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oh hey school of the prophets come on in find your seats those are you
joining us online welcome back we're gonna jump back in to our theme of
prophetic reformers I'm so excited about this this theme because I feel like it
what it actually does for me is that it feels like for all of us we have a
purpose in bringing the plans and the destiny that God has in store for the
world we get to bring it in many different ways and hopefully throughout
our time we're gonna give you practicals we're gonna give you ideas and we're
gonna give you themes that would actually impact your own family's life
because how many you know Reformation in family is an amazing Reformation and if
we could just reform our own families I believe that would transform the world
and we need a Reformation at home first my wife likes to say this all the time
she's she says revival isn't revival until it shows up in my home so we can
have a good church service we can have an amazing time here at school of the
prophets but if it doesn't actually translate to transformation in your own
life and own family then something's missing we got to fix that first we got
to work on that first and then we live out of overflow and then it expands the
borders of our own home into our community into our other spheres of
influence maybe that's your business maybe that's your school it doesn't
matter where that's at it begins to expand outside of there and it doesn't
mean like okay I graduated from family now now I'm expanding I'm gonna do this
here and this here maybe that's what you're called to you're you're actually
called to your own family it doesn't need to be bigger than that and God
doesn't say oh this over here is bigger than that no that's number one that's
what he builds the kingdom on the model of family amen we'll stand to your feet
and welcome Bethany Hicks as she kicks us off
thank you all right thank you again want to welcome our online audience as
well our Brazilian friends abrigado it's a little tip if you're gonna go speak in
different countries and cultures learn something in their language because it
shows that you love them enough to learn something new so that's why when I went
to England I would speak in an English accent I'm not but I kept my daughters
come in they're brilliant at it if I do it you guys won't even take me seriously
the rest of the day so hey speaking of which I do want to introduce I have my
family here that's coming to support me so
I'd love to have mom, could you stand?
This is my mom, you guys, stand up.
The woman who birthed me.
My father just went to heaven a couple months ago,
and we just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary
last December.
It was the first time our entire family was together
in like eight years, and so God, just in his goodness,
was like prepping our family for something
that we didn't know was coming.
So it's been an interesting transition,
but I'm so thankful to my parents.
And then I want to introduce my niece
and my sister-in-law, Emily.
She's a third year BSSM, Emily, alumni.
And then my sister-in-law, Jen,
she's actually a daughter of this house,
grew up with the family.
And then my beautiful, two of my three children,
my daughters, Faith, you want to stand up?
Stand up, girl.
This is Faith, Noelle, and Ellie.
This is my youngest, Ellie Hicks.
They're gonna kill me for that, I can't even wait.
So I do want to do one quick giveaway here.
We've been talking about my first book a little bit,
because we proved Chris was a prophet,
because he prophesied this.
And this book is called Own Your Assignment.
And as we mentioned before, four years ago,
we were at School of the Prophets,
and Chris prophesied that I would write the book
that would redefine mothering in the kingdom of God.
And it kind of was birthed out of different things,
but I would get these words,
Lindsay was sharing this the other day,
I would get these words like, oh, you're a pioneer,
you're a forerunner, you're a lightning rod from heaven.
I'd be like, yes, yes, that's so me,
really powerful words, right?
And then they'd be like, and you'll be known as a mother.
And I would cringe inside,
not because I don't love being a mother to my children,
but because I felt like there had been such a lack
of definition of what a mother carries
in almost like a second-class citizen,
kind of like, we don't know what to call you anymore
in the church, so we're gonna call you a mother.
Like, what does a mother do?
And so the Lord really took me on a journey
throughout scripture and experience
to see what is the difference,
what's the distinction between what a father carries
and what does a mother uniquely carry?
And I used to, I hate to strong word,
but I didn't love the scripture that talked about
older women shall teach the younger women.
Wow, a lot of the women were like, yes.
You know why?
It's because we felt like in the church,
it basically relegated women
to only children and women's ministry.
And as a woman who's called to the broad audience,
that was like, that didn't resonate with me.
And then I realized just the other day, to be honest,
that the Lord connected it,
because the first principle to raising a world changer,
which is what I believe fathers and mothers
are called to do, okay?
Like, do you guys know that the billion soul harvest
now is and is still coming, right?
Like, it's happening.
We're actually in the midst of it.
And what's happening is you've got all these people
coming into the kingdom of God.
They were orphans and now they're sons and daughters,
but they don't automatically know how to live
as sons and daughters.
They need fathers and mothers to show them
who they really are and to raise them up
to be the world changers that they're called to be.
So back to the older women and the younger women,
I realized that it goes back to the first principle
that the best way for a mother,
the best way to raise a world changer
is to be a world changer yourself.
Like produces after its own kind, right?
Like, you cannot raise somebody up to be something
that you're not already walking in.
And so I feel like this is a message.
This is actually, honestly,
at the time that this prophetic word was given,
like I said, four years ago.
Okay, this is kind of a funny side note.
This is just only God could do this.
So Chris releases a message.
It's a mandate that comes to me.
I start writing the book.
I've never written a book before.
Wrote the book in about four months and editing.
Okay, the day that I got my first paperback book,
just to look at it,
I looked at the calendar to the date.
It was nine months from the date that Chris gave the word
to the day that I birthed my first book.
I mean, anybody who's written a book,
you cannot make that happen.
Can I just say like, there's just so many other pieces.
So I thought that that was really fun in that.
But I really believe you guys,
like I knew at the time it was Jehovah's Sneaky.
Like I felt like it was a forerunning message.
And I didn't understand why God was highlighting mothers
four years ago, but I felt like it was a seed
that was being scattered out into the waters,
like the bread to see what was gonna be returned.
Because you guys, as you know, what is under attack today?
Yes, you guys are all right.
Yes, I mean, really, what's not attacked today?
That's probably the best question.
But like, women are now being called what?
Menstruating person?
They're trying to redefine, and mothers,
they're trying to relabel, redefine as birthing people.
Okay, it is an assignment.
It is a role, it is a God-given role
to the family structure, to the leadership of family.
And I believe that God is raising all women up
who are willing to take the responsibility
of mothering in this season.
It doesn't matter your age,
doesn't matter your situation,
whether you've been married,
whether you've had children, whether you haven't.
I believe it's the call because of the kingdom of God
and the harvest that's coming.
Every son and daughter needs to know
how to live as a world changer
when he mothers and fathers, that's what this is about.
So, I would like to give this to,
oh, Jesus.
Okay, I just, I always like doing this.
I like to give this to a woman who's single,
who has never had children,
but has had words about becoming a mother.
Yeah, okay, yeah, is that you?
Awesome, okay.
All right, so, Father, I thank you, Lord, wow.
I thank you.
You said, more the children of the barren woman, Father God.
And Father, I just thank you right now
that you're even enlarging the tent.
Wow, for those that are coming.
You're enlarging the tent pegs right now for her, Father,
because I see that you're enlarging the tent pegs
right now for her, Father,
because I see the children are coming.
