All right, we are live day six for this bonus masterclass, really, really stepping into
your identity.
And now we're going to go over and we are going to go grab the Prosper Women in the
Prosper Women Facebook group.
We want to make sure that they are joining us this morning.
So I've got to focus here, make sure I do this right.
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Welcome, welcome, welcome back all of you beautiful women, amazing gentlemen.
What a six days we have had, and I want to say today is the crowning glory of it because
I believe it's going to be the biggest transformation so far, but you never know.
We got two more bonus days on Monday and Tuesday, so who knows what God's going to do, which
one ends up being the crowning glory, but this is going to be such an important day.
So welcome, welcome, welcome.
We are looking today at our identity, our identity, who are we?
By the way, I looked up the root word, where does the word identity come from?
It means same, it means identifying what we are the same with, what we are different with.
I like to say it means same with love, same with Jesus, same with God, that's what I want
to say, but this is one of the most important topics that we could possibly talk about.
This morning in the shower, I was reminded of a story, so it's not in your notes, but
it comes from Numbers 13 and 33.
That's a lot of threes, that's divine perfection, Numbers 13 and 33.
It's the story about when they inhabit the promised land, and many of you right now,
you're just on the border of the promised land of everything that God has promised you,
and of course, when they came into the promised land, when they came into the promised land,
they saw giants.
They were called Nephilim, they were the sons of Anak, and so going into the promised land,
you're going to face giants, okay?
And I think one of the giants, maybe you haven't seen this before, but one of the biggest giants
is really discovering who you are.
Who are you?
Why are you here?
What is your purpose?
Because when you go past that giant, the whole promised land is yours.
I got that revelation this morning, and there's an interesting verse there in verse 33, and
I'm recounting the story, and they said, we were in our own eyes.
In other words, how we saw ourself.
Today's about your self-concept, how you see yourself.
And it says, we were in our own eyes, in our own sight, I guess is what it says in the Amplified.
We were in our own sight as grasshoppers.
How interesting.
These are the sons of God, created in God's image, who have been following God, who have
got the promise of a promised land.
They're stepping into a promised land.
They've got all access to all power.
I mean, you know, fire had led them by night, a cloud had led them by day, water had come
out of the rock, they've crossed the Red Sea.
I mean, so much has happened to get into this promised land, and here they are on the brink
of the promised land, and it says that they saw themselves as grasshoppers.
And it says, and so we were in their sight.
In other words, translation, we saw ourselves as really puny, insignificant, lacking, not
having everything we need, not complete, missing, broken, however you want to look at it.
as grasshoppers. And because we saw ourselves that way, that's what we put out there. That's
how we showed up. That's how we projected ourselves. And guess what? We teach people
how to treat us. We teach people how to see us. You're teaching your premier clients how to see
you. Is it as a grasshopper or is it as a son and daughter of the Most High God? That is what
God showed me in the shower this morning. Wow. Wow. You can put wow in the chat if that hits you
like it hit me. And so I find it fascinating. I'm going to share. I'm going to share a lot
of scriptures today, okay? And you may come from any faith background. There's no judgment. There's
no expectation. I'm going to share what I've learned from my full heart, what has transformed
me. And so I'm going to be sharing from scripture. But here's what I find so fascinating. If you can
just, if you could just be open and listen and see where you fit. I believe that scripture has
so many layers. There's historical, there's metaphorical, there like there's so many layers,
right? There's prophetic and all of that. I want you to see yourself in each of these.
And I find it fascinating. I find it fascinating that even 5,000 years ago when many of these
verses were written, they were still struggling with the same issues. They were seeing themselves
as grasshoppers. So this whole deal isn't new to us. We're not real original struggling to figure
out who we are and why we're here and what our purpose is. It's as old as time. You realize that?
And so it's so important. So you think about, you start out as a child and you're just this blank
slate and you're just so excited. Before we started the call, Earlene was sharing all these amazing
things about her grandchildren. And it's like, we start out as children and we start out imitating.
We might put on our mama's high heels or our daddy's shoes. And we might, you know, I have a
picture of me as a baby and I've got a phone, the kind that, you know, used to plug in the wall,
you know, the great big ones. Yeah, I'm dating myself. And so here I am in diapers and I'm
holding the phone. I must've seen someone else doing that, right? So we start out imitating
and we're born with the desire to fit in. Like we have this hole in our heart when we're born
and it's a hole that says, I want to belong. It's a hole that says, I want to have significance.
I desire to belong. I desire to be significant. I desire to be liked. I desire to be loved.
And so in that process, we're brought in to a human dynamic and we've got parents. And some
of us had one, some of us had two, some of us had many. And they've had their own journey.
They've been going through their own story. They've got their own wounding. They've got
their own struggles. And they now begin to raise us in whatever form they know how to do.
And very often they now start to conform us. They start to tell us who we are, what we should do,
what we shouldn't do, what we should say, what we shouldn't say, what we should like,
what we shouldn't like. And of course there's reward and punishment the same way that, you know,
you would domesticate a dog in a lot of ways, right? And so you got the praise. You're such
a good girl. You're such a good boy. You got a smile. You got a hug. You maybe got a treat,
right? Or you got, man, that doesn't cut it. You do that. I'm going to cut off the love.
Does any of you know what I'm talking about? Like, can any of you relate? So in this,
whatever you want to call it, you know, pool, cesspool, whatever it is that you grew up in,
right? For me, it was probably closer to a cesspool than a pool, but whatever it is that
you grew in, there might've been abuse. There might've been trauma. There might, you know,
but it's in this place that we're trying to figure out our identity.
And this is the thing that's going to shape us for the rest of our life.
It's the thing that's going to decide how much we earn. It's going to decide what kind of partner
we choose. It's going to decide what we will tolerate. It's going to decide what we will
have faith and expectation for. It's going to decide what you'll charge, what kind...
the clients you'll attract, how big of a business,
what kind of job will you take?
Like, this is it.
I had to put this study as part of Offers That Prosper
because if we don't get deep and anchored and rooted in this,
nothing else matters.
I can give you all the skills, all the tactics,
I can give you anything, but this, this is where it's at.
And so we begin now as others try to make us in their image
and we begin to create our self-concept.
And so we come to these conclusions,
who we are and who we're not,
and what we can do and what we can't do,
and what's good and what's bad and what's missing
and what's broken.
Can any of you relate to what I'm saying?
Now, on top of that, if you want to look at it
from scripturally from an enemy, from Satan,
from the deceiver, from the father of lies,
there's two things that are attempted to be taken from us.
Right?
So we've got all of this going on, right?
We've got what we're deciding about who we are
and if we're good, if we're bad,
some of you decided you were a mistake.
Maybe you even heard that you were a mistake.
That's impossible in God's economy, right?
But some of you began to believe that.
Some of you began to believe
that you couldn't do anything right
because you kept trying and trying
because you wanted to be loved, but it never worked.
You kept believing you couldn't do anything right.
Some of you were on a pedestal
and you got a little bit too big of an ego.
And so some of you began to think
that you just could do anything
and then you may have needed to get kicked
off your high horse for a second
because pride goes before the fall, right?
So all of this is going on
as we're creating our self-concept.
Who are we?
Who are we not?
What can we do?
What can't we do?
And in this time, the enemy,
the father of lies is stealing two things from you.
Throughout your life,
there's two things he's gonna attempt to steal.
And that is the word, the truth, the capital W word,
the truth, the truth of who God is,
the truth of who you are,
the truth of what you can do.
All of that, the word will be attempted to be stolen.
We saw that in the parable of the sower
and the bird just comes and just takes it away
or the thorns come and crowd out the word.
The seed was the word, right?
So we saw all of these scenarios.
The second thing, believe it or not,
that the enemy wants to steal is your identity.
So this is so big.
This is foundational for who you are
and who you become
and what kind of clients you're gonna attract
and how much you charge and who you marry
and what you feel about yourself and all of that.
This is like, can you feel we're at the bedrock?
Like this is where the rubber meets the road, right here.
And so for that reason,
we went into extra effort to create the study guide
because there's, I can only whet your appetite today.
I'm gonna try to pack as much in two hours as I can.
I could go four hours.
I could go 12 hours.
I could go, you know,
I don't even know how many hours, right?
This is such a deep subject.
I've spent a lifetime studying this.
So, you know, Linda was up her labor of love till midnight.
You've got it all here.
So however far the Lord lets us get today,
I'm gonna encourage you to keep on going.
You study these verses, you pray,
you ask God to show you, you meditate
because there's nothing more important than this,
discovering who you are and why you're here,
what your divine purpose is.
This is so foundational.
So 8 billion people on the planet,
and there's only one you.
You've got your own unique fingerprints.
You got your own unique eye prints.
When my kids were little and I homeschooled,
I used to take them outside to a big tree
and I would challenge them to try to find two leaves
that were the same.
You can't do it.
You can't do it, right?
And you're not gonna find another you.
There's one you, and there's a reason for that.
There's things that only you can do.
There's an experience only you can live.
There's gifts only you can bring.
8 billion on the planet.
So as we start with Matthew 16,
okay, Matthew 16, 15,
Jesus says to them,
there has to be a way.
having an identity conversation, by the way.
