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I just all the last week I worked with a retreat and so I work with this lady that lives in Texas

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but she hosts these retreats out here in Santa Barbara at the Bacara and they're not necessarily

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Christian they are they are luxury retreats designed for for women in the the corporate

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world that are burned out and it's really enjoyable to do these because these ladies come

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and you know they make a lot of money they have a lot of status and all that but they're

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just a mess internally and they have like really hard stuff they're dealing with and they're

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basically like on the brink of just nervous breakdowns. Things are happening at an accelerated

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rate so you know one of these ladies that came in three weeks ago she wanted to kill herself

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in a five-day retreat and at the end of five days completely transformed. At the beginning

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zero. I asked her if she had any spiritual beliefs she sees she said none. Like most people believe

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in something right? She was hearing God talk to her so and I didn't tell her I'm not I don't like

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direct them like oh this is what you should do this is you know I just kind of like set it up

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so that they can start to develop their own you know spiritual relationship with God or whatever

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they want to call it. I kind of changed my language I kind of said well where do you think

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this world came from you know like how did it get here and she said well yeah I guess that's true it

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doesn't make sense that it just appeared out of nowhere so I had to come from somewhere or someone

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and I said well that's the one that will be good for you to connect with the one that is the source

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of this life that created it and she said yeah so she spent the rest of the week trying to connect

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with this person she didn't know who it was or what it was. By the end of after five days she

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said yeah well if it's God or whoever it is just told me that I have a purpose there's a purpose

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for my life. Wow. And she that's not a language she's familiar with I mean we're familiar with

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that kind of language in church circles but I didn't tell her that she got that on her own

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and that was a rebel that was a revelation to her she'd never heard that before.

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Change your life. People are so hungry and so it makes me really excited for this group because

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you all know truth like you know regardless of all of the traumas and difficulties and challenges

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that we've all been through because we live in a fallen world at least you all know truth and you

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know God and you know God's heart and so just that alone you all are like way far you have an

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advantage and I mean I just feel like you all are going to be you know up here up above your

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earthly circumstances which do not dictate who you are or anything like easily I don't think it's

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going to be hard I think it's going to be easy easier I think we complicate it in our minds

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and we make it into this complicated thing that has to take years and years and like looking at

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every single detail of your life and I don't think it's that complicated I think it's simple

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God is for you he already did the work he already did the heavy work

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yeah set us free and to get us into the right place where we can live a thriving life and display

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him and it's simple and so I just want to encourage you that I think it's going to be

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easier than you think I don't think it's a hard thing I don't think it's complicated

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so this is week five um it's gone by very fast yeah so this is the um fifth part of the human

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identity is your spiritual identity and um this is your your new spiritual dna that was created

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that was created through the blood of Jesus so all of humanity was separated from God you know

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he created the world and created humans um there was the fall there was this separation

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and God made a plan to literally reconcile us back to him we're taught in church that

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that the reason Jesus um shed his blood was to save us from our sins but that's actually

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not true I mean that was one of the byproducts is that we were saved from our sins but the reason

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Jesus did what he did was to reconcile us back to God to the father to restore our connection to

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reconnect us back to the father so if Jesus did all the work Jesus accomplished that 2,000 years

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ago we couldn't do that we couldn't reconnect ourselves back to God we didn't have the capacity

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to do it but Jesus did it already that means we are connected to God that's it we are always

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there's a secure connection that we have with God that can never be broken it can never

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be undone no matter what, no matter what we do or don't do, no matter what happens to us in our

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lives, no matter if we have a good day or a bad day, no matter if we're being super productive

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and doing a lot of things that we're sitting on our couch doing nothing, that connection to God

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doesn't ever change. It is solid and secure because Jesus already did it. So for us there's

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nothing else that we need to do. He did it. It's already done. The heavy lifting, the big work

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has been done. So that's why I mean it's so simple. We complicate it in our own heads

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and it's so simple. We can rest, we can relax, we can enjoy being God's children,

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you know, where he supports us and he leads us and he directs us and he guides us and he protects us.

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We can relax just like the verse says. He leads us besides still waters. He restores our souls.

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You know, we can rest just like a sheep next to the river. We can literally like hang out and rest

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and relax because we have a shepherd. We have God that's involved in our life and we can just move

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along with him, you know, in this like easy, there's an ease. I'm believing more and more that

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God intended our life to be like an ease to our life. It's not, he didn't intend it to be

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like difficult and strenuous all the time. I mean those, you know, we obviously have

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strenuous difficult times because mostly because of broken hurt people that we interact with or,

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you know, evil plans against us. But those are to be the exception, not the norm. Those aren't to

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be like our normal way of life, to always be struggling, always to be strained and stressed.