The children are coming.
And I just, I'm getting the sense in this impression,
it's even like, I don't know why I'm seeing
like African children or something like that too.
So, I don't even know if that's something
that's on your heart.
But Father, I just thank you right now
that you're enlarging the tent pegs of her heart,
but you're also enlarging her resources, Father,
and you're even just bringing the right people
into her life, Father,
because I do believe there's a call on your life
to mother a generation in Jesus' name, amen.
Wow.
All right, so we're talking about prophetic reformation.
As you guys know, each one of our speakers
are gonna share a topic that's really strong
and passionate on our hearts.
And I'm gonna be speaking today,
kind of, I'm just gonna start talking, how about that?
How many of you guys would agree
that our culture needs a prophetic reformation today?
Right?
Like with all that's going on in the culture,
I mean, we've got the pandemic, economics,
political, right, education.
It's like everywhere you look,
there seems to be some kind of an issue
or a challenge that needs reformation.
Now, I was looking up the word reform,
and the definition for reform is to make an improvement,
to change to a better state, okay?
So when we are talking about reformation,
we're talking about to change something
from what it is to a better state, okay?
Do you guys wanna hear
the greatest reformation war cry of all time?
Remember Dana was talking about
this whole like interaction thing?
Okay.
Greatest reformation war cry.
Your kingdom come, your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
That is a prayer of reformation, guys.
What was Jesus saying?
Make earth better than its current state.
Make earth look like heaven.
See, we're all called to partner with reformation on earth
because this is part of your kingly and queenly identity.
We are called to have dominion over the earth,
and our job is to make earth look like heaven, you know?
And can I just share with you right now,
as a mother, I am concerned about something that I'm seeing
that's becoming a pattern in our generation today.
I'm concerned about the identity
of this next generation that's rising up.
All that's out there, the gender confusion,
the different things.
My youngest daughter started public school last year,
and she was in ninth grade,
and she was just sharing me like, you know,
of course, all these different people,
like the homosexuality, the pressure to not be straight,
and just the conversations they're even having.
She's in theater.
that obviously draws some unique characters already.
But she was saying how one day she was walking
and she heard a conversation behind her
and one kid was talking to their friend
and they were like, you know what,
somebody told me the other day
that I'm giving them like vamp, vampire vibes, vamp vibes.
And they're like, I really like that.
I think I'm gonna start to identify as a vampire now.
And they were totally serious, totally serious.
And then of course, like my hairdresser
whose children were in elementary and junior high,
the cool thing, as Chris was talking about earlier,
the cool thing is to be gay, is to shift your gender
or to choose a different sexual orientation.
Now, I share this with you
because I really believe in my whole heart.
We used to, we have in the past,
the church has judged those kinds of tendencies
as a morality issue.
And I agree with that in that past.
But I believe with my whole heart
that what's happening today is less a morality issue
and more an identity crisis.
I believe that there's a spirit of confusion
that the enemy has put on the children of today.
They actually don't know what they're doing.
And because they're so impressionable,
they are following the crown.
See, this is why the enemy's doing this
because he knows that he can cause confusion
at the very core of your identity.
Think about this, the core of your created identity.
Am I a boy or a girl?
Like, how is that even a question?
Did you know that if somebody were to,
when you died in a 200 years,
if they were to dig up your bones,
they could tell by your bones if you were a man or a woman.
It's in your DNA.
But yet the spirit of confusion has so clouded
the ability to actually even embrace the truth
of their very core identity.
But do you know why this is happening?
It's because the enemy knows
that your identity impacts your destiny.
It's not a coincidence either that,
I believe that it's not a coincidence
there's this rise of confusion
with the homosexuality, the transgenderism.
And you guys, I hope you hear my heart.
This is not about a judgment.
I'm gonna bring a solution to you guys.
But I'm trying to present to you a very real problem
or a challenge that's happening.
And I wanna give you a different perspective
so you can start to see yourself as a reformer
and not a protester.
So with Roe v. Wade that's happening,
you know how Roe v. Wade was just turned over, right?
And so I don't think it's a coincidence
that what's happening with this identity crisis,
what's happening in the culture right now with children,
especially in the last few years,
I don't think it's a coincidence that that's on the rise
with the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
I really believe that if the enemy
can't kill a generation in the womb,
he's gonna kill a generation through identity confusion.
If he can't kill the destiny of people
who are not yet born,
he's gonna kill the destiny of people
through identity confusion.
See, have you guys even thought this through a little bit?
I don't know if you guys are like me,
but I was thinking if this continues to grow,
this concept, this idea,
and if it continues to grow in 30 years,
20 to 30 years, this generation,
this generation is now gonna be adults.
Can you even imagine what the structure
of our society is gonna look like?
I mean, at the very least,
the family unit will be so diminished
or dismissed and the brokenness,
and just there's so many impacts of this pathway.
And I believe as an apostolic mother and a prophet
that we are in a unique time, you guys.
The Lord is saying, who is going to stand in the gap
and say, we will not lose the identity
of a generation on my watch?
I'm serious.
Do you feel that?
I feel that we have a responsibility as prophets,
as kingdom believers, as people who hear the voice of God,
that this cannot happen on our watch, you guys.
We have a responsibility.
Dana was talking about this the first night,
but there's a cloud of promises.
God's yes is already here, and he's looking for those
who will take a declaration of responsibility
and say, God, I will choose to be a solution
for where I'm called to be in this area.
We will not lose the identity of a generation
because I refuse to do something about it.
This is what Reformers is about, you guys.
Like, we wanna inspire you, we wanna equip you,
but you've gotta go out and be deployed.
You've gotta take this,
and you've gotta take the ownership for it,
and you've got to run.
Now, why is the enemy trying to kill identity?
Because he is afraid of sons and daughters
knowing who they are.
There's nothing, listen to me,
there's nothing more powerful on this earth
and more dangerous to the devil
than a believer walking fully in their heavenly identity.
It's true.
We cannot reform culture without redeeming identity.
And again, if we want to truly reform culture,
we must understand God's original heart and design
and even prophetic call to the people around us.
And so what I wanna do today is I wanna give you
what I believe the prophetic is a major piece and component
and an answer to this area, okay?
I believe, like, I'm a practical person,
I'm a prophetic person,
but I also wanna know, like, how do I take this
and how do I walk this out
so I can actually see transformation?
You guys with me on that?
And so what I wanna do is I wanna actually give you guys
practical keys to discovering prophetic identity
or heavenly identity, not only so it can impact your life,
but so that you have tools to speak to those around you
and speak the truth of who God says someone is
so that they can walk into the fullness of their destiny.
So I wanna share with you, first of all,
the two most important questions in the kingdom of God
can be found in Matthew 16, verses 16 through 19.
And it's this, Jesus is talking to his disciples
and he says, you know, different people say,
I'm this and this, who do you say I am, right?
And Peter turns to him, he says, you are the Messiah,
you are the son of God.
