Have you here today for the first session of the 3-Day Royal Challenge.
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Hey, well, what a delight to be here together.
So if you haven't connected with me before,
I'm Benji Alexander and we're about to share
a really beautiful, deep, wonderful adventure
over the next three days in this three-day Royal Challenge
where we go deep into Royal identity,
Royal vision and the Royal economy
that we were born to live in.
I'm just, I'm delighted and excited
and full of expectation for what God is about to do
in our lives.
I'm believing that in the next three days,
we're going to see a significant move of God.
We're going to see a move of God
where God is touching deeply, touching hearts and lives
and revolutionizing life as we know it.
I'm going to be talking a bunch about sonship
as we go through it.
I just want to just, before I pray and get into this,
just highlight for you that sonship is a generic term.
It doesn't specifically refer to a male or a female.
It's just a generic term that speaks
about our spiritual identity.
Hey, that's once again, such an honor
and a delight to have you here.
And I feel like with the level of hunger
of the people that have signed up for this
to be a part of this three-day Royal Challenge,
the level of hunger is amazing.
There's people here from all over the world
carrying such a massive hunger for God
and a massive hunger to step into all that he has for us.
So I'm expecting for an amazing time to get in.
Feel free to really jump on board
and engage in the comments.
I love connecting with you.
I love hearing how you're doing
and I'm looking forward to sharing this journey together.
So let's pray.
Papa, Jesus, Holy Spirit, we love you.
And right now we thank you for your amazing glory.
We thank you for the wonder of your presence.
We thank you for the beauty of your glory.
I thank you so much, Holy Spirit,
for a spirit of wisdom and revelation coming upon us.
I thank you for the spirit of Lord.
I thank you for the spirit of counsel
and the spirit of understanding
and the spirit of knowledge
and the spirit of might and the spirit of fear of the Lord.
I thank you for your glory coming upon us.
And I thank you for wild, dynamic,
outrageous love encounters that touch us
to the very core of our being
and light us up and awaken us
to the wonder of your glory like never before.
King Jesus, we honor you as the King of Kings
and the Lord of Lords.
And we thank you for taking us
into all that you have for us in our royal identity
and royal vision and a royal economy.
We give you all the glory.
And we thank you for a move of your spirit
over the next three days.
We thank you for taking every single person here
to deeper realms of your love,
to deeper realms of identity,
into deeper places in the divine dance
and into the depths of what you have
for each person in your beautiful name, Jesus.
Amen.
Wow.
Hey, family.
Hi.
I'm going to start just by sharing about
what I call the beautiful journey.
So I'll start by introducing myself again.
My name is Benji Alexander.
If we haven't connected before,
I'm married to an amazing wife, Alana.
And we've got three beautiful kids,
Ezra and Zoe and Alia.
Ezra is nine.
nine this year, he's eight right now, Zoe is six, and Alia has just turned four.
And our family is such a beautiful family, we've been so blessed with such an amazing family,
but it's only possible to have the beauty in our family that we have now because God dealt with my
dysfunction, dealt with my secret darkness, and he did that by taking me on a beautiful journey.
I want to invite you to join me over these next three days on a deep, beautiful journey.
And I want to start by just helping you kind of catch a picture of who I am, where my journey
went. So I was born on the mission field in the jungle in Indonesia. My parents were missionaries
over there, my dad was one of the first white men in some of the villages there, he sat down with
ex-cannibals. And when they came back to New Zealand, they came back when I was two years old,
and then they became pastors. And so my whole life has been in a missions context and a ministry
context. And my first job, you know, when I was 20 years old, my first proper job was working for
a church. So my life has been surrounded by a whole lot of religion, a whole lot of church,
I've pastored a church myself for over a decade, I've been doing missions for basically
forever. And so my trade in my life has basically been the gospel. My trade has been church,
has been ministry, has been the gospel. But despite like a whole lifetime of religion,
a lifetime of Christianity, secretly, even as a pastor in my own heart, I had a place of darkness
and dysfunction. I want to, as we start this journey, I want to take back the veil for you
and let you see inside my heart and inside my world of basically what was a slave and an orphan
existence. It was kind of festering below the surface inside of me. And one of the things that,
because I wasn't conscious, I wasn't aware, I didn't realize that I was living the slave
existence. I thought my dysfunctional normal was all there was. I thought this was our lot.