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That's not the life God intended us to have. So Jesus did all the work. He reconciled us to the

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father and he recreated us. That is the most incredible news is that we are new creation. So

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when Jesus reconciled us to the father and we, you know, believed that and applied his finished

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work of the cross to us personally, we literally received a completely new spiritual DNA. We don't

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have, you know, Adam sinned and messed up and that created like a genetic code of a different nature.

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But we don't have that. We don't have that nature anymore because we got a new spiritual

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DNA. We got a new nature and we have Christ's nature. That's the truth. Literally the nature

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of Jesus is who we are and it's written into our spiritual DNA now. So our spiritual identity is

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that we are, our identity is in Christ. We are new creations. We're united with the father. We're

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united with Jesus. We're the living temple of the Holy Spirit and we're royal heirs because it says

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that we are heirs with Christ. So everything that Jesus has as a son, you know, as a royal son

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of the creator, we also have. And the other thing about who we are in our spiritual identity,

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it's so funny because when you think about it like this, like through this lens, it's all

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over the Bible of who we are. Like who we are, our identities, it's written as clear as day

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in the scriptures. Just a lot of times we're just not thinking about it so we don't notice it

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or we've seen it but we don't really believe it about us or something. So here we are,

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our spiritual identity. First Peter 1 9, but you and me, you are a chosen race,

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a royal priesthood, a consecrated nation, a special people for God's own possession,

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that you may proclaim the excellencies, the wonderful deeds and virtues and perfections of

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him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. I mean, that's pretty simple.

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That's who we are. This is who we are. And this is more true than what, you know, your peers at work

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say about you or your spouse says about you or your mom says about you or your dad says about

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you or all these other people out here that try to tell us who we are or make us feel a certain

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way about who we are. None of that is real. This is real. This is who we are. And if this is who

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we are, we don't ever have to question. We don't ever have to wonder, are we good enough? Are we

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good enough for God to use us?

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Are we, is God pleased with us?

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Are we okay with God?

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Is he upset with us?

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You know, we don't ever have to question that.

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We don't have to question, you know,

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he called us out of darkness.

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We don't have darkness.

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We don't have darkness in us.

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We only have light.

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That's all we have.

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We have light in us.

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And the Bible is very clear

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about not to cover up your light.

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We're meant to be seen.

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We're supposed to be a city on the hill that shines.

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And so that's who we are.

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And honestly, it comes down to a matter of what we believe.

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Do we believe this, who God says we are?

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Do we believe who Jesus,

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like Jesus' actions on the cross speaks of who we are?

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So do we believe that?

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Do we believe what the scripture tells us?

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Do we believe the truth and reality

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that is in God's kingdom and in his heart and mind for us?

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Or do we believe what we feel

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because somebody said something mean to us

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or somebody put us down or somebody didn't treat us right?

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So which one are we gonna believe?

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Are we gonna believe people around us,

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broken, hurt people that are also have issues?

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Or are we gonna believe God and believe what Jesus,

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you know, actions speak louder than words.

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Jesus' actions of going to the cross for us

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speaks volumes about who we are, that we were worth it.

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We were worth it to him and we are worth it to God.

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Even when we were sinners, we were worth it.

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So that's very, very exciting.

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Hi Maddie.

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So your spiritual identity is something that

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the more you connect with that part of you

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deep at your core, that you are, it's already settled.

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You have a pure DNA in your spirit.

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You have a, you're a new creation.

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You're united with the father and Jesus

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and the Holy spirit and you're an heir

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of the kingdom of God.

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Once you, the more you agree with that,

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connect with that, align with that and believe it,

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it will, that truth and that reality will come through you.

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So it literally comes down to, it's so simple

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that it's hard for us to comprehend how simple it is.

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It comes down to which one are you gonna believe?

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You're gonna believe the identity

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that's really in your spirit, who you are there?

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Are you gonna believe what you feel like

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when you walk around in this earthly realm

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and you feel bad about yourself or you feel guilty

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or somebody says something mean,

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like which one are you gonna believe?

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So it comes down to pretty simple.

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It's about, it's about belief.

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And then when you choose, and the thing about beliefs

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is that we tend to make those complicated as well,

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but a belief is something simply that you choose

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because we are all, we have a free will.

