Dorcas is jumping in, Mia, Renee, Brigitte, I hope you guys are all doing great, nice
to be seeing you this morning and goodness me, who is, who's feeling good, who's feeling
good?
Yep.
Yeah?
Feeling good?
Absolutely.
That is great to hear.
Who would want to go back to 2017?
2017, yeah.
You know, like the world we had in 2017, who would want to go, who would want to go back
or who's actually quite happy with the world that we're in right now, even though there's
chaos breaking out like crazy?
Are you like, yeah, I'm feeling like a move of God, or are you like, oh my gosh, this
is terrible, please take me back to 2017?
No, no, no, no.
Well, actually, is it, is it Tita?
How do, yeah?
Um, how you doing?
I'm all right, thank you.
Very good.
Where, where's the picture behind you?
It's a virtual background.
I'm actually in northern Finland with a lot of frost and very cold weather, a lot of snow.
Nice.
I knew, I knew it was a virtual one, but do you know where it's from?
I don't know.
I guess the Bahamas, Hawaii, somewhere.
Somewhere nice.
Well, 2017, I was in Dubai, Samoa, India, you know, like all over the place.
It was great.
2018, we had three weeks on the beach in Samoa running the school of mission.
And it's like, ah, glorious, right?
Like, um, I can't travel right now, but you know, there's so many things are changing,
but I wouldn't want to go back.
I wouldn't trade where we are for anything.
And, um, I'm just crazy excited about 2022.
I've never been more excited about going into a year than I am right now for 2022.
I'm, I just feel like we are on and in the midst of a wild move of God and things are
just changing and shaking and rearranging.
And like, you know, just every time, you know, more chaos unfolds and crazy things happen.
I'm actually, I'm actually getting a little bit excited because check this out for Romans
520, right?
It says, um, where sin increased grace increased all the more.
And one thing that we don't often realize grace is dynamic.
Grace isn't static, right?
The grace that we have on our lives, it's, it's not going to be the same tomorrow as
it is today.
Right?
So the grace that God has placed on your life, it's not going to be the same grace tomorrow
as it is today.
And sometimes when we look into the future, right, we can look into the future and go,
oh man, how, how are we going to survive what's coming?
Well, if you look with the mindset of static grace, that could be really different, difficult,
right?
But what you want to understand is that we're sin abounds, grace much more abounds.
So every time like something crazy in the world happens and you're like, oh my gosh,
these guys are losing it.
They're doing crazy stuff.
You want to be really conscious of the fact of dynamic grace, right?
Because we're sin abounds, grace much more abounds.
So when, when crazy stuff is happening in the earth, when persecution is breaking out,
when chaos is breaking up, what is actually happening at the same time is that there is
a realm of grace expanding.
It's opening up the, there's more grace available right now than ever before in our lifetime
to step into the fullness of what God has for us.
And it gets me wildly crazy excited.
So let's pray.
And, and then we're going to get into this.
We're going to wrap it up right on nine at my time.
So that gives us just over 45 minutes to get into a review and get our heads in a really
exciting space for launching into 2022 for the most phenomenal year of our lives.
So Karen, would you like to pray for us as we, as Karen has lot from Nelson, New Zealand,
a couple of Karen.
So Karen, Karen from Nelson, could you please pray for us?
Be wonderful.
Joe, can you hear me?
Got you good.
Yeah.
Okay.
It's father God.
We just thank you that.
that you love all of us. Lord I just just thank you for the words that Benji has
encouraged us with and Lord yes we need your grace, we need your presence and
Lord I just ask that as Benji speaks this morning that you will just bring your wisdom to us, that you will speak to our hearts.
We just thank you for this year and we thank you that we can come together this
morning and just acknowledge your goodness and your greatness and we just
thank you for all that you are and thank you that you are just with us and you
love us so much and just bless everyone on this call. Amen.
Amen. Papa, Jesus, Yeshua, Holy Spirit, Ruach, the breath of God, we love you Abba
Father, wow we love you and Jesus following you is exhilarating. Jesus
following you is nothing less than Lord the fullness of life and we're so
delighted, so honored, so excited to be running after you Jesus into everything
that you have for us and Jesus whoa I thank you for cracking open the divine
life for us like never before. I thank you for explosions of revelation,
explosions of grace, outpourings of your spirit, awakenings, signs and wonders and
miracles and visions and dreams and encounters. I thank you for seamless
union. I thank you for oneness. I thank you for divine health. I thank you that
we are living in an hour of fulfilled destiny, fulfilled promises, fulfilled
prophecies. I thank you that you are exploding, breaking out all around us
above and beyond what we could have ever did to ask, dream, pray, think or even
imagine. I thank you that we are living in the midst of one of the greatest
moves of God in world history and we say yes and amen to everything that you're
doing. Angels, we welcome you to move around our lives. We welcome every aspect
and facet of the kingdom of heaven. Lord, we welcome the cloud of witnesses. We
welcome the living creatures and we welcome the Lord, the elders before the
throne, every aspect and facet and dynamic and anointing and grace that
heaven has to offer us. We say yes and amen and we want to partner with you
Lord. We want to partner with heaven and run into everything that you have for us.
