All right, good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are, welcome.
This is the Prosper Power Hour.
It's where we are every Wednesday, 8 a.m. Pacific Standard Time.
So glad that all you ladies are here.
We were having a delightful time.
We always start before I record with prayer requests and praise reports, and it's just
a beautiful time to come together, and the purpose of the Power Hour, God began to show
me when we first started this last year, that we need to stand on His Word, and we need
to know His promises so that we can internalize those promises, believe those promises, live
those promises, stand on those promises.
So every Wednesday, of course, we do a promise, we do a principle, we pray, and we leave with
a practice, and that rolls us into Thursdays, and all of this is part of the Prosper Leader
Membership.
Thursdays, we've been doing a series, a 12-week immersion from pressure to partnership, and
so that's where we go deeper.
So we lay the foundation of the Word on Wednesdays, and then we do really deep dives on Thursdays,
and then of course at 9, we do office hours where we work on your business.
So we've been working through the Prosper Framework.
So if you've read my book, Total Soul Prosperity, it's P-R-O-S-P-E-R, and each one of those
stand for something, and it's a complete framework for transformation.
It's something to go back over and over.
It's God's recipe for total transformation, total soul prosperity.
So today we're in the second P. There's two P's in Prosper.
We're in the second P, which is Purpose and Identity.
Now I put Purpose first to have the acronym work, but what you're going to learn today
is that Identity comes before Purpose, and that's a really important distinction.
And so we're going to break that down today.
So Holy Spirit, we just invite you to move, to open our spiritual senses today, to let
us hear your Word and internalize your Word and live your Word.
May you be glorified, may the words of our mouth, the meditation of our heart be pleasing
in your sight.
So Identity before Purpose.
See the common question out there right now that the women are often asking, and that
just comes up in our mind and in our head, you know, what am I supposed to do?
What's my next assignment?
Who am I called to serve?
What should I be building?
Why am I not further along?
What does God want for me in the season, right?
Are those familiar, you know, questions to you?
But beneath those questions, underneath those questions, there's a deeper, a deeper question,
a super important question.
Who am I when I'm not producing, when I'm not building, when I'm not working, when I'm
not creating, who am I?
This is, this is super important.
You see, we can't walk freely in our purpose if we're living from a false identity.
Now what do I mean false identity?
That I have to prove myself, or here's a big one for ladies, that I have to hold everything
together, as if the universe was relying on us, right?
That we get our, we actually get our self-worth, like, like we think we're only valuable.
when we're producing.
I know, I often, do you ladies?
I often judge myself this way.
Oh, this is a bad day.
I didn't get enough done.
I didn't do enough.
I didn't produce enough, right?
And I'll be judging myself.
I'll go, oh wow, this was not a good day.
I didn't get enough done.
And then I've trained myself now.
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Is that old identity thinking
that my worth comes from my doing?
And I'll back up and I'll go,
did you have time with the Lord this morning?
Yeah, yeah, I did.
It was sweet.
Did you grow in the Word?
Yeah, yeah, I did.
And did you worship me today
when you turned on that worship music,
when you were taking a shower?
Did you just feel my presence today?
Yeah, actually I did.
And did you talk to me
when you were walking the dog today?
Did you ask me to lead and are you seeking wisdom?
Yeah, yeah.
And did you have some calls?
Did you post some inspirational things on social media?
Yeah.
Did you have some great calls?
Yeah.
And why are you judging yourself so harshly
like this is a wasted day?
And I don't know if any of you ladies ever feel that way,
but I always feel like I'm behind.
Like I always should be somewhere else.
I always should be doing more.
It's never enough.
And it's an endless cycle.
It doesn't matter how much you're making,
how many clients you have.
Like that feeling is actually deep-rooted old programming.
Right?
And so when we live from this false identity
that my worth comes by what I do
instead of my true identity,
that my worth comes from who I am,
which comes from who God says that I am, right?
So the false identity says I'm only valuable
when I'm producing.
And I gotta be so careful not to disappoint anyone,
not let anyone down, right?
And I'm behind and I'm not enough and I'm too old
and I'm not qualified and I'm not good at this.
Right?
Collette, thank you.
