The Power of Identity | Jona Toledo & Mark Tietsort | Expression 58

hi everybody okay there we go well are you guys ready for God to continue to do everything he wants to do today good well today it's gonna be a little bit different in mark and I were gonna we're gonna share the time up here and I even just last week as I was praying for today I just keep feeling that God wanted to do something different and I'm excited about what he wants to do today I feel like we're gonna get breakthrough in things that we have many of you have contended for a long time I see the things that I I was I was looking at the things that look impossible and got coming and breaking through this morning and so we just want to make a lot of space for that I want to start with a dream in this dream this is actually happening this actually happened this morning and I woke up with this dream and in my dream I was in this there was this big stage I knew it was a church was a big stage and there's a preacher there and the preacher was anointed but I had no clue who this preacher was I've never seen him before and he's preaching about the anointing this whole message was about the anointing and he's talking about that in at one point he stops and he goes I'm not talking about the anointing of Moses and he was saying I want you to understand this I'm not talking about the anointing of Moses and he just make it like like three or four times he made a point that he was not talking about that no engine of Moses and I woke up from the dream and I feel in obviously this this dream is very connected to what we were already gonna be sharing today and it makes it makes perfect sense to me one of the things that God wants to do today is that he wants to break off that the expectations that we have that come out of just our experience or our religious understanding because what he's doing is completely new and and I've many times those things will hold us back to be able to do everything that we're called to do that's part of it part of it is that the anointed of Moses that even that it was incredible it was still limited and now through Jesus we have full access and we get to we get to flourish in every area of our life because Christ in us is the hope of glory and and there's a reality to that that I believe is gonna hit the church in a whole new way and we talk about those things but it's not manifesting yet they we see little glimpses here and there and I feel like this is this is a moment in time where we this is the other thing I could be hearing this morning you're stepping into my time I keep hearing that saying you're stepping into my time and I and as he saying those things I feel like that you know obviously we can always just access that into faith but there's there's moments in time that have been in the heart of God from the beginning where he does incredible things where there's breakthroughs that change everything for us and I don't know if you've seen this but there's been moments in my life that there was a before that in and after that moment where but there was something was completely changed forever in me and and I believe that we're in a season where we are gonna experience some of that God wants to free us from the old you know we need to learn from our experience but many times our history becomes a sealing to what God wants to do in our lives and he wants to break those ceilings that are bringing limitation to us the fear of human opinion disables trusting in God protects you from that this is one of the things that I believe that God's gonna do and there that we we say with our ma with our with our mouths that we trust in God but our life is not reflecting the fruit of somebody who fully trusts in God when you fully trust in God your you live a supernatural life you live in a place of breakthrough you live in a place of Eve even when it's difficult there is joy there is peace there's heaven around you yeah there's there's gold it's it's it's it's like gold in the fire even even in the fire even in the Indus in the hard circumstances there is beauty that's coming out when you're trusting God and if those things are not happening there's still a place in that there's a percentage of us are still trusting putting our trust in other things and many of those things for us as Christians is always of thinking that were thought either in the way that we grew up or or just by religion in general you know Jen and I we we did this we did ancestry they have you guys done that that test has anybody done that some of you guys know a few guys yeah you know I I was I just gotta have an idea what what I had but you know you're never you're never fully sure right but it was cool it was cool to do this thing in and you know I find I find out that I'm 10% African 10% for serving yeah what kind of forever that's right that's exactly what I told somebody I text I think it says this guy's you know what 4% Congolese 4% Congolese you know this is so cool so in honor I was telling my sister this you know my sister and Cassandra about way back where they lived in Congo for a while wound when Cassandra was first starting to working in the Congo - my sisters went to live with her over there or it was just us Sabrina just one of one of my sisters went to live with that man I went to Kenya so so one of my sisters went to live with her and in in Congo and I just think about isn't that bizarre that we have Congolese in our blood and in end of all the countries in Africa that's that's what she in their app and and then the other thing that I find out is that how I have native from the Andes in my blood like like eight percent from the Andes right well I was born white Amala that's far away from the Andes so so but in in so I was telling my mom that and my mom tells me that she has a friend there's an archaeologist in and this watermelon is comes to Ecuador because they found the oldest Mayan things in different places of the Andes and so they realized that these guys were connecting way a long time ago they were somehow there was connection and and something