Papa, I'm just saying right now, Lord, would you give us humble hearts? Lord,
would you give us humble hearts? Would you give us eyes to see? Would you give
us breakthrough revelation just to see even to our own hearts and to our own
lives that you would leave no stone unturned in us, that you would release a
spirit of wisdom and revelation. Lord, that you release the seven spirits, the
spirit of the Lord, the spirit of wisdom and revelation, the spirit of counsel,
the spirit of understanding, the spirit of knowledge, the spirit of might, and
the spirit of the fear of the Lord. Lord, would you give us insight into
ourselves? Would you give us insight into our own mindsets, our own journeys,
our own... Lord, give us insight into the things that are holding us back and
restricting us and give us insight into the opportunities before us. Give us
insight into the limitless possibilities that you have before us. And Papa, we
just ask that you breathe on us, that you take... Lord, you take off the hand
brakes, you take off everything that holds us back, that restricts us, and that
you let us loose like never before. In Jesus' name, amen.
Oh, fam, hope you guys are doing great. You feeling good? I am feeling good.
Right, I've got a few verses for us, right? I've got a few verses for us that I want
to check out, these verses, and just to really like give us a check up from the
neck up and just remind us like, hey, what's possible? Who are we following?
You know, like we're not following, you know, we're not following Barry from
down the road, right? Barry's not our Messiah. Our Messiah is Jesus, and if
we're following Jesus, why don't we want to like a real reality check on how
wild that is? Who is this Jesus that we're following and what's the life
that he's called us into? Like we follow Yahweh, the Creator, the Sustainer, the
Source, the Beginning and the End, the Alpha and the Omega, the King of Kings,
the Lord of Lords. He is the very life of all existence and matter. He is at
the core of everything. Like, who we follow is mind-blowing. I'm going to hit
mute all for you guys, and so I'll just have to unmute you if I get you to chat.
Here we go. A couple of verses for you, so you can go there in your Bibles with me if you want.
Our first one is going to be at John 8, 12. Okay. Come with me to John 8, 12.
This is so good. All right. John 8, 12. Jesus says, first of all, he says,
I am the light of the world. What a great statement. I am the light of the world.
Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but they will have the light of life. First off,
that's an identity statement. I am the light of the world. Matthew 5, 14, he says the same thing.
He says, you are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. So I just want you
to declare over your life right now, I am the light of the world. All right. Now listen, what's
going to be really critical for us as we jump into this part here is you've got to understand that
humility is simply to agree with God. Humility is not to take the lowest position. If God says
that you are the light of the world, you are the light of the world. So John 8, 12, Jesus says,
I am the light of the world. Matthew 5, 14, he says, you are the light of the world.
It's an identity statement. And when you come into harmony, when you come into humility,
when you come into agreement with that statement, it unlocks an entirely different world,
a whole new world. He says, I am the light of the world. That's an identity statement.
So that's how he thinks about himself. So if you're going to think the same way about yourself
as he thinks about himself, something's going to happen because he didn't go geographically,
go anywhere. He says, I'm the light of the world. Whoever follows me, he didn't go anywhere. He's
talking about our mindsets. If our mindsets are the same mindsets that he has, if we think the
same as he thinks, right, if we've got a renewed mind, then here's what's possible. You will never
walk in darkness. All right. So that's a sinless existence, family. That's a sinless existence.
So don't let anyone try and give you faith for a sin filled existence. Don't let any church inspire
faith that you'll never be free. That's chaos. Jesus said, you will never walk in darkness.
How good is that? Now, this is really important because what we're actually doing is we're
actually looking at the divine standard rather than if we look around the world and we look at
churches all around the world, it's very, very hard to find examples of people who have
the same standard and the same example and actually hold up for us as what is possible,
the same limitless opportunities that Jesus did. Right. The standard, the bar, the invitation,
the limitless opportunities, the infinite realm of possibility that Jesus opened us up for. It's
not something that people are talking about a lot. Right. But here's the first thing. All right.
This is a divine standard that we're looking at. You will never walk in darkness. Say,
I will never walk in darkness. Right. That's agreement with Jesus. I will never walk in
darkness and I will have the light of life. Now, the light of life, it's the Greek word
Zoe and Jesus defined that for us. In case you were ever wondering what Zoe is, it's the Greek
word for life. But Jesus defined it, defined it exclusively in case anyone wants to try and
trick you or religion wants to try and minimize or steal or put off into the future or restrict
or diminish what this life is. Jesus already defined it for us. John 14, 6, I am the way,
the truth and the Zoe. The divine life is nothing less than the Christ life. It's the fullness
like Zoe is the divine life. Zoe is the exact same state of being as God. That's what we've
been invited to. That's a divine standard. Divine standard is what we're invited to,
the life that we're invited to is one, we never walk in darkness, a sinless existence,
not only a sinless existence, but an existence where darkness has no influence over us,
where we live, where we rule and reign far above the influence of darkness, right? We are seated
in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, Ephesians 2, 6. So one, the divine life, like what Jesus is
talking about, John 8, 12, for us is a standard, right? A divine standard, which is we never walk
in darkness, a sinless existence where we rule and reign over, like this is Luke 19, 10. I have
given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions to overcome all the power of the enemy
and nothing will harm you, right?
We're seated so far above darkness, if we walk according to divine standards, we live,
we never walk in darkness.
A sinless existence where we rule and reign over every expression, over all the snakes
and scorpions.
