We will be talking about moving into the three realms.
So we talked about one in spirit, the two trees, now the three realms.
Now the significance of the three realms is the aspect of the fact that we are a triune
being.
Just like God is a trinity, we were created as a triune being where we have three parts
to us.
We have the spirit and the soul and the body.
Now we can operate, you think of these as kind of like realms that we operate in, and
we can operate in any one of these realms based on where it is that we see our identity.
So if we see the seed of our identity is actually in the spirit.
Thankfully, even though we're completely unified spirit, soul, and body, the seed of our identity
is in our spirit, it's in the spirit aspect of us.
That's a good thing because it's our spirit that's unified with Christ.
So it can't be touched, it can't be threatened.
So our identity, the very essence of who it is that we are cannot be threatened even if
our body is being threatened, even if we feel our soul is being threatened.
Our spirit being one with Christ cannot be threatened.
So that's why that's very important.
So let me draw this real fast.
So let's look at it kind of like this.
Some of y'all will recognize this chart.
It's a familiar chart to many of us that have listened to Chris Blackaby's gospel teaching
about spirit, soul, and body.
I told him that I used this chart and he said, I said, oh Chris, I use that, it's just so
helpful.
He said, I know, isn't it?
I said, yes.
So I have to use it for a visual every single time.
And then the Lord began to show me a way to represent how we can see in this chart kind
of get a visual representation of how it is, what it looks like, so to speak, when we're
not in rest so that we can understand, we can kind of get a visual of, okay, I'm not
in rest, so this must be going on, and then we have a visual of what it is that we need
to do in order to get into rest.
And I have people gone through the whole teaching, listened to all of this stuff, and this teaching
tonight is the biggest thing that they got out of it, that they said, this right here
is what they always remember, is this, because it was just so freeing.
So spirit, soul, and body, like I said, we're one, all of these are one, but the seed of
our identity is in our spirit.
If we, however, are struggling with our identity, and we think that our identity is not in our
spirit, and we think it's in our soul, or we think it's in our body, then we act according
to the laws and the rules of, so to speak, of those realms.
You remember the parable that Christ talks about where he talks about a farmer going
to spread seed, and he spreads the seed, and he just spreads it everywhere, and some falls
on the road, and the birds pick it up, some falls among rocks and shallow ground, and
then some falls among thorns, and then some falls among good soil.
Well, the fascinating thing is the seed that falls on good soil reaps 30, 60, and 100-fold.
It does not all reap the same amount.
So we all know that we're being compared to the good soil, but it depends on the actual
soil itself, and the quality, so to speak, of the soil itself, as to whether it's going
to reproduce 30, 60, or 100-fold.
So we can think of it like this.
Think of the body as being 30, and the soul as being 60, and the spirit getting to reap
100-fold.
So when we're operating, when the soil that that seed that God's word falls on, remember
God's word is what it is that he initiates.
How do we receive that?
We believe it.
So if his word is spread in spirit to us, and we receive it in our spirit, we reap 100-fold.
But if we receive it more in the soul, and we only believe God to a particular degree,
we only believe that word to a particular degree, well, we will reap according to the
degree to which we've believed it.
The same thing with the 30.
If we've only received it and come into agreement with it to a particular extent, we will only
get to reap 30-fold of that.
So in the parable, understand, think of, it's good soil.
Good soil, let's think of as the Christians.
Let's just give them a name, you know, the Christians, believers, sons of God.
They're all going to heaven, so even 30-fold is a very good thing.
Get to die and go to heaven.
It's a gift.
It's amazing.
You get to reap 30.
But if you believe that we're not much more than the body
or that we're subject to the physical realm,
remember how we've been talking about how important it is
to understand that we're not subject to creation
because we're meant to govern over creation.
If we believe that we're subject to creation,
well then we're only going to reap
a certain amount of benefit of our inheritance.
We've been given all of it.
Remember, the farmer spreading the seed,
he spreads it on good ground, but it's based on the soil
as to what comes out of that seed.
Some chose to produce a hundredfold out of that seed,
but some of that soil only believed to a particular extent.
When you only believe God's word to a particular extent,
you only get to reap the extent
to which that you're believing God.
And what is it that we're believing God about?
Well, when we're believing,
well, we're believing whatever it is he says,
but what I mean is when he gives us his word
and we're responding with our belief
and we're responding to it in a more limited way,
we're like, well, God, I believe you're good,
but I don't believe you're that good.
