Hey, how are you guys doing?
This is it.
We're about to go live again with round two of Life Redefined.
We're going to upgrade our normal in 14 days.
It is fantastic to have you with us tonight.
Really, really great to see the connection going.
Hey, Sara Driel, Sousa, hey, where are you?
Oh, cool.
Welcome.
And Janet.
Great to have you guys.
Hello, hello, hello.
Alicia, hello, beautiful people.
Hey, Tanya, kia ora, kia ora.
Good to see you beautiful people.
Hi, Janet.
Love you guys.
Hopefully, it's sounding a bit better than the other day.
Give me a thumbs up if it's already sounding a little bit better.
Hey, Dean, my man.
Good to have you with us.
Boom.
Thumbs up.
It's sounding better.
Apologies for the audio.
I had a fancy microphone, and it was so fancy that I failed at one of the settings.
So this time, slightly different microphone, more simple, but easier to work with.
Oh, it's great to have you, Tracy.
Yes, it is good to have the peeps.
Phil, my man.
Good to see you guys.
Loving it.
Well, I am really excited.
I'm always excited.
I don't know if you've noticed that.
We've only done a couple of sessions together.
You've probably seen a couple of my videos.
If you know me in real life, you know this is basically who I am all the time.
I'm excited.
Just life is exhilarating.
Exhilarating is such a beautiful word when you want to accurately describe life.
Oh, wow.
So great to have you here, great to have those that are here with us already, and great to
be connecting with those that are going to be watching this in delayed coverage.
You guys are amazing.
I'm really looking forward to what Papa is going to do.
Our love goes out to Jillian Scott as well.
If you haven't connected with Jillian, who's in the group, she has gone to hospital today.
She had a little bit of an injury, but she's doing good, so prayers for Jillian would be
awesome.
Alan and Sandy, good to have you guys with us too.
So we're going to talk tonight about the beautiful journey.
Curry, there you are, there you are, and it's the beautiful journey from the orphan illusion
into the bliss of sonship, which is, man, this is the best news ever.
This is the too good to be true news that Jesus was all about, is that we can transition
from chaos into bliss.
We can transition from chaos into shalom, and we're going to jump into that soon.
I'd love to get just a few, I've got a couple of ideas, things that I want to shout out
and work on just getting some engagement with you guys.
Carolyn, welcome.
Oh, and Carla, good to have you guys.
So doing these online sessions are totally different to normal preaching, like preaching
with a crowd.
If you look, I'm in my office right now, and there's no one here at all.
Sue, good to have Sue.
And Liza, just, you guys are awesome.
But preaching in my office to a camera, even though I can see some thumbs up and things
like that, is totally different to preaching to an audience.
If you know me much at all, I really like to have a lot of fun, and I'm really kind
of sometimes bordering on inappropriate and just in a kind of like a fun, dynamic, crazy
fun way.
I like to have a lot of silly fun and get a lot of audience interaction, so it's really
different when I'm just speaking to a camera, which is awesome as well, because I can see
you guys' thumbs up, but I want to generate some more connection as well.
I want to really build a sense of family in this group and see us kind of start drawing
together even though we're online.
You guys are all real people, and I know there's so many amazing people in this group, and
I'd love to start having us interact, connect, and build a sense of divine family here in
the group.
Build a sense of real deep connection.
In New Zealand, we would say whanau ngatanga in Maori.
Hey Jan, hey Alan, thanks for the heads up, good to see you guys.
So first of all, I want to ask a question.
Jane, I want to ask you a question. This question has a three-word answer and I'd love to get you
just typing out these three-word answers. We're going to take a moment to do that shortly.
The question is, we're not going to answer this right now, eh Margaret? I'm going to ask the
question and then I'm going to pray and then after I've prayed it'll be a chance there. I'm just
going to create some space for you guys to answer this question in three words, okay? So just type
those words down and post them. So the question, don't worry about answering it just yet. Thanks
Sandy, good to have you here. The question, I'm going to ask the question, it's a three-word
answer, then I'm going to pray and just chuck out a couple of Bible verses and then I want to hear
from you guys some of these answers. Hi Carla. So the question is, are you ready for it?
I'd love to hear your top three struggles with God. If you had to put just three words,
the top three struggles and challenges that you've had with God, what would be your top
three words? Okay, you're not going to answer those right now. I'm going to pray. For me,
it would be condemnation and it would be disconnection and it would be inadequacy.
Those would be my three big ones. So I'm going to pray now. You have a little think about what
would your three be and once I finish praying, we'll just do a little bit of shouting out on
what would your top three struggles be in your life with God. So let's pray. Just join with me
as we set our attention on the presence of God. Abba Father, King Jesus, Holy Spirit, beautiful
Trinity. I thank you so much for your presence absolutely everywhere that every single person
is right now. Your glory already fills the room. Wow. Wow. And we stop right now
and we'll put our attention on you Trinity.
And we give you all the honor. We give you all the praise. We give you all the joy. We give you
all the glory. You're perfect in every way. Our hearts burn for you. We love you and Trinity,
we welcome you to overflow in this conversation, to overflow in our hearts, to overflow in our
lives, to overflow through this camera and microphone all over the world that your
glory would just be tangibly released into those rooms that your manifested presence
would descend on people. Whoa. That waves of your liquid love would just begin to flow through
people's bodies that a baptism in your love would just begin to saturate people right where they
are. Whoa. Just like your love is saturating me right now. I ask that your love would saturate
and baptize and immerse and be poured out over every single person. Whoa. In Jesus name Lord,
let your glory, let your glory build. Let the atmosphere of heaven flood this place
and Holy Spirit, Abba Father, King Jesus, beautiful Trinity. We ask that you swallow us up in the
divine dance. We ask that you swallow us up in seamless union. We ask that you surround us with
the atmosphere of heaven and you just engulf us into your union, into your oneness, and that you
would swallow us up in your love, that we would be completely immersed and saturated and consumed in
a baptism of your perfect love. Whoa. That it would leave us undone and wrecked, that you would be the
hero of the moment, that your presence, your tangible reality, your goodness, your kindness,
your power, your love, the wonder of who you are. We ask that you would be
center stage and in the spotlight in Jesus name. Whoa. Amen. Oh.
Nothing better than getting undone in the presence of God. Hey, we're going to be talking about
the state of sonship, so let me just read out a few verses and I just would
just encourage you, just marinate in these verses right now as I
just read out some scripture for you that's all about
the state of sonship. So just where you are, just kind of get into a state where you can relax,
where you're like, wow, you can just receive the goodness and the glory and the kindness of God,
and where you can receive a baptism in his love, just right where you are right now.
Let me read out a few beautiful verses. Matthew 3, 16 to 17, this is in the message.
The moment Jesus came up out of the baptismal waters, the skies opened up and he saw God's
spirit. So right there we have the Trinity, the father, the son, and the spirit. Jesus saw God's
spirit. It looks like a dove descending and landing on him. And along with the spirit, a voice.
And what is this voice? It's the voice of the father. The voice says, this is my son chosen
and marked by my love, the delight of my life. Wow. And as we looked at John 17, a couple of
days ago, Jesus said that the father loves us with the exact same love that he loves Jesus.
And in mature love, it culminates in total delight. So this is the father's love for you
revealed here. It says, this is my son chosen and marked by my love, the delight of my life.
And you, right where you are right now, exactly as you are without performing, without doing
anything at all, even if you're in your worst day, your worst hour, your worst season or your
best hour, your best day, your best season, you have been chosen and marked by the love of the
father and you are the delight of his life. Wow. You're the essence of the delight of the Trinity.
You are the fuel of the Trinity's delight. They love you so much. Just who you are is,
you're the fuel of the delight of the Trinity. Wow. And then Matthew 17, five. So that was Matthew
three, 16 to 17, Matthew three, uh, sorry, Matthew 17 verse five. Uh, it's on the Mount of
Transfiguration and the message says this while he was going on babbling like this, a light radiant
cloud enveloped them, just swallowed them up and sounding from deep in the cloud of voice.
And this is the father's voice. Again, there's two times when the father speaks audibly from heaven
and the new Testament over Jesus. And guess what he wants to say again, that the number one, uh,
message, the number one concern, the number one thing on the heart of the father, when he audibly
speaks from heaven over his son, the first time it was, you were marked, uh, by my love. You're
the delight of my life. And the second time he says, this is my son marked by my love. Wow.
