A Life Without Limits [THINK!] Dr. Cindy Trimm

hey there many people go day to day unconsciously living a lie what if you not anyone else or anything else where the reason why you can access your full potential what if you were actually sabotaging your own destiny through that line perhaps you might be saying i'm not enough i don't have the right tools or i don't have the right skills listen to me you have all you need and that's inside of you you are enough that fear has no place in god's design for you the only thing you need to fear is the consequences from living an inauthentic life every second of every minute of every hour and every day is teeming with opportunities the opportunity to travel within yourself and discover the real you this is the last and greatest exploration of mankind it is not outer space but is inner space and then to extract yourself from a prevailing culture that undermines your truth to be able to shed strategies that no longer serve you to be able to break free from strongholds of your circumstances or culturally impose limitations and expectations in the kingdom of light everything you can and be can be and everything you can achieve is waiting for you and you probably thought i made a mistake but i didn't everything you can and i just just want you to put a can in front of everything that you use to say i can this is an invitation for self-discovery and self-mastery so let's introduce you to yourself the truth and there's a saying that says you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free so let's get started [Music] welcome back to our next installment i'm going to take you back to a text from out of the book of genesis chapter 12 1-4 and see if we can really continue to treat that as it relates to trans-new migration as well as translation as well as transformation these are all processes within the kingdom that actually creates a new mentality so that you can go from good to great so that you can go from obscurity into places of great influence and dominance the bible said now the lord said unto abram get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred and from thy father's house unto a land that i will show thee and i will make up thee a great nation and i will bless thee and make thy name great and thou shalt be a blessing and i will bless them that bless thee and curse him that curseth thee and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed so abram departed as the lord had spoken unto him we've been talking about the process of transnew migration or as colossians calls it translations we've been discussing that god has translated you from the kingdom of darkness and the kingdom of light and just building a case to help you to understand the relevance importance and significance especially in today's life and in modern times the teachings of christ relative to the kingdom with the use of parables and how important it is for us to understand parables but god uh is demonstrating what this transnew migration or transformation process looks like through the life of abraham when he called him out of darkness into his marvelous light again darkness it's not just about the absence of light it's the absence of wisdom information it's the absence of insight it's the absence of of god himself when god gave abraham uh that challenge when he called him him and he was the one that was able to hear that um and it is because the holy spirit actually was uploading his destiny into his mind and open up the ear of his spirit so that he could really hear the voice of god giving him instructions sharing with him what his assignment was his purpose was and that was attached to greatness so we are reading in genesis chapter 12 a um story of how god actually gave him an an opportunity now this opportunity required abraham uh or required of abraham courage and non-conformity non-conformity to the prevailing culture and this is important when romans chapter 12 verses 1 to 2 says be not conformed to this world but be you transformed by the renewing of your mind we go all the way back to genesis chapter 12 read chapter 12 13 14 15 16 17. you'll see the process that the hebrews call la clauca or in the new testament being transformed by the renewing of your mind or being translated from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light or romans 12 that talks about being transformed again by the renewing of your mind it was an invitation that god gave him and so when you are invited to walk out your destiny and purpose in the kingdom of light it's an actual opportunity that god gives you it was an invitation that was pregnant with an opportunity for him to discover his greatness to go into himself and explore all the amazing things that he had the potential to become to achieve to do to go find himself go discover who you really are and what god has created you or made you to be and this is what life is all about it's about discovery we we grow in uh stages we go from age to age but we actually grow in stages the first stage between the ages of zero and six this is where you're formulating your internal gps system we call them value systems and your belief systems and it's pretty much um etched in granite by the time you're six between the ages of seven to thirteen this is when you're learning how to be obedient obedient to your child to your family then between the ages of 13 to about 21 this is where this is a different stage of growth this is where you're learning how to live in a wider community and then from 22 about 22 to about 35 40 this is where you're learning about your potential you're learning how to create a new family this is where all of those activities are going on and then after 50 you you have the opportunity to look back on your life extrapolate wisdom that you impart to the next generation and these are the phases and stages that all of us go and it's all a learning process if at any certain particular age you have not learned your lesson even if you are 50 or 60 or 70 your mind goes back to the that last stage where you actually grew and discovered who you are and evolved into an age-appropriate state of mind if that doesn't happen during those stages what happens is what you don't address in those stages as a child you will be confronted with in your adulthood this is why we we talk about people that that go through life and they have a midlife crisis that mid-life crisis is attached to an earlier moment a sophomoric moment a youthful moment a childhood moment of unresolved issues so i'm gonna just park that to the side for a minute um with this with this takeaway and with this caveat that those unresolved issues they actually form a stratification in the mind