Or I believe you're this good,
but I don't believe you're this good.
So we'll only reap that amount.
We're taking in his word and according to what it is
that we believe and come into agreement with his word
is in relationship to the inheritance
that he says that he gives us, which is a hundred percent,
but it's the inheritance to which
we actually see manifested in our lives.
So if God has made all of these promises to us of a hundred
percent, you have all of this.
You have, think of all the promises
that God's made us in life.
The fact that you are completely healed.
The fact that he says that you have,
that you can always live completely in rest,
that you are loved, and that you can see love,
peace, freedom, joy, all the fruits of the spirit, right?
The fruits of the spirit.
Now this spirit is with a lowercase S,
but of course he's referencing the fruit of the spirit,
the uppercase S.
The point is it's in the same realm.
The fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace,
patience, kindness.
Those are things we wanna see manifested in our lives,
right?
That's part of our inheritance.
Rest is part of our inheritance.
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,
that's part of our inheritance.
So if we are not experiencing it in our lives,
what we've been doing is we've all been trying for it.
We've been working hard.
Oh, I'm so sorry, Lord.
You probably gave me this trial
so that I can learn patience.
No, the old man had to learn.
The new man, it's of his nature.
Everything that God says about the fruit of the spirit,
you already have.
You were given it when you believed him.
You were given it when you received his word.
But if it's not manifesting in our life,
then it means that there's some accusation
that we still hold against the Lord
and we're not believing his word fully.
So only that amount or that degree
of the fruit of the spirit is actually manifesting,
only that percentage or whatever.
So if we want more of that to manifest in our life,
we're like, well, God, you told me
that you gave us all of this inheritance.
Why am I not seeing it?
You said I didn't have to wait until death.
You promised that when I unified myself with you,
when I chose you, when I became,
when I am, because I'm one with you,
that I have everything.
So why am I not seeing that I have everything?
Why does my life sometimes look worse
than the non-Christians?
It's because we have been given everything,
but we've chosen to not receive it.
Because what is our response to the word receive?
God's given us everything.
So if we don't have it in our lives,
we haven't chosen to receive it
because we're in resistance.
So I'm hoping that a lot of the things
that we've talked about so far,
we're starting to make all the connections
and we're starting to see how it all works together.
So people who, excuse me,
well, before we get into that,
let me cover just a few more things here
to provide a much larger context.
This is pretty cool, by the way.
This is a notebook that's actually
a whole bunch of whiteboards.
And so I travel with this.
Really, really helps because it's a lot smaller
than traveling with a whiteboard in a little big car.
Okay, so some things I wanted to point out
are the fact that this right here
is the,
this is the invisible realm.
The invisible realm, and then this right here, even though we wouldn't think of it like that,
it's actually the visible realm.
This is what is referred to as the visible realm.
Another way to refer to it as this is the uncreated realm, remember, because it's spirit.
So God is spirit, and then we being born of God, being taken out of him, for all intents
and purposes of this discussion, it's uncreated.
It's not part of creation.
It's not our flesh.
This right here, when God refers to flesh in the Bible, it's referring to both the soul
and the body.
And then obviously when he refers to spirit, he's referring to spirit.
So this is the uncreated realm, and then this down here is the created realm.
And this is important to understand, that the soul is part of the created realm.
Because we have, if we've been made kings and have dominion, means we also have dominion
over the soul, over our own soul.
And we can talk to other people's souls like they are creation.
It does not mean that we have authority over their soul, because their own spirit has authority
over their own soul.
But a soul as a created entity is able to recognize, and is created as something that
is of the created realm.
It is made to respond, to choose to respond, to a son of God speaking.
That's a principle that God put into effect.
So that's important for us to understand about the soul and the body, because we'll be talking
about that, especially talking to, I know that that sounds really weird to talk about,
talking to souls.
But trust me, all it is, it's just a tool.
It's not anything that we have to worry about, not to mention the fact that God talked to
souls.
Jesus, when he was on the earth, he talked to people's bodies and souls.
And we'll point that out when we get to that.
So because I've had people ask, well, actually, that's kind of weird, talking to your body
and your soul.
Well, Jesus did.
Jesus talked to Lazarus, and Lazarus was dead.
Who do we think he was talking to?
He told it to rise up.