She says, I'm always amazed
at what comes out of your mouth.
It's almost like you're reading my mind.
It's the Lord's heart for you, sister.
I'm just a messenger.
So today is not about finding another assignment.
It's about coming home to who you really are.
And so our promise today, we've got several scriptures.
Our promise today is Isaiah 43, one.
We're going to do an Old Testament and a New Testament.
So in the Old Testament, Isaiah 43, one.
Does anybody have that?
And tell us what translation you're reading from.
Anybody have that?
Isaiah 43, one.
I'm almost there.
I can get it for you.
Okay, perfect.
Okay.
It is the new international version.
Okay.
And it says, but now this is what the Lord says.
He who created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel,
do not fear for I have redeemed you.
I have summoned you by name.
You are mine.
Nice, beautiful.
Anybody else have a different translation?
I have a modern English version.
Okay.
And it says, but now thus says the Lord
who created you, oh Jacob, and he who formed you, oh Israel,
do not fear for I have redeemed you.
I have called you by your name.
You are mine.
I love that.
Thank you.
So it opens with do not fear, and then it says,
says, I have redeemed you. I have called you by name. You are mine.
I have redeemed you. I've called you by name. You are mine.
See, before God speaks about your assignment, he speaks about your belonging.
Before he tells you what to do, he reminds you who you are.
We get this twisted. We get this backwards. He calls you by name. You belong to him now.
This is where identity begins. Not with your title, not with your business, not with your income,
not with your marital status, not with your mistakes, not what other people have called you,
not even what you've called yourself. Identity begins with you are mine.
You are mine. Just let that settle in for a minute. You are mine.
Now, let's go to the New Testament. Let's go to John, when Jesus is talking. John 15, 16.
John 15, 16. These go hand in hand. So here's Jesus talking to us. John 15, 16.
John 15, 16. I have it. Okay. All right. It's that. Sorry. It's the NIV. And it is
he long to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm in Luke.
You said John? Yeah. John 15, 16. It's funny that you did that because we're going to go there.
I literally had it and it flipped my page. You're being prophetic there on that one.
No, it flipped my page. I had it. We're going there. Oh, awesome. I love it. Okay. Hold on.
You said 16, right? Yeah. John 15, 16. Okay. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed
you so that you might go and bear fruit, fruit that will last. And so that whatever you ask
in my name, the father will give you. Love that. Anybody else have a different translation?
Okay. In the modern English version again, you did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed
you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should remain that the father may
give you whatever you ask him in my name. Love that. Love that. Thank you. So let's break that
down one sentence at a time. I chose you, right? We didn't choose God. God chose us. I chose you.
I appointed you. So you're chosen. You're appointed. I placed you. In other words, I
purposely planted you and I intend for you to bear fruit and I intend for that fruit to remain.
So your life is not random. It's not an accident.
You're not too late. You're not too old. All those stories. You're not too experienced. You're not too
all that stuff, right? You've been purposely planted.
Just think about that for a minute.
Purposely planted, the place where you are right now, that might not be your final destination,
but it's not meaningless.
I love, I mean, I always, in my mind, I always combine that with the fact in Romans that
everything's working together for my good.
So here I am, I'm purposely planted.
I may not like a situation, I may want things to change, God may have a bigger vision coming
forward, but right now at this moment, everything's good and I'm purposely planted.
And so God can take your experience, your training, your pain, your restoration, your
voice, your relationships, your business, your testimony, your gifts, even the seasons
that you thought were wasted, and pull it all together.
Let's do one more, Ephesians 2.10, Ephesians 2.10.
This is one of my favorite, favorite scriptures, Ephesians 2.10, Ephesians 2.10.
I have it in the Passion Translation.
Okay, let's do the Passion Translation.
We have become his poetry, a recreated people that will fulfill the destiny he has given
each of us.
For we are joined to Jesus, the anointed one.
Even before we were born, God planned in advance our destiny and good works we would do to
fulfill it.
Love that.
I love the poetry part, I don't know about you all.
Well, I do too, because when it says, other translations say we are his workmanship, and
that word workmanship is poema.
So it literally is, we are God's poetry.
Yeah, that's an accurate translation in the Passion.
