We're in week four, how to release your identity flow.
That's what I wanna talk about.
And it has been so fun to focus on identity.
And I woke up this morning and was just kind of
thinking through and organizing the points.
And it's really an amazing topic.
I feel like I could keep going for a long time on this topic
because there's just so many, it's actually simple,
but there's so much to discuss about identity
and it's been really fun to focus on it.
But your identity that already exists within you,
it's actually meant to flow, there's a flow.
And there's actually a flow to everything.
And you know that because everything is in motion,
everything on the planet, every person,
every animal, every plant, every rock, every tree,
every molecule, every cell in your body is vibrating.
And the only explanation for that,
that everything is vibrating and in motion
is because something's flowing.
As something doesn't vibrate,
you can't have a vibration without something flowing,
either air flowing when you play an instrument,
like when you play flute,
you breathe your breath into the instrument
and the flow of your breath makes it vibrate
and make a sound.
So you can't have a vibration unless something is flowing
and putting it into oscillation, that's the only way.
So there seems to be this flow throughout all life.
And it's not a surprise because, you know,
the Bible says that there's a river of life
that flows from God's throne.
And I think that river of life is flowing on the earth
and it flows in everything.
And since we are God's design,
it makes sense that his river of life is flowing through us,
which means our identity,
who we are at our core is designed to be in that flow.
So our identity is meant to flow through us
and out from us.
And sometimes for whatever reason,
that flow can get frustrated or congested,
or maybe that flow isn't flowing.
Our identity maybe isn't flowing in the flow of life.
So the river of life is always flowing, it never stops.
But sometimes I think there's a way
that we get out of that flow.
So I wanna talk about how to release your identity
so it's flowing freely throughout your being
and out from you.
And that's real living, that's true living.
You know, we have within us our identity,
who we are, we have this built-in capacity
because we are created by God for wholeness, for success.
All of those seven parts of the identity
that I went through,
we already have the built-in capacity to be those things,
to be whole, to be successful,
to be in relationship with God and with other people
in a life-giving way.
We already have a built-in capacity to embody Jesus,
to operate as one with him.
We already have a built-in capacity
to inherit God's kingdom.
We're made to inherit his kingdom, to be his heirs,
to be the image and likeness of God, to be connected,
to be connected in life with the people around us.
And we're also, we have a built-in capacity
to experience spiritual connection with God
and for that life of God, for that flowing life
to always be present in us and flowing in us.
Okay, we're already built for that.
We already have that built-in capacity.
And so it's just a matter of giving ourselves permission
and consent to be in that flow.
That's really what it is.
So I wanna talk about releasing your identity.
Identity flow is about being.
We talked about that at the beginning.
It's not really what you do.
It's just a matter of just be.
Like be who you are, be so that those capacities
that are already built into you are flowing
and are flowing in you and out of you.
So it's just a matter of just be
because the kingdom of God is within you, Luke 17, 21.
And that's a truth and a fact.
The kingdom of God is within you.
And if that's true, it's either true or it's not
because you were made for the kingdom of God
to be in you and to flow and to flow out of you.
and you are a living expression of God and you are a living expression of his kingdom.
