Bell Pera's, okay.
I'll try.
I may need to look it up for you.
Jehovah, I think it's, I don't know if it's B-A-L or B-A-L.
It might be B-A-L.
Pera, I think it's Perazim.
I'd have to look it up.
It's a Hebrew word.
That's as close as I can come.
You guys could find it.
Jehovah Bell Perazim means God of the breakthrough.
Okay, I say age is just an, okay, who else?
Anybody, no comments there.
So truth, when you look in the mirror,
what do you say to yourself?
Okay, when you talk to yourself,
what do you say to yourself?
And awareness is the first step of transformation, right?
I had a person that came to me for possible coaching
and she was talking so much about abuse.
And so she was, she said, you know, my parents abused me.
My father abused me.
She said, then I got a divorce.
My husband abused me.
And then she said, my boss has been abusing me.
When she got to about the third one
and she said, my neighbors are abusing me.
I, okay, you know, Houston, we got a problem here, right?
Everybody around you is abusing.
So I said to her,
cause I know our outer world is a reflection
of our inner world as within so without.
And I said, tell me, how are you abusing yourself?
And she says, oh no, no, no, no.
I'm not abusing myself.
No, I take, I exercise every day.
I don't abuse myself.
And I said, this much abuse.
I said, how are you abusing yourself?
No, I'm telling you, I don't.
I really, I love myself.
I said, when you look in the mirror, what do you say?
And she said, oh, it just came out of her mouth.
She says, oh, I really beat myself up.
I said, that would be abuse, right?
And so sometimes we don't have the awareness.
And so a lot of times it starts by just learning
to listen to yourself, to think about your thinking,
to think about your inner narrative,
to think about the words that come out of your mouth.
Do you say things like I'm sick and tired?
Don't say things like that after the word I am, right?
And so I see my beauty first, not my flaws.
I don't use the word old.
I charge 25 cents when someone says it.
Oh, that's pretty fun.
Victoria, that's pretty fun.
Tracy, I'm seeing myself more and more
as who I am in spirit.
In heaven, I can't read it.
It says heaven, but here.
So are you saying that you're not waiting for heaven,
but you're starting to see who you are here and now?
Is that what you're saying?
Okay, I love that.
Okay, so we've got like how we see ourselves
and then we've got how others see us,
which by the way, a lot of what you're doing,
you're training others how, okay?
And so a lot of times when I'm coaching,
I see that come out, that the way.
I had someone just yesterday,
and there's no judgment in this.
We all do this, but it's just like, again,
awareness is the first step to transformation.
And so she was going to be adding Coach Accountable,
which is the, you guys that have done anything with me,
you've joined my coaching portal.
And so I do everything from that coaching portal.
It's got my client management, it's how I bill,
it's how I create links, I can have courses,
all that stuff, right?
And so she was adding that, and she phrased it.
She says, how in the world am I going
to be able to introduce my current clients to that?
And it was almost like she saw it as a deficit.
Like she was really going to hurt her clients,
making them move from Google Drive
or whatever she's on over to this.
And I could see room for shift immediately.
You see, how we see things is how we're speaking them
and portraying them and creating them.
So looking at it as, oh, I'm asking
them to move, to do things different, making their life,
there's going to be friction.
Like looking at it as a negative.
And I'm like, are you kidding?
I'm like, do you realize the value
you're adding for your clients?
I'd get in there and show them all that they can do,
how they can have an online journal,
how they can create metrics for themselves with reminder.
I'd show them how much better is what you're offering.
And the lights just went on.
And it became very easy.
So I think about myself.
When I went from being a founder of a international nutritional
network marketing company, and I asked the Lord
after my divorce, and what am I going to do,
and what's my future self look like,
and I knew I'd always loved mentoring women
and I'd been in business for decades,
and so I really saw the opportunity for coaching.
Many of you have done this.
But many of you, how you see yourself, your identity,
you still haven't seen yourself as a coach
or as a powerful coach, as a transformation agent,
as a gift to the coaching space.
You're still looking with a deficit.
Now, some of you have seen a testimony.
A lot of times, I get people that are coming out
of being a therapist.
They have an office.
They're psychologists or therapists
or clinical practitioners of type.
And they move into the coaching space.
So I had one of them that had built
a very successful clinical psychologist practice
and had come over to the coaching space
because there's so much more freedom and more opportunity.
And they came over to the coaching space,
and for a year, they couldn't get any clients.
And then they came to me.
It had been over a year.
And they started to speak how they were seeing themselves.
Well, I'm just really behind in the coaching space,
and I don't have a lot of certificates
in the coaching space.
And I went, wait, wait, wait.
Wait just a minute.
Let me ask you.
Like, you have a master's degree.
You're a clinical psychologist.
Like, did any of that education go away
when you moved from your practice over to coaching?
Like, did any of that education go away?
And they went, no.
And I'm like, your tools that you developed
and your ability to help people experience transformation,
did any of that go away when you became?
The lights went on.
You see, it was only about how she was seeing herself.
She had a limiting belief about being behind,
about being not enough, about not knowing enough,
about not having.
You see, these are all narratives.
These are stories that we're carrying into and making
excuses why we're not successful.
And so do you know that one call immediately?
That next day, I got a text from her
and that she'd gotten clients.
So I checked in with her.
And I said, how are you doing?
Well, she'd gotten two clients after none,
but she'd lowballed the price so much.
I'm like, why are we doing this?
Again, if you're undercharging, this is all about identity.
What you think you're worth, the value you think you deliver,
this is a mindset.
It's not a truth.
It's a mindset.
I can't tell you how many people.
So I walked her through a script.
And I got a really excited testimonial right after that
that she got her first full-paying client
that she actually used the words I gave her.
And it was a high-ticket client.
And she's been nonstop since then.
All of that was simply this idea how we see ourselves
and how others see ourselves, which
is based on how we're projecting how we see ourselves.