Marked by my love. Uh, wow. Marked by my love. The focus of my delight. Listen to him.
Wow. How good is that? That the number one thing on the heart of the father for his son, the number
one, the most important critical thing on the mind, on the heart of our father in heaven has
always been and will always be that we are fully persuaded that we know that we are certain without
a shadow of doubt that we are the focus of his delight, that we are the delight of his life.
That's what he wants us to know. Oh, wow. That's the reality that he wants us to live in. The,
the, the place that he wants us to live in as a moment by moment existence,
enveloped, you know, that city, they were enveloped by the cloud, enveloped by the
presence, enveloped, totally swallowed up, consumed by this baptism in love.
Wow. Wow. And that is what is on the heart of the father for you tonight, right where you are. If
he could break into your world and audibly speak to you right now, if that was, if that's what
happened, the number one thing that our father in heaven would want to say to you, the number
one message, the number one thing that he would want to impart to you is the conviction, the full
persuasion that you are the absolute focus of his delight and you are the absolute complete
delight of his life. And, and knowing that will leave you, he wants to have you marked by his
love. He wants to have you marked by his love.
like an encounter with His love that marks you. An encounter with His love that changes you forever
so that you are never never never the same. And wow there are love encounters
aplenty on store tonight. So I hope that was beautiful. I hope you liked that. Let me jam
off a couple more scriptures for you. Zephaniah 3 17. I love this. For the Lord your God
is living among you. He is a mighty Savior. He will take delight in you. Yes He will take
delight in you. He loves you. He will take delight in you. He will take delight in you
with gladness. With His love He will calm all your fears. Wow. And He will rejoice
over you with joyful songs. This is your Papa. This is your Daddy. He will rejoice over you
with joyful songs. This is who He is. This is how He rolls. This is how He acts. This is how He lives.
This is how He moves and breathes. This is the dance of the Trinity. It's a dance of radical,
unconditional, extravagant, perpetual, non-stop delight over you. It's like when you're listening
to the Trinity, if you're tuned in, if you're actually tuned into the heart of the Father,
if you're tuned in to the heart of the Trinity, that station is called Bliss FM.
If you can hear the true nature of the Father, if you can hear the true nature of the Trinity,
if you can hear the true, the sound that's emanating from heaven over you, that sound,
it's like if it was a radio station and you tuned in, it would be called Bliss FM.
And so some of us tonight, I just declare in the name of Jesus, that some of us tonight are
changing our station from Chaos FM, from Depression FM, from Broken FM, from Distraught FM,
from Disconnected FM, from Separated FM, from Orphan FM, into Sonship FM, into the Bliss,
into Bliss FM. Yes. Oh, come on. So good word there. Sandy's just put up Song of Songs 8,
which is actually on my list of scriptures as well. Sandy, that's very cool. Check this out,
Isaiah 62, no longer will you be called deserted or name your land desolate, but you will be called
my delight is in her. Wow. There he goes again, the Trinity, Old Testament, New Testament. They're
so delighted in us and that's their heart to include us in this divine dance of delight and
bliss. It's always been their heart. It's always been their attention. Yes, Carla, Bliss FM.
And your land will be called married for the Lord will take delight in you.
The Lord will take delight in you and your land will be married. As a young man marries a young
woman, so will your builder marry you. And as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride,
so will your God rejoice over you. Wow. Wow. So, man, just think about that. Think about how
delighted young men are over their brand new wife. Oh, my gosh. That is, there's a lot of
excitement, a lot of delight, a lot of rejoicing when a young man goes, oh, my gosh, I have won
the pick of the prize. I have the ultimate bride. I have I have landed it. Wow. I've landed. I have
this is the woman of my dreams. That that rejoicing is intense. It's extreme. You couldn't
get a like a sense of greater rejoicing. The testosterone levels are extreme. The hormone
levels are extreme. The emotions are running through the roof when a young man rejoices over
his bride. Wow. And that's how the Trinity rejoices over you. That's how they're rejoicing
over you right now. Romans 5, 8. But God demonstrates his own love. Now, remember,
love, mature love, when love is fully matured, it looks like delight. When love is fully matured,
it looks like delight. So, but God demonstrates his own love. Or you could read it,
but God demonstrates his own delight for us in this. So even while we're still sinners,
he's delighted over us. Wow. Come on. A papa that's delighted in us before we even realize it.
But God demonstrates his own love or delight for us in this. While we were still sinners,
Christ died for us. Totally, radically, outrageously unconditional.
Song of Songs 8, set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is as strong as
death, jealousy as fierce as the grave, its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord.
How awesome is that? The flame of the Lord, the flame of the Lord is His love. The fiery burning
intensity of the Lord is His love. Let's read that again. For love is as strong as death,
jealousy as fierce as the grave, its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord. So
the flame of the Lord, the fire of the Lord, the all-consuming fire is an all-consuming fire of
love. It's an all-consuming baptism in love. Yes! And here's a little bit of what that produces for
us. John 15 11, here's a radical word from Jesus. John 15 11, I have spoken these things unto you.
So basically he's summarizing, here's why I've even preached the gospel to you.
Even, even while, so this is, yeah, Jesus is saying this is the, like, the summary of the
gospel. Here's why I've brought you this message. Here's the purpose. Here's the fruit that the
gospel will produce when you get what the gospel is all about. I have spoken these things unto you
so that my joy will continuously infuse you. What? That's the purpose of the gospel right there.
When you get the gospel, this is what happens. When you understand the message that Jesus brought,
this is what happens. When you get what he was talking about, this is the fruit in your life.
I have spoken these things unto you so that my joy will infuse you. What? Yes, there right there,
Jesus is saying this is the purpose of the gospel. When you get the gospel, you'll be infused
with divine joy. You'll be infused with divine ecstasy. You'll be infused with divine bliss.
The bliss of the Trinity will be yours. The ecstasy of the Trinity will be yours. The delight
of the Trinity will be yours. The same exact same state of being of the Trinity will be yours. Yes.
And then it goes on to say you don't have to invent your own joy. If you can tap into mine,
this is the ultimate bliss. Oh wow. We're not called to just create our own joy. We're not
going to try to work it up, but we actually participate in the same joy that the Trinity
shares in the divine dance. There's this unbroken cycle of divine love. As we get swallowed up in
that unbroken cycle of divine love, when we catch the gospel, when we understand what the gospel is
about, it leads to us being swallowed up in a baptism of divine love. It leads to us being
consumed. It leads to us being absolutely immersed and perfectly, seamlessly, effortlessly participating
in this divine union. Hey, loving all the comments, guys. Thanks for the comments.
Whoa. So encouraging seeing those comments. So yeah, appreciate it. Thanks for that. And
great having everyone watching in. Are these good scriptures? Are you loving some Bible right now?
The Bible of bliss? Give a thumbs up if you are loving this Bible right now. I'm getting so
blessed, blissed out, blasted. Whoa. Just reading the Bible. It's the Bible of bliss.
Oh, yes. It's good stuff. This is good vitamin. Psalm 16, verse 11. Oh, yes. There's some thumbs
up. People liking this good Bible action. Psalm 16, 11. You make known to me the path of life.
In your presence, there is fullness. Oh, fullness. Yes. Fullness of joy. Yes. In his presence,
in the fellowship of the Trinity, is the fullness of joy. And we get included into that. We
participate in that. We participate in the fullness of joy. Wow. It is right here because his presence
is here. Oh, man. I'm feeling that joy exploding. If you don't realize right now, what's happening
for me is I'm having a supernatural experience as the bliss and the love and the fire and the joy
and the ecstasy of the Trinity. The divine dance is just exploding on the inside of me right now.
It's like under my skin right now is like serious spiritual fireworks going off of bliss and joy,
and I am loving it. So, Psalm 16, 11. You make known to me the path of life. In your presence,
there is fullness of joy. At your right hand are pleasures forever. More pleasures and joy
and bliss. This is good Bible. Romans 15, 13. May the God of hope fill you with all joy and
peace as you trust in him so that you may overflow
with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
What? Let's read that again.
May the God of hope fill you with all joy.