a stratification in the mind and i'm going to park that to the side i'm going to come back i'm going to pick it up and i'm going to show you scripturally what we are talking about especially as it relates to spiritual warfare now when you go to discover yourself a lot of times you've got to really pull back a lot of layers to discover yourself layers that were piled on as a result of education socialization relational constellation culturalization there's a lot of layers that you have to actually pull back and the holy spirit helps you to navigate this this is why when you read the scripture that says yay though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death that means that you have to die to something that is all so that you can live to something that is new paul said for me to live is christ to die is gain and it sounds morbid but it's translated life for life and that is the inferior life for me to live the old me and the new me so you're exchanging life for life so when we talk about sacrificing it means that you give up this so you can have this and a lot of people are not sure because that's a lot of risk but you know i i'm not a gambler by any stretch of the imagination but if i could use this term we bet on everything else in this world but we don't bet on ourselves we would rather believe that other people out there are going to make it than to put all of our ducks or in the row and all of our eggs in the same basket and i'm saying you know we take a chance on everything else and everybody else except ourselves and give god the opportunity really to help you to navigate the amazing terrains of your greatness because that's who he has made you to be and that locker that transformational process that trans-new migration is is a really a self-discovery we talk about self-mastery but most people are a stranger to themselves so you can't master something that you know nothing about and you want to have self mastery it means that you have to focus on yourself and we have a lot of guilt attached to that i've discovered because it almost feels like you're selfish when in fact you're not you are actually gaining more self-awareness and you cannot love someone that you don't know and a lot of people are suffering from a condition that causes them to loathe themselves or self-loathing but we have to replace self-loathing with self-love and we have to not only have faith in god we've got to have faith in who god has made us to be there's the scripture in romans that said doth thou have faith in god have faith also in yourself you got to believe that you're able you're capable you're gifted your talent talented you're here for such a time as this you're not an incident you're not an accident you're not a co-incident you are part of this great unfolding of god's plan and the thing about it is that sometimes you may miss god's will but you will never miss god's plan because god's plan also includes some of those dark moments it's like painting a picture and you want this picture to look real you've got to use those dark those dark colors you've got to use black along with white so that you can see the shadows and when you go into your cells this old self will present itself like a shadow and the scripture said though i walk through the shadow of death i shall fear no evil very important a lot of us are shadow boxing not knowing that if the scripture says nothing shall shall separate you from the love of god in christ jesus even your mistakes that you make even the things that you think you know this is not going to separate you from god you've got to understand that so even if nothing separates you from god your mistakes your faux pas your mess up all of that stuff that we think god can't use he somehow works it like a master chef and he puts puts it as an ingredient into getting you from obscurity into greatness it's all a part of the plan it may not be a part of his will but it's all a part of his plan he allows something that he allows to happen because you're a free moral agent so that means if nothing is going to separate you from the love of god which is in christ jesus and god is light a shadow is only casted casted when there's a blocking agent um between the light that gets between the light and if nothing separates you you're the only blocking aging agent so that means that the shadow that you see is actually you so you shouldn't you know you should not be afraid of your own shadow i remember on youtube there was this um little girl she looked must have looked like she was two or three someone sent it to me and her parents showed her the shadow and she was running away from the shadow and screaming and hollering because she was afraid of the shadow but she didn't know that that shadow was her it was an attachment and she was the blocking agent between a stream of light and whenever you have this lock locker this transformation process there's always this stream of light that is going to shine and it's shining on that um rock formation and um we call it a strong hole but it's yet up n is yet a part of you and then it's casting the shadow and god is going to lead you it's like a valley that you go in and he's excavating these deep things to help you to discard the strategies that you know no longer need or the defense systems that you know no longer need a lot of us have these defense systems and they are created as you grow up as you explore life as you perceive life as you perceive yourself just imagine between zero one and two and three and i love to share with with people i'm a psychotherapist and a part of the developmental process is fascinating sigmund fraud did a lot of work on this just between the ages of zero and six and you get those terrible twos that between zero and two you basically know who you are and you are basically calling the shots i need my diaper change i don't need to learn the skill whoever in here is responsible for changing my diaper get on over here if not you are not going to sleep and i'm going to torment you with my screaming and then you know this baby has this voice but somewhere at hue we begin to lose touch with who we are we we get disconnected because we're trying to figure out well what does mommy want what does daddy want why do they want me to sit down i don't want to sit down and the terrible twos are insisting um of self-expression and the parents are really trying to create an environment of discipline but unfortunately a lot of children are broken and they never get their voice back because of a misunderstanding of this stage a two-year-old does not want to be controlled and they do not want to control their um bowels or their urinary tract they don't want to control