And so a lot of times, I'll have coaches
do the exercise of just taking out a piece of paper.
Those of you that are my clients,
just start scribbling all the ways you add value.
I help them get clarity.
I help them learn to love themselves.
I give them tools for this.
I give them that.
And you just start writing all the ways you help them.
And I said, now, just keep that nearby,
that before you get on the phone,
you're making a sales call, before you're
asking for the dollar amount, just
remind yourself the value that you're bringing.
People will see yourself as you see yourself.
This is the amazing thing, right?
So when I launched in to the coaching space back in 2012,
ladies, gentlemen, I did not have a coaching certification.
Let me just be real frank with you, I still don't.
Never been through a coach certification program.
I saw myself as someone with experience and value
that can bring transformation.
I looked at the certification programs and I saw the holes.
They don't prepare you for business.
They don't introduce the concept of all the things
that I teach, be it about your brain
or be it about your time management
or be it about your view of money.
So I set out and created
the most comprehensive coach certification program
that I could find.
And many of you have been through that.
And like Earlene, I'm looking at her face,
she'll tell you, she'd been through a whole bunch
of the really big ones.
And I had coaches say,
hey, this should be the standard for coach certification.
Well, to do that, I could not be shaped by the world
as saying, well, who are you to be a coach?
Or my own fears, who am I to be a coach?
And I had to step into all that God had made me
and what I could do by the power of the Holy Spirit
and begin to create, begin to add value, begin to teach,
begin to release the gifts that are in you.
So do you see how that works?
I pray that this is opening.
This is totally off the cuff.
I haven't even gotten into my notes.
You guys are getting it raw and real today.
Aren't you glad you're here live?
Let me just check your notes real quick.
How does this work if you're ready to let go
of selfishness, the small limited self
and step into my spiritual complete identity?
I don't wanna make the small physical being greater
or better, I want the physical self go,
step into my internal spiritual self made in the image
like this of God, God didn't create me physical.
Well, the truth is God made you triune.
He made you body, soul and spirit
and they're all very important.
So that would be a deep conversation,
but I would say that you are beginning of course
with your inner most being, which is your spiritual self
and you are working outward.
But what we do in the body
and what we do in the body really matters.
We can no longer neglect
or act like the body doesn't matter
because this is how God had us experience planet earth.
This is how we see, we touch, we walk, we experience.
So all three are important.
Now I wanna show you a scripture back to your notes
because I know I've gotten way off track
and I wanna take a quick break too
so you don't get too tired and we stretch,
but let's do a little moving here.
So there's an interesting place,
a conversation in Matthew 16,
where Jesus says to Peter,
he says, he asked his disciples,
who do people say?
This is Matthew 16, 12 in the Amplified.
Who do people say that the son of man is?
And they answered, some say John the Baptist,
others Elijah, others Jeremiah,
others just one of the prophets.
So this tells you something really interesting, right?
People's opinions are a dime a dozen
and they're gonna come up with theories of who you are
regardless of what you do, right?
So one of the success principles
as you're stepping into your future self
and as you're stepping into your highest identity
is leadership requires you must unhitch
from the opinions of man.
You cannot succeed and be bound to others' opinions.
I like to say the same people
that were putting down their robes and saying,
here's Jehovah, blessed be the name,
are the same people that a couple of weeks later
were saying crucify him.
People are fickle, people change their minds,
people will love you, people will come against you,
people will join you, people will leave you,
opinions are a dime a dozen.
And if you allow that to be your guiding light,
you can never move forward.
And so interestingly enough, you get in this verse
that you know what, there's lots of opinions.
Some people think that the.
He's a dead guy, reincarnated.
Some people think he's just a prophet.
Some people think he's a great teacher.
People are gonna have opinions about you.
It doesn't matter, that's their opinion.
What matters is your opinion of you,
and even more is God's opinion of you, right?
And so then he turns to Peter and he says,
well, Peter, who do you say that I am?
And Simon Peter says, you're Christ,
the son of the living God.
And of course, Jesus answers by saying,
blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonah,
because flesh and blood didn't reveal this to you,
but my father who is in heaven.
Let me tell you something, for Jesus to respond that way,
he had to already be clear who he was.
If he wasn't clear those first parts,
he may try to step into those roles
or convince people that he's different
or be driven by what people think about
or try to shape into their image.
But he was already clear who he was
so that he could answer that when he answered Peter.
And so this is the real truth is how does God see you?
This is the most important truth
you can discover and step into.
It's the one that really matters.
So you've got getting clear how God sees you.
And then you're getting clear on the vision
and the picture that he's given you
because he's given you that as a human,
the ability to dream, the ability to imagine,
the ability to vision, right?
Without vision, the people perish, right?
And, but with vision, right?
Scripture says, write the vision and make it plain
that those who see it can run with it.
God wants us to have our vision front and center.
That's why when I do a breakthrough business intensive,
we write out your business vision, right?
And so the truth of how God sees us, right?
So we know that Jesus had been receiving his identity
from the father all along, okay?
And it was confirmed when he was baptized.
Now, this is something else to think about.
In Matthew 16, he goes to his cousin, John the Baptist,
and says, baptize me.
And John the Baptist is mortified
because he knows who this is.
And he's like, I'm not even worthy to tie the sandals,
you know, tie your shoelaces, let alone baptize you.
And Jesus said, do what needs to be done, you know?
And so Jesus stepped into obedience.
So when Jesus stepped into obedience,
he went in and John the Baptist stepped into obedience.
So they stepped into their divine call.
He went under the water, full immersion baptism.
He comes out and you see that it says,
behold, a voice from heaven said,
this is my beloved son
in whom I'm well-pleased and delighted.
So Jesus in obedience began to get revelations
from the father, who he was.