And that's really at the core of who you are that the kingdom of God is within you. And so I have a
one of my good friends Graham Cook has been talking about me plus three that's his big
thing right now. You know not only are you fearfully and wonderfully and remarkably made
and designed to express God and to express his kingdom on earth that alone is incredible right
if that was it if that was the only part of you that made you who you were you would be incredible
but it doesn't stop there not only are you a living expression of God and made to express
his kingdom on the earth you have three other powers in you okay they're they're within you
because the kingdom of God is within you you have the father and you have the holy spirit and you
have Jesus you have three plus yourself so that makes you a superhero like we talked about we are
walking around living superheroes okay so this is really really great news because there's
nothing that's too much for you there's nothing you can't do there's nothing you can't overcome
there's nothing you can't walk through there's nothing that you can't have victory over with that
with that amount of power in you there's really there's really nothing that can overpower you
on this earth except for in your mind except for what you allow in your mind unlocking or releasing
your identity flow is about letting go okay so letting go of the identities that are not you
maybe you know we all have adopted maybe false parts of our identity or identities that are not
really us maybe from parents that that said spoke you know things over us through our experience
through other people and it's just a matter of letting those go and then being so I'm going to
go through I have a list here of what what to be so number one this is about just a state of being
be aware I think I think there's so many things on this earth that if you're simply aware it changes
it's like once you're aware that oh I'm a child of God a lot of things change when you just become
aware of that so be aware of your identity that it's real your identity is real within you and
it's already set in motion when you became a living being when the life of God entered your being
at conception and you became a living being your identity with the flow of your identity was set
in motion and so just being aware of that being aware of who you are at the center of your being
that that it is it is there and it is real and you deserve to have
to allow that to come out so just being aware of your identity and being aware of moments where
maybe you are frustrating that flow of your identity and you know I don't think we're going
to always do it perfectly because there are things in in this life that discourage us and
make us afraid and there are times when the enemy lies to us and those are it's hard it's not easy to
deflect those things but just being aware of it I think when we start to frustrate
the flow of our identity or we start to maybe congest the flow of our identity
we can we can do something about it when we're aware the the number two is be forgiving
the bible talks about forgiving it's all over the place and that includes yourself so anything that
you would do for your child or for someone that you love if you would forgive your child or your
spouse or forgive your family member when they did something wrong you you need to do the same
thing for yourself okay so be forgiving of yourself let yourself off the hook because you know what
god has done that for you god has let you off the hook god has forgiven you before you've even done
anything wrong so be forgiving of yourself for every mistake every poor decision every shortcoming
every failure every
time you acted and behaved in a way that wasn't congruent with who you really are, anytime
you missed an opportunity, anytime you held back, anytime you were afraid and didn't move
out, all of those things, you can be forgiving to yourself, just like you would someone close
to you that you love.
You can treat yourself the same way.
Number three, be accepting.
And this is really, really something that is, I think one of the big things that frustrates
the flow of your identity is when we are not accepting of ourself or we're rejecting of
ourself.
So if you're accepting yourself, that means the good, the bad, the strengths, the weaknesses,
the flaws, you're accepting all of yourself.
Your identity is going to be able to continue to flow as long as you're accepting yourself
because the truth is it's unrealistic to think that you're never going to do something wrong
or get it wrong.
That's just unrealistic.
And God made provisions for that.
God already set us up for success in that.
That's why we have Jesus.
That's why he works in our life.
So we can, it's unrealistic to think that we're always going to be perfect.
So just being accepting of all of you, of all of it, because you're growing, you're
developing, you're learning.
Every mistake you learn from, every time you mess up, God's there to pick you up and redeem
it.
Every time you fall in a pit, God's there to bring you out.
And being accepting of yourself includes any judgments, any judgments you've made towards
yourself.
Anything you've held, like anything you've held against yourself, like, oh, I remember
that.
Anything that from the past that you're still holding against yourself, you know, just letting
that go, saying bye-bye, goodbye, comparing yourself to other people, and then turning
to yourself and saying, I'm not good enough, or I am not acceptable because I'm not like
that.
So just being accepting, being loving and accepting of yourself.
And this is huge.
This is something that I see a lot of new age, a lot of new age circles are really good
at this.
People that are into the new age thing are really good at loving and accepting themselves
way more than Christians.
And I think that that's really sad because if you are fully 100% loved and accepted by
God so much that he gave his own son to be killed brutally for you, if he loves and accepts
you that much, then it's important for us to give that to ourselves as well.
Number four, be out of hiding, okay?
There's never a reason to hide, to hide who you are, to hide your weaknesses, to hide
your flaws.
There's never a reason to hide because who you are is so remarkable and so important
and so significant.
And there's never a reason to hide yourself, to hide from people, to hide any parts of
you.