He's talking to the body, he's talking to a soul, he's talking to an entity.
And then there were other things.
He talked to the widow's son.
He talked to Jairus' daughter.
There's other examples in scripture of talking to the soul and the body, but those are just
examples.
Jesus himself did it, because it's recognizing them as entities.
But anyway, that's why it's very important to understand that the soul is also part of
the created realm.
When we were conceived, in other words, that is the beginning of our physical body.
We know that at that point of conception, that the soul and the body are united as one.
That is when it became a, you know, like Adam talks about, I mean, like the Bible talks
about Adam.
It says that Adam was a living being, but it said that we are life-giving spirits because
we've been reunified with the spirit.
And then this down here, remember that we were talking about the tree of life versus
the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
I'll explain a little bit of this as we go, but just to get an idea of what it is we're
looking at.
This up here, where do I want to put this?
This would be the tree of life, meaning when we operate according to the spirit, we're
operating according to the tree of life.
When we're operating according to the soul or body, we're operating according to the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
So all of these are governed by laws.
The body is, when we're operating more according to the body realm, that relies, that is when
we are believing that we are reliant on as our source.
So we're talking about our source now, so let's look at source.
In this category here.
So we are in the body realm, how do we know when we're operating according to the body
realm?
When we believe that we're reliant on the knowledge of earthly laws.
Now when we're operating more according to the soul realm, that means that we are believing
that we are dependent on, for our protection and our provision, knowledge of earthly laws.
Of spiritual laws, this is where you have and experience a lot of teachings related
to, well, I say a lot of teachings, excuse me, you know, spiritual laws would be things
like, I don't know, deliverance, deliverance ministries, things like that.
I'm not saying that deliverance ministries are bad, you know, I'm just saying that if
we think that we have to, which we're going to be talking about later, about how to actually
engage in spiritual warfare.
If we think that we have to have knowledge of spiritual laws in order to be able to triumph
over Satan, that's a problem.
We can use the spiritual laws in interacting, you know, with Satan and declaring over him,
you know, so that we understand how all of those principles work and we can use those
tools.
There's nothing wrong with using the tools that are in the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil like we were talking about, but it's very important that we understand that we're
not reliant on, independent on them in order to overcome Satan.
That's what I'm talking about here, knowledge of spiritual laws.
So spiritual laws would be things like principles by which certain things work.
A lot of metaphysical laws happen here, a lot of quantum mechanics would be here.
You know, you have physics and then you have quantum mechanics and then you have spirit
that gives instruction to quantum mechanics, which quantum mechanics as scientists are
discovering gives instruction to physical laws.
But spiritual laws would also be things such as sowing and reaping, tithing, things like
that.
Believing that it's our knowledge of them and our use of them that actually gets us
something that, in other words, we don't have it and it gives us something.
So it gives us a reward, that's the problem.
Nothing wrong with sowing and reaping, nothing wrong with tithing if we're reliant on it
thinking it gets us somewhere with God.
If it gets us, in other words, that we're in lack unless we have it, it means that it's
more powerful, that we're making it more powerful than we are.
We're declaring that it's more powerful than we are, that it can give us something that
we don't have and that is an issue.
God says, no, a son of God is not in lack, he doesn't need anything, he uses it.
So in the spirit, this is governed by relationship.
And in relationship, relationship is the opposite of law.
One of the reasons why relationships can feel so frustrating because when you're interacting
with another individual, all laws, all formulas, all reasons go out the window.
It's one of the reasons why they're so difficult, they cannot be predicted.
There's an element of human behavior, yeah, that can be predicted, but at the very core
and essence of it, it can't be predicted.
And so it makes us feel very unstable, very uncertain, very unsure, but knowledge of things
that are always a particular way, laws, and they're never anything else, and whenever
they are anything else, such as when Jesus tells the wind in the ways to be quiet or
he turns the water into wine or he walks on the water, whenever they are something else,
it's called supernatural.
It's called a miracle because that shouldn't be, because that's not operating according
to the law.
Because the laws itself are very predictable, they're very safe.
This is why we like to cover ourselves with these if we choose to operate according to
the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, because it gives us a sense of safety so that
we don't have to be dependent on God for our safety, because we don't find God safe.
So how can I feel safe without risking myself, with the least amount of risk?
We understand there's risk here, but we feel that it's less risk, so that's why we always
choose the tree of the knowledge of good and evil so often.
