Hey everyone! All right, so I'm doing a recording outside today because it's so pretty. I don't
know if you can hear the wind blowing, but you could at least see the trees. It's so
pretty out here. Oh my word, it feels very odd to believe that it's already fall. And
in fact, Ed was talking about the fact that there were so many leaves falling that it
looked like snow. And he's from the Northeast, so he would know what snow looks like. Me,
not so much. But I'm very excited to talk today about today's topic because it is Who
Does God Say That I Am? I know I say this every time, but this was a huge, huge turning
point for me. Huge. Because there were things about God, I think, that I believed more
about what he said. Meaning that I believe that God was who he says that he was. More
that I believe that I was who God says that I was. I think that I just had had so much
teaching, just had been in so many, so much of a, how would you put that? I don't know,
just any, was immersed in environments that taught and believed that we were just evil,
you know, at our very core, that we needed to remember how bad that we were, we needed
to remember that we were sinners, etc. And for instance, I mean, we talked about the fact that,
well, we need to know that we're sinners in order to want to be saved. And I'm like,
that's absolute focus. Why would we want to be saved? In order to be close to the Lord,
in order to be unified with him, because the good, in my opinion, is a lot stronger of a
pull and a power to get us to motivate us to change than a negative of like what we want to
escape from, right? So it's not that the negative can't be a motivation, but I believe just because,
you know, for instance, God even says that his kindness leads to repentance. My goodness,
if that's God's choice, it must be pretty powerful motivator, that something that we're
more motivated by and driven by and able to keep a sustained motivation by being driven by a
positive and being driven by the repelling from the negative. So anyway, this was just a huge,
huge groundbreaking thing for me to step into to begin to choose that I was who God says that I was
and to act like it. It changed everything. We touched a bit on it during the community group
yesterday. And so I'm going to flesh it out a bit more today because this will,
this is something that you need to take into every single aspect, not just of the breakthrough
program, like when you're filling out your journal every day, the way that you approach it,
but literally how you wake up in the morning, how you go throughout your day,
how you make plans, how you respond to things, how you respond to your children, how you respond
to things that work, how you respond to yourself, whatever, how you respond to the Lord. It all
needs to come from the approach that you remember that you are who God says that you are. And by
remember, I simply mean that you've made that choice in that decision and that you're now
shifted in that direction. Not that you always consciously remember it. I just mean that your,
that your soul has made the decision. Okay. If God says that this is who I am, therefore,
that's how I've been going to make that choice. And there, and then I'm going to act like it.
I'm going to approach everything from that perspective. So literally it's going to change
everything. So, and we're going to be talking a lot about this, uh, over the next, you know,
several sessions, but today is what starts it. And because we're going to, like I said, we're
going to be talking a lot about God and about us. Um, all right. So first thing that I wanted to,
um, mention, excuse me. Oh man. Um, I wanted to just mention the story really quick as, uh,
a prophecy that was spoken over me when this person didn't even know that I was struggling
with my view of myself, because I always came across as very confident, um, very secure.
And people didn't know if I, people came up when they heard this prophecy publicly.
Austin church, they came up to me afterwards and said, Ashley, I have no idea.
You start like, well, you know, um, I can put it on a pretty good thing.
Uh, but, uh, my pastor at the time, this is probably like 12 years ago and said
that he very rarely gets prophecies for other people, but he was driving down
the road and he got prophecies for two people and he gave the prophecy to one
man and then he turned to me and he said, Ashley way in the back, because I was
standing in the back there for worship.
And he said, Ashley way in the back, he said, you're the other one
that God gave me a prophecy for.
And he's, he said to tell you that he wants you to take his verse.
I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
And he said, he wants you to flip those words and say, I am fearfully, um,
I'm wonderfully and fearfully made because, um, he said that he said is by
recognizing how wonderful that he's made you and the things that he's placed in
you and him and how he expresses himself inside of you, meaning like through your
personality, through your character, through your desires, through your
dreams, um, through just who you are, what you, through your spirit, what comes
out that he said that you're going to come to appreciate and fear God said it's
by, so, and we're going to be talking about this later.
Um, I think it's the second to last session about knowing
ourselves so that we can know God.
So it's important that yes, we know God so that we can know ourselves
because as he is, so are we.
But, and you'll notice that that is the verse that's in under your session
notes is as he is, so are we in this world.
So that's important, but the other is also important.
Um, in fact, it mentions in Romans one, then it's by looking at creation, which
our soul and our body are as well, that even the non-believers can know that
there's a God and you said, and then they're without excuse, it says, so there
even aspects of creation, ourselves, our souls and our bodies that reflect God.
And he said, and the reason that the Lord wanted to encourage me in that is because
he knew I kept tearing myself down.
God, you're wonderful.
God, you're this God, you're that.
And I'm a worm.
I am not just lowly Lord.
I am evil.
I am a sinner and I just appreciate you looking, you know, being
willing to give me the time of day.
And, and I thought that that was the godly approach.
I thought that that's what God wanted.
And I came to, and so he, I heard this prophecy and I thought, okay,
well, that's so interesting.
Maybe I need to start honoring, you know, that my desires and my dreams, et cetera.
It took me another 10 years to really get the hang of it.
But when I finally did, I said 10 years, maybe.
Yeah, about 10 years.
I was going to say maybe it was longer than that, but about 10 years before I
finally hit an even more of a rock bottom than I had back then.
Cause back then was somewhere around my wasn't quite, I think it was maybe like
a two or three years after my crisis at faith, but it was still in the middle
of major, major depression and where I got that prophecy and anyway, it took
me about 10 years from, from that point to finally realize, okay, wait a minute.
If God says that I'm all of these wonderful things in scripture and that
this is how he views me, meaning like this is how he views all of us.
He's expressed himself so intensely and so well, just look at like the song of
Solomon, you know, you're the apple of my eye, you know, turn your eyes from me.
They overwhelm me.
We, we affect God like that.
You know, if he would say things like that, I need to take him seriously.
I'm not acting like it's true.
I'm not living like it's true.
I'm not making decisions like that, like it's true.
And, and I had tried as much as possible to live a good Christian, powerful
life, powerful, meaning like my life just felt like there was lots of movement,
et cetera, I tried to do all of those things by allowing the concept, just
the idea, the fact that God, the fact even that God said all of those things
to be enough, but I wasn't making them so real to me and choosing that they
were so real to me that I was risking my life by acting like it.
That is what was missing.
I wasn't making a willful intentional choice that it was true.
It was more like I was trying to live vicariously through God's will, which I
think y'all heard him and we talked about before.
or where, well, if God says that it's true, well, that I'm just going to, then I guess
that it's just going to happen.
And that's how I'm going to be convinced.
And that's not how faith works.
We'll be talking about faith either in the next session or the session after that.
I think it's the next session, but anyway, session, the next session or the one after
that about the batch that no, our faith requires our willful and intentional decision.
And how do we do that?
We do that by realizing that we are who God says that we are.
God says that we actually have a particular authority that we don't realize that we have
that has the right to make a decree, to make a decision, to make, um, to exert our will.
And we point it towards something that God has already said is true.
Um, so, uh, when I finally decided 10 years later that I was going to risk my life by,
you know, and risking like opportunities, relationships, finance, business, whatever,
by finally acting very differently, by actually approaching all of those things and making
decisions from the, from the perspective that I actually was who God says that I was.
I was that special.
I do have that authority.
Um, I am that treasured.
I am that good.
I am as he is.
When I did that, my life started changing.
Like I was explaining, um, in the community group, uh, in the, in the, in the group chat
yesterday that it was as if my life went from pastel colors into absolute technic technic
color in every area of my life, simply because I changed two things that I actually chose
that God really was who he says that he was to the degree.
He said he is that, and that I was who he said that I was to the degree he said that
I was that everything changed because I completely changed how I approached life.
I completely, it completely changed the decisions that I made, why I made them, which ones I
made when I made them, where I went, what I did, who I spent time with.