I have experienced that most of the revelation will come
when by obedience you're in action,
when you're stepping out in faith
and you're releasing the gifts that God has placed in you,
not when you're thinking about it and meditating
and just staying at home all the time,
but when you actually step into obedience,
it's then that you begin to realize the gifts
that God has given you, right?
And so, but then what begins to happen
is that your identity will be tested.
So Jesus heard this when he was baptized.
And then in Matthew four,
we see that right after he comes straight out of baptism
and it says, this is interesting,
that he was led by the spirit to the desert to be tempted.
That's an interesting verse.
And my take on that is that
as you are seeing your future self,
as you are realizing the gifts that God has placed in you,
as you're stepping into the fullness
who God created you to be,
it's going to need to be tested,
it's going to need to be strengthened
because it starts out a little weak.
Like the first time you go to lift weights
and you might be able to do,
you might be able to curl five pounds or 10 pounds.
But each time that you do it, the weight gets stronger.
And pretty soon, you know, you can curl, you know, twenty five and you can curl thirty.
And, you know, because the weight and and the same is true with the character of
what do you do in the face of opinions of others?
What do you do with disappointment?
What do you do with frustration?
What do you do when things that you try don't work?
Like how we talked about it yesterday,
increasing your capacity, the muscle of your capacity, right?
So part of this identity is that you're continuously raising your floor,
meaning what you will no longer settle for and you're raising your ceiling,
which is what you're bringing even to future generations as to how high that you
can go and you get to choose to do that.
You get to raise your floor, you get to raise your ceiling,
and then you develop the muscles, right,
to be able to move forward.
And so even Jesus had to go through that.
And so he had to go face testing.
He had to go face tempting.
And so will you.
So will you. All the different things.
What do you do when your bank account shows there's no money?
What do you do when someone that you love leaves you or hurts you or abuses you?
What do you do when, you know, in your business, it seems to not be working?
Right. And and your capacity, your floor, how you view problems.
Do you view them?
So so someone that has not developed
the muscles and they get a problem and it just takes them out, OK?
It's called, you know,
fragile, being fragile or being antifragile.
Right. So someone that has not built their
spiritual muscles, they're very fragile, something comes and it takes them out.
It takes them out for a week or a month.
They get sick over it.
They stress over it.
They talk about it.
They cry about it.
They give up. They stop working.
They just boom. That's it.
Right.
Someone that has developed antifragile,
a problem comes and you go, great, how are we going to solve it?
And the more you get that mindset that every problem is an opportunity and that
every problem is an opportunity for you to rise, to show more of God,
to show more strength, more power, more abilities.
And so what's happening is you're
elevating your identity of how you see yourself.
Do you see yourself as a leader?
This is part of your identity.
Do you see yourself as a follower?
Do you have to wait for instructions?
Do you?
One of the big changes for me and we're
talking many, many decades at this point, I have not had a boss or manager
since my 20s, OK, so I like to seem completely unemployable.
Right.
And like, I don't see myself.
My identity is not an employee.
Absolutely not.
Now, if I was starving and I had to do it to feed my family or whatever,
there's nothing wrong with the gift of that.
But I see myself as an entrepreneur and I see myself as a leader.
And as a leader, I understand my job is to lead, which means for me to lead.
I have to continuously stay ahead.
I have to continuously grow my character,
grow my skill set, grow my knowledge so that I can be a good leader.
So I can come to you right now and say, hey, here's what's going on in the market.
Here's what's working.
Here's what's not. Here's a technology to say 15 to 20 hours.
Here's that's my job as a leader to lead and to raise you up.
And my job as a leader is to see the very
best in you and to call out the goal, to call out the greatness.
So do you see yourself as a leader?
So these are questions as you're looking at your identity,
the mental flexibility of knowing that you get to choose this.
This isn't something put on you.
Now, obviously, you've got your God given identity, right?
That you're made in the image of God.
You know, you're the container of the Holy Spirit.
You've got the word of God.
Like so obviously we've got our God given identity.
But there's the there is the identity of what we put on top of that,
of how we see ourselves. Right.
And so so the tempter comes and tempts Jesus three times.
And Jesus is strengthened by that and goes on.
And so part of.
You discovering your identity is removing,
removing who you're not, who you're not, right?
Being a smoker does not have to be part of your identity, OK?
You can remove that and begin to see yourself as a non-smoker.
And as a non-smoker, or maybe a non-drinker, right?
Or maybe a health whatever, OK?
And you begin to build around that identity.
So you're looking at how you're seeing yourself,
and then you're looking at what God says about you.
So I asked you earlier, how do you see yourself?
Now, what you know biblically, what God says about you,
do those match.
We want to bring those into alignment, OK?
There's lots and lots and lots of verses about identity.
I'm just going to grab some.
John 1 12 says, I am God's child.
John 15 15 says, as a disciple, I'm a friend of Jesus.
1 Corinthians 6 17 says, I am united with the Lord.
I am one with him in spirit.
Ephesians 1 3 to 8 says, I've been chosen by God
and adopted as his child.
Colossians 2 9 and 10, I'm complete in Christ.
Hebrews 4 14 to 16, I have direct access
to the throne of God.
I'm called to come boldly.
I'm secure.
Romans 8 1 and 2 says, I'm free from condemnation.
Romans 8 28 says, I'm assured God's working everything
together for good.
Romans 8 31 says, I'm free from condemnation,
anything brought against me, that I cannot be separated
from the love of God.
Philippians 1 6 says, I'm confident God
will complete the good work he started in me.
2 Timothy 1 7 says, I have not been given a spirit of fear,
but a power of love and a sound mind.
1 John 5 18 says, I'm born of God,
and the evil one cannot touch me.
I'm significant.
John 15 5 says, I've been chosen and appointed to bear fruit.
John 15 16, I'm God's temple.
1 Corinthians 3 16, I'm a minister of reconciliation.
2 Corinthians 5 17 to 21, I'm seated
with Christ in heavenly places.