Nothing harms us and we trample all the power of the enemy.
Trample, I wouldn't even say trample, right?
The divine standard is that you trample, you trample, you trample on snakes and scorpions,
right?
It's those that trample on snakes and scorpions.
So I want to try and like help you awaken to the divine standard.
Okay, so that's divine standard number one.
The next thing we're going to look at is John 14, 12, you all know it, Jesus said, ha, ha,
ha.
He said, anyone, so say anyone, anyone who has faith in me will do what I've been doing.
They will do even greater things than these.
What is that?
He not only had dominion over the spiritual realm, but he also had dominion over the natural
realm, right?
You are called to dominion over the spiritual realm.
You're a trampler over all the works of the enemy.
You trample on snakes and scorpions, right?
You're a trampler, you're seated high above, you never walk in darkness, you rule and reign
over chaos, right?
You're a trampler seated in heavenly places, okay?
And you are one who does the greater works, right?
You were born for the greater works, anything.
And so this is really important as well.
The greater works is you have dominion over the natural and the supernatural.
This is really important.
Jesus, when he walked on water, what's he demonstrating?
He's demonstrating you have dominion over the natural.
When he multiplied matter, you have dominion over the natural.
When he changed something, the structure, the molecular structure from water into wine,
you have dominion over the natural realm.
Genesis 1, 26, you have dominion over all the earth.
You have dominion over the fish in the sea, dominion over the birds in the heavens, dominion
over all the earth and dominion over everything that creeps on the earth.
You have dominion.
And then Psalm 8, 4-6, again, you have made them a little lower than Elohim, right?
It says a little lower than the angels, but it should be a little lower than Elohim, which
is you've made mankind a little lower than God and you've given him dominion over all
your works, okay, that we should rule and reign.
Okay, now the third one that we're going to look at is one that you all know very well.
Ephesians 3.20, okay?
And let's read it.
Actually, this time we'll read it from the Passion Translation, so the Passion Translation
and the Amplified Classic are my favorite versions of this, but all versions of Ephesians
3.20 are pretty much amazing.
So here we go.
In the Passion Translation, never doubt God's mighty power to work in you and accomplish
all this.
He will achieve infinitely more than your greatest request, your most unbelievable dream
and exceed your wildest imagination.
He will outdo them all for his miraculous power constantly energizes you.
So I wanted to start with that, guys, because we need to be reminded of the divine benchmark.
I mean, everywhere we look, you're going to be set up for disappointment.
Everywhere we look, you're going to be set up to minimize, to decrease, to shrink back,
to withdraw, to downsize your faith, to downsize your dream.
You're going to meet so many Christians and so many pastors and so many churches just
in survival mode, and people are not looking at the divine standard, right?
But we need to actually start with just like a fresh awakening to the divine standard,
which is exhilarating, like the divine standard, the life we've been invited to is the wildest
existence, the most ecstasy filled, bliss filled, glorious existence that anyone could
ever have.
And it's not something that's like a maybe as far as God's concerned, this is a done
deal.
The invitation is there, the doors are open, the invitation has been sent out.
And now he's like, okay, now jump on in.
And then hardly anyone says, yeah, I like the idea of that.
Maybe a few do, right?
Maybe there's a handful of people out there who like the idea of it, but listen, this
is where it gets real.
really pricey right there is a price to this it's not cheap it's it there's a price tag to this and
i love the quote from david which you've probably heard me say how do you get whatever you want
do whatever it takes the secret to getting whatever you want is to do whatever it takes now
um what what we're going to look at right now is seven areas of our lives where we
we're going to look at seven areas of our lives where we have opportunity to increase the level
of stewardship in our life okay um now i there's a guy he's a like he's an archery legend and some
of my friends are bow hunters and they um they like to quote this guy uh his quote is no one
cares work harder um no one cares work harder that's his quote now it's pretty brutal quote
but what he's talking about right is extreme ownership he's talking about the fact that
if you don't have what you want don't be a victim and go around blaming everyone else like
you've spent your entire life creating the existence that you have right now so take
ownership for it right you've spent your entire life creating the existence that you have right
now so take ownership for it because if you aren't going to be in a place of taking extreme
ownership for every area of your life right now then you will miss the the the reality of why
you've got what you've got you've got what you've got because you think how you think you've got
what you've got because you do what you do the way that you do it you know like you've got what
you've got it's the result of mindset skill sets and systems that you've spent your entire life
cultivating and what we have to be really conscious of is that so many of our blind spots so many of
the handbrakes so many of the weaknesses so many of the things that are holding us back so many of
the things that are actually robbing us of our dreams and our destiny are hidden internally
subconsciously unconsciously embedded inside of us and we are actually our own worst enemy
now this is not something that anyone wants to hear but i would suggest that every single time
that i've had a significant well this is just how it is every single time that i've had a major
breakthrough that i've been praying for that i've been busting my guts for fasting for chasing god
for every single time that i've had a major breakthrough um the the main thing that stopped
me from getting into that breakthrough is the lies that i believed all the way along until i had the
encounter where god gave me the truth and then all of a sudden i renewed my mind and the renewed
mind had instant access to the promise all along the issue was that i hadn't renewed my mind there
was a blind spot there was an area where i was like oh man so this is why i like the saying
like humility is simply to agree with god humility is simply to agree with god if god says you're
perfect wow just come into a line with that you're perfect matthew 5 48 be perfect therefore as a
heavenly father is perfect that's who you are so i'm saying this given this divine blueprint because
the divine blueprint is like wow this is what we're invited to and then what we're experiencing
right now right where are you right now compared to what the the invitation to the limitless
possibilities right where are you right now and what's the opportunity so it's so what people
tend to do because they don't want to they don't want to experience the pain of
actually fronting up to the fact that they're their own worst enemy people don't like that
mindset right people don't like pain people spend their whole lives this whole culture revolves
around avoiding pain and so if we don't like pain then we won't want to admit what the standard is
we won't want to admit that the invitation is an invitation to infinite realms of possibility to
limitless opportunities we won't want to admit that because then we're going to have to probably
admit well there's well i'm not there right but this is i'm so happy to admit that i am not there
i'm so far from it because the standard is so glorious the standard is so glorious and amazing
and i'm far from there and listen i'm also really happy to admit that the distance between
the promise and my experience is the unrenewed aspects of my mind
right it's the unrenewed
aspects of my mind that creates the distance between the limitless, the limitless possibilities,
the infinite opportunities in Christ and my experience. What's creating the distance?