And Jesus said, blessed are you, Simon Barjona,
for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you,
but my father in heaven.
And then Jesus proceeds to say,
and I tell you that you are Peter,
and on this rock, I will build my church.
So in this particular passage,
we can see two of the most important questions.
The first is this, who do you say that Christ is?
Who do you say Christ is?
And the second is, who does he say I am?
Guys, this will radically transform our lives
and those that we're impacting.
See, once Peter, first of all,
had to have a revelation of who Jesus was, right?
Who are you?
You are the Christ, you are the Messiah,
the son of the living God, okay?
And then once that was affirmed,
then Jesus said, okay, now you are Peter.
This is who I say that you are.
And so the first question, who do you say Christ is,
relates to Christ's identity, right?
The second question speaks to our heavenly identity.
Now, what is heavenly identity?
I'm gonna just break it down really simply.
We're gonna say heavenly identity or prophetic identity.
I'll probably interchange those terms a little bit,
but this is what it is, very simply put.
Heavenly identity is who God says we are.
That's it.
It's who God says you are.
It's our truest identity.
It's who you really are.
It's not who you think you are,
who you think you should be,
what others think you should be.
It's who God says you are.
In fact, you could even say
that your heavenly identity is who you've always been.
Because heaven sees you this way.
Heaven created you from the foundations of the earth.
The Lord created you from the foundations of the earth.
He saw you.
It's who heaven says you are.
I love this saying that Dano says.
He says, the truest thing about you in the universe
is who God says you are.
Now, why should identity matter?
Because I really want you to see here the link,
the connection between identity and destiny.
See, your perception of your identity matters,
both good and bad, because it will affect your future.
Let me give you some examples of people in the scriptures
that had a wrong identity.
First of all, there was the Israelites, right,
when they were going into the promised land
and they sent out the spies.
You guys know this story.
And they came back and two spies gave a good report.
And the 10 bad spies said,
yeah, the land is beautiful, everything is great,
but we were like grasshoppers in our own eyes.
Because they had a false identity,
they saw themselves as too small.
They took their eyes off of who God was,
and they saw themselves with this inferior identity.
It cost them the promised land.
Even Moses, when God came to Moses and said,
I need a free man to bring a slaved people
and slaved people into freedom.
He's like, I've called you to be the deliverer.
Moses had an issue with himself.
He said, God, I am not eloquent enough
to deliver your people.
That was an identity crisis.
That was a wrong identity.
He saw himself a different way.
Okay, if Moses had continued to believe
the lie of that identity,
he would not have become the deliverer of Israel.
It impacted his destiny.
It could have impacted his destiny.
And this is why the enemy will always attack your identity
because your identity determines your destiny.
Okay, what you believe about your identity
will either promote you into destiny
or cause you to forfeit it.
What you believe about your destiny
will either promote you into destiny
or cause you to forfeit it.
And I can hear people say,
well, I just, you know,
why should it matter what I believe?
Because what you believe is where your agreement is.
Right?
Whatever you're believing about your identity,
that's where your agreement is
and that's where the power is.
So if you're, sure, you can all day long,
God is saying stuff over you,
but you're not agreeing with it yet.
You're not believing it yet.
And so whatever you're listening to,
whatever voices, and I'm not gonna go into that,
but whatever, it just matters
what your perception of your identity is.
So I'm gonna share the story about my daughter.
So when she was young, when she was about two or three,
I would take her like on little mommy errands
and stuff like that.
And as we would go into the store,
I would see some friends and I'd be like,
hey, Faith, can you say hi to so-and-so?
And she would do this thing
where she would kind of get this like scowl on her face
and kind of grunt.
And she'd be like, ah,
like just like kind of like over to the side.
And it was a little bit rude
and it was like uncharacteristic of her.
And she did it enough times that I'm like,
you know, I need to talk to her.
Now, first of all, I'm fine with my child not being perfect.
That was not what this was about.
I recognize there was something at work here
that was not normal to her.
So I sat her down and I was like, hey, honey,
when mommy introduces you,
I'd love for you to say, you know, hello,
or just, you know, don't grunt and really look away.
And she's like, I can't.
She's like, I shy, mommy, I shy.
Okay, as a mother,
I understood and believe that shy is a lie from the enemy.
Guys, shy is not one of the fruits of the Spirit.
I have too many friends that I know
that shy was paralyzing to their destiny
because they believed that for decades
until they got free from it.
Guys, it is not, it is, shy is a lie from the enemy.
And if you're in the room right now
and that's something that's been declared over you,
you know, we learned this yesterday, you can flush that.
You can flush that because that is not your identity.
And so I would say, honey, you're not shy.
You got the lion of the tribe of Judah living inside of you.
And he is roaring inside of you.
Like I would speak that over her, over her.
And I would never stop.
And within probably like, I don't know, a few months,
I started to notice a change in her when we would go out.
She would start to say, hey, like I would introduce her
and she'd be like, hi.
And then today, out of all three of my children,
she is by far the most bold and she is like relational
and she will walk up to anybody.
There is not an ounce of shy in that child, right, Faith?
Okay, why am I, why did I bring that up?
Because there was a perception about her identity
that I knew the enemy was trying to rob her destiny with.
And so what you believe, again, about your identity
will either promote you into destiny
or cause you to forfeit it.
This is why the enemy is working so hard
to destroy a generation's identity
because he knows that we're the feet of Christ.
We're the body of Christ.
We're the ones that are supposed to crush him under our heel.
And if we don't even know if we're a man or a woman,
how are we going to fulfill the destiny
that God has given us?
This matters, you guys.
I'm telling you, we're on a precipice right now.
We have an opportunity right now.
mothers and fathers, as prophetic people,
as believers in the body of Christ,
to be an answer to the solution,
because honestly, it's affecting all of us.
But we have a solution.
So, I don't just want to talk about the problem, okay?
I'm not just gonna get you all hyped up and like,
yes, this is a problem.
I want to actually give you guys what I believe,
with my whole heart, is a heavenly solution to this.
Okay?
What I want to do, you know how Chris was talking about,
we need to see people as future-present,
present-future, not past-present?
Well, how do you do that?
How do you practically see somebody
according to who God says they are?
How do you actually look at a person
and see them according to their heavenly man?
I'm gonna give you guys three access points
for recognizing heavenly identity, all right?
These are gonna be practical,
but they're also very prophetic.
So, the first one is this,
and this might sound super generic,
but I'm gonna break it down for you, is scripture.
Okay?
Scripture.
We're talking about how to discover heavenly identity.
So, growing up, my siblings, my brother and sister,
they used to tease me that I was the milkman's daughter.
I don't know why.
And at the time, I didn't understand how babies were born,
so it really impacted me.
And you know how kids are.
And it was just kind of funny.
It traumatized me, because you know why?
I loved my father, and I wanted to be his daughter.
And I wanted to know what family I belonged to.
And so, the first place in discovering
your heavenly identity is to find out
what family you belong to.