Everything was now determined by the fact that God was good.
I was safe.
I was, okay, there we go.
Sorry.
My husband, um, uh, was putting in his, uh, AirPods and apparently my computer connected
to his AirPods.
So I had to turn my Bluetooth off though.
Now we're back.
Uh, and I've lost my train of thought, but anyway, that's okay.
So let's, uh, dive right into the rest of it.
Um, for one of the first things that God says that, uh, we are is we are a new creation.
So that's one of the things that I kept using against myself is the fact that I was bad.
You know, I think it's Psalms is it Psalms that says, you know, the hardest deceitful
above all things.
And I was like, Oh my word, you know, I'm just a worm.
I'm horrible at the very core.
Even God says that I'm evil.
So I bet that what happened, this is how I thought that it was.
In fact, I was actually taught this, um, from my, I think my Bible teachers, uh, in high
school and in elementary high school.
And I think even college that, that Jesus couldn't stand looking at it or God couldn't
handle looking at us because then he, because it can't be near sin.
And that we're so sinful that what Jesus did is when Jesus died on the cross, he covered
us with his blood so that when God looks at us, he sees Christ.
He just sees.
So I thought it would, that his blood was like, almost like this blanket covering me.
Well, what's the problem with that?
The problem is it's covering me.
And so therefore God can't see me.
Therefore God still at the heart rejects me at the heart, but he'll accept me as long
as he can't see me.
And he just sees Christ.
He sees the blood, but there's nothing changed about me inside.
The seed is still rotten.
You know, I'm still a sinner.
I'm still bad.
I haven't changed.
And that is not what the Bible says.
The Bible says that the old man died, meaning like our sinful flesh, that the old man died.
It's not going to die.
We keep thinking we're still trying to like conquer ourselves.
God says it's already happened that we've already died and we're now the new creature
completely new.
And he said, you're not the old man anymore.
He said, the old man has died.
So why do you keep acting like the old man?
Why do you keep doing all of these, these, these old habitual sins?
That's not who you are anymore.
That the only reason you're doing them is out of habit, because that
used to come out of who you were.
But because it's no longer you, you don't have to do that anymore.
Operate now out of who you are now, which is the new creature.
And so what does God say about the new creature?
He says that as it mentions, Oh, am I going to have to look it up here?
See, I'm going to get the right reference.
So that's what I am.
Oops.
Um, I went too far.
Uh, first John four 17, like what you have in your right under your session.
It's the first John four 17 as he is.
So are we in this world?
Not so we will be in heaven.
So we are right now in this world while we're here in this, in this world that
is still waiting for us to redeem it from its frustration, right?
We are currently as he is.
So everything that he is, we are.
And if he's not like that, meaning like if there's something that he's not
like, we're not like that either as he is.
So where are we in?
Why is that?
It's because we died and we're no longer living, but Christ lives within us.
We are.
Because we're so united with him.
We are Christ walking on earth.
Christ is now walking in earth, walking on earth in each of us.
Because we're all part.
We've been united with him as one body.
We are his body.
So we're the arms and the legs of Christ.
Again, our flesh has now died.
That was an opposition to God.
And that, and now it's been replaced by Christ himself.
You haven't been fixed up.
You've been completely replaced.
Not that you're not yourself.
It's that you in your own unique aspect of your spirit is so united with Christ.
And Christ is more, what'd you call it?
Oh, what's the word that the Bible uses?
He's the, not the firstborn.
Oh, what is it?
Uh, well, man, I can't think of the word.
There's a word for it, but basically it's, uh, it's referencing the fact
that Christ always goes before.
He's always above, right?
Even Christ being the head of the body, he's always above the body.
So he's always first.
He's the firstborn.
There's he has the preeminence.
That's the word that I'm looking for.
He always has the preeminence.
So even though we're one with him, he always has preeminence in being, uh, in
a way we are just as important as he is because we're one, but because he has
the preeminence, he's in that aspect, he's more important than we are.
Does that make sense?
So it's like, here's the reason that I want to like emphasize this point.
That is now who you are.
You are now nothing to be afraid of.
That is so important right now.
We are currently, I'm just making a blanket statement, you know, and so
many aspects of our lives, because we are trying to serve the Lord and
because we want to please him, we are going through life, looking at
ourselves as, and making decisions from the perspective that we are afraid of us.
We're afraid of what we can do.
We're afraid of the, our potential to evil, our potential to not obey God,
our potential to be destructive to ourselves and to other people.
And that is not true.
There's no seed.
There's no root in us for that potential of destruction to be born from.
It doesn't exist.
So we don't have to be afraid of something that doesn't even exist.
We don't have to be afraid that, Oh, well, the more I let go, we're
trying so hard to do the right thing.
The more likely I am to, for the real me that I've always heard with bad
is going to come out and I'm going to be even worse.
So the only way that I can actually please God, this is what we think.
The only way that I can actually please God is if I work really, really,
really hard to stifle myself, to restrain myself, to put myself under
tremendous amount of personal governance and restraint, not governance is in,
um, in a good way, but governance is in a bad way.
Like we are, uh, we're being tyrannical against ourselves.
Um, and there's another, another word.
It's, uh,
Um, beyond, uh, that's different than tyranny, but anyway, I can't think of it.
But anyway, it's like, we're being tyrannical with ourselves and we don't,
and that is approaching it from the belief that we're, that at our very
root of ourselves, at our very, very seat of ourselves, that we're bad.
It's that basic and foundational and simple of a choice that we have to make
in order for everything to change.
And our lives, we have to choose that we're good.
We have to choose that we're holy.
We have to choose that we are who God says that we are.
Who does God say that we are?
He says that we are him.
He says that we are like him, meaning we're him meaning like we are ourselves,
but we're so united with him that because we carry his DNA, then that
DNA inside of us is his DNA.
And therefore we act just like he has, we have the tendencies
that he has the tendencies towards.
We have the temperament of him.
We're just the same.
Remember that the, that the son always bears the DNA of his father.
We know when a mother and father, you know, when a man and woman
come together and create a baby, the baby always carries the DNA of his
father and the DNA of his, of his mother.
There's no third DNA that's uniquely his own.
No, it's the only uniqueness is the fact that it's combined between
the father and the mother, but you know what, all of your siblings
carry the same DNA as you do.
They carry the father and the mother.
It's just that certain, uh, certain genes were picked from the father's DNA
is a half strand of his DNA.
And certain genes were picked from your half strand of your mother's DNA.
That means it makes you and your siblings all uniquely different.
But they all had to have that.
They all had to have a source that already existed.
So even though you pick certain, your body picks certain genes to operate out
of from your father and your, and your siblings picked had different genes
picked for them, those genes still existed prior to you is the same.
And so what you're carrying is you were literally carrying the combination
of the, of the DNA of your mother and the DNA of your father.
Well, if we're born strictly from the Lord and there wasn't any like female
or whatever, we are carrying our father's DNA, so you are like him.
But again, just like a son can carry the DNA of his father, but he's not his
father, we carry the DNA of our father.
And we've, um, so we're just like our father, but because we're
a son, we're not our father.
So there's, there's a fascinating, um, uh, there's.
Would you pull, I don't know.
I've got these words that I know are, are in existence and I can't see, and
I'm not pulling the forward right now, but there's this aspect that is, it's.
That we think of as a contradiction, but, but both of these are actually
in play at the same time, because of course this is spiritual and not a
physical phenomenon and therefore all kinds of things can happen in the spirit
that God didn't create to be able to happen in the physical.
And that's the fact that certain things that can't happen in the physical
can both happen at the same time in the spiritual, and that is
that you can be one, but separate.
So, um, think of it, like, think of it like this.
And I, and I know that some of this is going to be.
Uh, a repetition of some stuff from the rest intensive, but it's, it's so
vitally important for us to remember.
It's so very foundational to everything else, breakthrough, all of this stuff
that we're talking about, you know, the breakthrough program, none of it is
complicated, it is all extremely simple.