The unrenewed mind. Why? How can you tell that? Because I promise you that the renewed
mind has full access. That's why Jesus said, anyone who has faith, because what is faith?
Faith is the renewed mind. You could say that the same thing. He could have said anyone
with a renewed mind will do what I've been doing. They will do even greater things than
these. So you have to actually, we have to be conscious of the fact that, okay, actually
this African proverb is amazing. If there is no enemy within, the enemy without can
do you no harm. So if we're looking at 2022 and going flip, right, 2022, I want to like
step up into the divine assignments. I want to step into the limitless possibilities in
Christ. I want to step into this in 2022. I want to take this to a whole new level.
If you want, if you're in that mindset, you're like, you know what? I want, I want to grow
more in 2022 than I've grown the rest of my life. I got a message last week from someone
doing the, doing the hard things challenge, doing the rite of passage with us. And she
said, you know, I've grown more in the last six months than I have in 10 years in church.
How good is that? Right? You can, you can set yourself up for exponential growth. And
that's what we're going after for 2022 is exponential growth for a whole tribe. Not
just for ones or twos, we want to bring a whole tribe with us. We want to take a whole
movement with us and to on a journey of exponential growth. I want to see in 2020, you know, if
someone can grow more in six months than they have in 10 years, we could make next year.
We could very, very feasibly grow more in 2022 than we have in the last 20 years. It's
extremely feasible, right? That's an opportunity. We could grow more in the next, in 2022, we
could have more growth than we've had in 20 years. And if you haven't been, you know,
following Jesus for 20 years, then you could grow more next year than you have in your
entire, in your entire life that you can crack open. If we'll put in place the principles
for exponential growth, we are opening up the opportunity to make 2022 a year where
we grow exponentially, exceedingly, abundantly above and beyond what we ever asked, dreamed,
prayed, thought, or even imagined. You know, if, uh, and the passion translation that says
he will, um, I love this. He will achieve infinitely, say infinitely, not just he will
achieve your greatest request. He will achieve infinitely more than your greatest request,
infinitely more than your most unbelievable dream. And he will infinitely exceed your wildest
imagination. Now I'll tell you what the renewed mind is in perfect agreement with that.
The renewed mind is in perfect agreement with that statement.
Right. Oh, sweet. I think we've kind of think we're catching it, right? We, uh, we,
we are setting ourselves up for 2022 to step into exponential growth, but it has a price tag.
And, um, and that price tag is going to be our own mindsets, our own skill sets, our own systems.
That's the difference between where you are right now and living in the fullness of John 8, 12,
John 14, 12, Ephesians 3 20. If you want to shift from where you are into the fullness of that,
it's mindset skill sets and systems, and you're the only one that can do anything about it. So,
so imagine this for a moment, right? We've got all this global chaos going on right now,
but what if despite all the global chaos, God would rather that you just took out your own
giants? What if the secret, what if the secret to discipling nations is not actually us being
worried at all about what's going on in governments? There is, there is some responsibility
for us in that space for sure. But what if the real secret was not us being worried about what
everyone else is doing? And what if it was about us actually taking extreme ownership
for ourselves? What if the giants that God really wanted you to slay in 2022 were the giants of
mindsets, skill sets, and systems that are holding you back from living in your own promise?
This is where, this is where extreme ownership really, like really gets in. I've prayed this
prayer for years, God leave no stone
unturned. Leave no stone unturned. You know, like, just go and get it. Like, come on, God.
I and extreme ownership really starts with this. It starts with acknowledging I'm the issue.
Now, this is not being down on yourself. It's just a reality check. All right. It's not it's
not your pastor's fault. It's not your leader's fault. It's not even your trauma's fault. Right.
Here's a crazy thing about your trauma, your past, your wounding. It's not the wounding. It's
not the trauma. It's not the abuse that does the damage. It's your response to the trauma. It's
your response to the wound. It's your response to the abuse that does the damage. Right. The renewed
mind, which you have access to, is totally free from every betrayal, every hurt, every pain. The
renewed mind is 100 percent free from that. Right. So extreme ownership starts realizing, man, flip
every attitude I have, every behavior I have, every minute of the day that I steward,
that's on me. I have the same number of hours in the day as a billionaire does. I have the same
number of hours in the day as someone else who's walking in the promise that I want does. Right.