One of the things that we like to say in prophetic company
is that the Bible gives us our last name,
and prophecy gives us our first name.
Okay, I'm gonna unpack that a little bit for you.
So, I believe that just as the Bible
gives the physical genealogy of Jesus, right?
It's from Adam all the way down to Jesus.
I believe that Scripture also gives
a spiritual genealogy for believers.
It tells every son and daughter who they are
and what family they belong to.
So, in the natural, you guys,
our last names, or our surnames,
connect us to our family, right?
It tells you that you're connected to your parents,
to your brother or your sister,
to that crazy aunt or uncle
that you wish you weren't connected to,
but you still have that same last name, right?
It's showing you who your family line is.
And it also, in the same way,
these last names given to us in Scripture
connect us not only to our heavenly Father,
but to one another.
We all have the same last name.
Did you know that?
We all have the same last name.
So, I wanna give you just a few of our last names,
our heavenly identity family names, okay,
that every believer has.
Ready, number one, child of God.
Galatians 3.26, I'm not gonna read them,
all the passages.
We are a child of God, right?
Number two, co-heirs with Christ.
That's your last name.
You know what that means?
It means that everything that belongs to Jesus
belongs to you.
We are co-heirs with Christ.
How about this?
We are a chosen people, a royal priesthood,
a holy nation, God's special possession.
This is our last name.
How about this?
Citizens of heaven.
Philippians 3.20 to 21.
We are citizens of heaven.
I've been to many countries.
I've been to probably like 25 countries on six continents.
And I love, love traveling.
But when I go to these other countries,
I'm still a US citizen, right?
I couldn't vote in that other country
no matter how much I love it
because I'm a United States citizen.
We are all citizens.
We all have, like we all have a green card
for the earth right now almost.
You know what I mean?
It's like, we're actually citizens of another kingdom
living in the earthly realm right now.
And so every one of us, this is one of our last names.
How about this?
Friends of Christ.
These are last names.
You guys, I know they're like,
oh, friends of Christ, citizens of heaven.
I know we've all heard this before,
but I really want you to catch the lens
because this is gonna help you speak the truth
of someone's heavenly identity to them.
Friends of Christ.
We're no longer servants who don't know what he's doing.
We're his friends.
We are, I love this, a new creation.
Never before been seen on earth.
We are a new creation.
We are saints.
Come on, why would we still identify as sinners
if he's called us saints?
Too many people, too many believers
are still identifying themselves as sinners.
Last name alone.
Come on, think about this.
As a last name, if you're walking around,
I'm a sinner, I'm a sinner, I'm a sinner.
Can you see like the heaviness?
It's like you feel like you're constantly
trying to dig yourself up out of something.
I'm a saint, I'm a saint.
I'm beloved, I'm a saint.
You see how it's already shifted like a posture
or the way that you're thinking.
This is one of your last names.
You guys, you get to claim these last names
whether you feel like it or not.
Just like you wish that crazy uncle wasn't in your family,
it doesn't matter, they have the same last name.
It doesn't matter what you do, this is who you are.
Light of the world, this is one of your last names.
You are the light of the world.
Okay, so a few years ago, we were in Australia
with a friend of ours who was running a conference.
She's a powerful prophet in Australia.
And I remember we were kind of in the back room
and her daughter, her name was,
her daughter, their last name was Waterman.
And so her daughter who was maybe 12 at the time,
I noticed that she was starting to kind of like
help clean up and stuff like that with all the volunteers.
And somebody went up to her and they said,
hey, you don't need to clean up anymore.
We've got a team that can do this.
And she looked at them and she said,
well, I'm a waterman, this is what we do.
Wow.
She understood that as part of her family name,
that this was a responsibility and a joy and a delight.
And she understood that at age 11 or 12.
Okay, let's rephrase this a little
with our heavenly identity.
I'm a child of God, this is what we do.
I'm a citizen of heaven, this is what we do.
I'm a new creation, this is what we do.
I'm the light of the world, this is what we do.
Do you guys feel that shift of identity?
When you start to own who God says you are,
you will start to do and you will flow from that place.
I'm the light of the world.
When you show up into a dark place,
you don't have to do anything other than show up.
Why?
I'm the light of the world, this is what we do.
The light dispels the darkness.
And then you live from there.
The sun doesn't worry about doing the shining.
Do you know what I mean?
The sun just shows up because that's who it is
and it shines and it's the same for us.
This is who we are, this is what we do.
So again, the first key to discovering
your heavenly identity and also your ability
to discover it for others around you is in scripture.
We need to shift our mindset to embrace
who the Bible says our kingdom family is.
Our second area that we can access prophetic identity
is prophecy, prophecy.
Again, we said this earlier,
the Bible gives us our last name
and prophecy gives us our first name.
So just as the Bible tells you who we all are collectively
as the family of God, right?
Prophecy speaks to the uniqueness
of who God created you specifically to be, right?
So it calls out what makes you different
than your siblings, than your parents,
than your aunt or uncle, right?
It gives you your first name.
And so remember, we saw this in Matthew 16
when Peter saw, when he correctly identified the Lord,
the Lord said, you are Peter.
And on this rock, I will build my church.
What was happening there?
Jesus was speaking to Peter's prophetic identity,
to his heavenly identity.
And so again, one of the things we pray all the time,
like Lord, let it be on earth as it is in heaven, right?
We pray that all the time,
but did you know that one of the most practical ways
that you can fulfill Jesus's prayer
is to live out your prophetic identity?
Because now you're like,
may I be on earth as I'm known in heaven.
Ooh.
That makes a shift, right?
Let me be on earth as I am in heaven.
I've also been a worship leader for like over 20 years
and 25 years now.
And I remember probably about 10, 15 years ago,
I was leading worship on a little community church,
small community church in the mountains,
actually in Mammoth Lakes.
I don't know if anyone's ever been up to Mammoth Lakes.
And I was there and I remember one time a prophet came
and he told me something that completely shifted my life.
He told me, he said, Bethany,
you're not a worship leader who prophesies,
you're a prophet who leads worship.
And in that moment, something like,
I don't even know how to explain it,
but it's like something came in a calibration inside of me
and it clicked into gear.
And it's not just to play on words
because as a worship leader who prophesies,
I would play my guitar and I'd be like singing the songs
and I'd be looking to see where God might come.
Like, is he gonna come in this song?
Is he gonna come on this area?
You know, it's like you're constantly looking to see
where God might show up prophetically.
But as a prophet who leads worship,
I realized that I am the very conduit
through which the grace of God
was gonna be released into the room.
So the first drum of my guitar, prophetic grace is released.
The first note I sing, prophetic grace is released.
So I learned that I'm no longer
just looking for the breakthrough.
I am the breakthrough.
Amen.
This was a shift in my heavenly identity
because I now started to take ownership
of who God said I was
and there was therefore an acceleration of my destiny.
When you believe who God says you are,
that will accelerate your destiny, you guys.