that and so you have to help them by providing an environment of discipline but unfortunately parents project their frustration onto their children they start calling them and giving them the title of being bad and being these horrible terrible twos which is unfortunately because your mind never forgets it's it's it's down there in your subconscious mind you may not recall it um automatically but now this is really shaping who you are and how you see the world and this happens to too so that's why when you get a 20 year old or 30 year old a 50 year old that's bought into an environment of excellence or an environment that is disciplined we're not talking about abusive environments here but a disciplined environment that that requires you to tap into your potential and to raise the bar on your performance what you get is the terrible twos kicking and screaming at 32 34 40 and 50 because they never resolved the issue from when they were two and and i can go on and go on and build a case for why the teachings of christ and the parables are important but it gives the holy spirit an opportunity to take you into yourself to places that you cannot go by yourself and i'm hammering that in so that when we begin our teaching on the um parables you you would begin to understand why this context is important and receive it as christ has given it and so what god does is take you to a place in yourself that you cannot go by yourself and when you get there he takes care of all the stuff that's messed up about you and when he's ready um to introduce you to another stratification of your history that is interfering with your destiny he does it when you are ready for it and how he does it he will bring people in your life that exposes it you know how you have that one person that just gets on your last nerve or gets under your skin you know how you have that one person that you demonstrate impatience with even though with everybody else you're impatient is because there's a spirit of impatience that's there and up until that point or over a course of other relationships you had this blind spot so people pointed out and told you over and over certain things about you but because you were blinded to it you didn't believe it so you go from one test to another you have different people that come into your life in different season seasons but god is addressing an area in your life through these people because relationships are mirrors for you to go into yourself to be able to say i no longer need this i no longer need this defense i no longer need this strategy i don't no longer need this habit i no longer need this attitude i no longer need this feeling i don't know no longer need this fear i no longer need this distrust i no longer need this anxiety and he'll consistently bring circumstances and situations and people in your life just to expose what he knows you have the emotional and spiritual and psychological reserve and strength to deal with and this is why your relationship with the holy spirit is important things that happen on the outside of you is often a reflection of what's going on on the inside of you and if you would take 100 responsibility for your feelings for your focus for your attitude for your response and we talked about the fatal flaw a lot of us are in collusion with our fatal flaw as opposed to our potential and we would rather hold on to those things that are undermining we would rather justify it we would rather tell our story we would rather sit down and blame the person or circumstances or environment or uh government or country or whatever the crisis is in the country in in your country or the world and and we would rather blame everything on the outside of us rather than going on the inside and asking the question god what are you trying to reveal to me about me you see i i've been around in in the pentecostal arena for a long time and there are a lot of prophets that want to prophesy uh to you about you when you've got the holy spirit who is the greatest prophet now this is not me saying that a prophet cannot be legitimate i'm not saying that but why would you want just secondhand information when you can get it straight from the horse's mouth you could get it straight from god and he's talking to you he's talking to you through situations through circumstances through your challenges he talks to you through adversity and i can continue to build this case i often say that your pain point should be your prayer point that points you to potential and purpose it's an inside job it's an inside everything that's happening around you it's a reflection of what's happening in you so people who say for instance you get i don't know i'm going to use this as an example a man who's married to a woman who he claims is bossing now remember he was the one that said boo i do so you had to have known this so you married that person becomes a reflection a mirror for you you know um there's a song a secular song it says it's like she's my mirror oh oh a mirror staring back at me oh oh and it's true because that's what people are what you see in others is either secretly or obviously hidden in yourself so what you're fighting with you're fighting with yourself so take this man who who claims the wife is bossy and he's upset and mad at her all the time and arguing because she's so bossy perhaps what he's really fighting is not her bossiness what he is fighting is some unresolved issue way back when when he was two and he's not really angry with her he's angry with himself that's someone that is actually giving away his personal power but what if he trusted the holy spirit and went into himself to places that he could not go in himself and the holy spirit showed this is not really your wife this is you and you've got unresolved issues and she becomes your gift so what if you stop fighting her and let me introduce you to you who you have the potential to be you're not an angry man you're not an argument of man this is the only person that can pull that out of you and maybe it's the whispers of the spirit telling you that emotionally and spiritually and psychologically you're actually ready to deal with this stronghold this stratification i'm floating that as a balloon god is not only going to do that because these are the things that prohibit full expression so when we talk about a stronghold a stronghold is the defense of something so what if this stronghold is not just a defense of you your ego what what if it's not just a defense protecting you from the pain or protecting you from that tender spot or blind spot what if it's actually now become a fortress that prevents you from accessing your potential that prevents the power of god from