And they're saying, who do they say that I am?
Jesus is on planet Earth now, and who do they say?
And they go, well, some say that you're John the Baptist.
Some say you're Elijah.
Some say.
And he looks at Peter, and he says, Peter,
who do you say that I am?
Who do you say that I am?
Question we all have to ask.
And Simon Peter answers, you are Christ, the Messiah,
the anointed, the son of the living God.
And Jesus' answer is really quite fascinating.
He says, blessed, happy, spiritually secure,
favored by God.
I'm using the amplified so you really
get the depth of the words.
Happy, spiritually secure, favored by God.
Are you Simon's son of Jonah?
Because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you,
but my father that is in heaven.
You might want to circle the word reveal,
because knowing your identity is going
to come through revelation.
It's going to come through revelation knowledge.
It's going to come through the Father, the Holy Spirit,
speaking through you and teaching you this.
And so that's how he answered.
But there's something even more interesting
as we keep on going in that.
For Jesus to say that to Peter, for Jesus to say, bingo,
you got it right, spot on, 100%.
And you didn't figure that out yourself.
No one taught you that.
That came through revelation knowledge.
You're talking spirit language right now,
revelation knowledge.
Consider this, in order for Jesus
to recognize Peter's answer as truth,
to be able to say, bingo, spot on, yep,
he had to already know his own identity,
or he would not have been able to say that at that moment.
You see, Jesus was not asking because he needed affirmation.
Do you think I'm pretty?
Do you think I'm strong?
Do you think people like me?
All the stuff we're doing on Instagram and all that stuff,
put up my picture so everyone can say you look awesome
and we can get all.
No, Jesus wasn't doing any of that.
He wasn't seeking affirmation.
He was highlighting a profound principle,
and that is knowing who we are in the eyes of God.
So as you turn the page in your notes,
we've got to ask the question as to who are we?
Who am I?
Why does it matter?
We've got to ask, where do we get this identity?
How do we know our identity?
We want to know our identity because it's the bedrock.
It's what we're going to base our life on.
It's what we're going to remember.
We learned that the prodigal son was in the pig pen.
He was in a demeaning job.
He was violating everything.
He forgot who he was.
Yeah, without identity, we end up in the pig pen,
trying to satisfy eating pig food, right?
And so we've got to ask, OK, I need identity.
You're all here because you really want to make an impact.
You want to leave a legacy.
You want to make a great income.
You want to build a beautiful business.
You want to prosper.
You want to prosper physically, relationally, spiritually.
You want to do all these things, right?
We've got to start with our identity.
So where do we get our identity, right?
So Peter began to show us that it comes from Revelation.
Well, let's back up the story in Jesus.
So those verses that you saw that we just read,
Jesus was already like in his 30s, OK?
Let's back up a little bit to when
he comes to his cousin, John, and asks to be baptized.
John had gotten Revelation, who Jesus was.
And John said, I'm not even worthy to untie your sandals.
And yet, he comes to his cousin, John,
and he wants to be baptized.
So he is.
He's baptized in the River Jordan.
I've been there.
I've seen it.
It's beautiful.
And he comes up from the water.
It was a full immersion baptism.
He comes up from out of the water.
And we see the Trinity.
We see the three parts of the Godhead.
And so it says, behold, the heavens were opened.
And I saw the Spirit of God descend like a dove.
So we see the Holy Spirit take on the form of a dove,
lands on his shoulder, right there.
And we hear a voice from heaven.
There's a voice from heaven that says,
this is my son, my beloved, in whom I delight.
That's where Jesus got his identity, right there.
He got it straight from the source,
straight from the Father, straight from love itself.
This is my son.
Now, scripturally, you'll start to understand
that the word son is used collectively for humanity.
We're all God's sons, okay?
And you're gonna see a lot of very powerful things
about that.
My beloved, in whom I delight.
So there's an exercise there for you right now
to think about for just a second.
Who do you?
Like we saw, we opened when they were in the promised land
and they saw themselves as grasshoppers, right?
And we can do that.
We can really tear ourselves down.
We can really make ourselves small and it says,
and so everybody else saw him like that too, right?
I'm gonna ask you a really honest, heartfelt question
right now in your notes.
Who do you say that you are?
Write it down, maybe write it in the chat if you want.
Who do you say?
And those of you in Facebook, write it in the Facebook.
Who do you say that you are?
Now, before you say something really fancy and religious
or try to give the right answer,
I'm gonna go a little deeper for a second.
What do you most commonly say about yourself?
What are the words that you most often use
to describe yourself?
And if you look in the mirror,
what do you say about yourself?
And when you're describing yourself to someone,
how do you describe yourself?
How do you describe yourself?
And when you really get rock bottom
and you're thinking about yourself,
it's still even in your thoughts, maybe you don't share.
Who do you say that you are?
I love that.
Angela says, I'm a daughter of the king, a princess,
and my husband treats me that way.
That's so beautiful, Angela.
It's exactly as we saw.
We teach people how to treat us.
As we see ourselves, others will.
JD says the same thing.
I'm the daughter of the king of kings.
Okay, beautiful.
That sounds good.
Ashley says, found, chosen, handmade, papa's handmade.
Papa's handmade.
Okay, created in his image, a savior's child.
I own it.
I wonder how many of you own it,
but how many of you are saying,
if you're really, really honest,
you're saying, yeah, I know that's what I should say,
but the truth is, here's another way to test.
The two most powerful words in the universe
are the name of God, which is I am.
That's your identity, I am.
I wanna know what you typically,
what's the most common thing that you put after I am?
Any of the others say, sick and tired?
Any of you say, broke?
Any of you, any of those things
that you ever put after the name of God there?
I am his.
I love that.
Okay, someone, I am at rock bottom.
Okay, so there's so many.
I'm dearly loved and chosen.
That's a beautiful one.
I can't even see all these, they're going so fast,
but I love that you're taking an honest look.
Who do you say?
Another thing to look at is, what do you call my, my?
We know that, well, I won't get into that right now.
What do you call my?
In other words, do you say things like my cancer,
my arthritis, my diabetes?
If you do, stop.
Stop, replace my with the word the.
Stop making it part of you.
Do you say my ADHD is getting to me?
My dementia is getting, like, do you say these things?
Do you say I am something you'd never say about God?
You wouldn't say God is broke.
You wouldn't say God is sick and tired.
You wouldn't say God.
Don't put after the words I am anything that God is not,
and God doesn't say that you are.
And don't put behind my the things
that you don't truly wanna make part of you
and your identity.
So you do the exercise.
Who do you say you are?
And now compare it with who God says you are,
and do they match?
Do they match?
Is that a fascinating insight?
Do the things you say about yourself
and what God says about you, are they in alignment?
Do they match?
I gotta look at the chat.
I wanna hear some of your conversation, okay?
We forget who we are.
We say, okay, thank you for your heart sharing.
I'm gonna pause for a second,
because some of you have been saying
some really mean things to yourself, okay?
Some of you have been believing
some very terrible lies about yourself.
I'm gonna pause for a second, and I'm gonna pray,
and then we're gonna keep on going.
Father God, right here, right now,
in the mighty name of Jesus,
I pray that every negative word
that has ever been spoken over my sisters or my brothers
on this call or on any replay,
any negative word that has been spoken by themselves
or by others that maybe they have internalized,
they have taken and eaten and chewed on it,
in the name of Jesus,
I ask that every one of those word curses will be broken,
and that those words will fall lifeless
to the ground right now.
The Bible talks about fiery darts
that fall lifeless to the ground.
I'm asking that today, those words, those beliefs,
those thoughts that don't line up with your word,
that today, they fall lifeless to the ground.
Okay, now we'll keep on going.
This is so important.
You know, I tell my kids sometimes,
they'll say that someone said something about them,
and it just wiped them out.
It was just really bad, whatever they said about them.
And I said, it can only wipe you out
if you're believing that yourself.
In other words, if I say to you, you are such a crocodile.
I mean, you're the worst crocodile
I've ever seen in my life, right?
You're the worst purple panda
that I've ever seen in my life.
You're gonna think, she's nuts, it's not going in.
But if I say something that resonates
with what you've been believing about yourself,
now we assimilate it.
Do you understand?
That's why the work starts first inside.
Who does God say I am?
Let me make sure that my thoughts, my feelings,
and my words line up with capital T truth,
the truth that you are love,
the truth that you are the temple of the Holy Spirit,
the truth that you have the mind of Christ,
the truth that you are chosen
before the foundation of the world.
You see, we've got to make sure it lines up who we are,
right?
So really, really powerful.
Now, what ends up happening is that our identity gets,
it gets tested, it gets refined.
This is a process, okay?
And so I'm telling you that the journey starts today.
Maybe for some of you, you've been on the road
and you're further ahead.
For some of you, you're just thinking about this
for the first time.
The journey starts today.
I had a woman that called that was interested in coaching.
And she, God just reminded me the story, okay?
And she said, dealing with so much abuse.
I left an abusive husband.
I was severely abused.
And before that, I was in abusive relationships.
So I left an abusive relationship.
And I'm feeling compassion.
I'm feeling sad.
I know what that is.
Emotional abuse, physical abuse.
And she says, and I'm abused on the job.
