On The Trail

"We are a people who..."  

• ...love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us (Matthew 5:44) 
• ...find rest in Jesus (Matthew 11:28-30) 
• ...practice Gospel habits and abide in God's peace (Philippians 4:9) 

In Part 4 of the Identity Series, we wrap up this compiled topic with the role of Community in our identity formation and a review of our Gospel Identity. 

How does community bring the two sides of the brain together? How can we resist mistaking our malfunctions for our identity? Community is key to answer the question, "Who am I, and how is it like me to be?" 

One of the devil's core strategies is to take us out of the battle by lying to us about our true identity so we live as less than we are. Our Gospel Identity is not just a ticket to Heaven, but it is also the foundation of discipleship. 

As we wrap up the Identity series, we're reviewing how all this fits together in the heart-focused discipleship model F.I.S.H. +M. 

This compilation episode covers Season 1, Episodes 69-70. 

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Who does God say you are? 

We spent last week calling out the devil's lies and strategies for warping our self-perception. 

Like tearing down our fear house and building a joy house, let us tear down our Kosmos identity and live from our Kingdom identity. (If you missed "Joy vs. Fear House," find it here.) 

In Part 3 of the Identity Series, we unpack four keys to understanding our New Covenant identity in Christ.

In Christ, we are Pardoned by God, Adopted by God, made a Citizen of the Kingdom of God, and given a new Title: Saint. 

How do these truths about our identity affect our lives when we truly believe them? 

This compilation episode covers Season 1, Episodes 65-68. 

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Two realms want to define your identity: the Kingdom & the Kosmos.

The Kingdom teaches us how to see reality, God, and ourselves as God sees.

The Kosmos teaches us via the world, the flesh, and the devil working together to give us an identity and affect what we believe. 

In Part 2 of the Identity Series, we unpack how the enemy uses the world and the flesh together to trap us in pecking order systems and comparison games.

Using wounds and lies, the enemy wants to shape our beliefs about ourselves and about God to warp our self-perception. 

We'll also spend a little time setting up the Kingdom identity that God has for us and then will dig into that New Covenant identity more in Part 3 next week. 

This compilation episode covers Season 1, Episodes 61-64. 

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God designed us to know ourselves based on relational identity.

Over the next couple weeks, we'll be reviewing identity formation from the angles of brain science, Scripture, spiritual warfare, and community.

Our brains work from right to left, from attachment to beliefs. So it makes sense we follow that pattern. This week's compilation reviews how attachment affects our identity. 

We're looking at personal identity formation from brain science and from biblical realities. 

• Why does identity matter?  
• How did God design us to form our identity? 
• What does the Bible teach us about our identity?  
• What can we do to overcome the obstacles and repair holes that keep us from living out of our true identity? 

We'll cover these questions and more over the next couple weeks. 

This compilation episode covers Season 1, Episodes 58-60. 

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Is your joy elevator stuck? 

Do you ever find yourself rummaging in the kitchen for something, but you don't know what?

Has someone ever given you good advice, but the emotional weight you are feeling won't go away? 

These are just two mild indicators that your joy elevator might be stuck in some pain that needs to be processed.  

In order for suffering to keep from becoming traumatic, our brains need to process the pain at all five levels of the pain processing pathway: 

1. attachment 
2. assessment 
3. attunement 
4. action
5. narrative

When the joy elevator in our brain gets stuck and our pain isn't able to process through its needed path, it is helpful to recognize at which floor of the brain the elevator jammed.  

In this series, we unpack the joy elevator and the pain processing pathway. 

This compilation episode covers Season 1, Episodes 53-56. 

P.S. The "pain processing pathway" is a concept you can learn more about in Dr. Karl Lehman's book Outsmarting Yourself. 

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This series explores the transformative nature of JOY. 

Our brains are designed to run on the fuel of joy, but they can default to fear. In their book The 4 Habits of Joy-Filled People, Marcus Warner and Chris Coursey talk about building an internal joy house.

Part of building a joy house is tearing down the fear house that so many of us have built up throughout our lives. Fear and joy bonds are not an all-or-nothing experience but are very connected to our attachments, emotional capacity, and maturity.  

A joy-filled life is possible. Let’s talk about how to cultivate one. 

This compilation episode covers Season 1, Episodes 47-52. 

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How do we keep the devil from claiming footholds in our lives? 

This series looks at the five main areas where we surrender ground to the enemy. These five areas can be remembered with the acrostic SOUL-L: Sin, the Occult, Unforgiveness, Lies we believe, and Lineage. 

If sin is like leaving your front door unlocked for the enemy, the occult is like throwing open the garage door and hosting a block party. Unforgiveness is an invitation to the enemy to poison you (rather than the other person). And when we believe lies, it’s like shaking hands with the devil and saying, “You’re right, and God’s wrong.” 

All of these are common ways we give the enemy permission to a place in our lives.

A fifth common way the enemy claims ground is through permissions given by people in our lineage. We’re looking at all five of these areas in this week’s compilation episode. 

This compilation episode covers Season 1, Episodes 42-46.

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Satan thought he had defeated Christ at the Cross only to discover that Jesus had completely flipped the tables on him. Christ is Victor. 

At the Cross, Jesus Christ disarmed the principalities and powers and canceled the debt against us (Col. 2:14-15). This victory is the foundation of our freedom and our authority in Christ. What does it look like to have this authority? 

In this series, we dig into Scripture that exposes the devil’s nature and look at strategies for breaking free and staying free of the enemy and his snares. We discuss the foundational principles of spiritual warfare, specifically the legal approach that deals with permission and authority.

This compilation episode covers Season 1, Episodes 39-41.

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Do our attachment styles, maturity levels, and relational skills affect our prayer life?

In this series, we look at listening prayer and inner healing. 

What is listening prayer and what is it not? This conversation focuses on prayer at the lifestyle level and then on R.E.A.L. prayer at the healing level. How do we invite Jesus into our emotional healing, and what do we do if we encounter obstacles in this process?  

Whether you are a prayer minister or you are working on your own emotional healing, there are common obstacles that can get in the way. This episode will deal with some of the common obstacles that keep us from connecting with God. 

 This compilation episode covers Season 1, Episodes 36-38.

Do you ever feel like you are scraping the bottom of the barrel? Like you’re a deflating ball that just won’t bounce?

This series wants to help you pump more air into that ball. We’re looking at emotional resilience.

What is capacity and why is it so important? What are tools for growing emotional capacity? In this part of the series, we also talk about the 2023 Asbury Revival. 

This compilation episode covers part 2 of 2 of the Resilience series: Season 1, Episodes 32-35.

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