So just be out, be out in the open, just let it all out.
If you fail, you fail, if you offend someone, you offend someone, if someone doesn't like
you, they don't like you, but there's no reason to hide or to be hiding.
So be out of hiding.
And that includes, to be out of hiding, it means stepping out, taking risks, being bold,
being fearless, even if you feel scared or you feel intimidated, step out anyways.
So just be out of hiding.
Number five, be in agreement with God, be in agreement.
And that's simply a mindset and a choice.
I'm agreeing with God, I agree with God's design of me, I agree with his wiring that
he made me with, I agree with who he says that I am, so just be in agreement.
Be in a state of giving, be giving, okay?
Be giving to yourself, be giving yourself permission, be giving yourself permission
to be, giving yourself permission to be heard, to be seen, giving yourself permission to
flow, giving yourself consent, giving yourself consent to flow, and to be flowing, wherever
you are.
you're doing in every atmosphere that you're in,
every person that you're with,
even if you're just alone,
giving yourself consent to flow for who you are to flow.
Also giving yourself appreciation.
If you would give somebody else appreciation,
if someone in your life,
like I've been doing this with my kids
since we're all at home all the time,
Zoom school, and we're all in each other's space
and everything, and every time one of them
cleans up their mess that they made
while they are making a sandwich
and they do it on their own
without me having to remind them,
when they do that, I point it out.
I say, thank you, I really appreciate
that you picked up, you cleaned up after yourself
without me having to come and find you and ask.
So if you would do that,
if you would give someone else appreciation,
it's the same thing, you can give yourself appreciation
because you know what?
If you look at your life and you look at where you were,
what you've walked through, what you've been through,
what you've experienced and where you are now,
you can give yourself appreciation for how you've navigated,
how you've walked, how you've journeyed,
how you've gotten to where you are now.
You can appreciate yourself for that
because I can guarantee that you are not where you were
10 years ago, you're in a different place,
you're in a better place.
So you can appreciate yourself,
you can give yourself credit when you've done something,
when you've walked through something hard,
this isn't pride, this isn't a prideful thing,
this is giving yourself credit where credit is due.
Like, wow, I walked through something really hard
and it was really difficult and I came out of it
and giving yourself credit for that.
And even giving, saying thank you.
I started a few years ago saying thank you to myself
whenever I did something that was really uncomfortable
or really difficult for me and I would do it anyways
and then afterwards I would say, thank you,
thank you to myself.
There's something about that, giving yourself credit,
saying thank you to yourself because you're not a nobody
and everything that you've accomplished,
everything you've done, everything you've walked through,
it's really amazing and remarkable.
So you can acknowledge that,
you can give yourself credit and acknowledgement.
You can also give yourself grace, okay?
Give yourself grace in all areas.
Maybe you're not exactly where you wanna be,
maybe you haven't overcome everything
that you wanna overcome,
maybe you go through a week and you have a bad week
and you didn't do anything that you wanted to do,
give yourself grace.
Give yourself grace for when you make mistakes
and you have your down times.
Number eight, be trusting of yourself.
And this might sound blasphemous or something.
I'm not saying like trust yourself and not trust God
or anything like that, I'm not saying that at all.
But I think that a lot of Christians especially
have trouble with this, with trusting yourself.
And a lot of us say, oh, I trust God.
And we kind of take this passive stance to our lives
and we think, well, I trust God with my life,
so God's just gonna do everything.
And God is just gonna direct my steps, which he does,
and God's gonna order my steps, which he does.
But we have a part, we're active participants in our life.
That's how God set it up, we're not passive.
We don't just sit back and let life happen to us.
That's not how it is, we're actually active participants.
And so there's something about trusting yourself,
trusting yourself as one who expresses the kingdom of God,
trust yourself as one who carries the power
and presence of God, trust God's design in you,
trust who he made you, trust yourself
with what you're equipped with, what you are wired with,
trust who you are, trust who God designed you
and trust those things about yourself.