But this is the chart.
Somebody who believes that their identity is more down in the body realm, they believe
that they're subject to the knowledge of early laws.
So we'll use health as an example.
Say for instance that you have a headache, you have a headache, and so if you think I
have to, or it could be any health issue, you think I have to have Tylenol, I have to,
say it's a really bad headache, say it's a migraine, I have to have Tylenol or Advil
or whatever, or say it's something else and you think I have to have surgery.
If we think again that we're dependent on knowing something or finding somebody else
who knows something about an earthly law and how we can use it for ourselves, if we
I think that we're subject to that and can't be healed
and can't expect healing and stand in healing otherwise.
It means that we're operating a bit more
out of the body realm.
We think that this is the seat of our identity.
Why is that a problem?
Because God says no, he's one with us in spirit
and he wants us to acknowledge that this is who it is
that we are and we're saying no, I disagree Lord,
that's not who I am.
We're calling God a liar.
Where he gave us a word and we've chosen to not receive it.
So he's like, okay, fine, I wanted union,
you're saying no, I want separation because I feel safer.
And so God's like, okay, but I want to make sure
that they have a way, if they're not gonna use me,
rely on me as their protection and provision.
I wanna make sure that they have a way to provide for
and protect themselves, so I'm gonna give them laws
of tools that they can use to try to protect themselves.
So if they won't stand in their identity
that they're complete, that I am who I say that I am
and that they are who I say that they are
and that they have a right to command healing,
to be healed and all of that and instead they think,
no, I need something.
God's like, well, I'm a loving God,
so I will give them time and all.
I will grow their medical and scientific community,
their brains, their minds, give them the ideas
so that they discover that in life,
I have actually placed in predestined intention
to protect them the fact that you can use something
that they're gonna discover and name Tylenol and Advil
and they can use that to provide for and protect themselves.
But it ultimately leads to nothing but death.
Evidenced by the fact that,
and now obviously God's talking about in a spiritual sense,
but it even, in the fact that it is in spirit,
it's gonna manifest like that in the visible as well.
So in the spiritual sense,
if it leads to nothing but death,
it means that in the physical,
there's an element of death in it.
Every single thing that you use to rely on out of the earth
has a limitation to it and has a side effect.
When you start taking Tylenol, you start taking Advil,
there's a reason why there's all those side effects listed.
Yes, there are even side effects to essential oils.
And yes, I use essential oils.
But I'm not trying to villainize something
and say, oh, well, I don't believe it.
No, but there's side effects to all kinds of things.
There's risks to various things.
And God says that nothing can be fully
and completely relied on by a son of God except God himself.
So nothing can be relied on as our perfect protection
and provision outside of God.
So the same thing with the spiritual laws.
All of these things, by the way, are very, very good,
and we can use them.
God didn't come to annihilate the tree
of the knowledge of good and evil.
He didn't come to abolish the law,
but he did come to fulfill it,
meaning that he came to fulfill all of its cost,
meaning that whenever we came into association
with the law, it would not produce death in us.
Remember that Jesus did away with death,
so it wouldn't produce death in us.
But anyway, so now that death has been removed,
we can use these laws as long as we remember
who it is that we are and choose that God actually removed
the sting from death, choose that he actually
came to fulfill the law, that the law is already fulfilled.
If we choose that, we can use the law
because we understand that we're over it
and that we govern it.
But the knowledge of spirit, if we're operating
more out of the soul, it means that we are relying
on our knowledge of spiritual laws
in order to get us somewhere.
Okay, so I want God to bless me financially
or in relationships or whatever,
but let's just say financially so
because that makes it easier.
And so I'm going to sow, God tells me to sow 10%.
So I'm gonna make sure I don't sow 9%.
I'm gonna sow 10, and I'm gonna make sure that I sow 10.
It's a law, and I'm believing in that law,
and our believing in that law will give it power
in our lives.
So it means that you are condemned if you don't do it,
condemned by the way you framed up your own world.
You said that that would get you something.
So therefore, if you don't do it, you won't get it.
Or worse than that, you might get an opposite consequence.
So you'll get something because we declared
that that was the law.
that we were under.
We put ourselves under that law by our own mouth,
so to speak, by our own declaration, by our own belief.
So when we operate more according to the soul,
we're relying on the knowledge of spiritual laws.
