Being in Christ | Janet Brazee | World Outreach Church

But this morning I want to ask you

another question.

My husband tells me I ask way too many

questions.

>> [laughter]

>> I ask questions a lot, but you don't

have answers unless you ask questions.

So I have another question for you. Do

you know who you are?

Do you know who you are?

Knowing who you are is not just your

name,

address, occupation.

It goes way deeper than that.

It's having an understanding of

something that science discovered in the

early 1900s.

And something that God created and put

in Adam and Eve at the very beginning.

Scientists It took them a few years to

discover it. It's called DNA.

DNA. What is DNA? It is the genetic

information inside the cells of our body

that makes us who we are.

It determines our hair color, our skin

color.

Uh it determines all of those all of

those as well as characteristics,

certain characteristics.

And uh for instance, and it's passed

down from both parents. For instance, I

have my mother's color eyes.

I used to have my mom's color hair.

That was a very long time ago.

She was a brunette.

I have my dad's skin coloring. He was

very olive-complected. I have his skin

coloring. I got my love for music from

my mom.

And I got my dad's sense of humor.

But I got my lack of ability to get

jokes from both of them.

>> [gasps]

>> Neither one of them could tell a joke or

get a joke. So our genetics are strong.

And I'm sure you can sit there and think

about what you inherited from maybe your

mom and your dad. It's DNA that that's

the basis of those of those

characteristics. But I want to say this,

no one else in the world has my DNA.

No one else in the world has your DNA.

It is unique to each of us. Even

identical twins. Their I their their DNA

is the closest

possible, but they're still not the DNA

is not identical. There'll be

differences that will show up over time.

No one has our DNA. No one has your DNA

because I DNA

is our identity.

It's who we are, our identity. And you

know what? I In all the years of

traveling, I think about this a lot cuz

I see all the the different

nationalities and and different people

around the world and there's just

millions and millions of people and

there's really no two people that have

the same DNA. Is that crazy?

That's something only God could do.

But over time medical science has

developed a way to test DNA

to determine uh people's history, family

history, genealogy. And so, you know, my

daddy used to go around the house

singing, "I'm glad I'm a Cherokee."

That was the only line he would sing.

He'd walk in the kitchen singing, "I'm

glad I'm a Cherokee."

He'd walk in the back door singing, "I'm

glad I'm a Cherokee." And I'd think,

"Really?" But I grew up thinking, "Okay,

but if he's a Cherokee, I'm I got some

Cherokee in me."

Until a few years ago when I went and

talked to my uncle, my dad's brother,

and we were talking about our our

genealogy and he said, "Well." I said,

"Yeah, daddy used to talk about being a

Cherokee all the time." He said, "We're

not Cherokee." I'm like, "What?

My daddy said we were and he sang it

forever." He says, "We're not Cherokee.

He said we're Quapaw."

I said, "Qua who?"

I've heard of Navajo. I have had heard

of Sioux. I've heard of all of them, but

never had I heard of Quapaw. Come to

find out there is a Quapaw Oklahoma. I

see cars now with Quapaw license plates.

I'm like,

Quapaw. There's also a casino there.

Ask me how I know. No, I did it not go.

>> [laughter]

>> Wait. Wait.

Wait a minute. I did not go. No, we were

on a flight one time and we were sitting

in front of this guy talking to someone

else. He was just coming back from DC.

He'd been in DC meeting of Indian

leaders or whatever. And he was talking

about a Quapaw. I heard him using the

word Quapaw. So when we were getting off

the flight, I turned around and said,

"Did I hear you you know say something

about Quapaw?" He said, "Yeah, I did." I

said, "Well, I'm told that I I got

Quapaw." He goes, "Really?" I said,

"Yeah, and um I said but my grandma,

grandpa, whatever never registered." He

goes, "Well, that's too bad cuz there's

a casino in Quapaw in Quapaw Oklahoma

that you could come to free." I said,

"Oh well, that's that's okay."