So this is this the first thing we've just got to go. I mean, first thing really is a reality
check of what's possible. Second thing is taking extreme ownership for me. The giants that you
really need to slay are not, you know, like once you take out your internal giants, then get ready.
You know, it's like classic Bill Johnson thing, but it's not just a Bill Johnson thing. It's just
a Bible thing, just a reality thing. You know, when you have your victories in private,
then you get your victories in public.
You know, you take you get you win your private battles, then you'll start winning public battles.
Okay. So I've got one more principle that I want to help you guys catch. I'm not going to
go to the verse, but it's it's Jesus talking about stewardship with the miners.
It's in Luke. I'm just pulling. I'm just pulling up. It's Luke. Yeah, I thought so. Luke 19,
the parable of the 10 miners. I won't read it to you, but you're all familiar with the parable of
the 10 miners. The parable of the 10 miners is different to the parable of the talents,
because in the parable of the miners, it's at the end of the parable of the miners. Now,
miners was a lot less than talents. Okay. A talent was worth about a million dollars.
Right. A talent was like 10 kilograms of gold. That's a lot. Right. A miner was significantly
less, but it was. So that's interesting. Right. So it's just in that sense, the miners is about
stewarding the small things. Okay. So the parable of the miners is actually about stewarding the
small things. So if you think about this as, okay, the miners stewarding the miners is about
stewarding the small things in your life. It's not the talents. It's not the big things. That was
stewarding the big things, right? That was 10 kilograms of gold. That was all. That was about
millions of dollars stewarding the talents. But the miners is about stewarding the small things
in your life. And what happened when they stewarded the small things is
that Jesus came back and said, well done, put him in charge of 10 cities.
Okay. So understand this. When you steward the small things well,
you will be given a measure of rule, of dominion, of authority.
It's not, and it's not specifically exclusively a financial principle.
All right. Whatever the small things are in your life, if you steward them well,
you will be given a measure of rule, a measure of favor, a measure of grace from heaven that
you wouldn't previously have received and you wouldn't get access to unless you were a good
steward. Now, one of the things that we've got to be really careful about is in the kingdom,
is in the kingdom, some things are performance-based and some things aren't, right?
Your identity is not performance-based, it's unconditional. God's love for you,
it's not performance-based, it's unconditional. Your inheritance, intimacy, oneness with God,
those are not performance-based things. Those are unconditional things. But we've messed things up
and flipped things around because there's other things in the kingdom that are performance-based,
right? Almost everything that's rewards-based is performance-based.
based, right? Most of the things we've talked about today are actually performance based in
the kingdom, right? Based on your capacity to renew your mind, you'll walk in the divine life.
Based on your capacity to renew your mind, you will have dominion over the natural and the
spiritual. Based on your capacity to renew your mind, you will walk in the exceedingly abundantly
above and beyond all that you've ever dared to ask, dream, pray, think, or even imagine.
So you've got to understand what is performance based and what isn't performance based in the
kingdom. Your identity is not performance based. Your oneness with God is not performance based.
Your, you know, your inheritance is not performance based. Those are present reality.
God just said, this is it. I made you in my image before the foundation of the world. This is who
you are, right? So you want to make sure, and those are actually the big foundational things.
You get those big foundational things that are just present reality, not performance based,
just the grace and the gift of God. He made you in his image, in him you live and move and have
your being. You are royalty, a royal son and daughter with a royal inheritance, a member of
the royal family of the universe created to rule and reign over the natural and spiritual. That is
who you are. Once you get those things solid, everything else falls into place. But you've got
to be really conscious of the fact that that's not performance based. But what is favor is
performance based. Jesus had to grow in favor with God and man. And if Jesus had to grow in
favor with God and man, why would you think that you don't? And how do you? So you grow in favor
by stewarding the small things. Right. So let me make this a moment where you get out your pen and
paper. There's seven areas, right? There's seven areas that we are going to steward
like giant slayers in 2022, right? There's seven areas in our lives that we are going to take this
to a whole new level. And we're going to steward these areas with more diligence, with more passion,
with more intentionality than ever before. And as we do, we're going to set ourselves up to see
20 years of growth. We're going to set ourselves up to see exponential growth and increase
massive outpourings of favor in 2022 more than we've seen before. So here's the seven areas.
And this is like this is what we are focused on as a movement, right? Mastering these areas,
mastering how we steward these areas every day. OK, so the first one is sonship,
your spiritual life, mastering that. So if you are taking notes, I want you to write these down
because in a minute we're going to do a little self-assessment. Right. So sonship, that's the
first one. Second one is relationships. You're going to see your spiritual maturity demonstrated
in your relationships. Right.
Like evidence of spiritual maturity is the ability to receive divine love perfectly
and to give perfect expression to divine love.
On the cross, at what point on the cross did Jesus withdraw love? At what point did he get
offended? At what point did he say, oh, no, you've pushed it too far. I'm not going to I'm
going to withdraw love now. I'm going to stop being a perfect expression of love. He didn't.