We were watching a Star Wars,
we got really into Star Wars last year on New Year's Eve,
we watched all of them.
But in the last Star Wars, there's a scene
where the main Jedi is a female,
it's the first female Jedi.
And in order to be a Jedi and to their training,
they have to go through all their fears
and work through all their fears and get through them
so that they don't have.
many fears and she works through all these fears
that are seem appropriate, fear of dying,
fear of loss, all these things.
But then the last one that's the hardest for her to get over
is the fear of herself.
Because she fears at the end of the day,
when push comes to shove,
she's not gonna have what it takes
and she's not gonna be good enough to meet the challenge
or to do what she needs to do.
So there's something about trusting yourself
and this is really, really big
because if you trust yourself,
you trust God's design in you,
you trust who you are,
then when there is intimidation,
when something is intimidating you
and when something is scary, but you trust yourself,
you're gonna take that risk,
you're gonna step out anyways
and you are going to be willing to be bold
in the midst of scary circumstances when you trust yourself.
So that's something about your identity,
just being trusting.
So think about all the people in the Bible,
all the main people in the Bible that God used,
they weren't perfect people, all of them,
all of them had issues, all of them had things,
all of them made mistakes
and a lot of them pretty big,
a lot of these people pretty big ones,
look at David, look at,
a lot of these people had major, major,
major issues in their life,
but you know what?
God trusted them,
God trusted them with the role that he gave them in life,
otherwise he wouldn't have used them,
he obviously trusted Moses
to be able to lead the people out of Israel
and to do what he was made for,
he obviously trusted David to do what he was made for,
he obviously trusted all these people
that he used in radical ways,
Paul and whoever, you name it,
he obviously trusted them
because God doesn't doubt,
God has no doubts about you,
God has no doubts about who you are,
about your abilities,
about your capabilities,
he doesn't have any doubts about you,
so neither should you.
The last one,
be free and liberated,
it's already who you are,
you are free because Jesus made it that way,
you are free and liberated,
so be that,
so this is what we're gonna do,
I'm going to do two things
and I think I'm gonna have to continue this next week
on our last one because I really wanna,
there are a bunch of different ways
to unlock the flow of your identity,
I'm gonna do two with you right now, two ways,
so number one, we talked about just being,
all the things you need to be,
so Isaiah 61,
and I'm gonna do this with you,
Isaiah 61 was a prophecy about Jesus
and what he would come to do
and then Jesus himself quoted it in Luke four,
when he was in the temple,
he got up and he read from Isaiah 61
and he said, this is me,
I'm the one, this is me,
and it says the spirit of the Lord God
has anointed and qualified me
to preach the gospel of good tidings
to the meek, the poor and afflicted,
he has sent me to bind up and heal the brokenhearted
to proclaim liberty
to the physical and spiritual captives
and to the opening of the prison
and to the eyes of those who are bound,
so Jesus already came and he pronounced,
he proclaimed with his life,
with his death, with his victory on the cross,
he proclaimed that you are free and liberated,
you are free from captivity,
you are free from prison,
there is nothing that can hold you in bondage,
including your identity,
so you know what the really cool thing is,
when you announce something,
your voice is a sound,
a sound from your voice creates a sound wave,
guess what a sound wave does,
a sound wave creates a flow,
sound waves flow,
so I wonder if when Jesus proclaimed,
you are free and liberated,
that sound wave now always flows,
remember we talked about the blood,
that proclamation as a flowing sound wave
is constantly flowing in you and through you,
so all you need to do is be that,
so I'm going to proclaim that because Jesus is in me,
I'm one with Jesus and I carry his anointing,
so I'm going to echo his proclamation
and I'm gonna proclaim over you right now,
I proclaim over you,
over your identities,
For who you are, I proclaim you free and liberated
in the name and authority of Jesus Christ of Nazareth,
the Messiah, and I release that sound wave
to flow freely, unrestricted in you and through you.