was going on there [Applause] I just think it's cool because my whole family moves to to equal ur and that's what we've been missionaries you know all this time and and we actually have an inheritance there he's not an interesting I think that there's a reason for everything I'm lucky Sandra maybe you have some Congolese in there it's possible maybe not but are actually our friends I think Robert you're here they put they put their kids on John on a German track you know we are our kids to go to they went to a my boys are still there but is a is a language immersion school but our our friends they went to a German track because they thought they were German and they did you know six grades of German and then I think they realized later on like they were not German but but you know I just thought that was so interesting because you do things when you your identity where you come from when you know where you come from that defines a lot of the things that you do it defines how you think it defines the choices that you make there's something so powerful about understanding where we come from as Christians that you are a son and a daughter of God that is so it's so it's so powerful we don't understand how powerful that is there's there's something unlocked where you get so grounded in that identity because everything that you do it comes out of the filter of like you're his kid the King of Kings the Lord of lords the creator of all things the most Creator being in the universe you're his kid his DNA it's in you his blood runs through your blood what he's called to do that's what you're called to do you get to carry him everywhere you go I'm gonna tell you a dream and this this dream it was actually a week ago and in this dream I I step into a place it was like a city and right away when I step there I I was stepping into the city for the first time I knew it was a new place but this place had been established for a long time and it was like there was I can feel this oppression in this place I was coming with fresh eyes so I can see it's almost like I can tell that people were not realizing what was going on but as I step into this place I knew something was really wrong right away and then and I realized that in my dream the demonic knew exactly when I step into this place and so they sent this guide to me and the interesting thing about this place is that everything was I can feel there really something religious and something political in this place and and this demon came and they and he was coming to like a diplomat in the dream and I realized that this whole place they had this thing of like oh yeah we're not like in the into the whole school fighting here we'll just have like a system something that's working out it's like we're living in peace and it was this weird thing in my dream and so in and these demons have become so tangible like where people can just see them because there was they were taking parts of the dirt and in the rocks and things and they have become more tangible and and and right away when I when I when I realized what was going on I was like thinking no way like you know this is this is this is not gonna roll and so so right as I was about to like start start to create a some kind of Revelation in this place right right as I was I was about to say something and suddenly I am transformed and I'm Jesus in the dream and some thinking like heck yes like this gonna go down right now like this is this is what I'm talking about yeah that's never happened to me in a dream before so I was like I'm Jesus in the dream and so so an immediately when I when I become him it's like I'm aware of just how this works and I can tell how the enemy has just created this and just infiltrated this system and everybody was just just agreeing with it and so in my dream obviously I'm you know become Jesus and sometimes I like I was Jesus and some watching Jesus I'm supposed to be me doing stuff and you know how dreams are like that and so I'm I'm going and I'm thinking you know soar comes out and it's like chopping time like all these demons are going down you know every single one of them in in up Jesus oh I know exactly where that where they are all of them they can't hide like oh some of them were trying to hide and they they were burying themselves on the dirt and I'm like I know exactly where they are and then I go where Satan was you know it was like Thor style break through the roof you know and then and then I have this sword just gets big and I'm chopping every head within this table as they're talking about something that everything was like they were so like they were like they look educated like almost like you know it's political is bizarre and I just I'm chopping and I'm killing everybody I woke up so it was a great dream but this was this is one of my favorite things this is one of my favorite things the whole time this is happening is going through my head Christ in Christ in Christ in you the hope of glory Christ in you the hope of glory Christ in you the hope of Lord the whole time this is going through my head I believe that what God wants to do is he is setting us free set us free from from the lies and the things that we have grown up with where we have been okay of not going for God's highest in our life but we just we just make peace where this is how it is this is how my family is it's always been like this it's never gonna get better it's like those kind of lies it is it is though is the life that says I'm never gonna be able to accomplish that because you know it's those lies who bring limitation to who you are and who God wants to be through you is those lies that says you're never gonna call be code to do great things forget because of this and this and that or this is not or it's too late for you is it all those lies that have become so so ingrained in our lives it's those familiar things where we gave up in a drone dreams and things that God has put inside of us and I believe that Jesus wants to come and chop some lies today [Applause] you know I'm gonna have mark I'm just so