I'm in an abusive situation in the job.
job, now my ears are starting to pick up something and say,
huh, interesting.
She doesn't stop.
She says, you know, even my neighbors are abusing me.
Now, oh, we saw ourself as grasshoppers,
and so they saw us.
I said to her, sister, where are you abusing yourself?
No, no, no, no, I don't abuse myself.
I love myself.
I said, where are you abusing yourself?
No, I'm telling you, I exercise.
I eat right.
I don't abuse myself.
No, I've really gotten past that.
I'm thinking, no, when your whole world is
showing something, there's something going on inside.
As within, so without, right?
And everything starts inside.
OK, there's something off here.
So I finally, God gives me revelation.
And I said, when you look in the mirror,
what do you say about yourself when you look in the mirror?
She says, oh, I really beat myself up.
I said, that would be abuse.
That would be abuse.
You see how this works?
I'm praying that you're getting a little bit of revelation
as to how to make the switch.
We've got to renew our mind.
The Bible says we're transformed by the renewing of our mind.
And then we've got to get that deep into our heart
so we're living in that frequency.
We're elevating our frequency.
And we've got to make sure that our words are lined up
because our words are sickle.
The words are the sickle that go out and harvest.
The words create our reality.
There's so much power.
The words are a living frequency.
And it says your words don't return void.
They bring back that which you created them for.
So words are incredibly powerful, right?
Scripture says, out of the heart, the mouth speaks.
So when you're speaking it out of your mouth,
it means you've already had it in your heart.
And if you already had it in your heart,
it's because you already thought it.
So this is how it works, right?
You think the thought.
It goes deep into your heart.
You feel it.
You get into the feeling tonality of it.
Lives in your heart.
And then scripture says, out of the heart, the mouth speaks.
And so by the time you're speaking it,
it's already been in the mind and the heart.
So it's your clue.
Listen to your words.
All right, I love.
Somebody said, it's not my business
what others think about me.
That's so true.
I've had to learn that, okay?
All right, so the identity gets tested.
And so there we are at Matthew 3, Jesus' baptism.
He got his identity from the father.
You're my son.
You are loved, okay?
You're chosen, right?
And then we find just a few verses later,
just a little history later, Matthew 4.
We're on the next page there where the identity is tested.
Matthew 4, okay?
And in Matthew 4, it says,
and the tempter came and said to him.
Now, by the way, this still happens a lot.
And the tempter may be in your spirit that you hear a voice.
The tempter may be in a relative.
The tempter may be in a friend that you really trusted, okay?
I mean, with Jesus, it was even in Judas,
one of his 12 most intimate, okay?
So somewhere it's going to come where your identity,
like, do you really believe
when you say you're a daughter or a son
of the most high God and that you're dearly loved
and that you're chosen?
Like, do you believe it?
That's gonna get refined.
You're gonna get a check on that
when people say something about you
or they do something to you.
And so in Matthew 4, 3 and 6, it says,
and the tempter came and said to him,
if you are God's son, I want you to circle the word if.
If you are God's son.
Now, do you think the tempter was probably at the baptism?
Do you think the tempter probably saw the dove descend?
You think the tempter probably heard heaven open,
heard the voice say, right?
He changes and he says, if, if you are God's son,
command these stones to be made loaves of bread.
Now, some of you have had this in the form of if, if,
if, prove it.
Maybe the if was in you, maybe it was outside of you,
but it's like, I gotta prove it.
I gotta work for my identity.
I gotta prove it.
So the tempter's asking him to prove his,
identity by doing something.
So, and he goes on and he says to him,
if, there's the second if,
second temptation starts with if, circle if.
If you are the son of God, throw yourself down.
Now we're gonna misquote scripture.
For it's written, he will give his angels charge over you.
And they'll bury you up in their hands
lest you strike your foot against its stone.
If you don't know your identity,
then others are going to try to give you the identity.
They're going to try to give you what they think
that you should be, right?
I got a lot of notes,
cause I don't wanna get off track.
There's so much I wanna share with you in such a short time.
That's why I'm looking down, okay?
So, we must then be very, very clear
on who we are and also who we are not.
One of the ways we're gonna find our true identity
is discovering who we are not.
Now, put some of the things in the chat right now
that you are not.
Let me help you.
The first one I'm going to say is you are not your titles.
Okay?
So, meaning often if I say, who are you?
You go, well, I am a mother.
I am a vice president.
I am a coach.
No, that's a role.
That's not who you are.
That's a role.
We gotta separate our roles, which are what we do,
and our identity, which is who we are.
And we don't normally do that.
When someone says, tell me about you, who are you?
I wanna learn more about you.
You usually go, well, I'm a coach.
I'm a mother.
I'm a grandmother.
I'm a founder of a company.
We go into roles.
So, who you are not, you are not a title.
Okay?
Someone else said, I am not my mistakes.
Beautiful.
Love that.
No, you are not.
You are not your past.
Okay?
I'm not the lies that have been told to me.
No, you are not.
You are the truth.
You are love.
I am not who my grandmother said.
I am not stupid.
There's those word curses we're talking about.
Can't you do anything right?
You're so stupid.
Right?
Doesn't line up with capital T truth.
We've got to sort through that.
Right?
So, I am not those words that were spoken over me.
Okay?
I am not a dirty, rotten sinner.
I love that.
I am not what I've been told most of my life.
You know, from the time I was very young,
I was called words that were swear words
that I didn't even know what they meant
that I was called them.
Didn't even know what they meant.
Here's another one.
I am not a burden.
I am not toxic.
I am not my past.
This is so beautiful.
So huge.
I am not, not enough.
You guys are on it.
This is so beautiful.
Let me give you some more.
I am not, unlikable, good one.
I am not my accomplishments.
Those are something I do.
I am not my accomplishments.
Now, here's one that you maybe haven't thought of.
I am not my physical body.
Now, we're triune, just like God is triune.
Okay?
But in the Bible spirit, we are too.
So we have a body, but we are not a body.
But too many in our day and age
have associated themselves with a body.
So if the body starts showing wear and tear,
if the body, like if I lose an arm, am I still me?
Is my identity still intact?
Am I still me?
If I lose an arm.
If I lose two arms, am I still me?
If half of my body is gone, am I still me?
If I lose two legs.
Some of you have heard the motivational speaker.
I can't think of his name right now.
A beautiful, loving man that speaks.
No.
arms, no legs, but he is still who he is.
If you've never watched him,
you should Google him, look him up on YouTube.
Some of you may know his name.
You could put it in the chat.
So I am not a body.
Nick, Nick V, thank you.
Nick, you guys should look him up.
So moving to see him up on a table
and everyone coming up and just soaking in his love
and getting hugs from him who has no arms and no legs.
So I am not a body, but some of you have such body.
I'll tell you, the more spirit identification you have,
the less body matters.
The less spirit identification you have,
the more that you're stuck on your body.
So the body starts getting wrinkles.
The body starts getting old.
The body starts losing hair.
The body gets aches and pains.
The body gets sick.
Now, all of a sudden, our joy goes down,
our self-esteem and self-worth goes down, all of that,
because we have this identification with body,
but we're not a body.
We're also not a mind.
So we have a body.
We have a soul, which biblically is mind, will, and emotions.
And so some people have mind identification,
and everything is tied in with their mind
and their intellectual and their ability
to think and all of that.
No.
What if I lose my mind?
How many people, they're not in what we call their right mind?
Whether they're dealing with emotional illness,
mental illness, whether they've lost memory,
are they still who they are?
And the answer is, I'm not a body.
I'm not a mind.
There's a spirit.
When God took Adam and Eve, and he breathed life,
there's a spirit in us that's who we are.
So that even after this Earth, when we shed the body,
the body's just our tent on Earth,
because the body gives us five senses.
So we can experience the five senses on Earth.
So I can smell.
I can taste.
I can see.
It's a tent.
It's a temporary tent.
But when the tent goes, the spirit still stays.
So I can't be all of these things.
So I must start to know who I am and who I'm not,
or I'm going to get attachments.
So I shared this at the His View retreat.
Those of you that were there live, it's really important,
is the alignment.
You can think about these three parts like a snowman, right?
The three parts of you, the body, the soul.
Oh good, and there's the YouTube channel for those of you
that ever want to just be able to.
He's such a blessing.
It'll just open your eyes.
If you think life is tough, there's
a man fully living out his divine purpose,
and changing the world, and making an impact,
and making great income, and leaving a legacy.
And he has no hands, no arms, no legs.
It's well worth watching.
So Stephanie says, I love the concept,
the more spiritual identification,
the less I'm dependent on my body identity.
Yes, love that.
Beautiful, great revelation.
You guys are getting some depth here.
So we got to look at the alignment of these three
things, OK?
So which is running you?
So if the alignment, think of about like a snowman,
and which is the biggest, right?
You've got three parts, like big, middle, small, right?
So which is the biggest when you really look at your life?
If the body is running you, then you're
going to hear things like, oh, I'm starving.
I just got to eat.
Oh, man, I need a cigarette.
Oh, man, I'm craving such and such.
Oh, man, like everything is about what your body wants.
Wants it now.
Any of you know someone body identified?
Everything's about their body.
They got to have it.