Ephesians 2 6, I'm God's poetry.
I'm God's workmanship.
So you see that there's so many, many, many scriptures,
but you begin to do the work to make sure
that what you're saying, and thinking, and feeling,
and seeing about yourself is lining up
with what God says about you.
God says that you're mighty.
God says that you're powerful.
Jesus said you would actually do greater things than he did.
Scripture says that the power of life and death
is in my tongue.
Scripture says Christ in me, the hope of glory.
Scripture says I have the mind of Christ.
I can tap into the mind of Christ.
Scripture says I have access to all wisdom.
So when you get grounded in that so that you make sure
that the narrative you're telling yourself
about being weak, or hopeless, or helpless,
or too old, or too young, or too fat, or too skinny,
or whatever, that you're dropping,
and you're discovering your identity by releasing
the things that you are not.
Releasing the things that you are not.
So you are not your job.
You are not your title.
You can change that many times.
That's not who you are.
That's something you do.
That's a role.
So if I say, who are you?
Like Jesus said, who do you say I am?
He had to know.
If I say, who are you?
And you say, well, I'm a teacher.
I'm a professor.
No, that's a role.
I'm a mother.
No, that's a role.
I'm a daughter of the most high God.
Ah, yeah, that's who you are.
That's part of your permanent identity, right?
You are not your accomplishments.
You are not your physical body.
Many people go through hard times when parts of their body no longer work, or
they have to have a leg amputated. If you had to have a leg amputated, would you
still be you? And the answer is yes. You are not a body, right? You live in a body.
You have a soul, but you're a spirit. If you had both arms and both legs
amputated, like I can't think of his name, the speaker, who's happily married and
he is still who he is. His legs and his arms didn't define him, and he chose how
he saw his identity, that he would go and bring hope and bring love and be one of
the top inspirational speakers with no arms, with no legs. He didn't say I'm less
than, I can't do that. And he actually, with no arms, you know, they put him up on
a table and everybody comes and he gives hugs and he passes on so much love, right?
So what are you saying about yourself? Who are you? You are not your mind, right?
So when you look at Exodus and the story of leaving Egypt, there's a lot of very
interesting, much of the tradition in the Bible about Egypt in Jewish scriptures
and in many of their festivals and so on. And according to Hadistic teaching, the
Exodus is not just one event, but a paradigm for our current life. It's not
only a geographical location, but a limited state of mind we must transcend.
So in other words, we're all leaving Egypt, going to the promised land. We're
all letting go of the mindset of slavery and the behavior of who or what we've
been a slave to as we step into the wholeness and the freedom of all that God
has for us, right? So I share all this because awareness is the first step to
transformation. When you become aware, hey, wait a minute, I have an identity, I
have a floor, I have a ceiling, I have what I believed about who I am and what I
can do, I have, you know, standards that I've set of what I'm willing to settle
for, and I can change those. When you realize, wow, if I've changed this much
over 10 years, how much more I can change and God has given us the ability, that
awareness alone will absolutely instill whole new hope and future for you. And so
it says, if Egypt represents the tyranny of self-limiting beliefs and behaviors,
the Exodus signifies your spiritual journey toward expansive perception and
limitless potential. That comes from a book called People of the Word, 50 Words
that Shape Jewish Thinking, page 40. So I think that this is so powerful when you
think about it. If you look at Romans, let me see if I put it in your notes,
yeah, Romans 8, 14 is in your notes for you. It says, for all who are led by the
Spirit of God are the sons of God. Okay, so all of us that are led by the Spirit
of God are the sons of God. For the Spirit which you have now received is
not, is not a spirit of slavery to put you once more in bondage to fear. So the
Spirit that you have received is not a spirit of slavery. You are not a slave
in bondage to fear. But you have received the Spirit of adoption, the Spirit
producing sonship in the bliss of which we cry, Abba, Father. And the Spirit
himself testifies together with our spirit. You see where you're getting
divine alignment? The Spirit of God is speaking. And you line that up with what
your spirit is believing and receiving and hearing, assuring us that we are the
children of God. And if we are his children, then we are his heirs, heirs of
God and fellow heirs with Christ, sharing his inheritance with him. Not only we
share is suffering but we share is glory and it says but what of that I consider the suffering
of this present time not worth being compared to the glory that is about to be revealed to us
and in us and for us and conferred on us for even all of nature is waiting expectantly and longing
for the sons to be made known in other words all of nature is waiting for you to step into the
fullness of who God made you to be and so when we don't know our identity when we haven't tapped
into our identity it pushes us to extremes because we believe lies like I've been teaching all week
it pushes us to extremes okay and um so I'm going to come back I'm going to talk about that I'm going
to talk about how to break through I'm going to talk about strategies you can take to move forward
but we're going to take a really quick five minute break so I want you to come back at 20 after it's
important the mind can only absorb what the seat can endure get a drink of water go to the bathroom
stretch move get some fresh air and then we will be back in five minutes at 20 after the hour
all right welcome back you know we've got about one minute uh before we come back
but this is a great chance put your biggest takeaway so far into the chat
what's been your biggest takeaway so far what has really hit you that you can apply
and create change okay pop that in the chat I'm going to head over and look at the Facebook group
too and see how they're doing over there let's see if I can see them where are they
let's see are we still live over on Facebook
all right
part two here part two let's look at some of your takeaways Earlene are we live on Facebook or do I
have to do something yes can you give me a thumbs up yeah okay beautiful all right okay so I want to
take a look at some of the things that some of you are saying what has been your biggest takeaway
before I jump into part two what we say about ourselves in alignment with what scripture says
this is so huge when you're tempted to feel discouraged or defeated or not enough or behind
or whatever and then if you can go grab the promises of God and say but that's not that's
not what God says that's not what scripture says okay crystal says block what others say
that are not consistent with how we see this is so important because most often they will see you
through their own lens you know just like when Jesus asked what do they think about me you know
who do they think I am we don't see things as they are we see things as we are so people will project
onto you people will project how they perceive you and so you know maybe someone knew you when
you were young you ever have the experience you go back and you see a relative you know and they
still think you're little Susie you're little Tracy you know they don't see you I was having
a conversation with my son yesterday and you know he's really risen as a businessman he's he's 30
now and and and his dad sometimes still is tempted to see him as a kid like we do that as parents
right and we'll offer him like a menial job and he'll be wait wait dad let me just remind you
you know I'm already earning this much I've already built this company I'm I'm not a teenager anymore
that I'm looking for menial jobs you know but that's what happens as parents sometimes we still
see kids
kids, how they were when they were young.