excited about this part you're gonna love this but you know as we were praying about today and Mark has some things and I believe this is so this is so powerful and I and we're gonna have a good time of Prayer because I feel like God's going to deal some some things that's it that felt impossible and it was things like where where you just had hoped affair it was things where you just thought this is always gonna be like this yes you know I can I can thrive in these things but this area is always gonna be an issue it was those things and I believe that God's coming after those things in your life today amen man I wish I had dreams like that yeah I dream like I'm in my underwear in a public places it's about the extent of that hey Bobby can you come up here for a second we're gonna yes sir for Bobby we're gonna we're gonna play a little bit of a game here Bobby's gonna help me we're gonna play a game about respect you know is who we respect so we need a benchmark first so like the ultimate person being the we respect so we're gonna make some noise around we're gonna throw some pictures up in a minute and we're gonna make noise like clapping hands and you know whatever you want to do whistling it's up to you about who you respect first of all we're gonna establish this benchmark about like the Lord we respect so let's just stand up and imagine this imagine you just took your last breath and all of a sudden you're in the presence of God with how we were doing this morning this morning was like just a little bit of a taste you know and let's make some noise right now with regards to how we respect the Lord go ahead Jesus Jesus Jesus glory cool [Applause] Laury Laury Laury through the land to the one who sits on the throne for the great i am to the first the last the Alpha the Omega the beginning in the end we can set out now if you want to if you can so that's a that's supposed to be a 10 but it felt like it was way all right so throw a picture up manga right there you're close to God as close to God yeah yeah you you rank yourself a little bit too high okay let's have another picture president obama is pretty good too it's pretty good yeah another picture another one Billy Billy Billy Billy yeah you guys like everybody well I mean I like Billy T okay what's the next one there we go okay next one next one so so these are like three different realms of the political political realm spiritual realm and entertainment industry they're just three different domains and some of you guys like Darren Carey's you know spiritual stuff into the entertainment is there another one Quentin Tarantino talented guy talented guy just bloody is that it is all the pictures all wrong okay cool okay we won besides the Lord looks like Billy Graham got in this one well Jesus and then Billy Graham thank you guys for doing that there's gonna prove a point here in just a minute - what - what hona was talking about respect so you guys respect all these people which is really wonderful you know and next to Billy Graham and I'm Jesus you respect Bobby yeah Webster's definition of respect is to regard as worthy of special consideration so our working definition is respect communicates Worth and value right yeah and but a common thing that we grew up with and I think this a little of what Mona was talking about is our definition our working definition of respect is that you have to earn it you ever heard that before I respect you ever lost respect for anyone you've thought about them in a certain way and then you know we've had a lot of things come out in the political entertainment arena where you know I felt a certain way about an individual and then something came out and I felt that thing try to like really affect how I valued them or saw them you know and so we expect that and so our culture has taught us this that respect goes with like people's conduct their appearances you know what color of their eyes are how pretty they are or how plain they are and we have to be real honest today okay you know how you feel about certain things so we're gonna talk a lot about emotions now so much we're not making mental assent to things we're talking about what we feel here kind of a like in our heart we respect people with their social standings their political views their spiritual positions is we tend to respect others more than others compared to and so people that don't measure up we tend to dismiss and even discriminate against reject is that true but what if that if that working definition of respect is where we place value what if that working definition that we've been that would live through in and have experienced for most of our lives isn't true at all what if it's what if it's false what if my emotions are telling me something about somebody what if the the newspaper reflects a trial a recent trial where someone I looked up to now has been convicted of crimes and I feel this thing okay you know I don't respect him like I used to what if that's wrong let's look at maybe a little bit of how the Lord views respect God made us in His image it's wonderful to think about how he did that you know think about think about the Father and the Son and Holy Spirit Genesis the beginning it says it says let us make man in our own image now I don't think that the Lord needed more people to share with I don't know he's gotten he was surrounded by all these angels and stuff scripture says that angels are messengers but I'm sure God has love and relationship with each and every one of them but this communion between the Father the Son Holy Spirit was so rich and so wonderful and so powerful when you have something like that what do you want to do with it you want to share it yeah you want to like that's that's the whole thing about having something really wonderful and beautifully just shares and see once kids tell me you guys have kids I know you've all been kids at one time but some of us have anyway when you have a child you know it's something something special about that and so let's make man in our own image and and he said he's breathed into men the