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God brilliantly created us with our own free will

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and we can choose.

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We have the God-given right, ability, responsibility

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and power to choose what we believe.

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What we think about, what we focus our mind on

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and what we allow to infiltrate our mind and beliefs.

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We have a say, we are in charge.

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God put us in charge of that,

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which is why he gave us a will, a free will

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and why he said to manage your thoughts

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and take them captive.

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It's our responsibility.

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So the fact that we can choose our beliefs,

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you can do that easily right now.

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If you're believing something other than

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you're a new creation,

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you are perfectly securely connected to the father

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that you are united with Jesus.

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You are his embodiment.

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You're basically, when you walk around on the street,

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you are the embodiment of Jesus in physical form

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because he's in you.

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And you are a royal heir to the kingdom.

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If you choose to believe that and you make the choice,

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this is what I'm going to believe over anything else

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that I think and feel, it's that simple.

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Boom, you got it.

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It's just a matter of choosing it and then holding,

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hold on to that truth, hold it, hold fast to it

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so that nothing else grabs a hold.

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That's what, you know, when in deliverance ministry,

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when people get entangled with demonic entities and stuff,

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it's called a stronghold.

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It's where something else gets a hold,

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a stronghold on your mind.

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So in order to not have a demonic spirit

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or a demonic entity grab a hold of your mind,

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you hold strong, you should hold strong

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and hold fast to the truth.

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That's it.

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And you can do that.

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Something else bombards you.

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It may feel strong.

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It may feel true, but it's just not true.

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All you need to do is say, nope, that's not me.

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That's not real.

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That's it.

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That's all you need to do.

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Deflect it.

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You hold up your shield of faith.

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You got your shield out here.

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All those flaming arrow or yeah.

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Fire firing arrows at you by the enemy, the lies that cause you to doubt

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yourself, feel bad about yourself, convince you that you're something that

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you're not convince you that you're this low puny, terrible, you know,

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mess of a person, all those things.

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You literally hold up your shield of faith and go, no, that's not true about me.

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That's not me.

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I know who I am.

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That's it.

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It's such a simple, it's such a simple formula.

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And I'm just laughing because I am just now coming to this clear

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revelation of how simple it all really is.

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And, um, this part of your identity, your spiritual identity, nothing can take it

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away, there's, there's no amount of trauma or, you know, issues with your

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families and parents and life hurts and all those things, none of that can touch.

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Your identity and your spirit that, that can't be touched by earthly

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circumstances, your earthly circumstances and relationships and all those things.

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Who you are in your spirit.

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It can't get, it can't get there.

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So all that stuff that we experienced in life, that's difficult and hard and

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challenging is only in the mind and the body.

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It's just an amazing, I mean, I'm in awe and wonder of how we're designed that way.

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That that's why we can still be okay.

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We're still whole.

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We are still free.

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We are still these beautiful creations of God, no matter what situations

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and circumstances we experience.

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No, even, even as, as tragic and difficult and heart-wrenching as, as,

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as they are a lot of times in, in our spirits, we can be, we're still whole.

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We're beautiful children of God that we can still be okay.

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Beautiful children of God that bear his image, that are meant to be the cities

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on the hill that shine and reflect his light to other people.

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And I believe that the more of us that are believe the truth of who we are.

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And we're shining that light.

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We're bringing that light into the dark places of this world.

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There wouldn't be so many broken people going around hurting other people.

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of God into any situation, into any person that we encounter, and it would

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literally be instantaneous transformation.

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turmoil and trauma going on in our world.

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That's how I see it.

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So I have a, I have a prayer that, um, I, I did with, uh, some of, uh, group

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members a couple of years ago, and it's an identity prayer and it's

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comprised of two different things.

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Number one is like declaring out loud, the truth of who you are.

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away from the truth of who we are.

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And, um, I started doing this several years ago, uh, realizing like how cruel

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and harsh and how much stress and strain I put on myself with my crazy.

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And I didn't come up with that strategy.

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they're really, um, focus on healing and healing ministry.

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conferences and stuff, they'll have people stand up and apologize to their

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bodies for, for putting them through stress and strain and that type of thing.

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And people literally get healed without anyone praying for them.

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People get healed of stuff, just apologizing to their own bodies.

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If you think about it, because whenever you're harsh to yourself or cruel to

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yourself, or you make a negative comment, like, oh, I hate my hair.

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I hate my whatever, or I'm so stupid or I should have done better.