finding full expression would you be willing to do the inner work then my answer obviously would be yes and this is the work of the holy spirit in your life now god gave um abe abram an opportunity now listen to what solomon said in ecclesiastes 9 11 i returned and saw under the heaven that the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong neither yet bread to the wise nor yet rich is a man of understanding nor yet favor to men of scale these are really powerful people strong people wise people rich people you know uh um intellectual people skillful people gifted people and we often say i'm not gifted enough skilled enough i don't have enough knowledge and then we we co we continuously say what we don't have and we go through life with all these insecurities comparing ourselves with other people not knowing that there will always be someone big better than you if you if you look at it that way or worse than you but you are not to compare yourself with anyone else you compare yourself with the best version of yourself or the next version of yourself and when you do solomon says something incredibly happened he said look uh god has set the world as a level playing field nobody has a greater advantage of you because it goes on to say but time and chance happens to them all so i want you to park time aside that treatment is is is going to be important and we have a lot to talk about when it comes to time but i want to abstract that word out chance so a lot of people say i just need an opportunity i just need a chance nobody would give me a chance but it's not the responsibility of anyone to give you a chance because there's a difference between opportunity and chance and opportunity is what is given to you a chance is what you take i'm going to say it again an opportunity is what's given to you a chance is what you take so that means that you can have opportunities but you never take the chance and this is where a lot of people are people miss opportunities because they're too busy they're too afraid they're too timid and they like uh living in the safe area but if you're going to succeed in this world if you're going to do some great things you have to take a chance and one of the things that h jackson brown said he said something important nothing is more expensive than missed opportunity andy rooney said i've learned that opportunity is never lost someone will take the ones that are missed this is so brilliant it reminds me of what mordecai said to esther esther this is why you have been born and god wants to use you now here's the opportunity to move into uh arenas of greatness and he said if you take the chance now and accept this opportunity you're going to do well the nation is going to do well your family's going to do well but if you don't enlargement and deliverance is going to arise from another place in other words god already has found your substitute so a lot of people in their lives are casted as lead lead actors lead actresses but they recast themselves as support actors support actresses in the unfolding of their life or were still stand-ins and i want to encourage you there's no one else in this world that is going to live your life everyone else is living their own life so you might as well live your life and stop waiting for the right time i remember um one of my favorite um rep songs is a song by eminem because it's a song about opportunity and he said the moment you own it you better not never let it go you only have one shot do not blow or miss this opportunity because it comes once in a lifetime and every moment is pregnant with an opportunity and when you miss the opportunity inherent in that moment that opportunity never comes back it doesn't say that you'll never have an opportunity but the opportunity attached to that moment never ever comes back now the scripture talks about redeeming the time and that he's going to restore the years that the kangaroo and palmer worm caterpillar consume so you can make up for lost time but it's the lost opportunities that you're after time and chance time and chance is given to each one of us so the the my suggestion to you is when you hear the promptings of the spirit never ever allow missed opportunities of your past to interfere with the opportunities that are right before you abraham had an opportunity some people claim that nobody gives them an opportunity milton borough way back in the day this is when i was young this is before many of you were born there was this comedian named milton berle he said if opportunities don't knock build a door and thank god if you're in the kingdom of light you don't have to build doors jesus said that i am the door and then he says behold i stand and i knock at the door if any man hears my voice open the door and i will come in here's the opportunity if doors of opportunity are given they're given by god they're given by jesus if you're in this kingdom but now you have to take the chance and i decreed that in every moment of your life you will never miss another opportunity ever again sometimes the opportunity knocks twice but sometimes there's this long period between the first knock and the second this is what actually happened to moses um the children of israel had a prophetic word that after 400 years they'll be released out of bondage right at 390 years opportunity knock he misunderstood he ended up killing someone he runs away and he stays there for 40 years so that means that um the nation god gave him a 10-year run and this is why i always say when it comes to divine timetables and when you begin to look at your vision you should you should have a 20-year vision but if you cannot manage to write the 20-year year vision you got to have a 10-year vision where are you going to be i already know where i'm going to be 10 years from now i've already written it i already know so that means that when opportunities knock i know which ones to let go and i know which ones to take why because opportunity speaks in the language of purpose opportunity speaks in the language of vision opportunity speaks in the language of goals so if you don't know what your purpose is you don't have a vision you will not be able to speak in the language it would be like foreign to you and you know i always say that i want to be a spiritual polygon i want to speak in multiple language i want to speak in the language of wisdom i want to speak in the language of prosperity i want to speak in the language of success i want to be a spiritual polygard when when opportunity calls me i want to be able to translate that based on my vision i want to be able to do that and some say that again opportunity knocks twice but check this out because he missed that