And and so it's very important, this idea of identity,
this picture that you're walking with, and it's something that that you can refine
and that you can build toward to become more and more and more of that person.
And so other people won't they won't see you that way.
You know, there's there's a truth of of that, right?
So, OK,
I think everybody should be back from the break, OK?
So, you know, there is
looking at your notes, too, so I stay in line with where you are.
OK, so it's interesting.
I say to you that I'm often not knowing our identity.
We don't spend time doing this identity work.
And and one of the powerful things and it's it's in the prosper, you know,
daily planner and you can get that on on Amazon because it's got a daily work
that you can do to be renewing your mind.
Everything's all on one thing.
Renewing your mind, organizing your business,
keeping your goals in front of you, your schedule, everything,
your morning routine, your night routine, it's all right there.
And this is what I've used, you know, for decades.
It's what I've taught for decades.
And so part of it is writing on a daily basis.
I am statements.
This is really powerful to keep your mind, to be reminded.
Right.
So, you know, maybe it is a I am
a highly sought out speaker all over the world.
Maybe I am, you know, the top podcaster in the world.
Maybe I'm the largest philanthropist in the world.
Maybe I'm I'm a best selling author.
Right now, those are roles, clearly.
But you're stepping into the identity of that role.
Right.
So how does a best how does a best selling author think?
Who does what is a best selling author read?
What is a best selling author?
What classes do they take? Right.
And so as you're stepping into you want to be one of the finest coaches,
you want to be whatever it is, you know, one of the most beautiful mothers,
you know,
these are things that that we do, but not knowing who we are by default.
Then other people push on us what we can and cannot do.
Other people have agendas for us of what we're capable of.
If you are not set.
And this is why Jesus was not moved when he asked that question.
It didn't matter.
Some thought he was Elijah.
Some thought he was, you know, John the Baptist.
Some thought he was a prophet.
So it didn't matter because he was grounded in who he was.
Others opinions did not shape him.
So there's an interesting story in Luke
chapter 15 that really shows different identities.
Luke 15.
So
it's there's there's a couple sons and it's mainly around verse 16 that it starts.
And I've labeled in your notes,
I've labeled one identity, is that a victim or slave?
One identity is the overachiever or the self righteous.
And then one identity is the truth of who you are and who the father says that you
are. So there's the interesting story about the father, which represents God,
that has two sons that's found in Luke 15.
And so one of the sons decides that he wants his inheritance before the father
dies, he wants to take the money and he wants to run and he wants to go out to
the world. And so he goes and he spends it all on,
you know, wine, women, songs.
He spends all of the money and finds himself broke,
which is also very interesting.
Whatever your belief about money,
again, it's the same thermostat that I talked about.
Right. And that thermostat, until you change
and raise that identity around money, will continuously self correct.
So if you suddenly make a lot of money,
but you have the identity of someone who does not and you suddenly.
I promise you, you will lose it quickly.
of the equal amount will show up, or some emergency will drain it or it doesn't go through
and you'll get back to that comfort zone, the money that you're comfortable with.
Because there's these limiting beliefs around, if I have too much money, I'll lose, I won't
have any free time.
Or if I have too much money, I'll be greedy.
Or if I have too much money, I'll be less Christian.
Or if I have too much money, people won't like me and I'll lose my friend.
We have these conscious or unconscious beliefs, so we go back to the set point of the identity
around money.
And so, and then a lot of times, it'll take us down.
So I would suspect that this one had the identity of being broke.
And so even though, like lottery winners, like top athletes and musicians and stars,
even though they have a ton of money, they end up back completely broke or worse off.
That's what statistics show.
So that's the case in this Bible study.
So this son loses everything and it says that he attaches himself, asking for a job.
And keep in mind in the story, he's a good Jewish boy and he attaches himself to a pig
farmer and asks for a job feeding the pigs, the lowest, most degrading job, right?
And the verse is really interesting.
It says, and he would gladly have fed on and filled his belly with carapods that the hogs
were eating, but they could not satisfy and nobody gave him anything better.
So there's this interesting idea of settling, again, what's the floor?
His floor was, you know what, I'll just eat the pig food.
They're eating carapods, I'll eat the carapods.
But it couldn't satisfy him physically or spiritually, right?
And maybe many of you feel that way.
Your floor has been too low and you just, you're not satisfied, right?
But then there's an interesting verse that says, then when he came to himself, this is
where I say awareness is the first step of transformation.
He has an awakening, he comes to himself and he changes his self-talk.
And he says, wait a minute, how many of the hired servants of my father have enough food
and even food to spare, but here I am perishing out of hunger.
I will get up and go to my father and I will say to him, father, I have sinned against
heaven and in your sight, I'm no longer worthy to be called your son.
This is one identity that actually is very common.
It's a victim identity.
It's an unworthy identity.
It's the, I am the, you know, chief of sinners.
And you look at, I always say the thoughts and the beliefs, what's the fruit that it's
producing and is it true?
And you know, for a moment, when I think about this identity, I think about Martin Luther.
And I think about Martin Luther was raised in that belief that I'm the chief of sinners
and my body is evil and I'm wicked.