It's that we're not allowing it to be as powerful as it is in its simplicity.
We need to just take this simplicity for what it is and
allow it to permeate everything.
That's, what's going to make it so powerful in our lives.
It's not.
Making the, just getting ahold of a simple concept and then just
making it more and more complicated.
And that's going to give us a greater breakthrough.
It's the opposite is taking it for the simplicity that it is how
very, these, these easy, simple concepts and then allowing those and then, and
then grabbing ahold of those to such an intense, um, a soul existence depth,
you know, to the very core of our being that it completely transforms
us, just the simple little things.
So, uh, back to what I was saying.
Um, I know that I've already talked about this in, um, in the rest
intensive, but, um, God, when he separate, when he created us.
And it may it's mentioned this in, um, multiple passages.
So, um, let me take a little bunny trail just for a second so that you
know that this is founded in scripture.
Um, if you go to Ephesians one, four, it says, God chose us in him before the
creation.
of the world. So before the world was ever created, God looked inside himself and chose us.
And that I, I believe is when we were born. In other words, God wanted to have fellowship with
something. And this is the point that I'm trying to make. God wanted to have fellowship with
something, but there was nothing outside of him that he wanted to have fellowship with.
He probably had angels and that wasn't going to cut it. You know, he had, I don't know what else
he had, but you know, maybe other spirit beings that he created. I don't know, but he had other
things. He was like, nope, none of those things are going to do. I want something else that I
want to have relationship with. So he took, he, he looked inside himself, found us, chose us,
and, and created us as our own entity. Why? So that he could have relationship. He can't
have a relationship with something that you're one with. Right. And, and so if you,
so in order to have relationship with the thing, so you've got the benefit of the union. Yeah. The
benefit of being one with it, but what benefit is that really, if you don't have something to have
relationship with. So he decided to give himself the best of both worlds. He created something that
had its own unique entity apart from him. I don't mean that it can exist apart from him, but just
that it was unique from him, but it still carried all of his DNA. So it was something he could
relate to. And so anyway, created us as our own unique entity, but then with the death of Christ,
he allowed us to be reunified because he didn't want us to, he didn't want to be separated from
us. He wanted the benefit of both. He wanted the relationship within union, talk about perfect.
And that's what I was saying about the spirit, the difference between the spiritual and the
physical. You can't do that in the physical. You can't be separate, but one, the closest thing
that we can get to something to that kind of an idea is something like an egg. You've got the yolk,
the egg white and the shell. So that's the closest that they have been able, that people
have been able to use as an example of something that's three in one. And that doesn't even quite
work itself, but because they're all so very, very different and they all function so very differently,
but you know, so we can't really, we don't really have a physical picture of what God is talking
about in the spirit. So anyway, in the spirit, we are, we're unified with him, but we're also have
a uniqueness about us. And the reason, and so the reason that God created it, that us is for
relationship with him. And there was one more passage that I wanted to point out, not in addition
to, uh, uh, Ephesians one, four, there's also Jeremiah, Jeremiah one, five, before I formed you
in the womb, I knew you. So apparently you're in existence and I don't think it was in the mind and
the imagination and the anticipation of God. I think it was in reality. I think that's what he's
saying is my point before I formed you in the womb. I knew you before you were born. I set you
apart. So you can say, Oh, before you were born, I set you apart. You could say, well, it's because
a fetus is actually a real baby. Sure. But what about the one before that, before I formed you
in the womb, I knew you. So I personally believe that it means that there's an aspect of you that
was in existence, whether you were conscious of it or not. I don't know that there were that you
are more than the aspect of you that experiences this world. You're that important. You're that
valuable. You're that, um, eternal and, and you were more than what you do for God here on this
earth, because apparently you had existence and value to the Lord prior to creation. Um,
okay. So, so anyway, so you are, you're a new creation. Oh, that was the other thing I wanted
to say, uh, and to remember which, um, what the, what the verse is because I write, I've written
it down somewhere. Um, okay. Did I write it? I thought that I did just one second, because
the reason I want this reference is it's, it's a very, here it is. Okay. So it's, it's, um,
yeah. So what does God expect of me? So we're going to be talking about this in the next session,
but I want to point it out. Hebrews. No, it is not. That is
It's not right. Here it is. Okay. 1st John 3.9. That's what it is. Okay. 1st John 3.9. So 1st John, by the way, is a really neat book. It's very short. I recommend, you know, just reading it and reading through it.
In between, you know, this, this session and maybe the next one. And like I said, it's very short. You just read it in the setting. And because remember that the prior verse as well that we had talked about
as he is, so are we, that's also found in 1st John. I think that's 1st John 4.9. And this one is, sorry. I had a really big ant crawling on me. He was very large. Okay. 1st John 3.9. And so this one is whoever, whoever, whoever has been born of God does not sin for his seed remains in him and he cannot sin because he has been born of God. So there you go.
There's nothing about yourself who it is at your core that you need to be afraid of. But here's the thing that all sounds great in concept, but it will not change our lives unless we actually choose that it is true to that intense.
And to that intense of a degree to that great of a degree.
And that, and don't worry about thinking, well, about being afraid again of yourself thinking, well, what if my head gets too big?
You know, what if I start making decisions because I just think I'm that powerful. If you keep the, if you keep this understanding.
If that understanding, you know, of the fact that you, that who it is that you are in your spirit, your soul and your body, they sin. I do need to point that out. The soul and body sin, because remember what is sin? Sin is unbelief and your soul and your body, according to Romans 8 are still subject to frustration because they are part of creation and they, therefore there's aspects of it that don't quite believe God.
They don't feel safe with God, right? But who are you? Where's the seat of your identity? It's in your spirit. Your spirit is the new creation. Your spirit is the one that has been completely reborn.
And it is your spirit, man, that, that is your true identity. And that first John three, nine says does not ever sin. And that it's impossible, depending on which version you, which translation you read, certain translations say it is impossible for you to send. It is impossible for your new man, your spirit man to sin.
It is. So don't worry about being about, oh, well, what if I get a really big head or get so reckless in how I make decisions because I realize all my work, look at all of the power and the authority that I have, et cetera, that will be in kept in check by remembering again, the, who you really are.
You're not just all powerful and you're all whatever you carry God's DNA. You were Christ. Christ is in you. You're one with Christ, who it is that you are is his character, his temperament, his personality. So, so to speak.
So, so to speak, his, his tendencies, like I said, his character of his goodness and love in the extent to which he and the degree to which he is goodness and love you. Christ loves the unlovable. So do you.
You just have to discover that if you've been stifling yourself, you've not been allowing that part of yourself to show forth. So you haven't experienced that, that aspect of yourself that loves the unlovable, let alone seen it because you won't let yourself access it.
Right. But it's there and you have to choose before you see it again, it's faith. God says that that's true. So you have to choose that it's true without even seeing evidence of it, but, and then that will allow, and then by choosing that that is who you are.
I promise you, you will, you will, you will then step into situations and start acting like it, you will find yourself doing and saying things that you didn't know were you because you finally just chosen that you weren't anything to be afraid of you were nothing for yourself to be afraid of you were nothing to be afraid of on the behalf of other people.
And like how they could, how you could accidentally hurt them or hurt their feelings or whatever by being yourself. I'm sorry there's that.
I have this bee who's like trying to like, I don't know, swirl around my legs and I thought I need to get up now I can just see him away.
But you will just, you will.
And you will discover things about yourself, you will automatically.
act like automatically act like Christ.
If you stop trying to monitor yourself, because you think that you need to, you
think that you need to, your job is to restrain yourself.
Um, your job is to, because again, that's from this deep belief that there's
something wrong that you need to defend against, meaning like that you need to
protect yourself or other people against.
Um, and that is going to carry forth therefore in how you act.
Why?
Because how you act is always going to stem from what it is.
You chose to believe what it is.
You chose was actually true.