And for that sound to ring in you,
to resonate in you and to resound out of you
so that you can just be, you can be who you are,
you can be free and liberated
because it's already who you are in Jesus name.
Okay, I have one more exercise.
This is so, so, so easy because we talked about,
you know, accepting yourself, being in agreement with God,
be forgiving, all of those things.
So I'm gonna show you how to easily release that flow
in you again, because for whatever reason,
if those things have been frustrated,
if the flow of your identity has been frustrated
because you've been out of agreement with your identity,
you've been out of agreement with God,
you haven't given yourself permission,
you haven't given yourself acceptance, all of those things,
this is what you do, super easy,
because we're gonna change the signals
that are flowing through you right now
that are congesting the flow of your identity.
So find your collarbone right here, this is super easy,
and put your fingers like right below.
So touch your collarbone, go right below your collarbone.
And this is a acupressure point
where frequencies flow in your body, this is a big one.
And so we're gonna tap with all four fingers,
tap on right below your collarbone,
and as you tap, I'm gonna lead you
through a statement to say.
So go ahead and repeat after me,
and while you're repeating,
while you're making the statement,
tap right below your collarbone.
Even though I haven't always been aware of my true identity,
and even though I have frustrated the flow
of my true identity, and even though I've made mistakes,
and poor decisions, and even though I have fallen short,
and even though I have hidden myself at times,
and even though I haven't trusted myself,
and I haven't trusted God's design in me,
and even though I'm not exactly where I wanna be now,
and even though I'm not perfect,
I completely and utterly love and accept myself.
Okay, so this is something so easy,
just make going through those statements
and tapping right here, you actually changed the flow,
the flow of what was flowing through you.
So now you can just be all of those things,
and I'm gonna put that list of being,
I'm gonna put that in this week's outline,
and then we'll pick up next week
with the remainder of how to unlock that,
and we're gonna maybe go through
in a little bit more detail,
but I wanted to go through just all of those states
of being, they're nothing you need to do
because it's already who you are,
and it's already in you, those things are already flowing,
and so you don't need to do, you just need to be
so that you are congruent and who you really are,
your true identity is fully out and active and flowing.
This whole tapping, it's pretty popular right now,
like a lot of people are using these tapping things
to help with anxiety disorders and stuff like that,
and it has to do with the way
that information travels through your body.
So your body's always communicating with itself,
and information is always circulating,
and so there are certain points on your body
that are conducting that flow of information
that's traveling and sending it on to the next point,
and so there are different points
that when you tap on them and you are speaking at them,
the same time, you can actually change the information
that's circulating through your body.
So it's kind of like changing your thought patterns.
It's similar to that, but you're changing
the information patterns that are circulating through you.
And so this is just one that's super easy to do.
And you're putting in the flow of information
the flow of information that you're not against yourself.
You know, you're not against yourself.
You are working together with yourself,
who you are, you're congruent and you're accepting.
And it just, it puts your body into relaxation mode.
When you do that, it takes all stress
and pressure off of you.
And it allows the correct information
and truth to flow throughout your body.
Yeah, basically.
So your meridians are the pathways
that the information travels.
So your parasympathetic nervous system
is the part of your nervous system
that's engaged when everything is okay.
So when there's a threat or danger,
the other part of your nervous system,
the sympathetic nervous system takes over
and it puts your body into, you know,
stress mode and fight or flight mode, all of those things.
That's the sympathetic nervous system.
And so you want your parasympathetic nervous system
is the one that's supposed to be activating normally.
And the other one is only supposed to be activated
and operating, you know, for short periods of time.
If there's like some, a stress
or you're being attacked or something,
and there's like a real threat or danger to your life,
the sympathetic nervous system is supposed to take over.
But a lot of people are walking around
living with that on all the time.
And the parasympathetic nervous system
is what is operating when,
and it's telling your body, everything is good.
Everything's the way it's supposed to be.
Everything is okay.
And everything works when you're in that state.
Have a good rest of your day.