And then something happened, I read John 17, 23, and it kind of shocked me because I didn't
believe it. So here's what John 17, 23 said, it said, then the world will know that you have sent
me and have loved them even as you have loved me. And this triggered something
in me, like this woke something up in me where I realized, oh my gosh, I do not believe
that at all. I do not believe that God loves me the same as he loves his own son.
I just did not believe that. If I kind of go back into my story, one of the things that first
started getting my heart rooted in shame was when I was a kid, I was probably only about
six years old and we would play doctors and nurses with a bunch of other random kids. And
so sometimes we'd get naked and it was probably more of a curious time rather than anyone doing
anything intentionally to be real wicked or twisted, but we'd get naked and play silly games.
And just from that time, I just began to believe that I was unworthy. I just had, I felt
shame come in my life. I felt unworthy. I felt this defilement and, you know, your secrets
and your shame will be your own story. We can't compare, but this was my story and it brought
up the sense of shame. And there's a difference between shame and guilt. See, guilt is the
feeling that you've done something wrong. And I felt that plenty of times for sure, but shame
is the belief that there's something intrinsically wrong with who you are. And at the core of my
heart, at the core of who I was, I believed that there was something intrinsically wrong with me.
And it just totally damaged my sense of value, damaged my sense of worth. I was in this place of
shame and shame, it always leads to self-hatred and self-hatred always leads to isolation,
leads to us putting up walls. And I don't know if you know what it's like to put up
walls and to isolate, but this was my world. I was putting up walls, I was putting up
veils, I was putting up these blocks and covering and veiling and just hiding and isolating the
space of shame and inadequacy on the inside of me. I felt so dirty and defiled and unworthy.
And you know what? I started like this world of condemnation started flowing. So I would be,
I had this terrible negative talk, like speaking to myself, real down on myself,
real negative things about myself. And then at the same time in this place of
really wanting to know God, but
having all of this going on inside me and not believing that I was worthy of God's love.
So when I read John 17, 23 and he said, the world will know that you sent me and have loved them
even as you have loved me, this triggered me. I didn't believe it was true. I was like,
how is this even possible, God? How is this even possible? Because what I believed is I thought
that Jesus, because Jesus was the 10 out of 10 son, right? Jesus did everything perfect. I thought
he's worthy of 10 out of 10 love, but me, my performance, it is rubbish and I'm only going
to be worthy of the scraps of love. So when I heard this, that God said, no, Jesus said,
the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you've loved me. I was like,
what is going on here? And it triggered to me to something that something's wrong. I'm not
living in that. I don't understand it because in my heart it was full of condemnation. It was full
of darkness. It was full of inadequacy and shame and self-hatred. And I would actually, you know,
I would try and get close to God as well. And so I'd be performing on this hamster wheel of
performance, always trying to do the things right, always trying and inevitably failing.
Now religion is such a terrible master. It demands perfection and then prophesies failure. I was
caught up in this place, right, where religion demanded perfection, but prophesied failure.
And I had this twisted belief inside of me as well, right, that if I condemn myself more,
then maybe I would behave better. So I'd get ruthless on myself and my inner dialogue.
And ultimately that never worked. And the place that I lived, right, the place that I lived was a
love deficit, totally disconnected from God. In that place and growing up in religion, I didn't
know that you could experience the manifest presence of God. I didn't know you could experience
the manifest love of God. I didn't know you could experience the tangible glory of God. And I lived
disconnected. I lived in love deficit. I didn't know that you could live overwhelmed by the love
and the glory of God. I didn't know about encounters. I was disconnected. I was reliant
on my own performance and I used condemnation to try and drive my performance. And it was a
bitter, twisted, vicious cycle of religion that left me infused with darkness. And this is even
as a pastor, right, even as a pastor, I'm trying to lead other people, you know, towards God. There I was
as a, like this vicious, condemning voice in my own heart. Now step by step, Papa, you know,
he began to speak into my love deficit. He began to speak into my dysfunction. He began to speak
into my darkness. He began calling me home. And something began to change in me as I really
pursued God, despite all this darkness, I was still like seeking out the God with everything
that I could. I was going after him. And I began to, little by little, he began to reveal my identity
to me. I just want to read this beautiful verse to you from Matthew 3, 16 to 17. This is the
message, okay? Now, if you haven't clicked on the link, there's a link in the description of this video.