Right. The thing is, you're going to see when you walk in sonship. Right. When you walk in your
sonship, it will be demonstrated in your relationships, because when you walk in sonship,
people cut you and you bleed love. So that doesn't mean that you're not going to be betrayed.
In fact, I guarantee you that our requirement for you to step into maturity as a son,
a guarantee. Right. This is not my training protocol. This is heaven's protocol.
You can't get there without walking through betrayal. Right. Betrayal is part of the
non-negotiable training protocol to step into sonship. Why? I call it the beauty of betrayal
because it's only in the context of betrayal that you really have your love tested. Now,
in humanity, this is probably one of the biggest missing revelations of the cross,
is that Jesus came to be to reveal the father. Right. Who is the father? We say God is love.
Well, how are you going to test that? How are you going to show that? How are you going to reveal
that God is love? You know, love can only be fully revealed.
revealed in the context of perfect hatred.
Love isn't fully manifest or fully revealed when everything's going well.
Love is fully revealed in the context of betrayal and perfect hatred.
That's when love gets put on display.
And that's what the cross was, the greatest revelation of the Father, because in the context
of betrayal and the fullness of hatred being unleashed on Jesus, His love didn't flinch.
And that is the greatest revelation of the Father that humanity has ever seen.
That is what love looks like.
So number one area is sonship, our spiritual journey.
Second is relationships.
And it's so critical because we're going to like you have so many people saying, oh, sonship,
sonship, sonship, and their relationships suck.
Their capacity to steward relationship, their capacity not to get offended, their capacity
to communicate courageously, their capacity to tidy up their mess, their capacity to maintain
healthy, functional relationship is like through the floor, right?
So that's where our spiritual maturity is going to get tested.
And that's the opportunity for us to demonstrate what love looks like is in the context of
relationships.
So we've got sonship, a spiritual journey, relationships, our health, say divine health
family.
Now, we're going to take this to a whole new level, all right?
Divine health is where we are going.
God has got infinite, limitless opportunities.
The door is open for divine health like never before.
This is a season for divine health.
It's one of the reasons why he's opening the door for the school of divine health, because
now is the hour.
Right.
And then the fourth one is finances.
You've got it, baby.
Finances.
We're going to steward that.
We're going to sort that out.
We're called to be royalty, ruling and reigning.
OK, number five.
Number five is understanding your personal assignment, your vision, your dreams, your
calling, your personal assignment.
Are you engaged?
Are you walking and are you running with are you stewarding the personal assignment that's
on your life?
Or are you distracted doing random stuff and God's like, what the heck is that guy doing?
OK, number six is your work ethic on a daily basis.
What's your work ethic like?
You know, I this is a man.
Proverbs is awesome for this because Solomon pulls no punches on fools and sluggards.
Right. And fools and sluggards.
What's that all about? It's all about your work ethic.
What's your work ethic like?
That's what Solomon's wondering.
He's like, are you a fool?
Are you a sluggard?
It'll be that's what he's always going on about your work ethic.
OK, the seventh one and the seventh one is the single most powerful one.
All right. The seventh one is willpower.
Now, churches don't understand this.
Christians in general don't understand this.
But your willpower, right, that's not some bad thing.
Your willpower, that's your personal sovereignty.
That's your personal sovereignty, your willpower, your capacity, your strength,
your chutzpah, your tenacity, because, listen, your willpower is the is.
If I had to choose to be strong in any of those, I would choose to be strong
and willpower and I would be zero out of ten out of the rest.
All right. Here's why.
Because willpower will give you the ability
to redesign your reality.
Willpower will give you the ability to go, OK, right.
You know what? I'm changing this.
I'm making this decision.
I'm going to I'm going to stand fast in this.
So that's why we have the daily hard things challenge,
because doing hard things is the thing that strengthens willpower like nothing else.
So here's what I want you to do quickly.
Grab those things down.
You've got seven categories there and I want you to give yourself
and you don't have to tell anyone else, but I just want you to ask yourself,
how am I doing in these areas on a one?
You know, on a one to ten scale, how am I doing on these areas?
We're going to do this twice.
First one, I want you to go, where am I at right now?
And you could ask Holy Spirit and he might be cheeky.
And he might give you an answer that you don't expect.
Or you could.
You know, just ask yourself and go, hey, where where where am I at in this?
And. It's really important to assess yourself
in the context of what is possible.
Now, if you saw some of my self-assessments on these, you'd think, man,
that guy's really down on himself because they're so low.
It's not because I'm down on myself.
It's because I've got so much hope.
I've got so much hope for where we are going.
knowing that I would I would be like, I am I like my health, my,
you know, in the area of health, I'm probably, you know, I might
be lucky if I'm, I'm thinking I'm doing a three out of 10. And
people go, Oh, that's a bad score, poor guy. And it's got
nothing to do with the fact that I'm down on myself, I'm feeling
better about my health than I ever have. You know, I just had
a personal goal, I just bench pressed 100 kilograms, and I've
just upgraded, you know, my next goal, I'm excited, you know,
like, cool 110 is my next thing. I'm probably, you know, in some
ways, I'm fitter, faster and stronger than I have been for a
long time. But how much hope do I have in the area of, of
health? A lot. So you just do that for yourself. That's the
first one is where you are on a one to 10 of where you're at
where you're at right now. Next thing is, where do you want to
be for 2022? At the end of 2022? Because I want to go for anyone
who's keen, anyone who's hungry, anyone who who wants to make
this shift in this migration into what God has for us, I want
to do it together as a movement as a tribe as a family, let's go
together, let's go strong on this together. And let's, let's
be a force in the earth. But we've got to understand that the
main giants we have to slay in 2022 are internal giants.