When it says we are his workmanship, we are his poema.
That's the original word there.
We are his poetry.
Is that just not astounding to think that God looks at you and says, you're my poetry?
How fun.
But also notice the order.
I've been in all the verses today.
It's really important to notice what comes first.
Notice the order, because what gets messed up is we get these out of order.
So notice the order, first, first, first, first, you are his workmanship.
You are his poetry.
You are his poema.
That comes first.
You are his workmanship.
That's who you are.
Then you walk in the work he prepared.
You see that?
That distinction is so important.
You are his masterpiece before you complete.
He is not putting that in opposite order.
Do the work and you'll be my poetry.
That's how many of us were raised.
Do the work and you'll get a smile from the parents.
If you don't, you get a frown, right?
You get a scolding.
So we learned that our value was tied to our works.
This is opposite.
God looks down and says, oh, my precious poetry.
Just look at you, poetry in motion.
And you're like, God, don't you understand all my flaws and I didn't do enough?
And I feel like I'm disappointing you.
No, who you are, who you are, who he says you are, right?
So your value doesn't come from the work.
This is super important.
We have attached our worth to our work.
And this is a very dangerous thing.
What happens when you can't work?
Well, that's what happens a lot in our society with our seniors.
They're depressed or they lose their job and they're suicidal.
It's such a dangerous place to be attaching our worth to our work.
Our worth is based on who we are, our identity, and our identity is based on who God says we are.
Who's getting something from this? Who's getting an aha right now?
Who's getting something jumping out at them right now?
It's interesting because I've been studying with Jamie Winship, and it's all on identity example, right?
And so I've been going, they have a free, like, 21 day, and it's so great.
Like, it's just tapping in, and I just, I am really, really, between that and my life, coaching, my renewal, and my licensing is all around self-identity, working with these trafficked women.
But, you know, I've learned that I'm like, I am not who I, what I do.
I am who he says I am, an encourager of hope.
And, you know, Brenda, I've always said this when I do presentations, you are dearly loved and chosen.
And yesterday I had the opportunity to pray with one of the nurses that was taking my mom through hospice stuff.
And I told her about my mom praying with women and, you know, praying at the table, right?
This 95-year-old woman that had very little left of life.
And she was like, oh my gosh, she could pray for me.
And I go, well, I can pray for you.
I go, what would you like to pray about?
And I prayed about her identity.
She went through a divorce a year ago.
It was very bitter.
And she was just crying on the phone.
And she just, she said, you made me cry.
And I go, no, this wasn't about me.
I said, but go back to the father.
Start asking about your identity.
And I was crying with her because I'm like, Lord, you are opening up a new place, a new season, a new shift in me so that I can help others.
And that was a God win, right?
So I had to share that because I'm like, oh my gosh, it is so spot on to what I, my training is right now.
So I love it.
It just lights me up because it is breakthrough for women.
We have to know who we are in him.
We've got to, you know, we cannot really serve a great purpose if we don't have that.
Right.
Yeah.
So good.
It just lights me up for sharing that.
Anybody else having an aha, is something shifting for you?
I needed to hear this.
Love that.
Okay.
So, so God's, what's really important here is we notice the order.
You are his workmanship.
You are his poetry.
And then you walk in the work that he prepared.
So you're a masterpiece before you complete the assignment.
So your value doesn't come from your work.
The work flows from who you already are.
It's where you're coming from.
You're not trying to get somewhere.
You're not trying to be good enough to earn enough to be valuable enough to, you're not trying to get somewhere.
You're coming from somewhere.
Like Kim said, imagine how things change when, when, when you're coming from, imagine how things change when you're, you're coming from.
I'm so loved.
I'm, I'm, I'm actually chosen by God.
I'm God's poema.
He's, he's appointed me.
He's anointed me.
He's, he's set me apart.
He's, he's prepared a work for me.
It's coming from fullness.
It's coming from abundance.
It's not coming from lack and emptiness.
If I can just get, if I can just do enough, if I can just be enough, it's coming from identity.
And from that identity, you step into the divine assignment, which you're not doing alone.
We're co-heirs.
We're co-partners, right?
We're co-risen.
We're co-, so, so then we're doing that in partnership.
