Mistaken Identity

0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:02.160 Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:05.279 Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:08.240 the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:10.360 be a blessing and share it with a friend. We 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:13.800 appreciate you and pray for God's very best in your life. 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:14.960 Oh God, bless you. 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:17.560 It's great to be with you today, and I hope 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:20.040 you'll stay connected with us during the week through our 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:24.000 daily podcast, our YouTube channel, and social media, and you 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:25.520 can come visit us in person. 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:27.560 We'd love to have you be a part of one 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:28.520 of our services. 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:31.159 Not I'd like to start with something funny, and I 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:34.240 heard about this cat and mouse that died. 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:35.880 On the same day and went to heaven. 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:39.239 After a few weeks, Peter saw the mouse and ask 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:40.239 him how he liked it. 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:43.559 He said, Oh, it's great, but it's so big. I 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:44.440 wish I could get a. 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:47.479 Pair of roller skates. Peter said, no problem, got him 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:50.600 some skates. A few weeks later, Peter saw the cat 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:54.320 ask him how he liked it. He said, Oh, it's fantastic. 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:56.600 And just when I thought it couldn't get any better, 0:00:56.880 --> 0:00:57.800 I discovered the. 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:01.680 Meals on wheels say like you mean it. 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:05.039 This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:07.880 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:10.640 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:14.680 taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:18.080 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:23.039 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:27.440 to talk to you today about mistaken identity. Victoria and 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:29.600 I went on a hiking trip a while back, and 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:34.280 one of the activities they offered was a class on falconry. 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:36.399 This instructor had a half a. 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:39.320 Dozen birds in cagesm one of them was a hawk. 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:43.640 It was huge, had a wingspan over five feet, so 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:44.959 strong and powerful. 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:47.080 He had it on his arm. 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:49.960 There was a little wire around the hawk's claws, and 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:51.920 it was connected to the man's jacket. 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:53.200 A couple of. 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:57.520 Times during the presentation, something bothered the hawk and wanted 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:00.400 to fly away, but could only go a couple feet 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:03.560 because of that tether. He would put that hawk right 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.560 up next to his face, where they'd touch each other. 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:08.359 He'd look him in the. 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:11.560 Eyes and rub his belly where that beak was just 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.360 a couple inches from his nose. That's one of the 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:18.600 hawk's main weapons. And at one point I asked the instructor, 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:22.480 why doesn't this hawk harm you, claw you, or try 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:25.320 to use this beat to get away. He began to 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:30.480 explain a concept called mis imprinting. When a bird is hatched, 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:34.800 it imprints on the first moving thing it sees, whether 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:39.280 a bird, another animal, or a person. It develops this 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:44.040 psychological connection, and that's what the bird begins to identify. 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:47.560 As he said, when this hawk hatched, I was the 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:51.360 first thing it saw. It thinks I'm his mother. He's 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:55.480 been misimprinted. And he told how even though the hawk 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:59.480 is powerful, even though it's a natural born predator, it 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:02.560 can't serve in the wild, doesn't know how to hunt, 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:06.560 how to defend itself, how to interact with other birds, 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:11.800 all because in its early years it got confused about 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:15.880 its true identity. I read where researchers found this Canada 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:18.920 goose that was living with a bunch of ducks. Even 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:22.720 though the goose was bigger, made to fly higher, it 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:26.480 always acted like a duck. They discovered that it was 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:30.080 hatched in a duck's nest. The first thing it saw 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:33.840 were all these ducks. It didn't know any better. It 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:39.320 imprinted on the wrong species. The result was lifelong confusion. 