Because those internal giants as we slay those, like we will
become invincible, unstoppable, untouchable. I feel so
invincible right now about what God's doing in the earth. Oh my
goodness, I've, I've never been more excited. I've never been
more exhilarated. Because of where we are going, what I'm
feeling what God's doing, I'm like, come on. And where sin
abounds, grace much more abounds. So every time world
leaders do something ridiculous and insane and chaotic, I'm like,
come on, give me some more of that. Because where sin abounds,
grace much more abounds. And as they do that, they unlock whole
new realms of possibility. Remember, grace is not static.
Grace is dynamic. The grace you have today is not the same grace
you're going to have tomorrow. So when you project and you're
looking into the future and think, oh, things are getting
really bad. It doesn't matter if things look like they're getting
really bad. Put your eye on the fact that grace isn't static,
it's dynamic. So if things look really bad, there's more grace
available in that context than there ever will be. If you look
back, when has God ever not been enough, right? Why? But he's
always been more than enough because grace is always dynamic.
So it doesn't matter what you're going through, where sin abounds,
where chaos abounds, grace much more abounds. So it's exciting
times. And it's exciting year ahead of us. I'm like, when they
go, when world leaders and chaos and all this stuff breaks out,
I'm like, come on, bring us some more. You're doing the work for
me of unlocking the grace. So I'll take it. Oh, a little bit
excited. So next one, we did, I think we did that. So hopefully
what you've put down there is where you want to be, right?
Where you want to be at the end of 2022. On a, you know, just go
through those seven areas. Where do you want to be? Where do you
want to be between now? You're like, we've got a year. And I
want to go on this journey as a family for a year. And I want to
see us outrageously upgrade our lives in all of these areas. By
the end of 2022, I want to see you like with, like David,
right? He just cut Goliath's head off. I want to see you with
a stack of giants heads all mounted in a pile from every
area of every one of those seven areas. Yeah, I've got seven
giants slain. I took, I went where I've never been before. I
went where I've never been before. I took the limits off.
I faced the mindsets, the skillsets, the systems, the
attitudes that were restricting me. I slayed those giants. I
killed my giants. And I, I ran into all that God has for me. So
family, the first challenge that we're going to be doing for
2022 is the rite of passage challenge. Okay, so that's the
12th to the 14th of January New Zealand time, lock that in your
calendars, because we, we are going to be on, I'm going to be
unleashing, I'm just, that's just one that I'm going to be
taking myself. I'm going to be unleashing, we're going to be
setting you up for 2022 like crazy. We're going to
systematically go through all these areas and it's going to be
fire. I'm so buzzing for it. I know God's just going to light
it up like crazy. So get ready for fire. If you want to
run into 2022, burning, blazing, hearts ablaze,
feeling invincible, unstoppable,
excited about the move of God that we're in,
ready to step into the grace that's abounding,
then do not miss the Rite of Passage Challenge.
And I want to encourage you as well,
just bring some friends along to that, right?
We are, like their worlds will get shook up,
lit up and set on fire for 2022.
So if you've got some friends that you know are hungry
and you're like, yep, I want to,
like you know they will want to really light up 2022,
then bring them along for that.
I've got time for one secret of a giant slayer.
I'm going to give you my biggest secret, all right?
This is the single most powerful thing.
So this last year, I've had more problems,
more giants to slay, more like really,
really extremely difficult objects and tasks
before me than ever before,
but I've been able to achieve them more easily
than ever before, all right?
And I want to give you the one principle
that's the single most essential principle
in the life of a giant slayer.
And it's Psalm 37, verse four.
Delight yourself in the Lord
and He will give you the desires of your heart.
David wrote that, right?
Delight yourself in the Lord
and He will give you the desires of your heart.
That is the single most important,
like single secret of a giant slayer
that I believe I can give you, because here's the thing.
God has a thousand answers,
a thousand ways to solve every problem
before you even know it exists.
And there's a place where those answers all reside.
And that place where all those answers all reside
is the place, I call it the garden of delight.
If you turn your heart and your mind
to the garden of delight,
you can walk up against any problem, any issue,
any giant, maintain this attitude of delight,
and you'll find that the sound of your delight
will be the sound of your breakthrough.
But the opposite is true.
That's a double-edged sword.
No delight, no breakthrough,
or average delight, average breakthrough.
The sound of your delight
will be the sound of your breakthrough.
Delight yourself in the Lord
and He will give you the desires of your heart.
It's because when you cultivate the garden of delight,
a sound of delight, the atmosphere of delight,
an attitude of delight, it opens up a realm, right?
There's a dimension, there's a grace, there's anointing,
there's provision, there's capacity.
In fact, I would suggest to you
that the garden of delight
is where the spirit of wisdom will meet you.
And the spirit of wisdom has all the answers that you need.
The spirit of wisdom has a thousand answers
to your problems before you even know
you've got the problem.
So if you cultivate this place,
so the sound of delight and this attitude of delight,
and then attach to that delight faith, right?