breath of life I think this is kind of wonderful you were talking about these things took on form by a dirt and rocks and stuff like that well he made Adam from dust you know but is God making him and then he doesn't just say be alive but it gets right down through his face and this is what I picture anyway and he breathed into him the breath of life what if what if that's a picture of who the Lord is it's like so personal so he said no I don't think it's like it wasn't like mouth-to-mouth but he was close to that I think it was like like a kiss it was like an impartation it was like this is my very breath and this is how I value life this is how I value you we are the closest beings in all of creation to the Trinity Psalms 8 verses 4 and 5 says what is man that you take thought of him and the son of man that you care for him yet you have made him a little lower than God and you crowned him with glory and majesty so next to the Trinity itself we are the closest beings closer than angels to this family we are family we are blood we are connected he made us in his own image and so that communicates our value it's built-in it doesn't come from what we do how would you think about yourself or describe yourself take a minute and just think about how would I describe myself apart from what I do for my job from my credentials and the family I came with from from my looks my appearance how successful I been how would I describe myself outside of those areas of performance so it doesn't come our worth doesn't come from anything that we do or believe I love this Romans 5:6 says this for when the right time came for when the time was right this is the passion translation The Anointed One came and he died to demonstrate his love for sinners who were entirely helpless entirely weak entirely powerless to save themselves so right there at that point think about the worst kind of behavior that you've ever had that's where the Lord said you're worth that much to me I'm giving my life right there say yeah we couldn't earn a bit of that that's our worth that's our value to God and yet we bring in too we've been raised in this culture and but we bring into the kingdom something from the culture that assesses people's worth our own other people's value based on what we do and based our performance based on her looks based on how we how we connect in community you ever had a child those of us that are parents know this I remember when our first child we have five children 11 grandchildren that's why I'm sitting for part of the time I just had a birthday this is like my birthday month yeah thank you well I wasn't that excited and so but I remember holding my first child and something a member had met effect right now and tried to hold back a motion something in that moment transformed me and I saw how God felt about me in that moment because I realized I'd give my life in a heartbeat for this person I just met because a person came from me it was part of me without hesitation I would have given my life in that moment it was like an epiphany about how God feels about us isn't that good even though sin corrupts and distorts the image of who we are in our worth it doesn't it doesn't destroy it because we're still worth the same no matter what send us how much sin I have in my life it doesn't do that when I've done my very worst thing God doesn't see that he sees me the difference between conviction and condemnation is God is a God who convicts of sin he says that's wrong the behaviors wrong the devil says you're wrong see condemnation says there's something wrong with you God says there's something wrong with that do you see the difference that's how we know you're hearing from God or not if we feel diminished in who we are as an individual that's our adversary speaking if we feel there's hope and God is saying just don't do that anymore don't don't go to that place on the computer anymore because it distorts who you really are you know it's like a false thing you know so God never comes at us he comes at that that behavior okay and so if we understand that if we understand that he's approachable isn't he we're gonna live in shame anymore do we listen there's a warning about this in James 3:9 the tongue it says with it we bless our Lord and father and with it we curse men who have been made in the likeness of God have you done that before yeah Jesus is real serious about it Matthew 5 he says whoever says to his brother you good for nothing shall be guilty before the Supreme Court and whoever says you fool shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hill see there's something about character assassination that gets God going because he values every one of us where there were Christians or were not Christians we believe what we don't believe makes no difference to him we are made in the image and likeness of God he breathes into every one of us intimate the breath of life nobody's by accident and we are wired to do great things I remember that I was on my way I've been about a year playing with this thing about God and wondering about it I was twenty years old and I was on my way to Denver with a friend from Oklahoma see and we were carrying a bunch of drugs we were selling you know illegal drugs and so I had this encounter with the Lord had been coming for about a year and I made this decision we were driving at night and we were stoned you know we were driving at night and I made this prayer to God and I said you know what this point on I'm following you and all of a sudden I had this experience of this being that was entirely powerful entirely loving entirely intimate and I felt entirely humble at the same time it was just a weird it was a wonderful weird thing but I felt this sense of importance in value me carrying drugs to Denver stoned out of my mind okay that's how God saw me and it revolution who I was it transformed me so much that I never got high again I had all kinds of addiction problems they all went away I think I think God did this for me because he knew how distinct in a week I was and unable to change myself