Identity Journey
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· 6 viewsWe are taking a journey to find our true identity from our heavenly Father.
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What is your identity?
What is your identity?
Where would you get your true Identity from?
What identity are your living from?
How can we get our identity right now?
How do we walk out our identity?
“To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
Father is your architect, your designer, your creator, your father, and He is the only one you can get your identity from.
We are going to walk through identity these next two days.
Tonight you are going to go through a powerful exchange of lies with truth.
Pay close attention to what Holy Spirit is telling you this entire time. If memories pop up it is God speaking to you.
“God had a dream, and he wrapped your body around it.”
- Lou Engle
He wrote all of my days in a book.
He weaved your body, your gifts, your humor, you personality.
Can you name people in the bible that God changed their names?
Abram become Abraham
Sara becomes Sarah
Jacob become Israel
Simon becomes Peter
Can you name people God nicked named?
David = a man after My own Heart. Acts 13:22
Servant, One who does My will
John = beloved, or the one whom Jesus loved.
Jesus = My son in who I am well pleased.
Why did God change their names?
A name to a Hebrew is not just a name we call someone.
A name to a Hebrew speaks of who and where you came from.
A name also had a meaning in mind. That meaning is what they are saying with that name.
Jacob means heal holder.
Israel means God prevails
Why did God change their names?
God did not just change their name, He showed them their true identity by naming them properly.
Even Jesus got an identity spoken to Him by Father:
After being baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove and lighting on Him,
and behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased.”
Why did Jesus need to be told this by His Father?
Doesn’t Jesus know who He is.
Jesus was lead into the wilderness to solidify who He was in His heart and mind.
1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
2 And after He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He then became hungry.
3 And the tempter came and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”
4 But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’ ”
After God told Jesus who he was and what He meant to Father, Holy Spirit lead him into a type of isolation.
Isolation or feeling lonely is part of the path that leads you to identity.
You don’t lead yourself into isolation, God does.
If you chose isolation or loneliness it does not end in life.
Man lives on the word of God.
Jesus was feasting on “This is My Son in whom I am pleased.”
Not only was Jesus feasting on those words, He was becoming those words.
The Word Made Flesh.
When God leads you on a lonely journey of finding yourself in Him, it anchors who you are forever.
The feeling of Loneliness is to drive you to find community in Father and with people.
Why did Jesus need to be told this by His Father?
- So Jesus could become that word made alive in the flesh.
Jesus became His identity of “My Son in whom I am well pleased.”
1st Holy Spirit falls upon you
2nd Father Defines you
3rd testing so it solidifies what Father says about you.
If Jesus went through the journey of solidifying what Father said about Him them so will we.
You too will need to feast on what Father says about you when you are being told to prove who you are to yourself or others.
Does the enemy try to name you inappropriately?
Jacob heal grabber, verses God prevails.
Ben-oni = “son of my sorrow”
Benjamin = “son of the right hand”
Yes
Then the commander of the officials assigned new names to them; and to Daniel he assigned the name Belteshazzar, to Hananiah Shadrach, to Mishael Meshach and to Azariah Abed-nego.
Belteshazzar = “lord of the straitened’s treasure”
Shadrach = “royal” or “the great scribe”.
Meshach = “guest of a king”.
Abed-nego = “servant of Nebo”.
Daniel = “God is my judge”.
Hananiah = “God has favoured”.
Mishael = “who is what God is”
Azariah = “Jehovah has helped”.
The first and main thing an evil spirit wants to do is get you to think of yourself differently then who God calls you.
How?
James 5:16 NASB9516 Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.
The word healed is = to make whole.
Confession: G3670
Confession = to say the same thing as another, not to deny, declare, to profess, to declare openly, speak out freely, to profess one’s self the worshipper of one, to praise, celebrate.
Root words Together / Word
Confess sin is to say what you believe about God and yourself that is not Truth.
Holy Spirit is the one who searches your heart and helps you see the lies.
To Repent is to change our mind.
We then confess the Truth of who we are true identity in Christ.
Confession:
Repentance = changed mind.
Repentance with identity = to change your mind about who you are.
Repentance is to replace lies you’ve believed with truth.
Let go of lies that don’t reflect what the Bible says is true,
Lies Like:
“I have to be perfect,”
“I need to be more like someone else,”
“I don’t have anything to offer,”
“Being confident will make me prideful and selfish,”
“I am who others say I am.”
“I have to make people happy”
“I need to provide to be a good man”
“I am not enough,”
In Christ all have died and all have been resurrected.
We are new Creations in Christ.