And if you click on that link and you sign up there, it'll make sure that you get all the
handouts. It'll give you all the handouts, the book that I'm about to read through, everything,
all the notes, the notifications of when we're going live and everything. You'll get all of that. So
that's in the description. It'll give you a whole beautiful compilation of verses on the love of
God, like this verse here. Verses like this began to come alive to me in my darkness. They began
to light up. It said, the moment Jesus came out of the baptismal waters, the skies opened up and he saw
God's spirit. It looked like a dove descending and landing on him. And along with the spirit,
a voice saying, this is my son marked by my chosen and marked by my love, the delight of my life.
Well, and then I started coupling this with John 17, 23, that says he has loved them with the same
love that he has for me. And this is such a beautiful picture of the father as Jesus comes
out of the baptismal waters. This is what the father says over him. This is my son chosen and
marked by my love, the delight of my life. Whoa. And I started to, things started to click for me.
I started to have this realization like, oh my gosh, this is, this is what he's, this is what
Jesus is talking about. That, you know, I am as loved as love can be. Things that slowly, the
lights started going on. It's like, oh my gosh, this right here is a picture of how the father
loves me, that I am his son chosen and marked by my, marked by his love.
I am the delight of his life.
This is a polar opposite to where I had been living my whole life,
living in condemnation and darkness and destruction.
The light started to slowly go on to me.
I am marked by his love.
I am the delight of his life.
It started to be like just this little,
the beginning stages of the beautiful journey out of my love deficit,
out of my orphan slave dysfunction and into my royal identity.
And I want to speak to you right now.
I want to say that you are chosen and you are marked by his love
and you are the delight of the father's life.
Wow.
And I began to awaken to a brand new existence.
Little by little, the light started going on.
So, but right now, what I want to do is I want to go right back to the beginning.
I want to go back all the way to Genesis 1 verse 1.
It says, in the beginning, God.
Okay. And I want to stop right there.
I want to go all the way back to the divine dance.
I want to go all the way back to the beginning.
And I want to create some context for why God initiated this journey of,
you know, of creating everything.
So come with me.
This is a moment where you really get to engage your imagination.
This is a real beautiful moment.
Okay. So just allow yourself and your imagination to go with me.
I'm going to read for you a section from my book,
The Science of Dreams.
And like I said, if you click on that link and follow through
and drop your email address in that link that's in the description,
you'll get a free copy of this book and the audio as well.
But join me and listen to this.
Now, imagine with me, God the father turning.
Oh, hang on.
All right, here we go.
Before time began, there was God.
For centuries, church fathers and theologians have used the Greek word perichoresis
to describe a snapshot of this dynamic reality.
Before time began, there was God, the father, the son, and the Holy Spirit.
Perichoresis is most simply translated and described as the divine dance.
Imagine with me if you can.
All that exists is the father, the son, and the Holy Spirit.
Dancing together in a seamless, harmonious union,
infused perfectly with the most dynamic, powerful, extravagant,
wild, gentle, and exquisite expressions of love that have ever and will ever exist.
Culminating in the most abundant and glorious
demonstrations of delight that have ever and will ever be known.
Imagine with me, if you will, the fullness of the infinite power of God
concentrated into one giant laser cannon of pure, supernatural, divine love.
So wonderful that words could never hope to articulate
even a single percent of its unspeakable, unfathomable goodness, warmth, kindness,
wonders, ecstasy, bliss, euphoria, happiness, joy, and delight.
Now imagine with me God, the father, turning that giant laser cannon of divine love on Jesus
and blasting him with absolutely everything it had.
Holding nothing back, completely unleashing the entirety of his divine love on his son.
Imagine Jesus being hit with this laser cannon of love,
more powerful than a million bolts of lightning love.
Except these intense beams of love are not actually coming from a cannon,
rather they are coming from the father's eyes.
And every glance of his eyes is like a thousand waterfalls of love.
Like lightning, like fire, like oil, like being consumed in an ocean of divine love.
As Jesus is hit by the father's gaze, everything slows down.
The love that comes from his eyes is softer than silk, but stronger than steel.
It's the most gentle love there has ever been, yet it is the greatest force in existence.
It is calming and soothing, yet it is a raging fire of love that consumes
every aspect of his entire being.
It is an intense encounter, yet it is in perfect harmony
with the most eloquent dance that has ever been done.