Okay, God, what are we going to do today?
What's our, what's our adventure today?
And it's that image, right, of being yoked together, and we're yoked together with Jesus.
So it just changes this whole striving and stressing and all of that.
And so when we come from the place, from who God says that you are, you can walk in a confidence
and a purpose that he's already prepared for you, and then your life does bear fruit.
So I think what, I think one of my favorite, and I wrote about this in my book to help
understand it, years ago I heard this and it just moved me, and it's the story of Michelangelo.
And when someone asked him, I don't get it, how do you just take this block of stone,
this block of marble, like this chunk, and create something so beautiful?
Like the statue of David, like if you've ever been to the Louvre, it's incredible, the details
and the amazing handiwork, how do you do that?
And he said, it's simple.
I simply chip away everything that is not David.
What a powerful metaphor that here we are, we already have this identity of who God says
we are, and now to walk that out in beauty in the poema that God speaks about in Ephesians,
it's chipping away all the stuff that is not lined up with that.
The titles, the labels, the belief systems that others have put on us and expectations
that others have put on us, or we've put on ourself, it's chipping away everything that
is not David, that is not Amanda, that is not Colette, that is not Christine, that is
not Kim, right, that is not Natalie, that is not that poema, God's poetry, created before
the foundation of the earth.
So it's so beautiful when we chip away the fear-based that we've adopted for survival.
We chip away the belief that your value comes from productivity or the need to be needed
or the need to prove, how about that one, the need to prove, any of you do that?
I mean, often I just get out there and I just like over, over-deliver, right, just proving,
right, it's old, it's old stuff, the need to receive people's approval, right?
So, you know, in scripture, in Exodus, in Exodus there's the story of Moses and he is
in the second season of his life, he spent 40 years in the palace, now he's spending
40 years tending sheep that are not his own and God attracts his attention with the burning bush
and the bush is on fire but it's not burning up and it gets his attention and he goes there and
God tells him to take off his shoes because he's on holy ground and Moses wants to know,
who are you? God gives him his assignment, he says, who do I say sent me, who are you?
And God says, I am, I am. These are the most powerful words on the planet, they're the name
of God and
Language is so important because when we speak words,
we're speaking these packets of energy that actually,
I mean, the power of life and death is in the tongue, right?
Scripture says our words condemn us, our words justify,
like our words, you know, Jesus would say,
say to the mountain, be thou removed.
If you believe in your heart and you speak with your mouth,
there's so much in scripture about our words.
Our words are so powerful.
And the two most powerful of all our words are I am.
And yet we have to become so conscious.
What do we normally put after the words I am?
Think about the things we say.
I'm just sick and tired of.
We speak these words.
And they enter our being.
So we have to be so careful.
If you wouldn't say it about God, we say, I'm broke.
I'm exhausted.
I'm overwhelmed.
I'm behind.
And then we have all the I am nots too, right?
I am not good at, I am not a speaker.
I am not a leader.
Then we've got the, I'm too much, right?
I'm too, right?
So we've got all of these things
we're putting after the I ams.
And I'm too much and I'm not.
And those statements may describe an emotion
that we're feeling that's very real.
It may describe a circumstance.
It can be fear.
It can be learned belief.
But they don't carry the authority to define your identity.
Our identity is different.
Our identity is received from the one who created us.
So I always say,
awareness is the first step to transformation.
So one of the most important things to take
from this lesson, and then we're gonna go into prayer,
is awareness.
Start being conscious.
Scripture says, guard, stand guard at my mouth.
Being conscious of what we're speaking,
especially to tender ones like our children.
Be conscious.
So instead of saying, I am a failure,
that's identity stuff.
We could say, I experienced a disappointment,
but I'm still God's workmanship.
That was frustrating.
That was disappointing.
That didn't come out the way I hoped,
but I'm still God's poema, right?
Instead of, I'm behind,
we can say, I don't understand the timing,
but I'm still being led.
God's timing is perfect.
I'm led by the Holy Spirit.
You see how we can change our atmosphere
by changing our words.
Instead of, I'm not enough,
because I was never meant to be my own source,
I can say, I'm not enough,
but God's grace is sufficient for me.