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Why, why did I do all those things?

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way to your own child, because you know that that would harm them there.

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You don't need to be talking that way to your own self.

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aware and conscious of how to treat yourself and interact with yourself and

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see yourself and that alone can like shift things at a deep level.

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So I'm going to pull up, um, I'm going to pull up this prayer and we're going

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to go through it together, well, I'm going to, I'm going to include this on

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my, um, on your, with all the videos.

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um, we'll just say it out loud together.

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So this is called, I titled it the identity liberation prayer, because

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this prayer literally liberates the true you, your true identity.

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That's where in your spirit, in your innermost being, that's where it is.

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Nothing that's on this physical earth can touch this, can touch your true identity.

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That's why it's miraculous because you are, you could right now, if you never

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did another thing in your life, you could fully be what God intended you to be.

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If you, if you just sat on your couch and did nothing, you could

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be fully liberated and powerful.

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That's how simple it is.

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So let's go through this.

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I'm going to say it at the same time.

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So here we go.

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Father, thank you for who I am and for how you made me.

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Thank you for that extraordinary design and living miracle that I am.

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Thank you that you love who I am.

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You believe in who you made me to be and that you sent Jesus to pay for my

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freedom and liberty to be exactly who you intended me to be, I apologize.

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To myself and say that I'm sorry for not allowing me to be myself for not

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allowing my true identity to be expressed for comparing myself to others.

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For any way I have rejected myself, not valued myself,

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disliked myself or hated myself.

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I apologize to myself for every way that I have not, that I have been out of

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agreement with who God says that I am and out of alignment with who God made me to be.

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I apologize to you, God, for not recognizing my true value and worth.

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I apologize for forming any kind of wall barrier or for locking the

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door between my heart and my soul.

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I apologize to you, God, for every way I've disagreed with you about who I am

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and my design and for every way I've been misaligned with my true identity

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and with who you made me to be right now, I declare that I'm willing to give

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myself permission to be my true authentic self, I give myself permission

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to shine the light within me and I'm willing to love and accept myself in

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the same way you love and accept me, God.

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Right now, I declare that I'm willing to agree with God about who

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I am and who he designed me to be.

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I am willing to align my whole self with the truth of who I am and who God designed

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me to be in the name and authority of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the Messiah,

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who paid for and purchased my freedom and liberty to be who God intended me

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to be and to function according to my true identity, amen.

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So, um, so I'm going to, uh, I'll have that included.

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You can say that every day if you want, because even just saying it out loud

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and sharing yourself, um, and, and applying it to you every day, it will

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become normal, it will become your normal way of thinking, it'll become

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your normal, just, this is true.

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This is the truth of who I am and who God is to me and in me.

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tries to convince me otherwise.

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I'm holding up that shield of faith.

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I'm keeping it way out here.

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It's not even coming in.

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You don't even let, let those things come in and get intertwined into

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your head and your mind and all that.

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Um, so this, this prayer is just a good way to just fix your mind on what's true.

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And the thing about truth is that truth is true.

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There's no variation.

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It's not like some of the things God says about you is true, but not everything.

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True, it's either true or it's not.

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And if it's true, you hold it.

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You hold onto that truth.

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You hold it in your spirit.

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You bring that truth into your soul,

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into your mind and emotions,

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and you bring it through in your physical body.

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You let that truth radiate out of you

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and you hold it no matter what.

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No matter what situation you face,

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no matter what person you encounter during the day,

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no matter what you feel,

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no matter what kind of crazy thoughts you may have,

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you hold that truth.

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That is your priority.

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That's your priority.

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Every day is to hold onto that truth of who you are

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as God's child.

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Free, whole, all those things.

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Connected to him at all times.

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Hold onto that no matter what.

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For you all, before we go.

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Thank you.

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God, thank you for these remarkable,

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amazing, glorious creations of yours.

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God, thank you for everything

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that you built into their hearts to be and to do.

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Thank you for just their capabilities and capacities,

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just the powerful impact and influence

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and transformational potential that they are.

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for your highest and best.

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And I just declare just an accelerated

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healing, restoration, transformation and reset for them.

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That the simple, pure gospel,

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the simple truth of who we are and who you are

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to us, in us, for us, and working through us,

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that we would live according to that simple truth

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and be fully connected to who we are

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and to who you are in us.

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And that we would literally begin to live out

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the truth and realities of our freedom, our wholeness,

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our health, our healing, our abundant life

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that exists for us in your kingdom.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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Amen.