So going with that same example of health,
so if someone has that same migraine,
that they operate more out of the soul,
then they operate a bit more out of this knowledge
of spiritual laws,
believing that, well, you know,
Satan's coming against me.
Satan's coming against me,
and well, I'm just not gonna have it.
So what is it that I know?
Well, I know that I can stamp out the devil,
and I can do this,
and I can pray through my generational line,
I can go back through my bloodline,
and can declare things.
Some people believe in going into the courts of heaven.
I'm gonna go into the courts of heaven,
and I'm gonna declare my case.
I'm gonna do this, and I'm gonna do that.
And it's a lot of work.
It is so much work.
There is no end to it.
There have been so many people who go to
deliverance ministry after deliverance ministry
after deliverance ministry,
because they can't figure out someone
who knows the name of the demon
that they feel that they're living with.
And until they know the name they feel they believe,
they can't cast it out,
because that's what they put their belief in.
They put their belief in the fact,
I believe that unless I know the demon's name,
I cannot tell it to leave.
Or unless I'm actually, or I don't know, whatever,
there's all kinds of different laws.
I'm not saying that that's not,
how would I put that?
The things that people talk about,
just generally speaking,
the spiritual laws, spiritual warfare,
going back through your generational line,
going back through your bloodline,
but going into the courts of heaven.
All those things, am I impersonally,
if you can believe it or you want,
they do work.
They actually do work.
But it's a lot of work,
and we're still relying on the fact that we're in lack,
and we have to do something in order to earn,
or claim, or regain some ground,
as if we've lost it.
That's the problem.
We think we're in lack.
We think we've lost it.
We think we have to regain.
And that's an issue.
So anyway, moving into the spirit,
if we operate more according to the spirit realm,
then it means that we're relying completely
on the relationship of our union with Christ,
and the fact that we are one with Christ.
We're everything that he is,
and we're nothing that he's not.
And we're in the same position that he's in.
So Jesus was put in position above everything,
was given power and authority
above everything in the universe,
except it says God the Father.
So the only thing higher than Jesus is God the Father.
And it says that we are in Christ,
and we know that we're one with Christ,
but he always has the preeminence and all of that.
So that's the position, that's the hierarchy.
Well, if we are in Christ,
and it says that everything was put under Christ's feet,
everything, when we agree with him,
everything is under our feet.
Satan, everything.
Satan, spiritual laws, earthly laws,
Tylenol, Advil, sickness, health,
you know, even good things.
It's all subject to us in Christ.
Now, we're being matured to how to handle that.
So if we're wondering, well, why can't I just take,
why when I talk to people, you know,
and pray that the Lord, you know,
pray that they be healed or whatever,
why aren't they getting healed?
We're being matured into that.
But, you know, it's like children.
We're growing from when we're five years old
all the way up until we're like however old.
We're doing that in the spirit too.
So even though I'm 36 years old,
that does not mean that I'm 36 years old in the spirit.
I might be five.
And if I'm five, it's okay to be five.
God does not hold me to being 35 if I'm five.
I can act like a five-year-old.
But if my friend is 25,
but in the spirit he is 20,
so he's in the spirit, he's older than me,
he's matured more to the point where he is,
meaning that he's believed God's word more than I have,
he has been matured to the point with the Lord,
the Lord has taught him, has fathered him
to be able to stand in a particular place
that I haven't been fathered into
because I haven't believed that it was mine.
So I'm on a journey, you know, to get there.
So we're all on a journey.
So I just wanted to mention that.