Whatever. But I will tell you this, a

few days ago

my nephew

uh on my well, my nephew texted me and

he said, "Pawpaw was right all along."

And I'm This was just this week. And I

said, "What do you mean?" He said, "I

started doing some some genealogy, you

know, tracking it, going back and

looking at family lines." And he said,

"We have Cherokee on

on my grandmother's side, his

great-grandmother, and we have Quapaw on

our grandpa's side." So I said, "Okay

then. I am part Cherokee and I'm part

Quapaw." So I That's all I wanted to

tell you about that.

It's amazing what you find out. Finding

out who we are is what we're trying to

figure it out. So that was good to know,

but I still wanted to know more. I was

just curious. And so I got on this

ancestry.com.

Anybody ever done that?

Uh-huh, a few of you have. Sometimes it

turns out good, sometimes it doesn't

turn out so good. But I found out that

my relatives, my ancestors, came from

various parts of Europe. The most

surprising thing was like 42% uh

Scotland. I'm like, "What? I've never

never heard of my relatives coming from

Scotland." But came from Scotland, but I

started Googling uh names actually and I

thought, "Yeah, part of my family's

names are Scottish." And then it said

42% Scotland, 36% from England and

Northwestern Europe, which is

Switzerland, France, Luxembourg,

Belgium, that whole little area of

countries. Um and then and then others

uh that it listed, all European all

European uh countries. And so

I thought, "Well, this is good. This is

interesting." And I then it said that

the DNA showed that my ancestors, when

they came to America, they settled in

South Carolina, South Alabama, and the

Florida panhandle panhandle. The DNA

testing showed all that and I'm like,

"Well, that's right." Because uh my

mom's family is all from Atmore, Alabama

down into Pensacola where my mom's

family still lives to this day. I have

lots of cousins and family in Pensacola.

But um fun fact, you like fun facts?

Fun fact. Years ago I was told that I

was related to Elvis Presley.

My grandmother's maiden name was

Presley.

And she was from my grandmother,

great-grandmother, they all came from

that lower Alabama uh Atmore, Alabama

area. And they said that back in the

day, years and years ago, that Elvis

Presley's family was also from that same

general area as well as my my

grandmother's family. And they had a

feud.

His family and my grandmother's family.

And his family ended up moving to

Mississippi where Elvis was born and

raised. But uh my family all stayed in

lower Alabama in the panhandle. So Elvis

is a cousin

or something. I just thought you might

like that.

So, but another fun fact is we found

when I'm just I'm I'm laying a

foundation. So don't don't go don't go

spacey on me. Don't go to lunch on me.

Just stay stay engaged. So another fun

fact, we adopted a puppy in 2021.

We had had up to that point a great

pyrenees that weighed 150 lb. We had him

for 8 years. And as soon as he passed

away, we got ourselves a newfoundland.

She was only 110 lb. So we downsized. So

but our hearts were broken when we lost

uh Cherokee Ruth as her name was.

And so a couple weeks later uh I talked

pastor into taking me by a puppy haven

rescue viewing

show. Except I didn't tell him we were

going there. I said

Well, I said I wanted ice cream, which I

did.

So we left to go get I said, "Let's go

to the ice cream place up near Utica or

north." And so we did it on the way. I

said, "Can we make a stop on the way?"

So anytime he said we should have named

our puppy ice cream.

>> [laughter]

>> Which we should have. But anyway, we

walked in and there was this cutest

black and white ball of fluff

that the minute I saw him, the minute I

laid my eyes on him,

I I fell in love with him. So we filled

out the papers to adopt him and we were

chosen to adopt him. And but we had no

clue what we had adopted. The you know,

the the the the pyrenees we knew, you

know, that's going to be a big dog. The

newfoundland we knew, she's going to be

a big dog. But this one we're like,

"Okay, this is definitely a step of

faith. We have no idea what we just

adopted." And someone told us we could

do a DNA testing on animals. Anybody

know that?