And he would literally beat himself and it was common in that day.
And he would, they would take pilgrimages and travel on their hands and knees until
they're bloody, you know, to try to redeem because they're unworthy sinners, not worthy
of having anything good, worthy of being beaten and despised.
This is a belief system.
And so he's going with this belief system.
We see his identity and he is going to go to the father, but he's not going to the father
as the son.
And this is true of many people going to God.
They're not going to God as a daughter or son.
He's going as a slave.
And you know, that was common because Jesus even had to say, look, I don't call you slave.
I call you friend.
This was a predominant belief system that had to be undone to step into the fullness
of the identity that God has.
And so he says, I'm not worthy to be called your son.
Just make me one of your hired servants.
So here you have a victim mindset, a victim identity.
you have a slave identity, a slave identity, right?
And the father's response is amazing.
He just goes in the direction of the father.
Father who's infinite love, infinite good,
who is seeing things rightly and judging rightly,
is not coming to make him feel like a worthless person
and say, yeah, go be a slave.
And so instead the father runs to greet him
and the father says, bring the very best robe.
You see the robe was to remind him he's the son of a king.
He's an heir to the kingdom.
How many of you need to get back
into wearing the robe of righteousness,
wearing the robe of knowing who you are,
co-heir like we just read in Romans chapter eight.
So bring the best robe and put it on him,
give him a ring, the ring signified authority.
How many of you are stepping in your divine authority
that Jesus said, you can say to this mountain,
be thou removed and it'll be cast into the sea.
How many of you are stepping into your divine authority
that can decree a thing and it's established?
How many of you are stepping into your divine authority
that you were told to heal the sick?
Do you walk by faith and lay hands on the sick, right?
And so he puts the ring on his finger
and he puts sandals on his feet.
You're not a slave, get your shoes on.
You don't have to walk barefoot, okay?
And so here you see the cross of the identity
that the son has one identity about himself
and the father has the true identity son.
Son, you're my son, right?
And so this is what happens to us
is to bring into alignment who God says we are.
And are we living as powerful?
Are we living as someone that carries the spirit of God
and has the mind of Christ
and has the authority of God, right?
Now, interestingly enough in the same parable,
there's two sons, there's another son
and that son, maybe some of you can relate,
this was me, is the overachiever.
That son is working even harder to earn love.
I was taught growing up,
you got approval in my family by working hard.
If you showed you got up before everyone else
and you work longer hours than everyone else
and you didn't eat and you didn't sleep,
you got approval in my family.
Maybe some of you can relate.
And so there's this identity of this overachiever, right?
And a lot of times with that comes a little sense
of indignation or self-righteousness, right?
And so the elder brother, this is the older brother,
hears about this and is absolutely angry.
It says with deep, the Amplified Translation says
with deep seated wrath.
And he resolves not to go in.
I am not celebrating.
I am not taking part of this.
This is completely wrong.
And so the father being infinite love,
being infinite goodness goes out to plead with him.
And he answers his father,
look, these many years I have served you
and I have never disobeyed your command.
Yet you never gave me so much as a little kid,
goat, small goat, that I might revel and feast
and be happy and make merry.
But when this son of yours arrived
who devoured your estate with immoral women,
you've killed for him the wheat, fat and calf.
And the father says something so interesting.
Again, two perspectives.
The father says, son, you're always with me
and all that is mine is yours.
Do you see the mix in the identity?
He's still trying to earn.
He's still trying to prove that he's good enough.
And he's still feeling worthy because of what he does
and his hard work.
And he's not realizing that everything of mine is yours.
Like when scripture says,
you're seated in high places with God,
it's not future sense.
It's not talking about heaven.
It's talking about now.
When scripture says,
come boldly to the throne to get the heaven.
help that you need, to get the grace that you need.
How often are we going to the throne
and stepping into the fullness?
And so this is where identity becomes so important, right?
It's seeing ourselves as powerful as God sees us.
And it's seeing all that we can become,
having the mental flexibility to see our future self
and then to line up our actions, line up our words,
line up our beliefs, line up.
So if we really love this future self,
and there's really powerful exercises
that you can do, where in the book,
I think it's in Be Your Future Self Now,
he opens by telling the story of Mr. Beast.
And I don't know if any of you know who Mr. Beast is,
but Mr. Beast is basically the top YouTuber, I mean,
out there.
And Mr. Beast started, I think he might have been,
I don't remember, 15 years old, 16.
He was very young.
And he had this idea.
And so he created, when he was, I think, 15, I want to say.
Might be 17, but I think it's 15.
He creates four videos.
And he puts them on YouTube, timed
to be released on those dates.
And so one was to be released, if I'm not mistaken,
I want to say three years, five years, 10 years.
I might be mistaken.
And you guys can read the story.
The point is that he spoke to his future self
and what life would look like.
And so the 10-year mark came up.
And it was like, I think the three-year was like,
I'm going to have a million subscribers or something.
And he had like 47 million.
But the point is he could see and he held himself
accountable to that future self.
So you can do it either way.
You can write a letter to your future self.
Or you could have you step into the future self
and you imagine the future self.
And you do the exercise of having the future self talk
to you and say, hey, it's really important.
I know you don't like saving.
I know it takes from your money right now.
But as your future self, I'm telling you,
you're going to be so glad that you're investing right now.
And you're going to be able to have the life that you really,
really want to have.
10 years is going to come really fast.
Or hey, I know that sometimes you just really
think you're not enough.
I'm going to tell you, this is where you're going to be.
And you can do this.
Have grace with yourself.
Don't give up.
Make every moment count.
But the point is bridging the gap
and allowing your future self, which
is in alignment with the word of God, which is truth,
and beginning to build this.
Is that helpful?
Put in the content in the chat if that is helpful for you.
Put in the chat if this is helpful.