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:45.200 Never soared, couldn't protect itself, didn't reproduce like it was designed. 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:50.000 It had mistaken identity. I wonder how many of us 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:54.520 have been misimprinted. We were made in the image of God. 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:56.680 He has crowned us with his favor. 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:00.160 He calls us blessed, strong, free. 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:06.400 But perhaps the first thing we saw was mediocrity, insecurity, addictions, 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:10.520 people that compromise. Now we've let that become our identity. 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:13.880 We think that's who we are. Can I tell you 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:15.840 that is a mis imprint. 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:19.240 That may be what you've seen, but that is not 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:20.039 who you are. 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:23.480 You are a child of the most hai God. Don't 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:27.400 take on that false identity. Don't get connected to the 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:31.239 wrong species, so to speak. You may have been raised 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:34.320 by a bunch of ducks, no offense, but people that 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:39.159 didn't soar, that accepted mediocrity, or by turkeys, people that 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:44.520 were critical, complained jealous, by chickens, people insecure in fear, 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:45.240 no vision. 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:46.640 You didn't know any better. 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:50.520 You let that imprint on you, that's become your identity. 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:52.120 The good news is. 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:57.640 You can be re imprinted. You can override any wrong imprinting. 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:01.920 The scripture says you are trends formed by the renewing 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:06.640 of your mind. The way you correct that misimprinting is. 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:09.640 To go back to who God says you are. You 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:12.479 are not how you were raised. You are not how 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:13.799 someone treated you. 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:17.120 You are not what they said. That's not your identity. 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:20.480 They didn't breathe life into you. They didn't know you 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.640 before you were formed in your mother's womb. God did 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:27.719 go back to the one who created you and agree 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:28.479 with who. 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:29.360 Heath says you are. 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:33.760 Something powerful happens when you say I am blessed, I 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:37.760 am valuable, I am free, I am forgiven, I am 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:43.120 victorious in the unseen realm, change are broken, forces of. 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:44.440 Darkness are pushed back. 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:50.120 Don't go through life with mistaken identity. Are there areas 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:55.839 where you've been misimprinted. You've let your environment, the examples 0:05:55.880 --> 0:06:00.000 you've seen, become your identity, and now it's limiting you 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:03.600 Like that hawk. You have all this God given potential, 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:08.520 all this talent, strength and skill, but you've identified with 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:12.880 something lessers. You see yourself as not able or not discipline, 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:16.400 not talented. Why don't you start a new recording in 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:20.159 your mind? That's what's going to transform you. 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:21.520 By what you're thinking. 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:25.200 As long as you're thinking like a duck, you're gonna quack. 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:28.080 As long as you're thinking like a chicken, you're gonna 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:33.280 go around pecking, looking down, not expecting anything good. I mean, 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:37.040 a chicken has wings but can't really fly. That's not 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:39.680 who you were created to be. God said you will 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:43.159 soar like the eagles. God said you are the head, 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:46.159 and not to tell. He said your children will be 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:49.360 mighty in the land. If this is gonna happen, there 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:54.520 has to be some re imprinting, some renewing, transforming, because 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:58.320 most likely we've all been misimprinted in some area. 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:00.640 And it's not just from how you were raised. 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:04.160 But you go through a disappointment, your business went down, 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:10.520 you make mistakes, guilt and condemnation comes. You're fighting depression, anxiety, 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:14.040 thoughts saying you'll always struggle. Don't take on that identity. 