Then Jesus turns His gaze, which is just as intense and powerful, on Holy Spirit.
Holy Spirit turns His equally intense gaze upon Jesus, then on the Father.
They relentlessly, throughout eternity, blast each other with the purest, most extravagant,
most wonderful measures of divine love that have ever and will ever exist.
I am aiming to help you capture the wonder of the divine dance.
It's an indescribable, unbroken cycle of the most flawless and spectacular masterpieces
of love in all creation and beyond.
It's perpetual expressions of divine love that never flinch, never relent, and never
reduce in their intensity or consistency.
Each member of the Trinity receives divine love perfectly and gives perfect expression
to this divine love.
To the other members of the Trinity, the most creative, the most outrageously abundant,
and the most excellent ways divinely conceivable, the fellowship of the Trinity pericaresis
the divine dance.
It's an explosion of the most mind-bending expressions of love divinely conceivable.
Each member of the Trinity pours out the fullness of their power.
They hold absolutely nothing back but spend themselves entirely in their exuberant, extravagant,
heartfelt expressions of love that they lavish on one another.
It was in this setting, in the context of this radical love that the Trinity conceived
one of the most powerful ideas that they have ever had.
That idea was you.
The original idea that they had was that you would be a perfect dance partner, created
with the capacity to participate equally in the dance.
They created you in their image so that you would be fully capable of participating perfectly
in pericaresis.
I want you to imagine with me again.
This time, imagine that you are the object of the Trinity's affection.
The gaze of divine love is fixed on you and in exactly the same moment, all three of the
Trinity unleash the fullness of their love and utterly baptize you in the most glorious
expression of love that you have ever tasted in your life.
You can literally taste it.
Supernatural love has entirely consumed you.
You can see it wrapping around your body like flames and arcing bolts of electrical current.
You can hear it pulsating and reverberating through every cell in your being, body, soul,
and spirit.
You can taste it with every cell in your body.
The fragrance of divine love has permeated the entire atmosphere.
Speechless, you collapse in the most blissful, gentle, multi-dimensional, paradoxical state
of your life.
You've never felt so peaceful, yet you feel like a thousand waterfalls of pure love are
crashing over you every second.
You feel freedom like never before, but you feel the bolts of a million bolts of lightning
love zinging through your entire being.
You feel like you're walking with God in the cool of the day, except that you've never
been so ablaze with the fires of love.
You feel like you're walking on water, but at the same time you feel like you're swimming
in an ocean of divine love, and liquid love is flowing right through you.
Everything is quiet, but the love of God is like thunder in your heart.
You can't even walk, yet somehow you can dance, and carried by the spirit, you arise and take
your place that was prepared for you before time began, flowing effortlessly with the
rhythms of the trinity as you receive and express divine love in a timeless realm of
intimacy, oneness, ecstasy, and unrelenting waves of pure divine love.
Whoa, how beautiful is that?
Oh, that, that divine dance, that is what you were created for.
I'm not sure what you think the ultimate calling on your life is, but you know, for me in that
place of dysfunction and darkness, the ultimate calling of my life was really just survival.
It was just doing what I had to do to please God to survive and just doing, you know, just
those boxes doing what I had to do, getting through condemnation, but I discovered that
the ultimate calling on our lives is to be loved and not just casually loved, outrageously loved,
extravagantly loved, wonderfully loved. I discovered that we have been chosen and marked
by his love, that we are the delight of his life. Wow. Oh wow. See, in the orphan existence,
I feasted on condemnation, on shame, on self-hatred, on loneliness and unworthiness and
all of this darkness and dysfunction was what I feasted on. It's what I feed on in my mind,
in my heart, it's where I live. But God began to call me out. He began to awaken me to my ultimate
calling and to your ultimate calling, which is to be loved, perfectly loved, extravagantly loved,
outrageously loved, supernaturally loved. So in John 8, 12, something just this, when I started
to discover John 8, 12, lights, more lights began going off and it began to become another door that
opened me up to step into the divine dance. It says this in John 8, 12, Jesus said, I am the light
of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. And
what Jesus is speaking about here is he's speaking about our royal inheritance. He's speaking about
your royal birthright. You were not created for darkness. You were not created for an orphan's
portion and you were not created for a love deficit. You were created for the divine dance.
