On retreat weeks, we don’t have teachings, but here is the testimony for the retreat if you’ve never done a retreat. It’s your time! We will continue our next five-day lesson next week on Monday!

THIS IS THE WAY SCHOOL SONSHIP | DAY FIVE LIVING FROM SONSHIP You Are a Son, Not a Servant Family, we’ve spent this entire week talking about the Father’s love, the Spirit of adoption, our identity in Christ, and the death of the orphan spirit. Now it’s time to LIVE IT! Being a son isn’t just something you believe. It’s something you demonstrate through the way you think, speak, love, and make choices every single day. Sons don’t live looking for approval because they already know they’re loved. Sons don’t live as victims because they’ve learned to take responsibility for their lives. Sons don’t compete with others because they know who they are. Sons don’t live in fear because perfect love casts out fear! And sons understand that every single day is another opportunity to create a beautiful life through the choices they make. Romans 8:14 says, “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.” Family, you don’t have to be perfect. You’re here to grow, change, learn, fall down, get back up, and experience this beautiful gift called LIFE! Your mistakes don’t change your identity, and your circumstances don’t determine your sonship! Stop trying to become somebody God already says you are. Start living from love instead of fear. Start making choices instead of excuses. Start enjoying the present moment instead of waiting for some future version of yourself to finally be happy. You are in Christ, and Christ is in you! Now go live like it! ❤️ THIS IS THE WAY. #ThisIsTheWay #Sonship #LivingFromSonship #ChristInYou #NewCreation

🔥 THIS IS THE WAY SCHOOL 🔥 SONSHIP | DAY FOUR IDENTITY IN THE BELOVED You Are a Son, Not a Servant Family, one of the greatest revelations you will ever have is discovering that you were never created to spend your entire life trying to earn the love of God. You were created FROM love, BY love, and FOR love! Ephesians 1:6 says that we have been made ACCEPTED IN THE BELOVED! Not accepted when you finally get everything right. Not accepted when you stop making mistakes. Not accepted when you pray enough, fast enough, give enough, or perform enough. ACCEPTED IN THE BELOVED! And here’s where this becomes really powerful. Most people are walking around allowing their circumstances, relationships, mistakes, childhood experiences, and other people’s opinions to tell them who they are. They have allowed the world outside of them to create an identity inside of them. And then they spend their entire lives trying to heal an identity that was never actually theirs to begin with. But sonship changes everything! When you begin to understand that you are created in the image and likeness of God, that Christ is in you, and that the kingdom of God is within you, you begin to stop looking outside yourself for what God has already placed inside you. Romans 8:16 says the Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. 1 John 4:17 says AS HE IS, SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD! Think about that! Your identity is not rooted in what happened to you. Your identity is rooted in WHOSE YOU ARE! And when you begin living from that identity, everything starts changing. You stop needing everybody to approve of you. You stop trying to control everybody around you. You stop being offended every time somebody disagrees with you. You stop believing that your mistakes disqualify you. You stop comparing your journey to everybody else’s journey. And most importantly, you begin recognizing the image of God in the very people you used to judge! Because here’s the truth. You cannot fully embrace your own identity in the Beloved while continuing to deny everybody else’s worthiness of love.

THIS IS THE WAY SONSHIP | DAY 3 THE DEATH OF THE ORPHAN SPIRIT Taking Back Your Authority and Creating a New Life Family, today we’re going deeper into Sonship, and I want to talk about something that I believe is absolutely essential to walking in the fullness of who we are in Christ. The orphan spirit must die in our consciousness so that the authority of Sonship can begin to manifest in our everyday lives! And part of the orphan spirit dying is beginning to TAKE YOUR AUTHORITY BACK! Not as an orphan who is waiting for somebody to rescue them, approve of them, validate them, or give them permission to live. But as a SON who understands their identity, recognizes the authority they have been given in Christ, and begins making intentional decisions that create an entirely new experience of life! John 14:18 says, “I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.” The orphan spirit is not necessarily a demon. It is a mindset. A false identity. A consciousness of separation. It is the belief that you are alone, abandoned, rejected, powerless, unworthy, or somehow disconnected from the Father. And here’s what I want you to understand. You can be born again, filled with the Holy Spirit, attending church every Sunday, and still be living your entire life from an orphan consciousness! The orphan is constantly looking outside of themselves for somebody to change their life. The orphan blames their circumstances. The orphan blames their upbringing. The orphan blames their relationships. The orphan waits for somebody else to make a decision. The orphan believes life is happening TO them. But the mature son begins to recognize that they have been given the responsibility and authority to participate with God in what their life becomes! The son understands that although we cannot control everything that happens around us, we absolutely have authority over the choices we make, the thoughts we entertain, the words we speak, and the direction we choose to walk. This is where the transformation begins!

THIS IS THE WAY | SONSHIP DAY TWO: THE SPIRIT OF ADOPTION You Are a Son, Not a Servant. Family, today we’re going deeper into one of the most powerful revelations you can ever awaken to: YOU BELONG TO THE FATHER! Jesus did not come merely to make bad people good. He came to reveal the Father and bring us into the relationship He enjoys with Him! Romans 8:15 tells us that we have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but the Spirit of Adoption, whereby we cry, ABBA, FATHER! Think about that! Before you ever performed a religious duty, before you ever prayed the perfect prayer, before you ever tried to become worthy of God’s love, the Father’s eternal purpose in Christ was already established! Ephesians 1:4–5 says we were chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world and predestined for adoption! SONSHIP WAS NEVER GOD’S BACKUP PLAN! And here’s what I want you to understand. You can believe in God and still operate from an orphan mentality. You can go to church every Sunday, quote Scripture, pray for hours, and still approach your Father like a servant begging for acceptance. Religion teaches people to work for belonging. Sonship teaches us to live FROM belonging! Look at the prodigal son in Luke 15. One son left the house and believed his failures disqualified him. The other stayed home and believed his performance entitled him. Both misunderstood the Father’s heart! And what did the father say? “Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.” Luke 15:31 MY GOODNESS! Some of you have spent your entire Christian life asking God to give you an identity that He has already revealed in Christ! Romans 8:16 says the Spirit bears witness with OUR SPIRIT that we are the children of God! This is where the renewing of the mind becomes so important. Your thinking must begin to agree with your identity! You are not praying to convince God to love you. You are praying from the revelation that He already does! You are not obeying to purchase acceptance.