opportunity it took him into 40 years of catch-up time but watch this the entire nation was held up in bondage because one man did not take the chance he did not take advantage and exploit an opportunity that god gave him why and i'm saying this is very important opportunities show up in camouflage and i'm going to float that as a balloon because i'm going to do a whole treatment of opportunity and it's not just going to be six it's going to be a whole a whole slew of teachings so that you can understand look when opportunity shows up opportunity shows up at the most inconvenient time opportunity shows up when you're in your worst state and you believe that you don't have the skills or qualifications to do it i'm giving you a story it's a true story will smith tells this story how he became the french fresh prince of bel air you remember he had the album that was out the song that was out parents just don't understand he blew up he had all sorts of money he was spending he didn't know anything about money management and he and his friends blew all of his money he forgot to pl forgot to pay his taxes uncle sam came back took took his house took his car all of his possessions he has no money whatsoever he's at the worst place he puts out his next album out of necessity and it was a flop and then he shows up at this party someone invited him to a party and everyone was there all of um nbc abc hollywood all of the executives were there and um uh one person walked up to him and said to him look we are writing the the pilot for this show and i think you'll be a good person quincy jones quincy jones says i believe that you will be the best person to play this person um whatever his name is the french fresh french bit fresh prince of bali you'll be the best person to play so he said what i want you to do is study these lines and come back and he said to quincy jones and nobody says no to quincy jones well i'm not prepared i don't know anything about acting i've never acted before give me about a week so i could study my lines and quincy jones said in about a week none of these people will be here and nine times out of ten this will be the last time everybody all the decision makers will be in one room at one time with you in it so he said well i went back i was so nervous i studied my lines and he said quincy jones said when you come back you better make it happen make it rain do don't do your best i want you to act really act so he came back he said he threw in all the bells and whistles he didn't really know what he was doing but he read his lines and he saw whispering and he said um well we're gonna have to sign that contract hold on one minute do you like it yes i like it do you like it yes i like it do you want this pilot yes and then immediately quincy jones says well i'm going to get wills uh will's lawyer to meet with your lawyer his lawyer is going to meet with your lawyer and will say i don't have a lawyer she said you have one now and he put a lawyer in front of will smith and they signed the contract right there and then and that's the story of how he became the fresh prince of bellier imagine if he had not taken the opportunity if he had not taken the chance when the opportunity was given an opportunity is given but you have to take the chance if he had not taken the chance he would not have been the fresh prince of bel air and everything else all of the other movies that was behind him taking that one opportunity would have closed because opportunities decision and that's what a chance is a chance is the decision that you make when jesus taught the parables it was to build intellectual capacity not only so that you could be a critical thinker so that you can have the skill called decision making because your destiny your very life depends on it so when we we talk about opportunities a lot of people say well i don't know if this is god's will or not here's the caveat that i want and i'm going straight into scripture to share this with you genesis 20 and 6. the bible said then god said unto him in a dream yes i know you did this in the integrity of your heart for it was i who kept you back and speared you from sinning against me therefore i did not give you an opportunity to touch her here was the wife of abraham right there and he could have done whatever he wanted to abraham's wife but god prohibited him and this is the work of the holy spirit you never have to second guess because the holy spirit will tell you he'll speak to you in a dream he'll use people in your life but he will tell you this is not a good thing to do and if you learn the art of listening you have to understand that if this opportunity is not for you the holy spirit will tell you and so what other excuses do you have because a lot of people miss opportunities through procrastination through fear through anxiety what if this is not god's will what if it is god's will what would you do if an opportunity is given and my biggest question is what do you do with an opportunity you take a chance you take a chance i do an entire treatment on opportunity break down the word opportunity from the latin it's fascinating up port unity up port unity opportunity and it's interesting up something that is engaged in the operation port an entry point unity when you get through the entry point the resources will always be connected or unified with potential and purpose that's what an opportunity is is a way that god pulls out the potential gives a platform for the expression of your purpose and an opportunity always demands of you what has not been already expressed by you and i'm going to leave it there the world is filled with unlimited possibilities and potentiality we just have to take the lid off and this is what culture does culture puts a lid on you and when god said to abraham i'm giving you an opportunity but you got to let go of the familia so that i could take you to the unfamiliar you got to let go of the ordinary so i can take you to the extraordinary this is what god was saying to him gave him the opportunity and he took the chance and when you live in the kingdom the kingdom is diametric the kingdom of light is diametrically diametrically um opposed or opposite to the kingdom of darkness and and and if god is translating you into the kingdom of light that means all your life you were transposed it's like you walking on your head and when you come into the kingdom he places you back on your feet and all the blood that was rushing to your head causing you not to think straight when you come into the kingdom god then gives you a crash course in thinking and you're going to think about your life differently you're going to think about yourself in this world