That is quite like you even if though they may physically look like you Not the same And you need to look at yourself and see What is good that's already there. It doesn't need to be changed I know At times we tend to overlook that We always look for the bad. We're always Dissatisfied With the things we don't like But you do have some gifts or abilities That are really good Just have a look at your life and see the things that you have already Succeeded in just look at what has already improved in your life You see you have not been stagnant.

You have been moving forward and you have grown in some areas There are a lot of good things there and we don't want to get rid of those. We want to keep them But then we need to see the bad things That need to be changed What bad habits? Have you developed? over time Where have you failed? in life And if you could What would you like to change? about yourself Now you need to deal with each of these differently and you know Like I said, we tend to often major on the negative And we forget the good things that we have we forget all the wonderful things that god has given us And taught us along the way and we forget to be thankful For what we already have We tend to complain about what we don't have But we don't take the time To thank the lord For the good things the scripture says in everything give thanks But this is the will of god in christ jesus concerning you so start practicing the habit every day Of looking at your life and all the good things that are there and saying lord. Thank you I so appreciate what you've given me And then when it comes to the bad things Learn to hate them Well, you know They're part of me And you know, well, you know if you were in my circumstances You know, you would have you maybe you would also battle with some of the These things, you know, we do we try and justify ourselves We make excuses For our failures and our weaknesses You'll do that, don't you? Especially if somebody points them out.

Oh boy You know if I find them that's one thing somebody else points it out. I've got 10 reasons why I am that way and it's not my fault. Is it don't compare yourself with other people Don't do that Just look at the things in you that you know They are bad and we need to get rid of them and you must come to the place where you are no longer Satisfied to have them in your life.

You must start to hate them literally hate them because when you hate them You're going to do something about getting rid of them While you are tolerating them and making excuses for them you will never And that's just my introduction Let's look at your background Your experiences And your habits Three very important aspects to our life that have determined Who we are And what we have become And how we succeed in life Now you were born with only the basics, you know that You were born with no knowledge of anything except the need to survive physically The only thing a baby is born with Is the knowledge that I want and I need to eat Basic needs There's no other knowledge there There'd be no experience of the dangers of life except perhaps What's happened with the mother? The experiences maybe that you've had in the womb which are very limited You haven't interacted with the world out there yet. Your knowledge Is almost zero You've had no direct interaction with other human beings again except your mother Now there are some spiritual influences That have come down from previous generations But by and large your spirit also Is largely uncontaminated and ignorant You come with a clean slate So you started out most of us started out very similar situation and condition But as we look at ourselves now, we're not the same are we and I'm not just looking at physical characteristics You compare yourself with other people they're different to you Why? What makes each of us so different and distinct The difference lies In what was written on that clean slate From the moment you were born The difference lies in what got programmed into you during your lifetime And for each of us That is a different experience As you began to grow up you would had to be taught To think in a certain way Didn't come automatically You had to choose how to respond to the experiences That you had in life and you began to form habits Through repetition of doing the same thing again and again until you became comfortable with them and he became A habit in your life and each of us have formed different habits Now as you look back on your life You have a whole set of programs that have been built into you That enable you to live in this world And to conduct your life What you are right now Is the result of three main influences In our life The first influence is your background your culture your environment the place you were born into and grew up in The country or the nation that you were born into molded The way you think and the way you look at life the family that you were born into Decided How you were going to think? and approach life And the church environment that you were born again in Has determined How you view the spiritual life and how you view the lord and how you view living as a christian so many different denominations So many different churches so many different beliefs and structures out there And if you were born and grew up in a particular environment, the chances are you were programmed into thinking the way that that group thought If you attend a church every sunday and listen to the same preacher presenting their Views you begin to adopt the same views All of these things Have begun to mold you and make you Into who you are right now Now we have a technical term that we use for that. It's called an archetype I'm not going to teach you about it now The full course that i'm going to be offering is going to teach you that in some detail You understand how archetypes work, but all of us have archetypes Very often we're not even aware of them Until we actually are forced to move out of our circumstances If you were to move out of your family situation and go and live with another family You would suddenly realize that that family has a totally different way of doing things It's not the same you thought you know what I didn't know people did things like that.