Hey Uri, love you. Good to have you here from Germany.
Wow.
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him
so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
May He fill you with all joy and peace. May He fill you.
And right now, may that be a living word.
May that be a living word that jumps through the microphone and the camera
and gets you right where you're sitting.
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and all peace
that you may overflow with hope.
Come on.
By the power of the Holy Spirit.
Boom!
Let that come get you.
Philippians 3 verse 1.
The conclusion of your faith is extreme gladness in the Lord.
Extreme gladness of the Lord.
The conclusion of your faith is extreme gladness in the Lord.
He is your constant reference to bliss.
Oh, this is the Bible we're reading.
It's just ecstatic goodness.
He is your constant reference to bliss.
I'm not just saying this to be repetitive.
Joy is your fortress.
There is no safer place to be but to be ecstatically happy.
Oh.
Mmm.
Come on.
Wow.
The conclusion of your faith is extreme gladness in the Lord.
He is your constant reference to bliss.
I'm not just saying this to be repetitive.
Joy is your fortress.
There is no safer place to be but to be ecstatically happy.
Philippians 3 verse 1.
That's the mirror translation.
If you haven't got a copy of the mirror translation, you will love it.
Wow.
Jude 24 to 25.
Now to him who is able to keep you without stumbling or slipping or falling
and to present you unblemished, blameless, and faultless
before the presence of his glory in triumphant joy and exaltation
with unspeakable.
What did you just say?
Yes.
With unspeakable ecstatic delight.
That's what happens.
That's what happens to you.
That's how it culminates.
That's where it goes.
You come to this place of triumphant joy and exaltation
with unspeakable ecstatic delight.
Now that's what sonship looks like.
1 Peter 1.8.
Though you have not seen him, you love him.
And even though you do not see him now, you believe in him
and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy.
Three more scriptures for you.
All juicy good ones.
1 Thessalonians 5.16-18
Rejoice at all times. Pray without ceasing.
Give thanks in every circumstance for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.
If you've ever been confused or wondered what the will of God for you is,
give thanks in all circumstances.
There you go. That's a power line right there.
Are you confused about the will of God for your life?
The first thing you need to know is that the number one will of God for your life
is that you would be thankful right here, right now.
Are you thankful? If you're thankful, if you're rejoicing,
then boom, you're in the will of God.
That's the first thing you need to get right.
You can take care of the other things after that.
It's much easier when you get the first things first.
The first thing in order to walk in the will of God
is rejoice and be thankful in all circumstances.
Once you tip that box, the rest will come easily.
Philippians 4 verse 4. This is the mirror translation again.
Joy is not a luxury option.
Oh, joy is not a luxury option.
Joy is your constant.
Your union in the Lord is your permanent source of delight.
Not a sauce like a tomato sauce.
Different type of sauce.
But it's a good sauce.
Even if this was like a tomato sauce type of sauce and you could get it in a bottle,
this is the sauce that I would want.
I would want this sauce.
I would put this sauce on my breakfast.
I would put this sauce on my lunch.
I would put this sauce on my ice cream.
Yes, that's right.
You would put this sauce on your ice cream
because this is Philippians 4 verse 4 in the mirror translation.
Joy is not a luxury option.
Joy is your constant.
constant. Your union in the Lord is your permanent source of delight. Ah that's a good source. You
want the source of delight. So I might as well say it again. Rejoice in the Lord always. Rejoice
in the Lord always. And the last one. Psalm 37 verse 4. Delight yourself in the Lord and He will
give you the desires of your heart. Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the
desires of your heart. And when you are walking in your sonship. When you are walking in your
sonship, delight. Delight becomes your. Delight becomes your normal. Delight becomes your
primary emotion. Wow. Delight becomes your primary emotion when you discover your sonship.
When you are walking in your sonship. Delight becomes your primary emotion. How good is that?
Ah that is some seriously good chicken. Right. Now we are going to. I want to just
give you that chance now to answer the question. Now if you just jumped on. There was a question
that I asked right at the beginning. And the question is in three words. In three words I'd
like you to describe your biggest. Your top three struggles. So just three words. What are your top
three struggles ah when it comes to relationship with the Lord. Not necessarily right now. But
historically over your life. Ah what have been the top three struggles that you have had ah in
your God relationship. In your Christian experience. I'm going to create a little bit of
space now for you to answer this. I'd love you just to write them down. Ah write them down now
and just let them pop up on the screen. What are. What were your top three. Your number. You know
your top three struggles. Challenges with God that you've had. So mine was condemnation. Ah
separation and inadequacy. Those are probably. Those are probably the top three. Ah I've had
other issues. But those are. Yeah I've got a. I've had a lot of other issues. Not short on the
issues. Not short on the issues list. A lot of other issues. But there's top. There's three.
So I'm just. Oh yep. Ah yeah there you go. Shame. Guilt. Distance. Rejection. Insecurity. Fear.
Ah yeah. So chuck some more down there guys. What have been the. What have been the biggest ones.
So shame. Guilt. Fear. Ah those other ones. These posts scroll up the page. So
ah confusion. Disapproval. Ah expectation. Obligation. Yep. Ah waiting. Timing. Ah why
aren't I healed. Distance. Yeah. Totally religion. Self worth. Fear. Yeah those are. Those are
massive. Massive challenges that we face on a regular basis. Those are. They're common things.
It's just. They're cycles over and over again. Perpetuating themselves all over the world. Yep.
Performance. Rejection. Ah struggling. Resting. Inadequacy. Ah yep. Boom. A lot of stuff man.
And these are. These are just the world over you know. It's not just us. Yep. Fear and condemnation
and intimacy. Yep. Distance. Resting. Receiving. Yep. Those are. Those are massive ones.
Um now ah just give me a thumbs up if um if we're still live. I've just seen something.
Just ah yeah. Trust. Shame. Rejection. Yeah. Forgiveness. Worthiness. Temptation. Yeah.
Massive stuff. So we're. Yeah. All over the world. Yeah. Unqualified. Don't know how to hear the
voice of the Holy Spirit. Fatherless. Oh massive stuff. Yeah. Fear. Rejection. Intimacy. Yeah those
are huge things. Yep. Cheers guys. I just um I'm watching it on my laptop down here as well and it
uh just gives me updates if there's any any issues. So those are massive things and those are all like
those are all a massive part of the orphan illusion. Um so we're gonna. I'm gonna jump into
our our our session tonight and jump into the meat of that. At the end um yeah oh wrong father
figure. Yep that's massive Margaret as well. At the end I'm gonna ask you uh actually no we'll do
this yeah we'll we'll do this uh we'll do this at the you know maybe sometime in the end or
oh yeah performance pressure. Those are massive. Shame. Trustworthiness. Yep. Huge things there.