And so again, the prophetic is a key
to how we live our lives,
how we fulfill what God has called us to.
And what does that even look like practically?
Well, honestly, I mean,
I now have a collection of prophetic words
that I've learned how to process
and discover my prophetic identity.
And we have wonderful ways on being able to do that.
Dan, I mentioned Michelle to you.
She runs our prophetic processing branch.
There are ways to discover in the anatomy of a word,
like Lindsay was talking about,
who God says you are uniquely.
But what I've learned is that when I show up somewhere
and I feel disqualified,
I don't feel equipped.
I feel like I yelled at my kids this morning,
and you know you're supposed to get up and speak
or show up to that business meeting
or do whatever you are called to do
and you just don't feel it, right?
You know what I'm saying?
Even minutes before,
what you do is you put on your heavenly identity
like a cloak and you're like, I am a forerunner.
My words shift atmospheres.
I am a breaker.
I have a breaker anointing.
And it's not something that you have to strive
to make happen.
It's something you lean into the goodness of God
because it's who he says you are.
And that shows faith.
Did you know faith pleases God?
When you believe who God says you are,
I believe that's one of the greatest expressions of faith
that you can show.
This is what we are warring against faith.
I mean, if you're not believing who God says you are,
come on, we all know this.
He comes to Gideon,
almighty man of valor, almighty warrior.
Okay, he was hiding in the wine press at that moment,
had never fought a battle.
How much faith do you took for him
to believe who God said he was?
Heaven always sees you greater than you are,
but heaven also sees who you really are.
And so prophecy is a key for discovering
and accessing our prophetic identity.
So those are the first two, right?
Scripture, we get our last name.
Prophecy, we get our first name.
And finally, in our third point,
and I kind of gonna camp here for a little bit
because I believe this is still,
it is somewhat undiscovered.
And actually, Daniel and I are writing a book
on this right now,
but I wanna talk about the prophetic power of your name.
We're gonna talk about names.
Names, let me tell you a few things about names.
Number one, names relate to our authority
and responsibility.
Your name is not just a random thing
that somebody calls you,
it's actually declaring your authority
and your responsibility, right?
So for example, God himself has hundreds of names, right?
Hundreds and hundreds of names.
Why is that?
It's showing us where his authority lies
and even what his responsibility is.
He's a redeemer, he's healer.
It's not just a name, it's telling you his function,
it's telling you what he's going to do
related to that name.
I am a mother to my children.
That's not just what they call me, right?
I have an authority with my children
and a responsibility to take care of them.
So there is a responsibility and authority to my name.
We were in Singapore a few years ago
and we were with a team, Dana was speaking.
And so we had a team of people
and there's multiple services.
There's like a thousand people in the first service.
So they were going.
through introducing the team, and when they got to me,
they're like, and this is Dano's assistant, Stephanie.
You know, and everyone's like cheering,
and I'm like, huh, I'm not his assistant,
and my name's not Stephanie, right?
But it was kind of like funny, ha ha.
So we went to the people, and we're like,
hey, we just wanna let you know it's actually,
this is Pastor Bethany, she works with us.
Like, oh yeah, yeah, we got it.
So then the second service of the 1,000 people,
they go down the line again, and they get to me,
and they're like, and this is Dano's intern, Tiffany.
Ha ha ha ha.
So funny.
Dano actually wants to add Tiffany and Stephanie
to our admin list for our prophetic company, actually.
If you have a booking request, send it to Tiffany.
Anyways, so again, Dano got up,
introduced me as Pastor Bethany.
Now, you know, I thought it was funny, you guys,
and it wasn't about the title for me,
but I will say that when they understood
that I was Pastor Bethany,
they shifted in how they received from me.
Like, I don't care about titles,
but I'm not gonna be called
and identified as something I'm not.
And so it's okay to be like, hey, that's awesome,
but I'm actually Pastor Bethany.
And so again, names declare our authority
and responsibility.
Secondly, names reveal identity, destiny, and legacy.
Names reveal identity, destiny, and legacy.
Matthew 1, 20, 21, the angel Gabriel appeared to Mary
and was telling her, you're gonna bear a son.
And he said this to her, you will name him Jesus,
for he will save his people from their sins.
Do you know that Jesus's name means Jehovah is salvation?
Jehovah is salvation.
Jesus's name prophetically spoke to who he was
and what his destiny would be.
I want you to see the connection with Jesus's name.
So what you do flows from who he says you are.
See, many are looking for their purpose in life.
They're looking for what am I called to do?
But I think they're asking the wrong question first
because they don't realize that the seeds of their destiny
can actually be found in the name that heaven calls them.
So Jesus's destiny was to be the savior of the world.
And so his name needed to be Jehovah is salvation.
He could not be called Abraham.
The angel didn't say his name shall be Abraham
because he would have been the father of many nations.
He didn't come to be the father of many nations.
He came to be salvation for the world.
Therefore his name had to reflect that.
You getting excited about your names yet?
You should.
Okay, Donald Trump, I'm gonna mention Donald's name.
Okay, love him or hate him, it's not a statement.
But this is interesting.
Did you know that the name Donald means world ruler?
World ruler.
My son, Ethan, my son, he's in the Navy.
He's been in the Navy for two years.
He's got this cute little mustache right now.
He totally looks like Goose from Top Gun.
It's so funny.
I'm like, honey, you got a little something.
I guess mustaches are a thing right now, is that right?
If you're under 25, I don't know.
It's to prove you can grow facial hair, I don't know.
I'm just kidding.
Moving along.
So my son, Ethan, his name means strong and steadfast.
And it was interesting because two years ago
when we were really praying about what his next steps
would be when he graduated high school,
he came home one day and he said,
mom, I think I'm gonna join the Navy.
And I don't come from a military family background.
I mean, it's a very noble occupation.
But as a mother, I just wanted my son to be safe,
to be honest, and that didn't sound very safe to me.
And so I was kind of struggling with the idea
of him being in the military.
And as I was talking to the Lord about it,
the Lord reminded me, he said, what did you use to say
and declare over him when he was younger?
And instantly I remembered when he was a little boy
and he would wrestle with his younger sisters
and he would be a little too aggressive,
I would pull him aside, I would remind him
what his name means and I would say, hey, buddy,
God made you strong not to be a bully,
but to be a defender of the defenseless.
So the Lord reminded me of that.
And I was like, wow, that's amazing.
me that I used to declare over my son
That's amazing.
that he was called to be strong
because he was a defender of the defenseless.
And what better destiny for him
but to step into the Navy and be a defender
for the defenseless of our nation?
Are you catching a pattern here
that's connected to your names?
Your names prophetically speak to your identity
and your destiny.
There is this guy in our church in Texas,
he looks just like Santa Claus, like 100%.
He's got the suspenders, he's got the beard,
he's got, I mean, like you would go sit on his lap,
you know, maybe and ask for Christmas gifts,
you know, maybe not in a creepy way,
but so I remember I had spoken at the church
and he came up with his wife and I was talking with him.