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:17.160 If you're dealing with the sickness, keep this thought. You 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:20.320 are not a sick person trying to get well. You 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:25.320 are a well person fighting off sickness, health, wholeness, vitality. 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:28.840 That's who you are. Anything else is only temporary. 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:33.040 It's just passing through well Joel, all my families depressed. 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:36.280 Grandmother was depressed, mother was depressed, the dog's depressed. 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:38.760 The goldfish. Can I challenge you. 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:41.800 You're the one to break out of that rut. You're 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:44.760 the one to set a new standard. Don't pass down 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:48.760 the wrong identity. There may have been generations of misimprinting 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:52.440 in your family line, but the buck can stop with you. 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:55.520 You can re imprint who you are. You can start 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:57.160 the right identity. 0:07:57.360 --> 0:08:01.520 When you transform your mind, you will your life and 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:05.400 even impact generations to come. I talked to a lady 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:08.480 that had gone through a divorce and was very hurtful. 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:12.720 There was infidelity involved, and she was not only discouraged, 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:15.800 but she is very down on herself and thoughts whispered 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.680 You're not good enough. He wouldn't have left you if 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:22.040 you were more attractive and had a better personality. If 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:26.680 you believe those lies, they will begin to misimprint you. 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:29.720 You will take on the wrong identity, even though you're 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:34.200 a masterpiece made in God's image. You'll start living like 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:37.760 you're unworthy, not valuable, nothing to offer. 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:41.160 The enemy works over time in this area. 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:46.600 He'd loved to distort your identity to keep you from recognizing. 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:46.880 Who you really are. 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:51.840 So like that hawk, even though you're powerful, talented, and 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:55.959 have all this potential, you'll never step into the greatness 0:08:56.160 --> 0:09:01.160 God put in you. Now, that hawk unfortunately can't. He's 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:03.080 been misimprinted permanently. 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:05.160 But not you. 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:08.440 You can be transformed by the renewing of your mind. 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:13.920 Pay attention to what you're thinking. Are there things limiting you, 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:17.640 telling you you're not enough and you can't be successful, 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:21.520 and you'll always be addicted, lonely, struggling. 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:23.960 Why do you think that way? 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:26.680 Could it be that's the enemy trying to deceive you 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:31.360 into mistaking your identity, thinking that you're a chicken when 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:32.360 really you're an eagle. 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:34.160 You were created to sored. 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:37.360 We see this way back in the Garden of Eden 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:41.480 with Adam and Eve. They were living in paradise, enjoying 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:45.240 their lives, blessed and grateful. But when they ate the 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:49.920 forbidden fruit, suddenly they were afraid. They felt guilty and ashamed, 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:53.800 They recognized they were naked. They ran in hid and 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:57.040 tried to stay away from God. The first thing the 0:09:57.160 --> 0:10:00.920 enemy did was to try to change their identity. You're 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:04.880 not worthy, you're not valuable, you don't deserve it anymore. 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:07.680 He was trying to misimprint them. 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:12.400 He uses the same strategy today when we make mistakes, 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:16.079 go through failures, He always goes for our identity. You're 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:20.560 a failure, you're unworthy, you're not talented enough. If you 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:23.959 take on that identity and start seeing yourself that way, 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:25.439 you'll miss your destiny. 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:28.439 Later in the day, God came walking. 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:31.480 Through the garden. Adam, where are you? Adam said God. 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:36.440 We're hiding because we're naked. God said, Adam, who told 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:40.040 you you were naked? Anything that's trying to make you 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:43.880 feel less than, not enough, you need to ask yourself 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:48.679 where did that come from? That's the enemy whispering his lies. 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:53.360 God is saying, who told you you're not talented? Who 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:57.400 told you you're not attractive? Who told you you'll always struggle? 