There is no,
condemnation for being anywhere that we are. But what God does want us to always
do is to is to try is there's no condemnation anywhere not even if we're
operating according to the body. And God just God just wants us to continue to
learn okay now continue to choose me. Ashley I want you to continue to choose
me. Continue to choose me no matter what you're going through and whether it's
going through health issues, relationship issues, finance issues, business issues,
whatever it is, always choose me. Don't choose that you're separated from me
that you or you're rejecting my word and you're believing you're abandoned and
alone and these are the only things that you can rely on. Business for instance
if people believe that well they have to have knowledge of business strategies in
order to have a successful business that's absolutely not true. It believes
because that's believing that we are subject to and limited by our knowledge
of some of a metaphysical law and God says no all you need is in union with me
you can't you know all you can you have access to know all things you are being
fathered by me you're being I'm teaching you how to govern and I can show you how
to do business in a way that no one else has ever done business before and
there's no law there's no there's no strategy that you can compare it with so
God wants us to operate more out of the spirit and this is how I've learned to
run to run my ministry in business in business is out of out of spirit but I
had to transition into this because for so long I relied on these
things down here that my business was in luck and I was not being successful
in business because there's something I didn't know I know that there's something
I don't know and all I need to do is learn more that's why they say
knowledge is power it is limiting a human being to tell somebody else that
they're that they are and that the reason that they're not being
successful or that the reason that I don't know they're in lack in some way
is because they don't know something and that's absolutely positively not
true again not trying to villainize these things they're very very good but
they can't ever be used as our source if we shift ourselves and understand up
into the spirit and we understand that this is who it is that we are we now can
govern them and use them appropriately and like what we were talking about
earlier where we talked about the importance of allowing allowing
creation to be part of our to be part of our activity that we allow that we
engage with it and we allow it to be part of what it is that we're doing that
is being a king governing and allowing and excuse me using spiritual laws and
earthly laws but understanding that we're over them using them and enjoying
them not subject to them and it's a very very big difference but we can use
them once that we're understand and agree with the Lord that we're up there
with him in spirit oh my computer went to sleep turn this up real quick
okay so so our belief again determines which realm that we're operating in and
also determines how we shift so if our belief is determining where it is that
we're sitting it's only our belief that will shift us into a different realm
into operating from a different realm only our belief how it is that we're
responding to God's Word that's all that it is are we receiving the fullness
of God's Word or are we not that's all that we're doing we're just receiving
that's why everything is done from a place of rest there's nothing left to do
you're partnering with it is simply receiving it and receiving it to its
fullness not in part if God said it it's that to it's the fullest extent to
which God meant it so just taking okay well he says he's love okay all right
I'll take a little bit of that I believe I believe God's love okay well then we're
only going to be able to see the benefits of the inheritance that we have
that God says that we have in in accordance with the little bit
that we chose to believe.
So God wants us to believe to the fullest extent.
He wants us to believe to 100%.
Now, everything always, by the way,
you can't use earthly laws and spiritual laws
to get up here.
They can't be used to try to please God.
They can't be used to try to get anything
to happen in your spiritual life.
Because you can't, the invisible can't come up
and change the invisible.
The visible does not make something created
in the invisible.
Everything comes from the invisible
and gets created into the visible.
It always goes that way.
It never goes this way.
Now, they interact, they partner,
but it's always top down,
which is why God says he doesn't like us
using things like this,
the things that Adam and Eve relied on
that actually got them kicked out of the garden.
And we can't use those things trying to get back in.
It won't work.
So our, oh, and also this is, I love this.
So this is subjected to frustration, right?
Because it's the created realm.
The invisible not just created the visible realm,
the invisible realm redeems the visible realm.
Everything's top down.
Now, so, now our belief of how good that God is
is what determines where it is that we are.
How good do you believe that God is?
God says that he's good to what degree?
And we have to believe him to that fullest degree.
And the degree to which we believe that God is good
is the realm in which we're operating.
It's goodness, it's fullness.
The fullness of whatever it is that he says
that he's good and love and righteous and all of that.
I've already mentioned so much of all of this.
Okay, I'll talk about spiritual warfare in just a second.
But before I do that, I want to mention our,
what our destiny is.
Remember that we were talking yesterday, I guess,
or was it this morning?
Maybe it was this morning.
Whenever that was, about our purpose.
Oh, maybe it was yesterday.
That our purpose is to have relationship with God.
That is the purpose for which we were created.
So how does this world come into play?
You know, we're supposed to interact with it.
So much of the Bible is talking about
our interaction with the world.
So what does the world have to do with any of this?
What does creation have to do?
So that we are, and it's actually related to our destiny.
Your destiny is not to write a particular book
that God put on your heart.
It's not to have a particular ministry.
It's not to have a particular business.
It's not to be married and have kids
and raise those kids into the goodness of the Lord
so then they will go and then they will have families.
We do all of those things, but that's not our destiny.
Our destiny is to manifest the invisible
so that it becomes visible.
That is our destiny.
So it's not how we, the fact that we might
have a particular career, that we might marry
a particular person, that we have a particular number
of children, and that we do or don't raise them
according to the laws of, you know, the godly laws
and the relationship with the Lord.