the summer before my dad offered me $3,000 now these are 1970 dollars $3,000 if I'd quit smoking for 30 days and I tried and I couldn't do it it all went away in a moment I never had another cigarette he's like it's like the Lord you like dump the whole thing in there but this being in the worth I felt the sense of importance that I felt like I was important to God it wasn't pride it was the value who I am the power of God's truth now let's talk just a second about Satan's strategy as you can see you know what hona was talking about about filters and seeing things a certain way so this thing we did on this little exercise in an experiment about respect kind of shows us like we value different people in different ways because we're we have a filter system that's inaccurate no way you know I'm sorry I did that to you guys at least we got embarrassed as a group okay and it wasn't like me and my underwear you know a dream it feels so personal you know but all he has to do is establish something early on in life and this is what Hana when you were talking about that dream to me the other day I thought he Satan is probably more of a CEO then he is the pictures we've got this wild crazy mean guy he's probably all those things too but he operates very strategically very smart so he aplanet something like this early early early on in our life a belief system about worth identity and value and from that point on he just has to feed it a little bit in there so he doesn't have to work really hard at it you know he probably assigns demonic stuff to just kind of help that bump that forward and we're triggered by things in life aren't we we think of a certain thing a certain kind of phrase a certain kind of fragrance a certain kind of conversation whether we have if we failed at something it'll trigger something in us that's negative that limits us is the whole way were made I mean he understands that God understands because he made us to work in a relatable way like are our brain works by association the things that comes into the front part of all of our senses downloads into the limbic system and it's looking for something to associate with and once it finds it it clicks into an emotion we're talking about here not making mental assent but we're talking about guttural kind of experiences that cause us to do radical things either positively or negatively and since God is calling us to do exploits we better find out what in the world could be holding us back so I want to tell you about a personal example real quick I'll make it real quick this this is second grade I was in second second row and third seat back is where I set and the teacher would write on the board chalkboard a little article a little paragraph from the newspaper every day and we were supposed to copy it and so she walks up and he's looking at papers down the aisle and she gets to my desk and she looks down at mine and she said you can't even copy what's on the board what's the matter with you and I remember thinking there's something wrong with me and I felt dumb she said it the whole class could hear it and so from that point on I remember thinking there's something wrong with me and I never had a conversation with anybody I never talked to my parents about it but I just remember thinking there's something wrong with me and I'm not very good at school not very good at learning and so all of my school career I lived with that and later on in life and after I met the Lord I noticed too even when I was in Bible School it's like I would read and have to reread it and reread it and reread it and not getting it what's going on and I found out I was dyslexic you know a degree of dyslexia going on and so it like kind of you know made sense to me but but but the thing about this what I felt you know there was something wrong with me it limited me so much and what I was able to do in life because I wouldn't try because if I tried and then I failed then what I don't have any worth in other words my performance was tied to my worth that's what I believed because my teacher she she worked out of this operating system if you're a computer people okay and so she never thought about me as an individual if she just like made that judgment about me my worth was tied to it she didn't know it so there's a scripture in first know second Corinthians here it is for the weapons of our warfare do we have that one nope for the weapons of our warfare they're not carnal but they're mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds so we're destroying this is what I was hacking it's stuff I like he's a hacker we're destroying speculations in every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God watch this now watch and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ so here's what I did because that thing was holding me back in life I felt like God was calling me to do big things in life and listen because of each one of us and because of how uniquely each one of us are made were each called to do exploits or each call to carry this glory that hona was talking about him and so each one of us are called these really important things it's not a pride thing it's our assignment because we come from a great God so I captured this thought and I said it was in one of those moments where I felt like I was backing off because I wasn't qualified you know I took it to the Lord and I said well could you help me with this cuz I just feel dumb and I feel like I'm not able to do this and all the settles back in this memory and the Lord I saw the Lord in my mind's eye he stood right there when the teacher was standing right beside me making this declaration over me and he said to me she doesn't understand and immediately I felt this sense of compassion for her the perpetrator who screwed up my life you know for years and years and years near in years who didn't understand he just said she didn't understand all upset I felt this compassion from God over her and I felt that that the power of that lie that I was dumb and that I wasn't worth anything I felt it a lift was gone captured