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:01.240 Who told you you can't accomplish your dreams? Tune out 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:04.880 all the lies and reprogram your mind with who God 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:09.640 says you are. You may have gone through disappointments, times 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:12.360 you didn't measure up, and you have good reasons to 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:17.240 live condemned, discouraged, But nothing that's happened to you has 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.720 changed who you are. You are still a child of 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:25.200 the most high, full of power, full of potential. No 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:30.040 mistake you've made, no failure, no weakness has changed your identity. 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:35.000 You are still worthy, valuable, a masterpiece. This is what 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:38.319 happened with the Israelites. They had been in slavery four 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:43.680 hundred years in Egypt, generation after generation, being mistreated and 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:47.240 looked down on, and God saw the injustice and he 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:51.320 supernaturally delivered them. Pharaoh let the people go and they 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:55.520 headed toward the promised land. You can imagine, after all 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:59.760 that time and captivity and being oppressed, what their identity 0:11:59.880 --> 0:12:00.280 was us. 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:01.800 Even though they were. 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:06.760 God's chosen people, had his blessing, they still saw themselves 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:10.760 as slaves. They came out of Egypt, but Egypt never 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:15.720 came out of them. That imprint was so strong. Generation's deep. 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:19.640 We're slaves man, we're poor, we're defeated. 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:23.920 Things can become ingrained in us to where it's passed 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:29.440 from generation to generation. It's what they saw growing up, poverty, struggle, 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:30.480 and injustice. 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.280 The babies that were born, they didn't know any different. 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:37.880 They identified with It took on that mindset. Here's how 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:42.680 powerful a misimprint can be. They were finally free, but 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:45.040 they kept wanting to go back to Egypt. 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:47.040 Every time they faced adversity. 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:49.280 Moses, why did you bring us out here in the 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:50.360 desert to die? 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:51.880 That didn't make sense. 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:56.000 Who would want to go back to being mistreated injustice? 0:12:56.480 --> 0:13:00.800 That's what happens when we've been misimprinted, when we've let 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:05.600 the enemy distort our identity. There may be negative things 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:08.280 that have been in your family line for a long time. 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:10.200 They seem normal to you. 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:16.760 Everyone's addicted or has problem with anger, staying faithful in relationships, 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:20.720 or thinking they can be successful. That will continue to 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:25.280 get passed down until someone rises up. Someone has to 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:30.640 recognize this is not who we are, This is mistaken identity, This. 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:31.319 Is a misprimer. 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:35.319 You can be the one to break the negative cycle. 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:39.280 You can set the new standard starts in your thinking. 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:41.720 You have to delete any. 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:46.560 Strongholds that are contradicting who God says you are. Thoughts 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:49.440 tell you you'll never break that addiction. God says whom 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:50.080 the son. 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:51.240 Says free, will be free. 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:54.760 Indeed, don't believe the lie that the addiction is just 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:55.440 who you are. 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:59.520 You are free, You are a whole. No weapon formed 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:00.800 against you, You will prosper. 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:04.680 Joel, I've had a lot of bad breaks and closed doors, 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:06.440 and this person walked away. 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:08.760 You're right where the Israelites were. 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:12.520 Don't make the mistake they made and take on that identity, 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:14.319 or you'll always want. 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.880 To go back thinking this is who I am. No. 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:18.800 God has beauty for those ashes. 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:21.680 He said he'd pay you back double for the unfair 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:24.200 things that may have happened to you. 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:26.280 But it didn't change who you are. 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:29.800 You are still a masterpiece, You're still a prized possession. 