Yeah, i'm used to doing it this way You know, I saw my mom and dad do it that way my sibling. This is how we live This is how we conducted our life. This is how we ran the home Where do these people get this idea from it's totally different I'm moving to another country Sometimes even just another province in the same country And in some of the smaller communities you get these these little groups Where each group has its own characteristics They're totally different To a group that could be just 10 k's away It's amazing How there comes this group thinking that's what an archetype is Okay, and then the second Influence in your life has been the experiences that you had in life You've had positive experiences which produce good feelings and you've had negative experiences which have produced bad feelings and in each case You had to make a choice on how to respond to those experiences Most of the choices that we make are emotional aren't they? We respond according to our feelings.

So if you had a really bad experience And it affected your emotions very negatively You respond to it in a certain way Not everybody responds the same if you've had good experiences in life. You probably had positive good feelings and emotions And so you learn to respond to those situations what actually happens Is because of the experiences of life you form your own little philosophy of life and how to deal with these experiences You've decided how you're going to respond to good experiences and how you're going to respond to bad experiences And actually each of us respond in different ways A lot of that is determined by our temperamental makeup by what kind of person we are By how strong or weak we are We've decided When good things happen, this is what I'm going to do. Let's go and party maybe When bad things happen, I'm going to sit and sob.

I'm going to get angry and lash out at everybody around me I'm going to become aggressive So many different ways you can respond, but you made your choice on how you're going to respond You look at the person sitting next to you. They respond very differently See you've become programmed And you formed your own little mini programs That are running your computer I have a technical term that I use for this. I call it templates It's a computer programming word and it's a a set of program routines A a kind of a model of how a program should run and you formed your own little templates of how to respond to different circumstances in life now As you grow older and you re-experience those same things You will tend to respond to them in the same way that you responded to the original experience That's the thing we call triggers.

We'll teach you on that in detail the third influence Is the habits that you formed in your life Now you've formed some very good habits Which actually have helped you to succeed in life which have helped you to accomplish many things The beauty of a habit is you don't have to think about it It comes out Spontaneously, you've got so used to doing it that you're comfortable with doing it and you as a child got out of bed The last thing in your mind was I should tidy my bed and make it look neat If you were allowed to continue that you formed a habit Of always having a messy bed or bedroom However, the chances are you had a fussy mother Who said tidy your bed. It's a mess And I don't feel like it mom do it now or else Well after doing it for a few times eventually you feel comfortable with it And eventually it becomes a habit And now as an adult when you get out of bed The last thing in your mind is i'm going to leave it a mess like that. In fact before you take a step even Anywhere else gotta tidy the bed Gotta make it look good See, that's a good habit that was formed in you It had some good effects in your life And now you began to apply that same habit to other parts of your life.

You became more efficient You just didn't leave everything a mess and let life just happen Even not all of us form good habits Some of us have formed bad habits Okay, there are so many of them i'm not even going to try and give you an illustration. You know what your bad habits are If you'll admit them Those are the things making you fail in life. We have bad habits of the way we spend money.

We have bad habits of the way We use our time We have bad habits with the amount of work we do and how lazy we are there's so many different areas And because they are now habits It's very difficult for us to change In fact each person Has their own little daily routine if you like their way of Handling life and approaching life now. We have a technical word for that It's a big word. A lot of people throw around and it sounds very technical.

It's the word paradigm You have a paradigm of your own A lifestyle that you have formed through the habits that you created On the way you approach life And so these are three influences in your life that have made you into what you are now your archetype that you were born into and influenced by Your templates that came as a result of your good and bad experiences in life and the paradigm that you formed by choosing which habits Were going to occupy your life Now Don't you look at unbelievers and believers? It's not much difference really is there An unbeliever goes through the exact same experiences as you do as a believer. So what makes you? different Well outside of the lord actually there is no difference In these things between us and unbelievers. Everybody has very similar experiences with programming And often we can overcome some of these by reprogramming ourselves or getting somebody to help us reprogram But here's the difference between a believer Being reprogrammed and an unbeliever being reprogrammed You see outside of christ Everything that you did was motivated by your sinful nature And actually was corrupted with sin So when an unbeliever goes through a process of change and trust me there's a lot of programs out there There's a lot of teachings out there In the realm known as self-help Where people learn to change and become more successful in life But here's the difference between a believer changing and an unbeliever changing when an unbeliever changes a habit pattern That was formed through sin They create a new habit pattern Which is also formed through sin In other words all an unbeliever learns to do is send in a different way while it might be Effective in your life might make you more successful financially And in relationships and things like that But at the heart of it is sinful selfishness The lord isn't in it see As believers we have something That the unsaved don't have Because we are born again we have the holy spirit living inside of us That means we have an influence a person to help us overcome all of the effects of sin The holy spirit is there also to give you new abilities And to empower you To give you strength and power to overcome those weaknesses Is also there to be your teacher To teach you how to change and how to succeed in life Now that gives us a big advantage over unbelievers you see Believers should rise up more easily We should believe in the way Unbelievers shall be coming to us and say, how do you do it? Just look at you.