the thought bring it to him we were taught lots of times in Christianity to deny our emotions and to just believe God well that's just making mental assent to stuff if you read the Psalms David didn't do any of that he said why and why not gonna do that I'm not gonna curse what he's he said why have you abandoned me why have you forsaken me why have you betrayed me you know he's living out of here because that's what we really live we have to belief systems cognitive and emotional but when push comes to shove we respond out of our emotional belief system that's where the truth is supposed to hit us in each one of you they've experienced that probably where God's shown you something showed up and it's sticking with you it's clear till today okay but listen let's take this moment I only want to come up and and let's have this opportunity to do business with God maybe in an area because he's called us to do exploits if we're afraid to step out and do them because it messes with our worth then we're living out of a lie and so we need to separate ourselves from it there's a thing called repentance and repentance is what we get our word penthouse from the word repentance all it means to do is just come up higher to the very highest place that's all that means it doesn't mean getting down in the dirt you know it just means come up higher and so lists have an opportunity with the Lord helping us to connect with him so cool that's so good these are the things that God wants to do today and I feel like even as Mark was sharing I can see got just highlighting things in people's heads of either lies or just the way that you have seen things for your own line for other people what God was just bringing clarity and I and I believe that he's doing that because he wants to set us free today you know one of my favorite things about this dream was that there was absolutely not even trying to fight back like it was when they saw that it was Jesus showing up it was they didn't even try it was they knew that it was it was finished that he was done but there was no running away there was no there's a few try to hide but they were like they couldn't hide because it was him and I feel like that's what he's saying today that that the end the lives of the enemy can know like hide in you the those places that are that are connected to a wrong belief system they cannot stay there if you open yourself to God today like he will chop those things off and he's coming to to finish those things he's coming not just to finish that but to bring his his his heart to bring who you are in him he was he wants who he is to flourish in you today what you guys just then I feel like let me see yeah it's I feel like God is just he's here to take care of business I have a question is anybody here with something wrong with a pancreas that pancreas is that anybody yes is there there's is there anybody who has to do with Kazakh cancer no just something wrong with with that is that anybody who has like appropriately cancer with pancreas is that you as you named Sandra no well I don't know what Santa means but I have somebody from our team from Ecuador they had a dream and then somebody had was dealing with with pancreas and there was cancer in the pancreas and they had a a 50 a hat so I just want to make sure we call it out but it you know we're gonna pray for anybody who has anything with pancreas even before we move forward because I felt like well if if you're here today we're gonna pray for that so yeah if if if you raise your hand if there's something wrong with painters we're gonna pray for the two of you or I don't know if there's somebody else but so far we have two so just whoever is around the people who raise their hand would you guys just go ahead and pray for them right now we're gonna believe for Jesus to come right now and release his healing over the pancreas we say complete healing in the name of Jesus God thank you that it is finished thank you that there's not a fight we just come in agreement with what you already have done and we release that in Jesus name we speak to the painters and we'll release your healing and as we're praying for healing if you have had something that people have prayed for a long time and it seems like everybody else gets healing but is this is one thing in your life that it's just you've pray everybody and their mother have pray but you still haven't seen breakthrough and that will you raise your hand if that's you okay we're gonna agree for that because I felt like there was this thing of the things that have become almost familiar because we have to we have dealt with them for so long and God wants to deal with that today so if you're close to anybody who's raising their hand right now for that we're gonna pray for them and we're gonna believe father we believe and we receive your healing that is here today can you say that you wanted to do something special today and we believe in that and God we we pray that it will manifest right now I pray that you will harvest God all those prayers have gone before you God thank you that you are not a distant God but you have heard every prayer you have seen every cry you hate sickness and you hate suffering and I pray that the Justice of heaven will come right now and release healing over every person that raised their hand now we just invite your presence to do what only you can do in this place let's let's take a look at fear if you've been struggling with fear of it could be anything really but especially if God's calling you out to do something and you self assess using this whole filter of your worth and what it means to fail it's something you want to try so we won't try much if we feel like when we fail it messes with who we are our identity and our worth but what if it's okay to try and fail and that's a learning experience but if that's all that that is is we're learning we're learning we're learning or learning and we're learning and it doesn't hit us here it's just what we do so right now just let the Lord help you as you're just just picture yourself with if