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:33.560 You still have a future and a hope. Or how 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:36.560 about the lie that you've made too many mistakes, You've 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:39.640 gotten too far off course and you can't be blessed now. 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:43.560 Some of the heroes of faith in the Bible made 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:47.440 great mistakes. The apostle Paul, you remember, he started off 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:50.960 trying to kill believers. He was the greatest enemy of 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:54.600 the church. In a split second, God changed him. He 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:57.080 went on to write over half of the books in 0:14:57.120 --> 0:14:59.320 the New Testament would have. 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:02.920 Never happened if he had kept the wrong imprint. I'm 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:05.800 washed it up. I've done too much wrong. I don't 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:06.400 deserve it. 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:11.560 Those mistakes didn't lessen your value. The enemy is called 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.760 the accuser. He's going to try to use what you've 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:18.520 done wrong to misimprint you, to get you to see 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:23.040 yourself as unworthy, not valuable. Just sit on the sidelines, 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:26.520 do yourself a favor, tune all that out, and get 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:27.800 in agreement with God. 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:29.840 Reprogram your thinking. 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:33.440 I am forgiven, I am redeemed, I am restored, I 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:37.480 am the righteousness of God. The Israelites came to the 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:38.240 Promised Land. 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:39.800 They were camped next. 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:42.920 Door, and Moses sent twelve men to spy out the land. 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:47.360 After forty days, ten came back and said, Moses, there 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:50.520 are giants in the land. We were in our own 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:55.040 sights as grasshoppers, as we were in their sights. The 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:58.720 giants you face in life don't determine who you are. 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:00.600 They revealed who you are. 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:06.280 Notice how they saw themselves. We were as grasshoppers. You're 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:09.760 talking about the power of a wrong imprint. These people 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:13.280 had just seen God delivered them out of slavery, heart 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:17.520 the Red Sea, drowned their enemies. They saw manna breakfast 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:21.800 each morning in the desert, supernatural protection. You would think 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:26.360 they would see themselves as mighty powerful, knowing that there 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:30.480 were God's chosen people, But it was just the opposite. 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:33.160 They never got rid of their slave mentality. 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:37.720 They saw themselves as weak and not able because of 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:40.360 their mistaken identity, they never. 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:43.440 Did go into the Promised land. Don't let that be 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:44.400 you are. 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:48.720 There areas where you've had a misimprint or what you've seen, 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:52.880 what you've been through, how someone treated you, has caused 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:55.640 you to have a distorted image of who you are. 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:59.960 You've taken on the identity of the environment you've been in. 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:00.920 Here. 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:05.600 You're this strong, powerful eagle destined to soore, but you've 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:09.360 got a dunk mentality, a limited mindset because of what 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:12.880 you've seen. You have to know that is not who 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:17.480 you are. Your environment is not your identity. Your identity 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:21.760 comes from your creator, God breathed his life into you. 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:25.800 Whether you're in the palace or in the slums, none 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:29.200 of that changes your worth. That doesn't change your value. 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:33.480 Here's the key. How you see yourself is what matters. 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:38.080 If you see yourself as limited, not able, or not attractive, 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:43.400 you'll live that way. But if you'll see yourself as valuable, strong, successful, 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:46.280 you will live a victorious life. 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:48.840 This is what my father had to do. Daddy was 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:49.800 raised very poor. 