Okay, well we did it. We sent it off and

it came back and it told us that

Atlas is Australian cattle dog, which

means he jumps and clears the ground

like like clears the ground all four

legs. Australian cattle dog and he herds

me. Great pyrenees

and a golden retriever.

So, he loves to play fetch. The other

two, I could throw it and they look at

me like, "If you want it, you go get

it." I had never had a dog that plays

fetch. So, we've got this dog and he

only weighs 54 lb. That's huge not

hugely less than the other ones. So,

just So, I found out that So, hey, if

you've got an animal you don't know what

you got, go get him DNA tested.

I said all this to say, just as we all

have natural DNA.

Each one of us have a unique

unique to each of you, our natural DNA.

This morning I want to talk to you about

spiritual DNA.

Because

as a child of God, we have the DNA of

our heavenly Father.

Comes from the parents. We have you have

the DNA of your heavenly Father. And

that DNA is far more important than any

natural DNA. That spiritual DNA will

always supersede natural DNA.

Which means sickness, disease,

oppression, depression, addiction, it

cannot be passed down from generation to

generation if we know our spiritual DNA.

I hear people talk about the

generational curse. I don't believe in

that. Because that curse was broken when

Jesus became my Lord. When I got the DNA

of God, uh-uh. Spiritual DNA over over

see supersedes over is greater than

natural DNA.

So, just because your grandmother and

your aunt

and maybe your mother all dealt with

cancer does not mean you have to dread

getting cancer.

Just because your dad and your grandpa

were alcoholics does not mean you have

to be an alcoholic.

Just because everyone in your family has

anxiety and issues of the mind does not

mean you have to go through life dealing

with issues.

You have a different DNA now. You have

the supernatural DNA, the spiritual DNA.

Not the natural, the spiritual DNA

supersedes the natural DNA and breaks

that curse.

But how do you know that, they say. Oh,

also just because my mom and my dad

both dealt with dementia

does not mean

I will have to deal with dementia.

Because why? Because I know that I have

the spiritual DNA of my heavenly Father

and he does not have memory issues.

Thank you, Minnie.

Our spiritual DNA is our true identity.

Our spiritual DNA is who we are in him.

Acts 17 says, "In him we live and move

and have our being." Why? Because we are

his children.

We are his children. So, we identify You

know, you hear a lot of it today about

who do you identify with? Well, I

identify with a cat. No.

Who do we identify with? We identify

with our heavenly Father and his DNA.

That's who we identify with. And just as

my natural DNA revealed my natural

genealogy, so I told you all that.

Because it revealed my natural genealogy

just from my DNA. Our spiritual DNA will

reveal our spiritual genealogy and who

we really are.

You wonder who you are?

Look at your spiritual genealogy. John

John 1:12

1:12 says, "But as many as received him,

he gave the authority to become the

children of God. That is those who

believe in his name." When we received

Jesus, we became sons and daughters of

God. And with that authority to be his

children, he gave us what's called power

of attorney.

When my parents were getting up in

years, they I went to see them in

Florida.

My mom said had this this document She

says, "We want to make give you power of

attorney because you're our oldest

daughter." And I said, "Okay." And she

said, "Which means you will act in our

stead. You'll be able to make decisions

for us regarding business affairs,

regarding banking, regarding uh medical

things down the road." She said, "You

will be the one to make the decisions."

I thought, "Oh, great. No pressure."

No, she said, "Someone has to and it's

it's you." And so, they they drew up a

document. It was a legal document that

gave me the authority.

Power of attorney.

We have been given a legal document.

It's the word of God that gives us and

says we are children of God.

And because we are children of God, we

have been given power of attorney.

That's why in Mark 16, Jesus said, "In

his name

in his name, not in my name, it's in his

name, we can cast out devils, we can

speak with new tongues, we can take up

serpents and they won't hurt us, we can

drink any deadly thing it won't hurt us,

and we can lay hands on the sick and

they shall recover." Power of attorney

in his name.