differently you're going to think about the world differently you're going to think about failures differently you're going to think about problems differently he's going to put you back on your feet so that your perception is going to change and you're going to be able to see that every second of your life is pregnant with opportunity every experience is pregnant with opportunity that means once a day you can own that day and that means that every day every minute every hour that passes opportunity is attached to it it's attached to that day it's attached to that hour it's attached to that minute it's attached to that second and it's interesting because you know people always say well you're very busy well i'm not only seizing the day i'm seizing the opportunities inherent in that day because once that day goes the opportunity goes i used to work two jobs and my second job required me to be be at that job right i i finished my first job at five o'clock my second job was quote after uh 5 15. and i remember one time um being held up and i called in and i said i'm going to be a couple of minutes late so i showed up at 5 30 and my boss came to me and said have a seat and i sat down he wasn't mean or anything he says do you realize that you're late i said absolutely i'm going to make up for lost time i'm actually going to stay a half an hour late he said i really appreciate that but let me share something with you concerning business if you show up at 5 30 and if i was not here what happens to the person who needs our service at five mi at 501 502 515 5 20 5 30. what happens to all the opportunities that you have lost in business when you show up late and it's not just the business it's everything attached to that and he said you know i like you a lot but don't show up ever again late and i learned my lesson that was my business 101 because i don't know what customer was lost i don't know if that customer would ever call back and you see a lot of people are casual with their lives and they allow other people to be casual with their business and people take take advantage of this one thing called time and if you understand that oprah winfrey doesn't get more time than you uh jeff bezos doesn't get more time than you uh stephen jobs didn't get more time than you abraham didn't get more time than you jesus didn't get more time than you or whoever else bill gates doesn't get more time than you but look at what they've what they have done and what they did with the same 24 hours given you the thing that levels the playing field in the universe is time and chance and if you're blinded by your emotions to the opportunity that is availing itself to you you miss the chance of a lifetime opportunities show up camouflaged opportunities has its own silent language learn the language of opportunity be bilingual trilingual become a polygard when it comes to wealth building and when it comes to greatness abraham was abstracted from a culture of idolatry that shaped him into the man who feared the consequences of living authentically so he learned how to lie to lie means to misrepresent the truth and he he would have spent his life misrepresenting the truth of who he was the father of many nations sarai would have would have lived a misplaced life esther would have lived a misplaced life uh rahab would have missed a lived a misplaced life because they never connected with the opportunity to go into themselves and to explore the amazing amazing greatness um that was within them or him or her the bible says that um greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world or in greater sea that is is in us than he that is in the world so all of us have greatness in us unfortunately for most of us that's where it will stay the whole idea of the bible is not to teach you what to think but teach you how to think and so god abstracted him from a culture that was undermining his authenticity and he learned from this culture that if you perform an act or if you say something there is consequences and it trained abraham that if you tell your truth there are going to be consequences to telling truth so he lived a lie and a lot of us are people of lies or people of the lie the enemy comes to steal kill and destroy but jesus said i have come that you may have life and live it more abundantly he wants to give you abundance in your life abundance of opportunities abundance of health abundance of friends abundance of joy abundance of peace he wants you to live in the realm of greatness where abundance is an integral part of it and so what he did not understand is how god speaks to him read again genesis chapter 12 straight through chapter 17 and you'll see the process of trans new migration he gives an opportunity to tell the truth this is my wife and guess what happens a stronghold a defense mechanism kicks in and he lies why there's a lot of people that lie and i understand it they're afraid of the consequences or they're they're the frayed afraid of the fallout but for everything that you do and say there is always a consequence and it's best to tell the truth and be able to sleep because if you tell one lie you have to tell the second lie you have to tell the third lie and the fourth lie and eventually you forget what you saying with the first lie and so then it affects your credibility you'll live without integrity but it will reflect affect your credibility until your personal brand in the marketplace is so marred that people don't want to do business with you they don't want to have a relationship with you and so these were coping skills that had been um chaldeans the er of cheldi uh from the city of ur that was the kind of culture he grew up in it was you know you lied under pressure and what god did extrapolated to him and then put him in a situation to expose to him what the holy spirit was going to begin to work on in him which was his personal integrity so every experience that came to him was a gift and had he not been trans new migrated he would not have had the transformation of his thinking so he would have went through life having taken this opportunity sabotaging his own destiny and that's with a lot of people genesis 12 1 to 1727 again walks us through the entire process of translation and trans new migration so let me bring this home every single day if you're in the kingdom of light you're going to be walked through the same process every single day every single day is an opportunity to get rid of strategies that no longer serve you serve you as that great person influential person it no longer serves you but also the holy spirit will begin to help you to navigate the terrain of your personality the train of your potential the terrain of