It's called the flesh in the Bible.
They got to have it.
They got to have it now.
So they go after the lust of the flesh, whatever it is.
It could be gambling.
It could be, I don't know, pornography.
It could be anything that is like feeding the flesh.
That's when the flesh is the biggest.
That's out of alignment.
Because the flesh is actually supposed
to be ruled by our mind.
We have the mind of Christ.
We're called to renew our mind.
Our mind, we're supposed to crucify the flesh.
We love the flesh.
We love our body.
We take care of our body because it's
the temple of the Holy Spirit.
But it doesn't run us.
And so our mind is called.
So when we're looking at our identity, it's not our body.
It's not our mind.
But our mind is called to rule over our body.
And yet, we are not our mind.
So the ones that are so stuck in their mind, right?
And many of you know that.
They just can't get unlocked.
They're just hooked to certain things.
And it drives them.
It drives them to craziness.
Their mind is just running them.
And they're missing.
But actually.
We're supposed to be run. Proper alignment is our spirit, which is where God's spirit dwells.
Our spirit connected to God's spirit is meant to rule over our mind and renew our mind.
And our mind is meant to rule over our body. That's proper alignment.
Now, I want to show you something interesting about this.
In Jewish culture, I'm not sure if Mita's here today and some of our Jewish friends if they're here today,
but in Jewish culture, the exodus is a really big deal.
The exodus is a really big deal.
And interestingly enough, in one of the Jewish books I was reading, which is called 50 Words.
I'll have to look it up from Jewish. I got to go look it up.
But anyway, I learned that the exodus is not just one event, but it's a paradigm for our current life.
It's not just a geographical location, so they didn't just leave Egypt as a physical location.
Remember I said the Bible has many dimensions.
So yeah, there was a physical Egypt that they left, OK, to go to Canaan, physical.
But there's a spiritual Egypt, and it's a paradigm for our current life that represents a limited state of mind that we must transcend.
Put that in the chat. Put it in the Facebook page.
Egypt represents a limited state of mind that we must transcend.
So the word, the Hebrew word for Egypt, I'm going to probably slaughter this.
I don't speak Hebrew, but it's spelled M-I-T-Z-R-A-Y-I-M.
Looks like Mitzarim. I'm probably any of you speak Hebrew.
OK. It means limitations.
The word Egypt, the Hebrew word for Egypt actually means limitations.
It actually means limitations.
So the truth is that the exodus from Egypt includes being liberated from internal bondage.
Now, I'm working with Kelly, my book coach. I'm actually writing a book about this.
I'm going to tell you that many of you have been held not in a physical bondage.
Some of you went through that, too. But the majority of us have not been in a physical bondage.
But we have been in an internal bondage that has kept us as slaves.
OK. What is the book? It is called, let me grab it.
You guys, I'm leaning across. I'll probably let's just pull over here.
OK. It is called People of the Word. People of the Word.
Fifty words that shaped Jewish thinking. People of the Word. Fifty words that shaped Jewish thinking.
OK. Thank you for asking. So there's a whole chapter on this in there.
Every word is so beautiful in this, like you'll get such depth.
Thank you, Linda, for putting that in there in the chat and in the Facebook group, too, please.
So the truth then is so Egypt represents limitations.
The truth is exodus from Egypt includes being liberated from internal bondage.
And here's the quote from the book. If Egypt represents the tyranny.
Listen carefully. The tyranny of self limiting beliefs.
If Egypt represents the tyranny of self limiting beliefs and behaviors, beliefs and behaviors, they go together.
The exodus signifies our spiritual journey towards expansive perception and limitless potential.
This is so deep in the Hebrew language. Yes. Fire, Emily.
This is amazing when you think about this. OK, so many of us.
Why am I teaching about identity? Why am I teaching about your self concept?
Why did I dedicate day six to this subject? Because so many of us, myself included, I'm talking personal experience.
We have been slaves. We've been in tyranny, not to something external, but to.
to limited perception, how we perceive.
You see, the world is as you perceive it,
as you see it in the inner eyes of your heart
is what you're living, how you perceive yourself,
how you perceive others, how you perceive God.
When God says that we're limitless,
if the Holy Spirit lives in us,
which is what the Bible that I read says.
It says that you and I are the temple of the Holy Spirit.
It says that Christ is in us, the hope of glory,
we are in him, right?
So we're in him, he's in us, we are one.
And one of the lies we're breaking,
getting into another one of my journals,
is the lie of separation.
So I did a whole study, I did a whole study on striving.
We're gonna talk about that.
And the end of striving came with a fresh look
at Romans 8.
Maybe I'll do a Bible study,
but I encourage you to go and do the Passion Translation,
Romans 8, and I want you to underline
every time this truth, I love the Passion Translation,
underline every truth this comes out.
Because it starts out in verse one,
that there's no accusing voice of condemnation
against those joined in life union with Jesus.
I love that word, when you're joined in life union.
There's no more condemnation, whatever anybody can say,
all of you that were putting those negative thoughts,
there's no more of that.
And it goes on to say,
we live by the power of the Holy Spirit,
we're led by the Holy Spirit.
Verse 10, it says,
now Christ lives his life in you, in me.
Now Christ lives his life in you, in me.
And his life-giving spirit imparts life to you.
Verse 14, he rises up within us.
There is a physical historical resurrection,
and there's a resurrection that happens in you.
Paul said, I'm not gonna rest in his prayers.
Paul in the Bible said,
I'm not gonna rest until Christ is fully formed in you.
So I gotta get that you're not so religious
in your thinking that you push God and Jesus way over here,
and it seems far away from your life and who you are.
When you go deep with this,
you understand this is happening in you.
Christ in me, the hope of glory,
I am the temple of the Holy Spirit.
This is happening.
And so it says he rises up within us.
There's a resurrection within us.
Verse 17, we're heirs of God, we're joined to Christ.
We become one, we're joined to Christ.
Verse 28, every detail of our life is woven together.
This is all my notes under the end of striving
because when this gets clear, there is no more striving.
And my book is a lot about my bondage,
my internal was like self-made expectations,
striving, like self-imposed limitations.
Some of us are living by limitations that nobody else put.
We put it on ourselves, okay?
And so all of these, by the way,
all of these verses in Roman eight are past tense,
meaning it's already done.
It's already done.
And so it goes on all the way down verse 38.
It says, so now I live with confidence
that there's nothing in the universe
that has power to separate me from God's love.
In other words, there's nothing
that can make God love me more.
There's nothing that can make God love me less.
This is so powerful, this breakthrough.
Now I wanna tell you a story and it goes back.
I wanna say at least 15 years, maybe 20 years.
And I tell the story
and it's part of the title of my upcoming book.
And I was a founder of a multi-seven figure
international nutritional network marketing company.
I was living a maniac life
in terms of everything I tried to pack into my days.
I was homeschooling.
I was, there was so much that I was doing.
I was leading Bible studies.
I was running this company.
I was speaking.
I was working every day of the week.
I was traveling every weekend to speak.
And so I had traveled to speak in New Jersey
on this particular moment.
There's times in your life where God just gets us.
There's times in our life when the Bible says we're still
and we know that he is God.
This is one of those times.
So here I was.
was exhausted, burning the candle on all sides, just living like a maniac in terms of activity.
Rose is on the line. She knew me then. And I decide right near my hotel, there's a little
country church. And I didn't speak till Monday. And I think this was Sunday or Sunday night. I
don't remember. And I thought, I'm just going to go in there. I just need rest. I'm just heavy
burdened. I'm tired. I just want to go in and just to be in the presence of God. Little tiny
rickety country church with like wood benches and like, you know, just really old fashioned
and the oldest part of kind of New Jersey. And I go in and the worship is playing. The band
is playing worship music. And there's such an atmosphere. I don't know if any of you've ever
walked in a church. Maybe you do on a regular basis where you just feel the presence of God.
This was like that for me. I mean, it was tangible. It was so the love in the air, the energy in the
air, that it was just so tangible. And I literally was such that I just kind of was taken away. It's
like I was lost in it. I just lost being present here. And I was just lost in this. And I hear
in my spirit, cast out the slave woman. Cast out the slave woman. Now those of you Bible scholars
know that's a reference to the story of Sarah and Hagar, Abraham's wives. But I knew in my spirit
that wasn't what this was about. I had been living as a slave woman because of this exodus Egypt that
was in me, these limiting beliefs that I created, these self-imposed. You see, because I had come
from such a broken childhood, such a broken childhood. My mother was bipolar. She was addicted
to pain medication. She was an alcoholic. My father was an alcoholic. He was a pedophile,
sexual abuser. There was domestic violence. The house was always trashed. Ashtrays going
through fish tanks and Christmas trees going through windows and absolute insanity that I
grew up in. And there was some decisions. We make these little agreements, these unconscious
agreements. I'm writing another book called I Didn't Agree to That. We make these unconscious
agreements. Like I will never have a family like this. My children won't go through this. I will
never have a family like this. And they kept on evolving. I will be a perfect wife. I
will be a perfect mother. It was the roots of perfectionism. It was the roots of striving.