Whoa. And let me share a couple of scriptures for you and pull something together here that's
going to really help unlock and open up the doors for us to step deeper into this divine dance,
deeper into our royal identity, deeper into our royal inheritance. In John 17, 22, Jesus said,
I have given them the same glory that the father gave me, that they may be one as we are one. So
that word glory that Jesus used there in John 17, 22 is the Greek word doxa, and it means the
substance or the identity. So everything has a particular doxa, right? My drink bottle here,
it has the doxa of a drink bottle. The chair I'm sitting on, it has the doxa of a drink bottle,
of a chair, sorry. This, you know, like the mouse, it has the doxa of a mouse. Everything has a doxa.
A tree has the doxa of a tree. But you have a unique doxa, right? It's the Greek word doxa or
glory. You have a unique glory, right? And Jesus said, I have given them, he's speaking about you
before you were even born, he said, I have given them the same glory, the same doxa, what same
doxa? That the father gave me. That's Genesis 1, 26. You were made in his image. You were made
likeness for likeness. And you have been given the same doxa, the same glory as the king of heaven.
You have been given a royal doxa. You have been given a royal identity. You have, you are, you are
royalty. And you have a royal inheritance, a royal birthright, a royal calling. There is royalty on
you and in you. Everything about you is royalty. You are, you are marked. You are defined by royalty.
You carry a royal doxa made in the image of the king of heaven himself. See, when this started
to awaken to me, everything started changing. All the limits started coming off. And I actually
started to step little by little out of my orphan dysfunction into the bliss of sanctuary. I started
to step into my royal identity. I started to step into my royal inheritance. Let me read this,
uh, let me read this for John verse 17, verse 22 and verse 23 together, right? Because what
happened is when I started to get John 17, verse 22, I was able to start experiencing John 17,
verse 23, like I never imagined. So John 17, verse 22 says, I have given them the same glory
that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one. So you get your glory. You start stepping
into oneness and then you start experiencing something that John 17, 23 talks about. I am
them and you and me, so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that
you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. Oh my God, I started catching this like,
oh my gosh, I've got a royal doctor. I'm a royal son. I'm marked by royalty. I'm marked by love.
I'm chosen for this. This is the ultimate calling on my life to be a son, to be loved, to
Be supernaturally loved, extravagantly loved, outrageously loved, wonderfully loved.
Well, it broke open all sorts of things.
See, before this, I didn't even know you could experience the manifest presence of God.
I didn't understand that that was a thing.
But you know what?
The manifest glory of God started coming on my life all the time.
I went through a season where I could barely even get up.
I'd go and have a time through with the Lord.
I'd just be undone in the glory.
I could barely move for hours as His manifest glory went over me.
Something I'd never experienced before.
The supernatural love started sweeping through me.
I was praying this happens for you right now.
That a supernatural love would start sweeping through you, washing through you, consuming
you, capturing your heart.
The divine dance started coming upon me.
I started stepping up and stepping in and participating in this unbroken cycle of divine
love.
Whoa!
Darkness and dysfunction couldn't coexist in the divine dance.
This is what Jesus had just said in John 8, 12.
He said, I am the light of the world.
Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but they will have the light of life.
And I started stepping into John 17, 22 and 23.
In John 8, 12, it started coming alive.
Whoa!
I started to discover, you know, like I am exclusively defined by the docks.
I'm exclusively defined by the glory of God.
This wasn't my life.
This wasn't my experience.
I had been in a place.
Let me know if you can relate to this.
I've been in a place where I had become defined by all my failures.
I was taking my value.
I was taking my docks.
I was taking my worth from all my failures.
I was taking my worth, my docks and my glory from all the things that people said about
me, from my worst experiences, from my failures, from my secret sin, from my shame.
I was taking my docks from all the wrong places, my identity from all the wrong places.
And then Jesus started to awaken me to the fact that, no, I'm exclusively defined by
his glory.
Wow!
We're going to talk more on this in this next session, how to actually step into this.
Whoa!
But all of the lies, all of the unworthiness, all the shame, the orphan existence, the self-hatred,
the condemnation, the love deficit, and the isolation and the loneliness, it all began
to melt away.
And I began to awaken to a brand new existence of the bliss of sonship.
I began to awaken to a brand new existence in my royal identity.
I want to speak to you to the core, to the heart of who you are and your journey.