that fear has a picture hold it in your hand if it's tied to a memory hold it in your hand and let's just real quietly now let's just let the Lord come to that picture come to that experience come to that emotion and Lord would you help us would you let us see as you see feel as you feel about us and about that I just really believe the Lord is imparting graces for that there's a humble thing to do he gives grace to the humble thank you lord thank you Lord would you strip us of that fear debilitating would you give us an impartation of your truth which makes us as as courageous as a lion to do exploits anything right now in the way of exploits we reject right now we bring it to the feet of the cross anything in your heart that is contrary to the exploit you feel like God is calling you to do any that fear we bring right now to the feet of Jesus Christ and we pray for a reinterpretation of the very things we face for and that you would anoint us that you would empower us that you would strengthen us that you would open whole new visions Lord got vistas of visions and call to us today right here right now that we can engage with today and tomorrow in the next day that we can go from glory to glory to glory to glory without limits without limits you have no limits without limits in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for your glory for your kingdom for the very things that you died for in our lives Lord in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth right now all of those lies just shriveling up shriveling up shriveling up to take their proportionate size and dimension to the Lord Jesus Christ to who we are in Jesus [Music] [Music] you know that example that mark gave of believing that lie of I'm not good enough I just want to make sure we we we pray over that but if that's if you even when he was speaking you felt like oh I I have believed this lie and I can see it in areas of my life will you raise your hand we're gonna pray for you for that to a to God I pray for a revelation of what does it mean that we carry your blood god I pray that you will heal the place of identity where the enemy brother lied that we're not good enough we speak into that place in every I per speak over every heart right now and I speak the truth of heaven that you were perfect and wonderfully made you were made with a purpose you were made out of joy there's great destiny of your life and you you bring pleasure to God when you're doing something and when you're doing nothing you bring pleasure to your father you're fully accepted in him you belong to him there's there's no nothing who can disqualify you from that because he had prey he paid the ultimate price so you can have fun that's your portion now so God we just break the power of that lie can I pray that you will break the power of well it's because my job is too intense or because this IQ that doesn't work for me because of what I do or can't thank you that with you with your truth everything that we do can be done out of a place of peace peace is our portion God thank you that you want to anoint us for the new that you're bringing in our lives God and thank you for what you've done in the past but this is a new day and there's new grace for everything that we're supposed to do also God but I pray that our identity will just be settled in you today every place that has been shakable in the past and I pray that it will become so securing you [Music] I felt like some of you who have always struggled with belonging just feeling different or feeling like just I just don't fully fit I feel like I was just I just keep having this picture of God just chopping this lies in that you you can bring something completely different and beautiful and fully fit at the same time fully belong it's the beautiful thing about God is that he has made us all with incredibly different and at the same time we can come and fully fit second Corinthians 3:17 and 18 out of the message whenever thought they turned to face God as Moses did God removes the veil and there and they and there they are face to face they suddenly recognize that God is a living personal presence nor a piece of chisel stone and when God is personally present a living spirit that all constricting legislation is recognized as obsolete we are free of we are free of it all of us nothing between us and God nothing between us and God if you have felt in the past that there's things between you and God that is a lie and god I pray that today you will break that off if you feel that you're not worthy of face to face if you feel you're not worthy a real connection or real intimacy that's a lie nothing between us and God our face is shining with the brightness of his face and so we are transfigured much like the Messiah our lies gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our life and will become like him this is what God has for you he's transformed you into his likeness you're becoming an expression of his heart through everything that you do god I thank you for this body I thank you for what you're doing in the city thank you that today you're in there's a renovation of our of our minds and our hearts can I pray that we will walk out of here and never again dull with some of the things that we have done in the past but there will be a new grace I keep having this picture of that was then and now is this a new day this is a new time if we don't get to struggle with the same things of the past it is time to bring that transformation to other people the energy that we had in the past to dealing with those lies now we're going to put it into setting people free people who have struggled similar things that we had amen

Channel: Expression 58

Views: 4,371

Rating: 4.6999998 out of 5

Keywords: jen toledo, jennifer toledo, jona toledo, mark tietsort, shawn bolz, cherie bolz, bolz ministries, glendale, california, church, los angeles, salt, salt la, salt conference, be the salt, identity, power of identity

Id: CGosGnXAUNs

Length: 56min 22sec (3382 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 30 2018