your temperament unravel it from uh the spirits and when i say spirits um i think of it like an attitude um the spirit of jealousy the spirit of offense the spirit of rejection unravel your greatness from these spirits so that when you show up you show up as a clean person and um some people go through life and they used to be happy go lucky as children and it was beaten out of them it was um shamed out of them until when they become an adult they're half the person that they should be because they've learned it's learned behaviors and god can deliver you from that these learned behaviors puts a lid on you so you live with culturally imposed lids and self-imposed lids i'm going to tell this story once again about the fleas and in the flea circus they teach the fleas to jump five feet but five inches but fleas have an innate ability and potential that they're born with to jump 16 inches so what they do they put a lid on a bottle and the fleas jump jump trying to reach the potential they keep hitting their head hitting their head and until they're conditioned to jump five feet now the interesting part is they take the lid off and guess what the fleas no longer uh operate at the level of their potential but what they've been conditioned the level they've been conditioned to perform at and without a lid they keep they just jump like this the travesty is that the next generation of fleas that they produce it's now once what once was a psychology is now a physiology it's genetically programmed now they still have the same potential 16 inches but the next generation does not jump 16 inches anymore even though they have the potential they jump five inches and it's reproduced the next fleas they're born with the potential of 16 inches jumping but the next generation only jump five and the next generation five and the next generation five the body at where stays at rest until a greater force moves it and so when you come into the kingdom you've been programmed classically conditioned to reach this level and even if people raise the bar because it's programming your dna you're still going to perform at this level and then if someone tries to pull you up bring you into an environment of excellence you've been so convinced now you're going to blame this institutional person or environment for creating the frustration but the frustration is not coming from them it's coming from the inside of you because what is frustration frustration says that i see the potential is within my reach out of my grasp and all i need is to be stretched to reach it but i can't reach it with the skills that i have and you get frustrated and this is what the kingdom is all about it's to bridge the gap between your current performance your current state of affairs your current economic condition it's to bridge that gap and cause you to perform at the level of your potential no more five inch jumping you're able to jump 16 inch and that's what the empowerment is all about empowerment is the message of the kingdom and it means that you have to walk away to walk into walk from to walk to loch lasher lock locker go find yourself walk away from who you are to discover who you have the potential to be and god said to abraham look you got to leave what is traditional you got to leave what is cultural you got to leave what is expected you've got to leave the natural you got to leave what your community and family expects of you you've got to begin to discern what you expect for yourself you've got to forget about what people think about you how you've been taught what to think and now you've got to be able to think for yourself you've got to be able to be stretched intellectually um and then mind stretch can no longer return to its old um state and so you got to find yourself you've got to come to yourself you've got to connect with yourself in order to be yourself and who was he going to be god said look i will bless you and i will make you great in other words i'm going to order and i'm pulling this back out of the atmosphere the stratification of your mentality your psychology your identity and your paradigm so that you are truly able to fulfill your purpose the purpose that i have for you and in so doing you will become a leader and not a follower an influencer of nations you will be the first and last you will be above only you will never be beneath in other words you will have an iconic personal brand and and i bring in this to a close when god spoke to him he was speaking to him almost like in geological terms and we understand that estrada is a layer or a series of layers of a rock in a ground and it's called estrada so strata is therefore a thin layer within any structure that keeps the structure from falling apart spiritually speaking your your paradigm is stratified it's as hard as rock and it can only be adjusted and it can only be changed it can only be shifted when you are able to remove the structure layer after layer to gain true deliverance from your past by the word of god the scripture says the word of god is quick and powerful sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of the soul and the spirit the joint and the marrow and is a discerner of thoughts and the intents of the heart neither is there any creature that is not manifested in his sight but all things are naked and open unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do seeing then that we have this great high priest that is passed into the heaven jesus the son of god let us hold fast to our profession what is our professional con or uh confession we are citizens of the kingdom of light we are the head and not the tail we are first and not last we are above and up beneath and you're going to continue to allow the the word of god to sink into the struck the stratifications of the strongholds in your life second corinthians 10 3 to 6 says and it shows us this stratification in our mind the bible said let this mind be in you which is also in christ jesus the holy spirit will take you into yourself to show you yourself and navigate to terrains within yourself that you cannot navigate by yourself the scripture says in second corinthians for though we walk in the flesh we do not war after the flesh for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but they're mighty through god to the pulling down of strong halls these are rock like formations in your personality in your temperament in your mind and the bible says these strongholds have imaginations it has high things that you've got to be able to cast down and and so that it does not lift itself against the knowledge of god these are strongholds imaginations high things these are activities of your subconscious mind and the bible