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:53.040 His parents were farmers and they lost everything during the 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:56.399 Great Depression. Many times they didn't have enough food to eat. 0:17:57.200 --> 0:18:02.280 Daddy didn't know any better. That's the identity he took on. Poor, defeated, 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:07.439 never do anything significant. But it's seventeen years old. Walking 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:10.240 home from a nightclub at two o'clock in the morning, 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:13.359 he began to think about God and what he was 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:17.399 going to do with his life. His family knew nothing 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:20.639 about faith. They had no kind of religion. But the 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:23.359 next day he went to church with a friend and 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:26.400 gave his life to Christ, the first one in the family. 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:30.320 He felt God calling him to become a minister. That 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:31.200 didn't make sense. 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:34.280 He didn't have any training, any kind of experience. 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:36.840 He told his parents that he was going to leave 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:39.840 the farm and go out and start ministering, and they 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:42.880 didn't understand and tried to talk him out of it. 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:47.800 All his parents had known was a life of struggle, mediocrity, 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:51.679 trying to survive. That's what had been ingrained in my 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:56.320 father's thinking. It had been passed down for generations. It 0:18:56.359 --> 0:19:00.320 looked like it would continue. But my father rose up 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:03.680 and said, no, this is not who we are. This 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:07.639 is a misimprint. We are not defeated can't do it. 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:11.399 Limited people. We are children of Almighty God. 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:19.199 We are blessed, strong, prosperous, holy, forgiven, victorious. He transformed 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:22.359 his life by renewing his mind. He took on a 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:26.000 new identity who God says we are. He changed the 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:29.560 course for our family line, myself, my siblings. 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:31.720 We grew up with a different imprint. 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:36.040 Are their wrong imprints robbing you from your true identity? 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:39.479 You can change. It starts in your thinking. 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:42.840 It's what God said to Adam, who told you you. 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:43.800 Can't rise higher. 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:47.320 Get rid of those lies and start believing what God 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:48.160 says about you. 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:50.120 Judges, Chapter six. 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:53.840 Gideon was hiding in a wine press, afraid of the 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:58.520 enemy army surrounding the city, and every time their crops blossomed, 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:01.280 these bandits would come and try to take it away. 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:06.280 While Gideon was so worried and fearful, an angel appeared 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:10.359 and said, mighty hero, the Lord is with you. You 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:14.920 are to deliver the Israelites from the Midianites. God called 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:18.879 him a mighty hero when he was afraid and intimidated, 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:21.080 God calls you who you really are. 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:23.000 Gideon was confused. 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:26.440 He said to the angel, how can I deliver the Israelites. 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:29.879 I come from the poorest family. I am the least 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:33.879 one in my father's house. What was Gideon's problem? He 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:38.080 had been misimprinted what he saw his environment. 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:41.920 We're less than We're at a disadvantage. We can't leave 0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:42.399 our mark. 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:46.600 The fact is Gideon was a mighty hero. He was 0:20:46.640 --> 0:20:49.600 a history maker. That's who God destined him to be. 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:52.520 But he let the wrong identity take root. 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:56.080 He believed those lies that he was his environment. 0:20:56.560 --> 0:21:00.400 He was like everyone around him. This angel showed up 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:03.760 to tell him who he really was. Gideon kept making 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:06.119 the excuses. I don't see how we come from the 0:21:06.160 --> 0:21:09.320 wrong family. This obstacle is too big. He went back 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:12.800 and forth with the angel. Finally he agreed to go 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:17.520 out and lead the Israelites. That's when he discovered favor, strength, 0:21:18.000 --> 0:21:21.359 courage that he'd never seen. By the time the battle 0:21:21.440 --> 0:21:24.119 was over, the people were shouting a sword for the 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:25.760 Lord and a sword for Gideon. 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:28.520 A little earlier, he was hiding. 0:21:28.920 --> 0:21:32.000 Now he's leading the charge with people shouting his name. 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:36.440 Gideon went on to become a hero of faith. This 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:39.320 would have never happened if the Angel had not shown 0:21:39.400 --> 0:21:41.960 up to correct his identity. 0:21:42.160 --> 0:21:45.639 As long as he saw himself as limited, weak, he 0:21:45.680 --> 0:21:48.400 would have stayed there and hiding it, missed his destiny. 