I want to say that nothing you've ever been through, no experience, no trauma, no abuse,
no words spoken over your life, no lie that you've believed, no failure that you've been
through, no amount of self-condemnation, no amount of discrimination, nothing you've ever
been through has any right to redefine what God has already exclusively defined in His
image.
And He's defined your identity.
He's marked you with love.
He's marked you with royalty.
You're exclusively defined by the Trinity, made in the image, made in the image of the
King of Heaven and marked by His glory.
Wow!
Let me just say this about intimacy and connection with God is that I'd lived in this place
of performance-based acceptance where I tried so hard to get close to God.
And it was like a story.
I went to a camp once and we played this game where everyone was, you know, there was a
tree and attached to this tree was a bungee cord.
And everyone would put this harness on and try and walk away from the bungee cord.
And the whole game was to see who could get furthest away from the tree, right?
But eventually, the bungee cord pinged and brought everyone back to the tree.
And eventually, you know, it didn't matter how strong you were.
It didn't matter how well you were doing.
Everyone ended up back at the tree.
And that's what my relationship with God was like.
That's what my intimacy with God was like.
It was like I would try and try and try for intimacy and then, bing, it would ping back
to the tree.
Religion would pull me back to the tree, back to disconnection, back to isolation, back
to shame, back to condemnation.
But what started to happen as I started to discover my royal identity is I stepped into
a place of intimacy where intimacy was no longer a destination that I could, I would
go to.
Intimacy became a dimension that I lived in.
It was no longer performance-based acceptance of a place that I went to.
It opened up a whole new dimension that I lived in 24-7.
Wow.
So John 8-12, let's jump back into this for a moment.
John 8-12, this is something so…
It starts with Jesus making an identity statement, right?
This is so beautiful.
He says, I am the light of the world.
And actually, in Matthew 5.14, he said the same thing about you.
He said, you are the light of the world.
It's an identity statement.
So I just want to encourage you to say right now, say, I am the light of the world.
That's what Jesus believes about you.
He believes you are the light of the world.
And Jesus believes about himself that he says, I am the light of the world.
Now, after he made that statement, he didn't go anywhere geographically.
He still stayed in the same place.
And he said, I am the light of the world.
Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness and they will have the light of life.
Now, what he's talking about here when he says, whoever follows me, he's not talking
about geographically following him.
He's talking about whoever thinks the same about their identity as I think about my identity
will never walk in darkness.
Whoever realizes, let me paraphrase it, whoever realizes, whoever awakens to, whoever becomes
fully persuaded that the doxa that I say defines them, whoever comes to that awakening, that
realization, that conviction, that full persuasion, that what Jesus said about their identity
is true and that they are defined by his glory, marked by his glory, exclusively defined by
his glory, whoever comes to believe that and be persuaded of that will never walk in
darkness.
That's a sinless existence, my friend.
They will never walk in darkness.
You won't have shame.
You won't have, you will never walk in darkness.
Now, this is not my words, this is Jesus' words.
And he said, if you know who you are, if you know your royal identity, you will never walk
in darkness.
That's the same, what he said in John 8, 32 exactly has the same heart to it.
You will know the truth and the truth will set you free.
When you know who you are, you'll be liberated from darkness.
You won't live in this fire and darkness, but you will have the light of life.
Now, this Greek word life is the word Zoe.
It's amazing.
In John 14, 6, Jesus defines Zoe for us.
He said, I am the way, the truth and the life.
So that word life, it's Zoe.
He says, I define life.
I define Zoe.
And he said, you will have the light of life.
He said, you will have my life.
It will be Christ in you, the hope of glory.
It won't be your life, it will be my life.
It will be the fullness of the divine life manifest in you, body and soul and spirit.
Not small portions, but the full measure.
See, in John 10, 10, Jesus said, I have come, you know, the thief comes to rob and kill
and destroy, but I have come that they might have life and have it in abundance.
And the Greek word for abundance there is the Greek word perissos.
It doesn't mean just a little bit, right?
This is a royal portion.
This is your royal birthright.
This is your royal inheritance.
The Greek word perissos means beyond measure, my friends.
Beyond measure.
This is amazing.
Beyond measure.
You will never walk in darkness and you will have the light of life, the divine life.
Christ in you, beyond measure.
Everything about you will be baptized in a beyond measure experience of the Christ
life in you, the divine life manifest in all its fullness, beyond measure, in your mortal
flesh, in your soul, in your spirit.
This is wild.