All of those things are just part of how we're called
to manifest what is in the invisible realm
and actually make it show up here.
So we, that is, that's creation.
Jesus, you remember, was our example.
So he was our example of everything.
So if we wanna look at how are we supposed to live
and act here on this earth, we look at Jesus as an example.
Jesus did this.
Jesus, remember, Philip asked him, he said,
Jesus, will you show us the Father?
And Jesus said, if you've seen me, you've seen the Father.
He came to make the invisible God visible.
It doesn't mean that the invisible God looked like Jesus.
Jesus was the physical form, but what he was saying is
that in watching his life, his actions and his word,
that was the Father, because he said,
I do not say or do anything
that I don't see the Father say or do.
So that is how he makes the invisible God visible.
Because God, okay, again, connection with Jesus.
If God is invisible, how does he express himself
and make himself known?
Word.
What is Jesus called?
The Word.
Jesus was the invisible God
being made visible on multiple levels.
The Word became flesh.
Remember John 1.1.
Word, capital W.
The Word became flesh.
He was our example.
He's like, make the invisible God visible.
So when we operate as,
that's why we're called to look like God.
We're supposed to, in meaning like,
we're supposed to look like Christ.
We're supposed to exemplify him.
So that, who it is that's invisible
will actually be able to be seen.
And what it is that we say, what it is that we do.
It doesn't mean that it looks like this.
I'm saying that it'll be seen more than with the eyes.
It's seen, it's experienced.
It's able to interact with, permeate,
and transform the world when it comes in contact with it.
It's made visible in some way.
By sound, by sight, by touch, by whatever.
It's made visible.
It's entered into the created realm.
So that also means that on a,
so that was on a very macrocosm scale.
The invisible God being made visible.
The invisible God is made visible, it says,
when the whole body of Christ comes together,
we're able to actually see God in a new way.
We're able to see God in each one,
but when we all come together,
we're able to see him as multifaceted.
We're able to see God as more and bigger and broader.
Excuse me.
So on a more macrocosm level of that same idea,
we're called to do the same thing in ourselves.
Who it is that we are in spirit,
we're supposed to manifest that down into,
which is in the invisible realm,
we're supposed to make that visible.
Who it is that we are in spirit,
we're supposed to bring our soul and our body
into alignment so that our soul and our body
start looking and acting like who it is
that our spirit actually is.
So as we come into more and more of that,
you'll discover that your personality will change.
You'll discover that certain characteristics will change.
Because a lot of us have built our personalities
and our characteristics when we believed
that we were the soul, the soul or the body.
Wherever we believed our identity sat,
we believe that that is,
in believing that those are the seat of our identity,
we're going to frame our personality
or our characteristics off of those.
And a lot of our personality and characteristics,
including things that we used to describe ourselves like,
oh, well, I'm an introvert, I'm an extrovert,
God made me this way.
Actually, a lot of that is a coping mechanism for trauma.
It's because we believed that we were in our soul
or our body, and we believed a lie about God
that I was abandoned and alone, I was not safe,
and so I isolated and from a very young age,
I became an introvert.
Or from a very young age, I became an extrovert.
A lot of them are actually,
a lot of it is our coping mechanisms.
So I just mentioned that a lot of things
that we've always thought, oh, this is how God made me,
is actually something that has developed
because of what it is that we've believed.
What it is that we've believed about God
and what it is that we believed that it said about us.
So my own personal opinion about things
like personality tests is only that it can tell you
how it can tell you what it is
that you believe about yourself,
but it cannot tell you who you are.
It can't tell you who you are,
it can't tell you what it is that your spirit truly is.
If your spirit was truly made visible,
would you have that same personality?
Would you have that same characteristic?
And I don't wanna scare everybody and think,
oh my goodness, I really don't know myself.
We're not trying to throw out our sense of identity.
My point is that we're better than we think that we are.
That we cannot look to something outside of us
to try to find out who we are.
You can't read an Enneagram book
in order to discover who you are.
Or Myers-Briggs, or a disc, or whatever.
That just tells you who it is that you think that you are.