said what i want you to do is to bring it into captivity bring these into captivity every thought these are the activities of the subconscious mind to the obedience of christ or the or the word of god and so a stronghold a stronghold has to be removed layered by lair you don't just say that i'm removing the stronghold and it only happens once you've been living for 30 years 40 years 50 years 60 years and every year of your life there was another stratification of your being that means every single day you've got to meditate on the word of god you've got to be able to speak the word of god you've got to be able to decree the word of god because it's not just what that word of god is doing out here is what it's doing in here it simply means that that stronghold has to be removed layer by layer and when god gives you that transformation or trans-new migration he begins to pull back layer by layer things that are prohibiting the true expression of your identity and your purpose it's in there you could feel it you know it's in there because it's like a toothpick that is stuck in your brain it's like a splinter in your soul and you've got to understand that when we talk about the stratification and god visiting you layer by layer by layer we're talking about mental models world views paradigms repress matter proclivities memories habits biogenetic proclivities blind spots all of this when we talk about trans new migration what god does through elevate through revelation he begins to elevate you and the elevation first start in your mind you stopped thinking small thoughts you began to think big thoughts you stopped thinking outside of the box you began to create boxes that other people think outside of you get rid of your self-imposed limitations you stop talking about what you can do and who's doing to you you begin to decree and declare your vision and you are so convinced of it that everything in the universe begins to conspire with god and conspire with your declarations and with your dreams and with your vision to bring every resource necessary for you to fulfill god's original plan and purpose god begins to take your life from woe and he puts the wow back on it and god gives you the wow factor for everything that you do everything that you write every time you show up people say wow you go from one level to another you go to new spiritual levels new social levels new economic levels you go into new dimensions you go into new realms which are spiritual and you begin to see that this port was always there but you were blinded and you become begin to understand that you have the mind of christ and what luke 2 52 says is this that jesus increased in wisdom and stature and and and in favor with god and man that means that each one of these stratum consists of levels or classes to which people are assigned to according to their social status and their educational status and their income status and once you come into the kingdom god blows it to smithereens you are not a part of the poor or you are not a part of the poor class or the working class or the middle class you are now a part of the god class and people will begin to see that god said that jesus grew and went strong in the spirit and he was filled with wisdom and the grace of god was upon him he had to ascend from one social one economic one political one spiritual strata to the next and each new level gave him increase in influence and performance and favor and this is what we mean and so when we deal with the message of christ is a message of empowerment that gives meaning and hope and dignity and purpose so that it changed you the way that you think thus changes the way that you show up in this world that's why philippians 2 5-11 is important let this mind be in you which is also in christ jesus hold on i gotta repeat it one more time jesus increased in wisdom and status and in favor with god and man that means every year you are getting wiser every year you're gaining more influence every year you're getting better every year you are introduced to the next version of yourself which would be a better version of the previous self which will not be as great as the next version and the next version and the next version you were growing in grace and in the power of god the bible said that he had this mentality though he was in the form of god he thought it not equal a robbery to be equal with god but he made himself of no reputation and took on the form of a servant in other words his greatness was not based on a title or education it was based on a mentality and he became a servant leader and he took that on and he stripped himself of his reputation and it was no longer about what people were saying about him or what culture expected from him he was in tune with what god expected from him and the bible said being formed in the in fact in a fashion as a man he humbled himself and he became obedient unto death even the death of the cross and you know where jesus peter said for me to live is christ or a paul said for me delivers christ to die in his gain wherefore god also had highly exalted him and gave him a name in other words when you get the message of the king and the kingdom right and when you begin to apply the principles thereon you will not need a pr specialist god himself will be your pr specialist and the bible said that at that name every knee shall bow every tongue should confess things in earth things under the earth things in heaven and that every tongue shall confess that jesus christ is lord to the glory of god in the days to come god is going to increase your influence your performance your favor and he's going to give you a great name in the marketplace until your name is associated with greatness god said to abram i'm going to make your name great i'm gonna re-brand you i decree and declare even as you get this revelation god is rebranding you god is going to give you a brand that is associated with greatness and power and influence and reliability and integrity and influence and affluence and wealth and credibility and innovation and thought leadership and this is why the teachings of christ is important it is important to even meditate on the parables and understand what the parables mean because it gives the holy spirit an opportunity to take you in yourself to explore the potential the greatness that is within you the kingdom that is within you and he takes you to a place in yourself where you cannot go by your self but it gives each one of us an opportunity to leave the ordinary so that you can experience the extraordinary abraham i'm gonna take you into greatness and the prevailing culture through 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