So I keep thinking that the bees now on me and it's probably just my hair.
Um, uh, so that's why I'm saying that such a very, very simple thing is very
powerful and that we need to allow this power of that simplicity to be what
changes us, not all this complex stuff.
I really want us to all to understand the basic truths, just the basic ones,
because the, that, and then making the reckless abandoned choice that they're
true will completely transform everything.
So if y'all have questions about and struggle with putting this into intense
practice, not just kind of like, okay, I'm going to try it.
No, no, no.
Like completely recklessly, abandon yourself to it, your life, your
interactions with your children, your interactions with your job.
If you're, if you're struggling with that, let me know if you have questions
about, about, about that and like say, okay, well, you know, Ashley,
here's the specific situation.
Please ask me, because I want you to be able to, this is the perfect opportunity.
That's why I do these mentorship programs is because I want people to not just,
if I just taught my goodness, y'all could just watch these by yourselves and you
wouldn't need, you know, personal interaction.
I want to be able to provide or be a resource for you to be able to ask
things of in live in the moment.
Um, so that you can grab ahold of it and really live it out.
Um, okay.
So, uh, so remember that you are something because he is that, so
that is how you know who you are.
And that's why I always talked about, that's why I talked about first, who
do we believe, who does God say that he is?
Because if God says that you are who he is, you need to found then he, that
knowing who he is, is the foundation of knowing who it is that you are.
Um, so remember it means that you were good to that degree.
You are loved to that degree.
You are provider and protector, which is what we're going to be talking about soon.
You're a provider and protector for, um, maybe that's our next session provider
and protector for the rest of creation.
Including your own soul in your body.
They're waiting for you to step up and to operate in the
authority that God has given you.
Now, uh, so the only thing higher than you is, is Christ who has
preeminence, but you're one with him.
So he's, he's Christ has the preeminence.
And then above that, the only thing higher than you is Yahweh, you know, God.
Well, I mean, they're all God, but you know, God, the father, God,
the son, God, the Holy spirit.
But it is, is the father.
Um, all right.
So remember that we host the Lord and we reveal him.
That's another thing that you are.
You actually are carrying the kingdom with you, wherever it is that you go.
Uh, Annette and I were talking about this in the, in the community, uh, in the group
chat yesterday and the community group, um, we're talking about how you it's
important that you grab, really grab a hold of and choose that you are who God
says that you are just again, very basic level and allow who it is that
you are to be revealed, to show up.
You don't have to know everything.
It is.
You have to choose that you are just choose at the base root of you, that you
are good and that you are one and that you are aligned with God already
automatically unconsciously without having to try, if you choose that all
of the sudden, sudden, you'll start seeing the evidence that you are that
thing, you'll start acting like it.
And then you'll discover more about who you are.
Why?
Because you just saw it.
You just saw it happen.
You just saw you act like that.
You just heard you say that, right?
The evidence will manifest itself.
So you don't have to choose all these nitpicky little things in order to like
instill in yourself that you are that thing.
Okay.
Well, let's, let's, let's take on a new character trait today and let's
mature in a new character trait today.
No, it's already there.
Just choose the root level that you are good.
Meaning.
at your, that you are who God says, and you just, you are who God is.
And who is he?
One of the very basic things is that you're good.
You're no longer a sinner.
You're now a saint.
You are completely 100% perfect.
There's nothing wrong with who it is that you actually are.
Remember, we're talking about your spirit, your soul, and your body.
There's nothing wrong with them either.
Meaning like God doesn't create bad things, but they're
currently subject to corruption.
Christ has already died for them.
There's already victory for them, not victory.
They can obtain, they already have it.
They're just not acting like it because they don't know they're
already living in victory, right?
So there's nothing wrong with who it is that you are.
God's going to redeem your soul.
And he's going to redeem your body.
Meaning like he's going to, no, go on.
Um, meaning that it's who it is, your perfection and your goodness
are going to show up in your soul.
And they're going to show up in your body.
You're going to experience it.
Your soul and your body are going to get to experience it.
And then the stifling that they're experiencing and the way that they're
acting out and misbehaving while they're under the oppression of frustration.
Once the oppression of that frustration is lifted, who it is that
they are can start beaming forth.
So who it is that you are, you know, who it is that your soul and your body
are, it's harder to see right now because they're just stifled under
the oppression and the frustration.
You're going to start seeing, but who it is that they are at the
core underneath all of that is perfect.
It's great.
There's nothing wrong with that.
God likes it.
God's like, Hey, we just need to, we just need to take that heavy blanket off.
Right.
Anyway, so who it is that you are at the core, you need to choose.
Okay.
I am good.
I am perfect.
I said, there's nothing wrong with me.
He's not standing in judgment over me anymore.
He's already judged when he saw Christ and he said, you know, in us.
And he was like, Oh yeah.
Okay.
Now you're perfect.
He's not, not seeing you because Christ covering you.
He's now seeing you as perfect because you were coming, you completely
died and were reborn as perfect.
And so now because of Christ, he now sees you as perfect.
He doesn't look at you, look in your direction, but see you actually
is this blanket of blood and that's Christ.
And he can't see you inside, but he just sees this blanket over this mound.
And he's like, okay, well, since that mound is the blood of Christ,
then that mound is fine in my eyes.
No, no, no.
Uh, his blood transforms you.
So now when Christ looks at you, he sees perfection.
So very important.
So anyway, we host and we, um, and we reveal him.
So you, uh, you just focus on the fact that you are that very simple things
that you're good, that there's nothing wrong with you, that, um, you're not
something to be afraid of, et cetera.
And then you'll start seeing that it's actually true.
You'll start acting like it unconsciously.
And that's how you'll discover more about who you are, because
you just did the thing.
You said the thing.
Um, so I keep, I keep trying to keep having a little bunny
trail, trying to make a point, but let me go back to the main
point that I'm talking about.
We host and we reveal him.
So when you realize that that is who you are, then when you go into
situations like in business or with your family or with your children,
with your spouse, with the dishes, with, uh, your home, with negotiating
and refinancing, um, your, uh, your mortgage, whatever it is you are.
You are bringing by choosing that you are who God says that you are.
You are aligning with the oneness that you have in Christ.
And that you're choosing is the highest power and the authority in your
kingdom, which is like, you know, here on creation, anything that you've
been given responsibility of by God, you are bringing that authority
into that kingdom, into the refinancing of your mortgage, into your
interaction with your kids, into the argument with your husband, um, into
the, um, into the church, into leading the Bible study into, I don't know,
just contributing, uh, not even leading the Bible study, just contributing.
Some, um, I didn't know some insights, you know, really quickly into, uh, into
the middle of a Bible study, just whatever it is, or into, like I said,
business in your projects, um, into, I don't know, any hobbies that you have.
Uh, any time that you go out and you're working on landscaping in your yard,
whatever it is that you're doing, you are bringing the kingdom of God in why?
Because you're hosting Christ and you bringing Christ to the presence of
Christ, the presence of God into a situation brings his kingdom, meaning
like all the principles by which the kingdom operates and the principles by
which the kingdom operates always supersede the principles of the world.
So when you bring in, when you're hosting Christ and.
You're bringing him into any situation.
It means that God and his principles that do the miraculous, those will overpower.
You are giving them permission to overpower any way in which
the world would normally work.
Anyway, that situation usually would have gone.
It's God can come in and do something completely different simply
because you're hosting him and you're bringing him into the situation.
Um, and then also we reveal him.
So when people look at us, they see Christ, they see God.
Remember that Christ said that, uh, when Philip asked me and said, you
know, would you show us the father?
And Christ said, if you've seen me, you've seen the father.
So now that Christ is in us now that we're no longer living, but Christ
lives within us and who is it that people see when they see us, they
see Christ and they see the father.
You're carrying his very DNA.
So when you are allowing yourself, you know, your true, your true nature,
the nature of the father within you to be the thing that is on display,
because you've stopped stifling who it is, you've are, you've stopped trying to.