All of this is possible because of our

spiritual

DNA.

Spiritual DNA because we are children of

God.

And then the Bible goes on to say

regarding our spiritual ID identity or

DNA says, "But you are a chosen

generation,

a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a

peculiar people, that we should show

forth the praises of him who has called

us out of darkness into his marvelous

light. That is who we are." We're chosen

by God.

We're made We've been made to be

royalty. Royalty because our Father's a

king.

We're a peculiar people. That's not

weird.

I'll repeat that. Peculiar is not weird,

but what it means is he took the

ordinary

and he made us extraordinary.

So, we can take our place as children of

God and use the God-given authority that

he's given us. But if we don't know who

we are, if we don't know our spiritual

DNA, then we'll never live like God

intended us to live, which is takes us

which is exercising our authority over

the kingdom of darkness.

It doesn't matter how old you are, how

young you are.

Doesn't matter how tall you are, how

short you are. Each of us has authority

because we are a child of God to

exercise over the kingdom of darkness.

Paul said in this 1 Corinthians 3, he

says, "Are you not acting

like mere humans?"

We're not supposed to be acting like the

world. They are mere humans. They've not

been changed into children of God. "Are

you not acting like mere humans?"

Another translation says, "Are you not

walking like ordinary people?"

We're not ordinary anymore.

We're extraordinary because life as

usual ended when God became our Father

and we took on his DNA. And because of

his DNA, for sickness and

sickness and disease, we have health.

For poverty, we have wealth.

For weakness, we have his strength.

For hatred, we have his love.

For anxiety, we have peace of mind.

For fear, we've got faith. And for

sickness or sadness, we have joy.

That is our DNA. That is your DNA.

And when the reality of who we are

really

sets in

and we realize what that spiritual DNA

will enable us to do, it will cause us

to live in a place of victory. Not just

be up and down like a yo-yo. Having a

good day today, yep, so you know, you're

up. Tomorrow not so good, so you're

going to be down in the valley. No, no,

no, no, no. He's evened it out. He's

evened it out. We can walk in a place

Where's that place? It's in him.

We can walk in a place of victory over

sickness, disease, oppression,

addiction, and whatever else the devil

throws at us.

You say, "Why and how?" Jesus said,

"I am come

that you might have life

and have it more abundantly." He's

talking about the God kind of life.

The God kind of life, his life, his DNA

in us.

In Romans 8, the Apostle Paul said, "For

the law of the spirit of life in Christ

Jesus has set me free from the law of

sin and death." I'm telling you, I

cannot tell you how many times over the

last years and years

have symptoms tried to hit my body and

if I will take about 30 minutes to an

hour and shut myself away and listen to

the word of God, healing scriptures,

healing scriptures because the spirit of

life in Christ Jesus sets me free from

the law of sin and death and sickness.

And I'll come out and I'll be just fine.

So, there's something about his name.

There's something about his word. Then

Jesus said in Matthew 16, "I will give

you keys of the kingdom of heaven.

Whatever you bound will be bound.

Whatever you loose will be loosed in

heaven." He's given us keys. Keys. Now,

I have keys to this building, but not

everyone has keys.

Our staff has the authority to have keys

and they use them. But God has given us

keys to use. What is that? Is our

authority. He's given us authority in

the name of Jesus. Power of attorney.

Whatever you want to call it, we have

authority over the power of the devil.

That spiritual DNA will also

enable us to go boldly

into the presence of God

24/7,

day or night, it doesn't matter.

My daddy was a pastor and and

I can remember going to the church

during the day. He'd be in his office

working and there was usually a

secretary outside his office and but I

didn't have to make an appointment to

see my daddy

because I was his daughter.

We don't have to make appointments

to spend time with him because we are

his sons and his daughters. We can go

boldly. In fact, one translation says we

can go into his presence anytime with

confidence, knowing who we are, with

confidence and knowing we belong there.