Inadequacy. Performance. Disconnection. Yeah Dean those are those are massive issues for all of us
and I don't think that anyone's gonna come up with something that that the rest of us wouldn't
identify with or be like oh no I didn't have that. I mean most of us
gone through all of these cycles and they're not just one-off things that we just have that one
moment it's like man we are dealing with these on a regular basis even um and these so many of
these are just gnarly gnarly feelings uh that you experience and they can be they can really come on
with so much pressure who uh just give a just give a thumbs up if you felt the extreme pressure
of these feelings just feel like that's going to crush your world you know you've had a sense of
inadequacy that's so strong or a sense of rejection or a sense of disconnection or a sense
of condemnation or shame or unworthiness or this feeling you've been so unlovable that the pressure
just comes on your life and just like oh man this is intense just yep you've been you guys have all
been there you've all felt that uh yeah man i have felt that so much so many times i can't even count
how many times i've been there how long i've lived in it i don't know how many years i lived in it
but i struggle with it um but you know as we as we go on later on in the message a little bit
yep more condemnation trust shame fear torment rejection yeah more of those crazy issues coming
out for people so much of that but um as we go on in the message i'm gonna ask uh yeah inadequacy
performance trust all these same themes that we're all struggling with these all over and over again
we're going to start putting those to death we'll go to the root religion doesn't deal with the root
cause of all this junk so it means that we have to keep on dealing with it cyclically but jesus
uh has a promise and a pathway pathway for us to actually put those things to death forever
so that we don't actually have to live with them that was never the divine design that's
not a part of the divine dance uh and that's not a part of our destiny or our calling
uh religion won't solve that for you but jesus will totally solve that for you and the truth
will absolutely completely liberate you from that in every way so that you never have to deal with
it again that's legitimately how the truth works it doesn't set you free partially whom the sun
sets free is free indeed from all of that junk now if we're just going to play religious games
if we're going to just stick with the mainstream gospel that's perpetuating a viral outbreak of
orphans then i'm sorry we're just going to have to live with that stuff over and over that will
just be our constant battle our constant struggle dealing with all this junk that's perpetuated by
the orphan illusion but when we discover the truth that jesus came to articulate a truth that actually
sets us free the cross revealed a truth a powerful truth that genuinely actually will set us free
the blood of jesus genuinely does cleanse us genuinely does set us free absolutely perfectly
completely free from every single issue that's been listed there that's all junk associated with
the orphan illusion it's got nothing to do with our sonship it's got nothing to do with our freedom
it's got nothing to do with the divine dance it's got nothing to do with where we're going it's got
nothing to do with our calling at all and it's a tragic tragic shame that we live in a world we
live in a culture even our christian culture where all of that is the norm you know like that is
normal that is normal normal normal and so we are going to discover the truth that jesus promised
would set us free from all that junk we're going to start lighting it up burning up putting it to
death ending it dealing with the root issue not just through tonight but through this 14 days
we're going to strike a death blow to all that junk i call it the orphan illusion that's what i call
it this it's all associated with this thing called the orphan illusion and we're going on a beautiful
journey we started we've already started this journey but we're going to go deeper and deeper
into it but this beautiful journey from the orphan illusion into the bliss of sonship it literally
can all melt away okay it can melt away it can melt away it can be gone it can be we can step
into a brand new normal yep that's done right that's absolutely right it's not marketing it's
the promise of jesus you can upgrade your normal you can upgrade your normal and we're going to do
a massive job on it in these 14 days crikey we're chewing through the time but i hope you guys are
loving this so um for i'm gonna i'm gonna give you another scripture right now we're gonna go
to romans 8 15 this is in the amplified version so romans 8 15 in the amplified it reads like this
the amplified classic for the spirit which you have now received say i've received that the
spirit which you have now received you've received that is not a spirit of slavery to put you once
more in bondage to fear that's right the spirit you have received is not a spirit of slavery to
put you once more in bondage to fear so fear stress worry anxiety
Heidi, disconnection, all of those, all of that, that is not the spirit that you've received.
But we have received the spirit of adoption.
That's right.
The spirit producing sonship.
And check this out.
This is what I love about the Amplified Classic version of this.
We have received the spirit of adoption, the spirit producing sonship in the bliss of which
we cry Abba, Abba, Father, or Daddy, Daddy, Papa, whoa, that's the spirit that we've received.
So Romans 8, 15, it identifies that there's two different spirits or two different mindsets
or two different paradigms that people can operate from, live out of, and one is the
orphan spirit and one is the spirit of sonship, or one is the paradigm, the mindset of the
orphan, or the mindset of the son.
So there's these two things, the orphan illusion and there's the bliss of sonship.
So the orphan illusion, the orphan illusion is like a demon aircraft carrier.
The orphan mindset, the orphan paradigm, it's like a demon aircraft carrier.
And if you've got orphan mindsets, they become the foundation, and on that foundation, the
whole demonic, all the demonic oppression that's going to come on your life will get
built on top of the orphan illusion, on top of the orphan mindsets, orphan paradigms.
They will produce, they will produce all that.
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So the orphan mindset, the orphan paradigm, it becomes the foundation on which every form
of demonic oppression, demonic affliction will get built on in your life.
So the orphan spirit, the orphan mindset, the orphan paradigm, the orphan illusion,
it's the root cause to, it's the foundation on which everything demonic in your life will
get built.
So if you deal with the root, if we go right to the root and go boom and smash that sucker
of the orphan illusion, we cut out the root of the orphan spirit, the orphan mindset,
the orphan paradigm, then boom, you're going to get set free from every other demonic affliction,
every other form of demonic oppression that's ever come against you.
You'll get legitimately, completely, totally set free to participate effortlessly and seamlessly
in the divine dance.
And that is the bliss of sonship.
So we are going to stop, you know, religion just always picks the fruit off the tree and
leaves us still dealing with the root causes.
So that's why we have cycles.
They are like sin issues are cyclical.
Our problems are cyclical.
Sin issues and demonic issues and oppression issues, they're only cyclical if we don't
deal with the root.
And religion doesn't deal with the root.
Religion just picks the fruit off the tree.
But if we deal with the root, you can get genuine freedom that you can't get so often
in church circles because our mainstream gospel doesn't deal with the root cause of the orphan
illusion.
It just continually perpetuates this orphan existence.
It doesn't deal with the core issue of the orphan illusion.
And here's how you can tell if you're struggling with this orphan mentality.
One of the first things, like, there's two things that run parallel in the orphan mindset.
And I have lived these and I'm sure it sounds like you guys have lived these, but inadequacy
is one, right?
So inadequacy, the lie of inadequacy, falsely defined as inadequate, boom, that's one foundation
of the orphan mindset.
So there's two, like, two things happening simultaneously.
So the moment that you believe that you're inadequate in any way, the moment that you
believe that you're less than perfect in any way, boom, the orphan mindset has got
you.
All right?
That's its foundational, that's its foundational lie, that you're inadequate in some way.
If the devil can get you to believe that you're inadequate, he doesn't really have to do much
from there.
You'll become your own worst enemy and you'll do all the harm yourself.
All right?
That's the, like, if the devil can get you to believe that you're inadequate in any way,
he can basically go on holiday and watch you self-destruct.
Because when we believe that we're inadequate, right, and man, did I struggle with this and
I have been working so hard to liberate my own mind, to bring truth into my own mind,
not just in my intellectual thinking, but consciously, subconsciously, unconsciously.
Consciously letting truth baptize me, get to the very core of my being.
Because when you've got inadequacy, inadequacy produces shame.
Shame is different to guilt.
Guilt says I've done something wrong.
Shame says there's something intrinsically wrong with me.
And so many of us are living with this belief that there's something intrinsically wrong
with me.
I'm less than perfect in some way.
Oh my gosh.
And that creates some serious issues.
So inadequacy leads to shame.
That leads to condemnation.
We punish ourselves.
We don't need God to punish us.
We don't need an angry God.
We are like, we're worse than a, you know, like we're the God of wrath, you know, like
we punish ourselves.
The moment we believe we're inadequate, it leads to shame.
That leads to condemnation.
That leads to self-hatred.
And man, we punish ourselves.
And I lived in that way so much, the moment I thought I failed, I haven't done enough,
I've failed to perform well enough.
And I lived on this hamster wheel of performance, constantly trying to perform, constantly trying
to do enough for God, constantly trying to please God, but I could never do enough to
be self-righteous.
I was trying to earn a righteousness of my own that was through my works.
I was trying to do enough to be pleasing to Him, but it's impossible to do enough to be
pleasing to Him when you're already pleasing to Him without doing anything.
So I failed at that.
And when I failed at this hamster, this cycle of religious performance, I'd fall off the
wheel and then boom, I would just start beating myself.
Actually, I've got this thing here.
This is a, this is like a condemnation stick.
This is like a metaphorical condemnation stick, but man, this, God had spent years wrestling
this condemnation stick out of my hand because I used to just flog myself with the condemnation
stick.
Just beat myself, beat myself, beat myself, beat myself.
Anytime I thought like I hadn't done enough, I would beat myself.
And man, it was hard work to let go of this condemnation stick.
I just kept on beating myself.
I just kept on abusing myself.
And that's like, I just kept on like feasting on this, this condemnation.
And I didn't realize why, but it was cyclical and over and over and I was born into the
church to missionary parents and grew up as a pastor's kid and lived in religion and
worked for the church and spent years and years and years working for the church, condemning
myself, still not free.
Why wasn't I free?
Why didn't I get free?
Why was I so obsessed with my own inadequacy, so obsessed with shame and self-hatred and
condemnation?
Why was I so obsessed with my own failures that I could never let go of my own sense
of condemnation?
Why did God have to wrestle with me for years to actually get me set free?