And any comments or questions about this.
So if you really look at where we came,
we talked about stepping into the now
and how we view the past so that we use the past as an asset
and not a liability.
So how we choose to reframe the past.
And understanding that it's our now
that can shape how we view our past
and how we glean the blessings from it.
And then it's understanding that how
we can grab from the future vision
by spending time in imagination, spending time journaling,
spending time asking God to show you the vision,
spending time researching what that looks like,
spending time seeing and making moment-by-moment decisions.
We bring that future self to right now.
And then we're always just saying, hey,
is that going to make me more or less of the future self
I want to be?
Would my future self do that?
If my future self wouldn't spend time like that,
I'm not going to spend.
If my future self wouldn't think like that,
I'm not going to think like that.
My future self wouldn't dress like that.
I'm not going to dress like that.
And OK, just looking at some of your feedback.
OK, thank you so much for amazing content.
This is great.
OK, let's keep moving.
Let's keep moving.
I want to cover a little bit more before we wrap it up.
OK, so if you remember, we covered Romans chapter 12.
I think one of the most.
verses one and two, some of the most significant passages in scripture that talks about how does
this change happen. For those of you asking how, how do I do this, right? And it says in Romans 12,
one and two, do not be conformed, okay, by the world, by the world's systems, by the world's
opinions, but be transformed. So the first step is understanding you always have a choice to let
the world shape you, people shape you, opinions shape you, circumstances shape you, or you always
have the ability, this is the amazing part about being human, is to be transformed. That scripture
says that we're being transformed from one glory to another. We're going from glory to glory. And
so, you know, one of the, one of the pictures in my bathroom says, always believe something
wonderful is about to happen. I see that every day when I'm getting ready. And I, I step into
that, that I believe today miracles are going to happen today, something fabulous, every phone call,
everything that I do, something wonderful is going to happen, right? So it's a, it's a mindset,
and it's a mindset that says, I'm not going to be conformed. I don't care what the economy is.
I don't care. I mean, I care who the president is, but I don't have control other than voting. I,
I don't, I'm not going to be conformed to what other people think or say or do, or the world
is doing or the situation or the mountains in my life. I'm going to be transformed by the renewing
of my mind, which means, yes, I love this. Susan says, I can see how making moment to moment
decisions as future self would be valuable. It's a new concept for me. And I'm going to tell you,
it just shapes everything. I had people that have been in the previous few days of calls.
This was a breakthrough for them that they were waiting for God to do something for God to,
to change their circumstances. And this is, this is more common than not people are waiting on God
and God is waiting on you. Okay. Because you have God given ability to choose. You get to choose
your thoughts moment by moment. That's why scripture says, take every thought captive.
You get to choose your words. You know, you guard so carefully what comes out of your mouth,
but that is just revealing what's in your heart. The Bible says, so it says above all guard,
your heart, like, what are you feeling? What emotions are you allowing yourself to tap into?
And so it's beginning to and I've, I've done this in everything from all aspects of business and
life. You know, some of you know that I learned about, I don't know, nine years ago now I learned
Latin ballroom dancing. So I learned salsa dancing and bachata and so on. And I got a really rocky
start. So I could have said in my identity, I'm not a dancer. I, I could say I've got, like people
say, I've got two left people, left feet. They take on an identity like that. It was a rough
start. I could not get it. And actually the person teaching me to dance gave up on me after a couple
of months. I could not learn the double left turn for the life of me, gave up and said to me,
I don't believe you'll ever be a dancer. Now I could take on that identity. I guess I'm just
not a dancer. He said, you don't have the musical training. I didn't no musical training, no dance
training. There was from when I was 16, there was a love of dance that had been stifled for all those
years. I have a choice at that moment. And you have a choice at this moment. There's things you've
been told. I was told it was my vision. My future self was a dancer. I wanted to dance. I was told
that I would not be able to dance. And there was everything in me that on one sense wanted to give
up. It just looks so hopeless. I struggled so roughly. But I chose the identity and someone
else spoke into my life and said, you will be a beautiful dancer. And I chose that identity.
And I got into lessons.
Every day of the week. I danced almost every day and I would say I'm a very beautiful dancer
It's a stage still a long way to go, but I can tell you that with
Consistency and persistency and vision you can do anything. I have the vision that I would speak Spanish
So when I watch any Netflix or anything, I only watch in Spanish. I taught myself Spanish
I'm telling you you're made in the image of God you have infinite potential
You can do anything if there's a desire in your heart
I'm telling you if you'll get clear on that identity and you'll hold that and
You will say to the mountains that rise up be that removed and you will take daily action to be
transformed by the
Renewing of your mind you'll read about it. You'll study about it. You'll talk about it. You'll journal about it
I mean you will eat sleep and drink it
Right that it becomes
Who you are?
So that I'm very clear. I'd like to say I'm a salsa da. I can put that behind me now
I'm a salsa dancer. Absolutely. I'm a dancer. I
Can say that and feel good about it and you know, I began to dress like a dancer
I began to buy the shoes like a dancer. I began to walk in like a dancer
I began to show up like a damn. You feel me? I'm using a random example. You can apply this to you know, I
Made the decision early on that. I would be an
Exceptional coach I'd be one of the top coaches out there, right? You are getting to choose this
This is your God-given ability to choose
right, and so
It's it's the key of just being
Transformed
okay, um and
taking the time to visualize it to see it to write it to think about it and
Not letting your past
Dictate
Who you are?
So there's some verses I want to close with and then I want to do a little closing meditation
Hebrews chapter 12 verses 2 and 3
Hebrews chapter 12 2 and 3
says
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith who for the joy
That was set before him
endured the cross
When I think about how did Jesus
Knowing what was going to come?