How do I put that?
I keep wanting to use the word government, govern, govern.
We do want to govern it, but that's a little, that's a little confusing
right now, because it sounds like we're trying to control it.
And that's not what I mean, or it sounds like we're trying to stifle it.
So let's just kind of like speak in very simple terms and like, not try to muddy
the waters by talking about too many things at once you're trying to, and
just say, you're trying to govern it.
You're trying to constantly monitor it, to control it, to just watch
it all the time, very vigilantly.
And oh my goodness, you gotta, you gotta stay in the lines, you
gotta stay in the borders.
You gotta stay in the boundaries and you need to just let it go.
You need to trust that, that you're going to make the right decision.
You're going to effortlessly know what God is telling you to do in the moment.
You're going to there, the love within you is going to rise when you
interact with a specific person, whether they're being loving towards
you or they're being antagonistic.
You're going, if you effortlessly just allow who it is that you are to exist
and be present in the moment, instead of trying to think, how should I be?
How should I act?
What should I say?
If you effortlessly just exist and know that I am bringing myself, which is good
and the presence of God into this place, God is going to give me everything
I now need in that moment.
And I'm now, and it's now going to come up out of me.
Why?
Because God, I'm one with God and God is my source of everything.
So if God is my source of everything, and I am one with that source, where what's
the source, the source is in a manner of speaking, it's me now it's not you.
It's God in you, but it's in you.
The source is in you because it's in God.
Who's in you.
So you've got that with you.
You don't have to worry about like monitoring stifling and open yourself,
open yourself up.
What God is going to do when he like corrects or he like adjusts us is he's
going to reveal to us how to recognize certain things that we thought were us
that he's like, that's actually not you or that we thought were him.
And he's like, no, that's actually not.
And you start to discover and to discern things that are naturally coming up out
of you and to know whether that was the flesh or the spirit, but you have to learn
that by living it and letting it come out.
You can't recognize it and catch it beforehand.
That to live like that means that you will stunt your growth.
You can't grow without letting it come out and to see it.
Um, so let's see here.
So we host and we reveal him.
I thought that there was a scripture I was going to give you for us.
Oh, for that.
Um, here it is.
Um, okay.
Galatians one, what was it?
Galatians one 15 to 16.
But when God, who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace was pleased
to reveal his son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles.
I did not consult any man or did I go up Jerusalem?
Did it went to me?
Okay.
Yeah.
So God revealed Christ in him.
You revealed his son in him and God does the same thing with us.
He reveals himself in us.
When people see us, they need to be able to see Christ and need to be able to see
God.
The only way that we, that they can do that though, is, is, is if we stop
stifling ourselves and we allow ourselves to not just be seen, but to be.
Um, uh, but to be exposed to be open and to, and yes, it's vulnerable.
It feels very, very vulnerable.
It feels very vulnerable to ourselves.
It was very vulnerable to others.
We're very vulnerable that we're putting ourselves in a posture of
vulnerability to others, to ourselves and to God, but that is the only way
to actually grow is to be vulnerable.
Um, without vulnerability, you will set your growth and you will never,
and you won't grow beyond the point of your, um, of beyond
your point of protection.
So for instance, it's like when it's like, we always think of protecting
ourselves and a lack of vulnerability as a wall, do we not realize that
as we're trying to grow, we're trying to grow and we're trying to expand
that if we built a wall to protect ourselves, that means you can't move
outside the wall and it means you're not growing anymore.
So when we defend and protect ourselves and we stifle ourselves, when we
protect ourselves from ourselves, when we protect other people from ourselves,
we're actually stunting our growth.
You cannot grow without exposure.
You cannot have exposure without being vulnerable.
If y'all have any detailed questions about that, please ask.
You can just ask me on, you can do a video on WhatsApp or you can do a, um, uh,
or you could just write it out, whichever is easier.
Um, and I'm deciding to use WhatsApp instead of, um, instead of, uh, Facebook
instead, uh, which Priscilla would know about all of this because Priscilla
does this type of thing, does something similar in her lady of the month
club with, um, on text, I believe.
I believe it's text.
I think that that's what Priscilla and I've talked about.
Um, but who knows, maybe she's WhatsApp too.
Maybe she has international people.
Um, okay.
Remember that we're also, oh, and I don't have my scripture verse for this.
You can look this up on, um, uh, you can look at the scripture because
it references life giving spirit.
We're no longer just a living soul of Adam.
We are now in Christ, a life giving spirit.
So you are bringing life to creation.
Remember that we're hosting and revealing him.
You are bringing the kingdom of God.
You're bringing the presence of God into a situation.
The presence of God transforms everything.
It transforms people into sons of God and it transforms and it
releases creation from frustration.
So you are that life giving spirit.
When you come into a situation and you too, meaning all of this is only if you
choose that you are who God says that you are, if you bring in who you really
are and allow that thing to be exposed, allow that thing to be vulnerable.
Stop trying to question yourself all the time.
Stop trying to protect other people from you and keep yourself locked down and
watch this and watch that and be careful about this, make sure about this.
If you stop doing all of that and you just rest and trust God that you're
actually good, that you actually make good decisions, that you are kind,
that you are loving, that you are of him rest in his protection of you and others.
While you're learning to be open, while you're learning to be vulnerable, God,
I'm no longer protecting myself and others from me, I'm asking God that you
protect yourself, me and others from my flesh while I'm trying to learn to
discern which is what is aspects of my flesh and what is aspects of my spirit?
Because God right now, I'm just going to open.
That's what I did.
I just asked the Lord for that protection.
I asked him for his provision.
Um, I asked him to now take up the charge that I was now laying down
again, life giving spirit sacrifice.
I'm now laying it down like, like Abraham did with Isaac on the altar.
And I'm putting it on the alter and saying, God, I used to protect myself.
And now I'm asking you to do that.
I used to protect other people from me.
And now I'm going to give that up and I'm going to stop doing that.
And I'm just going to stop doing all the things that I used to do to try to
protect myself, and I'm going to put that down, Lord, and I'm asking that
you now take up that charge to do that while you mature and teach me in a safe
place, how to discern between my flesh and my spirit, um, uh, let's see.
So anyway, you're a life giving spirit.
You're going to bring life with you into a situation you're going.
That's man.
I'm trying to think of how deep I want to go with that.
I could, you could go really deep.
You're, you're bringing something from heaven because you
are a life giving spirit.
Your spirit is from heaven.
It's going to win.
The life that it brings is spiritual life.
It's eternal life, meaning that it's redeeming creation from frustration.
It is moving us towards salvation.
it into freedom, that is powerful.
That is such a powerful thing to be responsible for, to carry.
It's, it's, it's a powerful, it's, it's, um, it's set, uh, that we're equipped
to powerfully transform the things around us by ourselves, meaning like by, you
know, God, who God is in us and this bringing it into a situation, we're
bringing life into that situation.
That will completely change it.
It'll completely transform it.
And it is so powerful that whenever, whenever, um, life from the spirit
comes into a situation, comes into creation, it is forever changed.
To be spirit and can never die again because the flesh has to be is corrupted
and can die flesh, I mean, spirit cannot be corrupted like that.
So when you have brought in the kingdom of God and you planned it for God,
only it can't ever change back.
What I'm trying to say, um,
um, yeah, I tried to write down the script, the scripture verse for the
life-giving spirit I'm now seeing.
And, but I didn't write out the whole verse.
So I don't even know what I have the chapter and verse, but
apparently I don't have the, um, Oh, I don't have the, the book, but
let me check and see really quick.
I may be able to guess the book.
Oh, no, that's not it.
Oh, I bet you.
What's that?
No, no, I can't.
I can't figure that out.
So, um, but you can look that up.
It'll it's a verse that talks about Adam was, uh, was a.
Um, living soul in, but Christ is a life giving spirit.
So the interesting thing about Adam is he was a living soul.
God breathed into him.
Christ gave life.
That's who we are now.