Okay, you wanna know what his name is, you guys?
I'm not kidding.
His name is Christopher Carroll Christmas.
It's on his birth certificate.
It gets better.
He was born on December 24th.
He was literally manifesting being a Santa.
He's actually a professional Santa now.
And talk about being a Christ-bearer,
that's exactly what he is.
So he's a professional Santa.
It's interesting, I was talking to him
and I was reminded of how St. Nicholas,
the patron St. Nicholas had rescued children
and kids that had been trafficked and stuff.
And I kind of spoke that over him
and he's like, actually, my wife and I adopted a girl
out of human trafficking years ago.
And so it's interesting to see
that he was manifesting his identity,
but also his identity that was connected to his name.
I'm gonna get one more story.
Are you guys enjoying this?
Are you starting to connect the dots?
Okay, this literally just happened like three days ago.
So I was, I needed to talk to a police officer
about filing a report for something.
And so I was, but I hadn't done it yet.
So I was driving somewhere and I saw a police car
turn on the street that I was going on.
And I just felt an impression like,
you know, I'm gonna go down that street.
And if he stops, I'm gonna stop next to him
and ask him about how to file this report.
So I did that, pulled over.
He ended up stopping at a school nearby.
So I pulled over, talked to him, filed the report.
And as I'm talking to him, I noticed on his uniform
that it said Jay and his last name was Crook.
His last name was Crook.
He's a police officer and his last name is Crook.
So I was like, do you, that's kind of ironic, right?
Like your last name is Crook.
He's like, oh yeah, I get it all the time.
People are always teasing me.
And I'm like, oh, okay.
Well then a few minutes later,
he handed me his business card.
I promise it wasn't a ticket.
And he handed me his business card
and it said Justin Crook.
And I'm like, you know what Justin means, right?
He's like, no.
I'm like, Justin means justice or righteous.
I'm like, you're not a crook.
You bring justice to crooks.
You should have seen, I don't think he's a believer yet,
but you should have seen the look on his face, you guys.
Because he was like, no one has ever told me that before.
I'm gonna go home and I'm gonna tell my wife.
I'm like, you're literally manifesting your name,
the identity of who you are.
You are literally called Justice to Crook
and you're a policeman.
You are made to be this.
He's like, I am totally made to be this.
So again, your names, the meaning of your name
speaks to your heavenly identity.
And I can already hear you guys like now in the room like,
whoa, what does my name mean?
We're actually gonna do a name activation tomorrow
at the two o'clock when we come back from lunch.
So I'm gonna teach you guys how to prophetically discern
and activate your name.
Okay, we're talking about the power of names.
So we said the names relate to our authority
and responsibility.
Names reveal identity, destiny and legacy.
Thirdly, new seasons sometime require a new name.
New seasons sometimes require a new name
or like an upgraded identity view.
So of course, Abraham, you know,
God came to him in Genesis 17 and said,
no longer will you be called Abram,
which means exalted father, but I'm adding the yaw to that.
I'm calling you Abraham
for I'm making you a father of many nations.
Abraham needed that name change for the identity upgrade
so that he could fulfill that destiny
as the father of many nations.
You know, Jesus, when he wanted to shift
how his disciples functioned with him,
he did it by a name change.
Right?
He said in John 15, 15,
no longer do I call you servants, right?
Because a servant does not know what his master is doing,
but I call you friends for everything that I've learned
from the father I make known to you.
So when Jesus wanted to shift how he related with them
and how they related with him,
he actually started with the name identity upgrade
or a shift, okay?
And so again, we see this all throughout scripture,
Abram to Abraham, Sarai to Sarah,
we saw that with Saul to Paul.
Now I'm not talking about like you have to change your name
because I believe that there is a redemptive seed
in all of your names.
Three years ago, four years ago,
the Lord gave me a new name, right?
When Chris Valton prophesied that I would write the book
that redefines mothering in the kingdom of God,
a mantle came on me.
And about two weeks after that,
we were at a conference and speaking somewhere
and a prophet who was a prophet and religious advisor
to presidents and kings, he's like,
okay, I have two words for you, apostolic mother.
Okay, that was a new name that heaven was giving to me.
That meant there was a new responsibility
and a new authority that God was giving to me,
but it's not automatic.
I had to make that declaration of responsibility.
I had to say, I'm gonna own that.
And honestly, I still, to be honest,
I'm still walking that out.
So we all have new names just as God has hundreds of names
that actually define who he is and what he does.
I believe the Lord has many names for each one of us.
It's not only in the natural birth names
that you've been given or your family's been given,
but God has prophetic names that he's releasing to you.
Isaiah 62 too says this,
and you will be called by a new name
which the mouth of the Lord will designate.
Revelations 2.17, to him who overcomes
will be given a new name written on the stone
which no one knows by he who receives it.
See guys, we fight the good fight
by living from our truest identity,
who God says our family is, our prophetic words,
and the names all collectively speak
from our heavenly identity.
I wanna make this last point here,
and we're gonna probably,
we're gonna land the plane soon.
Number four, don't change,
even though God gives you a new name,
number four, don't change the name that God gives you.
Don't change the name that God gives you.
Names are so powerful to our identity
that we need to be careful not to rename ourselves
according to what we feel or our life circumstances.
Let me give you an example from Scripture
of somebody who did this.
In the book of Ruth, we have Naomi
who is the mother-in-law of Ruth, right?
And the Bible records that her husband died
and her two only living sons.
So she didn't have any family anymore
other than her daughter-in-law, her two daughters-in-law.
So she decides to return to, I think it's Bethlehem,
and as she's going there, Ruth is with her,
but as Naomi walks into Bethlehem,
listen to what it says,
because what happened was she's bitter now.
Life is hard.
Like she lost the light of her life, right?
And so she's disappointed, she's bitter.
Like life didn't go the way that she planned it
or had hoped it would go.
And as she enters into Bethlehem,
the women of Bethlehem said, can this be Naomi?
She replies, don't call me Naomi, call me Mara,
because the Almighty has made my life very bitter.
I went away full, but the Lord has brought me back empty.
The Lord has afflicted me and brought misfortune upon me.
Can you just hear the weariness in here?
Mara means bitterness.
So she was renaming herself from Naomi.
She was renaming her identity based on her pain.
How many times do we name or even rename ourselves
based on the hard things of life?
You know, our negative circumstances, our own feelings.
You know, what are some examples?
I'm stupid or I'm unloved.
These are all names, you guys, that we're identifying with.
These are names that either we are declaring over ourselves
or that others are trying to put on us.
And you know, one of the things as a mother
that I did when my kids were younger,
when they would like call each other names,
I was like on top of that,
because I understood that if somebody called them a name,
like, oh, you're an idiot, you know,
if they adopted that name as an identity.
identity, then it would affect their destiny.
Because they're intricately linked, you guys,
your identity determines your destiny.
So if they believed a lie, a name about themselves
that wasn't true, it would impact their destiny.