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:53.520 Maybe God sent me today to help correct any wrong identities, 0:21:53.960 --> 0:21:55.920 to remind you who you really are. 0:21:56.640 --> 0:21:59.119 There's a mighty hero in you. 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:05.560 You are strong, you are valuable, you are talented, attractive, favored, empowered. 0:22:06.560 --> 0:22:10.080 Don't let a wrong identity keep you from your greatness. 0:22:10.520 --> 0:22:15.119 Reprogram you're thinking with what God says about you. Tune 0:22:15.119 --> 0:22:20.200 out all the misinformation, the negative, limited, not enough, too 0:22:20.240 --> 0:22:25.240 many mistakes. The enemy would love for you to become misimprinted, 0:22:25.800 --> 0:22:28.479 so you will miss your destiny. But this is a 0:22:28.520 --> 0:22:32.679 new day. God is reimprinting you. There's a new image 0:22:32.720 --> 0:22:37.919 taken root. No more grasshopper mentality, but a mighty hero mentality. 0:22:38.760 --> 0:22:41.960 No more can't do it but well able, No more, 0:22:42.000 --> 0:22:46.040 not valuable, but masterpiece made in the image. 0:22:45.680 --> 0:22:48.560 Of Almighty God. Friend of mine was. 0:22:48.560 --> 0:22:51.080 Raised here in the Fifth Ward in Houston back in 0:22:51.119 --> 0:22:54.120 the nineteen sixties, and it was pretty rough back then. 0:22:54.200 --> 0:22:57.000 A lot of gangs and drugs, and his father wasn't 0:22:57.040 --> 0:23:00.800 around while his mother was working. He started skipping school 0:23:00.840 --> 0:23:04.840 and getting into trouble and stealing things, robbing. One day 0:23:04.880 --> 0:23:07.879 the police were chasing him. He was running through a 0:23:07.880 --> 0:23:11.200 neighborhood and he crawled under this house that was up 0:23:11.200 --> 0:23:13.960 on blocks, and they had a police dog after him, 0:23:14.000 --> 0:23:17.399 and he opened up the sewer and covered himself in 0:23:17.480 --> 0:23:20.480 waste and filth so the dog couldn't smell him, and 0:23:20.520 --> 0:23:25.080 he got away. But sitting in that filth, something said, 0:23:25.240 --> 0:23:27.359 you were made for more than this. 0:23:27.359 --> 0:23:28.720 This is not who you are. 0:23:29.480 --> 0:23:32.040 He went by Jim one day and saw some people 0:23:32.040 --> 0:23:35.520 in their boxing. He walked in as a teenager, told 0:23:35.520 --> 0:23:36.800 the man he wanted to box. 0:23:37.119 --> 0:23:39.440 Man was rude. Get out of here, kid, I don't 0:23:39.480 --> 0:23:40.280 have time for you. 0:23:41.040 --> 0:23:46.000 As he was leaving so dejected, another man came over said, listen, son, 0:23:46.560 --> 0:23:49.640 if you want a box, I'll train you, and if 0:23:49.680 --> 0:23:52.320 you'll work hard and stick with it, you can become 0:23:52.400 --> 0:23:56.080 an Olympic champion. He didn't even know the young man, 0:23:56.520 --> 0:23:59.720 he had never met him, but he saw something in him, 0:24:00.200 --> 0:24:03.919 Like the Angel with Gideon, Sometimes you need people to 0:24:04.000 --> 0:24:05.480 speak faith into you. 0:24:05.680 --> 0:24:07.120 To tell you who you really are. 0:24:07.960 --> 0:24:10.639 Nobody had ever told that young man he could do 0:24:10.720 --> 0:24:11.359 something great. 0:24:11.840 --> 0:24:14.720 All he heard was you're not good enough. You never 0:24:14.760 --> 0:24:17.080 amount to anything. You can't even stay out of trouble. 0:24:17.720 --> 0:24:21.680 That day, a stronghold was broken in his mind. That 0:24:21.880 --> 0:24:26.640 misimprinting began to change. He thought, maybe I'm not who 0:24:26.680 --> 0:24:28.880 I think I am. Maybe I'm not. 0:24:29.280 --> 0:24:34.480 Defeated, undisciplined, with no future. He began to reprogram his mind. 0:24:35.359 --> 0:24:37.640 That coach not only told him what he could become, 0:24:38.040 --> 0:24:40.439 but he gave him a pair of boxing shoes and 0:24:40.560 --> 0:24:41.879 boxing gloves. 0:24:42.240 --> 0:24:45.160 No one had ever given him anything. He had never 0:24:45.280 --> 0:24:46.200 boxed before. 0:24:46.320 --> 0:24:50.240 But one year later George Foreman was an Olympic champion. 0:24:50.680 --> 0:24:53.960 He won the gold medal. He went on to become. 0:24:53.960 --> 0:24:57.280 The heavyweight champion of the world, and when he retired, 0:24:57.320 --> 0:25:00.760 he became a pastor Crosstown, always talking about what God 0:25:00.840 --> 0:25:03.880 can do, how you can turn any situation around. 0:25:04.440 --> 0:25:07.560 It's amazing what happens when we get rid of the 0:25:07.600 --> 0:25:08.520 wrong identity. 0:25:09.400 --> 0:25:12.880 I wonder if there are areas where you've been misimprinted, 0:25:13.520 --> 0:25:16.840 like George, like get in, I'm just average joint. I 0:25:16.880 --> 0:25:19.639 can't do anything great. I've been through too much. The 0:25:19.720 --> 0:25:24.480 truth is you're a mighty hero. You have greatness in you. 0:25:24.480 --> 0:25:26.520 You have to clear out all the lies that are 0:25:26.560 --> 0:25:29.520 trying to deceive you into being less than you were 0:25:29.560 --> 0:25:33.920 created to be. You can be transformed by the renewing 0:25:34.000 --> 0:25:37.199 of your mind. Start dwelling on what God says about you. 0:25:37.960 --> 0:25:41.960 Not the limited, can't do it, not valuable thoughts. How 0:25:41.960 --> 0:25:47.200 about the strong, talented, mighty hero thoughts. God is going 0:25:47.240 --> 0:25:50.920 to take you further than you can imagine. Gideon never 0:25:51.040 --> 0:25:54.200 dreamed he would be a hero of fate. My father 0:25:54.280 --> 0:25:57.760 never dreamed he'd leave the farm and go on to impact. 0:25:57.320 --> 0:26:00.400 People all over the world. What God, God is. 0:26:00.320 --> 0:26:03.119 Going to do in your life is going to supersede 0:26:03.320 --> 0:26:06.600 anything you can imagine. Now, don't limit him with the 0:26:06.640 --> 0:26:11.720 wrong identity. You may have had some misimprinting things you 0:26:11.760 --> 0:26:14.560 believe that you didn't know any better that I believe 0:26:14.680 --> 0:26:15.800 and declare today. 0:26:16.200 --> 0:26:19.480 God is reimprinting strongholds. 0:26:18.800 --> 0:26:22.360 Being broken, forces that have held you back coming down. 0:26:22.640 --> 0:26:26.919 The mighty hero is coming out your true identity in 0:26:27.080 --> 0:26:29.679 Jesus's name, And if you receive it, can. 0:26:29.600 --> 0:26:30.280 You say amen? 0:26:32.200 --> 0:26:34.880 I'd like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus 0:26:34.960 --> 0:26:37.480 the lord of your life. Would you pray with me? 0:26:38.320 --> 0:26:42.600 Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come 0:26:42.600 --> 0:26:46.080 into my heart. I make you my lord and savior. 0:26:46.880 --> 0:26:49.280 If you prayed that simple prayer. We believe you got 0:26:49.320 --> 0:26:52.480 born again. 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