See, this beyond measure, John 10, 10, I've come, they might have life and have it in abundance
and perissos beyond measure.
That is a royal portion.
See, the thing about an orphan existence, an orphan slave existence is it's founded on
lack, right?
It's founded on the lie.
You know, every time you believe that there's not enough or, you know, a lie will, here's
how it kind of works.
A lie produces the belief in lack and this is what my darkness was.
So much of my darkness came out of lack, believing there wasn't enough, believing there's not
going to be enough.
Then the thing with lack is that lack produces fear and stress and anxiety.
Now, so many of these other emotional dysfunctions come out of the belief of lack.
But you don't have an orphan's portion, you don't have a slave's portion, you have a royal
portion and the royal portion that Christ has given you of the divine life is beyond
measure. If we go back to John 8, 12, it says you will have, and the Greek word have there
is the word echo.
So you will never walk in darkness, but you will echo the divine life beyond measure.
So echo, you will be an echo from heaven.
You'll be an echo in this world of heaven, in the earth.
You will be an echo of the divine life.
It's an exact representation of the divine life.
You, your mortal flesh, your body, your soul, your spirit will be an echo of the divine
life. And that Greek word echo, it also means to hold in one's hand and to wear like a
garment. So Jesus is saying, you know, I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never
walk in darkness. They will have, they will possess in their hands, they will wear like a garment,
and they will be an echo of the divine light, of the Christ light. How beautiful is this?
As this started to go on, the light started to go on, this started to dawn on me,
everything changed. And it's been so beautiful living in this life for so long now that when
I prepare a message like this and I have to write about the darkness, it's so difficult. I'm like,
I have to really work hard to strain back to try and remember what that world of darkness
used to look like, that shame, that self-hatred, that unworthiness. It starts to fade away as you
awaken to a brand new existence where you discover you are marked by the divine light,
you are marked by a royal doxy, you are marked by heaven's love. Your ultimate calling is to be
as loved as love can be. You were created before the foundation of the world for the divine dance,
and everything in the spirit of God, everything in the Trinity, everything in the Father,
everything in the Son, everything in the Holy Spirit is calling you back to your original
calling, your ultimate calling to participate equally as an equal dance partner in the divine
dance where divine love consumes you and envelops you, sweeps over you, wracks you up, fills you up.
Oh my goodness, this is glorious. Oh wow. See, if I was going to describe to you what a royal
state of sonship looks like, if I was going to describe to you what a mature state of sonship
looks like and an orphan or a slave existence looks like, I'd say this is that an orphan or
slave existence, it looks like a love deficit. It looks like the inability to receive divine love
and the inability to give perfect expression to divine love. And that was me for all my religion,
for all my training, for all my pastoring, that was me. But God, yay Jesus for an absolute
transformation. Sonship, mature sonship, it looks like a perpetual love baptism, a 24-7 marination
in the wonders of divine love. Now let's think about this, like the way I would frame that is
I would say that mature sonship, it looks like the ability to receive divine love perfectly
and the ability to give perfect expression to divine love. Wow, let me say that for you one
more time. Mature sonship is the ability to receive divine love perfectly and the ability
to give perfect expression to divine love. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.
Family, I want to kind of wrap it up now and I just want to wrap it up with a beautiful verse
in Ephesians 3, 17 to 19 from the Amplified Classic Version. I'm going to read this over
for you and then I'm going to pray for you. I'm going to wrap it up for now and then
we're going to look forward to the next session coming later this afternoon.
But Ephesians 3, come with me and I'd like you just to position your heart in a place of receiving
right now. This is Ephesians 3, 17 to 19 in the Amplified Classic Version. I just want to encourage
you just to find something comfortable right now, to relax, take a moment, to fully engage for a
moment as the Spirit of God ministers to you as we read the Word of God. So Ephesians 3, 17 to 19.