You've always got it together. You've always got that smile on your face. You're always full of joy Nothing seems to faze you Everything you touch seems to prosper.

How do you do it? Should be that way, shouldn't it? Uh, but Uh We don't see it often do it Instead we see believers running to the world and say, please will you teach me how to succeed? Please will you teach me how to overcome my problems? Please? Will you teach me how to become wealthy? Why is that? I tell you why because we have enemies Which the unbeliever doesn't have From the moment you were born again, you declared war on the realm of darkness And everything that it stands for You see you have several enemies and the biggest one firstly is the world system Which is ungodly which doesn't follow god a bunch of people who together with all of their archetypes and their paradigms Have created a system of selfishness and sinfulness To succeed and get what they want in life You as a believer Are living in this world and are facing pressures All the people all around you to conform and be like them and unfortunately Because so many of these people have presented all their teaching I see christians running to the world Doing study courses on how to succeed in life Why is that? Well, probably part of the reasons because the church has failed to do this Are we going to change that? We're going to change that We're going to show the church how to do this The world system squeezes you and forces you to conform and if you don't you're the odd one out You're not acceptable people don't want to associate with you It's one of our biggest enemies the second one is the flesh And that's your own sinful nature that came as a result of the fall of adam and eve in the garden of eden We are born with a tendency to sin that's resident in us Don't have to teach a child to do the wrong Don't have to teach us to do the wrong. We have an inner nature that propels us To do everything contrary to what god intended And we've got to overcome that We've got to bring it under and we've got to stop it From influencing us And then we have the devil himself satan with these gazillion hordes of demons all working against us Our unbelievers have it easy They have it easy because all of these forces are helping them The world is helping them Their sinful nature and selfishness is helping them It drives them The demon forces are helping them And giving them wisdom and knowledge to do things satan's way not god's way That's why so many christians are failing the unbelievers are succeeding But we have something they don't have we have one within us who can help us to overcome the world to overcome the flesh To overcome satan and his hordes of demons we have authority and power and ability Overcome these things and to rise up above them If we'll use it If we know how to use it, but it doesn't come automatically does it? We have to learn these things We have to learn these things That's why god has raised up teachers Unfortunately, it's too many teachers in the world teaching their things It's time the body of christ rises up and god raises up teachers Who know the word of god who know the spirit of god who know the power of god? Who know the truth of how we are supposed to be in christ and to teach god's children to rise up and become? Far greater than the unbelievers until they start to envy us And say wow, I wish what you had what it should be your true motivation for change In the world, it's always selfish In the world, it's always sinful For the believer this cannot be Does that mean god doesn't want us? To have good things not at all Actually this world and all the good things in it were not created for satan and his followers that were created for god's god's man adam And then his wife And their generations they were created for us human beings this world was made for us Satan stole it god wants us to get back and have what else It's ours this You know christians are too busy wanting to go off to heaven one day and leave it all behind Well, the bad news is actually you're coming back here again Because in the end the the new jerusalem is coming down to this earth We're going to live with jesus on this earth and we're going to live and reign with him So don't run away from this place. This is your inheritance But your motivation must be a desire to please the lord and to be the very best you That he's designed you to be He doesn't want you to be inferior To the world.

He doesn't want you pushed down while they are lifted up He wants to lift you up and set you on a pinnacle and show you to the world and he wants to go And brag about you and say to all of them Hey, you want to see what a real person who is blessed by me looks like take a look here There's nothing that the world can desire that god will withhold from you except sin And who needs to sin when he's given us so much more So many more exciting things in the realm of the spirit You cannot be motivated by bitterness you cannot be motivated by lust You cannot be motivated by greed Because these are the roots of the flesh Which you will learn about in some detail You go through the main course that i'm going to be offering You need to find your destiny In life God has a plan Just for you Now that doesn't mean that god sat down and decided what you must be Without consulting you And forced on you and said I don't care what you want. This is what I want for you. You better do That's not god's plan for you at all.