And so, you know, I would say, you know,
it's okay to say, like, don't say you're stupid.
You could say that was a stupid thing to do,
but you're not stupid.
Do you guys see the difference there?
There's a difference between identity
and, like, a one-time event that happened, right?
So again, even now, as I mentioned earlier,
there are those in our culture
that are trying to rename different terms.
And it's strategic, you guys.
They're trying to rename woman, as I mentioned earlier.
They're trying to rename mother.
It's interesting that they're not trying
to rename man or father.
I believe there's a key there that's wrapped up in Genesis
because there's a power in a woman
to actually step on the heel of the enemy,
on the enemy's head.
And so I think the enemy's been afraid of women
and mothers and kingdom mothers rising up.
And he's been trying to silence their voices
for so many years.
And now as they're rising up
and starting to own their voice,
he's trying to go after them by redefining
and renaming them.
And we're not gonna let it happen.
Recently, I was ministering in a YWAM base in Hawaii.
And it was awesome.
I was, I know, a YWAM in Hawaii.
Like, you know, when you get an invitation to Hawaii,
like, you don't even have to pray about it, right?
Like, it's like, yes, Lord.
I don't need to put the fleece out for that one, you know?
And so when I was there,
there was actually two or three of the young kids
that were part of the YWAM team.
They were part of the leadership team.
One of them, a young man, was sharing with me.
He was like 19 years old.
And he was sharing with me how he had just recently
come out of a homosexual lifestyle.
So I asked him, I said,
how did that actually begin for you?
You know, like, how did that start?
He said when he was younger,
he was in a relationship with a woman
He said when he was younger,
his voice was just a little bit higher
than the rest of the boys.
And so some of the other boys would tease him
and they would call him, and this is an offensive term,
but they would call him faggot.
And it was a name that he allowed to become an identity.
It was introduced to him.
And because he didn't have, I believe,
mothers and fathers in his life
to speak the truth of his heavenly identity,
it took root.
And as a result, he adopted that as a name
that belonged to him and his identity.
And he started to live out that lifestyle
until the Lord brought salvation to him
and he walked out of it.
But he was still like learning to walk out of it.
So do you guys see that we must not rename ourselves
or allow others to rename us?
Did you know that there are 72 gender names out there?
I know.
I read this article of a girl.
She was identifying as a non-binary
and her given birth name was too feminine.
So what did she do?
She changed her name to something
that she was more comfortable with
that was neither masculine nor feminine.
Come on, you cannot tell me that names aren't powerful.
They even, I mean, even she understood
that there was power in a name.
See, names are powerful and they have the ability
to either limit our God-intended destiny
when we agree with anything less than our heavenly name.
Come on, you guys, I believe this with my whole heart,
that your name is a treasure map to your heavenly identity
and a roadmap to your prophetic destiny.
I do.
Within the seeds of your name, who heaven calls you,
it is a treasure map to who God says you are,
who he says you are.
And it's a roadmap to your destiny
and to what you're called to do and be.
So in closing, we've been talking about the difference
between protesters and reformers.
Did you know that the greatest reformer of all time
is the Holy Spirit?
Aren't you thankful that he didn't just come
from the outside like he did in the Old Testament,
but actually we now have Christ in me, the hope of glory.
He literally is inside of you to reform you,
to think like Jesus, to know God's thoughts,
to act like him, to be a new creation.
He is the greatest reformer of all time.
Second Corinthians 5.16, we said,
therefore, from now on, we regard no one
according to the Lord.
flesh. If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. Old things
have passed away. Behold, all things have become new. Honestly,
I don't know that we as the church has been really great at
this yet. We don't know how to regard each other no longer
according to the flesh, but to the heavenly man. And I think in
large part, the reason why is because we didn't know how to
discover who the heavenly man is. We understood some parts
like, oh, you're a child of God, like me, cool. You're a citizen
of heaven. But we didn't understand that prophetic or
heavenly identity piece. But again, these tools that I just
gave you today are three powerful tools to access your
future present identity, not only for you, but for the world
around you. See, our job now is to deploy and reform this
generation with the truth of their call. You guys, in Judges
5, something I've been thinking about recently, in Judges 5,
where Deborah, who's the only woman prophet, she was a prophet
and a woman, the only female judge and leader of Israel. And
there's an interesting passage. Think about it. Because I feel
like, I feel like it's kind of where I feel, to be honest, and
I think many of you can relate, where you're looking around at
this sea of confusion. There's so many issues, and you feel a
little bit helpless to do anything about it. Do you guys
know what I mean? You're like, I'm just one person. And there's
like this systemic issue for like centuries or generations
or there's all these things, what can I do? And I realized
late recently, I was reading about Deborah. And in Judges 5,
think about it. Israel had been oppressed for 40 years. And
here's a housewife. Right? Here's a little housewife with
the heart of a mother. She looks around and she sees and she
loves her nation so much. And she's like, God, what can we do?
And in Judges 5, 7, it says this, villagers in Israel would
not fight. They held back until I, Deborah, arose, a mother in
Israel. What can little old me do? I believe, again, I said
this on a podcast with Chris, I believe solutions come to those
who care. If you want to know where to start, ask the Holy
Spirit right now. Like, what are the burdens of your heart?
Where are the passions of your heart? What are the things that
make you weep? Not just the things that make you angry, but
like, what are the things that are burdening you? Right now, I
really do believe that the Lord is mobilizing an army to bring
this reformation of heavenly identity to a generation of kids,
especially, that need to know the truth of who God says they
are. And one of the ways that we're doing that in prophetic
company is we've developed have like identity camps, prophetic
identity camps that we are raising up trainers to go and do
in the different places that they're going. We have one of
our trainers is in a nation where she started coaching. It's
a, for lack of a better word, in the secular realm. And she's
coaching kids according to their heavenly identity. But she's not
saying that language. But that's exactly what she's doing. So
because so many kids are like, they don't know who they are.
And so parents are seeing that there's a transformation and a
change in their kids life when they spend time with her,
because she's showing them the treasure of who they always
were. We can be a part of the answer to this solution. We are
the ones right now that have that opportunity to stand in the
gap and bring about the reformation of God's heart, God's
identity over this generation. And so as we close, again, I
want to kind of ask, I think I have two calls, kind of in my
spirit. And the first one is this, if you feel like there are
false names that have been spoken to you over the years,
whether you've spoken it over yourself, or others have spoken
it to you, and you've come into agreement with it, I just want
you to stand right now because we're gonna break that off of
you.
Some of you were called shy. And you need to stand up because
we're gonna break that off of you. All right. Huh.
For some reason, I'm seeing you put your hands on your head.
Okay, we're gonna pray this prayer.
This is something, well, let's do this first.
Father, I just break all agreement, Lord,
with every false name, Father,
that has come into the hearts and the minds
that have come on these people in this room.
Father, I pray, I break that in Jesus' name.
And Father, I just declare, like,
we just forgive those
because they knew not what they were doing.