Why did He have to struggle, struggle, struggle and wrestle condemnation out of my hands?
Why was it that I couldn't just let it go and just get free from condemnation?
It's because I was persuaded that I was inadequate.
And listen, then it gets worse, right?
It gets worse because after we've, we've feasted on inadequacy and shame and condemnation and
self-hatred, it leads us to isolation.
Now Adam and Eve, after the fall, they, this was their issue, inadequacy, shame, self-hatred,
condemnation, isolation.
They ran off and hid in the bushes from God themselves.
God didn't push them away.
God didn't drive them away.
Adam and Eve, led by, fueled by their own inadequacy, fueled by their own shame, fueled
by their own self-hatred and their own condemnation, ran away themselves and hid in the bushes.
And guess who comes looking for them?
The Father, in His overwhelming delight, even in the midst of their shame and condemnation,
self-hatred, even in the midst of their inadequacy and their isolation, their disconnection,
and even in the midst of their hatred of God and their false projections and transfers
and all their false judgments of who God was, even despite all of their junk and all of
their rubbish and all of their failings and everything that they did, the Father comes
to them gently, kindly, politely, nicely, in love, delighted with them, delighted in
them.
They're still the focus of the Trinity's delight.
They're still the focus of His delight.
And He comes to them in order to draw them back, in order to call them back, in order
to welcome them back, in order to bring them back into the divine dance and back into the
focus of His delight and back into the bliss of their sonship.
Well, that was me.
I live with this inadequacy.
So boom, that's one foundation, is inadequacy.
And if the devil can get you to believe that you're inadequate in any way, boom, he's got
you with a lifetime supply of shame, self-hatred, condemnation, isolation, disconnection from
God, and separation.
Boom.
He's got you right there. And then the next thing
the other parallel thing that works with the orphan orphan mindset orphan illusion is
the belief in lack now lack
Produces fear every time if you believe that you're not going to have enough boom
You will live in fear stress worry anxiety
All that fear stress worry anxiety unhealthy emotions unhealthy behaviors all
Come back to this place of being linked into a belief in lack that you won't have enough and the orphan mindset is
a lack based
mindset
So that's the foundation of the orphan mindset of orphan
Illusion the orphan paradigm the orphan spirit
It's the belief that you're inadequate and the belief that you won't have enough and if the devil can get you with that boom
You've got a lifetime supply of shame
Condemnation
Self-hatred isolation disconnection separation fear stress worry
anxiety unhealthy feelings unhealthy emotions
unhealthy behaviors addictions perversions
Twisted chaos you've got it. You've got a lifetime supply of chaos and darkness right there
Boom, and so Jesus said the spirit you have received is not a spirit
This is Paul writing in Romans 8 the spirit you have received is not a spirit
Right. It's not a spirit that leaves you in bondage to fear
That's the orphan spirit, but you have received the spirit of adoption. That's the spirit now that spirit of adoption
That spirit of adoption is
constantly
Constantly calling out that spirit of adoption is constantly
Reminding you that you are the focus of his delight that spirit of adoption is the Holy Spirit and that that
purpose the function of the Spirit of adoption is to leave you fully persuaded that you are the delight of the Trinity that you
Are the delight of the Father that you are the apple of his eye
That's the function of the spirit of adoption as to leave you fully persuaded that you're perfect and to believe you fully persuaded that you're
Perfectly loved and that you're perfectly one the focus of the spirit of adoption
Which is the Holy Spirit his job his?
Mission that he's trying to accomplish in your life
And my life is to get us to believe exactly the opposite of the orphan spirit exactly the opposite of the orphan illusion
Which is you are adequate you are perfect you are as son as a son can be
You're as loved as love can be you're as innocent can be and you're as one as one can be right now
And you've never been separated. You've never been inadequate. You've never been
Despised you've never been outside of his delight you have always always always been from the very beginning
You've always been the focus of his delight. That's how he created you
You got created in the context of delight in the context of the fellowship of the Trinity and their beautiful
Unconditional unfailing love and the in the context of the fellowship of the Trinity you were conceived in delight and their delight
And you has not for one moment ever reduced ever minimized ever flinched their delight
And you has been perpetual since before the foundation of the world you have been the focus of their delight
You have been the love of their life you have been the desire of their heart you have been
Included in him from before the foundation of the world and you are the focus of the delight of the Trinity you are there
Everything you are there all they are all consumed by you. They're overwhelmed by you
They're undone by you. Their love is locked in on you. They are after you their whole heart is all about you
Whoa, oh my gosh, boom just an explosion of love
That's and that's the Holy Spirit's job what the Holy Spirit is trying to accomplish in our life
The spirit of adoption is trying to awaken us if the spirit of adoption is awakening us
It's trying to awaken us to the present
Reality of how loved you already are the present reality of how much of a son you already are the present reality of how one
You already are the present reality of how included you already are
That's what the Holy Spirit's job is. That's what he's trying to do and accomplish in your life
That is the purpose of the spirit of adoption to awaken you
now Acts chapter 17 verses 27 to 28 Paul is preaching to
unbelieving unrepentant
sin-loving blood-sacrificing
demon-worshipping
Athenians and the Arapagos who've never heard the gospel. So they've got no faith whatsoever
They have never heard of the divine dance. They have never heard of the love of the Father
They have never heard the truth of who they are
They've never heard that they've been included in him from before the foundation of the world
They've never heard any of this and Paul when he speaks to them
Look the mainstream gospel would say to them are because there's such
is, you know, they're inadequate and they're separate. But that is absolute rubbish. It's
religious bullshnitzel. It's going to leave you condemned. It's going to leave you oppressed.
It's going to leave you in shame and condemnation and isolation and in self-hatred, disconnected
from God, infused with lack, stress, fear, worry, anxiety, unhealthy feelings and emotions
and unhealthy behaviors and addictions and perversions. You'll never, never, never, never,
get free if you believe that you're inadequate and that you're separate. But that is the
baseline message of the mainstream gospel and it's not true and it's killing us. It's
just killing us to say that people are separated from God, to say that people are sinners.
Paul didn't say that. He wasn't saying, look, you're inadequate and separated. This is how
he preached the gospel to sin-loving, unbelieving, demon-worshipping, blood-sacrificing people
who had no faith whatsoever. And he says to them, look, in fact, he is near to us all.
In him, we live and move and have our being. We are all his children. Boom, right there.
That is the crux of the gospel, the essence, the message, the heartbeat of the gospel,
the very core of the gospel. That's really the core of it is that you are not inadequate
and you are not separate. You are perfectly loved by your Father in heaven. They included
you in the divine dance before the foundation of the world and they want you to wake up
to the present reality that you're already a part of the dance. You're already in as
in can be. You're already the delight of their lives. You're already the focus of their love.
You are everything to them. They want you to wake up, smell the sun. They want you to
wake up to Bliss FM. They want you to wake up and participate in your inclusion. They
want you to wake up and participate in divine union. They want you to wake up and participate
in the fullness of the bliss of sunshine for the ecstasy of this divine dance with the
Trinity. Wow. That's what they want for you. And that's what the spirit of adoption is
all about. Helping us transition from the orphan illusion. And I call it the orphan
illusion really on purpose because I don't believe that there are any spiritual orphans.
We all trace. It doesn't matter who you are but all humanity. Every single person that's
ever existed traces their genealogy all the way back to our Father in heaven. There is
only one Father of humanity. Every single person in humanity traces their genealogy
back to our Father. Traces their genealogy back to Genesis chapter 1 verse 26 and 27
and the Trinity said let us make man kind in our image. In the image of God he made
them. In the image of God they made them. Male and female he created them. We all trace
out our identity. We all trace our genealogy back to the Trinity. Every single one of us
was created, conceived in delight in the context of the fellowship of the Trinity. They dreamed
us. They created us. They spoke us into being out of love and delight and that was the desire
of their heart from the beginning. And so when you wake up to the present reality of
your perfection, boom! Everything's gonna change. Everything's gonna change. So here's
the thing. Here's the thing. Here's some hot tips on how to get free. Thanks guys for your
awesome encouragement as well. I really appreciate it. I can see all those comments popping up
and it's just really really encouraging. So thank you so much for that. Love it. Really
really appreciate it. So yeah, awesome comments. They really do encourage me. So please keep
them coming and I love knowing that you're still there because I'm speaking to a camera
and a microphone and there's no one really here in my office with me at this time of
night. So I love, I really appreciate the comments. It just helps feel like we're on
this journey together. So appreciate that very much. Now I want to, I want to give you
a really really awesome tip on how to get free because I couldn't get free from inadequacy.