Instead of, I'm not good at sales,
or whatever you put that in,
I'm not good at speaking, I'm not good at sales,
we can say, I'm learning to communicate.
I'm learning to communicate value, listen well,
make clear invitation.
So you can always talk about, I'm growing, I'm improving.
You automatically turned to Luke 15, Amanda, which I added in my notes.
I love that, and I don't have time to go into it today, but I do encourage you to read the
story of the prodigal son, and not the way that we typically read it, that yeah, he rebelled,
he asked his father for his inheritance before his father even died, and yeah, he went and
he wasted it on, you know, prostitutes and drinking and all of that stuff, and he ended
up in utter humiliation as a good Jewish boy, he was taking care of pigs.
You didn't even touch a pig as a Jewish boy, let alone live in the pig pen and share the
food, the care of pods with the pig, like this was the ultimate humiliation, but there's
a really powerful word in there, in Luke 15, 17, it says, but when he came to himself,
he didn't just come up with a better strategy, it says when he came to himself, and he started
remembering, wow, my father had a house, my father had provision, my father had, I belong
to someone, there's more in my father's house than here, he came to himself, but there's
still something really missing in this story that you can catch, there's something really
missing, he rehearses a speech, right, and when you listen to the speech, I'm no longer
worthy to be called your son, make me like one of your hired servants, so he was returning
to the father physically, but his internal, his spirit, he was still thinking like a slave,
he was still thinking like a servant, this is important, because just like the prodigal
son, he's returning to the father, he's going in the right direction, and the father's accepting,
he's returning, but he hasn't changed, he hasn't renewed his mind, he's returning as
a servant, he's returning as a slave, and unfortunately, there's too many of us women,
we are say, and we are attempting to walk with God, you may read your Bible, you may go to church,
you may, but if you're still doing it with an unrenewed mind that doesn't know your true identity
and who God says you are, if you're still doing life as a slave, as a servant, you're missing so
much, and we saw that, we saw that last week, you know, when we were talking about Mary and Martha,
right, and so there's this tendency to get so busy doing that we literally make ourselves
slaves, because of programming, because of conditioning, because of how we were taught,
because of what was rewarded, so we may be walking with the father, and God's love is so,
so great, and his grace is so incredible, but scripture says in Romans, we're transformed
by the renewing of our mind, and the first renewing of our mind is not to change what we're
doing, it's to change who we're being, it's not to change where we're going to, it's to change where
we're coming from, and we're coming from, I'm so loved, I'm so chosen, I'm God's workmanship,
I'm his poema, his poetry, I'm redeemed, I'm planted, and from that identity comes purpose,
purpose doesn't come first, we don't set out and go, I just got to find my purpose,
purpose comes from identity, of knowing who you are, and we don't create that identity,
those are false identities that we've created, our true identity is lining up
with what the word says, what God says about us, that's our true identity, and in
That is total freedom. Who the son sets free is free indeed. When you start understanding there's
nothing I can do to make God love me more. There's nothing I can do to make God love me less.
I am who he says I am and I can do what he says I can do. The chains just start falling off.
It's a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful thing. So, you know, the father began to demonstrate that,
to remind him, putting a ring on his finger to say, look, you still carry the family name,
you still have authority. Putting the sandals on his dirty feet. Slaves walked around barefoot,
Slaves walked around barefoot. Sons wore sandals.
And so, getting clear that it's not first about performance. It's about position.
It's not about performance. It's about position. You're not trying to work your way to the
father's house. You're learning to live. You're learning to serve. You're learning to lead. You're
learning to build. You're learning to create from the reality that you already belong.
You're already a daughter of the Most High God to just walk around all day long and say, I
am a daughter of the Most High. And get out of the orphan mentality. The orphan mentality of
overworking to prove our value, of comparing our assignment to someone else's assignment, to
to panic when results are slow, to to fear, you know, and confuse being needed
with being called and to build from fear and to measure our worth by our income or our engagement
or our rights or our approval, like feeling guilty when we rest, struggling to receive support,
believing everything depends on all of this is the orphan spirit. It's not sonship. It's not
daughtership. When our purpose flows from our daughterhood, we can obey without needing applause.
We can work diligently without worshiping productivity.