It started very young when I made these internal decisions that I wasn't going to create this reality
again. So we make these unconscious agreements. Of course, I become 16, 17. I become a Christian
and I add to the list. I'm going to be a perfect Christian. So now fast forward by the time that
I'm in this country church, I've now spent decades with all my fiber and all my being to be the
perfect Christian, to be the perfect wife, to be the perfect homeschool mom. Failed miserably. I'm
not saying I did any of those things, but I had those expectations and they drove me like a slave
master. Some are saying, wow, sounds so familiar. Any of you made these vows, these internal vows?
Any of you came to create this bondage, these expectations that nobody's putting on you?
You're putting on yourself at this point. The voices are often gone. They might still be there,
but now you're putting it. You are the one, right? And so I love that. Time to stop the struggle
and learn how to flow with God's spirit. So beautiful. I'm loving your comments. I have
to pause for a second. I can't see over in the Facebook, but I'm loving this. Hidden vows. Wow.
We grew up similarly. Cast out the slave woman. Okay. So I knew at that moment, I got set free.
I knew at that moment what that meant. My life began to change at that moment. I've written a
whole book about it. I'm going to be sharing that with you. But I knew at that moment that,
and this is something that we all have to do. We all have to cast out the slave woman.
So the bondage that you're in,
whatever that might look like,
it might be financial bondage,
it might be relational bondage,
it might be emotional bondage,
it might be physical bondage,
like whatever that you're in,
I want you to look for just a second
and say, where am I?
What bondage am I creating?
When you can take ownership and responsibility,
you can begin to change.
You can begin to change.
Dawn, we need to enter into the rest,
no striving of Hebrews 4.10.
By the way, Dawn is in the house.
She's so beautiful at working with women
who have gone through trauma.
Dawn has one of the most incredible stories.
I mean, it makes mine look like penis
if we're gonna compare and we're not,
but she's just been through it.
And what a beautiful woman of God.
If you don't know Dawn, make friends.
She helps women through this kind of trauma.
So she says, we have to allow God
to do the work through us.
Philippians 2.13, where he's responsible for my results
as we walk in obedience,
walking by the spirit as sons and daughters.
Thank you, Dawn, for taking the time to write that.
Thank you for your being and your presence here
and your prayers and the work that you're doing.
I've had people that have known me over the years
and they maybe knew me 10 years ago,
15 years ago, 20 years ago.
And the thing I hear so often,
and let's see, Rose says, I was changed inside
when I first heard Brenda's story.
I was amazed at how bright her light is.
And I was attracted to the energy she carries.
I knew immediately it was from God.
Love you, sister.
She's my sister.
She's known me for so long.
So what is so important as we look at this
and we look at where did we create this
and we take ownership.
So I started to say, some have known me for a long time
and I keep getting this comment.
I just got it as recent as yesterday.
JG said it yesterday.
She spoke beautiful words of encouragement
in my text message.
And she says, you're different.
She's been telling me that for months now.
You're just different.
She's known me, I don't know how long, JD, 10 years,
maybe, I don't know, 11, 12, I don't know.
And she says, you're just, you're different.
And it's exactly what Dawn just wrote here
because the lies, the two lies
that are keeping you in bondage primarily
are the belief in lack.
There is no such thing.
The entire kingdom of God is in you,
access to all resources, everything.
There is no lack, okay?
It may appear it because of what we're creating,
but there is no lack, okay?
I love you, Rose.
I love you, love you, JD.
Okay, so yes, JD is so prophetic.
All the women in my life, I'm so blessed.
That was the first thing I said to her last night
is I'm just so, what you're seeing is I'm so grateful.
I have so much appreciation.
I could almost cry.
Linda, the work she's put in to make this course,
Kelly, the way that she's mentored me.
I mean, I could go on and on.
Earlene, who's doing this, JD, who's prayed over me,
Berlin, who's prayed over.
I mean, like this is a team effort, all of us together.
This is the body at work
and I'm in such deep appreciation, right?
So the two things that keep us really in bondage
are the belief, the lie in lack, okay?
And so now we're striving
because we think we don't have enough of something.
We don't have enough money.
We don't have enough time.
We don't have enough knowledge.
We don't have whatever, but it's all based on lack.
It's a lie, okay?
And the other one is the lie of separation.
And that's what I was just reading from Romans 8.
There is no separation.
We are one.
I'm in Christ.
Christ is in me.
I'm in God.
God is in me.
We are one.
And when we break that lie of separation,
all striving goes out the window and our prayers change.
So now our prayers are no longer, I gotta do this.
I gotta make it happen.
Our prayers become my prayer this morning.
As almost every morning, my prayer was,
Lord, today, teach through me.
Lord, Holy Spirit, heal through me.
Holy Spirit, like love through me.
Holy Spirit, coach through me.
Because we're co-heirs, we're co-laborers.
We're co-raised, right?
We're co-seated in high places.
Right. And so there is no separation.
And now you begin to understand principles that will change everything.
You'll understand the boomerang principle in the Bible.
You ever see the boomerang principle?
So so give and it shall be given unto you.
Press down, measured over, spilling over.
Right. Boomerang.
Forgive and you'll be forgiven.
Boomerang. Right.
You see, I could go on and on with the boomerang.
Why is it? Because.
Like Jesus prayed right before you left
the planet, may they understand that they are one and that I'm in them and I'm in you
and they're in me and and may they just understand that they're one,
that I can't do something to someone else without doing it to myself.
That's why we want to bless those who curse us.
You're blessing yourself.
That's why we want to give.
You can't give without it coming back to you, multiply.
You see, but not when you're giving from a place
of striving, not when you're giving from a belief in lack and not a numbness.
That's different.
That's an over giving.
That's a different form of slavery.
So when I say give, you're not giving from your roots.
You're giving from your fruit.
OK, very important distinction.
Some of you have been giving from your roots and you're withering at the vine.
No, no, no. God never called that right.
So you begin to understand the the boomerang effect.
So what's at stake?
Understanding this whole thing about identity, getting clear.
Why do you need to spend time in prayer on this?
Why do you need to spend time on meditation on this?
Why do you need to go deep?
Why do you need why does this matter?
Why did I take my Saturday morning to teach this?
Why did Linda, as a labor of love, stay up till midnight creating this guide?
Why? Because this is the bedrock.
This is the foundation.
And I love J.D. says he just loves you all so much.
It's a pleasure to be in his service.
Absolutely. She's such a love.
She's calling and praying and working with us.
And so each of you in your gifts.
So Rose is saying give from your fruit, not from your root.
OK, I remember a wise woman of God.
When I was first starting in ministry,
I was just probably not even 30 or barely 30.
And and we were sitting in a nice restaurant.
There was teacups and there was a tablecloth and there was the saucer under
the teacup and there happened to be water on the table, beautiful goblet.
And she says, God wants to just pour into you.
And she kept pouring in the cup filled.
And I'm watching and the cup filled and it like went over the top and it's going
into the saucer and the saucer is filling and I'm thinking she's going to soak the
whole table and she says, you're giving from here.
It's this overflow.
God wants you to live in the overflow.
He wants you to give from the overflow.
OK, which means that we're being filled up.
And so we're we're exiting from exodus,
from the slavery, from the self-imposed limitations, from the limited perceptions.
Right.
And and we're coming into alignment with the truth of who we are.
And so on your notes, it says, what's at stake in Romans eight versus 14 to 19?
It says, for all who are led by the spirit of God are the sons of God.
That's why I say we're we're sons.
Yes, we like to call ourselves daughter.
But the truth is, we're sons of God.
We're all the giant son of God collectively, too.
OK, so all who are led when I learned to salsa dance,
I got this verse so deep because you see, all my life I was a striver.
I was an overachiever.
I was a straight A student.
I was the one that was going to get it done.
I was going to make it happen.
Right.
And as we grow in consciousness and as we grow in awareness, as we grow
in spirituality, however you want to look at it, we go through phases.
Right.
So the lowest phase of spiritual growth is victim.
Some are still stuck there.
Victim means life is just happening to me like I'm out of control.
The wind, the rain, the waves are just driving me.
I'm a victim.
Poor is me.
It's not my fault that I don't have anything.
It's not my fault that I'm abused.
It's not my fault.
The parents I got, it's not my fault that I'm sick.
I'm a victim.
That's the lowest level of consciousness.
OK, the next higher level of consciousness is when you start.
to get aware of what I'm teaching you here that, oh, wait a minute, wait a minute. Scripture says
that my thoughts, my thoughts actually matter. That my feelings, like as a man thinketh in his
heart, so is he. And you start to realize my words matter. And so there's a certain kind of
taking a power that we escape out of the slavery of total victim, hopeless, helpless, and we move
into, I'm going to make it happen. We get into the, I'm going to make it happen. I'm going to
affirm. I'm going to declare. I'm going to visualize. And a lot of Christians are still
in that one. I'm going to, I'm going to make it happen. And there's a, there's a higher level
of consciousness that starts to understand that it's all been done. It's all already in me. I lack
nothing. And now we move to a higher level of consciousness that I'm going to allow. I don't
have to force anything. I don't have to make anything. I'm going to, and there's so much, each
of these levels has more peace, more joy. I'm going to allow. It's an allowing state. It's a
beautiful state. Have your way. It's a surrendered state. It's a, it's a state of beautiful trust,
right? The baby at the breast, the milk's going to be there, right? You just like take it in,
drink it in, allow, allow him to work in me, allow him to work through me, allow him to be my source,
allow him to provide all things to give me, right? It's an allowing. And then the highest of that
is when you become it. You become it. You're one with it. You're one with it.