Is there's no condemnation? None

whatsoever. He says come on in not

because of our own goodness, but because

of who he's made us to be. His spiritual

DNA is in us. So, we go into his

presence and Ephesians tells us we are

seated with him

seated with him in the heavenlies in

Christ Jesus.

I think sometimes we tend to forget that

we have a seat, a reserved seat with our

name on it.

We just need to take our seat.

Take your seat.

You're seated with him in the

heavenlies. Take your seat and don't let

anything get you out of your seat.

Seated with him. Seated with him. That's

That is our place. We're not seated with

We're not seated down here.

We're not to look this way, but we're to

look down on things because we are

seated with him in the heavenlies.

Naturally speaking

um

identity theft is a huge problem.

And the devil will try to steal your

identity.

He doesn't want you knowing who you are.

He wants you to doubt who you are. Uh if

I can do this to them, they'll they'll

go oh wow wow. No, don't let them steal

your identity. I remember years ago I'd

been speaking at a ladies conference in

California.

I'd finished and I'd gone to the

airport. I was sitting at the gate. I

had already checked in.

Sitting at the gate waiting and um I set

my purse down by my feet and was just uh

reading. I don't even know what I was

just sitting there and then when they

began to call the rows for the for the

flight, I looked down and my purse was

gone.

Gone. Still to this day I have no idea

how someone got it from my feet. They

said it was a professional. Somehow he

was behind me, figured out how to pull

it out. I don't know, but my purse was

gone, my ID was gone, my credit cards

were gone, my boarding pass was gone. I

had these old photos that I had carried

in my purse cuz they meant some meant

were very special to me. Everything was

gone. There was no sign of anything. So,

I went up to the desk to the agent I

said, "We have an issue here. My purse

is gone. I have nothing."

She said, "Well, I'm the one that

checked you in. We don't have time for

you to deal with it now. Get on the

flight. When you get to Dallas, go to a

phone and this and get a hold of your

credit card company." So, I did.

When I got to Dallas, went to a phone,

called my credit card company and when

they pulled it up, they said in a matter

of however long it takes to get to

Dallas, 3 hours,

um

he had put thousands

thousands of dollars on my credit card.

He tried to steal my identity.

That's what the devil does.

He'll be very sly. He'll just sneak in

and and try to catch you off guard to

steal your spiritual identity. Don't let

him do it. Don't let him do it. I'll

just I'll add this. I remember when I

got home, you know, I was pretty like oh

man, I can't believe this has happened

to me. It never had happened before. So,

I thought, you know what? I know what to

do.

I'm going to send my angels out.

I wanted those photos back. I could care

less about the purse. We'd stopped the

credit card. I can get another ID, but I

wanted those photos back.

So, I sent my angels out to go find

my photos.

>> [sighs]

>> I don't even remember how weeks and

weeks and weeks It was like a couple

months later. I got a phone call and I

Looking back last night I was thinking

about all of this remembering and I

thought I don't even know who called me.

It might have been the police. Um filed

a report. I don't know, but I got a

phone call from someone that said you

Did you lose some photos? Did you I

said, "Well, yeah." And they said they

were found in some bushes on a college

campus and someone one of the students

turned them in.

And they said, "Would you like them

back?" I'm like, "Yes, I want my photos

back." I didn't get anything back else

back, but I got my photos and they

mailed them to me. Miracle of miracles.

But the devil was trying to steal my

personal ID and he was also trying to

steal my spiritual ID. So, um

he's got specific ways that he'll do it.

One way is through discouragement.

It's discouragement. Um let me

Let me look where I'm looking here.

Discouragement.

He'll make us believe we aren't who we

are.

And if we focus on if we focus on who we

aren't

instead of who we are, it will open the

door to discouragement because

discouragement gets our eyes off who we

are and back on who we were.

I'm going to say that again.