How did he do it? The answer is there it says
that for the joy he focused on the joy you
focus on the joy of what will it be to have a six a seven and eight figure business and you focus on the
joy of impacting and you focus on the joy of the
Transformation and you focus on the joy of it and that takes you through the trials of but it's hard right now
But people suck right now
But now the economy is this right now it takes you past that because you're pulling from your future self
right and
Philippians 3 13
Says one thing I do
forgetting what lies behind and
And
Reaching forward to what lies ahead. So there it is right there in Scripture forget
I bless the past I release the past I glean the blessings
Okay, it's not shaping who I am. But instead I forget about that right now. What's really important is
Reaching forward to what lies ahead. I press on toward the goal
You see that's Philippians 3
13 and so as we ask the Lord to help us see ourself as he says and as we
Press in and so some of your homework number one
Write a letter to your current self from your future self practice this
Okay, and then practice in your daily actions
Would my future self do this would my future self wear this wouldn't my future self say this
okay, and then
Allow the Lord to just show you
Who you are and my favorite verse to close with is Ephesians 2
10 and it says for we are God's
Handiwork
is workmanship. That word is poema, poetry. You're actually God's poetry. And scripture
says you're living epistles. You're actually the Bible being lived out. You are scripture
being lived out. You are God's poetry being written. And it says we are God's handiwork,
his workmanship, recreated in Christ, Jesus, born anew, that we may do those good works
which God predestined beforehand. So you've got good works that have already, they're already in
you. They're already in your destiny scroll, right? It says taking paths which he prepared
ahead of time that we should walk in them. So God has created good works and a good path for you.
He's got a good vision for you. You're recreated. You're made in his image afresh again. You're his
poetry, his living word. It says, this is in the Amplified translation, that we should walk in
them, living the good life. There's a good life for you. There's a promised land for you. You've
been pulled out of Egypt, out of those old way of thinking, out of that mindset of slavery, out of
that mindset of poverty, out of that mindset of lack, out of that mindset of not enough. You've
been set free from Egypt. You have a promised land. It says right here, living the good life,
which he pre-arranged. He already made a good life for you. By the way, this is not in heaven.
This is now. You don't have to wait to get to heaven to enjoy the glory, to enjoy the blessings,
to enjoy the abundance, living the good life, which he pre-arranged and made ready for us to live.
So to step into that, what's required? Number one, discovering who am I? Who am I? Who does God say I
am? Who's my future self? Discovering. Number two, practicing, practicing. And number three,
being transformed, being transformed. And in Ephesians 3, 16, I'm going to read one more
verse. It's just too good. It says, this is my prayer. This is really a closing prayer. You can
almost hear this prayer with your eyes closed if you want. Ephesians 3, verses 16 through 20. I'm
just going to read it to you. Just soak it in. Soak it in. And now may he grant you, fill in
your name, may he grant you out of the rich treasury of his glory to be strengthened and
reinforced with mighty power in the inner man, in the inner woman by the Holy Spirit himself,
dwelling in your innermost being and personality. So verse 16, may you be strengthened with might
in your inner woman. Verse 17, may Christ, through your faith, actually dwell, settle down,
abide, make his permanent home in your hearts. And may you be rooted deep in love and founded
securely on love that you may have power and be strong enough to apprehend and grasp with all of
God's people. What is the breadth and the length and the height and the depth of God's love that
you may really come to know practically through experience, through yourselves, the love of Christ
that far surpasses mere knowledge without experience, that you may be filled through all
of your being unto all the fullness of God, that you may have the richest measure of the divine
presence and actually become a body wholly filled and flooded with God himself. Now to him who is able
to carry out his purpose and do super abundantly far over and above all that we dare ask or think
infinitely beyond our highest prayers and desires and thoughts or dreams, to him be all glory.
Amen. This is the truth of who you are. May you realize, yes, you are a body. You're a body that
is actually wholly filled with God's presence, and that God is able to do exceedingly abundantly
above and beyond anything you could ask, hope, or imagine. You think you're imagining big with your
future self over here? You think you're just being all big? Take that, and you're going to each time
10 exit, because what God's able to do in and through you is so far above anything you ask
or imagine. But we've got to be renewed. We've got to let go of the stinking, the slave, the limiting
beliefs, and we must fully step into this identity, this elevated identity, this true identity that
lines up all your hopes and dreams and lines up who God says you are. That's my prayer.
That's my prayer for you, and I'm going to invite each and every one of you two things. Number one,
if you lack clarity or your business is not where you want it to be or your life is not where you
want it to be, schedule a call. Let's talk about it. Let's look at where you're at. Like I did with
that psychotherapist, like I've done. I had a realtor that hadn't sold houses in years, and
as she coached with me, she had a six-figure year. I'm telling you that we can look at what is that
limiting belief. What are the skill sets you need? What are the actions? We can get you there.
Schedule a call, okay? Secondly, maybe coaching isn't for you right now financially, time-wise.
I encourage every single one of you to be part of the Prosper Leader membership. Linda, can you put
the link for the Prosper Leader, the discounted, because if they go to the website, it's going to
be $197. I want them to get it for $99 a month. Linda had the lead, and unfortunately, I don't
have that link. Okay, I am going to grab it. You guys be patient. 30 seconds. I am going to grab
it because it's very important. Let me tell you what's coming, okay? One of the things that's
coming is the AI. You can put on your calendar. On the 13th, the AI masterclass is coming, okay?
Masterclasses are free, so in the Prosper Leader membership, you're going to be meeting every
Thursday with me in office hours to look at what you're doing to support you, to give you the tools,
give you the technology, okay, to be able to grow your business. You're going to be part of, okay, now
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there it is, so that you cannot get this at $197, but you can get it, and yes, Crystal,
during the three months you're in the 90-day program, the Prosper Leader membership is
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Lots of love. Thanks for spending your Saturday morning with me. I pray that something has shifted
within you so powerfully that you will never be the same as you step into your beautiful, beautiful
future self. Love you all. We'll see you soon.