May Christ, through your faith, actually dwell, settle down, abide, make his permanent home
in your hearts. May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love, that you may have power
and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints, God's devoted people, the experience
of that love. What is the breadth and length and height and depth of it, that you may really come
to know practically through experience for yourselves the love of Christ, which far surpasses
mere knowledge without experience, that you may be filled through all your being unto all the
fullness of God, and you may have the richest measure of the divine presence and
become a body wholly filled and flooded with God himself. Wow, let me read this
one more time. May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love, that you may have power
and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints, gods, devoted people, the experience
of that love. What is the breadth and length and height and depth of it that you may really come
to know practically through experience for yourselves, the love of Christ, which far
surpasses me in knowledge without experience, that you may be filled through all your being
unto all the fullness of God and may have the richest measure of the divine presence and become
a body wholly filled and flooded with God himself. Wow, Jesus, Holy Spirit,
I thank you right now for every single person hearing these words. Holy Spirit, I thank you
for Romans 5.5 that says it's through the Holy Spirit that the love of God is poured into our
hearts and I'm asking Holy Spirit right now. I'm asking for a fresh outpouring of your love.
I'm asking for a deep and powerful and wonderful life-transforming encounters with your love to be
poured out with extravagance. Holy Spirit, would you pour it out right now. May supernatural
outpourings and manifestations of the love of God flood you to the core of your being
and I want to declare that love meets every need. It's the nature of love to supply. So,
Holy Spirit, pour it out, pour it out, pour it out, and in this place of supernatural love
outpourings, I declare encounters with God. I declare revelations. I declare breakthroughs.
I declare chains being broken off lives in Jesus' name. I declare miracles and signs and wonders
and visions and dreams and encounters. I declare healing into your body right now to the core of
your being. I see love being implanted into the core of your being. I see love releasing explosions
of love into the core of people's being right now. I see tears falling down people's faces
right now as the love of God reaches into the core of you and I see the love of God pulling out
lies that have said you're not worthy, you're not enough, you're inadequate. I just hear the
voices that have been on replay on track for years and decades that have spoken inadequacy and
I see the Holy Spirit pulling them out right now and love and care is coming on you and decent
and I see the fire of God coming around the people and it's the fire of his love and I see
Jesus walking right now into people's hearts and he's walking in right now in the fullness of the
divine eye. He's walking into people's hearts right now in a way that is not the way you've
known, not the way that your Christianity has been, not the way that your relationship has
been with him. I see him walking into hearts right now and it's the Christ life, it's Christ in you,
the hope of glory coming alive like never before. It's the manifestation of Christ in you, the hope
of glory coming alive like never before surrounded in the context of love baptisms. Wow, so Papa,
I thank you right now. There are healings happening right now, so I encourage you to
lean forward right now because in the presence of God there is no lack, there is freedom, there is
life, there is healing. I release of you on the count of three. One, two, three. I release the
healing presence of Jesus over your life right now. The healing presence of Jesus over your life
right now. The healing presence of Jesus over your life right now. I say it's not me, it's Jesus,
it's Jesus turning up in people's rooms where people are right now. Jesus bringing physical
healing, Jesus bringing mental healing, Jesus bringing emotional healing, spiritual healing,
heart healing, Jesus bringing restoration, resurrection, wow, and Jesus producing the divine
life in you. Wow, family, be blessed. So much love to you. We've got such a beautiful, beautiful
adventure to go on over the next three days. This is me wrapping up session one, but may the
love of Christ surround you, may He get on you. I just believe that there is such an encounter,
there's such a tangible impartation right now that I can just see pictures of the glory of God
resting on people for extended, well extended periods of time as His presence,
from this moment right now, His presence gets on you and in you. I see thick, thick
already coming up on people's lives. It just reminds me of that season that I went through
where the glory of God came on me so thick, I just couldn't walk for hours because His
glory was on me. I released that thick glory, that weighty glory, that love and karma that
shifts everything in Jesus name. And I can see here, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, miracles,
miracles, miracles, bodies being healed in Jesus name. I see arthritis being healed,
I see hearing being healed, I see a back being healed, I see a wrist being healed.
Whoa, whoa, whatever you need, just lean in right now because there is supernatural breakthrough
here in His glory, whoa, in His love. Whoa. I see someone that's wearing glasses and I see tears
streaming down your face. I look like a slightly older lady and just go, wow, I never knew this
love all my life. I never knew this love like this. Wow. May the love of Christ fill you.
Jesus name. Amen. I'm really excited about our next session, Royal Identity part two.
I'm going to give you some of the most significant secrets and keys that actually enabled me to break
free from lies that held me my whole life. So bless you. We're going to unlock this divine
life and this royal identity, this royal inheritance, this royal portion like never
before in our next session. So I'll see you real soon there. Bless you and lots and lots of love
to you in Jesus name. Amen. See you there. Bye.