Now, and as you come more and more to alignment,
you will notice that that will change
because you're manifesting,
you're no longer manifesting ways that you're acting
based off of traumas and experiences in life.
that you've believed, you're now operating more in complete freedom. So when you operate
in complete freedom without fear, who are you? How free are you? What do you like to
do? Are you actually an extrovert because now there's nothing to fear? Or are you really
an introvert because God just has it on your heart and your spirit and how he created you
and how his relationship with you is that he always calls you into the secret places
with him to reveal particular things to you and he chooses that in the visible realm that
that manifests as pulling away from people, taking a lot of quiet time, etc. So neither
extrovert, introvert, neither one of those are bad and it doesn't mean that whatever
it is that you're manifesting now is that you're actually the opposite of that. So don't
fear yourself. I'm just saying they can't be relied on to define us. That's all I'm
trying to say. You might shift completely into this spirit and discover, yep, I'm still
an extrovert. I'm still an introvert. So I'm not saying that we're going to change. I'm
saying that it can't define us because we only developed our interaction, all of that
stuff based on what it is that we believed, not on what it is that we truly are. So if
we finally believe that we are who God says that we are, what does truth look like when
the invisible becomes visible? So we need to manifest that. We need to bring our soul
and our body into alignment with who it is that God says that we are in spirit. In other
words, when I talk about alignment, we need to come into agreement with who it is that
God says that we are. When our soul comes into agreement with who our spirit says that
we are, our body, by the way, gets instruction from the soul. So the reason that your body
is manifesting whatever illnesses, me, whatever illnesses that it is that we're struggling
with, whatever it is that we have, whenever our body is manifesting that, it believes
that it's abandoned and alone, it's under attack, and it has to fight because it's getting
that instruction from the soul somewhere. My soul believes something. My soul has believed
some accusation against God, and my body is manifesting that. So my body gets instruction
from the soul. So if my soul comes into alignment with the spirit, my body will correct, because
it's now receiving new instruction, because the purpose of the body is to make visible
what is invisible. And the soul is the decision factor. It's the gatekeeper. Is it going to
decide to agree with the spirit or operate on its own? So I mentioned, let's see if there's
anything else I want to say before I move on from that. I guess the only thing left
is mentioning that, remember that before, when we were separated from God, there was
this veil, you know, between us. And so in order to pass to this realm, we had to go
through death. That's what the veil represents. The veil represents death. It represents a
place in which something transitions from one thing to another. It has to go through
this thing. And we'll be talking about that right after the break. But that veil used
to be there between soul and spirit. You remember that the Bible talks about the fact that our
soul was dead. Your soul is dead. And so when you became a believer, it came back to life.
But that's what it's referring to. So I just wanted to mention the veil somewhere, because
it's going to come into play when we're, after the break, when we're finally going to talk
about how to shift into rest. And the fact that we still believe that the veil is there.
If we believe that the veil is there, we believe we're abandoned and alone. We believe that
we're separated from God. But here's the thing. If we're a believer, if we're one with Christ,
the veil has been removed, but we've been living so long in a box, we think it's still
there and we act like it. We were told so long, and by that I don't mean by other people,
I just mean by ourselves or by generations, since Adam or whatever, that this veil was
there. And we think, I'm still condemned. There's still separation. And remember, the
key word, God is very serious about that. That of all things that we shouldn't believe,
he said, do not believe in separation ever. Because as long as you believe in union and
that relationship and love with him, everything else can come from that. Everything. So he
says.
Always go back to union, always go back to MNIST separation.
Okay, so we're going to, yeah, let's have a break for about, excuse me, let's do it
for about, until maybe 7, oh, or sorry, 8, 810, so about 15 minutes, and then we'll meet
back for the last session, and so the last session is going to be how we can see, how
we can, how we come into unrest, and then how we shift back into rest.
We're going to give ourselves a visual so that when we talk tomorrow, we're going to
understand, and I give you actual practical tools about, okay, if you're being triggered,
try this.
If that doesn't work, try this.
I have six things, and they are absolutely 100%, no exception guaranteed to work, 100%,
I promise you.
So there is something for wherever it is that you are.
So, but we'll be talking about it tomorrow, but tonight we'll be talking about how to
recognize that we're shifted into unrest, and how we can, how effortless it is to shift
into rest, and like I said, that is what some people have said out of the entire teachings
that I've done and that they've heard me do.
They said this is the thing that they always remember, and they said this is all that they
need to remember, because as long as they remember this, they're golden.
So it's just this one thing that we'll be talking about.
So I'll see y'all back here in about 15 minutes.