Didn't matter how many times I read my Bible, cover to cover, I don't know, I've read my
Bible through and through, over and over and I couldn't, I didn't get free. Oh snap, what?
I pray, I've spent over 10,000 hours cultivating intimacy with the Trinity and you know I like,
honestly, 5,000 hours in the presence didn't get me free. What? How could 5,000 plus hours
not get you free? Even, you know like over 5,000 hours just like spending time with the
Lord, praying, praying in tongues, reading my Bible, worshipping, down on my knees, down
on my face, praying in the night, praying in the morning, praying all night, praying
all day, you know like it didn't get me free. Why not? Eventually it did but in all of that
time it's probably, if I track my journey, I've had over 10,000 hours just going after
the Lord.
personal times and just corporate times just going after him. So five thousand
hours didn't get me free. Why not? Because here's why it couldn't get me free
because I was obsessed with my own inadequacy. It's not that the truth
didn't have the power to get me free. The truth had the power to get me free. The
truth got to got me free in ten minutes. I just didn't know the truth and the
truth was really hidden from me. The truth was really veiled from me in a lot
of religious theology that was all about convincing me. I had a whole
lifetime of theology that was designed to convince me of my own inadequacy and
my own separation and disconnection from God. So there I was just obsessed with my
own inadequacy for year after year. Not even realizing that was my issue. Not
even realizing that that was my issue. But that was my issue. It was crazy. It was
intense. And so oh my gosh. It wasn't until I discovered and this is it guys.
This is it. It wasn't until I discovered that I am perfect.
Oh crazy concept. Yeah crazy concept. But it's the truth. I'm made in his image. It
wasn't until I discovered that I am exclusively defined by the Trinity that
I was able to be set free. And here's I'm gonna give you one of the biggest keys.
One of the biggest keys that helped unlock me and set me free and break me
free from religion. Here's one of the biggest keys right. This has empowered so
much freedom. So much freedom. So much so much freedom has come from this one
revelation that the Lord gave me. He said it all started with Psalm 139.
Psalm 139. So just a question there from Helen. Yes so
absolutely. All that time in the presence that led me to freedom. It
didn't actually accomplish my freedom. But it actually led me on the process.
It was only. It was that time in the presence. That time with the Lord. I mean
that was absolutely priceless. And it was only because of that time that I
eventually did get free. It was only because of a life like just to live for
intimacy. A life devoted to intimacy. A life that it's just like okay. Like I
chose. I had to choose. Will I have a normal life where I have a normal job or
will I accept this call to intimacy and lay my life down and lay down every
other opportunity before me to go after intimacy. And I said yes. And I said I
kiss goodbye to all the other opportunities. I took the
opportunity just to lay my life down for intimacy. So yes. So all that time of
intimacy with the Lord. It didn't set me free. You know it didn't set me free
straight away. But it actually started the journey. It kick-started the journey.
That led me in the journey. It led me on a radical radical reformation. That
actually I discovered what the church was hiding. I kind of grew. Like this
journey of intimacy took me outside of the mainstream gospel and took me into a
revelation of the truth. And here's where it brought me. The Lord out of that time
the Lord spoke to me. He was like oh you know what son. He spoke to me out of
Psalm 113. Psalm 139. And he said you are fearfully and wonderfully created. I was
like I was I'm wonderfully created. I was like what? Wonderfully created? Yeah. And
I was like so hang on a second God. Is it okay for me to even say that I'm
wonderful? This was my religious mindset was at. I was like um can I even think
that I'm wonderful? Isn't that proud and arrogant to think that I'm wonderful?
Like could I get a t-shirt? Could I get a t-shirt that says I am wonderful and
wear that around and not be like proud and arrogant? And here's what he said. He
said humility is simply to agree with me. Humility is simply to agree with me. You
want to get this. You want to you want to grasp this. You want to draw this into
your heart. Humility is simply to agree with God. Humility is simply to agree
with God. And this oh my gosh this lead to a landslide of freedom. This just
unleashed insane amounts of freedom for me. Because I thought it was proud and
arrogant to say oh yeah I am I'm wonderful. I thought that was a proud
arrogant crazy thing to say. But God said no no where's the pride? Where's the real
pride issue? The real pride issue is in refusing to agree with who he says I am.
The real pride issue is in refusing to agree with who he says I am. And he says
that I'm wonderful. Not only does he say that I'm wonderful he says that I'm made
in his image. He says that I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. And
so I was like oh my gosh and I just
Discover that if you get humble, you get free.
But if you stay proud, you stay bound.
So you should say this with me, even in your own little room.
If you get humble, you get free.
If you stay proud, you stay bound.
I'm just going to say that again.
Repeat it with me if you can.
If you get humble, you get free.
If you stay proud, you stay bound.
So what does pride look like?
Pride is usurping God's role to judge who you are.
He's already judged you.
He's already judged you as perfect.
He's already judged you as wonderful.
He's already judged you as made in His image.
He's already judged you that you're exclusively defined by Him.
And anything that disagrees with that is the voice of the demonic realm coming in accusation
and condemnation to smear His image in you, to rob you of your identity.
It doesn't matter who it comes from.
If anyone in any way, shape or form says in any way that you are less than perfect, says
that in any way you are less than exclusively defined by Him, then that is a lie from the
demonic realm.
That is condemnation.
That is accusation.
And that is the anthem of the demonic realm.
Condemnation and accusation to rob you of your perfection, to rob you of your sonship,
to rob you of your identity.
So I discovered that if you want to get free, you've got to get humble, and to get humble
you simply agree with Him.
And what I didn't realize is that I had all these life experiences.
I had all this religious teaching.
I had all those voices of people that had spoken into my own head.
I had all my own voices of condemnation and accusation.
I had all my own voices and all my own junk and all my own failures and disappointments
and people have trauma that we go through.
We have terrible, terrible trauma that we go through.
Wow, so much terrible trauma that we go through in life.
Just wave if you've been through intense trauma, if you've been through betrayal, if you've
been through broken relationships, if you've been through just all of this chaos, then
give a wave.
If you've tasted on that, if you know what that's like, then just give a wave because
this is just crazy, the amount of pain that we go through, the amount of pain that we
go through in life, but when we don't realize, if we don't realize that we're exclusively
defined by the Trinity, then we live with an identity vacuum, and when we have that
identity vacuum, we're actually looking for life experiences to define us.
I went through life and picked up all these definitions of my identity from life through
all these experiences, and I actually lost my sonship in the midst of all my life experiences
because I had a false mindset believing that I was defined by my experiences.
I believed that I was defined by my behavior.
Now God makes a distinction between identity and behavior.
You can be a dirty, rotten, as far as your behavior can go, you can be the worst, most
addicted, most perverted, most wicked person as far as your behavior goes, but God doesn't
define you by your behavior.
He makes a distinction between behavior and identity, and the distinction that he makes
is you're defined by your identity, that you're made in his image, but you're not defined
by your behavior.
Now life experiences, behavior, trauma, all of those things, they have the capacity to
influence us, but they have no capacity to define us.
They have the capacity to influence us, but they have no authority whatsoever to define
what he has already exclusively defined in his image, and he has already defined you
exclusively in his image before the foundation of the world.
No experience that you've ever been through has any authority whatsoever to falsely define
you.
You're exclusively defined.
That's a done deal.
Your identity is not up for grabs.
Your identity can't be, you can't earn it, you can't do anything to perform for it.
You are exclusively defined by the Trinity.
Boom.
Now if you will come into agreement with that, boom, flip, all of a sudden, instantly you'll
be as free as free can be.
You'll be as free as free can be.
Now here's the thing, like our pride is when we refuse to let God define us.
When we hold fast onto our life experiences and let our life experiences define us, instead
of stepping into humility where we agree with God about who we are, because humility is
simply to agree with God, and if you get humble, you get free.
Boom.
It's a done deal.
If you get humble, you get free.
Now, I call this the beautiful journey because it's not just like, it's not just a simple
process.