Father, we even now, we release and forgive parents
that spoke things into us, that shaped our identity.
Father, we forgive those children and friends
as growing up that spoke things to us, Father.
We just break that lie right now in Jesus' name.
And I want you to do, wherever you are right now,
whatever that name is that you are,
that you were believing, I want you to speak it out.
And I want you to say, I am not stupid.
I am not this.
I just want, I just feel like there needs to be
that declaration right now that I am not,
and just speak that out.
Okay, now what I want us to do is,
I want us to pray this prayer,
and this is something I learned from Pastor Bill,
and this is what I want you to pray.
I want you to say, Father,
don't let there be a thought in my head
that you don't think about me, in Jesus' name.
Lord, I just pray right now, Lord,
that the truth of heavenly identity,
of who you say they are right now,
would fill their minds, Father God.
We're not just displacing,
we're replacing with your truth
and with that heavenly identity.
Father, I pray, Lord, that even that,
I feel like there were some decisions and destinies
that actually were a result of believing this false lie
and these false names.
And Father, I just thank you that right now,
there's gonna be an immediate redirect right now
of destiny, and that even as they're laying aside
those lies, I feel like some of those lies
that you were believing were actually obstacles
to your destiny.
You're like, when am I gonna step into my destiny?
It's because this was an obstacle to that.
But Lord has removed that lie from you,
and I believe that there's gonna be a clear path.
He's making the crooked path straight.
Yes, Lord, make the crooked path straight.
Make the crooked path straight.
Those were crooked thoughts, crooked names,
crooked lies, they were not truth.
They were not straight.
Father, making them straight right now.
The truth of your thoughts towards us, in Jesus' name.
Amen.
All right, and then our second call.
I really feel, I feel like this is a time
to stand in the gap.
And I genuinely don't want you to stand up
unless you're actually committing to this, okay?
But I'm looking, I believe God is raising an army
of mothers and fathers, prophetic mothers and fathers
who are willing to say, not on my watch.
And what this is gonna look like,
it's gonna look like this.
You're just gonna ask Holy Spirit,
Lord, who do I speak the truth
of your heavenly identity to?
Now that I have these tools,
I can take the name of that neighbor.
I can take the name of that worker,
that work person that I work with, Father.
I can take the name of that girl
that works at the coffee shop.
Those people I have relationship, my grandkids.
There's different people that you have relational equity
with and that what you're gonna do is you're going
to discover who God says they are.
And then you're going to, just like I did with my daughter,
you're gonna start speaking intentionally
the truth of their heavenly identity.
Who is willing to stand in the gap with me
for the sake of this generation?
Thank you.
Do you guys feel, I hope you guys feel empowered.
Like you have a solution.
You can do something about this.
You know, the Bible says that the wisdom of God
is like foolishness to the world.
This may seem like simple
and it may even seem foolish to the natural mind,
but I believe with my whole heart
that prophetic heavenly identity is the key
and the solution to shifting the spirit of confusion
over the identity of this generation.
I really do.
And I wanna see as many people as I can
deploying with this and speaking the truth.
Dana, do you wanna say something?
Okay.
So Father, I just thank you, Father,
that you are raising up an army, Father God,
of mothers and fathers.
This is through relationship.
Father, I ask Lord that as they leave this place this week,
Lord God, that you would highlight people in their life,
Father, that's.
sons and daughters, people that their neighbors got.
Even right now, I see that the Lord is dropping names.
He's dropping people in your heart.
And you know, it doesn't even have to be
that they're homosexual or transgender or whatever.
Everybody needs to know who God says they are, right?
That's how the kingdom of God is advanced.
And so Father, I thank you that you are mobilizing us.
Father, not only to receive who you say we are,
but to speak out and declare over this next generation.
And Father, I ask in Jesus' name
that the tide would turn of identity in this generation.
Father, that there would be a restoration,
a dignity restored to sons and daughters,
to boys and girls.
Father, we break the spirit of confusion
that is on the education system right now.
Father God, we declare.
I just declare that it is no longer cool to be gay.
That is no longer cool to change your gender.
That is no longer cool.
Father, we just declare right now
that you would infuse your spirit in your sons,
in your daughters, because there is work to be done.
And we need the identity of restoration, Father God.
We thank you, Lord.
Not on our watch.
Come on, let's just say that together.
Not on my watch.
When you see people,
when you see these kids that are confused,
do not judge them.
You love them, and you now have a solution
to see them no longer regarding them as the flesh,
according to the flesh.
But you're gonna see them as heaven sees them.
You're gonna declare it into them
until you see a manifestation of that identity shift,
just as I did with my daughter.
You are not shy.
You are the lion of the tribe of Judah.
It took a while, but the constant declaration,
the constant belief, the constant treating of them
as if they already were that will bring them through.
I really believe it, you guys.
Let's do it.
Let's commit to it.
So we thank you, Father.
We thank you that your thoughts towards us
are as numerous as the sands of a seashore, God.
They are good thoughts.
They are precious thoughts.
And Father, I do pray, Lord, that you would raise up,
even in this place, Father, strategies, schools.
Father, I see more identity schools, identity camps.
Father, I see that they're being raised up.
Father, I see even like an identity training,
it's interesting, into the education system
that it would be worked into even the curriculum
of an education system.
I feel like that's something that's gonna be developed,
and it might even come from this place.
So Father, I thank you, Lord,
that you already have those that are going before, Lord,
the forerunners of faith right now.
We thank you.
We love you.
We thank you that you poured out your spirit
on all flesh, God, so that we can know the voice of God,
and that we can declare your good thoughts
towards the world around us.
In Jesus' name, amen.
Amen.
Come on, let's thank the Lord.
Yes, Lord.
Thank you for Bethany, Lord.
Thank you for that word.
Hey, Ben's coming to close.
Ben, you can come on up.
Ben's coming to close this session,
but Bethany mentioned that we have this identity camp module
and we have some of our third-year trainers,
certified trainers in the room who do identity camp.
Would you guys that are in that third-year program,
would you just come stand across the front
so that if people have question about an identity camp
or they wanna have one of you guys come in
and teach an identity camp kind of thing,
these guys, just be right across the front there
and they can answer questions or talk to you more
about even what they've seen in that certification process.
And we've got some online as well,
so if you guys wanna raise your digital hand online
so that they can also connect to you.
Man, I see you guys online.
I see tears.
I saw people cheering.
I saw people going for it.
We love our online community as well.
God bless you guys.
Yeah.
And just before we send you to dinner,
don't forget tonight,
we're actually gonna close down in here,
so whatever you need, go ahead and take with you
because we have sound check and stuff
for worship teams tonight.
But at 6 p.m., we have our dessert social right over here.
You won't wanna miss that.
And all of our art's gonna be over there.
And then for those of you online,
6.15, Ali Vallatin and a special guest
is gonna be joining you,
so make sure you have your dessert ready, 6.15.
We'll see you then.
And then session starts.
Love you all, see you soon.