It's just who you are. It's your truest, highest identity. You see, so, and we go up and down
in all of these. We're not stuck anywhere, right? But, but let's look at this. So, I started to say
when I started salsa dancing and Latin dancing, I was, I was a hot mess. I was a terrible dancer.
Terrible. I don't, I don't think, I don't think salsa has seen a worse dancer. I think I started
at rock bottom. I actually had the first person who taught me to dance tell me I'd never be able
to learn to dance. I mean, but that was the first mistake. Don't tell me I can't do anything that,
that doesn't fly. So, I was, I was the worst. And we got some salsa dancers in the house. We got
Kelly is a salsa dancer. Dawn is a dancer. Fred's a dancer. We got some salsa dancers in the house.
Type, type in there. If you're a dancer, you can type in the chat. If we got some dancers in the
house. Well, salsa dancing is a partner dance, okay? So, there's a difference when we, when we
dance. Kelly says, I love dancing, okay? Linda, love to dance. Dawn, I can't imagine you not being
a good dancer. Oh, boy. Trust me, Dawn. Oh, trust me. It was pretty bad. It was pretty bad. Emily,
dancing, love it. Okay. We got some dancers in the house. How fun. Kim, love to dance. So, Latin
dancing, I particularly kind of fell in love with it for a lot of reasons. One of it is the
atmosphere of salsa. Latin dancers don't usually drink. I mean, some will have one beer, but so,
it's not like the bar setting. I, and there's a, there's kind of a culture of honor to take care
of the women, usually. And so, so, I really fell in love with it. But partner dancing is really
different because there's a leader and there's a follower, okay? And I've been a leader all my life,
guys, okay? I've been a leader, like, in all ways, right? And I've been a, I've been a leader in
companies. I've been a leader, like, I've been a leader. I didn't know anything about being a
follower. I might have said I was a follower of Jesus, but I, I needed, Stephanie says, I love to
dance too. I needed to learn how to be a follower. That is a completely different game. You have to
trust. You have to be so in tune that you're feeling every movement. You have to be so pliable
that they can take you anywhere and they take you on a journey. And it was in salsa dancing, I really
began to learn new dimensions of what this verse means, what it means to be led by God. It's a,
it's a beautiful surrendered experience. That's all I can say. It's clumsy at first, just like it
is with God. And in salsa, it was very clumsy. I kept on trying to lead and stepping on toes and
I'd get turned, twirled.
Then I twirl into the South 40 or into the next dancers near me.
I mean, I was pretty much a hot mess.
Trust me.
But this verse, Romans 8, says, all who
are led by the spirit of God.
This is about not us leading God or leading the spirit,
which many Christians do.
God, I started this company, and I want you to bless it.
God, I want this man, and I want you to make it happen.
God, we're still in make it happen,
and we're not in those that are led by the spirit of God.
It's a different dance.
You can go out and dance by yourself, but in a partner,
there's a leader and a follower.
There can't be two leaders.
There can't be two followers.
You can switch, but there can't.
So all who are led by the spirit of God are sons of God.
For the spirit, which you have now received, is not.
Remember, we're learning what we're not,
is not a spirit of slavery to put you
once more in bondage to fear.
Now, there's another bondage.
If you believe in separation, which I did,
then I was always afraid, because I always
thought that I'm all alone.
My story from childhood is I'm all alone.
No one's going to help me.
You see what God's healing right now?
All the people in my life?
This is healing.
Oh, there are people who care.
There are people helping me.
Makes me cry.
I didn't believe that.
I believed all my life my greatest fear
was I'm going to be all alone.
There's no one to help me.
Fear, lack, I'm going to run out of money.
I've got no one to take care of me.
I'm going to be homeless.
I'm going to like, right?
Slave to fear.
Let me just see.
Kelly says, thinking to one to ask me to dance
that I would never learn.
Yeah, yeah.
Beautiful.
OK.
Salsa dancing also taught me to follow.
Open me up to partnerships, including with God,
and then a husband, which I hadn't been able to do before.
So me too.
That's why Kelly and I are just like sisters.
We love each other.
Salsa dancing teaches you to be open, to be receptive, right?
To be led.
And we do this in many ways.
There's many.
There's a masculine part of our life
and a feminine part of our life.
The feminine is the open.
It's the receptive.
It's the willingness to be led.
And we're all learning because in society, women
were rewarded for being masculine.
Like you got to be masculine.
That's the driven.
That's the leader.
That is like the achiever.
That's the directional.
That's the goals.
That's a masculine energy.
I mean, just to be blunt, just look at anatomy.
Just look at anatomy.
One is receptive.
One is delivering, is giving.
You've got to understand.
We're made that way.
But in society, ladies, and this is another master class.
I've had to really learn this.
I'm still learning.
I have not arrived, but at least I have awareness.
And that's the first step of transformation
is to know what are you operating in.
Are you operating in the masculine
or are you operating in the feminine?
Are you open?
Are you receptive?
Are you able to be led or are you doing it?
Now, we're rewarded.
You want to get the grades?
You want to graduate?
It's masculine energy.
You want to start a company?
It's masculine energy.
You want to make a sale?
It's masculine.
But we're learning, ladies, how to do it in feminine energy.
Holy Spirit, like have your way here.
Like just love through me, coach through me,
sell through me, build through me.
It's a feminine energy.
We're coming back into the divine feminine.
Super beautiful.
Rose says, don't be slave to fear
or you'll live in a prison of lack and regret.
Absolutely.
Back to Romans 8, verses 14 to 19.
For all who are led by the Spirit of God
are the sons of God.
For the spirit which you've now received
is not a spirit of slavery to put you once more in bondage
to fear, but you've received the spirit of adoption,
the spirit producing sonship in the bliss.
I love this.
The original word says this is bliss.
This is like such high frequency.
This is bliss.
In the bliss which we can cry, Abba, Father, Daddy.
Now, I told you that there's different levels
of personal development.
And this is another subject.
But whatever level you're at, your perception
is at that level and your projection is at that level.
So we project onto God like wherever we are.
So if we're way down in shame and then we've
got a God.
that is condemning and makes you feel in shame, right?
And if we're like if we're angry, we've got a vengeance, angry Zeus God.
If we're like so you're going to see God
based on where your level of of life and perception,
this high frequency right here is so intimate.
It's so intimate, and maybe some of you
didn't have fathers or you had dysfunctional fathers or whatever.
I did, too.
But we can begin to see what it really means to have a father
and the spirit himself thus testifies together with our spirit.
See where we're now we're in alignment.
Our spirit is here in God's spirit.
Our spirit is being moved by God's spirit.
So the spirit testifies together with our
own spirit, assuring us we're the children of God.
And if we are as children, then.
Now, do you remember in sales, you could circle that then
you remember in sales that we went deep and we would tell something and we'd say
so that we kind of asked ourselves, so what, like everything I'm teaching you today?
So what? So what?
So that well, here it is, so that so this is happening,
the spirit is living through us, we're led by the spirit,
the spirits testifying with our spirit, assuring us we've got assurance
that we're the children of God and if we are his children, so what?
Then we are his heirs identity.
We are his heirs, heirs of God,
fellow heirs with Christ, sharing his inheritance with him.
And we share his suffering if we're to share his glory.
But what of that?
For I consider the sufferings of this
present time not worth being compared with the glory that's about to be revealed.
Check this out to us.
You're not just going to see glory being revealed to you.
Circle this in us.
There's a glory being revealed in you.
In you, there's a glory being revealed in you.
Whoo.
Let that just sink in for a minute for the glory.
So whatever suffering you've gone through to get where you are right now,
whatever lessons, whatever, it's like childbirth.
OK, it hurt like crazy.
I did natural childbirth, lots of pain.
Absolutely.
But the moment you're holding that baby, you forget all about that pain.
I went on to do it three times, three kids, right?
Natural. We forget about it, right?
Because of the glory.
This says that any suffering we've gone
through, it's nothing compared with the glory that's going to be revealed to us
and in us and for us. Did you circle that?
This glory is to us, circle to us, in us, circle in us and for us.
And conferred.
On us, like you're going to carry the glory.
We're meant to carry the glory.
Now, that doesn't sound very warm, like to me, I don't know about you,
dirty, low down, rotten, no, there's glory that we're meant to carry.
And then it goes on to say for even the whole creation, all of nature is waiting
expectantly and longs earnestly for God's sons to be made known for the revelation,
for the revealing, for the disclosing of their sonship.
Do you know that all of nature is crying out and waiting for you to step
into your identity, for you to show up, for you to carry this glory,
for you to carry this love, for you to carry this power,
for you to walk in this joy, for you to break the lies of fear and doubt
and separation and lack and all the things, the self-imposed, the striving,
right, the perfectionism, all of that, all of nature's waiting for this moment.
Nature's clapping right now.
We now know.
I don't know if you've listened.
There's instruments you can listen to every plant.
It has a frequency.
It has a song.