We've gone through so much process, so much process, process, process, process, because
it's not just about getting it into our heads.
It's about getting it into our hearts.
Being consciously persuaded, subconsciously persuaded, unconsciously persuaded.
Every single part of our whole being has to become fully persuaded that we're exclusively
defined by the Trinity if we want to be free.
My friend Nancy Cohen, she's amazing, she's got a great quote, she says, salvation will
cost you nothing, you just turn up, you can still carry as much pride and as much junk
as you like in your life, but boom, you can step into salvation, it'll cost you nothing.
Sanctification, that'll cost you something, you've got to start letting go of some of
your pride, you've got to start getting humble, you've got to start laying that down, laying
down the false definitions, you've got to start paying a little bit of a price to lay
down your pride, but purification, now purification will cost you everything.
If you want to step into purification, if you want to step into the bliss of sonship,
if you want to step into the fullness of the divine dance, it will cost you everything,
not all your money, it's not going to be negative.
It's just going to cost you every false definition of your identity that you've
ever picked up.
It's going to cost you all the pride, it's going to cost you all your pride, it's going
to cost you all your false definitions, it's going to cost you every belief that you have
that you're inadequate.
It's going to cost you every belief that you have that you'll never have enough.
To step into purification is going to cost you all your inadequacy, all your shame, all
your condemnation, all your self-hatred, all your isolation, it's going to cost you all
your lack, all your fear, all your stress, all your worry, all your anxiety, all your
unhealthy feelings and emotions, all your unhealthy addictions and perversions and behaviours.
That's what it's going to cost to step into purification.
That's what it's going to cost us to step into the fullness of our sonship.
So the beautiful journey is just amazing.
But I question though, right, if Jesus is inviting us into this ecstasy, this bliss,
all this wonder of sonship, then why isn't the church running into it?
Why isn't the whole world running into it?
Why isn't the whole world leaving behind this chaos of the orphan illusion and just by the
millions, by the billions streaming into the bliss of sonship?
Why aren't we doing that?
Why aren't we doing that?!
Why aren't we just running in, charging into freedom?
Why aren't we running in, pouring in by the millions and millions and millions into the
bliss of sonship?
Why do we refuse to run into sonship?
Why do we stay in that realm of inadequacy and lack and shame and condemnation and self-hatred
and isolation?
Why do we stay there?
Why do we do that?
And I'll tell you one of the reasons why I refused, why I resisted, one of the reasons
why I resisted.
I'm going to kind of bring it into a landing here with one of the reasons why I resisted
so much the process of purification.
I was terrified.
I was terrified of the concept of surrender.
I was just totally terrified, right?
We have, we're a paradox, humans are a paradox.
There's nothing we want more than to be known and there's nothing we're more terrified of
than to be known.
To step into purification requires stepping into total vulnerability.
Now, I love the bliss of sonship now but there was a time in my life where I totally resisted
the process.
I fought against the process.
I refused to go into the process.
You know what?
I had secret sin on the inside of me.
The sin that when I was a little kid, I would have only been like five, six years old, just
kid curiosity, doctors and nurses type things, a couple of kids, we just did some stuff and
it wasn't even like, wasn't even bad stuff but I just had this, it became this massive
secret sin for me.
It became this huge, huge, huge source of inadequacy and a massive sense of shame and
self-hatred and guilt and condemnation and I live with that.
I live with that intensely for well over a decade and when I finally did start making
my journey towards the Lord and start seeking the Lord and start trying to follow Him, oh
my gosh, there came a time he was just pruning stuff off, right, the Lord was just pruning
stuff off my life.
He was pruning off these exterior issues.
He was getting rid of this sin and this sin.
He was just dealing with some of this exterior stuff and then He put His finger on my deepest
core issue, on my inadequacy, on what was driving this huge obsession with inadequacy
in my own heart and it was my secret sin and He wanted me to bring it out and I was just
like flat out refused, terrified, I didn't want to go there at all because it just didn't
seem safe to me and so many of us, we might not even realise it, we just don't even feel
safe with God.
We feel, oh, how does it happen, you know, it just starts like this.
It starts with...
Our trust gets broken. Someone breaks our trust and we put up a wall to protect ourselves.
Maybe that was a big breach of trust. Maybe it was a big betrayal or a little betrayal
but sooner or later a betrayal starts. A betrayal starts, a trust gets broken, we put up a wall
to protect ourselves. I'm just making up a story now but just imagine a young lady.
She has a broken relationship with her father and the very person that she thought she could
trust the most in this world breaks her trust and it leaves her with a massive wound. So
she puts up these walls around her life to protect herself from getting wounded but what
she doesn't realise is that those very same walls that are protecting her from getting
wounded become a barrier to receiving love. She's putting up these walls all around her
heart to protect herself but they're becoming barriers that actually stop her from receiving.
It's like oh my gosh. So those walls go up around her heart and then one day she meets
someone and she just decides okay right man I think I might be falling in love and she
does something outrageous, she does something extreme and actually lets the walls down and
actually just dares to trust someone again even though she's had major heartbreak, major trust
and then this young lady decides okay I'm going to trust someone again. I'm going to give it a
go. I'm going to try and trust someone and then she goes out, she leaps out on this massive risk
of trusting someone. Everything goes well, everything goes amazing until that one day
eventuates, that one moment comes around and again boom an explosion, a crushing,
destroying betrayal that just like totally destroys her heart all over again and oh my
gosh she goes no! Swears to herself that she will never be betrayed like this again and she
doesn't just put up little walls now. Now she like she rose out onto an island like Alcatraz.
If you haven't heard of Alcatraz, it's a famous prison in the States. It's built,
nickname is The Rock because it's just built on an island which is a rock and there's nothing
else just this rock that pops out of the sea and they built this island there where she's like she
does the same thing. She's like oh my gosh I'm going to totally isolate. No one's ever going to
hurt me again. No one's going to, I'm never going to be vulnerable again with anyone because no
one's safe and they're going to do damage to my heart and so she puts up all these walls and she
puts up barbed wire and security lights and Alsatian dogs and she's got machine gun turrets
and anyone who tries to even come close to get vulnerable and they're like getting taken out of
the water. Anyone who tries to get close to be vulnerable she's like no way because but in the
at the same time what she thought was a fortress wall to protect her becomes her own prison and we
do this ourselves. I did this myself. These walls that I thought were going to be protecting me
were the very same walls that were actually causing my love deficit, causing me to live
disconnected from the Trinity. Causing me to live outside of the divine dance and then God
like it's like the spirit of adoption comes. You know the Holy Spirit he starts whispering in. He
starts calling out. He starts saying to that young lady in there I love you. I love you. I love you.
I love you. It's like what? No what? Could that be even God? Like oh my gosh and God's calling us to
vulnerability. God's calling us to be totally undone, totally exposed, totally seen, totally
revealed. Nothing hidden within. He's calling us to this place of total surrender and total
purification but the concept of being seen you know like because we make these judgments of
inadequacy. Hey Leighton and all you guys loving you. Good to see you. We have these such huge
sense of inadequacy within us. Now even though we're burning to be known, burning to be seen,
we are terrified, terrified, terrified of anyone looking on the inside, the very core of who we
are because we ourselves think that there's something wrong with us. We carry shame and
self-hatred and inadequacy and we think oh my gosh no one. I can't even love myself. How could anyone
else love me and we isolate. We're terrified of being exposed and then God calls us from our
prisons. He calls us from these places of isolation into total surrender and for most of us this
concept is too, too, too terrifying. Especially when our image of the Father is distorted and
warped and then the Father calls us to total intimacy. Oh my gosh maybe one thing if Jesus
calls us, maybe another if the Holy Spirit but the Father calling us to be totally surrendered.
The Father calling us to be totally naked, totally exposed, totally seen, totally vulnerable before
Him. Open up the very core of our secret.
and let no aspect or facet of who we are be hidden before him. Now that is terrifying.
