Following His lead

Where do you find your Identity? In your knowledge or your sonship?

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I have a lot of catching up to do in updating the amazing lectures from the FCM lecture phase. 

The 2nd week speaker was Gus Hunter, the author of "From Venus and Mars and back, What it means to be you"
The theme was on Identity. Here are my takeaways. 

- “Life” in hebrew means relationship. God wants us to have life and receive life from our relationships. With God and with people. As we look at the prodigal son, the father said that his son was dead but now he is alive. The life the son had was in the relationship with his father.

- The tree of knowledge is the knowledge of what is good and evil. Don’t try to find our identity in knowledge. We use knowledge, but we don’t eat it to find our identity. Don’t use knowledge as a source of identity. If I play music, I think I am a musician. but that is poison. If we live in the tree of knowledge, and we eat from it (we find our identity in knowledge) it will poison me and I will die. We try to find our identity in our accomplishment, performance. We learn to do this, but if we do, we die. We try to perform for our parents, our teachers, authority to find our identity.  My mother did this. She had talent, and so much creativity. That became her identity and she became jealous, suspicious of people that her identity would be taken away. Our true identity (tree of life) is that I am a son of God, and I am loved very much.


- When Jx came out of the womb, He didn't know he was the son of God, he had to learn his identity. He learned from the HolySpirit, and he needed to listen to learn. And he learned obedience.

Jx was confused in the bible, and had trouble with his feelings, but he always went to the father to listen.  He is the true model for true humanity. To teach us what it means to be the son of God.

-  We see the vessel human body, (Like a glass cup) and the content filled by the father By himself it is empty, but it is filled with the father. A true man is not filled with himself, but it is empty of himself. But if we are filled with the father, it is the dance of intimacy with the father and son. The basis of the relationship is love. God gives us revelation because he loves us, he loves his child.

- The cup, only has the power to receive. (the vessel) once it receives, then it has the power to give.  

- Pain -> do not look for pain relievers. God used pain to get our attention and draw us closer to God. Then we begin to listen to God and we come to a place of birth and healing. Jx suffered pain. He learned obedience through suffering. Not just at the cross. It was the suffering of being human, facing temptation and struggle to make the right decisions. learning make to right decisions. We must learn that because we are children of God. Jx said for the joy set before him, he endured pain. We need to look and embrace the painful memories, and we need to ask the HolySpirit what are the next steps? If we share in His sufferings, we share in His glory. and this brings unity. and this brings Joy.

- Sometimes we want God to control us. (the puppet Syndrome) and God will not do it. He will not control us. Sometimes we want to be like a puppet. Those people end up with severe demonic problems. Because we pray, control me! we are not praying to God. It’s only the demons who want to control us.  God wants a free choice. a response from the freedom of my heart. We are a child with a free will, not a puppet. a puppet does not have a free will. This is not a picture of obedience.

- When there is a prophetic word, you need to test it. in your heart. Is that you God? and hear the spirit and ask your friends to pray with you. Ask 2~3 friends to test it with you. because only one person will not be the only person to hear God.

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