Remember that we are no longer under the old Adam.
We're now under the new Adam that the final Adam, the second Adam, the last
Adam, and the last Adam is a life giving spirit.
So instead of always, instead of always having to, instead of them always
needing life, we're now giving life to creation because God is the, because
the life giving spirit, the life giving spirit of Christ within us, Christ is
within us, so therefore we are now a life giving spirit.
Um, okay.
The last thing I wanted to talk about is the, this authority and power.
I know I keep referencing this authority and power that we need to realize
that we have that authority and power.
Um, and what that, what I'm talking about with that is, um, that remember
that, that Christ, that we're one with Christ and what does it say of Christ?
It says that he, that all power and authority were given to him and
everything was placed under his feet, except for God, the father.
It very specifically says everything was placed under Christ's
feet, except for God, the father.
And it was because obviously Jesus has proven himself faithful by, by not,
not demanding or, or, um, taking up his right to anything and gave it up.
And God's like, now I know that you're trustworthy.
And so now I can entrust you with all power and authority.
Um, anyway, so us being one with him, we now have all that same power and
authority, not on our own, not just because Christ, no, but by being in
Christ, operating in oneness with Christ, if he is operating in power and authority.
You know, I'm doing this kind of like it's flowing through us, you know,
we're in him and he's in us.
If we're in him operating in power and authority, it means that we're then
operating in power and authority because we're one with him.
And if that's what he's doing, then that's what we're doing.
And that's what we're capable of.
And that's what we have access to, et cetera.
So you can only operate in Christ's power and authority, um, by
being in him, operating in him.
You can't operate in his power and authority, not being one with him.
So we don't have to worry about abusing it because in order to do
something that looks like abusing his power and authority, you
can't use his power and authority.
It has to, it's, it's some other spirits because there's, there's a lot of
spiritual beings that the Lord created, you know, he created like a variety
of different levels of angels, you know, the cherubim, seraphim, and all that.
And then some of those are.
and angels now. And so they're very powerful beings. So the only way that you can operate
in a power and authority that is very powerful is if, um, you know, outside of Christ is if you're
using one of theirs. So if you just stay focused on and, and centered in, that's what I'm trying
to say. If you always center yourself in who in Christ and in who he is and always operate from
that place, the power and authority that you operate in from that place will always be his.
So you don't have to worry. And then he doesn't allow his to be abused. The abuse looks is when
we're using God's name, when we're using the power and the authority of some other spiritual being,
you know, that you're, that you've been given by some other spiritual being, or that the Lord gave
man to operate in. Cause even non-believers can, can have dominion over creation, right?
If they're doing that out of their own flesh, that's abusing their power, but that's not
operating in Christ power and authority that's operating in the power authority he gave to man,
not to believers, to man, to just believers, non-believers that can be abused. If you're
not using that correctly, God does not allow his power and authority power and authority
of Christ himself cannot be used for evil. So you don't have to worry about that. You don't
have to worry that, Oh my goodness, what if I, I need to be careful with this and whatever
the, I mean, we do need to be careful, but it's like, God will.
God will show you how to operate in it. He won't give you more than he won't. If you're too,
he's not going to give you a knife, you know? So he'll only give you what it is that he has
shown you and taught you and matured you into how to operate in and be responsible for again,
what we've talked about, why we go through spiritual wildernesses, it's preparation
to expand and to put you in, to create you as a new wine skin, to be able to
hold accommodate, be responsible for, be accountable for the new thing, because God's
not going to give you the new thing until you go through the spiritual wilderness of being
prepared to be able to handle it. Right. So again, uh, just because we have all this power
and authority, we don't need to be afraid of ourselves and be like, Oh my goodness.
God hasn't given you're not, God will only give you access to and teach you how to have access to
something that you can, that you've been gone through a spiritual wilderness to be responsible
with handling. That's what the spiritual wilderness is for is to teach you how to be
responsible for something. Right. So you just, you just open yourself up to allow yourself to
learn from the Lord, how to be responsible with and hold all of those things. Um, uh, during,
you know, during this time and, uh, but don't be afraid that you have more than, you know,
how to handle and be again, my point is making my point in, in, and driving this home is
I'm after telling you, Hey, there's just, you know, don't be afraid of yourself. I didn't want
to say, Hey, by the way, you have all this power and this authority, and you're going,
I don't feel equipped for that. What if I use it wrong? You know, and then you're afraid of
yourself again, there's nothing to be afraid of because God's only given you the amount that you
can be responsible with, that he's taught you and matured you how to be responsible with.
Um, and we always have to, in the only way that we can, that we can use his power and authority
is if we're looking at him and we're operating with him. So, um, so if you, if you don't operate
in him and with him, you don't get access to that power and authority. That's what I'm trying to
say. So you don't have to worry about that. What we just need to focus on is always seek him.
Then we get access to his stuff. If we're not seeking him, we don't have access to his stuff.
So you don't have to worry about misusing his stuff. You know what? That's what God says,
Hey, look, just seek you first, the kingdom of God and his righteousness. And all these
things will be added into you. Okay. Um, okay. Uh, let's see here. Uh, so why is all of this
important to, it's important to remember who does God say that you are part of what, of who you are
is you are one that God has given the role of kingship to, and you have power to, you have,
you have the authority to execute, to speak decrees, to make decisions of your will and God's
will together. Because again, you know, it's not just you being a vigilante and doing what you
want. You get to co-create with God, you and God co-counsel together and decide together as one
spirit. You know,
spirit. My spirit is one. What do we want to do? How do we want to interact with this world,
et cetera. Um, so you are in a position of kingship and you're given the power to execute
the decision that you and God have decided reflects the character of God, which also
reflects your character because you're, you're, you carry his, um, his character as well. Um,
that, and why did I want to mention that? We're going to talk a lot more about that
in the next session of the session. After let me look, it's the next session. That's
when we're going to be talking about that. The reason I wanted to touch on it now is to realize
that is who you are. One of the things you are, you're a king creation needs you,
your soul and your body are waiting for you. You're not waiting for God. God already said,
Hey, look, I gave you all this. You have access to all this. You just don't,
aren't believing me when I tell you that. So your non-belief is not allowing you to access it
and, and to relieve your body and your soul from frustration. So you need to believe me. You need
to believe that I am who I say that I am, that I've given you what I say that I've given you,
that you are who I say that you are, but to believe that you have access to them,
then I'll show you how to use them. Um, and, uh, yeah, so, and that's important because
can you imagine that if you believe that you are, that you were good and you believe that you,
that your creation, and by that, I just mean the kingdom around you, uh, that, that has been given
to you, your home, the land that you're on your, your, uh, your spouse, your children, um, your,
even your extended family, your business, um, your, or your job, if you don't own your own
business, you know, whatever, uh, how even how your, um, your, uh, the, like the laws of physics
that you interact with the laws of economics that you interact with, like, say for instance,
the refinancing of your house, you know, the, anything that comes within your kingdom,
including laws that we can't see, like the laws of physics and laws of economics and the laws of
whatever, you know, all of those things, including physical things like your children or your soul
and your spirit, your spouse, or your land that you live on or whatever, all of those things are
within your kingdom. You have, they are looking to you for instruction on how to act. They're
there to serve you. I don't mean that your children are there to serve you. I'm just trying
to draw a blanket statement about like creation. It is there. It's looking for sons of God to
respond to really including your children, including your spouse, the aspects of themselves,
you know, their soul and their body. They're looking to the sons of God in general,
its own son of God. You know, if it's a spirit and if it's a soul and a body, it's looking to
its own son of God, which is its own spirit. It has the first hierarchy over it. First right to
it, et cetera. But all of our spirits are one and all of our spirits are one with God. So really
all of creation, you're, you're including your, uh, your soul and your body, your spouse,
your soul and body, your soul and body of your children, your soul and body at soul and body
of like, I don't know people around you, you know, they are even people who aren't your family.