A faith that actually just an understanding
that it's in that place of delight
that you will find an abundance of answers
for every issue, every question,
every challenge that you're facing.
All the mindsets, skillsets and systems,
everything you need to abundantly
like overcome that situation,
everything is in that place
of the sound of delight, the garden of delight.
So if you manage that, steward that,
carry that garden of delight,
that atmosphere, attitude of delight,
and be fully persuaded that in that place,
the spirit of wisdom will meet you with the revelation
to answer the solution that you need, you'll find it.
And you'll experience the reality of Psalm 37 verse four,
which is delight yourself in the Lord
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Sweet family, I love you all so much.
Let me pray for you to wrap up,
but don't miss the 12th to the 14th of January.
Have a fantastic Christmas.
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So let me.
And then you guys have a merry, merry Christmas.
Jesus, Holy Spirit, Papa, all of heaven,
angels, living creatures, Spirit of the Lord,
Spirit of wisdom and revelation,
Spirit of counsel, Spirit of understanding,
Spirit of knowledge, Spirit of might,
Spirit of the fear of the Lord.
Oh, a cloud of witnesses, all of heaven,
all of heaven, we engage with you right now.
And all of heaven, we say, come, come, come, come,
and run with us, burn with us, dream with us
as we run into this mission of slaying the giants
in ourselves and discipling nations,
as we run as raising royalty,
as we run as a movement of kingdom royalty,
discipling nations through fulfilled dreams,
and pour out blessing, pour out favor,
pour out fire, pour out grace, pour out anointing,
open doors that only God can open,
close doors that only God can close,
release favor on us, release capacity on us,
release grace on us to go where we've never gone before,
to see what we've never seen before,
to do what we've never done before.
Lord, I thank you for 2022 and 2022
that we will birth dreams that disciple nations,
that we will slay giants, that we will redesign reality,
we will shift our personal lives,
we will shift the atmosphere over nations,
Lord, we will shift cities.
Lord, I thank you that you release grace on us
to do what we've never done before.
I thank you release grace on us to run
in all that you have for us.
I thank you that you release grace on us
to release heaven on earth.
Lord, I thank you that you promised in Daniel 7, 27,
that the court will sit,
the power will be taken away from the enemy,
and will be given to the saints of the most high,
that your kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom,
and every ruler will worship and obey you.
Lord, we just come in right now,
we say, Lord, use us to be those
who are catalysts of building a whole new world.
Use us as those who are catalysts of heaven on earth.
Use us as catalysts for everything that's in your heart.
Use us as catalysts who will outdream darkness.
Use us as catalysts who will, Lord,
be those who run with you to take out
every expression of darkness on the planet.
Lord, help us dream with you beyond what we've ever dreamed.
Lord, help us step into that grace in Ephesians 3, 20,
so we can dream exceedingly, abundantly,
above and beyond what we've ever dared to ask, dream,
pray, think, or even imagine.
Take us beyond our wildest imaginings.
Take us beyond our wildest dreams.
Lord, show us the ways, give us the grace,
give us the keys, the strategies,
the unveiling, the understanding, the revelation,
so we can run in everything you have for us.
In Jesus' name, amen.
Family, we are called to rule and reign
over the natural, over the spiritual.
We are called to be seated,
like we are seated in heavenly places,
and it's time for us to manifest
who we are as the government of God.
It's time for us to displace principalities and powers.
It's time for us to redesign the entire planet.
You've got to get with the program
of what God wants you to participate in.
Right now, God is redesigning the entire world, right?
All the systems that we see right now,
the systems of chaos,
they're gonna burn to the ground,
and out of the ashes is gonna rise a whole new world.
And he is calling you and I to be those
who rebuild a brand new world.
So don't be surprised when he's speaking to you
about systems and infrastructure
and putting in place the things
that will actually be the infrastructure
for a whole new world.
That is what you're called to do.
Yep, Satan's gonna hang himself with his own rope.
We saw the crucifixion.
He's like, yay, I killed God.
Resurrection power gave him one heck of a backlash
that he didn't expect.
The same thing is happening right now.
The systems of the world
are gonna burn themselves to the ground,
and out of the ashes will rise an everlasting kingdom, right?
The kingdom of God is an everlasting kingdom.
The kingdom of darkness is a finite kingdom.
Every single day that goes by
is a day that Satan doesn't get back,
and he's terrified, right?
This is his last stand.
He's like, I don't get yesterday back,
whereas we're a part of an everlasting kingdom,
and we're called, listen, you and I are,
why is God testing you?
Why is he putting you through your paces?
It's because you've gotta be tested
if you wanna rule and reign in the kingdom.
You've gotta be tested.
You've gotta be seen as a faithful steward,
because you know and I know
that we don't want unfaithful leaders.
We've seen in this world enough examples of corrupt leaders,
and we don't want that.
God, bring on the testing.
Test us, purify our hearts,
set us on fire, leave no stone unturned.
Prepare us to be rulers and reigners
who will redesign reality and disciple nations.
This is our time.
2022 we are unleashing. 2022 we're going to a whole new dimension and we're already seeing
things shifting and shaking and rearranging like we never imagined. So get ready it's going to
explode. I love you guys so much. If you're following Jesus, every part of your life should
be exhilarating. Bless you fam. That's us for today. We'll catch you soon. Bye-bye.