Discouragement gets our eyes off of who

we are and back on

who we were. We don't have to live in

the past. He doesn't want us to live in

the past. Second Corinthians 5:17 says

2 Corinthians 5:17

we are a new creature in Christ. All

things are passed away. Behold, all

things are new. Our past, your past is

gone forever. So, don't let Satan bring

you down by reminding you of your past.

God doesn't remember. So, why would we

let Satan Why would we let Satan remind

us about a person that doesn't exist

anymore?

Because we are a new creature. The New

Living Translation says the old life is

gone and a new life has begun. Keep your

eyes on the word. Keep your eyes on the

word and what God says about you. Also,

another tactic that the devil will use

is offense.

If he can get us offended, it opens the

door for unforgiveness and that's the

opposite of the spiritual DNA that's on

the inside of us because we have the

love of God on the inside of us. But

what happens is something happens

we let it we get offended. It hurts our

feelings or whatever. But let me just

say this, we have to love our the word

of God more than we love our feelings.

Offense will lure us into a trap.

And uh and then once that door closes,

we're caught.

Offense, getting offended. Jesus said

this. He said speaking of the last days,

many shall be offended. Many shall be

offended and betray one another. We must

not allow ourselves to be part of the

many. It's a choice. And let me just say

this, second-hand offense is just as

bad.

Your friend gets offended. Your friend

comes and tells you what someone did or

said and then you get offended at that

person, too, because they offended your

friend.

Second-hand offense

is hazardous to your health.

Don't allow yourself to get offended, a

second-hand offense. No. You choose to

walk in that love of God because it will

end up in a in a place of unforgiveness

and then that's going to affect your

faith. Your prayers aren't going to get

answered. Your faith's not going to work

all because you got offended. So, you

see how the devil will endeavor to get

you offended when you least expect it,

by usually those closest to you, to keep

your faith from working.

To get you out of who you are.

Paul said in Acts, "Herein do I exercise

myself to have always a conscience void

of offense towards God and towards man."

You know, we get offended at people.

Usually people closest to us. We get

offended. We We just something happens.

You something is said that shouldn't

have been said or you get your feelings

hurt. We get offended, but you know

what? A lot of people get offended at

God

because they blame God for something

that happened that he had absolutely

nothing to do with.

Keep it straight. The devil steals,

kills, and destroys. Jesus said, "I came

that you might have life." Make sure

you're not offended at God. We know

people that have gone through life

offended, ticked

at God because they blame him for

someone that died.

When he it

God had nothing to do with it. God's

into life. So, we need to keep it

straight.

Psalms 119, "Great peace have they which

love thy law and nothing shall offend

them."

That is a verse I got hold of shortly

after we got married. I won't go into

the story now cuz we're running late,

but you all know my You all know my my

mowing machine story.

Oh, you don't know my mow Who doesn't

has never heard my mowing machine story?

Raise your hands. If you've never heard

my mowing machine story. Okay, that's

that's enough to I'll tell it really

really really really quick.

Do you give me an extra 5 minutes? Give

me a

Raise your hand if you give me an extra

5 minutes. Okay, that's about another

hour. So, good. We're good.

>> [laughter]

>> So, we hadn't been married very long and

we were driving everywhere we were

going. We were on our way to Michigan to

minister and we stopped in Rolla at the

Wendy's. Back in those days Wendy's had

salad bars and we ate there a lot. And

so, we were sitting there and again, you

know, hadn't been married very long.

We're sitting there eating our salad,

sitting there and and I'm just eating my

salad. All of a sudden, he says to me,

"You're going through that salad like a

mowing machine."

>> [laughter]

>> And I remember, I thought, "What did he

just say?"

But I didn't say anything.

Tears

started coming down my cheeks, dropping

into my salad, and I slowed down a

little bit.

But I thought, my my new husband thinks

I'm a mowing machine.

That is the worst thing he could have

ever said. You know, I wanted him to

think I'm just this wonderful wife. He's

so happy he found He says, "I'm going

through a salad like a mowing machine?"