God's plan will always include the things that you desire God's plan is based on his full knowledge Of who you will be where you will be how you will be He didn't just throw together a haphazard plan He plotted it all out you see so you He saw you there As you were lying in your mother's arms After being born he was there He was watching over you When you were crying all by yourself He was there Watching over you When you walked out all alone When you went to school and felt rejected by everybody he was there When you face problems in the workplace He was there Every stage of your life He was there with you He knew all about you and he knew What you would want to become and he'd already laid out his plans for you God was not caught by surprise And he's provided some extra things to help us along the way The devil may have his hordes of angels Sorry, he's hordes of demons You know the scripture says That when satan fell from heaven one third of the angels fell Those are the angels that became demons So, you know what that means It means demons are outnumbered two to one Those angels are available to you. Don't worry about all the demons that the unbelievers have We got two angels to every demon At least There's plenty to go around Plenty and god has made them available to help us to live and to succeed and become everything That we desire to be and the plan according to the plan that he has laid out just for you But you need to find out what your destiny in life is shouldn't you you should find out what his plan is The angels are going to be there to help you and the holy spirit living within you Is going to help you to walk according to that plan and to be everything That god has designed for you everything that you have desired from him now that plan is always good It's always going to lead to blessing in your life It's going to result in good health It's going to result in wealth God never ever designed you to be poor If he did he made a mistake with adam and eve by giving them the most beautiful earth with the most beautiful resources You go and read it there in genesis They even had gold and precious stones and all everything that this world considers valuable was made available to them God never intended you to be poor That's a lie that satan has promoted To stop you from having all god wants for you God wants you to have good relationships Didn't leave adam alone. He brought him the very best Partner that could be with him God wants you to be Involved and actively interacting with other people out there Unfortunately because At times we've had bad experiences amongst god's people in the church We've instead veered to try to develop friendships and relationships with unbelievers What's going to happen? They're going to try and squeeze you into their mold They're going to try and change your thinking To their way of thinking and in the end you are going to come under their influence You're going to be envying them and trying to copy them Instead of being the magnificent thing That god created you to be Or what's god's plan for you? His plan for you is that you are to become a king or a queen His plan for you is that you are learned to reign As a king or a queen That means you should start acting like royalty You don't grovel Have you seen a king or a queen grovel? They don't even mix with the rebel They walk with their head held high in confidence Knowing who they are They're special they are set apart They carry authority You're reigning you're ruling You can rule over this world.

You can rule over your emotions and your sinful habits You can rule over all of these things That are stopping you from becoming the full you that you want now Where are you at? Have you found your experience to be like paul described? You find yourself not doing the things you should You find yourself doing the things you shouldn't Well, you know all of us have been there All of us go through these experiences But you see There's a way out And the first thing you need is you need a revelation of who you are in the lord You need to know what he has provided To help you Then you need to learn how to use it well lord willing According to his call on my life What he's told me to do? I'm going to try and be part of the solution for you I'm going to teach you some of the things that god Has taught me And i'm going to be showing you the way in a lot of detail We're just touching on the highlights now in these messages Just in preparation to let you know what is going to be available to you we're going to study these things in detail and we're going to Go through practical ways of making them work in our lives And if you want it, I will be there to take you by the hand Alongside the lord and his spirit and his word To show you the way If necessary to correct you But that's not the intention the idea is to help you become the new you The new you that god intends The new you that you desire to be As we face this new year It comes before us Let this be the year That you become what you were meant to be That you no longer are being what other people want you to be That you no longer being what the enemy wants you to be But that you can become the most magnificent creature in this world God has created for his glory You can stand up and shine You can be confident enough to stand on a mountaintop and shout to the world Look at me Oh, isn't that pride? Paul said follow me as I follow christ Now don't look at me look at jesus in me But you better have jesus manifest in you before you can do that And once you've done that once you have applied all of these principles and become what he wants you to be you can boldness and confidence say You want to change? Let me show you. Let me show you a model see as believers. That's what we're meant to be We're meant to be a model for people to follow but you know what models people are looking at They're looking at the wealthy person out there Who got wealthy by pushing everybody else down in selfishness? They're saying that's the model of wealth And they're teaching out there in the world if you want to become wealthy like him or her do the same thing they did Is a better way It's god's way If you do god's way you're going to rise far higher And what these people are you can stand boldly and confidently and you can face the year ahead without fear but with confidence If you're an expressive with a new exciting goal to aim for If you're a driver with a job that you can do If you're analytical something you can lay out and plan And if you're an amiable Here that you can really enjoy as you get to interact with so many more new people in your life Now that you've discovered the real you And you're beginning to get an idea Of what the new you should look like I think we're ready almost Next week lord willing i'm going to be teaching the third in the series And then we should be ready I hope to unleash on you the fullness And to help you rise up and become all that the lord intends you to be

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