In Christ we die to our false identity and are born again in our true identity. Col 3:1-17
Action Form: Identity Name: Date:
Identity Strategy
Ask for Holy Spirit to fall in the room and on each person’s head. Pray: Silence all voices that are not God.
Answer each question directed by Holy Spirit:
1. What is the most important thing You want me to know right now?
2. What is one place in my life where I am not living in Truth?
3. What is a false identity I believe to be true about me?
4. What is a false identity I believe to be true about God?
5. Ask Father, What is His identity in my life?
6. Ask Father, What is my identity?
7. What is one thing you want me to do?
8. What is the next step to take in this?
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Then the commander of the officials assigned new names to them; and to Daniel he assigned the name Belteshazzar, to Hananiah Shadrach, to Mishael Meshach and to Azariah Abed-nego.
Psalm 139:13–14 NASB9513 For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. 14 I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.
Jeremiah 1:5 NASB955 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, And before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
Ephesians 2:10 NASB9510 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
3 “To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
Confession:
Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon 3670 ὁμολογέω3670 ὁμολογέω [homologeo /hom·ol·og·eh·o/] v. From a compound of the base of 3674 and 3056; TDNT 5:199; TDNTA 687; GK 3933; 24 occurrences; AV translates as “confess” 17 times, “profess” three times, “promise” once, “give thanks” once, “confession is made” once, and “acknowledgeth” once. 1 to say the same thing as another, i.e. to agree with, assent. 2 to concede. 2A not to refuse, to promise. 2B not to deny. 2B1 to confess. 2B2 declare. 2B3 to confess, i.e. to admit or declare one’s self guilty of what one is accused of. 3 to profess. 3A to declare openly, speak out freely. 3B to profess one’s self the worshipper of one. 4 to praise, celebrate.
Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon 3674 ὁμοῦ3674 ὁμοῦ [homou /hom·oo/] adv. Genitive case of homos (the same, akin to 260) as adv; GK 3938; Three occurrences; AV translates as “together” three times. 1 together: of persons assembled together. Additional Information: For synonyms see entry 260, hama.See entry 5807 for comparison of synonyms
Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon 3056 λόγος3056 λόγος [logos /log·os/] n m. From 3004; TDNT 4:69; TDNTA 505; GK 3364; 330 occurrences; AV translates as “word” 218 times, “saying” 50 times, “account” eight times, “speech” eight times, “Word (Christ)” seven times, “thing” five times, not translated twice, and translated miscellaneously 32 times. 1 of speech. 1A a word, uttered by a living voice, embodies a conception or idea. 1B what someone has said. 1B1 a word. 1B2 the sayings of God. 1B3 decree, mandate or order. 1B4 of the moral precepts given by God.
James 5:13–20 NASB9513 Is anyone among you suffering? Then he must pray. Is anyone cheerful? He is to sing praises. 14 Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; 15 and the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed sins, they will be forgiven him. 16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much. 17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months. 18 Then he prayed again, and the sky poured rain and the earth produced its fruit. 19 My brethren, if any among you strays from the truth and one turns him back, 20 let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
Psalm 32 NASB95A Psalm of David. A Maskil. 1 How blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is covered! 2 How blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no deceit! 3 When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away Through my groaning all day long. 4 For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My vitality was drained away as with the fever heat of summer. Selah. 5 I acknowledged my sin to You, And my iniquity I did not hide; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord”; And You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah. 6 Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to You in a time when You may be found; Surely in a flood of great waters they will not reach him. 7 You are my hiding place; You preserve me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah. 8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you. 9 Do not be as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding, Whose trappings include bit and bridle to hold them in check, Otherwise they will not come near to you. 10 Many are the sorrows of the wicked, But he who trusts in the Lord, lovingkindness shall surround him. 11 Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, you righteous ones; And shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart
.Proverbs 28:13 NASB9513 He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, But he who confesses and forsakes them will find compassion.
1 John 1:8–10 NASB958 If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.
15 This resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life. It’s adventurously expectant, greeting God with a childlike “What’s next, Papa?” 16 God’s Spirit touches our spirits and confirms who we really are. We know who he is, and we know who we are: Father and children.
12 For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Why am I here?
What is my value?
To be here. Keep my heart and body here.
Purpose = a body part.
The most important thing you can do is believe and be here.
What am I supposed to do?
Be Loved, and Love.Love establishes that connection to a deeper level.
Sing the song you were born to sing with your life.
Better yet join the song Father is singing with us.
What is the point of all this?
To let Father use me as a son or daughter a body part to bring the life to the body and the earth.