I couldn't think of anything mean to say

back to him.

But today I could, probably.

Something about how slow he eats. I'm

still the mowing machine, and I got to

come up with something for him. No, we

got in the car and we continued our

drive to Michigan, and it was really

quiet.

Really quiet for hours, and he's like,

"Something wrong? Did I say something

wrong?" I'm like, "What?

Come on, man. Don't be so clueless."

Then yeah, you told me I was a mowing

machine. So, we had to work that out.

But shortly after that incident, I

thought, "You know what? I I was very

sensitive when we got married. I just

was. And so

And so I'd made a decision that, "You

know what? I got to get I got to get it

together in this in this area." So, I

found that verse, "Great peace have they

which love thy law, and nothing shall

offend them." I have lived by that verse

for 47 years. I live by No, am I Do I

always hit it? No, maybe not quite, but

I try. I will not be offended. I will

not allow myself to be offended, because

if I get offended, it opens the door for

unforgiveness, and then it opens the

word the door for every evil work. So,

if you're married, you might want to

remember that verse, Psalms 190. If

you're not married, you really want to

remember that verse.

So, and then one other area, and we're

going to close. One area

that will steal your identity, that the

devil will use. So, he'll use

uh what we've talked about so far, but

he will use

your mouth.

He'll use your mouth to steal your own

identity.

When we took the DNA test, we had to

spit

inside of a little tube.

And they then we send it off with our

saliva from our mouth in that tube.

When we tested Atlas,

do you know how we had to test his DNA?

We had to swab

the inside of his mouth.

Your mouth will reveal your natural DNA,

and your mouth will reveal your

spiritual DNA.

What are we saying? Are we saying who we

are, or we saying who we were?

Jesus asked his disciples, "Who do you

say that I am?" So, I ask you today, who

do you say you are? Who do you say you

are? Who are you saying Who are your

words agreeing with? God, what he says

about your situation, or what's

happening? Make sure your words are

lining up with what God says about you,

who you are, who you are. We have to

make sure our words are powerful. Our

words will either

mess us up, or our words will set us

free. Make sure your words agree with

what he says, and remember that anything

the devil tells you,

anything, a thought, whatever, anything

the devil tells you, if it doesn't line

up with the word of God, it's a lie.

It's not coming from God, because he is,

the Bible says, the father of lies. He

cannot tell the truth. There is no truth

in him. So, recognize the difference. If

a thought comes that says, "You're going

to die early," nip it in the bud.

Don't believe it. Don't agree with it.

Say out of your mouth, "With long life

WITH LONG LIFE

YOU'LL SATISFY me

and show me your salvation."

Get your mouth moving. Get your mouth

moving. Your mouth will reveal your DNA

spiritually. We have to be bold to

declare who we are, who we are, our ID,

who we are I I our

DNA, our identity in him. And so, before

we go, I want us to do one thing. We're

going to put it up on the screen. Go

ahead and put it up there. We're going

to put it up on the screen the ABCs of

being in Christ. And so, we're going to

go through them together. Woo! Can you

read those?

Okay, I want you to stand up. Change

your position. The ABCs of being in

Christ. At the Let's read them out loud

together. This tells you who you are,

who we are in him. Here we go. I am able

to do all things through Christ. I am

blessed by the Lord in all things. I am

personally chosen by God. I am delivered

from Satan's kingdom. I am enriched in

everything. I am favored by God. I am

guided by the Holy Spirit. I am healed

by the stripes of Jesus. I am made in

the image of God. I am full of the joy

of the Lord. I am kept by the power of

God. I am satisfied with long life. I

have mountain-moving faith in my life.

I am made new in Christ. I am an

overcomer in Christ. I am protected in

Christ. I am qualified to be an heir of

God. I am redeemed from the curse of the

law. I have a sound mind in Christ. I am

triumphant in Christ. I am united with

Christ. I am victorious over sin and

death. I am washed by the blood of the

lamb. I am becoming exactly who God

created me to be. My yoke is easy in

Christ. I am zealous OF GOOD WORKS.