It's so beautiful.
Nature is actually, Jesus said that if you guys don't praise,
even the rocks are going to cry out, all of nature is saying, please,
Yvonne, Connie, Kelly, Linda, Jenny, JD, Emily, please, please.
We're waiting for you.
Step up, step up, open up, step up.
Step into who you really are. You are powerful.
You have so much love. You are love.
You have so many gifts. It's time to release the gifts.
This is the season to release the gifts.
So, we see
that this subject of identity, we spend some time
looking at the prodigal son. We saw
him in the pig pen. We saw him come to
himself. We saw him return to the father.
It's very, very fascinating to see the
other brother as well. We're in Luke
15. You can turn the page and how our self
worth, our self concept, how it ties
in with our identity issues. So what? Let's bring
this real for a second before we go back to Scripture. Let's just, I mean, Scripture
is real, but let's put some application.
Those of you that have been undercharging,
we got identity issues.
Those of you that have been striving, we got
identity issues, right? Those
of you struggling with lack, we got identity
issues, you see? So these things,
when we're looking at your business, and we're going to raise
up your premier client, well, your premier client is going to be raised up as you
raise up, right? It's very fascinating.
There's principles that Jesus shared that we've kind of just put way over there.
Jesus said, if I be lifted up, I draw all men to me. Yes, he was lifted
up on the cross. He draws us to him, but there's another
version of that, that as you're being lifted up
into your true identity, into being seated
in high places, that's pretty lifted up, the Bible says, being seated
in high places with Christ, that you're operating from a place
of high places, not from groveling in the dirt, not in the
pig pen, not in the mud. Scripture says, and as you're
lifted up and you're seated in high places, which is far from pride and arrogance,
that's false, okay? But you're lifted up because you know
who you are and you know who God is in you, and you're at peace at that.
You don't have to prove yourself. You don't have to
earn love. You don't have to work for love.
We talked about unhitching this week. We talked about unhitching the
opinions of others, that we're not moved by the praise of
men. We're not moved by the criticism of men.
Jesus wasn't moved. Like they're laying down
their garments as Jesus is walking, and they're
saying, blessed be, right, the Messiah, and they're
saying all of these high praises and waving palm branches
and all of that, and three days later, they're saying, crucify him.
See, people are fickle. We can't be moved by their praise. If you
are driven by their praise, then you're in another bondage. We can't be
moved by their praise. In fact, you can thank when you get a
compliment, and then even pass on because
you didn't get there by yourself. Receive it, say thank you so much.
When people say this has been an amazing series,
this was such a team effort. Do you know how many people worked hard to bring you this?
It's not about me. It's about God. It's about
his body coming together. So you're able to
receive the praise. You don't have false humility. Ah, it's nothing.
I didn't do anything. No, that's false humility, okay?
You can say, yeah, it's been an amazing week. A lot of women's lives were
changed. A lot of breakthrough happened, but I got to tell you, God
gets the glory, number one, and I had so much help. There was
times when I was falling apart and Berlin was praying for me. There was times
I was falling apart and JD was praying for me. There was things coming at me.
There was issues coming at me that were trying to take me out,
even my whole body shaking, trying to get me not to do this.
There was things coming at me. If I didn't have the prayer warriors, I don't know
if this would have been the same. There was times when there was
far too much to do. There's no way I could have done it all, and
Linda, like selflessly came in and did it. Cindy came in
selflessly. I haven't been honoring Cindy and the web pages and everything
she's done, selflessly giving of herself. Ugo
with the email, selflessly giving of himself.
That's how you receive the praise.
And we can't be moved by the criticism. You can go back
to the Lord and say, hey, is there any truth in that? Is there something I need
to know?
to repent, is there something I need to ask forgiveness from?
Just like we said, we cannot be stuck in the past.
We've got to understand there's only now.
We cannot be stuck in the past.
We've got to forgive ourselves.
We've got to forgive the past.
We glean the fruit.
We bless it.
We release it.
Same thing with praise.
Hey, get it.
That's great.
The criticism, get it.
Forgive it, release it.
They're speaking from their perception.
It might be true.
It might not be true.
Ask the Lord if there's any truth.
Move on.
We've got to unhitch as we're moved.
So we see these two brothers.
And we see two, remember I said there's
different layers of mindset.
There's an interesting mindset.
So we've kind of gotten the idea of the first brother that
went and squandered everything.
And he tried to find fulfillment in wine, and women, and song,
and money, and all of that stuff, travel, and pride.
He tried to find it all.
And he found himself in the pig pen.
And we saw the whole thing.
He came to himself, and then he changed his vocabulary
and said, I will go.
And then he took action.
We've been talking all week.
This is all about action.
Nothing happens without action.
Like you've been hearing a lot today.
But unless you take action on this and make it your own,
it means nothing.
So he took action.
But the beautiful thing is that while he was still far away,
the father met him.
But there's another interesting brother
that comes into the picture in Luke 15.
And that's the self-righteous overachiever.
There's another son.
The father had two sons.
He had the victim, and he had the self-righteous
overachiever.
That's fascinating.
And so it says that when his older son was in the field,
and as he returned and came near the house,
he heard music and dancing.
Because remember, the father had brought back
the prodigal son, kill a fatted cat, put the robe on him,
reminding him who he is, put the ring,
reminding him his authority, put the sandals,
reminding him he's not a slave.
They're back home.
They've got the fatted calf.
There's music.
There's dance.
There's partying.
The overachiever's out there working.
The Mary and the Martha, can't you see?
Well, he's out spending the money.
I'm the one doing the work here.
Is anybody going to recognize me?
I'm the one busting my butt right now.
Yeah, we got one of those in the family too, right?
And so he called one of the servant boys to him,
and he said, what does this mean?
And he said to him, your brother has come.
Your father's killed that weak, fattened calf
because he's received him back safe and well.
The response is very interesting in verse 28.
The elder brother was angry.
Angry, not joy, not happy to see his brother, not relieved,
not answered prayer.
Angry, with deep-seated wrath.
We're talking bitterness.
Root of bitterness has kicked in.
And he resolved, I'm not going in.
Uh-uh, you're not going to catch me eating with him,
that lowdown scum.
Uh-uh, I don't want any part of that.
Self-righteous overachiever.
And the father says, come on, come enjoy.
Come on, let's eat together.
And he goes off into his pity overachiever.
These many years I have served you.
How many of you said, God, I have served you all of my life.
For what?
Now I got this.
Or we said to a person, do you see what I've done for you?
Maybe your parents did that.
Do you see what I've done for you?
We got one of those kind of people.
Do you guys recognize that speech?
Any of you have that?
Do you see what I've done for you?
Or you've done a, do you see what I've done for you?
So he goes into the, do you see what I've done for you?
I've served you.
I've never disobeyed you.
Yet, you never gave me.
We've got some comparison going on.
You did it for my brother, but you didn't do it for me.
You gave him more.
You didn't give me.
We've got the whole comparison stuff going on, right?
And have you ever heard that?
Anything going on, going on in the family?
This often happens in families.
You never gave me so much as a little kid,
little goat, that I.
my revel and feast and be happy and make merry with my friends.
You did it for the scum.
You've never done anything for me I've worked so hard I've served you. I've kept the law perfectly Pharisee right here.
But when this son of yours arrives, who devoured your estate with immoral women, you've killed for him a weak fattened calf.
Now, what I find really fascinating is that God responds to both of them
with the same love, with the same love, it's it's it's really really fascinating that he responds to both of them with the same love.
And the father's answer to this one was amazing.
But to the low one that squandered all the wealth. He reminded him of his identity and who he was he put the sandals on said you're not a slave God's reminding some of you that you're not a slave.
Some of you have carried a slave mentality. He put the robe on him to remind him of his identity your son your daughter, he put the ring to say you've got authority, stop giving up your authority.
He put the candle and he invited him back home he received him he met him when he was far away. He loved him embraced him he kissed him he brought him home, there's no judgment there's no condemnation there's only love.
And to this one to this self righteous child. He says, 31 verse 31, son.
You're always with me.
All that is mine is yours.
How many of you forgotten that God is always with you all that is his is yours.
And so, in knowing that we break these lies there is no lack everything that the father has. I have everything that Jesus is, I am. You see, and so you're able to to come back.
So breaking those lies there's some work for you guys, you might want to take communion, you might want to journal on these pages you might want to really pray, you might want to ask the Holy Spirit to show you the truth of some of these lies that are rooted
you might want to work with someone who does that, and helping you but taking communion is so powerful. And so there's some questions there like who or what runs you.
Who's running you right now.
Is fear running you is lack running you I don't have time to pray I don't have time to think I got to make money is anger and bitterness running you is what, who or what is running you right now.
Who or what is running you right now.
Romans 12 tells us.
Do not.
And I don't see that in here so you can just make a note Romans 12 tells us, do not.
It's Romans 12 one through two or three. Okay.
Do not be conformed to the world.
Or we can be transformed conformed just like a jello mold, you pour the jello in the mold you put it in the refrigerator in the morning it comes out, it's conformed.
In other words, who or what is shaping you is the new shaping you is fear is the need to be light is perfectionism is like who or what is shaping you.
Are you conformed, or are you transformed.