Maybe they're just friends. All of creation is crying out for the sons of God to reveal themselves
in meaning like for the sons of God to reveal who it is that they are, which is Christ.
They're all looking for Christ. So give them Christ so that they can transform, give them
Christ so that they can finally breathe, give them Christ so that they're no longer afraid,
give them Christ so that they're finally free. That is who you are, that you're that powerful.
You make that much of a difference. Your presence is that important. You knowing who you are
makes that much of an impact and it will change the type of an effect, the type of, of interest
rate. Sometimes that you were given, I say, uh, you know, in, um, when you try to refinance your
house or whatever, it will change how your children react and respond to you. It will
change how the projects respond to you or the other people, you know, the other, the rest of
the team that you're part of on that project will respond to you. It will change. And I think I
mentioned this, it will change how the project itself responds to you. And I, and the way that
I learned all of this was actually seeing it because I just exposed my, I just, um,
presented myself to the Lord like, okay, Lord, I'm your.
words, do whatever you want. I'm always bringing you and your kingdom and your will into this
situation, even though I'm working with all of these Hindus and I'm working with all of
these non-believers, Lord, I'm bringing you into these situations. And it wasn't just
that one project that I was talking about with the Hindus. It was like, there was all
of these other people as well. I mean, all these other projects as well with different
companies, but that was just the first one I thought of, Lord, I'm bringing you in. Just
do what it is that you want to do. And then God started doing the impossible. Why? Because
I just simply brought him in. I simply revealed him. I didn't even talk about him. None of
those people were open and asked me questions about God. I didn't talk about it. I just,
I just chose for myself that that was that, that God was the higher power. And I chose
to bring him into this situation because I decided that this, that, that God was going
to have the final say. And God's like, okay, because I am a higher power than all these
other ones. And you tell me you have, you have the authority in your kingdom to open
the gate and let me be the one to come in. Then I'll come in. You have the authority
to choose whether or not you open the gate to God, for God to come in and affect your
kingdom or you keep the gate closed and God doesn't get to come in. So you open the gate.
It leaves you vulnerable to whatever it is that he's going to do, however it is that
it might affect you in it. And you no longer have control because you've given it over
to God and to his kingdom so that his principles and his will are the ones that have, that
have the impact and the effect. But again, that is who you are. You have that much of
an impact. You, creation and your life are in your own soul and your own body and your
own fears are needing you to know who you are. Um, to close, I'm going to mention, uh,
we're going to go to Romans eight. Y'all have heard me talk about this a lot. Go to Romans
eight and okay. Looking at trying to see if I want to mention anything else before
I do this. Okay. So, uh, let's just look at Romans eight 17. Now if we are children, then
we are heirs, heirs to God and co-heirs with Christ. If indeed we share in his sufferings
and order, we may also share in his glory. So we have his glory and we're going to discover
that, um, further down because it's going to mention it again. I consider that our present
sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us, not will
be revealed when we die. No, no, no. That we've got to, we've got to understand he's
talking is going to be revealed on earth. Meaning that as we operate in Christ, as we
bring him into situations, as we, as we bring him into interaction with other aspects of creation,
his, the glory of Christ, who is actually now alive within us, that's going to be revealed.
It's going to come out. It's going to be seen the creation weights in eager expectation for
the sons of God to be revealed for the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own
choice. In other words, not by its own will, but by the will of the one who subjected it
in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought
into the glorious, glorious freedom of the children of God. So it's not the freedom of
Christ. Yes, it is the freedom of Christ, but he doesn't even mention Christ. He says it's the
freedom of the children of God. Why is it our freedom? Because Christ is within us and it's
Christ's freedom. Why do I want to point that out? I want to point that out because we have to
remember that because what this whole session about who does God say we are, we keep stopping
talking about ourselves and just talking about Christ. Well, Christ is good and Christ is this, and that is
true. And that's fine. If we talk about that, as long as we do the same thing that God does, he
talks about Christ and therefore who that makes you. And so if we only talk about Christ, the
problem is we keep villainizing ourselves and we're thinking, yeah, but that's not me. It's Christ
because it's not me. It's only Christ. It's not me. He's a saint. I'm a sinner. I'm just bad.
So, and we keep thinking that that's humility. No, that's not honesty. That's not being it. Now,
we're not, we don't have our own freedom outside of Christ. That freedom that we have
is Christ. It's Christ's freedom.
But we also have to own it. We have it now to give
We have it we like what we talked about earlier about abuse
You can't give it unless you're connected to Christ and you're giving it
Christ's freedom from Christ's will that you give it if it's not Christ's will that you give it you can't give it
Because then you and he are not acting like one and therefore if you're not acting like one who always has the preeminent him
So you can't operate outside of him and give away something that God's doesn't give you permission to give away
You know, you have to be giving away something else. That's not of him, right? So we don't have to worry about that. So
That for verse 22
We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time
Not only so but we ourselves who have the firstfruits of the Spirit
So it's talking about our own soul in our own body
Not only so but we ourselves who have the firstfruits of the Spirit grown
inwardly why because the soul and spirit is our other also aspects of creation and he just said that creation is groaning inwardly and he
Said also to we ourselves are groaning inwardly as we wait eagerly
For our adoption as sons adoption of sons, by the way
is
there's a
There's another way to describe the adoption of sons, which is really really fascinating
but I don't remember all of the particulars of it right now, but it basically means that
You already are the thing
Not that you
weren't
Didn't have the DNA
That the Greek word adopt didn't mean that you didn't have the DNA and you're outside the family and you're like, okay
Well, even though you care somebody's DNA. I'll let you come in and you know, I'll adopt you. You'll be my family
They said that adoption meant that the word that was just translated as the dog actually means something different
It means that you already started out with the same DNA and I don't remember if adoption meant something
akin to maturing I don't remember but whatever it was that our
Understanding of adoption and the word that the Greek
Trans that they translated from Greek into English into adoption. They're actually two different meanings
so and but anyway
so I always think of adoption kind of like so in the interim I
Suggest that you think of adoption kind of like it's it's the our
You know, maybe our soul and our body
the fact that they are
learning how to
Learning how to believe God and come into alignment come into agreement that kind of thing
And so the redemption of our bodies for in this we were say
wait grown inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption ascends the redemption of our bodies and
And that's what we're waiting for. We're waiting for the redemption of our bodies. Oh my word
So there is a a unique bug that is falling around on my camera. I
Can't figure out what that bug is. So interesting
And for in this hope we were saved
And I think there's anything else, okay
I think that's it. Um, so I I just wanted to point out again that
we
that
We
that about who it is, especially
Highlighting there in being highlighted there in romans 8 who it is that we are
we have
We're kings
We are sons
We're new creation
We're perfect. We carry his dna
We don't sin
We have we're like I said the seed of us the seed of us is good
Whoops, let me mention this real quick. I just really quickly so that you know that that's actually from scripture
the
See the about the seed
Where did it go
Ah, here we go
Okay
um
Okay
So looking at y'all have probably heard me
Quote this passage before in the rest intensive looking at galatians 2
Uh 16 the sorry 3 galatians 3 16 the promises were spoken to abraham and to his seed
The scripture does not say that's a quote from scripture
meaning like Paul is quoting a scripture elsewhere.
I don't remember which one.
What does it say?
L Luke 115, I think.
Yeah, Luke 115.
So he's quoting Luke 155, 155.
Continuing, the scripture does not say and to seeds,
meaning many people, but and to your seed,
meaning one person who is Christ.
Then if you look in Galatians,
later on in that same chapter, Galatians 3, 29,
if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed.
So it just said back there in verse 16,
that the seed is Christ,
that it's one seed, it's not two,
it's one seed and it's Christ.
And then it mentions in verse 25, sorry, 29,
if you belong to Christ,
then you too are Abraham's seed.
So that's when I was referencing seed there.
Remember seed comes out of a man,
seed comes out of himself
and it actually carries his DNA to create a son, right?
You are at the root of you, your seed, your DNA.