OKAY, I CAN READ YOUR MIND. OH, I wish I

had a copy of there. There's a QR code.

If you If you download the QR code or

focus on the QR code,

uh it will take you to our website, and

then all you have to do is download it

off our website, and it will go on your

device. So,

if y'all want it, this I keep this in my

Bible. I go over this on a very regular

basis, daily basis, just because it puts

me in remembrance of who I am.

Don't ever get to where I know who I am.

Yeah, I know who I am. No, it's good

that you know who you are, but remind

yourself, and remind the devil. Say it

out loud with the words of your mouth.

So, if you want it there, if you don't

know how to do that, or you don't have a

device with you, you can go by the

Connect Center. We printed some off for

you. You can grab a hard color copy if

you would prefer. But right now,

let's pray.

Father, I thank you.

I thank you for your word that tells us

who we are.

We're so grateful for the name.

We're so grateful for your word.

We're so grateful for our spiritual DNA

that supersedes our natural DNA. We're

so thankful that in you in you we have

life. In you we have healing. In you we

can walk in victory in every situation.

We take our seat with you in the

heavenlies. That is our place. Devil

can't get us out of our place, but we

thank you for it.

The plan of redemption for

the ages.

Thank you for making us a child of

yours. A [snorts] child of yours. A

child of yours.

Hallelujah. I want to ask a quick

question before we go. Is there anyone

under the sound of my voice or online

that you say, "You know what? I want to

be a child of God. I want that

spiritual supernatural DNA on the

inside. I've never made that decision.

I've never made that step." But if

that's you, or if you'd say, "Yeah, I I

did that when I was a kid, and I walked

away.

>> [music]

>> I walked away. I'm not I need to return

home to Father's house." If that's you,

I want I want a hand. I want to see a

hand. If it's either one of those, if

you've never received Jesus, you need

that supernatural spiritual DNA change,

um

or if you um have

have never or you need to come back home

to Father's house, so to speak.

Okay, I see that hand. Is there anyone

else?

I'm going to open it up right now,

because we're going to not going to

embarrass you. Not going to ask you to

to speak to you know, say anything

publicly. Of course, I would never do

that. But if you'll come up,

we're just going to have you go with

this couple on the front row, and

they're just going to take you right

outside the doors, just so that you can

um

the lead you to Jesus, and pray a prayer

with them, so that you know that you

know that you know. Yes, come on, dear.

Yay!

Is there anybody else that you want to

say, "I'm coming to I'm coming to I'll

follow"? Maybe you've walked away. If

you've walked away, come on back home.

Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on.

Anybody else? We'll wait here about 30

seconds for you. Anybody else?

>> [laughter]

>> Anybody else? Is somebody coming?

I hear yes. I hear yes. If you're

coming, come on.

Come on now. Come on.

I'm waiting.

I'm waiting. Come on. Come on.

>> [music]

>> Come on. I don't

Oh, good. Hi. Hey.

Somebody else coming? Here, come stand

right here and face me.

Hi, doll. What's your name? Come Come

face me. You don't have to face Bill.

Forget they're even there. [music]

Brooke? Oh. What's your name? Uh

Richard. Richard? All right. Thank you

for coming forward. Thank you [music] so

much and I believe that after today

you're going to be a new creature in

Christ or if you've [music] if you've

been away you're going to come back and

God's got the most amazing life. That

spiritual DNA [music] is going to be on

the inside of you. His DNA is going to

be on the inside of you. So Father I

thank [music] you right now. I pray for

them as they go they make a decision

that is going to turn their lives

around.

>> [music]

>> Literally a fresh start. A fresh start.

Thank you Jesus for doing what only you

can do

>> [music]

>> in Jesus name. Amen. If you'll go with

this couple they're going to take you

just for a few very few minutes and

you're going to come back in a new way.

Yeah.

>> [applause]

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