We can rest without losing our identity.
We can receive help without shame. We can release assignments that have ended, that the season is passed.
We can take courageous, this is big, we can take courageous action without needing to control the outcome.
We can be visible without performing.
We can serve from overflow and not from depletion. Seeing God's daughters depleted is the saddest thing in the whole world.
How can you who carry that that are the temple of the Holy Spirit, who who carry the spirit of God in you, which is life, who has rivers of living water, how can you be depleted?
How can you be depleted only when you're operating out of an orphan slave mentality?
So we begin to allow God to define our success.
All right, I don't want to run out of time. Let's take some time to pray and
Tom, just enter into his presence to renew our mind, right, to renew a right spirit within us.
Okay, who wants to pray first?
Heavenly Father, we just come before you. We just have to say, wow, Lord, wow.
Thank you for this blessing of a teaching from Brenda. The wise words that come from you, Lord.
The the masterpiece of our purpose, knowing like that.
who we are in you, Lord Yahweh,
Father, that we are your dearly loved and chosen daughters,
Father.
We come before you today in prayer and in praise.
We thank you for the blessings that have come upon us,
that have come before us, upon us,
and that will come after, Lord.
And we're so thankful for being in your presence, Lord.
We thank you for the blessing of healing over Elin's hand
and over Colette's hand for healing,
Lord, the blessing of the hands and healing, Lord.
We thank you, Father God, for the message of hope, Lord,
that you have seated us upon today for each woman that
is listening to this right now live and in the replay.
Father, we thank you for bringing upon us prayer
over the men in our lives, Lord.
Whether they are young, whether they are grandkids, Lord,
whether they are grown men, elderly,
whatever that looks like, our fathers, grandfathers,
each and every man, Lord, that they
may know that they are your masterpiece
and that, Lord, that they understand the I am's
and the wholeness that you have for each and every one of them,
Lord, that they would take down the guard,
take down the ego, the things of the world that has allowed
them to look strong, but to render their souls, Lord,
so that they, too, can see how blessed they are, Lord,
that the I am's, Lord, are dearly loved and chosen as well,
Father, that we do not forget the strength of the men
in our lives, that we do not play small roles with them,
Lord, that we are encouragers of hope for those
that are around us, Lord, that we just thank you
for all of that.
We thank you for the encouragement
of each and every one of these wise women in this group,
Lord, for there would be blessings of redemption
and healing and a breakthrough, Father God,
that we would see ourselves in a whole new light, Lord,
and that we move forward in that light
so that our purpose would really be the salt of this earth,
Lord, for your glory.
Just thank you for this, Lord, in your heavenly name.
Amen.
Father, I thank you for the privilege
of coming before you, who has loved us
with such faithfulness, such unwavering,
such unconditional love, Lord, we've
learned such conditional living and performance-based,
fear-based living.
I pray today in this group and all the families that
are represented that this will be broken in Jesus' name,
that we will leave this room transformed
by the renewing of our mind, of knowing
that we are who you say we are, and we
can do what you say we can do.
And may we go forth coming from the beauty of knowing that you're with us,
you never leave us, you never forsake us, that we are the temple of the Holy
Spirit, that you live in us, that we have the mind of Christ, that we have power
and authority, that the power of life and death is in our tongue. May we go
forth as light and as salt.
Lord, every single woman that's listening to this or the recording, may she feel
your love in such a real way today. May every lie that has been spoken over her
by others or by herself be broken in Jesus name. May truth rise up and may
these women step boldly into all that you've called them to as we partner with
you, Lord God. Let your spirit float like a mighty river, washing out the old and
bringing life and health and hope to a world that is feeling scared and
confused.
We love you, Lord. I thank you for these women. Bless these women. Bless them in
their coming. Bless them in their going. Bless them in their rising. Bless them
in their sleeping. Bless the work of their hands that it prospers. But most of
all, Lord, bless their hearts with peace and joy and love and the fruits of the
Holy Spirit. Be glorified, Lord, in Jesus name. Amen. I love you, sisters. We're
gonna go deeper tomorrow. Get ready. We're gonna take this even deeper and deeper.
We'll see you tomorrow, 8 a.m. Blessings.