That is why the whole world isn't running into the bliss of sonship because we don't actually trust
the Father. Maybe Jesus, maybe the Holy Spirit, but really we struggle so much with the concept
of trusting the Father and getting totally vulnerable before him. Because if you're
going to get vulnerable, you want to feel safe. And the tragic reality is that people don't feel
safe around the Father. So many of us have had distorted, terrible, crazy relationships with
Fathers, built up this gnarly, gnarly, gnarly belief that Fathers aren't safe and that our
Father in heaven isn't safe and that he's an angry God and he wants to punish us and he wants
to condemn us and he wants to do all these things that are just absolutely not true. But it makes
it almost impossible for us to come to a place of absolute, complete, total surrender. But I
remember the day that I finally did come to that place. I couldn't resist God anymore. He'd been
pursuing me for months, calling me into surrender, calling me into total transparency, calling me into
total vulnerability, calling me into total surrender. But my own sense of inadequacy and
shame and my own sense of unworthiness and unworthy to be loved and not enough. And it drove
me to hide from it. It drove me into isolation. It drove me to reject his intimate, like his embrace.
I wanted him, but I was actually creating the distance in the relationship. No, I don't want
to come into surrender. No, I'm too scared. I'm too scared. I'm too scared. I was afraid. I was
afraid. I was afraid of what it would be like to step into total surrender. But eventually,
the day came where I did. I stepped into total, complete, terrifying, terrifying,
terrifying vulnerability. I stepped into the most terrifying experience of my life where I faced the
core root cause of my own inadequacy. I faced the terrifying root cause of my own self-hatred.
I faced the terrifying root cause of my own shame, of my own isolation. This belief was inside me
that was driving my own inadequacy, my own self-hatred, my own condemnation. And I faced
up with them. It was the most courageous thing I've ever done. And that day, it was actually a
bit of a process, but there came a day where I fully completed what he called me into,
where I stepped into total surrender. And if I'm going to look back on my life, everything that
my life is built on, that's of value. Everything is built on that surrender. There's not going to
be anything good that happens in my life, anything exciting, anything wonderful that the Lord does
going forward from here is going to be built on the surrender that happened that day when I just
came to that place where I'm going to totally surrender to you, Lord. And I just got so vulnerable
and totally naked and totally exposed in the very core issues of my heart, the deepest,
deepest secret sin. I dealt with it. I dealt with the people. Whoa. Yeah, I dealt with it. I dealt
with all of that. I just brought it all out on the table and just laid it out. And there was so much
that I had to talk with people and tidy up mess and deal with my own brokenness and deal with it.
And boom, I got it out into this place of just complete, complete surrender. And when I came to
that place of complete surrender, boom, freedom happened like never before. Chains fell off me.
I used to have this vision of manacles around my own wrists and living just bound. They were gone.
My heart was free. I'd never felt so much freedom in my life. And it was that place of total
surrender, which is so terrifying. And that's why even though the Lord's calling humanity into the
divine dance, that's why we resist the divine dance. We can't step into the divine dance
and fullness without becoming fully vulnerable. And even though the desire of our heart more than
anything else is to be fully known, we actually hate ourselves and we're so twisted in our own
sense of inadequacy and our obsession with inadequacy that even though it's the desire of
our heart, it's the most terrifying thing that we could imagine as well as total, total surrender,
the core of our being exposed, naked, laid bare before God. So we're going to go more into this
going forward, but our next session is going to be on revealing the Father. And that really is the
core issue that's going to start setting us free to come into this place of surrender for so many
of us as we actually discover the heart, discover the...
nature of the Father, discover the image of the Father of who He truly is, and get
rid of these false images of an angry Father that are a total lie, that just
absolute lies that He's the angry Father, because you were conceived in delight
from before the foundation of the world, and there hasn't been a moment where the
delight of the Father or the delight of the Trinity has ever flinched or been
withdrawn or been restricted in any way. They have always, always, always
burnt with an unceasing, unyielding love and passionate delight for you, and you
are the very desire, you're the heart desire of the Trinity. You are their
delight, you're the focus of their delight, you're the delight of their
life, that's who you are, and our next session, Revealing the Father, is just
going to be amazing to start unpacking this even more. I'm going to just jump
into a couple of things now. One, I want us to just to chuck down there,
use three words to describe what your relationship with God is like at the
moment, and you know, at the start we used three words to describe what was
what was the, what was your, what have been the hardest things of your
relationship with God. I want you just to pick three words that you think are
accurate words that would describe your relationship with God now. So my three
now, I started with my originally, the hard ones were condemnation, inadequacy
and separation. Those are probably my top three struggles, but now my three
words that I would use to describe this, yeah we're about to wrap this session up
so we're just coming in for a landing now, but top three words that I would use
is bliss, bliss, adventure, bliss, adventure, and what's the other one? Dreams, yeah
bliss, dreams and adventure, that would be what my top three things are to describe
the father, describe relationship with God now, and also, so if you want to chuck
those down, feel free to chuck those, what are your top, what are your
three words now that describe your relationship with God now, and also I
hope you've had just an amazing time in this session, would really really love it
if you jump on a live, do a live, like get your video out and just jump on the on
the Facebook group, you can just click at the top where you can put posts, click
live, do about a 60 second live and just tell us, you know, what's, what are some
of the takeaways, we just want to get, share with the group, like what's been
valuable for you in this time, what are you going to take away from it, that's
been really valuable, so what, so yeah, just jump on, do a live, I'd really
really appreciate it, it's been cool, thanks so much for those people who've
done lives, it's been awesome, and just going to, just going to close with it, just
a little bit of a space for an encounter here that you can, you can take this away
with you, but I just want you just to, where you are, oh awesome, some awesome
words coming out there, trust, honor, everything, adventures, joy, intimacy, love,
oh choice stuff guys, safe, free, joy, I mean this is, that's what we want to hear, hope,
love, peace, come on, fiery, awe and joy, that is wild stuff, that is phenomenal,
that is the juicy goodness of sonship, come on, loving that guys, great words, so
just, I'm just going to transition now, just to wrap this up, oh one nice one
there from Jan, open, connected, transparent and joy, Tanya, deeper,
intimacy, love, peace, oh beautiful, so how I'm going to bring this into a
landing now is I just want you, if you can, if you're in a space where you're
able to do this, just want you to just close your eyes, I want to quickly whack
on, whack on this song that, that I recommend if people listen to, if you
haven't listened to it, I reckon just check this out by Lauren Daigle, it's
ultimate, that's a really good song, oh that's a YouTube ad, I'm gonna skip that,
boom, it's called you say, it's going to play this, but what I'd like you to do
is just close your eyes where you are and I just want you to imagine, just want
you to imagine and just think to yourself, I wonder what it would be like, I
wonder what it would feel like, I wonder what it would feel like, I wonder what
it would be like if I woke up tomorrow morning and every part of my entire
being was completely baptized in the love of the Trinity, so I need to ask
yourself and imagine this, what would it be like
if
If you woke up tomorrow morning, and you were participating fully in the divine dance.
What would it feel like for you to wake up tomorrow morning and be participating effortlessly
in the divine dance?
What would it feel like if you were completely baptized in delight, baptized in ecstasy,
baptized in awe, baptized in wonder?
What would it feel like for you if you woke up tomorrow morning, and you knew that you
would never experience separation again?
You would never experience inadequacy again.
You would never experience condemnation again.
You would never experience shame.
You would never experience depression.
You would never experience self-hatred.
You would never experience mental illness.
You would never experience disconnection, separation, lack, fear, stress, worry, anxiety.
What would it feel like if you woke up tomorrow morning completely consumed by the Trinity?
What would it feel like for you if you woke up tomorrow morning and every moment for the
rest of your life, you participated in seamless union, effortless intimacy, and a constant
participation in the divine dance with the Trinity, overflowing love in every area of
your life?
My prayer for you is that you wake up tomorrow morning, and that is what you begin to experience.
I'm excited for this journey.
As we go forward together, you are going to be able to step into that.
I encourage you to keep imagining that.
That's a powerful activation to do.
Ask yourself, I wonder what it would feel like to experience the fullness of the love
of the Trinity in my life.
You'll be amazed at how much power there is in that for activation and impartation of
the love of the Trinity to explode in your heart.
I love you, and I'm excited for our next session as well, Jesus Coming to Reveal the Father.
Do some lives, and I love you very much.
We'll catch you soon.
Bye-bye, guys.
Thanks for a great night.
Love you heaps.
Massive love.
Lots of love.
Boom!
See ya!
Love you!