Too often society is molding us according to their standards, they're shaping our identity through popular opinions, as if we can we can change our identity.
You were born with your fingerprint you can't change it.
You were born to be you.
And so just like Jesus knew his identity.
Our job is to know us.
And so scripture tells us that we're created,
Genesis, we're created in God's image and likeness.
You've got to remember that.
That we're fearfully and wonderfully made,
each with a unique purpose and a divine calling.
That we are the temple of the Holy Spirit.
We actually carry God.
When we walk in a room,
when we walk, okay, Rhonda, so great you were here,
take care of your mama, send lots of love.
So we're fearfully and wonderfully made,
we're a temple of the Holy Spirit.
Scripture says, God is in us and we are in.
We have the mind of Christ, we are one.
There's so many words, we're given dominion,
we're given power, we're given authority.
I want you to kind of land on Ephesians 2.10.
It's in your notes, it's so beautiful.
It says, for we are God's own handiwork.
You're God's, by the way, that's poema,
the word, the original word's poema, poetry.
Like Kelly's a poet, right?
We're God's poetry.
He looks at you, nothing you can do
to make him love you any more,
nothing you can do to make him love you any less.
You're beautiful, you're beautiful,
and you're God's poetry, you're God's poema.
It says, we're God's own handiwork,
his workmanship recreated in Christ Jesus.
Born anew, that we may do the good works
which God predestined, planned beforehand.
Guess what?
There was a plan before you got here,
before the foundation of the world.
Those dreams in your heart, those goals,
that vision that makes you cry,
those skills you've been acquiring,
those lessons you've learned, those blessings,
all that makes you you, a beautiful you,
are for you to do the good works that were planned
before the foundation of the world,
taking paths which he prepared ahead of time,
that we should walk in them, listen to this,
living the good life.
When I talk about total soul prosperity, 3 John 2,
we're called to prosper not just financially,
my heart, okay, the reason I created
the prosperity accelerator,
and if you haven't registered yet,
I'm telling you, in January,
your ideal buyers are gonna be buying,
they're gonna be ready to buy.
Will you be the one they buy from?
That's why I created it condensed, fast, five days.
I gave you 90 days of office hours,
I'm gonna hold your hand, but we gotta get this done.
You gotta show up because it says right here,
you're called to live this good life.
You're called to live this, you're called to be it.
And if you're still confused about this,
I've offered you a free call.
Already, by the way, the people who have scheduled
free calls with me, they've already gotten clients,
can you believe that?
Like they had courage to act,
and they already got a plan, they already got clients.
I shared the story yesterday with Fonda,
congratulations to Fonda,
had a couple more of you right after that,
making offers, getting clients, this is so real.
So in the chat is the prosperity accelerator,
what are you waiting for?
Are you gonna be like the prodigal son
that says I will and then takes action?
Are you gonna get on and have a free call with me?
Are you gonna benefit from 30 years of business experience?
Or are you gonna still keep trying
to figure it out yourself?
That's really the question.
And so it says living the good life,
which he prearranged and made ready for us to live.
So to do this, to live the good life,
to get the premier clients, to have the income flowing,
to make the impact, to leave the legacy,
to do all of these things,
there's some things you've gotta do.
You've gotta discover,
or you've gotta get revelation knowledge
about your true identity.
You gotta be still and cultivate
that deep connection with God.
And maybe some of you need to forgive yourself.
Maybe some of you need to forgive God.
Maybe you're still in the victim
and you're blaming God for everything.
that happen. All God wants you to do is take a couple steps like the prodigal son. It says
in the prodigal son that while he was still far off, the father ran to meet him, hugged him,
kissed him. That's your God. We'll run to meet you. You see, God doesn't change. He's the same
yesterday, today, and forever. God never left. The prodigal son left. The prodigal son chose the
pig pen. The prodigal son chose to spend the... God didn't do it. And he chose it. He had to
choose to come back. But when he made even the tiniest attempt to go back, the father ran
and Lavish was kissing his neck and hugging him. So maybe some of you need to forgive yourself.
Some of you need to forgive God. God's going to meet you. God never left. That older son,
like the father never kept anything from him. He said, oh, what are you talking about? You didn't
need to be out working in the field. You didn't need to be a slave. Everything that I have,
this is your inheritance. All that I am, you are, right? So we've got to discover our identity
and restore that connection with God. Silence the noise and learn to hear his voice. In the
Prosper Leader membership, there's a whole Bible study. I did a whole series on learning to hear
God's voice. If you haven't learned to do that, that's where it starts. Go listen to that whole
study. It calls us to practice. We get back into the ancient things that have been known throughout
all time of self-discovery, of being rooted in prayer, of meditation, of reflection, of
contemplation. Those things of you got to turn off the noise. You got to stop the go, go, go, go,
go, go, go. And you got to be still. Give yourself that grace. Turn off everything. Bring back some
of the ancient arts. One of the most powerful exercises is Abba, Father, Papa, however you want
to call them, love. Show me me through your eyes. Help me see me the way that you see me.
Meditation, contemplation, journaling. We've got to come back to these things. Being still,
being in nature. We can't not be in the word. That's truth. That's life. That's the honey in
the honeycomb, right? So making time, that's a priority in the morning. Letting God speak to you,
okay? And as we seek God's guidance, we can strip away all the things that we're not. All the false
identities. All the layers that society has said that we are or that we're not. So that we can
reveal that poema, how God sees you. We can reveal who you are created to be. I'm going to close
with a prayer. And it's found in Ephesians 3. It's one of my favorite prayers. And let this prayer
just soak all of this in. There's been a lot that I've shared. I packed more in two hours
than I think probably most would do, okay? But I was so hungry for you to know who you really are.
I live, you know that my passion is to equip and empower, right, women, Christian women,
right, to equip and empower you to prosper in every way, physically, relationally, spiritually,
okay? So I'm going to close with this prayer. I'm going to close with this prayer. Let this soak in.
May he grant you. Put your name in there. Go back and write this out with your name in.
May he grant me. May he grant you out of the rich treasure of his glory to be strengthened
and reinforced with mighty power in the inner man, in the inner woman. So may God out of his
treasure, out of his glory, may he strengthen you. May he reinforce you with power in your inner man
by the Holy Spirit himself dwelling in your innermost being and personality.
May Christ through your faith. This is activated by faith. May Christ through your faith
Actually dwell.
Just get this.
The Amplified gives you a lot of words to understand this.
May Christ through your faith actually dwell, actually settle down,
actually abide, actually make his permanent home in your hearts.
May you be rooted deep in love.
Let your roots go down deep in love.
That's what anchors you.
May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love.
You're rooted, you're grounded, you're founded securely on love.
That you may have the power to be strong and apprehend and grasp with all the saints,
all of God's devoted people, the experience of that love.
That experience of that love.
What is the breadth?
What is the length?
What is the height of that depth?
How high can God's love go?
How wide can God's love go?
How far can God's love go?
How deep can God's love go?
It says that you can really come to know.
I mean really, really, no religious spirit, no just talking about it.
You can really come to know practically.
This is practical.
This is real life.
This is not just ethereal.
This is practical.
That you may really come to know practically how?
Through experience for yourself.
This is only everything I've said to you today is going to be meaningless chatter.
Unless you do this part.
That you really come to know practically through experience for yourself.
The love of Christ.
The far surpasses mere knowledge.
This is not about head knowledge.
This is beyond knowledge without experience.
That you might be filled through your whole being.
Unto all the fullness of God.
I want you to get this visual.
That you're so full of God.
It says that you may have the richest measure of divine presence.
Listen to this.
And become a body wholly filled and flooded with God himself.
What would life be like if every part of your being was just flooded with God himself.
With love itself.
With infinite power itself.
With infinite joy itself.
Infinite peace itself.
That you're filled with God.
That you're going to have the richest measure of divine presence.
Become a body fully filled and flooded with God himself.
Now to him.
Who by an inconsequence of the action of his power.
That is at work within us.
Is able.
He is able to carry out his purpose.
And do.
Super abundantly.
Far over and above.
All that we dare.
Ask or think.
Infinitely beyond our highest prayers.
Our highest desires.
Our highest thoughts.
Our highest hopes.
Our highest dreams.
That's what God wants to do.
Exceedingly.
Abundantly.
Above and beyond anything you could ask.
You could hope for.
You could imagine.
Beyond your wildest imagination.
That's what God has for you.
That's why.
Stepping into your true identity.
Knowing who you really are in Christ.
Being rooted and grounded and anchored.
You're in the water.
Like your roots are in the river.
So that your leaves don't even wither.
You're strong.
You're mighty.
You're not moved by circumstances.
You move circumstances.
You say to the mountain, be thou removed.
You say to the mountain of debt, be thou removed.
You say to the mountain of fear, be thou removed.
Because you remember, you come back to yourself.
you are. I bless you all. Thank you for spending this time with me. I love you.
Thank you for the hearts. Thank you for the hearts. I love you. My sisters, my
brothers, I love you. We'll see you Monday morning, 9 a.m. All the other
replays are in the Facebook group till midnight Sunday night. Unless you want to
be a VIP. Okay, see you Monday morning. God bless you. So excited to spend this
time with you. Bye-bye.