That is Christ, that is God, the father's,
but the very seed of you, the very thing,
your DNA that is carrying your very source of,
an origination point of your existence is good
because it's God and it's Christ, Christ is God.
But what I mean is God, the father,
who's your birth father and Christ.
You share that it says that we share the same seed
with Christ who we've been unified with him,
but also we both carry God's DNA.
He's the now Christ's firstborn son, et cetera.
So I just encourage you, I know that I've given you,
I've talked a lot and my whole point though
is to just really truly give you kind of dispel
any questions that you might have that,
well, that all sounds good, but what if it's not true?
I gave you scripture verses,
I could have given you more scripture verses,
but because there's many more than that,
that affirm all of this, but giving you scripture verses,
I've shown how different aspects of scripture
and different points that scripture make all tie together,
all confirm the fact that you are a new creation,
that you are a son, that you have authority,
that you have power and remember that you're a saint,
it's not a sinner, you don't sin anymore,
your spirit does not, there's nothing to be afraid of,
that you're no longer the old man,
so therefore why act like the old man?
You don't have to worry about that anymore,
he's not something you need to be afraid of
that you're gonna act like, why?
Because that's not who you are anymore.
So just act out of who it is that you are.
And so I know that my point is,
I know that I've talked a lot,
meaning like I was just trying to build a case,
but remember what it is that I have said is very simple,
you at the root of you were created,
were thought of, designed and intended by God
before he ever created the world.
Remember Ephesians 1.4 and Jeremiah 1.5,
that he knew you, you were an entity for him to know
and for to see in himself and to choose
before there ever was a creation.
And then before you were ever put into creation,
you have that deep of a meaningful existence
outside of creation, outside of what happens.
And that the very seed of who it is that you are
is who he is, as he is, so are you.
Therefore, whatever he is, that's what you are
and he's good.
And if you're not, and if he's not something,
it means that you aren't that thing either.
If he's not evil, if he is not hateful,
then you aren't either.
If he's wise, so are you.
If he's not deceptive, you aren't either.
If he's not selfish, you aren't either.
So these things that I'm explaining are very,
They're very simple, but we have to choose that.
It, we really are those things to the degree.
He says that we, that we are those things.
It's what's the phrase for that?
Or what's the word for that?
It's, it's all encompassing.
It's non-conditional.
It's unconditional.
It's not like, okay, well, yeah, we're, we are that, you know, that's
so great and that's true.
Oh yeah.
That's exciting.
So we're that this degree God's like, no.
It, no, that's the only thing you are.
No exceptions.
You're not anything in addition to that.
And, and, and you're not anything bad.
It's not like, well, we need to counter that understanding with also
remembering all of these other things about ourselves that we need to watch out for.
No, they don't exist.
All those other bad things don't even exist.
So if you read, so remember the, this is not our practice for this week.
I'll be doing a separate video for that later on.
But remember what, take the practice that we did for last week and approach it.
And I recommend trying, doing it again, but with this in mind of sitting with,
so you remember that you set with God, allowing him to be who it is that he was.
Remember, and just allowing yourself to experience what he
chose to reveal of himself to you.
What about doing that now for you?
Meaning like you sit, you can do, you can, I recommend
actually doing a couple of things.
One, I recommend sitting with yourself.
You can do these in whichever order that it seems to make most sense to you.
Do the easiest one.
Sit with yourself, allowing yourself to be everything that he says that you are.
You're that good.
And you don't have to, you're not something that you have to be afraid of that you
have to protect yourself or other people against you're not a potential for
horrible destruction, you're not evil.
You're not selfish, you know, all of those things that you're not
choose for yourself that you're not make this very, very intentional.
Remember, that's what this whole thing is about.
You just God say that I am make that an intention every day.
Not kind of like, Oh, I hope I remember this.
That won't work.
Make a very willful, intentional decision.
That's the only way that you'll get breakthrough is the only way
these things are going to work.
I know I only said five minutes, make them power.
It's because those five minutes have to be powerful.
They have to make, be very intentional, willful changes in decisions
that you make inside of you.
And then in the evening, you reflect on that.
You reflect on how you saw yourself as that today.
How did, how did you show up that?
How did you show up today?
Only remember what we talked about.
Only look for the positive things though.
Don't look for anything negative.
Only look for the positive, only the things that, that affirm that you are
not anything that, that you could, that proves or refutes that you are that thing.
No, no, no.
You're looking for affirmations that what God says is actually true.
And you're not giving voice to, or attention to anything that, that might not be it.
Or, I mean, that could not be it.
That could give you the impression or the fear or the temptation to
believe that what God says isn't true.
Um, and so do that.
And then I recommend sitting with God.
Again, you can do this in whichever order that you think you should
use it with yourself first.
You can use it with God first, whichever it is, but not only do, but you need,
in fact, it's probably best if you do it with yourself first, and here's why.
You have to make the decision for you.
You have to understand you're not living vicariously through God's will that you
are that thing and that you're going to get to benefit from it simply
because God says it's true.
Remember, why are you not experiencing your life?
Because you're not choosing to open that gate.
You're the one who has to open the gate.
God's not going to break down the gate.
He's not going to force it on you and a lot and enforce that experience on you.
No, you get to choose what you get to experience of God.
And simply based off of how much and what you believe, what you believe
into what degree that you believe that it's actually true.
Do you believe it's true a little bit, or do you believe, no,
I believe it's unconditional.
So I recommend sitting by yourself first.
You need to do it a different way because you need to win the other way.
Then that's perfectly fine.
But, uh, sit with yourself and make your own choice.
Willful decision that this is who it is that you are.
Choose to receive yourself as that.
And to redefine yourself.
And I re I, here's the more important part.
Re-identify yourself as that.
Remember Adam named the animals and naming them is identifying them.
Name yourself.
In other words, identify yourself as that.
Why? Where did you get that idea?
God said so.
That's how Adam was able to...
When Adam named the animals,
Adam didn't create the animals.
God created the animals. Adam identified them.
So, you're doing the same thing.
God created you a specific way,
just like Adam called out their identity
by stating it, stating what God had already created.
You're doing the same thing.
You are taking up an aspect of the authority
that has yet allowed the thing
to be what God created it to be.
You are now stepping in,
and you are now identifying it,
so it can actually act like that.
You are calling yourself forth.
We do that with all kinds of things.
We do that with businesses.
We do that with our children.
By naming them, we are calling something out
by what we declare of them,
by what we affirm about them.
We're calling them out.
We're identifying them.
That is an authority and a power that you have,
and you will start acting like it.
Why?
You will start acting like the thing that God says that you are
if you identify yourself as that thing.
You say, no, in my power,
with the power vested in me,
I identify myself as da-da-da-da-da-da-da
that God says that I am.
I am his son.
I carry his DNA.
I am a new creation.
I am perfect.
I am one with him.
I am a king that has been given authority and power and dominion
over my realm of creation.
So you do that, and then you sit with God,
and you do the same thing.
In other words, you choose that you are that thing,
and then go sit in God's presence as that thing and see how he
receives you, see how he interacts with you,
see how he responds to you.
I recommend doing this every day until we get to, in fact,
I don't know, that might be our practice.
Yeah, that's going to be our practice this week.
Forget the other thing that I had planned.
This is better.
B do those two things and then write down some bullet points of what
your experience was on the, my practice sheet.
If you have any questions, let me know and just reach out to me.
And yeah.
So anyway,
I really enjoyed this getting to express to you and share with you
the importance of all of this.
Truly it is groundbreaking.
If you're not experiencing a groundbreaking shift by hearing this and by
implementing this, like within like.
At least 24 hours, then there's, then we need to work on something.
So let me know, because again,
the whole point of this is for you to the whole point of this program
is for you to live it.
It's not for you to gain a greater understanding and in wishful thinking,
hope that something changes. No dadgummit.
It's going to happen.
Okay.
All right.
Love you both. And I will talk to you later.